You have read the Incredible reviews and now you can purchase the fastest Android phone available. The Verizon Droid Incredible is on sale now. Our new online store has the phone at a special introductory price that is sure to please. Users looking to buy the phone with no contract changes will pay the full price of $529.99.
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Development for Android continues, even if unofficially, and it seems as though just about every day we see something new surface. HTC G1 owners sometimes feel as though they are on the back burner, as their device was the original, and at this point it is slightly behind the times in some categories. But that doesn’t stop Cyanogen from developing great custom ROMs. And 5.0.7 is the latest and greatest of all the Cyanogen builds for older phones, and it’s now available for download. (And above, Cyanogen crony Kmobs shows off some of the finer points.) We’re still waiting on the build to actually be released, but it should be any time now. Keep your eyes peeled here.
With the scheduled May 7 adjournment of the Illinois General just days away, the Illinois Education Association is going on the air to remind lawmakers that their work isn’t done until they fund education.
A new radio spot, “No vacation,” begins airing Thursday on radio stations statewide.
Listen to the ad. Then, use this link to send an email to your legislator telling them to pass HB 174, comprehensive tax reform legislation that will provide needed funding to education and state agencies providing needed services to Illinoisans.
Keeping up to date with our ever increasing digital presence in the networked sociosphere can be the very definition of multi-tasking. Three new EasyNote laptops from Packard Bell have been designed to help, having a dedicated social networking feature which brings together all the various sites into one useful interface. Other features include the latest Intel Core processors, up to 640GB of storage and either NVIDIA or ATI discreet graphics processors…
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How about dressing up your iPhone with a little class this spring – you know like a lady. Well this super classy iPhone 3G/3GS hard cover case features true New York style from Kate Spade. Coming in pink, this iPhone case is perfect for those ladies of the upper east side or who love their two martini lunches and shopping at Bloomingdales. Retailing for $40 bucks, it would make a perfect accessory to take with you to the Sex and the City 2 movie.
Bloomberg has published an article on the Hewlett-Packard deal. As one would expect, the article gives a summary of the news of the day with a financial focus. The math wizards there have worked out what Palm investment heros Elevation Partners will take away from their overall investments in Palm Inc. Elevation injected over $460 million since the big recapitalization deal in 2007.
Because of the terms of its investments, Elevation made $25 million, or a 5.4 percent gain, on Palm, while common shareholders lost 65 percent in that period, based on the purchase price.
Also, perhaps comically, Bloomberg just won’t let the Palm is for sale meme die. The authors let a little wall st. rumor slip in which purports that Nokia may just still want to put in a bid.
E!’s First Lady of Late-Nite has found herself in the middle of a real-life sex scandal.
Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler is firing back at reports that she is featured in X-rated footage recently obtained by RadarOnline.com.
On Wednesday, Radar snoops reported that the no-holds-barred comedienne was caught on tape “nearly a decade” ago getting saucy and uncut with a sexy Brit. According to tipsters, the footage was shot shortly after a then 25-year-old Chelsea moved to Los Angeles and features Handler in the throws of passion as she tries out a mirage of blushworthy positions with an unidentified partner.
Chelsea — whose signature sass landed her a Playboy centerfold last winter — asserts that the tape in question was purely comedic and part of a long forgotten “comedy bit.”
Well, that’s a new one!
“Watch the show. It’s not a sex tape – it was done for a comedy bit years ago,” a ticked-off rep for the star fumed when flooded with questions about the suspicious tape.
Radar, on the other hand, insists the skin flick is no laughing matter, writing: “During the first part of the tape Chelsea is fully clothed in her work uniform. She begins by introducing herself by name before going into a stand-up routine before suddenly cutting to Chelsea and her male partner engaging in an explicit sex act. Chelsea, who is on all fours on a bed is naked and at several times during the filming she looks directly at the camera. Her breasts are bare and swinging during the sex act. At the end of the “performance” Chelsea’s partner speaks in a clear British accent, asking, “Did we get the (bleep) shot?” Chelsea looks into the camera and smiles at this point. Then the tape immediately cuts back into Chelsea continuing her stand-up routine in her apartment….”
The performance of Volkswagen AG in the first quarter was stellar but its stake in Porsche AG weighed down its earnings, according to VW’s finance chief. VW accounts for a 49.9% stake in Porsche at equity.
