Warner, DC bring Wonder Woman home NOV. 20 | Warner Home Video and DC Comics will release animated DVD premiere Wonder Woman on Feb. 24 (prebook Jan. 20). Similar to this year’s hot comic film Iron Man, Wonder Woman is an “origins story” that follows the creation of the superhero, who starts as Princess Diana.
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Competition heats up to provide the software that powers mobile phones BRACE yourself for disappointment: there may not be a flashy new mobile phone waiting for you under the Christmas tree. On November 14th Nokia, the world's largest maker of such devices, announced that it expects the industry to sell no more than 330m of them in the fourth quarter—about 6m fewer than in the same period last year and 20m fewer than it predicted just a few months ago. Worse, Nokia expects sales in 2009 to drop below this year's level. This would make it only the second year ever in which the global handset market has contracted.
Competition heats up to provide the software that powers mobile phones BRACE yourself for disappointment: there may not be a flashy new mobile phone waiting for you under the Christmas tree. On November 14th Nokia, the world's largest maker of such devices, announced that it expects the industry to sell no more than 330m of them in the fourth quarter—about 6m fewer than in the same period last year and 20m fewer than it predicted just a few months ago. Worse, Nokia expects sales in 2009 to drop below this year's level. This would make it only the second year ever in which the global handset market has contracted.
Confronted by Asia's technological rise and the financial crisis, corporate America is losing its self-confidence. It should not LISTEN to the growing cries of despair coming from some leading business people, and you might imagine that corporate America's competitiveness could be the next victim of the global financial crisis. But Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of GE, the world's largest industrial firm, sees opportunity amid the woe. Companies and countries that really play offence vis-à-vis technology and innovation are going to come out ahead, he said this week at an event in New York to present GE's coming innovations in health-care technology. With those words, he touched on a debate that has been heating up for many months. Even before the financial crunch began, many businessmen were worried that America was losing its lead in innovation to India and China. They were particularly upset that Asian rivals had been investing with more gusto in teaching young people mathematics and science, and in advanced scientific research. America's National Academy of Engineering even issued a report last year, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, arguing that America's economic and strategic security was in question because of lack of investment.
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DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business November 21, 2008 The Rocker DVD and Blu-ray
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24: Redemption premiere Fox held a New York City premiere for 24: Redemption with cast and crew on Nov. 19. An extended cut of the feature-length movie streets Nov. 25.
TV legends for Studio One Koch Vision and The Archive of American Television celebrated the DVD release of Studio One Anthology on Nov. 7 at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood, Calif.
Having a Hell of a time Universal held a DVD and Blu-ray release party for Hellboy II: The Golden Army with cast and crew on Nov. 11 at Element in Hollywood, Calif.
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