Outside the Staples Center, big white boards with Jackson's photograph and "1958-2009" had been set up, some of them for fans to write on and some of them for photo ops, like the backdrops that corporate sponsors install at red-carpet and promotional events.
Mobile devices equipped with a tiny Swiftcomm "@airpointer" (basically a pocket-size network router) will be able to connect to the wireless network and stay connected through town and country once Mitsubishi (or any of its corporate partners) installs the small Swiftcomm antennae and base stations nationwide.
(In Work mode, your corporate overlords can install their own wallpaper, offer their own private app stores and even disable your camera).
RAISING THE ROOF -- Following the lead of "The Producers," now selling $480 tickets, several Broadway theaters will be renovated, to install corporate sky boxes.
Toshinori Kobayashi, a planner in the ministry's machinery and information bureau, likens the corporate scramble to install computer networks to the well-known Japanese phenomenon of "the piano in the housing complex".
It is true that in 2002, Mr. Thompson was successful in his effort to install a corporate lawyer, Harold O. Levy, as chancellor, despite Mr. Giuliani's loud opposition.
In one notable case, in 2005, the accounting firm KPMG paid a $456 million fine, admitted to wrongdoing and agreed to install a corporate monitor for its work with abusive tax shelters.
In the middle of this stretch stands the Renaissance Centre, a giant tower of office, hotel and retail space that was revived after GM, one of the three big carmakers, decided in 1996 to buy it and install its corporate headquarters there.
"I tell my corporate folks, 'Don't install a wireless network.
They're already trying to force through a trade deal kept secret from the public that would subvert what remains of democracy and install global corporate rule.
