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Mar 29, 2013

Marketplace Tech for Friday, March 29, 2013

We feel compelled to do a story today about digital Easter eggs. They’re about finding hidden things in the digital world and don’t actually have to be egg-shaped. The Egyptian Navy says it caught three men trying to cut a big undersea Internet cable running into the Mediterranean. A military spokesman says the cable belonged to Telecom Egypt, the major phone and Internet company there.  No motive was suggested.  Experts say there have been Internet slowdowns recently in Egypt, and have noticed some network congestion as far away as Pakistan that could be connected.

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We feel compelled to do a story today about digital Easter eggs. They’re about finding hidden things in the digital world and don’t actually have to be egg-shaped. The Egyptian Navy says it caught three men trying to cut a big undersea Internet cable running into the Mediterranean. A military spokesman says the cable belonged to Telecom Egypt, the major phone and Internet company there.  No motive was suggested.  Experts say there have been Internet slowdowns recently in Egypt, and have noticed some network congestion as far away as Pakistan that could be connected.