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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Webgrrls comes to Boca Raton

The women’s Internet organization, Webgrrls International, is launching a new chapter in the Boca Raton/Fort Lauderdale area.

Webgrrls International is a global group for women which offers online and offline resources, offering a forum for women to network and to exchange job and business leads. As important, it helps women to learn Web-related skills.

Allison Nazarian, president and founder of Boca Raton-based Get It In Writing, heads the organization locally.

You can find the Webgrrls International website at http://www.webgrrls.com. It is part of the Cybergrrl Network of websites for women including Cybergrrl.com and Femina.com.

The first Boca/Ft. Lauderdale Webgrrls meeting will be held Thursday, May 22, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Art That Works Inc. at 270 W. Hillsboro Blvd. in Deerfield Beach. For more information, contact Allison Nazarian at boca-fl@webgrrls.com or call 561-989-8555 or visit http://www.webgrrls.com/boca-fl/.

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Dell brings a bit of the beach to its laptops

Dell has teamed up with Brooklyn artist Mike Ming to give one of its notebooks a surfer’s edge.

The special edition Inspiron 1525 will feature two of Ming’s designs: “Bunch O Surfers” (black-and-white) and “Sea Sky” (color). The laptops are available for order, and pricing starts at $699.

Dell laptop Sea Sky

The Ming-designed PCs are the first of what Dell plans to grow into a series of special art-edition laptops. More on Ming and the laptops carrying his design can be found here.

Dell laptop Bunch O Surfers

Computer makers have looked to spruce up their notebook designs to give them more appeal. Dell added several color options to its lineup last year. And Hewlett-Packard joined with MTV in a contest to find a design for an H-P notebook.

Apple, which has about the hottest consumer products out there these days, is sticking with plain old silver, black and white.

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