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WITCHCRAFT
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"Ericsson and Reuters have launched a joint project for the delivery of financial markets news and data to the latest WAP mobile phones and other handheld devices." The Project will start in London an Frankfurt

Excite has a cool new Planner (from Excite at home) which offers registered users an online personal information manager (ie calendering, addressbook..) which is able to syncronise with the PalmPilot, WinCE, MS Outlook, ACT, Lotus Organizer...using TruSync from Starfish software

Internet Movie Database for the PalmPilot might be compiled and the author is looking for feedback on what kind of info should be included because of the Pilot's memory limits

After months of delays, Microsoft will enter the instant messenger race (icq, Yahoo Pager, aol/csi/netscape instant messenger, pagoo, bla bla bla...) this week (3rd week) with MSN Messenger which also be able to retrieve e-mail messages from your hotmail account [do you know anyone who doesnt' has a hotmail account? i wonder what they do with all that collected data...]

MTV buys stake in Daimond's (maker of the Rio -the walkman-like portable mp3 player) Rioport.com subsidiary

SQ-e Travel is a new service from Singapore Airlines which allows travelers to book and purchase tickets online of flights from Singapore to Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London and Penang. You then just show the credit card u used to make the online transaction when you pick up the ticket

Get a lotta recently published country specific information data at the International Monetary Fund's website: www.imf.org

3Com introduces a 'cheaper' PalmIIIe which has the cool screen of the IIIx and V but can not be upgraded unlike the two latter ones

Panja Inc has made a device which will get video and audio content from the web (through DSL and cable modems) and puts it through your TV and stereo. (this sounds cooler than just webtv)

McLaren is going to invest $204mio in the Mercedes SLR (preview) sports car that will be available in 4 years. Only 500 pieces will be build (yearly?) in Woking, England

Prepare your sun glasses (use at least 4 or 5 on top of each other), cameras (iso 100), digital cameras and videocameras coz on August 11 there will be a total eclipse of the sun in most of the european continent before lunchtime. Description:

"A total solar eclipse occurs when a new moon comes exactly between the Earth and the sun. For more than an hour, the moon gradually obscures the sun leading to the eerie moment when darkness stretches from horizon to horizon, usually accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature, a stilling of the wind and the appearance of the brighter stars if the atmosphere is clear.
For a few instants before and after the total eclipse, bright beads of lights shine through valleys on the edge of the moon. As the eclipse passes, the horizon fills with a pale luminescence, daylight gradually returns and birds begin to sing again. During the partial phases of the eclipse, tree leaves acting as pinhole cameras scatter images of the crescent sun on the ground." -IHT July 12, 1999

Virgin releases soundtrack of the upcoming mgm movie Stigmata which is about Frankie Page (played by Patricia Arquette), a girl in her 20s who experiences weird things, the catholic church hiding the last thing Jesus wrote on paper and that there isn't god but ourselves.
Track listings: 1. Chumbawamba "Mary Mary" (Stigmatic Mix) 2. Remy Zero "Gramarye" 3. Bjork "All Is Full Of Love" (Mark "Spike" Stent Mix) 4. David Bowie "The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell" 5. Afro Celt Sound System "Release" featuring Sinead O'Connor 6. Massive Attack "Inertia Creeps" 7. Natalie Imbruglia "identify" (music by Billy Corgan and Mike Garson, lyrics by Billy Corgan)

Sharp of Japan to introduce mobile phone using Epoc OS next year. It also plans to deliver screens for nokia and Ericsson. Seems they're having fun at Symbian.

IBM buys Sequent (makes servers that use non uniform memory access architecture or NUMA, multiple processors in one system) for $0.8bio

Toshiba brings out 400mhz notebook models (Satellite 4100 XDVD, 2595 XDVD and 2065 CDS)

A German archeologist and a Dutch engineer are searching for the tomb of King Antiochus (who built the Commagene Kingdom 162 b.c.- 72 a.d.) on Mount Nemrut about 800km south east of Ankara in Turkey. it's regarded as the 8th world wonder

Gold price has fallen to $257.7 an ounce. lowest level since may 1979. time to buy?

"Drinking one or more cups of tea a day can reduce the risk of having a heart attack ...[tea] contains natural compounds called flavonoids that can neutralize harmful chemicals that damage cells and can lead to heart attacks, stoke and cancer." -IHT July 9, 1999

Captain Pasco, a russian journalist who worked for a japanese tv co. reporting on how russian navy dumped toxic waste into the sea, has been imprisonned. about

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, will be performing a 90 min. one-man show he wrote himself titled: "Where did Vanincent Van Gogh?" on wednesdays in the Acme theatre Los Angeles through july 28.

Personal Video Recorder (PVR) can record several programs at the same time for up to 15 hours or something. At the moment, ReplayTV and Tivo are the main manufacturers.

A company from Israel developed Cguard, a cellphone jamming device, that is as big as a paperback book which will block all cellphones that are close by. For instance, restaurant owners who don't allow cellphones can use the cguard to trick the phones which simply display that it can't find a network. Cinemas will also find use of this, were people apparently answer their calls in the middle of a movie. Other customers include Operas, Banks and the military. Normal consumers may also purchase it ($1000) eventhough legal use of the cguard may vary from country to country

Airflash will enter public beta testing in september. It provides location specific (directory) infomation to cellphone users such as the nearest location of a restaurant chain, office supply stores or traffic jam news. Users can use a voice operated system or sms and the service will also be WAP enabled

If you ask me, The Ericsson R380 is gonna be the killer mobile phone of next year when it'll be released in the first quarter (front/back image)

It seems the Series5mx is much faster than the original series5. The background lighting uses half as much power and the 'buzzing' sound has diminished dramatically. It also has twice as much memory (16mb). The difference between the 5mx and the MC218 is that the Ericsson unit is even cooler: it is WAP enabled, has extra phone software, a clip on IR modem (DI27) which fits on the 600/700 series ericsson cell phones, and a postcard software that can ir sync with a digital camera ir port and send the acquired digital image as an e-mail for instance.

This month the Ericsson MC218 (it's basicallly a Series5mx with the Ericsson logo), the first commercially available product to support WAP will be available in most of European countries, first 1/4 of next year in the US

"WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) -standard for Internet content and advanced telephony services in digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals" Nokia & Ericsson are working together on this standard

Sega's internet enabled Dreamcast game console will be released into the US and European market in september

Mitsubishi will stop exporting the 3000GT model to the US because of slow sales

Palmscape has released a new strategic-like game: "Dark Horizons" for the Psion5 which is the first Epoc32 app that supports color (that is, as soon as there is a color Psion available). You can use an epoc emulator to see how it looks with color.

If you use your cellphone in Europe and are a frequent traveller to the US, using the Omnipoint sim card, you can also use you rmobile phone in the US as long as you have a dual frequency (1900mhz for US/ 900mhz for Europe & Asia?) phone such as the Ericsson I888, Nokia 3210 or Bosch World 718

Hong Kong and Singapore are the only cities at the moment who have underground wireless network coverage (you can use your mobile phone in the metro). The Berlin U-bahn is the next one

"neural net -computers learn to recognize patterns and gradually evolve their own base of knowledge"

If you have a heart attack, you have about 10 sec to act before you become unconscious. What you should do is breath very deeply (for more oxygen) and cough hard. This will allow you to call 112 or something between your breathing intakes.

Get real-time european company quotes through your mobile phone for free at mobilefinance

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