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Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:29:00 AM consecrated him. This eased his Wesley. made it hard for him to get bicycle chain chewed up the reception into the Roman Leonard's career in the 1950s alongside his archbishop, cassock. As diocesan education Bishop of London who turned to Catholic church, and he was and 60s as curate, incumbent, eccentric, learned and wise. secretary, he raised eyebrows at Catholicism after showing strong made a monsignor. director of church schools and Leonard was urged by some of the "ministry" (as it then was) in opposition to the ordination of Leonard was brought up in his archdeacon was exemplary. He his followers to defeat the Curzon Street, central London, women father's evangelical parish and at was energetic, efficient, caring ecumenism of the archbishop, by appearing in a black, Spanish- Monsignor Graham Leonard, Monkton Combe, Somerset, a and prepared to face down the casting Leonard in the role of style, broad-brimmed priest's hat. successively bishop of Willesden, school which then emphasised "Sir Humphreys" in Whitehall, "Athanasius contra mundum". To In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Truro and London, who has died individual conscience, a literal among the church commissioners be Catholic in their eyes was to Methodists and Atlantic storms, aged 88, was third in the Church interpretation of the Bible and and in the town halls. He was take no risks in befriending he might appear at an ordination of England hierarchy and one of male leadership in the church. At assiduous in visiting and Protestants and to adopt a attired in mitre, ceremonial its leading bishops. He evoked Oxford, like his wife, Priscilla, publishing devotional books, narrowly defensive stance. gloves and gremial (a silk apron- strong support in many parishes whom he married in 1943, urging frequent communion. He Many Anglo-Catholics who like covering for the lap of and among Anglo-Catholic Leonard read botany. He served used to say, "you don't kiss your were hoping for rapid reunion bishops). He was deeply clergy, and was widely in the forces from 1941 to 1945. wife once a week, do you?", with with Rome hailed Leonard's form disappointed during his tenure at influential. He was chairman of He reacted against the the implication that the Eucharist of leadership. He was a beacon Truro not to be nominated for many church bodies, including evangelicalism of his home and should be attended daily. He for priests who longed for the Canterbury. He was never the Board of Education and the school and against the produced a new parish authority of Rome and distrusted comfortable with the practice of BBC and IBA Central Religious mainstream Anglicanism of the communion book of his own historical and theological shared responsibility in the Advisory Committee. As bishop William Temple mission to devising. research, which they viewed as Church of England. of London, he was a privy Oxford that he attended. He Older priests occasionally found weak liberalism. Leonard also As bishop of London (1981-91), counsellor and a member of the warmed to Anglo-Catholic the former adjutant slightly welcomed support from Leonard was an unwise picker of House of Lords, was frequently worship, remembered the laughable and questioned his conservative evangelicals. His men as suffragan bishops and involved in reunion discussions processions and incense that he assumption that his way to refusal to moderate his fixed canons. Against Archbishop and visits to other parts of the witnessed in a south London holiness was the only way. But positions was respected by many. Robert Runcie's advice, he went Anglican communion, and was a mission when he was 11, "and he was young and enthusiastic, He had no fear of being in a to take a confirmation service at a representative at the World knew that was right for me". and so they forgave him as much minority. The difficulty for the church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, no Council of Churches. During his time at Westcott nicer than some pompous archbishops of his time and for longer recognised by the However, in 1994, three years House theological college in ecclesiastics. He was greatly his episcopal colleagues was that Episcopal church, enraging after his retirement from London, Cambridge, he turned away from admired by Anglo-Catholics for he claimed that his views were American bishops, not least and after conversations with the the theology of the faculty and his stress on "objective "absolutes" and that reunion with because the bishop of London Roman Catholic archbishop of from the more catholic revelation". Methodists, covenanting with the seemed to be harking back to Westminster, his friend Cardinal Anglicanism of Sir Edwin As bishop of Willesden (1964- free churches or ordaining colonial days when London was Basil Hume, he was received into Hoskyns and later Michael 73), Leonard became involved in women would damage the bishop to all American churches. the Roman Catholic church and Ramsey. Leonard relied on the church politics, especially the church. He opposed the Although the English House of was ordained priest sub earlier, pre-critical works of the ecumenical plans suggested by admission of divorced women to Bishops did not formally rebuke conditione. At Leonard's own Right Rev Charles Gore as his the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Mothers' Union. him, they did not endorse his consecration in 1964, an Old standard authority. The Michael Ramsey, the most His individuality showed in his action. Mainstream Anglicans in Catholic bishop from the small disciplines of New Testament catholic archbishop the church clothes: he had a strong sense of London felt that their bishop was churches that have separated study and the history of the had seen that century. Their theatre. As a curate, he startled MONSIGNOR page 7 from the Roman Catholic church, development of doctrine never minds did not fuse. Perhaps the the Cambridge parishioners of St 4 World/ E-reader News Edition These protests should shame the west into a change of policy on Iran | Timothy Garton Ash By Timothy Garton Ash reply by comparing him to the sure it can rely on the rank and mindedly intent on trying to the implausible notion that China (World news and comment Caliph Yazid, responsible for the file of the Revolutionary Guards, prevent the Islamic Republic and Russia will agree to UN from the Guardian | death of Muhammad's grandson let alone of the army. Moreover, from acquiring nuclear weapons. sanctions sufficiently stringent to guardian.co.uk) Hussein, and hence the original a deteriorating economy is likely He has adopted a twin-track bring this unstable, hyper-

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:00:00 PM hate-figure of Shia Islam. to exacerbate popular discontent, approach in which the offer of nationalist regime – which Though Khamenei's most beyond the country's already negotiation, without thrives on images of western Political change in Tehran is not formidable clerical critic, Grand angry educated youth. When preconditions, is linked to the imperialist encirclement – to give just a moral matter. It's our best Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, recently Ahmadinejad has to start cutting threat of tighter sanctions if those up its covert pursuit of the hope of achieving Obama's died, other senior clerics do not the lavish consumer subsidies negotiations do not succeed. In a capacity to make nuclear nuclear objectives conceal their hostility to the path that he could only afford because year, this has got almost weapons, as well as its support While the west has been on Khamenei has taken. of high oil prices, his own nowhere. Meanwhile, the people for cross-border terrorism, holiday, Iranians have again As former supporters of the working-class and rural of Iran have shaken their regime kidnappings etc. Yet recent risked their lives to protest regime peel away, close relatives supporters will no longer have to its foundations. Obama interviews with senior members against an increasingly desperate, of leading reformists and of the much to thank him for. himself has just spoken out to of the Obama administration oppressive regime. America and Nobel peace prizewinner Shirin This is one of those proto- condemn Iran's "iron fist of suggest that they want to try to Europe now need to consider Ebadi are arrested, in a practice revolutionary situations where, brutality". exploit the weakness of the urgently if our Iran policy is still of intimidation that recalls the because its development depends Now, the twin-track approach on Iranian regime to win some the right one. Nazis' Sippenhaft. The nephew of on the interaction of the nuclear issue was right a year inches on the nuclear negotiation, Seven months after a rigged the presidential candidate Mir unpredictable mass behaviour ago and it is not altogether wrong neglecting the mile that might be election, the political struggle Hossein Mousavi is shot dead in and regime decisions taken by a now. But something big has gained by political change. That inside Iran not merely continues what looks like a targeted very small circle behind closed changed in the meantime. The is the wrong balance. but becomes sharper. The assassination. At least 14 other doors, nobody – not even the best truth is that the best chance we There is not all that much we can number of demonstrators may people die in bloody clashes that Iranian expert in the world – have of stopping Iran's covert do directly to help political not be as large as it was last defile religious ceremonies to knows which way things will go. march to the threshold of change inside Iran – beyond summer, but those who persist mark the death of Hussein in the But one thing is certain: this is an becoming a nuclear weapons keeping open the channels of are bolder, angrier and more year 680CE – and that of Iranian crisis, made in Iran, and state is a change in the way Iran information and communication, radical. This is no longer just Montazeri in 2009CE. to be resolved by Iranians. The is governed. What so many including the internet, satellite about the fraudulent re-election Martyrdom is piled upon 60 so-called subversive western Iranians want is a political television and mobile phone of President Mahmoud martyrdom. Alas, some protesters organisations just anathemised by system that is more open to its networks, on which Iranians rely Ahmadinejad; it is about the abandon their earlier velvet Iran's intelligence ministry, own people and to the world; one to tell each other what is policies and authority of the discipline, to meet violence with including at No 27 "Yale in which the representative, happening in their own country. Supreme Leader himself, as he violence. Comparisons to the university" and at No 50 "Yale republican parts of the Islamic But through those very channels, increasingly relies on the naked revolution that toppled the shah university and all its affiliates", Republic's hybrid constitution Iranians also listen carefully to force of the Basij militia and the in 1979 may still be hyperbolic, have little or nothing to do with gain the upper hand. what the west is saying. At this Revolutionary Guards. but this is the deepest crisis of the it. Such a system would almost critical moment, it would be The office of the Supreme Islamic Republic since that After seven months of deepening certainly produce a government shaming if what Iranians who are Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, revolution in which it was born. regime crisis, however, America more open to negotiation with the risking their lives for more says those who protest are True, the regime has not yet and Europe do need to adjust rest of the world, and more likely freedom heard was, in effect, "the "enemies of God" and will be cracked down with all the force their policy sets. Since he came to abide by the results of such a west only really cares about the punished accordingly. Defying theoretically at its disposal. Some to power last January, President negotiation than the present one all taboos, radical demonstrators speculate this is because it is not Barack Obama has been single- is. That is now a better bet than THESE page 9 E-reader News Edition World/ Tech News/ 5 Iceland will vote against repaying UK and Netherlands in referendum, poll suggests By David Teather (World the vote and recalled parliament membership, while officials were 7.2% in the third quarter. Iceland, which had enjoyed one news and comment from the to deal with the crisis. already examining whether it had An official from Finland said of the highest standards of living Guardian | guardian.co.uk) The island nation, with a breached rules of the European that the next tranche of a $2.5bn in the OECD, suffered economic

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:31:25 AM population of 330,000, is looking Economic Area. loan from Iceland's Nordic collapse in October 2008, when increasingly isolated after the The British and Dutch neighbours was also likely to be all three of its big banks were • Finance ministers to meet to president, Olafur Grímsson, governments compensated savers put on hold. forced into bankruptcy. They had discuss €3.8bn debt refused to sign a bill to repay the who lost money when Icesave's Critics have denounced Britain borrowed heavily to make • IMF bailout suspended until money, drawing an angry parent, Landsbanki, filed for and the Netherlands for bullying investments and acquisitions dispute is resolved response from London and The bankruptcy and have made it by exerting influence on the IMF overseas, and when the credit Almost two-thirds of people in Hague. Grímsson, at odds with clear that they expect to be and in Brussels. Many Icelanders crunch hit, found it impossible to Iceland are expected to vote the prime minister, Jóhanna reimbursed. Paul Myners, the believe they should not be on the refinance their debts. against repaying a €3.8bn Sigurdardóttir, has forced the bill City minister, suggested hook, for around €12,000 each, A bill agreeing to repay the debt (£3.4bn) debt to Britain and the to a referendum, invoking a yesterday that Iceland would cut for the mistakes of a privately to Britain and the Netherlands Netherlands to compensate for rarely used presidential power. itself adrift from international aid owned bank. was passed in August, but the money lost in Icesave Polling firm MMR said that 58% if it fails to pass the bill. Almost 300,000 British savers subsequent amendments as it accounts, according to a poll of respondents in a referendum A second credit agency, had deposits with Icesave, went through parliament angered published today. would vote against the legislation Standard & Poors, warned that attracted by market-beating UK and Dutch officials and the Ministers are expected to meet and 42% for it. the political turmoil in Iceland interest rates. Their accounts latest bill was intended as a their Icelandic counterparts, Supporters of the bill, which had might cause it to downgrade the were frozen in October 2008, replacement. possibly as early as tomorrow, narrowly passed on 30 country's debt, making it far starting a diplomatic row In a televised address in Iceland after the tiny nation's finance December, said its failure could more costly to service, after a between Britain and Iceland. on Tuesday, Grimsson had said minister spoke to the chancellor, jeopardise an international downgrade to junk status by Britain invoked anti-terrorist that the "people are the supreme Alistair Darling, to reassure him bailout of Iceland's shattered Fitch earlier this week. legislation to freeze the UK judge" and should decide on the that it was committed to meeting economy as well as scuppering Iceland's economics minister, assets of Landsbanki. validity of the law. its obligations. an application to join the EU. It Gylfi Magnússon, said the IMF Sigurdardóttir, elected to run the • Icesave After a cabinet meeting, was confirmed that a $2.1bn bailout "has been put on ice until ruling centre-left coalition • Iceland Steingrímur Sigfússon told bailout from the International the problem has been solved … government in April, said the • Banking reporters in Iceland: "I've had Monetary Fund has been We had envisioned a slow government remained committed talks with the UK finance suspended until the dispute has economic recovery. If no external to agreements with Britain and David Teather minister and the Dutch finance been resolved. financing is available then almost the Netherlands and it was not guardian.co.uk© Guardian News minister today because of this A spokesman on the certainly the planned investment "reneging on its obligations to & Media Limited 2010 | Use of issue. [The talks] have been enlargement of the EU, Amadeu will not materialise and that repay" the loans. The bill had this content is subject to our amicable and the tone less sharp Altafaj Tardio, said the Icesave means … we will almost caused heated exchanges in Terms & Conditions| More Feeds than in the debate here at home." issue would be "closely certainly have a contraction this parliament, with some MPs The Icelandic government has analysed" in considering year." The Icelandic economy shouting "treason" as it went set 20 February as the date for Iceland's application for contracted at an annual rate of through. Physicist: Predicting Insurgencies Is Easy. Just Oversimplify By Katie Drummond (Wired Insurgencies are easy to predict make certain assumptions, surprising amount of attention for Top Stories) — no matter where they occur, or according to one New Zealand his off-kilter theories. why they begin. You just have to physicist who's getting a 6 World/ Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Four-leg footprints recast evolution By Karen McVeigh (World and described its effect as akin to Per Ahlberg from Uppsala elpistostegids." news and comment from the "lobbing a grenade" into the University in Sweden, describes Jenny Clark, a palaeontologist at Guardian | guardian.co.uk) previous consensus of when the several tracks of different sizes Cambridge University, echoed

