A former Tory peer was today found guilty of fiddling his expenses to claim more than £11,000 from the public purse. Lord Taylor of Warwick falsely filed for travel and overnight subsistence, a jury at Southwark Crown Court decided by a majority of 11 to one. The 58-year-old told the House of Lords members’ expenses office that his main residence was in Oxford, when he lived in west London. Taylor, whose first name is John, was the first parliamentarian to be tried and found guilty by a jury over the expenses scandal. The jury of seven men and five women took just over five hours to reach their majority verdict that Taylor, of Lynwood Road, Ealing, made £11,277.80-worth of claims on various…
Continue reading …Samsung Galaxy S Hoppin hops to South Korea, includes TV dock for big-screen fun
January 25, 2011 No Comment
South Korean carrier SK Telecom is billing its new Galaxy S Hoppin from Samsung as a “smartphone that can also serve as a set-top box,” but in reality, it’s basically an Android phone just like any other in Sammy’s stable with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display — the big difference is that it comes bundled with a dock that cables up to your home television and lets you watch streaming video off of the company’s new Hoppin entertainment service either on the road or in the comfort of your La-Z-Boy. Movies will run anywhere from 1,000 to 3,500 won — 89 cents to $3.12 — which isn’t bad, all things considered. The remainder of the phone’s specs are standard fare at this point: 1GHz Hummingbird processor, Android 2.2, a 5 megapixel cam, WiFi, and Bluetooth 3.0 round out the package. Look for it to launch this week. Samsung Galaxy S Hoppin hops to South Korea, includes TV dock for big-screen fun originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …O’Reilly and Goldberg Have the Nerve to Call Keith Olbermann a ‘Character Assassin’
January 25, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media Project much guys? Smear merchants Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg had the nerve to call Keith Olbermann a “character assassin”. Actually, they didn’t call Keith Olbermann that per se since they refused to even mention his name during the segment, not that there was any doubt who they were talking about. Of course a good portion of the segment for O’Reilly was all about him and his ratings at Fox, with Goldberg egging him along, calling Olbermann “the tallest midget in the room” at MSNBC. To hear these two talk about “character assassination” is pretty rich considering the flame throwing that they’ve done on the air as Dave has documented. We can see why Bernie Goldberg’s book was an inspiration to the Knoxville church gunman Bill O’Reilly has Dr. George Tiller’s blood on his well-stained hands If anyone knows something about that topic, it’s these two birds. Say what you might about Keith Olbermann’s style or if he was given to hyperbole, but he wasn’t literally inspiring nut jobs to go out there and murder anyone. And he didn’t come on the air and lie night after night like O’Reilly does. O’Reilly and Goldberg can take all the cheap shots at Olbermann they want, but it won’t change the fact that there was a world of difference between what Keith did on the air night after night at MSNBC, and the lying, fear mongering, false equivalencies, race baiting, and just generally insulting crap that O’Reilly puts on the air night after night. The fact that O’Reilly and a lot of his fellow propagandists on Fox has a bigger audience than Keith did or the others in MSNBC’s prime time still do just shows how terribly screwed up this country is when hate merchants are still allowed on the air and Keith Olbermann, who tried to speak a little truth to power, no longer is. Ratings don’t make you right Bill. They just mean a whole lot more people are sadly being propagandized by your network and your show and that Rupert Murdoch pumping money into Fox News before it made a dime and most similar endeavors would have gone under has finally paid off for him.
Continue reading …Scientists at Nestle are working on food to fool our stomachs. They’re studying the “gut brain”—which tells us when we’re hungry and when we’re full—in an effort to develop products that will keep us feeling full longer and thus reduce overeating, the Wall Street Journal reports. The “gut…
Continue reading …In DC Prolife Mass Homily, Cardinal Criticizes ‘Jaded Media,’ Praises Increased Youth Involvement
January 25, 2011 No Comment
On Sunday evening, an event in Washington preemptively made mincemeat of the usual press claims that “thousands” would participate in the next day's March for Life. The next day at the Washington Post, Michelle Boorstein and Ben Pershing followed form (“Thousands of abortion opponents rally in march on Mall”), but did make an interesting, seemingly reluctant observation: “Some attending the events Monday said that more young people appeared to be participating than in previous years.” The Associated Press's coverage of the march added a new twist . Its afternoon report on the rally made no attempt at a crowd size estimate. The New York Times, as far as I can tell, did no story of its own. The Sunday evening event noted earlier was a pro-life vigil Mass , where the crowd size was relatively verifiable. The homilist, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, took the opportunity to point a finger at the establishment press, and to take note of the youthful energy driving the movement: Around 10,000 Catholics, many of them young people from schools around the nation, met to pray for an end to abortion at a pro-life vigil Mass in D.C. on the eve of the annual March for Life.
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Wondering what sort of goodies might be inside HTC’s upcoming tablets ? Norwegian tech site Amobil isn’t — they claim to have a pair of inside sources spoon-feeding them all the pertinent details. For the rumored HTC Flyer — which may or may not be pictured at right — that includes the same 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 chip you’ll find in several high-end handsets , 1GB of RAM, as well as a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and a rear 5 megapixel imager, and a piddling 4GB of flash storage to hold all your apps (which sounds a little fishy to us). There’s also allegedly 3G for data and Skype calls, an HDMI port, DLNA support and a bonafide stylus to write with, though it’s not clear whether we’re rumoring a fancy dual-digitizer display or simply a pack-in capacitive pen. Though Amobil ‘s sources say the tablet will be sadly limited to Android 2.3 out of the gate, it will allegedly have a brand-new tablet version of HTC’s Sense UI designed to provide a “desktop feel,” which might be a nice pairing for the “HTC Sensation” trademark presently floating about the internet. If so, don’t expect that UI to be limited to a single slate, though — the last part of this oh-so-juicy rumor is that HTC’s also supposedly got a 10-inch LTE tablet (perhaps the Scribe ?) arriving in the second half of the year. HTC Flyer spec sheet leaks with Android 2.3, stylus and 7-inch screen? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Good news for Rahm Emanuel in the Chicago mayor’s race: The Illinois Supreme Court has halted the Chicago board of elections from printing any mayoral ballots without Emanuel’s name on them. The high court is still determining whether to consider an appeal filed by Emanuel after a state appeals court…
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Americans are more confident about their financial situation then they’ve been in eight months. (Jan. 25)
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Photo: Zimbio As per usual, the intertubes are awash with speculation of what President Obama will say during his State of the Union address — along with plenty of friendly advice on what he should say, too! And who am I to sit on the sidelines while the internet chatters away? Here’s my two cents: Obama should use the momentum from a recent uptick in the polls and take the opportunity to talk firmly about the realities of climate change — and how American innovation is more than able to tackle the problem, while creat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Apple still isn’t offering much of a hint about an iOS 4.3 release date — other than a busier than usual beta schedule — but it looks like we could now be one step closer to a general roll out. What appears to be the first app that takes advantage of some iOS 4.3-specific features has now garnered Apple’s approval and turned up in the App Store, which would seem to suggest that there’s no more major changes or bugs that need to be ironed out (though that can certainly always change). The app itself is Matthew Gallagher’s StreamToMe, which runs $2.99 and now incorporates the AirPlay video support that has come to apps in the a latest revision of the OS — hit up the source link below to check it out for yourself. iOS 4.3-ready apps begin turning up in the App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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