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...bubble. Crowds are dwindling, and those who did show had to look harder to find the cool gadgets. But the gadgets were there. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates unveiled Smart Personal Object Technology, which allows refrigerator magnets, travel clocks and other tiny devices to update you on news, sports and weather via a wireless Internet chip. Gates is also pushing Smart Displays--thin, $1,000 computer screens you can take with you around the house and write notes on, as you would with a tablet-style...
...linking them to cost-saving and modernization. Other leaders are caving in, delaying or diluting plans to improve labor market flexibility and reform failing pension systems. How governments respond to this wave of strikes - and other walkouts that are still to come - will help determine how their economies weather the economic slump. In the rough-and-ready camp are British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his French counterpart, Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Last week Blair offered a deal to state healthcare workers for a pay rise tied to reforms, but refused wage demands by striking firefighters unless they modernize. Raffarin scored...
...National Weather Service has predicted a winter storm for Boston and much of New England, to arrive at 5 a.m. and drop four to eight inches of snow on one of the busiest travel days of the year...
Travelers should arrive 30-60 minutes earlier than usual due to the weather and predicted congestion, Orlandella added...
...part, Maass offered words of encouragement to those who will brave today’s bigger crowds and inclement weather...