And to make matters worse, the rise of personal digital assistants, palmtops, embedded controllers, etc. promises in the next few years to render the PC industry intoa backwater business filled with commodity products--hardly the place to be a pricey innovator.
Sources close to the matter also raised doubst that a judgment against Argentina, which could push the country into technical default, would render debt restructurings useless by incentivizing creditors to hold out.