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Incompatible international standards can defeat even the strongest cell phones. No longer: new technology allows subscribers to communicate by voice, text or photo no matter where they are in the world. Software start-up fastmobile, run by two Motorola refugees in Schaumburg, Ill., rolled out its "fastchat" service earlier this month. Fastchat crosses networks, which means subscribers can chat even if they have competing mobile services, provided their company has joined fastmobile. So far, AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile are on board. --By Maggie Sieger
...October, TIME Global Business profiled Mazin Ramadan, 35, CEO of a Seattle-based software start-up, 4thpass, which had recently been sold to Motorola for more than $20 million. Ramadan, left, examined the Baghdad business climate during a weeklong trip in May, and although he relished meeting two uncles and a dozen cousins for the first time, he's doing more studying than investing in the Iraq market. What's hot? Satellite-phone guys roam the streets, charging a buck per minute of chatter. Satellite-dish salesmen line the highways from Jordan, hawking devices banned by Saddam. And some SUVs...
...based industries in the software, media and biotech sectors. Hans Estermann, managing director of the Berlin Business Development Corporation, says the city has attracted about 1,500 jobs in the first five months of the year. Among the new arrivals: factories for DaimlerChrysler, BMW and the U.S. electronics giant Motorola. Still, Berlin will have to do a lot better if it is to make a dent in its stubborn unemployment figures. And Stefan Kr?tke, author of Berlin: Metropolis Between Boom and Crisis, is worried that the cuts in the city budget will impact the sectors in which Berlin is strong...
...computer to the airbag in your car. They are also big business; in Europe, semiconductor manufacturers employ at least 100,000 people, according to industry estimates. Thus the slowdown has meant layoffs among the biggest manufacturers: Infineon, Geneva-based STMicroelectronics, the Dutch giant Philips, and others outside Europe like Motorola and Mitsubishi. Worldwide semiconductor sales peaked at $204 billion in 2000, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), and slipped to $141 billion last year. More than 100 chip manufacturing plants, called FABS, shut down as global demand evaporated. It has been a long cold lonely winter, but finally there...
...those who leave the cell-phone charger in the gym bag, a cure awaits: the Yuki Charger, a public, coin-operated slot-box that debuted in China six months ago. Flip a quarter in the Yuki, and get 10 minutes of charge time for Motorola, Nokia and other mobile-phone brands. Singapore-based InfiniTec has sold more than 3,000 units to supermarkets, hotels and universities throughout Chinese cities and a smaller number to venues in Hungary, India and Southeast Asia. NetBooth, a Las Vegas Internet-kiosk company, just purchased 100 Yukis at $500 a pop and will install...