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...newest RIM BlackBerry, the 7250. And there are variations on the Windows Mobile theme: the UTStarcomm/Audiovox XV6600 with Bluetooth and a connection to Verizon's super-fast EVDO data network (known as BroadbandAccess), and the all-new Samsung i730, which takes all of that and adds a Wi-Fi connection...
...promise of that last device is that it gives you the best of everything-access to Verizon's high-speed EVDO service, which gives you DSL-like downloading in more than 40 major markets, plus Wi-Fi functionality for everywhere else. It sounds great in theory, but has some serious drawbacks in practice...
...just be your microwave that's jamming your cell phone. Electronic items can interfere with one another, which means that your dryer could block your cordless-phone signal--and that your amazing new wireless keyboard could be slowing your wi-fi...
...literature, quantity is supposed to be the enemy of quality. Slow writers find themselves hailed as painstaking artists; prolific ones are dismissed as hacks, particularly if they work within the confines of the thriller, the sci-fi adventure, the western or the like. There are very few exceptions: Georges Simenon and Isaac Asimov have each written more than 300 well-received volumes, and William F. Buckley Jr. gets good reviews for spy novels that he claims to churn out in as few as 150 hours per caper...
...series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based on the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. "Some of the shows may be expensive, some of them may be less expensive; that's a secondary consideration," says Stoddard. "The cheapest program is the program that works...