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| Blackberry Curve 8310 |
| Blackberry Curve 8310 information page: , a cell phone with many features including: Bluetooth connectivity, a full keyboard, a speakerphone and EDGE high speed wireless data. |
| At Home with John McCain |
| PEOPLE goes inside the family life of the GOP presidential candidate |
| Gartner Predicts Smartphone Sales to be 65% of Market by 2012 |
| Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi told Dow Jones that consumers worldwide are expected to purchase as many as 190 million smartphones this year, representing an increase of 52% compared to last year. From a revenue standpoint, 190 million smartphones represents about 15%, or $65 billion-worth, of the total 1.28 billion handsets expected to be sold this year. In 2012, Milanesi expects smartphone unit sales to reach over 700 million of the total 1.8 billion handset market; that's 65%, or $200 billion-worth, of the total $312 billion mobile phone market at that time. As far as what smartphone platforms are likely to succeed, Milanesi says: "We are expecting the smartphone market to grow strongly with royalty free operating systems like Symbian, Android, and Linux pushing deeper down into product portfolios," Milanesi said. "Apple's iPhone isn't huge in sales volume, but it helped energize the market. People are now walking into stores and asking for a smartphone, something that didn't really happen in the past." |
| Beijing: "Dissidents don't get passports" |
| Most countries like to keep potential trouble makers out. China likes to keep them in. |
| Verizon tops T-Mobile in J.D. Power customer care survey, again |
Filed under: Alltel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Misc  T-Mobile may have once been able to bank on J.D. Power's customer care survey to bolster its bag of bragging rights, but it looks like that's no longer the case, as Verizon has now finally edged it out, following a similar shift in J.D. Power's retail sales satisfaction survey last year. Not only that, T-Mobile actually fell to third place, behind Verizon's merger-mate Alltel. There isn't much of a spread between the top-ranked companies, however, with Verizon snagging a score of 103, Alltel scoring 102, and T-Mobile garnering a respectable 100. Only Sprint Nextel, which got a lowly 79, scored below the industry average. Among the other tidbits to be found in the survey, which included more than 11,000 respondents, is the fact that customers spent an average of 4.4 minutes on hold with customer service, a jump of 34% from the previous survey, while 49% of all wireless customers said they called in for help at least once, a minor uptick from the 47% reported last time around. That, J.D. Power says, is at least partly due to the "increasingly complex" wireless phones and services available nowadays.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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| Delta Select 69318-SN Satin Nickel Porcelain 18" Towel Bar |
 Delta Select 69318-SN Satin Nickel Porcelain 18" Towel Bar List Price $99.99 The Delta Select offerings enable you to maintain a harmonious influence throughout the home. Delta Select allows you to define the decor of your home down to the finest detail. Features: Satin Nickel with Porcelain flange Traditional Elegance with porcelain flange For wall mount installation Everything included for installation Lifetime warranty Price: 19.99 |
| Laptops aboard ISS infected with password-stealing virus |
 A worm was recently discovered inside laptops aboard NASA's International Space Station. The detected virus was designed to steal passwords and send them to a remote server. Fortunately, none of the Space Station's critical workstations were affected by virus. Only laptops used for emails and nutritional experiments were mostly affected.NASA initially withheld any information regarding the virus, but SpaceRef.com later revealed that the worm was W32.Gammima.AG - a worm that gathers personal data for online games. Investigations are currently underway regarding how the virus was able to sneak into the International Space Station. More than one laptop was affected, suggesting that it spread via the local intranet or via a thumb drive. While it is possible for astronauts to access email via a KU band data link, also used for data and video transfer, the Space Station has no direct connection to the Internet. Regardless of any outside connection, everything is scanned before it goes up. NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries was asked whether any mission critical systems were connected to any of the infected laptops. He simply replied, "I don't know and even if I did, I wouldn't be able to tell you for IT security reasons". Related articles:
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| Odelay's Secret History | ||
| Beck tells the stories behind his newly reissued classic I thought Odelay might be the last time I got a chance to make a record," Beck says of his 1996 album. "I was acutely aware that I was thought of as a one-hit wonder." But almost twelve years later, Odelay is the definitive Beck album, full of funk, noise and sliced-up jokes. It's now receiving the deluxe reissue treatment, with an edition that adds nineteen outtakes, remixes and B sides. Beck reminisces about his landmark disc at the Hollywood studio where he's quickly recording a new one... | ||
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| 5 Night Western Caribbean from $279 |
| Brochure price $999. Save up to 72% off Brochure Prices! This adventurous round-trip from Tampa takes you to enchanted Grand Cayman, where you can visit a turtle farm, snorkel with stingrays, and visit Hell, which is devilishly popular with senders of postcards. You can also enjoy the island’s most magnificent stretch of oceanfront, Seven Mile [...] |
