Let’s Face It: Microsoft innovation makes Apple look bad in the Living Room

 

 

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Let’s Face It: Microsoft innovation makes Apple look bad in the Living Room

via SlashGear by Don Reisinger on 7/23/11

I was recently discussing companies that are trying to make it big with living room entertainment products with a friend, when he asked me which company — Microsoft or Apple — was doing a better job. My first reaction was to say Apple.

After all, as I noted on these pages earlier this week, the new Mac mini is the best computer to hook up to a television, and I'm a firm believer that the Apple TV is the top set-top box in the market. It seemed like an open-and-shut case.

But then I started thinking about things a bit more deeply. More specifically, I thought about Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Kinect devices and all that they offer. Upon doing so, I came to a new conclusion: Microsoft is actually making Apple look bad in the living room, and it's doing so with ease.

See, when I think about Apple's living-room products compared to Microsoft's, I'm left wanting more. For years now, I've hoped that the Apple TV would feature gaming, and it still doesn't. I've wanted it to allow me to record live television, and it doesn't. And although I don't have a problem with it, the latest Mac mini's missing DVD drive is an issue for some folks.

The Xbox 360, on the other hand, comes with many of the things I'm looking for in a home-entertainment device. I can play top-notch video games both offline and online. And if I want to sit back and relax with a favorite movie, I can pop a disc into the device and do so. Even better, Microsoft's console allows for access to a host of streaming services, including Netflix. Combine that with the Kinect, and I don't think there's any doubt that Microsoft is trumping Apple in the living room.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the biggest fan of the Kinect or motion gaming. In fact, I've said on SlashGear before that my Kinect is collecting dust. But I can still appreciate innovation when I see it. And I think that Microsoft deserves a lot of credit for delivering a product that breaks down some barriers and sets benchmarks in its respective market.

It's rather odd to say such a thing about Microsoft. In most cases, it's Apple that breaks down the barriers and sets benchmarks. But in the living room, the iPhone maker has been decidedly run-of-the-mill. Rather than push boundaries, Apple has stayed well within them. And in the process, it has allowed companies like Microsoft and Sony to win the battle for the living room.

Before Apple fans jump all over this column, allow me to say that I fully realize that Apple knows what it's doing in the consumer space, as evidenced by its recent financial showing. And in many markets, it has made Microsoft look bad. But whether the company's fans like it or not, the living room isn't one of them.

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Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating

140 trillion times the amount of water found in our oceans was detected in outer space. And we consider the oceans vast :P

 

 

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Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating

via Engadget by Joseph Volpe on 7/23/11

Is that an intergalactic wave pool, or just a hungry, hungry quasar? Turns out it's a bit of both -- well, not the wave pool bit, but it's watery. A NASA-funded peep into the farthest reaches of the cosmos has uncovered this "feeding black hole" 12 billion light years away. APM 08279+5255, as this compacted mass of inescapable doom is affectionately known, has been gorging on water vapor and spewing out energy. How much H2O exactly? It's only the "largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe," and it weighs in at 140 trillion times the amount in our oceans. Located via the cooperation of two teams of astronomers and their star-gazing equipment -- the Z-Space instrument at California Institute of Technology's Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii and the Plateau de Bure Interferometer in the French Alps -- this aqueous discovery proves the wet stuff is more universally omnipresent than we once thought. Also, surfing aliens, right?

Giant body of water found in space, black hole claims it was just hydrating originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mobile devices lift Intel revenue

I am sure that tablets and mobile phones could only play an indirect role to Intel's fiscal results, as Intel is not producing ARM chips (in a large scale).

 

 

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Mobile devices lift Intel revenue

via BBC News - Home on 7/21/11

Chipmaker Intel reports record quarterly revenues and higher profits due in part to strong demand for mobile phones and tablets.

 

 

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American Express and Facebook Launch Link, Like, Love Deals Platform

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American Express and Facebook Launch Link, Like, Love Deals Platform

via SlashGear by Chris Burns on 7/19/11

This deals platform goes by the name "Link, Like, Love." It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's going to destroy all other credit cards and deals programs. They'll never know what hit em. This is a deals program that you set up with your credit card in which you "like" deals on the internet then instantly get the deals you've liked when you use your credit card to purchase the goods or services that are involved in the deal. That's powerful. That's a Google Offers killer – isn't it? Let's have a quick talk on what this new platform means for everyone from small business owners to MasterCard.

