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...Skype has signed up 51 million "registered" users of its software, though probably less than half of those actually use it. Many Skype users call from their PCs, laptops and handheld devices via fixed or wi-fi-accessed broadband lines. "Five years from now, most calls, everywhere in the world, will be routed over the Internet, [via] affordable, cell-phone-like products that are Skype- and Internet-enabled," predicts Skype ceo Niklas Zennström. In these early days of mobile VoIP, analysts find it difficult to quantify its potential impact. But many expect a shakeup. "Can carriers, either wireless...
...Francisco. After eons of number crunching, he hit on the right formula and built a prototype. It isn't very efficient; his device uses 35 times as much energy as an electric fridge to make 1 kg of ice. But its simplicity could yield a killer app in Third World villages, where Williams hopes aid groups will distribute his icemaker as an economic-development tool. He aims to field-test it in Haiti later this year. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Matt Smith/New York
...ultra-modern facilities has been unveiled in 10 American cities, including Seattle, Miami, Detroit, New York City and Los Angeles. The latest and swankiest is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $1.4 billion Terminal D: a sprawling, 185,801-sq-m structure that brings élan to the world's third busiest airport. Used almost exclusively by international passengers, the state-of-the-art, 28-gate terminal is home to carriers like American, British Airways, Korean Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century...
...tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World Health Organization has predicted that one third of the 300 million young men in China will die prematurely of smoking-related ailments. Any measures to dissuade the estimated five million Chinese minors who start smoking each year thus comes as welcome news to health advocates. Less so for the tobacco companies hoping to stake a claim...
...China is the most obvious case in point. Its oil consumption per unit of GDP was double that of the developed-world average in 2004. China, like many Asian countries, tends to subsidize the price of retail energy products. While that means the blow of higher oil prices is softened for Chinese consumers, a heavy toll is taken on the government's finances. Moreover, about a third of China's total exports go to the U.S. That means one of China's largest and most dynamic sectors is very much a levered play on the staying power of the American...