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:06:01 AM shift from water to land occurred. and characteristics as well as a Janvier's belief that the findings Until now, experts had believed number of isolated prints around would force scientists to re- Fossil footprints in an old quarry that the earliest tetrapod fossils, 15cm wide. There are distinct examine their beliefs about the lead to a radical rethink of the traced to about 375 million years "hand" and "foot" prints, with no timing of the transition to land. evolution of the first four-legged ago, had split from their fishy evidence of a dragging body or "It blows the whole story out of animals or 'tetrapods' ancestors a few million years tail, because the animals' body the water, so to speak," she said. Twitter The oldest footprints ever made earlier and then gone on to weight would have been partly Clark added that it may also give by four-legged creatures have conquer the land. supported by water. pause for thought over what Starting to Pop been discovered by scientists, "These prints push back the Ahlberg and his co-authors, drove fish from water to land in forcing them to reconsider a divergence of fish and four- mainly from the Polish the first place. Some theorised Up in Ad Deals critical period in evolution: the legged vertebrates by almost 20 Geological Institute in Warsaw, that tetrapods originally went By Tom Johansmeyer point at which fish crawled out of million years," said Janvier. "The say their findings highlight how ashore to lay their eggs out of (BloggingStocks) the water onto land to evolve into evolutionary tree as we consider little we know of the earliest reach of aquatic predators, or that reptiles, mammals and eventually it now remains the same, but the history of land vertebrates. They their ancestors grew legs to Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:00:00 PM humans. timing of the tree changes." write that the prints "force a scurry from pool to pool. She had Filed under: Internet, New York The "hand" and "foot" prints are Tetrapods are thought to have radical reassessment of the favoured the notion that fish Times'A' (NYT), Media World, 18m years older than the earliest, evolved from a family of fish timing, ecology and emerged from oxygen-deprived Technology The New York previously confirmed fossil known as elpistostegids, which environmental setting of the fish- waters in order, quite literally, to Times( NYT) is putting its 2.3 remains of "tetrapods" or four- had a similar body and head tetrapod transition, as well as the catch their breath. million followers to work. It isn't legged vertebrates and were left shape to tetrapods, but paired fins completeness of the body fossil None of those theories was ready to start charging a la carte by lizard-like creatures up to 2.5 rather than four feet. record". supported by the Polish find, she for Twitter advertising, but it is metres long. However, the footprint tracks are The prints will further "shake said. including the channel in the The discovery, reported in 10 million years older than the up" scientific thinking over • Fossils comprehensive packages it tomorrow's issue of the journal oldest elpistostegid body fossils. human origins, said Janvier, • Evolution presents to advertisers. And, the Nature, was made in a former They suggest that the fossil because they show tetrapods • Zoology Times isn't alone. Several media quarry in the Holy Cross elpistostegids were late-surviving thrived in the sea, which is at • Poland outlets (including Mountains in south-eastern relics rather than transitional odds with the long-held view that BloggingStocks) have ads Poland. The fossil footprints can forms. river deltas and lakes were the Karen McVeigh running through their Twitter be reliably dated to the early Janvier, who said he is necessary environment for the guardian.co.uk© Guardian News streams, but this is still virgin Middle Devonian period, around convinced that no animal other transition from water to land & Media Limited 2010 | Use of territory, for the most part, and 395 million years ago. than an "elusive tetrapod" could during vertebrate evolution. this content is subject to our media companies are still feeling Philippe Janvier of the Muséum have left such imprints, said: "It's "The closest elpistostegids were Terms & Conditions| More Feeds their ways through it. National d'Histoire Naturelle in really the first evidence we have probably contemporaneous with Continue reading Twitter Paris said the finding was as of an animal with legs and digits these tracks," he said. "We now Starting to Pop Up in Ad Deals significant as "the first footprint walking on land at that time." have to invent a common Twitter Starting to Pop Up in Ad of Neil Armstrong on the moon" The paper's co-author, Professor ancestor to the tetrapods and Deals originally appeared on The Rarefied Air of Spruce Creek BloggingStocks on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see By Zach Rosenberg (Wired It's a crazy mix of airport and the runway. our terms for use of feeds. Read| Top Stories) suburban subdivision where Permalink| Email this| Comments residents taxi from their homes to E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Tech/ 7 MONSIGNOR continued from page 3 unsympathetic and his sermons him, the Methodists were Kensington had many female minded dialogue and research, he detached from their real dissenters from the form of deacons and female servers. would have been a leader who problems. worship practised in the church." Leonard once used the law of could have greatly enriched the Politically, he was fortunate in Leonard argued that only the trespass to prevent 100 men and Church of England – such was Margaret Thatcher. She was in reordination of Methodist women accepting the the strength of his inner the habit of saying, rather loudly, ministers would give them ministration of a female priest convictions and his commitment Sharp's BD-HP70U Blu that Leonard was the only man in validity. By rejecting the ordained abroad. After his to be a bishop. the Church of England who made proposed service of retirement, when the London Leonard retired to Witney, -ray player adds a little the kind of sense she was looking reconciliation, he humiliated both ordinations of female priests Oxfordshire, celebrating mass as red with Netflix support for. He had shrewd political his own archbishop and the finally took place in St Paul's in a Roman Catholic parish priest By Ross Miller (Engadget) judgment and was an excellent Methodists. He led the opposition 1994, more than 5,000 and helping out wherever needed. negotiator. Whereas Lord of those who defeated both worshippers crammed the He also did a great deal of retreat Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:30:00 PM (William) Whitelaw, who was reunion with Methodists and the cathedral. Instead of acting as a work, leading conferences, Two new Blu-ray players losing influence in government covenanting proposals. focus of unity, he left the diocese giving lectures and engaging in straight from the brightly-lit, circles, was a friend of Runcie, The crisis of his career began in of London with an unhappy, spiritual direction. cemented halls of Sharp HQ. The Thatcher felt she could do 1984 when the General Synod, unreconciled minority. 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Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:33:04 AM referendum. How do you vote? and is due to be repaid over 14 the credit rating agencies. There You don't need to be a years at an interest rate of 5.5%. is a real sense of outrage that Larry Elliott: The Icelandic psephologist to know the answer. Voters have a strong personal Britain used anti-terrorist laws to president is betting that a big no The deal will be rejected by a interest in sending ministers back freeze Iceland's assets in 2008, in vote next month will lead to a thumping majority. A quarter of to the negotiating table – and will effect bracketing the country's Get Wood With softening of the compensation the population signed a petition almost certainly do just that. central bank with al-Qaida. Design Hara's Home deal opposing the terms imposed on The question, of course, is Secondly, the Icelanders can Imagine you are a voter in Iceland by Britain and the whether the result of a deploy the case made on behalf Theater PC [PC] Iceland. After months of Netherlands and recent opinion referendum will make any of ordinary citizens in heavily By Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo) negotiations, your government polls have indicated that 70% of difference. From London, the indebted poor countries: that they has just agreed – albeit Icelanders would vote no given message has been that it will not. were badly let down by greedy Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:09:30 PM reluctantly – to a $5bn the opportunity. The City minister, Lord Myners, bankers and incompetent Amongst the deluge of mediocre compensation package with Ólafur Grimsson, Iceland's warned Iceland that it risked politicians. CES product updates this week, Britain and the Netherlands over president, was well aware of becoming an international pariah Finally, Britain and the let's take a breather here with this the collapse of the Icesave bank what he was doing. When the by reneging on the agreement. Netherlands are normally at the eco-friendly Design Hara home in 2008. The deal will cost you Swedes held a referendum over Britain and the Netherlands want forefront of demands for leniency theater PC. It comes in cypress just over £10,000. The membership of the euro, the their money, and intend to get it. when it comes to debt. They are and rose wood options, and the International Monetary Fund has country's political elite said yes; What's more, the argument that entitled to their pound of flesh, front cover is encased with dropped plenty of heavy hints the people said no. When the British and Dutch taxpayers but make unlikely Shylocks. sheep's leather. that acceptance of the tough French and the Dutch passed should not have to foot the bill • Icesave There are no details on just how terms imposed by the Dutch and judgment on the first stab at the for Iceland's egregious financial • Iceland much this'll set you back, but the Brits is a condition for new European constitution, the mismanagement in the bubble doesn't it look great pared with a financial help to rebuild your elite was all in favour; the voters years is a sound one. Larry Elliott set of Ferguson Hill speakers? bombed-out economy. From were not. It was the same story, Even so, Grimsson is gambling guardian.co.uk© Guardian News Internally it's running on an Intel Brussels, the message is that you first time round at least, when that a big no vote next month will & Media Limited 2010 | Use of Core 2 Duo chip, has 4GB of will be refused membership of Ireland voted on the Lisbon lead to a softening of the this content is subject to our RAM, a 1TB HDD and has an the European Union unless you treaty. agreement. Firstly, it will allow Terms & Conditions| More Feeds integrated Blu-ray player. [ pay up. In Iceland's case, the stakes are Iceland to play the plucky Design Hara via Yanko Design] Then, out of nowhere, your much higher. The deal, finally underdog card, with a country of For Growth With Safety, Consider AT&T By Joseph Lazzaro my buy rating for the company's why wireless revenue growth Consider AT&T originally (BloggingStocks) shares, first recommended on should exceed 10% in both 2009 appeared on BloggingStocks on

Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:20:00 PM February 11, 2009 at a price of and 2010; further, AT&T's 3G Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:20:00 EST. $25.89. phone portfolio stacks up versus Please see our terms for use of Filed under: AT and T (T), AT&T's successful (but its competitors. feeds. Permalink| Email this| Stocks to Buy The growth-with- company subsidized) iPhone Continue reading For Growth Comments safety story continues at AT&T ( providership has added more since mid-2007 -- a major reason With Safety, Consider AT&T T), which is why I'm reiterating than 7 million iPhone customers For Growth With Safety, E-reader News Edition 9 THESE continued from page 4 nuclear issue". And that would violating their citizens' basic, on the torturers. Show us what only be reinforced by universal (not just western) you can do. photographs of their leaders human rights, so long as the hand • Iran meeting with high European and they extend to us has just been • US foreign policy American officials – again to talk wiped clean of a protestor's blood • Obama administration only about the nuclear issue. – we are in no hurry to shake it." • Protest Words and images matter as well That message would accord • Nuclear weapons as diplomatic deeds. Sometimes better with both our values and • Middle East they matter more, especially our long-term interests. when the diplomatic deeds are Since Obama seems wedded to Timothy Garton Ash going nowhere. At this moment, his current tactics, and since guardian.co.uk© Guardian News the message Europe and America Europe has more economic & Media Limited 2010 | Use of together should send to Iran is: leverage than the US in Iran, it is this content is subject to our "We are keen to negotiate, Europe that should take the lead Terms & Conditions| More Feeds without preconditions, with a on this. And isn't Europe great nation that we wish to supposed to have a new, stronger, welcome back into the wider more united foreign policy, community of nations. But so articulated by a new high long as Iran's current rulers are representative, Catherine treating their own people like Ashton? Step forward, Lady this, so long as they are flagrantly Ashton. In Europe's name, take LG’s new TVs are thin and full of Skype By Devin Coldewey said another. So basically, it’s a (CrunchGear) prototype and not for sale, which

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:58:40 AM isn’t that much of a surprise. It also had a huge brick for a base, Watch live streaming video from which I assume held the guts. By crunchgear at livestream.com the way, in the video above, I say What do you want in a TV? that the LEF is an OLED display, Good picture? Low price? Or… but I really have no basis for that. video chat? Well, LG thinks you Just completely making it up. want video chat, though to be fair And the little ones aren’t OLED their new TVs are also quite either. Just small household delicious-looking. The real star LCDs. of the show was the “LEF,” The new LE line of LED-backlit however, a 1/4-inch thick display TVs, however, is well- that out-thins Panasonic’s documented. They’re quite large surprise from last year. and fairly expensive, but that is Unfortunately, nobody knew a the way of the HDTV world. If thing about it. “Straight out of you think back to last CES, we Korea,” said one LG rep. “I’ve saw the beginnings of the never even heard of this thing,” “connected TV” movement, and 10 Business/ E-reader News Edition How Google (or Apple) Can Win the Great Super Phone War of 2010 By Robert Fabricant (Fast future of two public companies Company) (Palm and Sprint) were riding on

Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:49:47 PM the product launch. And they seemed to get a lot of things right Forget the smartphone. How with the design, right? The demo about an AppPhone? Or a Super- at CES was flawless, even Apple- Smart Phone? Yes, it's a SUPER like. They had a UX designer PHONE Smackdown! The battle show it off (to the delight of is heating up with Google many of my colleagues at frog). (finally) firing on all cylinders Lots of nice tech and design, but with the release of its Nexus One. what was the value proposition: Nice to see a worthy competitor "The Pre is the only phone that to Apple emerge after almost lets you run multiple live three years of wimps. On a applications at the same time." feature level the Nexus offers the What? right firepower. But this is battle Why didn't Palm think about for hearts and minds as much as how to position their product--in processing power. These SUPER what would undoubtedly be a communication devices represent crowded market--before rushing intense, emotional and personal to copy the iPhone? And why did commitments. We dont just buy Motorola following them down them, we adopt them. They are the exact same path with the more a part of our identity than Droid ("iDont run simultaneous any previous digital technology. apps")? Will the rest of the pack We are merging our own (Microsoft, RIM, Nokia, idenities with Apple, Google, or Samsung, Dell) come up with whomever. That's right, this is a anything better? And what about brand war as much as a Google? technology one. Google will have Winning Waterloo Apple to figure out how to compete changed the game, not just with with Apple on that level if they their technology, but with the are to succeed with their mobile way they marketed the benefits strategy. enough, but most tech companies So it is no wonder that all of the service level (Ovi, MotoBlur). of the iPhone software My colleague at frog, Hans still go about their product new super phones seem to be They rarely taking holistic view. experience. Touch screens have Neubert, calls this approach strategy in the opposite way: competing for exactly same The lone exception been around for a long time, yet Brand-Led Innovation. With so defining a set of features by mindshare (with an extra curve, being...Apple, of course. they succeeded in making many new smartphones coming imitating what's already keyboard, voice feature or Pre-paring for Battle This brings "touch" seem both revolutionary to market with similar features it successful in the market; adding megapixel thrown in). They tend to mind a moment this past and meaningful. That got is critical to define a a few, minor twists; and then to look at the brand problem in summer, after the Palm Pre people's attention but then Apple differentiated brand promise and figuring out a 'brand' at the last isolation, at a product level launched (or was that 2008? then deliver on it! Seems simple minute (Storm, Instinct, CLIQ...). (Droid) and occasionally at a seems sooooo long ago). The HOW page 11 E-reader News Edition 11 HOW continued from page 10 quickly switched gears to market proposition is the right path than a single app or even a suite So why has no one successfully have described are not that novel. the phone through an endless forward. Apps are important, but of apps. More importantly, each designed and delivered a people- Some have been tried. But none stream of software apps that they are not the whole story. one also aligns well with a centric phone? A lot of have been done well enough to showcase the value of the iPhone Apps cut up our experiences and differentiated brand identity: The companies have been chasing this create a lasting identity in the platform in new and powerful relationships into a million IQPhone: "The phone that makes from T-Mobile's Fab Five to market. While Apple sits on the ways. Nice! Not only did Apple different modalities, one place to you smarter" This should be the MotoBlur. But no one has gotten sidelines and lets its developer fundamentally shift the share movies, a different place to Nexus, if Google can just stop it right. Maybe Facebook should community drive innovation, economics of the mobile phone tweet and a different place to find talking about different versions acquire Skype and get into the there is a growing opportunity for business they fundamentally a restaurant recommendation. of Android for a second. The game with their own Super other companies to create shifted the software marketing But, all these apps can't conceal integration of location and voice Phone? The LifePhone: "The integrated offerings that put the game as well, forcing everyone to the fact that Apple has neglected throughout the product, not as phone that knows you better then iPhone to shame and redefine the compete with their app store some of the fundamentals. What siloed apps, will make the phone you know yourself!" This is the rules of engagement. There are juggernaut. Try to come up with is desperately missing is the glue a whole lot smarter. And, thus, one that interests me the most. As tremendous opportunities for a unique value proposition for between these apps. The shared make the user feel a whole lot Facebook has demonstrated, we differentiation in the smartphone your smartphone and it is likely intelligence and integrated smarter. Google indexes are endlessly fascinated by market for companies that stop that Apple offers dozens of apps services that will transform the everything, so they are in an ideal information about ourselves. focusing on the iPhone and resist that deliver that same benefit. overall experience. What does position to augment our Phones provide a unique window the temptation to compete with Game over, right? Apple offer there? experiences and conversations. into our lives because they are Apple on their terms. It is tempting to think that Apple Trash Your Product Through a combination of voice with us all the time. This With the Nexus, Google still has has all the bases covered with Requirements Document and input, voice output, semantic capability is being leveraged by a not shown that they are serious 100,000 apps and counting. Start Over I would argue that analysis and location based data wave of new applications like about that. There is nothing for Samsung Apple has music and media the phone can continue to cache WideNoise and augmented by a Read Robert Fabricant's and the others to do but ramp up cornered--which is big! That is relevant data to suit the context host of sensors (like GPS, Design4Impact blog Browse an app store in hopes of the one place that they will with ever-increasingly accelerometer, cameras) that are blogs by our other Expert eventually catching up. But this continue to offer a more intelligence. This is seriously standard on more and more Designers is exactly what Steve Jobs wants intelligent and integrated powerful! The phone is a cluster devices. So why cant my phone Robert Fabricant is a leader of the rest of the industry to think. experience, and maybe in games, of sensors that can listen all the become the ultimate tool for frog's health-care expert group, a He wants to turn the smartphone too. The rising tide of iTunes and time. Google can also index that measuring and optimizing my cross-disciplinary global team game into an apps game that he OS X will continue to enhance data and migrate it to the cloud behavior – and competing with that works collectively to share will clearly win. We are seeing their entertainment offering--just through Android's background my friends? This version would best practices and build frog's most of the major manufacturers look at the Genius feature. But, processing to increase the bring the social competition of health-care capabilities. An like Nokia and RIM take the bait. as people invest more and more precision and relevance of their XBox, Nike+ and WiiFit to expert in design for social If the smartphone is a computer of their time into these gadgets services. I don't see Apple everything I do, from texting to innovation, Robert recently led then value must be in the apps, their expectations increase, competing with that anytime shopping to dieting to Project Masiluleke, an initiative right? creating new opportunities for soon. The WePhone: "Staying in commuting. Life will become the that harnesses the power of This is home turf for Apple integration unlike anything the touch was never easier!" When I ultimate game. You can already mobile technology to combat the which knows more about iPhone offers. And these are turn on my phone I want to see see this trend emerging in apps world's worst HIV and AIDS computers and apps than just profound opportunities not just to people, not a bunch of apps. like foursquare, and frog's epidemic in KwaZulu Natal, about anyone (including Google, sell phones, but to redefine what Almost everything I do from a forthcoming temptd. It is ripe for South Africa. Robert is an I would argue). But is the app a phone (and a brand) is! What phone has to do with people an overarching play. adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch model the right one? do I mean? Here are some of the either directly (calling or texting) For all of the investment in new School of the Arts where he Smartphones play a obvious ones. Each represents an or indirectly (sharing media, smartphone platforms there teaches a foundation course in fundamentally different role in overarching model for interacting links, recommendations or other remains a huge lack of Interaction Design. In 2009, he our lives than PCs. It is not self- with communications and fun stuff). Contacts are the glue imagination that is crippling the HOW page 12 evident that the PC/app value information that is much broader for 90% of what I do on a phone. category. These opportunities I 12 Business/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Les Françaises Adorent L'iPhone, Because Their 3G Net Doesn't Suck? By Kit Eaton (Fast Company) 21Mbps system due in the

Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:48:01 PM Summer) with an argument along the lines of "well, they've got a Listen up U.S. iPhoners: The bigger area to serve, and more French may love l'iPhone even customers," because that also more than you, since over three means the company has more quarters of phones sold over revenues and more employees to Christmas on one network were get the job done too. Apple ones. And that company's On second thought, so many chief is merely shrugging off the U.S. iPhoners are disgruntled extra data load. with AT&T's poor performance I With admirable Gallic cheek, the doubt anyone will even attempt CEO of Orange owner France that defense. That in turn has me Telecom, Didier Lombard, wondering, now we're in a new revealed the surprising sales stats decade, and Google's fronting up to newspaper Les Echos, but to Apple with the Nexus One on noted that the company and its several networks, whether this 3G network are sturdy, and not will be the year we see the end of "at the mercy of Apple." He AT&T iPhone exclusivity in the admitted that the new Apple Here, of course, Lombard is that it has completed upgrading tethering to work " in 2009" and States? Could be. It might even phones (comprising 77% of all pointing an extremely unsubtle its entire 3G grid to the faster the embarrassing delay between be kicked off with a multi-carrier contract phone sales on the finger at AT&T (and O2 in the 7.2Mbps HSPA 3G capability promising iPhone MMS and model for the iSlate (assuming Orange network over Christmas) U.K. to a lesser extent) which has ahead of schedule. Which might actually delivering it. Meanwhile, some of the rumors of built-in 3G were indeed burdening the grid, so far failed miserably in keeping have sounded like a success for my Euro 3GS had MMS out of powers are true.) Because if that but the system remained live and up with the new modes of 3G the company, except for the fact the box the day I bought it last device sells like hotcakes, and it serving data to all those new data consumption sparked off by that much of Europe has enjoyed year. too is tied to AT&T, then that customers because unlike some the Web connectivity of the this sort of 3G speed for ages And don't go defending AT&T company is going to be seriously foreign mobile phone operators iPhone. His words come at just already. And there's also the (and even T-Mobile, which also up the famous creek and paddle- Orange has "not hesitated to about the same time as question of AT&T's broken confirmed its 3G grid update to free. invest in infrastructure." information direct from AT&T promise to get iPhone data 7.2Mbps yesterday, and teased a [Via 9to5Mac] HOW continued from page 11 Do Your Part and Put Some Art on joined the faculty of the School events, Robert recently gave a Journal, and Wired. Your Smart of Visual Arts in New York and keynote speech at the 2009 IxDA By Keith Barry (Wired Top and win 1,500 euro. To make it is a faculty member of the Interaction Conference. He is a Stories) Pop!Tech Social Innovation frequent contributor to a wide easy for non-designer folks, there's a design configurator you Fellowship Program. A regular variety of publications, including Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:30:00 AM speaker at conferences and I.D. Magazine, The Wall Street can use to mock up your vision. Design the coolest arty Smart car E-reader News Edition Business/ Gadgets/ 13 Cooper-Hewitt Names Laptop Inventor and IDEO founder as Chief By Cliff Kuang (Fast museum. Company) And what might the museum

Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:40:52 PM begin focusing on? Moggridge's own career offers a clue: He's a A grand-daddy of interaction guru of human/computer design will lead the National interactions and technology Crapgadget Design Museum. design in general. With any luck, The Cooper-Hewitt National the museum will refocus itself on CES, round 1: Design Museum loves them design as an everyday solution some Bill Moggridge. They've for pressing challenges being polar bear TV just tapped the 66-year-old, who's wrought by societal change. (For By Nilay Patel (Engadget) fresh from being awarded the example, How do you design so Lifetime Achievement Award at much interactivity and content Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:42:00 PM their National Design Awards, as into something as tiny as a touch ATSC tuner, 720p resolution, director. He'll assume the role screen phone?) remote control, switchable cuddle this coming March. Perhaps on a related note: The / mauling modes. But where's the Moggridge is a leading figure of Cooper-Hewitt just got giraffe? interface and technology design. a$600,000 grant to revisit Design P.S.- This isn't even Hannspree's In 1982, he designed the world's for the Other 90%, a landmark craziest TV -- that honor goes to first laptop computer, the GRiD 2007 exhibition that surveyed the 42-inch fire truck monitor, Compass, whose clamshell design solutions for the which we still want. design has become an industry documentary, Objectified.) For a presenting a vision for the developing world. Crapgadget CES, round 1: polar standard. In 1991, he merged his (long) taste of Moggridge's mind museum and a public face. Could we maybe suggest a first bear TV originally appeared on own design studio with that of at work, here's a video of him In the latter respect, Moggridge project? Renaming the so-called Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 David Kelley to form a little speaking at Stanford's Design arrives at a pivotal time: He'll be "Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, 15:42:00 EST. Please see our design firm called IDEO. But in School, where he's a professor, overseeing the final stretch of National Design Museum"--yes, terms for use of feeds. Permalink| the past decade or so, he's about important moments in the $64 million capital campaign, the comma is in the formal name- | Email this| Comments primarily been an educator and history of interaction design: begun in 2006, which has already -to something that actually writer, having penned Designing It should be noted that director raised $54 million. Once that conveys it's role in the public Interactions, a bible of interaction of the museum has less to do money's in hand, Moggridge will sphere. design. (He also just appeared in with day-to-day curating of presumably help guide a 60% the excellent design- exhibitions, and more to do with increase in exhibition space at the Live from Sharp's CES press event By Richard Lawler (Engadget) with Sharp the next up to flaunt store. Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010

Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:02:00 PM its wares for the coming year. Continue reading Live from 15:02:00 EST. Please see our Last year the company ducked Sharp's CES press event terms for use of feeds. Permalink| It's CES week and that means the Widget onslaught and Live from Sharp's CES press | Email this| Comments the press conferences never stop, continued its own AquosNet path, we'll see what 2010 has in event originally appeared on 14 Business/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Pixel Qi: The Screen Tech Behind CES' Most Buzzworthy Gadgets By Erica Westly (Fast Company)

Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:50:28 PM Ever tried to read an email on More Confirmation your smartphone in direct Apple Will Use Its Own sunlight? Well, if you haven't, Chips For the Apple don't--because it's pretty much impossible. That's because the Tablet [Apple Tablet] screens on most computers and By Jason Chen (Gizmodo) cell phones are backlit, especially Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:35:19 PM now that both types of devices are increasingly used for color The Street has learned, by way photos and video. Some e- of an analyst who talked to readers, most notably the Apple's design manufacturing Amazon Kindle, skip the partners, that Apple won't be backlight, but the tradeoff is that using Intel on their upcoming they don't have color either. tablet. Instead, they're going to But Pixel Qi's new multitouch use chips made by PA Semi, their LCD screens are about to change annual winners and losers issue. enough battery power to surf the One Laptop Per Child project, so own chip foundry. all that, giving consumers the And this week during CES 2010 net for 16 hours or watch HD the fact that affordability was a It's basically what everyone best of both worlds. The display we'll finally get to see Pixel Qi's video for 8 hours straight. Notion priority in developing the LCD thought since Apple bought the technology allows computers and screens integrated with real Ink has yet to release a price or screens comes as no surprise. chip company—since there cell phones to switch back and devices. name of the tablet, but industry Jepsen's OLPC laptop helped haven't been any products out yet forth between HD color video- The partnership that has tech sources predict a June release spark the netbook trend. Will that have used the chips. It'd be mode and ultra-readable, black- bloggers salivating is the new date and a price tag of about multitouch tablets using Pixel interesting to see what PA Semi and-white e-reader mode in an tablet PC code-named Adam $300 (a heck of a lot less than Qi's screens make the Kindle and comes up with for the tablet; instant, saving battery life in the that's coming from an Indian the$1,000 price tag of Apple's Nook obsolete this year? Check since Apple can dictate exactly process. Last spring, Gizmodo company called Notion Ink later rumored iSlate). back on Friday for video of Pixel what hardware they want, it'll declared the technology this year. The multitouch tablet Pixel Qi was founded by Mary Qi's CES demo. In the meantime, definitely be more optimized than "amazing", and earlier this month will run on Google's Android Lou Jepsen, the MIT-trained here's a demo of the tech filmed just using an Intel solution. [ The Pixel Qi made the winners list software and, thanks in part to electrical engineer who helped in Taipei last June. Street] IEEE Spectrum Magazine's Pixel Qi's screen, is said to offer create the $100 laptop for the Hands-on with the Monster Cable MCC AV50 By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) line of remotes. The first were a spend a few minutes with at $100 and feels cheap. Well,

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:42:10 AM candybar-style Harmony clone. Monsters’s new line after its done Monster. Just like the rest of Monster’s presser today, and well, this one This is Monster Cables’ second line, it was expensive at $600, but yet nice. I got a chance to seems different. It’s inexpensive E-reader News Edition Business/ Gadgets/ Tech News/ 15 Hands-On: Twin Next Week's Auto Show: Just What We Needed Screens Pack Potential in eDGe Netbook, E- (Also--Let the Good Times Roll) Reader Combo By Maccabee Montandon All of which bodes well for By Priya Ganapati (Wired Top (Fast Company) commuter vehicles in our less Stories)

Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:48:25 PM oily era. And as if you needed yet Submitted at 1/5/2010 11:57:00 PM more news to get you pumped for It may seem a little weird to say the show: Nancy Pelosi! The nifty eDGe "dualbook" from about an industry that has Oh, and finally: local '80s enTourage Systems does double received more than its share of rockers The Romantics are duty, offering web surfing and e- lumps of late but this year's headlining this year's auto show. book reading in a single $490 North American International They play January 15 at hybrid device. Auto Show, jump-starting on downtown Detroit's Cobo Center. Monday in Detroit, is shaping up That means if you start now you to be pretty exciting. Why? should have just enough time to Several reasons. First there is the tease your hair sufficiently, pack raw data: The 2010 edition of the yourself into those buried leather show will feature products from slacks and re-learn all the lyrics 61 manufacturers of equipment to "Talkin' in Your Sleep." That's and parts, compared with 50 beginning of Bush's second term. new electric car, the Fiat 500 cool and all but we have to ask: from last year. And industry So there's that. (pictured here somewhere in Ric Ocasek and the boys weren't experts are speculating that There are also more sublime Europe), which can go 70 miles available? domestic car sales could top 11.5 reasons to look forward to next before requiring a seven-hour re- Image: million this year, a considerable week's event. Drivers will soon charging. (It is not yet clear if http://www.flickr.com/photos/blu jump from 2009's 10.4 million in be able to download songs much that model will be available in etigger// CC BY 2.0 sales. Ford's stock price hasn't easier from their souped-up the States.) They are, by the way, been this high since the radios. Chrysler will demo a tiny far from alone in thinking small. 3M improves their pico projector line with the new MPro150 By Devin Coldewey such as onboard storage, that its options present in the 120. this thing. (CrunchGear) competitors had. The new We tested it out while on a Oh, it costs $395, which is pretty

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:49:39 AM version, apparently skipping a whirlwind tour of CES Unveiled, steep, but that’ll probably come few digits, is the MPro150, and it and it looks pretty much the down. The pico projector wars You remember the MPro120, fixes a lot of those little issues. It same. It’s a little brighter than its have begun. right? 3M’s little pico projector. I comes with a gig of onboard little brother, and of course it has reviewed it some time ago and memory and has a MicroSD slot the new features, but other than found it perfectly delightful, but for you to fill with movies, It’s also got a real menu system that it’s the same old device. it was missing a few features, music, powerpoints, and so on. instead of the rather piddling Looking forward to reviewing NASA's Contest to Design the Last Shuttle Patch By Alexis Madrigal and Besty NASA chooses the 15 finalists patch. Mason (Wired Top Stories) to design the 30-year commemorative space shuttle 16 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Texas Instruments Applies Its WVGA Resolution DLP Pico Projector to Cellphones and Digital Cameras [Projectors] By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) pico projector enabled by DLP

