On the Jukebox, Creative has tried to remedy the goof with a plastic instruction sheet stuck on the case telling users how to turn it on and off.

CNN: All Music, All the Time

There has traditionally been no easy way to turn the jumble of enterprise software and hardware into a coherent orchestra, because all of the sheet music is written in different languages.

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That suggests France is perilously perched on the cusp between being part of the solution to the eurozone's financial woes and becoming an intractable part of the problem: neurotic investors fear that the French government's balance sheet and French banks may not be strong enough to underwrite the size of bailouts that could turn out to be necessary for Italy and Spain.

BBC: Be scared when investors throw money at Germany

But Kovacocy is betting that BT's Global Services Division, whose deep-rooted inefficiencies have been a bane for BT's balance sheet in the last year (See "BT Gets Called On Inefficiencies, ") could turn into a profit generator for the company.

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