If you're a person who prefers to write a sms instead of talking on cellphone, then take a look at this pretty-bad-idea gadget.
This gadget, called cre8txt keyboard was designed specially for SMS users with familiar button set like on cellphone keypad.It's essentially a keyboard that lets you type like you do on a cellphone, but on a computer. You can plug it into any PC, MAC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
This gadget can also translates the text slang into the real actual English language.
Sony Ericsson has just released its latest walkman-phone, showcasing the Sony Ericsson W880i.
Slim Walkman®. Fat sound.
Funnel your favorite music into the ultra slim W880i Walkman® phone. Store up to 900 tracks - enough to give your musical taste buds whatever they fancy.
Music in style
9.4mm thin and with a casing of stainless steel: the W880i is ready to rock. And the Walkman® player 2.0 is never more than a click away.
Full Walkman® kit
The W880i kit contains all you need for a full musical experience. It includes a stereo handsfree, PC software and a 1GB Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™).
Shortcuts to more music
Click the PlayNow™ icon to browse the latest hits. Or check out potential future megastars at m-buzz.com, a site for unsigned artists.
Screen
* 262.144 color TFT
* 240×320 pixel
Memory
* Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) support
* Phone memory 16MB*
*Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.
Networks
* GSM 900
* GSM 1800
* GSM 1900
* UMTS 2100
Available colours
* Steel Silver
* Flame Black
Sizes
* 103 x 46.5 x 9.4 mm
* 4 x 1.8 x 0.4 inches
Weight
* 71 gr
* 2.5 oz
Sony has announced the new 8.1 Megapixel Cyber-Shoot S800 digital camera, offering a 6x optical zoom that restracts into the camera body just like those 3x optical zooms do, coming with 2.5-inchi LCD monitor, Direct Playback mode, 54MB of internal memory and many more features included.
Sony DSC-S800 key features:
The foreign exchange market is unique because of
As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal perfect competition. According to the BIS,[1] average daily turnover in traditional foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.21 trillion. Daily averages in April for different years, in billions of US dollars, are presented on the chart below:
This $3.21 trillion in global foreign exchange market "traditional" turnover was broken down as follows:
In addition to "traditional" turnover, $2.1 trillion was traded in derivatives.
Exchange-traded forex futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts. Forex futures volume has grown rapidly in recent years, and accounts for about 7% of the total foreign exchange market volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe (5/5/06, p. 20).
Average daily global turnover in traditional foreign exchange market transactions totaled $2.7 trillion in April 2006 according to IFSL estimates based on semi-annual London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore Foreign Exchange Committee data. Overall turnover, including non-traditional foreign exchange derivatives and products traded on exchanges, averaged around $2.9 trillion a day. This was more than ten times the size of the combined daily turnover on all the world’s equity markets. Foreign exchange trading increased by 38% between April 2005 and April 2006 and has more than doubled since 2001. This is largely due to the growing importance of foreign exchange as an asset class and an increase in fund management assets, particularly of hedge funds and pension funds. The diverse selection of execution venues such as internet trading platforms has also made it easier for retail traders to trade in the foreign exchange market. [4]
Because foreign exchange is an OTC market where brokers/dealers negotiate directly with one another, there is no central exchange or clearing house. The biggest geographic trading centre is the UK, primarily London, which according to IFSL estimates has increased its share of global turnover in traditional transactions from 31.3% in April 2004 to 32.4% in April 2006. RPP
The ten most active traders account for almost 73% of trading volume, according to The Wall Street Journal Europe, (2/9/06 p. 20). These large international banks continually provide the market with both bid (buy) and ask (sell) prices. The bid/ask spread is the difference between the price at which a bank or market maker will sell ("ask", or "offer") and the price at which a market-maker will buy ("bid") from a wholesale customer. This spread is minimal for actively traded pairs of currencies, usually 0–3 pips. For example, the bid/ask quote of EUR/USD might be 1.2200/1.2203 on a retail broker. Minimum trading size for most deals is usually 100,000 units of currency, which is a standard "lot".
These spreads might not apply to retail customers at banks, which will routinely mark up the difference to say 1.2100 / 1.2300 for transfers, or say 1.2000 / 1.2400 for banknotes or travelers' checks. Spot prices at market makers vary, but on EUR/USD are usually no more than 3 pips wide (i.e. 0.0003). Competition is greatly increased with larger transactions, and pip spreads shrink on the major pairs to as little as 1 to 2 pips.
