Cricket: Bell enjoys debut day

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Cricket: Bell boosts England

Cricket: Bell boosts England 08/19/2004 02:46 PM
Ian Bell hits 70 on debut as England reach 313-5 after day one of the final Test against West Indies at The Oval.

Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever

Amazon UK enjoys busiest day ever 01/04/2005 10:50 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 4 2005 2:07PM GMT

New PlayStation enjoys limelight

New PlayStation enjoys limelight 09/25/2004 01:47 AM
Japantimes.co.jp - Sat Sep 25, 12:58 am GMT

UK PC market enjoys strong growth

UK PC market enjoys strong growth 08/04/2004 01:34 PM
PC Magazine UK Aug 4 2004 5:21PM GMT

Johnny Depp Says He Actually Enjoys
Aging (AP)

Johnny Depp Says He Actually Enjoys
Aging (AP) 09/05/2004 07:26 AM
AP - Unlike legions of other Hollywood stars, hipster heartthrob Johnny Depp says he actually enjoys aging. The boyish-looking Depp — who plays the author of "Peter Pan" in his latest picture "Finding Neverland" — was asked if the children's character famed for never growing old made him wish for the same power.

Lastminute enjoys 'strong' growth

Lastminute enjoys 'strong' growth 05/13/2004 03:40 AM
The online travel and leisure firm says business was buoyant during the January-to-March period, but losses increase.

Beehive Enjoys Endorsement Windfall

Beehive Enjoys Endorsement Windfall 08/02/2004 09:47 AM
BEA officials say they're finally seeing a payoff for putting code in the wild.

Golf: Casey enjoys top spot

Golf: Casey enjoys top spot 07/15/2004 05:32 PM
England's Paul Casey shares the lead with France's Thomas Levet on five under after day one at Royal Troon.

LG Elec. enjoys increase in sales during
May

LG Elec. enjoys increase in sales during
May 06/21/2004 07:27 AM
Maekyung Internet Jun 21 2004 11:49AM GMT

Broadband enjoys a quarterly subscriber
bonanza

Broadband enjoys a quarterly subscriber
bonanza 11/12/2003 10:24 PM
Price discounting results in a surge of new broadband signees, but the strategy started by DSL companies has not resulted in increased market share.

Chess Legend Fischer Enjoys New Freedom
(AP)

Chess Legend Fischer Enjoys New Freedom
(AP) 03/24/2005 02:49 PM
AP - Chess legend Bobby Fischer, en route to a new life in Iceland, said Thursday that freedom felt "great" after nine months' detention in Japan, where he had been held for trying to leave the country using an invalid U.S. passport.

U.K. PC Market Enjoys Highest Growth in
Four Years

U.K. PC Market Enjoys Highest Growth in
Four Years 08/05/2004 06:42 AM
Linux Electrons Aug 5 2004 10:54AM GMT

Bluetooth enjoys record surge in sales

Bluetooth enjoys record surge in sales 09/09/2004 11:10 AM
PC Magazine UK Sep 9 2004 2:46PM GMT

Cabbie enjoys brief fame as medallist
(Reuters)

Cabbie enjoys brief fame as medallist
(Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - An Athens taxi driver has enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame for honestly returning a mislaid Olympic medal -- but he admitted he did try it on for size first.

William Hill enjoys good fortune

William Hill enjoys good fortune 05/17/2004 03:08 AM
A favourable run of horse racing results boosts business at the UK bookmaking firm.

Bill O'Reilly enjoys ordering his guests
and others to "shut up"

Bill O'Reilly enjoys ordering his guests
and others to "shut up" 07/21/2004 12:33 PM
This video commercial starts out with a quote from talk show host Bill O'Reilly making the claim that he has told a guest to "shut up" only one time in six years. The rest of the commercial shows clips of Mr. O'Reilly telling people to shut up. Link (Via Horkulated)

Basque Cyclist, Mayo, Enjoys Salad Days
on Tour

Basque Cyclist, Mayo, Enjoys Salad Days
on Tour 07/12/2004 02:34 PM
If sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, making puns with somebody's name ranks closely behind. Ask Iban Mayo.

Belhoul Group enjoys better business
health with Microsoft Great Plains
solution from AFCOMP

Belhoul Group enjoys better business
health with Microsoft Great Plains
solution from AFCOMP 12/22/2003 08:58 AM
AME Info Dec 22 2003 8:33AM ET

Qwest Says That If They Can't Have MCI,
SBC Shouldn't Get Ma Bell

Qwest Says That If They Can't Have MCI,
SBC Shouldn't Get Ma Bell 04/18/2005 11:29 PM
No surprise here, but Qwest, who is in the process of being spurn ed repeatedly in trying to buy MCI, has now filed an official protest against SBC's acquisition of AT&T. Of course, half the reason Qwest wants to buy AT&T is because SBC buying AT&T will leave Qwest even further behind (and it's already pretty far back there).

