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...real estate, people pay for location, and last week Coldwell Banker showed homeowners just how pricey that premium can be. In a survey of more than 300 markets, the real estate brokerage found that a 2,200-sq.-ft., four-bedroom house in a neighborhood "typical for corporate middle management" can vary in cost by up to $1.2 million depending on the city. The most expensive locale was La Jolla, Calif.; the least costly was Binghamton, N.Y. How much would you have to spend in a market of your choosing? Go to ColdwellBanker.com click on Site Map, then Info Center...
...city should be able to see at least one antenna. Kahle's high-speed Internet donation should comfortably support thousands of users, as long as they are not all simultaneously downloading Hollywood movies. If SFLAN gets any larger than that, Pozar admits, it will have to start charging some premium users and offering preferred access to paying customers...
...better system would allow schools, Harvard included, to allow streaming play—but not downloads—of digital music files over their Ethernet networks. Like premium cable television stations that provide an “on-demand” service—with which viewers can play, fast-forward, pause and rewind any of the “Sex and the City” episodes that are in the database—record labels should allow college students to have on-demand access to files. The record labels could charge the schools for the right to stream...
...upmarket when the perception is that quality is heading south, so fixing that must be Pischetsrieder's first task. Next, he's got to ensure that VW's move into luxury doesn't come at the expense of sales in its higher- volume, mid-priced segments. "We know the premium segment is different from the mass market, and we need to make certain that Volkswagen lives up to its new image," he said in September. Considering how tough the U.S. luxury market is, that's an understatement. VW's challenge is to get more Americans to view...
Perhaps the best example of the Beeb's growing influence in the U.S. is NBC's version of the BBC hit Coupling, which premiered this fall. NBC hoped its knock-off would be the next Friends, lavished it with publicity and ran it on a premium Thursday-night time slot. Viewers merely shrugged, while critics savaged it. Comparing it to the British version, which airs on BBCA, the New York Times wrote, "Coupling is the Milli Vanilli of network television: the sitcom equivalent of lip-synching someone else's song." Yet BBC America is capitalizing. Thanks to the notoriety...