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...concerned is the government that a terrorist could smuggle nuclear material into the U.S.? Concerned enough that the U.S. Customs Service is quietly installing new technology to better detect radiation at mail facilities, airports, seaports, rail yards and across the U.S. border. The new "radiation-portal-detection systems," costing $100,000 to $150,000 apiece, will supplement current technology, which consists of radiation "pagers" worn on the belts of customs personnel. Containers and vehicles will pass through the devices, which can pick up a wider variety of radioactive emissions than the pagers, from weapons-grade plutonium to medical waste that...
...three sites are also finding new sources of nonadvertising revenue, such as short-messaging services (SMS) for mobile phones. When subscribers sign up for one of the portals, they submit their cell-phone number. They are then offered a range of extras, such as games, chat, ring tones and picture downloads. The phone operators reap a commission on the charge for each service and pass the rest of the revenue on to the portal. Chang argues that this business, already successful, has plenty of room to grow: "SMS penetration is only about 10 million out of 190 million mobile subscribers...
...crystal and other high-end items from the likes of Dior, DKNY, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton. GLOSS.COM, a beauty supersite selling Chanel, Stila and eight other major brands, is easy to navigate and pools all your purchases into a single shopping cart. Amazon.com just introduced a similar portal for apparel, so you can hop from, say, Eddie Bauer to Nordstrom to Guess but check out only once...
BEST ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE Eatonweb Portal portal.eatonweb.com A great way to enter the wild, wonderful world of blogs: online diaries exploring everything from comic books to medicine, posted by articulate, occasionally obsessive Web travelers. Browse by category (the site counts 88 business-related blogs), or submit one of your...
...from lawsuits. Yet taking the easy way out and quietly letting governments restrict what the service’s users can see and hear fundamentally undermines the values of democracy even as it invites future abuse and interference. It is frightening to see the silence with which the web portal has caved to such pressure. Even as it protects its bottom line, Google could fight these restrictions. For instance, when results are not displayed because of the censorship, Google could warn users that the results of their searches are being restricted by French and German...