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SI swimsuit edition puts Roddick’s wife on cover (AP)
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AP - Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.
Google warns Chinese knock-off to stop using logo (Reuters)
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Reuters - Google Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own.
LG GD880 Mini lives up to its name
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Some of LG's product names mean absolutely nothing at all, but in the case of the rumored GD880 Mini, it's actually pretty appropriate -- the phone is being billed as the world's "smallest and slimmest" with a 3.2-inch display. Social networking, web browsing, and email are all major talking points for the device, but it's got some bite to go with the bark, too, thanks to a 5 megapixel cam, WiFi, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and integrated FM radio. Pricing isn't being discussed at this point, but it'll be hitting parts of Europe next month, so start making room in your pocket -- just not too much.LG GD880 Mini lives up to its name originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsJackson hearing mirrors past for family (AP)
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AP - The scene was eerily familiar, Katherine Jackson and her family walking grimly into a courtroom, occupying a special family row, demonstrating their love for their beloved son and sibling, Michael.
Software Bug Causes Toyota Recall of Almost Half a Million New Hybrid Cars [Cars]
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Toyota just announced a recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. Four hundred thousand worth. The reason? A change in "brake feeling" caused by faulty antilock braking software. There is no fix for cars on the road yet.
This problem, unrelated to the sticky gas pedal issue that other drivers complained about. But I'm still wondering what exactly is bothering our Prius-loving friend Woz, who claims he has a faulty cruise control issue that is software related, not mechanical.
Remember that old joke about if cars were as crash prone as computers? Yeah, not funny in 2010. [CNN]
Rapper Lil Wayne to be sentenced in NYC gun case (AP)
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AP - Little more than a week ago, Lil Wayne was reinforcing his place in rap's pantheon with a commanding performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony. His latest album, "Rebirth," was officially released Feb. 2.
Iran’s resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse Web game (Reuters)
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Reuters - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails.
Toyota to recall over 50,000 Prius in Europe (AP)
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AP - Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it is recalling some 50,000 Prius cars in Europe to modify the software for the anti-lock brake system, part of a wider global recall and the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1 [Flash]
Posted by – February 9, 2010
The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile—and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part?
Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some access Adobe needs to make the Flash magic happen. So, sorry everything but the Droid and Nexus One, at least for the moment. The "over the air" thing is also kind of "up in the air" as to what that means: It could come from your carrier, it could come from your phonemaker, or failing all else, it could come from Adobe. Which means, Flash isn't necessarily going to hit your phone at the same time as everybody else's. Depends on your phone. But, they're betting that over half of smartphones—53 percent—will have Flash Player by 2012. Not surprisingly, Adobe says Flash 10.1 is going to be all over some tablets, too, with accelerated performance on Nvidia's Tegra 2, Qualcomm's Snapdragon (like what's in the Nexus One), and Freescale's i.MX515.
Lastly, Adobe would like you to know that this whole Adobe vs. HTML5 thing is silly, since they totally support HTML5, like all web standards. They love them some web standards, they say. But! They would also like you to note that HTML5 standardization is years away, and Flash works right now. And the reason you notice crappier performance on the Mac is sorta the Mac's fault, they say, because they need more access to APIs and they get half-assed crash reports. Plus, Adobe claims, apps tend to run faster in Windows than OS X generally, because performance is about 20 percent worse using OS X's GCC compiler, not to mention performance varies even within an OS, since Flash runs 20 percent faster in IE8 than Firefox, for instance. Either way, performance will be better on Mac with Flash 10.1, since it's shifting over to using CoreAnimation.
Okay, you can resume your "death to Flash!" chants now (even though it's not going anywhere for a while, people!). [Adobe]