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...predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled a 3,000-signature petition and demonstrated before visiting Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou. By Thursday the movement had spread to Taipei, where students wore yellow armbands symbolizing digital solidarity. Middle-aged rabble-rousers who once struggled against authoritarian rule were not impressed. "What are they, Black Panthers?" squawks Sisy Chen, a talk show host. "Our jobs are moving to China, we're building another nuclear plant, and they rise up for this...
...Kodak's strategy of playing at both ends of photo technology isn't developing as planned. Last week Big Yellow, blaming a flagging film market on the nationwide economic slump, announced that its first-quarter net earnings were off almost 50% from the prior year. More troubling to Wall Street was that Kodak, citing the soft outlook, backed away from its previous forecasts for the second half of the year. "These are my picture takers that companies are laying off," Carp told analysts. Kodak is adding to the pile too. As part of its streamlining, the company will...
...Yellow spines in the loud trademark color of Let's Go stand out from the travel shelf at Barnes and Nobles, but Lonely Planet guidebooks, which come in all colors, are taking up more and more shelf space. And shelf space, a common industry measurement of publishing success, is a crucial area where Let's Go can't afford to cede ground to a relative newcomer...
...multitude of luk kreung, or half-children, the once-despised offspring now control an estimated 60% of the entertainment industry. And in Hong Kong, where the local movie business is in a slump, the one great hope isn't white at all, but a mix of white and yellow. Fetching young Eurasian actors like Maggie Q and Karen Mok crowd the screen, and through the wonders of global distribution (and video piracy) appear everywhere from the deserts of Tunisia to the shores of the Solomon Islands. "Who better to personify the diversification of Hong Kong movies than a Eurasian actor...
DIED. HARVEY BALL, 79, commercial artist and adman who invented the now ubiquitous and much parodied Smiley Face in 1963; in Worcester, Mass. The goal of the yellow symbol was to put smiley faces on frowny workers at two newly merged insurance companies. Ball was paid $45 for his design and never trademarked...