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...first international edition in the same language as the review’s flagship. The launch of the new edition comes less than a year after Harvard Business School opened the India Research Center in Mumbai—joining centers in Buenos Aires, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, Calif. Harvard’s heightened focus on India comes as the world’s second most populous country experiences rapid growth. Its real gross domestic product—a common measure of the size of a country’s economy—expanded at a 7.6 percent...
...making voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit. Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59 - who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives - through phone calls to health clinics, fast...
...Netroots phenomenon began in 1998 when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs circulated an online petition demanding that Congress, in their phrase, "move on"--that is, stop trying to impeach President Clinton. Thus was born MoveOn.org which now has 3.2 million members. Most of the bloggers who have become Netroots leaders can trace their influence back only a couple of years, to 2003 and '04, when the growth of partisan liberal online activism was spurred by a strain of antiwar, anti-Bush fervor and frustration with congressional Democrats for not standing up to the President. Blogs like Daily Kos and MyDD grew...
...Leaf Light Resembling Uri Geller's toothbrush more than anything arboreal, Swiss-born Yves Béhar's Leaf Light pairs Silicon Valley technology with candlelike simplicity. An iPod-style scrolling dimmer controls the LED's range, from cozy glow to clear white, and heat is dissipated by tiny holes, or "chimneys." www.hermanmiller.com
Ever since the world's geeks started downloading episodes of Star Trek to their PCs, Hollywood and Silicon Valley execs have been preparing for the day when the world's nontechies will also get their movie fixes (legally) online. That day took a step closer to reality last week, when Apple announced it would sell movie downloads through its iTunes store. The move raised the prospect that downloading flicks will take off among folks who don't know or care what a d-RAM chip is (that's pretty much everyone). Apple, after all, has sold more than 1.5 billion...