A week after posting about a $49 deal, Amazon.com has now pushed the AT&T flavored Palm Pre Plus into penny phone territory. Not even on the market for more than a fortnight, the discount is only good for orders placed online with new two year service agreements.
The “Penny for a Pre” Amazon deal is also good for Verizon customers as well, however the Sprint version of the original Pre is currently being offered for $79.
SideSwipe alternating fin design makes mixing a breeze! -Photo courtesy Frut LLC
If you have a standing mixer, such as Kitchen Aid, you know all too well that you must stop and “scrape down the sides of the bowl” during the mixing process. We all put up with having to do this and we figure it’s just part of the process.
However, a compassionate husband (Louis Busick) had an idea as he watched his wife stop her mixer, scrape down the ingredients and resume mixing. With his engineering and product design experience, Busick placed his efforts towards finding a better way to use the flat paddles most standing mixers use and not have to stop the mixer to scrape the sides. The result is the innovative and efficient SideSwipe(TM) spautula mixer blade.
Features of the SideSwipe spatula paddle:
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Side by side creaming comparison
The SideSwipe is best-suited and works wonderfully for most mixtures where a flat beater is used, especially for cakes, creaming butter, mashed potatoes and much more. It is not recommended for stiff doughs such as breads. Try some of my Real Food Living healthy recipes with the SideSwipe. Here are some suggestions:
Where can you get this wonderous invention for your kitchen and which model do you need? Check out the SideSwipe website! The SideSwipe is also available at Amazon.com. Be sure to find your correct model at the SideSwipe info center first! Scroll to the bottom of the page for SideSwipe models to fit your mixer.
De las 20 empresas que, independientemente de su actividad, han sido catalogadas como las marcas con más reputación del mundo por la empresa Global Reputation Pulse, tres son marcas fabricantes de automóviles: y curiosamente las tres son alemanas y las tres con un gran volumen de facturación.
Aclaro esto del volumen porque seguramente Porsche tenga mejor reputación entre sus consumidores que una marca generalista como Volkswagen, pero entre las variables a estudiar se encontraban la admiración, el respeto y la confianza que despiertan. Tras el salto tienes a las 20 primeras, comenzando por Google.
GLOBAL REPUTATION PULSE 2010 (sobre 100)
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The U.S. technology company IBM has reached an agreement with the operator AT&T to acquire its subsidiary Sterling Commerce by 1.400 million dollars in cash (1,131 million euros), according to both companies.
IBM and AT&T expect to complete a transaction in the second half of 2010, waiting to receive permits from the relevant authorities. Thus, AT&T provides extraordinary record a gross capital gain of 750 million dollars (606 million euros) in the quarter in which the transaction was finally closed.
“This acquisition will provide new tools to help IBM customers to build networks of business dynamics that come into contact with partners, suppliers and customers,” said Craig Hayman, chief executive of IBM.
In the present, Sterling Commerce has about 18,000 customers, and performs annually more than 1,000 million transactions in financial services, retail, manufacturing, communications and distribution. Is expected in the second half of 2010 that 2,500 employees will be integrated into Sterling Commerce WebSphere organization within the IBM Software Group.
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Pentagon officials announced upcoming major exercises with South Korea near the Korean peninsula – on defeating submarines and stopping ship suspected of smuggling nuclear material or equipment.
The submarine aspect is timely because North Korea is accused of sinking a South Korean ship with a homing torpedo fired from a sub. The Cheonan was attacked on March 26th, and 46 South Korean sailors were killed in the incident.
President Lee Myung-bak announced South Korea is cutting nearly all trade ties with Pyongyang, closing shipping lanes to North Korean merchant ships, and is planning to ask the UN Security Council to punish the North.
“North Korea will pay a price that corresponds to its provocative acts. I will continue to take stern measures to hold the North accountable,” President Lee said.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveling in China expressed support for President Lee’s actions.
“This is a highly precarious situation that the North Koreans have caused in the region and it is one that every country that neighbors or is in proximity to North Korea understands must be contained,” Clinton said.
Clinton is also trying to secure Chinese support for UN Security Council sanctions, but it is not clear if Beijing will get on board.
“The Chinese understand the reaction by the South Koreans, and they also understand our unique responsibility for the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula,” the Secretary of State said.
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said there must be some measures taken, and it is the responsibility of the international community to address the issue properly.
As a South Korean, this attack is also personal.
“This is most troubling to me to see what’s happening in the Korean Peninsula… that’s my motherland,” said the Secretary-General.
