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Catalonia may be renowned for its hospitality, but the mobile-phone industry could be excused if it were feeling a bit betrayed. Earlier this year, Barcelona, capital of the Spanish province, hosted the 3GSM World Congress, the world's biggest annual cellular conference. During his keynote address, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin implored his colleagues to improve cellular networks' ability to provide rapid and easy Internet access, otherwise a new wireless technology called WiMAX could take over. WiMAX doesn't require phone handsets or cellular networks. It can deliver fast Net connections over long distances directly to computers or handheld devices...
Though Kagame's authoritarianism worries human-rights groups, the commercial world has no such qualms. American Chris Lundh is CEO of RwandaTel, the country's Internet and mobile-phone giant, and has worked in telecoms across Africa. Asked about Kagame's human-rights record, he replies: "So what? In Congo, they'd shoot them." Kagame and business, he says, prize the same thing: results. "There is a focus here. People whinge about the lack of political opposition. But if you look at what happened in 1994, lack of opposition looks pretty small fare." Dabbs Cavin, 42, a lawyer and commercial...
...worries, for instance, that cases of Cartier estate jewelry and other gems appeared underperused. Some big-spending customers never even enter the store, opting instead to shop by phone with their sales associate, who will call to tip them off on, say, the arrival of the extremely rare red-diamond necklace that would crown their collection. Or the associate might call about the $150,000 Buccellati diamond and 18-karat yellow-gold cuff, which would just match the piece they bought last spring. Across the way in handbags, the season's Chanel bags didn't even make...
...apparent that their relationship has been less than placid. They are on the phone several times a day and go over everything together from fabrics to budgets. But he says he can't always cope with her directness. "Sometimes I yell at her," he says. She doesn't yell back. Rather, she displays a coldness that Pilati tries to get past by "opening up and being more charming. I make fun of myself and make her laugh. She has a big sense of humor...
...phone interview yesterday, Summers called Gates a “visionary in his philanthropy...