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Cellphones are the choice accessory of our times. And no one picks their accessories more carefully than celebrities.

That’s why the mobile phone pick of celebrities is a better gauge of who they are than, say, reading their horoscope. And it goes without saying that celebrities who use a particular type of phone are a better advertisement for that device than any ad they run during the Superbowl.

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Research In Motion had a bleak post-election moment when it became clear that the fast texting President-elect Barack Obama will likely have to jettison his BlackBerry when he assumes office in January. But worry not, gadget fans: Oprah is stepping up. The queen of U.S. media recently acquired her first cellphone–also a BlackBerry–and, coincidentally, showed it off at Obama’s election night celebration in Chicago.

These small gadgets wield outside influence. In our VIP-obsessed culture, a celebrity’s choice of cellphone can sway thousands of people to buy the same device. The prospect of outsize sales has turned phone makers, carriers and marketers into star chasers. Some, such as Motorola, pay celebrities like David Beckham, Fergie and Wyclef to promote their wares. (See “Usher’s Favorite Phone.”)

“[Motorola] values these relationships and the appeal they have to various consumer audiences,” says Jeremy Dale, the company’s corporate vice president of global marketing for mobile devices. Other companies woo celebrities with free phones, early releases and white glove customer service.

RIM appears to have the most fans. Three of the world’s most-photographed young celebrities–Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton–are BlackBerry users. Madonna is often snapped leaving the gym holding two BlackBerrys. A recent Los Angeles party for the new BlackBerry Bold attracted Eva Longoria, Hayden Panettiere, Eve and Nicky Hilton. Even the queen of England is said to have a BlackBerry–a present from U.K.-based operator Vodafone.

BlackBerrys even became talking points in the closely watched U.S. presidential election. Obama’s frequent BlackBerry use made him seem techno-savvy, despite the fact that he owns an 8700–a model that Twana Hailstock, editor of the blog Celebrity BlackBerry Sightings, calls outdated. Obama’s rival, Sen. John McCain, favors the newer BlackBerry Curve, but he caught flak in September after one of his advisers said his work with telecom companies had “helped create” the gadget.

Other handset makers boast their own celebrity connections. Funny people seem to have an affinity for Apple iPhones. An Apple spokeswoman says that Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller and Matt Damon use the device. So does Tina Fey’s 30 Rock alter ego Liz Lemon, notes Heather Dale, editor of the gadget blog geeksugar. The iPhone has plenty of young Hollywood fans, too, such as Hillary Duff, Katherine Heigl, Carrie Underwood and Disney star Vanessa Hudgens. In the video for her song “Spotlight,” Jennifer Hudson chats on an iPhone.

The year’s other hot new phone, the T-Mobile G1 with Google, gets plenty of geek celebrity exposure from Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the oft-photographed co-founders of Google. The handset has also won over Jessica Alba, Seal, Ashton Kutcher and Tom Brady, according to carrier T-Mobile. Rosario Dawson called the G1 “an interesting compilation of all the hot phones on the market,” while Molly Sims is on record raving about the Google Maps application.

G1 manufacturer HTC has another fan in basketball star Josh Childress, who uses the touchscreen HTC Touch Diamond.

One way to catch busy celebs’ attention is to throw in a vacation along with a phone. Last summer, LG Electronics sponsored a house in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and gave guests LG phones programmed with numbers for a concierge, private chef and other staff. 50 Cent, Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo used the LG Dare and Vu to text message each other and call in food orders, says an LG spokeswoman. LG also gave phones to Diddy, Ludacris and Nick Cannon.

Throwing a Fashion Week party is another surefire lure. Sony Ericsson hosted Tyra Banks, Kelly Ripa and Elisabeth Hasselbeck at a Fashion Week event in September. Some guests, including Tommy Hilfiger, Tiki Barber and Ciara, nabbed their own Sony Ericsson phones, such as the W350 and Z750.

Partnering with a celebrity on a big project is another strategy. Spike Lee uses Nokia’s N95. He also worked on Nokia Productions, a film that the company bills as the first user-generated multimedia film. Nokia says that singer Leona Lewis and actress Jenna Elfman also use its phones.

Palm used the most recent Emmy Awards to approach celebrities. Christina Applegate, Hayden Panettiere, Nicolette Sheridan and America Ferrara scooped up Palm’s popular Centro at the event. Michelle Gross-Price, who works with celebrities on behalf of Palm, says that Lauren Conrad, Kristin Chenoweth and Christian Siriano said they would drop their current phones and switch to the Centro. Laurence Fishburne opted for the more manly Treo Pro, says Gross-Price.

