Smartphone app hails taxis from comfort of home

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Kabbee, a free iPhone app which was launched last week, has already signed up 4,000 licensed minicabs in the London area.
Kabbee is a free iPhone appAfter registering with the service and linking their account to their credit card, users simply need to enter their destination to instantly obtain a range of quotes along with estimated waiting times. The smartphone's in-built technology tells taxi firms precisely where the fare is, and the driver offering the best quote is immediately dispatched to pick them up. Passengers can even use their iPhone to pay for their journey via their bank account if they find themselves short of change. Similar versions for Android and BleckBerry phones are planned. Another free service, LDNtaxiApp, which also launched on the iPhone this summer, simply requires users to enter their destination to summon a taxi to them.
Their details are sent out to any registered driver within a mile radius, and the first to respond picks up the fare. The user can even watch the progress of their taxi as it makes its way to them via an interactive map.
Other apps offer similar services for members of car clubs and car sharing schemes.
Chas Ball, chief executive of the CarPlus charity, which supports such groups, said: "There is a generation that no longer thinks the car is a must-have but the iPhone is a must-have ... car clubs lend themselves to booking on the fly."
Car clubs are currently operating in cities across the country, with the number of members expected to reach 200,000 over the next year.
Using apps enables members to book cars while on the move by detecting the nearest free car to the member, reserving it and even unlocking it for them automatically on arrival.

Boston Pops Gets Last Minute Replacement Singer

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The Boston Pops 4th of July celebration, which regularly draws half a million people, had to scramble to find a replacement singer when Lionel Richie dropped out last Thursday. Country Singer Martina McBride will perform in his place during the concert and fireworks spectacular.
Richie strained a vocal cord and was told by his doctors that he shouldn't perform.
"It was such an honor being asked to celebrate the Fourth of July with this legendary orchestra, and I hope to perform with them in the future," Richie said in a statement released by the Boston Pops.
McBride agreed to fill in at the last minute after a few hours notice.
Richie's departure left the Pops scrambling not just to find somebody who could perform, but also coming up with the music for the orchestra to play during the performance, called "charts."
"Basically, I got a phone call about this at, oh, midnight on Thursday," said Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, as reported by The Boston Globe. "So the first question was, who are we going to get to do the charts, and can they turn them around in 48 hours? Fortunately, we have people who can do that."
McBride will perform three songs, two of her own, and "America The Beautiful." McBride's first and only chance to rehearse the songs with the full orchestra came on July 3, during the public rehearsal that the Pops holds, which draws 75,000 people. "I was just glad I did not have plans on the Fourth of July this year," said McBride. "I guess everything happens for a reason." The concert also has a rendition of the "1812 Overture" by Tchaikowsky featuring actual church bells and cannons during the climax of the piece. This year, the cannons will be "played" by the 101st Field Artillery Regiment of the US Army, which returned this year from its deployment in Kabul, Afghanistan.McBride will perform three songs, two of her own, and "America The Beautiful." McBride's first and only chance to rehearse the songs with the full orchestra came on July 3, during the public rehearsal that the Pops holds, which draws 75,000 people. "I was just glad I did not have plans on the Fourth of July this year," said McBride. "I guess everything happens for a reason."
The concert also has a rendition of the "1812 Overture" by Tchaikowsky featuring actual church bells and cannons during the climax of the piece. This year, the cannons will be "played" by the 101st Field Artillery Regiment of the US Army, which returned this year from its deployment in Kabul, Afghanistan

Facebook's awesome product announcement 'could be video chat'

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Facebook’s product announcement happening today could be the launch of the highly-anticipated video chat feature.
Several technology websites have been making the prediction that a Skype-style service will finally launch on Facebooklater today.
Pundits are divided at to whether Facebook has indeed partnered with Skype, which has recently been acquire by Microsoft, or built its own product in-house. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief teased journalists on a tour of the company’s Seattle office, that the site’s engineers were going to launch “something awesome" this week. He declined to give more details of the coming release but speculation has been mounting in technology circles for the last few days. The other suggestions doing the rounds are that Facebook's long-awaited app for Apple's iPad could be finally ready to launch or that the social network will unveil a dedicated photo-sharing app for smartphones. The 40-strong Facebook Seattle office is the only offshoot away from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters where any engineering or product development for the site happens. The Seattle satellite team have been largely responsible for the company’s mobile site.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment.
A live stream of the one hour-long launch can be watched hereand will begin at 6pm UK time from Facebook’s HQ.
So far more than 70,000 Facebook users have signed up to view the feed

Apple 'orders 15m iPhone 5s for September'

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iPhone 5 rumours have been intensifying for weeks now and, like this latest one, most seem to suggest an Apple launch some time in the next couple of months.
DigiTimes, which is the main source of most of the recent reports, says that Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron Technology has just taken an order for 15 million iPhone 5s, to begin shipping in September. It attributes the story to “sources from upstream component makers”. The report also says that the iPhone 5 “does not have any major update from iPhone 4”. If that’s correct it would suggest that the new phone will be simply a slightly improved iPhone 4, just as the 3GS was a slight improvement on the iPhone 3G, and not a completely overhauled device. Based on the rumours so far, it’s expected that the new iPhone will contain the same A5 processor that is in the iPad 2 and a better camera, possibly an 8-megapixel sensor rather than the 5-megapixels of the iPhone 4. The new handset will apparently look similar to the iPhone 4. However, some rumours have suggested that Apple will release two iPhone models this year, including a cheaper version of the handset. Apple does not comment on rumours and is yet to confirm any events for August or September, though it typically holds an iPod-related event every September.

Charlie Sheen signs on for 'Comedy Central Roast'

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In what could be the worst idea in a history of bad ideas, Charlie Sheen has signed up for a Comedy Central Roast and told the network absolutely nothing is off limits.

For the kind of skewering that's more recently been saved for the likes of Donald Trump, Joan Rivers and David Hasselhoff, Charlie Sheen is officially set to be the next roastee in a new special, the network announced Tuesday.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen," taping on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Los Angeles, will feature the nation's top comedians taking aim at the major headline-making star.
"You could say I've been providing kindling for this Roast for a while," said Charlie Sheen. "It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic."
"Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this Roast... which scares even us," said Comedy Central original programming head Kent Alterman.
The only thing scarier would have been if they tried to pass off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" as a stand-up comedy special.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" will air on Monday, Sept. 19, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

Video For Lady Gaga Bald Head During Hair Performance

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An American pop singer-songwriter, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is better known by her stage name ‘Lady Gaga’, and she is also known for her colorful wigs collection. Recently she went hairless on Britain's "The Paul O'Grady Show" performance.

