Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, Hales comes from sporting stock.
The BoomStick is certainly a high-quality upgrade to users sporting stock earbuds or other less pronounced headphones, but for audiophiles its algorithmic sound re-engineering can perhaps strip away the specific sound signatures of headphone brands that ultimately makes them so unique.
Mauger won 46 Test caps between 2001 and 2007 and comes from prime sporting stock: he is a nephew of the Bachop brothers, Steve and Graeme, both of whom were All Blacks in the 1990s; his great uncle is Ivan Mauger, the six-time world speedway champion.
Until this month, customers had to pay $16 a flight to log into Verizon's JetConnect system, a closed Internet universe of sorts that lets customers click through about 800 pages of news, sports, stock quotes and games, among other things, while also sending and receiving text messages, instant messages and e-mail.
Others have tried this sports stock market idea before and it hasn't worked.
Nearly every sports, stock, and weather Website (not to mention the political campaigns) lets you get SMS alerts as well.
StarStreet is a sports stock market that allows sports fans to make real money based on their skill in trading players and their knowledge of sports.
The Edge display (Super AMOLED) is independently scrollable, and gives you options to see a ticker for sports, stock quotes, weather, and more.
Push a button, connect to the mini-Web, scroll through menus and news, sports, stock quotes and even Yahoo's mail, calendar and address book appear on your screen (albeit sometimes after a considerable delay).
Why? "Our numbers said that Adam Morrison should have been a second-round pick," says Ma. Kerns got the idea for a sports stock market in the late 1990s while he was an undergraduate at UCLA.
AT&T's 12.5 million cell phone subscribers will be able to access e-mail, news, weather, sports, stock quots, directions from MapQuest, local information from Digital City and listings from AOL Moviefone.
