Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Is Wi-Fi the next big thing?
 It’s 10:00am, time for the annual management meeting to begin. You have thoroughly done your homework on last year’s sales projections. During the presentation, the CEO suddenly inquires about statistical data...
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BYTEBACK
 Tell me how to see thumbnails of the pictures in “My Pictures” folder. It worked fine before, but the problem started after I uninstalled Macromedia Fireworks MX6 which had taken association with all the image files (gif and jpg)....
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It’s time to enter The Matrix
 When it was released back in 1999, The Matrix managed to revolutionize the genre of special effects in Hollywood movie industry. It provided way more than what was expected from an...
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WEBWATCH
 The American Museum of Natural History invites you to take a tour of the Genomic Revolution....
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‘Push-e marketing’ comes of age
 Many readers may not agree with placing of an extra “e” in the title of this article. However, I will still stand my ground. The reason for this they will find...
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Exploring the mysteries of Mercury
 What do you say when someone asks you what’s the closest ally of the Sun, and orbits around it every 88 days. It has a diametre 38 per cent of Earth’s...
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Cell phone companies should stop fleecing customers
 Mobile telephony plays an important role in today’s information revolution by providing the “wireless & always available” link. However in our country this service comes with a bundle of problems ranging...
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Globalization of corporate websites
 The web is the primary source of information for a lot of customers today. Most people just check a company’s website before the finally deciding to buy a product or communicating...
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TECH UPDATE
Intel on Jan 14 delivered six new mobile processors, including its highest-performing mobile processor to date, the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor-M at 2.4GHz....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
A second case of leukaemia among children given a revolutionary form of gene therapy has increased concerns about the treatment....
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NEWSBITS
If you think you know how tedious downloading digital vacation pictures on a laptop can be, imagine sifting through 800 terabytes of files from the furthest reaches of the Universe....
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The hazards of buying from unauthorized dealers
 The unauthorized dealers openly operating in the Pakistani computer markets are a nuisance to the unwary customer besides causing losses to the authorized dealers....
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
Think how a branded chicken would cross the road: Assembler chicken: First it builds the road C chicken: It crosses the road without looking both ways....
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COOL GADGETS
 At the lab, two US researchers are working on ways to use sound to chill food. They have produced a sonic fridge that converts very loud sounds to directly cool a fridge containing ice cream....
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