One of my favorite scenes in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is where they start attacking the French castle with a catapult loaded with cows. An iPhone app is coming soon that will let you fling cows all you want called Monty Python Cow Tossing and it should land in the next few weeks. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘denies’
Monty Python cow tossing, Cooler Master solar case, Apple denies new in-app purchase rules
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Microsoft Bing VP Denies Copying Google Search Results
February 1st, 2011 |
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Microsoft vehemently denied copying Google search results but acknowledged using customer data to improve its Bing search engine. Google disagreed, and the back and forth flowed. – A vice president for Microsoft’s Bing team denied configuring the Bing
algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market
share.
What Bing does use is quot;clickstream, quot; or customer data from its
Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporat…
HFPA Denies Inviting Ricky Gervais Back To Golden Globes
February 1st, 2011 |
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Don’t believe the hype: Ricky Gervais has not been asked to host the Golden Globes Awards for a third time, despite that new interview with Heat Magazine, in which the acid-tongued Brit claimed he’d been asked to “consider a third year†as host of the Golden Globes. The creator of The Office stirred controversy when [...]
Facebook Denies HTC Device Is a Facebook Phone: Reports
January 27th, 2011 |
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Facebook is again denying that its building a phone. A new HTC phone, and an earlier reported INQ Mobile phone, may just have “deep integrations of Facebook.” – Facebook officials are once
again denying they have a smartphone
in development. The social network sites denial follows a report by London
site City A.M. that the Taiwanese
smartphone maker HTC plans to unveil two Facebook-branded phones at the Mobile
World Congress event next month.
The p…
Acer Denies Phasing Out Netbooks for Tablets
January 20th, 2011 |
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Acer officials in a statement denied the remarks of an Acer salesperson, who reportedly said that its netbooks would be phased out in favor of tablets. – Acer officials are denying that they plan to phase out the company’s netbook
lines as Acer begins to also focus on the tablet market. Additionally, the
officials said in a statement that, for the moment, tablets quot;based on
[Intel's] Sandy Bridge
are not yet foreseen. quot;
Citing Taiwan
sa…
Cosco Corp. denies talks to take over shipyards from parent
January 20th, 2011 |
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Cosco Corp. Singapore, a shipbuilding and dry-bulk shipping company, said it has not received proposals from its Chinese parent Cosco Group under which it would receive a stake in Cosco Shipyard Group and take over all of Cosco Shipbuilding Industry Co.
Cosco Corp. said it isn’t in talks with Cosco Group about such a move, referring to an article in Singapore’s Business Times today.
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Samsung Denies Charging Carriers for Android 2.2 Update
January 19th, 2011 |
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That Samsung reportedly wants to charge carriers for Android updates is the latest rumor in a story that its forcing T-Mobile to withhold updates to the Vibrant. – Samsung is making news of late, and its not for the extraordinary
sales figures on its line of Galaxy S handsets. Rumors are being traded
across the Internet about the Vibrant, T-Mobiles Samsung Galaxy S handset, have put the phone maker in the hotseat.
AndroidSpin
first reported Jan. 12 that…
Germany denies organizing coup in Belarus
January 15th, 2011 |
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An official Belarus newspaper has accused Poland and Germany of organizing a coup.
The German Foreign Ministry said the accusations were absurd. The EU has warned of new sanctions unless protesters are released.
“The Fed No Longer Even Denies that the Purpose of Its Latest Blast of Bond Purchases … Is To Drive Up Wall Street”
January 14th, 2011 |
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The stated purpose of quantitative easing was to drive down interest rates on U.S. treasury bonds.But as U.S. News and World Reported noted last month:By now, you’ve probably heard that the Fed is purchasing $600 billion in treasuries in hopes that it…
Opposition party denies cooperation with DS
January 7th, 2011 |
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Opposition SNS deputy leader Aleksandar VuÄić has denied that his party and the ruling Democrats (RS) are cooperating. He told B92 in Belgrade late on Thursday that the two parties – consistently topping the polls as the country’s most popular – are “most fierce possible political opponents”.
BlackBerry denies reports on PlayBook battery life
December 31st, 2010 |
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Thursday denied reports that the launch of its PlayBook tablet is being delayed because of its poor battery life compared to Apple’s iPad’s 10 hours. The denial follows reports two days ago in which attributed to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu has been quoted as saying that RIM is [...]
Ex-Croat PM denies money laundering
December 24th, 2010 |
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Former Croatian PM Ivo Sanader denied on Thursday money laundering charges, in connection to which he was being held. Sanader has been detained in Salzburg, Austria, and was questioned by Austrian anti-corruption prosecutors.
Google Denies Connecticut AG Street View Data
December 18th, 2010 |
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Google Dec. 17 declined to give e-mail, password and Web browser information its Street View cars accidentally collected to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. – Google Dec. 17 refused to give personal data accidentally
collected from Connecticut citizens to the state attorney general, a move that
could precipitate legal action.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal Dec. 10 issued the search engine a civil investigative demand to retrieve data Google’s
Str…
Slovenian admits to killings, denies genocide
December 15th, 2010 |
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Franc Kos has admitted before a court in Sarajevo that he participated in the 1995 Srebrenica executions. However, Kos, who is a Slovenian citizen, denied involvement in committing genocide, according to media reports in Slovenia.
President denies intention to sack FM
December 14th, 2010 |
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President Boris Tadić has today rejected media reports that Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić would be dismissed.
He also said Ivica DaÄić will not be Serbia’s new prime minister, as speculated on Monday.
Selena Gomez denies romance with Justin Bieber
December 13th, 2010 |
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Teen actress Selena Gomez has revealed that she”s not dating Justin Bieber. The young singers sparked rumours last week after they were spotted having breakfast together at an IHop pancake restaurant in Philadelphia. Onlookers said they were holding hands and looking ”cuddly” as they shared meal in a corner booth and they were photographed leaving [...]
Kim Kardashian denies rumours she’s expecting Kanye West’s baby
December 7th, 2010 |
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Socialite Kim Kardashian has denied rumours that she is pregnant with singer Kanye West’s baby. According to People magazine, Kim, 30, who was recently spotted with model Gabriel Aubry, has said there was no truth in the rumours. “The rumours are absolutely not true,†the New York Daily News quoted her as saying. “I’m not [...]
Artemije denies plans for new church
November 26th, 2010 |
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The defrocked SPC Bishop Artemije denied that he was planning to set up “a new Church on Kosovo and Metohija”. The newspaper Danas writes that Artemije pointed out the rumors were part of a “media lynch” against him, conducted for months.