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Anyone who has traveled to India knows about the massive amount of chaotic traffic on the streets. Crossing the road in Delhi is a terrifyingly heart-stopping adventure. Instead of motorcycles and cars, many people opt for the conveniences of a rickshaw. But, this being the 21st century, some inventors have come up with a version that’s a little more high tech than the old pedal-driven kind.

For seven years, AirData, a small wireless operator in Stuttgart, did something the largest German mobile operators, including T-Mobile, were unwilling to do: It delivered broadband Internet to consumers in remote corners of the country.

But at the end of 2007, AirData's license to use the 2.6 gigahertz band expired after the country's regulator, Bundesnetzagentur, deemed AirData's service inappropriate for the frequency, which it wanted to reserve for mobile phone, not broadband, services.

Dresden is one of the great success stories of German reunification. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the capital of the East German state of Saxony remade itself as the center of European semiconductor production, becoming home to major facilities operated by U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices as well as Munich-based Infineon Technologies. When a 1998 Time magazine article dubbed the region "Silicon Saxony," locals embraced the label and even founded an organization by that name to promote industry interests.

New Alcatel-Lucent chief Ben Verwaayen faces a difficult job Friday as he tries to convince shareholders he can turn around the troubled French-U.S. telecommunications equipment maker the way he did BT Group PLC.

Verwaayen, credited with transforming the British telecoms company into a broadband Internet powerhouse, will be expected to pull off similar results at Alcatel-Lucent SA, a company still beset by integration problems two years after its creation in a giant trans-Atlantic merger, analysts say.

We're all waiting patiently for some real electric vehicles. I'm standing by my '98 Nissan Sentra until I can find something I can afford that doesn't require gasoline. But the credit crunch, it seems, may get in the way of my desires.

Shares in troubled web portal Yahoo rose as much as 16 percent Tuesday after a report that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller was trying to raise funds to buy out all or part of the company.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Miller was talking to private equity firms and sovereign wealth fund managers to raise as much as 30 billion dollars to purchase the company at between 20 dollars and 22 dollars a share.