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2009 NBA All-Star Balloting Sweepstakes Official Rules - NBA
No Purchase Necessary To Participate Or Win. Purchasing Will Not Increase Your Chances Of Winning. Void In Quebec and Where Prohibited. Eligibility: The 2009 NBA All-Star Balloting Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents (natural ...

IBM bringing broadband over power line to rural America - CNET News
IBM has been hired to help rural Americans get broadband access using power lines. On Wednesday, Big Blue announced it has signed a $9.6 million contract with International Broadband Electric Communications to bring the technology to rural America ...

Canadian pol: broadband not a luxury, but basic human right - Ars Technica
Rural Canadians in New Brunswick, the sorts of folks who have to suffer in silence with dial-up or satellite Internet service, are being discriminated against. That's the charge made by Progressive Conservative candidate Jack Carr, who is fighting ...

Tech Clinic: The Best Satellite ISPs for the Sticks, Should You ... - Popular Mechanics
I live in a rural area that is not serviced by cable and my local phone company doesn't offer DSL. I looked into satellite Internet service years ago and was disappointed to learn that it was slow, awkward and expensive. Are there any reasonably ...

Telkom to buy Naspers Internet unit for $63m - Reuters Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's biggest fixed-line phone firm Telkom agreed to buy Internet service provider MWEB Africa for $63 million as it expands further into Africa to offset flagging profits at home. Telkom said it would acquire 100 ...

Teaming Up To Beat Cable - InternetNews.com
SBC Communications and EchoStar Communications are teaming in May up with a satellite TV/broadband Internet combo to deliver a service only cable networks can provide today. Officials announced Wednesday the beginning of a marketing alliance ...

One embarrassment per laptop per child arrives - The Inquirer
I wrote a column about this time last year on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort. The organisation said it would have units ready for shipment by the end of 2006 or early 2007 and it would come in at a cost of around $100 bucks. In a follow-up ...

AT&T Announces More Than $1.2 Million in Contributions to Support ... - PR Newswire
Contributions Include $200,000 Donation to Support Program Encouraging Minority Students to Apply to U.C. Berkeley SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T ) today announced more than $1.2 million in contributions to ...

Science Research Slash Solar Costs With Better Slicing Tech - DailyTech
Germanium multi-junction solar cells have the highest potential for efficiency, surpassing solar cells' theoretical efficiency by more than 250 percent. However, germanium wafers, like the one pictured, is much more costly than a wafer of silicon ...