worldspy - 26.05.12 12:25 BERLIN (AP) — German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass has criticized Greece's treatment in the debt crisis, describing it in a new poem as a "country sentenced to poverty."
The 84-year-old's latest work, "Europe's Disgrace," was published Saturday in the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

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worldspy - 25.05.12 19:15 The Galaxy S III is one of the most eagerly anticipated Android phones to ever be released.
We've rounded up the reviews of a few people who were fortunate enough to gets their hands on it, and they were overwhelmingly positive about the device.
It's internals are impressive and the camera is unparalleled, but one reviewer maintains that it's no...

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worldspy - 25.05.12 19:15 Facebook is in talks to buy Opera, the company behind the Opera web browser, PocketLint reports.
Opera has both a mobile web browsing app and a desktop browser, and it's an alternative to Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox browser, Google's Chrome browser and the Apple Safari browser.
Opera says it has more than 270 million users on its browser.

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worldspy - 25.05.12 14:17 In an interview with Wired UK, Microsoft Vice President Frank Shaw told the magazine that CEO Steve Ballmer has a massive 80-inch touchscreen Windows 8 tablet hanging in his office.
According to Shaw, this is Ballmer's primary computing device.
Even more interesting, though, is Shaw says one of Microsoft's Windows 8 partners will sell the 80-inch...

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worldspy - 24.05.12 21:31 The Jetsons-like future that we were promised is getting a little more realistic every day, and devices like Sony's HMZ-T1 3DTV headset are helping to deliver it.
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How would you most like to consume your video entertainment? Do you want to sit on a couch several feet away from a TV, or would you rather strap the TV...

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worldspy - 24.05.12 20:54 While the world was focused on Facebook's stock trading for the first time on public markets, the company quietly announced the acquisition of Karma, a social gift giving mobile application.
Karma, with just 16 employees, appeared to be another one of Facebook's talent grabs.
It is not.

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worldspy - 24.05.12 19:08 While many people are advocating against distracted driving, it looks like a new app could reverse years of effort.
According to PSFK, a new app for the Nintendo DS can pair with the Toyota's navigation system to control it.
Now, the app is intended to only be used by passengers to control the navigation system.

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worldspy - 24.05.12 13:29 Earlier this week, we described how big potential investors in the Facebook IPO got important negative information that small investors didn't get:
Namely, they got a heads-up that Facebook's business had suddenly deteriorated.
This "tip" came in the form of sudden estimate cuts by the research analysts at Facebook's IPO underwriters, who were...

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worldspy - 24.05.12 12:29 Even Germany might be having some economic problems, though we'll note that at several points during th European crisis, it's looked as though Germany would finally get dragged down, only to see the country's economy rally.
Anyway, this is from Markit's Flash PMI.

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worldspy - 24.05.12 02:51 EU leaders met in Brussels today, with little hope that it would produce any tangible results.
Meanwhile, tensions between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande seemed to continue unabated, a further sign that the Franco-German partnership seen under "Merkozy" (with former French President Nicholas Sarkozy had...

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