Careers: Finding balance between the myriad aspects both of work and life “is harder than it sounds and move valuable than you may think,” explains John West in No one dies wishing they had gone to more meetings. “You can’t be fresh, creative, and focused if you are exhausted from over work, or if your edge is dulled by focusing on one thing for too long.” Hardware: “I have a theory about a wrinkle that made Dell’s crash so dramatic,” Tom Yager declares in Dell’s dicey fortune. “As AMD’s CPUs gained visibility and market share, Dell played Intel for an escalation of what suing investors call kickbacks.” Yager continues that Dell is not entirely innocent, “but it got stuck in a web spun by Intel.” The news beat: When handset makers ship devices with Windows Mobile 6.0 a number of them will also be packing the Opera browser. Nokia reveals intentions to shuffle 700 of its workers, many of them in the R&D or sales and marketing units. IBM makes the forthcoming upgrade to its Informix Dynamic Server available for public beta testing. And SAP ends speculation about dual-CEOs taking over by signing Henning Kagermann to stay on as chief through ’09. Careers