Word: alertness
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...success may well have little to do with phone calls. What the company is really selling is a multimedia networking platform in an edgy package. In other words, a toy. A few weeks into my daughter's beta testing, she roamed the house barking into her handset, "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." The phone wasn't even switched on. "I'm just playing," she said. "None of my friends have cell phones, so I don't actually have anyone to call." If Kajeet's homework pays off, that won't be the case for much longer...
...will be the most effective arm-twisters. "I wouldn't be bugging my parents so much when I'm bored," said Derrick. "My parents would be happy that I don't have to borrow their phones anymore," said Nick, 11, gleeful as he casually set the phone's calendar alert to remind him of his birthday until he turns...
...calls. The device is really a next-generation multi-media networking platform in a youthful and slightly edgy package. Or in other words, an alluring toy. A few weeks into my daughter's testing phase, I spotted her roaming around the house delightedly barking into the handset: "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." Under closer scrutiny, it became clear the phone wasn't even switched on. When I asked what she was doing she breezily replied: "I'm just playing. None of my friends have cell phones so I don't actually have anyone to call," she said. If Kajeet...
...when they noticed temporary gaps in price relationships and then profiting when the prices reconverged. “The fixed income markets just haven’t been volatile, and that’s what they thrive on,” said Howard Kapiloff, Managing Editor of Hedge Fund Alert, a weekly publication that reported on Convexity’s shortcomings in early January. Meyer declined to comment for this story. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...City package was examined by a police bomb squad and, according to Kansas City FBI Agent Bob Herndon, there is an ongoing investigation of the letters and packages in multiple FBI field offices across the country. The U.S. Post Office is also investigating the letters and has issued an alert...