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• Apple iPod Touch is T3's gadget of the year
LONDON - Apple has swept the board at Britain's T3 technology magazine's annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch. The touch-screen music and video player beat the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, TomTom's GO ...
• Author: Peace Prizes miss Nobel's intent
Heffermehl, a former vice president of the International Peace Bureau, said 85 percent of the awards made by the five-member Norwegian committee before World War II met Nobel's criteria, but since then only 45 percent did so. "This is not an ...
• Oscar broadcast will now allow movie ads
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood’s biggest annual advertisement for itself — the Academy Awards broadcast — now can carry commercials for movies themselves. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board voted to allow commercials for movies to ...
• Ex-Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
He is a world champion when it comes to peace and he never gives up," said Ole Danbolt Mjoes, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel awards committee. The award, he said, was in line with recent Nobels to other peace mediators, notably Jimmy Carter in ...
• Mike Leigh could lead Hawkins to Oscar
TORONTO - Director Mike Leigh has a knack for putting relatively unknown British actresses into Academy Awards contention, as he did with “Secrets & Lies” and “Vera Drake.” His latest find is Sally Hawkins, who co-starred in “Vera Drake ...