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It seems Microsoft's ad agency put anonymous ads on Craigslist and other Web sites seeking participants in “market research” on laptop batteries.

We use relatively simple language so the report can be useful to as broad a range of readers as possible, enhanced by a glossary.

After all, investors, government regulators, journalists and many other people have a great interest in the imminent huge deployment of small self-powered electronic and electrical devices. It will eventually reach hundreds of billions of products yearly, including electronically enhanced drug packs, magazines, disposable medical testers and much more besides.

For the more technical, there are many new summary tables and diagrams comparing parameters required and achieved. The parameters, including costs, and the applications are compared and the work of many suppliers is evaluated. No other report on this subject is as broad ranging or up to date.

The main emphasis is on what will needed and possible, not on rehearsing the story of traditional cylindrical, laptop battery and mobile phone Sony VGP-BPS2A batteries. Here we see the future.

Why? Because it’s so darn convenient. You pick up your phone from the coffee table, wake it up and it’s instantly online as it recognises your home network.

They picked 10 lucky volunteers, gave them budgets ranging from $700 to $2,000, and sent them shopping for laptops HP DV3000 battery with various criteria. If they found a machine that matched their specs and budget, they got to keep it.

You tap on the Facebook icon. And since you keep your Facebook Toshiba Satellite P100 battery and email accounts logged in all the time, any new messages can be seen on the iPhone in an instant.

The concept of logging in and logging out is no longer a hard and fast rule.

Irvin became involved in “a confrontation with [the woman] and it turned physical,” said Riley County Police Department Lt. Kurt Moldrup. The victim did not sustain injuries that required immediate medical treatment.

Irvin was charged with battery and criminal damage to property before being released on $1,500 bond. Damage to the laptop is estimated at $1,200.