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...people don't call for information anymore, says Bruce Stewart, KGB's CEO of mobile and digital. They text. "When you want to know something, you text your friend or someone who might know. We are looking to be that someone." After launching a successful texting service in the U.K., KGB decided to bring it to the U.S. The beta test launched last fall, and already the company has thousands of "agents" ready to provide you with anything from movie times and train schedules to the type of pen Bob Dole holds in his hand. (Answer: sometimes it's felt...
...commercial - in which an older gentleman interrogates a young recruit about the capital of New Zealand and the song "Sugar Sugar" - never tells you what the company is selling, and it deliberately tries to associate the KGB initials with mystery and conspiracy. "We wanted to rebrand the KGB," says Stewart. "We're democratizing information, giving knowledge out to the broad public instead of taking it. Contrast that to the historical one, and people...
...Despite Stewart's claim, the Global Knowledge Network is also taking plenty of knowledge for itself, since the more users text, the more KGB can discover about its customers. For now, there are no plans to sell the information to marketers, but, says Stewart, "We see what are people asking about. What movies are they asking to see, what restaurants are they interested in going to, what sports teams they like, what merchandise they're looking to buy - there is an interesting level of insight about what people are thinking." (See the top 10 iPhone applications...
Festivalgoers empathized in Telluride and Toronto. Critics, then art-house fans, then the mall rats, cheered it throughout North America. The title has entered pop culture, with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show referring to Rod Blagojevich, the mop-top governor of Illinois, as "Scumdog Million-hairs." Now Hollywood's élite has joined the chorus. And our industry savant doesn't believe the negative press from India will hurt Slumdog's Oscar chances. Slumdog, he says, "will win everything of substance...
...slow and similar in material, but there are other moments of pure fun and innovation found in the dances by the Pinewoods Morris Men and the clogging of Gillian Stewart.The Morris Men make several appearances, sometimes with jingle bells attached to their knees, other times with swords. Stewart demonstrated her unique clogging abilities, skillfully jumping in the air, clicking her heels together, and spreading the light-heartedness of the act, even in her heavy shoes. The Casterbridge Children, the youngest group involved, were also impressive. They held their own with the adults while harmonizing perfectly and performing old-fashioned comedic...