This means that it books the share of profits or losses at Porsche proportional to the size of its stakeholding. Under IFRS regulations on the allocation of the purchase price (PPA effects), the 3.9 billion euro ($5.2 billion) acquisition cost from December 2009 for the Porsche stake is subject to continual non-cash writedowns. In a conference call, CFO Hans Dieter Poetsch said that these accounting charges more than offset VW’s share of profit from Porsche. Within the next year, Volkswagen will seek to subsume Porsche AG’s majority parent, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, giving it full control over the brand as well. When it comes to the group level, it’s notable that all of VW’s core brands posted improvements, driving up by nearly three times the first-quarter operating profit. In particular, this report reveals how quickly the turnaround had been for the flagship VW brand.
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“What we’ve found suggests that an asteroid like this one may have hit Earth and brought our planet its water,” said UCF Physics Professor HumbertoCampins, the lead author of a study which will be published in the April 29 edition of the journal Nature.
Some theories posit that Earth formed dry, and that it was asteroids that brought Earth it’s water. Salts and water found in some meteorites have added credibility to the theory. (more…)
Here are some tips to get cheap car insurance for woman in the UK. You can actually get cheap car insurance in the UK for woman, girls, or lady driver. All you need to do is follow some of the tips and know how that shared here by thousands of woman, young girl drivers, and lady drivers from UK. It cost you nothing but 5 minutes to read through the tips.
Car insurance for woman in the UK
Car insurance seems to be one of the most resented financial products in the UK. It may be truth when you think of car insurance have no tangible return unless any accidents happen. This perhaps understandable why people willing to spend a lot of time look for the best car insurance that suitable for their needs, and that lead a lot of car insurance companies create different type of insurance package to support the demand especially in the UK.
Many consumers believe the progress to get a car insurance is a time consuming task with all headache documents, troublesome approval process, requirements and among others especially car insurance for young people. See car insurance UK young drivers.
However, there are always some simple way to get cheap car insurance for woman in the UK. All you need to do is to follow some of the simple tips that shared by woman who has successfully bought a car with cheap car insurance. One of the main reasons is the statistic around the world shows woman’s claims cost lesser than man.
Tips to get cheap car insurance for woman
Buy a car with safety features
A good way to get cheaper car insurance is to purchase a car with more safety features. Car insurance company will consider giving cheaper quote base on what car you going to buy. These features can be ABS brakes, alarm systems, theft systems, auto-lock, GPS tracking system will help to get extra point!
Good driver’s background
It is often insurance company will consider about driver’s background. A woman with 3 kids will always drive carefully as she has the responsible for the family. Have you ever seen a car with infant car seat or baby car seat drive fast? This is also one of the reason car insurance claims for woman cost less for the insurance company.
Get car insurance quote for woman online
Many car insurance companies in UK offer special discount when you request for insurance quote online. For example Diamond offer up to 10% discount for online insurance quote. You can save up to £100 if the policy cost you £1000.
Zip code in the UK
Zip code or area of where you stay did play some role in getting a cheap car insurance. Insurer usually will check the accident rates base on the statistic of where you live. The lower accident rate of where you live probably allow you to get cheaper insurance.
Woman tends to have minor road accidents than man, woman drive slower than man, woman usually drive shorter distances on average, drink and drive seldom happen to woman. That is all the reasons allow you to get cheap car insurance for woman in the UK.
For anyone who has ever needed to give presentations on the go, playing audio from your built-in computer speakers can sometimes be a problem. Battery-powered portable speakers that plug into your audio jack are one possible solution. But I’m inclined to favor this new adjustable speaker from Sanwa, which draws all its power from your computer’s USB port…
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March was a big month for little deals—at least when it comes to investing in New England’s startups.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the venture investing deals worth $1 million and up for March, which totaled to $194.5 million across 17 deals, according to data provided to us by private company intelligence platform CB Insights. That made March the slowest month this year for $1 million-plus deals, but at the other end of the spectrum New England companies inked 16 deals under $1 million, by far the biggest list this year. (There were 10 such “under-the-radar” deals on the January list, and nine on February’s.)
Not only did the number of under-the-radar transactions increase in March, so did the proportion of them that were based in equity. March’s list had a dozen equity-based transactions, and four debt-related financings. As far as February under-the-radar deals go, there were five equity-based transactions, three debt-based fundings, and one sale of securities to be acquired through the exercise of options and warrants.
