Like Betty White and Buddy Holly glasses, the traditional phone handset is now retro cool. The makers of the product — complete with hand cradle, the rounded receiver and transmitter and the curly cord — say mobile phone users are snapping up the handsets.
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China and Japan have signalled they may be moving closer to increasing their financial support to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to help it prop up the eurozone.
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Online advertised job vacancies in Illinois jumped by 15.4 percent in January from December and by 21 percent over the year, the Conference Board said Monday. There were 175,400 online advertised vacancies in the state this month, up from 152,000 in...
Reverse Engineering the iPhone Charger ladyada
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Remember the Minty Boost, the DIY battery-powered USB charger for your portable devices that fit neatly in an Altoids tin? It was a decent fix for those constantly failing early iPod batteries, but that 2006 incarnation has...
The Chancellor's slow-motion cuts are dragging out the austerity process, says Fraser Nelson.
In a sign that banks will continue to be punished for past mistakes, JPMorgan Chase set aside a large sum to fight lawsuits related to poorly-written mortgages during the real estate boom. The reserves hurt the bank’s income, which fell 23 percent in the fourth...
Congressional leaders line up Republican and Democratic votes for a deal to raise the US borrowing limit and avert an unprecedented debt default.
Sometimes when I come home from work there is a big orange cat sunning himself on my front porch. He ambles away as soon as he sees me not a panicked dash, because he s used to humans, but there is certainly no way I d ever get close enough to pet him. No one owns this cat, although my next...
DAVID ROEDER: Developer John Buck has acquired a stake in a six-story building at 200 N. Michigan, the northwest corner of Michigan and Lake.