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...volunteer "beta testers" for a new service aimed at kids, developed in large part from input by kids. But it will have to sell the idea that children can handle it to the potential buyers, their parents. "We think kids are smart," said Kajeet's cofounder and CEO Daniel Neal. "Our entire philosophy springs from this one core idea. We want our kids to be agile with technology and we want to help them respond with confidence to what's happening in their world...
...Kajeet and others see a market in driving wireless tech to the SpongeBob set. "The major carriers design their service for Wall Street, not Main Street, and certainly not for its relevance to family life," says Neal. Telco giants have other motivations for not aggressively courting kid customers. "They want to avoid looking like Joe Camel and preying on children," said Roger Entner, a Boston-based wireless analyst with the Ovum research firm. "So they haven't done much more in this area other than create family plans...
Upon hearing that former NBA player John Amaechi disclosed in his new book that he is gay, Shaquille O'Neal said that if he had a gay teammate, he would "protect him from outsiders." That's a revolutionary reaction compared with the crass comments that greeted NFL player David Kopay in 1975, when he became the first athlete from the four major professional U.S. sports to reveal his homosexuality. Still, the British-bred Amaechi, right, notes that most locker rooms aren't exactly gay friendly. He says some current NBA players have told him they're gay but remain terrified...
...images depicted on the covers of AK Comics’ series share compositional similarities to the stock images of Marvel and DC classics. Similarly, according to the Saudi Aramco article, Al-Mutawa’s “The 99” features creative input from Tom DeFalco and Neal Adams, the former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and a well-known DC Comics illustrator, respectively.In 2005, Al-Mutawa’s media group was joined by Sven Larsen, former director of marketing and creative services at Marvel.Perhaps most tellingly, the characters of “The 99?...
...Howl of this movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...