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...revenue outside Denmark. It could be based pretty much in any city with a good airport. He says he keeps Strand Consult in Copenhagen largely because his Danish employees are so willing to argue with him and confront conventional wisdom. "Danes can think out of the box," he says...
...party organizers have been very satisfied with the results, both aesthetically and in terms of Shiftee’s marketing potential. He has DJ’d several House formals and the last two iterations of Mather Lather, where he was sequestered in a lather-proof box...
Once Lynn Huffman lifted his new modem out of the box, it took less than a minute to get online at the computer he keeps in the den. And it took just a few minutes more for Huffman, a retired great-grandpa who recently discovered e-mail, to decide that his new high-speed Internet service was fast, simple to set up and, best of all, cheap. At $26.95 a month, it beats the $42.95 a month he would have had to pay to get broadband from his cable company...
...Huffman taps into his new fast pipe through a wall socket--any old socket in the house will do. "Now if I could just figure out a way to get rid of all these pop-up ads," he says, settling down to clean the spam out of his In box...
Piracy is also crippling the local film and music industries. Employment at music-production studios has dropped a third since 1996, and many artists are holding back new releases until their rights are protected. Malaysian filmmakers released seven movies last year, compared with 18 in 1995, and box-office receipts are down 49% over the past two years. CD pirates "are like leeches, sucking the life out of the film industry," reports the Video and Film Industry Association of Malaysia...