Apple unveils widescreen laptop, new Web browser
San Fransisco: Apple Computer on Tuesday unveiled a wide-screen laptop computer, its own Web browser and a faster wireless technology as part of its bid to gain new converts to its line of computers.

The product announcements, made at the Macworld exposition, marked an extension of Apple's strategy of winning over users from Microsoft's Windows operating system by offering a "digital hub" of technology linking computers and other electronic gadgets.
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IASB hopeful of nod for proposal on stock options
New Delhi: The International Accounting Standards Board is determined to see through its controversial proposal relating to expensing of employees stock options granted by companies, its Chairman, Mr David Tweedie, has said.

"I can't see the proposal being lost even though there has been a lot of opposition. Some of the Americans are against the proposal even though Enron has made it embarrassing for them to oppose it," Mr Tweedie said.
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