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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2010
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2010
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office. These meetings are closed press.
Later, as part of National Small Business Week, the President will host award-winning small business owners from around the country at an event in the Rose Garden. The President will discuss the important role that American small businesses play in our economy. This event is open press.
The President will then visit the U.S. Capitol to address the Senate Republican Caucus about his legislative agenda. This meeting is closed press. Later, the President will meet with President Napolitano of Italy in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.
Later in the afternoon, the President will travel to San Francisco, California. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at San Francisco International Airport are open press. In the evening, the President will attend fundraisers for Senator Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. There will be travel pool coverage of the President’s remarks at the Fairmont Hotel.
The President will spend the night in San Francisco, California.
Also tomorrow, Solicitor General Elena Kagan will travel to Capitol Hill to meet separately with Senator Bennet, Senator Isakson, Senator Tester and Senator Lieberman.
Tomorrow at 12:45pm EDT, Harvard Law School’s Assistant Dean for Public Service Alexa Shabecoff and former Harvard Law School students Brandon Weiss (HLS ’08), Lauren Sudeall Lucas (HLS ’05), and Sarah Isgur (HLS ’08) will hold a conference call to discuss the role that then-Dean Elena Kagan played in expanding opportunities for Harvard Law School students to engage in public service. Reporters wishing to join this call should dial (800) 288-8975.
In-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire Photos: AP, Reuters, AFP
TV Corr & Crew: NBC
Print: Roll Call
Radio: Talk Radio
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
Wires: AP, Reuters, Bloomberg
Wire Photos: AP, Reuters, AFP
TV Corr & Crew: NBC
Print: Politico
EDT
9:00AM In-Town Travel Pool Call Time
10:00AM THE PRESIDENT receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
10:30AM THE PRESIDENT meets with senior advisors
Oval Office
Closed Press
11:15AM THE PRESIDENT hosts award-winning small business owners from around the country; delivers remarks on small business jobs proposals
Rose Garden
Open Press (Pre-set 10:15AM – Final Gather 10:45AM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
12:05PM THE PRESIDENT addresses the Senate Republican Caucus
U.S. Capitol
Closed Press
2:00PM THE PRESIDENT meets with President Napolitano of Italy
Oval Office
Closed Press
2:55PM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route Andrews Air Force Base
South Lawn
Open Press (Pre-set 2:20PM – Final Gather 2:35PM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
3:15PM THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base en route San Francisco, California
Out-of-Town Travel Pool (Call Time 2:00PM – Virginia Gate, Andrews Air Force Base)
PDT
5:35PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in San Francisco, California
San Francisco International Airport
Open Press
6:00PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Fairmont Hotel
Travel Pool Coverage
6:30PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Fairmont Hotel
Travel Pool Coverage
7:50PM THE PRESIDENT attends a reception for Senator Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Private Residence
Closed Press
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A cluster of suicides has hit Foxconn, painting the factory in a horrible light and essentially drawing outrage just about everyone. Yesterday Foxconn CEO, Gou Tai-ming, officially spoke out against the suicides and today another potential suicide occurred at about 6:30 AM in Shenzhen.
Those are the facts and it’s a tragic situation. Something in the factory is wrong and Foxconn needs to fix it. This much is obvious.
To put this in perspective, however, I was speaking with someone who went to Cornell. If you recall, Ithaca is Gorges and, sadly, those same beautiful natural gorges are also a spot for suicides at Cornell university. This year there have been six suicides at Cornell, a record year and, with the national average reaching 7.29 suicides per 100,000 students in America, the rash of suicides there is a tragic statistical outlier.
To recap my earlier argument, the Foxconn factory feeds and houses almost 400,000 workers. If the national average of student suicides held in China, you’d see 28 suicides a year at Foxconn. For a bit of background, listen to and read this This American Life episode about a Chinese man who stops suicides on the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China.
