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...travel guides. Palm hopes to compete against Handspring by offering clip-on gadgets like cameras and phones. But come on, Palmies! Do I need another incompatible storage medium? I already have SmartDisks, CompactFlash disks, SanDisks and Memory Sticks coming out of my ears, not to mention floppies, CDs and DVDs. Now I'm supposed to embrace Secure Digital disks and MultimediaCards? I think...
...energy of the megapolis across the border, the patented southern Chinese get-ahead ethos and a towering respect for the power of a buck. But thanks to loose laws, loose women and dirty officials, you can get anything you want: cheap labor, even cheaper Prada bags, pirated DVDs, ecstasy pills, one-night stands. (And people from across the border spent $846 million last year, 10% of Hong Kong's total retail trade.) But once inside this looking- glass world, nothing is quite the genuine article. The Louis Vuitton bags are made in Guangdong; many of the impressive skyscrapers are empty...
...Jess Cagle: Basically, the 11,000 movie and TV writers in the Guild want a bigger piece of residuals - money made from foreign sales, DVDs and video and also from the Internet...
...fees paid for subsequent use of a TV show or movie). And, arguing that it minimizes their contributions, movie writers are also asking studios to reduce the possessory ("a film by") credits that directors regularly get. But the real sticking points are residuals for overseas sales, Internet, videos and DVDs...
...morning light, slouches toward his apartment. In a few hours his roommates will be surprised not to meet another of his conquests stumbling into the living room for breakfast. Not this morning - this morning Fai is high and happy but alone, heading back to his stack of Japanese porno DVDs and his trusty remote control. This morning, the hunter's coming home empty-handed...