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...while political squabbles come and go like fashion, buildings tend to last an awfully long time. Accordingly, Summers is equally (if not more) dogmatic when it comes to the science-centric Allston expansion, his pet project and real-life Sim City. In February 2004, this editorial page hit the nail on the head, charging that “the [Allston] discussion between Mass. Hall and everyone else has indeed come to seem more and more like a monologue.” Faculty members have claimed repeatedly that they have not been kept au courant with the Allston initiative. Meanwhile, students...
Millions of people fell in love with the customizable suburbanites of The Sims, which became the best-selling PC game of all time. How could veteran designer Will Wright top that? Answer: by showing just how adorably complex these creatures can be. In Sims 2 (for PC; $49.99), your characters grow older, pass on their genes to their kids, even die. They have life goals (like raising a family or raking in cash) and short-term aspirations (like making a new friend or buying a new refrigerator). You can make your characters look like just about anyone (one gamer...
Verizon-loving road warriors can start packing a little lighter this fall. No need to take a second cell phone to stay connected in Europe--or, for that matter, a SIM card to plug into rented handsets--because in September Verizon Wireless began selling its first global phone, which can roam between CDMA networks (used in North America and parts of Asia and Latin America) and GSM networks (used everywhere else). Verizon is offering the Samsung a790 for $350 with a two-year contract, with international calling rates starting at $1.29 a minute in the most-developed countries. Samsung...
...year. Most importantly, Soundbuzz has forged a partnership with Singapore-based computer audio hardware maker Creative, which aims to make its new Zen Touch MP3 player work as symbiotically with Soundbuzz as the iPod does with iTunes. "I think we will create a buzz," says Sim Wong Hoo, Creative's CEO. "I believe the MP3 market will be as big as the cell-phone market...
...store; Singapore's Soundbuzz, co-founded by a former MTV Asia exec, plans to move into Hong Kong, India and Taiwan by year's end. Have the music biz's blues turned to blue sky? Many think so. Downloading "will be as big as the cell-phone market," predicts Sim Wong Hoo, CEO of Creative, a maker of MP3 players. Forrester Research says Europe's download market could grow from €53 million this year to €3.5 billion by 2009. Still, most services are limited to a few big markets like Britain, where the top 20 tracks tallied just...