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SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday that the company would bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, pitting it against established telecommunications players AT&T and Verizon.

With a work ethic they describe as “maniacal and around-the-clock,” the husband-and-wife team of Brian Flynn and Dora Drimalas tackle a staggering variety of projects—from corporate communications to textile design to, yes, manufacturing toy monsters—for their own store and such super-star clients as Nike. They do it all, running three complementary design businesses—Hybrid Design, Hybrid-Home, and Super7—on an assortment of Mac computers. “If you’re a designer,” says Flynn, “you use a Mac. I know people who use Illustrator or Photoshop on the PC, but it’s just not the same. If you want to be creative on the computer, you’re going to get a Mac.”

With a work ethic they describe as “maniacal and around-the-clock,” the husband-and-wife team of Brian Flynn and Dora Drimalas tackle a staggering variety of projects—from corporate communications to textile design to, yes, manufacturing toy monsters—for their own store and such super-star clients as Nike. They do it all, running three complementary design businesses—Hybrid Design, Hybrid-Home, and Super7—on an assortment of Mac computers. “If you’re a designer,” says Flynn, “you use a Mac. I know people who use Illustrator or Photoshop on the PC, but it’s just not the same. If you want to be creative on the computer, you’re going to get a Mac.”

LONDON (Reuters) - Genetic tests to assess disease risk are proliferating but many are a waste of money and tell people little more than they would know from studying family history, medical experts said on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. economic recession could hammer those media and entertainment companies that rely heavily on advertising next year, curtailing experimentation when the industry needs it most.

Did you know that the new version of Safari included with Mac OS X Leopard has a great new inline Find feature? “To find a word or phrase on the page you are looking at,” instructs Robin Williams in her new book, Peachpit Learning Series: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, “press Command F. Then just type—Safari knows to put the search term in the search field.” What’s more, Safari “dims out the rest of the page and highlights every instance of” the word or phrase you’re looking for. Want to learn more about Mac OS X Leopard? You’ll find Robin Williams’ newest title in the online Apple Store.

Did you know that the new version of Safari included with Mac OS X Leopard has a great new inline Find feature? “To find a word or phrase on the page you are looking at,” instructs Robin Williams in her new book, Peachpit Learning Series: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, “press Command F. Then just type—Safari knows to put the search term in the search field.” What’s more, Safari “dims out the rest of the page and highlights every instance of” the word or phrase you’re looking for. Want to learn more about Mac OS X Leopard? You’ll find Robin Williams’ newest title in the online Apple Store.

In giving iWork ’08 a five-star rating, Neale Monks (macworld.co.uk) points out that the suite offers “good value for the money,” is “easy to use,” offers “genuinely useful templates,” exports to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and “integrates nicely with Mac OS X.” Of the three applications that comprise iWork ’08, Monks says that “Keynote ’08 thrashed PowerPoint back in 2003, and it just keeps getting better.” He celebrates the fact that the new toolbars in Pages ’08 “are now chock full of new buttons and menus” that “show off its dramatically improved word-processing chops.” And he suggests that Numbers, the newest member of the suite, “may well redefine how people use spreadsheets. It’s powerful, beautiful, and surprisingly versatile.”

In giving iWork ’08 a five-star rating, Neale Monks (macworld.co.uk) points out that the suite offers “good value for the money,” is “easy to use,” offers “genuinely useful templates,” exports to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and “integrates nicely with Mac OS X.” Of the three applications that comprise iWork ’08, Monks says that “Keynote ’08 thrashed PowerPoint back in 2003, and it just keeps getting better.” He celebrates the fact that the new toolbars in Pages ’08 “are now chock full of new buttons and menus” that “show off its dramatically improved word-processing chops.” And he suggests that Numbers, the newest member of the suite, “may well redefine how people use spreadsheets. It’s powerful, beautiful, and surprisingly versatile.”

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday that the Internet leader would bid on coveted airwaves to launch a U.S. wireless network, putting it in competition with traditional telecommunications players AT&T and Verizon.