The xpPhone uses the Burger King, have-it-your-way model of build-to-order. Will the idea catch on? Will buying a cell phone become like buying a PC on Dell's web site?
A handful of new product announcements yesterday all point to broader adoption of internet TV both in and out of the living room. Hardware and services to make internet TV better and easier for the average user.
It's a fact of life: People sleep in airports. Terminal design discourages the practice, but all that does is ruin the quality of sleep for the passengers. Is it time to install sleep pods in airports?
Somali courtship used to be an elaborate process in which clan elders decided on pairings and the prospective groom was required to pay a hefty bride price to his betrothed's father. But now, with dirt cheap cell phones available everywhere couples can elope much more easily.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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