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...January 2004, Rumsfeld replaced the 101st Airborne in Mosul with a Stryker Brigade, one of his prized innovations. Instead of patrolling the streets on foot, the Strykers--about 5,000 strong, one-quarter the number of troops that Petraeus had at his disposal--dashed about in high-tech armored vehicles. They didn't do any of the local governance that Petraeus had done. They were occupiers, not builders, and put Iraqis in control of civic order. Within months, Mosul descended into chaos. "You win this thing with boots on the ground," a Stryker Brigade officer told a Knight-Ridder reporter...
...look at the Greenpeace rankings [Dell is tied for first among tech companies], we've been doing a lot in this area. Sometimes innovation is looked at through a fairly narrow lens, in the sense of, O.K., what small, shiny object did you create? That's fine--small, shiny objects are nice--but for us innovation is a bit broader in terms of supply chains and the Internet and all the things we do. The last year was relatively challenging for us, but we still made a few billion dollars. Nothing to be too ashamed about...
...Jobs had just led Apple on a triumphant rampage through a new market sector, portable music players, and he was looking around for more technology to conquer. He found the ideal target tech sitting on his hip. Consumers bought nearly a billion of cell phones last year, which is 10 times the number of iPods in circulation. Break off just 1% of that and you can buy yourself a lot of black turtlenecks. Apple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight...
...While many of the top tech players at CES are headlining their copycat i-Pod accessories, few have new tools that encourage music-making. One of the most creative and refreshing new applications at this year's show, therefore, is a digital piano-learning game that encourages kids (and musically curious adults) to toy around with a piano keyboard. "From Bach to Bon Jovi, your child will be playing in minutes," the company's tag line promises. And despite the product's crude, toddler-friendly design, the program actually works well to introduce the basic concept of piano fingering without...
...Speaker wires are up there with cockroaches in the ranks of annoying household nuisances. So music lovers listened closely when tech firm Avega announced a new technology that allows for wireless speakers. The Australian company says a major speaker manufacturer will soon ship wireless speakers that consumers will be able to set up around the house, connected through the Internet to their music source. No word yet on pricing, but getting rid of those stringy wires in your living room might just be priceless...