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...landscape even further, Apple and, according to rumor, Microsoft are working on tablet computers that could prove to be handy e-readers but with more functions and features, such as video-display capability and full Web browsers. The year "2009 is a breakout year for e-readers," says Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research. "But we're still in the early stages." (See a gallery of nine different e-readers...
...well as iPhone-like touch capabilities for release early next year. Microsoft has been secretive about its plans for a tablet, but a video making the rounds of the blogosphere show a dual-LCD-screen prototype that closes like a book. "E-readers are a transitional technology," says Rotman Epps of Forrester Research. Which means that just as the e-reader is taking off, it may be becoming obsolete...
...newly created liquidity as insurance against a further downturn. "The fact is that since the failure of Lehman Brothers every bank in the world has been concerned with beefing up capital to survive the next few years," says Lawrence Booth, a finance specialist at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management...
...TARP funds, but critics warn even if Ottawa steps up with billions of dollars in aid, it won't be able to secure any job guarantees. "The real action is between Detroit and Washington," says Joe D'Cruz, a specialist in business strategy at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He's concerned that Washington could make the transfer of jobs from Canada - which accounts for about 15% of Detroit Three production in North American - to the U.S. a condition of any assistance...
What would Canada's Detroit Three, who export about 85% of their production south, do with a cash infusion - by some estimates anywhere from $2 billion to $4.3-billion? "They would cover payroll and hope things get better," says Alan White, an investment specialist at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. As a result, critics warn Ottawa and the Ontario provincial government against throwing good money after bad. "If there's a government bailout it will be helping companies at the center of losing jobs, and punishing companies who have created jobs," says veteran Canadian analyst Dennis DesRosiers...