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...reading this in Africa, you're one of a few who can. With just 50 million Web users across the continent, as few as 5% of Africans access the Internet, a percentage far lower than in Asia, Europe or the Americas. In only a handful of African countries do more than 1% of the population use broadband services. (Among OECD countries, broadband penetration averages 18%.) And the services that exist don't come cheap. Broadband costs more in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world: consumers in the region spent an average of $366 each month for speedier...
...left much of Africa reliant on satellites for its Web access. But they are costly to use and offer limited capacity. O3b - short for the "other 3 billion" around the world who are unable to tap into the Web - plans to deploy spacecraft more cheaply by orbiting them at lower altitudes than traditional satellites. That should also speed up connections...
...Sunday, dominating the competition in a decisive win at the MIT Invite.The B-division team of junior skipper Drew Robb and junior crew Michelle Konstadt won five of their seven races, recording second- and third-place finishes in the other two. Their cumulative score of 10 was 15 points lower than the rest of the field.Meanwhile, their sophomore A-division counterparts, skipper Teddy Himler and crew Quincy Bock, also sailed to victory, finishing in the top four in every race with two wins.“We had some great finishes, but those were punctuated with some early...
...Harvard has been revamping its fundraising operations to emphasize cross-school gifts and support less wealthy schools such as the Harvard School of Public Health and the Divinity School. The shift has at times ruffled feathers at wealthier schools like the FAS amid concern the new priorities may lower their school’s take...
...force. So when Ray reluctantly takes the job of investigating the crime, his sleuthing leads to evidence of an inside job, and forces him into conflict with one or two bad apples in the Tierney brood. With its twisty plot that has Ray trekking through the lower depths of Harlem and Brooklyn, and the higher depths of cop corruption, this movie (in theaters Oct. 24) should have been way better than it is; it lurches between the numbingly banal and the laughably awful...