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Though Howard is a longtime global-warming doubter, ordinary Australians are less skeptical. The country has been hit hard by a brutal, multi-year drought that has devastated agriculture and put its biggest cities under water restrictions. Australians have begun to connect water fears to global warming, a bad sign for Howard, whose residence has been picketed by protesters dressed as polar bears. A recent poll of voters in several closely contested seats found that 73% said climate change would have a "strong influence" on the way they vote. "The water shortages have really rocketed climate change to a significant...
...behind Moscow's first connection to cable TV and high-speed Internet? He's Frank Baker, 73, a U.S. naval officer in the Korean War. Baker is president of a small New York City venture-capital firm, Andersen Group, that plans to close a $40 million deal to purchase 51% of ComCor-TV (CCTV), a Moscow broadband provider, in the fall. CCTV has wired some 130,000 dwellings in the city and plans to connect 70,000 more in the upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet...
...billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype (now part of eBay) to allow Skype software users to call anywhere from hot spots through headset-equipped laptops. If just some of Skype's 66 million registered users connect via the Cloud instead of a mobile network, mobile operators will lose revenue. The Cloud could siphon off even more mobile dollars next year when handset giants Nokia and Motorola start selling dual-mode phones that let users call via the Net or mobile networks, without Skype's software...
...huge chunk of the market is still up for grabs: namely, the 40 million-plus homes using dial-up to connect. For some of these users, a 56K modem is plenty. But budding BPL providers are betting that a significant number of consumers really do want broadband service but are simply holding out for a better offer...
...that sophomore defender Kelli Okuji was able to clear off the line. The final 10 minutes of the match saw Harvard put the Penn defense under constant pressure for the first time. The Crimson served a lot of crosses into the box, but none of them were able to connect with a Harvard player. The best work of the afternoon came from the Crimson’s freshmen. Harvard looked most dangerous when Katherine Sheeleigh, Kerry Kartsonis, and Gina Wideroff combined with some clever link-up play. While those three freshmen will be key components of next year?...