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Research in Motion shares fell 3 percent on Friday after a Fortune.com story said that a high-speed wireless version of its BlackBerry smartphone for top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc is facing delays.

The introduction has been pushed back as far as August from June, the story on Fortune magazine’s website said, citing unnamed people close to the companies. The reason for the delay was unclear, but AT&T had worries about call quality, the report said.

RIM and AT&T declined comment on the report, which also said the delay could hurt RIM phone shipments and subscriber growth in its second quarter ending August 30.

But one analyst said the delay isn’t news, pointing to a January report in which he flagged a later-than-expected launch.

Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek downgraded RIM on January 11 to a “hold” rating, citing a 3G device delay until June as well as U.S. economic weakness.

Misek wrote on March 31 that RIM’s 3G BlackBerry had just recently been delivered to AT&T and Vodafone labs and he repeated his February forecast that the launch was now likely delayed to August.

RIM had to work with its chip supplier Marvell to resolve technical problems, said Misek. He believes those issues are now sorted out and that network certification, which takes about three months, is the last hurdle.

“I’m very, very disappointed that the market finds this as any kind of news. It’s not going to have any impact on the August quarter and we’ve always said this device is going to be delayed,” he said. “I’m just really surprised more people didn’t know about it.”

Shares in Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM fell C$3.77 to end at C$122 on the Toronto Stock Exchange and dropped $3.62 to $120.02 on Nasdaq on Friday.

The phone, which Fortune.com said may be called Meteor, will likely be unveiled by RIM within six weeks, Misek predicted.

AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner referred to plans for a high-speed BlackBerry with third generation, or 3G, technology on a quarterly earnings conference call earlier this week, but did not give a date for the launch.

“We’re just starting to see a BlackBerry 3G come out. As those integrated devices move to 3G, I think that will be the next catalyst to drive stronger 3G growth,” he said.

“New customers coming in today, if they are buying a phone, many times, particularly postpaid customers, they’re primarily going to 3G.”

RIM has said it will introduce devices based on HSDPA, a high-speed 3G wireless technology that is popular in Europe and used by AT&T.

“Certainly going to HSDPA is something that’s very important to us in the near term,” Chief Executive Jim Balsillie told Reuters in a February interview.

TD Newcrest analyst Chris Umiastowski speculated about the timing of RIM 3G device shipments in a recent note that lowered his earnings estimates and stock target.

“We believe the device is on track to be available either at the end of May or in June. That said, we are not yet clear on when AT&T will start selling the device,” he wrote.

“Perhaps it will launch in Europe (with Vodafone) prior to hitting North American soil?…A launch of this upcoming 3G device either by AT&T or Vodafone should result in a significant number of hardware shipments within the first full quarter of launch.”

AT&T and rival carrier Verizon make up about 40 percent of RIM’s new subscriber growth, the analyst estimated.

AT&T, the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple Inc’s iPhone, a competitor to BlackBerry, hinted at a U.S trade show earlier this month that it expects to have a 3G version of iPhone in coming months. It did not give a specific date.

Source: Reuters.com

Islamic law stipulates that if you said three times, face to face, the couple who do not want to be more with it, divorce is legal, but Will voucher by email or SMS?

The media have echoed several cases of divorce-and they have finished before the courts and have opened a public debate on how to reconcile personal right, technological modernity and Islamic tradition in terms of separations of couples.

According to Sharia, the main source of inspiration Egyptian law, a Muslim him three times simply announce his decision to divorce (talaq) to his wife, face to face and the presence of witnesses, to break their union.

Eight out of ten times is the man who takes the initiative to divorce in Egypt. Something happens once every six minutes. Man does not lack either go to court, unlike women.

In one case uncovered by the press, an Egyptian, Iqbal Abura Nasr, sought confirmation of his judicial divorce, based on three sms repudiation of her husband.

Her husband had tried to call once, but she did not reply, so then he sent three text messages: ‘You have not responded to your husband, I divorce you’.

Another example was an email sent by a man 33 years his young wife, 20, in which he informed that broke his marriage.

The couple appeared before a court, a copy of mail in hand, but he was declared incompetent.

‘Internet or a mobile phone media are (valid) to notify the divorce, but then a confrontation is necessary judicial told the press Hassan Mansour’, vice president of the Supreme Court.

However, despite emails and sms qualify as’ modern ‘communication, this court finds that are’ imperfect as it may be stolen mobile and internet pirates exist ‘.

Moreover, Judge Abdullah Baga believes that with the changing times women can get ‘divorce before a judge electronic’ if it deems authentic message.

