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Loans by text message send young Swedes spiralling into debt

2008-03-13 12:30:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...criticism was "exaggerated He pointed out that the loans, which also exist in the United States and several European countries, have been well-received by Swedes, renowned for high consumption habits and enthusiastic early-adapters for new technologies The huge success (of the SMS loans) caught the authorities by surprise, and ... they did...
 
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UberSaturday: Search Behemoth Busted Taking an Anonymous Potshot at eBay

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2008-05-31 11:18:59 by C. S. Magor in The Uber-Review
...criticism from anyone who cared to make their objections known. The ACCC announced a call for submissions from interested parties regarding eBays move and amongst them was a highly critical anonymous 38-page document [2.5MB PDF Submissions to the ACCC become public domain, but people or businesses that make them can choose to remain...
 
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OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop [Olpc Secret Origins]

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2008-08-28 14:40:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...criticism has been one of the projects fatal flaws Although the project seemed threatened in early 2006 from all sides these were minor compared to the problems to come. The biggest concern at the time was lack of an LCD panel manufacturer, but Negroponte and CTO Mary Lou Jepsen managed to charm another eccentric Taiwanese billionaire....
 
Tags: olpc, olpc designer, olpc people, inside olpc, laptop, olpc website, nicholas negroponte, negroponte, olpc todaysays
 
 
 
 
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App Store Devs: your arbitrary rejection is now under NDA

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2008-09-24 10:26:45 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...criticism... and it particularly gets the goat when you could simply defuse that criticism by being more open and honest about the App Store's positively arcane approval process. If this is the way you're going to treat your programmers, there's now a competing platform Google's Android that will likely be just as good or better than the App...
 
Tags: app store, developers, app store developers, apple extends non-disclosure, apple, platform google, platform, shameful reasons, reasons
 
 
 
 
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Learning about games and playing through LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

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2008-11-14 08:00:00 by LEGO Mindstorms - Whats New in Robotic-Lab.COM
...criticism of things earlier generations had no problem with. Had LEGO simply been a fad that we had loved and was now lost in the abyss of older generations? With great anxiety we waited for them to arrive, and most of all their reaction We were not disappointed. The group was overly ecstatic to learn what we had planned for them. Boys and...
 
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Letter to a Young Engineer (from a purported Honda employee)

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2008-11-20 16:02:50 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...criticism is good, even if perhaps based on being fundamentally uninformed or unrealistic. At the heart of discomfort is the reality of the concern, and Honda, each of us, we feel this every day. It is real concern. Not something to dismiss, but to face. Loud criticism is even better, and then to focus on answers, and who has ideas and is...
 
Tags: clarity, clarity concept car, concept, honda, concept car, honda employee, honda email domain, cars, race cars
 
 
 
 
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Apple to turn down the volume on iPod

2007-12-24 19:01:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...criticism by hearing charities who have expressed concerns about the risk posed by MP3 players In April, Apple revealed that it had sold more than 100 million iPods worldwide and it was expecting, by the end of this year, to have sold more than 4.5 million iPhones - which also function as music players - including 200,000 in Britain A...
 
Tags: volume, loud music, music, digital music players, automatic volume control, ipod, music players, volume levels, ipods
 
 
 
 
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Redflys Mobile Companion is the Foleo in a new guise

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2008-01-02 17:00:41 by Chris in Coolest Gadgets
...criticism from the online news community causes you to cancel it altogether, you really need to rethink your strategy. No, I didnt write this article to pour salt on Palms old wound, Ill leave that to Redfly, the makers of a new Mobile Companion that looks remarkably like the Foleo Heres the general idea, youd have a small 8-inch laptop-like...
 
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Palm Centro Smartphone

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2008-01-01 05:03:20 by Martin in Portable Gadget
...criticism in the smartphone category. As Nokia and HTC continuously releases new and thrilling phones. Palm has always been one step back with its old array of its Treo models. It is hoped that Palm will be lucky this time in the smarpthone department by releasing its new and lightweight model: The Palm Centro The Centro is only available...
 
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