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...Abbott, whose gaze kept returning to the key forecasts: 13,000 deaths, 58,000 hospitalizations and 2.6 million people seeking medical help in just the first three months of an outbreak. Abbott attended a funeral that day, but on his way to and from the service he spoke by phone to the report's author, Chief Medical Officer John Horvath. While Horvath's calm manner was reassuring, their conversations left the Minister in no doubt that this was a threat Australia could not afford to ignore...
...lawyer who drafted the brief, John C. Eastman, acknowledged in a phone interview yesterday that his argument is not likely to draw the support of a majority of the justices. But Eastman, who clerked for Thomas in the 1996-1997 term, said that he will consider his effort a success if one of the justices—most likely Thomas—recognizes the brief’s argument...
...little after noon in oxford, England, last Thursday when Gina Policelli got the news by phone. No, no one called her up; she tuned in her mobile phone to bbc News 24 and caught the latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile...
...programming that travels over a broadcast network rather than a mobile network is lost revenue for the operators. In December, six of Korea's biggest networks will start broadcasting free of charge to users with mobile devices made by Samsung, LG and others, bypassing mobile networks completely. Mobile phones and television companies "are coming together and creating lots of questions like, 'Who owns the customer?'" says Richard Sharp, vice president of multimedia at Nokia. As with many nascent technologies, though, there are some hurdles to overcome before mobile TV goes mainstream. It's not yet clear, for example, whether consumers...
...Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile-phone user within 100 m to download exclusive freebies. For the moment, Britain's digital outdoor advertising market is tiny - just $38 million a year, according to outdoor ad agency Hyperspace - but appealing. Some 78% of travelers at Tottenham Court Road find the adverts entertaining, according to Viacom Outdoor, which currently...