The highest Islamic authority in the country, Al Azhar University, believes that although no fatwa (Islamic decree) provides e-divorce, does not appear to contradict the Sharia.

‘If it is found that the author of SMS or email is the husband, there is no reason not to admit it,’ said Fawzi al Zifzaf, the center of Islamic studies at Al Azhar.

To a man, email or text message have become a way to avoid a painful confrontation with his wife, despite that, anyway, it is deprived of all legal recourse to oppose a unilateral and unconditional repudiation.

There is the real problem. The e-divorce is a false stumbling block ‘, said Nahed Abul Khamsan, director of the NGO Center for Egyptian Women’s Rights.

In 2000, Egypt became eligible to file for divorce without fail after (Khula), which implies however renounce all their financial rights.

The divorce at the expense of the husband, by violence or adultery, it is almost impossible to obtain in Egypt, as the wife must gather evidence and numerous witnesses during a lengthy judicial process.

In a recent study that examines the dynamics of the global market for Windows, IDC says that “Windows Vista has gained attention for the wrong reasons.” While some versions say that Windows XP to Vista will not exceed, or soon will leave the market, IDC , in their latest study, did not support this view.

IDC ensures that Windows Vista has had a normal curve of adoption, has found that despite certain limitations in their adoption phase, as the act of entering a mature market for PC’s that it has decided not to upgrade their equipment immediately. In October 2006, the firm found that Windows Vista would represent 34% of sales of consumer sector business group of Windows, while the results meant in 2007 to 36%. In the business sector, Vista represented in 2007 18% of total sales.

Another of the finding resultings in the IDC study is that Windows Vista has features for convincing the consumer and corporate sector, which could boost the adoption in the long term, which already is being observed with Windows Vista Home Premium version that has exceeded the IDC expectations in its placement level consumption.

“Looking ahead, we expect that 2008 will mark the beginning of a curve adoption of Windows Vista much more pronounced, especially in the business side, especially now that Windows Server 2008 was launched,” concluded IDC.

To do with optimum quality movies at home, it’s good to think that TV is the perfect complement to its Blu Ray.

Although the new DVD format, Blu-ray Disc, has not mass sales on the market yet, it is important to begin thinking about a good companion to maximize its best image and sound.

Here are some very good advice when choosing a television suitable for this new technology:

The TV optimum resolution and adequate size

The Blu-ray Disc format provides a picture quality that so far no other digital technology has succeeded in equalizing produce quality, even the format film. For this reason, when buying a television is important to pay attention to the following characteristics.

First, you must have an influx of high definition and that supports 1080P resolutions. The tickets are more popular HDMI and component, with HDMI cable that transmits digital audio and video in its native digital format.

For its part, is a component cable that divides the analog video signal in three colors: red, blue and green, with the disadvantage of the latter converting to digital format similar format and the lack of digital sound.

As for the size of the screen, it must be at least 42 “if we are to build better benefits that confers a Blu-ray Disc.

Getting Blu-ray on a monitor

The monitors have been able to reproduce high-resolution images since the creation of CAD / CAM software and other programs that allow graphically intensive applications.

In the case of a PC or notebook is important to ensure that not only is compatible with Blu-ray monitor, but the video card, memory and operating system as Windows Vista, since it supports high definition applications. It is worth noting that all new monitors with digital input can reproduce images of Blu-ray Disc.

What happens if you do not have access to many titles in Blu-ray Disc format, but you do have the technology?

There are Blu-ray players that expand the capacity of a DVD to an almost normal quality of HD. The technology was created to better take advantage of the ability of LCD televisions.

The increase in resolution of a DVD means that the sharpness and image quality reaches the potential of what can reproduce a television with Blu-ray Disc.

The sound, the best marriage with the image

Most televisions offer some sound in Dolby Digital format, but the best way to harness the digital sound of a Blu-ray Disc is a system that reproduces several additional sound formats distributed between five to seven speakers, another term for this is “surround sound”.

This means that the sound was heard from several points in the fourth and not just from the front of a television.

The game unit of Japanese company Sony announced it would delay until October the launch of “Home,” its online 3D platform for the PlayStation 3.Sony already postponed last year the launch of this platform, which aims to give players a space in which to interact with other users of the PS3.

The company, plunged into a war with Microsoft and Nintendo in the videogame industry worldwide, attributed the second delay in the launch to improvements in product quality, citing the same reason as last year.

“We understand we are asking for actual and potential users of the PS3 to wait a little longer,” said Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, said in a statement.

“But we concluded that we need more time to refine the service, to ensure a more focused entertainment experience in the game than it is today,” he added.

Provide an innovative online service is important for the PS3, que ha ido losing ground to the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, Microsoft in total sales of consoles.