Lady Gaga Bald Head During Hair Performance

Her European promo continued on the weekend with an appearance on the Paul O’Grady show. Her performance was typically outrageous. Here you can see Gaga's bare new look in this show of  June 2011.

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Facebook's New Features 2011 - Facebook Launch New Features

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Facebook as we all know is a social networking site. The founder of a facebook is MARK ZUCKER BERG. Now a day’s facebook is a very popular site in all people specially youngsters.  Facebook has over 500 million users all around the world. This says’ that facebook has large number of user base who take its site advantage.

Facebook's New Features 2011

Through Facebook we can interact with any people in this world. We can make friends and chat with them; we can also play games, video, music, chatting with friends. We can tag our photo in it and crate our own album also. In it also create our own personal profile also. We have account setting in it we can protect our personal data.

New Features of Facebook
Facebook founder mark zuckerberg says’ company is planning to “launch something extraordinary”. But he doesn’t say anything about it in detail he only says that we launch something awesome. However, it is being speculated that the new feature to be launched could be in the mobile or tablet space. A report in the Los Angeles Times said there are various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

Facebook Director of Engineering, Mr. Andrew Bosworth, as saying that “we are working in something that we don’t have before so nearly we launch our new feature”.  So basically we can say that Facebook plan is for new mobile products, specially focus on Ipad. Face book is reportedly working on an HTML 5-based Web app for the iPad. When this web app design it can break the strong one distribution of apple app.

The project has been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, which is Facebook’s only major engineering hub outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters another features of Facebook is in new photo sharing service iphone. In it facebook add a feature of color and instagram. It's not clear if the rumored new photo-sharing feature would be built into Facebook's current iPhone app or function as a stand-alone app.

There is one more social networking site launch by Google that is Google+. It is a big competitor of facebook. They also provide same features which facebook provide. But as we seen before Facebook has over500 million users all around the world. So to reach at that level the way of Google+ is too difficult. Facebook is also launch new features nearly as per Ceo of Company MARK ZUCKERBERG. So Facebook also giving tough completion to Google+. Facebook is a very popular site in the world. So it is too hard to beat them in a social network.

Top tablets: reviews

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A quick look at each of the top eight tablets currently available, in no particular order
 Apple iPad 2
Score: 4.5 /5Pre-eminent and still the best tablet currently on the market, the iPad 2 is light, slim and a delight to use. But it’s not just the fact that you can read books, check your emails, browse the webs or watch videos that mean Apple, for now, own this market: the iPad has spawned a library of Apps that is continuing to grow rapidly and that has changed how many consumers think of media. That means that there are countless, excellent games as well as apps that reinvent magazines and serve purposes that were impossible on other devices. Even cab drivers collecting passengers at airports are using iPads for the name of the person they’re picking up. Operating System: Apple iOS 4
Dimensions (WxDxH): 18.6 cm x 0.9 cm x 24.1 cm
Weight: 601 g
Display: 9.7" IPS TFT - LED backlight - 1024 x 768 ( 132 ppi ) - Multi-Touch
Processor: Apple A5 1 GHz ( Dual-Core )
Memory: 16 GB integrated
Digital Camera: Rear + VGA front
HD Video Recording: 720p

Asus Transformer
Score: 4/5
Asus’s Transformer is a departure for tablets: it combines an excellent Google Android tablet with a fully-fledged keyboard. The result is both a decent netbook and tablet that does everything an Android tablet currently can. That means web browsing, movies, a range of apps and scores of other uses are all possible, but so too is the longer-form work that demands a keyboard.
The Tranformer may not be the lightest or the most elegant of the forthcoming Android tablets, but it is certainly the first to really tackle the problems of typing on a touchscreen. An added bonus is that they keyboard effectively acts as a battery pack for the tablet and so can extend life to up to 16 hours.
Specifications:
Operating System: Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Platform
Display: 10.1-inch WSVGA IPS capacitive multi touch display
Chipset: NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 Mobile Processor
Memory: 1GB DDR2
Storage: 16GB eMMC Flash
Camera: 1.2 megapixel (Front); 5.0 Megapixel (Rear)
Dimensions: 10.67” x 6.89” x 0.47” –inches (W x D x H)
Weight: 1.5lbs

BlackBerry PlayBook
Score: 3/5
At 7”, the PlayBook is more portable than the best rival tablets, all of which are currently around 10”. It is as well built as the iPad or the Samsung Galaxy Tab and its screen makes for a bright, sharp viewing experience whether you’re playing games or watching movies. So it looks and feels like a really professional-grade device. You could justify paying £399 for it.
As has been much reported, the PlayBook also lacks the thing for which makers Research in Motion are so famed: email. If you tether your phone to your BlackBerry handset, software called Bridge means your email and calendar appear properly. Without a handset, you are left simply to access email via the web, as you could on any other device.
The logic behind this is that it’s more secure to keep your email on just one device, and simply use the PlayBook as a larger screen. This may be the way to the heart of a corporate IT manager, but users deserve better. Confronted with a security problem, BlackBerry have bodged a workaround rather than provided a solution. That's a real pity, because the operating software itself is slick, whether its editing documents or playing music.
When it comes to apps, the secret to the iPad’s success, there simply aren’t enough for the PlayBook. Yet.
Critics, however, would be foolish to write off the PlayBook. Corporate apps, from RBS to many others, are already impressive because the company has capitalised on rich relationships in those sort of markets. Accessory makers, too, are excited by the PlayBook because its users are likely to be well-heeled. Proper email is coming soon as well. RIM are playing a longer game here.
Specifications:
Operating System: BlackBerry Tablet OS
Dimensions (WxDxH): 19.4 cm x 1 cm x 13 cm
Weight: 425 g
Display: 7" TFT - 1024 x 600 - Multi-Touch
Processor: 1 GHz ( Dual-Core )
RAM: 1 GB
Memory: 16 GB integrated
Wireless: 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1
Digital Camera: 5 Mp rear + 3 Mp front; 1080p video record

