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This is Not Your Fat |
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| For the past three years, the living room has been the center of the digital gold rush. Consumers have fueled the rush as they upgraded to large-screen TVs, audio systems that promise Dolby “surround sound,” and DVD players that deliver super-crisp images. |
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Communications Becom |
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| Few people realize that we are on the threshold of a truly remarkable period in history. We are witnessing the convergence of several powerful trends that will soon produce a tremendous economic boom. |
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Home Automation and |
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| During the PC era, the nexus of info-tech innovation was business, especially in the office. As we enter “the post-PC era,” the nexus of innovation is shifting to the consumer, especially in the home. And this digital home is where most technological innovation will occur over the next five years in the $101 billion consumer electronics industry. |
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Off-Shoring the Back |
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| Let’s face it, there’s hardly a business topic that’s more emotionally charged than off-shoring: the new trend of outsourcing business processes to foreign workers. It is much cheaper to pay people in other countries to do this routine work because they are paid only a small fraction of the salaries that American workers receive. |
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The Post-PC Era is E |
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| Perhaps no other invention revolutionized the world as profoundly as the personal computer. From the clunky, bug-ridden devices that were assembled from mail-order parts by a small number of geeks in garages in the 1970s ?to the sleek machines of today, the PC has become a vital tool in the work and personal lives of nearly every American. |
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