Newsweek International articles from April 2005

Newsweek International archives from April 2005

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
April 4, 2005... A Troubled Economy Our Feb. 21 report on the declining U.S. economy did not please some readers. An expat objected strongly to the cover picture of the U.S. flag in a dustbin; another reader said, "More is not always better... let's search...

Peter the Great; Europe's new trade commissioner finds himself in the hot seat as transatlantic tensions rise. The world is watching.(Peter Mandelson)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn and Benedict Caparoso in London and Karen Lowry Miller in Brussels) We're on the ninth floor of the European Commission's sleek Berlaymont building in Brussels. The showdown begins politely but...

The Big Blowout; Why the Airbus-Boeing case could wreck the WTO, and how to stop it.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is dean of the Yale School of Management and former under secretary of Commerce for international trade in the first Clinton administration.) On March 19, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick and...

A Pyrrhic Victory? Old Europe Takes On New Europe, Round 5.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Stefan Theil (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris) The populist tabloid France Soir hailed a new national hero last week. HOW CHIRAC IS DEFENDING FRANCE blazed the headline to an article that presented the French president as a modern-day...

Losing Out In Asia: The Perils of Principle; Europe took the high road, shunning narrow trade deals to pursue the greater global good, and now it's paying the price.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Europe is on the high road to big business losses. As the United States races to make trade deals with nations across the world, Europe has held back, on lofty principle. If every nation cut unique deals with...

Another People's Revolt; First came the Rose revolution in Georgia, then the Orange Revolution in Kiev. Is it now time for Tulips?
April 4, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown (With Nadya Titova in Moscow and Eve Conant in Washington) Another people power revolt has erupted in the former Soviet Union. The question now: who's next, and when? On a bright spring morning last Thursday in...

Muzzled on Campus; Beijing cracks down on unruly student Web sites.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons It was a quiet protest. Over three hours, several hundred students gathered around a monument at the center of Beijing's prestigious Tsing-hua University. They left paper cranes, handwritten notes and flower wreaths....

Alms for the Poor; A clear remedy for winning the war on global poverty.(The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time)(Book Review)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Aaron Clark Approximately 1 billion of the world's people live in extreme poverty. They suffer from malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, unsafe drinking water and chronic hunger. Eight million of them will die this year--largely from...

Hitting the Pilgrim Trail; More Japanese are making the temple 'circuits' by foot.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Hideko Takayama Wearing a short white robe and conical hat and carrying a wooden staff, Namiko Yada, 49, strides along a mountain path beside the rapids in Chichibu, 80 kilometers northwest of Tokyo. She is among a group of 93...

The Rise Of 'Rome'; HBO's new TV series wasn't built in a day.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Dana Thomas Niobe, the wife of one of Caesar's soldiers, wanders down a crowded cobblestone passage in the filthy, overcrowded slums of ancient Rome to make amends with her scorned sister, Lyde, a butcher. Their disagreement,...

To Stop a Tech Deal; Taiwan shows how hard it is to control sales to China.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Adams and George Wehrfritz (With Hideko Takayama in Tokyo and B. J. Lee in Seoul) It's no secret that the two firms share common DNA. The elder, Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp.--the world's second-largest...

The Kid V. the Man; The Livedoor hostile takeover has turned its young perpetrator into Japan's new hero and hope for reform.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl (With Hideko Takayama, Kay Itoi and Noriyuki Hirata) Japan's establishment has many reasons to hate Takafumi Horie. He wears T shirts, not ties. He is 32, and voices disrespect for his elders. He's written...

The Border War; The longstanding debate over U.S. immigration now threatens to turn violent.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson Immigration was supposed to be one of the top issues on the agenda when the leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico gathered for a summit in the city of Waco, Texas, last week. Conservative TV broadcasters in...

Boogie Desert Nights.(Sahara Film Festival)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Samuel Loewenberg After a bumpy flight from Madrid to the military airport in Tindouf, Algeria, we jammed ourselves and our backpacks into an antique bus, along with bulky cases containing film projectors and medicines. We passed...

Perspectives.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, AFP, CNN, AFP, BBC, Washington Post, AP "No one expected it would happen so fast." Balbek Tulobayev, a Kyrgyzstan government official after protesters stormed the palace of President Askar...

Periscope.(Turkey)(China/Taiwan)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen, Jonathan Adams and Tim Culpan, Mark Hosenball, Rana Foroohar, Jason Overdorf, Ramin Setoodeh, Erin Zaleski, Erin Zaleski, Vibhuti Patel, Vanessa Juarez TURKEY Ankara's Two Faces Will the real...