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:56:00 AM Pico™. Media players with embedded DLP Pico™ projectors Because of its super-compact are breaking into uncharted size, DLP Pico projectors are territory in terms of lumens, with ideal to cram into all kinds of Optoma and LG each announcing gadgets. Texas Instruments is media player/projectors with 50 doing just that by applying it's and 300 lumens, respectively. new Pico WVGA resolution Finally, HP's DLP Pico™ chipset into everything from notebook accessory product is cellphones to digital cameras. the first to achieve 100 lumens, It's not the first digital camera making it an ideal solution for with a projector, but the business professionals on the go. prototype developed by TI and While the advancements in DLP Asia Optical could mean a technology are providing significant bump in performance consumers with increasing with DLP. Other notable new brightness and resolution from Pico technologies include: a snap smaller form factors, the industry on Pico accessory for the LG -low price points enabled by DLP Expo mobile phone from AT&T Pico technology continue to ($179), a followup to the pico- bring the cost of projector winning DLP Pico™ technology. manager. "Not only do these friendly $199 price point. enabled W7900 from Samsung products to very affordable Also being announced is the products feature incredible DLP DLP Pico's entry into these and the Brightboxe gaming levels. Some best-selling DLP production delivery of the new image quality at compelling price exciting new product categories projector ($199). Pico products even feature price WVGA resolution (854x480) points, but they are delivering is coupled with a deepening of Texas Instruments' DLP® points below $200, including DLP Pico™ chip that provides new levels of entertainment and the commitment to innovation in Pico™ Technology Enables Optoma's PK100, the new native DVD images from the productivity to consumers and categories where DLP Pico™ More Than a Dozen New Pico Brightboxe gaming projector and palm of your hand. Products business users." projectors are already leading the Products From World's Leading the new projector snap-on using DLP Pico™ technology DLP Pico™ technology is way. Samsung is following up on Brands accessory for the LG eXpo™ feature superb image quality, making an impact on several new the success of its DLP Pico™ New WVGA DLP Pico™ mobile phone. brightness and efficiency in such product categories, including projector-embedded W7900 chipset delivers incredible, native Groundbreaking and innovative diverse consumer product cameras and gaming. At CES, mobile phone in 2009 with the DVD images from the palm of new DLP Pico™ products are categories as mobile phones, DLP Products will showcase a release of a new mobile phone, your hand showcased in more categories cameras, personal media players, prototype camera with embedded using the latest DLP Pico™ Las Vegas, NV – Jan. 6, 2010, than ever at CES this year, toys, gaming, notebook Pico projector from Asia Optical, WVGA resolution chipset. LG 11:00 a.m. PST: Today at the including: accessories and multimedia a leading manufacturer of digital will be showing its recently International Consumer MOBILE PHONE pocket projectors. cameras. Another new category announced eXpo™ mobile phone Electronics Show (CES), Texas LG eXpo™/AT&T Pico "We are thrilled to see the for DLP is multimedia gaming, with an optional DLP Pico™ Instruments (TI) (NYSE:TXN) projector snap-on accessory: breadth of new products coming where Brightboxe is the first projector as well. NTT DLP® Products is showcasing a (HVGA) $179; Available on spectrum of more than a dozen to market all enabled by DLP gaming projector to feature DLP DOCOMO recently announced new products featuring its award- Pico™," said Frank Moizio, DLP Pico™ technology, boasting the availability in Japan of the F- TEXAS page 18 Emerging Markets business WVGA resolution at a consumer- 04B phone with an attachable E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 17 Sharp's Fanciest New TVs: The 4-Color LE920 Series [Home Theater] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) faithfully rendering nearly all

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:12:58 PM colors that can be discerned with the unaided human eye. Four- 1080P, 240Hz, LED edge-lit and primary-color technology enables employing an industry-first 4- the display to reproduce colors color filter (the secret extra color that have been difficult to portray is yellow), Sharp's latest LE920 using conventional LCD Series LCDs, measuring up to 68 displays, such as the golden diagonally, are the best displays yellow color of brass Sharp can sell you. And they instruments. even support Twitter! When combined with Sharp's Their price is still unannounced, 1080p X-Gen LCD panel, which and the LE920 Series won't be incorporates UV2A Technology, available until May. the displays offer dramatic The sets look like big iPod reduction in energy consumption touches in person, from a compared to conventional distance, because of the chrome fluorescent-backlight LCD TVs. rim. Continuing Sharp's history of In the meantime (this March, innovation and originality, the actually), you can pick up an new AQUOS LEDs offer a LE820/810 Series TV starting at stunning new contemporary $1800. They'll range from 40 to design that pushes the envelope 60 inches and keep the price inch (68 1/32" diagonal) screen unveils a revolutionary sizes, thin designs and Internet for flat-screen television artistry. down by using a normal 3-color class technology, introducing never- connectivity," said Mikio At only 1.6-inches thin, the full- filter and operating at 120Hz. • Newly developed dramatic, before-seen colors to the TV Katayama, president and chief front panel glass (on the LE920 But you should decide for contemporary design sets the industry. Unveiled by the operating officer, Sharp and LE820 series) extends to yourself whether or not 240Hz is standard company at the 2010 Corporation. "We have changed meet the slim border for a subtle really worth the hassle. • Flagship LE920 Series offers International Consumer the way an LCD TV produces an edge that befits the elegance of a SHARP® EXPANDS THE LCD AquoMotion 240 for clearer fast- Electronics Show (CES), Sharp's image with the new four-primary modern home theater. COLOR GAMUT WITH A moving video proprietary four-primary-color -color technology, allowing us to These advanced AQUOS LED GROUNDBREAKING • AQUOS Net™ adds streaming technology enables more than a broaden the visual experience LCD TVs also include Sharp's TECHNOLOGY IN THREE video for enhanced home theater trillion colors to be displayed for and immerse consumers in a new newest version of AQUOS Net, NEWLY DESIGNED AQUOS® enjoyment more sparkling golds, Caribbean world of color." which delivers streaming video LED LCD TV SERIES LAS VEGAS, January 6, 2010 – blues and sunflower yellows. Four Primary Color Technology with Netflix®. AQUOS Net • Revolutionary four-primary- Sharp unveils three new AQUOS "As a pioneer in the LCD This four-primary-color display gives users instant access to color technology enables more LED LCD TV series, breaking industry, Sharp continues to employs a four-color filter, for customized Web-based content than one trillion colors new ground in LCD technology advance the technology, the first time in the industry, that as well as AQUOS Advantage • Three UltraBrilliant Edge-lit and design. Premiering in the introducing it's first LED- adds the color Y (yellow) to the Live real-time customer support. AQUOS LED LCD TV Series U.S. in early 2010, this next- backlight LCD TV on the market three colors of R (red), G (green), The new AQUOS LED LCD TV with sizes ranging from 40- (40" generation set of UltraBrilliant less than two years ago and and B (blue). This combination diagonal) to an industry-first 68- Edge-lit AQUOS LED LCD TVs paving the way for larger screen expands the color gamut, SHARP'S page 19 18 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition TEXAS continued from page 16 AT&T's Web site Companion: (SVGA/480p); camera brands, in the second half cameras, is significant and we are NTT DOCOMO Pico projector Availability to be announced of 2010. excited to launch the first product phone dock F-04B: (WVGA) MULTIMEDIA POCKET The DLP Pico™ projection with DLP very soon." Availability to be announced PROJECTORS feature within cameras provides a Each consumer electronics Samsung Embedded Pico LG HS200G: (SVGA); $499; completely new dimension of category requires unique Projector: (WVGA); Availability Available at online retailers social interaction and sharing that considerations when embedding to be announced LG HX300G: (XGA); has previously not been possible. Pico projection. DLP's newest CAMERA Availability to be announced Today, cameras are limited to chipset, yet to be announced, is Asia Optical Prototype: Samsung SP-P410M: (SVGA); viewing pictures on a screen targeted to meet the specific Contest: Demonstration of embedded $540; Available at online confined by the dimensions of requirements associated with camera prototype at CES retailers the camera itself. The pico digital camera applications. Asia Guess what PICO PROJECTORS Detail on the Asia Optical projection feature, while Optical has taken advantage of its Optoma PK100: (HVGA); $199; camera prototype: completely transparent to the size extensive experience and John just sat in Available at Amazon.com First Digital Camera With of the camera, unleashes that knowledge in the digital camera By John Biggs (CrunchGear) Optoma PK101: (HVGA); now DLP® Pico™ Projection constraint providing incredible space to design an optical engine $229; Available at Amazon.com Showing at CES viewing options. Consumers can that is completely optimized for Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:44:54 AM and Apple Stores Leading Digital Camera instantly project their pictures to this application. I have a great prize (I don’t WowWee Cinemin Swivel: Manufacturer Asia Optical sizes up to 40 inches (in normal "We are proud to work closely know what it is yet. Maybe it’s a (HVGA); $299; Available at Selects Texas Instruments' indoor light conditions) and in with Asia Optical, a leader in the headset or some iPhone cases. I’ll Amazon.com, Brookstone DLP Pico™ for Its Embedded excess of 60 inches (in dark digital camera field who can tell you next week when I get PICO PROJECTION MEDIA Camera Products conditions). As a result of DLP bring deep insight into the special home.) if you guys can identify PLAYERS Las Vegas, NV – Jan. 6, 2010, Pico™ technology, the paradigm requirements needed when what I just sat in and explain to Foryou Media: (WVGA) 11:00 a.m. PST: Today at the of digital camera use has the adding projection to enhance the me why I continued to sit in it Availability in China to be International Consumer potential to change from delayed digital camera experience with no even as its juices seeped into my announced Electronics Show (CES), Texas satisfaction to immediate compromises," said Frank socks. JCO-Hite: (HVGA) Availability Instruments (TI) (NYSE:TXN) enjoyment. Moizio, DLP Emerging Markets Another image after the jump. in China to be announced DLP® Products and Asia Optical "Following an extensive business manager. "DLP is Optoma PK102: (HVGA); $249; are demonstrating the first digital comparison of all pico committed to pushing Available at Amazon.com and camera with award-winning DLP technology options we selected innovations in the pico category Apple Stores Pico™ projection technology. DLP Pico™ as the most and continues to optimize the Optoma PK201: (WVGA); The camera and embedded pico compelling solution to provide pico chip image quality, form Availability to be announced projection module were our customers due to its superior factor and power efficiency to Optoma PK301: (WVGA); developed by Asia Optical, a image quality, small form factor deliver the best consumer Availability to be announced leading manufacturer for optical and energy delivering experiences." Samsung SP-H03: (WVGA); technology and a major efficiency," said Robert Lai, [ Texas Instruments] Availability to be announced worldwide supplier of digital founder, chairman and CEO of GAMING/MUTLIMEDIA cameras. The embedded Pico Asia Optical. "We believe the Brightboxe: (WVGA) $199; projector module for digital market opportunity for embedded Available at select Target stores cameras will be available to the displays in consumer electronics NOTEBOOK COMPANION Asia Optical customer base, products, such as digital still HP Notebook Projection composed of the most esteemed cameras and digital video E-reader News Edition Tech/ Sports/ 19 SHARP'S continued from page 17 Parrot unveils the AR.Drone, product lines are all compliant enjoyment. music/photos(LE820/810) with Energy Star® Version 4.0 LE820/810 Series Availability an iPhone-controlled standards which become Offering additional large-screen • The LC-68LE920UN will be effective in May 2010 and are AQUOS LED LCD TV options, available in May, pricing is TBD microcopter, at CES equipped with Sharp's OPC the LE820 and LE810 Series are • The LC-60LE920UN will be function that automatically available in 60- (LC- available in May, pricing is TBD By Mike Schramm (The features go even further than that, Unofficial Apple Weblog with the cameras on the real-life adjusts the unit's brightness based 60LE820UN and LC- • The LC-52LE920UN will be (TUAW)) on the lighting of the room. 60LE810UN), 52- (LC- available in May, pricing is TBD drone providing an augmented LE920 Series 52LE820UN and LC- • The LC-60LE820UN will be Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:30:00 PM reality game feed (like shooting The LE920 AQUOS LED LCD 52LE810UN), 46- (LC- available in March for an MSRP robots around your house as you TV Series represents the flagship 46LE820UN and LC- of $3,999.99 Filed under: Gaming, Hardware, explore with the drone) back to line of this new suite of AQUOS 46LE810UN) and 40-inch (LC- • The LC-52LE820UN will be Peripherals, Other Events, the iPhone. products, offering the pinnacle in 40LE820UN and LC- available in March for an MSRP iPhone, App Store Like I said, the features are image quality and connectivity. 40LE810UN) screen class sizes of $2,999.99 Probably the coolest iPhone- fantastical. Parrot hasn't actually This Full-HD 1080p LCD TV (60 1/32", 52 1/32", 45 63/64" • The LC-46LE820UN will be related product to come out of the been able to show off controlling Series, available in an industry- and 40" diagonals respectively). available in March for an MSRP festivities at CES so far this week the copter with the iPhone in first 68-inch (LC-68LE920UN) Similar to the LE920 Series, of $2,399.99 is the AR.Drone, created by a anything but the video above -- screen class size, as well 60- (LC these models combine Sharp's X- • The LC-40LE820UN will be company called Parrot. It's a little apparently there's too much Wi- -60LE920UN) and 52-inch (LC- Gen LCD panel with an available in March for an MSRP working microcopter that's Fi permeating the air around 52LE920UN) screen class sizes UltraBrilliant Edge-lit LED of $2,199.99 remote-controlled by an iPhone CES. But this is the most-hyped (68 1/32", 60 1/32" and 52 1/32" backlight. Sharp's proprietary • The LC-60LE810UN will be app, and it's decked out with all item coming out of the first few diagonals respectively), Fine Motion Enhanced available in March for an MSRP sorts of interesting gadgetry, days of CES for sure. It'll be combines Sharp's Full HD 1080p technology is included for 120 of $3,499.99 including an accelerometer, interesting to see how the actual X-Gen LCD panel with its Hz Frame Rate Conversion, as • The LC-52LE810UN will be gyroscope, and two cameras. A product looks and works as we UltraBrilliant Edge-lit LED well as fast response time (4 ms). available in March for an MSRP key feature is Wi-Fi integration, get closer to the expected release. backlight to display vibrant Advanced Connectivity of $2,599.99 so the AR.Drone can actually be Boy, a price would be nice to colors and deep blacks. • Four HDMI™ with Instaport™ • The LC-46LE810UN will be controlled by any Wi-Fi device, hear, though it'll probably be Additionally, this 1080p TV quick switching to avoid delay available in March for an MSRP not just an iPhone. high! offers outstanding performance when switching between sources of $2,099.99 Release is rumored to happen as TUAW Parrot unveils the for fast-action imagery, • 1080p component video input • The LC-40LE810UN will be early as March of this year, AR.Drone, an iPhone-controlled employing AquoMotion 240, • RS-232C input for custom available in March for an MSRP although the product itself is still microcopter, at CES originally which virtually eliminates blur installations of $1,799.99 somewhat surrounded in mystery appeared on The Unofficial and artifacts on fast-moving • PC input so the TV serves a -- we don't know a price, and Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, video. Offering extreme dual purpose as a PC monitor even some of the features sound a 06 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST. flexibility, the LE920 Series • Ethernet jack for high-speed little fantastical. Apparently the Please see our terms for use of includes a USB media player for Internet drone has an "autofly" setting, in feeds. digital video/music/photo • USB input for which it'll follow certain visual Read| Permalink| Email this| stimuli in the environment, and it Comments apparently also watches the floor for flight stabilization. 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Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:09:34 PM better than the real things. Funny or Die has become one of Few would probably complain if the top destinations where TV Bacteria naturally turn carbon the Japanese can pull off this neat and movie stars can go to make dioxide into methane gas over trick and produce some natural fun of themselves. Tim Allen billions of years. Now Japanese gas in the bargain. But we'll keep spoofs himself and Disney films researchers want to give that our fingers crossed that the new in general with this trailer for the process a speed boost, to help super-strain of bacteria doesn't fake movie Arbor Daze. From the counter global warming and cause any unforeseen plot to the narration, this is all too create some much-needed natural consequences. real. gas. [via Agence France-Presse] Hey, we've already had a movie Agence France-Presse reports Popular Science is your where Michael Keaton comes that Japan hopes to reduce the speeding up the bacterial Many nations have already built wormhole to the future. back to life as a snowman, so is transformation period from transformation. Their target: massive carbon sequestration Reporting on what's new and this so far-fetched? billions to about 100 years. produce methane gas from plants that can store carbon what's next in science and Filed under: Video, Web, The researchers at the Japan carbon dioxide buried about dioxide underground, as part of a technology, we deliver the future Celebrities, Reality-Free Agency for Marine-Earth Science 6,600 feet (2,000 m) beneath the worldwide effort to curb now. Permalink| Email this| | and Technology plan to develop sea bed, just off the northern tip greenhouse gas emissions. And Comments a method within five years for of Japan's main island. some researchers have Sharp debuts 60-inch 240Hz Aquos LED LCD TV, 68-inch set with a touch of yellow in its RGB By Ross Miller (Engadget) world. The LE920 flagship series 60-inch 240Hz Aquos LED LCD

Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:30:00 PM comes in 52, 60, and 68-inch TV, 68-inch set with a touch of models with Aquomotion 240 yellow in its RGB Like the steady hand on your and edge-lit LED; those are due Sharp debuts 60-inch 240Hz wristwatch, Sharp is arriving at in May with prices listed firmly Aquos LED LCD TV, 68-inch CES with a handful of new as TBD. The LE820/810 series set with a touch of yellow in its television sets... so let's get on hits the slightly tinier, 60, 52, 46, RGB originally appeared on with the show! This year, the and 40-inch screen size markets Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 Aquos LED LCD TV series is and boasts 120Hz frame rate 15:30:00 EST. Please see our touting an impressive 1.6-inch conversion and 4ms response Looking for something even mum's the word on pricing, but terms for use of feeds. Permalink| thin frame, Energy Start Version time. They're slightly more faster? Meet the 60-inch E88UN it'll be the first of these out, in | Email this| Comments 4 compliancy, and "four primary within your reach, debuting in with a 240Hz refresh rate February. Presser after the break. color technology" -- in a nutshell, March with prices ranging alongside a X-Gen panel -- Continue reading Sharp debuts it's a "RGB-meet-Y for yellow" between $1,800 and $4,000. E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Tech/ TV/ 21 Nokia 'Mystic' leaked, collides E72 Sneak Peek: the singing heritage with Centro-esque design and dancing episode of By Paul Miller (Engadget) this handset's looks -- or lack of expanded functionality implied in Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:16:00 PM How I Met Your Mother the form factor -- but we'll By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Here's a bit of confusion for the reserve judgement for when we Monday for its 100th episode. Here's a sneak peek. The episode eyes: a new Nokia hand has know more and get a chance to Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:38:00 PM surfaced at the Vietnamese tech play with this in person. is called "Girls vs. Suits" and you site iTech.vn which marries the [Thanks, Duy] More and more shows are doing can see why. traditional E-series candybar Nokia 'Mystic' leaked, collides musical episodes now. We've had Soon every show will have Neil form factor with a big dash of E72 heritage with Centro-esque The Simpsons doing several over Patrick Harris singing and Palm Centro-style face buttons. design originally appeared on the years, and then Buffy The dancing on it. There aren't many details so far, Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 Vampire Slayer had one too. Eli [via Pop Candy] Stone had a lot of music and of other than the 5 megapixel "Mystic" moniker. While that 15:16:00 EST. Please see our Filed under: Video, How I Met course Glee takes it to a whole camera around back and the legendary keyboard looks terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Your Mother, Reality-Free new level. Now How I Met Your spooky fact that the phone is delicious as ever, we can't say iTech.vn| Email this| Comments Permalink| Email this| | Mother is getting into the act this temporarily going by the we're digging much of the rest of Comments Is Inline Linking To An Image Copyright Infringement? By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) But, no, instead, this appears to copyright violation. First of all, Technically, a hotlinked image is the content itself is infringing,

Submitted at 1/6/2010 7:28:00 AM be a serious "warning" claiming that's not necessarily true. no different than a link to an then perhaps there's a (really, that most bloggers are risking the Obviously it depends on lots of image. The difference in code is really, really) weak case for Copycense points us to a writeup potential of $150,000 fines by other factors -- but I really minimal. The image itself is contributory infringement, but in by a patent attorney named Steve using images they find online. question the parenthetical. never "copied" onto your server. O'Donnell's post, he seems to be O'Donnell about copyright and Copycense points out the irony Would inline linking (usually All you are doing is telling a implying that even hotlinking to blogging. Why a patent attorney that O'Donnell uses an image in called "hotlinking") to an image computer to go visit the original an authorized image would be is writing about copyright is not the post itself and notes that the be copyright infringement under version of the image, which was copyright infringement, and I just clearly explained. Initially, since image appears to be in the public any circumstance? I understand put there on purpose. don't see how that makes sense the title of O'Donnell's post was domain, but isn't sure. However, that it's considered rude and We've had similar discussions in from a technological or legal "How many copyrights does your I think a bigger issue with the generally frowned upon in the past about whether or not it perspective at all. blog infringe?" I thought the post post is hidden in this sentence: If internet circles (and, in some could be copyright infringement Permalink| Comments| Email might be one of those blog posts you find a picture on Flickr, cases the hoster of the original to embed an infringing video on This Story that reminds us how frequently another blog, or somewhere else file will "get back" at the your site -- and the situation is everyone "technically" infringes online and upload it to your own hotlinker by changing the image basically the same with hotlinked on copyright incidentally and blog (or worse yet, inline link to to something different... and images. The content still resides how this demonstrates how it from your blog) without potentially nasty). But is it on the original server and is not screwed up copyright law is. permission, you're committing a copyright infringement? copied to the new server at all. If 22 Tech/ E-reader News Edition Game Marketer Insists That Every Downloaded Copy Of Modern Warfare 2 Is Stolen By Immoral Thieves By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) copy" equation that went out of because one party believe others (the litany of excuses referred to Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:44:00 AM style around a decade ago: That's should pay for their work, you in the article), and not all of those 3) Technical protection is not the right, over 300 million dollars are to assume that that other party reasons amount to "I would best solution, because it punishes Just last month, we were stolen just of the one game, must pay for the work. That's not totally buy this game if I couldn't legitimate users and drives them defending Bruce Everiss over a Modern Warfare 2, in 2009. how transactions work, however. download it for free." First, there away. I did not buy Spore ridiculous libel tourism attempt Obviously Activision had much The economy is based on is no mechanism in the video specifically because of its use of to have him tried for libel more stolen from them with other mutually agreeable transactions game publishing industry to invasive DRM (SecuROM) and I halfway around the world from titles, but MW2 is by far the where one party only pays if they redress a lack of customer have passed over several other where he lives. We still defend worst affected. According to find it worthwhile to pay, and it satisfaction. If somebody shells games because of their DRM or that post -- libel tourism is TorrentFreak 4,100,000 copies of is the job of the entity trying to out $60 for a game and ends up activation limits. I own multiple terrible -- but many in our the PC version of MW2 were make money to give people a not liking it or being plagued by computers and often reinstall comments pointed out that there stolen and 970,000 copies of the reason to buy. Don't give them a technical issues, they can't get games when swapping parts. may be more to the story, and Microsoft Xbox 360 version. reason? Too bad. their money back like they can These are lost sales. one of the biggest things was that Thieves using bit torrents are Everiss goes on to then talk up for most goods. Thus, a tempting 4) A mandate for ISPs to stop Everiss simply hated the fact that indulging in the biggest orgy of DRM and three strikes as the best solution is to download a copy of torrents through disconnection of Evony -- the company trying to theft in the history of humanity. "solutions" to piracy, suggesting the game almost as a trial their customers is akin to the sue him -- came up with a When they can steal with no that he apparently hasn't paid version, and then to purchase if it power company cutting off the business model that involves chance of getting caught then attention to pretty much all of turns out to be worth the price. electricity to somebody's house exactly the sort of thing we like: they will. How they justify this technological history, and how This is only one example. because their usage patterns giving stuff away for free, and appalling lack of moral fibre to well such "solutions" have (not) Another reason to pirate is if match those of somebody else coming up with more advanced themselves is beyond me. I have worked. He does (thankfully!) legitimately available versions of who runs heat lamps. Internet reasons to buy. That still doesn't heard a whole litany of empty suggest that better business the game are censored in the access is a utility that's essential excuse the libel claim, but excuses from the thieves to try models are another option, but user's country (India, China and for education and work. This is Everiss does seem to have a bit and justify their actions but the seems to think that's a lot less Australia are heavy on the why we have due process. of trouble understanding basic fact remains that they are important than DRM and three censorship), thus denying the Companies lack the expertise to economics of digital goods. A benefiting from other people's strikes. user the ability to pay for a make these judgments and it whole bunch of you have sent in labour that they should have paid The first reader who sent this legimate copy. I am not speaking would be a financial and ethical his recent rant about how many for but haven't. So they are story in, the creatively named to the ethics of these reasons, but burden on them to force them to. people "stole" Modern Warfare thieves. Yes, according to Mr. TechWeasel, also wrote up a only trying to point out the There are some good points 2. It's the sort of thing we had Everiss, "benefiting from other rather detailed response that he fallacy behind the "1 download = here, such as business model thought went out of style years people's labour that they should tried to post as a comment to Mr. 1 lost sale" argument. migration towards subscriptions ago, when people realized that have paid for but haven't" means Everiss' rant, but for some reason 2) Where are all the great DS or microtransactions. This is the every download wasn't a lost you are a thief. Everiss' article is it was not allowed, so I'll games? Being written for way to go, moving forward. The sale, and there were lots of about to get traffic from us. He's republish it here:"I'm happy to platforms that don't require the idea is to minimize deadweight reasons that people might about to benefit from us linking see more attention being paid to same degree of game design loss - let the publishers do download other than a lack of to his article. He hasn't paid us. the problem of video game tailoring (two screens, whatever they can to ensure that "moral fiber." Everiss is having I think he should. According to piracy, but I find this analysis touchscreen w/stylus, low everyone pays as much as they none of it, however, insisting that his own reasoning, he is a thief. questionable. hardware requirements), or which are willing to for their games, over 300 million dollars was You might spot the logical flaw 1) One pirated game does not have online distribution channels while having the best experience "stolen" from Activision based in that, and it's the same in equal one lost sale. People pirate and thus lower overhead (i.e. on a "one download = one stolen Everiss' own argument. It's that games for a number of reasons WiiWare, iPhone, PSN, XBL). GAME page 24 E-reader News Edition Tech/ 23 Tablet speculation: How could a tablet connect to the world? By Erica Sadun (The municipal Wi-Fi, new Wi-Fi for I've heard iPhone tethering purchase media on the Kindle It's imaginable that Apple might Unofficial Apple Weblog pay services on airplanes, and floated around as a possible device. Powered by Sprint launch a text-only "purchase (TUAW)) other commuter-based Wi-Fi solution to augment built-in Wi- EVDO service in the US and by wherever you are" system to take

Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:00:00 PM services, you can easily imagine Fi, as well. Users carrying both AT&T internationally, on the Kindle head-on, and an urban tablet that works in an iPhone and a tablet could use Whispernet downloads content expand that to audio and video as Filed under: Portables, Odds and most major cities around the the 3G connectivity of the former from Amazon regardless of 4G (and later) infrastructure ends globe. to power the net services of the where users are. You can buy grows. It's also imaginable that Do you know what word Dave A Wi-Fi-only approach, though, latter, when out of W-iFi range. books while commuting, while at Apple has evaluated the trade- Caolo is hearing in his sleep? cuts out a lot of possibilities for It's a nice thought -- but in the home, while at work, or at the offs between sales, commissions, Tablet. What phrase is trending tablet use on the go, when users United States, would AT&T park for lunch. Ubiquitous contract terms, and rights owners mightily on Google Search? move away from cities. 3G/4G really welcome a further strain on purchases form the backbone of and decided this is not a feasible Tablet. What is every Apple access, similar to the kinds of its 3G network without additional Amazon's Kindle success story. path due to their relatively tiny fanboy and fangirl dreaming of deals currently offered on Dell revenue? Of course, if Apple did There are constraints to margins. And, it's extremely for...um...some new gift-giving netbooks and laptops, might be a manage to swing a deal (say ubiquitous data network access, imaginable that Apple has holiday in the March/April way for Apple to go as well. Of $10/month extra for tablet however. Whispernet limits evaluated the strength of the timeframe? Tablet. It's what good course, that would involve tethering only), it might explain Internet access to purchasing and jailbreak community, which little geeks hope to find on their signing up for 2-year contracts at why AT&T missed its "tethering downloading Kindle titles. Users opens up the iPhone's underlying doorstep if their credit cards are outrageous prices (it doesn't this year (2009)" deadline. cannot easily use this service to Unix operating system for not maxed out and Apple ships matter who does the service, the Regardless of how the tablet generally access the Internet general computing use, and on the rumored schedule. prices are outrageous across might hook up to the net, it's (although the Kindle does have a decided that a Whispernet-like In addition to bringing world vendors). That could seriously likely to be just as bandwidth- basic browser). Amazon is approach would be too easy to peace, universal vaccination, and put off existing iPhone contract hungry as the iPod touch and the providing a convenience that exploit. rainbow puppy unicorns, the holders, who might not be iPhone, if not more so. With benefits both itself and In the end, where "mobile" and tablet carries its own compliment willing to expand their more pixels to fill, any streaming customers, but these "media" meet, which is where I of mobile issues: specifically, obligations to another multi-year video content will demand more conveniences do not extend that envision the Apple tablet playing how and how well will it commitment. data to display. Add in an e-book to the kinds of day-to-day tasks to its strengths, connectivity is connect? This is a question we Unless the tablet offers a USB store for reading on the go, as like checking e-mail and full- going to have to play a huge role. were kicking around this port (doubtful) and supporting well as movie rentals and the featured web browsing that are so Buying on the go, accessing morning in the TUAW chatroom, software, it's pretty unlikely that App Store, and tablets will common on the iPhone and iPod already purchased data on the go, after encountering a number of Apple might support using continue to expand the way touch. Users who want to read and general net access will be the speculative reports in our solutions like the new United Apple mobile devices consume particular websites are allowed to questions raised and the solutions morning RSS feed. Rather than States-based DataJack service, purchasable media. And that's not subscribe to them, usually for a needed. I'm looking forward to predict which way Apple is going which provides unlimited 3G even considering the everpresent small monthly fee. seeing how Apple has realized to go, we thought we'd run down data for 40 bucks a month. The rumors about front-mounted Even on the Kindle, Amazon's tablet connectivity and where it the most likely possibilities. MiFi router solution would work cameras and possible video approach works, in our opinion, will take us as media consumers. We all agree that a tablet would to provide 3G connectivity over conferencing. mostly because E-books are tiny. TUAW Tablet speculation: How be, at a minimum, no less Wi-Fi, as it currently does with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch Shopping and product fulfillment could a tablet connect to the connected than an iPod touch. iPod touches and laptops. MiFi business model has put a lot of place little demand on providers. world? originally appeared on That is, none of us think that service isn't particularly cheap, emphasis on end-user shopping. Could Apple offer a similar The Unofficial Apple Weblog Apple will ship a tablet sans Wi- involves carrying around an extra Purchasing on the go has go to be shopping service for its tablet? (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 Fi connectivity. And with hardware device, and is best a big part of Apple's tablet Hard to say, because audio (not 13:00:00 EST. Please see our McDonalds now offering free Wi suited to the hardened road business plan moving forward. to even mention video!) would terms for use of feeds. -Fi at over 11,000 restaurants warrior who doesn't mind paying Consider Amazon's Whispernet require a much higher load on TABLET page 24 world wide, let alone sponsored $60/month for the convenience. service. It allows end-users to services. 24 Tech/ E-reader News Edition GAME Should enterprise IT piggyback on consumer continued from page 22 possible. Zynga, the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars and a host Web? of other Facebook and iPhone (CNET News.com) consumer-facing applications, as should build applications on top games, is doing a good job with this. So is Turbine, the maker of Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:35:00 AM Alfresco CTO and co-founder of the consumer Web. Or maybe (and my colleague) John Newton a security overlay is all that's Dungeons and Dragons Online - For all the billions enterprises highlights: needed. Something that secures free to play, with spend on IT each year, they The whole idea of enterprise the communication endpoints microtransactions for items, arguably get far inferior software software in the 21st century while leaving employees free to perks and other features. than Facebook, Twitter, Google, seems anachronistic. The term interact with their peers at other ATVI chose to launch the PC and other consumer Web enterprise really only took hold companies using the consumer version of MW2 with total companies make available for in the 90s in order to describe Web. understanding that it was a lesser free. In part, the consumer Web systems that were able to scale yet, and could introduce security Novell is doing this with its version, that the PC as a platform can deliver exceptional value for beyond the department. It meant breaches into enterprise software Pulse service for Google Wave, a wasn't worth the work of adding so little because it piggybacks on big, powerful, flexible, but it also that leverages it. testament to just how innovative features that PC gamers expect the expensive infrastructure built meant big, clunky, and But let's not kid ourselves that software can be when it isn't from their games (dedicated by others. expensive. enterprises aren't already at risk-- locked behind a firewall by IT. servers, ability to mod, high Is it time for enterprise software As Web 2.0 sites with their and, perhaps, equally at risk-- Others should follow suit, and degree of settings flexibility). As to "pull a Google" and build cheap (read free), simple, but from the "secure, enterprise- not create clones of the consumer a PC gamer, I reject that, and solutions on the consumer Web? scalable platforms scaled to grade" software they shell out Web as Tibco has with its Twitter chose not to buy (or pirate) the Your new Enterprise Content millions of users in a matter of thousands or millions of dollars clone, Tibbr. game. Others chose to pirate it, Management/Collaboration months, the whole idea of only for every year. Web 2.0 Journal notes six probably in part as a form of system? It may sound being able to support thousands And let's also not pretend that megatrends affecting enterprise protest, but also because the preposterous, but consider just of users and take years to enterprise workers are going to IT, including now-familiar neutered PC version of the game how good the software you use at implement became ludicrous. ignore the sleek, highly usable themes like open-source just wasn't worth the price tag work is compared to the software Being enterprise--meaning you consumer Web in favor of the development and cloud that ATVI slapped on it. Good you use at home. It's not even can support your heavyweight clunky systems IT foists upon computing. The consumer Web God, Activision doesn't even close. The consumer Web wins infrastructure of other enterprise them. They're not. should be there, too. It may well make $59.99 off a copy of a every single time. parts--also seems less interesting Nor should they. I already find be the future of enterprise game purchased at Best Buy; at For those who think there must when you consider that the myself communicating with software. And perhaps it should least make the math believable. I be some trade-off in software largest databases on the planet colleagues, customers, and be. understand that this stance on the quality when brown-bagging run on MySQL using a concept partners over Facebook and Five Filters featured article: issue is a little too complicated to with the consumer Web instead called "Sharding." Twitter, and I imagine you are, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: land easily beneath the headline of using white-glove dining with Sure, there are problems with the too. It's simply more efficient PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Bruce chose, but an issue this expensive SAP or Oracle, they're consumer Web. ZDNet, for that way. Term Extraction. complicated deserves more right. There is. example, points out that Twitter's Rather than fight this, IBM et al. analysis." But the trade-off favors security model isn't fully formed Permalink| Comments| Email This Story TABLET continued from page 23 Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments E-reader News Edition Tech/ TV/ 25 A Case That Has It All: Kim Kardashian, Twitter, Why Does Microsoft Limit Libel, Cookie Diets... And The New FTC Netbooks? Sponsorship Rules By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Submitted at 1/6/2010 6:00:00 AM By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) some fans in Hollywood, and a Cookie Diet people a letter paying that money are likely

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:14:53 AM variety of media have covered demanding that it remove the link getting seriously ripped off This is hardly a new issue, but the story. Some of those media to the story. It's unclear on what because they don't understand an LA Times review of three new Oh boy. Here's a fun one. You reports claimed that Kardashian legal grounds the demand was how Twitter works and how netbooks once again brings up had to expect that there would be (among many others) were fans made, as the diet company insists follower counts are grossly Microsoft's odd limitations on more defamation lawsuits about of the diet. The Cookie Diet it had nothing to do with the inflated. netbooks, in which the company Twitter following the first one people -- like you would expect - story, did not supply the So, what does this have to do will only sell its operating system involving Courtney Love, but - have a page on their website information and, in fact, had no with the cookies? Well, the to be put on underpowered this one is quite impressive, that links to news coverage, knowledge that Kardashian had cookie people are noting in the netbooks, with the belief that this considering of all the twists and including a story (which they had tried the diet. However, they did legal filing that Kardashian is will somehow "protect" its other turns that must be followed. It nothing to do with) that said remove the link. It was only then paid to promote QuickTrim, but markets. Those sorts of claims involves some company Kardashian used the diet. At that they noticed the Twitter that she failed to note this. How tend to have a way of backfiring - promoting something called "The some point, they also sent messages and... then we get the does that become important? - and I'm a bit surprised that we Cookie Diet" (which appears to Kardashian's publicist a box of lawsuit. Well... you may recall last year's haven't seen more alternatively- be exactly what you would think) the cookies. OK. So far we've already got kerfuffle over the new FTC powered netbooks. Yes, there suing Kim Kardashian for libel. At some point towards the end some confusion about whether a "guidelines" about paid are a bunch of Linux netbooks on If you don't keep up with pop of last year, Kardashian saw the link to a news article is endorsements online. While the the market (and the original culture, Kim Kardashian is one of link on the website and got upset, actionable, combined with a cookie people don't specifically netbooks were Linux-based) but those people famous for being posting two Twitter messages Twitter libel claim. But then the bring this up, it's certainly Microsoft machines have since famous. The details of the saying the following: story gets even more bizarre. implied that Kardashian's paid taken over the market. It's lawsuit, though, are somewhat • "Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet is You see, there's been a lot of talk sponsorship had something to do encouraging to see companies complex, and it's difficult to falsely promoting that I'm on this lately about Kardashian being the with her messages against the like Lenovo now pushing much figure out who to side with in this diet. NOT TRUE! I would never most high profile client of some cookie people. more powerful netbooks using a trainwreck in progress (and, yes, do this unhealthy diet! I do company that gets people to post It's hard to see either side as Linux-based OS, but I'm still it seems pretty likely that the QuickTrim!" sponsored Twitter messages. In being worth defending here, but trying to figure out Microsoft's whole thing is a publicity stunt • If this Dr. Siegal is lying about fact, reports claim that some sit back, grab a cookie and enjoy reasoning. If the fear is that it for all involved, but that doesn't me being on this diet, what else companies are paying her$10,000 watching the legal arguments fly. will somehow cannibalize mean it's not worth covering). are they lying about? Not cool!" per sponsored message. This Permalink| Comments| Email Microsoft's market for more So, basically, the story is that may or may not be true, but if it This Story powerful OSes on more powerful this "cookie diet" supposedly has After that, her lawyers sent the is true, then the companies machines, it's difficult to see how ceding the market to others will help. Barbasol + trucks + hot wife = America Permalink| Comments| Email By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) cans come without a cap. That That has nothing to do with this [via Adfreak] This Story

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:36:00 PM has always struck me as odd, as new commercial though. I don't Filed under: Video, if they got lost in shipping and know how effective it is. I Commercials, Reality-Free You know what's weird about the store decided to put them on thought it was a beer commercial Permalink| Email this| | Barbasol shaving cream? Their the shelves anyway. at first, or possibly a truck ad. Comments 26 Tech/ E-reader News Edition UFC Plans To Sue Individuals, Munster: Apple will sell Despite The Cost Being More Than more than 36 million iPhones worldwide in 2010 Any 'Loss' By Steven Sande (The By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) have to wonder how any sums to watch UFC events on Unofficial Apple Weblog

Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:58:00 AM executive at the company keeps Pay-Per-View, and how that (TUAW)) his job. That's a recipe for number keeps on growing. There There's something that just getting fired: "Hey, I'm going to was apparently a dip in a recent Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:15:00 PM drives some executives nuts undertake an action that will cost fight, but TF notes that it Filed under: Apple Financial, about the idea that someone us more than not taking this probably had more to do with iPhone The wizard of tech on might access their content action -- oh, and it's likely to piss one of the headlining fighters Wall Street, Piper Jaffray's Gene "without paying" directly for it. off a bunch of our biggest fans as having to back out. What does Munster, is bullish on AAPL. We saw this last year when music well." become clear is that UFC has no Not only does the senior industry execs kept saying they This isn't a huge shock. Last problem convincing huge research analyst (who looks had to stop going to war against month, a UFC exec was at that numbers of people to pay up nothing like our artistic portrait at consumers, but immediately Judiciary Committee hearing huge amounts to watch its events. right) project that the company followed that up by saying that about unauthorized access to live Pissing off a lot of fans with will sell 36 million iPhones in iPhones to their customer base of none of that mattered if they streaming sporting events, and ridiculous lawsuits doesn't make 2010, but he believes that the couldn't stomp out "piracy." It's played the role of the anyone more likely to buy. 82.5 million customers, while a number is conservative for composite figure for three as if the second any sort of RIAA/MPAA lobbyists claiming Hell, even Joe Rogan, the international sales and doesn't unauthorized use occurs, the "them stealers are destroying our comedian (and notorious hater Russian carriers shows 1.8 take into account any expansion million iPhones being sold to a entire "cost-benefit" analysis business." Given that, it's no of"joke stealers") who also acts to other U.S. cell carriers -- goes out the window. If it's surprise that UFC is gearing up as commentator for UFC seems combined base of 160 million Verizon, for instance. Munster's subscribers. costing you more to try to stop to go after both sites like Justin.tv to think this is a bad idea, saying: prognostications were published unauthorized access, and it's not and the individuals themselves. "I think that kind of stifles Looking ahead for calendar year in a note to investors this 2011, Munster sees a worldwide working, and there are ways to Apparently, UFC's fight-first, innovation. It stifles the direction morning, where he noted that this embrace it that makes you more think-later execs haven't noticed the internet is going. I like things total sales figure of 48.5 million will be the first full year of sales iPhones, once again based on a money, the solution should be how badly similar plans have being out there. I think people are with new carriers in the U.K., simple: you stop worrying and backfired. Most of the streaming always going to buy UFC pay- model that he considers Canada, and France, and also the conservative. start embracing. websites have pretty strong per-views. You're going to get a first full year of sales in China. Apparently that message hasn't DMCA safe harbor protections, much better experience watching [via AppleInsider] Munster also believes that a new TUAW Munster: Apple will sell gotten through to the folks who and suing users hasn't worked out it on your television than all iPhone model will arrive around own Ultimate Fighting particularly well for the RIAA. stretched out looking fuzzy and more than 36 million iPhones the usual June - July time frame, worldwide in 2010 originally Championship (UFC). Perhaps Furthermore, pissing off your pixilated. They're trying to and that will drive sales as well. it's not too surprising that such a fans? Yeah, not such a hot move. protect their money, but the appeared on The Unofficial While the estimates seem rather Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, group's only reaction is to fight, Meanwhile, the Torrentfreak internet is a strange animal." optimistic, Munster says that his but when they even admit that article above does a really nice Permalink| Comments| Email 06 Jan 2010 12:15:00 EST. models are actually quite Please see our terms for use of fighting unauthorized access will job breaking down just how This Story conservative, particularly when cost more than any "losses," you many people willingly pay huge feeds. international sales are taken into Read| Permalink| Email this| account. For example, the Piper Comments Jaffray models show that AT&T alone will sell 15.8 million E-reader News Edition Tech/ 27 AppZapper: a great big upgrade for a “Twilight: Eclipse” small utility Script Leaked: Reality By Brett Terpstra (The zapping sound when performing Unofficial Apple Weblog a delete. I recommend you jump Check (TUAW)) straight into preferences and By Christina Warren disable that (before it scares the Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:15:00 PM (Mashable!) whole house in the middle of the Filed under: Software, Cool night because you forgot to turn Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:20:03 PM tools your speakers down when you I discovered AppZapper years were testing it out). The web is abuzz with news of a ago. It was a huge boon for me, Lastly, there's a whole license leaked script from Summit helping me keep my support management section built into Entertainment’s The Twilight folders a little cleaner as I began AppZapper now. It's not just for Saga: Eclipse, which is scheduled the early stages of my habit of apps you hate anymore, but the to land in theaters in June 2010. installing 2 or more new apps a ones you love. Just drag items However, before you get too wasn’t the shooting script, but an panel, though, is a switch flips excited about the script (which earlier draft. So if you were day, trying them, and usually the panel around, revealing the from Finder or out of the Hit List deleting them. It let me drag an to indicate you own them. It will probably won’t be too different expecting to find specific "Hit List." This clever screen lets from the book, anyway), it’s time shooting directions for R-Patz application to its interface, and you sort a grid of all your create a card for the app, and would then search for related clicking the card flips it around for a reality check, thanks to the and K-Stew, think again. applications, plugins, preference always knowledgeable Nikki Frankly, considering that Eclipse files that application may have panels and widgets (all together and allows you to enter purchase left around the hard drive. A info, license details and attach Finke. is based on a book, and because or individually) based on their Last night an alleged copy of the the series has remained relatively quick double-check (by me) to last-opened date and file size. files. Not as full featured as make sure it wasn't mistaken, one something like 1Password or Eclipse script was leaked to the faithful to those books (from You can, for example, see all the Internet. The script was what we hear, anyway), it’s click and poof, all traces apps on your drive that are larger LicenseKeeper, but it's a really removed. well-executed touch on this new watermarked with the name doubtful that there would be any than 50MB and haven't been Jackson Rathbone — the actor earth-shattering revelations in I've tried other, similar touched in the last two months. incarnation of an old classic. applications over the years ... My license of old seemed to who plays Jasper Hale in the any script leak. From there, you can click on one, franchise. In the interest of Internet CleanApp has some great see its related files in the bottom upgrade fine, so I believe existing features, and Amnesia is pretty owners of AppZapper can enjoy PopCrunch cites Summit security, we do suggest being bar, and click the "Zap" button to Entertainment (in a comment to careful before downloading any cool, but AppZapper "just say goodbye. You can also the upgrade for free. New users worked." I managed to stay loyal can try out a free download, and MTV News) as responding: file purporting to be the leaked launch apps directly from this “There is absolutely no merit to script. Nikki Finke reported that to it long after I had assumed its screen, which is helpful for those pay $12.95US if you love it. development had gone dead. TUAW AppZapper: a great big this claim. We noticed it over the this was a leaked PDF file, while moments when the app's name holiday on multiple message other sites have said that a Word Then, to my pleasant surprise, a sounds familiar, but you can't for upgrade for a small utility major update dropped yesterday. originally appeared on The boards and sites, and it appears file is floating around. The the life of you remember what it that some of this was spam.” potential for malware authors to My AppZapper is not only does. These are 90% sha-na-na- Unofficial Apple Weblog freshened up, it's bursting with (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 Nikki Finke wouldn’t call the take advantage of the situation is na, hey hey for me, but it's script spam — she says that the pretty strong, so be careful! some very cool features. always nice to be sure. 14:15:00 EST. Please see our The standard drag and drop terms for use of feeds. leaked script is real and did Tags: Movies, nikki finke, Random warning: the new belong to Rathbone. However, it twilight, twilight: eclipse panel of old is still around, and version of AppZapper makes a Read| Permalink| Email this| its automatic search is snappier. rather loud, somewhat grating Comments Up at the top corner of that first 28 Tech/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Netflix, Warner Bros., rejigger Web movie renting (CNET News.com) pay huge fees to obtain movie