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
Score: 4.5 /5
The Galaxy Tab 2 is the only Android tablet to rival the iPad 2 for style. It’s light, slim, powerful and elegant. At 10.1”, the screen is big enough while the surprisingly light weight means it’s genuinely portable too. The only real downside is that the Tab 2 isn’t out yet. Using one extensively before release, however, indicates that at launch it will only be the availability of apps and the ease of use that differentiates the Tab 2 from the iPad.
That’s a double-edged compliment, however: the Tab 2 has a single dock port, rather than any bells and whistles that might let you connect HDMI cables etc. In due course, however, wireless technologies may render that complaint irrelevant.
Specifications:
OS: Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
Display: 10.1” WXGA 1280x800
Processor: 1GHz Dual Core application processor
Camera: Rear: 3.0mp with LED Flash; front : 2.0mp
Playback : 1080p Full HD Video @ 30fps
Recording : 720p HD Video
Memory: 16G / 32G / 64G, microSD (up to 32GB)
Size: 256.6 x 172.9 x 8.6 mm, 595g

Motorola Xoom
Score: 4/5
Motorola’s Xoom, in both the US and the UK, was the first tablet to come to the market using Google’s Android operating system. It remains an impressive device: a decent 10” screen, a powerful processor and the real faults at launch were simply down to the lack of apps for Honeycomb, the codename for the tablet version of Android.
Although critics suggested that the placing of the on button on the back, for instance, was a design flaw, in fact it was simply different from the iPad: the Xoom remains a viable alternative because most users of tablets will be focused on web browsing, email and ereading. With that in mind, it’s as good an Android tablet as is currently available in the UK.
Specifications:
Android Platform: Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
Camera: front-facing 2MP webcam; rear 5MP Camera with LED flash, digital zoom; HD recording; playback in 720p HD
Screen: 10.1-inch
1280 x 800 pixel resolution, at 150p per inch
Processor: dual-core processor
Memory: 1GB
Size: 9.8 inches, 6.6 inches, 0.5 inches (LWH)
Weight: 1.61 pounds

HP TouchPad
Score: 3/5
Wireless charging. Audio from Dr Dre. An operating system unlike that made by either Apple or Google. HP’s new tablet, the TouchPad, ought to have a lot going for it. It’s even got a magazine to tell you all about the best apps to buy.
It feels solid, albeit slightly plasticky in the hand. At 740g, it’s slightly heavier than an Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab, although perfectly portable enough.
Perhaps it would be perfectly forgivable if WebOS, the operating system that HP bought from Palm, lived up to the hype. And indeed there is a lot to like. In many ways the TouchPad rewrites – reinscribes? – the tablet handbook. Gone is the homescreen with icons and widgets indicating programmes or services. Instead, there’s a desktop that is basically just a staging post each of the apps the TouchPad runs. So press the home button and each ‘card’ is arrayed in a line. Swipe up to close or tap to select. If you’re writing an email message, the message gets a new ‘card’ so you can also refer back to your inbox. This is progress, compared to other tablets.
But is it enough when the email app itself takes five seconds or so to grind into action every time you fire it up? When other apps take more like 10 seconds? This doesn’t sound like long, but other tablets don’t keep you hanging around. And is it enough when, inexplicably, the TouchPad decided to duplicate my inbox nine times, offering a range of different unread message counts? These may all be teething troubles. When the TouchPad works, it does work very well.
Specifications:
Screen: 9.7” (1024x768) Touch Screen Display
Weight: 740g, 14 mm thick
Operating system: HP webOS 3.0
Processor: Dual Core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 32GB Storage
Camera: 1.3 MP Front-facing Camera – video chatting capability

Acer Iconia Tab
Score: 4/5
Available in both 7” and 10” versions, the Acer Iconia is a reasonably priced (from £299) device that surpasses expectations. It has more ports and consequently can do more than most of its counterparts, and it’s also nicely put together. A Windows version is also available, making it plain that tablets really need to have proper tablet interfaces such as Honeycomb to be effective.
What the Iconia really reveals, however, is how different a 7” and a 10” tablet is: one device feels like there’s enough space for browsing the web and watching films in relative luxury. The other, however, is far better suited for portability. That means consumers should decide what’s most important to them and buy accordingly, rather than simply going for the 7” because it’s cheaper.
Specifications:
Dimensions:260 (L) x 177 (W) x 13,3 (H)
Weight:700g
Processor:nVidia Tegra 250 Dual cortex A9; 1GHz
OS:Android v3.0 Honeycomb
Memory: 1GB DDR2 RAM (1x1GB)
Screen:10.1" WXGA LED
Resolution:1280 x 800
Hard Drive:eMMC 32GB
Webcam:Front 2.0 MP & Back 5.0 MP with flash

HTC Flyer
Score: 3.5 /5
The HTC Flyer is one of a very few tablets that is distinctly different: featuring a pen, it might feel like this is a technological instalment of Back to the Future, but in fact the ‘stylus’ is used to write on the 7” device and take handwritten notes in a way that has genuinely not been easy before. Integration with Evernote and other applications means that it could replace a notepad and also record audio too.
Aside from the pen, the Flyer also offers a version of HTC Sense, the company’s own interface, that runs over an older version of Android. The result is a tablet that’s genuinely very different from the others, although not necessarily a rival to larger models.
Specifications:
Operating system: Android 2.3 with HTC Sense
Screen: 7 inch touch-sensitive screen with 1024 X 600 resolution
Weight: 420 grams (14.82 ounces) with battery
Processor: 1.5 GHz
Camera: 5 megapixel color camera with auto focus; 1.3 megapixel front camera
Internal storage: 32 GB
RAM: 1 GB

