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| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST We'd really harshed on this phone prior to its release, because... well, when you're used to flip phones looking a certain way, it looks kinda funny. In the flesh, though, the LG Lotus looks just fine -- once you get past the fact that it's basically a perfect square when closed -- and anyone who does a lot of messaging should probably take note.  |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST Located in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam  |
| The 7 Worst Tech Predictions of All Time Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:50 PM CST Predicting the future isn't easy. That's why astrologers and fortune tellers tend to keep their forecasts as vague as possible. But in the high-stakes world of high technology, the future belongs to those who see it coming well in advance. Of course, even the most successful tech prognosticators make their share of foolish predictions.  |
| Why is American Foreign Policy Failing? Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:30 PM CST As debate over Iraq war policy grows, many are calling for alternatives to a planned increase in troops, but where will alternative plans come from? Who shapes the proposals that will influence US policy in Iraq and elsewhere?  |
| The Pirate Bay Calls For Designs on a Brighter Future Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:20 PM CST With the trial starting in only a few weeks, some have pictured dark clouds above the world's most popular BitTorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay team doesn't seem to be bothered by it though, as they prefer to look ahead. For the first time in years there are plans to redo the design of the site, and it's looking bright.  |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST Photographer: Ilia Shalamaev  |
| Visualizing the Worldwide Inauguration via Twitter Posted: 22 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST At noon EST, Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. Watch as the (Twitter) world watched. Below are the tweets worldwide that included inauguration with a "positive attitude."  |
| Chicago Cubs Sold To Ricketts Family For $900m Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:50 PM CST Looks like the Cubbies have been sold!  |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST Which Super Bowl teams were the best of the bunch?  |
| Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson on Digg Dupes and Power Users Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST Digg announced today that it's going to be chilling out on growth plans, and maybe even reducing staff. I caught up with Digg founder Kevin Rose and CEO Jay Adelson last week at the L.A. Diggnation meetup, and asked them about the state of the San Francisco company, features in the works, the power-user problem and their take on the media landscape  |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST Which Super Bowl teams were the worst of the bunch?  |
| The best thing Bush left behind? Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST  |
| Posted: 22 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST A spectacular, that's-gotta-hurt, cycle-crash photo snapped by Daniel Bayer at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia.  |
| Israel breaks ceasefire, AGAIN! Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST A Palestinian medical official says an Israeli gunboat off the shores of Gaza City has opened fire on Gazans, wounding a man and a girl.  |
| 10 Careers that Top $30 per Hour Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST In just 60 minutes, you could earn enough to pay for a tank of gas, the cable bill, gym membership, or dinner out. Thirty dollars still covers some of life's essential costs. Earn that much in just one hour on the job, and you have enough to build a comfortable life.  |
| 20 Celebrities That Didn't Age Quite So Gracefully [PICS] Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:30 PM CST The before shots are wow and the after shots are unfortunately omg and ugh.  |
| Obama's new phone isn't a BlackBerry, might not be a phone! Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST Dear Mainstream Media: Obama's new phone isn't a BlackBerry, might not be a phone, and he might not be getting it.  |
| Sony and LG stun investors with dire profit warnings Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST Sony Corp and LG Electronics Inc stunned investors on Thursday, warning of big losses, underlining the deep pain in the consumer electronics market as demand crumbles in a brutal global downturn.  |
| Tomy Dustbot: The Original Roomba Gone Cute Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST Released in 1985, the Dustbot is claimed to be the first robot to feature a built-in vacuum cleaner (that broom was just for show) and featured edge detection to turn away from obstacles.  |
| AMD Phenom II Processor Prices Slashed by 18% Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST Advanced Micro Devices cuts the prices of some of its processors for high-end desktops and gaming PCs.  |
| Will Apple Sue Palm Over the Pre? Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST Apple executives hinted Wednesday that the company might legally contest the multitouch technology found within the Palm Pre.  |
| Why Nuclear Weapons Are (Still) Bad for Earth Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST In the 1980s, climate scientists in Russia & U.S. theorized that all-out nuclear war between the superpowers would result in a "nuclear winter," blackening the sky and sending temperatures plummeting below freezing, killing crops and eventually starving everybody. While there is no regional nuclear war, the climate effects are still sobering.  |
