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...screen. Inside, amenities include an updated Palm OS, 32-MB of onboard memory and a processor four times as fast as the Treo 300's. Of course, you'll still have to contend with the cramped little keyboard. Expect the phone to sell for around $550 in mid-October; Sprint PCS will be the first to offer service. GSM versions offered by Cingular and T-Mobile are expected to follow...
...applications such as multimedia video transmission. Later that month, Marriott International finished rolling out Wi-Fi access in 400 of its hotels in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Germany; hot spots for the pay service are located in the chain's lobbies, meeting rooms and public spaces. More recently, Sprint and SBC Communications announced that they will become the latest phone companies to offer Wi-Fi service, joining a crowd that includes Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile...
...which is based in Houston, and MaggieMoo's Ice Cream & Treatery, based in Columbia, Md.--employ similar ingredients and theatrics. But both trail Cold Stone in revenue and number of shops. Why? Ducey sets aggressive goals and then has his top managers--who hail from organizations like McDonald's--sprint after them. Cold Stone also knows how to mix up the mix-in, as in a Survivor-inspired promotion two years ago that combined ice cream with chocolate-dipped crickets. (The mixture was freakishly popular; the company ran out of supplies in a week...
Listwin set out to fix the software, adopted a more conservative revenue model and made lucrative deals with such companies as HP, IBM, Lucent, Siemens and Sprint. In Japan, phone giants KDDI and J-Phone fed the craze for multimedia messaging--sending enhanced cell-phone snapshots to your friends--with Openwave software. Openwave's annual revenue has stabilized at $250 million. The stock is back above $2. Multimedia messaging is just starting to take off in the U.S. and Europe, via Sprint and Nokia. Analysts expect Openwave to be fully profitable in 2004. Perhaps then Listwin can afford to celebrate...
...Belarus' Natalya Sazanovich. The IAAF dubbed her a "rising star" and a Swedish national radio poll even labeled her Swede of the Year. This year has been just as heady. In March she won the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, with personal bests in 60-m sprint, high jump, shot put and long jump. In June she moved outdoors to Tallinn, Estonia, where she scored 6,692 points beating reigning Olympic champion, Denise Lewis, to bring her ever closer to the senior record. There's little doubt that Kluft is Olympic-gold material, and her rapid progress...