To a wireless company, celebrity users are helpful, but TV exposure is even better. Verizon Wireless has a product integration deal with the TV show Gossip Girl that nets phones like the LG enV2 and the Samsung Glyde attention every week.

AT&T gave actors in the CBS shows How I Met Your Mother, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Two and Half Men free LG Vu phones earlier this year to promote its mobile TV and video share services. During the Beijing Olympics, AT&T also provided cellphones and service to athletes including Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.

Paris Hilton featured her BlackBerry on her recent reality TV show, Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend. Bedazzled with thousands of Swarovski crystals, the phone is a paparazzi magnet.

Speak softly–but carry a great phone.

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If reports are to be believed, the Tibetan glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply.

Throughout India, China, and Nepal, some 15,000 glaciers speckle the Tibetan Plateau, some of the highest land in the world.

According to a report in Discovery News, though the ice is perched in thin, frigid air up to 7,200 meters (23,622 feet) above sea level, research has shown that it has not been secluded from the effects of global warming.

Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University and a team of researchers traveled to central Himalayas in 2006 to study the Naimona’nyi glacier, expecting to find some melting.

Mountain glaciers have been receding all over the world since the 1990’s and there was no reason this one, which provides water to the mighty Ganges, Indus, and Brahmaputra Rivers, should be any different.

But when the team analyzed samples of glacier, what they found stunned them.

Glaciers around the planet are usually dated by looking for two pulses pulse of radioactivity buried in the ice. These are the leftovers from American and Russian atomic bomb testing in the 1950’s and 1960′’s.

In the Naimona’nyi samples, there was no sign of the tests. In fact, the glacier had melted so much that the exposed surface of the glacier dated to 1944.

“We were very surprised not to find the 1962-1963 horizon, and even more surprised not to find the 1951-1952 signal,” Thompson said.

In more than twenty years of sampling glaciers all over the world, this was the first time both markers were missing.

According to Thompson, the reason for this is that high-altitude glaciers, despite residing in colder temperatures, are more sensitive to climate change.

As more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, it holds more water vapor. When the water vapor rises to high altitudes, it condenses, releasing the heat into the upper atmosphere, where high mountain landscapes feel the brunt of warming.

“At the highest elevations, we’re seeing something like an average of 0.3 degrees Centigrade warming per decade,” Thompson said.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects 3 degrees of warming by 2100. But that’s at the surface. Up at the elevations where these glaciers are there could be almost twice as much, almost 6 degrees,” he added.

“I have not seen much as compelling as this to demonstrate how some glaciers are just being decapitated,” Shawn Marshall of the University of Calgary said.

After several days without luck, astronauts finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns urine into drinking water — a necessity for supporting the international space station’s crew, which will soon double.”Not to spoil anything, but I think up here the appropriate words are ‘Yippee!’” space station commander Mike Fincke told Mission Control early Tuesday morning, shortly before bedtime.

“There will be dancing later,” Mission Control replied.

Astronauts had spent a frustrating five days trying to get the urine processor working. But until early Tuesday, the machine couldn’t last the four hours needed for a successful test run.

Another urine processor test was planned later Tuesday, shortly after the seven astronauts on the docked space shuttle Endeavour and the three space station crew members woke up.

NASA added a 16th day to Endeavour’s mission so astronauts could tinker with the urine processor before the shuttle returns to Earth, possibly with the troubled equipment packed aboard. NASA managers had debated bringing part of the contraption back to Earth for repairs if tests weren’t successful.

Endeavour is now set to undock Friday and land in Florida on Sunday.

The urine processor makes up a section of the $154 million water recycling system that was delivered to the space station by Endeavour. The machine is crucial to providing drinking water for the space station’s crew, which is supposed to double to six members next year.

Samples of the processed urine, sweat and condensation will be tested on Earth before astronauts can start drinking the purified water next year.

In an effort to fix the problem, Fincke and Endeavour astronaut Don Pettit had removed vibration grommets which were used to mount a centrifuge in the urine processor, and bolted the piece down.

The Endeavour astronauts on Tuesday also were to find out if the four spacewalks they performed during the mission paid dividends. The focus of the four spacewalks was cleaning and lubricating a jammed solar-wing joint on the station’s right side. Flight controllers sent commands to make the joint rotate twice while the crew slept.

Mission Control said the early morning test was proceeding well.

That joint had not worked properly for more than a year, preventing the solar wings on that side from pointing automatically toward the sun to generate electricity. Grinding parts left the joint full of metal shavings that kept it from rotating.

The station’s crew members and Endeavour’s astronauts were told to tiptoe around the orbiting complex if they woke up in the middle of the night so as not to create vibrations during the test. Astronauts were given an extra half hour to sleep in because of the test.

“No early risers tomorrow, apparently,” Fincke said Monday night.

