SAN DIEGO — It took a quarterback of Peyton Manning’s caliber to pull off this kind of comeback.
After the Denver Broncos slogged through a nightmare of a first half, Manning showed that he’s still one of the NFL’s best.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Marco Scutaro answered Matt Holliday’s hard takeout with a big hit of his own to help the San Francisco Giants end their home slide.
Scutaro hit a two-run single in San Francisco’s four-run fourth inning before leaving with a hip injury and the Giants got their first home win this postseason, 7-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night that tied the NL championship series at one game apiece.
Considering how interested we are in trying out Microsoft’s new Surface Windows 8 tablets, it turns out we should’ve been practicing the art of dance instead of blogging. The first TV spot for the tablets aired tonight during Dancing with the Stars, fitting, since it featured an entire troupe of dancers and was directed by Jon Chu, best known for his work on flicks like the Step Up series and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. While it didn’t expose any deep details about the hardware, its potential pricetag or the software running on it, it appears Microsoft will separate itself from the pack based on that slick Touch Cover, Type Cover and kickstand. At the end it teases “coming 10/26” and promises a future behind the scenes video from the ad, but that’s it. Check out the minute-long spot itself embedded after the break and let us know if you spot any new information about the slate.
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Alcatel has decided to release the One Touch Evo 7 Android 4.0 tablet in Europe. The gadget is powered by an unspecified 1Ghz processor with a 1GB of RAM, a 7-inch touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, a front-facing camera for video calls and an SD card slot for storage expansion (up to 32GB). You can also personalize your tablet with a selection of colored frames. The Alcatel One Touch Evo 7 provides access to the Google Play store, allowing you to install more applications and games. No word on pricing or availability so far. [Press Release]
Hold your surprise, folks. Apple and Samsung are still at war over patents, the latest move in the ongoing battle being an appeal from Apple about a Tokyo court’s ruling in favor of Samsung. The ruling was made on August 31st by the Tokyo District Court, stating that Samsung did not violate Apple’s patent on synchronizing music and video with servers.
This information comes from Yutaka Sakai, a court spokesman. With the ruling, Apple was ordered to pay the fees of the lawsuit. This comes after Apple’s victory in August, when it won $1 billion in damages in California. This comes after the report earlier today that Apple is officially withdrawing as much business as it can from Samsung, meeting only contractual minimums.
Both Apple and Samsung are leaders in the smartphone market. Apple has been moving away from ordering from Samsung over the last couple weeks, originally stating that it was doing so to diversify its component orders for risk management. Presently, Samsung gets 4% revenue from the components it sells to Apple, according to Bloomberg.
Apple filed seeking to have a variety of Samsung products banned in the United States, with success on 23 of the products. Eight of the products received injunctions, all of them smartphones, including the Galaxy S II and the Droid Charge. Samsung then retorted, claiming the Apple’s iPhone 5 infringed on eight of its patents, after successfully winning a lift on the ban of US sales for the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
[via Bloomberg]
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Are you a fan of your neighborhood? The answer could say a lot about your health, according to a new report.
Gallup researchers found that people who like their community, or who think that their community is improving, report better physical health than people who don’t like their community or think that their community is deteriorating in terms of livability.
“These findings provide support for the ecological model of health, which suggests that one’s living conditions, community safety, community development, and civic engagement, among other factors, affect community members’ health outcomes,” the researchers wrote in the report. “The relationship between community-level perspectives and physical health may have significant implications for urban planning and community improvement efforts, particularly in light of the increase in cardiovascular disease and obesity over the past decade.”
When I was a kid, I wasted nearly 97.9% of my allowance on basketball cards. It was awesome. Now I don’t even know where they are. So if I could do it all over again, I’d much rather collect these scientist trading cards. It’s the coolest nerdiest thing ever. More »
General Electric Co, Alcoa Inc, Boeing Co and Lockheed-Martin Corp said they would provide financial support to the “Get Skills to Work Coalition.” It will initially aim to train 15,000 veterans, who will be hired by the four companies or matched to other jobs. Open jobs will be listed on LinkedIn.
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On Monday, Adobe dropped details for an update to its iOS and Android versions of Reader. The most noteworthy enhancement here is the introduction of cloud file storage with Acrobat.com, which allows users to view and edit documents seamlessly across mobile and desktop devices, à la Google Docs Google Drive. Reader Mobile has also gained FormsCentral data support, improved selecting and highlighting of Asian text, and mobile document rights management with secure watermark support. If Android is your mobile platform of choice and you’d like to give these new features a spin, head on over to Google Play to claim your prize. iPhone owners, on the other hand, have a bit of a wait ahead of them. The update is still awaiting Apple’s approval before hitting the App Store.
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NEW YORK — When it comes to the nuts and bolts of education policy, a topic that ranks high among the concerns of female and Latino voters, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are remarkably similar: both think standardized tests are important, that teachers need to be evaluated rigorously, and that charter schools are an important component of America’s educational landscape.
So at a Monday night debate at Columbia University’s Teachers College, the education advisers of both presidential candidates tried to spotlight differences. What it boils down to, both said, is the federal government’s role in education.
“The view of budget policy that the governor has and the … belief that the federal government should be consolidated or shrunk a lot, that these are various issues that are not for federal involvement, … represents a significant contrast between the two,” said Jon Schnur, who has been advising President Barack Obama on education since 2008.
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