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...most anticipated Thai film in years for a couple of reasons. It will be Nonzee's third movie, and his first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter for Dreamworks...
...site was not protected by the First Amendment, and ordered the site's organizers to pay $109 million in damages to Planned Parenthood and the four doctors who had sued the site for inciting violence. The site was taken down. Wednesday, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned that ruling...
...advent of the Internet also transformed how phone companies move messages in a way that made Cisco the networking king. Traditional voice phone systems are circuit switched, meaning that a call opens a dedicated line between the parties that outsiders can't share. But data traffic is packet switched: messages are broken into discrete units, or packets, that share their lines with the packets of other users, greatly increasing the speed and volume of the data sent. It's mass transit for data. Moreover, packets can take different paths to their destinations, which is where Cisco's routers come...
They may have lost millions of dollars for investors and helped foment the market downturn, but dotcom dropouts are in demand on the speakers' circuit. The phones are ringing for executives from Internet losers such as Yahoo and Priceline.com--if they dump their success stories and share their woes. "In the past we didn't bring up failure. Now we make it a highlight of speeches," says Michelle Lemmons-Poscente, head of the International Speakers Bureau, based in Dallas. "The best way to learn is by someone else's failures, and if there's drama involved, all the better...
...market shifting about five months ago, when FORTUNE 500 execs started calling to see if Jeffrey Hoffman, CEO of Priceline.com's Perfect YardSale website, would talk about why his company's stock had tanked. His speech, "Riding the Dot Com Roller Coaster: The Priceline.com Story," has become a lecture-circuit mainstay. Gary E. Hoover, above, founder of Bookstop superstores and Hoovers.com the Web's largest provider of business information, gives talks about his failed TravelFest superstores. "Now people want to know how to deal with layoffs," he says. Hoover insists he's not just a gloomy Gus; he focuses...