Politically Foul It was the most politically foul week yet. Harry Reid hits below the belt. The Obama and Romney campaigns call each other names. Sen. Bill Nelson calls his opponent a tax cheatin,' road ragin', Hooters promotin' slacker. And, winning the award for the most flagrant foul, a TV ad by a Democratic group which insinuated that Romney was responsible for the death of a man's wife. It all started with a below-the-belt punch by former amateur boxer -- and current Senate Majority Leader -- Harry Reid, hitting presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in his political crown jewels. "The word's out that he hasn't paid any taxes for ten years," Reid said. "Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn't." So, how does the chairman of the Republican party respond to this low blow? Does he turn the other cheek? Rise above the fray? Not so much. "As far as Harry Reid is concerned, I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who ha
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President Barack Obama (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in March. (Mark Wilson/Getty … The White House expressed confidence Friday that American intelligence will know if Iran escalates its nuclear program in a sprint to build an atomic bomb—a day after Israel's defense minister warned that the allies might not know "in time" to prevent it. "We have eyes, we have visibility into the program," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. "We feel confident that we would be able to detect a break-out move by Iran towards the acquisition of a nuclear weapon." "We believe there continues to be the time and space to pursue this course," Carney said, referring to punishing American and international economic sanctions on the Islamic republic. "It is the best course of action to ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. We take no options off the table, and we consult with our all
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 10: U.S. President Barack Obama acknowleges Huma Abedin, the Muslim wife of disgraced Rep. …President Barack Obama forcefully defended trusted Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Friday, praising her as "an American patriot" in the face of charges from Republicans like Representative Michele Bachmann that she is secretly tied to Muslim extremists. Speaking at a White House Iftar dinner to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Obama hailed Abedin as "a good friend" who has "worked tirelessly in the White House, in the U.S. Senate, and most exhaustingly at the State Department — where she has been nothing less than extraordinary in representing our country and the democratic values that we hold dear." "Senator Clinton has relied on her expertise, and so have I," he said. "The American people owe her a debt of gratitude, because Huma is an American patriot, and an example of what we need in this country: mor
Romney on his campaign plane en route to Virginia (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) NORFOLK, Va.—On the eve of the kickoff of his four-state bus tour, Mitt Romney made a rare appearance in the back of his campaign plane en route to Virginia—though he didn't say much. The Republican presidential candidate came back after he was waved at by a member of his traveling press corps and asked to come back. "No, no, no," Romney initially mouthed, but then he relented. Asked how he was feeling, Romney replied, "Bus tour! It's great. It's great to be out campaigning." Off the road raising cash Thursday, Romney said fundraising "has its own rewards, obviously." But, he said, "campaigning is the most fun, the most enjoyable and rewarding." "And with that," he said, "back to my yogurt." View the original article here
JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - The sister of former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson's wife, whose body was discovered in a bathtub in 2004, initially suspected that Peterson was involved in her death, according to testimony on Friday in Peterson's high-profile murder case. Peterson is accused of killing Kathleen Savio, his third wife, while they were engaged in a contentious divorce in 2004 and staging her death to look like an accidental drowning. Peterson once told Savio that "he could kill her and make it look like an accident," Savio's sister, Susan Doman, testified that Savio told her. "She was terrified." Days after Savio's body was found, Doman confronted Peterson by asking, "Did you kill my sister?" Peterson replied that he would not kill the mother of his children, according to Doman's testimony. Later that same day, Doman witnessed Peterson entering the bathroom where Savio died. Doman asked Peterson what he was doing
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two former Border Patrol agents were found guilty Friday of smuggling hundreds of people into the U.S. in Border Patrol vehicles. Raul and Fidel Villarreal were convicted of charges that they brought illegal immigrants into the U.S. for money and received bribes by public officials, and counts of conspiracy to launder money. Prosecutors said Raul Villarreal started a ring that smuggled in Mexicans and Brazilians and made Fidel Villarreal, his older brother and a fellow agent, one of his first recruits. Both brothers pleaded not guilty in one of the highest-profile corruption cases to sting the Border Patrol since it went on a hiring spree during the last decade. Raul Villarreal had been a public face of the patrol, frequently appearing on television as an agency spokesman. The federal probe began in May 2005 with an informant's tip to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigators installed cameras on poles in areas where migrants were dropped off, plante
