Nuance's NDEV Mobile Developer Program Gives Voice to TV Apps NDEV Expands with Beta Access to Speech for TV Apps, as well as 11 New Text-to-Speech Voices, Additional Languages and PhoneGap Plug-In for Web Developers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nuance Communications, Inc. Show More Summary
Joseph Diebold is an intern with ThinkProgress. WASHINGTON, DC — Following a speech at an anti-IRS Tea Party rally in front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) seemed to blame gay and lesbian people for the discrimination they face in the workplace. Asked about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a measure [...]
Microsoft has officially reversed two highly controversial Xbox One policies, citing gamer backlash after the E3 conference in California week. Even before its keynote speech at E3, Microsoft had already confirmed that the Xbox One would...Show More Summary
Jacob Heilbrunn The Brandenburg Gate, where President Obama delivered a speech yesterday declaring, “the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity, that struggles goes on,” has become for many Americans a kind of symbol of triumphalism where good defeated evil. Show More Summary
On Thursday, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin joined Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy where she dug into the ongoing scandals and controversies that have engulfed President Barack Obama’s administration. Malkin noted that some in the media who had previously supported the president are now more leery of the administration. Show More Summary
Virginia’s Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Bishop E. W. Jackson, continues to bring the crazy: The Virginia GOP’s nominee for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson, gave a speech Wednesday in which he claimed government social programs have done more harm to the “black family” than slavery. Jackson explained that “programs that began in the sixties” hurt [...]
President Obama is all smiles while attending a dinner at the Orangerie of Schloss Charlottenburg palace on Wednesday (June 19) in Berlin, Germany. The 51-year-old Commander in Chief was accompanied at the dinner by his classy chic wife Michelle Obama. Earlier in the day, Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Berlin [...]
President Obama chose to announce a new Unites States nuclear strategy not to the American people, not even to members of Congress, but to German citizens. Presumably, he thought a speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where great Presidents like Kennedy and Reagan spoke before, would confer some legitimacy on his policies. Show More Summary
I wonder who will give it. So many choices.
OSBORNE: LLOYDS TO BE RE-PRIVATISED Chancellor George Osborne yesterday used his Mansion House speech in the City of London to unveil his plans for state-owned banks. He said the government was “actively considering options for share sales in Lloyds” and investor interest was growing. Show More Summary
(Eugene Volokh) One argument for restricting election-related speech by corporations is that it’s necessary to “protect” shareholders from having their money used to support candidates (or ballot measures) of which they disapprove. Many...Show More Summary
“Nobody liked my Berlin speech. I knew I should have said I was a jelly doughnut.” - Barack Obama A note from our attorneys: This is not a real quote -
Guest Post by Mara Zebest Americans feel the same frustration perfectly articulated by Clare Daly. It should be noted that the Irish lawmaker is not the only one who wants Obama prosecuted for war crimes. The Africa Muslim Lawyer Association … Continue reading ?
Whoa! Obama attacks Catholics. Says Catholic education “divides people” and “blocks peace.” Unbelievable! Bizpac Review reported: The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama … Continue reading ?
U.S. President Barack Obama, center, delivers a speech while German Chancellor Angele Merkel, second from right, and Berlin's Mayor Klaus Wowereit listen, in front of Brandenburg Gate, unseen, in Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2013. [AP Photo]
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CNN's Suzanne Malveaux called President Obama's Brandenburg Gate speech "historic" on Wednesday afternoon, while a CNN headline later proclaimed that he "speaks to the history books." This despite the President speaking to a crowd of...Show More Summary
In a tribute to John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, Obama addressed gay issues and AIDS prevention throughout the world. read more
Guest Post by Mara Zebest Obama’s speech in Berlin was luke warm at best. The Berlin crowd in 2008 was reported around 200,000. Obama was hailed a superstar around the world. Today, the pool reporter says only 4,500 were present … Continue reading ?
Charles Krauthammer called President Obama "continually amazing" for advocating nuclear arms reduction in the United States and Russia in the midst of worldwide crisises. Krauthammer stated that President Obama's June 19th speech inShow More Summary
When John F. Kennedy delivered his “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate on June 26, 1963, 450,000 people flocked to hear him. Fifty years later a far more subdued invitation-only crowd of 4,500 showed up to hear Barack Obama speak at the same location in Berlin. As The National Journal [...]