Five months after it was originally announced and after number of delays and canceled pre-orders HP finally ships the iPaq 210 smartphone. The iPAQ 210 Enterprise handheld is high-end device designed primary for business use loaded with features such as viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents.

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Francis Sokoki Band of Missisquoi Abenaki, received an e-mail Feb. 19 from Indian Arts and Crafts Board Program Support Specialist Ken Van Wey, explaining the labeling requirements of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act and telling Larocque to stop advertising his work as an Abenaki product.

The board, which is part of the Interior Department, administers the act. The act is a truth-in-marketing law designed to prevent the marketing of art and craft products as ''Indian'' made when they are not made by Indians as defined by the IACA, Van Wey wrote. The board found Larocque's work at the St. Francis Sokoki Band of Abenaki Web site.

''While the IACB has been in communication with the state of Vermont regarding the state recognition of Indian Tribes, and understands that the state of Vermont may be recognizing some groups as Tribes in the near future, you should refrain from selling your work as Indian, Native American, or as the product of a particular Indian Tribe until your group is officially recognized as an Indian Tribe by the state of Vermont or the federal government,'' Van Wey wrote, disregarding Interiors' final determination last July declining to recognize the St.

The Guardian Misspelled Mispelled

We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26, page 30."

House'': Polar Opposites

The computer-sex bits with House were McSteamy, once again making me feel sad for the guy because he is so stilted with women. Mira Sorvino seemed like a good match for him, and I would have loved to witness her psychologically take down House's walls, but there was too much else going on, and the actress has only signed on for one episode. Still, it almost counts as a psych consult. In my fantasy programming, House would end up on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.

Meanwhile, the Wilson subplot was such a surprise. I thought his new girlfriend would turn out to be Cuddy, since that is what House was thinking, too. I did not see Cutthroat Bitch as the logical lust object for our oncologist sidekick, and still don't, but then the preview for the next episode spelled out the attraction. C.B.

On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents

To kick it off, I wanted to discuss the very rationale for intellectual property rights in the US. While many people assume that there's always been strong support for things like copyright and patents in the US, that's not the case at all. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who were the main players involved, were actually quite skeptical of the concept. Both talked at length about the subject, but a brief quote from each should give you a sense of their feelings. Thomas Jefferson's eloquent statement read thusly: "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.

'Holocaust' remark by Israeli minister incenses Hamas

Most Israelis are loath to use it for other contemporary events. Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Hamas movement, said the Palestinians faced "new Nazis".Israeli air strikes have killed at least 33 Gazans, including five children, in the past three days. The military said most of those killed were militants.Israeli leaders said cross-border rocket fire may leave them no choice but to launch a broader military offensive against Hamas, which seized Gaza in June after routing forces loyal to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.One Israeli was killed in a rocket attack on Wednesday on the town of Sde .

Intel Pours 8 Cores Into New Skulltrail Platform

Skulltrail is a lot of computing in a desktop package, and it represents the kind of capability that mainstream desktops will have in a couple of years from now," said Martin Reynolds, a Gartner (NYSE: IT) Research analyst.

That's because each Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processor has four cores running at a 3.2 GHz and offers 12 MB of L2 cache and a 1,600 MHz system front side bus. The D5400XS supports up to four PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) x16 graphics cards as well as 7.1 channel analog audio and includes a digital optical audio output port.