Companies are increasingly trying to insulate themselves from the problems of beleaguered banks by improving their systems (and their cashflows) in order to avoid being thrownbackon their mercy.
Most US carriers have been pulling backon the sheer number of pre-installed apps thrown onto the latest Android devices, but Verizon appears to be heading in the opposite direction.
The letters that possibly contained ricin have thrown people back to the moment after the September 11 attacks when there was an anthrax scare on Capitol Hill.
All of this has suddenly thrown Obama on the defensive, which is why on Thursday he will try to go backon offense by delivering a big speech that Gibbs promises will detail a hefty part of the president's plan to shut down Guantanamo.
Intel previewed its quad-core Tigerton processor way back in October of last year, but the company has just now let all that server-specific power loose on the general populace, with a couple of slightly scaled back versions also thrown in for good measure.