Word: protocolic
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...return, this time determined to shake up a new industry. Citron, 33, is now CEO of Vonage, which has become, in 18 months, the leading player in the explosive new market for home-phone service via high-speed Web connections, known to geeks as VOIP (voice over Internet protocol). He isn't shy about his ambition: "to change the entire telecommunications landscape...
...first time that Zennstrom has pursued a counterintuitive business model. In 2000 he and Skype co-founder Janus Friis launched Kazaa, a peer-to-peer exchange that allowed users to swap music and videos online. Now Zennstrom is at the vanguard of voice over Internet protocol (VOIP), a technology that lets voice traffic travel over the Internet. Gartner Inc. analyst Katja Ruud estimates that about 100 million people worldwide will use VOIP by 2008. Even telecom giants like AT&T, BT Group and Verizon realize they have to offer VOIP. Zennstrom practices extreme VOIP: free calls and free software...
...more open, risk-friendly environment to encourage entrepreneurship. "We need a cultural change and it can't be bureaucratized," he told TIME last year, or else "we'll come a cropper." Meanwhile, ex-PM Goh will take over Lee's former title (and No. 2 position in protocol) of Senior Minister. Goh's continued presence may reassure some Singaporeans that the changes he initiated won't be rolled back. In fact, says Cherian George, author of the book Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation, those who are worried that they could lose relatively new freedoms such as the right to chew...
...glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to the opening of The Battle of the River Plate in 1956, where she met Marilyn Monroe. Also in the exhibition is the full-length black lace dress with matching veil the Queen wore in keeping with papal protocol, when she met Pope John XXIII at the Vatican...
...added that it would have been preferable if Harvard had given the gift back when the controversy arose, but said he realizes that there probably is a “protocol...even in a case as clear-cut as this...