Moreover, today's big mergers may give birth to hard-to-beat Internet learning partnerships, according to Clark Aldridge, an education analyst at Gartner Group (IT) .

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Ever since Apple announced that it would offer a streaming music service, there has not been much doubt that Apple would attempt to beat Internet radio heavyweight, Pandora.

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Some regret that the nation didn't build on its technological lead, but most French folks will probably remember the boxes nostalgically, knowing that they beat the internet by almost 20 years.

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If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.

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It lessens the cloud of uncertainty over other Internet companies and signals the correct way to beat a competitor is by competition in the marketplace, not by hiring armies of lobbyists, lawyers and PR advocates.

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