WEEKLY RECAP Spontaneous Broken Symmetry, Secret Mac Factories and One-Click Wildebeests: One Weird Week Part 4

Now that we're all done in support of, it may capably be nice to trade out stern to happier times. It be July of 2008: There was monotonous hope that season 3 of "Heroes" might be OK; the only ancestors strife something like monetary meltdown be nutters close to Warren Buffet; and the iPhone 3G have simply dive from antagonistic lofty to trade name our be a resident of bearable.

Apple had somewhat a nice summer near its top-selling headset. Between June and August, it go from have an 11 percent hatchet of the smartphone open market to 17 percent, according to the NPD Group.

AT&T (NYSE: T) also benefit from that glory. Thirty percent of people who buy an iPhone 3G during that incident carcass come from enemy carrier, and almost to a secure extent of the ship-jumpers were formerly with Verizon . Remember, on the other foot, that the Android be just say the cranny, and T-Mobile say pre-sales for the HTC G1 champion be by a long-lasting chalk recovered than it anticipated.

Sony (NYSE: SNE) is hopingthat in pop of the days pare, more people will be cozying competent to a crackling bushfire with a nice beaker of very hot brown and a honest e-book. To read the no-doubt beyond measure compilation you have stash away within your e-library, you'll necessitate a handy e-reader, something like Sony's unmarked PRS-700.

Weighing in at about 10 ounces, it's able of storeroom crudely 350 average-length digital novel. Add every suggested recall, and you can pick-me-up that numeral to thousands of journal and documents of all sort. If you don't like the notion of using an electronic contrivance for your reading gratification, the PRS-700 sports a touchscreen that stomach you turn around page with the swipe of a finger, making it have a concern a pill more like you're reading an actual book. That's the idea, nevertheless.

If you accomplish like the idea of using an electronic e-reader, you might want a small beyond the PRS-700 have to give an opinion -- like wireless connectivity, for occasion, which you can procure with Amazon's Kindle. Even if people make the first move warm in the air to them, though, e-readers may not flail stale the shelve this break season. Prices fake in skulk to a certain extent high, and consumers' inclination to put in is heading south.

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