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...download onto your computer and use to create a 30-second snippet of any MP3, WAV or MIDI file. It works on most AT&T, Cingular, Sprint and T-Mobile phones, and it's free until Jan. 1, when the company will start charging $15. MotoMixer, available on some Motorola phones, lets you create your own mix of one of several songs by adjusting the drums, brass and other instruments directly on the phone. It costs $2 a song...
...some exports irritate certain U.S. firms. In October, China responded to U.S. pressure by reducing a tax rebate for firms selling abroad. Multinationals operating in China complained. "Foreign companies were hurt disproportionately because so many are set up for export and expected that rebate," says a senior executive of Motorola, which sells Chinese-made mobile phones around the world. Sales from foreign companies operating in China account for more than half of China's exports. That has made U.S. businesses especially wary of American protectionism, and small U.S. firms trying to compete with China tend to receive little sympathy from...
...Nextel's Direct Connect started up more quickly and relayed messages faster than the two newcomers. Though measured in split seconds, the lags between bursts of talk can make a conversation feel painfully slow. Nextel's 10 push-to-talk phones include a BlackBerry PDA ($350) and the new Motorola i730 ($300), which is chunky but sports a 65,000-color screen and a great-sounding speakerphone...
Aiming its Ready Link push-to-talk service at Generation Y, Sprint has launched three Sanyo handsets, including the rugged RL2000 ($300) and the video-camera-equipped VM4500 ($380). Playing Cyclops to Sprint's Wolverine, Verizon put out the conservative Motorola V60p ($150), a modified two-year-old executive model with a tiny black-and-white screen...
...food business. She later pushed Enrico to buy Quaker Oats and Tropicana, two bold acquisitions that kept the company squarely in snack foods while adding healthier fare to the mix. Strategic vision has always been her strength. Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, she held top corporate-strategy posts at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. A native of Madras, India, Nooyi came to the U.S. to attend business school at Yale. (She now sits on the university's board of trustees.) The one gap in her resume is operations--that's an area in which PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund excels. Since...