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When Mom wants her Celine Dion, Dad wants Placido and Johnny demands Ja Rule, it used to take three stereos to satisfy all. Now comes the Yamaha MusicCast, a wireless, digital home music system, out in June. MusicCast is based on the same Wi-Fi technology that powers many PC networks, using a server, CD player/recorder and hard drive to store hundreds of hours of music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit...
...should have taken up the flute. My parents never had to tell me to practice and endured with grace my first spasmodic renditions of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Irish Jig #2.” To me, my beginning Yamaha manual seemed like a stepping stone to the moment when I would play principal horn in a sweeping Tchaikovsky ballet or symphony...
...Caught in the government policy switchback are three of the biggest names in the business: Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki. The quotas, announced in September, will cost the Japanese manufacturers an estimated $267 million in lost revenue this year. Honda and Yamaha each has had to shut down its Vietnam factory until the end of the year, and Suzuki says it will also run out of parts any day. Japanese executives are fuming, hinting the abrupt policy shift could hurt Vietnam's bid to join the World Trade Organization. After a delegation from the big three bikemakers were snubbed earlier this...
...doing so indirectly, by limiting the flow of parts that go into bikes. In September, the government announced it was slashing the number of "assembly kits" manufacturers are allowed to import this year from 2.5 million down to 1.5 million?effectively cutting the motorcycle output of Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki by some 40% at a time when they are already feeling pressure from cheaper Chinese-made bikes...
...Japanese have always been required to use some Vietnamese-made parts during assembly, under deals made with the government allowing them to set up factories in Vietnam. But there's been a running spat over whether Japan is living up to those contracts. Hanoi in July accused Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki of falsifying records to make it look like they are buying more local parts than they actually were. "These companies use the fact that they are big investors to strong-arm our government," complains Nguyen Van Khoa, president of the Vietnam Association of Motorcycles...