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...upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet and Fox Kids, costs $12 a month. (Unlimited high-speed Web service adds $61.) "This is a unique opportunity for us. Muscovites want exposure to Western content," Baker says. His partner in this project? CCTV chairman Yuri Pripachkin, a former captain in the Soviet army. --By Sean Gregory
...spots to handle the wi-fi function of those phones, forcing the hand of mobile carriers. "If they don't embrace these things, they'll lose the game," he says. That's a peace offering wrapped in a 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...
...Since the beginning of the diplomatic face-off with Iran, the Bush Administration has been acutely aware that there are limits to the willingness of the international community to enforce sanctions. The E.U., composed of 27 member states, is Iran's biggest trading partner, accounting for 27.8% of the country's trade in 2006. Russia has a range of commercial contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic...
...aren't far behind. Cinergy, a utility based in Cincinnati, Ohio, started enrolling BPL customers in late April; the service should be available to 50,000 Ohio homes by year end. Progress Energy has a commercial trial under way in North Carolina with Internet service provider EarthLink as its partner. Idacomm, a subsidiary of Idacorp (which also owns Idaho Power), hopes to be live in Boise and a few other markets by next spring. "The BPL market," Idacomm president and CEO Chris Britton says, "is going...
...Analysts in Berlin said that Müntefering's departure will make it more difficult for Merkel's CDU to find common ground with its governing partners. The SPD has suffered more than its conservative partner as a result of the partnership, seeing its support sink even as Merkel's personal popularity has risen. In an attempt to win back voters, the SPD 's party chief Kurt Beck moved the party towards the left, arguing, for example, for increases in welfare spending - over Müntefering's strenuous objections. Business leaders in Germany have also complained that the government...