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...These "micropayments" are often too small for credit-card companies to handle efficiently, yet they seem to hold the key to reaching consumers who want to buy a single song or game. Microsoft senior vice president Pieter Knook claims that the emergence of a micropayment infrastructure will unleash a torrent of software - development activity that will deliver as yet unimagined programs to the market. This, he says, will transform the mobile-phone industry into one that is software powered. Gates told the Geneva audience that such synergies will "bring [voice and data] together in ways that people eventually will just...
...corner of the stadium—from toddlers just learning to mispronounce the Boston “r” to die-hard 40-somethings escaping their wives—pulled together spontaneously to chant “Yankees Suck” for the rest of the game. Their torrent of hatred and spittle poured over both dugouts. Down on the field, the opposing players looked amused...
LEVKOVICH: We're getting a signal that things are improving, but we're not about to see a torrent of growth...
...although in the past tense: "Saddam Hussein produced and possessed chemical and biological weapons, and was trying to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program," Bush said, adding that "The regime of Saddam Hussein was a grave and growing threat." But the President and his British counterpart are encountering a growing torrent of skepticism over their prewar assessments because, three months after the coalition occupied Iraq, so little evidence has emerged to back those claims. Both men found themselves referring instead to Saddam's behavior in the 1980s - Blair to Iraq's known uranium purchases from Niger back then, Bush...
...accustomed to the Washington tradition of slow leaks about political deceit that turn into a torrent as elements of the bureaucracy step over each other in the race for the exits, and then finally a scandal worthy of the suffix "-gate". Of course the imbroglio over the Bush Administration's failure to find the evidence to back its scary prewar claims about the threat to America supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein has not yet reached the point of critical mass that would leave editors scratching their heads over just what noun to put before that suffix - Iraq-gate? Saddam-gate...