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DIED. Joachim Fest, 79, celebrated German author of the psychologically incisive, globally acclaimed 1973 work Hitler; in Kronberg-im-Taunus, Germany. A political conservative whose father was fired from his job for refusing to join the Nazi Party, Fest shed light on the Third Reich by examining its leadership in dispassionate, vivid detail. He attributed Hitler's rise not primarily to economics, as many German historians have, but to the abdication of moral responsibility by educated Germans...
Army sergeants usually inspire fear. Not Sergeant Star. He's soft-spoken, approachable and, well, kinda cute. Oh, and he's not human. Star is the U.S. Army's newest recruiter--a camo-wearing avatar at GoArmy.com who answers questions IM-style. He's straightforward: Ask "Will I go to Iraq?" and he'll say it's "likely." If he's stumped, Star will direct you to a live recruiter, who is waiting to chat...
...INSTANT MESSAGING Meebo In geekspeak, it's an IM unifier. In plain English, it's a one-stop shop for all your instant-messaging needs. Which is to say that Meebo puts all your IM clients - the individual programs that make instant-messaging services incompatible with one another - into one browser window. There's no need to download all the different apps (MSN, AOL/ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber/Gtalk) to your computer to have any and all types of IM conversations. Available in four dozen languages...
...trying to rationalize its existence," says Drew Neisser, CEO of Renegade Marketing Group, a new media advertising firm in New York City. "If it weren't for IM-ing and inertia, it would probably be in even deeper trouble." The question facing AOL, he says, is whether the Web needs another general aggregator or whether the market is moving toward more specialized sites like YouTube and MySpace...
...others can be loaded into the Sidekick's e-mail program, although Hotmail can only be retrieved through the device's web browser. The browser, incidentally, left me unimpressed - especially with the chaotic way it rendered such important sites as MySpace, IMDB and Time.com. But when you combine three IM accounts and multiple e-mail streams, topped off with unlimited text messaging, you won't have time to surf the web anyhow...