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...Experts on innovation - including Geoffrey Moore, a managing director at TCG Advisors in San Mateo, Calif., whose book, Crossing the Chasm, has shaped Segway?s strategy for conquering the recalcitrant market-point out that there are just too many little problems associated with owning a Segway to make the $5,000 you pay to own one seem worthwhile. (Where do you park it? Where can you ride it without angering pedestrians?) In any case, for most urbanites, hopping on a bike or simply walking a little more seems a fine alternative to shelling out so much money...
...People who live in cities want to re-create spaces that don't exist anymore," says Lucian James, president of Agenda Inc., a research and strategy firm based in San Francisco and Paris. "Social groups are now so fragmented that brands are finding a new way to bring people together and create social networks...
Apple boss Steve Jobs made good Tuesday on speculation that his company would offer movie downloads and a movie-ready iPod for the holiday season. During his presentation, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, he also unveiled an overhaul of the nano line, with flash-memory capacity reaching 8 gigabytes, as anticipated. The only unexpected announcement was a new version of the nearly forgotten iPod shuffle-cutting the size of the 1GB screen-less music player by half, and cutting its price...
...offer. Lehigh quarterback Sedale Threatt is a legitimate one—threat, that is—and the Tigers lost the heart of their D in three departed standout linebackers and Jay McCareins. Princeton lacks the firepower to make this a shootout.Prediction: Lehigh 27, Princeton 10YALE VS. SAN DIEGO (2-0)Know how you can root against the Braves all year because they win the division every freaking time, until they reach the World Series and play a team from the 10-player league like the accursed Yankees and then all of a sudden you’re rooting...
...first post the Pope had to fill was his own old job, to head of the Vatican office that oversees doctrinal orthodoxy. His choice of the then Archbishop of San Francisco, William J. Levada, was the first sign that Benedict would take his own counsel on key personnel changes. Defying conventional wisdom that the doctrinal capo had to be a European intellectual heavy hitter, the Pope chose the shy California native whom he'd known well when they worked together in Rome in the early 1980s. By choosing Levada it was also evident that the Vatican's theologian-in-chief...