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Others disagree. "I think Google is going to go for it," says Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and net neutrality expert. "They are the Obama in this race. They don't have the advantages of the Bell culture, but they aren't trapped by it either." Google could benefit by controlling their own wires, which could potentially mean huge profits down the road and direct access to their customers - a safety net against any wireless carrier whims...
Regardless of who ultimately wins, the auction has already prompted a serious restructuring of the way wireless carriers offer services to their customers. In August, the FCC backed Google's crusade (spawned by a paper written by Tim Wu for the New America Foundation calling for open networks) and mandated that the auction's largest available spectrum, the C block, be an open network if the bid reached at least $4.6 billion. (Some analysts predict Google will bid just enough to trigger the open-network provision, and no more.) That would mean customers could use any wireless device, handset...
...sights set on China. Israel Corp. already has a joint venture with the Chinese automaker Chery, and if Agassi's plan works in Israel, says Ofer, "it will work even better in China. Their pollution is killing them and the rest of us, too." with reporting by Tim McGirk/Jerusalem
...early 1990s, punk rockers, says singer Tim Eriksen, "were looking for that kind of intensity in other music." Eriksen's band, Cordelia's Dad, and other postpunks seized Sacred Harp and exported it to trendsetting places from Northampton, Mass., to Portland...
...band's album In Rainbows. Others let their music do the talking. Robbie Williams, who bagged a $130 million record deal with EMI in 2002, has threatened to withhold his next CD, fearing the firm won't be able to market and promote it. "All we know," Williams' manager Tim Clark told The Times of London this week, "is they are going to decimate their staff...