Battery life of cell phones is horrific. We’re sold on high functionality, communication speed, and beautiful, bright screens, but with all systems up, the phone cannot deliver; we get about half a day. We pare down functionality, and try to make it through the day; we shut off regular requests for updates; we shut down our network connections; dim our screens to save energy. All the high functionality that defines the phone cannot be realized; the functionality that sets it apart from others, the stuff that others only dream of, cannot be realized. Our special capability cannot be used to do our jobs to the fullest; it cannot be used to do our jobs like we know we can.

Another tactic is the power nap – the quick charge in the middle of the day to get us through the crisis. Com

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NEW YORK — JetBlue introduced several new three-month, unlimited flight plans Thursday in an attempt to snare more higher-paying business travelers.

BluePass is available only for departure from Boston Logan International Airport or Long Beach Airport for travel between Aug. 22 and Nov. 22.

The offer is a more focused version of its All-You-Can-Jet plan, announced in 2009. That plan, where travelers could go anywhere JetBlue flew, sold out within days, as did the second incarnation in 2010. JetBlue didn’t offer the pass this year. All-You-Can-Jet was used to pump up travel volumes during September and October, typically one of the slowest times of the year for airlines.

Under the new plan there are three options. The first, costing $1299, allows travel between Long Beach and nine Western cities. The second, at $1499, offers Boston fliers unlimited travel to 13 cities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

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FOX Business: The Power to Prosper

A flood of headlines on the debt debate that is raging on Capitol Hill offset a round of relatively upbeat economic data, launching the blue chips into the red for the fifth straight day. 

Today’s Markets

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 62.4 points, or 0.51%, to 12,240, the S&P 500 dipped 4.2 points, or 0.32%, to 1,301 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.5 points, or 0.05%, to 2,766. The FOX 50 dropped 3.5 points to 926.  

Headlines from Washington, D.C. have captivated Wall Street in recent days as lawmakers have struggled to come to an agreement on how to begin cutting the deficit while also raising the debt ceiling.  

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote on Speaker John Boehner’s bill late on Thursday after a key procedural vote easily passed earlier in the day.  T

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The best value places to get your foreign cash are certainly not what youd expect.

Getting foreign money from bank counters, Marks & Spencer, the Post Office or at airports is always expensive. Even if they’re commission free, they give you a terrible exchange rate when you hand over your pounds.

Going to a small bureau on the high street – either here or overseas – is often surprisingly good. In all my periodic tests over the years I have found that many of them pay better than all the online providers, such as Travelex, even though they are often touted in the press as the way to get foreign currency.

However there is an even better way that beats all of these by quite a distance, and that is to use debit or credit cards — and debit cards are the best. How

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The funeral for Little Rock philanthropist William Jennings Bryan Osborne Jr., who died Wednesday, is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Immanuel Baptist Church at 501 North Shackleford Road in Little Rock.

Osborne’s friend and attorney, Bud Whetstone, said burial will follow at Mount Holly Cemetary at 1200 Broadway St. in Little Rock.

Osborne, 67, died in a Little Rock hospital after heart surgery.