Nancy Grace on Casey Anthony

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According to the Huffington Post, Nancy Grace of the Nancy Grace Show on CNN is personally appalled at the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial.
It seems to me that an appropriate response to a headline like this is profound indifference. Who cares what Nancy Grace thinks about the Casey Anthony case?
Of course, lots of people do care. I know because when I was combing through the day's news items, “nancy grace casey anthony” was the number one trending search on Google this morning.
Before we get into the nuts and bolts of Nancy Grace’s opinions, however, and why they matter to people, let’s run through the Cliff’s Notes of the Casey Anthony trial--just in case you haven’t been following it.
Anthony, 25, was accused of knocking out her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, with chloroform, suffocating her with duct tape, stashing her in the trunk of her car, then dumping her in the woods.
The defense claimed that Casey Anthony, who lied about several details regarding the disappearance of Caylee, came from an abusive family and that her father covered up Caylee’s accidental drowning in the family pool by dumping her body in the woods.
On Tuesday Casey Anthony was found not guilty of all charges except lying to the police.
Nothing about this case is clear. There are no good guys. The grandparents are clearly as bent and narcissistic as their female offspring. All of them do their best impersonation of human beings, but end up looking little better than mirror-gazing monkeys miming outrage and remorse.
Something is clearly missing in that family.
In a just universe Casey Anthony would have been genetically incapable of reproduction.
If conscience was truly universal, or even better, God-given, then she and her family would never sleep peacefully again.
Unfortunately, it’s not a just universe, and nothing is God-given save what we give God.
Enter Nancy Grace.
Pundits like Ms. Grace are designed to stand in for your average Jane Q. Mom. Everything about Ms. Grace, from her sensible post 40s hairdo to her judgmental but vaguely righteous gaze, shows she is a surrogate for the modern day white middle-class mother.
Of course, in order for her to be a proper representation of the ideal American mom, she has to be imbued with the right amount of institutional authority. No problem, not only is Ms. Grace a snap judge of character mixed with a dollop of moral outrage, she is a bona fide lawyer.
Mother knows best plays best with a J.D. following your name.
There’s no particular problem with this sort of substitution, I suppose, but it’s important to realize its limitations.
Our justice system is finely tuned to avoid snap judgments and unjust prosecutions. It fails at that sometimes, and sometimes it swings too far in the other direction, as it may have done in this case.
I want someone to pay for Caylee Anthony’s heinous murder too. But we have juries to protect against emotional judgments. Neither mothers, fathers or victims get to decide who is guilty. If they did, a lot more innocent people would fall at the end of a rope.
Bad judgments just come with the territory.
What do you think of the Caylee Anthony verdict? Does Nancy Grace have a right to be angry?Tell us in the comments.

Facebook's awesome product announcement 'could be video chat'

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Facebook’s product announcement happening today could be the launch of the highly-anticipated video chat feature.
Several technology websites have been making the prediction that a Skype-style service will finally launch on Facebooklater today.
Pundits are divided at to whether Facebook has indeed partnered with Skype, which has recently been acquire by Microsoft, or built its own product in-house. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief teased journalists on a tour of the company’s Seattle office, that the site’s engineers were going to launch “something awesome" this week. He declined to give more details of the coming release but speculation has been mounting in technology circles for the last few days. The other suggestions doing the rounds are that Facebook's long-awaited app for Apple's iPad could be finally ready to launch or that the social network will unveil a dedicated photo-sharing app for smartphones. The 40-strong Facebook Seattle office is the only offshoot away from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters where any engineering or product development for the site happens. The Seattle satellite team have been largely responsible for the company’s mobile site.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment.
A live stream of the one hour-long launch can be watched hereand will begin at 6pm UK time from Facebook’s HQ.
So far more than 70,000 Facebook users have signed up to view the feed

Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella Biography and Crowning Video

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Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella Biography and Crowning Video
Miss USA 2011 winner Alyssa Campanella’s biography is very interesting and inspiring. Alyssa was born on March 21, 1990 at Manalapan, New Jersey.

21 year old Alyssa is a model and her height is 5’8.5”. Blond hair owner Miss USA 2011 has green color eyes. Her passions are hockey and space exploration. She is famous for winning the title of Miss New Jersey Teen USA 2007 which was held in Pasadena, California on August 24, 2007.

Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella

Alyssa Campanella was two times completed in the Miss New Jersey USA pageant. She was placing first runner up in 2008 and in 2009 she placing in the top 15. She was completed and won the title of Miss California USA on November 21, 2010.

She was become the first Miss Teen USA state delegate to appear California at Miss USA after Shauna Gambill in 1998. And now she won the Miss USA title in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alyssa will go on to competition in Miss Universe 2011 in September 2011. Watch the last winning question and crowning moment video for Miss USA 2011.

RIM BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 Review and Video

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RIM BlackBerry Bold 9900 captured on YouTube video and delivers video review just over a minute. Research in Motion will be released on August 2011. BlackBerry Bold 9900 has a 2.8 inch touch screen, QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera, 720p video, 1.2GHz single core processor, WiFi, NFC, aGPS and BalckBerry OS7.

RIM BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900

Advantages of this smartphone are that 5MP camera is the most impressive feature, standard 1230 mAh battery is also plus point and fast processing speed-1.2 GHz gives speed and reliability. When there are no major problem and disadvantages in this cell.

RIM said in its Web site, "Reach out and touch your information like never before, swiping, pinching and zooming with fluid Liquid Graphics on a touch screen, Or type with ease using the iconic BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard."

Special features of this smartphone are as under:

QWERTY Keyboard
Optical Trackpad
Voice memo & Dial
Audio, Video Recorder & Playback
MP3, MP4 Player
Speaker Phone
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
BlackBerry maps
Touch-sensitive controls
Digital Compass
Organizer
NFC support
PDF Viewer
Accelerometer sensor for User Interface auto-rotate
Document Editor
MP3 Ring tones, Vibration
3.5mm Headphone Jack
Downloadable Games
Size – 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm
Weight – 130 grams
Body Colors – Black
Connectivity Options – Bluetooth v2.1, Micro USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS
Data Modes – 3G, GPRS, EDGE, HTML Internet Browsing.

Let’s watch the video review of RIM BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 smartphone.

Nokia N9 – Price, Features and Video Review

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Nokia announced the first MeeGo based smartphone named Nokia N9, in Singapore on June 21, 2011. The N9 is the world's first pure touchscreen phone. This Phone has no front-facing buttons and the user interface is handled with touches and swipes.

Nokia N9 has in favor of Microsoft’s windows Phone operating system. Phone is a stylized, minimalistic device with a unibody design and a pretty 3.9-inch curved display.

Nokia N9

Phone has three different home screen views, designed to focus on apps, notifications, and switching between activities. But phone has no home key and this is a most interesting feature, when we are in application, swiping from the edge of the display will pull up home screen.

