Jun 29
By dismissing the basic issues of transparency and accountability in countries like Singapore in favor of political expediency, you risk creating greater problems for the global economy in the future
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Jun 29
Starting this week, Windows Phone users with a Twitter fixation will have a much easier time feeding the little, blue, bird-shaped beast. The latest update to the app features long-awaited Notifications support. Downloading version 1.5 will deliver such important Twitter info as retweets, mentions, direct messages, new followers and favorited tweets to the forefront where they belong. You can download the app in the source link below and then tell all your friends through the microblogging service of your choice, whatever that might be. Fair warning in the meantime — a number of folks are reporting issues with the update, and we’ve had some difficulty getting it up an running on our own handsets. Feel free to sound off in the comments below — since you may have some trouble doing so on Twitter.
Twitter for Windows Phone gets pushy, adds Notifications support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jun 29
Polaroid has just announced their latest instant digital camera, the Polaroid Z2300. Of course, we do know that Polaroid has long been the name in terms of instant photos, and here we are with their latest interpretation of the instant digital camera – which is the Z2300. Just how does the Z2300 work? For starters, it will rely on the tried and tested integrated printer with ZINK Technology, allowing users to instantly capture, edit and take less than 60 seconds to print full color, 2″ by 3” prints. Not only that, it is also a snap for you to upload images to any social media platform with the Z2300, where everything required to do all that has been mentioned has been crammed into a form factor which is extremely compact.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Polaroid Z340 instant digital camera brings back memories, Polaroid Two Retro Digital Camera,
Jun 29
Dino Jagarnauth Missing: Family, Friends Concerned Florida Man Could Commit Suicide
Posted in: Today's ChiliFlorida police are asking for the public’s help in locating a man missing from East Naples who may be suicidal.
Dino Jagarnauth, 37, was last seen by his girlfriend at his residence on New Moon Court around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. He was driving a dark silver Toyota.
According to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, friends and family members are concerned Jagarnauth may harm himself.
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Jun 29
There is no parallel between the Shuchat assault and racial tensions almost two decades earlier. Besides, you can’t use history to try to prove an individual’s intent in a specific isolated case — otherwise one could claim racial motive in any white-on-black crime.
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Jun 29
Florida East Coast Industries wants to develop all of the nine acres it owns in downtown Miami as part of its plan to create a Grand Central Station for passenger service from Miami to Orlando.
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Jun 29
PARIS — UNESCO’s World Heritage committee has voted to approve a Palestinian bid to place the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of sites of World Heritage in Danger.
The Palestinians had pressed to have the church and pilgrimage route inscribed as an emergency candidate at the meeting of the World Heritage 21-nation committee in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jun 29
LOS ANGELES — Actress Doris Singleton, who played Lucy and Ricky Ricardo’s neighbor on “I Love Lucy,” has died. She was 92.
Lucie Arnaz, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed the death in a post on her Facebook page. Singleton died Tuesday, the same day as writer-director Nora Ephron, and Arnaz acknowledged them both in her post, writing, “They were loved and appreciated and will be missed.”
Jun 29
U.S. Cellular has confirmed to PC Mag that it’s “excited” by the prospect of carrying Windows Phone 8 handsets when they land later this year. A PR person even went as far as saying that WP8 “will be an important part of our lineup.” The move leaves Sprint, Cricket and MetroPCS as the only major-league holdouts for the new platform — or perhaps their PR departments just aren’t as bubbly.
U.S. Cellular pledges to carry Windows Phone 8 devices in the fall originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jun 29
Newly discovered Mayan text says 2012 is the end of the calendar not the world
Posted in: Today's ChiliIt would be hard to miss the fact that a lot of doomsday believers thought 2012 was going to be the end of the world because of ancient Mayan texts. A newly discovered Mayan text puts a bit of clarity and might ease the concerns of people who believe in that sort of thing. The new text shows that 2012 was the “end date” for the Maya calendar.
That is different from the end of the world according to the researchers. The new text indicates that 2012 would have been celebrated by the ancient Mayan people, but has no doomsday prophecies regarding the date. The Mayan calendar is divided into something called bak’tuns each having 144,000 days beginning from the Maya creation date. The winter solstice of 2012 would be the last day of the 13th bak’tun.
Scientists and researchers say this would’ve been seen as a full cycle of creation. The new text was discovered among the Maya ruins of La Corona in Guatemala. Archaeologists discovered one block on a stairway featuring carved hieroglyphs to celebrate the visit of an ancient and powerful Mayan ruler. The archaeologists believe that this ancient king, known as Jaguar Paw, used a larger cycle of time to promote continuity of his people that happened to end in 2012.
[via MSNBC]
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