| Phillies Fill Hole at 3rd With Feliz
San Francisco Giants third baseman Pedro Feliz fields a ground ball to throw out Arizona Diamondbacks' Conor Jackson during the third inning of their Major League baseball game in this June 7, 2007 file photo, in Phoenix. Feliz agreed to a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, a deal reportedly worth about $8.5 million. (AP Photo/Roy Dabner, File) (Roy Dabner - Associated Press) .
WSJ.com Frees Its Opinions
One person with access to a story behind the pay wall just has to Digg it, and everyone else can get to the story from the Digg link. However, the Journal wants everyone to know they have freed up some content in a different way. The Journal disclosed its newly tweaked opinion policy today: We're rolling out a new Web site for the Journal editorial page offering free access to all of our editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary. It's as close as we'll get to conceding there is such a thing as a free lunch. Which makes us think the editorial board missed the essential detail behind the Digg deal, but no matter. Whether a visitor hits wsj.com/opinion or OpinionJournal.com, they will reach the new page of freed editorial stories and other features. The Journal's opinion pages have always been worth a visit.
3G to be the norm by 2009
While 2004 may turn out to be Europe's year of 3G launches, it won't be the year of 3G take up. At least that seems to be the case according to the latest study from consultancy Analysys. It forecasts 3G users will rise from 600,000 at the end of last year to 27 million by the end of 2005. The market has so far seen only a handful of launches of 3G, in Europe almost exclusively based on the W-CDMA upgrade of GSM networks. Hutchison's 3 networks in countries such as Italy, Sweden and the UK hogged the headlines for some time but now larger operators are launching. Vodafone has chosen to launch 3G with a data-card offering - a service still not offered by 3 - and other major players such as Orange, TIM and T-Mobile have promised 3G handsets in time for the crucial last quarter of the year.
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