Snap Judgment: Books.(The Turbulent Decade)(Babyji)(Forget Kathmandu)(Book Review)
April 4, 2005... Byline: Eve Conant, Karen Fragala, Anagha Neelakantan The Turbulent Decade by Sadako Ogata As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1990s, Ogata was at the forefront of some of history's ugliest post-cold-war...

Tip Sheet.
April 4, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern, Sue Caporlingua, Tom Masland U.S. TRAVEL VACATION LIKE A PRO Fantasy camps have moved beyond baseball and rock bands. Now there's a reality experience for everything. All you need is a dream and lots of cash....

Mail Call: Beauty and the Wonk.(Letter to the Editor)
April 11, 2005... Our Feb. 28 story on India's two top leaders pleased readers, but most remained critical of the government. Said one, "India's economic reforms and labor laws are a colonial hangover." Another called Sonia the bearer of the "Nehru-Gandhi...

Under Construction; Brazil has tried for decades to keep developers out of the Amazon. What's needed is a realistic plan to help them.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis In the late 1990s, Antonio Paes de Carvalho, a Brazilian physician, and Jorge Raimundo, an attorney, had a wild idea: why not take on the global pharmaceutical industry? Although the two didn't have the money and...

Radio's Rebels; Taking an old medium into the age of iPod.(MotorFM offers playlist for downloads)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Andreas Tzortzis The Welsh band Stereophonics may be a big hit in England, but in Germany the group is not so well known. So last month its label, V2, a Virgin Records spinoff, arranged to have the band featured on a German radio...

Meds And Miracles; China's medical system is straining to accommodate a flood of Western firms testing new medicines.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Craig Simons (With Liu Qing in Beijing) Zhen Suxia didn't even glance at the informed-consent form before signing it. All he knew was that his luck had changed. Zhen, a poor farmer, had been infected with HIV back in 1995, when...

For Better and Worse; A new book takes American hegemony to task, gently.(Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World)(Book Review)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Max Boot (Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.) Since 9/11 there has been a boom in books castigating American policymakers for all sorts of sins, real and imagined, that are said to have turned the United...

A Pontiff for The Ages; Zbigniew Brzezinski.(Interview)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Michael Hastings Several years ago, Zbigniew Brzezinski visited Pope John Paul II at his summer residence, Castle Gandolfo. At a small, private mass, the pope asked Brzezinski, a fellow Roman Catholic and longtime ally against...

Let Them Drink Tap.(bottled water at congressional hearings)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Gersh Kuntzman Millions of Americans watched Congress's recent hearings on Major League Baseball's steroid problem. I got up early and had a few cups of coffee so I wouldn't miss a word about how top stars used...

It's the Road Now Taken; Two mapping companies are behind most of the data that go into GPS gadgets.(Navteq, Tele Atlas)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone It was as if the place didn't really exist. The first luxury properties in the Marisol housing development just south of San Francisco may have gone on sale in December 2003. But for the next 12 months, the streets of...

Perspectives.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom: Reuters, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Taipei Times, Los Angeles Times "I have looked for you. Now you have come to me." Pope John Paul II, shortly before losing...

Periscope.(Interview)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau and Mark Hosenball, Scott Johnson, Charles Gasparino, Lorraine Ali, Malcolm Jones, Jenny Barchfield, Nicki Gostin EXCLUSIVE Tale of Two Terrorists Hardly anyone was more surprised by Iraq's...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader; Chernobyl Strawberries; History on Trial)(Book Review)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Christian Caryl, T. Trent Gegax, Ginanne Brownell Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Martin Cracking the cocoon of secrecy and propaganda surrounding North Korea is not a job for the faint of heart. Yet...

Mommy Madness; What happened when the Girls Who Had It All became mothers? A new book explores why this generation feels so insane.(Perfect Madness)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Judith Warner Back in the days when I was a Good Mommy, I tried to do everything right. I breast-fed and co-slept, and responded to each and every cry with anxious alacrity. I awoke with my daughter at 6:30 a.m. and, eschewing TV,...

For the Love of Chocolate; Americans are finally catching on to the European habit of savoring a small bit of high-quality dark chocolate, rather than devouring kilos of M&Ms.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Julie Scelfo (With Lisa Helem) All his life, Jason Judkins was seeking something, but he was looking in all the wrong places, like vending machines. "Usually between 2 and 3 o'clock I'd eat a Snickers, a Three Musketeers or a...

