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...Farrell joked about selling mobiles from vending machines, "and we both laughed." But Pearson wasn't laughing when he called Farrell a week later. Research suggested that the idea wasn't so wacky after all. Those two eureka moments could help drive Europe's vending machines into the digital era. Coca-Cola HBC recently finished a six-month trial of 30 networked Coke machines at Dublin Airport in Ireland that sold mobile-phone top-ups, ring tones, games and logos - all downloaded from a central database - as well as soft drinks. It's now fine-tuning the business model, ensuring...
Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia, a sunny conservative, had hoped to use his re-election race this year to build the machinery for a White House run in 2008. Last week he became the first political victim of the phenomenal YouTube era. Allen is videotaped at each campaign stop by a "tracker" for his Democratic opponent, James Webb. Such operatives are standard on the stump, and aides warn candidates to ignore them. But Allen, speaking at a rural picnic, took the bait. He singled out the Webb volunteer, who is of Indian descent, telling the crowd to welcome "Macaca...
...group's fighters away from the border with Israel. But that may never happen. To a TIME correspondent following the 11th Brigade as it moved up into the hardscrabble hills above Tyre, it was clear that the army's job will be largely symbolic and humanitarian. With cold war--era equipment--tin-pot helmets and clunky M-16 rifles that looked as if they had served in Vietnam--the units aren't a match for either Israel or Hizballah. Locals who gathered along the road to welcome the army as it passed agreed. "It's great that the army...
Junichiro Koizumi was dressed to the nines for his last visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, because if you're going to be the center of international controversy, you might as well look good. Wearing a formal tuxedo jacket with coattails, the Japanese Prime Minister arrived at Yasukuni, where WWII-era war criminals are enshrined along with 2.5 million Japanese war dead, at 7:40 on Tuesday morning - 61 years after Japan surrendered to end World War II. He followed a white-robed Shinto priest into the shrine's inner hall, worshipped briefly and departed, the entire 10-minute visit carried...
...Japan is virtually split over the issue, although it is slowly turning against the shrine visits. That change is in part due to revelations published last month that Emperor Hirohito apparently stopped visiting Yasukuni because 14 Class A war criminals, including WWII-era leader Hideki Tojo, were secretly enshrined there in 1978. There's also evidence that Japan's conservatives may finally be coming to grips with the truth of WWII. This week the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest paper and a traditionally conservative voice, published the conclusion of a yearlong examination of Japan's responsibility for the war. Rejecting...