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...When Ted Dean heard in early January that the Chinese government had finally decided to allow the country's three mobile-phone carriers to upgrade to 3G (third generation) network technology, he could hardly believe the long-awaited day had finally arrived. "At one point it seemed like they were never going to make up their minds," recalls the Beijing-based head of telecommunications- and media-analysis firm BDA, "and I would spend my whole career waiting for Beijing to make this one decision...
...Dean wasn't alone in his relief. Almost a decade after 3G services were first introduced elsewhere in the world, the Chinese government, which maintains tight control over the country's telecommunications networks, announced on Jan. 7 that China was finally ready to join the party. And despite its late arrival, the debut of 3G, which allows much faster data-transmission speeds and services like Web-surfing and video-streaming, promises to be quite a blowout. Government and private-sector estimates put total probable expenditure on 3G in China - whose 630 million users make up the world's largest group...
...plan—which has been on the table since the University increased budgetary scrutiny in the fall—would allow staffers to voluntarily choose early retirement instead of facing the risk of layoffs, said Sara Oseasohn ’74, associate dean of the arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...budgetary shortfall of at least $100 million, departments and centers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences are working to refine proposed budget cuts—a process concurrent with more over-arching cost-reduction measures being spearheaded by the administration. In an interview last month, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said departments have submitted proposals detailing areas that could sustain cuts. The “vast majority” of departments have founds ways to trim 15 percent of their budgets in keeping with a recommendation Smith made in December, the Dean said. “Part...
...part of the new outreach initiative. “[Students can] still apply for a party grant technically on the Web site now,” Lu said, pointing to the current site’s outdatedness. The party grant fund was terminated in Oct. 2007 by then-Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. “That is not acceptable,” she said. After Sunday’s meeting, UC members were required to send out e-mails to their house-lists summarizing the UC general meeting—a practice that was commonplace when Ryan...