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WASHINGTON – The economy grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the third quarter, the best showing in two years, fueled by government-supported spending on cars and homes. It’s the strongest signal yet that the economy has entered a new, though fragile, phase of recovery and that the worst recession since the 1930s has ended.

Going forward, many analysts expect the pace of the budding recovery to be plodding due to rising unemployment and continuing difficulties by both consumers and businesses to secure loans.

“This welcome milestone is just another step, and we still have a long road to travel until the economy is fully recovered,” said Christina Romer, President Barack Obama’s chief economist. “It will take sustained, robust … growth to bring the unemployment rate down substantially. Such a decline in unemployment is, of course, what we are all working to achieve.”

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So – do I toss out my BlackBerry Storm or the new Verizon Droid? Do I also sell my RIMM stock and buy a truck load of VZ?

Who thinks what??

This video for Microsoft Windows 7 is so BAD it actually works well as a viral marketing tool. It has received 800,000 views, emailed or shared countless times and spawned a bunch of parody videos. Whether the intention or not (Not), this video – while impossible to watch, does get the Windows 7 launch message out to the masses.