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Social Networking From Your Cell 143

A small startup VCEL (Virtual Communication Expression & Lifestyle) has unveiled a new social networking service for cell phones. All you need to do to keep in contact with your friends 24/7 is to create a profile with their website, download a Java application for your cell phone (more than 20 models are supported already), and send an invitation to your buddies. Here we go: you can exchange comments, pictures, plan on activities together, etc. You'd have the same control over your profile either from phone or from web browser. They have a nice Java applet for your page, so you can leave your buddies a voice message right from your computer and so on.

Comment Re:18 percent (Score 1) 995

You are sadly mistaken on the amount that it costs you do a European vacation. Granted with a full family it would cost more than normal, but it is not even the gross annual income of a person earning minimum wage. I spent this entire past summer in Europe, primarily in Germany with trips to other surrounding countries. I stayed for a little over 3 months, participated in a study abroad program which cost 2500 USD itself and still managed to spend less than 7000 dollars. That included a lot of German beer nearly everyday.

For a month or less stay your largest expense would be plane tickets and with a family of four that could cost as much as 4400 dollars or so in the middle of the summer. Going in May or late August allows you to still see fair weather and have an enjoyable time at a far ticket prices. To spend an equal amount to your gross annual income you would have to be an extravagant spender and have no concept of following a budget.

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