The Phone will be available in three colors—black, cyan, and magenta with 16GB and 64GB storage. Market analysts inference that Nokia N9 16 GB version may pricing at approx $660 and in India at Rs.30K, and Nokia N9 64GB version may pricing at approx $749 and in India at Rs.35K. This phone will be hit shelves on 2011 end.

The Nokia N9 features are as under:
-3.9 inch AMOLED screen
-Polycarbonate body
-NFC connectivity
-8-megapixel autofocus camera
-Dolby Digital Plus sound

Let’s watch review video about Nokia N9 smartphone here.

I Wanna Go - Official Music Video/Review/Lyrics

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The official music video ‘I Wanna Go’ by Britney Spears from her seventh studio album ‘Femme Fatale’ released on June 22, 2011 on MTV and Vevo. The song is Hi-NRG dance pop with whistled melody.

The song’s digital version topped the US Billboard Hot 100, South Korean International chart and Canadian Hot 100. The song has received mixed review, some praised the track and some called it not good as Briteny’s other hit songs.

‘I Wanna Go’ by Britney Spears

Shellback, Max Martin and Savan Kotecha was writer of the song ‘I Wanna Go’ while Martin and Shelback were produced it. The music video was directed by Chris Marrs Pilier and Los Angeles, California.

In this new song Spears sings about losing inhibitions. ‘The New York Times’ said that Britney Spears sings about -the scrum that surrounds her- in ‘Lately people got me all tied up / There's a countdown waiting for me to erupt’.

Enjoy official music video of Britney Spears latest song ‘I Wanna Go’.

Facebook's New Features 2011 - Facebook Launch New Features

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Facebook as we all know is a social networking site. The founder of a facebook is MARK ZUCKER BERG. Now a day’s facebook is a very popular site in all people specially youngsters.  Facebook has over 500 million users all around the world. This says’ that facebook has large number of user base who take its site advantage.

Facebook's New Features 2011

Through Facebook we can interact with any people in this world. We can make friends and chat with them; we can also play games, video, music, chatting with friends. We can tag our photo in it and crate our own album also. In it also create our own personal profile also. We have account setting in it we can protect our personal data.

New Features of Facebook
Facebook founder mark zuckerberg says’ company is planning to “launch something extraordinary”. But he doesn’t say anything about it in detail he only says that we launch something awesome. However, it is being speculated that the new feature to be launched could be in the mobile or tablet space. A report in the Los Angeles Times said there are various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

Facebook Director of Engineering, Mr. Andrew Bosworth, as saying that “we are working in something that we don’t have before so nearly we launch our new feature”.  So basically we can say that Facebook plan is for new mobile products, specially focus on Ipad. Face book is reportedly working on an HTML 5-based Web app for the iPad. When this web app design it can break the strong one distribution of apple app.

The project has been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, which is Facebook’s only major engineering hub outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters another features of Facebook is in new photo sharing service iphone. In it facebook add a feature of color and instagram. It's not clear if the rumored new photo-sharing feature would be built into Facebook's current iPhone app or function as a stand-alone app.

There is one more social networking site launch by Google that is Google+. It is a big competitor of facebook. They also provide same features which facebook provide. But as we seen before Facebook has over500 million users all around the world. So to reach at that level the way of Google+ is too difficult. Facebook is also launch new features nearly as per Ceo of Company MARK ZUCKERBERG. So Facebook also giving tough completion to Google+. Facebook is a very popular site in the world. So it is too hard to beat them in a social network.

Facebook's awesome product announcement 'could be video chat'

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Facebook’s product announcement happening today could be the launch of the highly-anticipated video chat feature.
Several technology websites have been making the prediction that a Skype-style service will finally launch on Facebooklater today.
Pundits are divided at to whether Facebook has indeed partnered with Skype, which has recently been acquire by Microsoft, or built its own product in-house. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief teased journalists on a tour of the company’s Seattle office, that the site’s engineers were going to launch “something awesome" this week. He declined to give more details of the coming release but speculation has been mounting in technology circles for the last few days. The other suggestions doing the rounds are that Facebook's long-awaited app for Apple's iPad could be finally ready to launch or that the social network will unveil a dedicated photo-sharing app for smartphones. The 40-strong Facebook Seattle office is the only offshoot away from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters where any engineering or product development for the site happens. The Seattle satellite team have been largely responsible for the company’s mobile site.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment.
A live stream of the one hour-long launch can be watched hereand will begin at 6pm UK time from Facebook’s HQ.
So far more than 70,000 Facebook users have signed up to view the feed

Apple 'orders 15m iPhone 5s for September'

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iPhone 5 rumours have been intensifying for weeks now and, like this latest one, most seem to suggest an Apple launch some time in the next couple of months.
DigiTimes, which is the main source of most of the recent reports, says that Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron Technology has just taken an order for 15 million iPhone 5s, to begin shipping in September. It attributes the story to “sources from upstream component makers”. The report also says that the iPhone 5 “does not have any major update from iPhone 4”. If that’s correct it would suggest that the new phone will be simply a slightly improved iPhone 4, just as the 3GS was a slight improvement on the iPhone 3G, and not a completely overhauled device. Based on the rumours so far, it’s expected that the new iPhone will contain the same A5 processor that is in the iPad 2 and a better camera, possibly an 8-megapixel sensor rather than the 5-megapixels of the iPhone 4. The new handset will apparently look similar to the iPhone 4. However, some rumours have suggested that Apple will release two iPhone models this year, including a cheaper version of the handset. Apple does not comment on rumours and is yet to confirm any events for August or September, though it typically holds an iPod-related event every September.

No escape from Brett Favre comeback talk

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The first time we saw today’s talk that Brett Favre wants to play in 2011, our first instinct was to ignore it.
By about the tenth time we saw it, we figured we at least had to mention it. So here goes.
On an NFL.com live chat today, Gil Brandt wrote that he thinks Favre would have an interest in playing in the NFL this season, but that there probably isn’t a team out there that shares Favre’s interest.
“I do think Favre would be interested in talking to a team about returning,” Brandt wrote. “But I don’t see a team out there right now that would bring him back as a starter.”
Everyone is sick of Favre comeback chatter, and everyone has been sick of Favre comeback chatter since about three Favre comebacks ago. But that doesn’t mean the chatter is going away, at least not until the regular season starts without a Favre comeback.
Which is one more reason to hope the regular season starts on time.

