About that new BlackBerry 10 keyboard

If you're interested in smartphone tech, you've surely been peeking at CrackBerry checking out all the BlackBerry World coverage. It's OK, we've been checking it out, too. The folks over there are killing it with the coverage. What seems to have impressed people the most is the new on-screen keyboard we're seeing in BlackBerry 10 devices. It has awesome text prediction, uses gestures, and is a step in the right direction when compared to RIM's previous software keyboard options. Surepress. *shudder*

Well, it should look good, as well as look pretty familiar -- we're certain we've seen it before. I'll come right out and say it. RIM is using technology from SwiftKey in their new keyboard, if not in the physical layout, then at least in the prediction engine. Our scientific testing all but proves it, and yesterday's video confirms our suspicions. But it's a good thing. Of all the software keyboards out there, we think SwiftKey would be the one to use if given a choice. Tie it deep into the OS, and we imagine the fellows from England can work magic with it. Hit the break, and have a look for yourself. And be sure to keep an eye on CrackBerry to find out all there is to know about BlackBerry World 2012.

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Sprint Galaxy Nexus updated, kiss your connectivity woes goodbye

In general, people seem to love their Galaxy Nexuses (or is that Nexii?), but every model has suffered from some form of connectivity problem. The HSPA+ plus model already scored its antidote, now its time for Sprint's LTE model to get some love. Over the next couple of days a software update (FD02) will be rolling out to the ICS flagships that should solve a rather bothersome bug that kept the devices from connecting to Sprint's data network after activation... at all. Obviously, you'll need to connect to a WiFi network to download the update if you're one of the afflicted, but you get a nice Google Wallet update for your troubles. Now lets get our Big Red Nexii patched up too and we'll all be happy campers.

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?AdSense For Local Commerce? Signpost Raises $3.75M From Spark Capital

Local advertising startup,?and recent Google Offers partner,?Signpost?is announcing its Series A funding round this morning to the tune of $3.75 million, led by Spark Capital. Other angels also participated in the round, but the company isn't disclosing names. This new round is in addition to previous funding of $1.25 million, which included an investment from Google Ventures. The company is also announcing a new hire today: Christopher DePatria, who most recently led AOL's Patch sales force.

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Pregnant Adriana Lima Is Craving Beer ? But Not Drinking It

"I've been craving beer," Lima, 30, told PEOPLE at the IWC Schaffhausen watch boutique opening in New York. "It's very strange because I normally don't like beer. Now I want some but I cannot drink it. It's been very hard!"

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A Disabled Student Assessment Can Help Provide Students With ...

For students in the UK, a disabled student assessment can be the first step toward providing financial assistance for those who face extra educational expenses related to their disabilities. These grants help to defray many of the added costs that a disability can create for students when they try to access traditional educational opportunities. When disabilities are properly assessed, financial assistance can help to cover some portion of those costs.

Most people go through life without giving any serious thought to just how challenging a disability can be for the average person as he tries to pursue his higher education. These students face all of the same expenses that other students must endure, but have specific costs related to their disabilities that are unique to their situations. These costs can include everything from special care needs to transportation and equipment expenses.

This support can be available for students who require such things as assistance with reading or sign language interpretation, as well as those who have special dietary needs.

Disabilities may also force students to purchase specific equipment to bolster their educational efforts. These can include special computers, Braille printing machines, and other disability specific devices.

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Assessments are based entirely upon the special needs of the people involved.

When the appropriate DSA authorities are notified of the student's desire for assistance, an evaluation will need to be done to assess the situation. This usually entails students attending an appointment at some sort of assessment center, or a scheduled interview with a doctor or psychological professional.

The assistance program requires that students have evidence from their doctors or psychologists demonstrating that covered disabilities exist. When disability can be proven, students have only to demonstrate that these disabilities will result in increased expense while pursuing higher education. Family income and other assets have no bearing on whether or not any would-be student ultimately gets approved for assistance.

There are even allowances available for students who wish to pursue a post-graduate degree. These allowances cover both full and part-time students, as well as those who choose to participate in studies via the internet or other long distance means. Qualified students can receive this assistance without worrying about having to pay the money back in the future, since the allowances are provided in the form of grants rather than loans.

