The chip offers the processing power of second-generation Pentium M processors, with the power consumption of a cellphone chip.

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Moreover, Ready believes that a new generation of payments companies will lead m-commerce just as PayPal and three others took over e-commerce payments from traditional credit card payment processors.

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At precisely 9 a.m. this morning, I plugged in my first-generation iPhone, booted up iTunes and excitedly began the process of updating the phone to software version 2.0--an upgrade that should allow me to install and use the new iPhone applications from the iTunes store.

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At 5:30 a.m. last Aug. 10, Sally Eason, the second-generation owner of Sunburst Trout Farm in Canton, N.

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Maybe it's me -- it probably is -- but I'm pretty sure that I'm of a generation of shoppers who prefer to do their dealing digitally.

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Without busting out the contrast spectrometer to test Amazon's claim, I'm going to go with what I can see, and when compared to my last-generation Kindle, it's clear Amazon has indeed increased the contrast of the screen.

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And I'm just wondering, what about the effect of this sort of second generation, the post-civil rights generation, and the effect that this will have upon the move into - because a lot of these people are already middle class - but the move into sort of the stable middle class, particularly for people who had not been part of it previously?

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