Jose Baez, Casey Anthony’s lawyer: “Luckiest man in America”

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Jose Baez, a lawyer who came out of no where, was snickered at, laughed at, smeared, attacked and rebuked by the judge. In the end, the 42-year-old attorney who grew up in South Florida, came out on top.
A former bikini salesman, high school dropout and deadbeat dad who barely made it into the Florida bar pulled off what some are calling one of the most stunning court victories in history.
Jose Angel Baez, a 42-year-old lawyer who grew up in the Bronx and South Florida, had been practicing law for only three years when Casey Anthony, 25, hired him to defend her against felony murder charges.
Anthony, who professed her innocence, found out about Baez from an inmate while in jail awaiting trial on charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee and dumped her body in the woods near her Orlando home.
At the time, Anthony’s father was skeptical, saying in a taped jail interview that “I hope he’s not making a reputation for himself.’’
On Tuesday, that’s exactly what Baez did.
His client was found not guilty on three of the major felony charges against her - first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter on a child.
Day in and day out, Anthony had been all but convicted on national TV. On Tuesday, jurors deliberated less than 11 hours.
When the verdict was announced, a gasp was heard in the Orlando courtroom of Circuit Judge Belvin Perry and Baez went from seemingly bumbling rookie to top of the legal heap. He smiled after the verdict and hugged his sobbing client hard.
“He is the luckiest man in America,’’ said Robert Jarvis, a lawyer and law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Davie. He won, Jarvis said, not because of a brilliant legal mind, but because the prosecution couldn’t prove its case, which was solely circumstantial.
The internet was already buzzing Tuesday about Baez’s superstardom: perhaps getting his own national show, a book deal and maybe even a movie. People may hate him, or love him, but they will likely watch him, experts say.
“America is very schizophrenic. They say they hate pit bull lawyers, but when they want to hire a lawyer, they hire a pit bull lawyer,’’ Jarvis said.
Baez, who grew up in the Bronx, moved to South Florida and eventually earned his GED after dropping out of Homestead High School, was uncharacteristically subdued after the verdict was announced just before 2:30 p.m.
“This case has brought on new challenges of all of us,’’ he said. “Challenges in the criminal justice system, challenges in the media, and I think we should all take this as an opportunity to learn and to realize that you cannot convict someone until they’ve had their day in court.”
Jarvis, who has followed the case closely, said Baez threw out so many red herrings on how Caylee died that jurors’ heads were probably spinning. He dropped bombshell after bombshell, telling jurors that Caylee had drowned and that Casey Anthony had been sexually abused by her father. He referred to his own client in his closing statement as a “slut,’’ a big no-no, Jarvis said.
“He worked very hard to lose this case,’’ said Jarvis. “But, sometimes you snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. And, in this case, the victory was handed to him from the prosecution.”
Those who have worked with Baez say he worked very hard on the case and proved wrong those who expected him to fail.
Terry Lenamon, a former member of Anthony’s defense team, said Baez could be an example of what lawyers call the “Columbo factor,’’ referring to the popular 1970s crime series featuring Peter Falk as a naïve, clumsy detective who was underestimated by colleagues and others because of his irritating questions and shaggy demeanor. In the end, however, he always got the bad guy.
Lenamon said that while he questioned Baez’s strategy and motives at times, the attorney deserves credit for the acquittal.
“The guy is very tenacious; he stuck to his guns and he won,’’ Lenamon said.
Before Anthony hired him, few people had ever heard of Baez.
Born in Puerto Rico in 1969, Baez was raised by a single mother who moved to South Florida. After dropping out of Homestead High, according to the Orlando Sentinel, he married at 17, became a father, earned a GED diploma and joined the Navy in 1986. The newspaper said he was assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Norfolk, Va., where he trained as an intelligence analyst with what he called “Cosmic top Secret” security clearance.
After leaving the Navy, he attended Miami-Dade Community College, graduated from Florida State University and earned his law degree from St. Thomas’ University School of Law in 1997. He then joined the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, where he worked as a paralegal for a short time, while struggling to be accepted into the Florida bar.
Early in the case, the Orlando Sentinel detailed Baez’s inability to enter the bar because of numerous “misrepresentations” he made to the Board of Bar Examiners.
Indeed, for the next eight years, the Florida Supreme Court continued to turn him down because of “character” issues, including massive financial problems that bordered on fraud. The Court wrote that Baez showed “a total lack of respect for the legal system,” citing his inability to meet his debts, pay child support and failure to pay his student loans.
In an effort to support himself, he started four companies, two of them bikini businesses, Bon Bon Bikinis and Brazilian Bikinis.com, both of which failed, the newspaper reported. He also created a non-profit group, the Miami Domestic Violence Project, but that faltered as well.
Initially, Baez’s office in Kissimmee was wary of the media.
But as the story grew into nightly gavel-to-gavel reporting, he began to embrace it. He appeared on TV, with Nancy Grace who appeared to have made the Caylee Anthony case her personal crusade. She wasted no time dressing him down on national TV. He handled the pressure well. .
“For every Casey Anthony who is acquitted, there are another 100 people who are just convicted because they hire young lawyers who think the best strategy is to just get on Nancy Grace every night,’’ said Richard Hornsby, former president of the Central Florida Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
Grace, who snidely referred to Anthony as “tot mom,’’ was obviously distraught about the verdict. She directed her anger at Baez and the defense after they went across the street from the Orange County courthouse for a celebration.
“As the defense sits by and has their champagne toast after that not guilty verdict, somewhere out there, the devil is dancing tonight,” she said .

Charlie Sheen signs on for 'Comedy Central Roast'

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In what could be the worst idea in a history of bad ideas, Charlie Sheen has signed up for a Comedy Central Roast and told the network absolutely nothing is off limits.

