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...Frontier Silicon, based in Watford, England, is also trying to expand what phones can do. Frontier is building a chip that allows a cell phone to double as a TV, so that a user could watch, say, sports highlights while waiting for a train. The chip, called Chorus, receives broadcast signals from television operators, digitally encoded so they can't be intercepted. That system is a threat to mobile operators, because broadcast signals bypass cellular networks. A phone owner could receive video programming without having to buy it from a mobile network provider...
Football fans may remember the name Luther Blissett. He was the high-scoring striker for England's Watford who was traded to AC Milan for $1 million in 1983. After one disappointing season, he returned to England and obscurity. Now Luther Blissett is back in the headlines as the author of Q (Heinemann; 635 pages), a novel of vast inventiveness, remarkable erudition and highly peculiar origins. First published in Italy in 1999, the book has become a best seller from Austria to Argentina. The British edition appeared earlier this month, and negotiations are now under...
When Nicky Summerbee and Billy McKinlay appeared in the colors of the English Football League's Leicester City for its first game of the 2002-03 season against Watford last weekend, the two did more than merely suit up for a match. They also struck a dubious blow for the future of the sport - by becoming the first "amateurs" in the competition since the category was abolished in the 1970s. That's right. Summerbee and McKinlay - both footballers by trade but both currently without permanent contracts - played for free. "Obviously it's not ideal," Summerbee told the Guardian...
...create a community spirit and host regular events, like interactive quizzes in which rival pubs compete against each other on large screens showing live shots of the opposition. This might sound like a good idea - until you see the victory "salute" of the team from the Hogwash in Watford...