| Israel, Hamas differ on final tally of Gaza's casualties Posted: 22 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST The Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a final tally of the casualties of the 23-day war in Gaza. They way 1284 Gazans were killed and 4336 were wounded, the vast majority civilians. Israel says these numbers are inflated. The two sides disagree on the death toll, particularly the ratio of combatants and civilians.  |
| Obama Admin brings back the Freedom of Information Act Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:52 PM CST Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government  |
| Abrupt Climate Change Goes Both Ways, Warns Scientist Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:43 PM CST The "Little Ice Age" Argument: Too many scientists are either ignoring, or don't understand, the well-established fact that Earth's climate has changed rapidly in the past and could change rapidly in the future—in either direction.  |
| Missing White House E-Mails Traced, Justice Aide Says Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.(But no one's seen them yet.)  |
| Zoey has startled the witch [PIC] Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:22 PM CST and she startled me as well  |
| The Most Valuable Teams In Sports Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST This may be hard to believe: In 2003, no pro sports team in the world was worth a billion dollars. By the end of 2008, there were 24, led by European soccer powerhouse Manchester United.  |
| The Bad-Ass Skateboarding Team That Time Almost Forgot Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST Instead, 1970s cutting-edge skateboarding, in the popular consciousness, belongs not to Salt Creek but to Santa Monica—Dogtown, and yes, the Z-boys, or the Zephyr skateboard team. While they boast their own impressive archive of achievements, the flamboyant, long-haired bad-boy antics of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Stacy Peralta, Jim Muir...  |
| Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing' Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST Graffiti artists have added a new tool their traditional aerosol cans - knitting needles and a ball of wool.  |
| Hope for Rainforest: Congo Cancels 60% of Timber Contracts Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:40 PM CST The Democratic Republic of the Congo has ended 65 logging contracts in order to stamp out corruption and to enforce legal and environmental standards. While ending huge concessions to almost untaxed logging companies, the move will reduce the rainforest's exploited timber by almost half and pave the way to real development for local communities.  |
| Donors up but organs still short Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:22 PM CST The number of people on the organ donor register in the UK has hit a record 16 million, meeting a government target of doubling 2001's numbers a year early.  |
| Fidel Castro breaks silence to praise Obama Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:13 PM CST Fidel Castro praised U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for his ''noble intentions'' but said in his first opinion column in five weeks that the new American leader had many questions to answer. Castro's prolonged silence after months of prolific column writing had contributed to speculation that the ailing 82-year-old was on his death bed.  |
| Miss World finalist has hands and feet amputated Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:02 PM CST A two-time Miss World finalist has had her hands and feet amputated after being struck down with an infection. Brazilian model Mariana Bridi, 20, had her hands and feet removed in emergency surgery.  |
| Scientists learn secrets of spitting cobras Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST Spitting cobras spew blinding venom toward the eyes and face of victims with surprising accuracy, and now researchers know how they do it.  |
| Eighth grader's invisible invention saves birds from windows Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:40 PM CST For his latest school science fair project he has invented invisible warning signals that can be placed — discreetly — right in the middle of a window pane.  |
| Digg announces 10% layoffs, still aiming for profitability Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:31 PM CST Digg CEO Jay Adelson this morning is announcing that the social media site is laying off a "very small" portion of its workforce, but will also be hiring a new direct sales force and head of sales to drive the company to profitablity this year.  |
| Eight Comedians Who Did Serious Well Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST Every so often, a comic actor goes through a crisis of faith. Maybe they feel they're being pigeonholed into roles that involve fart jokes and being hit in the balls too often, or maybe they just want to see what else they're capable of. Sometimes this can be a trainwreck, but for these eight actors, it's gone pretty well at least once.  |
| Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Tech Dark Ages Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.  |
| The Biggest Unfulfilled Promises in Gaming Posted: 22 Jan 2009 01:51 PM CST This whole new-President thing got us thinking about gaming promises that were made by large companies that have gone tragically unfulfilled. From small game features to hefty hardware claims, these are the promises that never came to fruition...  |
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