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Looks like McCain's preparing to take full political advantage of a natural disaster. Quote: McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13013.ht ml This should be...

I've always known Obama would cut taxes for the poor and raise them for the rich, as well he should, but I didn't expect that the cuts would be higher than the raises. As someone who really sees budget balance as a top priority, I was ready to accept the inevitable. But according to TIME, that's exactly what's expected when you study Obama's plan. http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...s-...

Rumors that Apple will announce next week version 8.0 of its iTunes media cataloging software with a new music recommendation engine may be premature, according to a new report. Earlier this week, outspoken Digg founder Kevin Rose built on his predictions for Apple's special media event next Tuesday by publishing an alleged feature list for iTunes 8.0. Among the claims where that the media...

American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu put out a call to clients on Friday, saying they should be prepared for a slight letdown at Apple's event next Tuesday unless chief executive Steve Jobs pulls a rabbit from his black turtleneck. "While there is always room for surprise, it seems this event may be somewhat underwhelming versus previous expectations and events," he wrote. "Over the ...

A release of the fifth maintenance and security update for Apple's Leopard operating system appears to be approaching a release, with the company reported to have lopped the number components requiring evaluation in half. Developers claim to have received their pre-weekend build of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update on Thursday evening. The new build, labeled 9F32, arrived just days after a...

With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt, electronics maker Apple Inc. is preparing to close out the year with a final phase of product introductions that will stretch over the course of the next two months. Included on the company's roadmap are new iPods, overhauled notebooks, and refreshed iMacs, according to people familiar with the situation. They say ...

With its competitors struggling to catch up with multi-touch technology introduced last year as part of the iPhone, Apple is already conceptualizing new versions of the technology that would fuse a variety of secondary inputs with today's touch-based gestures to produce more efficient data input operations. A new 30-page patent filing by Wayne Westerman and John Elias, co-founders of the ...

Earlier today, Symbian reported second quarter financial reports that outlined a significant slowdown in both growth and profits that signal an end to its rapid acceleration as the leader in smartphones worldwide and suggest tough times ahead for the iPhone competitor. Symbian licenses the software that currently powers 7% of the world's phones but a leading 55% of all smartphones. Symbian ...

Apple is discussing with U.S. wireless carrier AT&T the possibility of offering iPhone 3G users the option to purchase an additional data plan that would allow the handset's 3G connection to be shared with notebook computers. A $10 application called NetShare from iPhone software developer NullRiver briefly enabled this functionality earlier this month but was subsequently plucked from the ...

Hi, My crystal ball told me that Steve Jobs will announce the death of iPod Classic on next Tuesday. So, what possible replacement for 2008-2009? - 16GB iPod Touch ($299) - 32GB iPod Touch ($399) - 160GB iPod Touch, special HDD version ($499) Transitional product just to kill the iPod Classic and for 2009-2010? 100% flash memory - 32GB iPod Touch...

What the fuck are Republicans going to say to justify this obviously-political pick? I don't know much about her, and that isn't for lack of trying. She's been on the short-list rumor mill for months now and there's just nothing about her. Say what you will about Obama, but he has over a decade of documented political philosophy easily available, including 2 books outlining his ideas about ...

Looks like McCain's preparing to take full political advantage of a natural disaster. Quote: McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13013.ht ml This should be...

This Daily Kos post argues that Palin's famous Down syndrome baby is not hers, but her daughter's. To summarize the argument: 1. The pictures of Palin don't look like she's pregnant, even when she should have been showing a lot. 2. No one around her knew she was pregnant, even when she should have been showing a lot. 3. Her high school daughter was taken out of school for mono during the ...

Earlier today, Symbian reported second quarter financial reports that outlined a significant slowdown in both growth and profits that signal an end to its rapid acceleration as the leader in smartphones worldwide and suggest tough times ahead for the iPhone competitor. Symbian licenses the software that currently powers 7% of the world's phones but a leading 55% of all smartphones. Symbian ...