July 4, 2008
Washington Post / Charles Krauthammer
You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.
July 4, 2008
washingtonpost.com - Business / Frank Ahrens
A group that opposes same-sex marriage has called for a boycott of McDonald's, saying the fast-food giant has refused "to stay neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality."
July 4, 2008
Tech Ticker / Kunal Gangar
Nokia showed the Aeon concept. We all liked it. But it is the Chinese who has made it a reality. ‘OEM like Nokia Aeon’ phones are for sale in China. Equipped with a visibly ‘invisible keyboard’, this tri-band phone has a 2 .
July 4, 2008
MSN Money Investing Ideas / BusinessWeek
The redesign looks like an effort to advance the discount retailer's reputation as environmentally friendly. But can it repair an image? That question is open to debate.
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July 4, 2008
Engadget Mobile / Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM
Don't get us wrong, Nokia's Aeon concept is beautiful. By the time you remove all the fanciful, nonexistent technology and try to come up with a dead ringer of your own, though, a certain something is lost in translation.
July 4, 2008
Newlaunches.com
It's been codenamed the "Napoleon" and it's a CDMA EV-DO Rev. It's a Motorola Q9 with full GSM world roaming capabilities including the U.S. 850MHz/1900MHz bands. The phone is Verizon branded and will launch on Verizon, but for a lark Boy Genius loaded AT&T; SIM and found the phone working.
July 4, 2008
Local News from Detroit News via Yahoo! News
Experts say patriotism -- the love of and devotion to country -- is alive and kicking. In the face of mounting challenges, hope in the country's future still exists in different forms. In order to see it, we have to look past the holiday barbecues and American flag decals and pins.
July 4, 2008
Unwired View / David Gonzales
with due diligence and a little time, you’ll find that it’s very easy to swap the outer casing of your Nokia N810. But have you ever thought about swapping its operating system for another one?
July 3, 2008
Engadget Mobile / Chris Ziegler
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, EV-DO, CDMA
It looks like Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to take a third crack at the Q9 form factor, following up the Q9m and Q9c -- and this time around, there's a little something extra in store.
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July 4, 2008
Later On / LeisureGuy
Think how much money they would have saved: the events in the court case described by H.J. Cummins of the Minneapolis Star Tribune would have never happened if Wal-Mart had a good strong union.
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July 4, 2008
Telegraph Business
This time, Wall Street's most profitable investment bank may have slipped up. That was the feeling in the City yesterday after the collapse of the deal it brokered to bring Texas Pacific Group to the rescue of Bradford & Bingley.
July 4, 2008
SFGate: Business & Technology / zcoile@sfchronicle.com (Zachary Coile)
Ever since Myanmar's leaders engaged in a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests last fall, Congress has pushed to tighten sanctions against the country's ruling generals. And that's put Chevron Corp.
July 4, 2008
MemeStreams Top URLs / Dagmar
I've been seeing this distasteful thing being aired for a couple of days now, and I'm aghast they'd even have considered airing it once.A customer approaches the ticketing counter and says he needs a flight to SFO for his business for a VC pitch, puts his card on the counter.
July 4, 2008
FASHIONALITIES / noreply@blogger.com (Fashionalities)
I was at Wal-Mart last night and found some fabric for only $1 a yard and I am going to have something like one of these dreamy Missoni pieces...No matter how much it ends up coming to to have the piece made, it will still be less than my dream Missoni piece.
July 4, 2008
PhoneDog.com articles
ROKR you like a Hurricane. Moto's new ROKR E8 features a morphing keypad, touch sensitive nav wheel, and 2MP camera. It's a T-Mobile exclusive.
July 4, 2008
OSNews / donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia Loli-Queru)
"The mobile phone operating system world was rocked recently by the announcement that Nokia had acquired all of the shares of Symbian that it didn't already own, and that it planned to transition the OS to an open-source licensing model," says DeviceGuru.
July 4, 2008
Forum: News/Activism / The Telegraph
General Motors, the maker of the iconic off-road Hummer, may be gearing itself up to sell mini-cars in the US, in order to win back market share as soaring fuel costs turn Americans off gas-guzzlers. Usually sold only in Asia and Latin America, GM is thought to be developing a version of the Chevrolet Beat for Americas highways, according to a report by Bloomberg.