Vodafone Confirms Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Availability

Vodafone Confirms Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Availability

Just minutes ago we showed you the new marketing material from Sony Ericsson, showcasing its new Xperia Play Android gaming handset via a new Facebook banner and full-length YouTube trailer.

Although release dates and pricing of the handset are still unknown, we are now able to reveal that the Xperia Play will be available on Vodafone when it hits the UK.

Confirmation comes by way of a Vodafone spokesperson, who declined to comment on how much the device would cost or when it would launch. Rumours suggest the Xperia Play will launch early April, falling just outside of a first-quarter launch that was initially forecasted.

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Palin, Rallying Base, Paints Dark Picture of Obama?s Policies

She did not, however, provide any clues as to whether she would join the Republican primaries and seek to challenge President Obama or simply continue to offer commentary from the sidelines.

For Ms. Palin, a speech here Friday evening at the Reagan Ranch Center offered an opportunity to connect herself to the most iconic figure of the Republican Party. She used the appearance ? one of the highest-profile Republican platforms in months ? to rally conservatives by drawing parallels between government expansion under President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Obama administration.

?Reagan saw the dangers in L.B.J.?s Great Society,? Ms. Palin said. ?He refused to sit down and be silent as our liberties were eroded by an out-of-control centralized government that overtaxed and overreached in utter disregard of constitutional limits.?

There is, of course, outsize curiosity surrounding Ms. Palin. And in recent weeks, there has been frustration from some Republican activists that she is not making more overtures.

Even though no prospective presidential contender has formally declared a candidacy, a robust amount of behind-the-scenes activity is under way, particularly in the courtship of advisers, supporters and contributors. Yet Ms. Palin stands alone in her approach, employing an unorthodox style that offers few hints as to whether she plans to enter the race.

The question for many Republicans is whether Ms. Palin is rewriting the rules of what it takes to run for president in an age of Facebook and Twitter ? a world where, perhaps, there are few early visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, no need for policy speeches or press interviews ? or whether this is part of an effort to keep herself in the public eye and to influence the primary.

Signs have emerged that her arms-length approach could be detrimental ? or, at the very least, risky ? if she ultimately decides to seek the nomination.

For weeks, many of her supporters held out hope that she would attend the Conservative Political Action Conference this week in Washington, but late last week she said a scheduling conflict would keep her from attending. It was the fourth straight year she has declined to speak at the conference, which is usually attended by every potential Republican candidate.

The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary that open the Republican nominating season are still a year away, but the mechanical pieces of the campaigns that will begin falling into place over the next six weeks will show the seriousness of the candidates.

Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and one of the state?s leading Republican activists, said Ms. Palin and other prospective candidates did not have the luxury of waiting much longer to begin introducing themselves. He said he was skeptical that Ms. Palin ? or any contender ? could wait until summer or fall to enter the race.

?I don?t think she?s ever had a sit-down meeting with anyone,? Mr. Scheffler said in an interview. ?Even with all of her star power, people who respect and like her will want to meet her in a small-group setting. That isn?t too much to expect.?

Ms. Palin, a former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, spoke here on Friday night to about 200 people at a banquet of the Young America?s Foundation, a group that now owns Rancho del Cielo, which served as the Western White House in the Reagan administration. The foundation is not affiliated with the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, which is also holding tributes to the former president, who would have turned 100 on Sunday.

Several people at the dinner said they had come specifically to take measure of Ms. Palin. From his seat at a table near the front of the room, Roy Billings, a Reagan admirer, said that he liked Ms. Palin a great deal, but that he hoped she would not run for president in 2012.

?I think she?s a good person,? Mr. Billings said. ?Maybe she?s got potential to be the president someday, but not now. There are too many people who don?t relate to her.?

In her 30-minute address, Ms. Palin reprised themes of Reagan?s 1964 speech ?A Time for Choosing,? which he gave two years before being elected governor of California. She reminded her audience that he, too, was ?mocked, ridiculed and criticized? before his conservative vision became accepted Republican doctrine. But she stopped short of casting herself explicitly as his heir.

?No, there isn?t one replacement for Reagan, but there are millions who believe in the great ideas that he espoused,? Ms. Palin said. ?There?s a whole army of patriotic Davids out there, across this great country, ready to stand up and to speak out in defense of liberty.?

The dinner, which was at a far smaller venue than the big rallies Ms. Palin often attends, had tight security and rigid rules. She entered the room just before she spoke ? forgoing the ritual of sitting through dinner and mingling with guests ? and exited before the applause ended.

People were admonished to stay in their seats and not approach Ms. Palin as she walked through the room.

?We?d all like to jump up and give her a high-five, but please stay at your tables,? Kate Obenshain, vice president of the foundation, announced from the dais. ?There will be no book signings or autographs.?

At the end of the evening, people were asked to put their own cameras away and retire to the second floor of the Reagan Ranch Center to have a professional photograph taken with Ms. Palin, which will be sent to them in the mail.

