Model of the Month (MoM) August 2008 - Bar Refaeli:

We have a new idea to have a Model of the Month (MoM) category and after much discussion over lunch yesterday, we have decided to award Bar Refaeli as our August 2008 MoM. We have seen her previously on Victoria’s Secret catalog but what really caught our attention this month was her work with casual wear label FOX with her unique Italian-Scandinavian-Mediterranean blend of looks. Just a little more about her thanks to Wikipedia, Bar evaded Israeli military service when she was 18 and was criticised choosing her young modelling career even though she stated that she really wanted to serve in the IDF (Israeli Defence Force). Thankfully the issue has been resolved in which the Bar would visit injured IDF soldiers on visits to Israel and encourage enlistment in the army. How cool was that?! More pictures of Bar to share below.

Mobile majors get smart to woo premium segment

Now that the iPhone frenzy has subsided a bit, both industry and users have thankfully moved on to the next logical discussion - that of the 3G ecosystem. Let's face the facts.

By now, geeks have globally dissected the iPhone to be an unimpressive phone with unmatched browsing and touch-screen capabilities. But does Apple or, for that matter, any of its smart(phone) cousins, spare a care for voice traffic anymore?

Be it Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC, RIM, Siemens, LG - you name it, they are all focused on the 'Indian panache' for data services. And as 3G becomes a reality, they would have moved way beyond data to the multimedia magic. The case is ditto for the carriers. Therefore, the telcos seem to have more than one reason to put most of their eggs in the non-voice services basket.

source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com