If your favorite movie of the year was “Lincoln,” or if he was simply one of your most admired Presidents, you should consider whipping up some frontier-style food in honor of the sixteenth Commander In Chief.
Daniel Day Lewis might be a bit of a beef head, but what did the actual Lincoln enjoy eating? For starters, pheasant, duck, seafood and cakes were among his favorite foods.
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South Korea, the home of consumer electronics giant LG, has just seen the official release of the LG Optimus G Pro. Sure, leaked specifications of it were released earlier this month, not to mention confirmation of a 5.5” Full HD display to keep up with the Joneses, but here would be the official skinny on things. The LG Optimus G Pro boasts the largest display to ever appear on an LG smartphone, sporting 4G LTE connectivity along the way with new user interface features that were specially developed for smartphones that have larger than ever displays.
Its Full HD IPS display is capable of offering 1,920 x 1,080 pixels at 400ppi, alongside a whopping 3,140mAh battery, accompanied by an 13-megapixel camera at the back and a 2.1-megapixel shooter in front, not to mention Dual Recording and Virtual Reality (VR) Panorama. Dual Recording features. Underneath the hood lies a quad-core 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory and a microSD slot, and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean in tow.
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Come on now, let us have a show of hands here. How many of you still have a landline at home simply because grandpa lives there and he has absolutely no need for a mobile phone, as he does not get out of the home unless it is to attend his friend’s funeral? If you have answered in the affirmative, surely you would be able to remember the good old days when a landline meant you could connect to the Internet via a dial up account. Just in case you are wondering, AOL’s dial up Internet service still exists, and surprise, surprise, it remains one of the major money spinners for the company.
In fact, AOL’s dial up service accounts for majority of the company’s profits, and we’re talking about a cool $500 million here. Some folks even think that their existing dial-up business might even grow should AOL decide to offer enough added value, but in this day and age, that would seem all but impossible. What do you think of dial up connections with those noisy modems?
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MINNEAPOLIS — A man charged with slapping a toddler on a Minneapolis-to-Atlanta flight is out of a job, his former employer said Sunday.
Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an employee of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public Relations confirmed Sunday night.
ASUS’ Transformer Pad Infinity’s awkwardly timed announcement sent a fair few Transformer Prime buyers into fits of apoplexy — after all, it was just a few weeks after the Prime went on sale. Fortunately, the company didn’t release the Infinity for some time, but was it worth the wait? Our reviewer felt that its delayed journey to the market meant everyone else had a chance to get beyond it, meaning that the discounted Transformer Prime was enough for anyone who didn’t mind the odd GPS brownout. But what about if you bought one? Do you feel the same way? Settle down on the sofa and play armchair gadget designer for a moment, and tell us what you would change.
After the lackluster 2012 NBA Slam Dunk contest, Kevin Durant tweeted that the event needed superstars like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose to restore its glory.
After another Dunk Contest lacking star power and this scintillating slam in the first half of the 2013 All-Star Game, Durant might be called upon to throwdown in the event next year.
After an East turnover, Kobe Bryant found the Thunder star ahead of the crowd. Easing off the floor with this signature smoothness, Durant wound up for a reverse, two-handed, double-clutch stuff.
Imagine our surprise when, upon firing up Sprint’s Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 earlier today for some routine app updates, we saw the 4G logo light up (!) for the first time ever. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears that sometime in the past few days, Sprint’s finally deigned to flick the LTE switch in a significant market — namely beautiful San Francisco. We immediately grabbed our Optimus G and EVO 4G LTE review units and hopped in the car for some quick nearby tests. The verdict? We found pockets of LTE in Potrero Hill and SoMa, and nothing but CDMA in the Mission District — that’s two out of the three neighborhoods we checked. Speeds reached peaks of 16.7Mbps down and 9.4Mbps up with full signal but performance varied wildly, even block to block. Sprint had already enabled LTE in parts of Silicon Valley and had marked the city by the bay for one of its upcoming rollouts. Do you use Sprint and live in SF? Hit the comments and let us know if you’re enjoying the sweet nectar of LTE in your area.
Gallery: Sprint LTE in San Francisco
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(Reuters) – Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.
“His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn’t have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else,” said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“It is absolutely necessary” that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a “dignified existence” in his remaining years.
Welcome back to greatness, “The Good Wife.” After what felt like many weeks of missteps and episodes that were thisclose to hitting a home run, “Red Team/Blue Team” knocked it out of the park.
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Rumors from an “extremely reliable source” speaking to 9t05Google have suggested Google will start to operate its own physical retail stores starting as soon as the 2013 holiday season in the U.S. Brick-and-mortar shops from an Internet search company? Sounds like a stretch, but the Goog is breaking out of its search box big time, and recent additions to the Nexus line are proving it has a real chance at establishing a direct relationship with customers.
Google has had a difficult time keeping its Nexus 4 smartphone, manufactured by partner LG, in stock, with the device being mostly unavailable through Google’s Play store until just recently. But the company’s efforts to sell direct weren’t an overnight success; it attempted to sell hardware direct with the Nexus One back in 2010, but stopped selling after a few months, since very few customers opted to buy the device at its full, unsubsidized price online.
But if Google does one thing well, it’s iterating on less-than-stellar product launches and building on a firm foundation of failure. And that’s exactly what it has done with Nexus; the tablets it starting selling the via its online hardware store did major one thing better than the Nexus One, by offering no-strings-attached hardware at a bargain basement price. Hardware sales, Google seems to have learned, won’t work if customers are asked to eat a cost hit in exchange for freedom. They needed both, and weren’t willing to trade economy for freedom.
Now Google has the recipe right for online sales, and it appears to have worked very well for the Nexus 4, and at least moderately well for Nexus tablets. But Google is still missing a key ingredient that has helped the iPad gain enormous consumer traction, and this latest rumor indicates it’s listening to the words of its biggest rival about how to possibly finally come up with a significant breakthrough for Android tablet market share.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made no secret about Apple retail’s impact on iPad sales. Most recently, he essentially attributed the iPad’s worldwide success to Apple’s physical stores, and the opportunity they provided to make believers out of customers who might otherwise not necessarily have understood Apple’s tablet as a product category. As Ingrid noted in her recent piece covering Cook’s comments on retail at a Goldman Sachs investor conference last week:
“One of the things that’s not understood that well about the stores is that I don’t think we would have been nearly as successful in the iPad as an example if it weren’t for our stores,” said Cook. He noted that people’s view of the tablet, prior to the iPad, “ingrained in their minds [was] a heavy thing that no one wanted.”
Google needs a tablet to achieve the same kind of thing with an Android tablet, or at least to come close. Making an “experience”-baed retail store akin to what Apple’s offering doesn’t guarantee consumers warm up to Android tablets, but it’s a risk that’s likely worth taking, given that Google has had positive indicators for its online retail efforts of late, and that Apple seems to place a lot of the credit for the iPad’s success squarely on the Apple Store’s shoulders.
Nexus tablets need a home run, and that hasn’t come in the form of hardware so far, despite modest gains by gadgets like the Nexus series and the Kindle Fire. But maybe that’s because a device isn’t the answer they’re looking for: customer outreach is.
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