Back in the old days, music charts were mostly good for hit single montages in movies about struggling bands. These days, chart-making stalwart Billboard’s looking to offer up something more, bring its services into the era of streaming media, with a redesign that harnesses Spotify, Rdio and Myspace functionality, letting users listen to the day’s tracks in order of popularity, the way they were meant to be listened to, we guess.
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Acer‘s budget-minded Iconia B1 tablet has been turning some heads, mostly thanks to its competitive $150 price tag, but it looks like Acer isn’t stopping there. The company has hinted at the prospect of releasing 8- and 10-inch quad-core tablets sometime this year that will also be aimed at the budget market in order to take on Google and Amazon.
According to the China Times, Acer CEO Linxian Lang spoke about the possibility of expanding the company’s tablet lineup with more size options and price points to compete with other tablet manufacturers. These quad-core tablets the he speaks of are said to be ranging from 150 to 175 Euros, which puts them at about $202 to $236 in US dollars.
While that’s certainly on par with other budget tablets currently available, the quad-core processor may make Acer’s upcoming tablets more of a bargain buy compared to the Nexus 7 or the Kindle Fire HD. Lang also discussed the company’s projections as far as sales go. Acer expects to ship 200 million tablets this year, 80 million of which will be higher-end models.
Of course, there’s no word on when these budget tablets will appear exactly, but seeing as the Iconia B1 isn’t planned for a US release, we’re sadly expecting the same thing from these upcoming slates. Either way, we’re looking forward to seeing what Acer has up their sleeves this year, and if they’ll release budget tablets that can compete.
[via Android Community]
Acer hints at budget quad-core tablets to take on Google and Amazon is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players have had a rather long month considering the new Revolution Map Pack was announced 21 days ago, although we’re sure you were keeping count of that on your own. It looks like your patience and nightly multiplayer matches has lead you to today’s official release of the Revolution Map Pack, that is, as long as your an Xbox 360 Black Ops 2 player.
Xbox 360 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 players can now pick up the Revolution Map Pack for 1200 Microsoft Points, although if you purchased a Black Ops 2 DLC Season Pass, you’ll be able to pick up the Revolution Map Pack without paying anything extra. PC, PlayStation 3 and Wii U Black Ops 2 players will have to wait for their turn with the Revolution Map Pack as neither Trayarch nor Activision have announced when the new pack will be available outside of the Xbox 360.
The Revolution Map Pack contains four new multiplayer maps, a new co-op map and an all-new Zombies game mode called “Turned,” which allows players to play as zombies. And for the first time in a Call of Duty game, a new weapon called the Peacekeeper will also be made available in the map pack.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Hits PSN, Sony Teases Possible God Of War Announcement For February 1, 
In a monumental occasion for ecumenical relations, the U.S. Catholic church and a group of Protestant denominations plan to sign a document on Tuesday evening to formally agree to recognize each other’s baptisms.
Catholic leaders will join representatives from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Christian Reformed Church in North America, Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ at the ceremony in Austin, Texas, to sign the agreement, which is called the “Common Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism.” The event coincides with the national meeting of Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A.
Currently, the Protestant churches recognize Roman Catholic baptisms, but the Catholic church does not recognize theirs. The mutual agreement on baptisms, a key sacrament in the churches, has been discussed between denominational leadership for seven years.
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A Georgia man is accused of killing a man whose GPS system mistakenly led him to the wrong house.
Phillip Walker Sailors, a 69-year-old resident of Lilburn, Ga., was arrested and charged with murder for the death of Rodrigo Abad Diaz, a 22-year-old Cuban immigrant, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Passengers in Diaz’s car say they were on their way to pick up a girl to go ice skating around 10 p.m. when their GPS led them to the wrong address, according to Fox 5. As they waited in the driveway, the owner came out with a gun. He fired two shots: one in the air and one that killed Diaz.
The Occupy Wall Street movement captured public attention while speaking for the so-called 99 percent, but those who actively participated were drawn from a much narrower, more elite slice of American society, according to a new survey.
Those who described themselves as “actively involved” in the Occupy movement were overwhelmingly white, highly educated and employed, according to a new report from the Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New York.
“When people are saying, ‘Occupy Wall Street is a white, middle-class thing,’ I can’t really fight them because it’s not true, but then, it’s not necessarily false either,” Michele Crentsil, a 23-year-old African-American Occupy participant said in the report.
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WASHINGTON — The top Democrat in the Senate says that lawmakers should redouble efforts to replace looming across-the-board cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs with alternative spending cuts and tax hikes.
The comments by Majority Leader Harry Reid came amid increasing resignation among both Democrats and Republicans that the across-the-board cuts will soon take effect. The cuts were an element of the so-called fiscal cliff that was partially averted this month with the extension of Bush-era tax cuts.
Anderson Cooper had a special surprise for the New Jersey teen whose impassioned coming out speech at a high school ceremony made him a viral video superstar.
Eighteen-year-old Jacob Rudolph, who identified himself as LGBT while accepting an award for class actor in front of his graduating class, told Cooper that “Star Trek” actor George Takei was his idol.
Fortunately for Rudolph, Takei was waiting backstage. Watch the clip to see what happened!
LAS VEGAS, Jan 29 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama appealed for a “common-sense” and comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigrations laws on Tuesday to help undocumented immigrants “get on the right side of the law.”
In a speech in Las Vegas, Obama said an overhaul would strengthen the U.S. economy. He said some issues will be difficult to negotiate with Congress, but “now’s the time” for change.
(Reporting by Steve Holland and Jeff Mason; Editing by Will Dunham)
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