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...woefully inadequate party leader. Described by friends as shy and private, Sonia comes across as almost devoid of charisma. She assiduously avoids reporters and, whenever possible, political events. She shows scant comprehension of economics or international affairs, and seems entirely out of touch with the galloping high-tech industry that's driving the economy. She refuses to respond to personal attacks over her foreign birth, or to make any of her own. She has learned a halting Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that...
...business agenda appeals to India's middle class, currently numbering 300 million out of a population of 1 billion, and increasing. And it can legitimately claim to be more tech-savvy than Congress. During this election campaign, the BJP even sent recorded voice messages from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to all 110 million landlines and mobile phones in the country?an appealing display of technological prowess to the 53% of eligible Indian voters (355 million people) under 25 years...
When search giant Google announced on April 1 it was road-testing a new Web-based e-mail service, a lot of tech types assumed it was an April Fool's prank: One gigabyte of storage memory per account, for free? Yahoo charges $10 a year for a tenth of that space. Yet Gmail is for real. It sorts, searches and spam-filters your e-mail. Just two catches: it won't be widely available for up to six months (test accounts are being offered only to employees' friends and families right now). Also, every message is sponsored, often based...
PARIS Parisiennes are flocking to cool concept stores like Colette to snap up the latest high-tech gadgets. One must-have is Panasonic's silver-dollar-size SV-SD85 digital audio player...
After the popularity of the more functional stainless-steel look of the '80s and high-tech thrust of the '90s, it's only natural that the pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed...