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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...
...that conception more or less works, as do all of the innovations advanced by Kimel and his cast during this production. They’re helped along by tech direction by Dimitris Lagias ’07, a reliable set from Anna E. Harkey ’05 (blemished only by a dorm-issue chest of drawers, out-of-place in a 1940s New Orleans slum), and costuming by Rowena H. Potts ’06 and A. Haven Thompson ’07. I wouldn’t recommend that Harvard attempt the play again any time soon...
Just a few years ago, online radio heads were mainly tech geeks willing to put up with patchy, low-quality sound. These days about 19 million people listen to online radio at least once a week, up from 7 million in 2000, according to Arbitron. Online listenership is growing at an average 43% a year as more people get broadband connections at home and tune in for content that's unavailable or in short supply on commercial stations, from blues to folk to Al Franken's new liberal Air America network, which is broadcast in just a few markets...
...TECH: Blogs go video; touch screens with feeling; a virtual Capri...
...acre Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City on the outskirts of Bombay is a showcase for India's high-tech sector. There, some 8,000 employees of Reliance Group, the country's largest private conglomerate, operate call centers, monitor the company's fiber-optic network and update data services provided to cell-phone subscribers. Many would not associate the gleaming campus with Reliance, which blossomed under legendary founder Dhirubhai Ambani in traditional industries such as textiles and petrochemicals. But Knowledge City is evidence that a new generation of Ambanis is reinventing India's most powerful business enterprise...