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...says. Perminova is a model and an economics student at Moscow State University. Throughout our two-hour breakfast, she alternately serves as waitress - doling out espressos, porridge, and pastries stuffed with black caviar - and as significant other, sampling the kiwi fruit and playing on her laptop. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...chest. The MNU takes vigilante action against law-breaking outsiders, Mungun-Erdene says, mainly Chinese. When I ask what kind of action, he replies, "Whatever it takes so that they don't live here." At other times, though, he comes across as an overzealous adolescent. He opens his laptop to show photos of his neo-Nazi buddies. But beside the folders entitled "Guns" and "Skinheads" are others with names like "My Car" and "Mom in Japan...
...manufacturers, at the risk of alienating their heavyweight customers, are breaking out of the box by slapping their logos on innovative new products. Asustek was mainly a little-known maker of computer circuit boards and graphics cards until 2007, when it unveiled the Eee PC, a lightweight miniature laptop costing less than $300. These wi-fi-equipped netbooks were enthusiastically accepted by an increasingly bargain-conscious public. Sales are soaring this year even as overall PC sales decline during the recession; research firm DisplaySearch predicts 1 in 4 laptops sold this year will be a netbook. This resounding success vaulted...
...were able to somehow evade the security measures by smuggling in bomb materials. On Saturday, a police spokesman said that one bag carrying the July 17 bomb materials had set off a metal detector but that security guards let it through after the owner said it was just a laptop computer. Spotty enforcement, it appears, is just as common as stringent checks at Jakarta hotels. Just hours after the Friday morning bombings, for instance, another luxury hotel in Jakarta performed a cursory check of an approaching taxi, not even bothering to use a metal-detector wand or mirror to check...
...tethering. Use your iPhone like a wireless modem and connect a laptop to it. Never pay for wi-fi at a hotel again! At least, that's the promise of this technology. In reality, we have no idea what U.S. cellular partner AT&T will charge users; AT&T hasn't even said yet when it will open its network to this feature...