Engadget:
We know, today is totally Android 2.0's day to shine, but what would a Friday night be without a little diversity? Windows Mobile 6.5 officially landed on a gaggle of Windows Phones back in early October (a month ago to the day, in fact), but by and large, all of 'em have seemingly drifted off into some forgotten corner whi (Read More)
Engadget:
We're proud to congratulate Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) on five years of Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Check out the first-ever Switched On right here -- we're looking forward to five more years!Good morning, students. My name is Dr. John Fleming and I welcome you all to MKTG 503: Fictional Technology Product (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar:
The myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control.Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much person (Read More)
BBC News Player | UK:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new "social contract" with the world's banks to make them more responsible to society. (Read More)
BBC News Player | UK:
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new "social contract" with the world's banks to make them more responsible to society. (Read More)
New York Times:
The Food and Drug Administration said that it had warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to consumers online.
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BBC:
Leading economies say the recovery is too weak to end stimulus moves as the UK calls for a new social contract with banks, at a G20 summit. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A m (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
It's pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor David Nutt's sacking as the government's chief drugs adviser, that everyone outside politics now recognises the importance of scientific evidence in devising laws. But a strange reasoning twitch has appeared, in the arguments of politicians and rightwing commen (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Science:
There's a perverse comfort in being behind, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to deal with itDepending on which estimate you believe, there's currently a worldwide backlog of between 4m and 10m patent applications. That's 4m to 10m potentially revolutionary inventions, from life-saving drugs to solar-powered p (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Harry Brown sees Caine back on his old stomping ground. Will Connery and co follow his lead?The Old Crowd is showing its age these days. When you see Michael Caine ridding his working-class estate of nasty little asbo 'orrors in Harry Brown, shuffling around in his granddad shoes and his woolly pully, always short of puff a (Read More)