Alan Bajandas on January 28, 2008 4:40 PM
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Duck and cover boys and girls. A broken-down photo-recon satellite the size of a shortbus has had it with piping close-ups of the blinding bald patches of C.I.A. operatives into their own Blackberries as they distribute Kalashnikovs and crack to third-world babies. [Phew.]
The disillusioned satellite is reported to have given its entire record collection to an obsolete cellphone satellite and seems to be inching ever closer to the precipice of uncontrolled reentry.
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Joey Seiler on November 30, 2007 3:50 PM
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26 years in the making, worldwide mobile subscriptions have reached 3.3 billion according to research firm Informa Telecoms and Media. As of, oh, right now, the US Census Bureau puts the global population at 6,634,545,153. This doesn't mean that half the world has a cell phone, since 59 countries have mobile penetration of over 100 percent, meaning at least some people have more than one subscription. I--gadget yuppie that I am--have 17.
Continue reading 'Mobile subscriptions reach halfway point for global population:Google takes over world, Koreans die' >
