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From the page: "You want a phone that can do it all? Internet, music, photos, films, documents, texting, instant messaging, diary, contacts and ... err ... phone calls?

Then a smartphone is right for you. But as the market for high-end mobiles gets ever more crowded, which should you pick?

The global market leader, Symbian, makes the software that runs most of Nokia's smart phones (and a few others). "

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From the page: "Tips for Work

Most of us spend the most time at work, so letâ€s start there. If you have a to-do list thatâ€s a mile long â€" or worse yet, no to-do list at all â€" hereâ€s what you can do:

1. Do less. This is my favorite productivity tip, as long-time readers know â€" simplify your schedule by doing fewer things but focusing on the important things. This will greatly increase the impact of the time you do work, decreasing the time you need to work. What about the tasks you donâ€t do? See the tips below for more on dealing with them.

2. Delegate. If a task needs to be done but is not one of your most important tasks, and it can be done by someone else, delegate it. Sometimes you can get rid of half your to-do list by finding others who can do the task as well or even better than you can."

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From the page: "Now that you have the list of targeted keyword phrases, the question is how you can optimize your blog for keywords that you have discovered. Blog page optimization is the process of making sure that your blog article functions in the most effective way possible in relation to search engines"

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From the page: "PwC was criticised by the UK accounting regulator for using loopholes to sell lucrative consulting services to its audit clients â€" a practice discouraged since the Enron scandal.

The Financial Reporting Council on Monday singled out the firm in the UK for its practice of allowing senior partners involved in making key audit judgments â€" but outside the audit department itself â€" to sell advisory services to audit clients.
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While that practice is not forbidden by auditor ethical standards, the FRC said it felt PwCâ€s policy went against the spirit of rules enacted to prevent a repeat of the 2001-02 Enron and WorldCom accounting scandals. "

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From the page: "Here it is: Googleâ€s strategy to take over the world. Or at least, this is Googleâ€s plan according to French consulting firm faberNovel, who summarize the Big Gâ€s plot - from YouTube, to the Facebook threat, to competing with Microsoft, to Googleâ€s iron grip on the online advertising market - and much more - in a mere 34 slides. "

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From the page: "Do you know whatâ€s going to happen to you tomorrow? The answer to this question is inevitably â€oeNo.†Even if you have the best plans and schedules, you canâ€t predict for sure whatâ€s going to happen.

So how do you deal with uncertainty? By accepting it."

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From the page: "The Nokia N97 is the new flagship model from the Finnish company. It comes with a 3.5-inch 640Ã--360 touchscreen display with tactile feedback, 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass lens, slide out QWERTY keypad, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 32GB internal memory and support for additional storage of up to 16GB via microSD. This marks the continuing evolution of Nokiaâ€s touchscreen phones and the first time an Nseries mobile phone featured a QWERTY keypad. While it does lack DVB-H technology thatâ€s found in the N96, Iâ€m sure most users wouldnâ€t mind that small sacrificial lamb for the N97â€s existing feature set."

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From the page: "Amidst all the talk about data portability and net identity, all that end users want to know is: how can I use this, and is it any good? Now both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are open to everyone; weâ€ve looked into these two services to see what they offer and which one is easier to use.
So, whatâ€s the main difference here?

In the simplest of terms, both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect let you create applications on your website that allow your visitors to interact with the site and their friends by logging in with their Google, Facebook, or OpenID credentials.

The key difference between the two services is the fact that Facebook is one social network, while Google Friend Connect is open to any site, service or social network that uses OpenID for identification. For example, with Google Friend Connect your visitors can log in using their Gmail credentials, meaning that they donâ€t really have to be a part of any (strictly defined) social network at all. Facebook Connect, on the other hand, is useless to anyone whoâ€s not a Facebook user. "

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From the page: "Whilst this ruling should finally put an end to this debate I can report that the countless emails of bad practice by Chartered Accountants already supplied will be kept just in case.

This ruling should not be seen as some sort of Chartered Accountant â€oebashing†because that has never been our intention and never will. Our case has always been that there is good and bad in every organisation and that the ICAEW are not exempt from this and have no divine right to expect or demand otherwise.

The ICPA have always fought against any one body having sole rights to the title Accountant and we also point out that ICAEW members actually do have the sole right to the term Chartered Accountant which one would have thought was sufficient. If the leadership of the ICAEW had paid their small practice members the attention they deserve and merit rather than focusing on others then maybe just maybe this issue would never have arisen.

If the leadership is uncertain as to exactly what the membership actually need they could do worse than look at the benefits of membership of the ICPA for a start."

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From the page: "With an estimated fortune of $62 billion, Warren Buffett is the richest man in the entire world. In 1962, when he began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway, a share cost $7.50. Today, Buffett, 78, is Berkshire's chairman and CEO, and one share of the company's class A stock worth close to $119,000. He credits his astonishing success to several key strategies, which he has shared with writer Alice Schroeder. She spend hundreds of hours interviewing the Sage of Omaha for the new authorized biography The Snowball. Here are some of Buffett's money-making secrets -- and how they could work for you."