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George Polk has rattled cell-phone carriers once before. The American, 42, runs a network of wi-fi hot spots called the Cloud that allows laptop and gadget users to surf the Web for around $8.50 an hour or $17 a month at 7,500 cafés, hotels, pubs, airports and other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build...
...casual affairs, held in a small room in the basement of Adams House. The 12 students who attended—chosen by audition from a pool of 30 candidates—sat listening to their peers’ performances while casually taking notes of their own on notebooks and laptop computers. Iconis accompanied each soloist on the keyboard. Students, eager to experiment with Iconis’s music, were encouraged to bring their own interpretations to his pieces. Occasionally, Iconis stopped to give suggestions or to push for further experimentation. “My favorite thing is to be able...
...Girl Talk is like the epitome of the death of the DJ at the hands of technology...he creates these soulless, terrible-sounding mixes. When he performs, he pretty much just hits play on his laptop and then dances around, and people give him props for being...
...have the Yankees-logo toilet paper or the catcher’s mitt phone, just kill the bottle. 4. If you’ve done the following movie-moments at a baseball game: Take one if you ate a hotdog, two if you worked on your laptop, and three if you jumped the outfield fence. Four if it was the Green Monster. 5. Take an extra shot if your glass has the Sox logo on it. 6. Cheers to every time Ben picks the Sox over Lindsey. We know where his true love lies...
...Taiwan-based laptop manufacturer Quanta will begin by turning out 44,000 units a week at a recently expanded factory in Changshu, northwest of Shanghai. Negroponte said some 300,000 orders have been booked so far. The goal is to be turning out a million laptops a month by mid-2008. That avalanche, the critics will say, better start rolling soon. But Negroponte doesn't seem to mind the doubters. Four years ago, he ran into Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell computer makers at the World Economic Forum and told him - again - about his concept for making inexpensive...