Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Network gaming on the rise in Pakistan
 The rise of cyber cafés , though not a new phenomenon, has seen a new life pumped into a declining business and has seen the rise of new ones at a...
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BYTEBACK
 appreciate comments from Ahsan Ahmed published in this section last week.
1. I agree with Ahsan when he says that more memory is always good but I do not agree that a typical Pakistani user,...
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Making professional- looking presentations in MS PowerPoint XP
 Students and professionals alike, at some point in time during their careers, are asked to give a presentation related to a course item, an assignment, an introduction to something, a product...
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WEBWATCH
 Are you interested in current events or just curious about exploring the world around you? This website is an online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information....
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A new era in computing
 How strange! The price of sodas in that amusement park vending machine rises with the temperature. In the blazing midday sun, they cost double what the machine demands on a cool...
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Our Universe: creation or coincidence?
 Cosmology, the study of the skies and the universe, appeals to most readers but the technical jargon in many of the books on the subject keeps them away. Sir Martin Rees...
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Wonder vehicles: the true representatives of our future
 The Age of Discovery led to the Age of Industrialization and suddenly the world exploded into a series of machines and bearings that completely revolutionized the course of our lives and...
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Aramus: a hybrid car designed by students
 Meet ARAMUS. This is not a pedigreed Arabian horse, but an environment-friendly hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) which is the first of its kind in Pakistan....
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TECH UPDATE
Intel and Fujitsu said last week that they would jointly develop server computers that aim to push Intel’s chips into the lucrative market for high-end corporate computer systems....
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SCIENCE UPDATE
President Bush is set to endorse using nuclear power to explore Mars and open up the outer Solar System. He is expected to back the US space agency’s recent nuclear propulsion initiative...
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NEWSBITS
Right on target, Pakistan’s first commercial satellite (PAKSAT-1) has reached its orbital position at 38 degrees East and has completed its initial manoeuvres to lock itself in a geo-synchronous orbit, 36,000km above the Earth....
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Local IT industry needs solutions and not the code
Just a few days back, Idris Kothari, cofounder of three companies in Silicon Valley, visited Karachi. Addressing to a TiE seminar on “Setting up Back Office in Pakistan”, he said, “companies...
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COOL GADGETS
 Taiwan-based ASUSTek Computer has launched the CRW-5224A-U external CD-RW drive, the world's fastest, featuring 52X write/24X rewrite/ 52X read, with USB2.0 interface supporting fast data connectivity at 480Mb/sec....
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A lesson in computer acronyms
PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms • ISDN: It Still Does Nothing • APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity • SCSI: System Can’t See It....
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