Although this is not the narrative we want to hear, I don’t believe that Foxconn mistreats their employees any more than any ISO certified manufacturing plant does. The business of manufacturing can be deadening and exhausting but to place the blame squarely on the company is wrong. There are forces at work here we, culturally and historically, we do not understand and to raise a hue and cry over anything but the expectation that Foxconn begin offering counseling to the distraught who, for whatever reason, are deciding to take their own lives, is a dangerous course to take and masks a certain xenophobia and cultural insensitivity.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has made it easier for green inventors to protect their intellectual property. On Friday the government agency announced that it had changed the application process for its Green Technology Pilot program in a bid to boost the number of green technologies filing for IP protection.
The program was launched at the end of last year as part of the Obama administrations larger goal of having the U.S. lead the global green economy.
The Green Technology Pilot program initially set out to review up to 3,000 applications in its first year. So far though, the patent office has only received 950 requests for accelerated review, and only granted 342, reports Cnet News’s Martin LaMonica.
“This will permit more applications to qualify for the pilot program, thereby allowing more inventions related to green technologies to be advanced out of turn for examination and reviewed earlier,” David Kappos, director of the patent office, said in a filing in the Federal Register, as reported by LaMonica.
Renewable energy technologies eligible for the express review process have to support inventions relating to electricity generation from hydroelectric, solar, wind, renewable biomass, or landfill gas. The program also takes in applications supporting power transmission and distribution technologies.
Protecting one’s IP capital is a crucial step that can help greentech entrepreneurs find financing.
According to Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti’s Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) in 2009 the patent office granted 1,125 patents, the highest level since the CEPGI index was launched eight years ago — see chart here.
Lexus has stopped selling some LS luxury sedans in the wake of a recall for a steering problem. The recall was announced on Monday.
Lexus, Toyota’s luxury division, is recalling 3,800 units of the 2009 and 2010 LS 460 and LS 600h.
The problem is that the steering wheel does not return to the proper position during turning.
Sales are expected to restart in mid-June.
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A few time back we reported that Apple, one of the strongest and here-to-stay brand, would be unleashing the latest smartphone for mobile users worldwide as some internal reports suggested that major retailers are planning to cut-down the stock of iPhone 3GS. While some were of the view that Apple would be bringing a new edition others suggested that the price cut was just because of the credit crunch or to outsell other brand smartphones. But today we got the chiller, as Wal-Mart announced the reduction in the price of iPhone 3GS 16GB Edition.
The reduction in the price has confirmed that a brand new edition is on the way. iPhone would now be available at an attractive price of $97, which records a reduction of almost $100 compared from the previous price. Same contract is being offered by AT&T but with a better and a smarter price.
While sources confirmed of the brand new edition, Wal-Mart was of the view:
“We are going to reduce the price on this most popular smartphone so our customers can realize these new saving as soon as possible.”
Apple has always brought in a new product at the Worldwide Developers Conference, more known as WWDC. The annual developers conference might be witnessing a new product launch with most of them eying a new edition of the iPhone.
Neither has Apple denied or confirmed anything about the product and its rumors.
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A decade of hard work is beginning to pay off for breast cancer researchers at Detroit’s Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, whose spinoff company, Delphinus Medical Technologies, announced last night it has attracted $8 million in venture capital to help bring its breast cancer imaging device to market.
The lead investor is Arboretum Ventures of Ann Arbor, MI. Beringea, with offices in Farmington Hills, MI, co-led the deal through its InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund, which provides expansion capital to promising Michigan businesses. Also joining was North Coast Technology Investors, with offices in Ann Arbor and Midland, MI.
Delphinus Medical’s product, SoftVue, has been undergoing development at Karmanos for the past 10 years. It does not use radiation or compression, as in mammography, to image the breast to detect early stages of breast cancer. Instead, the breast is submerged in warm water and surrounded by an ultrasound ring that emits sound waves much like sonar and employs sophisticated computer algorithms to build detailed, three-dimensional images of the tissue.
