The consumer appetite for smartphones is soaring. Market research firm Parks Associates projects that annual smartphone sales worldwide will climb from 131 million units in 2008 to over 300 million by 2013. The firm's report Mobile Services: Global...
Topics: smartphones, tech

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Rihanna has more legal troubles ahead. According to TMZ, she illegally picked up the tattoo needle and gave three people tattoos at a New York tattoo parlor. It's illegal for anyone to give a tattoo that's not licensed. We're told RiRi...
Topics: celebrity, illegal-tattoo, rihanna

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Costa Rica has topped the Happy Planet Index (HPI). The HPI index combines environmental impact with human well-being. It's an attempt to measure each country's environmental efficiency, happiness and life expectancy. CNN reports that the HPI...
Topics: hpi-index

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People were starting to worry there had been foul play whent South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford went missing for a few days. It turns out he was in Argentina for seven days visiting his mistress. No, really. He was. "I've let down a lot of...
Topics: politics

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Actor and comedian Breckin Meyer ( Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ) has made a hilarious spoof of Perez Hilton's emotional video statement that Perez made after Wil.i.am's manager punched him out outside of a club in Toronto this past weekend. In...
Topics: celebrity

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