Google Nexus 7 with Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is Now Available in Europe
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We got word via Google Play that the Google Nexus 7 powered by Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, is now available in Europe. The price is astonishingly low. Google on the popular Android platform is offering eBooks, music, movies, TV shows, magazines and m...
Goophone I5 Beats Apple iPhone 5 to the Punch As Chinese Learn Patent-Fast From Litigating Patent Trolling American Role Model that Patenting is the Road to Get Rich Quick
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LOL. At Bloomberg Businessweek, Dexter Roberts has the story in: Enter Goophone I5, Looking a Lot Like Apple’s iPhone 5 Rather than cooperating in a friendly way with the Asian partners who are manufacturing all the electronics these days, the...
The Closer
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ROUND-UP US equity markets finished at their highest levels since the start of 2008, following gains in global risky assets after the European Central Bank announced its new...
The “Hollande bashing”
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With this political back, columnists and other French dailies are lending on the current government policy since the last May. Columns, chronicles and articles are more and critical, not to say severe, pointing out the French President and his Prime...
The Pauline Marois’ challenges
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As the opinion polls planned, the Pauline Marois’ Parti Québécois (PQ) won the legislative elections in Quebec, allowing a come-back of the separatists to power after nine years in the opposition. Jean Charest, the outgoing liberal Prime minister...
New Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE and Kindle Fire HD Introduced: Amazon E-Readers Are Serious Competition for Readers, Pads and Tablets of Other Major Players
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While some of the world has been battling windmills in a court of law in Cupertino, the rest of the world has been innovating, as more and more major players are getting into the highly profitable game of manufacturing and selling various kinds of el...
Comment on Julian Assange should face justice by Wikileaks, lo sviluppo tecnologico e la ricerca della verità « – Giovani Federalisti Europei
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[...] la lettura di questi articoli: uno è dello Spazio della politica blog l’altro è di Federal Union per quanto si possa essere d’accordo o in disaccordo con la posizione degli autori, se non [...]...
Nokia Windows Phones Introduced: Lumia 920 Has Night Vision Photography, Wireless Charging and Augmented Reality But Do they Have the Coolness for the Public to Buy Them?
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Gauging consumer tastes and choices in advance and selling the public what they do not yet "know" is not everyone's specialty. There is no denying that the new Nokia Windows handsets present some outstanding features such as night vision photogra...
Greece is being blown away by the Brussels and Berlin blunderbuss | Costas Lapavitsas
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The strain on a country whose rulers are desperate to avoid a euro exit will lead it to poverty and disfunctionalityLast week I was in Athens and took the metro to Syntagma Square. Like many northern Greeks, I have mixed feelings towards the capital.
Liberal Democrat councillor runs down Tory colleague with car
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David Cameron may well think coalition government can be bruising, but perhaps he is lucky not to live in sleepy Pendle, Lancashire — where a Tory councillor was run down by her Liberal Democrat colleague. Cllr Val Langtree was rushed to hospit...
Mario Draghi: stand and deliver | Editorial
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The imaginative and astute ECB leader has lived up to his side of the bargain, but his plan is wrong-headed and insufficientOn Thursday afternoon the fate of the entire 17-member eurozone rested on the shoulders of one man: Mario Draghi. That such an...
Spain: Ecce Homo Cheers Up the Summer
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La bienintencionada y fallida restauración de un Ecce Homo, rebautizado en las redes sociales como «Ecce Mono», traspasa las fronteras y se convierte en una de las noticias más populares de este verano en las redes sociales y en la prensa mundial...
“Financial markets cheer the death of the Bundesbank”
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Surely the hedder of the day — that’s the English translation of the story flashing across the top of Die Welt at pixel time:...
USA Drops to Seventh in Global Competitiveness Behind FIVE European Nations and Singapore
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The Spiegel Online has an article about the Global Competitiveness Index recently released by the World Economic Forum which shows that the USA has dropped to seventh in the rankings behind FIVE European nations and Singapore. See Germany Overtakes...
Mario unveils his Big Bertha
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Thursday, 06 September 2012 The markets love him – at least for now. In New York stocks rose to a four-year high (at 1300EDT) and the FTSE closed up more than 2% in London after Mario Draghi, the ECB president,...
The Guardian on the obscenity of Pakistan’s blasphemy law
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The Guardian – not a publication known of its criticism of Islamic fundamentalism or, indeed, any other form of religious bigotry, today publishes a powerful piece by Mohammed Hanif. If you read nothing else today, read this: How to commit bla...
Mario Draghi must do more than just prop up the euro | Sheila Lawlor
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The example of Brazil and Sweden shows the ECB must insist on troubled states reforming their institutions and financesMario Draghi, the ECB president, has announced that the ECB will buy unlimited quantities of government debt from troubled countrie...
Pardoning of Azeri axe murderer raises tensions in the Caucasus | Simon Tisdall
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Case of army lieutenant who killed and all but decapitated an Armenian soldier has inflamed public opinionThe spectre of war in the Caucasus rose again this week following the pardoning by Azerbaijan of a convicted axe murderer who killed and all but...
This Week in Luxembourg
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The ECJ is back with a vengeance. In Parliament v. Council (Schengen Borders Code), the Grand Chamber (Judge Von Danwitz) held that Council Decision 2010/252 was ultra vires, because it didn’t so much “implement” the SBC as legislate on essenti...
Has Draghi really saved the universe?
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So it continues.During a highly anticipated press conference, ECB head Mario Draghi - the man tasked with saving the universe after eurozone leader's consistent failures - announced today that the ECB will buy 'unlimited' government debt, albeit shor...
Hollande ‘guts’ 75% wealth tax?
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France’s Socialist President Francois Hollande’s key ‘soak the rich’ 75% tax pledge has been drastically watered down, according to Le Figaro which doesn’t reveal its source. The tax won’t apply to rich couples.
The ECB, ‘Sterilization’ and Money Supply
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In principle, "sterilization" is a process that ensures that individual actions by the central bank don't result in an overall increase in the money supply.
Is Morsi a Contender for Erdoğan’s Crown?
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While newly elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s moves have worried some, he can bring more leverage to negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians than can Turkey.
Seniority, the SMP, and the OMT
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“Was today the day that the Portuguese PSI began?,” Macro Man asks, of the OMT.They’re noting something curious about ECB seniority in light of Thursday’s...
ECB Bond-Buying: Democracy Deficit
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In September 2012, the European Central Bank unveiled the Outright Monetary Transactions program in which the central bank would purchase bonds from debt-laden E.U. states that use that euro and agree to “strict and effective” budget policy. The...