NEW YORK (AP) — Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria has apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in Time magazine. His column has been suspended for a month. Zakaria said in a statement Friday he made "a terrible mistake," adding, "It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault." In a separate statement, Time spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine accepts Zakaria's apology, but would suspend his column for one month, "pending further review." "What he did violates our own standards for our columnists, which is that their work must not only be factual but original; their views must not only be their own but their words as well," Zelenko said. Media reporters had noted similarities between passages in Zakaria's column about gun control that appeared in Time's Aug. 20 issue, and paragraphs from an article by Harvard University history professor Jill Lepore published in April in The New
Lyn Vaccaro admits it: "I'm officially an undecided voter." That's a big confession for the 50-year-old single mom in Milwaukee, who says she has spent "a significant amount of time as a well-known conservative." But Vaccaro, who works at a natural foods store, says she now feels that she can't put her support behind either candidate. "It's been quite a while since I've felt so ambiguous about something so profoundly important," she adds. In a first-person account for Yahoo News, Vaccaro writes that a few key issues too important to ignore have her split about her choice in the presidential election. President Barack Obama has failed her on jobs and economy. He also simply can't tell the truth, she says. "We need decent-paying jobs that provide consistent work to run our households. I'm not seeing that in the current administration. I'm not happy," Vaccaro writes. "This isn't to mention the lack of candor
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deepening drought in the nation's farm states has cut further into this fall's harvest, with farmers now expected to pull from their fields the lowest corn yield in more than a decade. But American farmers are still expected to produce their eighth-largest harvest ever, and while there's sure to be a rise in prices at the grocery stores, there's little risk of a failed harvest that would lead to shortages on the shelves. The U.S. Agriculture Department predicted the nation's biggest harvest ever in the spring, when farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn — the most since 1937. But it cut its estimate a month ago and again Friday, saying it now expects the nation to produce 10.8 billion bushels, the least since 2006. If that estimate holds, the federal government says it will be enough to meet the world's needs and ensure there are no shortages. But experts say food prices will almost certainly climb as corn is a widely used ingredient foun
Ryan and Romney on election night in Wisconsin in April (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) NORFOLK, Va.--Mitt Romney will name his vice presidential running mate on Saturday. According to a statement the campaign released late Friday, the presumptive Republican nominee will announce his running mate at an 8:45am rally here on the USS Wisconsin--the first stop of his four-day bus tour of key battleground states. The campaign offered no further details, and aides traveling with Ronney declined to comment. But Republican sources told NBC News, the Huffington Post, the Associated Press and CNN that Romney is expected to name Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin--reports the campaign refused to confirm. In addition, ABC News's Jon Karl reported that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio--all of whom were said to be on Romney's short list--have all been told they are not the pick. Soon after the Romney campaign announced the Saturday appearance, s
NEW YORK (AP) — David Rakoff, an award-winning humorist whose cynical outlook on life and culture developed a loyal following of readers and radio listeners, has died after a long illness. He was 47. Rakoff, 47, died Thursday after a long illness, Doubleday and Anchor Books announced. The statement did not detail a cause of death, but Rakoff had been open about his battles with cancer. Rakoff wrote for The New York Times, Newsweek and other publications and was a contributor to radio's "This American Life." In October, his essay collection "Half Empty" won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His other bestselling books are "Don't Get Too Comfortable" and "Fraud." "The world is a little less kind and a little less beautiful today," his longtime editor, Bill Thomas, said in a statement. Rakoff, a native of Canada who lived in New York, cultivated hipness and ironic distance from his subjects, who usually lived outside the mains
