Pro-Gadhafi forces dramatically halted Tune in to “AC360º” for the latest on the air strikes in Libya. Watch “AC360º” at 10 p.m. ET Monday on CNN. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — An international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler’s momentum, a U.S. official said. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced through the sky in Tripoli before dawn Tuesday — the fourth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the multinational effort to protect civilians from attack by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States…
Continue reading …Pro-Gadhafi forces dramatically halted Tune in to “AC360º” for the latest on the air strikes in Libya. Watch “AC360º” at 10 p.m. ET Monday on CNN. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — An international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler’s momentum, a U.S. official said. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced through the sky in Tripoli before dawn Tuesday — the fourth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the multinational effort to protect civilians from attack by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States…
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Pro-Gadhafi forces dramatically halted Tune in to “AC360º” for the latest on the air strikes in Libya. Watch “AC360º” at 10 p.m. ET Monday on CNN. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — An international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler’s momentum, a U.S. official said. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced through the sky in Tripoli before dawn Tuesday — the fourth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the multinational effort to protect civilians from attack by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States…
Continue reading …Pro-Gadhafi forces dramatically halted Tune in to “AC360º” for the latest on the air strikes in Libya. Watch “AC360º” at 10 p.m. ET Monday on CNN. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — An international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler’s momentum, a U.S. official said. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced through the sky in Tripoli before dawn Tuesday — the fourth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the multinational effort to protect civilians from attack by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States…
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Pro-Gadhafi forces dramatically halted Tune in to “AC360º” for the latest on the air strikes in Libya. Watch “AC360º” at 10 p.m. ET Monday on CNN. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — An international mission to weaken the force of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stopped the ruler’s momentum, a U.S. official said. But criticism and questions about the operation persist, with no clear answer on who will take over command of the military operation and what the end game will be. Missiles and anti-aircraft fire pierced through the sky in Tripoli before dawn Tuesday — the fourth day of Operation Odyssey Dawn, the multinational effort to protect civilians from attack by pro-Gadhafi forces. The United States…
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Okay, so a dual-core , large-screened HTC phone isn’t quite the unique event it was this time last week, but that shouldn’t preclude the Pyramid from vying for our gadget lust. Today, a picture of its front end has made its way to GSM Arena , where a careful analysis of it side by side with a Desire HD confirms the same 4.3-inch screen size, but a likely resolution bump all the way up to qHD (or 960 x 540). A 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm chip and a 4.3-inch qHD display are the two crowning features on HTC’s EVO 3D , so this looks to be its brother for another carrier. One last note of import is the home icon you see below the blurred-out applications menu — that’s stock Android fare right there. It doesn’t necessarily mean the Pyramid will ship with stock Android , but we can dream, can’t we? HTC Pyramid turns around, shows us a qHD visage originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Okay, so a dual-core , large-screened HTC phone isn’t quite the unique event it was this time last week, but that shouldn’t preclude the Pyramid from vying for our gadget lust. Today, a picture of its front end has made its way to GSM Arena , where a careful analysis of it side by side with a Desire HD confirms the same 4.3-inch screen size, but a likely resolution bump all the way up to qHD (or 960 x 540). A 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm chip and a 4.3-inch qHD display are the two crowning features on HTC’s EVO 3D , so this looks to be its brother for another carrier. One last note of import is the home icon you see below the blurred-out applications menu — that’s stock Android fare right there. It doesn’t necessarily mean the Pyramid will ship with stock Android , but we can dream, can’t we? HTC Pyramid turns around, shows us a qHD visage originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Okay, so a dual-core , large-screened HTC phone isn’t quite the unique event it was this time last week, but that shouldn’t preclude the Pyramid from vying for our gadget lust. Today, a picture of its front end has made its way to GSM Arena , where a careful analysis of it side by side with a Desire HD confirms the same 4.3-inch screen size, but a likely resolution bump all the way up to qHD (or 960 x 540). A 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm chip and a 4.3-inch qHD display are the two crowning features on HTC’s EVO 3D , so this looks to be its brother for another carrier. One last note of import is the home icon you see below the blurred-out applications menu — that’s stock Android fare right there. It doesn’t necessarily mean the Pyramid will ship with stock Android , but we can dream, can’t we? HTC Pyramid turns around, shows us a qHD visage originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Britons bin millions of tonnes of food each year – a crime compounded by the waste of all the water used to grow it As consumers throw millions of tonnes of uneaten food into the bin each year, few give a thought to the hidden cost of such waste – the water that it took to grow the food. But new research shows that we throw away, on average, twice as much water per year in the form of uneaten food as we use for washing and drinking. What is worse, increasing