L.A., here we come

Though it feels like we just returned from Las Vegas and the annual CTIA cell phone blowout in April, the autumn version of the show is right around the corner. This second show is smaller than its spring counterpart and is less focused on new handsets, but that doesn't mean we won't see anything exciting. Last year at the fall CTIA in San Francisco, Verizon introduced the Palm Treo 700w, and Cingular said it would pick up the Nokia 9300.

This year we don't quite know what to anticipate, but our smart phone expert Bonnie Cha expects to scout out some new models at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In particular, she plans on stopping by HTC's booth since the company has kept itself busy lately launching new handsets in Europe. Also, you can usually count on Kyocera and UTStarcom to unveil a few new models. Othwerwise we'll check in with such companies as Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Symbian, and Microsoft. We'll start reporting live on Monday, September 11, so be sure to check back throughout the week.

[GrannyCares]

Obama is really trying hard to get us to forget about that 'old sticky stuff'. He dithered so long that by the time he decided to do something (and get the union's approval to do so), it was too late.

In 2010 and again in 2012, it will be TOO LATE FOR HIM AND HIS ILK!

[presbarden]

http://caes.ucdavis.edu/NewsEvents/spotlight/uc-davis-expert-advises-bp-on-chemical-dispersants-in-gulf-oil-spill?utm_source=UC+Davis+CA%26ES+E-News&utm_campaign=c83246d1a0-CAES_E-News_MayJune_2010&utm_medium=email

[wlhoppers]

Taking political sides be damned right now. The issue is stopping this gusher and stopping it now. I don't care who does it, how many countries we need help from, let's just pitch in and get it done. This is a global problem and obviously neither BP or the US can do it alone. The whole frigging point is to plug the well. We can worry about who to blame and hate later.

[ggimperatore]

what about the EPA? "Well we have to determine if the water that "A WHALE" pumps back into the Gulf is ok".? ***?
If the damned thing is removing most of the oil in the water, isn't that better than the way it was before being processed?

[rwsmith29456]

Yeah, and if they can't stop it the oil slick will be twice as large as it is now in a few months. Every day it's the newest 'big oil spill'.

[larrryshrine]

test . . . I don't seem to be getting through . . . hmmm

[pragmatist1]

Neither the government nor BP have the capability of accurately determining exactly how much is leaking. Also, environmentalists are hysterical because in the controlled burn areas turtles and other animals are dying. Give it a rest tree-huggers. You can't have it both ways. For all we know, some of you may have caused the accident by sabotaging the well.

[msimamaji]

I hate to inform paid4congress of the bad news, but moving to Alaska will not solve the problem, unless you swear off sea food. And the same applies to anyone who talks about reviving fishing in the Gulf.

Everyone needs read a report issued by Ocean Alliance, headed by Roger Payne. This report discovered high levels of found high levels of cadmium, aluminum, chromium, lead, silver, mercury, and titanium in sperm whales- no matter where sperm whales feed, (including Alaska.

Cadmium can cause lung cancer, and mercury is responsible for a number of serious diseases including the destruction of the nervous system. (Mad hatters were not merely a figment of Lewis Carroll's imagination. Hatters in Victorian England quite often went mad or suffered other forms of severe neurological damage because they frequently used mercury-based dyes and processing chemicals.)

Worse, once mercury enters your body, it remains. The researchers from the Ocean Alliance discovered that mother sperm whales transmit mercury to their babies through their milk. When these babies mature, they pass their mercury content on to the next generation. Ultimately mercury and other toxic levels will result in the extinction of the sperm whale.

The same bodes for humans. Whenever I go to a sea food counter, I see signs reminding me of the risk of mercury. As in sperm whales, the mercury in seafood remains in your body. Sea food is a serious health risk..

The biggest source of mercury is coal-fired power plants. Open pit mines and mountain top removal are also sources of many toxic chemicals that eventually end up in the sea and in the sea food we eat.

And there is nothing the current rescue efforts can do to solve this serious problem.

The only real way to save the sea food industry is to reduce our dependence on coal, but the Senate is filled with Senators from coal states on both sides of the aisle who will block any attempt for cleaner industry. Unless we transition to green technology, sea food will remain a serious hazard to your health. And, unless we transition to green technology, there is no future for the sea food industry

[interloper5]

Finally Something the USA is number 1 at again! USA! USA! USA! USA!

[charlie448]

You need to start reading the truth and not listening to all those liberal progressives. This is the greatest thing that has happened for the Obameans and their agenda for cap and trade. Why did it take 71 days to finally get in the ships that could have helped just hours from the spill, why did it takes weeks to intervene in the cleanup process that everyone new BP could not handle. Every day that goes by just proves the "coincidence" of this event. Americans are now waking up and can see just what this administration is up to.

[renonv5]

Why did it take 71 days to finally get in the ships that could have helped just hours from the spill,


Because they were having the ship retrofitted to do this job. Apparently these things take time.