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...DIED. PETER NIELSEN, 36, air-traffic controller who was blamed for a 2002 midair collision over southern Germany that killed 71 people, mostly Russian schoolchildren; of stab wounds he suffered in an attack at his home; in Zurich. Police arrested a 48-year-old man, whose name has not been released, on suspicion of killing Nielsen. Investigators say the suspect lost his wife, a daughter and a son in the crash...
...move to outsourcing forces a company to use its resources where they count most, like product development. "For some of them, it's almost a question of survival. If they don't develop new products, they'll fail," says Laxmi Narayanan, CEO of Cognizant. Nielsen Media Research, which rates television shows, used Cognizant's programmers in India to develop NetRatings for websites. That new line of business allowed the company to hire sales staff and analysts in the U.S. to interpret the ratings for clients and eventually to start selling the product in Asia. Lightpointe, an optical-networking firm based...
...Super Bowl bet on how long Beyonce's rendition of the national anthem would take (thanks to some overhead planes and a really long brave, he made the over). His sharp take on contemporary manhood has created the No. 2--ranked sitcom for the past four years, according to Nielsen Media Research. And yet Raymond gets cited by sitcom writers as a favorite alongside the much edgier Simpsons and Curb Your Enthusiasm because of its structure and character definition. For all that, Romano acts like a man who is more comfortable with failure. After he takes 10 shots...
Sources: TiVo; Nielsen Media Research; Boston Phoenix; Centers for Disease Control; New York Times
...network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host of the CBS morning show, which for 50 years now has been broadcast live from the Death Valley of Nielsen ratings. ?CBS SM? was the ideal perch for him, his soothing FM voice replacing Kuralt?s cracker-barrel baritone. The transition was seamless. Under current executive producer Rand Morrison, ?CBS SM? has picked up the pace but never swerved off-course...