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...more artists embrace it. "Any band that's resistant to it is crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group Maroon 5, which gave a jumping 35-minute live performance at London's Ministry of Sound nightclub as part of Nokia's launch. According to Ovum analyst Jonathan Arber, Nokia is frustrated that operators' own cellular music download services, "have ramped up very slowly," he says. "They haven't been the killer application people thought they would be." A combination of high and confusing pricing, and services often criticized as clunky, have dampened users' enthusiasm. Perhaps Universal...
...attorney, Edward M. Little, said that Plotkin accepted responsibility for his actions, which included paying an analyst at Merrill Lynch to leak information on pending mergers and acquisitions and paying two employees of a printing company to reveal the content of Business Week magazine ahead of publication...
...Analyst Aboulafia offers this blunt assessment: "It's probably the single biggest mistake in aviation history. Even if the development program weren't technically botched, you still have the problem that it's just the wrong plane." Boeing expects to deliver its revamped 747-8 in 2010, costing about $4 billion to develop and probably priced at about $292 million, vs. about $319 million for the competing A380...
...opening of T5, as the new terminal is known, should also help tackle another of BA's weaknesses: its much-criticized hub. "BA has a fundamental challenge none of its European peers suffer from," says Chris Avery, an airline analyst at JPMorgan in London. "Heathrow is stretched to its limits." Conceived for 45 million passengers a year, it now sees almost 70 million annually endure its crowded terminals and snaking lines. Airlines wait longer for gates to clear, and creaking baggage-handling equipment is prone to breakdowns. Though it can't ease runway congestion - Heathrow's "Achilles heel," says Avery...
...Heathrow. For BA, that restricted access has been a gold mine. With the industry in meltdown in the wake of 9/11, BA "rightly used the cartel of Heathrow to the U.S. to generate a large proportion of recovery in profits," says Nick van den Brul, an airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London...