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LITTLE SHOT In the ever escalating race to build a smaller camera, Minolta's new DiMage X ($399) is the current flyweight champ. It's the size of a deck of cards, weighs in at just 4.8 oz., stands about 3 in. tall but takes relatively hefty 2-megapixel pictures. It can also shoot a 35-sec. movie and comes with a 168-MB media storage card that holds a whopping 130 images. It's the perfect pocket partner for big shots...
...most popular song in Kenya last year was Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo (Country of Bribes), a sing-along tune about the ubiquity of corruption in everyday life. If you're trying to succeed in school, if you're sick in the hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya...
...voter who has witnessed the gamut of governments in Portugal is Carlos Patrone, 82, a retired industrial chemist in the town of Carnaxide, outside Lisbon. He says he has never towed any party's line. Who will he mark his card for? "I'm so fed up," he smiles, "I'm almost ready to vote for the Devil." Between now and March 17, someone may be just in time to persuade him otherwise...
What's the best way to disable a stolen phone? At present, a victim of cell-phone theft contacts the operating network to block the subscriber identity module, or sim card, to prevent further calls from that number. The handset, however, will remain operational if a new sim card is inserted. So current attempts to combat the use of stolen cell phones are also focusing on the handset's IMEI, or international mobile equipment identifier, an individual serial number for each phone that is transmitted when a call is made from that handset. Mobile phone operators could pool information...
Difficult to tell. Even with national stolen IMEI databases on the way, a person who steals a phone in France could probably still use it - with a different sim card but the same IMEI number - in Germany, at least until a pan-European database for stolen IMEIs is constructed. Or until the rightful owners chance upon their property again - perhaps during a late-night visit to a cell-phone shop in Prague...