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...time-sensitive e-mail to a client when the lights flickered off. Zhu was forced to lug his desktop computer to an Internet caf? in a neighboring district to get the message out in time. When he returned home that night, the power was off, rendering his new flat-screen TV and expensive air-conditioning unit inert. "My TV is just like a painting on the wall with no use," he says. "And I've started using a traditional fan to keep myself cool." One of Hangzhou's most-popular chat rooms now focuses on how to deal with such...
...million Number of screen names in AOL's subscription list, which was allegedly stolen by an employee and sold to spammers...
...about the gab. Fausto Enni, one of the Italian show's directors on hand in Naples, said he wants people who are bound to babble: "The U.K. version picks extroverts too, but maybe it's harder for the English to recognize themselves in the characters on the screen. For the Italians, you just need to go to the piazza in town and you'll see it yourself." Everyone who showed up was given a number and eventually led in groups of 15 or 20 into an air-conditioned hotel conference room. There was a 50-year-old named Ernesto...
...features into its mobile phones. Its latest model, the SC8000, which came out in Korea in April, combines a PDA, an MP3 player, a digital camera and a camcorder. The advantage is paying off. In May, LG launched a new mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became the largest supplier of mobile phones last year to service provider Verizon Communications...
...backing up his tough talk with a strategy to augment the company's design and technology prowess. For instance, LG.Philips announced in March it would invest $22 billion with its suppliers in new flat-screen production facilities over the next 10 years. Kim is recruiting engineers at a furious pace, aiming to increase research-and-development teams to 60% of LG's total payroll by 2005, from 40% today. One recent afternoon at the LG Electronics Corporate Design Center in Seoul, young Koreans in jeans and hip black sweaters were packing up plastic models of computer monitors and microwaves...