Toxic Strength; Professional and Olympic athletes have grabbed all the headlines for using illegal steroids to enhance their performance. Now the practice is catching on among students in American high schools. Doctors say it's a health crisis in the making.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Jerry Adler (With Anne Underwood, Julie Scelfo and Vanessa Juarez in New York, Dirk Johnson and Hilary Shenfeld in Illinois, Jamie Reno, Andrew Murr and Karen Breslau in California and Joan Raymond in Ohio) It can take years to hit...

Tip Sheet.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Erin Zaleski, Ramin Setoodeh, Dana Thomas, Jenny Hontz FASHION Step Into Spring By Erin Zaleski Pack up your boots, put away those pumps and say adieu to Uggs. Spring has officially arrived and, with it, a new crop of...

The Good Earth; Today's tourists are seeking far more than a getaway. In these uncertain times, they want to feel that the world belongs to them--and they, to the world.(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Susan H. Greenberg It used to be that people went on holiday to get away from it all, to taste the exotic and see how the rest of the planet lives. No more. These days people are more inclined to use travel as a way to affirm their...

Having Fun Doing Good; For some altruistic travelers, vacations mean more than just a day at the beach.(volunteer vacations)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Eve Conant Jen and Ian Close were ready to try something new. The Canadian couple had traveled to Germany and England to visit family, but not much beyond. So last August they went on safari in Kenya, then capped off their African...

Donations Of Time; Charities are finding that nothing raises awareness--and money--like field trips.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Sana Butler When philanthropist Jeffrey Brewer heard the founder of ApproTEC speak in San Francisco recently, he was intrigued by the nonprofit's high-tech efforts to fight poverty and create jobs in Africa. But he wanted to learn...

Counting the Vote; In pursuit of democracy, citizens use their time off to monitor elections.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Walter Alarkon Viktor Shevchenko, a technology consultant based in Ottawa, had planned to spend last Christmas on the beach. "I could have gone to sunny Florida or Mexico," he says. But he opted instead for Ukraine, where the...

Back From the Brink; Cities on the rebound from genocide, war and destruction are not afraid of using their brutal legacies to help lure tourists.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Tracy McNicoll, Ginanne Brownell and Carla Power A decade ago, one wondered how the sun itself still managed to rise over Rwanda, let alone planes bearing tourists. Over three infernal months in the spring of 1994, the country saw...

The Accidental Tourist Havens; Budget air travel is creating some unlikely European hot spots.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Eric Pape Rent an inexpensive hotel room amid the cobblestone streets of the Baltic capitals of Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania, and here's what you are likely to see: stag parties! Enabled by discount airlines and the tour operators...

Asia's New Frontiers; The region's savviest travelers are seeking exotic thrills close to home.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Like many Singaporeans, Lynette Wong is well traveled, taking ski holidays in Austria and regular breaks in Phuket or Bali. But her latest trip was a touch more exotic: five days in Bhutan. It satisfied her...

At Home Away From Home; Embedded tourists spend not weeks but months abroad--and become part of the local culture.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar (With Marie Valla in London, Janisha Sabnani in New York and Owen Matthews in Istanbul) Linden Cole, 52-year-old English management consultant, bought what he calls his Brittany "ruin" for 14,000 pounds back in 1997....

Where the Living Is Cheap; Spurred by the weak dollar, Europeans are setting up stateside.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Erin Zaleski When Sue Evans and her husband were looking for a vacation home last year, the British couple bypassed Europe's celebrated, sun-dappled beaches in favor of more distant shores. "Portugal was too expensive and Spain...

Getting Away From It All; Indians are buying vacation homes where they never did before.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Jason Overdorf Natarajan Viswanathan wanted a place to get away from it all. "Madras was getting too strangulating," says the 74-year-old retired leather exporter. But instead of looking to the southern hill station of...

Buckingham Palace Has Nothing on You; Don't want to buy? You can always rent.(rental vacation properties)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Jaime Cunningham Want to stay in a luxury vacation home without making a lifelong commitment? You're not alone. A growing number of vacationers are choosing to spend their time off in rented villas. According to Abercrombie & Kent,...

Living Another Life; Travelers forsake modern luxuries in pursuit of a more simple existence.(experiencing local culture)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei) When Rachel Barber, 34, became frustrated with her life and unsure of what to do, a holiday helped her find her way. But the London financial administrator didn't uncover the meaning of...

