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Google’s Russian Threat

Fortune Magazine) — Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex, Russia’s largest online-search company, is playing with a set of nesting dolls (for real!). Instead of the traditional folk decoration, though, these...

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Tech Rx for Health Care

Tucked deep in the stimulus bill passed in February is a $19 billion bundle of grants and incentives designed to wake up America’s technologically sleepy health-care industry. The hope is that...

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Zen and the Art of Security

“Relaxation” and “airport security” aren’t terms that normally go hand in hand. But the folks at IDEO, Silicon Valley’s favorite design shop, are trying to make passenger screening a blissful...

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To Catch a Cyberthief

Hacking used to be so quaint. In the old days (the early 90s) the villains typically were attention-seeking computer geeks infecting computers with viruses that were a headache for consumers and tech...

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Crashing Russia’s all-cash culture

Because building an entire banking sector from scratch in 20 years makes for some wild swings, Russians put their trust in cash. In Russia, the first thing you do when you get your monthly salary is...

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What on earth is happening with “Russia’s GPS”?

Late last month Moscow celebrated the birthday of Father Frost, the Russian iteration of Santa Claus, with a new-fangled announcement: Father Frost’s retinue would move through the holiday skies aided...

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Ukraine Online

When the village of Syn’kiv in Western Ukraine first got a computer with web access in 2003, the local priest encouraged people to come out for the grand opening of the library’s Internet center. It...

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Getting Punk’d in Russia

Ashton Kutcher was not prepared for this. When he arrived with a U.S. State Department technology delegation last week, he expected the screaming teenage girls, the journalists fighting for interviews,...

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