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...Pearl Jam album last fall, it sent them inside CD players that had been glued shut. The White Stripes went further: review copies of their new album Elephant were sent on good old-fashioned vinyl, which is trickier to copy. In the copy-protection wars, low tech is the new high tech...
...wants to contain multitudes--high ideals and high tech, the poignant and the silly. Doing so, it becomes a lexicon of modern filmmaking. It could be its own creature: Super-Generico. That's not the worst thing for a movie to be, but it's not quite Marvel-ous either. --By Richard Corliss
Emblematic of this trend is Beaverton, Ore., credit union First Technology, whose motto is "Banking outside the box." First Tech's 116,000 members include thousands of young workers from firms such as Microsoft and Intel. On its website, members can do basic banking, apply for a mortgage or learn about insurance. "I probably visit the site every day," says member Erin Mulkins, 25, a manager at a mortgage broker who does all her banking at First Tech. "When I have a question about my account, I call, and I'm told immediately what's going on." Mulkins also earns...
...rate of 500,000 a day. The Nokia-Ericsson rivalry has an added intensity; it's hard to overstate the national importance of Ericsson. Founded in 1876, it was for many years Sweden's largest business, and a symbol of the nation's remarkable agility in the high-tech arena. But the pride of Swedish industry and the country's leading exporter has become a penny stock. Kurt Hellström, whom Svanberg replaced last month, slashed the workforce from 107,000 in 2001 to 61,000 as the company's turnover went from close to $36 billion...