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George Polk has rattled cell-phone carriers once before. The American, 42, runs a network of wi-fi hot spots called the Cloud that allows laptop and gadget users to surf the Web for around $8.50 an hour or $17 a month at 7,500 cafés, hotels, pubs, airports and other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build...
That would hardly help the network attract more younger viewers, counters Danny Cohen, BBC3's 33-year-old head: "We don't make our programs with 50-year-old viewers in mind." Among the channel's new projects are not only dramas and comedies but also a Web-based experiment, which Cohen describes as a "weird mixture of YouTube and talent show." Part of the BBC's updated mission is to boost "media literacy" and push its flock to digital technology as analog is phased out. BBC3 intends to set trends and not just follow them...
...They've been out for years. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, e-mail (through POP, IMAP, Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real work...
...specific cases is far and away the book’s greatest strength. Rather than simply warning readers about possible scenarios, Solove shows first-hand the lives that have been ruined, combining descriptions of the original events with verbatim reproductions of comments posted by various bloggers throughout the Web. Most students have been told to be wary of what they post on information-sharing sites such as MySpace or Facebook.com, but few think about the damage another person can do. Solove opens his book with the example of Dog Poop Girl, a Korean woman who did not clean up after...
...astounding 374 points in one turn. Collapsed thereafter. Andrew F. Nunnelly: Highest scoring words: “Weeds,†“Rack.†Achieved an embarrassing final score of 36 points, turned over the board in rage, and found solace in online social networking Web sites. SPEED-READING OF “TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE†During a competitive speed-reading of Mitch Albom’s best-selling non-fiction masterpiece, “45:33†had startlingly different effects on the test subjects. AFN: Finished book with astounding speed. Even...