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...released the first track off their new CD last week, you could almost sense the relief at record label EMI. Chairman Eric Nicoli partly blamed a 13% dip in annual profits on the delay of the group's latest album. All the more irritating, then, that Crazy Frog's Axel F, mixing the theme tune from the Beverly Hills Cop movie with an infuriating mobile-phone ring tone - think two-stroke scooters voiced by an animated frog - outsold Coldplay's single fourfold last week, according to music retailer HMV. Exploiting the Crazy Frog's appeal (the ring tone is sold...
...invest, behind China and the U.S. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler...
...rules are scheduled to become permanent next year after a seven-year interim period in which both the old and new spellings were accepted. But two weeks ago two of Germany's biggest media companies - Spiegel-Verlag, owner of Der Spiegel, the country's largest newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt to the state-ordered dyslexia and return to classic German spelling," the publishers said...
Assistant Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin and Harvard graduate students Michal Bajcsy, Axel P. André and Alexander S. Zibrov, made history when they halted a light pulse for 10 milliseconds...
Graduate students Michal Bajcsy ’01, Axel P. André and Alexander S. Zibrov conducted the study under the direction of Assistant Professor Mikhail D. Lukin, head of a Quantum Optics group in the Department of Physics...