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...SunAmerica initiative is a bell ringer because it is an exemption and requires no change of law. If Labor approves it, other plan administrators, including mutual-fund powerhouses Fidelity and Vanguard, would probably go for their own exemptions, and conceivably within a year, access to full-service advice would be part of most large 401(k) plans, as well as 403(b)s for nonprofits and 457s for government workers...
...thrilled that you included the Nickel Creek trio in your report on the next wave in music [INNOVATORS, May 28]. They are indeed in the vanguard of country music, which is badly in need of a shake-up. But what, I wonder, did you mean by saying "Nothing about them smells of bluegrass"? Bluegrass has evolved since Bill Monroe as much as jazz has since Louis Armstrong. It is full of innovative, nontraditional artists right now, and Nickel Creek's musicians are only the most visible among them. CRAIG HAVIGHURST Nashville, Tenn...
...worth noting that visions of TV becoming a vast interactive sales catalog are still mainly in the minds of futurists. Big-name brand advertisers are only starting to test the waters, experimenting with interactive ads in France, Britain and the U.S. Still, France's TPS, one of the vanguard channels, has hosted more than 25 interactive ad campaigns in the past four years and claims that up to 50% of viewers use the click-through option. Opel, which now devotes about 5% of its advertising budget to interactive spots, considers its TPS campaign promising, and Danan is convinced interactive...
...While Europe is in the digital TV vanguard, MTV is trying to leverage the most advanced applications in every region, treating each as a kind of interactive television laboratory. In Japan, which leads the world in mobile phone applications, viewers of Select MTV vote via text messaging or PCs for their favorite tunes. But because the television platform is not yet fully digital, their votes don't appear instantly on the TV screen. Shoji Doyama, chairman of MTV Japan, says that by year's end the company plans to introduce "some interactivity into all of its TV programming, permitting voting...
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