UK retailer Argos tries to undercut the Hudl with £100 Android tablet

UK supermarkets carrying their own branded tablets is apparently a thing now, and Argos has joined Tesco with its launch of the 7-inch MyTablet. Though the £100 price trumps the £119 Hudl, the tab is decidedly more budget, featuring a 7-inch, 1,024 x 600 screen, dual-core 1.6-Ghz CPU, 2-megapixel camera and Android 4.2.2. Hudl, meanwhile, rocks a quad-core 1.5Ghz CPU and 1,440 x 900 screen. Also, unlike Tesco's in-house styled offering, MyTablet appears to be a rebadge, though we can't put our finger on the manufacturer. Tesco told the BBC that it'll be affordable to its tween target market at that price, explaining that "kids find it hard to share." We won't argue with that logic, but we reckon parents should be more willing to spend the extra £19, given the difference in specs.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/15/argos-7-inch-mytablet-white-label/?ncid=rss_truncated
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With the debt ceiling deadline looming just two days away, Senate leaders say they're close to a deal that would reopen the government and avert default. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been leading bipartisan talks on a way out of the deadlock. Even if a bipartisan agreement clears the Senate, it will likely be a hard sell to House Republicans.

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Cody and Brandi Rhodes react to The Rhodes Family’s reinstatement

A new day has dawned for The Rhodes Family. Not only did Cody Rhodes & Goldust earn their way back into the WWE fold by defeating The Shield at WWE Battleground, but it couldn’t have come at a better time: The clan’s youngest competitor, Cody, recently married his girlfriend of two years, Brandi Reed, and his new bride was almost as overjoyed at the win as he was.

“Oh my gosh, it was probably the most emotional thing that I have ever seen,” said Brandi, who briefly appeared in WWE under the name Eden Stiles. “I wish I was there, but then again, I would be crying on TV.”

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Speaking to WWE.com a couple of days after his reinstatement, Rhodes reinforced the role pride played in pushing the two former Intercontinental Champions to victory over the current tag titleholders.

“At the end of the day, my wife is my biggest fan and I’m her biggest fan, and it would have been uncharacteristic of me to give up after being fired. It would have been unacceptable to her for me to give up after being fired,” said Rhodes. “There was a great sense of pride knowing she was able to watch what happened Sunday and see the right thing happen.”

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While Rhodes assured WWE.com that he wasn’t exactly facing destitution (hard times, if you will) had he and his brother failed at Battleground — “It’s not the ‘80s, I’ve paid my taxes” — he did reinforce the notion that the victory’s importance extended far beyond putting food on the table for his family.

“Sunday was the changing of the perception of the Rhodes dynasty,” said Rhodes. “For so long, Dusty Rhodes is the patriarch … he is the man, to stand in his company is difficult enough … [But Battleground] was a showcase, if anything, of not just who Dusty Rhodes was and nostalgia, and not just of what Goldust could do and continue to do, but also what all three of us could do individually when bonded together.

“I’ve said this a few times and I mean it: I don’t know anything about hunting or fishing like my dad does, and I don’t know anything about Dallas Cowboys football like my brother does,” Rhodes continued. “But in that ring, that’s the one thing that bonds us. Each and every one of us can go.”

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With the paychecks now flowing in again, Rhodes can now devote his full attention to the familial mission at hand. “We’re looking to build an empire,” he said. “We’re looking to build a Rhodes dynasty. We genuinely mean that and this job is the vessel for it.”

Given all of this, the freshly minted Mrs. Rhodes found it most appropriate of all that her husband was the one who put The Shield to bed at WWE Battleground, executing an emphatic Cross Rhodes on Seth Rollins for the final pin.

“I would have been just as happy to see either Dustin or Cody get the pin, but we are moving into a new generation of Rhodes and Cody put the stamp on it,” said Brandi. “Cody hit the Cross Rhodes in the middle of the ring and got the win for our family. No outside interference, no excuses. I am so proud of my husband.”

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Broadcasters Denied Injunction Against Aereo in Massachusetts

Aereo has won an important ruling in a Massachusetts federal court.

U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton has denied an injunction request made by Hearst Station, owner of ABC affiliate WCVB-TV.

The broadcaster had argued in its copyright lawsuit that Aereo's system of capturing over-the-air TV signals and delivering them to subscribers' digital devices constituted a violation of its public performance rights. But according to the judge's opinion, Hearst was not persuasive in convincing the court that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its public performance claim nor its argument that Aereo is unlawfully distributing copyrighted works. The judge also wrote that "Hearst has made a minimal showing of irreparable harm that is an insufficient basis for entering a preliminary injunction in its favor."

Here's the full ruling.

The timing of the ruling happens as TV broadcasters are reportedly set to take a New York judge's denial of an injunction against Aereo up to the Supreme Court.

Here, Judge Gorton notes that the 1st Circuit (which covers Massachusetts, among other states in the Northeast) hasn't addressed the issue at hand.

Hearst argued that section 106 of the Copyright Act, giving copyright owners the exclusive rights to “perform the copyrighted [audiovisual] work publicly" was being violated. Aereo responded that it is transmitting private rather than public performances.

"Aereo’s interpretation is a better reading of the statute because the 'canon against surplusage' requires this Court to give meaning to every statutory term if possible," writes the judge in the ruling. "In short, while the Transmit Clause is not a model of clarity, the Court finds at this juncture that Aereo presents the more plausible interpretation."

The judge notes that "it is possible that WCVB will be irreparably harmed in its ability to negotiate retransmission fees with cable providers," before adding, "While the prospect of harm is real, Hearst has not shown that WCVB will suffer the 'full magnitude' of the claimed harm before the Court disposes of the case on the merits. Instead, it seems more likely that the harm will take several years to materialize."

Aereo's expansion from New York to across the country has set off multiple rounds of litigation, most recently in a lawsuit that was filed earlier this week in Utah. As the controversy lingers, a question has arisen as to what is the proper venue to hear the dispute between broadcasters and Aereo.

The digital service backed by Barry Diller has argued that disputes should be heard in New York, where the first case was filed. But Judge Gorton's refused Aereo's motion to transfer the case, saying, "Hearst’s decision to limit the scope of the suit to WCVB’s local programming and Aereo’s local activities also weighs in favor of resolving the suit here rather than in New York."

Aereo made that transfer request partly in the hopes of gaining favorable jurisdiction in the 2nd Circuit (which covers New York). But now, Aereo has succeeded for the first time in convincing a judge in a new circuit that the broadcasters are unlikely to prevail in their copyright claims. It's an important step for the company as broadcasters hold out hope that rulings concerning Aereo's competitor, FilmOn, in two other circuits, provide the necessary circuit split to bring the case to the highest court in the country.

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