If you’re looking for reasons not to jump on the Verizon iPhone bandwagon, here’s a pretty compelling, albeit unconfirmed, one: the Xperia Play may be headed to Big Red as well. In comparing Sony Ericsson’s thumb-friendly Android handset to the iPhone 4, Wirefly has listed VZW as the carrier for the Play. This is the first we’ve really heard of a US provider for the phone, though we’d hardly be surprised if Sony Ericsson opts to spam it out to all four major networks. It did as much in the UK, where every single operator will try to sell you one in April, and we don’t see why that strategy should change on US soil. The Xperia Play will be announced in full this Sunday, February 13th, when we might just learn more about its global availability… if we’re really polite and wear our PlayStation T-shirts, presumably. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play may be headed to Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Southern Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has returned home promising to work with his northern counterpart, Omar Al Bashir. On Monday, the final results of the country’s landmark referendum showed the South had voted overwhelmingly for secession from the North. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Juba.
Continue reading …Fujitsu’s next-gen Milbeaut image processor does single-chip Hi-Vision video, 20MP stills
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Fujitsu’s latest image processor, the Milbeaut MB91696AM, has a new bag of tricks on tap, and it’s fixing to unload them in April. The new Milbeaut sports ARM processors and a “newly-developed” Full HD H.264 codec engine , making for 14-megapixel shooting at 8fps (or about 20 megapixels at 5.5fps) and low-noise Hi-Vision video recording at 1920 x 1080. So the processor, in its sixth iteration, sports high resolution photos and HD video all on the same chip, and features continuous photography speeds up to five times faster than its predecessors. Fujitsu’s got plans to show off Milbeaut’s mobile solutions at MWC next week, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see the MB91696AM make its debut in Barcelona as well. Either way, the new processor is scheduled to ship starting in April for
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Highlights of this day in history: The Beatles appear on TV’s ‘Ed Sullivan’; Sen. Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade; World War II’s Battle of Guadalcanal ends; Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; author Alice Walker born. (Feb. 9)
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Supercut of the Day: Bill O’Reilly interrupts President Obama 48 times during this past Sunday’s pre-Super Bowl interview. Interruption goes in, interruption goes out. [ wonkette .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 09/02/2011 07:28 Number of articles : 5
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The rumored Xperia Neo still isn’t official — we think we’re probably looking at MWC next week for that — but there are enough floating around at this point so that they’re getting tested pretty thoroughly (or, at least as thoroughly as you can test a pre-production device). The latest tidbit comes via a series of videos and stills that put the phone’s 8.1 megapixel sensor through its paces; frankly, they look a little washed out, but it’s really common for camera performance to improve by leaps and bounds through firmware updates right up until a phone’s commercial release so we don’t want to sound the alarm quite yet. My Android Life has also thrown together a quick video walkthrough of the UI, where you see that Sony Ericsson seems to be standardizing on the same experience first seen on the Xperia Arc and later on the Xperia Play — highly widgetized with a Gingerbread core. All things considered, it seems the Arc’s a higher-end device — but if the price is right, this Neo could win some hearts as well. Follow the break for the UI walkthrough. Continue reading Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo put through its paces on video Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo put through its paces on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Time and again in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CIA officers who committed serious mistakes that left people dead or wrongly imprisoned received only minor admonishments or no punishment at all. (Feb. 8)
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Many of the people in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday were there for the first time. Jacky Rowland reports now on the newcomers swelling the ranks of the pro-democracy movement.
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A young, married mother faces charges Tuesday of giving birth in a toilet at a South Carolina sports and concert arena and leaving the choking newborn boy to die. (Feb. 8)
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