In November of 2009, Samsung put a video up on YouTube that didn’t promise the moon—it just promised Android 2.0 for Behold II owners. But now that Samsung’s reneged, it looks like it’s time to lawyer up. More »
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Your eBook options for the iPad just increased by quite a bit as Barnes & Noble has sent out a press release announcing that they have released an eReader iPad app to go along with Apple’s iBooks and Amazon’s Kindle apps. B&N’s app allows access to the company’s large library of eBooks as well as the ability to use their LendMe technology, giving users the option to lend an eBook to another B&N eReader application user for up to 14 days. Barnes & Noble has said that they plan to release an eReader app for the Android OS early this summer. The B&N eReader app for iPad is available now in the iTunes app store. Are any of you planning on using Barnes & Noble’s eReader new app? Do you use any other eReader software on your iPad? Tell us below!
I sure hope for Microsoft’s sake this isn’t true. Word on the street is that Project Natal (which won’t be the final name) will cost $150 and will launch in October. Considering Microsoft is aiming Natal at so-called casual gamers, what are the odds these people are going to shell out $150 to be able to play that paint-slinging game we’ve seen demoed over and over again?
Microsoft will also bundle Natal with a new edition of the Xbox 360 Arcade SKU, with a price of $299.
How on God’s green Earth does the Xbox 360, five years after its debut, still cost three hundred dollars? Is that not crazy to anyone else?
These prices come from one of Edge’s “trusted sources.” Edge doesn’t mess around, so I’d take these numbers pretty seriously.
All these motion controllers, Natal and PlayStation Move, are direct responses to the Wii’s success. That success happened several years ago. You have to figure that most of the “grandmas,” for lack of a better term, who bought a Wii to play Wii Sports with their grandchildren have already gotten their rocks off, so to speak? They have a Wii, it does what it does, and everyone’s happy. How many of these people will now shell out an extra $300 to play more casual games, particularly when the entire world economy is on its tippy toes? Who has an extra $300 lying around to play Silly Game? How many casual games are free on Facebook or whatever? It just seems sorta crazy to me.
I don’t know, but these prices don’t look good at all.
We knew it was bad. We didn’t know it was this bad. Today the US Geological Survey released its preliminary estimates of just how much oil is escaping from the well. The survey was independent—the only thing BP provided was raw data. Two separate study teams used two different methods to come up with estimates. One looked at pictures of the water’s surface provided by NASA. The other looked at live underwater pictures of fluid coming out of the well. Combining that info leads scientists to estimate that 12000-19000 gallons of oil are escaping the well each day. That’s two to three times the estimates initially provided.
Meantime, BP is still continuing its efforts to plug the well. Their latest attempt is called “top kill.” There have been conflicting reports as to its success. Most, including BP, say it’s too early to tell. We may know more this afternoon. President Obama plans to talk about the oil spill response at about 1245pm EST. He’ll be visiting the Lousiana coast tomorrow.
We’ve been discussing the manufactured buzz around the concept of a “cyberwar,” despite the lack of any real evidence of anything beyond some typical espionage efforts with a bit of vandalism thrown in for color. However, for the companies building up the buzz, it’s proving to be quite profitable, and it appears others are rushing to get in on the gravy train — and they’re using the unquestioning press to push the claim along. Take, for example, this Reuters article, that is all about how British aerospace/defense contractor giant BAE is now trying to cash in on the US government’s new obsession with “cyberwar.” The article opens in a cinematic fashion:
Threats to sensitive computer networks lurk everywhere and with a few mouse clicks, organized criminals and hackers could shut down vital networks that run the U.S. government, industry and military.
Source for that? None. Details? None. Evidence? None. Explanation for why vital networks that run the U.S. government and military are connected to the open internet? None. Explanation for why if all it takes is a few mouse clicks, no one has actually taken down these networks yet? None. In fact, that opening is never revisited or explained. Instead, it’s taken for granted along with what’s effectively a press release for BAE’s new “cyber center” in (of course) Washington DC. If this keeps up, perhaps Techdirt will need to open a “cyberwar” division just to cash in on this hype.
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A Districar, que é distribuidora oficial da marca chinesa Chana, vai trazer mais alguns modelos para o Brasil, a saber: O Benni 1.3, o Mini Benni 1.0 e também o Alsvin 1.5 nas versões sedan e hatch. É o mercado chinês expandindo os seus horizontes, literalmente.
