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Google's Android Market, which will eventually include thousands of add-on applications, doesn't officially open until the G1 goes on sale Oct. 22. But the dozen or so free apps I tested in the market's beta version worked great. Addictive games include a shape-matching brainteaser called MisMisMatch, a beeping Simon Says-type game called Android Says and classics like Pac-Man. The BarCode Scanner is a handy app that lets you use the built-in camera to scan a product's bar code at the store, then instantly compare prices online. But my personal favorite...
...More than a year - and a half a dozen rescue plans - later, little progress has been made in turning the tide. The nation's foreclosure rate has risen every month since the middle of 2007, according to FirstAmerican LoanPerformance, which tracks the mortgage market. As of August, nearly 3% of all home loans were in foreclosure, and a further 6% were more than 60 days late on their mortgage payments. But the picture is far grimmer among subprime borrowers, those with less-than-perfect credit: As of July, nearly one-third of those borrowers were more than 60 days late...
...after more than a dozen primary debates and two previous high-stakes presidential debates, Obama has remained calm to the point of being boring, and so low-energy that McCain often appears to be arguing with himself. Obama nevertheless is uniformly confident and well prepared, his natural demeanor translating into a reassuring steadiness in the eyes of a jittery public...
...refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office had contacted him more than two dozen times pressuring him to fire Wooten...
...their trial earlier this month, the former Khmer Rouge fighters from the once notorious stronghold of Anlong Veng recounted how in March, 1996, they surrounded Howes and two dozen Cambodian de-miners in the village of Preah Ko near the revered Angkor temples...