No happy endings

Article Abstract:

Indian film producer, Gulshan Kumar, was murdered by gangsters after refusing to pay them 100 million rupees. Other film moguls are now worried that they too will be targeted and some have already received threats. Gangsters have strong links with the film industry because they have often financed them in the past. Some gangsters have directed or acted in them and the plots are thinly-veiled, romanticized versions of their personal life. The industry has had to rely on gangsters' money because they are not allowed to get money from banks or insure their film reels.

Police Protection, Motion picture & video production, Motion Picture Production, Motion Picture and Video Production, Organized Crime, Finance, Crimes against, India, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Movie production, Filmmakers, Movie directors, Movie producers (Persons)

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Dream team? U.S. researchers hook up with NTT

Article Abstract:

A new Internet site created by a collaboration between US researchers and Japanese industry is promising but has created some friction as well. Nippon Telephone & Telegraph and Stanford University's US-Japan Technology Management Center have worked together to create the Japan Window, but the US team complains that the Japanese are not including enough information, especially details on Japanese companies and their plans. NTT got involved due to a multimedia frenzy sweeping Japan, but few computers there are linked to networks.

Internet, International trade, International aspects, Information services, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp., Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems

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