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In This Issue     Feature: The Power Vacuum   Quotes of the Week   Ethermail   The Takeout Window   Using the Small to Explore the Large: Graphene’s New Magnetic Story   Upgrades   Mobile Advertising: On the Run? Yen Appreciation, Second Look at ChinaPan Prostate Cancer: Next Virus Candidate?   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News…   SNS Positions Open How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

New Heads and Hands: I am looking for a new Executive Assistant, and for a person or program to sell SNS site licenses to global corporations; details on both are in the “In Other House News” section of this letter.

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» The Power Vacuum

 

“Nature abhors a vacuum.” – Franois Rabelais (French monk and satirist, 1494-1553)

 

A little jostling for market share is always a good thing, and the occasional sector blowup or segment technology revolution keeps everyone on their toes and healthy.

 

But what happens when a global duopoly in the most strategic technology sector implodes, after decades of monopoly domination?

 

That’s exactly where we are headed today.

 

Long live Wintel, Wintel is dead.