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...wireless Internet technology today, but the Washington-based Strategis Group forecasts that by 2007, 48 million will. That's a key reason Atlanta-based telecom giant BellSouth this summer spent $25 million for an 11% stake in StarMedia. It hopes to use the ailing multilingual Latin American Web portal as a launching pad for services like e-mail on mobile Internet--"for those epic traffic jams we all know so well in Sao Paulo," says BellSouth's Latin American director, Roberto Peon...
David’s accomplishment is the result of an 18-month ongoing project. After creating alkaproject.com, a disease research portal, while in high school, this Greenwich, Conn. native deferred admission to Harvard for a year. In the summer of 2000, he worked at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, and soon afterwards accepted a full time position as product manager at Akamai...
...terrorist threat--depressurizing the aircraft or making drastic maneuvers to keep hijackers off balance; protecting the cockpit at all costs, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the plane; installing a dead bolt on the otherwise flimsy cabin door and eventually developing an impenetrable, high-tech portal that can still open in the event of an accident; and using an emergency crash ax if necessary as a "potential defensive weapon...
...According to ANAD, Yahoo! hosts by far the most pro-anorexia sites of any web portal. Searching for "anorexia" on the home page produces pages of results; some are pro-recovery, but many others promote the cycle of starvation. The portal?s predominance has not gone unnoticed by mental health advocates...
...July 26, citing Yahoo!?s ability to take down any site they choose, as well as the company?s self-described commitment to the safety of adolescents and children, ANAD asked Terry Semel, the portal?s CEO, to remove the pro-anorexia sites from its server. "The fact is that most people who become anorexic first experience symptoms before they are eighteen," says ANAD vice president Christopher Athas. "Yahoo! claims to be interested in the health and welfare of children? Here?s a good chance to prove...