Meizu CEO Jack Wong has been teasing the M9 handset for some time now, and if we’re not mistaken, the official site just went live with a full list of specs to boot. As promised , there’s a 3.5-inch 960 x 640 resolution screen (reportedly the Sharp ASV display ), and we’re also apparently looking at a 1GHz S5PC110 processor (just like the Samsung Galaxy S), Android 2.2, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, A-GPS, 802.11b/g/n, microSDHC, a removable 1370mAH lithium-polymer battery, and support for (drumroll, please) GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA,and HSUPA. Too good to be true? Word on the street is this very phone will be available December 25th in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and will expand to the rest of China days later. We’ll believe it when we see it. Meizu M9 christens site launch with full specs list originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Steve Snodgrass , Flickr, CC Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for allowing the largest oil refining plant in the nation to emit over 8 million pounds of illegal air pollution for over five years now. The Sierra Club and Environment Texas claim that the Exxon refinery, which operates on the Gulf coast, has violated federal air pollution laws “thousands of times”. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Knesset discusses rabbis’ petition calling not to rent apartments to Arab residents. ‘Publish photos of these anti-Semite racists around world, they are no better than Bin Laden,’ says MK El-Sana
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(CNN) — The International Criminal Court named six Kenyan leaders, including the deputy prime minister, Wednesday suspected of organizing violence after the disputed 2007 election. The violence left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands. ICC top Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo released the anticipated list, which had left the political elite in the east African nation restless. The list sparked excitement across the nation, where crowds had gathered around televisions to watch a live broadcast. “This has taken too long, the displaced are…
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A gunman who fired point-blank at school board members before fatally shooting himself had for much of the meeting sat with the rest of the audience, listening to routine business. The video provided to the AP already altered. (Dec. 15)
Continue reading …GNU founder Richard Stallman and Gmail creator Paul Buchheit hate on Chrome OS
December 15, 2010 No Comment
There are a lot of things to like about Google’s prototype Chrome OS machine, the CR-48 , not the least of which its name that makes it sound like a relic from the future. Indeed that’s what Google wants it to be, a sort of beacon of our instant-on, cloud-based tomorrow, but that’s rubbing a few industry pioneers the wrong way. One is Friendfeed creator and former Google employee Paul Buchheit, aka the dude who created Gmail. He’s a bit confused about the overlap between Android and Chrome OS, as indeed many of us are, saying flat out that “Chrome OS has no purpose that isn’t better served by Android” — or, at least, it won’t when Android gets some tweaks to make it work better in a traditional laptop-style environment. Meanwhile, GNU founder and free software pioneer Richard Stallman is lashing out a bit more strongly, calling cloud computing “careless computing” because it causes users to give up rights to their own content: The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company’s server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. As we’ve recently learned that is at least not the case for e-mail, but what about Google Docs and browsing history and all those private musings you made on Google Buzz ? Will ease of access trump data security fears? Will Cara on All My Children ever stop having flashbacks about Jake? Important questions, these. GNU founder Richard Stallman and Gmail creator Paul Buchheit hate on Chrome OS originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police across central Athens on Wednesday, smashing cars and hurling gasoline bombs. It’s the latest protest against the government’s latest austerity measures. (Dec. 15)
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Officers claim store has been selling customers larger doses than recommended by prescription
Continue reading …Mark Zuckerberg named Time Person of the Year, Jesse Eisenberg sadly not listed
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Sorry, everybody, you’re not Person of the Year in 2010. For the fourth time in a row someone other than you has won the honor, and this time it’s Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Why? Well, Time says it’s because his creation has “wired together a twelfth of humanity,” but we think a certain highly dramatized blockbuster movie might have something to do with it. Really, it’s not luck the Zuck did that much in 2010, except tell some uncomfortable stories when launching Seamless Messaging . Runners up include Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who had another rough year, and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, who is currently having a rather rough December after shaking up international relations all year long. Mark Zuckerberg named Time Person of the Year, Jesse Eisenberg sadly not listed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Tufts University near Boston is throwing stressed-out students a bone: therapy dogs to play with before their final exams. (Dec. 15)
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