Have you ever wondered how much a business gathering or meeting would cost? Well if you do the pencil-pushing by yourself, you are bound to go crazy. But now with this new cost calculator and clock called Bring Tim! This new time management tool can rack up the cost of holding a meeting in progress without too many calculations. Simply enter the number of attendees, estimate an average hourly rate and press the start button. That is it!

With the Bring TIM!, the cost of every second that passes, giving management an idea of how much one meeting would cost and how much time is being wasted. With this cost calculator, meetings can be shortened and direct to the point for better productivity and results. Bring TIM! Will be available by October and can be purchased at their website for $24.99 (excluding shipping).

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Just for today only, Amazon is handing out AT&T phones for a penny. This is not a joke! The only catch is that you have to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T. There are no activation fees and you can get the phones via free 2 day shipping.

Here are some of the phones up for grabs:

• Samsung Eternity a867
• Blackberry Curve 8900
• Samsung Impression a877
• LG Xenon GR500
• Blackberry Bold 9000
• Motorola Tundra
• And many more!

To view a complete list of phones, go here.

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As you are well aware by now, the Tour has been launched by both Sprint and Verizon on the same day. And Verizon seems to be the moral winner of this direct duel. Not only didn’t Sprint make the Tour available for pre-order, but it also failed to please every customer that walked into a store looking for a new Berry.

Sprint didn’t have enough Tour units to go around and this didn’t go unnoticed. According to Sprint’s twitter account, the carrier has received two shipments from RIM which means that all those of you that couldn’t walk out a store with a Tour in your hand can now return to get it. Of course if you went to a Verizon store instead then you don’t really care about Sprint’s new Tour stock.

via Twitter

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We received word the other day that Apple has already shipped some of the pre-ordered iPhone 3G S phones. And while your UPS guy might have informed you that your new iPhone is going to be shipped to your door before June 19, that will not happen. Apple has issued some kind of order to UPS to hold those early but very precious packages. The shipped iPhone 3G S phones have now this status:

THE RECEIVER REQUESTED A HOLD FOR A FUTURE DELIVERY DATE. UPS WILL ATTEMPT DELIVERY ON DATE REQUESTED.

That means you’ll just have to wait until Friday to get the phone. Let us know if you receive the iPhone earlier though!

via Engadget

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Could it be possible for Apple to have already started shipping those pre-ordered iPhone 3G S? I mean we’re still a few days to go until Apple and AT&T stores start selling the iPhone 3G S and it looks like Apple has announced some of those first lucky buyers that their pre-ordered phones are getting shipped.

According to some leaked and unconfirmed news, it has been estimated that, on average, 800 people per store have reserved an iPhone 3G S. That means we are probably looking at at least 200,000 reserved phones if not more. What do you think, will Apple beat it’s first weekend iPhone 3G sales record?

via crazyhawt

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Did you order one of those new Kindles already? If you did, then go ahead and check the status of your order. It looks like Amazon has started shipping that Kindle 2 ahead of time and you might get it even before February 24. And from what we hear it seems that Amazon has started shipping the Kindle 2 to new customers already even though Kindle 1 owners were supposed to be the first ones to get the new Kindle version.

via Engadget

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Worried about sending off tape backups to secure locations with third party shipping companies? Fujifilm may have an answer. The Fujifilm Tape Tracker is a data management solution designed to improve security and shipping of data tape media. The tracker, designed to fit neatly inside a standard tape media case, combines GPS tracking technology and a corresponding web application that lets you track the shipment in real-time. The technology is patent pending, and will be on show at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07) in Reno, Nevada from November 10-16.

The GPS system easily fits in 1/2-inch data tape cartridge, and resembles a standard tape. You can then include it in a tape media case and monitor misplaced or stolen tapes using the web app. Called FujiFind, the app can track one or more data tape shipments simultaneously.

Currently in beta tests, the GPS tape drive will be available sometime in Q1 2008.

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