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...sincere tips on underage smoking and illegal parking, exactly zero crimes have been solved thanks to civilian sleuths. Not to say camera phones haven't kept the authorities busy: police have received a slew of complaints of digital skirt peeping and sundry reports of other, less felonious forms of tele-mischief such as distributing embarrassing photos of classmates over the Web. It seems that Japan's perverts and bullies have a faster high-tech learning curve than do its do-gooders...
...This is not science. It's a policy goal," says Eli Noam, director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information in New York City. "It's pretty clear that, given the head start of the Bells, it's difficult for someone to come in without a little regulatory weighting of the scales. But you don't want to prolong it. It puts regulators in the driver's seat...
...passes slowly in India, but not for Sunil Mittal. Four years ago, the 45-year-old entrepreneur was a bit player in the Indian telecommunications market, the owner of cellular franchises in Delhi and the small neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh. Total customer base: 116,000. Today, his Bharti Tele-Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on the subcontinent. Customer base: 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $1 billion expansion that quadrupled the size of his network in less than a year. Mittal even completed an acquisition of a competitor?from initial offer to signed contract...
...least the climate was mild that day. On a scorching afternoon at the U.S. Open in 1996, the Tele+ booth was infernally hot. Clerici asked the attendants for an electric fan. When his request went unfulfilled, he simply stripped and called the match nude. Though viewers weren't treated to the full Gianni, "Quite a few people stopped by the booth that day," says Tommasi...
...Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when negotiating his contract, "I'm rich in an embarrassing...