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...niche market. But we live in an age that takes noodling seriously and that contains a marketful of niches with a global reach. Eno is hoping to fill one such niche with 77 Million Paintings. Throughout the summer it has been exhibited as an art installation in Japan and Europe, including this year's Venice Biennale. But last month it came out on dvd-rom, in a version designed to look good on the kind of giant flat-screen monitors that are fast becoming the centerpiece of the digital-age living room. "I would walk past places round here...
...WiMax guru Craig McCaw, while others include Irish Broadband in Ireland, Wimax Telecom in Eastern Europe and Unwired in Australia. "It's like a big landgrab," says Ryan Jarvis, founder and chief executive of London-based WiMax start-up Macropolitan. Fixed-line telephone and broadband providers including Softbank in Japan, and BT and Pipex in the U.K., are also getting in on the act. A wireless WiMax network could help fixed-line carriers extract delicious revenge on cellular carriers, which have undermined the fixed-line voice business in recent years...
...controlling stake. Born in Brazil and reared in Lebanon, Ghosn found his way to tire giant Michelin, where he developed his restructuring chops. But he had never run a car company, let alone a Japanese one, and almost everyone bet against him: a foreigner with a funny name tackling Japan Inc. He proved them spectacularly wrong, turning Nissan into an auto power with industry-leading profits and such stylish vehicles as the 350Z sports car, Murano SUV and Altima. Ghosn's success made him a mythic figure in Japan. In France they crowned him Le Cost Killer...
...been chosen to redesign large parts of the glamorous marbledom that is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and to convert an abandoned elevated railway line in lower Manhattan into a very unusual park. They had already completed a housing project in Gifu, Japan. And on Dec. 7 their first major building in the U.S., the new home of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), will open on a prominent waterfront site as the first segment of the city's grand scheme to redevelop Boston Harbor...
President Bush is set to visit Riga, Latvia, this week for a NATO summit, at which he will urge greater spending for Afghanistan as well as propose a military pact with Australia, Japan and South Korea...