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SAMSUNG SPH-a500 Packs a lot into its compact space-age clamshell; in addition to a color screen and Java programs, it carries a GPS chip (so that it can be used as an emergency locator beacon...
...with the notable exceptions of the U.S. and Argentina). And although Japan may lose, its flagging economy should win: from 1954 to 1998, GDP growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact-disc copy protection. Users overrode the high-tech, anti-piracy CDs by coloring the discs' edges with a decidedly low-tech magic marker. Prodi Gets Direct n European Commission President Romano Prodi surprised friends and foes alike by calling for direct E.U. taxation. The proposal has already met resistance...
...with favorite tunes from the latest Phil Collins or Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy by printing a skull and crossbones on the backs of tapes along with the claim that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought the music industry back to life. Sure, you could hook your cassette recorder up to a CD player, but you couldn't copy that wonderful hiss-and-squeak-free digital fidelity--not yet. So everyone...
...When the first volume of Columbia's multi-LP set "The Lester Young Story" (which Sony, shamefully, has still not put out on compact disc) was released in the late 1970s, a critic enthused that this was "jazz at its most Mozartean," and Daniels' take on this assessment is revealing. "The critics' Eurocentric emphasis - as when they likened Young to Mozart, for example - was also troubling? both in and of itself and because it carried such bald connotations of racial superiority in the suggestion that the saxophonist was worthy of comparison with this or that European master." I'll tell...
...compact "Dumped" begins with a drunken shag at a party in London. He, Binny, collects abused books for tantalizing revelations about the previous owner. "This is the section with pages torn out," he says of his collection. "These are crammed full of exam notes." She, Debby, runs a used clothing store. Smitten and desperate Binny finds Debby again and they begin a tenuous relationship. Watson has given us two very convincing male wankers in "Breakfast After Noon" and "Slow News Day," but this time it's the snobbish and secretive Debby who provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material...