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...Nokia will launch its app store, Ovi, this week. According to Reuters, the store "will appeal globally to some 50 million phone users." That customer base dwarfs the number of iPhones. (See the top ten applications...
...Nokia cannot be counted out in the app download business even though Apple's store launched months ago. Developers may not want to miss the opportunity to offer products to such a huge customer base. Software made for the iPhone will often not have to be re-engineered from the ground up to work on Nokia phones. There are financial advantages to having access to two smart-phone platforms. (See pictures of the iPhone...
...grew up on Chicago's South Side and worked in his godfather's neighborhood grocery store. So it isn't surprising that he embarked on a career chopping raw meat, loading food trucks and, eventually, managing a dairy distributor's operations. As he built his personal savings and a base of industry contacts, he noticed the growth of stores like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods in Chicago and its suburbs. "This should be on the South Side," he recalls thinking. But, he says, when he approached industry colleagues with the idea of opening such a store, they reacted...
...pick itself will also minimize friction. Yes, conservative activists and some Republican Senators will use a few of Sotomayor's more liberal statements and opinions to try to rally their base, revive the Republican Party and raise money...
...Baghdad Friendly Fire An American soldier who had recently been referred for counseling allegedly gunned down five fellow service members at a combat-stress clinic on a U.S. military base. A communications specialist from Texas on his third tour in Iraq, the suspect, Sergeant John M. Russell, 44 (pictured), was charged with five counts of murder and one of aggravated assault in the U.S.'s deadliest soldier-on-soldier attack of the Iraq...