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...award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network of fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output over six albums since the band first got together in 1996 - seemed to predict. Now there's a seventh album, The Life Pursuit, that again shows...
...money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people have signed...
...takes a minute to give in to this bizarre, joyful record because at first it sounds like music from Battle of the Network Stars. The mix of blaring late-'70s soul samples, hand claps and exuberant rhymes by female MC Ninja would be tough to take if there were any winking involved, but such touches as the wistful harmonica on Everyone's a VIP to Someone and the double-Dutch rhythm of We Just Won't Be Defeated betray no other desire than to be the sound track to adventures in your head...
...Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people have signed up since the beta version launched in November. "It's a dream come true," FON founder Martin Varsavsky says of his new partners, although he demurs on the specific roles Google...
...annoying but socially and politically divisive is that it insults the intelligence of some people who already feel insulted in other ways by the very same class of urban journalists. Outside of D.C., L.A. and NYC, the only time folks get to meet a correspondent from a major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk. Then they call the tornado that struck...