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...premium services - which generate most of Skype's revenues. The Material Girl, Green Day and Mike Jones are headlining Skype and Warner's landmark debut into the $1.2 billion ringtone industry. In fact, at $1.50 a pop, ringtones are like "found 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...
...persistent debate over whether Cheney might have been closer to Whittington than 30 yds., the figure in the sheriff's report. Some gun experts say from that distance, it would be unlikely that birdshot could penetrate Whittington's clothes and chest wall. Others agree with Jon Nordby, an analyst with Final Analysis Forensic of University Place, Wash., who says, "It is certainly possible, and I've seen it. I had a case where a BB went through a jacket at 90 ft. and through the pericardial sac and caused death...
...companies want to create a $5.5 billion high-end leader, with 120 hotels in 24 countries. Why the interest in prestige North American properties? In part, foreign hoteliers hope to lure nouveau-riche travelers from their own countries. A weak dollar and a low-supply lodgings cycle that analysts expect to last until 2008 help. "The broader trend is private-equity interests in hotel assets," says Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Falcone. So far, shareholders are the biggest winners. Fairmont's stock has jumped 57% over last quarter. Next for the prince: an IPO for another of his hotel companies...
...Apple Computer's iPod, but also through mobile-phone features, including ringtones, ringtunes (the actual songs) and ringbacks. Everyone from mobile-phone operators to supermarket chains like Tesco to coffee purveyors like Starbucks is offering online music services. In a recent report titled Digital Rocks!, Bryan, Garnier & Co. analyst Alexander Ivanovitch wrote: "We believe this amounts to a second digital revolution for the music industry, akin to the 1980s transition to CD." Such optimism was unthinkable just a few gloomy years ago, when it seemed like the music industry had fallen off a cliff. "It was a frustrating time," says...
...hard-liner. But not even moderate Iranian leaders accept Western demands that Iran completely abandon the right, guaranteed under the NPT, to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. After six months in office, Ahmadinejad has concluded that no Iranian compromise will satisfy Washington. By restarting enrichment, says one Tehran analyst, Iran is simply saying that it will not permit the West to determine the timetable for its nuclear development...