Archive for August, 2008

VP Choice: McCain’s horrible joke on America

Our “Country First” candidate, John McCain, has announced as his running mate for the Vice President of the United States of America, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. I can’t help but say that I am really hoping for a follow up “just kidding” statement but so far I have seen none.
It seems the republican campaign [...]

August 29th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 4: Speeches

Democratic Nominee Barack Obama: Click Here
Fmr. Vice President Al Gore: Click Here
Governor Tim Kaine - Virginia
What an honor to be here on this powerful night! What an honor to speak not just to those gathered here in Denver but to homes across America—and not just those owned by John McCain.
Looking out at this crowd and [...]

August 29th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 4: Al Gore’s Speech

One of the greatest gifts of our democracy is the opportunity it offers us every four years to change course. It’s not a guarantee; it’s only an opportunity. The question facing us is, simply put, will we seize this opportunity for change? That’s why I came here tonight: to tell you why I feel so [...]

August 29th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

John McCain selects running mate as Gallup shows 8 pt Obama lead

In a surprise move, John McCain has selected Alaska governor Sarah Palin as running mate for the post of Vice President of the United States of America. The move clearly seems to be an attempt to woo feminist voters backing Hillary as Barack Obama accepted his nomination for the president of the United States at [...]

August 29th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Begining of the end of broadband as we know it

Our beloved communications company, Comcast, has posted an ammendment to it’s Network Management Policy stating that starting October 1st, it will be implementing broadband usage caps to 250GB per month.Yes that’s right, it’s like our cell phone plans now. Exceed your caps and pay more to Comcast. Well not quite!
If a customer surpasses 250 GB [...]

August 29th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Video Update: DNC Day 4: Barack Obama acceptance speech

Transcript: To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin, and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation: With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially [...]

August 28th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Facebook touches the 100 million mark

Facebook’s blog has made an official announcement, a posting by Zuckerberg himself, about reaching their big milestone of 100 million Facebook users worldwide.
We spend all our time here trying to build the best possible product that enables you to share and stay connected, so the fact that we’re growing so quickly all over the world [...]

August 28th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Blackberry Partners Fund opens up Developer Challenge

We had previosuly covered the launch of the Blackberry partners fund, a $150 million fund with investments from Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters aimed at supporting developers of applications running primarily on RIM’s Blackberry phones.
The fund website recently went live and now the fund has announced the developer challenge for BlackBerry® Developers [...]

August 27th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 3: Democratic VP Nominee Joe Biden’s Speech

Beau, I love you. I am so proud of you. Proud of the son you are. Proud of the father you’ve become. And I’m so proud of my son Hunter, my daughter Ashley, and my wife Jill, the only one who leaves me breathless and speechless at the same time.
It is an honor to share [...]

August 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 3: Speeches

Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Joe Biden - Click Here
Fmr. President Bill Clinton - Click Here
Senator John Kerry -Massachusetts
Thank you so much. Four years ago, you gave me the honor of fighting our fight. I was proud to stand with you then, and I am proud to stand with you now, to help elect Barack Obama [...]

August 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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DNC Day 3: Bill Clinton’s Speech

I am honored to be here tonight to support Barack Obama. And to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden, though as you’ll soon see, he doesn’t need any help from me. I love Joe Biden, and America will too.
What a year we Democrats have had. The primary began with an all-star line up and [...]

August 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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Democrats question McCain’s health

Democrats have defined the 2008 Presidential Elections as choice between the past and the future - partly because John McCain has been in the Senate for too long and partly because he has supported current President George W. Bush on a majority of issues for the last 8 years. But mostly because John McCain is [...]

August 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Register to Vote via Xbox Live

Twelve million strong Xbox Live user base has a new choice in fight - the fight for the President of United States in 2008. Your voting initiative Rock the Vote has announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring the political battle to Xbox Live. The objective of the partnership is to register two million under-30 [...]

August 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

FDIC: rough quarter for banks, 27 more banks join problem list

FDIC today released data on commercial banks insured by them. Net Earnings for these commercial entities fell to $5 billion, a decline of $31.8 billion (86.5 percent) from the $36.8 billion that the industry earned in the second quarter of 2007. The latest earnings were the lowest for the industry since the fourth quarter of [...]

August 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Nokia’s N96 comes to the US

Nokia today announced that their “multimedia computer”, the Nokia N96, will be made available for high-speed 3G HSDPA networks widely used in the Americas during the fourth quarter of 2008.
The devices has a large 2.8 inch screen, 16 gigabytes of internal memory and compatibility with a wide range of video formats.
The phone will support video [...]

August 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Broad declines in home prices continue

Decline in home prices continued for the first half of 2008 as S&P reported data through June 2008 for its S&P Case-Shiller 1 Home Price Index, a measure of U.S. housing market. Home price declines have prevailed throughout 2007 and the trend continues in 2008.
The decline in the index remained in double digits. With a [...]

August 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 2: Hillary Clinton’s Speech

I am honored to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.

My friends, it is time to take back the country we love. Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Existing home sales and foreclosures rise in July

The National Association of Realtors has release Existing-home sales numbers for July. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Existing-Home Sales Series is the premier measurement of the residential real estate market. On or about the 25th of each month, NAR releases statistics on sales and prices of existing single-family homes for the nation and the four [...]

