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...continent's capitals to remote towns in such war-ravaged countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But access to the Internet lags far behind. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, just 3.1% of Africans have access to the Internet, and less than 1% use broadband connections. In vast swathes of the continent, people simply have no access to electricity, let alone the means of communication and of accessing the information available to much of the rest of the world. Bringing those people into the information age will be a critical dimension of strategies to raise...
...Institutes of Health (NIH). Funding for the nih has quadrupled since the 1980s, from $7 billion to $28 billion. "That's why we lead in pharmaceuticals and medical technology." Funding for science has been stagnant-about $5 billion-during that period. "I'd quadruple it and concentrate on nanotechnology, broadband and energy...
...with China Mobile, which will offer NBA highlights to 231 million cell-phone subscribers, and added eight new marketing partners in China, like video-game giant EA Sports and computer maker Tong Fang. This season Chinese fans will be able to watch an NBA game of the week on broadband. "There's nothing little about what we're doing in China," says Ueberroth, who in her 11 years with the league has negotiated television and sponsorship deals in Mexico City, Moscow and New Delhi. (When not selling hoops in faraway places, she visits them, having scuba-dived in Fiji...
...WHITMAN: We've talked about that. As broadband catches up, I think there will come a day where people have videos of the objects, with perhaps a voice-over description. Actually, that...
...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...