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...with reporting by Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi, Chengcheng Jiang / Beijing, Yuki Oda / Tokyo, Shashikant Sawant / Nagpur and Joost Van Egmond / Dakar...
...plasma monolith sat mute, I watched 30 Rock in high-quality video on my laptop through Hulu.com My iPhone doubled as a wireless video device. (My kids were already using it to sample YouTube's vast library of homemade Lego Star Wars animations.) By downloading free apps like Joost and Truveo, I could use its brilliantly lit display--a munchkin plasma screen--to watch last night's Daily Show and Gilmore Girls reruns. Much of what I couldn't get free, I could buy from iTunes and carry with me. I watched Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on the subway...
...lost in choice I made up for in serendipity. I downloaded video podcasts from Cook's Illustrated, watched Rob Corddry's Web comedy Children's Hospital and rediscovered the cult comedy Strangers with Candy (with a pre--Daily Show Stephen Colbert) because it turned up randomly through the Joost app on my iPhone...
There are plenty of other services waiting in the wings--such as Joost and Miro--and there's no telling at this point which business model will win out. It's a case in which whoever wins the game gets to decide what the rules were after the fact. But the answer to our original question is obvious: yes, we have reached the tipping point at which it's perfectly possible to replace your TV with a computer. Presuming two things: one, you don't care about a big screen or bumpin' audio because the Net doesn't deliver those...
...accomplishments. After years of political uncertainty that saw Turkey's economy limp from crisis to crisis, the party's economic reforms and fiscal discipline have fueled growth averaging 7% a year. It strengthened rights for the Kurdish minority and convinced the European Union to launch membership talks last year. Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the European Parliament who chairs an E.U.-Turkey delegation, says the party "has done more for the modernization of Turkey than all the secular parties in previous years. They were willing to open up the system, to challenge the élite...