Saturday, April 23, 2011
Orlando gas station
Orlando gas station charges $5.69 a gallon - Apr. 22, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Gas prices are on the rise nationwide, but one filling station in Florida has earned the dubious distinction of having the highest prices in the country.
Suncoast Energys, located near the Orlando International Airport, was charging $5.69 a gallon for regular gasoline on Friday. That's the highest of any gas retailer in the nation, according to price tracker gasbuddy.com.
11 mourners shot dead as Syrians bury their dead
At least 11 mourners were shot dead on Saturday as Syrians swarmed the streets to bury scores of demonstrators killed in massive protests and two MPs resigned in frustration at the bloodshed.
Activists said the death toll from Friday's nationwide protests could top 100, pending confirmation of a list of names, and expected fresh protests to form after the funerals.
Two independent MPs from the protest hub city of Daraa, Nasser al-Hariri and Khalil al-Rifai, on Saturday told Al-Jazeera television they were quitting parliament in frustration at not being able to protect their constituents.
Is an Amazon Tablet Inevitable? Yes! - PCWorld
At this point, all bets are on Amazon launching a cheap Android tablet with heaps of content. If the hardware is adequate, Amazon could shake up the tablet market overnight, and finally give Apple a single, legitimate threat.
Speculation on an Amazon tablet, of which there has been plenty, is slowly giving way to rumor. At Gdgt, Peter Rojas writes that the tablet is "something of an open secret" and that he's "99% certain they are having Samsung build one for them."
Illustration of Amazon's Jeff Bezos holding up a fake tablet. Aside from that little tidbit, Rojas' report touches on the same speculative arguments that other pundits have put forth: Profits from Amazon's music, video, books and apps businesses would allow the company to create a cheaper Android tablet than the competition. He expects similar aggressive pricing to Barnes & Noble's Nook Color, which sells for a mere $250 because the book seller hopes to make additional profits on e-book sales. Another option: Amazon could offer an ad-subsidized tablet, similar to the new Kindle with Special Offers.
Virtually every tech pundit assumes the Amazon tablet will run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but how closely it'll resemble Google's stock operating system remains a mystery. Google has not yet released the source code for Honeycomb, and is reportedly enforcing "non-fragmentation clauses" to crack down on heavy modification of Android software. An Amazon tablet could be far from launching unless Amazon and Google are working closely together, and that seems unlikely with Amazon offering a competing app store to the Android Market.
In other words, the question of whether Amazon will release a tablet is becoming a matter of when, rather than if. It's about time we got some answers.
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