Well, just about everyone who uses the internet is stuck in the inbox nowadays.

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There were no improvements under the hood (though even the lowly Nokia Lumia 610 was fairly smooth on WP7.5, and still is), no OTA updates, you're stuck with Internet Explorer version 9 instead of the much zippier IE10 and apps created for WP8 won't work -- giving developers very little reason to create new ones for the lame duck OS, or even update existing ones.

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Although many bits of Indian industry have leapfrogged over their rivals from other countries to achieve great success in areas like information technology, internet-driven businesses remain stuck.

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Most of King's students find him on the Internet thanks to a web video series called Stuck in Vermont.

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Many of my colleagues, along with 6 million other people in the Northeastern United States, are stuck at home in various locations without electricity or Internet access.

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In an article in the Wall Street Journal in April last year Chris Zook, a colleague of Mr Rigby's at Bain, drew a comparison between Amazon, a diversified Internet retailer, and American Express, a company that had stuck to its core business of providing financial services.

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