All you've essentially got to do here is begin by linking your American Express card to your Facebook account for starters. Next you've got to find a deal that you enjoy, "like" it, this loading the deal to your American Express account, then you've just gotta get out there and get that deal! Have a look at the message being sent out to draw consumers in for this promotion:

"You and your friends like and share many things on Facebook. Now, American Express has deals and experiences for you based on those likes and interests. And once you sign up and choose your deals, all you have to do is use your American Express® Card and statement credits will be sent directly to your Card account.

No coupons. No hassles. Just a credit on your statement, and savings in your pocket."

This does away with the hassle of teaching consumers any new process (all of these things are inherently understood for a basic Facebook and American Express user, if you ask me,) and makes way for a completely employee-less sale. The time and effort that goes into training a staff on how to use a special deal costs a company that time and effort – this way the cost is minimized to essentially nothing. What this model does is takes transaction history and utilizes it to the max.

With transaction histories, merchants will be able to target offers to the people who've proven that they'll be willing to come to specific businesses if they feel the product, service, or better yet, deal on a product or service, is worth the time and effort they've got to spend getting it. Membership Rewards will almost certainly build into this as well, making for a great long-lasting business model for both businesses AND American Express. When you teach a person how to do a task with your unique tool, their first instinct becomes to use that tool to do the task.

And what's best in this whole situation? Unlike Groupon who take a 50 percent cut of each deal, American Express takes zero precent, making their money instead from normal payment transaction fees.

Win for American Express.
Win for businesses.
Win for Facebook.

[via Facebook]

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Google: Apple Sues Because it 'Can't Respond Through Innovations'

http://osnews.com/story/24966/Google_Apple_Sues_Because_it_Can_t_Respond_Through_Innovations_
Lol save HTC petition :p
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Eight banks fail EU stress test

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/business-14169940
What I like about Greek newspapers is that most of them declared that all the Greek banks passed the test, while this is not true. At least for two of them.
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Internet is 'changing our memory'

Two facts:
* The Internet is for porn
* The Internet is changing our memory
Thus, our memory is becoming more efficient in the research for available porn resources.

 

 

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Internet is 'changing our memory'

via BBC News - Home on 7/16/11

A study shows that memory is poorer when participants expect that information they learn will be stored on a computer for later use.

 

 

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Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code

 

 

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Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code

via Slashdot: Linux by Soulskill on 7/16/11

sfcrazy sends this quote from the H: "The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other 'change sets,' Microsoft provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085 change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839."

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Indifferent Meh Thumb Button Hits Nail on Head

I want a "Meh" shirt \m/

 

 

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Indifferent Meh Thumb Button Hits Nail on Head

via SlashGear by Chris Burns on 7/11/11

There's this thing about social commentary – it doesn't matter. Or at least that's what folks like Zuckerberg and the +1 folks at Google don't want you to believe. Today you've got the opportunity to make yourself heard with a "Meh" shirt on Woot, one with a mark modeled after the "Like" button and pointing in a certain "whatever" direction. As a child of the Nevermind generation, I can't possibly resist. Will you get a "Meh" shirt, or will you just forget about it?

This is all part of a much bigger issue, if you ask me, one born of complete not-caring for the barrage of YOU MUST CHOOSE bursting forth from every internet seam. Even the sale of the shirt begs you to decide. But let me ask you this: will you sign up for Google+, will you stick with Facebook and continue to Like all things, or will you keep on making Facebook groups dedicated to getting that Thumbs Down button? Dislike all, please!

For those of you who don't give a hoot about any of these social networks popping up here and there, this is the shirt for you – but I implore you: don't buy it. Instead show your not caring and complete lack of devotion to the cause (and all causes) by just sharing the image above. In fact, don't even link back to anything, because that would mean that you care, and you don't.

Kurt Cobain, you've ruined us all forever.

