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...used to have," says Dmitri Furman, 63, an intellectual from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Europe. In the 1990s, Furman wrote critical commentaries about politics and society for leading Russian newspapers. Today, no newspaper will take his pieces, but he sees some hopeful signs. "The network of liberal dissent in Russia is powerful," he says. "It is really beginning to realize how hopeless the existing regime is. It is also exhausting its own illusions, about Western help in particular...
...technologies throwing everything into a tizz are called wi-fi and WiMax. Those names are familiar to anyone who's used their laptop to access the Internet wirelessly at a public place equipped with a "hot spot." Although a version of the more powerful, farther-reaching WiMax wireless network that works seamlessly with handheld devices probably won't be ready until next year, handsetmakers are already giddy at the prospect. With WiMax's roots in the Internet, the reasoning goes, mobile networks based on that technology will be able to deliver the multimedia goods to mobile-phone customers better than...
...cellular carriers are far less enthusiastic. They see WiMax as a threat to the 3G cellular networks they have invested in so heavily. For now, many operators are settling for relatively small software upgrades that boost the speed of 3G networks at far less cost than building a new WiMax network. But some operators acknowledge that these enhancements will probably not be powerful enough to compete with mobile WiMax, and few seem to have a strategy beyond that. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive of Orange, the France Telecom?owned mobile carrier, says only that Orange "will be making decisions over...
...state clearly whether a product contains any one of those main eight culprits. But significant difficulties-not necessarily medical-remain. A food allergy diagnosis has a tremendous impact on the psychological wellbeing of the entire family, says Anne Mu?oz-Furlong, founder and CEO of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN), a nonprofit patient advocacy group...
...interrupted again yesterday. Eleven Riverview dorms in Winthrop also had spotty Internet access over the weekend, according to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Computer Services’ Web site. “The cause of the interruptions in both Mather and Winthrop were hardware failure for network devices in both areas,” Supervisor of Residential Computing for FAS Computer Services Erin Nettifee wrote in an e-mail. The specific cause of the hardware failure was unknown. “We have a large network, so devices can fail. We do also have some older network devices...