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Forbes'
list on "The World's Smartest Cities"
Time
for happy-faced towns
In
the transition for a new year, some cities were given a surprisingly special present:
a place on the list of The World's Smartest Cities. As the author of this
list says, being smart is not simply a synonym of being green. It requires a three-legged
key stool of strong infrastructure, attractive economy and savvy urban planning.
Among these ten special god-blessed places, imagine my flabbergasted feeling at
breakfast time when I saw my home town at the top... full
story By LUAN GALANI from Curitiba,
BRAZIL
Technology
Highlights of 2009
Global
e-Village
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon... Wave, Windows 7, iPhone, Kindle...
So many things, new technologies, improved versions... Some of them you shouldn't
forget when you think of previous year... full
story By GABRIELA ZAGO from
Porto Alegre, BRAZIL
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