Monday, October 25, 2010
Zimbabwe Failing to Address Schoolgirl Pregnancies
Thursday, October 21, 2010
New Cheryl Tweedy!


Check out Chezza 's The Flood (above).
Not bad.
Not great. Kinda boring! But it will probably grow on us! What do U think???
Her fans says:
Cheryl Cole confirms Girls Aloud will get back together.
Cheryl Cole just called her music "a different style" to that of Girls Aloud . Cheryl , love, I think we need a wee chat...
Why did Cheryl Cole have to go solo? This new song of hers is shit. Then again, I hated Girls Aloud as well...
'Disney star Selena Gomez says Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole is the new Britney Spears.' ROFL HAHAHAHA. HOW ABOUT NO?
Fascination Records Artists: Miley Cyrus, Girls Aloud , Jonas Brothers, Cheryl Cole , Lee Mead, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Demi Lovato, Connie Fishe
Toyota recall: Brake fluid problem affects 1.5 million vehicles

The Japanese automaker announced Wednesday that it is recalling 1.5 million models worldwide for brake fluid and fuel-pump problems.
Nearly half of those cars – some 740,000 – were sold in the United States. The Toyota recall involves these US models: the 2005-06 Avalon, 2004-06 nonhybrid Highlanders, 2004-06 Lexus RX330, and 2006 models of the Lexus GS300, IS250, and IS350.
Most of the rest of the vehicles were sold in Japan, as well as a few in Europe.
In the US, the problem is brake fluid. If car owners maintain their brake system by using a non-Toyota fluid that has no polymers or only a small amount of them, it can cause an internal rubber seal in the braking system to become dry and curl, Toyota said in a release. The polymers act as a lubricant.
If that happens, a small amount of brake fluid can leak, which over time could weaken the brakes if more fluid isn't added. "If the brake warning lamp has illuminated and the vehicle continues to be operated without refilling the master cylinder brake fluid reservoir, the driver will begin to notice a spongy or soft brake pedal feel and braking performance may gradually decline," the Toyota release said.
Starting next month, Toyota will begin sending out letters to owners urging them to schedule an appointment with a local dealer who will replace the seal. There's no charge to the owner.
Owners wanting more information can call Toyota (800-331-4331) or Lexus (800-255-3987).
Toyota has recalled more than 10 million vehicles in the past year. The company has more information on those recalls at www.toyota.com/recall and www.lexus.com/recall.
Monday, October 11, 2010
First Windows Phone 7 handsets to hit AT&T, T-Mobile in November
Among the first of the new Windows Phone 7 handsets will be a trio of handsets for AT&T, starting with the Samsung Focus, a 1GHz Snapdragon handset with a 4-inch Super AMOLED display (similar to what we've seen on Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy S devices) and a 5-megapixel camera. The Focus will also be the slimmest Windows Phone in the U.S., Ballmer promised — just 9.9mm thick. Expect the Focus to arrive Nov. 8 for $199 with a new two-year contract.
Set to arrive a few weeks later on AT&T is the HTC Surround, a handset with a 3.8-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera, 16GB of on-board storage, and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, along with — aptly enough — support for Dolby Mobile and slide-up SRS surround speakers. Interesting. As with the Focus, the Surround will sell for $199 with a two-year contract.
Moving on to T-Mobile, we've got the HTC HD7 for T-Mobile, complete with a 4.3-inch display and a kickstand, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with a dual-LED flash and HD video recording, and 16GB of internal storage. Expect the HD7 to arrive on T-Mobile in mid-November — no pricing details just yet (although I'd be surprised if the HD7 didn't go for $199 with a two-year contract, same as the AT&T phones).
Also due for T-Mobile: the Dell Venue Pro, a QWERTY slider with a 4.1-inch display, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and a 5-megapixel camera, slated to arrive "in time for the holidays."
Verizon is sounding particularly cool to the idea of carrying Windows Phone 7 handsets. Its chief operating officer, Lowell McAdam, recently told CNET that it sees RIM, Google and Android as the "three major mobile operating systems" in the U.S. and that Microsoft is "not at the moment ... at the forefront of our mind."
Microsoft's Ballmer said Windows Phone 7 devices will soon circle the globe on 60 mobile carries in 30 countries.
Of course, the spectacular failure of Microsoft’s Kin phones for Verizon earlier this year didn’t help matters much, and it’s also worth noting Verizon may be gearing up for a certain phone from Cupertino early next year, if reports from the from the New York Times and from the Wall Street Journal are true.
Still, the revamped Windows Phone 7 OS itself looks pretty impressive, or at least it did after my hands-on with a prototype device earlier this year.
Make no mistake: This isn’t your father’s Windows Mobile. Gone is the old, clunky-looking Windows Mobile interface with its thicket of tiny, desktop-like menus that required painstaking navigation with a stylus or an old four-way navigation pad. Instead, Windows Phone 7 delivers a clean, intuitive, friendly (and heavily Zune-based) touch UI with a grid of "live" tiles for your latest messages, your most-used contacts, the Web and your favorite apps.
The new platform is organized around six "hubs" of content: people (your contacts), pictures (including video and any uploaded Facebook or Windows Live snapshots), games (featuring your Xbox Live avatar and achievements), music and video (with access to your Zune Social card), marketplace (for downloading new apps) and, naturally, Office.
The clean, uncluttered look of Windows Phone 7 takes the new platform in a startlingly different (and welcome) direction from the old Windows Mobile, but there are also some key missing features. There’s no launch "cut-and-paste" support, for example — surprising, given that the new OS comes from the cradle of Microsoft Office — although Microsoft now says an update adding copy-and-paste is on tap for early next year. There’s also no Flash or even Silverlight video support in the Windows Phone browser, nor will any WP7 handsets support 3G tethering, at least for now.
Then there’s the matter of apps — or the relative lack thereof — a given for what’s essentially a brand-new mobile platform. Microsoft has already announced that some key Windows Phone 7 apps from the likes of Netflix, Twitter, Slacker, OpenTable, eBay, IMDB and Flixster (no Angry Birds, though) will be available at launch or shortly thereafter. And AT&T's de la Vega announced Monday that Windows Phone handsets on the carrier will get an app for U-verse mobile TV streaming sometime in November. (Oh, and by the way: The Xbox 360 will at last be able to hook into the U-verse TV service, as well. Can't wait.)
Still, Redmond clearly has a long row to hoe before its Windows Phone app store can even begin to compete with the Android Market or Apple’s gigantic iPhone App Store — and then there's the overall battle for the smartphone market in general, which has seen Microsoft slip far behind RIM, Apple and Google.