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueWhite House spokesman Jay Carney declined Friday to repudiate an independent ad that ties Mitt Romney to the cancer death of a laid-off steelworker's wife, as the controversy over that misleading commercial dragged into another day. "We do not control third-party ads," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. He had been asked whether President Barack Obama would repudiate the Priorities USA Action spot, now perhaps the most talked-about commercial of the 2012 cycle even though it hasn't actually aired — and owes its notoriety to media coverage. Obama officials have expressed increasing frustration that the furor over the ad has all but drowned out complaints by the Democrat's campaign about Romney's misleading claim that the president has gutted the requirement that welfare recipients actively seek work to qualify for benefits. That charge isn't true, according to numerous fact-checking an
DRAM makers have been struggling with falling memory prices for a few years now, and at one point in 2008, Adata chairman Simon Chen declared the DRAM market was the worst it's been in 15 years. Fast forward to today and DRAM players have found their saving grace in the mobile sector. While PC memory is still dirt cheap, mobile DRAM is on a record pace in terms of revenue. According to IHS iSupply, mobile DRAM will hit a record $6.56 billion in revenue this year, a 10 percent gain from $5.98 billion in 2011. That's also much higher than the 3 percent revenue growth predicted in the standard DRAM market. "The mobile DRAM segment is achieving impressive growth as mobile operating systems, streaming apps and games require more memory to handle sophisticated tasks," said Ryan Chien, analyst for memory & storage at IHS. "Crucial features like multitasking, media decoding and decompression, data synchronization and background operations are all driving DRAM nee
With all due respect to Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and any other mobile platform not named Android or iOS, you're all just a bunch of also-rans in what's becoming "unquestionably a two-horse race," according to data and analysis by International Data Corporation (IDC). Android and iOS set a new combined smartphone OS record in the second quarter of 2012, with the two platforms feasting on an 85 percent share of the market, leaving just 15 percent in scraps for all others to fight over. Even though it's a two-horse race, it's not really a close one. According to IDC, Android ended Q2 with a 68.1 percent share of the smartphone OS market, while iOS trailed a distant second at 16.9 percent. After that it's BlackBerry with a 4.8 percent share, followed by Symbian with 4.4 percent, Windows Phone/Mobile with 3.5 percent, Linux (mostly Samsung's Bada platform) with 2.3 percent, and all others combining for a measly 0.1 percent. "Android contin
If you're wondering how OEMs are going to compete with Microsoft's own Surface tablet, here you go. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad line, Lenovo, which bought the brand from IBM in 1995, unveiled its first Windows 8 tablet, the ThinkPad Tablet 2. It's a full-size 10.1-inch tablet with "differentiators that matter," like an optional digitizer pen, 3G wireless with pay-as-you-go plans, and 4G models. Like Surface, the ThinkPad Tablet 2 boasts Intel inside, only Lenovo opted to go with the Santa Clara chip maker's upcoming Atom refresh. That means it's going to be less powerful than Microsoft's Ivy Bridge-infused Surface, and undoubtedly less expensive, though Lenovo apparently isn't ready to reveal any pricing details just yet. According to Lenovo, the ThinkPad Tablet 2 measures 9.8mm thick and weighs less than 1.3 pounds. An optional keyboard and dock can be paired with the device, which would add an array of ports including a
It’s just not all of us who have become blasé about browser updates, but even browser developers themselves seem to be having a hard time keeping up with all the frequent updates. The Google Chrome team must have been very jaded when they released the latest stable version of their browser late last month, as they totally forgot to mention one of the most important changes inside—one that took over two years for them to put together. “A little more than two years ago, engineers on the Chrome team began a very ambitious project. In coordination with Adobe, we started porting Flash from the aging NPAPI architecture to our sandboxed PPAPI platform,” Justin Schuh, a Google software engineer, wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “With last week’s Chrome Stable release, we were finally able to ship PPAPI Flash to all Windows Chrome users, so they can now experience dramatically improved security and stability as well as improved performance down the line.” According to Google, this move from NP
Lenovo's been enjoying a fair amount of time sitting the limelight as it celebrates the ThinkPad brand's 20th anniversary. Most of the attention has been split between the OEM's ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook, but nearly slipping under the radar is the company's ThinkPad T430u "ultraportable," which is by all means an Ultrabook aimed at the business crowd. The ThinkPad T430u was first introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year and slated to launch in the third quarter. Making good on that promise, Lenovo will begin selling the business-centric Ultrabook later this month starting at $779 rather than $849 as previously planned, The Verge reports. As a refresher, specs include a 13-inch display with a 1366x768 resolution, Intel Core ULV processor with Intel HD graphics (discrete Nvidia GeForce GT 620M GPU will be available), 1TB hard drive or 128GB solid state drive, up to 8GB of RAM, and a spa
