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...sports fans working abroad have found a new way to connect with colleagues Stateside: through online office betting pools. An estimated 3 million people worldwide entered online pools for last month's NCAA basketball tournament, says the sports gaming site Sandbox.com Dozens of sites offer private-pool areas for everything from hockey to rotisserie baseball. No one knows how many fans living abroad participate, but anecdotal evidence suggests plenty do, with many workers keeping in touch through pools that go back years. "I get e-mails from people overseas who carry on friendships through our site," says Colin Briosi...
...Rudenstine said he is looking forward to the "intellectually stimulating" opportunities that will be provided by his new job, which will connect art and higher education...
...getting you down, nothing beats going online to catch a better wave. Live radio on the Internet allows listeners to indulge their passions for Icelandic pop, the sports of other nations or The Archers, Britain's long-running radio soap opera - and almost nothing else can connect you so instantly, even dramatically, with the far-flung corners of the real world. The Internet, says Ken Mueller, curator of radio for the Museum of Television and Radio, in New York City, "allows you to find those niche formats that may not be, or most likely are not, commercially viable in most...
...could conceivably jam thousands of these micromirrors into a soccer ball and have enough capacity to connect everyone on the planet simultaneously to everyone else without the time and expense of converting the light to electronic impulses and back again--as today's networks require. Kick that around. Declares Bell Labs scientist David Bishop, who led the development team: "You will either have a technology that does this, or you will have a going-out-of-business sale...
...broadband revolution promised to bring every household fast Internet access along with video-on-demand, interactive TV and the ability to flash Libraries of Congress around the world at whim. Amazingly, the sellers of this dream overlooked the fact that many homes and offices connect to the 21st century fiber network with twisted-pair copper wires--late 19th century tech. These could hardly keep up with the bandwidth demands of the Napster...