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General Assembly, The Markets, Android, etc.

So there's a lot going on. Last night, after a week's worth of drama involving both Lehman Brothers' corruption and Merrill Lynch's sale to Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs became bank holding companies under the Fed's regulation. There's a lot to it, but there's no use in me saying much because news.google.com has enough to fill you in.

Also, the HTC Dream featuring Google's new Android phone software comes out tomorrow in T-mobile's stores. I've been excited, but after a T-mobile sales attendant at the store near my workplace told me he didn't know if they would get it tomorrow, I've kinda had the air kicked out of me. I'm not sure what to expect. I'll be following up tomorrow.

And to add to a seeminly fast-paced environment, I just found out today that President Kikwete will be speaking on behalf of the African Union at the UN's General Assembly meeting tomorrow. I tried frantically to get a pass through an NGO I knew, but it didn't work out given the last minute call. Serves me right for being distracted by Wall Street news lately. I really would have loved to see the man speak.

Anyhow, a lot of working pending for Vijana FM... more updates soon.

Word. I'm posting this via e-mail after ages of not having done so. Hope it works.

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