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...affordably. Early on, Neal and his two partners, all dads with young kids and extensive hi-tech resumes, decided there'd be no contracts or cancellation fees, to reflect the flexible, whimsical nature of kids themselves. Phone prices will range between $50 and $100, but how much families spend a month for service carried on the Sprint NEXTEL network is entirely a personal choice. The company expects to sign 175,000 customers in the first year...
...past two years has signed up about 200,000 customers under age 12, touting its parental controls and simple design: the five-button handset lacks even a number pad. Though garnering low marks for style, the clunky Firefly has surely helped some divorced or single working parents who spend a disproportionate amount of time apart from their children. Disney similarly rejected coolness as a priority when it launched its mobile service last spring. "They don't even know who their customer is - the parent or the child," said Entner, noting that he expects few parents to ditch their current mobile...
...early morning office hours are cited for negligence, and student-advocacy hawks nod with knowing smiles at interim President Derek Bok’s dismissal of the Ph.D. as "the only major professional program in the United States that does not prepare students for the activity that they will spend most of their professional lives [pursuing...
Helio already has buzz--and lots of imitators. The start-up's 70,000 customers each spend about $100 a month--about twice the industry average--for an all-inclusive calling plan with text, photos and video messaging. A similar service called Loopt, which is free and works only on Sprint's Boost Mobile youth brand, claims 100,000 users. And anyone with a Windows Mobile device, like the Samsung BlackJack and Palm Treo, and $30 can download software from gpsgate.com that works in much the same...
Undergraduates spend the time they have outside of class in hundreds of different ways, in the pursuit of almost as many goals. Nevertheless, whether it be to find a passion, to explore a profession, to make lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...