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Hooters growing in China, sources say - Mar. 30, 2007

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The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells, and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

Normally we’d say something snarky here, but there just isn’t enough of a challenge this time.

Sony Ericsson W950I - Review by PC Magazine

Not quite the anti-iPhone, this music-playing smart device feels like a luxury item—until you try to get online.

We expect more for our $730.

Shelter Island Stunner - Forbes.com

For the first time in its history, the Shorewood Manor, a 23-room Queen Anne Victorian on Shelter Island, N.Y., is publicly listed for sale. Interested? Be prepared to pony up $33 million.

Actually, since it has been around since the 1800’s you can’t even get this deal once a century.

First class travel is great, except for the fact that they put all the riffraff on the same flight with you. That’s where the all-business niche found an opportunity.

Business-Class Boom - Forbes.com

Business travelers looking for a headache-free way to jet to Europe needn’t worry about securing one of a limited number of reclining seats. Now they can choose from four airlines where it’s all business class all the time.British carrier Silverjet is the newest entrant to the business class-only market. It began daily routes between Newark and London’s Luton airport this year. L’Avion, a Paris-based airline, has been flying between Newark and Orly-Sud since December. They join Eos and MAXjet, both London-based carriers that in 2005 began offering service between JFK and London’s Stanstead airport and London’s Stanstead airport and Las Vegas, respectively.

That’s more like it.

The Size of a Paperback and Most of the Functions of a Real PC - New York Times

Hoping to put a PC in every purse, Samsung has upgraded its Q1 line of tiny 1.7-pound portable computers.These paperback-size devices, 9 inches by 5.5 inches by 1 inch thick, run Windows — that is, they are real computers — but they also function as touch-sensitive notepads. The Home Premium edition of Windows Vista has been added to the $1,300 Q1P, available now, and its enhanced handwriting recognition should make it easier to use the seven-inch screen as an input device.

Nice. Very nice.

Bentley’s Elite New Drive - Forbes.com

The company recently unveiled its new Brooklands model, which it is calling “the world’s most exclusive coupe.”
Bentley will start delivery in the first half of next year, and will build no more than 550 during the vehicle’s lifetime. The company’s engineers will hand-assemble each one, using its famous, traditional coach-building techniques and craftsmanship skills in wood veneer and leather hide.

Be the first in Greenwich to buy one.

Ten Must-Drink Irish Whiskeys - Forbes.com

For decades , serious whiskey drinkers drank scotch. Irish “blended” whiskey was for drowning sorrows–or coffee.But, John Hansell, editor and publisher of Malt Advocate magazine, says that’s changing.

“The line between Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky has become blurred,” says Hansell, since Irish whiskey companies like Bushmills and Jameson have expanded their range to include deluxe whiskies from aged blends to pure pot stills and their own brand of single malts. “The top Irish whiskeys are just as good as many single-malt scotches. It’s too bad more people aren’t aware of how complex some of these whiskeys have become.”

We’re always game for a dram or two.

Tax Havens Of The World - Forbes.com

Death may be certain, but taxes don’t have to be.It’s an international marketplace after all, and there are plenty of nations willing to welcome expatriates fed up with Uncle Sam.

Countries like the Bahamas make tax haven status an integral part of their marketing–relocate to Nassau, and you’ll fear no tax man. That’s because, for Bahamians and resident aliens there are no taxes on personal income, capital gains, inheritance or gifts.

It’s enough to warm the hearts of tax protestors everywhere.

Digit Online

A wide-screen Windows Mobile-based PDA (personal digital assistant) and flat-rate 3G (third-generation) data service is what’s on offer from Sharp Corp. and a new mobile carrier in Japan. The EM-One sports a full QWERTY keyboard, runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a 4.1-inch wide-screen with WVGA (800 pixels by 480 pixels) resolution. It’s compatible with HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) data service that offers download speeds of up to 3.6M bps and also comes with 802.11b/g Wireless LAN, Bluetooth and a tuner for Japan’s mobile digital television broadcasts. It will cost between ¥39,800 and ¥95,000 (US$336 and $795), respectively, depending on the service plan and won’t be available through other carriers or in other countries.

Japan always gets first crack at the coolest stuff.