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Hardware 18 - 46 Different Flavours

Hardware 18 - 46 Different Flavours

Posted on 5th Feb 2011 at 12:53 by Podcast with 9 comments

This week's hardware podcast involves Paul, Harry, Clive and Antony and starts out on a fairly serious note as we talk about the current problems surrounding Intel's P67 and H67 chipsets. We offer advice to those of you who've purchased an affected board and discuss what those of you who are in the market for an upgrade should be doing.

Harry then fills us in on the latest happenings from the labs while also giving a sneak peak on what he's been testing for the last couple of days. It?s worth having a listen if you?ve got your eye on a new graphics card purchase sometime soon.

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We also set our usual Guess the Hardware competition, with a limited edition Steel Series Starcraft II mouse mat and a 13in Brenthaven laptop case up for grabs. All you have to do is identify the piece of hardware that we describe and email your answer to podcast@custompc.co.uk.

As ever, the bit-tech hardware podcast features music by Brad Sucks and was recorded on Shure microphones. You can download the podcast direct, listen in-browser or subscribe through iTunes using the links below. Be sure to let us know your thoughts in the forums.

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White iPhone gets its own Best Buy shelf space

White iPhone gets its own Best Buy shelf space

The ever elusive White iPhone is trying to get attention once again with another teaser. According to Engadget, this Best Buy shelf tag was spotted this weekend at a Best Buy in Houston. Nothing surprising with the details: White iPhone 4 from AT&T at $599.99 without a contract, which is the same price as the black. With all the cliff hanging evidence of this seemingly mythical phone, we won?t be surprised if the white iPhone finally sees daylight within the next few weeks.

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Some of Obama?s Favorite Programs to Face Cuts, Budget Director Says

In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Sunday, the director, Jacob J. Lew, gives three examples of those calls: proposed cuts for programs that support community organizers, a job the president once held; that clean the Great Lakes; and that finance community development. Together, they would save $775 million.

That sum would not be a major reduction in an annual deficit that is projected to exceed $1 trillion in the fiscal year 2012, which starts on Oct. 1. Mr. Lew did not disclose the total savings for the cuts Mr. Obama intended to propose in the budget, which he is scheduled to send to Congress on Feb. 14.

Mr. Obama?s opening bid will not satisfy Congressional Republicans, who are having trouble fulfilling their own campaign promise to slash spending. Yet even the reductions that Mr. Lew revealed are likely to provoke opposition from heavily Democratic constituencies like antipoverty groups and environmentalists, which underscores the difficulty that both parties face as they seek to balance the public?s desire for both smaller deficits and a continued range of government services.

Mr. Obama is under pressure to shrink programs not only to reduce the deficit but also to offset the still-unspecified increases in government spending that he has proposed as investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, technology and research, and which are intended to foster long-term economic growth.

?Make no mistake: this will not be easy,? Mr. Lew said of Mr. Obama?s proposed five-year freeze, which he said would save an estimated $400 billion over a decade. ?It will require tough choices since every decision to invest in one program will necessitate a cut somewhere else.?

?We have had to look beyond the obvious,? Mr. Lew added, ?and cut spending for purposes we support. We had to choose programs that, absent the fiscal situation, we would not cut.?

He said Mr. Obama would offer a 50 percent cut in community service block grants that go to grassroots groups in poor areas, a savings of $350 million, and to require those groups to compete for the remaining money.

?These are the kinds of programs that President Obama worked with when he was a community organizer, so this cut is not easy for him,? Mr. Lew wrote.

Mr. Obama?s budget would save $300 million by cutting 7.5 percent from the Community Development Block Grant program, which helps local governments pay for housing and sewer and road systems. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an environmental protection program, would lose about a quarter of its funding, a savings of $125 million.

Both Mr. Obama?s proposed freeze and the effort by House Republicans to reduce spending would cut from domestic discretionary spending, which is roughly one-tenth of the budget and which covers most federal agencies and programs like air-traffic control, education, law enforcement and transportation. It is separate from the much bigger and faster-growing share of the budget for entitlement programs, the largest of which are Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

In his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama, acknowledged the limits of using domestic discretionary spending to reduce the deficit. ?We have to stop pretending,? he said, ?that cutting this kind of spending alone will be enough.?

?That is why,? Mr. Lew wrote, that Mr. Obama also said in that speech that he wants to work with Congress to simplify the tax code and ?to strengthen and protect Social Security.?

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Protest Threats Derail Bush Speech in Switzerland

WASHINGTON ? A planned trip by former President George W. Bush to Switzerland this week has been canceled in the face of threatened large-scale protests and calls for an investigation into whether his administration committed human rights abuses in the fight against terrorism.

A spokesman for Mr. Bush said Saturday that the trip was canceled after the United Israel Appeal, an international Jewish charity organizing the Geneva event where he had been scheduled to speak next Saturday, told him on Friday that it was canceling the speech because of security concerns.

?We regret that the speech has been canceled,? said David Sherzer, a spokesman for Mr. Bush. ?President Bush was looking forward to speaking about freedom and offering reflections from his time in office.?