Taco Bell Gives Gas

Taco Bell Gives Gas 07/02/2004 10:00 AM
The fast-food chain backs a curious gasoline promotion.

"Genevieve Bell "

"Genevieve Bell " 03/28/2005 11:58 PM

Ma Bell should get stingy

Ma Bell should get stingy 07/10/2004 10:35 AM
CNN Jul 10 2004 1:39PM GMT

Ma Bell Up for Sale?

Ma Bell Up for Sale? 08/23/2004 12:20 PM
As AT&T prepares billions in write-offs, speculation of a potential takeover heats up.

"Bryan Bell"

"Bryan Bell" 12/17/2003 09:35 AM

Bell tolling for DSL?

Bell tolling for DSL? 06/15/2004 04:52 PM
Independent broadband providers brace for squeeze from Bells under suspended local phone rules.

Batter Up, Taco Bell

Batter Up, Taco Bell 06/21/2004 02:07 PM
Taco Bell becomes the official "quick-service restaurant" of Major League Baseball.

The Challenges Facing Bell TV

The Challenges Facing Bell TV 04/04/2005 06:22 AM
The fact that the Baby Bell telcos are now rushing to offer television over fiber is nothing new. Plenty of articles have been written about it, and it seems like this one is a little late to the game. However, it does raise some interesting points about the challenges the telcos face in reaching a point where they'll be competitive with cable TV. First, is that even after they spend billions rolling out fiber (to the home, or for the cheap Bells, the node) they have to sign the necessary content deals to have channels to offer. Since the content providers know the position the Bells are in (they absolutely need this content), the rates are going to be on the high side -- which, in turn, means that the subscription fees for end-users are going to be large, or the telcos will take some hefty losses on the service (which is exactly what's likely to happen in the short-term). However, it's also going to limit the flexibility the telcos have -- so they won't be in a position to do more creative pricing (like some of their cable competitors) to attack the market. While everyone knew that it would be easier for the cable companies to jump into the voice market than it would be for the telcos to jump into the TV market, the amount of time it's taken the telcos to act, combined with these hurdles, suggests that telco TV isn't going to be a money maker for quite some time -- if ever. At this point, the best the telcos can hope for is that telco TV will provide other benefits, such as reduced churn in other services.

Mr. Softee, Meet Ma Bell

Mr. Softee, Meet Ma Bell 07/23/2004 12:49 PM
At the risk of biting the hand that feeds me: Microsoft looks a little something like—gulp!—AT&T in the early 1980s. It is a lumbering giant, viewed with suspicion by consumers, rivals, and the government. While its core near-monopoly business throws off cash as ever, the beast remains hamstrung by its size, its legacy of enormous profitability, and its market position.

Before-the-Bell: Motorola, TheraSense Up

Before-the-Bell: Motorola, TheraSense Up 01/16/2004 11:35 AM
Boston Globe Jan 13 2004 4:16PM GMT

Ma Bell Dials A New Number

Ma Bell Dials A New Number 12/11/2003 12:07 PM
CBS News Dec 11 2003 10:53AM ET

Won't Be Able To Get Phone Service From
Ma Bell Any More

Won't Be Able To Get Phone Service From
Ma Bell Any More 07/22/2004 03:13 PM
AT&T keeps on changing. It seems you never can be quite sure what they're going to offer, what they're going to kill, and what they're going to spin off. However, they clearly do realize that the telecom environment they're in these days is quite different than it's been in the past. They've been ramping up their VoIP efforts, and following the ruling that says the RBOCs don't need to share their lines, it appears AT&T has decided to throw all their residential voice eggs into the VoIP basket. Thus, they're no longer selling long distance phone service to residential customers. They will still sell to businesses (where the money is for them anyway) and will still support existing AT&T phone customers, but for the first time, you will no longer be able to get traditional telephone service from AT&T to your home. Of course, between VoIP and the eventual wireless MVNO plan they're going to offer, it looks like AT&T may be the first major telco to realize that many people don't really need a traditional voice line at all any more. Who would have thought that AT&T might lead the way (though, perhaps out of necessity, not vision)?

Ma Bell Means Business?

