China stepped up security in Beijing and maintained a clampdown on contacts of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo hours before Friday’s ceremony awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize. Official newspapers said the decision to award the prize to Liu, sentenced last December to 11 years jail for subversion, marked an attempt to impose foreign values on China. “Today in Norway’s Oslo, there will be a farce staged: ‘The Trial of China’,” the popular Global Times, run by the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, said in an editorial. The BBC said its English-language website appeared to have been blocked in several areas of China, for the first time since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Access to other…
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Physical keyboards are old news, right? They will be come January 28, which is when Acer intends to make its dual-screen Iconia laptop available for public consumption. That’s the date we’ve received from the company’s official Spanish mouthpiece, accompanied by a lofty €1,499 ($1,987). Literal currency translations are as usual unadvisable, but that’s a hefty fee, however you want to think about it. Then again, the Iconia does come with two 14-inch multitouch LCDs , which last we checked weren’t the cheapest parts in the land, and also furnishes you with some decent grunt under the hood courtesy of a Core i5 CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 750GB of storage, an optional 3G module, and — lest we forget — a USB 3.0 port. We’re sure it’ll end up as somebody’s perfect bowl of porridge. Acer Iconia priced at €1,499, on sale in Spain on January 28 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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On backdrop of Carmel fire failures, thousands attend human rights march in Tel Aviv focusing on PM Netanyahu, Ministers Barak, Yishai and Steinitz. Some 100 Im Tirtzu members hold counter protest, say ‘Jews have rights too’
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Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton unveiled a new statue of singer Lady Gaga at Madame Tussauds in Los Angeles. Fans of the pop star dressed in their favorite Gaga costumes for the occasion. (Dec. 10)
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Need to have the latest and greatest , but can’t stand the sameness on tap ? You can easily spruce up your Android device with some Windows Phone 7 window dressing to impress your fanboy friends. Mind you, the “Windows Phone Android” launcher — now available in Android Market — isn’t good for more than a practical joke or three, as it’s buggy, doesn’t run on all phones (our Droid 2 failed, and we’re hearing some Galaxy S derivatives aren’t supported), doesn’t support notifications, and doesn’t even have those fancy auto-updating Live Tiles. No, what you’re looking at here is just a stack of square icons to launch your apps, and a second pane with a vertically scrolling list of the same. Until some brave soul brings us the real deal, though, this may be as close as you’re going to get. [Thanks, marky mark] Windows Phone Android launcher brings Metro UI’s simplicity, but none of its joy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Martin Luther King, Junior accepts Nobel Peace Prize; Women get the right to vote in Wyoming Territory; America’s first domestic passenger jet flight takes off; Soul singer Otis Redding, General Augusto Pinochet die. (Dec. 10)
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ZAGREB, Croatia-Croatian police have issued an international arrest warrant for the country’s former prime minister, who…
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By Mike Luckovich Related Entries December 9, 2010 Hold Your Nose and Vote ‘Aye’ December 9, 2010 Angry House Dems Reject Bush-Obama Tax Cuts
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By Mike Luckovich Related Entries December 9, 2010 Hold Your Nose and Vote ‘Aye’ December 9, 2010 Angry House Dems Reject Bush-Obama Tax Cuts
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Six Seattle-area hospitals are getting new vending machines for blood. The “Hemosafe” machines store a large amount of blood of all types in a temperature-controlled setting. (Dec. 10)
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