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...Hollywood, all good things must come to an end--and then get spun off into something that's almost as good, but not quite. After Friends finishes its 10th and final season next year, NBC will launch a sitcom starring Joey Tribbiani, the lazy, lovable lunk played by MATT LEBLANC. (What, Gunther wasn't available?) The new show will premiere in the fall of 2004 in that same old comfy Friends time slot, Thursdays at 8 p.m. E.T. Joey won't be going on his own: the three executive producers who created Friends will be there...
...Chinese are going to buy mobile phones, and the poorest 30% wouldn't know who to call if you handed them a phone. It's that middle 50%--650 million people--who would want wireless service if it could be made affordable," says Wu. Little Smart is set to launch in Beijing, and UTStarcom is selling phones with such fancy extras as full-color screens, built-in MP3 players and digital-camera ports. Still, the perception persists that UTStarcom operates in a gray area--even as Little Smart rolls out in the MII's backyard. "But that's not necessarily...
...been a bumpy flight since the firm's 1999 launch. Its NASDAQ shares dove 95%, from $43 in 2000 to $2 in 2001. What helped e-bookers evade the fate of so many that failed? "We built a website around a business," answers Dhamija. "We didn't build a business around a website." E-bookers makes 30% of its sales through shops and call centers. Dhamija, who came to Britain from India in 1968, set up a discount-travel shop in London in 1980. His knowledge of the industry, not technowizardry, was the basis of e-bookers' success. To avoid...
...Kemal, the son of a Bosnian farmer who emigrated to Turkey in the 1920s, built a construction empire in the 1970s and '80s, benefiting from close ties with then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who in effect brought capitalism to the country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise was to launch Turkey's first private TV channel, Star TV, together with Özal's son, Ahmet, in 1989. The privatization boom of the 1990s allowed the Uzans to expand into other media and utilities - and to build the country's second-largest mobile-phone carrier, Telsim. Family assets, according to Forbes...
...load the mission data from a DTUC (data transfer unit cartridge), which looks like a black brick with a handle. Surprisingly, the cartridge is made from 1960s technology, holding only 512 kilobytes of data, less than a floppy disk. But inside was all of the data needed to launch state-of-the-art precision weapons and to skim the earth's surface from as low as 200 feet at Mach speed...