Starting today, all Segways sold by Amazon will be delivered with the software upgraded to repair the defect, said Bill Curry, an Amazon spokesman in Seattle.

Amazon officials decline to say how many Segway vehicles it has sold that are latpop battery effected by the recall. But he said owners have three options for getting their scooters fixed: mail them back to Segway, find a qualified service technician in their area. Also, Segway is planning to set up recall service locations in 11 major U.S. cities. It wasn’t known today whether Seattle is one of those cities.

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Other things I could do: sample and buy ringtones without a wait; shoot photos and e-mail them to friends; upload the photos to a central Web site to create photo albums.

At the moment, the Palm VII is the only option for someone who wants Internet access without hooking up to a cell phone. The device made its nationwide debut Monday, and Internet service is available in some 260 metropolitan areas, including Seattle, through the BellSouth Wireless Data network.

The Palm VII has been available in the New York area since May. Since then, its HP NC4200 Battery owners learned, above all, that the wireless device simply costs too much. At the time, the unit went for $599 with a monthly $9.99 Internet service charge that allowed access to up to 50 kilobytes of data. Each additional kilobyte cost 30 cents, which added up quickly given that each e-mail exchange uses about one-half kilobyte.

In addition, the wireless carriers likely wouldn’t make money when users are on the corporate Wi-Fi network, which is generally set up and maintained by the individual company.

“Part of the reason operators are embracing this cautiously is that they see Wi-Fi as a HP DV6000 battery happening thing and something they can’t afford to miss, but by no means is it clear to them or to me, either, how exactly they will make money off this,” said Warren Wilson, a Seattle-based practice director at Summit Strategies of Boston.

Second Avenue, bookended by the venerable Crocodile Café and new Viceroy, seems like a Tom Waits song, growly and almost proudly unpretentious, full of characters, full of music … full of beer.

Where beer mugs crash together on Second, martini glasses gently tinkle on First Avenue, which begs for a new Fitzgerald to hone in on its young and HP V6000 battery ambitious. What alcohol-fueled dreamers, what opposite-sex schemers, what Gatsby-ites prowl this bustling street by night.