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Motorolla to unveil downloadable movie service next month.

April 25, 2008 · No Comments

Ars Technica has details of a movie service to be unveiled in late May.  The service will require customers to download the movie to their pc and then sync to their phones.  This sounds similar to all the other services out there to me.

Excerpted from Ars Technica:

“Apparently, the service will not be designed so that users can download movies directly from their phones—rather, they will have to download first to their PCs and then sync it to their devices. This makes the description of a “breakthrough” service somewhat curious, as the idea of just sticking video content onto a mobile device is neither new nor innovative, even for Motorola. Last June, the company rolled out a Moto Z8 preloaded with a full-length version of The Bourne Identity, and later this month, Motorola plans to introduce Moto Z10s in the UK with the Ultimate Bourne Collection.’

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New Adult Nonfiction 000-399

April 25, 2008 · No Comments

Annotations from Baker & Taylor

 

Build Your Real Estate Fortune

Corbett, Michael

Profiling real estate as an accessible and safe investment market with a potential to enable savvy participants to secure their futures and retire early, a host of Extra’s Mansions and Millionaires outlines professional techniques for purchasing small properties and generating large returns.

 

FairTax: The Truth: Answering The Critics

Boortz, Neal / Linder, John / Woodall, Rob

A follow-up to The FairTax Book answers critics who have misrepresented the plan’s principles, which involve the abolishment of the IRS in favor of a twenty-three-percent retail sales tax on all new goods and services.

 

Go Green, Live Rich

Bach, David / Rosner, Hillary

The renowned financial guru explains how to get rich while helping save the planet, with fifty easy-to-accomplish suggestions on how to promote an eco-friendly lifestyle while promoting a sound financial plan, offering tips on how to spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes and including helpful resources, produces, services, Web sites, and contacts.

 

The Home Office from Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-sucking Homebased Business into a Runaway Success

Landers, Jeffrey A.

A step-by-step guide to transforming one’s home-based business into a profitable enterprise outlines a one-hundred-day program of easy-to-implement, scheduled tasks designed to bolster growth and address key areas of concern.

 

Life Among the Dead

Williams, Lisa

The medium host of Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead describes how her childhood in England was marked by her clairvoyant abilities, shares behind-the-scenes facts about her popular show, and describes her work as an investigator of haunted houses and other psychic phenomena.

 

What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed- Reading People

Navarro, Joe / Karlins, Marvin

A former FBI counter-intelligence officer explains how to utilize non-verbal communication to improve one’s personal and professional lives, explaining how such signals as body language, dress, and demeanor affect how one is perceived and understood.

 

When Enough Is Enough: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Intervention

Finnigan, Candy / Finnigan, Sean

A comprehensive and compassionate guide to confronting a loved one’s addiction addresses a wide range of issues from personal and medical aspects to financial and legal concerns.

 

While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family

Harrison, Kathryn

Describes the brutal killings of his parents and younger sister by eighteen-year-old Billy Gilley, Jr., and the aftermath of a crime that shocked a small Midwestern town, in a study that reflects on the deadly effects of abuse and violence within a family and the impact of the crime on both the perpetrator and the only other survivor, his teenage sister.

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