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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Lisa Osbourne: 10 Weird Things They Don?t Tell You About Pregnancy

Now, the new mom, 26, is spilling the beans on some not so comfortable topics (constipation, anyone?) to our readers. Check out her humorous take.

Source: http://feeds.celebritybabies.com/~r/celebrity-babies/~3/iFHhkyj6yDM/

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Smartphone Screen Sizes Keep On Growing ? But Not for Much Longer

Samsung, which believes bigger isn't better, it's the best, has introduced another mammoth smartphone, the appropriately named Galaxy Mega. It?s the latest handset to embrace the growing trend toward bigger, bigger and still bigger phones -- but it's a trend ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/why-big-smartphone-screens/

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Harper says trend still positive for domestic economy

By Mike Collett MANCHESTER, England, April 10 (Reuters) - England are unlikely to become world champions again because the country's Premier League is now flooded with foreign players, 1966 World Cup winner Bobby Charlton said on Wednesday. "I worry a bit. Every year I feel when one of the newspapers wants me to give an opinion on whether there is a chance to win the World Cup or whatever, I feel obliged to say 'yes they have got a chance' but I think it's a fool's errand," Charlton told delegates at the Soccerex Business Forum. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/harper-says-trend-still-positive-domestic-economy-213328968--business.html

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AT&T confirms Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket getting Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean

AT&T Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket

Update only available via KIES software, AT&T makes the update offical

The Jelly Bean flavor of Android is hitting yet another phone today. (OK, this one's been available for a couple days now, but this morning AT&T made it official.) This time it's AT&T's Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket that's getting Android 4.1.2, some nine months after its Ice Cream Sandwich update. This one's only available through Samsung's KIES desktop software, unfortunately, but that's a small price to pay for a big update.

Here's what you have to look forward to:

Google Now with enhanced voice activation
Adds Browser bar, Drive Mode, ATT Locker, Mobile Hot Spot, Featured Apps widget as preloaded applications
Removes Qik and MSpot applications
Improved Call Quality

Samsung's KIES software is available on Windows or Mac. Be sure you've got at least 50 percent battery before performing surgery.

Download: Samsung KIES; Galaxy S2 Skyrocket Jelly Bean Instructions

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/dKIWx8-JtL4/story01.htm

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Mali to give French president new camel after first one is eaten

Fred Dufour / Pool via Reuters, file

French President Francois Hollande, lower right, is mobbed by Malians during his visit to Timbuktu in February. A camel gifted to Hollande during his visit ended up being eaten by a family in the town.

By Reuters

Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali said.

A local government official in northern Mali said on Tuesday a replacement would be sent to France.

"As soon as we heard of this, we quickly replaced it with a bigger and better-looking camel," said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

"The new camel will be sent to Paris. We are ashamed of what happened to the camel. It was a present that did not deserve this fate."

Hollande was presented with the camel when he visited Mali in February several weeks after dispatching French troops to the former colony to help combat al Qaeda-linked fighters moving south from a base in the north of the country.

The president joked at the time about using the camel to get around traffic-jammed Paris. But he chose in the end to leave it with a family in the town on the edge of the Sahara desert.

Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was tasked with giving Hollande regular updates on the camel's status and had to inform him of its death last week, French media said.

"The news came in from soldiers on the ground," said a French government official.

French leaders have received many gifts of exotic or wild animals from Africa and further afield over the years.

Last week, a robber chainsawed a tusk off the skeleton of an elephant offered to Louis XIV by a Portuguese king in 1668. Police caught the robber as he fled, tusk under his arm.

Source: http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/653387/s/2a87e5c4/l/0Lworldnews0Bnbcnews0N0C0Inews0C20A130C0A40C0A90C176770A20A0Emali0Eto0Egive0Efrench0Epresident0Enew0Ecamel0Eafter0Efirst0Eone0Eis0Eeaten0Dlite/story01.htm

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

ZTE Geek unveiled with 2GHz Intel Clover Trail+ and a terrible name (video)

Oh ZTE you cheeky monkey. Towards the end of day one at IDF in Beijing, we stumbled upon this awkwardly titled Android Jelly Bean phone that is the Geek at ZTE's booth. Needless to say, this is yet another phone powered by an Intel processor -- a 2GHz Clover Trail+ Atom to be exact, which is what Lenovo's K900 also has. The rest of the device isn't too shabby, either: you get a nice 5-inch 720p display with Gorilla Glass, along with an 8-megapixel main camera, a 1-megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB of storage space, 1GB of RAM, 2,300mAh battery and wireless charging. Radio-wise we see UMTS 900/2100 courtesy of Intel's XMM 6260 chip, and there's also the usual lot of 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 LE and GPS.

Design-wise the Geek takes a huge step away from the Grand X IN and shares a similarly clean look with the Grand S, but without the black eye around the main camera. This particular unit had a glossy white finish as well, but we'd prefer a matte finish for a more premium feel. Since ZTE admitted that it had to rush this prototype for exhibition at IDF, we'll come back to the build quality once we see a final retail unit. Until then, check out our hands-on video and the press release after the break.

Gallery: ZTE Geek hands-on