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VAIO Slimtop is a computer by Sony which has a flat screen monitor you can write on. $3,000.

Vishwabharat and Lead Networks let you register domain names in Indian Languages.

Consumer Electronics Show 2001 is going on.

We can read the questions for which various ministries are answerable in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. What fun!

CIOL’s e-governance channel

The Fed lowers interest rates! Certainly hadn’t expected it till the end of the month. Obviously, since this is the first time they changed rates in-between policy meetings. The market was caught short too. Anyway, the NASDAQ has shot up. IT stocks in India are following.

Didn’t know dot-coms had unions. Amazon does. A reaction to the layoffs in dot-coms?

Now Yahoo! will charge a fee for auctions. No more free PCs. No more free ISPs. No more ad revenues. No more free auctions. The trend is clear. Pay! Unfortunately, they’ll also monitor what’s being sold — an indication that country-specific legal barriers are creeping into the Internet.

Coimbatore: The next IT destination?

The Economic & Political Weekly is online.