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...TIME: Wi-fi [wireless Internet] is big and getting bigger in the U.S. But have mobile devices just rendered it totally irrelevant outside...
Nokia is also introducing a slightly more traditional device, a digital picture frame. The world has seen its fair share of connected LCD frames, from the dial-up-modem-equipped Ceiva to the wi-fi-ready Wallflower. Nokia's SU-4 Image Frame ($239) simplifies the process, with the same infrared connectivity found in the Imagewear line. The SU-7, due later this year, will be equipped with a cell phone. For $399--plus the cost of the service--you can set one up and send pictures to it via multimedia messaging. Of course, that's only if the frame...
...decided to tour, bringing along a boom box with cheaply recorded drum lines to fill out the combo. In concert, the boom box sits on a stool between the two sentient members of the band, and its tinny tones are a reminder of the band’s lo-fi roots...
...resolved in an hour, sell better in reruns. Series like Alias and 24, which have deeply involving serial plots, are poor candidates for reruns, but they have committed fan bases willing to buy DVDs. And while Top 10 hits like Friends and ER sell well on DVD, animated, sci-fi and other kinds of cult shows do best, in proportion to their ratings...
...Gondry had a peculiar story to tell, but "wanted people to get it," so he injected this sci-fi fantasy with flashes of reality - the occasional shakiness of a handheld camera and a palette that, except for Clementine's orange or blue hair, is muted, melancholy and truer to life than Hollywood's Technicolor hues. But the denouement almost veered into classic Hollywood schmaltz. As he prepared to shoot the ending, Gondry was still debating with Kaufman about whether to add a twist in which Joel would wake up as if it had all been a dream...