For the kind of skewering that's more recently been saved for the likes of Donald Trump, Joan Rivers and David Hasselhoff, Charlie Sheen is officially set to be the next roastee in a new special, the network announced Tuesday.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen," taping on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Los Angeles, will feature the nation's top comedians taking aim at the major headline-making star.
"You could say I've been providing kindling for this Roast for a while," said Charlie Sheen. "It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic."
"Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this Roast... which scares even us," said Comedy Central original programming head Kent Alterman.
The only thing scarier would have been if they tried to pass off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" as a stand-up comedy special.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" will air on Monday, Sept. 19, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

iPhone app to map and plot Taliban positions

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Captain Jonathan Springer has invested £20,000 in perfecting the system, called Tactical Nav which can be downloaded from iTunes for £3.49.
He says he came up with the idea after two of his comrades were killed in a Taliban rocket strike last year.He perfected the tool, which is also being marketed to walkers in less hostile environments, during a 12-month tour in Afghanistan that ended in May."As a fire support officer, I take into battle a compass, binoculars, a map, a protractor, a GPS device – a secondary GPS device in case one fails –and batteries," he said in an interview after returning home to Indiana, in the US "What this does is, it combines all these components, and throws it into just the one app." The app is one of several smart phone technologies being used in war zones.American soldiers are also testing a translation app for the Android operation system, as militaries around the world weigh up the benefits of issuing smartphones to servicemen.Others help snipers aim their rifles or fly mini drones – sadly not available on iTunes.

Sony plans to redesign PlayStation Network

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Sony is planning a redesign of its online gaming network, the PlayStation Network (PSN), following a hacking attack that brought the network down for nearly a month, according to reports.
The original layout for the PSN and the PlayStation store was heavy in text and had a lot of information on the screen. The new look is more streamlined, with bigger images and more accessible information, according to the report. It will be similar to the streamlined design of Microsoft’s online gaming network, Xbox Live.
Sony’s online network is a critical service that competes with Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service among others. There are also 948 games now available in the PlayStation Network store, as well as 4,000 pieces of add-on content for games.
Sony’s PSN was offline for 24 days in the United States, and longer in other countries. The company took the PSN down after hackers were able to break in and steal sensitive information about more than 100 million customers. Sony laid indirect blame for the PSN’s downtime on hacktivist group Anonymous, which typically rallies a group of loosely connected hackers under moral or political banners.
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners were unable to download new content for their games and play online with other players. The downtime came at a critical time for two major releases — Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat, both of which prominently featured online play and had received a good deal of critical acclaim.
Sony offered PSN users free games and a whole batch of other welcome-back goodies — like free subscriptions to the company’s premium PlayStation Plus version of the PSN — to entice players to continue using the PSN. The packages will probably appease a large number of console and handheld gaming device owners. But a lot of gamers — myself included — already own those Triple-A titles, and find they aren’t really worth as much as they used to be.

Facebook's awesome product announcement 'could be video chat'

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Facebook’s product announcement happening today could be the launch of the highly-anticipated video chat feature.
Several technology websites have been making the prediction that a Skype-style service will finally launch on Facebooklater today.
Pundits are divided at to whether Facebook has indeed partnered with Skype, which has recently been acquire by Microsoft, or built its own product in-house. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief teased journalists on a tour of the company’s Seattle office, that the site’s engineers were going to launch “something awesome" this week. He declined to give more details of the coming release but speculation has been mounting in technology circles for the last few days. The other suggestions doing the rounds are that Facebook's long-awaited app for Apple's iPad could be finally ready to launch or that the social network will unveil a dedicated photo-sharing app for smartphones. The 40-strong Facebook Seattle office is the only offshoot away from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters where any engineering or product development for the site happens. The Seattle satellite team have been largely responsible for the company’s mobile site.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment.
A live stream of the one hour-long launch can be watched hereand will begin at 6pm UK time from Facebook’s HQ.
So far more than 70,000 Facebook users have signed up to view the feed

Sony PlayStation 4 rumours met with scepticism

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DigiTimes reports that Sony plans to start production on a PlayStation 4 at the end of this year, with a planned release some time in 2012. The news site, which has frequently been first to report Apple rumours that turn out to be true, said that Sony would include “body movement-based control like Kinect” in the PS4.
However, video games experts have greeted the report with scepticism.Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry blog wrote: “The basic notion of a true next-gen PlayStation releasing within 18 months is ludicrous. PlayStation 3 has only become profitable for Sony relatively recently and the platform holder will be hoping for a substantial period of time in which to recoup the enormous losses they have incurred this console generation. In the here and now, PlayStation 3 has yet to dip below £199, where we would expect sales volumes to increase significantly. Closing this window of opportunity prematurely doesn't really make sense from any kind of commercial perspective."Eurogamer also noted that no rumours of a PlayStation 4 had surfaced anywhere within the “notoriously indiscreet” video games industry.Games blog 1Up.com repeated comments from Sony CEO Howard Stringer last month, in which he said: “I wouldn't look for any discussion of a next generation PlayStation for quite some time."As well as the desire to keep selling the PS3 for a bit longer, Sony also has the launch of the PlayStation Vita to deal with. The successor to the PlayStation Portable should begin going on sale late this year, with a European release expected around spring 2012. It’s unlikely that Sony would want to divert attention away from that and on to a new home console.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that DigiTimes has been a reliable source of rumours about upcoming products for some time now. As Eurogamer says, “it is difficult to readily discount anything from ‘manufacturing sources’ so quickly”. It’s worth keeping an eye on this particular rumour.

Mac Miller Challenges Drake on Twitter

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If you ask your friends who two of the biggest names in the rap industry are right now, most likely you will get these two names in your answer: Mac Miller and Drake.

Now why are these guys relavent to today and now? Because just a little while ago both were tweeting about Birthright Israel and going to Tel Aviv to perform a show. I am not sure how serious both of them were in regards to going to Tel Aviv to have a "Sound clash" as Drake quoted in his tweet, but they are both open about being Jewish.

Both have been heard speaking about their Judaism. Mac Miller has said that he celebrates the high holidays, had a Bar Mitzvah, and he said in an interview with Shalom Life that Judaism is his culture, and his family.


Drake has also been interviewed about his Judaism and speaks about reading his Torah portion and wearing his kippah during his Bar Mitzvah. Drake also celebrates his Judaism and has talked about how he practices the holidays of Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana.

