Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, talks about the need to ensure the Federal Reserve is more transparent in its actions. Issa, a California Republican speaking with Peter Cook on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also discusses tax policy and his ...
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The new BitTorrent 6 for Windows brings together BitTorrent's proven expertise in networking protocols with µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI to create a better BitTorrent client. For questions about the BitTorrent client, take a look at the FAQ in our support center, or visit the client forums.
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If Santa didn’t leave that iPod Touch you were hoping for tucked away in your stocking over the holiday season, you’re in luck! There’s still a chance to invest in a gift that will keep on giving. We hear the owner of the smoking glass that Miley Cyrus used while taking a hit of legal hallucinacin salvia in that now-infamous leaked ...
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The annual Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) is almost upon us, and this time, it appears the general theme is "evolution" not "revolution." Like 2010's event, there will be e-books and tablets and newer and better TVs. There will be more 3D and Web-connected devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes. And yes, that list sounds a ...
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Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining
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While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.
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"Verizon iPhone reportedly coming 'after CES'"
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Nice softball for the Apple hater crowd to vent their spleens with their little people views that have nothing to do with the bigger question you posed. Hard to tell who are more amusing, the Apple haters or the Apple is God crowd. The haters seems to be motivated by insecurity the Apple is God crowd by inability to see that no one has a monopoly ...
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Safari for iOS needs a text size preference and text reflow
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One of the features I miss most in Safari for iOS is the ability to increase text size. Sure, zooming in increases text size, but all too often it also makes the lines of text too long to fit on the screen of my iPod Touch. Having to swipe left and right for each line of text makes reading zoomed text on a small iOS device very annoying very ...
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2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?
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Prediction season has started early this year. Fortune, Techcrunch, Scoble, Louis Gray, and others are already picking winners in the Smartphone market, which most see as a two horse race between iPhone and Android. My prediction? Both will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will ...
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Apple iPhone alarm woes continue across the globe
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By Kelvin Soh and Tarmo Virki HONG KONG/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Some iPhone users in Asia and Europe complained of malfunctioning alarms on the first working day of 2011, even after Apple reassured users that its phones' built-in clocks will work from...
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Making healthy choices. Taking care of me. Feeling good. Living good. Healthy and clean. I like that. For me. Because I matter. Loving myself because someone has to, right? Who? Oh right, me. Loving me for living good and eating good. Loving myself. Must. Or at least should. Possibly could if I eat salad. But only salad.
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A handful of Republican Congressmen — including Sen.-elect Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) — have announced that they will oppose increasing the nation’s debt ceiling the next time it comes up for a vote, essentially saying that they are okay with a government shutdown or the myriad consequences of the U.S. ...
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Fans of Jack Bauer will have to wait a little longer to watch the Iron Man reign on the silver screen. Twentieth Century Fox has reportedly passed up a script that would bring 24 to cinemas.
Actor Kelsey Grammer — a three-time loser in the World of Holy Matrimony and Wedded Bliss — does not plan to ask fiancee Kayte Walsh to sign a prenuptial agreement, although the star’s still pending divorce from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills personality Camille Grammer will likely cost him $50 million.
If you've already bought in to the B&O lifestyle, you might as well complete your descent into insanity system with the Bang & Olufsen Beo6 Remote ($TBA). This crazy-looking wireless remote automatically knows what B&O gear you own, and presents the relevant menus and controls on its glass screen, leaving your TV free to play whatever's already on,
Why is disgraced former New York Times reporter Judith Miller not fond of Wikileaks and Julian Assange? "Because he didn't care at all about attempting to verify the information that he was putting out or determine whether or not it would hurt anyone," she said.
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Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Analog, Mapalong, more tries at trans-Atlantic sleep, Cuba, Fontdeck, and my youngest son entering school; it all happened in the last year. At the end of 2007, I wrote up the year very differently. After skipping a couple of years, this is a different wrap-up. To tell the truth I put this together for me, being the very worst of diarists. It ...
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Wait, it's been 90 days already? I guess it's too late to get my Ed Hardy shirt off lay-a-way. Damn. I only had sixteen more payments! Radar Online reports: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
A day after the launch of her ambitious new TV network, the message board on Oprah Winfrey's Web site was flooded with posts from fans upset that they now have to pay to see the talk-show queen.
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Now that Mercury has been officially killed off, Ford has confirmed that Lincoln will be the largest beneficiary, particularly when it comes to an advertising budget.
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Alessandra Ambrosio bikini pictures! (St. Barts - 1/2) Alessandra Ambrosio is one of the many celebrities in St. Barts for the New Year, and I’m gonna have to agree with that creepy deckhand: I would love to force her… …read full story
"The way you saw the earth shake, that's how our bodies are shaking now." A Mother Jones piece by Mac McClelland on the living hell faced by quake survivors in Haiti. Rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls are rampant. The youngest reported victim? 2 years old.
Have you ever needed to project the display of a cell phone or portable gadget on a TV or big screen? If yes, you know that this is often a pain (for example, during a presentation) – but Sanyo’s Sha-Miel [JP] might do the trick for you. It’s essentially a flexible magnifying camera for displays of mobile devices.
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Facebook’s latest round of financing from Goldman Sachs at a $50 billion valuation, which is about the same valuation its shares are trading on SecondMarket, clearly puts it in the pantheon of the most valuable Internet companies. At $50 billion, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo (which has a $22 billion market cap) and eBay ($37 billion)
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