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Cape Town - SA book worms can now read their favourite titles in electronic form with Amazon's electronic reader, Kindle.

Amazon announced on Monday that it made its popular e-book reading device available to freshwater pearl bracelet customers in South Africa and 99 other countries.

According to Amazon Kindle Books director Laura Porco, customers will be able to download e-books wirelessly from Amazon via free 3G technology. No SIM card, airtime or contract will be required to buy books.

Instead, the Kindle has a built in cellular chip which is supported by AT&T and its partner roaming networks. (In SA, both MTN and Vodacom are AT&T international roaming partners.)

The Kindle weighs only 290g, as much as a paperback book, fits comfortably in wish pearl gift set your hand, and can store 1 500 e-books. It can also play MP3 music files and open images.

Readability of printed paper

Utilising the latest in electronic-ink display technology, the device's crisp 15cm black-and-white screen has the same appearance and readability of printed paper.

Sharp and natural with no glare or backlight, reading on sterling silver jewelry Kindle is nothing like reading from a computer screen.

The screen works using ink, just like books and newspapers, but displays the ink particles electronically.

The long battery-life also ensures that you can read on a single charge for up to 4 days. If you turn the wireless technology off, you can read for up to 2 weeks.

SA customers have access to a library of 260 000 e-books, of which 35 000 sell for only $5.99 (R44). Bestsellers and new releases sell for $11.99 (R88).

The Kindle can be ordered from Amazon.com for $279 (R2 065), excluding shipping costs and country-specific taxes.

London - Prudence, a little piglet living at an animal rescue centre in Britain, believes she is really a puppy and spends her days chasing sticks and balls with her canine friends, it was reported on sterling silver jewelry Wednesday.

"Prudence got friendly with a puppy when she arrived, then decided she wanted to spend her days with the dogs," Rosie Catford, owner of the Wildlives centre near Colchester, in the south-eastern county of Essex, said.

"She seems to think that if dogs run free, then why wish pearl gift set not she."

Nine-week-old Prudence spends her days chasing sticks and balls with her new friends, said Catford.

"They wrestle and chase, then all fall asleep together."

Eventually, when she grows up, Prudence will have to live with pigs. "But at the moment we just sit back and enjoy the cabaret," said Catford.

Prudence was brought to the centre by a member of the pearl necklace public. She had been born on a farm and was going to be shot because she was the runt of a litter, Catford said in a report published by Britain's Press Association.

Waspa believes no legitimate South African Wasp is connected with these messages.

The fact that the SMS messages were sent across multiple networks in sterling silver jewelry multiple countries proves this.

The SMS messages are simply a way of making contact with potential victims in the same way that 419 fraudsters have tended to use e-mail to defraud unsuspecting persons.

Waspa stated that according to the trends that pearl necklace have been reported, it appears users are not charged to receive the fraudulent SMS messages.

This means securing direct money transfers from a victim’s to a fraudster’s bank account appears to be the ultimate goal of the messages.

Example of a fraudulent text message:

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Cape Town - The Wireless Application Service Providers' Association of SA (Waspa) on Wednesday urged cellphone users to be vigilant after a series of fraudulent SMS messages targeted users with wish pearl gift set promises of monetary rewards.

This particular SMS scam appears to be similar to the 419 scams routinely reported worldwide.

The latter are named after the section of the Nigerian penal code which prohibits them.

Waspa received reports of cellphone users being targeted with freshwater pearl bracelet similar SMS messages in the United States and the United Kingdom which indicates the problem is not confined to South Africa and more than likely did not originate in this country.

"The fact that 419-type scams have made it onto the mobile phone is an unfortunate development," said Neil Hutchinson, Waspa management committee member.

"It illustrates how fraudsters constantly refine their nefarious activities to pearl necklace take advantage of every technological platform available to them. Waspa urges cellphone users to delete these messages as soon as they are received."

Washington - Childhood immunisation rates reached an all-time high around the world last year and vaccine development is booming, the World Health Organization and the World Bank said in pearl necklace a report on Wednesday.

Despite the record 106 million vaccinations the report said 24 million children were deprived access to immunisation programmes.

The two organisations said an estimated $1bn in additional funds are needed to make available new and existing vaccines to children in 72 of the world's poorest nations.

In a statement accompanying the report, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan stressed the importance of overcoming "the divide that separates rich from poor, between those who get life-saving vaccines and those who don't."

Chan extolled the unparalleled role of vaccines in preventing the spread of diseases, such as the avian and swine flu, and urged everyone to take up the challenge of making them accessible to freshwater pearl bracelet populations most at risk.

"The influenza pandemic draws attention to the promise and dynamism of vaccine development today," she said.

"Yet it reminds us once again of the obstacles to bringing the benefits of science to people in the poorest nations."

United Nations Children's Fund Executive Director Ann Veneman said "worldwide measles deaths fell by 74% between 2000 and 2007, and vaccinations played an important part in sterling silver jewelry that decline."

"Such progress must inspire new efforts to immunise children around the globe against life-threatening diseases," she added.

Los Angeles - RnB singer Chris Brown announced a month long "fan appreciation" tour on Tuesday - the same day that ex-girlfriend Rihanna released a new single seen by some as evoking their  sterling silver jewelry stormy relationship.

Both Rihanna's single Russian Roulette and Brown's tour announcement were firsts since their relationship came to a violent end in February.

Brown, 20, was sentenced to five years probation and wish pearl gift set community service in August for a bloody attack on Rihanna, 21, on the eve of the Grammy Awards in February. He has since publicly apologised for the assault, but has remained largely out of the media spotlight.

Brown's record company Jive said the singer would play small venues in 19 US cities starting in Houston, Texas on November 14. Billed a "fan appreciation tour" it is intended to thank his followers for their support, Jive said.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to inflatable slides a Los Angeles domestic violence intervention charity called the Jenesse Center, and an organisation providing friendships and jobs for people with developmental disabilities called Best Buddies International.