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...made little headway with consumers so inextricably hooked to their cell phones. But in China, sophisticated wireless PDAs are shaping up as a potentially important way to access the Internet. Already, China has quietly become the second-largest market in the world for handheld computers, according to market research outfit IDC. Last year, close to 1.5 million PDAs were sold, a number expected to double in 2001. Add in cheap but popular electronic organizers, and the number swells to around 4 million. The dominant maker, says IDC, is Hi-Tech Wealth, which has a 40% share. "It's a very...
...JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose, but up until last week you could have purchased the couple's everlasting symbol of commitment--and at a nice price too. Pitt and Aniston filed a $50 million suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Damiani International, the jewelry outfit that produced their wedding rings, for hawking "Brad & Jennifer white-gold wedding bands with diamonds," an alleged violation of an agreement prohibiting the rings' reproduction or sale. The bands, available in lovely 18-karat gold, were selling for a mere $1,000 at outlets in Palm Desert, Calif...
...live ammunition has been used against antiglobalization demonstrators in the Western world--an incident that has radicalized many of them. (A 19-year-old Goteborg protester who was shot in the stomach remains hospitalized.) "Things are coming to a head," says Shaun Dey, an activist in the London-based outfit Globalize Resistance. "The way things are going, somebody is going to get killed...
Faced with a virtual cipher at the center of his tale, Irving works energetically to create distractions around the edges. He has some good fun ridiculing Wallingford's employer, calling the all-news outfit "Disaster International" and the "calamity channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew of other security accessories. Since 1996 the firm's Brazilian revenues have surged more than sevenfold, to $14.5 million last year. In November, O'Gara opened a new plant to nearly double output. How solid are the cars? "Nine...