Both companies have been granted patents relating to the selling or transferring of digital goods - but while both offer cloud storage services for music, neither has yet set up a reselling function.

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True, recordable versions of both have been around for several years, but neither can yet be said to be truly ready for prime-time.

ECONOMIST: The battle to succeed the DVD has only just begun

Neither immunity nor imposed liability are appropriate, yet both have been proposed by policymakers who think they are making a case for cybersecurity.

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This bipartisan British report mentions neither the Blair government nor the Clinton administration, yet is implicitly critical of both.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

And yet neither country wants to spend any of its own money on slowing global warming because they both rightly have other priorities.

FORBES: David Victor