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• This is what I call a race to the bottom — The New York Times Company and the Tribune Company reported less-than-stellar financial results yesterday. The continued poor performance at both companies, reflecting their inability to recognize how their blatant bias continues to alienate fair-minded readers, is reflected in their steeply declining stock prices:

  

  

• How Did Parents Ever Survive Without This? — Sprint Nextel is rolling out a Family Locator Service today. Description: “Using the Global Positioning System, the service allows parents to track up to four cell phones over the Internet or on their own wireless device. Parents can periodically ask the service to find the child’s phone, displaying the location on a road map.” There are many more potential applications, some neat, some creepy.
• The Beatles are preparing to sell their songs online — It’s incredible that it’s taken as long as it has. No firm dates have been established. There’s this “little” matter of waiting for the result of a lawsuit filed by the band’s Apple Corps against Apple Computer over the use of the Apple name.
• Honda May Cut Hybrid Production — That tells me that the economics aren’t there to support their higher prices, even after generous tax credits.