Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Nexus One's big update can be had without the wait
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Android's devised one of the slickest, most widely-deployed systems for delivering over-the-air operating system updates to smartphones, but there's a problem: you've got to wait until your carrier (or manufacturer) blesses you with them. They're typically deployed in rolling batches so that it's easier for the company to do one final test of ...
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With the political winds at their backs, GOPers have experienced a recruiting boost of late. But party strategists acknowledge that the GOP remains woefully underrepresented among women.
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American Parliament by digby James Fallows has written a post called "why bipartisanship can't work" that should be required by every political pundit and every reporter and editor. I don't know why this isn't common knowledge either, but it isn't and it takes someone of Fallows' stature to make it clear. This is just an excerpt , which features ...
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One Size Fits All by digby If anyone out there remains unconvinced that the political pundits pull pre-digested narratives off the shelf, I offer this piece by Ron Brownstein from 2005, in the wake of a couple of special elections: Call it intelligent design or survival of the fittest, but between now and next November's midterm elections, the ...
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Illinois primary results: the land of Lincoln weighs in
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Update: Still no races called. Turnout looks to be low, a combination of the weather and a lack of voter intensity perhaps. Candidate - % (votes) Senate - GOP: Illinois - 3406 of 11215 Precincts Reporting - 30% ( 121,343 total votes) Kirk , Mark - 63% ( 76,314 ) Hughes , Patrick - 17% ( 21,165 ) Lowery , Don - 7% ( 8,377 ) Thomas , Kathleen - 6% (
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) The Central Intelligence Agency has intercepted communications from Osama bin Laden indicating that the al-Qaeda mastermind is "furious" that John Edwards' sex tape is scarier than any terror tape he has ever produced.
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John McCain on DADT in 1996
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John McCain says we should listen to our military leaders as to what to do on Don't Ask Don't Tell:And I understand the opposition to it, and I‘ve had these debates and discussions, but the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, Senator, we ought to change the policy, then I think we ought to consider seriously ...
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Spiers And Liars by digby A new book by Eamon Javers reveals that the CIA allows its operatives to moonlight on Wall Street to supplement their poor incomes. The chatter is that the administration will have to put a stop to it, but I would guess there's no chance of that. After all, these people are so vital that they can't even be held ...
Let's be honest. If you haven't already consumed all 103 hours of ABC's "Lost" — every time-travel twist, every return from the dead, every delicious WTF moment — you're pretty much screwed when it comes to the premiere of the show's final season Tuesday night (February 2). Actually, even if you have devoured each episode multiple ...
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An attorney for Dr. Conrad Murray said his client was ready to turn himself in if charges against him are filed in the singer's death. Murray admits giving the pop star propofol before he died. A lawyer for Michael Jackson's personal physician said Tuesday that the Houston-based doctor is in Los Angeles and prepared to surrender if authorities ...
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Jackson's doctor arrives in Los Angeles
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Michael Jackson's physician has arrived in Los Angeles in anticipation of a decision from the district attorney's office on whether to charge him for the singer's death, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Michael Jackon's Doctor in LA, Criminal Charges Expected
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Dr. Conrad Murray is in Los Angeles, where law enforcement sources say a charge of involuntary manslaughter is imminent for his alleged role in the death of Michael Jackson. His legal team says they aren't sure what's happening , but if he's charged, he's prepared to surrender.
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Decision is sign that promise of more international approach from US being overtaken by pressing domestic concerns Europe failed the first test of new arrangements introduced by the Lisbon treaty yesterday when the US announced that Barack Obama would not attend a joint summit in May, partly out of frustration in Washington over the confused ...
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Obama to use backdoor taxes to hit middle class? Oops, not true.
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Reuters withdrew a story Tuesday that suggested Obama would cut the deficit through backdoor taxes on the middle class.
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The Wine Track
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Ezra Klein writes : Candidate Obama’s pledge to change Washington, echoing reform-minded predecessors like Gary Hart and Bill Bradley, won applause from affluent Democrats and independents in the primaries," writes John Harwood in today's New York Times. But, uh, huh? I know the initial line on Obama's candidacy was that he appealed to "wine-
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Obama pushes jobs plan, but still warns on deficit
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pitched job-creation plans to recession-weary Americans on Tuesday while his advisers urged Congress to take further measures to rein in the record budget deficit.
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Obama's budget balancing act
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He's trying to solve problems now, but he also needs to be more open about the long-term challenges. President Obama's budget for the next fiscal year arrives at an unusually difficult time for Washington. The economy grew with surprising vigor in the last three months of 2009, but much of that growth came from companies cutting their inventories ...
