Not related to cell phones, just New Year. Messages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year's Eve revelers in Times Square when the confetti is dropped.
Anyone can get a message printed on a piece of the multicolored confetti by visiting the Times Square Information Center or by using the Internet to type a message at "Wishing Wall Online".
The message-carrying pieces will be mixed among the more than one ton of confetti, organizers said.
So far, messages have included everything from wanting to be taller or having a smarter boss to healthy children and asking for the safe return of a child from Iraq. "Peace in the World," reads one posted on the "virtual wishing wall. How about "Let Ingrid Bettancourt and the hostages go".
Two weeks later, two vendors and one missed delivery, I finally received my Nokia N76 in red ordered online (because Geneva cell phone stores only ordered this model in black). My last phone before the iPhone.
Other than ordering a book on Amazon.fr (which is just like ordering from Amazon.com) I've never bought anything online from a French vendor and I was stunned at the lengthy measures they go through to ensure you have not submitted a stolen credit card.
After completing a purchase on ebay, and paying via paypal, from both vendors I received an e-mail notice asking to call the company to confirm the purchase and in order for them to actually mail the phone, I was asked to send the following documents:
-- a copy of my passport or identification card
-- a document certifiying my home address or a copy of an invoice with my name on it, proving my home address
I canceled my order with the first vendor because I thought this totally defeated the purpose of buying something online - which is supposed to be from the comfort your armchair - and had no intention of making photocopies and going to the post office. But to my surprise, the second vendor made the same requests. Except they accepted an e-mail invoice forwarded from textually's hosting company and a link to my blogs.
France has a long way to go to be successful with e-commerce if this is standard procedure...
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Not related to cell phones, just New Year. Messages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year's Eve revelers in Times Square when the confetti is dropped.
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