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3G ASUS Eee Pad Transformer spotted online, priced starting at 499 euros

buy one for me :P

 

 

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3G ASUS Eee Pad Transformer spotted online, priced starting at 499 euros

via Engadget by Dana Wollman on 7/11/11

By this time, hopefully, all of you who were on the hunt for a Transformer finally got your mitts on one. If you were holding out for the 3G version, though, you can stop fidgeting -- it's already been priced in mainland Europe, putting it almost a month ahead of its expected arrival in the UK. Notebook Italia spotted both the 16GB and 32GB iterations listed online, fetching €499 and €599, respectively, VAT included. Notebook Italia also grabbed a screenshot of an updated product page on ASUS's Italian site, though when we peeped the listing we just found the WiFi-only versions, with predictably lower prices to match. Either way you slice it, though, both the instruction manual and illustrated product guide are alive and well on ASUS' site, suggesting you should see this on the streets of Milano soon enough.

[Thanks, Marco]

3G ASUS Eee Pad Transformer spotted online, priced starting at 499 euros originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition

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Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition

via Engadget by Joseph Volpe on 7/3/11

We have a gut feeling this is the video that'll be playing when 'the hive' takes over -- a sentimental, 'look how far we've come' victory reel for the Quadrotor nation. But for now, let's just keep the focus on the softer side of our future nemesis' training-room foibles. Playing like an über-geek version of America's Funniest Home Videos, we admit we cracked a smile watching these insect-like bots from the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab take a few hard knocks in the humility ring. Fear of the swarm aside, it's a humorous twist on an otherwise droning research project. The take away? Schadenfreude -- it's not just for humans.

[Thanks, Daniel]

Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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GetJar rejects Apple Cease & Desist demand over “App Store”

getjar for the win. apple die die die

 

 

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GetJar rejects Apple Cease & Desist demand over “App Store”

via SlashGear by Chris Davies on 7/11/11

Software download store GetJar has refused to comply with a Cease & Desist (C&D) demand from Apple, arguing that the contentious "app store" name is not yet an official trademark and that the Cupertino company is little more than a pack of bullies. "We started formally distributing free apps in early 2005 and are among the pioneers of the modern direct-to-consumer (D2C) app store distribution space when the iPhone was just an R&D project in Steve Job's head" GetJar CMO Patrick Mork highlights, going on to suggest that Apple's legal attention was only provoked when GetJar helped launch the previously-exclusive iOS game "Cut The Rope" on Android.

Mork also runs through the history of the "app store" trademark, or at least Apple's attempts to establish the term as such. As he points out, Apple was denied the trademark by the USPTO in 2008, and then granted a "provisional" registration as long as nobody else contested it; unfortunately, Microsoft and others did.

"GetJar won't be subject to this kind of bullying.  We're not going to "Cease & Desist".  We were here long before Steve & Co.  We were built by developers, to help developers.  Not to help sell handsets or search results. In the words of Twisted Sister: We're not going to take it! Steve Jobs isn't our Dad" Patrick Mork, CMO, GetJar

As GetJar sees it, Apple's C&D is the latest in a number of concerning shifts within the mobile ecosystem to a closed state, where even "open" platforms like Android place limitations on developers such as not allowing them to "choose their billing solution." The recent spate of Microsoft patent settlements by various Android-adopting OEMs – most recently Wistron – also gets a mention. "Is anyone actually worrying about whether app developers and content providers make enough money to keep the lights on?" Mork concludes.

The company is now kicking off "The Open And Free App Movement (#OFAM)" to try to gather disgruntled developers, OEMs, carriers and other interested parties into a single place, and hopefully introduce some change. Whether that will succeed is one question; the bigger one, perhaps, is how Apple's legal team will respond to GetJar's refusal to follow the C&D's demands.

