The Israeli military, expecting widespread confrontations in the West Bank as the United Nations debates recognizing a Palestinian state, is training Jewish settlers to repel protests. Settlement security chiefs are being given tear gas and stun grenades, and the military is mapping out firing zones around settlements according to leaked…
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Since the death of Gears we’ve been, rather impatiently, awaiting the return of offline access to our Google apps. Well that day has finally come — provided you’re a Chrome fan. The fine folks out in Mountain View just unveiled a new app for their browser (which means it also works on Chome OS) called Offline Google Mail that will keep you connected to your all important messages even when you can’t get a connection. You’ll notice the app looks a heck of a lot like the web app for tablets, and that’s because that’s basically what it is. There are some differences — keyboard shortcuts work — but at it’s heart it’s the same HTML5 browser app mobile users have been enjoying for some time. To install the offline version you’ll have to uninstall the standard Gmail Chrome app, which is a little odd, but there’s nothing stopping you from typing Gmail.com in the address bar. Docs and Calendar are also going offline. Starting today they’ll be rolled out to users over the next week. To activate it you’ll have to look under settings for an offline tick box. For now Docs will be view only when offline, but Google promises editing is coming soon. Hit up the more coverage link to install Offline Gmail now. Gmail, Google Docs and Calendar finally regain offline access originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Stone Age missiles met medieval weaponry on the streets of San Diego yesterday—and lost. A 16-year-old boy and a friend were throwing rocks at passing cars when a passenger in an SUV fired a crossbow bolt at them, hitting the teen in the abdomen. He was rushed to a…
Continue reading …Relax, girls. Not a hair on Justin Bieber’s head is out of place, even though a Honda Civic collided with the black Ferrari he was driving in Los Angeles. Neither driver nor Bieb’s assistant, who was a passenger in his car, was injured, and no damage was reported, according to…
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Beyoncé’s pregnancy isn’t the only thing worth celebrating. On Sep. 4, the singer turns 30.
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Department of Justice attempting to block $39bn merger on antitrust grounds, according to reports The US government has attempted to block the $39bn (£24bn) takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T, according to reports. The department of justice filed court papers in Washington in an attempt to halt the merger on antitrust grounds, according to Bloomberg . “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market,” the department of justice reportedly said in its filing. The multibillion-dollar merger, announced in March, would be create the largest mobile provider in the US with 130 million customers, reducing the number of players in the market from four to three. The US telecoms giant AT&T is the second largest network in the US, behind Verizon Wireless, with T-Mobile the number four network. Sprint Nextel is the other remaining large operator in the country, with the third largest service. AT&T proposed in March to pay $25bn in cash for T-Mobile USA and the rest in stock, giving T-Mobile’s German parent an 8% stake in AT&T. The agreement was approved by the boards of directors at both AT&T and Deutsche Telekom. Regulators have pored over the terms and implications of the deal for months, given its size and scale. AT&T’s shares were down 3.85% in early-morning trading on the New York stock exchange, trading at $28.53. The DoJ had not returned requests to comment at the time of publication. Telecoms T-Mobile Telecommunications industry Media business Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Poet and author Maya Angelou says a recently unveiled monument to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is inscribed with a quote taken out of context that makes the reverend seem “arrogant.” I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness, the inscription on the 30-foot-tall statue of King reads. “The quote makes
Continue reading …The Justice Department’s bid to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA was widely anticipated by antitrust experts, and the government is likely to succeed in thwarting the deal, a former top communications regulator tells The Lookout. “Any objective antitrust lawyer expected this,” Reed Hundt, a former chair of the Federal Communications Commission,
Continue reading …How dumb do Obama fans think the American people are? Even the people around Washington DC? One example came on the oldies station Big 100.3 FM in Washington, where morning host Tommy Griffiths joked his DVR was on the blink and presented a ridiculously doctored Obama speech, with “Over the Rainbow” playing in the background. Obama was edited to say things like this (audio here ) : ““I want damage up and down the East Coast, and power outages and flooding…Above all, I want to thank this storm. I want to thank all disasters, very much….So I’m going to make sure many Americans are still at serious risk of significant flooding and widespread power outages.” On Tuesday morning, Griffiths explained that several callers were extremely angry at this prank, even though he claimed it wasn’t political. (You cannot mock Obama and have people think it’s not political.) So he played a caller complaining she would stop listening to his show because
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