The visit to Geneva was to have been Mr. Bush?s first trip to Europe since his memoir, ?Decision Points,? was published in November, and the first since he publicly stated in interviews on his book tour that he had personally authorized the use of waterboarding in the questioning of terrorism detainees.

As a result, international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, seized on the scheduled visit to petition the Swiss authorities to open an investigation of Mr. Bush while he was in the country. The groups argued that he had admitted to torture and thus could be prosecuted in Switzerland and other countries that have signed on to the international convention banning torture.

?For a long time at Amnesty International, we have been calling for the Obama administration to investigate human rights abuses at Guantánamo, the C.I.A. black sites, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it is clear that?s not happening,? said Widney Brown, Amnesty International?s senior director for international law and policy. ?When we heard that he was traveling to Geneva, we wrote to the national authorities in Switzerland and the local prosecutor in Geneva to ask them to investigate Bush for torture.?

Amnesty International sent Swiss authorities documents detailing their case for prosecuting Mr. Bush for torture, based on his admissions and other evidence concerning the waterboarding of two members of Al Qaeda, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Swiss officials told human rights groups recently that they had no plans to try to prosecute Mr. Bush, Ms. Brown said. But the prospect of large demonstrations at the site of Mr. Bush?s speech remained, and the event?s organizers feared that protests could turn violent. Protest organizers were said to have asked demonstrators to carry shoes to the event, recalling how an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at Mr. Bush in 2008 to protest his visit to Baghdad.

While Mr. Bush does not face any legal sanctions in Switzerland, this is not the first time officials from his administration have faced the threat of legal action in Europe for involvement in possible human rights abuses in the war on terror. Prosecutors and judges in several European countries, notably Spain and Germany, have in the past proved willing to pursue long-shot international legal cases against foreign leaders based on war crimes evidence, and in recent years some of them have turned their attention toward Bush administration officials.

In 2009, for instance, a Spanish court began a criminal investigation of six former administration officials, on grounds that they had violated international law in connection with the military prison at Guantánamo Bay. The Obama administration was apparently so concerned about the investigation that it pressured the Spanish government to make sure the case was derailed, according to State Department cables made public by the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks.

As early as 2005, Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense at the time, faced the threat of war crimes prosecution in Germany over human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Eventually, German prosecutors decided not to pursue the case, but only after Mr. Rumsfeld publicly said that he might not attend an international defense conference in Munich because of the legal threat he faced.

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Some of Obama?s Favorite Programs to Face Cuts, Budget Director Says

In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Sunday, the director, Jacob J. Lew, gives three examples of those calls: proposed cuts for programs that support community organizers, a job the president once held; that clean the Great Lakes; and that finance community development. Together, they would save $775 million.

That sum would not be a major reduction in an annual deficit that is projected to exceed $1 trillion in the fiscal year 2012, which starts on Oct. 1. Mr. Lew did not disclose the total savings for the cuts Mr. Obama intended to propose in the budget, which he is scheduled to send to Congress on Feb. 14.

Mr. Obama?s opening bid will not satisfy Congressional Republicans, who are having trouble fulfilling their own campaign promise to slash spending. Yet even the reductions that Mr. Lew revealed are likely to provoke opposition from heavily Democratic constituencies like antipoverty groups and environmentalists, which underscores the difficulty that both parties face as they seek to balance the public?s desire for both smaller deficits and a continued range of government services.

Mr. Obama is under pressure to shrink programs not only to reduce the deficit but also to offset the still-unspecified increases in government spending that he has proposed as investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, technology and research, and which are intended to foster long-term economic growth.

?Make no mistake: this will not be easy,? Mr. Lew said of Mr. Obama?s proposed five-year freeze, which he said would save an estimated $400 billion over a decade. ?It will require tough choices since every decision to invest in one program will necessitate a cut somewhere else.?

?We have had to look beyond the obvious,? Mr. Lew added, ?and cut spending for purposes we support. We had to choose programs that, absent the fiscal situation, we would not cut.?

He said Mr. Obama would offer a 50 percent cut in community service block grants that go to grassroots groups in poor areas, a savings of $350 million, and to require those groups to compete for the remaining money.

?These are the kinds of programs that President Obama worked with when he was a community organizer, so this cut is not easy for him,? Mr. Lew wrote.

Mr. Obama?s budget would save $300 million by cutting 7.5 percent from the Community Development Block Grant program, which helps local governments pay for housing and sewer and road systems. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an environmental protection program, would lose about a quarter of its funding, a savings of $125 million.

Both Mr. Obama?s proposed freeze and the effort by House Republicans to reduce spending would cut from domestic discretionary spending, which is roughly one-tenth of the budget and which covers most federal agencies and programs like air-traffic control, education, law enforcement and transportation. It is separate from the much bigger and faster-growing share of the budget for entitlement programs, the largest of which are Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

In his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama, acknowledged the limits of using domestic discretionary spending to reduce the deficit. ?We have to stop pretending,? he said, ?that cutting this kind of spending alone will be enough.?

?That is why,? Mr. Lew wrote, that Mr. Obama also said in that speech that he wants to work with Congress to simplify the tax code and ?to strengthen and protect Social Security.?

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