Monthly Archives: August 2011

Sony announces the launch of its notepad-like, Android-based Sony Tablet S in September and the clamshell, dual-screen Tablet P, also running Android, later this year. – Sony says it will ship two Android Honeycomb tablets in the coming weeks: the Sony Tablet S with an innovative fold-over look in [...] Read the original post by [...]

Apple’s iPhone 5 may have been glimpsed as an icon in the company’s Photo Stream beta, according to a posting by the blog 9to5Mac. – Apple may have revealed the shape of its next iPhone the iPhone 5 in the beta for its Photo Stream service. As detailed [...] Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

CowBoom offers the 1st-generation, used Apple iPad 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet, model no. MC496LL/A, for $349.99. With free shipping, that’s $160 under the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit. This 0.5″-thick tablet weighs 1.6 lbs. and features an Apple A4 1GHz processor, 9.7″ 1024×768 LCD [...] Read the original post by [...]

Unseeded former No. 1 Venus Williams pulled out of the U.S. Open before her scheduled second-round match, citing an autoimmune disorder. Williams, a two-time winner in Flushing, Meadows, was slated to meet 22nd-seeded German Sabine Lisicki. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

B&H Photo Video offers the refurbished Nikon Coolpix S210 8.1-Megapixel 3x Digital Camera in Plum, model no. 26103B, for $59.95. With $6.25 for shipping, that’s $24 under our mention from over two years ago and the lowest total price we could find for a refurbished unit by $22. Features [...] Read the original post by [...]

Jose Valverde keeps racking up saves for the first-place Detroit Tigers. The closer pitched in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park to pick up his 40th consecutive save. His 40 saves converted is the longest such streak in franchise history. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

Mel Gibson has settled the custody issues he had with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

Rapper T.I. was released from an Arkansas prison after spending 11 months behind bars for violating his probation for an earlier gun conviction. Read the original post by iPhoneHacks

At the height of budget negotiations during the 2011 legislative session, nursing facility providers throughout Texas fretted over the possibility of a 33 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursement rates for their services. Such draconian cuts, they estimated, could have led to the closure of half the state’s nursing facilities, the [...] Read the original post [...]