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To see the future of transportation in Texas, you have to drive out to the prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130, at a cost of $1.5 billion, is the biggest highway project under way in the U.S. today. It is also the first test...
...also worth noting that few of the Asian firms that have succeeded overseas bought their way there. Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda enjoyed years of protected markets at home, then set up operations abroad that introduced new production techniques or superior engineering. In Korea, Samsung and Hyundai took decades to build respected brands. By contrast, electronics maker LG failed to establish a thriving business from its shortcut purchase of the TV brand Zenith?though it has recently been much more successful in penetrating global markets by pushing its own brand. Chinese acquirers will face similar challenges...
...officer was sent to the Dental School to take a report of a stolen Samsung Plasma television valued...
...Frontier is providing the chip to Samsung, which is building it into a mobile device for the Korean market. Beginning in the first quarter of next year, several broadcasters, including the Korean Broadcasting System, will start airing programs tailored to it. "Within the next five years, the major new killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder...
...Bruner calls it a "storage element" rather than a drive; it holds about 2 GB of information, enough for 600 songs or 1,200 at sub-CD quality, on a disc that is a quarter of the size of an iPod's. Samsung started deploying it in a phone in Korea in Septem-ber. That's why Bruner insists that the days of the iPod, and any other music-only device, are numbered. "I believe strongly that Apple's market will fade away over-night when you see the first cost-effective music-playing phone,'' says Bruner...