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Off-Shoring the Back |
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| Let��셲 face it, there��셲 hardly a business topic that��셲 more emotionally charged than off-shoring: the new trend of outsourcing business processes to foreign workers. It is much cheaper to pay people in other countries to do this routine work because they are paid only a small fraction of the salaries that American workers receive. |
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Software Wars Challe |
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| The Massachusetts computer and software industry is legendary. |
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Philanthropy Makes A |
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| After an intense decade or two of unprecedented ?and amazingly fast ?earning, the new generation of super-rich is fueling a growing 諛퉢lture of giving.? |
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Video Gaming Becomes |
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| The market for home video games is only 30 years old. It began in 1975, when Atari released a home version of Pong. Global industry sales of home video games totaled $28 billion in 2002, the last year for which reliable worldwide industry figures are available. In the same year, U.S. sales of computer and video game hardware and software exceeded $11 billion and probably surpassed $13 billion in 2003. |
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Membership in Virtua |
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| Enormous increases in processing power and bandwidth are blurring the lines between the real world and the virtual one. As work, education, government, and entertainment have moved on-line, the barriers of space and time that formerly marked different parts of people��셲 lives have disappeared. Virtual work teams, telecommuting, long-distance learning, and electronic shopping for many have resulted in an ��쏿nything, anywhere, anytime��� lifestyle, in which formerly distinct areas of people��셲 lives are now intertwined in cyberspace. People��셲 lives and their relationships with others are increasingly taking place in this electronic reality. As a result, digital technology has transformed the personal and public lives of most Americans over the past 15 years. |
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