To keep down expenses he relies on referrals, occasional visits to industry trade shows and LinkedIn, which he uses to blast periodic e-mails to a network of roughly 500 executives.

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Most promising: an online "CW Lab" that will let fans tie together short clips from their favorites shows along with music, logos and personal videos, and then blast them off to friends through IM and e-mail.

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And while e-mail databases exist that enable phishers, spammers and others to blast their messages to huge chunks of users at once, it's tougher to get lists of telephone numbers, much less numbers specifically for smartphone users.

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The blast occurred when the soldiers were travelling on a routine patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district.

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