Spain’s new government has revised up its forecast for the country’s 2011 budget deficit to 8% of GDP from the 6% target of the previous government, as it approved budget cuts and new taxes.
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Spain Expects Wider Deficit
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IMF Warned Greece on Debt Levels
The International Monetary Fund recently told the Greek government that a worsening economic outlook suggests the beleaguered nation may be unable to reduce its debt to sustainable levels even with a planned 50% write down in privately-held Greek government bonds.
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IMF Warned Greece on Debt Levels
Casio’s New G-SHOCK Connects To Smartphones, Shows Incoming Calls, Emails, SMS
Casio Japan is planning [JP] to roll out the G-SHOCK GB-6900 on March 16 next year, a wristwatch that connects to certain smartphones via Bluetooth LE (LE=low-energy, a standard that’s baked into Bluetooth 4.0). The device will be compatible with the Medias LTE N-04D Android phone from NEC (to be released next year) and NEC’s Medias PP N-01D . Casio says that the G-SHOCK not only synchronizes the time with the phones but also shows incoming calls, emails, or SMS on its display. Users can also switch their handsets to vibration mode by pushing a button on the watch or set alarms. The watch isn’t the first that connects to phones, but the main selling point here is the Bluetooth LE feature (in fact, it’s the first watch with Bluetooth 4.0 on board): Bluetooth LE consumes a fraction of the energy of other Bluetooth versions. In the case of the G-SHOCK GB-6900, Casio says users can expect a battery life of about 2 years with one conventional CR2032 button battery.
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Casio’s New G-SHOCK Connects To Smartphones, Shows Incoming Calls, Emails, SMS
Iowa’s Evangelical Rift Could Curb Influence
The crucial evangelical vote in Iowa is fractured and uncertain just days before the first ballots will be cast in the Republican presidential race, potentially boosting Mitt Romney.
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Iowa’s Evangelical Rift Could Curb Influence
Bing Now Correcting and Offering Alternative Search Query
By way of comparison-checking, I stopped by bing and searched for the single word “swagrat”. First 10 results:Jimmy Swaggart (accompanied by list of related searces, all involving “swaggart”)swagat restaurantswagratswagratsuhagraat… and so on. Bottom of page says “Some results have been removed”. Those were probably the correctly spelled ones.
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Bing Now Correcting and Offering Alternative Search Query
Borrowing From ECB Jumps
Euro-zone banks’ overnight borrowing from the European Central Bank jumped to a level unseen since early this year, while their deposits remained close to the record levels hit earlier this week.
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Borrowing From ECB Jumps
Dollar Falls vs. Yen
The dollar fell to a three-week low against the yen in Asia due to last-minute settlement orders by Japanese exporters that also pushed down the euro.
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Dollar Falls vs. Yen
Asian Shares Mostly Higher
Asian stock markets were mostly higher on the last trading day for 2011, helped by an encouraging rise on Wall Street, but a cautious air prevailed. Shanghai was up 0.8%.
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Asian Shares Mostly Higher
Iran to File in U.S. Court to Unfreeze Funds
Iran’s central bank is preparing to file a motion in a New York federal court early next year to release nearly $2 billion of its frozen funds at Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank unit, according to attorneys for the Iranian bank.
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Iran to File in U.S. Court to Unfreeze Funds
5 Video Game Moments that Defined 2011
It seems like every single year is “the year of gaming,” if only because the genre keeps getting bigger and bigger. Everyone thought 2006 was going to be the high water mark with the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii all battling for supremacy. Then 2009 upped the ante with a rush of top-tier, high-selling games. In all the console-focused frenzy, few people expected mobile and social gaming to be so dominant. The Nintendo DS (and its iterations) is the best selling system of all time and smartphones became tiny-powerhouses thanks to intuitive games such as Angry Birds , Cut the Rope and more. Well, 2011 was no slouch in terms of gaming. This year we caught a glimpse of the next generation of systems — portable and otherwise
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5 Video Game Moments that Defined 2011