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...indoors, and yet there's Sunsilk and Omo." When rising Third World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October, Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator - a basic computer - for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola recently unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion...
According to the April 12 RIAA press release, a file-sharing application known as “i2hub” allows students to upload and download files at very high speeds via Internet2. The press release states that “i2hub” is especially attractive to students because they tend to wrongly believe their illegal file-sharing activities will not be detected in the “closed environment” of the Internet2 network...
...addition to the suits filed against college students, the RIAA press release also stated that new suits were filed against an additional 649 individuals who were illegally distributing copyrighted music via unauthorized peer-to-peer services like KaZaa, LimeWire, and Grokster...
...gathering's final statement condemned terror attacks on Iraqi civilians, but proclaimed that "resisting the occupier is a legitimate right." The speaker of Iraq's new parliament, Hajem al-Hasani, was even more explicit, calling for those fighting the U.S. forces to be given a direct political role via the formation of a political wing...
Many scientists were astonished by how far the South Koreans had come. Only 15 months ago, Hwang's group created a stir as the first--and so far the only--lab to generate human stem cells via SCNT. Back then it had to use 242 eggs before it was able to create a single, viable set of stem cells from a healthy woman. This time it was able to create 11 stem-cell lines using an average 17 eggs each. "The efficiency is exceptionally high--much higher than I would have thought possible," says Doug Melton, a stem-cell researcher...