August 26th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 2: Speeches

Senator Hillary Clinton - New York
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Governor Mark Warner - Virginia
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Senator Robert Casey Jr. - Pennsylvania
I’m honored to stand before you as Governor Bob Casey’s son and a proud supporter of Barack Obama. Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
For eight years, the people of Pennsylvania have [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 2: Mark Warner’s Speech

Senator Mark Warner - Virginia
Keynote Speech (Day 2)
My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, the most important contest of our generation has begun. Not the campaign for the presidency, not the campaign for Congress, but the race for the future.
And I believe from the bottom of my heart with the right vision, the right leadership, and [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 1: Speeches

Michelle Obama’s Speech - Here
Senator Edward Kennedy’s Speech - Here
Senator Claire McCaskill, Missouri
It is an honor to stand before you tonight representing the great state of Missouri. Missouri is in the middle of our great country. We have a nice view. From the middle, we see America. As you look around my state, you see [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 1: Ted Kennedy’s Speech

My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, it is so wonderful to be here.
And nothing — nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight.
I have come here tonight to stand with you to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to elect Barack Obama president of [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

DNC Day 1: Michelle Obama’s Speech

As you might imagine, for Barack, running for President is nothing compared to that first game of basketball with my brother Craig.
I can’t tell you how much it means to have Craig and my mom here tonight. Like Craig, I can feel my dad looking down on us, just as I’ve felt his presence in [...]

August 26th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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Digg introduces Digg Dialogg: (dialog with a digg double g :))

Digg has just launched a new service called Dialogg ( Yes that’s right. It’s a dialog with a digg double g ). The company plans to organize interviews and pose community questions to individuals and leaders of the moment.
We’re launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.” The concept is simple – we identify a featured [...]

August 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Laptops get artsy and personal

Dell is working hard to change it’s image from a manufacturer of cheap cookie cutter computer systems to one more aligned with the times: trendy and customizable. Enhancing personal expression and style, Dell has launched five bold and contemporary Special Art Edition designs for the Dell Studio 15 and 17 laptops, exclusively created by urban [...]

August 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

AMD sells digital TV unit to Broadcom for $192 million

AMD is unloading it’s Digital TV business unit to Broadcom for $192 million. AMD’s DTV product line includes all Xilleon™ integrated DTV processors and complete turnkey reference designs, as well as NXT receiver ICs, the Theater™ 300 DTV processor, and a line of panel processors that perform advanced motion compensation, frame rate conversion and scaling.
“AMD [...]

August 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Google Suggest graduates from Google Labs

Google’s Suggest service has finally graduated from Google Labs. Google Suggest is a search feature that provides real-time suggestions while typing for search keywords on the Google Search text box. With this announcement, the suggest feature will be available by default on the Google.com homepage.

Suggest is useful in correcting spelling errors, suggesting related keywords and [...]

August 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

60% Americans believe John McCain is running a negative campaign

60% of the Americans surveyed in George Washington University Battleground Poll think Republican Presidential nominee John McCain is running a negative campaign. The number is a sum of 50% who think John McCain is the only one making personal attacks and 10% thinking both candidates have gone negative. Only 21% of the respondents think Democratic [...]

August 25th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Update: McCain questions Obama-Biden alliance

Breaking news: the text message is out and it’s official… Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden to be his running mate! It’s Obama-Biden ‘08!
Joe Biden has represented the state of Delaware in the United States Senate since 1972, when he was elected at the age of twenty-nine. Senator Biden is recognized as a leader in [...]

August 23rd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

CAPTCHA’s and digitizing old books, who wudda thunk?

If you thought that CAPTCHA’s were only used to fight spam, think again. reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize old print media! A captcha is a program to decode whether the user in questions is a human or a computer bot. It’s common to see captcha’s in forms to ensure that [...]

August 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Infuse life in your blogs with mofuse

We just mofused our site at imediapress.mofuse.mobi. Mofuse, a mobile services company, gives content publishers the ability to publish their content to the mobile web seamlessly. Mofuse just secured its first round of seed capital.  The Slater Technology Fund, a Rhode Island-based early-stage fund that is backed by the State of Rhode Island, provided the [...]

August 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Amazon Web Services introduces EBS: Elastic Block Store

Amazon is betting heavily on software and services on the cloud. The company today launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can [...]

August 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Palm announces Treo Pro

Palm has announced the latest in it’s line of smartphones, the Treo Pro. With traditional smartphone features like integrated e-mail for personal and business users, calendar for appointments and contacts, it includes several other cool features for mobile pro users on the go. Integrated Wi-Fi, GPS, video playback from YouTube and browser for web access, [...]

August 20th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Google’s first Android phone:HTC’s Dream gets FCC approval

Google’s first Android phone, the HTC dream, has apparently cleard FCC regulations as HTC has filed a request with the FCC for granting short-term confidentiality on certain documents on the Dream till the 10th of November. This leads to an obvious speculation that the 10th of Nov. is the release date for Google’s first Android [...]

August 18th, 2008 | admin | Comments | Continued

Jerome Corsi is the price of Free Speech

Corsi on Catholicism and Pope:

Maybe while he’s there he can tell the UN what he’s going to do about the sexual crimes committed by “priests” in his “Church” during his tenure. Or, maybe that’s the connection — boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported [...]

August 16th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Losing at Home Turf: 360 beats PS3 in Japan

Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console has had the home turf advantage in Japan. XBOX 360 sales there have been in low numbers. But it changed in the week ending August 10. Microsoft’s XBOX 360 sold 24,962 units in the week of Aug. 4 to 10, according to data from Media Create, beating Sony’s PlayStation 3 [...]

August 16th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued