RIM BlackBerry Bold
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Perhaps you’re like me and starting to wonder if the RIM BlackBerry Bold is just a mythical creature like Bigfoot–spotted in the wild a number of times but yet to be captured, or in the Bold’s case, released. The smartphone was announced way back in May for AT&T, but we have yet [...]
T-Mobile G1, the first phone powered by Google’s Android software
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It looks like T-Mobile customers trying to get one of the initial models of the first phones powered by Google’s Android operating system will have to wait a bit longer.
“Sorry! Due to the overwhelming popularity of the new T-Mobile G1, upgrades are temporarily unavailable. Please [...]
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Quick quiz. What has an Intel Atom processor, a 10-inch screen, and weighs less than three pounds? A not small number of Netbooks.
What has the above specs, plus 3G mobile broadband? The LG X110 Momo Netbook. The addition of integrated HSUPA 3G connectivity helps separate the X100 Momo from the rest of the [...]
We got something else coming later today.
Upcoming Warrior Changes
Quote from: Ghostcrawler (Source)
NOTE: These changes were in the works before the recent round of dps discussions. I hope to have some Arms and Fury changes to report soon.
Armored to the Teeth — Changed to AP, but amount reduced to 1 per 360 armor (to compensate [...]
The original post about Upcoming Honor Items and Honor Reset has been updated.
Quote from: Eyonix (Source)
As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath [...]
Carl Malamud, online activist-archivist, with part of his collection of government documents to be scanned in and liberated.
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SEBASTOPOL, Calif.–From a corner of a nondescript office building at the edge of wine country, Carl Malamud is masterminding an electronic guerrilla war against governments across the nation.
Most geeks tend to be a bit obsessive, [...]
Cutting the cord: Zune 3.0 offers downloads from the airwaves
Evolving platform continues to offer new ways to connect with new music, media and the community, anywhere, anytime
REDMOND, WA — September 16, 2008 — This week the Zune music and media service comes out with a host of hardware and software upgrades that gives fans more [...]
The Google doodle tradition started a long time ago (in summer 1999, in fact) when Larry and Sergey put a stick figure on the homepage to signify that they were out of the office at Burning Man. Nothing against stick figures, but our logo designs have become rather more varied since then. Today you’ll see [...]
Did you know that your Mac can read aloud to you? Mac OS X Leopard includes a cool Text to Speech function that makes the Mac speak selected text in text-based files — including web pages, email messages, spreadsheets, calendar entries, PDFs, text documents, Finder windows, and even iTunes.
To start, open the System Preferences panel [...]
NEW YORK: Internet search leader Google took a giant leap into the mobile phone market on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with Apple’s hot-selling iPhone.
The T-Mobile G1, the first mobile device powered by Google’s open-source Android software, will be available in stores in the United States on October [...]
TOKYO: Taro Aso prepares to take over as Japan’s new prime minister on Wednesday, lining up his cabinet with like-minded conservatives to help his mission to revive the economy and win upcoming elections.
The flamboyant former foreign minister is to be installed by a parliament session opening at 1:00 pm (0400 GMT), and is expected [...]
WASHINGTON: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing allegations of fraud by 26 Wall Street firms including several investment giants whose collapse sent world markets into turmoil, US media said Tuesday.
The FBI has set its sights on investment titan Lehman Brothers, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insurer AIG, in a wide-reaching [...]
SINGAPORE: Singapore authorities have given the assurance that the risk of melamine poisoning to Singaporeans is low. There have been growing concerns after three China-made products in Singapore were found to be laced with the industrial product.
Authorities said the tainted products will have to be consumed over a prolonged period of time before one gets [...]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan : Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 60 Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, just days after the Marriott Hotel was bombed, officials said Tuesday.
A soldier was also killed in two days of fierce clashes with Islamist fighters near the troubled northwestern city of Peshawar and separately in the volatile [...]
KUALA LUMPUR – An opposition politician held for a week in solitary confinement under controversial security laws spoke of her relief as she was freed on Friday.
Teresa Kok, of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), was detained along with
prolific blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
“I am happy I was freed. I am [...]
TOKYO – World number-one Lee Chong Wei, struggling to find form after his Olympic heartbreak, reached the Japan Open semi-finals Friday with an erratic 21-17, 21-17 win over Chinese qualifier Qiu Yanbo.
The Malaysian, beaten by China’s world champion Lin Dan in last month’s Olympic final, came back from 13-9 down in the first game and [...]
LONDON – Global equity markets soared on Friday, lifted by mammoth share price gains for banks, as governments worldwide stepped up their fight against the worst financial crisis in decades, traders said.
The European Central Bank and Bank of England meanwhile each lent an additional 40 billion US dollars to financial institutions struggling to obtain funds [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday he has enough support to topple the government and wants to meet with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss a handover.
After landmark March elections that saw the opposition dramatically increase its seats in parliament, Anwar set a September 16 deadline to oust the Barisan [...]
BEIJING: She was nursing a sore throat, but the only thing Yip Pin Xiu wanted to do just before she launched herself into the water at the National Aquatics Centre in Beijing on Monday was to empty her mind.
Coach Ang Peng Siong was familiar with his swimmer’s routine and kept his instructions to a minimum.
The [...]
SINGAPORE: A law has been passed to allow Singaporeans to appoint proxy decision makers before they become mentally incapacitated by illnesses like dementia or brain damage.
The Mental Capacity Bill was passed in Parliament on Monday. The Act will come into effect when the Office of Public Guardian is set up and the Code of Practice [...]
SINGAPORE: Some 100 people turned up at the Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park on Saturday evening in one of the biggest gatherings seen at the site in recent years.
They were there to hear speakers debate about Singapore’s public transport system. The event was organised by a group of bloggers.
The bloggers came armed with ideas [...]
GALVESTON: Gigantic Hurricane Ike pounded the Texas Gulf coast on Friday, flooding parts of Galveston and threatening “catastrophic” destruction as it heads on a path towards Houston, the fourth largest US city.
Gargantuan waves smashed over the city’s sea wall as the centre of the storm at 0100 GMT Saturday was about 115 kilometres southeast of [...]
SINGAPORE: A former investment analyst, who stabbed his wife multiple times last September, has been sentenced to four years’ jail and eight strokes of the cane.
Russell Tan Rui Leen, 39, had pleaded guilty in June to hurting his wife Madam Goh Hwee Suan.
In court on Friday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Cheryl Kam described Tan’s attack on [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian activists Saturday denounced the arrests of an opposition politician, a prominent blogger and a journalist under a tough security law, while Washington also weighed in.
The arrests come at a time when the opposition in Malaysia is trying to seize power from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who has come under mounting pressure [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s armed forces chief has voiced concerns about rising racial tensions in the country.
General Abdul Aziz Zainal urged the government on Thursday to take stern action to stem the tide, but maintained that the military will not interfere in the country’s political affairs.
De facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to [...]
SINGAPORE: While it is a race for some of the fastest cars in the world, speeds may slow down for Singapore motorists when the city’s first Formula One night race takes off later this month.
From September 20, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will have a series of phased road closures affecting the Marina Centre [...]
SINGAPORE: When she was five, Laurentia Tan was described as a “vegetable”. Born with cerebral palsy, she could not speak, hear, walk or sit, and her parents Anselm and Jannie were advised to admit her into an institution.
They refused.
Today, their 29-year-old daughter is an Oxford Brooks University graduate based in the United Kingdom. [...]
Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.
They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The £5bn machine on the Swiss-French border is designed to smash particles together with [...]
Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific [...]