It tells me to open my BlackBerry App World on the Curve and scan the barcode on its screen.

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The curve jumping creates discontinuity and oftentimes, open up expectation chasm among the leadership team.

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But now a series of deals is finally allowing Microsoft to argue that it's ahead of the curve--with the entertaining upside of making some of the open-source community's truest believers even angrier.

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His career has continued on a steady upward curve in the intervening two years, with two quarter-final appearances at the US Open and a semi-final spot in Australia this year.

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