Word: touche
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...can’t say with any certainty why Clarel never joined Facebook. But I do believe that he had an innate understanding of its limitations. For Clarel, keeping in touch was important, but touch itself–the warmth and intimacy of in-person engagement between friends–was something without substitute. I certainly am grateful that Clarel touched my life, as are so many countless others...
...good as it is, you can't do a crossword puzzle on the Kindle, which speaks to a bigger problem. For most people, the Kindle is still not as good as cheap and wonderful-to-touch paper. An old saw in the technology business is that any new tech must be 10 times as good as the thing it seeks to displace. Most people would agree that the automobile was exponentially better than the horse, just as the personal computer was a vast improvement over the typewriter. The change didn't happen overnight; it took time for both the auto...
...iPod and linked it to the iTunes Music Store, people started paying for songs again, and to date, Apple has sold more than 6 billion of them. Jobs duplicated that model with the Apple App Store, which offers more than 15,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Might Apple be able to work the same magic for the publishing industry? Jobs once said he had no interest in creating an e-reader - "People don't read" - but Apple is rumored to be working on an iPod Touch-like device with...
...readers and micropayments. Josh, a former editor-in-chief of Business 2.0, has spent more than a year thinking and reporting on this idea. The advent of the iPhone and devices like it--killer gadgets connected to a store where one can make a micropayment with the touch of a button--was his eureka moment. I think Walter's and Josh's insight, reporting and experience are well worth paying for. I trust you do too. Freedom isn't free--nor is great journalism...
...that the regulatory body issued summons to Ramalinga Raju to appear before it in Hyderabad on Jan. 9, two days after Raju publicly confessed to falsifying the company's profits. But that same day, Raju surrendered to state police and once he was in custody, SEBI investigators couldn't touch him without a court order. (Rama Raju and Vadlamani were also later arrested.) SEBI's petitions to question the accused were denied by two Andhra Pradesh courts, forcing regulators to take their case to the Supreme Court...