O Benni e seu modelo Mini terão ar condicionado, airbag duplo, e vidros elétricos, além de freios ABS e sistema de som MP3 e CD, todos itens de série e custará R$ 32 mil o sedan, enquanto sua versão Mini fica por R$ 29 mil.
O Chana Alsvin terá os mesmos itens de série citados acima e será vendido por R$35 a versão hatch e por R$ 40 mil o sedan. Todos os preços citados são sugestões de valor, podendo sofrer algumas alterações.
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Ford Motor Company of Canada has pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to take all reasonable precautions to protect the safety of two workers, and the automaker faces a $850,000 fine as a result. According to The Canadian Press, an employee was accidentally crushed to death between two forklifts in 2008 at the company’s Oakville, Ontario assembly plant. The worker was standing beside one of the lifts when another worker reversed a separate forklift into the individual.
In a separate incident one year later, a lift truck driver was crushed to death between a loose pallet and the vehicle while driving down a narrow storage aisle at Ford’s Bramalea, Ontario parts distribution center.
Ford was charged for the violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and is being charged with an additional 25 percent victim surcharge in addition to the $850,000 fine.
[Source: The Canadian Press]
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In times of uncertainty, the natural tendency for people is to look for ways to limit expenses. Whether you’re a recent graduate just venturing into the workforce, whether you are a small business owner who has seen limited economic activity in your shop, or whether you’re the head of a household concerned about the future, you’re probably looking at ways to save money right now.
As we look for savings in our daily lives, we should start by looking at our everyday activities at home. How can we save water? For example, taking short showers instead of baths conserves water and saves money. How can we save energy? Using energy efficient appliances saves energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. How can we generate less waste? How can we reuse what we have? The fact is that all these steps to save money are also green actions. In other words, by saving greenbacks, we are also going green and protecting the environment all in one! Furthermore, many of those green actions can also be taken at the community level as we develop smart strategies for a sustainable future.
So, as we actively pursue a green lifestyle, why not take a few minutes to share with us how you plan on going green? Visit our Pick5 Web page where you be able to get information on how people from all over the world are joining efforts to become true environmentalists. You won’t have to drive a car nor fly to a faraway destination. The information is just one click away.
Ultimately, this saving trend may be a blessing in disguise.
About the author: Lina Younes has been working for EPA since 2002 and chairs EPA’s Multilingual Communications Task Force. Prior to joining EPA, she was the Washington bureau chief for two Puerto Rican newspapers and she has worked for several government agencies.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project founder Nicholas Negroponte said that the organization is accelerating its development of the XO-3 tablet computer and will have a working prototype by December 2010, two years ahead of projections. Negroponte said the final product would cost US$75.
via OLPCs Negroponte Says XO-3 Prototype Tablet Coming in 2010 – PCWorld.
Ardi Rizal, a 2-year-old Indonesian boy may not even know what YouTube is, yet his clip puffing a cigarette stick picks up thousands of viewers, and critiques too. Although strangers believe that this toddler faces a grave health risk, his parents never see it that way.
They even think that Ardi is healthy when he is overweight for going past 25 kilograms that he cannot run like kids of his age.
Mohammed, a fishmonger in the village of Musi Banyuasin gave his son Ardi his first cigarette-smoking experience when the boy is only 18 months. Right now they are spending an average of US$5 to supply him around 40 sticks of cigarette daily.
Both of Ardi’s parents prefer to tolerate his addiction rather than finding another way to control his childhood tantrums when he craves for cigarette. His mother, Diana describes how little Ardi would even bang his head onto the wall until he is given his puff stuff.
Britain’s Sun Newspaper is the first to show the video on their website which apparently reflects a trend in Indonesia. Based on the recent data shown by the Central Statistics Agency, about 25 percent of Indonesians aged 3 to 15 year-old has smoked cigarettes, while in 2004, there’s 2.8 percent of 5 to 9 year-old who lit up to puff.
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In case you missed it, before Lee DeWyze beat Crystal Bowersox to the American Idol title on last night’s Idol finale, Janet Jackson performed a medley of her hits — including “Nasty,” “Nothing,” and “Again.” Fans also got a closer look at this new short haircut she debuted in London last week. Whatdya think?
