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While students at Duke University get free iPods and Pennsylvania State University students have free Napster, every now and then, the powers that be at Harvard get together to sprinkle some hi-tech fairy dust around campus. This is one of those times. The University is about to be ushered into the digital age; thank you, Harvard College Libraries (HCL), for cutting the chains...
...crowd’s attention, and no one left the two hour production looking unenthused. Consistent laughter was the background music to this production, and many times, actors would have to hold off on delivering their lines until the crowd’s ebullience subsided. A lack of high-tech graphics, set changes, or any of the usual over the top features of modern entertainment were hardly missed. The show simply displayed a powerful script with the help of extraordinarily gifted young actors to deliver a marvelous show with a certain old-school finesse...
...producer Cameron Mackintosh is helping to wallpaper the theater, which is being refurbished. Richard Eyre, former head of Britain's National Theatre, mutters into a headset, while co-director and choreographer Matthew Bourne adjusts an elbow here, a twirl there. Technicians are honing the effects. "It looks very high tech," says co-producer Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions, "but this show doesn't employ any techniques that haven't been in use for decades." Perhaps, but with flying stunts and a house that appears and disappears, the show is dressed to impress. And no wonder, given this team...
...Verona has a problem: thousands of handwritten notes, pasted by lovelorn tourists on the wall beneath the balcony where Shakespeare's star-crossed sweethearts Romeo and Juliet purportedly pledged their love. The city wants to restore the facade of the medieval building, and is looking for a high-tech solution. One option: allowing visitors to leave virtual messages for their amori via SMS or e-mail...
...move overseas is less of an invasion than an escape. China's strongest companies produce relatively low-tech consumer products like TVs, cell phones and computers?businesses in which the mainland market is now so competitive that it's increasingly tough to turn a healthy profit. Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, tariffs have plunged and foreign rivals have swarmed the country, forcing domestic firms to cut their prices. Although China's economy is still booming, prices for consumer goods actually fell 1% through October this year. Lenovo, which has been under threat domestically from Dell...