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Debian, SFLC Publish Patent Advice For Community Distros

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Nestle to buy Chinese candy maker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/business-14101885
OMG the Chinese will start drinking stuff prefixed with nes-. The demise has begun.
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Quadrocopters reined in by Kinect leash, we feel safer already

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Quadrocopters reined in by Kinect leash, we feel safer already

via Engadget by Terrence O'Brien on 7/3/11

It seems like the folks over at the Flying Machine Arena are finally starting to catch on -- those quadrocopters are going to kill us all. Thankfully, after teaching them to juggle and tap out some tunes, the researchers came to their senses and put the flying machines on a Kinect-controlled leash. Instead of flitting about autonomously, the four-rotored nightmares are directed by a puppeteer waving his hands. Movement is controlled by the right hand, while raising the left one tells the copter to do a little flip for its master's amusement, and a commanding clap makes it sit down like a good little pup. Best of all, if you don't give it any arm-waving instruction it just hovers and waits until you tell it otherwise. On further consideration, maybe we haven't been creating our own murderers, but a new man's best friend -- after all, they don't eat much and can't chew up your remotes. Check out the video after the break.

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Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS

remember the androids in space?
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Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS

via Slashdot: Hardware by Soulskill on 7/8/11

An anonymous reader writes "Given the NFC capabilities in Nexus S, NASA researchers are about to deploy them on the International Space Station. Two Nexus S phones will be installed in robotic floating orbs called Spheres (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites). They will be performing a variety of everyday tasks like taking inventory and inspecting equipment, which will free up the human crew members for other duties. Currently the Spheres are in testing mode, as the video shows, but are expected to be up and running by the end of the year."

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Atlantis STS-135 Mission is Go: Space Shuttle’s final launch a success

 

 

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Atlantis STS-135 Mission is Go: Space Shuttle’s final launch a success

via SlashGear by Chris Davies on 7/8/11

Space Shuttle Atlantis launched successfully this morning, the final flight of the Space Shuttle program, on mission STS-135 to the International Space Station. Traveling at up to 15,000mph, Atlantis is expected to reach the ISS on Sunday morning, where it will deliver supplies, replacement components and the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module, as well as carry out scientific experiments including some on yeast.

For many, however, the most momentous aspect of STS-135 was the fact that it marks the end of a three-decade long chapter in space exploration. "After 30 years of adventure and excitement, the shuttle proved once again it can surprise and thrill" NASA said of the launch.

You can watch the launch at NASA's STS-135 minisite, as well as keep up to date with the ongoing mission as it continues over the next twelve days. There's also a new Android app, to accompany the existing iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, from which you can watch videos, find out information about space, and track the Atlantis mission.

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CERN Launches Open Source Hardware Project

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CERN Launches Open Source Hardware Project

via SlashGear by Chris Burns on 7/8/11

The folks who brought you the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the experiments therein are now working to bring you an OHR, aka an Open Hardware Repository for all the collaborative electronics design you could possibly handle. For those of you that don't know, CERN also has their very own Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux known as Scientific Linux CERN. It was the productivity of this project that inspired this newest effort, the group hoping now to bring this open source software development model to the hardware world.

This newest hardware project came about when the fine folks at CERN realized that there was no reason why the forward-thinking open-source software project based in LINUX should be the only one able to work in a community of leaders willing to collaborate for the greater good of the scientific world. CERN engineer and Open Hardware Repository founder Javier Serrano notes the following:

"For us, the drive towards open hardware was largely motivated by well-intentioned envy of our colleagues who develop Linux device drivers. They are part of a very large community of designers who share their knowledge and time in order to come up with the best possible operating system. We felt that there was no intrinsic reason why hardware development should be any different."

While this wont be the first open source hardware project, or indeed the first open hardware project to get a license, it's certainly one of the more exciting ones, the CERN project being one of the better known scientific projects the world over in recent years – notoriety on such a level brings great minds, that much is true!

One example of an open hardware project that's already well on its way is White Rabbit, a project initiated to build a specialized network switch for timing synchronization in complex control systems — like the kind used by the LHC. An overview of this project can be found at the OHR and here:

White Rabbit is a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and synchronization. The aim is to be able to synchronize ~1000 nodes with sub-ns accuracy over fiber and copper lengths of up to 10 km. The key technologies used are physical layer syntonization (clock recovery) and PTP (IEEE 1588).

Make a whole lot of sense to you, average citizen? This is why we need the greatest minds from around the engineering world working on such fabulous projects, and in an open way. Because all work done inside the greater project is done in a share-alike license agreement, it must be shared with the ability to study, modify, and redistribute.

