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...Isle of Man is a quirky sort of place with its tailless cats and Celtic traditions coexisting amiably with its sophisticated financial life and cutting-edge technology. Next month the island will launch Europe's first third-generation mobile phone network, allowing users to surf the Internet and download video clips while on the move. Yet the Fairy Bridge, on the highway south of Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones...
There was nothing remotely like the Ramones' pile-driver attack. Nothing fancy, no filigrees or solos. Johnny's guitar emerging from the Marshall stacks behind him was like a storm-surf breaking on your face. You could feel the pressure on your chest, just like you could feel Dee Dee's down-picked tonic eighth notes (no one ever strummed in the Ramones) in your stomach and bowels. Tommy's drums were metronomic, massive with almost no fills, just sledgehammer kick and snare...
Transporting the chickens by plane would work, but the freight bill would push the price of a three-piece dinner into the realm of surf and turf. After two hours of e-mail, phone and fax consultations, Youstin has a solution: vacuum-pack the chicken, for a small additional cost, and keep it fresh enough to survive the extra four days of shipping. From the corporate headquarters, Youstin can quickly access the company's experts and key decision makers to craft a timely fix. Explains her boss, international COO Anthony Pavese: "We are ground zero. We have centralized the information...
...place and his fashion sense is more eager-intern than Neuromancer. But Eyestrain is as crafty as the iconic hacker when he jacks in as a dark-side programmer jamming code. The Philippines has a vast underworld of hackers, rooting through the Internet's depths while typical Web users surf the surface. But most of them, like Eyestrain, aren't so much malicious as stifled. They have skills, some creative flair and a streak of cybercourage. And the main reason that hacker gangs like the Locusts and the Abu Sayaff Boyz (unrelated to the terrorist group) battle for control...
...Perhaps nowhere has technology made a more dramatic impact: Nemeth marvels that his friends in Hungary are "miles ahead of me in their familiarity with technology: they know how to surf the Web on their mobile phones and download all the music files they want. It's truly breaking down barriers." Czech teenagers today are as adept with wap phones and Sony PlayStations as their Western counterparts. Meanwhile, gearheads like Lubos Lavicka, a 36-year-old from Broumov in the Czech Republic, find that getting a job in Western Europe has never been easier, or more lucrative. His starting salary...