With DSL prices like these, it’s no wonder Borat left Kazakhstan behind1. A new report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (PDF) paints a grim picture of Internet access in Kazakhstan and shows how difficult life can be for those in poor and authoritarian countries who want to join the worldwide community of Internet users.
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Reuters - Members of the family that controls
Dow Jones & Co. Inc. jostled over their positions on News
Corp.'s $5 billion bid on Friday, as a dark horse rival
prepared a revised proposal.
A new company is Arizona has a vision of a magnetically levitated wind turbine that can generate one gigawatt of energy (enough to power 500,000 homes).
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While they may not boast quite the same name recognition as Asus’s line of Lamborghini-branded laptops, the company’s new Giles Deacon-designed laptops look like they should attract their fair share of attention nonetheless. Dubbed “Giles for Intel,” the limited edition laptops are based on Asus’s standard W5 model, with the notable addition of a custom-designed print on the lid, available in your choice of “male” or “female” designs. Otherwise, the laptops appear to be unchanged from the run-of-the-mill model, with all the usual Centrino Duo goods on the inside, along with a 12-inch display, a 160GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and super-multi DVD/RW drive. Look for these exclusively at Selfridges stores in the UK, where they’ll set you back a hefty £1,499 apiece (or just over $3,000).
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AP - Getting lost is getting rarer nowadays, and any yahoo with a keyboard or a GPS device can find precise directions or pinpoint the location of an out-of-town landmark.
TechWeb - New data center appliance houses network, server, and storage resources as virtual services.
TechWeb - Company leaders outline progress, promise more resources, in software-plus-services push.
A federal judge denied on Friday a request from a small Virginia company to stop eBay from using its “Buy It Now” feature, which allows shoppers to purchase items at a fixed price.
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