And like his colleagues (albeit more vocally), Benioff sees Microsoft as a computer industry chokepoint that will be eliminated by Internet-based mashups.

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Instead of concentrating on that chokepoint of those few processors.

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And like his colleagues (albeit more vocally), Benioff sees Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) as a computer industry chokepoint that will be eliminated by Internet-based mashups.

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Iran and Eritrea signed a strategic alliance last year that grants Iranian Revolutionary Guard units basing rights in the strategically vital Bab al-Mandab strait that controls the chokepoint connecting the Indian Ocean with the Red Sea.

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Therefore I can imagine the joy a recent New York Times article sparked for anyone annoyed by spam. (Read: everyone.) The New York Times did a nice job highlighting the work of scientists at two University of California campuses, which identified a potentially key chokepoint in the anti-spam war.

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