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PDAs are also expensive. Undergraduate Daniel A. Ford ’08, who recently purchased a Cingular Blackjack, laments his new phone’s cost: “My cell phone bill is $30 for the Internet, $10 for text messages, and $60 for a medium-minutes package. That’s 100 bucks a month, or $1,200 a year, which is really a lot when you think about it. That’s 30 fifths of Maker’s Mark, and honestly I would rather have the latter...
Despite this hefty price tag, a number of undergrads tote such phones around largely to show off. Right now their ranks are small enough that others do not feel compelled to follow suit, but as the number of PDAs on campus grows, that could change. In a worst-case scenario, PDAs, which can increase cell phone bills by up to $50 per month, will become ubiquitous symbols of privilege on campus. In other words, the PDA is on the cusp of becoming must-have, ivory tower “bling,” a nauseating prospect...
...first portable MP3 player, and iTunes wasn't the first MP3 computer jukebox program. They were simply the best. I didn't buy an MP3 player until the iPod, and I didn't use an MP3 jukebox before iTunes. Guess what? I don't own a cell phone, but as soon as I can almost afford an iPhone, I'm going to buy one. It isn't just a cell phone. Revolutionary? Check. Marketmaker? Double check. Will it change the communications industry? I think it already...
...appetite for China stocks has encouraged other big corporations to tap the market. Analysts say they expect China Mobile, the world's largest mobile-phone company, to issue additional shares this year. Ping An Insurance, China's second largest life insurer, and oil-and-gas conglomerate PetroChina are also expected to issue more shares. There is no way all can be winners, says Nicholas Yeo, a fund manager for Aberdeen Asset Management. "One of these large IPOs last year would have been impressive," Yeo says. "But can they keep pulling them off? Probably...
...writing down ISBN numbers,” he said. “The ISBN is a lot of work to get. It’s almost intellectual property.” The process of isolating the appropriate ISBN number for a particular course textbook, the manager said, involves multiple phone calls to professors and publishers. Student-set prices would not reflect the time and resources necessary to obtain the ISBN. This undercutting, he added, would be injurious to other students, who would have to deal with tightened restrictions on textbook returns. Hadfield, however, said he suspected different motivations for ISBN...