Ma Bell Means Business? 07/22/2004 01:13 PM
The telephone provider focuses on declining business customers.

The Bell Curve revisited

The Bell Curve revisited 07/16/2004 05:09 PM

Driving back and forth to Nashua, NH yesterday I listened to The Bell Curve as an abridged book on tape (picked it up for $5 in a used bookstore in San Diego).  This book created quite a stir in 1994 because of its discussion of average IQ differences among races but I had never read it.  It turns out that even if you leave out all the controversial stuff about race the book is potentially very relevant to our times.

The Bell Curve starts out by talking about how we live in an era where people get sorted by cognitive ability into socioeconomic classes.  In 14th century England if you were a peasant with a high IQ or a noble with a low IQ it didn't affect your life, reproductive potential, or income very much.  In our more meritocratic and vastly more sophisticated economy a smart kid from a lower middle class might make it to the top of a big company (cf. Jack Welch, who paid himself $680 million as CEO of GE) or at least into a $300,000/year job as a radiologist.  For the authors of the Bell Curve the increasing disparity in income in the U.S. is primarly due to the fact that employees with high IQs are worth a lot more than employees with low IQs.  They note that we have an incredibly complex legal system and criminal justice system.  So you'd expect people with poor cognitive ability to fail to figure out what is a crime, which crimes are actually likely to be punished, etc., and end up in jail.  (A Google search brought up a report on juvenile justice in North Carolina; the average offender had an IQ of 79.)  If they stay out of jail through dumb (literally) luck, there is no way that they are ever going to be able to start a small business; the legal and administrative hoops through which one must jump in order to employ even one other person are impenetrable obstacles to those with below-average intelligence.

The trend that the decade-old Bell Curve book misses is telecom and outsourcing.  The authors assume that an American with high IQ will have a higher income and better standard of living than an American with low IQ.  That's the sorting function of an advanced economy.  They don't get into the question of whether it is sustainable that an American with low IQ should have a higher income than someone in India or China with a high IQ.  Statistically you'd have to expect that there are more really smart people in India and China than the total population of the U.S.  If the sorting-by-IQ process were efficient across international borders you'd expect that an American with an IQ of 100 should be making less than an Indian with an IQ of 120.  Given that a lot of brilliant well-educated people in India are getting paid less than $5,000 per year, this is a bit worrisome those of us here who are fat, dumb, and happy.  [Imagine that you were running a company.  Would you rather employ a local high school graduate with an IQ of 90 or an Indian college grad with an IQ of 130 via Internet link?]

For us oldsters, one unexpected piece of cheerful news from this book is that younger Americans are getting genetically dumber every year.  Even if you ignore the racial and immigrant angles of the book that created so much controversy back in 1994 it is hard to argue with the authors' assertion that smart women tend to choose higher education and careers rather than cranking out lots of babies.  As a middle-aged (40) guy whose own cognitive abilities are beginning to fade due to neuron death I felt sure that there would be no place me for in the America of 2050.  Our population is predicted to reach 450 million or so, i.e., the same as India had back when we were kids and our mothers told us about this starving and overpopulated country.  An individual person's labor in India has negligible economic value--the American firm Office Tiger gets 1500 applicants, many of whom are very well qualified, on a good day in Chennai.  It would seem that no enterprise would need an old guy's skills in a country of 450 million; why bother when there are so many energetic young people around?  And how would we be able to afford a house or apartment if there are 450 million smart young people out there earning big bucks and putting pressure on real estate prices?  But if the book is right most of those young people will be dumb as bricks.

Bell to boost DSL speed

Bell to boost DSL speed 12/16/2003 03:00 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 16 2003 1:56PM ET

Bell System Memorial

Bell System Memorial 07/25/2004 07:06 PM
Bell System Memorial.

Packard Bell EasyNote T

Packard Bell EasyNote T 11/18/2003 11:34 AM
vnunet.com Nov 18 2003 10:29AM ET

Congrats to Bryan Bell on his big
changes

Congrats to Bryan Bell on his big
changes 06/17/2005 04:39 PM

There is no greater joy than making babies.

Add to that starting a new career (or at least chucking the old one) is also right up there with life's greatest challenges.

So good luck to Bryan Bell - we've all been loving his artwork - for years!

After the Bell Outside the Comfort Room

After the Bell Outside the Comfort Room 06/04/2004 01:51 PM
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Wi-Fi phones answer the bell

Wi-Fi phones answer the bell 08/05/2004 08:58 AM
ZDNet Aug 5 2004 11:54AM GMT
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