Month: August 2010

Lauryn Hill is making a return to music after a decade-long absence from the charts. Read the original post by NBC Philadelphia

Earlier this week, we asked you what’s in your backpack? You shared, and here are five that we thought were pretty great. Read the original post by Lifehacker

Priceline.com Inc. also has Captain Kirk – William Shatner – as its main spokesman. Read the original post by Canada.com

The leader of the United States lawmakers foreign relations body within Congress welcomed the announcement that direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinian would begin next month – (AHN) Read the original post by WGNO

Samsung, the world class mobile manufacturer, always tries to bring something new & feature-packed handset for their lovely consumers. Read the original post by PR-inside.com

The university’s Thornton School of Music said that Miller will be an artist-in-residence working with undergraduates in its popular music programs. Read the original post by NBC Miami

A woman in Onondaga, N.Y., just outside of Syracuse, faces charges for lying about being cancer-stricken in order to bilk people for money according to police. Brigid A. Corcoran, 31, of St. John Drive, faces felony charges of fourth-degree grand larceny and first-degree scheme to defraud. – (AHN) Read the original post by WGNO

Eco Factor: Environmentally-friendly MP3 player powered by solar energy. Industrial designer Hoang Nguyen has taken inspiration from the solar eclipse to create an environmentally-friendly concept MP3 player that runs on renewable solar energy. Read the original post by Ecofriend

Two severely obese children were removed from their Marietta, GA. home this week and their parents arrested after authorities found the family living in squalor. – (AHN) Read the original post by WOODTV.com

McAfee Inc.’s chief financial officer was awarded thousands of stock units in his new company only about two weeks before Intel Corp. Read the original post by MarketWatch

Brace yourselves – ” according to The Christian Science Monitor , those madmen in Stockholm have created a music application which “may wipe out music piracy, make Apple’s iTunes largely irrelevant, and even supplant ABBA as Sweden’s most significant pop culture export. Read the original post by BeatCrave

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is statistically tied with Tea Party star Rand Paul in the state’s Senate race, according to a new poll. – (AHN) Read the original post by WOODTV.com

Press release; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Friday 20 August 2010] The battle for the top spot in the US LCD TV market heated up in the second quarter of 2010 as the gap in market share between the leading vendor Samsung Electronics and Vizio in the second place dwindled to less than one percentage point, according…

Legend Micro via Buy.com offers the refurbished Samsung SyncMaster 23″ Widescreen LCD Monitor, model no. 2343BWX, for $179. With free shipping, that’s $21 under our January mention and $8 less than the lowest total price we could find for a new unit. It features a 2048×1152 native resolution, 5ms response time, 20,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio,…

An Ohio animal caretaker was mauled to death while feeding a bear. The victim, 24-year-old Brent Kandra, was an employee of Sam Mazzola, an exhibitor of exotic animals. – (AHN) Read the original post by WOODTV.com