TOKYO MEDIA PROJECT TO HOST 3G TELESEMINAR - 2004-01-23
Slots are still available for the "Japan Mobile Goes Global" teleseminar (Th., Feb. 5, 15:00 UTC), shaping up to be one of this quarter's top intelligence events direct from Japan.

New developments on Japan's Mobinet have proven pundits' predictions to be radically wrong, as major CDMA 1X and W-CDMA carriers KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, and Vodafone accelerate deployment of their third-generation mobile services. New 3G handsets, from the likes of Sharp, Toshiba, NEC, and Panasonic, as well as new high speed data services, like bar-code-reading BREW applets, mobile TV, and Macromedi (R) Flash(TM) animation, are proving irresistible as Japanese consumers migrate to 3G
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Charles Town Races & Slots plans $25 million expansion - 2004-01-23
Having just completed a $54 million development last year that included new gaming areas and food service areas, Charles Town Races & Slots is planning an additional $25 million expansion to give the complex more parking, potential new gaming areas and new offices.

Local officials said that when they attended a grand opening for the $54 million expansion last November, they were told that the racing facility was running out of parking space.

Under the planned $25 million expansion, the four-story parking garage will be extended along Fifth Avenue toward the barn area, track President Jim Buchanan said Wednesday.
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