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...Clearly, the Communist Party isn't alone in using the internet to court support in Vietnamese cyberspace - in the past year, Vietnamese dissidents opposed to one-party rule have been communicating through Skype and recruiting via text message and voice-over-Internet chat rooms. And exiled Vietnamese advocacy groups have been sending bulk e-mail messages to accounts with Vietnamese-sounding names. These e-mails typically decry government corruption and urge ordinary citizens to rise up and demand multi-party elections...
...allowing many young Iraqis to communicate with one another and with the rest of the world. Arabic forums and bulletin boards are teeming with Iraqis looking for friendship-and perhaps a little harmless flirtation. Those who can afford their own computers and webcams can have face-to-face conversations. Skype, the popular Internet phone service, has more than 40,000 users in Iraq...
...lucky few, an online encounter can be the start of a beautiful relationship. Mohammed Subhi, a Baghdad security guard, met Hester Terpstra, a Dutch native, on Skype. Terpstra had logged on from Alesund, Norway, where she works as a driving-school instructor. "I was just looking to have a conversation with somebody from a different part of the world," she says. "But from the start, I sensed that Mohammed and I had a special bond." The two kept up their online friendship for several months before it developed into something deeper. They then arranged to meet in Damascus. Any trepidation...
...corporate and personal income. These young democracies also benefited from advantages shared by the region as a whole, including enviable political stability, social cohesion and a sound regulatory environment. Equally key, they boasted high levels of education and innovation, giving rise to outfits like the Internet telephone company Skype, which was founded by a Dane and a Swede and was based on computer code written by Estonians. Established multinationals, meanwhile, such as Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ikea, with their global customer networks, strengthened the region's links to the outside world. And never underestimate the dumb luck...
...Juiced for WebTV The coming Joost revolution, led by Skype veterans Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may move TV to the Internet, but that is no reason to call Microsoft's popular WebTV service, which does the opposite, a dud [March 12]. Of Joost, Jeremy Caplan said, "Simplicity is the magic," but nothing is simpler than WebTV. Sure, Microsoft dropped the ball by discontinuing WebTV. But we old-timers - I am almost 83 - love it. Lloyd Saletan, NEW YORK CITY...