Word: sprints
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...that pretty much launched - then lost - the smart-phone category, Palm has been teetering on the brink of irrelevance. But now it's fighting back with the Pre, the much hyped smart phone that Rubinstein & Co. have been working on for two years; it launched June 6 ($199 at Sprint stores in the U.S.) with all the expectations of a summer-movie blockbuster. (See TIME's video "Family Tech: Palm Pre vs. iPhone...
...available for download at its online App Store. Rubinstein, an easygoing guy, smiles when we discuss this and points out that the market is large and expanding; Palm doesn't need to steal any of its competitors' customers to thrive. The smart-phone race is a marathon, not a sprint. "We're only at the beginning of the journey," he says. By that measure, the Pre represents the first couple of miles. (See a comparison of the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone...
...meters, but it then began to challenge for a medal.“Looked like they got off to an atrocious start…it looked terrible,” Manning said.With 750 meters remaining, Cornell and Harvard were gaining ground on second-place Brown, and a frantic sprint to the finish allowed the Crimson to pass the Bears and come out ahead by less than four tenths of a second. The comeback came two days after the boat took first place over Cal in its heat, which gave it an automatic berth in the final.But in the regatta?...
...Internet investments mostly with Democratic donors, bills himself as the candidate best qualified to bring jobs to Virginia. He is so intent on following Obama's successful playbook that he is in essence trying to replicate the former senator's grass-roots campaign. In the final 72-hour sprint to the finish line, the McAuliffe campaign has been working to make more than 1 million calls and knock on more than 85,000 doors. At the same time, in just six months McAuliffe has built the closest thing to a Democratic machine that Virginia has ever seen, benefiting from union...
...time. “Right now, we are working together.“ Hayward said. “In the beginning we had to demonstrate substantial student concern, but now we are on the same page.” It is not yet known whether service providers Sprint and T-Mobile will also collaborate with Harvard to improve the reception quality on their networks in the Quad. —Staff writer Laura G. Mirviss contributed to the reporting of this article. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...