Some ingredients appear more often in savory dishes than sweet ones. Saffron and olive oil are clearly two instances of this. Saffron is a spice – the most expensive, by weight, in the world – that is renowned for the bright yellow color it gives to dishes. It has a slightly grassy, sweet flavor to […]
The entry-level V-6 Panamera and Panamera 4 represent far less of a sacrifice than you might imagine.
So far, Porsche’s entry into the luxury-sedan segment has paid off: Sales of its Panamera are strong, and the company is particularly pleased by the take rate of the Turbo model, which it says is far higher than expected. This should fill the competition with envy, as the most powerful versions of the Audi A8, BMW 7-series, and Mercedes S-class are virtually saleproof in Europe and certainly far from volume models over here.
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By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews
In an acknowledgment that the regulatory compromise proposed earlier this month by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, at the very least, may be inadequate for a long-term resolution to the debate over who or what gets to regulate the Internet in the US, Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress said today they will set the wheels in motion, starting now, for a potential rewriting of all US telecommunications law.
Such an act could, if successful — and if it can be accomplished in our lifetimes — finally codify just what Internet communications is and what it does, not with respect to or in comparison with the telephone or the public airwaves. And it could very well result in an entirely new regulatory structure that’s not the FCC as we know it today, but may yet have the Congressional authority and mandate to regulate network neutrality in some form.
The news came in an extremely brief press release this afternoon from the Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Jay Rockefeller (D – W.V.): Speaking for Sen. Rockefeller and his House counterpart, Rep. Henry Waxman (D – Calif.), plus the chairmen of the Senate and House subcommittees on the Internet, Sen. John Kerry (D – Mass.) and Rep. Rick Boucher (D – Va.), the statement included this sentence: “As the first step, they will invite stakeholders to participate in a series of bipartisan, issue-focused meetings beginning in June.”
By anyone’s measure, the complete rewrite of the Telecommunications Act of 1934 would be a colossal undertaking. The last partial rewrite, completed in 1996, took at least 12 years. With that in mind, Sen. Kerry’s office issued a statement to The Hill late this afternoon, indicating that Chairman Genachowski’s “Third Way” proposal — regulating the Internet as though it fell under Title I of the Telecom Act, treating it like a telephone except where it’s obviously not a telephone — may be necessary in the interim. “This process is complimentary to the efforts at the FCC, not a substitute for them,” the statement reads in part.
In one respect, opposition to a rewrite of telecom law could be boxed in at this point. After Genachowski announced his “Third Way” proposal, ranking Republicans including the Commerce Committee’s Kay Bailey Hutchison (R – Texas) voiced their opposition to the notion that the FCC could declare itself the Internet’s formal regulator without Congressional mandate. A rewrite of telecom law would provide such a mandate, to the FCC or whatever agency may emerge from the process.
Early response to the announcement from advocacy groups appears somewhat positive, if tentative. The American Cable Association’s CEO, Matthew Polka, released a statement to Betanews and others saying he’s hopeful that this process would give the nation’s smaller cable operators an opportunity to air their grievances over the current system of cable TV regulation: “Congressional action that would clarify the extent of the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to regulate cable broadband service holds the promise of providing greater certainty with fewer unintended consequences for operators and their customers. Review of the Communications Act also provides Congress the opportunity to address other issues impacting small cable operators and their consumers in smaller markets and rural areas, such as outdated retransmission consent and broadcast carriage rules, and ineffective program access regulations.”
And one of the groups that has been most supportive of the “Third Way” to date, the Open Internet Coalition, indicated its leaders are nodding their heads as well. Writes OIC Executive Director Markham Erickson, “Our view from the day the case was decided was the FCC needed to act immediately to provide a stopgap protection for consumers and Congress needed to revisit the Communications Act for changes over the longer term…The FCC has already taken the critical first step, putting forward a common-sense plan that would allow the Commission to promote broadband deployment and to protect consumer choice this year. Today’s announcement will make sure Congress begins the necessary longer-term steps in this area that will support the FCC’s broadband plan. This partnership between the FCC and Congress is exactly what is necessary to make sure the US regains the lead in high quality, affordable, and widely available broadband Internet services.”
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You may recall that, a couple weeks ago, we had a webinar on cloud security, with Jake Kaldenbaugh of CloudStrategies and Sam Quigley of Emerose, that was well attended and well reviewed (thank you!). The feedback on it was tremendous. If you happened to miss it, we’ve now made it available to watch, and also have put up the actual PowerPoint document for download as well. And… bonus time. The PDF file contains a series of extra slides, detailing some of the state of the cloud security market today — as well as some details about Amazon’s cloud security initiatives. Even if you caught the original presentation, there are probably some useful additional nuggets in there as well.