Verzion 1.1 of the Open Hardware Repository was published this week, having originally been drafted back in March, now available for anyone to take a look at inside the OHR website.

You may further access CERN's Open Hardware Repository at http://www.ohwr.org/ – use it wisely! Same goes for the LINUX project they've got going which you can find out more about at http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/scientific6/ Currently available: BETA SLC 6.1 version is available as of 09.06.2011 – wins all around!

[via Ars Technica]

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Το κάπνισμα επιτρέπεται ξανά στα νυχτερινά κέντρα, έναντι ειδικού τέλους

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Το κάπνισμα επιτρέπεται ξανά στα νυχτερινά κέντρα, έναντι ειδικού τέλους

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Οι επιχειρηματίες των νυχτερινών κέντρων θα πληρώνουν και οι πελάτες θα μπορούν ανενόχλητοι να ανάβουν τσιγάρο, πλέον, καθώς η ελαστικοποίηση του αντικαπνιστικού νόμου είναι γεγονός. Όπως προβλέπεται στον εφαρμοστικό νόμο του Μεσοπρόθεσμου Προγράμματος, τα νυχτερινά κέντρα άνω των 300 τμ και τα καζίνο θα καταβάλλουν ειδικό ετήσιο τέλος ύψους 200 ευρώ ανά τετραγωνικό μέτρο, προκειμένου οι θαμώνες να μπορούν να καπνίζουν... Ο γγ Δημόσιας Υγείας Αντ.Δημόπουλος δήλωσε στον Βήμα 99,5 ότι πρόκειται για ρύθμιση που στοχεύει στην ομαλή μετάβαση προς την πλήρη εφαρμογή της απαγόρευσης του καπνίσματος. Σχολιάστε.

 

 

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Google will delete private Google Profiles August 1

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Google will delete private Google Profiles August 1

via SlashGear by Shane McGlaun on 7/6/11

If you have a Google Profile and you have it set to private, you aren't using the service correctly apparently. Google doesn't want your stinkin' profile on its servers if you won't share with others. In fact, Google is going so far as to say if you don't want to share your profile, delete it. If you don't delete it and won't share, Google will delete it for you on August 1. In a nutshell if you use a Google profile its share or go home.

Google notes that the point of Google Profiles is to allow you to manage your online identity and right now almost all of the profiles are public. The search giant thinks that public is best after all and therefore all profiles are required to be public. Google points out that only the full name and gender are required information on the profile and any other info can be removed or edited.

The thing that I see here is sort of a precedent that Google is setting and I see some possible ramifications. What if this is a sort of test to see how people react to being made to share or not use the service. What if the next part of this is a roll out of that long anticipated Google social network with the caveat that what you put on the network must be public. What if Facebook decided to follow suit? Faced with share or go home, most people would keep sharing and using the service and it would certainly make generating revenue off a social network easier.

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Men wanted as stem cell donors

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Men wanted as stem cell donors

via BBC News - Home on 7/5/11

Young men between the ages of 18 and 25 are being urged to donate stem cells to save the lives of people with blood cancers.

 

 

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Ακροδεξιοί συνδικαλιστές της ΕΘΕΛ μεταξύ των ατόμων που φαίνεται να συνεργάζ...

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Ακροδεξιοί συνδικαλιστές της ΕΘΕΛ μεταξύ των ατόμων που φαίνεται να συνεργάζονται με αστυνομικούς στο επίμαχο βίντεο

via In.gr Νέα: Ελλάδα on 6/29/11

Τουλάχιστον δύο εκ των πέντε ατόμων που διακρίνονται στο επίμαχο βίντεο, που προβλήθηκε από το κεντρικό δελτίο ειδήσεων του Alter, να συνομιλούν με αστυνομικούς και στη συνέχεια να εισέρχονται στον προαύλιο χώρο της Βουλής, πίσω από τις τάξεις των αστυνομικών δυνάμεων στον Αγνωστο Στρατιώτη φέρονται να είναι συνδικαλιστές της ΕΘΕΛ, με ακραία συμπεριφορά, σύμφωνα με τα όσα δηλώνουν στα μέσα ενημέρωσης συνάδελφοί τους.

 

 

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IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than flash

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