I first heard about this technology a little more than a year ago when I spoke with Dr. Cassann Blake, then team leader of the Breast Multidisciplinary Team at the Karmanos Institute. She was quite excited about the possibilities of what was then known by the acronym CURE (Computerized Ultrasound Risk Evaluation) because it could potentially detect breast cancer sooner than standard ultrasound or MRI. She said at the time that she hopes the device could complement other methods of imaging and that Karmanos researchers were in the process of finding out whether it was actually more accurate than MRI.
Since then, CURE was renamed SoftVue, and Delphinus was launched in late 2009 to shepherd the product to market. Karmanos has the only SoftVue prototype now, but the company says it has already secured commitments from several health institutions to purchase the SoftVue system.
The company said the VC investment will enable it to build the first 10 machines that will be used in clinical settings, which in turn will help validate initial findings in order to win FDA approval.
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A brief glance around any motorcycle racing paddock will tell you all you need to know about the number of women racing in the field. In short, there aren’t many. Thankfully, things are changing, especially when racers like 16-year-old Elena Myers proved that they can do more than just keep up on the track with their male counterparts.
In case you missed the news, young Elena just became the first female to win an AMA Supersport Class race, and she did so aboard her No. 21 Lucas Oil Roadracingworld.com RMR Suzuki GSX-R600. Suffice it to say that Suzuki is rather proud of Elena’s achievement, and the Japanese company has gone so far as to celebrate the landmark victory by changing its Suzukicycles.com homepage to pink in her honor.
Naturally, we wish Elena all the success in the world. But seriously… pink? We see exactly zero pink on any of her motorcycle or riding gear, but if that’s the Way Suzuki wants to celebrate…
[Source: Suzuki]
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Nas intenções de aumentar suas vendas em 30% nos próximos cinco anos, a Mercedes se prepara pra expandir sua linha de veículos, mas focando seus esforços em carros pequenos e mais baratos (ok, não tão baratos assim, mas proporcional à marca).
Após 2012, mais três novos veículos estarão disponíveis, sendo eles um cupê, um crossover e um sedan, que serão baseados no modelo Classe B que atualmente é vendido na Europa. Após o Classe C ser lançado em 2013, a montadora também pretende lançar um conversível e alguns outros modelos a serem decididos. O CEO Ernst Lieb diz o seguinte:
“Todos querem ter um Mercedes-Benz. Eles (os clientes) estão procurando os modelos classe S e E. Com o classe C, nós estamos preparando um sedan de quatro portas e não faremos mais nada. Agora nós vamos nos concentrar em segmentos onde os concorrentes são fortes”.
Via | Top Speed
Microsoft will announce this week several changes in the management of its Entertainment and Devices Division in an attempt to position the department responsible for telephone and consoles in a better place compared to its current rivals, Apple and Google.
James Allard, one of the great responsible for the launch of the first Xbox was leaving the company by its differences with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, because of the cancellation of his personal project, Courier based on a double touch screen tablet PC, which was attended to compete against Apple’s iPad.
Today the Wall Street Journal has provided a report which suggests a complete restructuring of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft, responsible for brand of Xbox, PC games, Zune device and mobile operating systems. A division has reported to the Microsoft company $ 165 million in the first quarter of fiscal year.
The Entertainment and Devices Division is the fourth largest operating units of Microsoft, behind Windows, Office and Server, and revenue forecasts for this fiscal year, which ends on June 30, is 8,000 million dollars.
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Adapted from “Uncover Hidden Value with a Post-settlement Settlement,” first published in the Negotiation newsletter.
You’ve reached an agreement that you find satisfactory and your counterpart does as well-but you can’t shake the sense that you could have done even better. For example, you might be happy with the price you achieved in a purchasing contract but wonder if you could have factored better delivery terms into the equation.
After reaching a verbal agreement or inking a contract, negotiators may be able to generate even more value by engaging in a post-settlement settlement (PSS) process, according to Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School professor emeritus Howard Raiffa. During a PSS process, parties try to negotiate better terms on certain issues while remaining free to return to the existing agreement if either one of them is ultimately dissatisfied with the new arrangement.
