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...CINEMA: Java from Jarmusch...
This is of no consequence to Jim Jarmusch, whose sneakily delirious film offers a series of vignettes in which a number of potent stars (Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop among them), playing fictionalized versions of themselves, consume large quantities of nasty-looking java and enough smoke to put the entire nation on a Stage 3 smog alert...
...network computer maker has seen sales drop for 12 straight quarters and recently announced 3,300 layoffs. Trying to brighten that darkness is the ponytailed Schwartz, 38, the firm's new COO. He most recently ran Sun's software division, where he headed new strategies for deploying Sun's Java platform. One ongoing initiative: a push into markets such as China and India, where Microsoft doesn't have a stranglehold and Sun can more easily sell its systems for desktops and devices...
...government continues to dither when it comes to attracting businesses that could help create many new jobs. ExxonMobil has been forced to delay an investment of up to $3 billion in a massive new oil field off the coast of Java. The problem: protracted negotiations with the government and with Indonesian oil company Pertamina, which is being privatized, over revenue sharing and the length of ExxonMobil's contract. In addition, tough labor laws, which among other things make it difficult for companies to lay off workers, discourage hiring at a time when more than 9 million Indonesians are unemployed...
Cell phones are usually seen as the enemies of good driving, but a new service could make them a motorist's best friend. Nextel has teamed with start-up televigation of Sunnyvale, Calif., to offer on its java-and GPS-enabled phones turn-by-turn onscreen directions along with a computerized voice that speaks the driving instructions out loud. The service includes a business finder to help you locate nearby shops. It can also send your coordinates to another nextel phone via text messaging. Available now, Telenav costs $10 for 10 trips or $20 for 80 trips...