For people suffering from various disabilities, there have long been many obstacles interfering with their efforts to integrate into the employment marketplace. This allowance program was specifically designed as a way to provide the financial support these students need as they strive to pursue the education required to overcome these challenges. Anyone who has a disability that increases the cost of higher education can rest easy knowing that a disabled student assessment can pave the way to a more fulfilling future.
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Turns out that militant radicals are as lazy and mouthy as anybody else (Unqualified Offerings)

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Thai censors say out, damned spot, out to Macbeth film adaptation

The maker of 'Shakespeare Must Die' is appealing the decision, but Thai bureaucrats are nervous about the movie's political overtones.

The banning of a Thai cinema adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' is causing a stir in Thailand. The censors ruled that the movie ?has content that causes divisiveness among the people of the nation."

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In a country where the royal family is protected from criticism by possibly the world's strictest lese-majeste laws (designed to prevent public criticism or ridicule of royals), any drama featuring regicide might be deemed taboo. But?Shakespeare Must Die?seems also to have touched a raw nerve with its depiction of Shakespeare's ambitious but guilt-ridden usurper blended in with scenes of protest and violence redolent of Thailand's recent past.

The country has been beset by on again, off again street protests since 2005. To some, the Macbeth character in the movie is reminiscent of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose apparent vaulting ambition prompted royalist suspicions that he had a real-life anti-monarchy agenda.

Thailand's Culture Ministry told director Samanrat Kanjanavanit that she could only proceed with a bowdlerized version of the government-funded movie, but the filmmakers held their ground.

A red-clad Grim Reaper in the movie was deemed too evocative of the red-shirt demonstrators who took to Bangkok's streets in 2010, in protests that turned violent with more than 90 killed. Another scene inspired by a gruesome massacre of student demonstrators in 1976 was also deemed unacceptable.

Director Samanrat, better known as Ing K., says the censorship makes little sense. "Why do they (the censors) find a 400-year-dead poet so threatening?,? she told the Monitor.? The original Macbeth was penned during a fractious period in English history, probably shortly after the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot," when Catholics aggrieved at religious discrimination sought to assassinate England's King James I, a Scot.

Now, four centuries later, Thailand's volatile politics could hold the key to the censors' anxiety over a now-archetypal tale about how power corrupts man. Mr. Thaksin was ousted from office in a 2006 coup backed by royalist street protestors and faces jail on corruption charges. But his sister Yingluck is the country's prime minister, after her Peua Thai party routed the royalist-leaning Democrats in a 2011 election.

Thailand's 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's longest-sitting monarch and remains popular, drawing vast crowds onto Bangkok's streets last December for his birthday celebrations. But the combination of color-coded antagonism ("red-shirts" for pro-Thaksin demonstrators, "yellow-shirts" for royalists)? and the King's age makes for nervy bureaucrats, and the censors' actions on the movie come after several recent high-profile jailings for lese-majeste.

While Ms. Yingluck's government has sparked renewed royalist ire by hinting that Thaksin could return to Thailand without having to do jail time, her administration simultaneously pledged not to amend Thailand's lese-majeste laws and to tighten censorship of websites containing allegedly offensive content.

Now it seems even The Bard of Avon is caught up in Thailand's censorship dragnet. Southeast Asia-based documentary filmmaker Bradley Cox saw his?Who Killed Chea Vichea? ? about a Cambodian trade unionist who was murdered in 2004 ? banned in Cambodia. Discussing?Shakespeare Must Die, Mr. Cox told the Monitor that ?it makes one think that the censors must not think that highly of the Thai people, if they feel that they cannot handle the imagery and messages contained in this movie.?

For Ing K., the censors' reaction to the movie says a lot about Thailand, where the government and the opposition are at odds over a reconciliation proposal that, to some, could mean impunity for those involved in recent political violence. ?We don't want to look at ourselves," she lamented, ?we want to forget about painful events in our history."

The trailer for "Shakespeare Must Die:"

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