250 foreign team members receive honors from president, PM for courageously coming to Israel’s rescue during deadly Carmel fire. Greek rep: Surprised Israel has no extinguishing plane
Continue reading …Toshiba planning trio of tablets for CES: one each for Android, Chrome OS and Windows 7
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So what if the Libretto exited the common consciousness almost as quickly as it entered it while the Folio 100 was bad enough to get its major UK retailer to discontinue it ? Toshiba promised it’d have a family of tablets for us by the end of 2011′s first quarter and the plan apparently hasn’t changed. DigiTimes is reporting today that three new Toshiba slates are set for their debut at CES in a month’s time, two of them equipped with 10.1-inch screens and a third sized at 11.6 inches. Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Google’s Chrome OS and Android will each be responsible for providing the operating environment on one of these new tablets, indicating that Toshiba — much like the rest of the world — has yet to make up its mind about what the best tablet OS out there is. We should know more in just a few short weeks. Toshiba planning trio of tablets for CES: one each for Android, Chrome OS and Windows 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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By Juan Cole Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Related Entries December 6, 2010 Obama’s Tax Cave Is Worse Than Expected December 6, 2010 Global Stature
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Photo: lululemon athletica /Flickr, Creative Commons Scientists at the University of Bolton in the U.K. are developing a textile fiber, called hybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric material , that absorbs energy from its wearer’s body movements and the surrounding elements, including the wind, rain, and sun — Captain Planet would be proud!
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At the LA premiere of their second film together, ‘The Tempest,’ Helen Mirren and Russell Brand reveal how much they love being co-stars and whether Brand is a changed man after marrying Katy Perry. (Dec. 7)
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The tough economy around the country has hit resort areas, like Las Vegas, hard. However, one industry may be thriving. Some wedding chapels in Las Vegas say they have actually seen an increase in business since the economy soured. (Dec. 7)
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Police release under restrictions Usfiya boy who allegedly dumped nargila ember that ignited Carmel inferno. Father: He admitted to act under duress
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Israeli, Turkish reps meet for second time in Geneva in bid to mend relations following Turkish assistance during Carmel blaze. Officials in Ankara say Lieberman trying to block reconciliation process
Continue reading …Netflix ported WebKit to the PS3 to enable HTML5 goodies, a dynamically updatable UI
December 7, 2010 No Comment
Netflix caused a lot of head scratching in October when it started rolling out its new, disc-free Netflix experience for the PS3. Namely, different people were getting a different UI , and there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the differentiation. Well, it turns out Netflix was flexing a bit of its HTML5 muscle, rapidly testing different experiences to see which ones worked best for users, all without having to push out app updates or back-end changes to accommodate its indecision. Apparently, Netflix’s engineers actually ported WebKit to the PS3 to make all this possible, and hopefully it’s a sign of things to come in the HTML5 iPhone, iPad, and Android apps — which could probably use some serious sprucing, or even a bit of scattered rapid prototyping just to relieve the monotony. It’s also seems to be good news for other PS3 apps which can lean on the framework — presumably VUDU’s own HTML5-based UI took advantage of this when it landed on the PS3 in November . What we’d really love is if Sony and Google are secretly in cahoots to bring the entirety of Chrome and its couch-friendly Google TV UI with it. Hey, we can dream, right? Netflix ported WebKit to the PS3 to enable HTML5 goodies, a dynamically updatable UI originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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