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...here at Apple's invitation to try out the iPad, and later in my visit I will spend an hour with the company's boss, Steve Jobs - the first time I've ever spent any real time with him. But as I meet with Schiller and Cue, I feel it only fair to reel off the list of negatives the iPad will meet on its release. It falls between two stools - neither small enough to be truly portable nor big enough to be called a proper computer. Everything, I point out, is under Apple's control, as usual. No Adobe...
...pretty encouraged by our results. Our incentive spend is down significantly from last year," says Susan Docherty, GM's vice president of marketing, who points out that GM inventories have been cut by half and third shifts have been added at plants in Michigan, Kansas and Ontario to increase production. (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...technology-savvy, there is also a Green Video contest. The winner, according to advertisements, will receive an impressive $700 in prize money—plenty of cash to spend on a shopping spree, in the Square, or even on late-night coffee (but only with recyclable cups) in Lamont Caf?...
...details of President Barack Obama's weekend conversation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai remain shrouded in secrecy, but it's unlikely that Obama would spend 26 hours aboard Air Force One flying to and from Kabul just to pat Karzai on the back. Not only is the White House frustrated over the rampant corruption in Karzai's government, whose ability to earn the support of its own people is the linchpin of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, it is also increasingly concerned over the Afghan leader's growing coziness with Iran. (See "Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan...
Running for Congress is a gamble with much higher stakes. Sarangani might be a small district, but political analyst de Vera estimates Pacquiao will have to spend up to $2 million "to stand a chance of winning." That's nothing by the standards of U.S. elections, but a fortune in a rural backwater with only about 270,000 registered voters. Eric Pineda, one of the boxer's bewildering array of advisers, calls $2 million a "paltry" sum. Another adviser, Jeng Gacal, says "the sky's the limit" when it comes to election spending...