Meanwhile, "Scheduled Cleanup" automatically deletes messages after a certain number of days have passed -- a good way to cut through that pile of unused Groupon alerts.
That market was also destined to end up on the commodity pile, so Endoh in 1994 assigned 50 researchers to a challenging task: Cut plastic chip package costs by one-third.
In tackling the deficit, we can only hope that Mr Osborne has put research in the right pile: the one marked "Invest for Growth", rather than "Cut for Short-Term Gain".