Ex-GM workers in Columbia sew mouths shut in hunger strike (video)

Seven Colombian men, all former General Motors employees, have sewn their mouths shut as part of a hunger strike that is now in its third week. The demonstrators, stationed outside the U.S. embassy in Bogota, are protesting their termination from the GM Colmotores plant. As reported by The Toronto Star, the men say that GM fired them after they incurred various debilitating job-related injuries, rather than help them obtain the proper medical treatment.



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Samsung announces the Galaxy S Duos, available in Europe in September

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy S Duos today. This dual-SIM smartphone borrows heavily from the Galaxy S III design-wise, yet it's got midrange specs at best. That said, the ability to hold two SIM cards at the same time will be the main selling point here. Speaking of that, the Galaxy S Duos has dual-standby, which means you can be talking through one SIM, while still being notified of an incoming call on the other.


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Professional Electrical Installation Is Paramount Announces Builder Guide

Builder Guide backs the findings from a recently published study by the Electrical Safety Council and emphasises professional electrical installation is of paramount importance.Builder Guide is getting behind the results of a recent study published by the Electrical Safety Council to highlight the importance of checking the electrics within your home are safe. A key aspect of this is having an RCD (Residual Current Device) in your fuse board, also known as a consumer unit. This will prevent electric shocks and dramatically reduce the risk of fire.

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Micromax Superfone Canvas A100 smartphone offers 5-inch display at a bargain

Phablets could very well be the new niche market that smartphone manufacturers might want to look into, thanks to the efforts by Samsung which resulted in the Samsung Galaxy Note, followed by the impending release of its sequel, the Galaxy Note 2. Well, the name Micromax might not register on anyone's radar, considering the rather oxymoronic nature of the name, but here they are with the Micromax Superfone Canvas A100 that sports a rather generous 5-inch LCD display that places it in phablet territory, in addition to having Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running right out of the box.

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LG Optimus Vu global availability gets announced

LG announced global availability of its unorthodox screen ratio sporting Optimus Vu phoneblet. The device will hit select markets in Europe, Asia, Middle East/Africa and Latin America in September. The most important change about the globally available LG Optimus Vu will be the new CPU and chipset which it will feature. The dual-core Qualcomm silicon of the Korean and Japanese market specific devices will be replaced by a much speedier NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core CPU.

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Polaroid iS326 Digital Camera

The iS326 is the newest addition to Polaroid's digital camera line-up that sports a 16.1MP image sensor, a 3x optical zoom lens, a 2.4-inch rear LCD screen, an SD card slot, Face Detection & Anti-Shake Technology and a rechargeable Lithium battery. The iS326 sells for $74.95.

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Micromax intros supersize-on-a-budget Superfone Canvas A100, more moderate Pixel A90

Extra-large phones often skew towards the, shall we say, pricey side. Micromax is keen to democratize this desire for the gigantic with the Superfone Canvas A100 (shown here on the left). A 5-inch LCD puts the Android 4.0 smartphone fully in phablet territory, but the inside is reasonable enough that those in the company's native India won't break the bank: an 854 x 480 resolution, 5-megapixel rear and VGA front cameras, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 4GB of built-in space and a microSD slot keep the dual-SIM phone down to Earth. Micromax also has us covered if we want a slightly more hand-portable size.

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