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Wireless World: Free cell phones for all?
PhysOrg - Broadcast television has always been free for consumers -- courtesy of advertising sponsors, ranging from the makers of Alka-Seltzer to the purveyors of Viagra and Propecia. Now that mobile phones are as integral to American culture as television

Telecom consolidation tsunami coming
Globe and Mail - Plenty of myths were created during the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, but the idea of "convergence" -- the merging of various forms of content and the blending of various devices such as cellphones, PDAs, TVs and computers -- was not one of them

Project Portland brings together disparate desktop environments
Ars Technica - At LinuxWorld in Boston on Tuesday, OSTG announced the availability of a common interface platform designed to facilitate development of Linux applications compatible with both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. Developed by the Project Portland

Deals in the works for sporty TWI
Variety - Confirming more than two weeks of speculation, U.S.-owned sports specialist TWI is buying Darlow Smithson Prods., a U.K. indie producer of nonfiction programming, for a reported $34 million in what is expected to be the first of several acquisitions

Taste of Loveland and Greeley benefits disabled residents
Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald - Good wine. Good food. Good cause. Those six words are how organizers describe the upcoming Taste of Loveland and Greeley a new wine and food sampling event to benefit charities that help developmentally disabled residents. Local businesses have

Dell updates recycling plans
Globe and Mail - DALLAS Dell Inc. plans to triple the amount of electronics it can recycle by 2009, the company said in an annual report outlining its environmental goals and achievements. The announcement comes as Dell and other computer makers, bowing to demands

Lucent chief's passion may aid acquisition
Globe and Mail - TRENTON, N.J. The woman at the helm of Lucent Technologies Inc. is widely considered brainy, sophisticated and passionately competitive, yet down to earth, modest and compassionate. All those qualities should help Pat Russo succeed in steering the

Let's Go Fly a Kite! NOT!
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Utilitarian chic
Newark Advocate - For the dedicated shopper, the annual International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago represents the road to nirvana. Each spring, about 2,000 exhibitors show recently introduced and new products -- everything from ice cream makers to gourmet hot