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Highlights and low flights

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in Uncategorized on November 1, 2007 at 3:59 pm

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My trip to IFA was like one of the jokes that go on for hours.

The good news was I saw some really interesting products, had an argument about wheher Dell counts as innovative (feel free to convince me but I see them as the ultimate, though good value, beige box), found the hotel Internet connection well set up and used it to get checked in ready to come home. I still consider 22 euros for 24 hours somewhere the wrong side of extortionate (17 euros if you don’t want to connect a second laptop or a PDA and you know you won’t need more than 400MB of connection), but what I really liked about the Swisscom setup is that every time I connected in the room it reminded me of my user name and password for using wireless in the lobby and suggested

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