Tapatalk is one of the more popular ways to use the Android Central Forums from your smartphone. One problem though — it wasn't playing nicely with Ice Cream Sandwich. But we've been working with the developer for a couple weeks now and can happily report that the app was just updated to fix the crashes [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited U.S. troops in South Korea in October and told them that they were on “the front line,” it was clearly a rhetorical flourish meant to show appreciation for the 28,500 American forces theoretically in firing range of the North. But less than two months later, North [...]
The 2011 Kardashian Christmas Card is officially here ? and yes, it?s just as fabulous as you can imagine. This year?s photo was shot by famed photographer Nick Saglimbeni, and features the entire Kardashian family posing ? and there?s also a very special 3D version of the card! The Kardashians unveiled the card on their [...]
PRAGUE ? The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle. The dissident playwright spent years in [...]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 19, 2011) ? What do sweaty palms and abnormal heart rhythms have in common? Both can be initiated by the nervous system during an adrenaline-driven “flight-or-fight” stress reaction, when the body senses danger. Hyperhidrosis, an abnormal flight-or-fight response of the sympathetic nervous system that causes excessively sweaty palms may also contribute to problems [...]
AP Forbes’ list has many movers and shakers making the world a better place. It also has Justin Bieber. By Rob Neill Why does Forbes hate America? OK, maybe they don?t. Forbes is actually a content partner of msnbc.com’s. But Forbes editors have to realize they are annoying most of America with their ?30 under [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) ? An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin when it ran into a storm while being towed, and 51 of the crew were unaccounted for, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday. Fourteen crew members were rescued alive from the ‘Kolskaya’ [...]
BERLIN ? North Korea’s closest neighbors responded to the news of leader Kim Jong Il’s death by bracing for possible destabilization in the region, while across the globe, other nations expressed cautious optimism that the change of leadership could provide an opportunity to usher in reforms. North Korea’s past erratic behavior made it difficult to [...]
WASHINGTON ? Top House Republicans rebelled Sunday against a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill extending payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months, reigniting a politically fueled holiday-season clash that had seemed all but doused. The House GOP defiance cast uncertainty over how quickly Congress would forestall a tax increase otherwise heading straight at 160 million [...]
PRAGUE ? Thousands of Czechs paid tribute to Vaclav Havel on Sunday, braving cold and snow at the spot where the leader of the peaceful anti-communist revolution rallied protesters. Mourners, some of them too young to remember 1989′s “Velvet Revolution,” met at downtown Wenceslas Square, where Havel once spoke before hundreds of thousands of people [...]