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A real product or another "concept device"? Well it is an Asus, and presumably it (they) run Android. Defo a really really thin netbook coming real soon from Asus though. I presume this will have an Atom 550 dual core CPU, and be overpriced by £100 at UK launch - like most Asus devices seem to be these days.

'Course it's self-contradictory and disjointed, it starts with EU! Anyway... at last a solution to the financing problem: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilsole24ore.com%2Fart%2Ftecnologie%2F2011-02-18%2Fsolare-pugliese-mafie-101341.shtml%3Fuuid%3DAaHI0G9C&act=url

By definition it's dodgy - it's That online auction site that is in no way as good as Free Bedlington.co.uk Classifieds!

The plot thickens! It's starting to look like there is more than one Nokia MeeGo phone lined-up for early release. The one with the keyboard in the teaser is a developer edition. The consumer one won't have a keyboard, and will be released a few weeks later. Likely the one pictured in the video IS an N950 (to follow on from the present N900), and the N9 will be the mass market phone. The N9 seems to have very much better hardware, to outshine the iPhone on both hardware and software counts; so even keyboard lovers will hesitate before buying the N950. Interesting times!

So too slow, too late then? Better tell Red Ed! Meanwhile, in the previous country which staged an Olympic Games it couldn't possibly afford: http://coveringdelta...eek-parliament/ Just goes to show how dumb Gordo really is; all that UK gold he blew, and not an ounce of it bounced back to him!

You're in the wrong countries for bimbo-politico malc!

Yes, indeed! Those were the days! Mind you I had to stand in the queue behind the miner's wives for our four ounces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3728000/3728225.stm Everyone's cooked ham started to come to an end about 1964. Never quite figured that one out!

If you are daft enough to still be using BT Internet, then you're probably daft enough not to care. Never give BT Internet any kind of direct debit - they will steal from your account!

Sort of. But when I lived in the Market Place, and ran errands for mum, all the cars were shiny black, and hadn't grown fins. There was also The Market Cross Stores off the left of this photo. Think that's where I got the bread; Barnes' was generally for a quarter of a pound of cooked ham! Good one though!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-13516796 This is good; when the big one comes there'll not be time to need to suffer any I-told-you-so from preachers.

Agree with the first part. The private sector is remarkably resilient if government gets off its back. Unfortunately they haven't done anything like enough in that direction. Sorry, you're not going to catch Italia in the debt trap! http://uk.reuters.co...E74M2HM20110523 And that's the on-the-books half of the economy! It's not really one country anyway; just a 150 year-old prototype of the EU. Unfortunately no one learned any economic lessons from the political stitch-up. Doubtless though we'll now be hearing troppo veloce, troppo presto from the left.

If there was an American on that list I might start to believe the rumours that the whole affair was a CIA set-up. But it's the pretty French lady for me! Can't comment on the Italy thing as I'd have to declare an interest, and it likely wouldn't be what you'd anticipate it to be.

A: Not as much as it did last week! What a total plonker; he's now let the fat-cat lawyers convince him he needs another injunction to stop the press contacting him! A monastery in Tibet would be far cheaper!

What a farce! Their Lordships refuse to retract the injunction, and the Beeb (on legal advice) opens the five-o'clock news with Ryan Giggs - Ryan Giggs - Ryan Giggs! Seems their Lordships haven't heard of the The Streisand Effect. AKA how to get maximum publicity for something which would pass fairly quietly otherwise.

Read more: http://www.itproport.../#ixzz1NBUZ9iC4 ..and when you send your iPhone 4 for repair or a replacement guess what you are likely to find when you get it back?

Well I can personally tell you it is not GGG - that's for sure! Lawyers from The Sun at the High Court at the moment to get the injunction revoked. Then we'll find out who it is! Isn't this exciting?!

Don't laugh, there's bound to be a get-out clause somewhere in the prediction. And.. falling for your own propaganda is something politicians do all the time. Elastic economic cycles and "tests" that only you can interpret are just parts of this delusion. When blaming someone else for your own stupidity starts to wear thin ("It's a global problem") you "get a bloody nose and learn from it". Then you selectively and quietly "admit past mistakes", and pretend you've reinvented yourselves, whilst appealing to the same bunch of irrelevant yet time-tested prejudices to start the cycle all over again. Preacher or politico, the public has a very short collective memory. And - to balance out those who did learn something - there's always a large bunch of wet-behind-the-ears suckers coming along.

