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...minor as it is, the iPhone app is a huge deal for Sonos users. The biggest drawback to the Sonos system is it's bloody expensive. A bundle that'll connect two rooms costs $999; the remote control itself, which has an iPod-like screen, costs $399. The new iPhone app, which is supposed to go up on Apple's app store Tuesday, basically obviates the need for the remote. It does everything the remote does...
...adding that in the economy, wasted seconds can cause thousands of dollars in losses. Grosz said that a movement to improve systems will be led, at least in part, by those who buy them. “It’s time for all of you to take back control,” she said. “Insist on better systems...
...primary targets: Obama's readiness to be a world leader ("I've been tested," McCain now says, referring to Obama running mate Joe Biden's own recent clumsy comments about the Democrat facing an international test once in office) and the threat of higher taxes and out-of-control government spending (where Joe the Plumber references keep coming up). Just in case neither of those are particularly persuasive, McCain is also making the argument that the country needs a Republican in the White House to check the ambitions of the almost-sure-to-grow Democratic majorities in both the House...
...League, the Crimson outplayed the Tigers, putting Harvard in a position for its first league title since 1999. The Crimson has 12 points in the Ivy League table, just ahead of Columbia and Princeton with 10 apiece. “We are happy to be in control of our own destiny,” Rhodes said. “We set ourselves up well in the conference. It’s a good position to have.” Harvard continues its hunt for an Ivy championship against Dartmouth on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. before hosting Columbia to close...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...