Word: palming
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Indeed, iBeer's creator, Sheraton, said he's seen it all before, on the old Palm Pilot platform. His first app was E-spresso, in 1999, which created a virtual cup of espresso on the Palm, the first great PDA. "Having lived through the Palm apps market, I was able to predict what would happen here as well," he said. "There are way too many apps, and the prices will drop through the bottom...
...Harvard Business School student presented to a large group assembled in Aldrich Hall a slide of his new product: “miniature fast food meals,” small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand. “In 10 years, half our country will be dead because of obesity, so here’s our market,” said first-year student Adam R. Ludwin, moving to the next slide, which he had never seen before. “Skinny people who surf,” he described the next image...
...help comes none too soon, as the Florida housing market, particularly in the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, founders under the weight of tens of thousands of foreclosures. And the problem is only getting worse. (Read Exclusive Mutual Funds Reopen for Business...
...Dade properties turned over to lenders by the courts so far this year is 8,656. That's up 188% from last year's total of 3,009 during the first three quarters. Similar spikes occurred in Broward County, with a 215% hike, from 2,339 to 7,370. Palm Beach County saw an increase of 145%, jumping from...
...which squirms its mostly unmarked way through dense jungles, over rugged hills and along broad rivers. Just beyond Batugade, at the most northwesterly point of the border, barbed wire and guards block the road into Indonesia. But a kilometer south is a large unfenced clearing amid thickets of stubby palm trees where the constant smugglers' traffic has flattened an area the size of a basketball court. It is littered with the yellow hessian bags used to carry contraband and the remains of smugglers' campfires. "I see the police about once a week," says Alfredo, an Indonesian petrol smuggler. Other smugglers...