Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter donated a kidney to freshman outfielder Kevin Jordan, who suffers from a disease that can lead to kidney failure. Both men met with the media in an Atlanta hospital while recovering Wednesday. (Feb. 9)
Continue reading …Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty today to felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace—a case that could return the starlet to jail rather than the big screen. She’ll be freed on $40,000 bail and is due back in court on Feb. 23. Prosecutors claim the 24-year-old starlet…
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Continue reading …Verizon successfully completes first VoLTE call in the world, plans 2012 availability
February 9, 2011 No Comment
Verizon has just announced that it has completed the first voice over LTE (VoLTE) call anywhere in the world today, a 33-second dialogue between employees on LG Revolutions in the company’s headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, following it up with a number of other calls where staffers were able to talk and use data services simultaneously — thanks in no small part to the fact that LTE treats voice just as it treats any other type of data. We’d initially gotten the impression yesterday that Verizon would be starting to roll out voice over LTE ( VoLTE ) with the Revolution in mid-2011, but the company’s press release today is saying that they’ll be working to “enhance” the VoLTE experience in 2011 with commercially availability now expected next year. High-fidelity calls are expected to be part of that experience, so it’ll be harder than ever to hold a call when you’ve got a bad cold. Remember the throat lozenges, alright? Follow the break for the full press release. Continue reading Verizon successfully completes first VoLTE call in the world, plans 2012 availability Verizon successfully completes first VoLTE call in the world, plans 2012 availability originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Fewer than 2 teaspoons of salt a day may raise your risk of stroke, a study shows.
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* Brazil cuts 50 billion reais from 2011 budget * Finance minister says cuts won’t hurt the economy * Gov’t says infrastructure, social programs untouched (Adds quotes, details, context, market reaction) By Ana Nicolaci da Costa and Isabel Versiani BRASILIA, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Brazil’s government unveiled budget cuts of about $30 billion on Wednesday, the minimum needed to cool an overheating economy and begin to regain credibility among investors worried about overspending. Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the “strong” cuts of 50 billion reais should sap enough money from Latin America’s largest economy to ease pressure on inflation, which is at a six-year high, and eventually allow…
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If these screens look vaguely familiar, that’s because they’re essentially the same ones Apple has been using to test the iPhone’s various components since day one . Problem is, this is apparently a production Verizon iPhone that was shipped out to an actual customer this week, which… well, let’s just put it this way: it’s not going to help you play Angry Birds any faster. They’ve tried to restore the phone using iTunes to no avail, so here’s the million-dollar question: collectible or worthless return? Hit the gallery for a couple more shots. [Thanks, Alexei] Gallery: Visualized: Verizon iPhone customer shipped a device in test mode Visualized: Verizon iPhone customer shipped a device in test mode originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur Wants to Put Fox News ‘Back in the Cave They Came From’
February 9, 2011 No Comment
In an interview with AlterNet's Don Hazen on Tuesday, MSNBC host Cenk Uygur slammed Fox News and bragged how he would take them on in the ratings: “For so long, they have controlled the national conversation….I want to drain them of that power. I want to put them back in the cave they came from….I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me.” Uygur, who also hosts the left-wing webcast The Young Yurks, has been filling in as anchor for the 6PM ET hour on MSNBC following the departure of Countdown host Keith Olbermann and the reshuffling of the cable news channel's prime time lineup. He is currently in negotiations with MSNBC for a permanent show. Despite Uygur's boasting, as of February 7 , FNC's Special Report with Bret Baier was bringing in over 2.1 million viewers, MSNBC Live at 6PM ET had an audience just under 600,000. In the interview, Uygur went on to rant: “I think defeating Fox – and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news – is very important. I hope to do that through pointing out their hypocrisy, propaganda and general foolishness.” When Hazen asked about the liberal commentator's “short-term vision,” Uygur again proclaimed: “If I stay at 6pm on MSNBC, I plan to beat Fox and be number one in the ratings. On the internet, 'The Young Turks' is already the largest online news show in the world and I plan to continue that domination.” Earlier in the exchange, Uygur took a shot at network news, including his now colleagues at NBC News, “There are so many things that the mainstream media gets wrong that it's an awesome opportunity to be able to correct them from the inside. I hope I can be a progressive voice that presents our perspective without a filter – and does it with strength.” — Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Continue reading …An AP investigation finds that CIA officers involved in high-profile gaffes—including the 5-month detention and interrogation of the wrong man and the freezing to death of another detainee—keep getting promoted into senior positions. The upshot is that as the Obama administration tries to distance itself from the agency’s…
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