technology: usage and abusage. By WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff
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A group of Bangladeshi expatriates think they have found one that could work - a plan to bring affordable Internet access to their homeland through a blend of high-end wireless technology and social entrepreneurship. Bringing Bangladesh into the Internet age - International Herald Tribune
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A $200 iPhone? More like $2,000-$5,000 after charges. You can?t blame them for trying to make some money while they still can, because that scraping sound is the rats trying to secure stowage on a sinking ship. Vodafone NZ Charges "Like a Wounded Bull" For iPhone 3G - ReadWriteWeb
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But beyond the practical there?s an emotional element too, and perhaps the challenge of?old? media is to capture some of these emotional connections?newspapers strewn around in Starbucks, free, throwaway radios for listening to commentary at big games?in order to inject fresh life into the medium.
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Just downloaded and installed the new beta version of Skype, and am now removing it. Why? Try to download a different version of Skype after the beta, and you?re confronted with a (rather creepy) questionnaire as they try to find out why you?re doing what you?re doing.
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Still, I held out hope the Toughbook would be up to it. This, by the way, is what Panasonic say at the bottom of the page on spillage: Furthermore, if you spill coffee, soft drinks, or similar liquids on the computer, the keyboard or other parts of the unit may become stained.
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Microsoft?s FolderShare, a folder synchronizing tool that I?ve recommended in previous columns, is going off the air for up to three days in the middle of the week?for server upgrades?: FolderShare will be offline for a little while (48-72 hours) next week for some server upgrades.
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But scroll down to below the create my account button and you?ll see this: By registering for Yaari and agreeing to the Terms of Use, you authorize Yaari to send an email notification to all the contacts listed in the address book of the email address you provide during registration.
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First there was Twitter, where it would talk in the first person about what it was up to (and now answer questions directly), and now there?s an AI presence in Second Life, where it can talk intelligently to Second Lifers about what it?s doing.
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The BBC reports that the study, by Albert-László Barabási and two others, shows we are much more predictable in our movements than we might think: The whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements.
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