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In mourning, hermit kingdom North Korea seals itself off (Reuters)

DANDONG, China/WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? North Korea was in seclusion on Tuesday, a day after it announced the death of its leader Kim Jong-il, as concerns mounted over what would happen next within one of the world’s most secretive and unpredictable nations. While U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged nuclear-armed North Korea to follow a [...]

TV companies have a year to pipe down loud ads (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Shush, already. That’s the message the Federal Communications Commission is sending with new rules that force broadcast, cable and satellite companies to turn down the volume on blaring TV commercials. On Tuesday, the FCC passed a set of regulations that will prevent commercials from being louder than the shows around them. It’s [...]

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For Seasonal Workers, Amazon’s Grueling Working Conditions Are Only Temporary (The Atlantic Wire)

Amazon’s seasonal workers endure the same?grueling?conditions as the full-timers, it just doesn’t seem as bad for such a short period of time.?”It’s like the best place to work and the worst place to work,” seasonal worker Kelly Andrus told The Wall Street Journal‘s Stu Woo. She sounds cheerier than workers in an expose?from Allentown paper?The [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

AT&T customers surprised by ‘unlimited data’ limit February 15, 2012 No Comments

This undated screen grab provided by Mike Trang shows a warning message on the screen of Trang’s iPhone that he received from AT&T advising he was in danger of having his data speeds throttled. AT&T considers Trang to be among the top 5 percent of the heaviest cellular data users in his area. Under a [...]

Halliburton to abandon BlackBerry, turn to iPhone (Reuters) February 8, 2012 No Comments

TORONTO (Reuters) ? Oil field services company Halliburton plans to stop issuing BlackBerry smartphones to employees and switch over to Apple’s iPhone, which it said was better suited to its needs, marking another setback for Research In Motion. RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have long dominated corporate mobile communications with on-the-hip email and security credentials, but are [...]

Apple to resume full online sales in Germany (Reuters) February 6, 2012 No Comments

FRANKFURT (Reuters) ? Apple Inc said it was cleared to resume selling older models of its iPhone and 3G-based iPads via its German online store on Friday, after the suspension of an injunction won by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc in December. “All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store [...]

iPhone Accounted for 80 Percent of AT&T Smartphone Sales Last Quarter January 27, 2012 No Comments

In AT&T’s best quarterly smartphone performance ever, the carrier saw 9.4 million smartphone sales in Q4 2011. A remarkable 7.6 million, or more than 80 percent, of these sales were iPhones. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GearFactor/~3/lYaEERkt3l4/ mavs steven tyler carrie underwood photobucket judas priest tlc phillies

Poll: iPhone 4S jailbreak January 23, 2012 No Comments

o the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak is now live and Ally has already posted up a magnificent iPhone 4S jailbreak how-to, so all that’s left is for me to ask you if you’re pulling the trigger? Are you jailbreaking your iPhone 4S? Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/j56-tw0IM6g/story01.htm the beast peach bmp nexus s coda sla volcanic ash