Mr Bush's other main second-term goal on the home front, to simplify America's bewildering tax code, seems an even more distant hope.

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First and foremost is the 180-degree swiveling LCD, which, like Samsung's MultiView flavor, flips all the way forward to simplify composition for self-portraits, but it also offers some nifty gesture controls, letting you wave briefly to trigger a two-second countdown, for example.

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Sun's Jini OS project aims to simplify the integration of Java-enabled devices by allowing the devices to automatically send small applets to each other.

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Lord Lawson's instinct was to cut taxes and to simplify them: he cut both income-tax rates and the number of bands, and streamlined the corporation-tax regime.

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U.S. lawmakers in turn should immediately repeal FATCA and replace it with a pro-growth agenda to simplify the tax code and lower rates.

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The ioDrive product line, available through the Supermicro solution in capacities up to 5.12 TB in the ioDrive Octal, offers Fusion-io's revolutionary new solid-state ioMemory tier to dramatically increase bandwidth and application performance, reduce latency, and simplify IT infrastructure, while slashing capital and operating costs.

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Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) to use a nascent technology called Cisco Eos to simplify the music company's management of a large catalog of band Web sites.

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That could change, though, as dirt-cheap 3-D printers like the Printrbot or new MakiBox simplify the technology and put it in more people's hands and home offices.

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