Recently however, Mac Miller tweeted at Drake saying "@drakkardnoir im the best jewish rapper not you!!! (evil villain laugh)"
Drake then responded by saying "@MacMiller Haaaaaa...s*&@ like this can only be settled in Tel Aviv. Birthright sound clash.
Finally, Mac Miller ended the conversation with "@drakkardnoir i never took advantage of birthright... Tel Aviv here i come"
These two sure did stir up some fun and got people talking if they were really going to be performing in Tel Aviv after there has been talk that each person would like to work with one another.
Drake and Mac Miller at Mega Event T.O.? Hopeful Dreaming.

Apple 'orders 15m iPhone 5s for September'

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iPhone 5 rumours have been intensifying for weeks now and, like this latest one, most seem to suggest an Apple launch some time in the next couple of months.
DigiTimes, which is the main source of most of the recent reports, says that Taiwanese manufacturer Pegatron Technology has just taken an order for 15 million iPhone 5s, to begin shipping in September. It attributes the story to “sources from upstream component makers”. The report also says that the iPhone 5 “does not have any major update from iPhone 4”. If that’s correct it would suggest that the new phone will be simply a slightly improved iPhone 4, just as the 3GS was a slight improvement on the iPhone 3G, and not a completely overhauled device. Based on the rumours so far, it’s expected that the new iPhone will contain the same A5 processor that is in the iPad 2 and a better camera, possibly an 8-megapixel sensor rather than the 5-megapixels of the iPhone 4. The new handset will apparently look similar to the iPhone 4. However, some rumours have suggested that Apple will release two iPhone models this year, including a cheaper version of the handset. Apple does not comment on rumours and is yet to confirm any events for August or September, though it typically holds an iPod-related event every September.

Government still won’t commit to digital radio switchover date

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The Government has refrained from committing to a digital radio switchover date, originally tabled for 2015, saying the decision to move away from FM is still two years away.


Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and the Creative Industries, has refused to commit to a digital radio switchover date, saying that the decision will not be made until 2013.
Talking in London at the annual Intellect technology conference, the event where Vaizey first announced the digital radio switchover action plan a year ago, he said: “We will make the decision [about digital radio switchover] in 2013 whether we will go ahead in 2015 or delay. “I don’t think it [the date] affects the consumer because obviously the consumer is free now to buy digital radios, and also all digital radios have FM capabilities as well.”Digital radio switchover will see all major radio stations transfer away from FM to DAB only. The FM signal will not be switched off but used by smaller stations and community radio groups. Vaizey denied that switchover, which is greatly hampered by the need to have digital radios fitted in all vehicles, both old and new, was behind schedule, but stopped short of committing the Government to pressing ahead with it in 2015, the switchover date set by the Brown administration.We want to get into the position where we can be certain about the date for switchover. We have said that 2013 is the right time to take that decision to give you [the radio industry] time if you [the radio industry] do go for a 2015 switchover to make that happen.”
Currently 26.5 per cent of all radio listening is conducted digitally through mix of the web, DAB and digital TV. However, DAB, which the Government has prioritised as the next generation platform in the Digital Economy Act, only accounts for around 16 per cent of total radio listening.
The Government has said that 50 per cent of all listening must be conducted digitally before switchover can begin to happen.
James Cridland, senior radio consultant and former BBC Radio digital executive, thinks the Government will have to announce a clear update soon.
“I think realistically Ed Vaizey will have to have to come out soon and say that the Government may not hit the 2013 target of getting digital listening to 50 per cent. The question is when does it become politically sensible to admit the industry may fall short of its targets? Digital radio switchover will happen but there is a consensus [among the radio industry] that it’s going to be a real stretch to hit the Government’s deadline.”
Experts and radio industry executives think it could take as long as 20 years for full digital radio switchover to occur.
Owen Watters, the sales and marketing director of Roberts Radio, issued an attack on the feasibility of the Government’s current digital radio switchover timetable earlier this year.
He told The Telegraph: “Digital is no doubt the future of radio and we support this fully and completely, but we still strongly feel, as we have from the beginning, that we should not try to force the issue onto the consumer and that we should look at ways of getting our industry into a ‘digital ready state’, responsibly and honestly, regardless of how long it takes.
“We would do well to remember that following the launch of FM, it took over 20 years to become the mainstream format that we know and love today.”
Vaizey said that there had been some progress is moving towards the digital radio switchover, with 14 per cent of new cars now having a DAB radio installed as standard.
He also praised the BBC and commercial radio sector for having launched Radioplayer, a new web player which offers listeners more than 300 UK radio stations in one place earlier this year. He said that digital only content had been improved by the BBC’s rebranding of Radio 7 to Radio 4 Extra and the addition of new digital only station, such as Absolute 90s.
However, he said although the changes represented good progress, the moves were “not yet transformational”.
A funding agreement has yet to be reached between the broadcasters and the radio multiplex operators as to how DAB can be built out to the current FM coverage standards. Nor has a timetable for the extended coverage build-out been drawn up.
“I think we have achieved a lot against our ambitions for radio but obviously there is still a lot more to do,” Vaizey said.
“We are still on course for a decision on switchover in 2013…Hopefully [by then] every radio sold by major retailers will have digital radio capability and the content proposition will continue to improve.”

Charlie Sheen signs on for 'Comedy Central Roast'

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In what could be the worst idea in a history of bad ideas, Charlie Sheen has signed up for a Comedy Central Roast and told the network absolutely nothing is off limits.

For the kind of skewering that's more recently been saved for the likes of Donald Trump, Joan Rivers and David Hasselhoff, Charlie Sheen is officially set to be the next roastee in a new special, the network announced Tuesday.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen," taping on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Los Angeles, will feature the nation's top comedians taking aim at the major headline-making star.
"You could say I've been providing kindling for this Roast for a while," said Charlie Sheen. "It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic."
"Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this Roast... which scares even us," said Comedy Central original programming head Kent Alterman.
The only thing scarier would have been if they tried to pass off his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" as a stand-up comedy special.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" will air on Monday, Sept. 19, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

HP TouchPad First Commercial with Manny Pacquiao

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HP TouchPad tablet – webOS – released first commercial which features boxer Manny Pacquiao In the 30 seconds HP TouchPad commercial Manny Pacquiao touting the webOS in the ring.

Manny Pacquiao is a congressman in the Philippines and is also the first boxer in the world sports history to win ten world titles. He said in commercial that he targets the strongest points of webOS and handles the slate with ease.

HP TouchPad First Commercial

The HP TouchPad’s first commercial video comes by way of YouTube user. Watch it here.