Duran Duran have gone back to their 80′s roots with their new song ‘All You Need Is Now.’ It is taken off the album with the same name which is produced by DJ Mark Ronson. (Dec. 30)
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For 16 years, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott have shared a life behind bars for their part in an $11 armed robbery. To share freedom, they must also share a kidney. (Dec. 30)
Continue reading …Sharp Galapagos media tablets will bring 3G and EPUB content to US e-reader market in 2011
December 30, 2010 No Comment
We like a bit of ambition around these parts and Sharp’s plans for entering the US e-reader battlefield reek of the stuff. The Galapagos tablets that recently enjoyed their Japanese debut are going to be retooled, according to the Mainichi Daily News , to include new 3G radios for the internet-addicted US consumer, while the primary content format will also be switched from the proprietary XMDF in Japan to the almost universally compatible EPUB. Content partnerships are said to be brewing as we type, because, quite naturally, Sharp intends to have its own e-bookstore for Americans as well. After the Yanks, the company’s said to be looking into bringing its 5.5- and 10.8-inch tablets to China, India, and Brazil. Highly ambitious indeed. Sharp Galapagos media tablets will bring 3G and EPUB content to US e-reader market in 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Truthdig editors, contributors and collaborators share their insights into the corporate takeover of the free and fair Internet and the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell. Plus: Richard Schickel’s picks for the best movies of the year. Related Entries December 30, 2010 Truthdig Radio: Save the Internet, Enlist the Gays, Movies of the Year December 29, 2010 O’Donnell Accused of Dipping Into the Campaign Till
Continue reading …Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world
December 30, 2010 No Comment
Oh Android, is there any device you won’t grace for the cheap thrill of adding to your army of followers? Creative’s Zen Touch 2 served up most of its specs a couple of months back, including a resistive touchscreen and the use of Android 2.1 as its OS, but today it’s formalized its US intentions with a bit of FCC certification action. The 3.2-inch PMP’s 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 wireless transceivers all checked out okay, though the exhaustive teardown also revealed a “vibrator” module and an 1150mAh battery contained within its plasticky walls. Another note of import was that two variants, one equipped with GPS and one without, were offered to the FCC, in line with the company segmenting the Zen Touch 2 into “standard” and “enhanced” editions. If you’re in the UK, you can have one of these music players shipped to you tomorrow, but the US online store only lists it by name and doesn’t yet have a full listing. Shouldn’t be long now. Continue reading Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Manama: Senior officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA and many people keep visiting US embassies in their countries to establish links with the US intelligence agency, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website, said. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told pan-Arab Al Jazeera channel in an interview on Wednesday evening. The interviewer, Ahmad Mansour, said during the second part of the interview, that Assange…
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IDF submarine divers’ course cadets take time out from arduous training to meet with Holocaust survivors and commemorate their experiences. ‘We have been through tough course but hearing what survivors went through we realize it was nothing in comparison,’ says one cadet
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Career diplomat Robert Stephen Ford will be envoy to Damascus after US absence of six years
Continue reading …By E.J. Dionne, Jr. Was 2010 American liberalism’s Waterloo? If there is one thing the Obama White House most underestimates, it is the dispirited mood of its troops. Related Entries December 29, 2010 Gorbachev Takes Stock of New START December 28, 2010 ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t
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