Archive for December, 2011
Designer behind Apple’s products knighted in UK (AP)
LOS ANGELES – Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch has awarded a knighthood to Jonathan Paul Ive, a Brit and head of Apple Inc.’s design team since the mid-’90s. Ive received a KBE, short for Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
"Merkozy" play leads in beloved German New Year skit (Reuters)
BERLIN (Reuters) – A skit of “Dinner for One,” the British vaudeville comedy sketch so loved in Germany it holds cult status and is screened every New Year’s Eve, with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy as “Miss Sophie” and her bumbling butler, has become an Internet smash. In the black and white original, filmed in 1963, Miss Sophie celebrates her 90th birthday with four imaginary guests as butler James darts around the table, pretending to be each of them and downing their drinks, becoming increasingly inebriated in the process. The skit, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8kj4JBf-W0, made for German broadcaster ARD and titled “The 90th euro rescue summit or euros for no one,” has the heads of the German chancellor and French president superimposed over the original actors.
Uninsured turn to daily deal sites for health care (AP)
NEW YORK – The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn’t need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon
IPO – Goodwill Hospital and Research Centre: Avoid
Small scale of operations, high gearing and dependence on the Gamma Knife are dampeners.
Typical Android User is Anything But Typical [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)
What are Android users like? Are those who use Google’s smartphone operating system and its associated gadgetry male or female? What sort of clothes do they wear?
Stock market ends flat for year after big ups and downs
NEW YORK — The stock market is ending a tumultuous year right where it started. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed 2011 a fraction of a point below where it started the year.
NYPD to remove barricades around Wall Street bull
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Wall Street’s bull is about to break free from his corral. The NYPD on Monday will remove barricades that were erected around the “Charging Bull” sculpture to protect it from the Occupy Wall Street protesters who spent two months camped out at Zuccotti Park. The Post reported last week…
NYPD to remove barricades around Wall Street bull
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Wall Street’s bull is about to break free from his corral.
NYPD to remove barricades around Wall Street bull
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Wall Street’s bull is about to break free from his corral. The NYPD on Monday will remove barricades that were erected around the “Charging Bull” sculpture to protect it from the Occupy Wall Street protesters who spent two months camped out at Zuccotti Park. The Post reported last week…
