| 'Holocaust' remark by Israeli minister incenses Hamas
Most Israelis are loath to use it for other contemporary events. Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Hamas movement, said the Palestinians faced "new Nazis".Israeli air strikes have killed at least 33 Gazans, including five children, in the past three days. The military said most of those killed were militants.Israeli leaders said cross-border rocket fire may leave them no choice but to launch a broader military offensive against Hamas, which seized Gaza in June after routing forces loyal to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.One Israeli was killed in a rocket attack on Wednesday on the town of Sde .
Is Stupid the new Cool?
He appears on talk shows and gets offered his own reality show and endorsement deals. He becomes a celebrity by offering not much more than a brief good laugh. And we weren't necessarily laughing with him To some, 20-year-old Chris Crocker epitomizes the idea of the 21st-century dumbed-down celebrity, another drive-by luminary in an age of disposable stardom. But there's something more going on here, something that actually worries some people. There have always been entertainers willing to play dumb to get big laughs. Think Gracie Allen, Goldie Hawn on "Laugh-In," Bob Denver on "Gilligan's Island," Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in "Dumb and Dumber," and so on. The difference now seems to be the degree to which people are watching. Dumb seems to be the new cool.
Unemployment, Underemployment, and Hunger Boosting Obama’s Chances ...
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Intel's Skulltrail Strikes Back Before the CES
The motherboard sports six SATA connectors and a single IDE port, with headers for additional USB and Firewire ports. The legacy connectors (LPT, COM and PS/2) have been stripped down and replaced with six USB 2.0 ports and two eSATA connectors. The rear panel also features a single FireWire port and Gigabit Ethernet jacks, along with analog and digital HD audio inputs/outputs. These are the first rock-solid details to emerge about Intel's Skulltrail platform. More goodies are expected to follow the Consumer Electronics Show, that will take place in Las Vegas starting January the 7th. .
Akamai takes another software patent scalp
But it makes no sense to give a company a 20-year monopoly on an entire category of products merely because it happened to developed the first product in that category. Advocates of software patents might claim that Akamai would not have developed its technology without the opportunity for patent protection. But this doesn't pass the straight face test. As Akamai's own patent filing acknowledges, the basic concepts behind the patent, mirroring and DNS-based load balancing, have been around long before Akamai filed its patent application. It's hard to imagine that Akamai would not have developed its technology without the benefit of patent protection, or that other companies would not have developed similar technology if Akamai had not been on the scene. Limelight plans to seek an appeals court ruling that the patent is invalid.
Smaller users get Microsoft's Online Services
Last September, the company opened its hosted software programme, called Microsoft Online Services, to businesses around the globe with more than 5,000 users. Now, as it moves rapidly towards the Internet-centric computing favoured by competitors Google and Salesforce.com, Microsoft has opened up the service to general use. Businesses pay a per-user subscription fee to access applications (such as email) hosted on Microsoft's servers, which usually works out cheaper than installing applications on their own hardware. Other advantages include faster software updates and lower maintenance costs. Microsoft, which built its fortune on so-called shrink-wrapped software, was criticised for moving too slowly into an area many analysts believe will develop into a significant portion of enterprise and small-business computing.
Toshiba weighs into Macbook Air with slim Portege
The R500 not only has 3G connectivity, it also has three USB ports to Air's one, and it includes an internal DVD drive, removable battery, a full-size DVI video port, a PC Card slot, Gigabit Ethernet and a Firewire connector. All of the latter are missing from the Macbook Air. Chan said that the R500 weighs just 1kg as well, to the Air's 3lb (1.35kg), and is thinner. The one area where the Air scores is screen size - it has a 13.3-inch TFT, versus the R500's 12-inch. .
Nikon announces its latest D-SLR camera called the D60
Nikon is one of the largest and most successful makers of digital cameras on the market and has made a full line of D-SLR and point-and-shoot digital cameras for years. Today Nikon announced the newest member if its D-SLR line called the Nikon D60. The camera will sit in the line between the D40x and the D80 in both price and features. While Nikon has declined to comment on pricing at the moment, we can get an idea of the price range the D60 will retail in be looking at the D40, D40x and D80. The Nikon D40 sells for $549.95 in kit form, the D40x sells for $699.95 in a kit and the D80 sells for $999.95 all with a kit 18-55mm lens. That would likely put the new D60 in the $800 price range. The New D60 has a 10.2 megapixel DX-format CCD sensor and exclusive EXPEED image processor.
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