Soon, you can buy Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in ATT in white, black, and red.
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ATT)
ATT’s rivals could start seeing red over the carrier’s exclusive lock on the Samsung Galaxy S4′s latest hue.
The Aurora Red shade of the 16GB Galaxy S4 goes on sale to ATT customers starting June 14, though pre-orders begin May 24.
ATT seems to have a special affinity for red shades; just about a year ago it also scored exclusive U.S. rights to sell the GS4 predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, in a shade of red. Later, that color [...]
AT&T nabs Samsung Galaxy S4 exclusively in red
Soon, you can buy Samsung’s Galaxy S4 in ATT in white, black, and red.
(Credit:
ATT)
ATT’s rivals could start seeing red over the carrier’s exclusive lock on the Samsung Galaxy S4′s latest hue.
The Aurora Red shade of the 16GB Galaxy S4 goes on sale to ATT customers starting June 14, though pre-orders begin May 24.
ATT seems to have a special affinity for red shades; just about a year ago it also scored exclusive U.S. rights to sell the GS4 predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3, in a shade of red. Later, that color [...]
Berlusconi prosecutor sent bullets
23 May 2013
Last updated at 11:26 ET
Silvio Berlusconi says he has been persecuted by a left-wing judiciary
A prosecutor who requested a six-year sentence for Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sent threats including a letter with two bullets, her office says.
Ilda Boccassini had also asked that Mr Berlusconi be banned for life from public office for allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year-old dancer.
Both the dancer, Karima El-Mahroug, and Mr Berlusconi have denied the allegations.
A verdict i [...]
Amazon’s "Kindle Worlds" lets fan fiction writers sell their stories
Fan fiction writers can submit their books to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds beginning in June. So far, Amazon has licensed three popular series.
Fan fiction, in which aficionados of existing books and movies write characters into new storylines, has long been popular fodder on Internet forums — but stories based on copyrighted works are essentially impossible to sell. Amazon wants to change that with its new “Kindle Worlds” program.
Kindle Worlds, which Amazon Publishing announced on Wednesday, lets authors write R [...]
Tour chief apologises for remark
European Tour chief executive George O’Grady has apologised for using a racially insensitive word in an interview defending Sergio Garcia.
O’Grady used the term “coloured athletes” while trying to mitigate Garcia’s “fried chicken” remark about Tiger Woods earlier this week.
But O’Grady has now apologised.
He said: “I deeply regret using an inappropriate word in a live interview for Sky Sports for which I unreservedly apologise.”
At the European Tour’ [...]
New J&J anti-depressant related to “Special K” party drug
Thu May 23, 2013 8:31am EDT
(Reuters) – Johnson Johnson said on Thursday it plans to submit more than 10 new products for regulatory approval by 2017, including drugs to treat hepatitis C, immune diseases and schizophrenia, and vaccines for flu, rabies and polio.
It said products launched since 2009 will account for nearly half of its pharmaceutical sales by 2017. It also said it plans to continue developing its pipeline of new development-stage drugs in Japan and China, where it also has drugs in later stages [...]
Priebus: ‘Guerrilla warfare’
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus is charging that the controversies enveloping the White House smack of “lawlessness” and “guerrilla warfare,” but said on Thursday that the verdict is still out on “how far up it goes” in the administration, especially with regard to the IRS.
“I’m entitled to have an opinion that I think it’s evidence of political warfare gone amok on behalf of the administration,” Priebus said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I’m entitled to an opinion that this is political guerrilla warfare and it’s lawlessn [...]
Cloned Human Embryo Study Comes Under Fire
A week ago, scientists from Oregon Health and Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center announced that they had successfully used human skin cells to clone embryonic stem cells. In the few days since the researchers’ work came online, though, the research has been found to contain a few key errors.
An anonymous online commenter on PubPeer, a post-publication peer review discussion site, highlighted four potential issues regarding image reuse in the paper, published online in the journal Cell on May 15. [...]
Yahoo’s at it again with gaming platform acquisition
Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale.
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PlayerScale)
Yahoo’s at it again.
The online giant has made another acquisition only days after reaching a deal to buy Tumblr. This time around, Yahoo is expanding in the gaming arena with the purchase of PlayerScale.
PlayerScale develops software for cross-plaform gaming that allows publishers and aggregators to quickly scale titles across various platforms. Founded in 2011, the company has over 150 million users worldwide, and it’s adding more than 400,000 new users every day. [...]
Wild ’n’ Out: Gisele Goes Guerrilla for BLK DNM
At this very moment, cult sub-Fourteenth Street denim label BLK DNM is plastering downtown Manhattan with its newest “Wild” poster campaign—the company’s only form of advertising since its inception in 2011. Lensed by the brand’s founder and creative director, Johan Lindeberg, the sixth installment of the guerrilla promos feature none other than genetic Powerball winner Gisele Bündchen. But this isn’t your standard Gisele fare—in fact, all that’s shown is the model’s mile-long legs and covetable Brazilian posterior in a pair of second- [...]
Google acquires kite-power firm
23 May 2013
Last updated at 06:27 ET
Google’s investment helped found Makani Power and bankrolled its first experiments
Google has acquired a US company that generates power using turbines mounted on tethered kites or wings.
Makani Power will become part of Google X – the secretive research and development arm of the search giant.
The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers.
Google has not said how much it paid to acquire Makan [...]
If Obama were a CEO, not president, DOJ would hold him accountable for scandals
IRS… Benghazi… AP… the scandals are mounting in D.C. Who’s to blame?
Well, if you use the standards that federal prosecutors apply to corporations, the president would be held legally responsible for any wrongdoing by federal workers—whether he knew what they were doing or not.
Like Sergeant Shultz from “Hogan’s Heroes,” President Obama insists that he knew nothing about the IRS targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups. He only learned about it from media coverage of the Treasury’s Inspector General Report.
Similarly, he knew [...]
New home sales rise
New home sales were up again in April.
New home sales edged slightly higher once again in April as the housing market continues to give a lift to the U.S. economy.
New homes sold at an annual pace of 454,000 in the month, up 2% from March, and a 13% jump from the year earlier sales pace. Sales readings for the previous three months were also all revised higher.
A tight supply of new homes for sale helped to boost the median sales price to $271,600, up 8% from March and 15% from a year ago.
“It’s official: housing is ba [...]