New Zealand broadband subscribers increase

Wednesday, March 7, 2007 The amount of subscribers to broadband in New Zealand have increased 30%, which also results in New Zealand jumping from 22 place to 19 in the OECD rankings, and having a total of 1.4 million Internet subscribers. In a six-monthly survey by Statistics New Zealand, Internet Service Provider Survey, covering the […]

You Live In A Nice Chicago Suburban Village In Cook County But, Can You Cope When The Power Goes Out?

More On This Topic: Commercial Power Cheap Commercial Electricity byAlma Abell Commercial electric power supply only came into being some 130 plus years ago even though mankind had known about electricity since the prehistoric days when we first gazed upon lightning and thought about it. For the longest of times, philosophers and scientists studied and […]

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]

Russian submarine rescued by Royal Navy

Sunday, August 7, 2005 A Russian submarine trapped during a training exercise in Berezov Bay, 75 km south of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka, has been rescued after it was cut free by a Royal Navy Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). The crew of seven officers and midshipmen, who spent three days in temperatures around 6oC and were […]

Google planning PayPal rival

Monday, June 20, 2005 Financial analysts say Google is planning an e-wallet service that could eventually compete with eBay’s payment service PayPal. Google has not confirmed the development. The rumor is a first sign of Google’s expected expansion of revenue sources to capitalize on its advertising customer base and search-engine traffic. What form that expansion […]

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