It sells with two-year guarantees, and offers much the biggest regional network of any Russian computer firm: 250 dealers across the country, full-service centres in 60 cities.

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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.

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