Cell-phone Simulator Helps Coordinate an Outfit (PC World)

October 11, 2009
PC World - Choosing and buying clothes via a cell phone is getting easier in Japan with the launch of a new service that allows shoppers to simulate an outfit before they buy.No tag for this post.













Gately, of Irish boy band Boyzone, dies in Spain (AP)

October 11, 2009

FILE - In this May 8, 2008 file photo, Stephen Gately poses for photographs with other members of Irish band Boyzone, not pictured, as they arrive at the Caudwell Children's Charity Legends Ball in London, Britain. Singer Gately has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday Oct. 11, 2009. He was 33.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday. He was 33.


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Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money (AP)

October 11, 2009
AP - The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access. The challenge is that the government has received $28 billion in requests.No tag for this post.