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Japan is drawing up a five-year plan to surpass the United States as an Internet powerhouse through massive investment in high-speed infrastructure and scuttling laws that inhibit e-commerce.
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Traditional retailers Superquinn, Heiton Holdings and Eircom have together taken a 41 per cent stake, valued at euro 4.8 million, in a new Internet shopping venture, Buy4Now.ie.
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Poland and Russia on Saturday mourned thousands of people massacred by the Soviet NKVD secret police during World War Two.
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The elections to the Seimas will begin very soon. What political forces are capable to bring the country out of crisis? Kazimira Prunskienë, member of the Seimas, comments on economical and political situation in Lithuania.
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Japan's former state monopoly, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., [NYSE:NTT] and ISP Verio Inc. of Englewood, Colo., said in a joint statement today that all hurdles have been overcome in NTT Communications' $5.5 billion bid.
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An accessibility battle between a blind Sydney man and the organizers of the 2000 Olympic Games (SOCOG) came to a head.
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On an increasing number of occasions, the opponents of Venus Williams have tended to step on the court and immediately search for a foxhole.
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The federal government introduced the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill 2000 into the senate.
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Lech Walesa, whose Soldidarity trade union helped bring down communism in Europe, called Tuesday for a new Marshall Plan.
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Armed pirates have looted a Romanian cargo ship blocked by a legal wrangle in a Bangladeshi port, union officials said Thursday.
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A 23-year-old college student was arrested Thursday and charged with staging one of the biggest financial hoaxes ever on the Internet and pocketing almost $250,000 by issuing fraudulent information on technology company Emulex Corp.
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The most important events in the world of information technologies somehow or other connected with the activity of JSC "Penki kontinentai".
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Lithuanian state and sport officials say the Sydney Olympics might be a time of glory for the country's athletes.
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Colombian police arrested three people believed to be Marxist guerrilla sympathizers and seized explosives Wednesday.
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At last, there's a business model for Gnutella's rough-and-tumble world of file-swapping: spam.
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Education is the most important factor creating a civil society. How is Lithuania creating its society? This is a short review on educational system.
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Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman as his vice presidential running mate was warmly received by high-tech industry advocates.
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During Monday, 28th, Baltic and Nordic Prime Ministers met in Estland, to discuss the EU-enlargement and the Danish coming referendum on the common European currency in being, EMU.
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One of Sweden's largest banks Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), announced on 28 August that by the end of the year, it hopes to take full ownership of the banks in which it currently holds a controlling stake.
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Perhaps it is very difficult to find somebody who is absolutely indifferent to the others’ opinion. There are many ways to get known what other people think: referendums may be organized, questionnaires of different kinds may be prepared. Here we introduce another way you may do it.
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