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...phone twice ends a call. Draw a 3, and it types the digit. Make an X, and the phone generates the voice response "no." If you're listening to music on the built-in MP3 player, you can jerk the phone to the right to skip to the next track. Best of all, the phone's "beat box" function lets you build grooves by shaking the phone, air-drum style. Each time you play, you can pick a different sound such as tambourine, clap or scratch, and you can save your most excellent beats to impress friends later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phone Sense | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...remote, she is watching the March 13 episode of Crossing Jordan. Suddenly, she hits the pause button. Why? "'Damn,'" she says. "And also they were talking about drugs." Looney, 25, transcribes the quote--"Damn. The second suitcase is still out there"--and it goes into the Entertainment Tracking System (ETS), the PTC's database on more than 100,000 hours of programming. "We track even those minor swears," says Looney's supervisor, Melissa Caldwell, "because it's a way of tracking trends." The ETS, in the words of PTC executive director Tim Winter, logs "every incident of sexual content, violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...have been cool to cutting North Korea's aid to get them back to the table. China's Foreign Minister has even hinted that the U.S. should engage the North Koreans directly, something Bush has ruled out. And so Rice's goal was to put the Chinese back on track. There's no guarantee that the talks can be restarted, and even if they are, it's just as uncertain how the U.S. and its allies can force the North Koreans to give up their hard-won arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi on the Rise | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...this creative context, the band sketches vivid musical portraits that aim to create a character and face of British rock. They prove themselves to be capable of anthem—the Parklife title track is a peerless statement of purpose, but manage to maintain a humor that gives more resilience to the weaker musical moments, whereas the minute an Oasis song isn’t a song as good as ”Don’t Look Back in Anger,” the high-mindedness and blatant subscription to guitar-rock cliché becomes brutally apparent...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Drawn-Out Battle of the '90s Brit-Pop Superstars | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Internal Revenue Service," argues Bruce Fancher, proprietor of a New York City Internet service provider called Mindvox. "Clipper just doesn't make sense any other way." As more and more commerce takes place on the Internet, contends Fancher, the IRS is going to need a surefire way to track the flow of cyberbucks -- and to collect its share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Soul of the Internet | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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