Apple slips, BlackBerry slides and Windows Phone stalls in December

Kantar Worldpanel’s December smartphone market share numbers are out. And they are as fascinating as ever. Kantar pegs the BlackBerry market share in America as 1.1% last month, down from 1.4% in November. Surprisingly, Windows Phone’s market share also ticked down to 2.6% in December from 2.7% in November. That might be a statistical artifact, but it is surprising not to see a substantial boost in...

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'Olympus Has Fallen' Trailer

The White House is a major target at the movies this year, with no less than two action films featuring a serious breach of security – and only one man that can protect the president. In addition to Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum's White House Down (in theaters this June), the first film out of the gate is Olympus Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. Watch the intense...

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High court: former Manhattan DA busted for felony pot sales

A former Manhattan assistant district attorney has been indicted for felony pot sales -- the very kind of crime he once prosecuted.David Leung, 44, had been busted during a September buy and bust operation on East 9th Street. Leung was allegedly selling high grade weed through a delivery service.He declined comment today as he left Manhattan Criminal Court, where he was informed of the indictment.He's...

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Existing home sales and prices rose in Broward in December

South Florida’s housing recovery is on strong footing. In Broward County, the median price of an existing single-family home surged 21.1 percent to $230,000 in December from a year earlier, according to the Greater Fort Lauderdale Realtors.The median price of an existing condo or townhouse in Broward in December jumped 24.7 percent to $95,100 year over year, the group said....

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Lemurs run amok in North Miami Beach; scratch toddler

It was a case of lemurs on the loose in one North Miami Beach neighborhood early Monday morning. Julio Hincapie, who owns the two lemurs, said someone cut the locks on their cage and tried to steal them around 2 a.m. The lemurs, however, had other ideas and ran wild through the neighborhood in the 2000 block of Northeast 73rdSt. They charged at neighbors,...

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Rumored Xbox 720 specs: 8-core processor, 8GB of RAM, 800MHz GPU

Console gamers frustrated that their Xbox isn’t holding up well compared to high-end gaming PCs can relax a bit, because it looks like the next-generation Xbox is going to be a monster. It seems that website VGleaks has gotten ahold of leaked specifications for the Xbox 720, which it says will include an 8-core 1.6GHz processor, 8GB of RAM, an 800MHz graphics processor, a 50GB 6x Blu-ray Disc...

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First ET Interview: Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks 'Magnolia'

Director Paul Thomas Anderson has a number of muses that populate his films, but only Philip Seymour Hoffman has the distinction of starring in five of his films, going all the way back to 1996's Hard Eight. Hoffman is currently nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar his stirring performance in The Master, and we're flashing back to his first ET interview, talking about 1999's Magnolia.Pics:...

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Group holds gun control march and rally in NYC

UPIChildren join the hundreds who gather for the "One Million Moms For Gun Control" rally held at City Hall today.A gun control group formed in the wake of last month's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall on Monday to call on Congress to follow New York's lead and enact stricter limits on weapons and...

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Series for Miami’s emerging art collectors begins Thursday

For art enthusiasts interested in bring their interest home, Miami’s Bakehouse Art Complex is hosting a lecture series for emerging collectors. The first panel, slated for Thursday at 6 p.m., features arists and curators who will talk about fine tuning your taste and learning to make informed decisions. The second session, Feb. 7, is oriented to the mechanics of purchasing....

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Miami Heat sign Chris “Birdman” Andersen

LeBron James admitted Sunday that playing against bigger teams has “worn” on Heat players at times this season. So has the frequent pounding on the boards, with Miami next-to-last in the league in rebounding. On Sunday, the Heat did something to address both, adding 6-10 veteran forward/center Chris “Birdman” Andersen to a 10-day contract. Miami also re-signed center Jarvis...

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