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...easy. About one out of every three PCs sold on the mainland carries the Legend brand. "Legend has such a dominating presence in China, across all [market] segments," says Rajnish Arora, a server analyst for tech-consultancy IDC. "They aren't going to give it up easily." Kirk Yang, a Credit Suisse First Boston analyst, says, "Legend has a great brand name in China. I don't think many Chinese really know who Dell...
...mobile Internet?seeding the market for homegrown Japanese technology and boosting the country's status as an info-age innovator. "With DoCoMo and i-mode, you've got a global brand recognition and excitement over a new product that you haven't seen since the Sony Walkman," says Kirk Boodry, telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "The whole business community can point to it and say that Japan is still competitive on a global scale...
Five years ago, Kirk Douglas was living the life of a Hollywood screen legend. But Douglas, then 80, suffered a debilitating stroke. He tells the story of his journey back to health in his new book, My Stroke of Luck (Morrow). He discussed his recovery with TIME...
Never give up, and try to develop a sense of humor. Try to laugh at yourself. Think of other people. I get so many letters, phone calls--"Kirk, will you talk to my mother? She's just had a stroke." I am amazed at how many people have strokes. I admire people like Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve, who use their handicap to try to help others. You also have to do your exercises every day. I still do my "oral aerobics...
That's going to be hard to do. The herky-jerky video and out-of-synch audio of 1991 is gone--thanks to superior hardware and software and broadband Internet connections. The most advanced videoconferencing setups can transmit participants' images with a 3-D-hologram quality reminiscent of Captain Kirk beaming down from the Starship Enterprise. And at every level of sophistication, videoconferencing systems cost a fraction of what they did in 1991. This time, users and industry experts agree, the technology is here to stay. Even after the recession ends and terror fears abate, says Jaclyn Kostner, a consultant...