Google’s Voice calling application is adding a long-promised feature: the ability to move a phone number from a cell phone to Google’s service. Previously, Google Voice assigned each user a new number,making it more difficult to take advantage of its features, which include cheaper international calls and the ability…
Continue reading …One Tonne Life: Interview with Project Architect Gert Wingårdh on His Energy Efficient Building (Video)
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Image via One Tonne Life – Portrait of Gert Wingårdh Last week the One Tonne Life project began in Stockholm and TreeHugger was there to meet the key players in this fascinating low carbon lifestyle experiment. To recap, the Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house, designed b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones : Parliament Square Time Out , London’s weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is not good. A scientist outlined the effect of global temperatures rising by 4C, something that has been predicted as a worst case scenario. Another wrote about technology melt down and another of energy supplies dwindling. In a word: we are doomed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …“They’ll be back.” No, not Terminator robots from the future, but something nearly as deadly—earmarks. Harry Reid says President Obama is wrong to try to end the practice that allows members of Congress to insert benefits for their home states into bills. “The executive branch of government is powerful…
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Why bother waiting for its official Mobile World Congress reveal in February when you can view the newest HTC flagship today? The touchscreen slate prototype (notice the serial number stamped along the bottom of the handset’s face) you’re looking at above matches the leaked Pocketnow render exactly including the arcing earpiece and isolated front-facing camera with chrome ring. It was just spotted by an eagle-eyed tipster while waiting for a Taipei metro system. Sorry Windows Phone 7 fans , this baby is Android through and through. And seeing it in the wild lends credence to all of the HTC devices pictured in that leak. A couple more snaps after the break. [Thanks, LIMIX] Continue reading HTC’s newest Android flagship phone revealed HTC’s newest Android flagship phone revealed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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SAN’A, Yemen – Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the country’s capital, calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s…
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Revelers braved the weather in the nation’s capital to meet up for a snowball fight organized over social media. (Jan. 27)
Continue reading …A Ugandan gay rights activist whose name appeared on a tabloid “hit list” has been found murdered in his home. David Kato’s name, picture, and address were printed by the newspaper in its list of the country’s “top homos,” which appeared under the headline “Hang Them,” the BBC reports. Kato…
Continue reading …Google adds HTML5 Gmail and Gtalk notifications for the desktop, makes you envy Chrome users
January 27, 2011 No Comment
Oh, come on, Google! If you’re going to give us desktop notifiers for our favorite email and chat clients, you’ve got to play nice and let us have them on more than your own browser, right? To be fair to the Chrome maker, it’s standardizing the code it’s used in its new HTML5 alerts so that other browsers can soon use it too, but as of today, you’ll need to use the Google-sanctioned webscape navigator if you want its sweet new pop-ups on your desktop. We gave them a quick try and they’re delightfully quick, with Gtalk message alerts updating themselves to the latest one received instead of stacking up and threatening your sanity. Hit the source link to learn how to enable the new notifications. Google adds HTML5 Gmail and Gtalk notifications for the desktop, makes you envy Chrome users originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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