Here’s how it works. If you’re not 100% satisfied with the result of a recent negotiation, suggest to your counterpart that the two of you spend a little more time discussing potential improvements that might increase the value of the deal to everyone involved. Be sure to clarify that the discussion is informal and will not alter the existing deal unless you both believe it’s superior to the one you just signed.
Secure in the knowledge that you have a successful fallback, you and your counterpart may be able to invent novel terms that you hadn’t imagined during your initial deal making. One reason a PSS process can be so successful is that it capitalizes on the trust and goodwill you generated during your negotiation.
But beware that your counterpart may view your suggestion of a PSS process as your attempt to capture last-minute concessions. Be sure to stress that your PSS will replace the current deal only if it’s fully supported and desired by both parties.
Creating Web-based marketplaces for “crowdsourcing”—farming out digital piece-work to freelancers around the world—has been a hot business idea for the last half-decade. IStockphoto does it for stock images, TopCoder does it for enterprise software, Innocentive does it as a supplement to corporate R&D, and uTest does it for software quality assurance testing. But when push comes to shove, how well do these companies know and trust their networks of contributors, most of whom they’ve never met? A couple of weeks ago Boston-based uTest found itself at the mercy of its own crowd—and emerged with an encouraging story to tell.
At uTest, 25,000 software testers in more than 160 countries log on over the Web to do on-demand testing of software applications, helping the applications’ makers catch bugs and glitches, troubleshoot usability problems, and simulate performance under realistic loads. Twice a month, uTest pays its active testers via Paypal or Payoneer (a New York-based network that delivers payments using prepaid Mastercard cards).
According to Matt Johnston, uTest’s vice president of marketing and community, uTest ran into a glitch of its own the evening of Saturday, May 15, as it disbursed payments for the first half of May. It transferred funds to Paypal and Payoneer twice—meaning that all testers who had done any work in early May received double their usual fee.
“I won’t go into specific numbers, but it was a non-trivial amount of money,” Johnston tells Xconomy. (He also wrote about the episode on uTest’s blog last week.) “We’re talking well into the five figures”—way more than the venture-funded startup could afford to lose on a bookkeeping error.
But right away, uTest started to benefit from an unexpected side effect of being in the software-testing business. It wasn’t PayPal or Payoneer who detected the problem, but the testers themselves. And being testers, they sent in bug reports.
“If you saw an extra $200 sitting in your bank statement, you might go, ‘Huh,’” says Johnston. “But software testers, they say ‘Oh, this is an interesting defect.’ They are wired to point out flaws. The first reports we got were not just ‘Hey, you paid me twice’—they were, ‘It looks like I’ve got two separate transaction IDs for the exact same amount, seven seconds apart.’ They were diagnosing it for us, like it was just another software defect.”
This was late Saturday night, Johnston says. The company had to decide quickly what to do about the problem. PayPal and Payoneer politely informed uTest that there was nothing they could do—there’s no such thing as an “undo” button for electronic payment (for good reason—the idea of PayPal debiting your bank account without your consent is more than a little scary). “We ultimately came to the conclusion that we had to be really transparent about it, and tell our community …Next Page »
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New research shows that chronic vitamin D deficiency may be a factor in heart disease, high blood pressure and metabolic syndrome.
Known as the “sunshine vitamin” because exposure to sunlight triggers the body to synthesize it, vitamin D has long been recognized as crucial to the development and maintenance of strong bones. But new studies and reviews are indicating vitamin D deficiencies are an important indicator of heart disease risk as well.
Low vitamin D levels related to incidence of heart attacks and heart disease
A 2008 Loyola University review cited a number of studies that link low levels of vitamin D to heart-related problems, noting that the rates of severe disease and mortality may be as much as 30 to 50 percent higher among heart disease patients who are sun-deprived.
