Word: cartoons
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...franchises (such as telephone companies) have discovered, there often is no defense when offshore competitors muscle in with new technology. "The Jockey Club hasn't kept up with reality," says Louis Hop Lee, chief of sales for Asia for www.horsepower2.com, a website that takes bets on the outcome of cartoon horse races. Lee says the Jockey Club should be taking advantage of the Internet to diversify beyond SAR borders. "It's the same old story," says Lee. "Small, nimble startups are moving first...
...technology and service industries. High-tech alone now contributes 15% of GDP, up from less than 8% in 1997. For a quick tour of the new economic landscape, log on to the Internet and check out www.freechal.com. One of the Web portal's hottest products are avatars, digital cartoon characters that stand in for real people in Internet chat rooms. Freechal started charging for avatars last June. Already the company has captured some 110,000 Korean customers who spend an average of about $2.30 a month each on outfits and accessories for their virtual paper dolls. Doesn't sound like...
...fashion designer, Ryou is looking for inspiration for her next collection. But you'll never see mannequins strutting her stuff down a runway. Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going to be big this spring...
...Your cartoon strip poking fun at the shenanigans of Washington officials [CARTOON, Feb. 11] was funny, very funny! Mad magazine couldn't have skewered the energy-policy meetings between Dick Cheney and Enron CEO Kenneth Lay any better! And thanks for including the Puritan-throwback Attorney General John Ashcroft for his unbelievable decision to cover up the breasts of an innocent statue! JEAN P. FORRESTER Rochester Hills, Mich...
...DIED. CHARLES ("CHUCK") JONES, 89, animation director who helped bring to life some of the best-loved cartoon characters from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes series, including Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny; in Corona del Mar, California. In a career that spanned six decades, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning two Oscars?one for Best Director in 1965 and an honorary lifetime achievement award in 1996. His autobiography Chuck Amuck was published in 1989. DIED. JOHN THAW, 60, adored by millions of viewers for his portrayal of the curmudgeonly sleuth Inspector Morse on ITV's critically acclaimed eponymous television...