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...These boxes have the potential to kill prime time," says industry analyst P.J. McNealy of GartnerG2, a market-research firm. McNealy notes the obvious: TV networks make their money from commercials and syndication rights. "We're not the police," counters Sonicblue CEO Steve Griffin. "We can't tell people who it's O.K. to send shows to and who it isn't O.K. to send them...
...place of tellers? The early results are encouraging. For the six months ending Sept. 30, Shinsei reported a profit of $275 million. And the bank is reported to be preparing to sell its stock to the public in an ipo. "We were pessimistic last spring," says Nana Otsuki, an analyst for Standard & Poor's, "but Shinsei has surprised...
...snapping up minority ownership stakes in mobile-phone carriers including 25% of Hutchison Telecommunications in Hong Kong, 15% of KPN Mobile in the Netherlands, in addition to the 16% of AT&T Wireless. "Going global is not a good or bad strategy for DoCoMo," says Shinji Moriyuki, a senior analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research. "It is a 'must' strategy...
...seeding the market for homegrown Japanese technology and boosting the country's status as an info-age innovator. "With DoCoMo and i-mode, you've got a global brand recognition and excitement over a new product that you haven't seen since the Sony Walkman," says Kirk Boodry, telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "The whole business community can point to it and say that Japan is still competitive on a global scale...
...swapping, game-playing handsets as the Japanese. After spending billions of dollars getting government licenses to operate 3G systems, many debt-ridden carriers have put plans for network overhauls on the back burner. "The whole point of investing abroad was a speedy roll-out for 3G," says Yasumasa Goda, analyst for Merrill Lynch Japan Securities. "But clearly this is no longer realistic...