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Every screen a multi-touch computer
“The idea that there should be a screen that’s not a computer, we’ll laugh at that in two years.
“Every screen should be touch, every screen should be a computer and should be able to see out as well as see in. That is the way the world is heading [and] those screens are going to be big, small, wall-sized and desk-sized.”
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House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet
House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet.
The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) more control over the governance of the Internet.
It’s an unpopular idea with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress, and officials with the Obama administration have also criticized it.
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America's Most Innovative Neighborhood: 15 Square Miles In New Mexico, Population: 0
CITE will intentionally be an imperfect place, one where everything won’t always work properly, where researchers will find more frustration than they ever do in a lab. CITE will not be a “smart” city in the desert, as many planners and engineers may dream of constructing from scratch. “We’re a dumb city,” Brumley says, “and we bring smart technology to the dumb city, or the ‘legacy’ city, to see how its IQ can be elevated. If you think of it that way, 99.9 percent of all American cities are dumb—they’re all legacy.”
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JPMorgan: we can extract more from African wallets
prepaidafrica: JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) is pushing transaction banking in Africa. John Coulter, senior country officer for sub-Saharan Africa, told the Reuters Africa Investment Summit, “We have got the capital and the capability as a bank to extract more from an African wallet.”
Oh good, because extracting more from African wallets is definitely the way to help the people of Africa.
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Robert Reich: Why the Buffett Rule Sets the Bar Too Low
Next Monday most Americans will be filing their income taxes for tax year 2011. This year, though, tax day has special significance. If there’s one clear policy contrast between Democrats and Republicans in the 2012 election, it’s whether America’s richest citizens should be paying more.
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