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Friday, May 7, 2004
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iPod Shuffle Shakes Up Music Habits: "In essence, these devices function much like customized jukeboxes or personalized radio stations, but don't require a pocketful of coins to feed them or noisy advertisements to support them." (via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Learning how to make an impact -- Comment()
On Tuesday and Wednesday I attended a course on meetings and negotiations. The course was quite tough, including a lot of exercises and feedback. I really enjoyed the course, because many topics were presented in a fresh way, from a global perspective. How to deal with cross-cultural issues in meetings? We had a real cross-cultural group, as the instructor was American, and there were British and German participants in addition to us Finns.
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Estonia Embraces Wi-Fi Wireless Internet Access: "BCC [reports] on one man's efforts to make free 802.11 Wi-Fi wireless Internet access ubiquitous in Estonia. An estimated two-thirds of Estonia is now covered by wireless hotspots..." [Slashdot]
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Quantum computers are a leap closer: "A new breed of faster, more powerful computers based on quantum mechanics may be a step closer to reality, report scientists from Purdue and Duke universities. [...] By linking a pair of tiny "puddles" of a few dozen electrons sandwiched inside a semiconductor, researchers have enabled these two so-called "quantum dots" to become parts of a transistor - the vital switching component in computer chips. Future computers that use quantum dots to store and process digital information might outperform conventional computer circuits because of both the new transistors' smaller size and their potential to solve problems that would take centuries on today's machines."
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