Word: hori
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert Kazutomo Hori's revolutionary idea--to charge subscription fees to cell-phone users for online content--helped hatch Japan's mobile-Internet industry. In Japan, 57 million connect to the Internet on their cell phones, more than in any other country. Cybird subscriptions have jumped 55%, to 7.3 million, in the past six months; the firm turned its first profit on sales of $60 million in the fiscal year through March...
...next step--going global--was a given for Hori, 37, who was born in Washington, grew up in Kobe and studied in London. Cybird already provides wireless content to users in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, and soon China. Cybird will also chart a new path with branded SIM cards. The brains of any phone on the GSM global mobile-phone standard, SIM cards carry a user's account data and can be swapped from phone to phone. Cybird turned them into moneymakers: a SIM card branded with Hong Kong's hot pop act Twins...
...Despite a plausible semblance of unity, Western Europe and Japan are at a loss about how to react. The reference to the U.N. resolutions is mere rhetoric, a fig leaf to cover what lies behind election politics. This charade demonstrates that Clinton is not a true world leader. YASUO HORI Matsudamachi, Japan
Middlesex County Medical Examiner George Hori said an autopsy had already been performed on the body, and that his office has begun an investigation into the cause of death. The examiner added, however, that he was not yet prepared to state the cause of death publicly. Mather residents called to an all House meeting Saturday afternoon were told that Carne died of heart failure...
Reilly and Centrella could not say where the death occurred. Hori, however, said that numerous cuts on the victim's body suggested he was dragged for some distance...