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...have finally found the right combination of technology, investment and marketing to turn wireless Internet services into a profitable business. "If other markets were developing in the same way as Korea, the carriers would be making their shareholders very rich within a short period of time," says John Strand, CEO of Strand Consult, an independent consultancy based in Copenhagen that focuses on the global mobile market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Gets It | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...fragmented by competing standards, and a far smaller number of people under age 30 have mobile phones because of credit-rating problems. Yet Nicolaj Nielsen, a consultant for Strand Consult, sees changes ahead that bear resemblance to the Korean model. By year's end, Verizon, which also uses CDMA technology, is expected to offer a service that combines EV-DO's higher speeds with BREW's programmable technology. "Verizon's adoption of the brew virtual machine platform is expected to revolutionize the U.S. mobile data market," Nielsen says. And to further emulate South Korea's formula for success, the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Gets It | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...Helgenberger shudders. Outlandish as they may seem, CSI's plots are rooted in the experience of such professionals as consultant Elizabeth Devine, once a CSI in Los Angeles. Find red spots in the whites of a victim's eyes? He died by suffocation. Find a seed follicle on a strand of the victim's hair? It was ripped out of her head. To unearth these nuggets, the writers and researchers go to forensics conventions, scour gory tomes like Practical Homicide Investigation and collect gadgetry catalogs for products like Clue Spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Murder in Six Easy Steps | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

Nyweide held off the Leopards in the seventh, when an error by Shakir loaded the bases with just one out. The senior righthander retired the next two batters on a lineout and groundout to strand the three runners...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Works Kinks Out in Florida | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...GIRL WITH A PEARL NECKLACE PW adores "The Strand of a Thousand Pearls" by Dorit Raninyan, translated from the Hebrew by Yael Lotan (Random House: June 25), giving it a starred review. "Rabinyan's second novel (after the international bestseller 'Persian Brides') maintains an expert balance between lyricism and tough-mindedness. Like Isaac Babel in his Odessa short stories, (Rabinyan) knows that a metaphor is not an ornament, but rather a probe (or even a bullet) into the heart... FORECAST: Reviewers eager to pigeonhole Rabinyan's work will compare it to 'Like Water for Chocolate, but her fierce storytelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: The Sex Edition | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

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