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...Forward Spin: While it would be a mistake to underestimate the strengths of players like Siebel and i2, information technology market research firm IDC says SAP's main competition going forward will be from the software industry's heaviest hitters. Microsoft bought Great Plains, an enterprise-application software company, in December 2000 and is expected to target part of SAP's traditional customer base. While IBM isn't talking about its plans, it is expected to make a defensive play, and Oracle is putting more of its efforts into corporate software applications, SAP's core strength...
...Forward Spin: Nokia is clearly feeling the impact of the worldwide economic slowdown. But if Ollila is right, wireless and broadband will be the drivers that will restore growth to the tech industry...
...popular media portrayal of Amos as a frivolous, hyper-feminine mystic with a proclivity for gleefully impenetrable sound bites had always made me suspicious: It smelled of media spin. As it turned out, the latter part of that stereotype wasn’t far from reality. Posed with the most straightforward of questions, Amos would deliver dreamy musings, rife with metaphor and personification of her songs...
More than most wars, this is a media war. The second strike at the World Trade Center, on live TV, could not have been better timed to detonate like a fireball in the hearts of millions. Now bin Laden was cannily, politically using the mass media for a spin strike aimed at the world's billion Muslims. On Tuesday, his lieutenant Sleiman Abou-Gheith followed with an appeal to Arab unity and the promise of a further "storm of airplanes" against America...
...huge wooden bar beckons from the center of the pub like a lighthouse in the fog. Amidst the fog, a sampler (four beers for $4.50) might not be the right choice, but picking one of the 24 options could make your head spin (if the alcohol isn’t doing the trick already). Beer is cheap, $2.95 for a Harpoon, and it’s probably time for a snack, say the giant grilled chicken quesadillas...