Contenders for the US charity version of the show, hosted by the business tycoon, also include former teen idol David Cassidy and actor Gary Busey.
It's certainly effective, though, the surprisingly loud speaker has us crossing our fingers for a mute button in the final version.
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President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and the US ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, voiced support for the amended version.
The visual inspired us to do some speculative casting of our own for the possible movie version of E.
Naturally, we went searching for that Facebook integration that we just saw rolled out in the Windows version, but it's nowhere to be found at the moment, and Skype tells us it's focusing on video and UI tweaks for the Mac version.
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But the analysis could not take into account the country in which comments were posted, meaning that tweets recorded as X Factor tweets, for example, could have been written about the US version of the show.
Samsung also tells us the i3 version is rated for the same 5.2 hours of battery life, so it's not like you'll enjoy a longer runtime by stepping down to a weaker processor.
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It is a key element of his proposals for a modern version of the Marshall Plan, which brought US aid to rebuild Europe after World War II, for the developing world.
"It hasn't released figures about the dongle it launched in the US but has indicated that it is popular so it makes sense to have an optimised version for the European market, " she said.
We won't lie, we were a little bitter when TiVo snubbed us and didn't offer us a pre-release version of the Series3 for review, we mean even our brothers at Engadget got one to play with.
The weak link, I think, is the imposition of the domestic version of FATCA on US Banks which is necessary for IGA reciprocity.
The latter version would give us the added benefit of coming first, for once.
So this is a really early version of the FreeRunner, but mad love to FIC for bringing it out for us all to play with nonetheless.
Of course, when clicking for more information, we're simply ported over to a page informing us that the Mac-specific version of the aforesaid platform won't arrive until September.
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An earlier version of the film appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, but the two later went back to Pakistan to do additional reporting for this version and they're with us now.
We'd already gotten the official word that H.264 support was included in Windows 7, but a tipster has lead us to believe that the pre-beta version of Windows 7 also includes native support for DivX.
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Google has just informed us that a new version of the app is incoming, a version that will add tabs for easy access to Google Books and Movies.
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Nearly a quarter of us would be willing to pay five bucks a month for an online version of our local paper if the printing presses ground to a halt.
The latest filing leaving us scratching our heads is for the ASUS P1801-T, a "tablet" which could be the final version of the Transformer AiO prototype we saw back at Computex.
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