Facebook has just sent out a note announcing its app for the iPad is now ready for download. If you want it, they say, go to Facebook or the Apple App Store and get it. “It’s an [sic] fun, colorful way to keep up with friends, share photos, chat and more.” Monday Apple unleashed [...]
Google has begun internal testing of its new online music service, which lets users store their collections on Google’s servers and then stream songs to any Internet connected device. CNET’s Greg Sandoval received the reports that Google is “dogfooding” the service from music labels, who are negotiating with Google over the licensing rights. Apparently, the [...]
For the next three days in downtown Los Angeles, the N.B.A. will do what it does best — promote itself, in bold, boisterous strokes. This year’s All-Star party will be staged at Staples Center, home to a dunking virtuoso (Griffin) and the defending champions (the Lakers). The show begins Friday night with the rookie-sophomore game. [...]
Argentina and Uruguay made an official statement on Monday stating that they are joining Brazil in recognizing Palestine as an independent state with its pre-1967 borders. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reached out to the South American governments as part of an effort to win United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state. Argentine Foreign Minister Hector [...]
At an emergency Security Council meeting on Sunday, members failed to reach agreement on a statement calling for calm on the Korean peninsula, with China opposing the majority that wanted specific language condemning North Korea for the November 23 shelling of Yeonpyeong Island. Chinese diplomats did not address reporters after meeting, but diplomats involved in [...]