Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis talk about teaming up for a road trip in their new movie ‘Due Date,’ at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. (Oct. 29)
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TeliaSonera subsidiary Ncell has just completed installation of a 3G base station at 5,200 meters (17,000 feet) that will reach the 8,848-meter peak of Mount Everest. Mind you, we’ve already seen a cellphone call made from the world’s highest peak using a temporary base station in a Motorola publicity stunt. This time, however, it’s permanent and faster allowing climbers to surf the internet or make 3G video calls. Why would Ncell want to build a base station in such a sparsely populated area? Because it is there. Mount Everest now wired for Internet, ready for Starbucks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Highlights of this day in history: ‘Black Tuesday’ on Wall St. as the Great Depression begins; Osama bin Laden admits ordering the Sept. 11th attacks; Suez crisis heats up Mideast; McKinley assassin executed; John Glenn returns to space. (Oct. 29)
Continue reading …IDC: Apple passes RIM to become fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally as Nokia, LG, and Sony Ericsson struggle
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Can you remember the day when Apple’s audacious plan to sell 10 million iPhones in its first year was greeted with extreme skepticism within the cellphone industry. Now the computer company is shipping 14.1 million handsets every three months according to the latest IDC numbers, moving Apple into fourth place on its Top 5 list of mobile phone vendors worldwide. That moves Apple ahead of RIM thus confirming a Steve Jobs boast made during Apple’s Q4 earnings calls. Sony Ericsson has been pushed off the list for the first since 2004 when IDC began tracking the top 5 vendors. But that’s not the only interesting bit of information we see in the IDC numbers tallying all cellphone shipments, not just smartphones. Overall market leader Nokia, slipped from a 36.5 percent to a 32.4 percent market share since the same quarter last year. IDC notes that Nokia is starting to show some weakness in emerging markets, one of Nokia’s last strongholds, with smaller regional handset makers starting to grab market share away from Espoo in Asia/Pacific and Latin America. It’s not doing well in smartphones either, with IDC claiming that Android devices are gaining momentum at Nokia’s expense. LG is also suffering with a 10.1 percent decline in shipments since the same quarter last year, dropping from 10.6 percent to an 8.3 percent market share globally. Read the full report after the break. Continue reading IDC: Apple passes RIM to become fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally as Nokia, LG, and Sony Ericsson struggle IDC: Apple passes RIM to become fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally as Nokia, LG, and Sony Ericsson struggle originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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HANOI (AFP) – China and Japan began repairing their serious rift at an Asian summit, agreeing to improve ties and resume talks on a disputed gas field as the prospects of talks between their leaders brightened. Asia's two big powers have been embroiled in their worst diplomatic row in years, sparked by a territorial dispute that has escalated into protests, scrapped meetings and allegations China is freezing exports of vital minerals. All eyes at the East Asian Summit in Vietnam's capital are on the sparring match and whether the rival leaders, China's Wen Jiabao and Japan's Naoto Kan, will hold highly anticipated direct talks. Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara…
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AS Indonesia struggles to deliver aid to tsunami victims, its deadly volcano Mount Merapi has begun spewing lava, posing a new threat after…
Continue reading …LaCie slams 3TB drives into d2 USB 3.0 and LaCie 2big USB 3.0, ups performance numbers
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Do you have The Need? For Speed ? Yeah, so do we, and it just so happens that LaCie does as well. Just weeks after the company properly introduced the ” now shipping ” status on its d2 USB 3.0 and 2big USB 3.0 drives, it has now expanded the options with a 6TB model. So far as we can tell, it looks as if the outfit placed a rather sizable order for those 3TB HDDs that were just unleashed by Western Digital, and it has tuned up the performance all the while. The 2big has reached 306MB/sec in the lab, representing a 20 percent speed boost over the prior models while making it “the fastest 2-bay RAID solution on the market.” As for the d2? It can hum along at 156MB/sec with the inclusion of a 3TB hard drive. Both units are slated to hit retail next month, but asking prices are being kept under wraps for now. Continue reading LaCie slams 3TB drives into d2 USB 3.0 and LaCie 2big USB 3.0, ups performance numbers LaCie slams 3TB drives into d2 USB 3.0 and LaCie 2big USB 3.0, ups performance numbers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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NAGOYA ‘ UN talks aimed at sealing a global pact to protect the world’s ecosystems entered their final day on Friday amid high tensions, with negotiators yet to agree on a make-or-break deal over money. The meeting in the central Japanese city of Nagoya is meant to produce a roadmap of 20 key goals to be achieved over the next decade to contain man’s destruction of nature and save the world’s rapidly diminishing biodiversity. While delegates from more than 190 countries have agreed to most of those goals, a dispute over “fairly sharing” the genetic resources that are being sourced mostly from…
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Tough rules for the eurozone, aimed at averting another financial crisis, have been agreed at an EU leaders’ summit. The leaders…
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Jurors have convicted a karate instructor of killing a wealthy Florida couple during a home invasion robbery while the couple’s nine special-needs children cowered or slept nearby. (Oct. 28)
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