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DECEMBER
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David
G. Mclntyre - Black Star for Asiaweek.
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Wired
Executive
Bryan
Low - EMI Music Asia's Vice President of New Media
Zap! Another alien blown to bits. Shooting down interplanetary vermin —
of the arcade variety at least — has become one of Bryan Low's specialties
of late. The EMI Music Asia new media vice president can often be found
engaged in a game of Galaxian on his Palm Pilot while waiting in the airport.
Given that the Hong Kong-based Low spends about half of every month traveling
around the region, there's plenty of opportunity to hone his top-gun reflexes.
"I get on a plane more often than the MTR [subway] these days," Low says.
EMI
is one of the first record labels to move into the sale of music online,
and Low is charged with making it happen in Asia. He has to help his company
figure out what consumers want, what they really, really want (to paraphrase
EMI artists the Spice Girls) from a major record label in the Internet age.
Galaxian aside, tech is not just a diversion or a business to Low. It's
also a lifeline. The 40-year-old father of two uses wired and wireless devices
to stay connected to his family ("they keep me centered," he says), to contact
friends and relatives in Singapore where he was born and raised, and to
reach contacts in the U.S., where he went to college. "It's great that with
technology, we can be global citizens today," he says. Low's personal music
tastes are international, too, ranging from British rocker Robbie Williams
to Asian pop divas Sandy Lam and Faye Wong. Low keeps in touch.
| E-mails
per day: 40-60 |
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Favorite software application/Internet utility:
The "shut down" command on Microsoft Office — "so I can go home" |
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Personal Digital Assistants: Palm
Vx, Toshiba PortEgE laptop PC, Nokia 8210 mobile phone |
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Favorite video game: Galaxian
for the Palm (high score: over 10,000 points) |
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Preferred analog activity:
Going to the beach with the family |
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Bookmarks: Recording industry
news sites Billboard.com, Launch.com, Celebsites.com, ETonline.com
and digital music e-tailer MP3.com |
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Electronic Purchase: A week in a cabin at the ski-resort town
of Lake Tahoe, California. "The kids want to see snow. It no longer
works to tell them to look in the 'fridge." |
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