In addition, a recent Harvard study concluded that low levels of vitamin D appear to be associated with higher risk of heart attack in men. The study used research statistics that show the rates of cardiovascular disease-related deaths are increased when exposure to vitamin D producing sunlight is reduced (at higher latitudes and during the winter months), but those same rates go down in conditions when exposure to sunlight is increased.
The study also compared medical records and blood tests from a group of several hundred men who had suffered a heart attack to those of men who had not suffered heart problems. The comparison indicated that men with a vitamin D deficiency (quantified as 15 nanograms per milliliter of blood or less) had an increased risk for heart attack compared with those with a sufficient amount (having 30 nanograms per milliliter of blood or more) of vitamin D.
Even a slight deficiency of vitamin D appears to raise the risk of cardiac problems. According to the study, men with intermediate levels of vitamin D had a higher risk of heart attack than those with sufficient vitamin D levels.
Screening and treatment for vitamin D deficiency recommended
A 2008 research paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology called vitamin D deficiency “an unrecognized, emerging cardiovascular risk factor, which should be screened for and treated.” The paper endorsed practical recommendations to screen for and treat low vitamin D levels, especially in patients with risk factors for heart disease or diabetes.
“Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized, emerging cardiovascular risk factor, which should be screened for and treated,” said James H. O’Keefe, M.D., cardiologist and director of Preventive Cardiology at the Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO. “Vitamin D is easy to assess, and supplementation is simple, safe and inexpensive.”
It is estimated that up to half of U.S. adults and 30 percent of children and teenagers have vitamin D deficiency, which predisposes them to hypertension and a stiffening and thickening of the heart and blood vessels. Vitamin D deficiency also alters hormone levels and immune function, which can increase the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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i am 35 year old man with low sperm count .recently i came to know that zinc , vitamin c ,asian ginseng, L-arginine is very effective to increase sperm count so i have deceided to take this suppliments by pills .so plz advise me which is the best brands to buy the above vitamins i stay in usa (chicago).i went to walgreens and cvs to buy these vitamin pills but there were so many brands and i got so confused that i didnt buyed any .so plz tell me the name of good and effective brands of above medicines .thank u
You can try something like Vimax, it has all of the ingredients in one pill instead of having to take dozens of different pills at one time.
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Low Vitamins is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.
Hulu videos can be viewed on any Android phone with Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, Absolutely Android reported this weekend. Hulu blocks mobile phones for licensing reasons, but the trick to get them to play on Android handsets is actually pretty simple: Users just have to change the user agent setting of the phone’s Chrome web browser to make it think the phone is a desktop computer, and Hulu’s videos will start playing on the phones with no problem.
That’s a nice trick for Nexus One owners trying to catch the Lost series finale on the go, but the revelation also points to something much bigger: Hulu videos will inevitably find their way onto the Google TV platform when it launches this fall, and Hulu won’t be happy about it. In fact, the site’s corporate overlords could force it into an all-out war on over-the-top streaming devices, and the results could hurt both Hulu and Google.
Don’t believe me? Then consider this: Google TV Product Lead Rishi Chandra did a search for House when he demoed the platform at the company’s developers conference last week. The search results clearly included episodes from Hulu. However, he didn’t demonstrate Hulu streaming and instead proceeded to watch a trailer from Amazon.com’s VOD platform.
Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra didn’t really want to say whether Hulu runs on Google TV. Technically it would be capable to, he said during an I/O press conference, but the ultimate decision would have to be made by the content owner. In other words: Google would like to play Hulu content on the Google TV, but it can’t promise that it will work. Hulu didn’t comment on whether it will play on Google TV or not when contacted by us.
Of course, that’s very similar to the issues Boxee dealt with a year ago when Hulu decided to lock out Boxee users. The difference is that Google TV is an open source operating system, capable of running a whole bunch of code that goes far beyond of what’s possible with Boxee.
Not only does the most recent version of Chrome for Android allow users to switch user agents, which means they’re essentially pretending to access a web site with a different browser and device, there’s also a number of third-party browsers that have been supporting this functionality for a while. In fact, there are even dedicated Android tools to mask the identity of your device. Many of these apps should run on Google TV out of the box, and one can be certain the developers will come up with new ways to extend the platform and in turn play Hulu videos.
