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In some ways Mamani is typical of Latin Internet users. Most are male. Most use a computer chiefly for business purposes. Many get online not from home but from work, school or public machines like those available at Internet cafes and at sites like RCP's. Most are relatively young...
Mamani aside, the Internet has a relatively restricted clientele in Latin America because it takes a lot more money to Net surf there than it does in the U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) charge access fees as high as $50 a month, and calls on traditional phone lines, which are...
Latin America's 4% household penetration of personal computers seems less relevant every day. This year, for example, TV set-top boxes that, for $100 to $200 each, can turn a television set into a computer screen are due to appear in Brazil. Wireless broadband expansion will turn Brazil's...
Harmanjit Singh and Keetha Mock would seem to have just about nothing in common. Singh, 25, is a bachelor, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and a computer programmer for Lucent Technologies in California's Silicon Valley. Mock, 39, is a divorced mother of three in Pontiac...
IMMIGRANTS Silicon Valley and other high-tech employers are bringing into the U.S. 115,000 computer programmers, engineers, scientists and the like each year under H1-B visas (these allow people with special skills that the economy needs to enter the U.S. outside regular immigration quotas). But employers insist they...