Google has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging the sultan of search placed tracking cookies on computers running Apple's Safari browser that effectively bypassed the browser's built-in privacy measures. It's the largest fine ever handed out by the FTC, and one the government organization hopes will serve as a deterrent to other companies who might look to profit at the expense of privacy. "The record setting penalty in this matter sends a clear message to all companies under an FTC privacy order," said Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC. "No matter how big or small, all companies must abide by FTC orders against them and keep their privacy promises to consumers, or they will end up paying many times what it would have cost to comply in the first place." Google rakes in billions of dollars in revenue each year from serving up targeted ads to Web users by using cookies. According to the FTC, Goog
Samsung wasted no time in sending a team of executives to one of its suppliers' factories in China to investigate claims that it may be using child labor. The in-house investigation is in rapid response to a China Labor Watch (CLW) report alleging to have found issues of underage workers and student labor exploitation at HEG, which builds mobile phones, DVDs, stereo equipment, and MP3 players for Samsung. "During the first investigation, seven children—all of them are under the age of 16—were found working in the same department as our investigators," CLW said in a statement. "This suggests that child labor is a common practice in the factory. The number of underage workers throughout the factory is unknown because our investigators had limited contact with workers in other departments. But the company has clearly violated Chinese labor laws." According to the report, children "working under [the] same harsh conditions as adult workers" at HEG are be
PC doomsayers received a little more ammunition from Gartner today, which announced that PC shipments in Western Europe totaled just 13.6 million units in the second quarter of 2012. That's a 2.4 percent decline to compared to the same period last year, and it's mostly due to slagging desktop PC sales, which dropped 12.8 percent year-over-year in Q2. Meanwhile, mobile PC shipments are picking up steam. While the desktop struggled, mobile PC shipments grew 4 percent, Gartner said. Still, it wasn't enough to offset "weak overall PC shipments" across all of Western Europe, the market research firm noted. Gartner didn't speculate why PC shipments dipped in Q2, though we suspect it has to do with the impending release of Windows 8. Businesses and users in need of an upgrade may find themselves in a holding pattern to see what kind of systems emerge under Microsoft's new touch-friendly OS, or look to score a deal on a Windows 7 system later this year. Hewlett-
In the wake of AT&T rolling out Mobile Share data plans that allow its subscribers to share up to 20GB of data per month across a swath of wireless devices, Verizon Wireless has come forward to say, 'Hey, our Share Everything plans also go up to 20GB!' Big Red unveiled half a dozen shared data plans back in June that ranged from 1GB for $50/month to 10GB for $100/month, but it turns out there were higher tiers available. Twice as many, in fact. The upper tiers include: 12GB for $110/month14GB for $120/month16GB for $130/month18GB for $140/month20GB for $150/month Why go through the trouble of hiding and/or not making the upper tier plans obvious? VZW spokeswoman Brenda Raney explained to ComputerWorld that the upper tiers weren't initially posted on the company's website because "the majority of customers use under 2GB a month. Who would need 20GB?" The idea that some users would want to use as much as 20GB per month wasn't lost on AT&T, which o
Research In Motion (RIM) managed to escape from having to pay a hefty patent infringement fine when the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California overturned an earlier verdict that would have had the company pay $147.2 million in damages to Mformation, a software company that deals with mobile device management. According to the presiding judge, there wasn't enough evidence to support the jury's findings of patent infringement. "We appreciate the Judge's careful consideration of this case. RIM did not infringe on Mformation's patent and we are pleased with this victory," said Steve Zipperstein, RIM's Chief Legal Officer. "The purpose of the patent system is to encourage innovation, but the system is still too often exploited in pursuit of other goals. Many policy makers have already recognized the need to address this problem and we call on others to join them as this case clearly highlights the significant need for continuing poli
