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...tech-savvy Japan, cell-phone commerce is an $83 billion industry. The leader is Xavel, which launched girlswalker.com the first free-of-charge cell-phone consumer portal. Six years later, it's the country's most popular cell-phone shopping site, garnering 100 million hits a day. Its partner, girlsauction.com boasts 1.5 million members and $43 million in monthly cell-phone transactions. "If I was going to do business, I was going to do it with women in their 20s and 30s," says CEO Fumitaro Ohama. "I wondered why nobody thought of it, considering they are such a huge market...
...that can gin up three chords and an attitude. The latest kings of England are the Arctic Monkeys, four lads who got guitars for Christmas in 2001, mastered them quickly, toured the country and handed out home-burned CDs of songs that were then uploaded to the unsigned-band portal MySpace.com Their following metastasized to the point that the band sold out the famed London Astoria last year on word of mouth. When a record-company bidding war ensued, the Arctic Monkeys signed with independent label Domino for a tidy sum and in January released their debut album in Britain...
...portal is now open for student groups interested in applying for office and storage space in the newly renovated Hilles building this fall...
...advance access. Freshman advisors were asked not to disclose grades to their students until they are officially released. The e-mail said the advisers should “refrain from sharing grade information with [their] advisees until final grades have been confirmed and released to students through the my.harvard.edu portal on Monday, February 6.” FAS Registrar Barry Kane wrote in an e-mail that this practice assured that “when students are able to view their grades, they are looking at accurate information that has been reviewed and reconciled by the Registrar?...
...study so that already today more than half of our students pursue a significant international experience before graduation. To promote a deeper level of scientific literacy, we are not only planning, but we have also begun to teach parts of a fundamentally new science curriculum, the first of our 'portal' courses. To mentor and support our students more effectively, we are overhauling completely the structures of academic advising in the College. And of course we have continued to talk, argue, and engage with one another, ever more deeply, about the importance of undergraduate education...