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Saturday, 23rd October 2004

The fans' new know-it-all buddy

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Instant Messaging--Baseball
Source: MLB.com
The fans' new know-it-all buddy
"(M)illions of people who love AOL Instant Messenger as well as Major League Baseball now can simply send an IM to screen name 'MLB' -- and be IM'd right back with continuously updated news, scores, stats, multimedia, games, polling and more from MLB.com." Cool!
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Indutrial Robots
Source: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
World Robotics 2004
From the report: "Worldwide investment in industrial robots up 19% in 2003. In first half of 2004, orders for robots were up another 18% to the highest level ever recorded. Worldwide growth in the period 2004-2007 is forecast at an average annual rate of about 7%. Over 600,000 household robots in use--several millions in the next few years."
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Cigarettes--Advertising
Source: Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2002
From the press release: "The Federal Trade Commission's annual report on cigarette sales and advertising shows the six largest cigarette manufacturers spent $12.47 billion on advertising and promotional expenditures in 2002, an 11 percent increase from the $11.22 billion spent in 2001. The industry's total expenditures were the most ever reported to the Commission, even though combined spending on newspaper, magazine, outdoor, point-of-sale, and direct mail advertising declined from the previous year's level. The major manufacturers also reported that they spent $74.2 million in 2002 on advertisements directed to youth or their parents that were intended to reduce youth smoking. The report also noted that the number of cigarettes sold or given away decreased by 3.7 percent from 2001 to 2002, while certain categories of advertising and promotional expenditures increased significantly."
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