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...London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media estimates that by 2010 the market for mobile entertainment - which includes TV as well as games and music - will reach $42 billion. Dermot Nolan, an analyst who has written a report on mobile TV for London consultancy Screen Digest, notes that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users. "Even if you get 10-15% penetration, that's big bucks," he says. And he predicts that by 2012 some 256 million mobile-TV handsets will be shipped, up from essentially zero this year. Traditional broadcasters seem eager to rev up this...
...violent conflicts all over the world. The musicians involved have rallied to that cause, but only one fully understands the appalling realities of its mission: Emmanuel Jal, onetime child soldier in Sudan and now a fast-rising star of African rap. Jal's new album, Ceasefire, released in Britain this week, is an appeal for peace, rather than money. And although he's now a powerful spokesman for campaigns like Make Poverty History and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, it was Jal's music - a blend of old and new Africa - that...
Unfortunately, Russia and China have threatened to vote “no” if France, Britain, and Germany bring referral to the Security Council to an IAEA vote. Russia and China’s positions, however, are highly suspect: Russia signed a multimillion dollar deal earlier this year to supply Iran with nuclear fuel, and Iran is China’s second largest supplier...
...Bush administration, and the key EU states Britain, France and Germany, believe Iran's game is to develop all of the technologies allowed under the NPT to create most of the infrastructure for bomb production under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy program, which is why it has systematically hidden many suspect activities. The Europeans have spearheaded a diplomatic effort to broker a deal in which Iran would voluntarily refrain from nuclear fuel-cycle activities permitted by the NPT but which could be easily converted to production of weapons-grade material, in exchange for economic and political concessions...
...I.R.A., announced in July that it was giving up its armed campaign and would dispose of all its weapons. Unionists claim the violence broke out because concessions to the I.R.A. had shown that violence pays. "I know there's this thing that violence has been rewarded," Peter Hain, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, told Time. "Actually, what has been rewarded is a switch from violence into democratic politics." The unrest may have delayed the renewal of peace talks and given republicans cover to step up intimidation against the family of Robert McCartney, whose murder by I.R.A. members helped push...