Going Back in History; The urge to see where one's ancestors lived--and suffered.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Frank Brown (With Sana Butler) In their quest to gain a deeper understanding of the world--and themselves--more tourists are seeking to walk in their ancestors' shoes. And they're not retracing the footsteps of grandparents who...

May I Have This Dance? Japanese women flock to Austria to become princesses for a season.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Kay Itoi For at least part of every year, Makiko Krone is a princess. Dressed in a dramatic evening gown and escorted by a princely young man, she spends the winter waltzing her way through the regal balls in Vienna. By March, when...

Do Not Disturb; For the moneyed traveler, luxury is a given. What he craves now is privacy--no matter how steep the price.
April 11, 2005... Byline: William Underhill The artwork on the walls is original, and the butler is on call. There's a choice of pools, a recording studio and a chauffeur-driven Jaguar on offer. But that's not why the discerning traveler heads for the Moog...

A VIP Lounge in the Skies; The newest status symbol in Asia: cruising in your own private jet.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Hong Kong's wealthy ladies who lunch like their LV (Louis Vuitton) luggage and CD (Christian Dior) handbags. But for those in the know, the hottest travel accessory right now is the "PJ"--private jet. Luxury...

Staying Connected.(electronic travel accessories )(Brief Article)
April 11, 2005... Byline: Sandy Lawrence Edry Convergence is everywhere--from music players that double as cameras and cameras with video recorders to cell-phone flashlights and a jacket that turns you into a solar-powered battery charger. A look at the new...

The Places You'll Go; Our pick of the world's most exclusive getaways.
April 11, 2005... Byline: Scott Johnson Want to rent an island for your honeymoon? How about flying around the world on your own private jet, stopping only for the best restaurants along the way? Or what about a three-day stay at a hotel where a round of...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
April 25, 2005... The Pope's Suffering Readers of our Feb. 28 and March 7 stories on the pope's illness praised our coverage. "Thanks for the excellent report," wrote one. A Vatican seminarian applauded our "clear and fair summary of the pope's vision." Said a...

Special Report: London Calling; The British capital has let the world in, and become a model for making a 21st-century metropolis work.(Cover Story)
April 25, 2005... Byline: William Underhill (With Marie Valla in London) For a glimpse into how successful cities evolve, take in the view from the riverside office of London's mayor. High above the Thames, Ken Livingstone enjoys a panorama spanning 2,000...

Rio Run Amok; Brazil's once marvelous city has lost its luster for natives as well as visitors. Can it recover?(Rio de Janeiro)(Cover Story)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Mac Margolis It's not hard to get a rise out of the powers that be in Rio de Janeiro. Just mention "crime" and "tourists" in the same breath. "I can name you 20 friends who have been mugged in Paris," snaps Rio state's secretary of...

Bombay Dreams; India's financial capital has a grand scheme to become a modern city, but cynical politics and red tape may spoil the plan.(Cover Story)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar Air travelers arriving in Mumbai can be forgiven if they suddenly get the urge to turn around and go elsewhere. At touchdown, the city's sprawling slums are literally a stone's throw from the plane's...

How Cities Become Great; Places like Shanghai are well placed in the race to marry creativity and innovation.(Cover Story)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Peter Hall (Hall is a professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London.) Freud famously said that after 30 years researching the feminine soul, he'd never answered his real question: what does...

The Two Amigos; Tony Blair and Gordon Brown put on a great show of friendship. But make no mistake. They are bitter rivals, and so the question: when does Tony step down?
April 25, 2005... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Emily Flynn) An election was coming, and Rupert Murdoch was uneasy. The good news for the Australian-born magnate, whose London papers helped propel the British Labour Party to victory eight years ago, was that...

Asia: Furies Unleashed; The China-Japan conflict reflects a new wave of nationalism--and a scramble for future power.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu and Christian Caryl (With Jonathan Ansfield and Craig Simons in Beijing, Hideko Takayama and Kay Itoi in Tokyo, B. J. Lee in Seoul and Jonathan Adams in Taipei) For China's top leaders, the unrest seemed like a recurring...

Greater China: A Little Nervous; Ironically, China's anti-Japan fervor is making citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan less rather than more patriotic.
April 25, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams One might expect citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan to share the anti-Japanese fervor of their mainland brethren. But many of them find China's rage over atrocities committed by Japanese invaders...

