MIT spinoff's little green laptop computers a hit in remote Peruvian village
Doubts about whether poor, rural children can benefit from quirky computers evaporate quickly in an Andean village, where 50 children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project months ago.

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Little love among matchmakers
The online dating service Chemistry.com plans to unleash a new advertising campaign that seeks to depict its competitor, eHarmony.com, as out of touch with mainstream American values.

Altadis revels, in private, on the mystique of smoking
The European tobacco company has set up an internal Web site, Le Lab, designed to be part social networking site, part data resource, part virtual pep rally for its brand managers.
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Breakup of Eircom could be opening for rivals
The potential separation of Eircom's network and service businesses comes as European lawmakers consider a more modest, but far-reaching proposal.

'Quarterlife,' series born on Net, struggles to thrive
Some episodes of the drama about a group of good-looking people in their 20s have yet to attract 100,000 video views.

Slim Sony TV uses new technology
The sets replace the bulky backlighting of typical LCD televisions with a thin film that glows with colors even when viewed from the side.

Studios face rising cost of archiving films
Digital masters cost 12 times as much to preserve as conventional masters, and the film industry is again wrestling with preserving its most precious assets.