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...often suicidal force locked in a 20-year struggle to secure autonomy for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. Today, the Tigers are fighting each other as rival factions clash north of the eastern city of Batticaloa. The violence follows the March split by the Tigers' eastern commander, Colonel Karuna Amman, who broke ranks from the northern leadership?a dangerous move in a group that demands total loyalty to its supreme commander, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. On April 9, Prabhakaran issued a death warrant for Karuna and sent 1,000 of his troops to hunt down the breakaway faction...
...Like smashing the pot when the milk in it is churning into butter, the Sri Lankan President has sabotaged the peace process at a crucial time." V. Karuna, a top Tamil Tiger military commander, on the President's decision last week to suspend Parliament and declare martial...
Ultimately the question is this: Will having all that technology in the house empower us or make us feel uncomfortable? For that I ask Karuna Uppal, a program manager at the Yankee Group in Boston, a consulting firm that has polled Americans to gauge the extent of their desire for connected homes. Surveys show that only 20% would go the distance, buying the kind of house I saw at Cisco. Most, Uppal says, just want technology that allows them to network two or more computers at home and simultaneously access the Net from all of them. "We're seeing more...
Computers are not the only high-tech items in the home that could benefit from a network. Industry analyst Karuna Uppal of The Yankee Group argues that home networking will be even more appealing to householders once the technology is extended to things like TVs, DVD players and stereos, home security systems and central air conditioning. Sun Microsystems is licensing a Java-based technology called Jini that is supposed to offer a no-fuss way to make home entertainment devices and other non-PC appliances part of any home network. Microsoft is working on a competing standard called Universal Plug...
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