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ChangeQuakes Of The Week

November 27, 2006

2. TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK
** Is China Creating Its Own Mobile Standard?
** New Leaders At Microsoft Are Thinking Beyond Windows
** 2006: The Year Of Living Globally
** Online Video Viewing Rises at Expense of TV

4. MORE CHANGEQUAKES TO WATCH

TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK

Is China Creating Its Own Mobile Standard?

(TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKE) -- China has been a holdout in joining the world of next-generation mobile telephony, and their go-slow approach has had its benefits. It has given Chinese telecom-equipment makers time to develop and debug a homegrown wireless standard that's likely to upend competitive dynamics in the world's biggest mobile-phone market.

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New Leaders At Microsoft Are Thinking Beyond Windows

(CORPORATE CHANGEQUAKE) -- The latest BusinessWeek cover story takes a look at new directions at Microsoft as it explores new markets beyond its dominance over the computer operating system market. Any move the software giant makes -- or considers making -- is worth watching, so we recommend that you put this story on your reading list.

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2006: The Year Of Living Globally

(ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKE) -- Globalization goes beyond outsourcing as IBM and others plant operations in India, China and Russia. Although international commerce has been going on since the beginning of civilization, what's different now is instant communication between scattered locations that makes an office on the other side of the world feel like it is next door.

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Online Video Viewing Rises at Expense of TV

(TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKE) -- The boom in online video has started to reduce the hours people spend watching television. An ICM poll of 2,070 people for the BBC found that some 43% of Britons who watch video from the Internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less traditional TV as a result.

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RELATED ARTICLE: Ericsson: Mobile TV Will Reach The Masses
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MORE CHANGEQUAKES TO WATCH

REGULATORY CHANGEQUAKES

WSJ: Generics May Get Boost From Democratic Shift

The newly empowered Democrats' vow to cut healthcare costs might spell bad news for the brand-name pharmaceutical industry, but could provide new momentum for generic drug rivals.

today.reuters.com

RELATED ARTICLE: New Push For Imported Drugs Expected In Congress
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U.S. Copyright Office Issues New Rights

Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced last week. Other copyright exemptions approved by the Library of Congress will let film professors copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations and let blind people use special software to read copy-protected electronic books.

news.yahoo.com

ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKES

Three Reports Spread No Holiday Cheer

For those who were looking for positive signs from three closely followed U.S. economic reports released the day before Thanksgiving, it was a horn of paucity. Key releases on weekly jobless claims, consumer sentiment and mortgage activity on Nov. 22 each saw a headline shortfall from what was otherwise an encouraging recent pattern of improvement.

news.yahoo.com

MEDICAL CHANGEQUAKES

New Human Gene Map Shows Unexpected Differences

One person's DNA code can be as much as 10% different from another's, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that questions the idea that everyone on Earth is 99.9% identical genetically. "This important work will help identify genetic causes of many diseases," Dr. Mark Walport, director of Britain's Wellcome Trust, said in a statement.

today.reuters.com

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKES

Smarter Phones May Become 'Smart Wallet'

Mobile phones are closer to becoming smart wallets, following agreement among mobile operators on an approach to near field communications -- a short-range wireless technology similar to RFID.

news.bbc.co.uk

RELATED ARTICLE: Contactless Payment Comes To Cell Phones
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Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor Project OK'd

Representatives of more than 30 countries signed a deal on Tuesday to build the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor, aimed at developing a clean, cheap and abundant energy source as the end of fossil fuels looms.

today.reuters.com

MEDICAL CHANGEQUAKES

Judge Rejects Vioxx Class Action Claim

Thousands of personal injury lawsuits involving the painkiller Vioxx cannot be pooled together into a class action, a U.S. federal judge has ruled.

news.bbc.co.uk

More Micro, Less Soft As Employees Shape Up

The eating season is upon us. And with the recent news that mouse jockeys are more super-sized than ever, Microsoft and a growing number of companies are on the attack against fat.

www.businessweek.com