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...services, has surprisingly few improvements designed for individuals. It targets the corporate market--teams of office workers sharing documents, accessing corporate databases and filling out electronic forms. If you do most of your computing work on your own, save your cash. For the home or small-business user, there are only two components worth buying, each available individually...
...Starbucks is betting that what is good for its managers will be good for a lot of other mobile professionals. Suzie Gruber, 37, a user-interface consultant for a company that is developing applications for the construction industry, says she spends six hours a week at Starbucks. She's constantly on the road meeting with clients, and whenever she needs to go online she just drops into the nearest Starbucks anywhere between Los Angeles and San Francisco. "I'm a lot more efficient now," she says, since she can reply to e-mails during the day instead of waiting until...
...basis of any relationship, online or otherwise, should be honesty. Just level with your online acquaintances. And if honesty just isn’t your thing, you can always be evasive. As Jill, a Friendster user since August 2003 says, “I have a ‘friend’ that I just never add. I keep him waiting on the request list while I approve other new people who I actually like. Maybe he’ll get the message when my friend count keeps increasing without him.” Don’t let your...
...Nigeria ineligible for assistance. If a country receives HIPC status it must then agree to strict macroeconomic conditions—such as limits on government spending—which are intended to keep deficits low and inflation down. In practice, however, these constraints often force indebted nations to impose user fees on health and education services, making them inaccessible for many citizens. Perhaps the most glaring failure of the HIPC Initiative is that HIPC nations will still end up paying 2/3 of their original debt service...
...high school senior project, Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 gave a little gift to the world’s MP3 addicts. As students at Phillips Exeter Academy, Zuckerberg and friend Adam D’Angelo created an MP3 player that would keep track of every song the user played on a computer and, as it learned what the user liked, would begin to make playlists...