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...student center. In fact, Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, which opened in 2001, already meets that need admirably. What will make the new Baker Library/Academic Center so special as an intellectual hub will be a combination of features—from the latest technological and multimedia capabilities to new offices and conference areas to the restoration of great historical spaces such as the Reading Room—that will preserve and strengthen this important building’s world-class collections and superb library and research services. When the facility is ready for occupancy in late...
...other content providers from more than 100 countries on some 175,000 sq m of hall space. While books still make up the majority of wares at the show, one-quarter of all exhibitors today also present multimedia products such as dvds, videos and online applications. All in all, 336,663 items were displayed last year, in hopes that retailers would place big orders and the public would go out and buy them. In the packed and cacophonous LitAg - short for Literary Agents and Scouts Center - business deals worth €31 million concerning an amazing 18,000 hitherto unpublished print...
...sign a multimillion-dollar contract with the cosmetics giant Estee Lauder. But imagemaking isn't limited to photography. It touches on everything from the design of a perfume bottle to the conception of a snappy television commercial. In architecture, the work of rising star David Adjaye conveys the raw multimedia aesthetic of his generation. In pop music, canny image-attuned stars like Gwen Stefani are marketing their clothes the better to promote their records...
...That's what power is today: it's exposure," Cohen says. "Celebrities are about being branded. If you want to compete in the new world of entertainment for publicity, you need to market yourself. By using multimedia--music and entertainment as well as fashion--today's celebrities have three powerhouses to get them to the height of popularity. The more you put yourself out there and the more cultures you can cross over, the bigger the payout potential. And for those celebrities who have yet to figure it out, believe me, their agents are working...
...boost when the group that makes rules for Wi-Fi agreed on a standard that increases access speed nearly fivefold, to 54 megabits per second. That means the systems' base stations, known as hot spots, will be able to handle more traffic and more complicated applications such as multimedia video transmission. Later that month, Marriott International finished rolling out Wi-Fi access in 400 of its hotels in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Germany; hot spots for the pay service are located in the chain's lobbies, meeting rooms and public spaces. More recently, Sprint and SBC Communications announced that...