En tiempos de incertidumbre, la tendencia natural de las personas es buscar maneras para limitar sus gastos. Independientemente si uno es una persona recién graduada que entra a la fuerza laboral, o un pequeño comerciante que ha visto actividad limitada en sus negocios, o un padre de familia preocupado por el futuro, probablemente usted está buscando maneras de ahorrar dinero ahora mismo.
A medida que buscamos ahorros en nuestra vida diaria, deberíamos empezar por analizar nuestras actividades cotidianas en nuestro hogar. ¿Cómo podemos ahorrar agua? Por ejemplo, si toma una ducha rápida en vez de un baño de tina conserva agua y ahorra dinero. ¿Cómo podemos ahorrar energía? Si utiliza enseres eléctricos eficientes, puede ahorrar energía y reducir emisiones de gases con efecto invernadero. ¿Cómo podemos generar menos desechos? ¿Cómo podemos reutilizar lo que tenemos? La realidad es que estos pasos sencillos para ahorrar dinero son acciones denominadas como “verdes”. En otras palabras, el ahorrar dinero puede conducir a actividades sostenibles beneficiosas para el medio ambiente simultáneamente. Además muchas de estas acciones verdes tomadas a nivel comunitario pueden fomentar el desarrollo de estrategias inteligentes para el desarrollo sostenible en el futuro.
Por lo tanto, si quiere emprender un estilo de vida sostenible, ¿por qué no toma un momento para compartir con nosotros lo que planifica hacer? Visite nuestra página Web Pick5 (Elija 5) para obtener información acerca de cómo personas alrededor del mundo se están uniendo a estos esfuerzos como verdaderos ambientalistas. No tiene que manejar un auto ni volar a un destino lejano para llegar. La información está al alcance de sus manos. Sólo haga clic.
En fin de cuentas, esta tendencia ahorrista puede ser una bendición después de todo. Como reza el dicho, no hay mal que por bien no venga.
Sobre la autor: Lina M. F. Younes ha trabajado en la EPA desde el 2002 y está a cargo del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Comunicaciones Multilingües. Como periodista, dirigió la oficina en Washington de dos periódicos puertorriqueños y ha laborado en varias agencias gubernamentales.
Foursquare for iPhone is a location-based app using GPS functionality to pinpoint you and allowing you to check-in at specific venues. You can choose from a list of your favorites or a list of nearby locations. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, there is a search box to type it in manually. If a venue is not in the system, you have ability to add it yourself, along with the category of venue, address and phone number. Once you have the location, there is the option to add text to the check-in or just “shout” out to your friends. By checking in, the app alerts your foursquare friends to your location and by linking up your Twitter and Facebook accounts, you can decide each time whether to broadcast the information on those platforms as well. You can also decide not to share the information with anyone, in which case you will be shown as “off the grid” but still get credit for checking in. If you check-in the most times at a certain location, you are crowned its Mayor and quite often, this title awards you specials donated by the business itself. It may be a free drink, a free appetizer, or a percentage off services until you relinquish your crown, but there is certainly incentive to users to frequent these establishments. Users can add a “To-Do” list to use privately or add “Tips” to venues that others can read, which will pop up on your screen when you’ve checked-in nearby.
Foursquare was developed by Dennis Crowley of New York City who designed the original location-based service Dodgeball, which was purchased by Google and subsequently dismantled. Dennis and his team added an competitive edge to this version introducing a point system and badges earned by checking in to special spots either once or a number of times. For example, you earn a “School Night” Badge for checking in anywhere after 3AM on a weekday or the “Photogenic” Badge by checking in at three different venues that feature photo booths. Each city has their own badges and many are specially designed for network-friendly events such as Austin’s SXSW festival. Location-aware services are proving quite popular as social media becomes mainstream. Foursquare has also joined forces with giant companies such as Bravo, Lucky Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and most recently, The History Channel. By following these companies on foursquare, you will find new badges to unlock along with editorial tips on locations.
Proven to be a big shot in the social networking explosion, Foursquare is following in Twitter and Facebook’s footsteps as the demand to connect grows. The free iPhone app is easy to use and navigate with frequent updates from the App Store.
Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 460,000, down 14,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department announced this morning. Economists had expected unemployment claims to fall to 455,000. The four-week average fell a bit to 456,500. The drop is good news, in some sense, but the plateau in new jobless claims is worrying. The unemployment and underemployment rates remain very high, high enough to stall out the recovery. And initial jobless claims need to drop for the unemployment rate to recede. Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider shows the plateau with this graph:
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Waltham, MA-based Thermo Fisher Scientific has struck a deal to acquire Fermentas International for $260 million in cash, Thermo reports today. Fermentas, based in Burlington, Ontario, makes and sells life sciences research materials such as enzymes and reagents as well as diagnostic tools. The firm, which has 500 employees, had 2009 revenue of $54 million. Thermo (NYSE:TMO) says that Fermentas is expected to become part of its analytical technologies segment.
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The European banking system is in crisis, says Hendry.
“I would recommend you panic.”
The hedge fund manager of Eclectica Management went on BBC Newsnight last night to play pessimist against Jeffrey Sachs, an economist from Columbia University.
Of course the two get into a fight. It’s awesome.
At first Hendry is talking quietly and his manner is worryingly subdued but wait just a minute. He starts going after Sachs at 2:38.
“When you bring on a professor and when you bring on a politician, they are unaccountable. Jeffrey’s wrong, you know what? He’ll survive and tenure. I’m wrong, I go bankrupt.”
Then Jeffrey defends himself a little bit, says no one should jump to the conclusion that all is lost, and Hendry literally jumps on him. (4:50)
“I don’t know,” says Hendry, “because, was Jeffrey skiing two months ago? I was working, Gillian (Tett, who was also on the show) was working. So we can tell you about the real world.”
It’s so offensive that the host has to jump in and say, “Now that’s just a low blow.”
(Meanwhile, Gillian Tett is loving this, grinning from ear to ear.)
Then Jeffrey, who doesn’t want to let some other guy fight his fight for him, warns Hendry:
“Please watch your language, it’s just ridiculous. Watch your rhetoric a little bit.”
Seriously, says Hendry. It’s time to worry. Panic.
“Banks today are refusing to lend to each other. Bank share prices are collapsing. We have no ability to gauge the credit-worthiness of the banking system.”
“I say, let’s purge this system of its rottenness,” recommends Hendry. “Let’s take on a recession. It’s going to be tough. People are going to lose their jobs.”
“The banking sector is responsible for gross folly,” he says. The solution is just, “Don’t pay them. Don’t reward folly.”
“We can spread this over 20 years or we can get rid of it over 3 years… You make a mistake, you pay for it.”
Of course remember that Hendry is shorting the crap out of Greece and the European banking crisis. He’s a big proponent of speculation and shorting, so he hates bailouts and would love massive failure.
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Sarah Ferguson answers questions on her recent scandal on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The interview will be taped on Friday. She was recently caught on video taking money from an undercover reporter in exchange for a promise to a business access to a British trade ambassador and her former husband, Prince Andrew. She apologized and called her actions a “serious lapse in judgement.” The interview will be taped on Friday and will be shown on Tuesday.
The Duchess of York said at a party in New York for the launch of her new line of children’s books, “We all make mistakes. Yet we go on. We dust ourselves down.” She started to break the ice by referring to one of her titles, Ashley Learns About Strangers. “Perhaps I should have taken a leaf out of my own book,” as Fergie did not receive any response from the audience she smile and said, “Where’s your sense of humor tonight?” that delivered a big laugh. She thanked her publisher, Sterling, Publishing and those who had attended the party. “I think it’s important you all came here tonight,” stated the duchess. “The show must go on.”
Fergie had made a number of children’s books. The latest series aims at helping children through difficult moments in life. The books include: Matthew and the Bullies, Emily’s First Day of School, Ashley Learns About Strangers and Michael and His New Baby Brother.
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Noah’s multi-part look at HTC’s Evo 4G for Sprint. In this installment: The hardware.
Buick Regal GS Concept
Last week it was reported by Detroit News that General Motors will build the Buick Regal GS high-performance sedan. Well, in our world nothing is official until its officially confirmed by the automakers themselves. GM today released a very short statement confirming that it will indeed built the Regal GS.
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“In January Buick debuted the Regal GS showcar at the 2010 North American International Auto Show,” GM said. “After a lot of positive consumer feedback, Buick announced that it will build the Regal GS. No further details are available at this time.”
The production Regal GS is expected to stay close to the concept version shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, including the 255-hp 4-cylinder turbo, 6-speed manual gearbox and all-wheel drive.
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