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...seems like we’re back into our mode of taking big bitefuls to chew,” Turkel says. “These are tough times and we have to do these things, but it’s not the best way to build public confidence...
...Lullaby he wears it well. Too bad that in the final stretch he steers into some demented supernatural gore, and you recall that the publisher is billing this book as Palahniuk's first attempt at a thriller. Anybody looking for chills in the Stephen King mode is going to wonder when the shivers are supposed to start. Readers looking for another of Palahniuk's funny anti-valentines to modern life will know where they are from page 1. --By Richard Lacayo
...woes of Japan's banking sector have been painfully obvious for years. But Ishihara's public vote of no confidence served notice that, after a brief period of relative calm, the financial system of the world's second largest economy has slipped back into crisis mode. Days earlier, the government released economic growth data that indicated recovery is even farther off than expected, thanks in part to economic weakness in the U.S., a key export market. Of more immediate concern: a sharp stock market decline?fueled by plunging bank stocks?sent the Nikkei average to its lowest level...
What is it about the wireless Internet that brings out the worst in otherwise advanced economies? First there were the Internet phones in Europe that used wireless access protocol, or WAP. They flopped spectacularly. Then the spotlight turned to Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo's wireless Internet service, i-mode. DoCoMo dazzled at first, but average usage and revenue per subscriber are falling in Japan, as in Europe. The U.S. can barely deliver reliable voice service, much less wireless Internet, which would seem destined to be another techno-dud service...
...called EV-DO and can access the Internet at a rate of up to 2.4 megabits per second. That is about four times as fast as the general packet radio service (GPRS) phones, the most sophisticated models currently sold in Europe, and 250 times speedier than Japan's i-mode service. Verizon is rolling out a service that is only about 2% as fast as EV-DO but is piloting technology already used in South Korea and hopes to match those speeds by the end of the year...