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...Palmisano climbed the ladder at IBM, he became known as a penny-pinching tactician who loves to court developers or customers but doesn't have much patience for sales-award cruises or team-building retreats. Palmisano "doesn't talk down to anybody, and he doesn't put on airs," says technology consultant Sam Albert, a former executive at IBM. Palmisano doesn't travel with an entourage, nor does he have an executive assistant or personal spokesman. On at least one occasion, he arrived at a meeting and lit into underlings for spending money on an elaborate floral centerpiece. They...
...room (rather than a game) with realistic environments and cool-looking characters controlled by real people, There (at there.com costs $10 a month and can be addictive. Unfortunately, you need a fairly high-powered PC to join in. But as with most everything unveiled at CES, you have to award it an A for effort...
DIED. CONRAD HALL, 76, cinematographer who won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 and another three decades later for American Beauty; of complications from bladder cancer; in Los Angeles. His rich, naturalistic camera style was most recently on view in last year's Road to Perdition...
...France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book" of the year by the New York Times, and Ji-li Jiang's Red Scarf Girl, also a memoir written in English, won a number of children's book awards in America, including a gold Parents' Choice Award in 1998. Jung Chang's Wild Swans has sold nearly eight million copies since it was first published in Britain in 1991. Lulu Wang's debut Dutch-language novel, The Lily Theater, became a publishing sensation in Holland...
...services provider based in Leeds, England, was fined €75,800 after a U.K. regulatory body found that the company's promotional text messages were "seriously misleading." Recipients were urged to call a premium-rate number - which can cost up to €2.20 a minute - to claim a "mystery award." But an "unreasonable delay" during the call meant that consumers were saddled with an expensive phone bill. SMS scams are becoming more frequent because the rewards - lucrative kickbacks from phone operators - outweigh financial penalties, according to Gartner's Wood. Still, most SMS ads are legitimate, says Wood, since global brands...