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...just can't keep a secret in the tech industry these days. Early pictures of T-Mobile's Google phone leaked onto the Web the week before its Sept. 23 launch, and now images are surfacing online of another eagerly awaited device: a new handheld from Research In Motion (RIM), the BlackBerry Storm. RIM hasn't officially launched the new device yet - and it declined to comment on the leak - but the Storm is clearly a direct assault on Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1. It's also an attempt to wow consumers with both a jazzy...
...slow descent into the Looking Glass land that hurricanes create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
...scarce in these parts that reporters have to call Iowa if they want a comment. Tina Hervey, the state GOP spokeswoman, says the McCain camp is simply doing a better job of marshaling resources - and they are confident that the "72-hour strategy" of flooding likely Republican voters with phone calls, direct mail and even personal visits in the last few days, used to boost President Bush to re-election in 2004, can be reactivated...
...That reality has not escaped the foot soldiers manning some of Obama's most remote outposts. At a former beauty school in Sikeston, in the southeast part of the state known as the Bootheel, an Obama staffer picked up the phone recently and was asked what it's like behind enemy lines. There was a long pause. At last he said, "It's a tough state...
...tyrants and bloodshed, was human rights. "Obscured by many of the headlines of the past few months, the real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance across a large majority of African countries is improving," said Ibrahim, the billionaire boss of Celtel, a pan-African mobile phone giant, at a press conference in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Ibrahim inaugurated his foundation last year to promote good governance in Africa...