In an electrifying moment, President Barack Obama revealed that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who on Saturday was shot point-blank in the head, had opened her eyes for the first time shortly after his hospital visit. (Jan. 12)
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President Barack Obama did his best to comfort Tucson, Arizona and the nation as a whole last night at a eulogy for the victims of last week’s tragedy . Urging Americans to forward on “in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds,” his speech evoked memories of the six killed and many wounded. Among those wounded was U.S. Rep. Gabrille Giffords, whose supermarket meet-and-greet instead became the… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Hollywood Gossip Discovery Date : 13/01/2011 05:25 Number of articles : 9
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Trevor Hoffman, baseball’s all-time saves leader, announced his retirement at age 43 after 18 seasons in the major leagues. He’s taking a front-office job with the San Diego Padres, the team with which he became a star. (Jan. 12)
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept. The heavy rains also killed 13 people in Sao Paulo state on Tuesday, bringing the total death toll in Brazil’s south to at least 270. Hillsides and river banks in the picturesque Serrana region north of Rio buckled under the equivalent of a month’s rainfall in 24 hours, destroying…
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TUCSON – President Barack Obama mourned the victims of an Arizona shooting spree on Wednesday and urged Americans not to let the debate over the tragedy be used as ‘one more occasion to turn on one another.’ In an emotional address to thousands of people who packed a Tucson arena for a memorial service, Obama said no one knew what prompted a…
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Speaking at a memorial at the University of Arizona, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored a polarized nation to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shooting rampage by becoming better people. (Jan. 12)
Continue reading …iOS 4.3 code reveals new iPhone and iPad models, rumor mill suggests a dislike of the home button
January 13, 2011 No Comment
History lesson, folks. If you dig far enough into iOS’s code, you’ll eventually come across iPhone3,1, which is the AT&T iPhone 4, and the analogous iPhone3,2 (i.e. Verizon iPhone ). It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but then along comes iOS 4.3 with a handful of new mystery identifiers to spurn speculation — namely, two new-generation iPhones (4,1 and 4,2) and three iPads (2,1; 2,2; and 2,3). Speculate all you want, but there isn’t much else at all we can say definitively here, but if we had to take a guess, it’s the GSM and CDMA variants of the next-gen models (plus a WiFi-only iPad). It is interesting to note the lack of an “iPhone4,3″ given the yet-to-be-revealed iPhone3,3 is still there — will the last member ever see the light of day? Outside of iOS 4.3 but still very much related, BGR is claiming it’s heard from sources that the next iPhone / iPad models will eschew the physical home button altogether in lieu of the new multi-finger gestures and that employees at Cupertino are already testing such devices. That seems a little more out there to us; five-finger pinch to home feels extremely clunky. The real takeaway here? We can finally have an iPhone rumor that doesn’t involve wondering if it’ll head to a new US carrier. iOS 4.3 code reveals new iPhone and iPad models, rumor mill suggests a dislike of the home button originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded a US congresswoman. (Jan. 12)
Continue reading …On PBS, New Yorker Editor Equates Obama ‘Freezing Out’ Fox News with Building a Civil Discourse
January 13, 2011 No Comment
On Tuesday night's Charlie Rose show on PBS, New Yorker editor (and former Washington Post reporter) David Remnick equated Team Obama's attempt to demonize and “freeze out” Fox News Channel with a campaign to create civil discourse. Demonizing equals civility? CHARLIE ROSE: Do you think that the president had an opportunity that he did not seize in order to make a real contribution to the civil discourse that we`re talking about and to exhibit those things that he spoke about and those things he believed in? DAVID REMNICK: He was laughed out of court. Remember the attack on Fox News? I mean, it might not have been as smoothly done as one would have liked but there was an attempt by the Obama administration — a very concerted attempt with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, and even the president, to either freeze out or do a critique of the rhetoric of Fox News and whether, in fact, they're news at all and all the rest of the critique that you see elsewhere in the media. And it was laughed out of court by a lot of people. read more
Continue reading …New Goo.gl URL shortener API lets third party developers in on the outrageous fun that is Google URL shortening
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Just a quick note, because we know how much you love APIs: Google has opened its URL shortening service to third party developers. That’s right — not only can you use Goo.gl to generate QR codes , but now you can build it into your own software. As well as support for URL shortening and expanding, the API will also let you track your history and analytics. Says Ben D’Angelo of the URL shortening team: “You could use these features for a wide variety of applications, enabling behaviors ranging from auto-shortening within Twitter or Google Buzz clients to running regular jobs that monitor your usage statistics and traffic patterns.” The team is also working to improve spam and malicious site detection for the service. Since the government of Greenland seems to be a bit more stable than that of a certain Muammar al-Gaddafi, we’re sure that Google won’t run into the same problems that vb.ly did (although we wonder if things would change if Kuupik Kleist got his own voluptuous Ukrainian nurse). Hit the source link to get coding. New Goo.gl URL shortener API lets third party developers in on the outrageous fun that is Google URL shortening originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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