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...status among industrialized nations. By selling its i-mode and 3G know-how overseas, DoCoMo hopes to spread the mobile Internet?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...
...embassy in Bangkok. Deren even received an e-mail that he says "felt threatening" from an organization urging protest against his research. (It included his home address and phone number.) American companies are already expressing interest in commercializing Deren's strain. And RiceTec sells its own brand, called Jasmati...
...clear signals - albeit in the quiet, gradual Saudi way - that Saudis must get their heads out of the sand and become part of the global village. One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical brand of religion, known as Wahhabism, to unacceptable extremes. Though not to Washington's complete satisfaction, Abdullah began tightening up on potential terrorist financing, scrutinizing Islamic charities and freezing some suspect bank accounts - an explosive issue in a culture that fiercely guards privacy. At a recent Gulf Cooperation Council meeting, Abdullah...
Neighbors at the dilapidated apartment building in which the suspects lived said that of those arrested, one worked in a pizzeria and the others seemed to be street vendors of pirated CDs and brand-named athletic wear. A 33-year-old Albanian steelworker, who rents an apartment above that of the suspects, says he never exchanged more than a buongiorno with any of the Moroccans over the past two years: "They were always coming and going - three, five, sometimes 10 different guys. The doors and windows were always shut; sometimes they'd open a window just a crack...
...least $210 over the cheapest unit now available. They sold out in 30 minutes. Alba, the U.K.'s largest consumer-electronics manufacturer, got the message. It's bringing out a range of digital radios this fall priced from about $140 to around $285 under its mass-market brand, Goodmans...