Philips Fidelio DS8550 Speaker Dock Review

Posted by newbie Saturday, April 30, 2011 0 comments
Something was lost when music moved to a digital format. Not to MP3, but CDs. The move from cassette players to CD players practically killed the boombox. Sony's disc Walkman put headphones in our ears, and since then the only place we share music is in the car. That's why the Philips Fidelio DS8550 is all John Cusack would need in a remake of Say Anything.more>>&...

Gaddafi calls for Nato negotiations

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Muammar Gaddafi says he wants to negotiate with Nato powers, as air strikes hit government complex in Libyan capitalMuammar Gaddafi called for a mutual ceasefire and negotiations with Nato powers in a live speech on state TV early on Saturday, while Nato bombs struck a government complex in the Libyan capital.The targeted compound included the state television building, which was not damaged. Gaddafi spoke from an undisclosed location.In his rambling pre-dawn speech, the Libyan leader appeared subdued...

Wedding says much about our fascination with royalty

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The monarchy sidesteps the awkwardness of patriotism and allows us to feel a rare British prideWhat memory will live on? For those who lined the Mall, painting their faces red, white and blue, or who just stayed home watching on television — what will they remember? The kiss on the balcony will be the image replayed in perpetuity, just as it was when William's mother and father married 30 years ago — the difference being that this time they looked like a couple genuinely in love. Others will talk...

Nasa delays Endeavour's final voyage

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Technical fault in the power unit derails launch during countdown to liftoffThe penultimate space shuttle launch was postponed on Friday because of mechanical problems, dashing the hopes of the biggest crowd of spectators in years, including the mission commander's wife, Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt earlier this year.Nasa hopes to try again to send space shuttle Endeavour on its final voyage on Monday.President Barack Obama and his family visited...

Briton killed in Marrakech bomb attack

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Peter Moss, a British travel writer, was among 16 victims of a remote-controlled nail bomb explosion at a busy tourist cafeA British travel writer and novelist has been named among the 16 victims of a terrorist bomb explosion at a busy tourist cafe in Marrakech.Peter Moss, 59, was at the Argana cafe in the popular Jamaa el-Fnaa square when a remote-controlled nail bomb was detonated at lunchtime.A video released before the attack by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb reportedly claimed responsibility,...

Activists claim Facebook page purge

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Protest groups claim Facebook has taken down dozens of pages over the weekend in a purge of activists' accountsFacebook has removed dozens of profiles from its site, causing an outcry from campaigners trying to organise anti-austerity protests this weekend.The deactivated pages include UK Uncut, and pages created by students during last December's university occupations.A list posted on the Stop Facebook Purge group says Chesterfield Stop the Cuts, Tower Hamlet Greens, London Student Assembly, Southwark...

Storming of the palace, British-style

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Forget republicanism – the closest Britain got to a revolution is people pushing down barricades and rushing to the palaceWhether it was history repeating itself as history, or farce repeating itself as farce, depends entirely on your point of view. The marriage of His Royal Highness Prince William to Catherine Middleton was washed down by that cocktail of fevered excitement and irate lack of interest that constitutes public opinion these days – so consider it a day when the country split into two,...

Kate and William seal it with a kiss – twice

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Considering the huge guest list, the crowds, and the massed ranks of cameras, the royal wedding proved an intimate affairConsidering the size of the audience, the two sets of trumpeters, two choirs and several of the most senior clerics in the land, the presence of the entire British royal family, 45 crowned heads from around the world and a guest list stretching to nearly 2,000, it was quite an intimate wedding. And, confounding all the understandable fears, nerves and precautions, it went off...

Syrians protest as unrest spreads

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• 24 killed in Deraa after thousands take to streets• UN approves inquiry into government violenceThousands of Syrians defied their government's bloody attempts to suppress protests, braving gunfire from security forces to demonstrate in Damascus and across the country.Initial reports said at least 24 people had been shot dead, most of them in the opposition stronghold of Deraa, where villagers tried to break through the security cordon to relieve its besieged population.Further deaths were reported...

