On Jan. 14, President Obama said during a long press conference that the U.S. would not default on its debt.
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If you long press on those dots, you get a kind of "card" view of all your homescreens which you can use for quick jumps.
The implementation is a little different this time around, with a long press on the back button brining up a side bar of apps to choose from.
You can hold the button and do a long press on the screen to capture a screenshot, do two taps to bring up the S Memo application to make a note.
That's a very different posture for a presidential candidate who has long courted the press and long benefited from that courtship.
In-app navigation is generally achieved via a series of nested screen, back buttons and long-press menus.
No luck so far getting a radio deal or a traveling reporter from the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
Thankfully, at least, all of it can be uninstalled with a simple long-press.
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When you're in S Note, you can also hold the pen above the screen and long-press its button to activate another new feature called Idea Sketch.
First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.
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Users can also pre-program an Instant Share recipient so that when they "long-press" the instant clip button, Looxcie automatically sends the clip to the pre-determined email address.
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Perhaps most intrusive of all is the "Discover It" widget, which shows you a curated selection of apps in different categories, but even that can be removed with a simple long-press.
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Notifications can be cleared out with a single long-press, chat heads can be dragged around anywhere on the screen, double-tapping a photo marks it as liked, and flipping through status updates is as easy as swiping left or right.
The dominant Los Angeles Times, for instance, now faces an encirclement of MediaNews dailies that range from the Long Beach Press-Telegram in the south, the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune to the east and the Daily News to the north.
That tail is useful because it adds depth to the OS, in the form of a vertical row of "cards" which appear when you long-press the home button, and which grow intelligently based on what Google can glean about your life.
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That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his staff have long played the press like a fiddle.
He also cancelled a plan with Senators Kerry and Lieberman to unveil their joint energy bill in a long-planned press conference.
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The People's Action Party government has long decried such press-freedom rankings, accusing its critics of being highhanded and overlooking changes in Singapore in recent years that have encouraged public debate, including the emergence of a thriving blog culture.
Crucially, Egypt's independent press, long pressured by the powerful ministry of information, is increasingly outspoken.
They had the front row seat long before the white press was even interested.
Contributing to this report were Alison Barnwell and Sophia Hall on Long Island, Associated Press videojournalist Bonny Ghosh in New York and AP writer John Christoffersen in Fairfield, Conn.
Not that long ago, the local press would refer to the richest tycoon, Li Ka-shing, as Superman.
"Rape and murder predate the printing press by a long way, " she said.
Associated Press writer Colleen Long in New York contributed to this report.
Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.
On Jan. 14, the companies issued the press release detailing the long-awaited results of the study.
Although Mr Museveni allows a reasonably free press, he has long suppressed multi-party politics.
On Loyalty Day, we reflect on that proud heritage and press on in the long journey toward prosperity for all.
Long-term negotiations with the press office has improved matters for Mr Walley and his co-workers but they are not alone in having problems.
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