The Transportation Department of Northern California, which has banned cell phones in cars, is allowing people headed to Tahoe for the holidays to turn their devices on, to test the efficacy of a new software program in sending information regarding traffic conditions to travellers’ handsets.The new software, called Traffic Pilot, can give a real-time colour-coded map on the cell phone showing how fast traffic ahead is going.

According to sponsors, it’s a major step towards ‘real time’ tools to battle congestion, basically turning car cabins into commute command centers.

Phones can be programmed to give drivers verbal warnings about problems ahead.

The program launched two weeks ago immediately attracted more than 3,000 drivers, mainly in the Bay area.

Sacramentan Brian Simi, a Caltrans employee and tech fan, loves the program, but noted a kink.

“On Highway 99 the other day, it wasn’t completely accurate. It said traffic (was slowing), but it was free-flow,” the Sacramento Bee quoted him, as saying.

Tom West of Roseville, whose agency, the California Center for Innovative Transportation, partners on the program with Caltrans, digital mapmaker NAVTEQ and cell phone manufacturer Nokia, said that the accuracy would improve with more participants.

The system not only gives drivers a virtual view miles ahead on freeways, but also on big surface streets like Arden Way or Watt Avenue.

However, researchers acknowledge that the success will require overcoming fears some have about personal privacy, including worries the system can track an individual’s whereabouts or set a driver up for a speeding ticket.

West said the program is designed so that can’t happen. He said that cell phone readings are encrypted so that program operators or police can’t track any particular vehicle.

The signals are merged at a central computer, mixed with other data and relayed back to drivers as an average speed for all vehicles on a section of road, not for individual cars.

The system currently works with only certain GPS-enabled “smart” cell phones. Sponsors say they intend to make it compatible soon with iPhones.

More Medicaid funding is needed for Tulsa County, the officials said.

Oklahoma County got about $711 million in funding in fiscal year 2008, compared with $510 million for Tulsa County, said in a report.

Tulsa officials want to know why there’s an imbalance between Tulsa County and Oklahoma County in the amount of Medicaid.

Tulsa leaders also point out that OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City receives most of the DSH money.

State officials also say that hospital didn’t qualify for DSH funds because of the way it labels indigent care.

Credit Suisse has raised its rating for the Indian software industry to ‘overweight’ and lowered that on capital goods to ‘underweight’ as it expects export-focused industries to drive economic growth.

The continuing weakness of the Indian rupee because of an increase in capital outflows and the high cash flows may find favour with investors, the Swiss Bank said in a report.

“The key differentiating factors we believe are a weaker rupee, low financial leverage and their under-appreciated low operating leverage,” the Swiss bank said in its research report.

“Given the firms’ high-quality management, with strong track records and a focus on profits, we expect the sector to gain favour with investors, at least relatively, despite the weak demand environment.”

A slowing of India’s investment-led growth may weigh on the capital goods sector, even as regulators lower interest rates and free up liquidity, said Credit Suisse, explaining the rationale for dowgrading the sector.

“The producers of the large infrastructure projects could delay and cancel many projects, irrespective of the funding availability, because of the need to reduce their own overall leverage,” it said.

Software was previously ranked ‘underweight’ while capital goods were rated ‘market weight’ by the bank.

Infosys Technologies Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Ltd. have been assigned an ‘outperform’ rating by Credit Suisse analysts Nilesh Jasani, Arya Sen and Deepak Ramineedi who authored the report.

They have a ‘neutral’ rating on Thermax Ltd. and Crompton Greaves and an ‘underperform’ rating for Cummins India.

At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada’s Arctic, trapped by winter ice that is setting in around them and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials have said.

Hunters from the village of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island discovered the animals trapped near Bylot Island, about 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) from Pond Inlet, on November 15, and checked on them periodically.

The local hunters are allowed to harvest only 130 whales each year for food, according to standards set by the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans.

But department spokesman Keith Pelley told AFP: “It’s unlikely the animals are going to survive the winter, so the hunters have been given authorisation to cull them.”

The hunters have been on the ice slaughtering the whales since Thursday and are likely to accomplish their task over the coming days, he said.

Narwhal are found mostly in the Arctic circle, and are renowned for their extraordinarily long tusk, which is actually a twisted incisor tooth that projects from the left side of its upper jaw and can be up to three meters long.

“A couple of weeks ago, when the ice was still moving, there were quite a few narwhal seen out there in the open water,” Jayko Allooloo, chairman of the Pond Inlet hunters and trappers organization, told public broadcaster CBC.

“About a week later, they’re stuck.” Community elders and officials feared the whales would die from a lack of oxygen as the ice grew thicker around them, Pelley explained.