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...from your living-room couch or send e-mail from a coffee-shop armchair. The trouble is that wi-fi's range only extends a few dozen meters, so once you leave home-or when it's closing time at your neighborhood Starbucks-you're back in the Stone Age. Logging on through commercial wi-fi hotspots can also be cumbersome and expensive. But a Spanish company, FON, wants to change all this. Founded 15 months ago, FON touts itself as the world's largest wi-fi community, claiming 230,000 worldwide users-or Foneros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buenos Dias, Foneros | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...constant dusting during the week made the pistes gorgeous when the sun finally came out on Sunday, as the photo opposite proves). Plus, there's now celeb spotting, even if it is of a peculiarly Davos kind - by which I mean that nobody misses Sharon Stone or Brangelina, but delegates get quite excited if a session has not one but two Nobel economics laureates in the audience. What was that theme again? Who knows: let's catch another panel on the implications of climate change for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Tell It On The Mountain | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...situation...and he felt that the time was right. It’s as simple as that,” Collis said. Houghton’s return to an active post at Corning occurred shortly before the retirement of the Corporation’s then-senior fellow, Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45. Stone’s resignation made Houghton the de facto chairman of the University’s chief governing board as well. Houghton stepped down for the second time as Corning’s CEO in 2005 and as an employee of the company last...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corp. Chief Set To Leave Corning Post | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...Friday night ended that story with a 2-1 loss, before the Crimson rounded back into form on Saturday by edging Clarkson, 4-3.“Everybody’s got to step up and play with a greater sense of urgency,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “We don’t have enough people performing consistently for us on a given evening. There has got to be something extra from the Harvard side.” Earlier this year at Bright Hockey Center, against a highly touted squad from the University...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Third-Period Rally Salvages Weekend Split | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

...When patients come and go from Intrepid, they'll pass a large, black stone sculpture in the courtyard, called "Broken Circle." The circular object is jaggedly linked at its bottom, a symbol for those who will go through life imperfect but complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope for the Casualties of War | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

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