And, in the meantime, don’t forget to sign up for our next Webinar, coming up this Wednesday at 9am PT/noon ET on What IT Needs To Know About The Law, with Dave Navetta and Larry Downes. The signups on this one have been through the roof and we’ve been working hard putting it together. The conversation should be very, very interesting, so definitely come ready with questions as well.
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-Keeping menopause sexy with Kim Cattrall!
-Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, 38, was found dead in a Des Moines, Iowa hotel room on Monday morning….
-Reality villainess Omarosa’s back with a new maneating reality show, The Ultimate Merger…..
-There she is: Miss America back on ABC. The Miss America pageant is returning to ABC, the network that dropped it in 2004 due to low ratings….
-“Sex game chinky, n*ggas call me Pinky, f**k with presidents I am Nicki Lewinsky!” Is there a Nicki Minaj sex tape floating around the blogosphere?
-Self-professed Bieber Hater M.I.A. covers the June/July issue of Complex…
-Will Diddy replace Simon Cowell on American Idol?
–New music from ex-Idol Kellie Pickler…
-This just in: Chris Brown is a slut. (Insert eye-rolling here…) Yeah, we couldn’t believe it either…
-Marc Jacobs strips down for fragrance campaign…
-The Gap heads to Australia!
-Kristin Davis chats up SATC 2 on The TODAY Show….
-Native Washingtonian-turned-hip-hop sensation Wale is facing a potential breach of contract suit after abruptly pulling the plug on a scheduled performance at this weekend’s Black Pride festival — an annual gay-themed event in the rapper’s hometown. Good luck, homie. There’s nothing like fending off a pack of pissed gayelles…
-Just call Orlando Bloom a Musketeer….
-Those Hills kids sure love writing: Here’s the cover art for Lauren Conrad’s upcoming style guide….
-Hip-hop’s 15 Most-Hated People. Somehow, Soulja Boy escaped the guillotine on this one…
-A Los Angeles man has been acquitted in the 2009 shooting death of rising rap star, Dolla….
-Spike Lee and Absolut rep for Brooklyn. (My love for Queens and The Bronx remains unchanged!)
-MTV has released a few preview clips from the upcoming Sex And The City-esque reality show, Downtown Girls, which premieres on Tuesday, June 1 @ 11PM ET/PT….
The newest addition to the Android Marketplace is a free Adobe Reader app. It looks good, but keep in mind that it requires Android 2.1 or above and is currently only supported on some Android devices: More »
True to the company’s motto, should our tipster be correct, the company has been working on something “quietly brilliant” for AT&T.
One of our connects that works for AT&T has pinged us to let us know about an upcoming Android device. Dubbed the HTC Aria, it will be unveiled at an event on June 7th (which oddly enough, coincides with WWDC). Details are sparse, but we’ve been told that the unit will be running Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense UI.
Our guess? Verizon has the DROID Incredible, Sprint has the EVO 4G, and T-Mobile has the Nexus One, so it’s time for AT&T to get something cool. Besides, AT&T has already confessed to five Android devices (including at least one from HTC), so it falls right in line.
Stay tuned for pictures and additional specifications as we receive them!
All it takes for some people to be a little less trusting of their fellow humans is a little more testosterone, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers led by Jack van Honk of the Netherlands used a sample of 24 women in their study. The team showed photos of 150 strangers’ faces to the women and asked them to rate the faces for trustworthiness, using a scale from -100 to +100. The scores women gave after receiving a placebo became their “baseline” score. The women also completed a trustworthiness survey after being given an increase in testosterone instead of placebo (they weren’t told when they received which).
Scientists found that women were not so easily taken in by a stranger’s face after receiving a dose of the hormone…. Women who appeared the most trusting after receiving the “dummy” placebo reduced their scores by an average of 10 points when their testosterone was boosted [Press Association].
Why? The researchers point to the social advantages testosterone can confer:
The study also adds support to the idea that testosterone influences human behavior, not necessarily by increasing aggression, but by motivating people to raise their status in the social hierarchy or become more socially dominant. Testosterone might boost social watchfulness, making those who are most trusting a little more vigilant and better prepared for competition over rank and resources, the researchers say [LiveScience].
This sample size isn’t terribly large and the explanation is something of a just-so story, but it’s at least a plausible one. The study authors say that testosterone’s effects specifically could balance out those of oxytocin, the “love hormone,” which previous studies have suggested could increase feelings of trust, or make men want to cuddle.
One curious detail of this study, though, is that the skepticism effect showed up only in the most trusting women. The ones who scored as the least trusting after the placebo test didn’t drop their scores lower and become extremely distrusting after a testosterone dose; they just stayed the same. Why should they stand pat instead of descending into testosterone-induced misanthropy?
