Word: techs
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...consumer high-tech industry, it's all about the reveal. Technologies become outdated so quickly that electronics companies need massive momentum for sales during products' first few months on the shelves - and for that reason, if the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas didn't already exist, someone would be sure to invent it. The biggest event of the year for gadget geeks, it's where early adopters go (or what they read about) to plan their wish lists for the upcoming year...
...then last week, the tech blog Gizmodo cited a "previously reliable source" who claimed that the current cancellation was due to Jobs' "rapidly declining" health. And that sounded plausible as well. After all, Jobs hadn't been seen in public for months. Apple had to know that its Macworld news was bound to raise questions about its CEO - why didn't Apple simply put him on CNBC or something...
Shortly after the Gizmodo item appeared, the tech blogger Robert Scoble fired back that he was in a Palo Alto frozen-yogurt shop supposedly frequented by Jobs and was told by a server that Jobs had been in for yogurt a "couple of days ago" and looked healthy. (For those doubting Thomases who say Jobs is a vegan and would never eat yogurt, the store in question serves a lactose-free soy product as well. So there...
...current financial crisis - well, D'Agostino must either be smacking himself in the face with regret or clinching his fists and yelling "Yes!" (given that he advises several times to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, it's probably the latter). Full of real-estate developers, venture capitalists and tech mavens, Rich Like Them fills the reader first with a sense of schadenfreude. After that passes, a sad-ish feeling of, "I wonder what happened to all those rich folk" settles in. Do they still have those nice houses whose doors D'Agostino knocked on, whose foyers he walked into, whose...
...deeper into the cities and refugee camps. And those militants will be far more vulnerable to attack when forced out of their hiding places and fortifications. Israel not only has the advantage of air cover and the overview of the battlefield it affords but will also use its high-tech abilities to operate by night against Hamas forces on home turf...