February 2009
Adobe and Apple Working on Flash for iPhone - Mac... →
n March, Steve Jobs even said that the the current version of Flash performed too slowly on the iPhone. It’s not clear what might have caused the change of heart, though Adobe announced in November that they were partnering with ARM to create an optimized implementation of Flash specifically for the ARM11 family of processors. Apple’s iPhone is based on these processors so may be...
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January 2009
WatchIn his weekly address, President Barack Obama announced that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is preparing a new strategy for reviving our financial system, and urged the swift passage of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.
Five reasons why Arizona Cardinals will win Super... →
Cards will bust ‘defense wins championships’ theory, like ‘06 Colts
Arizona offense was built for comebacks, while Pittsburgh is not
Ken Whisenhunt has put together a winning Super Bowl game plan before
Five reasons the Steelers will win Super Bowl... →
Defenses have won championships the majority of the decade
Ben Roethlisberger is determined to make up for XL stinker
Well-traveled Steelers fans will dominate Raymond James Stadium crowd
Daschle Nomination Snagged by Back Tax Problem -... →
President Obama’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Tom Daschle, filed amended tax returns and paid more than $100,000 in back taxes on Jan. 2, administration officials said on Friday.
Mr. Daschle concluded that he owed the taxes for free use of a car and driver that had been provided to him by Leo Hindery Jr., the founder of a private equity firm known as InterMedia Advisors, the...
No wonder Sony reported a $2.9 billion loss last...
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Sony Ericsson’s new “Premier 3 Walkman” phone can copy music played into it from a CD player. Setting aside the debate of how useful this actually is from either a cultural standpoint (more people buy their music in digital form than optical media now) or functional one (who wants to copy music to a device in real time?), the phone is practically worthless for fulfilling its...
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The Beatles // I’m Only Sleeping
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Robert Johnson / Sweet Home...
Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories... →
Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck.
Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow,...
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The Beatles -...
WatchPhotographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry works with personal and sometimes mythical themes grown out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama.
BLAGOJEVICH REMOVED: Impeached Blagojevich has... →
Sweeping aside six years of scandal and crippling political infighting with a historic impeachment vote, the state Senate on Thursday ousted one governor for abusing his power and anointed another who built his political career around having no power at all.
Senators voted 59-0 to remove Rod Blagojevich, who walked out of the silent chamber after delivering an impassioned plea for mercy. Within...
President Obama is cheering for the Steelers in... →
President Barack Obama said he’s pulling for the Pittsburgh Steelers over the Arizona Cardinals in football’s biggest game on Sunday — and he did so with a politician’s touch.
WatchLet’s get another look at this, shall we? - Shane
“Our president’s approval rating is somewhere between pictures of baby pandas on...”
– Maddow (via alexbaca)
Dell Planning Cell Phone Foray - Report -... →
Dell Inc is planning a foray into the cell phone market as early as next month, hoping to revitalize a business walloped by crumbling PC sales but potentially pitting the firm against Apple, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The world’s No. 2 maker of PCs, which has been designing prototypes for over a year, is focusing on smartphones — the class of devices that...
“It is shameful, and part of what we’re going to need is for folks on Wall Street...”
– Obama Harshly Criticizes Wall St. Bonuses - NYTimes.com
“The Ford Motor Company, the only Detroit automaker not being propped up by...”
– Ford Lost $14.6 Billion in 2008 but Won’t Ask for Aid - NYTimes.com
Google's Measurement Lab and What it Means -... →
These tools include the Network Diagnostic Tool, which tests your connection speed and gives you a diagnosis on speed issues; Glasnost, which tests whether your ISP is blocking or throttling BitTorrent connections, and Network Path and Application Diagnosis, which helps you find problems that usually plague last-mile broadband networks.
The thing is, tools of this kind have existed for years....
iDVD hung out to dry as Apple pushes movies online... →
After all, this was the Jobs that had decisively killed the 3.5“ floppy disc with the 1998 iMac after first introducing it in the 1984 Macintosh. After initially falling behind the curve with CD burning in the late 90s, Jobs’ Apple had rushed to put CD burners on Macs but then largely obsolesced disc burning with the iPod just a few years later, using iTunes as a catalyst for the transition.
With...
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“he NFL is willing to consider a return to its Los Angeles roots. Evidently, so...”
– NFL | Truth&Rumors | FanNation
Post Office Could Cut a Delivery Day - NYTimes.com →
Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week.
If the change happens, that doesn’t necessarily mean an end to Saturday mail delivery. Previous post office studies have looked at the possibility of skipping some other...
House Passes Obama’s Stimulus Package -... →
Without a single Republican vote, President Obama won House approval on Thursday for an $819 billion economic recovery plan as Congressional Democrats sought to hold down their own difference over the enormous package of tax cuts and spending.
“This recovery plan will save or create more than three million new jobs over the next few years,” Mr. Obama said in a statement after the vote. “I can...
House Defeats Bill to Delay Digital TV Switch - TV... →
Two days after the Senate unanimously approved a four-month delay of the digital television transition, the House of Representatives did not pass the same proposal on Wednesday, “leaving the current Feb. 17 deadline intact for now,” the Associated Press reports.
“The 258-168 vote failed to clear the two-thirds threshold needed for passage in a victory for GOP members,” according to the AP.
The...
Putin’s View: ‘We’re All in the Same Boat’ -... →
Making his first appearance as Russian leader before the annual gathering of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin struck a conciliatory tone toward the West. He explicitly wished the new administration of President Obama well, and urged cooperation on energy security, the economy and even disarmament.