This adventurous round-trip from Tampa takes you to enchanted Grand Cayman, where you can visit a turtle farm, snorkel with stingrays, and visit Hell, which is devilishly popular with senders of postcards. You can also enjoy the island’s most magnificent stretch of oceanfront, Seven Mile Beach. Then continue on to Cozumel, the gateway to the Yucatan. Your package includes shipboard accommodations, ocean transportation, fabulous entertainment and daily activities, on-board meals and some beverages, port charges and more. It does not include shore excursions, personal expenses, gratuities, or alcoholic beverages. Government fees and taxes are not included and can vary from $5 to $150 per person. Book this cruise |
Brochure price $999. Save up to 72% off Brochure Prices! | Team Bruno Wins Dance War |
| For nine singers and dancers, it all comes down to tonight. Zack, Kelsey, Lacey, Phillip, Bradley, Chris, Qis, Mariel, and Elizabeth -- otherwise known as Team Bruno and Team Carrie Ann -- have been working tirelessly for weeks just to get to tonight, the season finale of Dance War: Bruno ... |
| The Pharmaceutical Monopoly in Italy |
| A week after I first arrived in Italy I developed a headache. I walked to my local Supermarket to buy aspirin, but alas, I could not find them anywhere in the store. When Buzzurro came home from work I told him that I looked all over for aspirin in the supermarket, and could not find them. He asked me if I had gone to a pharmacy. "No," I answered. "Of course not. I went to the supermarket." He replied that in Italy, ALL medicines, those requiring a prescription as well as those who don't, by Italian law can only be sold in a pharmacy. The next day I went to a pharmacy and saw a box of aspirin on sale. There were 10 in a box and the price was 3 euros and 80 cent. "What !" I thought to myself "3 euros and 80 cent. For 10 aspirin? Are they crazy here?" (but bought them anyway because I still did have a headache). This was my first experience with the miseries brought upon the Italian nation by the monopoly of pharmacies, Federfarma. Federfarma is opposed to the selling of over the counter OTC medications in any place other than a pharmacy. Of course this keeps the prices of the non-prescription medicines such as aspirin extremely high. They set the prices. Competition is not a factor at all. Their reasoning being that selling non-prescription medicines in a store other than a pharmacy is dangerous and will create grave risks for diseases caused by misuse or overmedication. They want the public to buy all medicines in a pharmacy because the pharmacist explains the doses of medicine needed and how to correctly use them. I for one have never had a pharmacist explain to me how to take an aspirin. I buy them at their extremely high price, go home, and read the instruction booklet for the medicines which is included in the box of them. I assume that other people in Italy can read and do this too. Non-prescription medicine is the costliest in Italy than in all of Europe, the US and for all I know, the rest of the world. I read somewhere that there is a small group of Italian consumers that they have a petition requesting the sale of non-prescription medications in stores other than pharmacies. I don't know who they are, I've never seen a petition, but sign me up ! It's a worthy cause. |
| Verizon gets Motorola VU30 next month, Nokia 7205 not until December? |
Filed under: Handsets, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA  |
| [Interesting] Judge won't let a man acquitted of rape charges legally change his name to The Count of Monte Cristo |
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| Ian Gough primed for a magical day |
| Gough says winning the Grand Slam on the occasion of his 50th cap would be amazing. The Ospreys lock has had a rollercoaster international career, winning his first cap in the record 96-13 defeat to South Africa in 1998. |
| Why Edgeio will likely fail - the top 5 reasons |
| From a technology point of view, I love the concept of Edgio, and I love the execution of the new service! Feeding and aggregating content directly from the edge is the future of the web. I really do wish Michael and his team all the best! They have done an excellent job so far. However, let me outline 5 reasons why Edgio will likely fail to gain traction: 1) National vs. Local: Edgeio |
| Xperia X1 By Sony Ericsson |
| Sony Ericsson recently unveiled their newest mobile phone, the Xperia X1. This phone is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone with tons of features including web browsing, multimedia capabilities, a wide pitch full QWERTY keyboard and a widescreen VGA display, just to name a few. The Xperia X1 operates on 3G and has an integrated [...] |
Sony Ericsson recently unveiled their newest mobile phone, the Xperia X1. This phone is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone with tons of features including web browsing, multimedia capabilities, a wide pitch full QWERTY keyboard and a widescreen VGA display, just to name a few.  The Xperia X1 operates on 3G and has an integrated camera with video recording capabilities, push to send Email, and can be used as an RSS reader. Video calling is another feature that consumers will love. The Xperia X1 can operate in wi-fi hotspots and can even be used to blog. This Smartphone is not yet available for sale. We’ll keep you updated with pricing and the release date of the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1. |
| Horse Photo of the Week - Simply Charlie |
| "I am submitting this photo of my daughter since it is the first time she has ever won so many ribbons at one show including the reserve and the champion... |
| Earmarks: 'A goofy way to spend' |
| Missouri is represented by one senator who brings home the bacon and another who wants to nail a lid on the pork barrel. Last week Sen. Pork won, and it wasn't even close. |
| You, too, can train like an Olympian |
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| Free cell phones from Google? |
| Google Inc.'s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, sees a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising. Schmidt acknowledged that mobile phones may never become totally free to the consumer. Newspapers are still not completely free a hundred years after they started relying on advertising, but they certainly are inexpensive, he noted. Refer title of this post for full story @ CNN money. [Resource-Type: News; Category: General; XRating: 3.5] |