Hulu will likely respond by stepping up the security cat-and-mouse game, which will result in developers coming up with even better ways to circumvent these roadblocks. Who will win? I think it’s too early to tell. It’s been more than a year since Hulu first went after Boxee, and Boxee’s users can still access the site’s content through the application’s integrated browser. Hulu eventually could get the upper hand by relying on Flash security, but that would mean to permanently lock itself out of HTML5, while other are starting to innovate with it.
Google and its partners on the other hand could have a hard time selling Google TV to consumers if their answer to “will this play Hulu” is “maybe it will, maybe it won’t.”
The solution would obviously be to make peace before the war starts. Hulu and its owners should give up on the notion that content is allowed to play on a 27″ screen, but not on a 32″ screen, and Google could help to make this happen by offering some insights into its plans for advertising on Google TV. Once the money is on the table, people will talk. But expect some more shots to be fired before that happens.
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Nevada Tumbleweed.
Related content on GigaOm Pro: Google Takes the Open Battle to Apple on Multiple Fronts (subscription required)


The life cycle of smartphones has reached the point where a single year means the difference between cutting edge and cutout bin, and Apple looks to be following — if not driving — that trend.
When the iPhone 3G S debuted last June, the price of the iPhone 3G was slashed to $99. Today, one year later, we’re seeing the same thing happen to the 3G S.
Though the latest model in Apple’s iPhone line has not been unveiled yet, America’s biggest retailer Wal-Mart has dropped the price of the iPhone 16GB 3GS to just $97 with a two-year AT&T contract; less than half of its former retail price. The 32 GB version, however, remains its same price of $297 with a two-year contract.
The price cut comes just two weeks before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to deliver the keynote, potentially to unveil the next generation iPhone, which has already been pried apart before the public.
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Time Warner Cable just pitched the major Hollywood studios a new idea: “home theater on demand.” It would allow people at home to watch movies just 30 days after they’re released in the theater for $20-$30. More »
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Would ya looky here! Looks like someone over at Innovative Singapore has posted a video that shows what it would be like to turn on a WinPho 7 phone for the very first time.
The device shown in the video (and to the right) is the LG Panther, which has been making its way around the webs for a little while now.
It seems that LG will ditch the “Panther” monicker for a much more memorable “GW910″, which is an issue I’ll be taking up with their marketers directly*.
It’s clearly mentioned in the video (and original article) that this is still a pre-production device, sent out so apps can be tested on real hardware (rather than an emulator), and, as such, it’s stll very rough around the edges. Still, it’s nice to see the kind of UI experience you can expect from the Big M’s much overdue Windows Mobile revamp.
However, the most interesting thing in the video is the boot time: if you’ve ever booted a smartphone from the last 2 years or so, you’d know that it can often be an excruciatingly long experience. It remains to be seen if the production device can retain this speedy boot time after the final OS has been loaded, but it’s encouraging to see speeds like this at this time.
Also, prior to previous reports, a Live ID isn’t needed to boot the device (but will be for Xbox Live and Zune Marketplace integration). But, once again, pre production model blah blah…
Anyway, enough of me, go check out that video!
*not really.
[via WM Poweruser]
Now this:
A group of Democratic legislators spoke up Monday in favor of further cost-cutting as lawmakers resumed their efforts to piece together a new spending plan from the wreckage of Illinois’ budget.
The group called for about $1.3 billion in cuts, including $300 million from education and $300 million from administrative costs.
Among the leaders of the group was Rep. May, who said retired government employees need to pay more for their health care.
“As much as we love our retirees, this is a tough-love exercise,” said Rep. Karen May, D-Highland Park. “They have to feel the pain.
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Just over half of teenagers text-message friends, while only 38 percent call on their cellphones daily, and just 30 percent on a landline.
[Source: New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/business/24drill.html
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