E-Trade Financial dumped Sun for Linux-on-Intel in 2002 and found that the new machines were faster and more reliable.

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The latter are reminiscent in scale to the putative nuclear-fusion reactors, said to mimic processes in stars, e.g. the sun, of which a working model is not expected for at least another 60 years.

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Look for sunglasses with an eye-sun protection factor (E-SPF) between 25 and 50, he said.

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Read e-mails tan themselves on the sun loungers.

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One thing all of these readers have in common: E Ink displays -- way better for reading out in the summertime sun than their LCD counterparts.

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The fact that different bodies in the solar system change their relative positions as they orbit the sun will, Dr Hooke concedes, complicate routing a bit: when the earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, for example, it might be best to send e-mail via Venus.

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Telecom Italia cut back on the need for Sun servers by adopting the software of Critical Path for 10 million e-mail accounts.

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Telecom Italia cut back on Sun servers by adopting the software of Critical Path Inc. for 10 million e-mail accounts.

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E-speak, along with similar pursuits by several of HP's rivals, including Sun and Microsoft, signals a basic change in how business gets done on the Internet.

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"In e-mail exchanges with overseas friends, we learn something about life in other countries, " says Sun.

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