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...BenQ flex their distribution muscles to grab at market share from the other vendors ahead of them - Sony, Kodak, Olympus, Nikon, Fujifilm, HP and Casio - and from leader of the pack Canon. IDC sees an end to revenue growth for the foreseeable future, as the 10% growth in unit sales will translate into only a 2.2% boost in revenue, to $33.3 billion, after which industry sales will drop 2.6% to $32.5 billion in 2007. The strain of a shrinking market has already forced at least three notable vendors out - Konica Minolta exited last spring, selling patents and assets to Sony...
...attacks. Lawrence Wright's new book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 has six movies' worth of solid melodrama in the turf wars, the battle of ideas, among government agencies. The story of John O'Neill, head of the FBI's al-Qaeda unit, and his struggle to pry essential information out of the CIA, can bring a reader to angry tears. (O'Neill, who will be the subject of a TV movie starring Havey Keitel, left the agency in frustration, became security boss of the World Trade Center, and died on 9/11...
...reclaim public space by staging word-of-mouth screenings of films ranging from politically subversive shorts to Dirty Dancing, and it has inspired other guerrilla-flick efforts in Portland, Me., and West Chester, Pa. In Berkeley, Calif., Web developer Bryan Kennedy turned his car into a mobile movie unit, a sort of drive-in that actually drives in, with a DVD player, a projector and an FM transmitter that beams a movie's sound track to other cars. His technology has given rise to the MobMov movement, with chapters worldwide, creating free film venues in any open space. Kennedy offers...
...combat ration packs. "There's no chance of a soldier going hungry in the field," says Benstead, who'd clearly regard that as a personal defeat. "A happy soldier is a well-fed soldier," he says. "I always push into my chefs that we are the morale of the unit." More morale, at times, than some can handle: "Often after an exercise people say, 'What have you done to me? I should lose weight in the field, and I've put it on.' I say, 'Well, you're eating too much.'" He chuckles, as if that...
...young Israeli tank commander who calls himself Sgt. Yoshua knows what awaits him in Lebanon. When his 82nd Battalion crossed the border a few days back, every imaginable threat seemed to pop up in front of him. Three of the four tanks in his unit encountered landmines, missile fire and snipers. Yoshua's best friend, a guitar player, was in one of the tanks hit by a missile and lost both his legs. Three others were killed. "It's not like fighting Palestinians in Gaza," explains Sgt. Yoshua, a gaunt, bearded young soldier. "Hizballah has better weapons. They're highly...