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...Computer, De Luca took Logitech's helm in early 1998, when the company was known mostly for selling mice to PC makers. Today Logitech, incorporated in Switzerland and with headquarters in Fremont, Calif., sells a wide range of retail PC peripherals known for catchy designs and reasonable prices: webcams, wireless keyboards, game controllers and speakers...
...next step--going global--was a given for Hori, 37, who was born in Washington, grew up in Kobe and studied in London. Cybird already provides wireless content to users in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, and soon China. Cybird will also chart a new path with branded SIM cards. The brains of any phone on the GSM global mobile-phone standard, SIM cards carry a user's account data and can be swapped from phone to phone. Cybird turned them into moneymakers: a SIM card branded with Hong Kong's hot pop act Twins...
Masiyiwa, 41, is at the forefront of this transformation, and has become a role model for other young African executives. His privately held company, Econet Wireless, generates revenue of more than $300 million a year, making it one of Africa's five largest telecom companies. It operates in eight countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation with 125 million people but just 600,000 fixed lines; New Zealand, where Econet will soon launch that country's third GSM network; and Britain, where Masiyiwa is targeting the niche market of African expatriates. "When I visited Nigeria a year...
...supreme court before he could connect his first subscribers in 1998. For beating the establishment, he became a national hero, especially among opposition politicians, who today use cell phones to summon supporters to rallies and alert radio stations to fraud at polling places. His introduction of wireless technology has profited not only Masiyiwa--who says Econet's profits are up 116% this year--but also Africa's progress toward democracy. --By Simon Robinson/Johannesburg
...results contradict those from a similar study the center conducted in 2000, which found that a cell phone ban would be “premature” given limited data at the time. That study had been commissioned by AT&T Wireless, but the latest study was independently funded by the center...