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BBC News - Driver spotted using two mobile phones is banned - 0 views

  • A man spotted using two mobile phones while behind the wheel of his car has been banned from driving for 12 months.
  • Norwich magistrates heard David Secker, 34, was seen talking on one phone while holding the other as if texting.
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  • Secker, who is unemployed, did not appear to be holding the steering wheel when he was spotted on the 70mph A47 at Blofield, near Norwich on 17 May.
  • magistrates
Chozen Takei

What TouchPad's Fate Says About the Tablet Market - BusinessWeek - 0 views

  • TouchPad's Fate
  • Tablet Market
  • Apple's early iPad
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  • Hewlett-Packard
  • HP’s bombshell revelations
  • where it holds the global No. 1 spot
  • TouchPad
  • Apple (AAPL) has positioned its iPad very well for years to come against challengers in the tablet market.
  • Apple’s iPad was announced in January 2010
  • no tablet has caught up to what Apple offers.
  • happy with a Google (GOOG) Android Honeycomb tablet; fewer have purchased a BlackBerry (RIMM) Playbook.
  • third-party app support,
  • table the TouchPad?
  • For most people, the iPad is the most complete tablet available.
  • Apple holds the tablet crown.
  • phone apps,
  • a media store,
  • tens of millions were already used to.
  • earliest
  • tablet contenders appeared and they’re just now gaining certain key features: movie stores, for example, and stretch and zoom capabilities for phone apps. Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s “coming soon.”
  • HP’s $1.2 billion investment in webOS persuaded me that it was in the tablet race for the long haul. I defended the company’s move to sell the TouchPad at a discount and even bought one, only to find out days later that I was wrong: HP wasn’t selling the tablet at low prices to expand the user base quickly and help attract developers. HP apparently gave the TouchPad only a brief chance to gain an audience.
  • swiftly pulled.
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    The HP touch pd is on sale because HP wants to get rid of it.
Andy Chen

Shark Attacks Shock Russian East - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Shark Attacks Shock Russian East
  • MOSCOW — When a young man lost both his arms this week in the waters off Russia’s east coast, officials and residents initially had trouble believing what had happened. But a day later, when a teenager’s legs were ripped up in the same waters, all doubt vanished.
  • a man-eating shark
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  • coastal Primorsky Krai, along the Sea of Japan.
  • Large sharks have been sighted in the region only rarely, scientists said, and attacks until now were unheard of.
  • The first victim, a 25-year-old computer programmer, had been out for an evening swim with his wife on Wednesday at a popular vacation spot near Russia’s border with North Korea.
  • “It was only about 300 feet,” Ms. Udovenko said, according to the Interfax news agency. “About halfway there, Denis noticed something in the water and screamed, ‘Swim faster, it’s a shark.’ ”
  • Late on Thursday, the Russian news media reported a third attack, citing local residents, though officials did not immediately confirm it.
  • Witnesses gave varying descriptions of the shark, putting its size at 6 to 12 feet long. After reviewing the accounts, several scientists said they believed it was probably a great white.
  • That body of water is home to seals and other shark prey, but not in sufficient densities to sustain large sharks. A hungry great white, lacking its typical prey, Dr. Astakhov said, “could certainly have attacked a human.
  • Another draw for a great white might be water temperature. The waters in the region have been several degrees higher than normal, making a more attractive environment for great whites, according to Mr. Zgurovsky.
  • Russians’ blasé attitude toward danger is a source of national pride, and despite the ban on swimming, local news media reported Thursday that beachgoers continued to take to the water.
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