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...Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March 18, the day she checked out of a psychiatric ward where she had been treated for depression. Roman Másl, a 21-year-old student, immolated himself in Pilsen on April 1. Pavel Janícek, 42, unemployed, with a history of mental illness and suicide attempts, burned himself in Velká Chyska on April 8. His partner told police that Janícek had feared a prison sentence he was about...
...mobile race is Oslo-based Trolltech. Trolltech's technology is based on Linux, a system used mainly on Web servers. Because Linux technology is in the public domain, it can be easily customized for any device. Sharp is using Trolltech's mobile version of Linux in its Zaurus SL-5500 personal digital assistant. As the mobile browser wars rage on, billions of euros are at stake, and anxious mobile-phone operators are coveting data services, a crucial new source of revenue as voice revenues decline. "These are steps in the right direction toward mobile devices becoming a good window onto...
...Shaq spot is part of a boom in time-travel ads: luxury-car maker Mercedes-Benz has an ad with a cruising SL500, showing the evolution of the SL class through the decades; Pepsi also unveiled a similar Britney Spears ad during the Super Bowl. Ad experts say consumers like the idea of products that weather the times--it's the exception to the advertising rule that associates old with bad. In the post-9/11 era, that sentiment is growing stronger. "You're buying the same thing that someone bought in the '50s and '60s," says Breck Eisner...
Mind you, at $79 the SL-8000 is a relatively cheap remote. It can handle up to eight components. Sony's RM-AV2100 Integrated Remote Commander--the fatal remote featured on The Sopranos--costs $179 and can handle a dozen. The Remote Commander is a serious remote--tweakable, customizable, programmable--bursting with preferences and macros and timers. Instead of plain old buttons, it has a glowing blue LCD touch screen. ("Hey, is that the remote or the TV?" quipped my wife. She's still jealous about VCR Girl...
...touch screen is hard to read (it gets all smudgy and fingerprinty in about five minutes), and its high-level functions are so inscrutable I felt like I needed another remote just to operate it. Give me a simple, no-fuss, no-muss controller like the Home Theater Master SL-8000 any day. Now that's a universal remote I'd kill...