Most people got a chuckle over the 1994 video of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel struggling to understand that new Internet thing, but not everybody’s laughing: NBC fired the employee who posted it, reports the All Things Digital blog . “The individual in question violated the company’s standards of conduct by…
Continue reading …The annual commercial showdown of this year’s Super Bowl is among the much anticipated events this weekend. This is going to be a showcase of rich companies which can afford to have a commercial slot and can afford to pay the most popular celebrities in town to promote their products. Super Bowl XLV would be Super Bowl XLV Commercial Show Down Joins The Craze is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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(CNN) — The lawyer representing two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran has been denied a request to visit his clients on the eve of their trial, he told CNN on Saturday. “I asked to see them before the trial, but the judge told me I couldn’t,” said Masoud Shafii. The judge has granted Shafii permission to visit Shane…
Continue reading …Lindsay Lohan said last week she was worried about Charlie Sheen. Now it’s Charlie’s turn to worry about her: She’s going to face felony theft charges over the $2,500 necklace that went missing from a California jewelry store, reports TMZ . The charges are expected to come down Monday, and…
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Suspended Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were banned for at least five years after they were found guilty of corruption by an International Cricket Council (ICC) tribunal in Doha. Al Jazeera’s Rahul Path reports from the tribunal in the Qatari capital.
Continue reading …Chevy Cruze to read back Facebook status updates, make / ruin your night (video)
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We knew good and well that Chevrolet was planning to integrate Facebook read-backs into its OnStar technology, and now it seems all but confirmed… at least on the Cruze. An early Super Bowl ad peek has revealed that the aforesaid automobile has the ability to read back statuses on command, giving you one less reason to keep your mind on the task at hand (read: driving) and one more reason to make The Zuck even richer. Go on and mash play below, but don’t expect any details on how exactly this whole setup works. Something tells us it’s tied to a BT-enabled smartphone, but hopefully we’ll find out the nitty-gritty sooner rather than later. Continue reading Chevy Cruze to read back Facebook status updates, make / ruin your night (video) Chevy Cruze to read back Facebook status updates, make / ruin your night (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Ahmed Shafiq, the Egyptian prime minister, has said that “stability” was returning to Egypt on Saturday, but tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square continue to demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down. In the latest reaction to the protests from the ruling party, its top leadership resigned en masse, including Gamal Mubarak, the son of the president. Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher has more.
Continue reading …Susan Arnout Smith is a writer of thrillers, plays, TV movies, and NPR essays. But for a long time, if you looked her up on Facebook, you would find not the respectable website of a published author, but an obscene, pornographic site of a fake persona “trolling for sex,” she…
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