Wall Street securities analysts and investors around the world have damned Motorola because its growth has slowed.

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Following the lead of the icon that ran the company over its heady past decade, Apple did what it wanted to do, the rest of the world be damned.

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"Only in the twisted world of railway regulation could a 10% improvement be damned as a failure, " a senior Railtrack source told the BBC.

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Some will say that he and Rebekah Brooks are damned if they did know and damned if they didn't - in that as the most senior editors of the News of the World, they should have made enquiries about how sensitive information was obtained.

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