Here we have another upcoming wireless keyboard from Elecom, the TK-FDP055BK. Powered by 2x AA batteries, the keyboard features a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), 84 keys, a built-in touchpad on the right side of the body (touchpad/numeric keypad function – switchable) and a tiny USB receiver. The TK-FDP055BK will go on sale from mid-December for 8,431 Yen (about $106). [Elecom]
Candace Nelson didn’t invent red velvet, but she may as well have. Nelson and her now world-famous brand Sprinkles Cupcakes is the reason that the chic red velvet cupcake has become more a symbol of Beverly Hills, Calif. than it has of its Southern Civil War roots. Locally, her flagship cupcake bakery stands as one of Beverly Hills’ longest daily lines, but sugar fiends from all over the globe can rest assured that new stores are cropping up everywhere, including new cities in the U.S. and ten new locations in the Middle East.
Besides growing a global cupcake empire, Nelson is a star judge on The Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” and debuted her Sprinkles Ice Cream shop, as well as a cupcake vending machine, in Beverly Hills this past summer, located next door to the cupcake bakery. Sprinkles’ most recent LA addition is a counter at The Grove. We were wondering what took them so long.
Nelson’s cupcakes have gotten love from The Oprah Winfrey Show, Bon Appetit magazine, Food & Wine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America and have even been written into HBO’s show “Entourage.” In between tapings, tastings and testings, HuffPost LA chatted with the Sprinkles queen about a failed flavor, how she doesn’t get fat and why nothing will ever replace the cupcake. Read the interview in the slides below.
Links International will launch the gold-colored version of Corsair’s CMZ16GX3M2A1600C9 DDR3 memory module kit. As part of the VENGEANCE series, this 16GB (8GBx2) memory module kit works at 1.5V with 1600MHz speed and 9-9-9-24 latency. The CMZ16GX3M2A1600C9 (Gold) will become available from November 17th for 9,200 Yen (about $115). [Product Page]
In a way, I’m glad that David Petraeus’s sex scandal is playing out across the pages and television screens of the mass media. Because one of the alternative ways it could have been handled is so much worse.
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The RDT234WX-Z is the newest member to Mitsubishi’s Full HD monitor line-up. As part of the Diamondcrysta WIDE series, this new 23-inch IPS LED-backlight monitor (120Hz panel) provides 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution, 900:1 contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness, 5ms response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles. In addition, it also comes with two built-in 3W stereo speakers and features 1x DVI-D, 1x D-Sub and 1x HDMI connectors. The RDT234WX-Z will hit the market from November 28th for around 55,000 Yen (about $692). [Mitsubishi]
* Council has trouble reaching consensus on Middle East crisis
* UN chief Ban speaks with leaders of Israel and Egypt
* Ban urges Netanyahu to avoid “new cycle of bloodshed”
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council will hold a closed emergency meeting on Wednesday night to discuss Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip as Israel threatened a wider offensive in the Palestinian enclave to stem rocket salvoes by Hamas militants.
The French U.N. mission said on its Twitter feed that the meeting would be a “closed private debate” beginning at 9 p.m. EST (0200 GMT Thursday). Council diplomats said Israeli and Palestinians envoys would speak at the meeting.
Separately, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s press office said in two separate statements that he spoke on the telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Mohamed Mursi of Egypt.
“(Ban) expressed his concern (to Netanyahu) about the deteriorating situation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, which includes an alarming escalation of indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and the targeted killing by Israel of a Hamas military operative in Gaza,” the U.N. said.
Ban also voiced his expectation that “Israeli reactions are measured so as not to provoke a new cycle of bloodshed.”
He also discussed with Mursi “the need to prevent any further deterioration,” the U.N. said in a second statement.
The emergency council meeting comes after the Palestinian Authority’s U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour urged the Security Council to take a stand on Israel’s latest offensive in the Gaza, which he said amounted to “illegal criminal actions.”
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor responded by calling on the international community to condemn “indiscriminate rocket fire against Israeli citizens – children, women.” He was referring to five days of escalating Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza.
The militant group Hamas, not the Palestinian Authority, controls Gaza.
Israel launched a new major offensive against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing Hamas’ military commander in an air strike and threatening an invasion of the enclave that the Islamist group said would “open the gates of hell.”
