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...front of Apple stores around the country will do by the weekend. But there's no choice about the carrier: you only get AT&T (formerly Cingular) on an iPhone. And so far, the early reviews have not been kind to the mobile service and especially its cellular data network ("Pokey," says the Wall Street Journal; "excruciatingly slow," says the New York Times. A spokesman for AT&T said the company disagreed with those characterizations). Before the reviews emerged, AT&T tried to play down the speed issue and play up the new experience provided by Apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Carrier Problem | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...save e-mails, forward them at will and access them in whatever order they want, so why is voice-mail stuck in the dark ages? The carriers haven't improved voice-mail because it's harder to market service features than, say, sexy phones that work exclusively on one network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Carrier Problem | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...leading African connection in this growing global network is Guinea-Bissau. The fifth poorest country in the world was perfectly suited to playing a key role in the coke trade. The average person in this country of 1.6 million people earns about $720 a year and dies at 45. The capital, Bissau, is a decrepit relic on which the government has not slapped a lick of paint since the Portuguese colonials decamped in the 1970s. There are few phone lines and almost no electricity. Even the President's office building has a generator roaring outside. The judicial police headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine Country | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...watch the Food Network for hours at a time...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Street Food | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...economy has grown (more than 10% last year, due in part to tourism and the textile industry). But wealth appears to be concentrated in the hands of the few. Earlier this month, the international watchdog organization Global Witness released the findings of a three-year investigation that accuses a network of Hun Sen's relatives and friends of having made tens of millions of dollars from illegal logging. (Several of those implicated by Global Witness have denied the allegations, and the watchdog's report itself has been banned from domestic distribution by the Cambodian government.) In the report, Global Witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia Keeps Taking, Gives Little | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

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