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Like their rivals, members of the OQO team, which got going in 2000 and has received funding from Paladin Capital Group and Motorola, spent hundreds of hours designing and refining prototype keyboards. Theirs is more about thumb typing than table typing. They obsessed over the mini-mouse device that controls the cursor, called a "trackstick," trying to make it feel, in their words, "buttery." FlipStart took a more-is-better approach, incorporating both a trackstick and a touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mini-Computer Wars | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...decision in 1987 to adopt a common standard for digital mobile telephony gave both the telecoms and handset manufacturers like Ericsson and Nokia the security of knowing that there was a huge single market for their products. The consequence: a whole new appreciation for the virtues of the opposable thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's so great about an ever closer union anyway? | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...very strong position to win that bid. I think that’s the more realistic picture here.”Pensler’s classmate and fellow foil fencer Misha Goldfeder qualified for the next level. Goldfeder fenced much of the spring with a nagging thumb injury, but managed to heal just in time to win the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championship last weekend and then dominate this weekend.Parker’s weaponmate junior Alexa Weingarden’s season also continues.The women’s epee continued its dominance this spring season with two top finishers...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nine Fencers Advance to Compete For Title | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

...three newest recruits have thrived helping the Crimson to a 2nd place finish in the Ivy League and a No. 4 national ranking the USFCA Coaches’ Poll. The youth movement has been led by Goldfeder, who has fenced much of the spring season with a nagging thumb injury on her weapon hand. The Rochester N.Y. native, apparently unfazed by the handicap, placed first in this past weekend’s IFA Individual Championship for women’s foil as Harvard won its third consecutive IFA three-weapon title. “You never know what even...

Author: By Douglas A. Baerlein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshmen Excel in College Spotlight | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...because freshman students are having nightly orgies in their Greenough suites, spurred on by a Harvard-issued license to fornicate; or it could be because repressed conservative students stole all the condoms and destroyed them in a measure to keep female sexuality under the Man’s thumb. Most likely, it’s because “free” is every Harvard student’s favorite price. Can we talk about something else...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Divisive Discourse? | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

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