Another Giant On the Rise; Tesco is more dominant in Britain than Wal-Mart is in America, and it's taking aim at the rest of the world.
April 25, 2005... Byline: William Underhill (With Marie Valla in London, Joy Wang in New York and Joanna Kowalska in Warsaw) Imagine a global retailer with multibillion-dollar revenues. Its management is largely anonymous and its headquarters are modest. But...

Should This Man Lead the G8? Allowing Putin to assume the post risks the credibility of the G8 and a Bush administration that's staked its name on promoting democracy.(Vladimir Putin)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, held economic and foreign policy positions in the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Clinton administrations.) Russian president Vladimir Putin is now the world's most...

Innovation: Europe's Silicon Envy; What's wrong? Fragmented finances and a lack of greed.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Rana Foroohar You've heard of Silicon Valley, but what about Silicon Fen (Cambridge, England)? Or Silicon Glen (Glasgow)? Or the Cote du Silicon (Sophia Antipolis, France)? These were just a few European pretenders to the...

Moving the 'Mona Lisa'; Louvre director Henri Loyrette seeks out private funding for new projects.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Dana Thomas Henri Loyrette promised a new and improved Louvre when he took over as president and director of the august Paris museum four years ago and, step by step, he has delivered. Last week he unveiled the biggest...

A Brother's Life Cut Short; A Czech wartime diary--a la Anne Frank's--surfaces.(Book Review)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Katka Krosnar Two years ago, Chava Pressburger received an e-mail out of the blue containing scanned excerpts of a secret wartime diary written by her older brother, Petr Ginz, who died at Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 16. A...

REM: The Music Man.(Casa da Musica)(Brief Article)
April 25, 2005... The stunning, avant-garde Casa da Musica, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opened last week in Porto, Portugal, with a 1,300-seat hall geared for both electronic and classical music. It looks like a rock for the ages.

Grounds for Optimism? Iraqi soldiers are getting better at holding off insurgents.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Owen Matthews Capt. Hussein and the soldiers of the Iraqi Army's 302nd Battalion pick their way down a narrow, trash-filled alleyway in the slums behind Baghdad's Haifa Street. It's a pro-government Shia neighborhood plastered with...

Rachid Mohamed Rachid; Driver's Seat To Democracy.(Interview)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria As Egyptian minister of trade and industry, former businessman Rachid Mohamed Rachid has his work cut out for him. Many Middle East experts believe the entire project of democratizing the region boils down to Egypt,...

Cash Is King.(France)
April 25, 2005... Byline: David Ray Before I moved to France, my accountant warned me that Freddy Krueger, the undying villain from "A Nightmare on Elm Street," was modeled after the French tax man. Every year he creeps into my financial dreams sporting...

High Tech's New Day; The next generation of entrepreneurs is using new--and not so new--ideas to transform the Web and make money.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Josh Felser and Dave Samuel should be sailing the tropical seas in luxury yachts. The pair lived the dot-com dream, selling Spinner, their Internet-radio start-up, to America Online for $320 million in 1999. After...

Living by Google Rules; Mining the Internet is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy A couple of weeks ago, a prominent dot-com warrior gave me a hot tip about Google: the next big move of the search phenom would be an assault on eBay. Think about it. Millions visit the Google site daily; why not let...

Leaders of The Pack.(high technology industry)
April 25, 2005... Many on the front lines of the tech revival are back for a second chance. Others are newbies who learned from the mistakes of the Internet bust. A gallery of people with some big ideas. Joichi Ito CEO, Neoteny Kyoto-born and...

Perspectives.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: BBC, CNN.com, New York Times, CCN.com, New York Times, BBC "The United Nations cannot survive... if it does not reform." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on how...

Periscope.
April 25, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: The photo accompanying our April 25 Periscope item "Influence Peddling" was not of former U.N. secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali but of former Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Khalil. Corbis Photo Agency provided the...

Snap Judgment: Books.(Going Sane)(Pasion India)(Self's Punishment)(Book Review)
April 25, 2005... Byline: Tara Pepper, Jenny Barchfield, Linda Flanagan Going Sane by Adam Phillips Madness has always captured the creative imagination. Yet none of the great writers who explored madness--Shakespeare, Freud or William Blake--had much...

Tip Sheet.
April 25, 2005... Byline: Peter Suciu with Bruce Jaffe, Malcolm Beith, Ramin Setoodeh Technology: Armed For The Road By Peter Suciu Your house is loaded up with gadgets, but how about your briefcase? These days, more tech companies are trying to...