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...there's a near- virgin market of a billion (albeit mostly impoverished) people still waiting to join the wireless world. Now they are starting to sign up. In the last 12 months, the number of cell-phone customers surged nearly 80% to around nine million; meanwhile in China, the globe's biggest market with almost 200 million users, growth slackened this year to about...
...planet has postponed or shelved plans to build data-intensive, high-bandwidth mobile networks, Hutchison Whampoa is charging ahead undeterred. The company just launched pilot 3G (for third-generation) networks in England and Italy, and has aggressive plans to initiate similar services in seven other markets across the globe over the next several years. Even allies have doubts about the strategy. Hutchison's partners in the United Kingdom?Japan's NTT DoCoMo and the Netherlands' KPN Mobile?have written down the values of their portions of the business by 80% and 86%, respectively...
...Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan, on the high stakes that spurred Murphy’s decision to change quarterbacks in the second quarter...
Three days of angry letters to the editor and accusations of censorship later, the department had a change of heart and re-invited Paulin. Why? As Marquand Professor of English Peter Sacks told The Boston Globe, “Free speech was a principle that needed upholding here. This was a clear affirmation that the department stood strongly by the First Amendment...
Cambridge is a magical city. More neurons per square inch and more connectors between those neurons, more Internet connections than any other place in the globe make this a wonderful place to reinvent oneself. And despite all that connectivity and all those connectors, people do not connect. People avoid eye contact with strangers in Harvard Square, elsewhere in Harvard, in Cambridge and in surrounding areas...