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To succeed, computing and electronics firms need to reinvent themselves regularly, not just their products. Doing business in the same old way only invites competitors to leap ahead.

The Internet is a decade old! What will the next decade bring? Robots in Japan want your job, but they’re only trying to be helpful. Warm weather in Europe hurting the ski season; a Swiss village is doing its part to combat global warming. Young women donating their eggs to older women. And sprinkled throughout the podcast, the digitally remixed music of the Beatles.

If only the some-assembly-required phase of computer ownership ended when you’d figured out what plugs go where, a new PC would be no harder to set up than a new DVD player — not that manufacturers should take any pride in that accomplishment.

A show this week devoted to transportation. An old technology revived in Paris, the tram. Planes flying over Europe must now buy credits to offset greenhouse gas pollution credits. What you can do to offset your carbon emissions when you fly. And tracking snow leopards in Pakistan with GPS tracking.

NASD accuses Morgan Stanley of lying about losing emails.”The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has accused investment house Morgan…

Nobody laughs at the idea of replacing a land-line phone with a cellphone, so why should the idea of ditching a ground-bound broadband Internet connection in favor of a high-speed data service from your cellphone provider seem ridiculous?

They’re running their cars on coconuts in the Philippines! What’s the best biofuel? How do they work? Cleaning Beijing for the Olympics. Regulating chemicals in Europe, and what that means for American companies. And a truly amazing new cure for blindness.

What’s a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it?

Smart phones — cellphones with a big screen, a keyboard and the ability to run add-on programs — are not necessarily phones to the people who use them. Their versatility allows them to impersonate the other handheld devices you might otherwise carry around; in reality, any given smart phone may be a datebook, a Web browser or an MP3 player that happens to place the occasional call.