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...historic pattern in which commercial shipping becomes target practice and borders become moats. Since Sept. 11, President Bush and his emissaries have emphasized that agreements to lower trade barriers can help attract and hold allies to the antiterror campaign by bringing needed jobs and income to impoverished regions. "The launch of a new global trade round is important for economic recovery in the short term and for economic growth over time," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick told TIME. "A signal that the world's trading nations are committed to open markets would inject additional confidence into financial markets...
...Forward Spin: Although voice services will continue to be Vodafone's mainstay, Gent expects to launch third-generation mobile services in most of its markets during the second half of 2002. He believes that 20% to 25% of Vodafone's service revenues will be derived from mobile data by 2004. Analysts say Japan is a good place to gain experience with next-generation wireless technology and data services. But the latest deal pits Vodafone directly against NTT DoCoMo, which has already captured nearly 60% of the Japanese market and has global ambitions...
...dropped out of London?s Imperial College to launch Orchestream (www.orchestream.com), which makes software to configure routers and switches without the need for an army of technical specialists...
...Among iGabriel?s high profile investments: Open Business Exchange (see Alain Falys, No. 22) and Sourceree, which offers a Web-based supply-chain management system. Now Muirhead is preparing to launch his latest venture, InterProvider, which supplies proprietary software and service interconnections to telecom operators. This will allow them to offer large corporate customers the advantages of a virtual private network without having to expand - or build - their own international facilities...
...Forward Spin: InterProvider will launch next year, first in Europe, then in the U.S. and Asia...