Blogs and podcasts are so 2005. In 2006, it's going to be all about vlogs, mobisodes, and cell phones that can swipe credit cards. Tech expert Omar Wasow explained the biggest technology trends predicted for next year:Expansion of Wireless Internet AccessWireless Internet access will become more and more pervasive. We have WiFi hot spots, then hot zones. But this year, entire cities — including San Francisco and Philadelphia — will be entire urban zones of wireless Internet access. More cities will follow as new technologies make this possible. One technology is called Edge, which uses the next generation of WiFi, called WIMAX. Some of this access will be free; other places you may need to pay a small monthly fee. ...
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 Iraqi ship ploughs on in choppy waters |
If Iraq was a ship one might be saying at this stage: "Unsteady as she goes."The ship of the Iraqi state has a course set for constitutional government, leading, it is hoped, to stable and democratic rule in a unified country. Whether it will reach that destination is still unclear, though what is certain is that the waters are rough. The biggest plus as one looks ahead is that elections for the new assembly - the Council of Representatives as it is to be called - produced a 70% turnout with no boycott by the Sunnis. The American view is that elections are like a magic wand and produce their own beneficial effect. This may be so but elections have to produce viable governments. An election in El Salvador in 1982 went off well in terms of numbers but the civil war there went on for another decade. If it took 10 years to pacify Iraq, it might not be so bad in terms of time historically, but in terms of casualties it would be tragic. ...
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Editor - 08:59:00 12-29-05
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| Insurgents slay 11 Shiite family members in Iraq U.S. airstrike leaves 10 suspects dead; bomber in police uniform kills 4 |
Six assailants broke into a house just south of Baghdad on Thursday and killed 11 members of the same Shiite family by slitting their throats, police said.Meantime, the U.S. military said U.S. fighter jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on a village in northern Iraq, killing 10 Iraqis they suspected of planting explosive devices on a nearby road.In Baghdad, a suicide bomber, wearing a police uniform, killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded five at checkpoint close to the interior ministry, police said. “He was wearing an explosive belt. He approached the checkpoint as police cars were entering the ministry, then he blew himself up,” a police source said....
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| China Says 300M Drink Unsafe Water |
About 300 million people living in China's vast countryside drink unsafe water tainted by chemicals and other contaminants, the government said Thursday in its latest acknowledgment of mounting risks from widespread pollution. The most common threat to water, after drought, is chemical pollutants and other harmful substances that contaminate drinking supplies for 190 million people, state media quoted E Jingping, a vice minister for water resources, as saying. The report follows recent chemical spills in the northeast and south of the country that temporarily spoiled water supplies for millions of people and highlighted the severity of the pollution crisis. The problems are not limited to the countryside. About 90 percent of China's cities have polluted ground water, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing a recent nationwide survey. ...
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| Bomber kills 3 at W.Bank checkpoint |
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up when Israeli troops tried to search him at a roadblock in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing an Israeli soldier and two other Palestinians. A passenger who had unwittingly shared the same taxi as the bomber said soldiers stopped the car at an impromptu roadblock near the city of Tulkarm and asked young men to get out. "The man got out slowly, closed his jacket and blew himself up," said Nafez Shahin, 48. The army said the roadblock had been set up in response to intelligence warnings that a bomber was heading to Israel to strike during the current Hanukkah holiday....
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| Audit: Many September 11 loans went to non-victims |
In a program to help businesses after September 11, a high percentage of government-backed loans went to recipients who appeared to be unqualified -- some of them unaware they were receiving terrorism-recovery money, investigators report.The Small Business Administration's inspector general said Wednesday that agency officials were at fault for telling lenders in the program that their determinations would not be questioned.The inspector general concluded that only nine loan recipients in the 59 cases sampled appeared to be qualified for disaster loans.Lenders who handed out billions of dollars in loans failed -- 85 percent of the time -- to document that recipients were actually hurt by the terrorism attacks and therefore eligible for the aid under the law, the report found....
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/29/sept.11.laxloans.ap/index.html?section=cnn_us
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