Scarborough: Tea Party Congressmen Should Try Not to ‘Scare Little Kids and Pets’
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Parade magazine, the Sunday newspaper supplement, interviewed MSNBC host Joe Scarborough for its January 2 issue and praised him by reporting he has “happily confounded expectations. He's a die-hard conservative who has hosted the Morning Joe show on liberal-minded MSNBC for more than three years.
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State Prosecutor’s Office examining ways to alleviate confinement conditions of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin; proposes half-hour bi-weekly meetings with another prisoner
Continue reading …Vizio details specs on VIA Tablet and VIA Phone, reveals VIA Plus is Google TV
January 3, 2011 No Comment
Vizio has unveiled more about its plans for the new year which seem to consist largely of a huge push on Android, from the 4-inch phone and 8-inch tablet running a (still unspecified) flavor on their 1 GHz processors, to new VIA Plus HDTVs and Blu-ray players with Google TV built in. The VIA Tablet and VIA Phone (not necessarily final names, judging from the PR) have a few other details mentioned — though we don’t know if the phone is GSM or CDMA, it does have a 4-inch screen, WiFi N, GPS, MicroSD slot, dual cameras and HDMI output, while the 8-inch tablet brings similar chops minus any sort of 3G connectivity. With the new Vizio Internet Apps Plus, it aims to provide a seamless experience from the handheld to the big screen, including the ability to pause and resume content across devices. Judging by the screenshot, it looks like the company may be wrapping its own Yahoo! Widgets -like skin around the Google TV experience in a way we haven’t seen from Sony or Logitech yet. Another pic and the full press releases await after the break, the rest will have to wait until we get our hands on the devices in Las Vegas. Continue reading Vizio details specs on VIA Tablet and VIA Phone, reveals VIA Plus is Google TV Vizio details specs on VIA Tablet and VIA Phone, reveals VIA Plus is Google TV originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Dmitri Medvedev announces he will not visit Israel later this month following disruptions imposed by workers’ union of Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Earlier this week, Russia urged Israel to avoid diplomatic embarrassment
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Benjamin Netanyahu discusses US role in removal of construction freeze from negotiating table, possibility of peace with Syria and efforts to restore relations with Turkey. As for talks with PA he says unlike Israel, Palestinians haven’t moved an inch to promote peace
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Trash will be collected from the streets of New York on Monday for the first time since a Christmas weekend storm dumped 20 inches of snow on the city. (Jan. 3)
Continue reading …Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz, runs too damn fast for its Bluetooth to work
January 3, 2011 No Comment
Even at its default 1GHz speed, Samsung’s Hummingbird is one of the finest mobile processor around, but are you really going to complain about getting the option to crank an extra 200 milion clock cycles out of it? Morfic over on the xda-developers forums has delivered a kernel permitting Nexus S owners to achieve just that, although he still has to fix an issue that disables the phone’s Bluetooth capabilities.Still, if you value ludicrous speed over wireless peripherals, the source link is your friend. Nexus S overclocked to 1.2GHz, runs too damn fast for its Bluetooth to work originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: ercol TreeHugger has featured a series of classic chairs whose design is so simple and inspiring that they are timeless. There is the Hille stacking chair designed by Robin Day, the Monobloc (not quite inspiring, but certainly ubiquitous) and now the Butterfly made by Ercol. Ercol is another old British furnitu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – West African leaders are headed back to Ivory Coast in an effort to persuade incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to cede power more than a month after the election. A delegation from the regional bloc ECOWAS is due to arrive in Abidjan later Monday. They will be joined by the Kenyan prime minister, who is serving as the African Union’s emissary. ECOWAS has threatened to use military force to remove Gbagbo if he doesn’t step down, but the bloc says it wants to give negotiations more time. The United Nations and others say that Gbagbo lost the Nov. 28 runoff election to Alassane Ouattara. The U.N. says at least 173 people have been killed in violence over the…
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Can’t say we’re surprised — after all, last time we checked in the tally was hovering around 9.3 million — but now Samsung has officially met its goal of 10 million Galaxy S phones sold around the globe. That’s less than seven months since the device first hit the market, which by Sammy’s fuzzy math averages to about one unit for every two seconds it’s been on sale. According to Samsung Tomorrow , North America contributed the most with 4 million in sales, followed by Europe at 2.5 million. Let there be cake, and once that’s over, let there be progress on those Froyo updates . Samsung reaches goal: 10 million Galaxy S phones sold worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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