Gmail for Android update improves Priority Inbox, adds additional compose and send options
December 9, 2010 No Comment
Hey, Google just rolled out Gmail for Android 2.3.2, which improves support for Priority Inbox and adds in a couple much-needed compose and send options. Priority Inbox gets some buffed-up views and controls to change importance settings, and Gmail can now send a notification upon receipt of an important email, which is incredibly cool. Even better, the compose screen now lets you specify any sending address you’ve setup in desktop Gmail, which is a slice of pure email heaven for those of us who juggle multiple accounts from one inbox. You can also respond to messages inline now and swap between reply, reply-all, and forward much more easily. Best of all, if you’re running Froyo you can hit that QR code and go grab the update right now since Google broke Gmail out into a Market app — no need to wait for your pokey manufacturer / carrier to roll out Gingerbread . (Then again, if you’re still waiting for Froyo you might not be quite as pleased.) Ain’t modularity grand? Gmail for Android update improves Priority Inbox, adds additional compose and send options originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Anti-Stoning Committee says Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, as well as her son and attorney, freed from prison. Italian FM: Great day for human rights
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Only about half of women whose insurance pays for mammograms go in for annual breast screens, researchers report.
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Although the timing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest and extradition to Sweden seemed a tad conspicuous, what with the site’s recent big release that angered and embarrassed several powers that be around the globe, Sweden is denying that political pressure played a part in his apprehension. One Jonas Björk, correspondent for TV4, echoed the sentiment expressed by Sweden’s justice department: “I believe the politicians when they say they haven’t had any pressure from abroad,” he said Thursday.
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Voice message warns Yisrael Beiteinu member his conservative and reformist friends will ‘publish everything’ about him. MK: Bring it on
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Intel’s already boasted of its massive investment in a new 22 nanometer manufacturing process , and it’s now confirmed that it’s new plant in Hillsboro, Oregon, dubbed D1X will be ready to produce 450 millimeter wafers. Of course, “ready” seems to be the keyword here — Intel will apparently stick with 300 mm wafers for a while yet, but have all the necessary preparations put in place to kick start 450 mm production when the industry is ready for it. That shift promises to both increase efficiency and cut costs by allowing more chips to be produced at a time, but it will likely still be years before we see any actual results — one analyst speculates it could be 2018 at the earliest before 450 mm fabrication tools are ready. Intel confirms Oregon plant will be ready to make 450 mm wafers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Masters of Beef Advocacy Grads Take On Sustainable Food Supporters, Attacking The Wrong Target
December 9, 2010 No Comment
photo: Alex Proimos / Creative Commons If you don’t subscribe to the print version of Mother Jones you may have missed what seems to be a really sort of creepy story about how the US beef industry is not so subtly waging war against sustainable and slow food advocates, who are inspired in part by Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma , on college… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Ford Electric a Perfect Fit As previously reported , Ford and Azure Dynamics have partnered to make an electric version of Ford’s Transit Connect utility van. This week, the first electric vans have started shipping to a variety of customers like AT&T, Southern California Edison, Xcel Energy, Johnson Controls Inc., New York Power Authority, Canada Post and Toro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Cypress Hill backup singer sees himself in Grand Theft Auto, sues Rockstar
December 9, 2010 No Comment
Our friends, this next post is fraught with danger, excitement, and West Coast rappers with names like B-Real, Sen Dog, and Michael “Shagg” Washington. Indeed, the latter is alleging that Rockstar appropriated his likeness for the character CJ, a hood in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas whose life apparently shares many details with his own troubled upbringing, “including how the teen-agers in his gang rode around on bicycles,” according to his lawyer. It seems that way back in 2003 the Cypress Hill backup singer met with reps from the game studio for a two hour interview “to talk about street life,” and the next thing you know, San Andreas is released and you have criminals riding around on bikes! Coincidence? Mr. Shagg doesn’t think so, and he’s asking for twenty-five percent of Rockstar’s profits from the game — approximately $250 million — because they’ve “stolen his image and never paid him.” Now that we think of it, isn’t there an obsessive gadget blogger in that game that looks awfully familiar? We’d better call our lawyers. Cypress Hill backup singer sees himself in Grand Theft Auto, sues Rockstar originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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