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:53:19 AM rights, the studios aren't just going to give Internet rights Reed Hastings does some away. significant horse trading with It likely would be hard for Warner Bros.(Credit: Greg Netflix to bid for those rights and Sandoval/CNET) continue to offer customers all- Netflix subscribers who stream you-can-eat movie screening for films over the Web will soon be $9 a month. getting access to a greater But by offering to help Warner number of movies from Warner protect a sales-only window, Bros. Reed is striking a deal that In a groundbreaking deal for shouldn't affect the fees online movie rentals, Netflix and subscribers pay, while at the Warner Bros. Home same time nurturing the Entertainment announced streaming service, which is the Wednesday that they have company's future. reached a deal that calls for Jan Saxton, an analyst with Netflix to get access to more of Adams Media Research, called the studio's catalog content. Netflix needs content for the Bros. has promised to provide Netflix. "At the same time, we're the deal "brilliant." In exchange, Netflix agreed to company's streaming service. Netflix with a greater number of able to extend the range of More to come do something it has never done CEO Reed Hastings has proved DVD and Blu-ray discs to rent choices available to be streamed Five Filters featured article: before. The movie-by-mail he can obtain plenty of physical once the "sales-only" period on a to our members." Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: service won't offer new releases film discs, even when the studios title runs out. It's likely that the only way for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, from the studio on DVD and Blu- have tried to stop him. But to "We're able to help an important Netflix to have obtained the Term Extraction. ray for a period of 28 days after stream films, Netflix needs business partner meet its rights to stream more films is to they go on sale. licensing rights and those are objectives while improving pay big money, which likely Before you new-movie fans go much tougher to come by than service levels for our members would have to be made up in berserk, listen to what the deal discs. With the Warner Bros. by acquiring substantially more subscription fees. With film means for the studio and the deal, he has secured those rights units...after a relatively short sell- distributors flooding to the Web, Web's No. 1 movie-rental from one of the major Hollywood through window," said Ted including some of the cable and service. Let's start with Netflix. film studios. In addition, Warner Sarandos, chief content officer at video-on-demand services that Firefox 3.6 RC1 Released By Mike Melanson announcement that further know about software versioning, official version after a beta (ReadWriteWeb) releases would be delayed. as a "release candidate", Mozilla period," reads the description on

Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:16:51 AM Firefox 3.6, codename is hoping this is what Firefox 3.6, Mozilla's development wiki. "Namoroka", looks to improve without the asterisk, is going to Downloads are available for Mozilla has made the first startup time and general look like. Windows, Mac and Linux from release candidate for Firefox 3.6 responsiveness, among other "Should everything run smoothly Mozilla's FTP site. Discuss available for download this issues. For those of us who aren't in the during testing this is what will be morning, following a recent Sponsor released to our users as the E-reader News Edition Tech/ TV/ 29 Don’t look for Texas vs. Howdy! A social network for cowboys Alabama BCS (CNET News.com) Championship to Top

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:34:35 AM Texas vs. USC By Robert Seidman It used to be said that mamas (TVbytheNumbers) shouldn't let their babies grow up to be cowboys. Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:33:17 PM In olden times, mamas were right. A cowboy's life can be via Nielsen Wire: lonely. You often commune more When the Longhorns with animals than people. And dramatically stunned the USC then there's the problem of riding Trojans in 2006, it became the a horse in very tight Wranglers. most watched national However, these days, cowboys championship game (35.6 million don't merely pick blackberries, viewers) of the BCS era. But they send raunchy texts on them, heavy star power – with names too (on BlackBerrys, that is). So like Young, Leinart, and Bush – some enterprising bejeaned and an opponent from the second geniuses came up with highest media market (Los CowboySyndicate.org. Angeles) had a lot to with that. It's an odd choice of name, One thing’s for sure: the teams’ sounding as if John Wayne and home markets will certainly be Marlon Brando had gotten drunk watching in full force. When one night and merged their Alabama defeated Florida in the family businesses. Indeed, it's an SEC Championship Game last Cooper described his network's hail from all over the world--the Painted Ponies. You know, those extension of an already existing month, a whopping 50.2% of all vision as the "New Western U.S., Canada, the U.K., Japan, cute figurines of horses on your marketing company run by Chris TV households in the Order." Which might, for all I Sweden, Australia, France, and mama's mantlepiece. and Kelly Cooper. And, Birmingham market were tuned know, refer to a military coup more. All of our members, no I could find no postings from disappointingly, not Gary. in. Meanwhile 32.3% of Austin’s cowboys are ready to stage in matter where they come from, cowboys who were looking for This husband-and-wife posse TV households tuned in to Texas. have a love for both Western and someone to complete them, but I told the Austin American- Texas’s narrow 13-12 win over The membership appears to have mainstream lifestyles." feel sure that CowboySyndicate Statesman that they recognized a Nebraska in the Big 12 taken to the intimate exchange of While you contemplate the main will be an important forum for need for cowboys to be cowboys Championship Game. online chatter. But far more differences between "Western" the future development of a in their own private online Read Full Story With Top Local interesting to the noncowboy are and "mainstream" let me tell you culture whose values have had saloon. Their common interests Markets So Far For This Year’s the topics that the site covers. that on the CowboySyndicate such a profound effect on recent Chris Cooper described as Bowl Season Goat tying, for example. And the forum, you'll find a lady cowboy world history. "rodeo, equine interests, music, Five Filters featured article: incomparably descriptive poet, who helpfully explains: Five Filters featured article: fashion, agriculture, and so on." Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: "mutton busting." "Can't call myself a cowgirl poet Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Cowboys are social PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Kelly Cooper told the Statesman because I write most poems in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, networkers,too.(Credit: CC Term Extraction. that participation comes from the male gender." You'll also find Term Extraction. Greenbroke/Flickr) parts far and near: "Our members cowboy DJs and even a However, this isn't your mama's range in age from 16 to 75 and discussion about the Trail of cowboy world any more. Chris 30 Tech/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition Parrot AR.Drone in the Air at CES Khloe Kardashian 'Not [VIDEO] Doing Anything to By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) we may see some interesting new uses for this flying wonder before Prevent' Getting Pregnant Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:07:56 PM too long. (ETonline - Breaking News) When asked if she want to be a We snagged some live footage For now it’s iPhone/iPod Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:54:00 AM mother, Khloe said: "I want to so of the AR.Drone in action and controlled, but Parrot plans to badly. I mean, I’m not rushing it. had a chance to chat with Parrot work to make the device After a whirlwind wedding with I don't need to right now, but I about this sweet little iPhone- available to other mobile L.A. Laker Lamar Odom last definitely, in my life, I guess I powered drone. The remote- platforms as well. What we September, Khloe Kardashian would say that's a goal for me. I controlled helicopter represents couldn’t pry out of Parrot was a has revealed her plans for do want to be a mom and a great the company’s first foray into price, but the AR.Drone will publishers about new titles, and motherhood! mom and do that kind of stuff, video gaming, as Parrot launch sometime later this year. In a new interview with but I'm 25. I’m not rushing it. I previously focused on producing have released an SDK to allow Check it out in flight at CES in third-party developers to design 104.3MYfm's Valentine in the did just get married and we both wireless products including the video below and let us know Morning on Wednesday want to have kids together. But hands-free car kits, speakers, games for the drone. They are what you think — what would also encouraging the morning, Khloe revealed that she I'm not rushing it, but I'm also digital photo frames and others. the price have to be to justify is not in a rush to become not doing anything to prevent it." The two augmented reality development of alternative picking one of these up? applications for the drone beyond pregnant, but is not doing games included with the kit (and Tags: ar.drone, Augmented anything to prevent it. shown in the “don’t miss” video gaming. Parrot seems highly Reality, CES, CES 2010, demo) are just the tip of the interested in fostering a robust helicopter, iphone, ipod, parrot, Fierce Fashions: The iceberg, according to Parrot — developer community for the video games Glittering Style of the they’re already talking with game device as a hardware platform, so Palm Springs Film Festival! Echofon 3.0 Gets With the Twitter Times (ETonline - Breaking News)

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Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:08:37 AM to the old method, which lets you The free version will be available include commentary on what soon pending Apple approval, Hollywood's biggest stars You have plenty of options you’re retweeting. You can also and it will have more features donned their best duds to attend when it comes to using Twitter geotag your tweets now, and look than the previous free Echofon. the 2010 Palm Springs on your iPhone. But Echofon just at maps for your friends’ The biggest difference between International Film Festival gala. made a big move for your geotagged tweets. free and Pro now (apart from the Take a look at the glittering attention by releasing version 3.0. Echofon 3 also overhauls the inclusion of ads in the free gowns and sexy superstars as The naan studio blog details the app’s search tab. You can search version) is Pro’s capability to they strut their stuff down the red changes, and they are many. for users by first name, last name, send push notifications of carpet! There’s a dedicated tab for username or company. Trends updates from non-Echofon users. Twitter Lists now; you can are easier to sort through, and Tags: echofon, echofon 3, follow and unfollow Lists, and searches you’ve saved at smaller changes, too. iphone, iphone app, iphone app check which Lists follow you. Twitter.com are accessible in the The new version of Echofon Pro store, naan studio, twitter The new retweet functionality is app. There are a bunch of other is already available in the Apple E-reader News Edition Tech/ Entertainment/ 31 Nintendo DS2 Will Nokia's Ovi Store comes Gary Have Motion Controls to AT&T Coleman (CNET News.com) available. AT&T customers will be able to access the Ovi Store Hospitalized But It Will Not Have 3G Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:51:00 AM via their Nokia phone's browser. (ETonline - Breaking News) By Samuel Axon (Mashable!) LAS VEGAS--Nokia on They then can download the store Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:29:00 AM Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:02:42 PM Wednesday said its Ovi and to download content such as application and mobile-content games, ringtones, productivity Just in from the ET news desk: Nintendo President Satoru Iwata store is now available in the applications, and movie trailers. Former child star Gary Coleman talked to a Japanese newspaper United States for AT&T wireless The Ovi storefront is now up and has been hospitalized. called Asahi Shimbuni(the link is customers. running in nine countries: the A rep for the actor says that in Japanese) and revealed a few Consumers using Nokia devices United States, Australia, Gary was doing promotional details about the successor to the such as the E71x, the Surge, the Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, work in Los Angeles when he Nintendo DS. Mural, the 6650, the 6555, and Singapore, Spain, and the United stated he wasn't feeling well. Iwata said the DS2 (that’s what the 6350 are now able to Kingdom. And as of May, it was We're told he was then taken to we’ll call it for now) will have affordable games, including download free and paid content available on an estimated 50 the hospital as "a preventative motion-sensitive controls — social ones that take advantage of from the Ovi Store. Paid content million Nokia devices across measure." think Wiimote, or at least iPhone the 3G network. will be billed directly to their more than 50 Nokia phone According to the rep, who spoke accelerometer. He also promised A 3G connection on the DS2 AT&T bill. Nokia said more models, including the flagship with Gary this morning, he says it will have “highly detailed would have been a step in a new devices soon coming to AT&T's Nokia N97. he's fine but must remain at the graphics,” which haven’t been a direction for hand-held gaming network will be able to access the Five Filters featured article: hospital to undergo more tests priority for Nintendo lately. consoles, but maybe people Ovi Store. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: before his release. Maybe he just means they’ll be aren’t ready to pay a monthly fee Nokia announced in May that PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, detailed compared to what we see just for portable games. Are you AT&T would make the Ovi Store Term Extraction. on the DS right now, though. open to buying a DS2 anyway or He also said the DS’ successor do you think cell phones will will definitely not have a 3G take over your mobile gaming Jon Gosselin's Ex Hailey Glassman Internet connection or monthly habits? fees to accompany it. The iPhone [via Silicon Alley Insider] poses a significant challenge to Tags: 3g, iphone, Nintendo, on Kate Gosselin's New 'Do the DS and the PSP in the mobile nintendo ds, nintendo ds2, video (ETonline - Breaking News) ET talks exclusively to Jon he is the villain. Also a way to gaming marketplace, and it has games, wiimote Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:14:00 AM Gosselin's ex Hailey Glassman, throw it in his face for her. Jon done so with an available- who has a surprising reaction to always gave her s*&%t about anywhere App Store full of small ET has the latest... the new 'do. having short hair. Props to Kate. Reality show mom Kate "I like it," she says. "It’s a little She can now be a MILF." Gosselin is making headlines shocking due to how short it was Hailey goes on to say how much with her new, longer hairstyle, before, but I think, new look, she loves the long hair. featured on the cover of the just new start, happier times. Jon’s released Peopl e magazine. Now poison. He plays the victim when 32 Tech/ TV/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition This week's TUAW TV Dell to Launch Android Katy Perry Live moved to Thursday Smartphone in the U.S. Engaged to Russell Brand due to memory error on AT&T (ETonline - Breaking News)