We like to look at our under-the-radar list as helping to paint a richer, more complete picture of startup investing in the region, and I think March’s list revealed that the startup investing for the month was much more diverse than one would conclude from the $1 million-plus deals. The healthcare industry accounted for more than half of the big-dollar deals, and nearly 75 percent of the total money invested, but the under-the-radar list includes companies working in a vast array of sectors. In addition to the few medical device and health IT companies, March’s under-the-radar list included companies in online learning, marketing automation and customization, solar energy, energy auditing, water treatment, and mobile travel guides.
Also, for the first time this year, Massachusetts companies didn’t take the majority of New England’s smaller transactions. Connecticut took the top spot with seven deals, and Massachusetts followed with six. (My allegiances are conflicted here; I’m a Connecticut native but have been in the Bay State for about five years.) Two startups grabbed under-the-radar funding in New Hampshire, and Vermont inked …Next Page »
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How many computers do you use in a single day? How about in a work week? In today’s digital world, we are rarely in the same place for very long. The large majority of people are regularly on two, three, and even more digital devices every single day. These devices may include PCs, Macs, smart phones, and even the iPad. With your data spread out across all of these machines, keeping everything synchronized and up to date can be a real challenge.
Enter SugarSync– utilizing the power of the cloud to make sure that you are never without your essential data, anywhere, anytime. The SugarSync program will keep your life in sync across Macs, PCs, smart phones, and even the Apple iPad automatically. Imagine taking a picture on your smart phone which is then instantly and automatically uploaded to your SugarSync account and downloaded onto all your other computers. It’s as simple as installing the software on the computers you want to keep in sync, identifying which files and folders you want to be synchronized, and then forgetting the program even exists. Everything is automatic and updated within seconds. As you edit and change your files, they get uploaded to the SugarSync servers and downloaded onto any other computer you want.
Not only will your files stay in sync, they are also mobilized and accessible anywhere. You can share specified files, folders, and documents with friends and family very easily. They can even make changes to the files if you want and then they are automatically updated on your computer. Don’t worry about loosing data either, SugarSync features integrated file versioning, saving up to five previous versions automatically of any file, so it’s very simple to revert to previous copies. Previous saved versions don’t count towards your storage allotment either.
Business collaboration just got a whole lot easier as well. I know personally from running a business with 10 other members spread across the globe, that SugarSync’s features can and will make our collaborations much easier. GoogleDocs, various Wiki’s, a file storage service, all of these things are made obsolete with SugarSync.
Your data is safe and secure as well on SugarSyncs servers. All connections are protected behind SSL encryption, and 128-bit AES encrypted secure servers that are redundantly backed up on multiple data centers. Everything is password protected, and you can even hand out security codes to friends and family for special access to certain files.
Full installation and setup takes 5 minutes max. There are two different options offered to you for syncing your files- Full Sync and Lite Sync. Full sync will store a backup of the file as you edit it on the SugarSync servers and download it automatically onto any machine you specify. Lite sync will store the file online, and allow it to be viewed and edited online, however it will not automatically saved onto your other machines and smart phones (which may not be able to use the file anyway).
This service is still relatively new, and the developers are constantly refining and adding more and more features. For example- soon you will be able to keep your Outlook contacts and Mac address book synced across your network. Also automatic Flickr and Facebook update capabilities are going to be rolled out shortly for photos which is great news for digital photographers and smart phone photographers.
There is even an iPad app for SugarSync which has recently been updated with document editing capabilities to make it even more versatile and capable. You can open and edit documents and spreadsheets in other iPad apps like Numbers and Pages. One drawback however with the SugarSync iPad app is that files are not automatically synced back to your account on the server as you edit them. To update your files across your network with your iPad, you need to make use of the update by email feature. SugarSync is currently working with Apple though to make the experience truly seamless on the iPad.
Pricing is very reasonable and starts at $4.99 a month for 10 GB of space and goes as high as $39.99 a month for 500 GB of storage space.
There is another company that offers similar service called DropBox. It too is cross-platform compatible and has similar pricing. They do offer a full free service of up to 2 GB of online storage, and the Mac client is more robust and stable since SugarSync’s Mac client is still in beta. DropBox also supports Linux where SugarSync does not yet, but it does not support mobile devices which is a big gap in their compatibility. Debates have raged over which company is better, and in the end it comes down to personal preference. Overall, SugarSync is the winner in our books because of it’s ease of use and mobile device/iPad compatibility. They are an exciting company with a team that seems very interested in making it the best file syncing system on the internet. You can check them out for yourself with their free 45 day trial.
