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A super functional and highly popular gift for the holidays.
Talking-key software popular with media and Web sites as OMG pink keyboard beats recession
The newly released, ultra-user-friendly Keyboard For Blondes(TM) is getting great reviews and a surge of orders despite sluggish holiday sales for many retailers. The buzz for the exciting keyboard keeps building, with coverage in major daily newspapers, popular Web sites and high-traffic technology blogs.
“The response has been overwhelming,” said Camilla Loveid, spokesperson for Keyboard For Blondes(TM). “The large spike in sales and the buzz that the roll-out has created proves that a fun and user-friendly keyboard with more functionality is needed in the U.S. marketplace.”
“Millions of hits on our Web site are turning into periods when we receive five to 10 orders per minute. At some points, the delivery company’s software had all it could do to handle the inflow of orders to our Web site,” Loveid added.
Playing off the overt humor of a bubble-gum pink keyboard for “anyone who has ever had a blonde moment,” the keyboard has keys that actually say things like, “Oops!” “Duhhh?!” “Yes! I want it!” “No way!!!” and “You are so smart!” The keyboard can even make a cash register ring for the dollar symbol.
The good news for text messaging enthusiasts is a series of special keys that type out “OMG,” “ALI” (Absolutely Love it!), “LOL” or “XOXO,” among others. And, finally, here is a keyboard that actually has the “any key.”
“The software and keyboard even let you tap out musical notes on the number pad,” Loveid said. “There are 64 renamed keys, plus 70 unique features in all. It’s very encouraging that even in a downturn economy people still remember how to have fun.”
With such strong Web traffic and sales, staffers at the company are suggesting that Black Friday be changed to Blonde Friday, and Cyber Monday to Uber-cool Keyboard Monday.
While people get the humor, they also see the benefit the keyboard offers to anyone who sees the computer environment as impersonal, boring or cold. Blonde, brunette, red, white or blue hair — it’s a totally functional keyboard with robust, easy-to-download software at a very affordable price.
Keyboard For Blondes(TM) and its Keynguru(TM) software is available now at http://www.KeyboardForBlondes.com.
The keyboard and its unique software sell for an introductory price of $49.95, plus shipping and handling USA$9.99 (subject to change). Keyboard For Blondes(TM) is manufactured by European Trends Etc.
AT&T serves up a new ‘trick’ and takes away the ‘treat’ in Reno, Nevada
as noted in an October 31st letter to the Federal Communications Commission by AT&T’s General Attorney, Jack Zinman, where in AT&T outlines its’ intent to place limits on the amount of usage any one account can upload or download each month.
With all the uproar over Comcast’s 250GB limitation recently imposed on their customers, Reno AT&T Internet Service customers are sure to want to beat the house when they discover that their ISP has raised the table stakes by capping their ‘unlimited service’ at only 20GB for some users and 150GB for others.
“For customers that exceed their bandwidth allotment more than once – the size of which varies based on the service level, starting with a 20 GB limit for 768kbps customers and topping out at 150 GB for 6 mbps lines – they will find an additional charge of $1 per gigabyte on their monthly bill,” reports Tom Corelis, blogging for Daily Tech.
The filing notice points out that only a small minority of customers “consume a disproportionately large amount of the total bandwidth available,” and that as of now (The letter says this “trial” begins “in November.”) customers who exceed 80% of this cap will be notified that they are getting close to their limit and be reminded of the usage tier and that additional charges will apply if they exceed that limit.
The letter does state that new and existing customers not willing to participate in this “trial” run, will be permitted to “cancel their broadband internet access service without an early termination penalty.”
I don’t know about you, but this is a bit distressing for “Joe the Plumber,” and others that I’ve spoken to about this issue of limiting “unlimited” service.
AT&T is promising an online meter that customers can monitor usage with in order to avoid an overage, but if their problem is with “a small minority” of their clientele, why set up the majority for potential problems except to profit from it?
Can’t they just deal with the high-rollers by tossing them out of the game on a case-by-case basis?
What do you think about all this and how might a 20GB/150GB cap effect you?
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