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| Overview | | Once, twice, maybe three times in a century, a scientific breakthrough promises to change the lives of ordinary people. Meeting that promise and ensuring that the benefits are enjoyed by all generally entails swift and widespread implementation of new ideas, setting up infrastructures on a national, or even international, scale - and, as a consequence, huge investment. Read | |
| E-reality |
 Death of the dotcom dream
After the years of Nasdaq-induced euphoria, no one could have predicted the magnitude of the meltdown in share prices of March 2000 - nor its far-reaching repercussions. A year after the bubble burst, we ask what has been learned ? | |
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| Micropayments |
 Card-carrying catastrophe
E-commerce could be worth $420bn (£291bn) in Europe by 2003. But despite the scope for business opportunities, many of the services that are sold over the internet do not generate any fee-paying revenues. | |
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| B2B |
 This desk for hire
Online business services - like the entire B2B sector have been hit hard by the dotcom disaster | |
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| i mode |
 Turning Japanese?
The big question involved in upgrading Europe's mobile communications infrastructure are being answered by Japanese makers who, in turn are intent on grabbing a foothold here | |
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