MAJOR OFFENSIVE
In a letter to Indian Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, president of the 15-nation council this month, Mansour said a “message must be sent to Israel to cease its military campaign against the Palestinian people under its occupation, including the cessation of extrajudicial killing.”
“This escalation, which continues at this moment, demands the attention of the international community, including the Security Council, with the aim of averting the further deterioration and destabilization of the situation on the ground and the fueling by Israel of yet another deadly cycle of violence and bloodshed,” Mansour said.
Speaking to reporters, Prosor described the Hamas military commander Israel killed, Ahmed Al-Jaabari, as a “mass murderer” who had been planning fresh attacks against Israeli citizens.
It was unclear what a Security Council meeting would achieve since the 15-nation body is generally deadlocked on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envoys say is due to the U.S. determination to protect Israeli.
“We want the Security Council to act in accordance with its responsibilities to stop this aggression against our people,” Mansour said, without offering details of what action he wanted.
A new Gaza war has loomed for months as waves of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli strikes have grown more intense and frequent.
Mansour said the Israeli action was intended to draw attention away from the Palestinians’ plan to seek an upgrade of its observer status at the United Nations from that of an “entity” to a “non-member state,” implicitly recognizing Palestinian statehood.
Israel and the United States have made clear they would oppose the Palestinian upgrade, which would give it the right to join international bodies like the International Criminal Court, where it could file legal complaints against Israel.
U.N. diplomats said a vote on the Palestinian request was tentatively scheduled for Nov. 29. A senior Western diplomat said the Palestinians would easily secure 120 to 130 votes out of the 193-nation General Assembly, which would ensure the success of their upgraded status at the United Nations.
BY DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is telling top donors that President Barack Obama won re-election because of the “gifts” he had already provided to blacks, Hispanics and young voters and because of the president’s effort to paint Romney as anti-immigrant.
“The president’s campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift,” Romney said in a call to donors on Wednesday. “He made a big effort on small things.”
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One of the smaller carriers in the US, known as US Cellular, does seem as though they have a spanking new smartphone up for grabs – in the form of a leak thanks to the good people at @evleaks, having tweeted that it will be a variant of the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Mini, where this 4” device will be called the Samsung Galaxy Axiom (if you are a sucker for model numbers, then SCH-R830 would do very nicely).
What kind of hardware specifications can we expect from the Samsung Galaxy Axiom? For starters, it will come with a WVGA display coupled with a decent dual-core 1.2GHz MSM8960 processor, LTE support (woohoo!) and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box. Of course, this is not confirmed yet, so you might want to take what you read here with a pinch of salt at the moment, but considering how @evleaks have been pretty spot on to date, the smart money would be placed on this being true instead of otherwise. Now to wait for an official confirmation so that all speculations about the Samsung Galaxy Axiom can be put to rest once and for all.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 headed for Verizon, and more [rumor], Samsung Galaxy Metrix 4G hits US Cellular,
As we get older and theoretically smarter, we’re still pretty awful at basic tasks. Humans are mostly just dumb, I think. So wouldn’t it be great if we could be reminded with pop up messages for all of our ‘Human System Errors’ like in a computer? I think so! More »
I guess with Apple rolling out a larger 4” display with their iPhone 5, it is up to the developers of various apps to deliver app revamps that will accommodate this larger display. YouTube has been modified according to Google, and here we are with Microsoft’s Skype announcing that they will also be changing their Skype for iOS client to take full advantage of the entire iPhone 5’s more generous display. This latest update, according to the Skype Garage blog, mentioned, “We’ve seen your tweets, comments and app store reviews requesting screen compatibility with the iPhone 5, and we’ve addressed your requests. Today we have released a hotfix for Skype for iPhone; now you can enjoy Skype calling on the iPhone 5 in full screen glory!”
Not only that, the Skype 4.1.2 update will also feature some other anonymous bug fixes for the iOS port of Skype. All in all, things do look good for Skype on the iOS platform, and with this latest update, who are we to argue otherwise? I suppose those who spend plenty of time on Skype with their iPhones 5s will definitely appreciate the amount of work that had gone into the latest Skype update.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Skype knows of XSS vulnerability in iOS apps, Video calling capability discovered in Facebook Messenger app,
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