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It’s packed with stats, and it’s free from the Netsize website. Published by a French billing specialist, this exhaustive industry bible. It is full of analysis and interviews, but the real sauce is a reference section that delivers subscriber info, ARPUs, tariff info and more.
The 9th Edition includes interviews [...]
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I heard the lion coming ten minutes before it arrived. Cymbals crashing, drum pounding, wood blocks clacking, the lion dance sauntered along the beach before the procession veered onto the path past the wetland toward Wang Tong. The musicians took a break and the lion decapitated himself to dry [...]
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CNN has an article on how business for Virtual Private Network (VPN) software companies is booming these days, thanks largely to China and Iran. The article is entitled, “Cashing in on Internet Censorship,” and it discusses how foreign companies are profiting from software that allows circumvention of government [...]
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I have been to factories in China that look like they could be in Denmark. They appear safe and clean, and their workers appear to be wearing the latest safety equipment. I have also been to “factories” in China that are really nothing more than room with people [...]
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Le Républicain Niger noted in March last year that a visit by France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy had been a rather short one – the president spent four hours there, discussing French-Nigerien cooperation. “The Nigeriens must know how much money is paid (…) where the money goes, how it is [...]
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First the ramblings. Feb. 14 marked the start of not only Valentine’s Day, but also the start of Chinese New Year. And for Chinese New Year, it seems that everyone single inhabitant of Beijing goes out and purchases fireworks and firecrackers. At the end of the day it looks [...]
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I happened to be chatting with a couple of friends recently about Homer’s Iliad, after I was sent some links to a couple of interesting recent articles about the war epic by The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins; and I was reminded of the sequence of poetry collections based on this [...]
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And the question to the clues for last week’s Bookworm International Literary Festival mystery author is …
“Who is Peter Hessler?”
Hessler, author of River Town, Oracle Bones, and Country Driving will be speaking at the Bookworm on March 23.
Judging by the number of correct answers we received, this should [...]
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A Facebook user creates a page praising the man who recently crashed an airplane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas, and the social networking Web site takes the page down in less than a day, with the company citing it removes posts that are hateful or [...]
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To dissuade its volatile – and poor — oil region from rearming, Nigeria proposes handing over 10% stakes in its biggest energy industry to “host communities”. Tom Burgis and Martin Sandbu report.
On Commander Ebi’s baseball cap, the logo reads: “Alaska”. Little else connects the 42-year-old – who has spent [...]