Kingdom phone hacking scandal. The u. S. Justice department has decided not to prosecute either company after the u. K. s own investigation into the phone hacking and payments to Public Officials concluded. It may be the end of the road for radioshack. The company is in discussions to lease half of its stores to sprint and close the remainder. Radioshack would cease to exist as a standalone retailer after nearly a century in business. People familiar with the matter say this is not a done deal, and talks could still collapse. Apple is going to repurpose that arizona factory that was supposed to make sapphire glass for its iphones. Apple is going to invest 2 billion in the factory to turn it into a data center. The phoenix area building will employ about 150 fulltime apple employees, and is going to run on 100 renewable energy. Apple originally set up the factory for the supplier gt advance, which filed for bankruptcy after apple decided not to use those sapphire screens. Now to our lea
Will not face charges in the United States over the United Kingdom phone hacking scandal. The u. S. Justice department has decided not to prosecute either company after the u. K. s own investigation into the phone hacking and payments to Public Officials concluded. It may be the end of the road for radioshack. The company is in discussions to lease half of its stores to sprint and close the remainder. Radioshack would cease to exist as a standalone retailer after nearly a century in business. People familiar with the matter say this is not a done deal, and talks could still collapse. Apple is going to repurpose that arizona factory that was supposed to make sapphire glass for its iphones. Apple is going to invest 2 billion in the factory to turn it into a data center. The phoenix area building will employ about 150 fulltime apple employees, and is going to run on 100 renewable energy. Apple originally set up the factory for the supplier gt advance which filed for bankruptcy after apple
What keeps the deficit low. The economy is doing well. The budget has been delivered to the congressional office. More on this coming up including information on how the president has earmarked millions for datadriven health care research. Some weak economic numbers and december are raising eyebrows in the u. S. Economy. Consumer spending posted its biggest drop in five years, 3 10 of a percent. That drops after Holiday Shoppers apparently pregame to doing shopping in october and november. Meanwhile, manufacturing in the u. S. Fell in december, the slump in oil prices and a stronger u. S. Dollar impacting orders. Hewlettpackards ceo is getting more money after three years of sales the kleins. The board of directors raised her total compensation by 11 . Ahead of their split of two companies. She will receive 19. 6 million in 2013. She was sent to raise annual enterprise ratings ever in super bowl history 49 game so far. The game was offered and 49 of the homes. Ratings totals will be re
Now. I decided that i was essentially working n 80s yardstick. Tom and that brings up an interesting point because youve said in the past that writers need to use a Science Fictionwith a tool kit to assess the present. What do you mean by that . William well, i couldnt give youi couldnt give you an entire, even really a partial list of those tools. But the tools for writing rigorously extrapolated Science Fiction are quite specific. Tom right. William and since, basically since, so much of the world we live in feels now like Science Fiction why not try using those tools to describe contemporary reality. Tom so the current world has become as absurd as Science Fiction potentially should have been in the 1970s and 80s . William, its become somehow as strange to us even now as scienceas science well fiction. Although weve all long since grown a bit numb to the cognitive dissidence, but occasionally something will happen and well still go, that was really weird. Tom and that was really wei
Emancipation proclamation. But followed by other historians on the controversy and debate. Part of four days of American History tv at 9 30 on cspan3. The president of the United States [applause] thank you. Happy new year to you. Hello, everybody. Thank you. Everybody have a seat. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the white house. I realize that the last thing you want to hear on new years eve is another speech from me. But i do need to talk about the progress being made in congress today. For the last few days, leaders of both parties are working toward an agreement that will prevent a middleclass tax hike from hitting 98 of all americans starting tomorrow. Preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. The last thing that folks like the folks appear on this stage can afford right now is to pay an extra 2,000 in taxes next year. Middleclass families cannot afford it, businesses cannot afford it, our economy cannot afford it. Today, it appears an agreement to prevent this new