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OTECH F1 handset holds four SIM cards, enables you to live a quadruple life

So look, you feel pretty special toting around that dual-SIM phone , right? Being able to switch numbers and carriers as you hop back and forth between Germany and Amsterdam is fairly nifty, but you’ve been considering a daily route around the Benelux. Of course, tri-SIM phones aren’t impossible to find either, but should you ever wander into France, Switzerland or any other nation, you’ll be forced to pop one of those out and insert another the old fashioned way. Well, unless you can score an OTECH F1. This here handset — which can only be found in the wilds of Asia right now — actually has room for four SIM cards, and it’s also packing a full QWERTY keyboard, 2.4-inch touchscreen, support for mobile TV, an FM radio tuner, Bluetooth module and what appears to be a 12.1 megapixel camera. Unsurprisingly, a price on this bad boy is eluding us, but if you’re an industrious jetsetter, we’re confident you won’t have any issues running one down. Whether or not you want to, however, is another matter entirely… OTECH F1 handset holds four SIM cards, enables you to live a quadruple life originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Suicide attackers assault UN office in Afghanistan

Kabul: A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no UN employees were harmed, officials said. The brazen attack…

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From P.J. O’Rourke : Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick. I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts. They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class. Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats. Good stuff. Read the rest here .

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Obama Campaigns for Minnesota Democrats

President Obama is ending a four-day campaign swing at a rally in Minneapolis for the Democratic nominee for governor, Mark Dayton. The president has made earlier campaign stops in Oregon, Washington state, California and Nevada. (Oct. 23)

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The Engadget Show: live with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, Windows Phone 7, Google TV, and costume contest!

Good news, we worked out our streaming issue! So keep your eyes tuned to this post — because at 6:30 PM ET , we’ll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, Windows Phone 7 devices, Google TV , and more ! Josh and Nilay on hand, plus we’ll have music from Kris Keyser with visuals from noteNdo and much, much , more. You seriously don’t want to miss it. Check out the live stream after the break! Continue reading The Engadget Show: live with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, Windows Phone 7, Google TV, and costume contest! The Engadget Show: live with Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman, Windows Phone 7, Google TV, and costume contest! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Iraq PM: WikiLeaks abuse leak designed to hurt him

BAGHDAD – Reports of brutality and torture of fellow Iraqis at the hands of government forces threw the country’s political scene into turmoil Saturday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki attacking the leak as an attempt to malign him, and his rivals citing the documents as proof he is unfit to lead. The trove of nearly 400,000 WikiLeaks papers includes U.S. military reports of alleged abuse by Iraqi security forces – some of which happened after al-Maliki became prime minister in May 2006. They were released as al-Maliki scrambles to keep his job, nearly seven months after national elections failed to produce a clear winner. The accusations of abuse of what were likely mostly Sunni…

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You have to watch out for those Hollywood star whackers : Hollywood actor Randy Quaid and his wife, wanted in the United States on vandalism charges, are seeking refugee status in Canada, saying on Friday they feared for their lives. The couple were arrested in Vancouver on Thursday after police responded to a call and found there were arrest warrants out for them in California. Officials incorrectly said earlier that were arrested on Wednesday. In a rambling presentation at an immigration hearing, Evi Quaid said eight of her husband’s acting friends had been murdered in recent years and they feared he would be next. “We feel our lives are in danger,” she told the Immigration and Refugee Board hearing. Their attorney, Brian Tsuji, later read a note from the couple to reporters. “Yes, we are seeking asylum from Hollywood star whackers.” Too many years with too many drugs.

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How On-Demand 3D Printing Could Cut Waste, Increase Efficiency (Video)

Image: Tech Clarity There are a lot of great ideas floating around Poptech this year — I’ve already covered plenty of them . But I also wanted to highlight something that isn’t strictly or necessarily green, yet that could end up having some interesting implications on supply … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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First Look at Imogen Heap’s Crowd-Sourced Nature Documentary (Video)

Imogen Heap at Poptech 2010. Photo: Kris Krug , Creative Commons, Flickr. Imogen Heap, the British singer perhaps most famous for her ‘the OC’-approved song Hide & Seek, made a surprise appearance at Poptech to give a sneak peak of her latest project: A crowd-sourced nature documentary that she’s scoring for an orchestra. Called ‘Love the Earth Film’ , the project collects filmakers’ and amateur videographers’ ‘moment… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NVIDIA lists unannounced GTX 580 graphics card on its page, quickly puts it back in hiding

What’s this, a bit of intrigue from NVIDIA ? The company is due for a refresh on its DirectX 11 line and, with AMD’s Cayman series floating its way to availability on crystal-clear waters, the competition appears to be teasing its response. NVIDIA briefly listed a card called the GTX 580 on its System Requirements page and, while we don’t know how long it was there, it was quickly pulled after news of its presence started making the rounds. Accidental addition or the intentional planting of a seed of doubt in the minds of AMD fans? We’ll never know, and we don’t know the details of the card either, but expectations are that it contains 40nm construction with 512 CUDA cores, 2GB of GDDR5 memory, and a due date before the end of the year. That should give you plenty of time to upgrade your power supply… again. [Thanks, Musouka] NVIDIA lists unannounced GTX 580 graphics card on its page, quickly puts it back in hiding originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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