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Remember the OPhone platform, Open Mobile System? You know, China Mobile's supposedly beefed up Android ? Things have become even more interesting as OMS jumps from 1.5 to 2.0 -- it now supports Scalable Vector Graphics UI elements and does voice recognition, but what really caught our attention was the vague mention of Windows Mobile API support.
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NoW pair hacked 100 mobile accounts
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Phone companies contradict official version that voicemails of 'only handful of victims' hacked by reporter and investigator Rebekah Brooks will not give evidence to MPs Three leading mobile phone companies have told the Guardian that they have discovered a total of more than 100 customers whose voicemail was accessed by the private investigator ...
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Conservatives Upset At Chris Matthews Comparison
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They’re angry that Matthews compared them to the Khmer Rouge. But of course, they’ve done the same and worse to President Obama for about 2 years now, and ditto to people like Sen. Kerry, Vice President Gore, President Clinton, and Secretary Clinton. Further, I wish I could call a moratorium on conservatives pointing to Chris Matthews [
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Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! Learn the size of the Pillars of Creation and marvel at the minuscule scale of a neutrino!
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News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch tried to lower expectations that his Fox broadcast network would hire Conan O’Brien. Murdoch hinted that his book publishing unit is in line to get a new deal on e-books from Amazon (AMZN), just as Macmillan has demanded (and other publishers will as well).
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp sales dropped 16 percent in January as the automaker reeled from a massive recall and rivals Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp surged past it in the U.S. market.
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Fatal Houston crash leads to lawsuit against Toyota
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The family of a Houston woman whose car sped through a stop sign and smashed into a cement wall, killing her on impact a week before Christmas, filed what is likely the third acceleration-related wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota in the nation Monday.
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Toyota accelerates into trouble
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Japanese company criticised over 'incredibly dangerous' fault as RoSPA calls for an immediate inquiry Toyota was under pressure today over the accelerator fault that is forcing it to recall 2m cars across Europe as the RAC described the problem as "incredibly dangerous" and urged concerned owners to have their vehicles checked immediately. Amid ...
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Joe Sudbay : Last month, Ben Nelson did a TV ad defending his vote on health care. He talks straight to the camera and disses those "who wanted a government takeover." That sounds like an attack on people who supported the public option, because that's as close as Congress got to a "government takeover." You'll recall that Nelson helped kill the ...
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Corporations Flexing Political Muscle
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A Republican campaign attorney who agrees with the CU decision says he believes it threatens the political parties with extinction. The Supreme Court 's recent decision in the Citizens United (CU) case -- which allows corporations to spend freely to influence elections -- is already having an effect. Donations are surging into the U.S. Chamber ...
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Malarkey From The Senate On the Health Bill
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Greg Sargent swallows some utter BS from Senate aides: Senate leadership aides have identified what they see as a key roadblock to passing a fix to their bill via reconciliation — and parliamentarians in the Senate and House are hard at work trying to identify a solution, aides say. [. . .] “How do you fix a bill that hasn’t been ...
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Senate Will Probably Kill Volcker Proposal
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Of course! A proposal by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to limit bank’s proprietary trading will be either be dropped or significantly modified in the Senate, lawmakers and staffers told dealReporter. Senate Banking Committee ranking member Richard Shelby (R-AL) said he opposes the so-called Volcker rule and the Obama ...
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Citizen activists tore down a fence at yet another illegal construction site in downtown Kyiv: 25 photos, as well as earlier updates (UKR) - here and here - at Derybanu.net .
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Паркан на Прорізній повалено
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…] activists tore down a fence at yet another illegal construction site in downtown Kyiv: 25 photos, as well as earlier updates (UKR) - here and here - atDerybanu.net. […
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In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
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The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
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“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
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Fantasies by digby Greenwald , finds the very serious Michael O'Hanlon opining on the lifting of DADT: Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute said the real test will be in the barracks, with the rank-and-file members of the military. "We can talk about this delicately or we can just be fairly direct," O'Hanlon said. "There are a lot of 18- ...
Iran's president says it is ready to send enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment under a deal agreed with the West.
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Iran 'ready to accept uranium deal'
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Iran has said it is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment in exchange for nuclear fuel under a plan the West hopes will stop the material being used for atomic bombs.
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A day later, concern remains over the lack of balance in loss to the Grizzlies. A day later, concern remains over the lack of balance in loss to the Grizzlies.
A majority of the council's Budget and Finance Committee has refused to sign off on the plan to cut 1,000 jobs, a key component in the plan to plug a $208-million shortfall. The drive to slash spending at Los Angeles City Hall is starting to crumble, as a growing number of City Council members waver in the face of angry constituents, disgruntled ...
The Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up a plane on Christmas Day is providing "useful" information, US officials say.
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