For the past few months, we’ve been picking up pieces of news here and there about the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q. At first, we only knew the phone by model number SGH-T699. A little later on, the first photograph of the model was released, revealing the hardware to be a QWERTY slider. Eventually, we learned that the T699 would be released as the Galaxy S Blaze Q, and saw a leaked document that claimed the phone would launch on August 15. As that date nears, a new press render of the phone has come out, and it also seems to support the idea of a release next week. As you can see, the phone’s date in the image is set to Wednesday, August 15. That’s not necessarily an indication of when the phone might launch, but we’ve seen carriers do this kind of thing before, and since it lines-up with that previous leak, we’re felling pretty good about this one having some meaning behind it. The hardware looks just like it did when photographed back in June, including the unusual retention of a phys
Stephen Schenck | Sony's come out with a couple Android tablets so far; it has the unusual clamshell design Tablet P, and while its Tablet S has a more ... Read Story Stephen Schenck | For a long time now, we've been expecting Sony's Xperia Ion to come to AT&T sometime in the second quarter of the year as the ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | It is not clear whether AT&T is using the rather old Xperia Play to sell its new Tablet P -- which just recently landed on its line-up ... Read Story Stephen Schenck | It's well-nigh impossible to look at Sony's Tablet P without conjuring up some memories of Kyocera's Echo from last year. After all, ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | The codenames for upcoming Sony phones seem to all follow the Xperia S model -- which initially was the LT26i and got unveiled at CES. ... Read Story View the original article here
Anton D. Nagy | We've seen this tablet mid-last month pop up at the FCC but this time the Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 becomes official, and it borrows its main ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | We know that one third of Marko Ahtisaari's time is spent on developing a tablet. Nokia's head of design confirmed the company is ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Lenovo made its plans public to update the ThinkPad Tablet to the latest iteration of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, sometime in the ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Even though CES officially starts off on the 10th, tomorrow, companies are eager to announce their products. Lenovo, the Chinese ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Remember that alleged Lenovo Windows Phone pictured in the wild at the end of October? Well, it looks like the company is really ... Read Story View the original article here
Anton D. Nagy | What better way to start your week off than with yet another iPhone rumor. This time, we're not only looking at alleged iPhone 5 parts ... Read Story Stephen Schenck | We've heard plenty of theories about what Apple might be planning for its next iPhone model. From larger screens to LTE, we've heard ... Read Story Stephen Schenck | There are plenty of reasons why you might be paying special attention to your iPhone's consumption of data over its cellular connection. ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Since there are contradictory rumors about the next iPhone (some say it will sport a larger screen, others say it will be very hard to ... Read Story Jaime Rivera | With so many rumors moving around about an iPhone 5, an iPhone 4S or even the possibility of an iPhone 4G, it's becoming harder and ... Read Story View the original article here
A couple days back, we got our first look at just how iOS might look on the new, larger display coming to the iPhone 5. Up until then, we had seen plenty of evidence supporting the idea of such a larger display, but there hadn’t been any evidence revealing what iOS would end up doing with all that extra real estate. Thanks to an iOS simulator, tweaked to support the 640 x 1136 resolution likely to be employed by the iPhone 5, we got a small preview of what to expect. Now, that glimpse into the new iPhone continues, with some further imagery exploring how iOS reacts to this new screen size. As you can see, a good deal of iOS content has already been optimized to fill a taller display. Things are scaling-up nicely, and the platform takes advantage of that extra space where it can to include more content on-screen. Folders can now display additional apps within, and Apple’s apps appear to be automatically adjusting to fit the new layout. The big question is what this change will mean for
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean hasn’t been out that long. It was announced at Google I/O 2012 along with its launch device: the Nexus 7 tablet. Shortly thereafter Google’s own Galaxy Nexus started getting the Jelly Bean update, too. After less than a month, Jelly Bean is already running on 0.8% of Android devices, and Ice Cream Sandwich around 16%. Both numbers are impressive for different reasons. ICS is doing well, with strong growth and a decent percentage to its name. But Jelly Bean, with almost a full percent in less than one month, that’s really great news! We’ve heard from various manufacturers about their Jelly Bean update schedule. Samsung says their Galaxy S II and Galaxy S III smartphones should get the update in August or September 2012, and some of their tablets shortly thereafter. HTC has gone on the record saying they have plans to upgrade the One X, One XL, and One S to Jelly Bean “soon”. LG says that “all compatible 2012 handsets” will get Jelly Bean, but they won’t say when.
