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...checkbooks could survive. ING had its home market locked up and was looking to expand around the world. But buying or building enough branches to break into mature markets like the U.S. would be hugely expensive. So the company decided to run an experiment, communicating with customers only by phone, mail and the Internet. With the money saved, ING Direct could offer a significantly higher interest rate on savings accounts, a handy way to collect customers from conventional banks...
...marketing ("Money doesn't grow on fees," says one orange-colored ad) and commitment to customer service. When customers call the toll-free number, a person--an actual person in Los Angeles, Minnesota or Delaware, not an automated menu, not an operator halfway around the world--picks up the phone...
Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger is the antithesis of a brash showman. At last January's Consumer Electronics Show, a high-tech hype-fest in Las Vegas, another CEO peddled a two-wheeler onstage to tout his company's new bicycle-powered cell-phone charger. The understated Iger, wearing spectacles, a dark suit and white shirt, talked about strategy and happily let Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer, ESPN commentators and Lost cast members take the lead in unveiling Disney's multimedia-entertainment fare...
...yourself vacation planning to Disney destinations. To capitalize on the mania surrounding the release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the elaborate DisneyPirates.com site plunges visitors deep into the virtual world of Captain Jack Sparrow, beyond the usual trailers, screensavers and photo galleries. Cell-phone users can buy ringtones based on songs from the movie soundtrack. There are online games--downloadable to mobile devices--in which players build their own ships, outfit their own pirates and search for buried treasure...
...dies. But not always. The two best demos I've seen this year were from two very different companies, Apple and Microsoft, and oddly enough, they were in many ways demos of the same product. One is a gimme: the iPhone, Apple's brilliant deconstruction of the common cell phone, due out June 29. The other is a product mysteriously code-named Milan, from a new branch of Microsoft called, not much less mysteriously, surface computing. What the two have in common is a very advanced touch screen...