Marrakech bomb blast examined

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Anti-terrorist officers from several countries comb site for clues to who was behind remote control deviceAnti-terrorist experts from several countries have been sifting through the wreckage of the Marrakech cafe where 15 people died on Thursday, as officials said a remote control bomb caused the blast.A video released before the attack by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack, with terrorism experts saying the group was one of several likely candidates.While...

London's pavement warriors rally round the flag

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Esther Addley discovers that sharp elbows are the weapons of choice for position-protecting royalistsOne doesn't choose to spend the night on the pavement, wrapped in a union flag and wearing a Burger King cardboard crown, for the quality of the rest, and so the huddled forms stretched out on the Mall were in no position to complain about the impromptu bursts of God Save the Queen, some time before 5am.What does matter a great deal, however, is the view. And so any attempt to step over an occupied...

Gaddafi troops captured in Tunisia

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Attempt by Libya loyalist soldiers to retake a key crossing from rebel hands leads to border skirmish with Tunisian forcesThe Libyan civil war has briefly spilled into Tunisia as the west of the country saw heavy fighting on two fronts and Nato reported that Muammar Gaddafi's forces were laying anti-shipping mines in the sea off Misrata.Loyalist troops made incursions over the border into Tunisia in a battle to retake a key crossing from rebel hands, drawing condemnation from Tunis.Libyan soldiers...

Manning 'competent' to stand trial

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Intelligence analyst suspected of passing government secrets to WikiLeaks has undergone a medical and mental evaluationThe intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been found competent to stand trial, the U.S. Army has said.Spokesman Gary Tallman says a panel of experts completed its medical and mental evaluation of Bradley Manning on April 22, and had informed Army officials of the conclusion.Tallman says no date has been set yet for the...

Purnell urges Labour welfare rethink

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The former work and pensions secretary describes Blue Labour as the most interesting element of debate within the partyJames Purnell, the former work and pensions secretary, is to call on Labour to rethink its approach to welfare, relying less on cash transfers and instead offering guarantees of jobs and access to housing.He also proposes a revival of the contributory principle whereby a claimant's benefits are linked more closely to the amount they have put into the system. Describing "Blue Labour"...

UK film Man and Boy wins at Tribeca

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New York festival honours Man and Boy but top awards go to Swedish and Israeli directorsA British film about the death of a suspected paedophile has won the award for best narrative short at the Tribeca film festival in New York.Man and Boy, which was directed by David Leon and Marcus McSweeney, stars Eddie Marsan. It was inspired by the case of Scott Campbell, who fell to his death from a tower block in 2008 after trying to flee a mob who thought he had sexually assaulted a boy.The jury said: "The...

Obama vows swift post-tornado aid

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President visits wrecked university city of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, the worst hit of seven states where 210 people diedBarack Obama has flown to the epicentre of one of the United States' worst tornado disasters to pledge federal support for recovery after 310 people were killed.The president and his family visited the wrecked university city of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, the hardest hit of seven states that were blasted this week by tornadoes and storms that flattened whole neighbourhoods. It was the...

Daimler profits roar on back of China

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Daimler follows trend for growing confidence in car industry and doubles first-quarter profits as Chinese sales rise 82%Booming demand for luxury cars in China has helped Daimler double its profits in the first quarter of the year and highlighted a wider turnaround in confidence for automobile makers.Sales of Mercedes-branded cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) increased by 82% in the world's most populous nation compared to 4% growth in western Europe and America.The German-based carmaker reported...

Fancy dress, fascinators and fry-ups in New York

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 Diehard royal fans celebrate Kate and William's nuptials but for most it's business as usual"He knocked off my fascinating!" cried Laura Martin, 55, in full evening dress complete with enormous jewelled brooch ("Fake – don't tell the Queen!") as she glared at a jogger disappearing towards the Hudson River, before stooping down to pick her fasincator off the sidewalk."It's a fascinate, Laura," said her friend, in a similarly implausible outfit for 6am. "Fascinate."It wasn't so much a tale of...