Around town and on the highway in its most comfortable transmission and ABC setting, the SL550 is probably best described as “effortless.” It’s got more power than it needs for sliding between stop lights, so it can keep its revs low and gearing tall without compromising responsiveness. With the minimal throttle inputs required to reach […]
Aug 15 2012 | Posted in
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Selecting the Sport shift program and the Sport ABC mode, the SL550 comes alive. Lower gears are held slightly longer and downshifts are easier to request and predict with the accelerator pedal, sacrificing a few mpgs to have all 429 thoroughbreds on tap when you need them. The chassis also felt more responsive to steering […]
Aug 15 2012 | Posted in
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The SL550 is a brilliant automobile. Sure, Comand Online is a train wreck, but it doesn’t ruin the vehicle that Mercedes’ chassis and engine engineers and designers have built around it. There’s just so much to like about being behind the wheel of a big, red Benz that I find myself over 3,000 words into […]
Aug 15 2012 | Posted in
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The federal judge grows frustrated by gibberish; both lawyers will cull out the joint jury instructions The federal judge presiding over the Apple-Samsung patent infringement trial has apparently grown weary of the quibbling attorneys in the case and has ordered them to meet in person today to hammer out joint jury instructions. “The Court is […]
Aug 13 2012 | Posted in
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US Pay-TV services faced the biggest drop in subscription ever recorded in the second quarter, as economic woes and competition from Netflix and other over-the-top TV services set in. The biggest reason for drop is increasing consumer interest in streaming boxes like Apple TV and Roku LT/HD. Services like Netflix and Hulu Plus come pre-installed […]
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Apple is clearing out its inventory of current iPhones ahead of the expected September launch of its next-generation handset. Retailers and wireless carriers are offering discounts on the iPhone 4S to empty their shelves to make room for Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone, informally called the iPhone 5. Apple has not disclosed plans for its next iPhone, […]
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Three key Demonoid domains are now up for sale, less than two weeks after the BitTorrent site was taken down in a coordinated effort. Torrent lovers, beware, their beloved uTorrent has been taken down and now three more website names are up for grabs as they have also been unplugged from the web because of […]
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Google is in a total denial that the new copyright protection stunt taken by the company will not affect YouTube. However, the website has been seen over the years being host to countless illegal video and audio content. Still the company thinks that the removal process will not affect their flagship video website. The new […]
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Google plans to lay off about 4,000 employees at Motorola, 20% of the workforce of its mobile phone subsidiary acquired last year, according to sources familiar with the measure. Two thirds of the adjustment will be made ??outside the United States. Google will also close a third of the company premises. Motorola, which reported on Sunday to […]
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Google vice president, Vic Gundotra, vice president of the company and head of search, believes that leadership depends on the speed of response and has hinted at scanning the emails despite the continuing controversy of the element. In the latest announcement of changes in the search results have included Gmail, its email service with over 425 million […]
Aug 12 2012 | Posted in
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Google vice president, Vic Gundotra, vice president of the company and head of search, believes that leadership depends on the speed of response and has hinted at scanning the emails despite the continuing controversy of the element. In the latest announcement of changes in the search results have included Gmail, its email service with over 425 million […]
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Apple is nipping on the heels of Google. In the latest developments in the Google-Apple lover affair, the latter dropped YouTube app from its iOS 6 beta bandwagon. Furthermore, a spokesperson confirmed that the final version will also be without the pre-installed YouTube application. “Our licensing to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended,” […]
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