saco-indonesia.com, Acer telah menepati janjinya. Di ajang Computex 2013 Taiwan, Senin (3/6/2013), Acer telah memperkenalkan produk "hybrid" (gabungan) tablet dan smartphone (phablet) pertamanya, Liquid S1.

Saco- Indonesia.com - Acer telah menepati janjinya. Di ajang Computex 2013 Taiwan, Senin (3/6/2013), Acer telah memperkenalkan produk "hybrid" (gabungan) tablet dan smartphone (phablet) pertamanya, Liquid S1.

Berbeda dari perangkat phablet lain yang biasanya memiliki harga yang cukup tinggi, Liquid S1 dibanderol relatif murah. Perangkat ini akan dilepas ke pasaran dengan harga sekitar 430 dollar AS atau sekitar Rp 4,2 juta.

Sekadar informasi, phablet milik Samsung, Galaxy Note II, berharga Rp 7,5 juta. Merek lainnya rata-rata memiliki harga hingga 499 dollar AS.

Dikutip dari Engadget, Senin (3/6/2013), Acer Liquid S1 memiliki layar TFT berukuran 5,7 inci yang mendukung resolusi 720p. Ini merupakan perangkat smartphone pertama Acer yang dilengkapi dengan layar berukuran lebih dari 5 inci.

Dari segi pacu daya, ia dilengkapi prosesor bikinan Mediatek dengan kecepatan 1,5GHz quad-core. RAM-nya sebesar 1GB. Kombinasi di antara keduanya sudah dianggap mampu untuk operasional sistem operasi Android 4.2 Jelly Bean yang melengkapinya.

Phablet ini memiliki media penyimpanan internal sebesar 8GB yang dapat ditingkatkan hingga 32GB dengan menggunakan kartu microSD. Kapasitas baterainya sebesar 2.400mAh.

Untuk sementara, Acer Liquid S1 baru akan mendukung jaringan 3G. Dari segi konektivitas lainnya, S1 mendukung Bluetooth dan juga WiFi.

Jakarta saco-indonesia.com, Barcelona kembali menelan kekalahan telak saat berhadapan dengan Bayern Munich di Camp Nou. Skor 0-3 membuat The Catal

Jakarta  saco-indonesia.com,  Barcelona kembali menelan kekalahan telak saat berhadapan dengan Bayern Munich di Camp Nou. Skor 0-3 membuat The Catalans mencatatkan rekor buruk karena itu membuat mereka menelan agregat kekalahan terburuk di Eropa.

Los Cules kembali kalah dengan skor mencolok di leg kedua semifinal Liga Champions. Setelah di pertemuan pertama tunduk 0-4, kini mereka takluk 0-3 lewat gol Arjen Robben, bunuh diri Gerard Pique, dan Thomas Mueller.

Dengan ini Barca harus kalah telak 0-7 secara agregat. Ini merupakan kekalahan agregat terbesar Barcelona di seluruh kompetisi Eropa. Sebelumnya, kekalahan agregat terbesar mereka adalah dengan selisih empat gol; yakni saat ditahun 1962 saat ditundukkan Valencia dengan 6-2 (away) dan 1-1 (home)

Selain itu, takluk dengan margin tiga gol di kandang merupakan yang pertama kalinya untuk Blaugrana di Eropa sejak 1997. Saat itu mereka kalah 0-4 dari wakil Ukraina, Dinamo Kiev, di bulan November.

Dengan ini maka tercipta final antara sesama wakil Jerman. Bayern akan menghadapi Borussia Dortmund di Stadion Wembley, Sabtu (25/5/2013) mendatang. Bayern mengincar gelar Liga Champions kelima, sedangkan Dortmund menginginkannya untuk kedua kalinya. Sumber : Detik.com

Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.

He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son’s commissions.

He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.

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The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the “presumption of innocence,” and would stay in his leadership role.

“The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader,” said Mr. LaValle, “and he has the support of the conference.” The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son’s unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Adam Skelos took to using a “burner” phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.

At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not “just send smoke signals or a little pigeon” carrying a message.

The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.

The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father’s actions.

Glenwood, one of the state’s most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm’s parent company by Glenwood’s founding family and a senior executive.

The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.

Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son’s new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.

“Mazel tov,” his father replied.

Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)

The assistance paid off: With the senator’s help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.

But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.

Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. “I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county,” he said.

Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. “Somebody feels like they’re just getting jerked around the last two years,” the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as “coded language.”

The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. “All claims that are in will be taken care of,” the senator said.

AbTech’s fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would “lose the ability to pay for things.”

Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling “because that doesn’t show up on the phone bill,” as he told Mr. White.

In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be “very, very vague” on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. “Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam,” he told him.

A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him “real advice” about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.

“You can’t talk normally,” he told his father, “because it’s like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It’s just [expletive] frustrating.”

“It is,” his father agreed.

At the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Suzman’s signature accomplishment was the central role he played in creating a global network of surveys on aging.