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"Once again, it's Mobius time! Mobius is an invite-only event, hosted by Microsoft, where the invited guests are shown what Microsoft is doing in the mobile space." Ah, yes, I can see all Microsoft users :-)). - winckel from Bookmarklet

"The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower. In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser." - winckel from Bookmarklet

+1 ILLA - chaz2b

"David Curry, the MP who heads the committee responsible for policing Commons expenses, has claimed almost £30,000 for a second home that his wife has banned him from staying in, The Daily Telegraph can disclose." - winckel from Bookmarklet

"While Bill Gates looked on, Microsoft shareholders asked CEO Steve Ballmer about Apple at their annual meeting this morning. Steve's CEO-speak responses illustrate the larger problem." Long may he stick around. - winckel from Bookmarklet

"The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've seen the future ... and it's not Chrome OS.". Thought-provoking but ultimately just tosh, Kennedy's piece is a worthwhile read. I suspect Chrome (and Google) will do well. Kennedy wouldn't recognise the future if it came and ran over him in a bus. - winckel from Bookmarklet

"According to friends, the authorities rejected several requests and are only releasing the body for burial. Mr Magnitsky's funeral will be held at noon today at Moscow's Preobrazhensky cemetery. Friends had hoped for clarity on the cause of death because, according to Mr Magnitsky's lawyers, the authorities originally claimed he died from a rupture to the abdominal membrane before changing it to a heart attack." - winckel from Bookmarklet

"Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques - even though the US has published them. The High Court says it wants to refer to previously classified documents as part of its judgement on the alleged mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed. Mr Mohamed says the US tortured him after his arrest in Pakistan in 2002. The declassified material is online - but the UK says using some of it in court would harm national security." We've had more than enough, it seems to me, of this regime. - winckel from Bookmarklet

"The International Association of Athletics Federations has agreed that the South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800 metres world title, the country's sports ministry said today. The 18-year-old Semenya, who stormed to victory in August's world championships in Berlin, underwent gender verification tests this summer in South Africa and Germany and a panel of experts has been studying the results for the IAAF." Congrats to the girl. She's been poorly treated. - winckel from Bookmarklet

"Harriet Harman’s political future was in the balance tonight after she became the first Cabinet minister in living memory to face criminal charges. The Crown Prosecution Service said Labour’s deputy leader would be prosecuted for allegedly driving without due care and attention and driving while using a mobile phone. She is being charged in connection with an incident on July 3 in Dulwich, southeast London. A Metropolitan Police service employee will now go to a magistrates’ court to obtain a summons to serve on the MP for Camberwell and Peckham." - winckel from Bookmarklet

"Six MPs and peers may soon face criminal charges of fraud following investigations by Scotland Yard into the abuse of the Parliamentary expenses system." Good if at least some of this abuse and fraud by elected officials is brought to account - winckel from Bookmarklet

I agree it should be prosecuted. Wish they'd clean house like that here. - Spidra Webster

:)) - Mycaptain

Yeah, just like an Apple Store. Was Apple ever so self-consciously embarrassing? - winckel from Bookmarklet

they're blocking the entrance to the store—not very customer-friendly. - Andrey Smirnov

"Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between the third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009, according to analysis from Gartner. According to figures released by Gartner on Thursday, Microsoft's mobile operating system had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent of the market, while the iPhone's share had risen from 12.9 percent to 17.1 percent, and RIM's share had risen from 16 percent to 20.8 percent. Symbian's market share fell from 49.7 percent to 44.6 percent over the same period — a 10 percent drop." - winckel from Bookmarklet

@AT, Hmmm, making hardware and software.....that sounds so very much like other guys........ - winckel

"Palestinians have formally asked the European Union to urge the UN security council to recognise a fully independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to the current impasse in peace negotiations with Israel. Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, confirmed that the request to the EU was made on Monday as Israeli ministers repeated warnings that any unilateral moves would trigger counter-measures that could include the annexation of more of the occupied West Bank." A good thing on balance. - winckel from Bookmarklet

Oxford Dictionary released its Word of the Year for 2009 and this year’s winner is one many of us are familiar with: unfriend. unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. “It has both currency and potential longevity,” said Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year.” - winckel from Bookmarklet

Unlike. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny from feedalizr

"China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list. The machine packs more than 70,000 chips and can compute 563 trillion calculations per second (teraflops)." - winckel from Bookmarklet

Hmmm...maybe not the most apposite form of protest? - winckel

I'm going back to get my GED! - Akiva Moskovitz

عالی عالی عالی - diis

"Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The Sunday Times. She's Dr Brooke Magnanti" - winckel from Bookmarklet

You know what? Good for her. Apparently, her employer is not holding it against her, either. - Helen Sventitsky

"Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple's iPhone. Apple's share of the market continues to climb and is edging close to rival RIM, while market leader Nokia continues its slow decline according to the latest data from market research firm Gartner." Presumably RIM's unit growth flattered by their 2-for-1 offers? - winckel from Bookmarklet

In this B/W photo released by Cambridge University Gareth Jones is seen at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a student in the late 1920s and where the diaries are now going on display for the first time. The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine are to go on display on Friday Nov. 13 2009. - winckel from Bookmarklet

"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cannot be removed from his post because his legitimacy comes from God, an official close to Iran's most powerful figure was reported Friday as saying." So, if I've understood this correctly, the guy says "God told me to do this so to challenge me is to challenge God".....hmmmm, let me think, what's wrong with this argument? - winckel from Bookmarklet

It means that elections have been a farce for a long time now, but we already knew that, really. - Stephan Planken

"The extraordinary intervention in a fierce dispute between David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and the high court has come from Simon Manley, the FCO's director of defence and strategic threats. In an unprecedented assault on the judiciary, he claims that demands by two judges that the CIA material should be disclosed have already harmed Britain's intelligence and diplomatic relations with the US. In a statement, Manley says the judges have "served to undermine confidence within the US in the UK's ability to protect the confidentiality of diplomatic exchanges and will inevitably have a negative impact on the candour of their exchanges with UK officials"." - winckel from Bookmarklet

This government has run its corrupt distasteful course - winckel

"The Wine Society owes its existence to the Great Exhibitions of the mid-19th century. For the last of these, in 1874, various countries sent large quantities of wine in cask to be stored in the cellars of the Royal Albert Hall where, to quote from an early history: ‘it entirely escaped notice from the visitors’. Portuguese growers, who had taken great efforts to present their wines, appealed for help. At the behest of the British Government of the day, Major-General Henry Scott, one of the architects of the Albert Hall, along with R. Brudenell Carter, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon (who subsequently sat on the Committee for 44 years and who wrote the early history referred to above) and George Scrivenor, a senior official of the Board of Customs, held a series of lunches to publicise the wines. Many of their guests expressed an interest in purchasing wine, and General Scott proposed the setting up of ‘a co-operative company’ to buy good quality wines on a regular basis to sell to members." - winckel from Bookmarklet

"Rock star Sting has called the X Factor "televised karaoke" and said judges like Simon Cowell have "no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion"" - winckel from Bookmarklet