Net benefits: Remote island finally online
Net benefits: Remote island finally online
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The man has a muscular torso, a stocky build and bends his tanned fingers like date palm leaves. The beach nearby is being buffeted by wind. He prods searchingly, one finger at a time, at a recently acquired keyboard. The situation seems to be a computer salesman's wet dream; but despite appearances, this is not a cynical marketing ploy. A group of technocrats from the Continent have brought the web to one of the world's most remote places, and with it, changed the lives of an enigmatic people few of us have heard of. |
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News entry number 1715 added on Sep 13, 2007 in the Technology and IT category.
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