Albert-László Barabási believes that “despite the seeming randomness of human behavior, humans actually act in very predictable patterns.” He’s so convinced of this theory that he posted an incredibly addictive game-like version of his book Bursts online as an experiment. More »
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Monsanto, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bill Gates and a swarm of get-rich-quick corporations are telling anxious world politicians and the Obama Administration not to worry about impending climate catastrophe. They’ll take care of the problem with genetically engineered crops, animals, and trees agrofuels derived from plantations of GMO corn and soybeans and monoculture plantations of sugar cane and palm oil and other hi-tech, potentially apocalyptic schemes such as blasting sulfate particles into the stratosphere to reflect the sun’s rays dumping iron particles in the oceans to nurture CO2-absorbing plankton and firing silver iodide into clouds to produce rain.
In the first Supreme Court case dealing with the hazards of genetically engineered crops, a federal court injunction against Monsanto’s genetically engineered alfalfa, the justices showed little concern about the safety or inevitable genetic pollution of biotech crops. Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that the threat to conventional or organic growers was minor and manageable.
" It makes it more difficult for them (farmers not planting Monsanto’s GMO alfalfa) to have a field of 100 percent non-genetically engineered (alfalfa), but that’s not the end of the world," Scalia said.
OCA Needs Your Help to Spread the Organic Revolution (with Bumperstickers!)OCA and our international network of organic consumers and farmers understand that we have a positive life-affirming solution for the global food, health, and climate crisis: organic food, farming, and ranching. But to get out our all-important message we need your support. Please send us a tax-deductible donation today. All donations this week will receive a Millions Against Monsanto bumpersticker! Please donate and write " Monsanto Sticker" in the comments field to receive your sticker.
Stand up for human rights, boycott Arizona!
Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill 1070 is a law that legalizes and promotes racial profiling. SB 1070 undermines basic civil rights in the United States, obliging law enforcement agencies to demand documentation from all (non-white) people who might be undocumented workers or immigrants lacking a visa.
Please join us in telling Gov. Brewer that consumers and tourists will boycott Arizona until this unjust law is repealed.
There’s a lot happening on OCA’s Facebook Fan Page these days. We have over 25,000 fans and add close to 1,000 more each week!
There’s a lot of fun discussion and it’s a good place to catch up on food and farming related news.
Just for fun, we have set a goal to have 35,000 Facebook fans, but we need your help. If you’re on Facebook, become a fan! Recommend us to your friends on Facebook!
During his presentation at the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, President Evo Morales of Bolivia proposed a global referendum that would tackle the root causes of climate change. Below are the questions he proposed.
If you agree with these propositions, please circulate widely and click here.
From April 17-24, more than 35,000 grassroots delegates from 140 nations, representing social movements and small farmer organizations, traveled to Cochabamba, Bolivia for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. This " People’s Climate Summit" represents an alternative to the failed December 2009 Copenhagen talks where developing nations and the rights of the planet were fundamentally and shamefully ignored.
Please watch this short introductory video outlining the goals and expectations of the summit.
Please listen to OCA Director Ronnie Cummins on Meria Heller’s Organic Transitions radio as he talks about his trip to the Cochabamba People’s Climate Summit, the dangers of Geoengineering, and the need for an Eco-Socialist revolution.
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In a paper published in Nature Geoscience the researchers describe an ocean current, approximately 4,200 kilometres south-west of Perth, Australia, that is the equivalent of 40 Amazon Rivers and exists at more than three kilometres below the Ocean’s surface.
“The current carries dense, oxygen-rich water that sinks near Antarctica to the deep ocean basins further north,” says co-author Dr Steve Rintoul from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship. “Without this supply of Antarctic water, the deepest levels of the ocean would have little oxygen. (more…)
Hopefully before too, too long, the majority of vehicles on the road will be electric. There could be one potential problem with all those EV’s in use however – the huge load that would be put on municipal power supplies when all those vehicles are simultaneously plugged in after their owners get home from work. Fortunately, our oft-featured friends over at Germany’s Fraunhofer group have come up with a solution. They’ve designed a station that charges your vehicle when there’s power to spare…
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