Nokia's Latest Move Shows How Hard It's Trying To Make The Windows Phone Cool
When Nokia unveiled its brand new hero device yesterday, it was very easy to look at the Lumia 1020 as kind of a freak joke of a smartphone.Sporting a 41-megapixel camera that gives the device a...
View Article5 Ways To Manage Your Student Loan Debt And Still Pay Rent
Shayna Moreno, 23, graduated in May, 2012 from a private university in California with $100,000 in loans -- a daunting amount, given that as an entry-level public relations account coordinator, she...
View ArticleROYAL LINE OF SUCCESSION: Here's Where William And Kate's Baby Will Rank
Kate Middleton is expected to give birth any day now to a baby who will be the third in line to the throne of England.Called the Prince or Princess of Cambridge, the baby will rank behind father Prince...
View ArticleThe Case Against 'Wannabe Cop' George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman probably won't get convicted of murder, many experts say. But prosecutors still made a compelling case this week that he profiled and pursued 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.Prosecutors'...
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"I favor starting to reduce the pace of purchases and ending the asset purchase program by year-end."— Philly Fed President Charles PlosserJoin the conversation about this story »
View ArticleThird Girl Dies From Asiana Airlines Crash
A third girl has died as a result of the Saturday crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport, USA Today is reporting.The girl was one of three patients in critical...
View ArticleMeet The Mystery Cast Of 'Pacific Rim'
You probably know "Pacific Rim" is about giant-sized monsters and robots battling over Earth.But do you know who's in the film?This is a serious question.While the many trailers we've seen tell us the...
View ArticleThere's Growing Evidence Of A Vast Conspiracy To Undermine Former Egypt...
In many ways Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made his own end, but in a lot of others, everyone from young rebels to police to the military to even the people running the oil supply conspired to...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley's Chief Economist Summarizes The Taper In Just 4 Words
Morgan Stanley chief economist Vincent Reinhart, writing in his weekly US Macro Dashboard note, has what is probably the most succinct and accurate take there is on the subject of "the taper" (the...
View Article14 Of The Most Interesting Facts Ever
Already a site designed to surface interesting stuff, Reddit took it to the next level with a recent thread specifically asking for the most interesting/weird facts that people know.We've pulled out...
View ArticleEx-Chicago Mayor Being Called To Testify In Bizarre Police-Torture Case
Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is being called to testify at a hearing for a rape convict who claims he was tortured by police detectives in 1982, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.Daley, who served...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Suing The U.S. Customs Office For Letting Google's Phones Into...
In a lawsuit filed today, Microsoft has accused the U.S. Customs and Border Protection of having secret meetings with Google and then letting Google continue to import smartphones made by it's Motorola...
View ArticleObama Calls Vladimir Putin To Demand The Return Of Edward Snowden
The American whistleblower Edward Snowden has sought asylum in Russia, in his first encounter with the outside world since becoming marooned at a Moscow airport three weeks ago during a globe-trotting...
View ArticleNTSB Intern 'Erroneously' Confirmed Racist Asiana Pilot Names To KTVU Station
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a statement revealing the source of Friday afternoon's embarrassing KTVU hoax — a summer intern for the agency who "acted outside the scope of his...
View Article'Pacific Rim' Will Pack A Punch At The Box Office This Weekend
Box-office analysts are not expecting Guillermo del Toro's big monster movie "Pacific Rim" to do well in theaters this weekend.Early estimates pegged the movie to debut to a paltry $25-35 million. That...
View ArticleAT&T Is Buying Prepaid Carrier Leap Wireless For $1.2 Billion (TLEAP)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc will buy Leap Wireless International Inc for $1.19 billion, paying almost double the current value of the prepaid mobile service provider as major U.S. carriers...
View ArticleFlight Attendants Have The Toughest Job At The Airline
The remarkably successful evacuation of Asiana 214 compels me to write a post in appreciation of flight attendants who have the toughest job at the airline.Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of...
View ArticleStartup Stud Ori Allon And Knicks Star Amare Stoudemire Buy Israel Basketball...
Ori Allon has been a fan of Israel's Hapoel Jerusalem basketball team since he was 12. So when New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire asked if he was interested in owning their home-town team, Allon...
View ArticleInside Responsive Design: The Pros And Cons Of The Popular Mobile Strategy
Responsive design, a technology that stretches or shrinks Web pages to fit differently sized screens, has emerged as the most-often recommended manner of optimizing content for mobile devices. This...
View ArticleThere's An Unusual Lack Of Agreement At The Fed About Future Policy
Although the stock market has responded in a highly positive way to Bernanke’s statement of Fed policy, little has really changed, and the effects are likely to be temporary. What set the market on...
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