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...helps explain why Nokia is blurring the boundary between smart phones and cheaper handsets, and trying to entice customers to trade up. In recent months, the firm has unveiled a slew of devices aimed at developing markets, some costing as little as $60. That might seem a lot to pay for someone earning a few hundred dollars a month, but for many people in places where access to electricity is hit-and-miss at best, a good phone can double as a computer, an MP3 device or even a video player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nokia Calling | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...smart idea with a silly acronym. WWOOF, short for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, connects cash-strapped travelers with farms in need of extra hands. The lodging-for-labor combo means volunteers pay only for transportation, plus a small fee for access to host-farm listings in one of the 92 countries through wwoof.org Rita Garand, a stay-at-home mom in Montreal, loved her stint on a lavender farm in Italy this May, where her family spent five hours a day weeding. But would-be WWOOFers should ask about specifics, advises Mark Phillips, a Boston sales associate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Organic, Literally | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

English Country House This five-bedroom in Derbyshire includes use of the family car Will swap for: A house in Europe, the U.S. or the Caribbean Where it's listed: HomeForExchange.com, which offers members (who pay $88 for two years) special cancellation insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Exchange: Trading (Vacation) Places | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...glory days, ZANU's power is finally waning. Partly this is economic; there are fewer spoils to go around. Tsvangirai told me that when he took office in February, the state's entire resources ran to just $4 million. Last November, several hundred soldiers rioted in Harare over poor pay and conditions. Even if Mugabe called on troops to stage a coup and suppress dissent, it's no longer clear they would obey him. "The emperor is wearing no clothes," says Leonard Makombe, a politics lecturer at the mothballed University of Zimbabwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Team of (Bitter) Rivals Heal Zimbabwe? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...studios pay such enormous salaries for certain stars? Melissa Kennedy BERWYN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jerry Bruckheimer | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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