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When we first spied Huawei's SmaKit S7 Android tablet, we were at CeBit and it was... well, non-functioning. Well Huawei's officially announced the tablet now, and we have to say that it looks just like every other Android tablet being hoisted upon the...
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Boing Boing partner John Battelle was on a WiFi-enabled flight last night, and wanted to say bedtime-goodnight to his kids using videochat. Lots of parents tuck their kids into bed over video when they're far from home. What gentler, more loving example...
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+ Is Lady Gaga a stealth refashionista? The empty soda cans in her hair could be the next haute hair accessory. + Woody Harrelson, Food Inc.'s Robert Kenner, Suzy Amis Cameron (wife of James), and Livia Firth (wife of Colin) were just some of the Oscar...
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Mar 11th 5:05pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn solidified her role as the agency's tail gunner on Wednesday with a warning to the big ISPs that the FCC's patience with rising broadband subscription rates is wearing thin. "When prices rise across the...
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Windows: doubleTwist makes for a convenient way of syncing your smartphone, camera, and other USB-plug-able gadgets, especially if you're not using Apple products. Now doubleTwist does a great job of finding and monitoring podcasts, and sending them...
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Dr. Stephen Leeb submits:Jobs continue to be front and center of economists’ and Americans’ minds alike as the Labor Department released a highly anticipated February employment report last week. The report was mixed. On the positive side,...
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In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Last Vote Predicted... 1:00 – 2:00 p.m....
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With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL,...
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Motorola will be loading Microsoft’s Bing search onto its Android cellphones in China this month, ousting Google on its own smartphone platform. Motorola Android models will get the new feature when they are launched in this quarter. Google...
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Unless they're incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We'd tell you about that in...
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Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even consider not doing it. More »
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Jim Delaney submits: Recent findings that certain scientists were being ostracized for disagreeing with the widely circulated and publicized theory that Mother Earth was warming at an alarming rate are evidence that human nature is fiercely competitive...
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photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr. The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna, and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us with...
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Photo: John Perivolaris / DrJohn2005 Recently out of Virginia's public school system, youngster James Stephenson writes in to say that being a kid sucks. So what's new? A gauntlet of cameras, invasive searches and authoritarian security theatrics that...
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Mar 11th 2:52pm by Nicholas Watt, Charles Guthrie
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Quietly, and with little fanfare, the shadow defence secretary has killed off ministerial ambitions of retired army chiefWhen you achieve victory – of the complete, earth-scorching variety – it is always best to avoid crowing. "In war: resolution; in...