Let no one mention who the footballer who doesn't want his name all over the papers and internet is! You know it's illegal, and wrong, and you simply mustn't do it! It's OK to mention Imogen Thomas though, because she doesn't have anything like as much cash. But I'd just like to say that I'm so disgusted by this behaviour that I'm never going to fly with his low-cost airline ever again! And, that's regardless of the number of 1p flights they offer me!

So... that settles the debate on whether it's genuine!

16.7% borrowing cost now, and it's well past the point of no return. http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-13476796 A lesson for the "too fast, too soon" millimob. The only thing putting off debt repayments ever gains you is more debt!

Possibly because it's the 2012 Olympics and not the 2011 ones? Five whole days to trek it around a tiny bit of Central London, and we'll be lucky to get a few seconds glimpse. But, of course, these games are not London centric, and our hard-earned tax money is being well spent! Remember this well next time you pass one of our public facilities that's been permanently trashed to save a few tens of thousands a year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13391986 Day 27 would put it on Friday 15th June 2012, later in the day. Still time to put your camera batteries on charge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-KfxrI1NXg Monday quite possibly. Next week likely. In the next few weeks certainly! It's not Apple; it's not Microsoft; it's not Android; and it's certainly not Symbian! But in a few years even Appleheeds will be using the operating system - even though they probably won't know they are! And... I don't think this device will be called an N9 either!

On the contrary, I think the coalition was well received by most as an end to squabbling and a focus on doing the right thing. However the LDs raised unrealistic expectations amongst the politically unsavvy - mainly the young - and it's those that have been dashed. It was all about the Clegg factor, and the impressionable weren't listening to what Vince Cable was actually saying about the depth of the problems. This though suited the LDs at that particular moment. Scotland, quite naturally, wants it both ways. They want the best of any deals, but will baulk at the independence that will stop the gravy train. The whole devolution thing was another ill-conceived bit of Labour's social engineering. Now Salmond has put himself in a corner on independence he's going to put off a referendum as long as he possibly can. And both the Tories and the LDs are letting Red Ed get away with the "too fast too deep" crap! They need to present a united front in telling the electorate the truth, and point out that if Labour were in power they would be forced into doing exactly the same. In fact with Labour's intrinsic mismanagement the cuts would ultimately have to go deeper, and we'd be in the sh** for far longer! I don't think that the Yes was ever in the lead; it was just that the people who voted No took the trouble to weigh the arguments. The fundamental failing of the Yes campaign was that that they didn't actually state what the problem they were attempting to fix was! They threw lots of things into the hat, but in the end the bulk of the electorate saw that none of them was convincing, and that the true reason they wanted AV was the simple advantage that it offered them. Yes, Cameron knew what the outcome was going to be when he agreed to the referendum, but Vince Cable's invective about Tory deviousness is just plain silly. Sour grapes at getting it wrong in believing the electorate could be sold on something that didn't offer them anything! ...and it's put back the issue of real political reform maybe 20 years! Now that would be interesting! I'd go further and say that it's irrelevant to the Commons too. We have this problem that our MPs pretend to be representing their constituents, but are "whipped" into taking the party line. There was a time when a speech in the Commons could change policy. These days any honest MP will tell you that they are for the most part wasting their breath. Policy is decided elsewhere, long before any Commons debate. The squabbles in the Commons are a meaningless distraction for real government, and a huge put-off for the electorate. The sensible reform is to have the public elect a Cabinet and a government on party lines, and elect their MPs on non-party lines. The MPs could state their beliefs and that they broadly supported the ideas of this party or that, but there would be no "whipping". Electors would vote for both a Party Government, and a locally-representing MP, but they wouldn't necessarily be of the same party allegiance. The Lords could be cut to about a tenth it's present size as a revising chamber, and there would be no right of the PM to appoint them, or be abolished completely. Political patronage would end, and we'd have a much healthier democracy as a result This would have the further advantage of removing the "no overall majority" problem, and would paradoxically probably advantage the LDs by a huge margin in the Commons - people would fell free to vote for a government of their persuasion, but a person they knew well (and with teeth!) to represent them at a national level. Many MPs would undoubtedly adopt a "mix and match" selection from different party manifestos. This would also give single-issue parties true representation too.

Rumours running wild that Greece is about to drop out of the Euro. Official line: "This information is totally false". But didn't we hear the same line right here from Northern Crock? If you are going to default big time the only way to go is to deny it until there is no point denying it any more - the old "there will be no devaluation" ruse. Thus catching as many suckers as possible in the move. Updated music-hall joke: Q: I say, I say, I say, what's a Greek (bond) Urn? A: Something over 15%. Q: How can they pay that much interest? A: No, that's the percentage that will sell in the nick of time!