Month: September 2010

A Colorado wildfire continues to torment residents and exhausted firefighters. The Fourmile Canyon blaze, which is only about 30 percent contained, has already claimed 170 homes and is showing no signs of relenting. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

Extinction threatens 40 percent of the world’s 280 species of freshwater turtles, according to Conservation International. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the pediatric use of Protopam Chloride (pralidoxime chloride), a drug used to treat poisoning by organophosphate pesticides and chemicals. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

The iPod Touch is all I need to satisfy my need for commercial free music. Labor Day weekend I drove from New York to Baltimore and as some of you know your favorite radio station will soon be a distant memory as you put miles between you and the station. Read the original post by…

A federal judge in California has declared the ”don’t ask, don’t tell” policy towards gay members of the U.S. military to be unconstitutional. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is traveling to Cuba next month for a series of concerts in Havana with bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Read the original post by KSWB-TV San Diego

A woman who had just been suspended from a Kraft Foods plant returned to the facility minutes after being escorted from the building and shot three people, killing two women. – (AHN) Read the original post by NY Daily News

Press release; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Thursday 9 September 2010] Sony increased its unit share of flat panel TVs to 27.1% in the second quarter of 2010 and took top share position in the India market, according to the DisplaySearch. Read the original post by DigiTimes

Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Enrique Iglesias’ Euphoria for $3.99. That’s the best deal we could find for this 10-track, DRM-free album, released in July 2010. (iTunes charges $9.99.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required. Read the original post by dealmac.com

Fry’s Electronics offers the Samsung 55″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. LN-55C630, for $1,709. Sign in to your account and it falls to $1,188 at the last stage of checkout. With $109.99 for shipping, that’s $11 below our mention from a month ago and the lowest total price we’ve seen. (It’s also…

THE NEW JOB: Ousted Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is now co-president at Oracle Corp. Read the original post by Star Tribune

Fry’s Electronics offers the Toshiba 46″ 120Hz 1080p Widescreen LCD HD Television, model no. 46G300U, for $809. Sign in to your account and it falls to $599 at the last stage of checkout. With $22.99 for shipping, that’s $22 below our July mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen for any 46″ 120Hz LCD…

Canadian energy firm Enbridge Inc. closed a second pipeline Thursday after the company discovered a leak on Line 6A in Romeoville, Illinois. The shutdown comes on the heels of Enbridge’s completion of repairs of another burst pipe in Michigan. – (AHN) Read the original post by CNN

TigerDirect offers the factory-refurbished Vizio XVT TruLED 55″ 240Hz 1080p Widescreen LED-Backlit LCD HD Television, model no. VF551XVT, for $1,299.99. With free shipping, that’s $199 below yesterday’s expired mention of a new unit and the lowest total price we’ve seen for a refurb by $95. Features include a 1920×1080 (1080p) resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, 2,000,000:1…

TigerDirect offers the factory-refurbished Vizio XVT TruLED 55″ 240Hz 1080p Widescreen LED-Backlit LCD HD Television, model no. VF551XVT, for $1,299.99. With free shipping, that’s $199 below yesterday’s expired mention of a new unit and the lowest total price we’ve seen for a refurb by $95. Features include a 1920×1080 (1080p) resolution, 240Hz refresh rate, 2,000,000:1…