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Grounding the Low-Cost Flyers The big European airlines have finally found a way to clip the wings of Ryanair and other soaring low-cost rivals: the courts. Last week, Ryanair said it would suspend its four daily flights between London and Strasbourg as of Sept. 25 after a French court upheld an Air France complaint charging unfair competition. To attract Ryanair, Strasbourg's chamber of commerce and local authorities agreed last year to contribute €1.4 million to cover the airline's marketing costs over three years. Air France halted its Strasbourg-London service in June after seven months...
...different songs from Sony and Warner Music. There's almost no delay before the tune starts playing, thanks to streaming technology. But we found the sound quality to be a bit wobbly on the phone we tried. If you like what you hear, you can download a 15-sec. clip to use as a ring tone for an additional...
...brace yourself. A few days later, the company gave a $1 million contract to soccer prodigy Freddy Adu, 14. And rival shoemaker Reebok has signed its own precocious pitchman, Mark Walker, who is all of 3 years old. Reebok features Walker on its website, reebok.com where in a video clip he nails 18 straight shots into a basket set up in his family's garage. Jim Thompson, president of the nonprofit Positive Coaching Alliance, calls the clip innocent and sweet. But he considers "creepy" another spot, in which Walker stares into the camera and declares, "I am Reebok." The company...
...plant were expecting, but Bush had other ideas. He was running uncharacteristically late for the rigidly on-time President. He left a lunch with Mbeki fifty minutes off the mark, and made up for it by cutting 80 minutes of personal time, but he saw a chance to clip a little more time by speeding up the tour...
...month to customers with phone cams. Other services, such as Textamerica.com let people create public phone-cam blogs for free. Posting pictures is as easy as sending an e-mail. On some phone-cam blogs, you can also add a few lines of text or an audio clip and invite others to comment...