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Fossil Dick Tracy MSN Direct Watch Here's a watch that you never have to set--the network takes care of that. It will also receive weather and news updates and short text messages. fossil.com ($200 plus $59-a-year service...
...music on offer in certain countries." Europe's not completely frozen out: British firm OD2 provides the downloading and distribution backbone for Microsoft's MSN and Italy's Tiscali, offering 200,000 songs Europe-wide. Seattle-based RealNetworks plans to roll out its Rhapsody service here next year. But for now, Europeans who want legal downloads are mostly living with the pause button. The E.U.? You'll Fit Right In! Poland's economic troubles deepened late last week as the Polish zloty, wobbling with uncertainty over government fiscal policies, hit new lows against the euro (€1 equals 4.66 zlotys...
...billion a year in revenues (only China Mobile is bigger), was committing to phones that use a Microsoft operating system - something that Redmond has been struggling to get European operators to do. And he would have liked to have added a line about Vodafone deploying Microsoft Network (MSN) Internet services on its phones. But none of that was said...
...into the hearts and pocketbooks of European consumers. Of course its computer software is as dominant in Europe as everywhere else. But the company sees untapped gold in the Internet and mobile markets, and to date they've been less than welcoming. Despite widespread promotion, the Internet service MSN has not been wildly popular in Europe (neither has its rival, AOL, which is owned by the company that publishes TIME). Only one major mobile - phone operator, Orange, has marketed a phone based on Microsoft software (its new Motorola handset follows an earlier version made by Taiwanese contract manufacturer...
...along with a credit-card number and personal information that can then be used to trace the perpetrator of any future abuse. Indeed, Microsoft itself will in some nations - including the U.S., Japan and Canada - require such subscriptions of between $2 and $10 per month to gain access to MSN chat rooms. So why not extend the same secure service elsewhere? "There is a fundamental difference in scale between America and the U.K., France and others," says Sutton. "In the smaller markets, we considered the trade-off between safety and access, and decided to close the service." That sounds more...