amounts of our food comes from countries where water is scarce, meaning the food we discard has a huge hidden impact on the depletion of valuable water resources across the world. According to the first comprehensive study into the impact of the “embedded water” in the UK’s food waste on world water supplies, more than a 5% of the water used by the UK is thrown away in the form of uneaten food. The research was carried out by the government’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap) and the green campaigning group WWF, and is published with the title: Water and Carbon Footprint of Household Food Waste in the UK. The water used to produce food thrown away by households in the UK amounts to about 6.2bn cubic metres a year. That represents 6% of the UK’s total water footprint, which includes water used in industry and agriculture. About a quarter of the water used to grow and process the wasted food originates in the UK, but much of it comes from countries that are already experiencing water stress. Green campaigners have for years called for more attention to be paid to “hidden” or “embedded” water – water that is used in the production of all sorts of goods, from food and clothing to cars and furniture, and which represents a hidden cost on exports. As more countries suffer from water scarcity, these exports can further deplete natural resources and cause environmental problems such as salination – which can render land unfit for growing crops – and higher prices for water to poorer consumers. Food waste carries another environmental cost: it accounts for about 3% of the UK’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to the amount generated by 7m cars each year. That is enough to cancel out the greenhouse gases saved each year by British households’ recycling efforts. Liz Goodwin, chief executive at Wrap, said: “These figures are quite staggering. Although greenhouse gas emissions have been widely discussed, the water used to produce food and drink has been overlooked until recently. “However, growing concern over the availability of water in the UK and abroad, and security of the supply of food, means that it is vital we understand the connections between food waste, water and climate change.” She said the organisation – which is threatened with budget cuts – would work further with retailers, food and drink companies and local authorities to reduce the amount of food wasted. David Tickner, head of freshwater programmes at WWF, said consumers could make a “small but very significant” contribution to reducing water stress if they tried to avoid wasting so much food. Water Food Recycling Waste Climate change Ethical and green living WWF Agriculture Fiona Harvey guardian.co.uk
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Regulator aims to enable high-speed internet connectivity around UK while also guaranteeing competition The communications regulator Ofcom is planning its largest-ever auction of mobile phone spectrum in 2012 with the aim of enabling high-speed internet connectivity around the UK while also guaranteeing competition. The rights to “fourth generation” (4G), also known as “Long-Term Evolution” (LTE), radio spectrum – which enables connections at speeds of up to 100Mbps, about 25 times faster than the average broadband connection now in use at home – will be auctioned off in five chunks. Ofcom says that to guarantee competition in the future market it will limit both the minimum and maximum amounts of spectrum that any bidder can win. That, it says, should ensure that a balance of competition is maintained between the existing four mobile networks – Vodafone, Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile), O2 and 3. The spectrum to be auctioned is being freed up by the “digital switchover” from analogue to digital TV which is being rolled out across the UK now. The UK was one of the first countries to auction off 3G spectrum in 2000, which raised £22bn. However it has since fallen behind other countries, where 4G LTE systems have been installed and used: in the US the Verizon network has this year introduced LTE connectivity, and Germany has had a successful auction of frequencies that can be used for it. In the UK the auction was delayed by mobile phone companies which objected to Ofcom proposals for the auction. Despite offering a larger amount of bandwidth – about 180MHz of spectrum split between the 800MHz, 1.8GHz and 2.6GHz frequencies – the 4G auction is not expected to raise anything close to the amount raised by the 3G auction of 100MHz of bandwidth. Mobile networks are more cautious now about spending projections, although 4G connections could enable high-speed connections almost all over the country. A key factor will be which companies gain access to low-frequency bandwidth around the 800MHz mark, which is more effective for connections over long distances such as in rural areas. The higher-frequency bandwidth will be more effective for higher-speed connections over short ranges, such as cities. Two of the mobile operators, 3 and Everything Everywhere (the combined Orange and T-Mobile) protested in January, after Ofcom allowed the two oldest networks, Vodafone and O2, to “re-farm” low-frequency spectrum that they had been allocated when the mobile networks were first set up in the 1980s for 3G connections. The other two networks, and especially 3, which gained its bandwidth at the 3G auction in 2000, say that gives the two older networks an unfair advantage in the race to offer 4G. However Ofcom does not seem to have allowed for this in its rules for the auction. “Our role as the independent regulator is to award this spectrum in a way that secures the best use of the spectrum for the benefit of citizens and consumers in the UK,” the Ofcom chief executive, Ed Richards, said. “That is why we are proposing to design the auction in a way that not only encourages investment but also promotes competition and delivers wide coverage of services.” The auctions will have “floors” that will mean that auctions in which at least four companies do not win enough spectrum to provider higher-quality data services will be re-run. There will also be “caps” on the amount of low-frequency spectrum that any bidder can win, and on the total amount of spectrum any bidder can win. Ofcom is running a consultation on the terms of the auction on its website . Mobile phones Internet Telecoms Telecommunications industry Orange T-Mobile Ofcom Digital media Charles Arthur guardian.co.uk
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