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International Ecotourism Monthly

Year 4, Issue 42, Nov. 2002

W@TCH: Touring the Br@ve New World.

@Spanish websites "go on strike" as a new law requiring registration and monitoring by the authorities is passed.

@Panama bans voice over IP telephony.

@Viagra may help endangered animals say researchers, because its human use seems to be reducing demand for animal parts in traditional medicine

@AltaVista, old search engine leader, is back with a new look.

@Bill Gates announces his company will invest $400 million in information technology in India.

@Two California men, fed up with AOL's promotional CDs, have collected 80,000 of the (free) discs from people around the world. and plan to return them to AOL.

@Open Source Platform conquers China - study finds nearly two-thirds of programmers in region will work on Linux over the next year.

@For the first time, Europeans will buy more goods and services online this winter than Americans.

@According to New Scientist, California sea lions may have the best memory of all non-human creatures and maybe than a few humans... Her name was Rio, she learned a trick involving letters and numbers could still perform it 10 years later !

@The CO₂ emitted from aircraft engines is not the only way aircraft affect climate say Belgian climate researchers . They also do so through their contrails, the long trails of water vapour and ice that form in an aircraft's wake, as these reflect infrared radiation from the sun. 

THE GEORGE ORWELL COLLECTION: George goes mobile

"Sustainable bugging ? "

"Some customers of mobile phone operator "O2" noticed an unusual phone number on their bills they didn't recognise and a call charge associated with the number. When they tried to call the number they heard a recorded message telling them they couldn't use the number. After further investigation, though, it was revealed that the number belonged to the German secret service. The number was showing up on people's bills because they were being bugged - and paying for it."

Source: The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/27917.html

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