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Cool head in Eden
As with all the bad news from Iraq and Af-Pak, sooner or later the bad news on the climate acquires a stultifying sameness. Only when a surge is in sight — troop surge, storm surge — does one’s news radar jolt awake momentarily. The cause of this deadened state is not an unassimilable surfeit of information, rather, it is a shortage of the right sort of information. Despite the barrage of news and opinion, we don’t know enough to figure out what the right questions are. Without that foundation, our knowledge rests on a bog, into which it is liable to settle with a gentle burp or two of greenhouse gas (or, hot air).

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Markets slip after brief recovery
Markets have once again slipped into the negative zone. The Sensex is weak and is now down 68 points at 16,285.

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Mamata's new toy
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s latest fad is a sleek laptop. But if you thought the firebrand leader had suddenly become tech-savvy, then you are wrong. The laptop is used by Banerjee only to play music during her long-distance travels and at night after a day’s hard work. But typically, Banerjee doesn’t carry the laptop in its sleek case. She prefers to bung it into her trademark blue jhola or the sling bag that carries all important papers, including her Budget speech.
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Windows 7 sales touch 3.5 per cent

It’s been a fortnight since Windows 7 was officially launched worldwide. It now makes up more than 3.6 per cent of all PCs tracked by research firm Net Applications. - Excise duty holds up software imports - New "windows" open up to computer users - "This is the highest-quality OS in the history of Windows" - Microsoft downloads Windows 7 - MS launches Windows 7, pre-loaded PCs start at Rs 15k - Microsoft to launch Windows 7 today Net Applications tracks operating system (OS) usage statistics through information reported by internet browser software. On October 21, the day before the official launch, Windows 7 usage was at 1.89 per cent, according to Channel Register. By launch day, the number hit 1.99 per cent, rising to 3.67 percent it hit on November 1. Throughout October, various versions of Windows made up 92.52 percent of the browsing market, with the Mac OS X taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux at 0.96 per cent. Despite the steadily growing Windows 7 share, Microsoft"s OS as a whole have been falling as Windows had nearly 94 per cent of the market in December 2008. Share of Mac OS X and mobile browsers appears to have modestly risen in its place.


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