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...warning. He could take them head on, but he would gladly partner with mobile operators as the behind-the-scenes technology provider, wrangling wi-fi phone traffic that a mobile-phone company would front. Next up: the games and entertainment sector. In November, Polk struck a deal with Nintendo that lets owners of the wi-fi-- equipped Nintendo DS game machine play networked games for free at the Cloud's hot spots. Guess whose business stands to get disintermediated? Forecast for the mobile-phone industry: partly Cloudy...
...turned my attention to the entertainment options: 29 video-on-demand movies (there will be 60 by the end of March), 77 TV shows, 102 CDs, 12 music channels and even Nintendo games and mah-jongg. As a big Denzel Washington fan, I chose his latest movie, Out of Time. He looked great on the relatively large, 9-in. video screen. After a couple of hours with Denzel, I got in some serious bar time--Singapore Airlines has done what no other airline has done for years, which is to devote a large expanse of space in the coach section...
...China's Me Generation," Simon Elegant wrote as if it were a wonder that for the 20-to-29-year-old élites of China, "a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy," as a Chinese publisher put it [Nov. 5]. Elegant portrayed the Chinese twentysomethings as self-absorbed aristocrats, but when was the last time young adults in the U.S. gave a damn about anything political, moral or nonmaterialistic? In the '70s? America's spoiled youth are just as bad as, if not worse than, spoiled Chinese kids...
...final round and I had a reversal of fortunes” he says. “Fortunately, they had buckets.” Last Saturday, he competed in the “Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution World Ramen Noodle Eating Championship” held at the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Center. In front of a packed crowd of anime junkies and kids, Mih managed to put away 6-7 pounds of ramen before he “hit the wall.” Entering into a ninja noodle war wasn’t easy. “Everyone...
...state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers like Nintendo and Sony, which are designing systems to meet the demand; small companies like Expresso Fitness that donate equipment; and federal grants and private donations that bankroll the purchase of equipment. "The old system is failing kids," says Phil Lawler, director of training and outreach at PE4life, a nonprofit based in Kansas...