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Want to unlock your AT&T phone to use on another carrier or overseas? As of today, you finally have that opportunity. Boy Genius Report has said that as part of a class action lawsuit, AT&T has agreed to unlock your device as long as you fit into their criteria. Pre-paid customers must provide a proof-of-purchase for the device and post-paid customers must have an account with at least 90 days of “active service” and be in good standing with the carrier. There is one other catch: You won’t be able to unlock the BlackBerry Bold 9000 or the iPhone. AT&T says that they will not unlock a device that they have an exclusivity period of 10 months or more on, which means that owners of two of their biggest phones are out of luck. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering that they don’t want people buying iPhones and then bolting for another carrier, but it must be good news for some of you AT&T subscribers out there. So, are any of you looking to take advantage of this and have your phone unlocked? Tell us!
So today we saw some tests that suggest that having Flash running on your smartphone will almost definitely hurt performance. But hey, it’s up to you whether or not it’s worth it. So…is it? More »
A SageTV enthusiast has created a very nice promo video of SageTV showing us many of the features of SageTV 7 in an entertaining way – it could be a SageTV commercial it’s so good. Here’s what Jarred had to say about his demo:
“SageTV’s highly anticipated Version 7 was released last week as a public beta. I decided to update my video with the new version, as it has a much sleeker look and feel.”
Take a look:
I’ll have more about Jarred’s interesting Home (and Car) Theater PC setup in the near future.
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Well, wouldn’t ‘cha know that it actually wasn’t just another day in Dubai traffic. You may recall the video that we posted last Friday that showed a couple of hooning drivers doing wicked crazy burnouts, drifts and donuts all over public highways in Dubai… not to mention plenty of driving on two wheels. If not, now would be a good time to click past the break to see the video for yourself.
As it turns out, the two men – both UAE nationals in their 20s – driving the vehicles in question down Sheikh Zayed Road have been tracked down and arrested. As has happened in the past, police were able to identify the vehicles after seeing their license plates in full view from the videos uploaded to YouTube.
Let this be a lesson. A lesson of what, exactly, is up to you to discern. We’ll go with a few: Don’t hoon so obviously on highly trafficked public roads. Don’t endanger the lives or livelihoods of your fellow citizens. And finally, don’t upload videos of your illegal actions to YouTube unless you are willing to pay the consequences.
Oh, and speaking of consequences… these two drivers are reportedly facing up to three years in prison if convicted.
[Source: ArabianBusiness.com]
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Cursive a craft and skill we can’t lose
Editor, The Times:
It is astonishing and sad to read that today’s students find cursive writing “too slow” [“Teacher reintroduces the lost art of cursive,” page one, May 24].
As a child of the 1950s, my cursive is not nearly as elegant as that of my elders who were schooled early in the 20th century. But it certainly is far faster and far easier on my hand than block printing.
My son, now out of high school, can barely write cursive, having had a third-grade teacher who had “more important” things to do than teach handwriting. There are some things that should always be taught, no matter how good technology gets. Doing arithmetic without a calculator and cursive writing are among them.
We should all know how to do these things.
— Linda Atkins, Enumclaw
Textbook publishers should think twice before exporting curriculum to other states
“Texas board waters down social-studies curriculum” [News, May 22] said: “The standards also will be used by textbook publishers nationwide who often develop materials for other states based on guidelines approved in Texas.”
How does Texas get to define how children in Washington state learn U.S. history? When did we (or residents in other states) delegate that to a bunch of delusional ideologues from Texas? I hope our educators have more discretion and wisdom than to accede to Texas’ version of junk history.
— David Howe, Sammamish
No such thing as a true democracy
I found the headline of “Texas board waters down social-studies curriculum” [News, May 22] fascinating.
If “watering down” meant correcting a myth, then I could see the point.
But I assure you, my Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Washington as my witness, the United States is a “constitutional republic.”
There really is no such thing as a true democracy in the modern world. I hate to burst bubbles with the truth, but that is indeed what it is.
— Shane Savery, Seattle
From cradle to grave
The federal government is going to outlaw drop-side cribs because 32 children have died in 10 years [“Government moves to ban drop-side cribs,” News, May 22].
Any child’s death is tragic, but this is a ludicrous area to focus on when our country leads the world in gun deaths each year. If the government truly wants to get serious about protecting our children, and I believe it should, then begin comprehensive gun control now.
It is ridiculous that sometime soon, I could be arrested for selling a drop-side crib, but could still easily purchase an assault rifle.
— David Remer, Bellevue