For as excited as we get about new and unreleased smartphone hardware, we’re still nostalgic for some of the handsets of years past. When it comes to Android devices, you can’t get more classic than the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone to hit the market all the way back in 2008. Just because it’s an oldie doesn’t mean developers have forgotten about it, and thanks to their work, users who have held onto their G1s this whole time can now upgrade their phones to Jelly Bean. This CM10 port is just a pre-alpha release, so there’s still plenty of work to be done. For now, cellular connectivity is a bust, drastically limiting this release’s use as a daily driver. If you’re just looking to experiment with it, though, and see what life still might be left in your G1, this build could be worth a look. Everyone’s attention may be turned to CM10 nowadays, but the CyanogenMod team continues to finish-up work on the ICS-based CM9. We’ve seen a couple release candidates come out so fa
This time last week, we learned that Microsoft no longer wanted anyone calling its iconic Windows Phone design, the same one that will be featured prominently in Windows 8, “Metro”. The official word was that Metro was only ever really a code name, but the running theory has it that Microsoft was more concerned over rights that other companies might already have to word. That was unfortunate, as we had gotten used to using the term over the past couple years, but it ultimately seemed like a change of limited consequence, as the design elements themselves were staying untouched. If “Metro” is out, what does Microsoft want us calling the UI, instead? Mary Jo Foley has some incredible contacts within Microsoft, and according to her sources, what used to be “Metro” will now just be “Windows 8“. That seems a little backwards to us, as Win8 didn’t exactly start this trend; will Microsoft, looking back on Windows Phone 7, describe all the “Windows 8-style apps” available for the platform? Th
Anton D. Nagy | The screenshots above come from Russia and they are allegedly snapped off of Nokia's upcoming TV application to soon grace Lumia Windows ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Back in the day when we reviewed the LG Optimus 7, one of the Windows Phone 7 launch devices, we took a closer look at the "Play To" ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | When Nokia recently announced its current flagship Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 800, we've seen it come with a couple of exclusive ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | ST Ericsson today announced its official partnership with Nokia. In the light of the agreement, ST-Ericsson is now selected as a ... Read Story Anton D. Nagy | Last week we received information from Redmond that the company is making the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update available to "nearly ... Read Story View the original article here
Android may have been the star platform of the summer, with Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7, and the Galaxy S III, but the next couple months are going to be all about the new iPhone and Windows Phone 8. We’ve heard so much about the iPhone 5 that it almost feels like there’s little left for Apple to reveal, but there are plenty of unknowns still left when it comes to the first wave of Windows Phone 8 hardware. We’ve talked a bit about some of the rumored phones HTC may be working on, including a rough timetable for their releases. Some new information suggests that HTC could have its phones ready to go by late September. The models in question are what we’ve known as the Zenith, Accord, and Rio. Their rumored hardware runs the gamut from a quad-core chip in the 4.7-inch, 720p Zenith, down to a dual-core Snapdragon and 4-inch WVGA display on the Rio. The Accord and Rio were supposed to land by October, but the Zenith would apparently be delayed for later in the year. Instead, now it looks lik