By Steven Sande (The By Barb Dybwad (Mashable!) Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:31:00 AM Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:16:42 AM Pop star Katy Perry and British comedian Russell Brand are Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:00:00 PM This morning AT&T let fly the news that it will be the exclusive reportedly on their way to Filed under: Video, Podcasting carrier for Dell’s first smartphone wedded bliss. It's Wednesday, which means foray in the U.S. The handset Russell proposed to Katy on that there's going to be another will be the Mini 3, a device Dell New Year's Eve in a tent at the exciting episode of TUAW TV has been selling only in Brazil foot of a mountain in India, the and China since late last year. singer's rep confirms to Glamour Live this afternoon! four more Android phones in Release date, pricing and final magazine. Not. 2010, one made by Motorola and specs weren’t announced, but we Katy recently posted a pic on her Coming back to reality after a three to be manufactured by http://ustream.tv/TUAW and you assume the specs on the device Twitter handle of her and Russell few weeks of semi-comatose HTC. That puts an Android can pull up the fun from either will be similar to those on the in front of the Taj Mahal with a holiday "time off," your host set lineup on all the major carriers in the December 23rd or the existing Mini 3: 3.5-inch display caption that read, "He built this up an appointment with a client the States, and continues the December 30th shows. (640×360 screen resolution), for me." right at the same time as the Google mobile OS’s quickening TUAW This week's TUAW TV Bluetooth, GPS, 3-megapixel weekly Ustream show. It won't trajectory in the smartphone Live moved to Thursday due to auto-focus camera with flash and happen again, since that time is space. memory error originally appeared a microSD storage slot. now blocked off in iCal in bright, Tags: android, att, CES, CES on The Unofficial Apple Weblog The other big news here is shiny red. This week's show, 2010, dell, dell mini 3, htc, (TUAW) on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 AT&T finally stepping up to the however, is going to happen on Motorola Thursday, January 7th, at the 15:00:00 EST. Please see our plate with the Android platform. regularly scheduled time (5 PM terms for use of feeds. Along with the Dell Mini 3, it ET). Read| Permalink| Email this| also has plans to launch at least If you'd like to watch one of the Comments previous episodes, head over to Jason Alexander the latest Jenny Craig pitch man By Allison Waldman (TV going to do something about it. Rue and Valerie Bertinelli. I can't Alexander the latest Jenny Craig Squad) Jason Alexander is the new wait to see Jason in a Speedo like pitch man

Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:29:00 PM spokesman for Jenny Craig. Not Valerie in the bikini! No, Filed under: OpEd, only is it "no soup for you," seriously, Jason's goal with the Commercials, Celebrities, Reality Nobody can accuse Jason Jason, it's also no more big salad, diet is clearly all about shrinkage. -Free Alexander of not being honest too. (Unless the size of Jenny He wants his old waistline, the Permalink| Email this| | about himself. The actor has not Craig meals have been supersized one that made George Costanza Comments been happy with the way he's and nobody told me about it!) celebrity pitcher, joining Sara such a catch. been looking of late and he's Jason is the latest Jenny Craig Continue reading Jason E-reader News Edition Politics/ Entertainment/ 33 Ryan Mauro and the Christian Action Network (Little Green Footballs) he objected to the John Birch In his “dirty and dangerous” Bonnie, says demonstrate “the

Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:52:28 AM Society on grounds of political battle against “militant true intent of these homosexuals: expediency, not principle. homosexual groups,” Mawyer they are after our children!!” Ryan Mauro claims that I called The, Mauro proceeds to admit has not held back. In 1997, after A 2000 Mawyer mailing him a racist — I didn’t — and the political agenda of CPAC Ellen Degeneres came out as a incorporated militia-like posts yet another one of those was the main focus of his article. lesbian on her TV sitcom, paranoia: “I am not ready to give straw man attacks for which the And just for that extra right wing Mawyer accused her of this great nation over to one- right wing has become: Darnit! emotional goodness, he “DUMPING HER FILTHY world government extremists … Charles Johnson Catches Me concludes with a silly shot at the LESBIAN LIFESTYLE RIGHT radical, disease-carrying Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I shirt I wore. Now that’s how to IN THE CENTER OF YOUR homosexuals … anti-family Do? win an argument. LIVING ROOM!! … If we allow lesbian feminists … or anti- Oddly, he includes no link to Mr. Johnson, you should be the tidal wave of gay and lesbian American U.N. globalists!” LGF in his post. And he makes ashamed of himself[sic] for smut to continue to pour into our CAN activists today are familiar sure no one can accuse him of implying I was indifferent or homes, it will utterly consume us faces at Gay Days, videotaping Holocaust Museum racism by including an animated somehow supportive of racism. in no time at all!” “bad behavior.” In 2003, CAN Shooter Dead [And picture of a black child with the And next time you’re doing an In 1999, he asked the Federal turned its footage of caption “That’s racist!” Internet show, don’t wear a shirt Communications Commission to “homosexual kissing, hugging Now He's Dead] Oooohkay. that looks like one of those giant put an “HC [homosexual and fondling” into a video tour of By Pareene (Gawker) Y’know, I’m really glad that lollipops I used to try to win at conduct] warning label” on TV the Southeast, warning parents Charles Johnson of the fair. programs with gay characters. about the perils of Gay Days and Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:37:57 PM LittleGreenFootballs.com let me Sorry my shirt brought up such a The following year, CAN caused warning that “homosexuals live Holocaust shooter and neo-Nazi know I was a racist, because if I bad memory for you, Mr. Mauro. a national stir when TV stations in a pattern of sin and weirdo James Von Brunn died in don’t fix that soon, it’s going to Next time I’ll wear my purple refused to air its inflammatory ad debauchery.” prison. In additional being a cause me major social problems. hibiscus aloha shirt; maybe that attacking Hillary Clinton, who Or perhaps you’d like to defend killer, he was a No, I did not let him know any will remind you of something was then running for U.S. Senate. the Christian Action Network’s known"multiculturalist." Cause such thing; in fact, Mauro quotes more pleasant. Over ominous drumbeats, the association with the BNP- of death is unknown, though it what I said in the Bloggingheads Or maybe the color purple will narrator intoned: “It is rumored connected English Defense may have something to do with interview, about his PJ Media invoke other kinds of that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian. League, as documented in this getting shot, or being 89. [ TPM] article on the John Birch Society associations. It is rumored that Hillary Clinton LGF post? at CPAC, and refutes his own Since you’re listed at PJ Media supported homosexual marriage. It’s more than a little ironic that Esquire: McCarthyism straw man argument: as “national security researcher It is rumored that Hillary Clinton Mauro is complaining he’s being 2.0? The Right's “… [the article] wasn’t based on for the Christian Action will leave her husband upon accused of racism, when he the fact that John Birch Society Network,” perhaps you’d like to taking office. … Sometimes, works for an openly extremist, Battle with ACORN was an illegitimate group, or a defend these statements made by rumors are true. Shouldn’t you virulently anti-gay religious right (Little Green Footballs) racist group, which they are. The the founder of CAN, Martin know the truth? For more organization like the Christian criticism was based on allowing Mawyer? information on traditional family Action Network that’s been Submitted at 1/5/2010 5:58:30 PM them to attend was politically not Martin Mawyer, longtime editor values, please contact the linked to neo-fascist groups in Bertha M. Lewis, CEO of the very smart. So it wasn’t based on of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority Christian Action Network.” the UK. dreaded right wing boogeyman principle, it was based on Report, founded the Christian More recently, CAN protested ACORN, is interviewed by politics.” Action Network (CAN) in 1990, “Gay Days” at Disney World and Esquire’s John H. Richardson, Obviously, I didn’t accuse a year after Falwell folded the other theme parks — events that and mentions Andrew Breitbart’s Mauro of being a “racist,” I said original Moral Majority. Mawyer’s wife and CAN partner, crazy accusation (that he finally ESQUIRE: page 34 34 Politics/ Entertainment/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition ESQUIRE: continued from page 33 retracted yesterday after leaving things into overdrive. “We said, But when you look at it, the tapes was the vote in Congress pulling it hanging out there for 6 days): ‘Oh, we’re just a surrogate for are so clearly edited that the ACORN’s funding, a move that Acorn Group vs Fox News - Obama — first there was voiceover questions you hear are cost the group $2-3 million in Interview with Bertha Lewis of Jeremiah Wright, then there was not what our folks are responding government funding and maybe ACORN Group. Bill Ayres, now it’s us.’ We to.” another $2-3 million in matching Still, Lewis seemed almost shell- thought, naively, they’re running The larger question, in Lewis’s funds, Lewis says. “And not only shocked: “We can’t understand a campaign, and it’ll all die mind, was the idea of the sting did they say that you can’t apply this obsession, and the down. But it really was itself. “You can disagree with for funding but also anyone vehemence. They just make up surprising to us how intense it registering people, with the associated with you — that sent something and keep repeating it became. After almost forty years policy stands we take — that’s out a chill.” over and over — yesterday, I’m of making some very powerful fine, that’s what this country is As a result, ACORN had to fire Look At This cleaning my house and I get a enemies, it was like a perfect about. But to make up this one hundred people (out of a call, someone from my office storm. And it hasn’t let up. It’s prurient scenario in order to keep total staff of about five hundred) Al-Qaeda Spy saying ‘This guy from Breitbart pretty amazing to me how the us as a target, that is the most and reduce another two hundred is going crazy saying you were in right can keep this obsession frightening. It’s incredible that to part-time status. Among other [Espionage] the White House!’ Apparently going.” folks would go that far.” things, this meant cuts in By Pareene (Gawker) some woman named Bertha The most surreal moment, in her It does seem significant that the programs to help the poor with Lewis visited the White House in words, were the infamous “pimp filmmakers have refused to fire prevention, lead abatement, Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:30:24 PM September, so automatically they and prostitute” videotapes. release the raw footage, and tax preparation, foreclosure This is Humam Khalil Abu- assumed — but it wasn’t me.” Although the videotapes do show unfair to condemn the entire counseling, and other housing Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian Lewis’s take on the infamous ACORN employees giving tax organization based on the stupid problems that, again, needed triple-agent who killed seven “sting” videos engineered by and housing advice to people behavior of a handful of low- listening to. CIA agents (and Blackwater Breitbart is also interesting: who seem to be flagrant level employees. (Imagine if the And this is — no other word for contractors!) last week. It is quite By 2004, the hostility directed criminals, Lewis insists that the same standards were applied to it — embarrassing. the story! toward ACORN had become videotape doesn’t show all that Congress or the Catholic Church, “very, very intense,” Lewis told happened. “Our folks did say, much less a poverty group that me. But it was the Obama ‘Do you want us to get the relies on low-paid employees.) Baltimore mayor election in 2008 that really sent police, how can we help you?’ But the result of the videotapes to resign under plea deal (AP) LGF Diavlog at New York Times (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) (Little Green Footballs) the conclusion of this clip, creationism is a minor, propaganda, using ‘Darwin’ as Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:34:07 PM Submitted at 1/5/2010 3:57:21 PM accusing me of saying “everyone unimportant issue and nothing the search term: Search Results: on the conservative movement is anyone should worry about. This darwin. J buzzed up: Losing 2 senators, A clip from my Bloggingheads a fascist” — which, of course, I is a very curious argument for Other Google searches that 1 gov equals worries for Dems discussion with Conn Carroll of have never said or written. Carroll to put forth, since the reveal more of the far right social (AP) the Heritage Foundation has been The full video is here at organization he works for, the conservative agenda of the 6 seconds ago 2010-01- posted at the New York Times Blogginheads.tv, and also posted Heritage Foundation, spends Heritage Foundation: 06T12:40:44-08:00 video page today: at LGF here. quite a bit of time and money homosexual site:heritage.org - Five Filters featured article: Bloggingheads: Conservative I’ll take this opportunity to promotingGoogle Search Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Fascism? - Video Library - The discuss another talking point creationism:‘intelligent design’ lesbian site:heritage.org - PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, New York Times. Carroll tried to raise in our site:heritage.org - Google Search. Google Search Term Extraction. Notice how Carroll tosses in a discussion (which you can see in Heritage’s own search engine blatant straw man argument at the full video) — the idea that turns up more creationist E-reader News Edition Politics/ Tech News/ Sports/ 35 Florida GOP Chairman Bails Facebook's Former CTO (Little Green Footballs) impetus for the coup. become a considerable In a conference call this distraction to the governor’s Submitted at 1/5/2010 8:47:58 PM Launches Stealth Startup afternoon announcing his campaign and that its end — The far right creationist wing of decision, Greer accused his even though it cost a friend and the Republican Party is a step opponents of attempting to ally his job — ultimately will be & We've Got Invites closer to taking control of the destroy him at the expense of the a good thing for Crist’s By Jolie O'Dell party in Florida tonight: Florida party. “While some are more candidacy. (ReadWriteWeb) GOP Chairman Resigns. interested in tearing and A source close to former state Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:13:34 AM The resignation of Florida shredding the fabric of the House Speaker Marco Rubio, Republican Party Chairman Jim Republican Party to pieces, I will whose primary challenge to Crist Quora, the super stealthy startup Greer today — a decision that not be a participant in this has picked up considerable that was started by Facebook's like Google Wave (each user gets came after weeks of calls for his destructive behavior,” Greer said. momentum in the past few first CTO Adam D'Angelo and a small number of invitations to head from conservatives — raises Crist moved quickly to get months, said that the implications that is now in private beta, is email to friends), we've decided the question of whether Gov. beyond the Greer controversy, for the governor are far more beginning to crack its doors open to pool our invitations and give Charlie Crist’s already embattled releasing a statement praising his wide-ranging — and negative. for press, and the ReadWriteWeb them to our Facebook friends. Senate candidacy has sustained a ally for a “selfless dedication” to “Jim Greer’s resignation crew is impressed and already So, if you go to the blow from which it cannot the party” before quickly adding: represents the total collapse of an mildly addicted. ReadWriteWeb Facebook recover. “I call on Florida Republicans to entire wing of the Charlie Crist It's a user-generated Q&A with page(and if you're a fan, please Greer’s status as one of Crist’s unite behind our common values house of cards,” said the Rubio real-time elements. It's useful and add us and leave us a comment closest allies — and a leading of less government and more source. “There’s blood in the fascinating, with similarities to so we know who you are!), you'll voice for the moderate wing of personal freedom and sincerely water and Charlie Crist now finds apps such as Google Wave, see a short screencast from the party — was the main reason hope that we can move forward himself on a smaller boat.” Aardvark, FormSpring.me - but Marshall Kirkpatrick with the for his ouster although his foes together to ensure statewide And the right wing continues its it's beautifully built and easy to email address for your to request cited spending decisions and Republican victories in 2010.” plunge into the abyss. use off the bat. Read on for your Quora invitation. what they termed as Privately, Crist allies noted that details on how to get your We've got 100 invites to give disappointing fundraising as the the Greer controversy had invitation for this still-private away. The first 100 folks who site. email the address Marshall gives Dawson Lone Inductee to Cooperstown Sponsor in our Facebook video will get Topic experts in all areas of them. Good luck, and thanks for By Ed Price (Fanhouse Main) Players who came closest to technology, design, startups and reading and watching! election without reaching 75 other areas are quickly Submitted at 1/6/2010 6:06:00 AM UPDATE: Invites are gone, percent: Bert Blyleven (74.2), populating the site. Users follow folks! If you didn't see one, check Filed under: MLB Hall of Fame first-time eligible Roberto topics and other users, then get to your spam folder. If you don't see Andre Dawson ended a long wait Alomar (73.7), Jack Morris participate in conversations one, try asking around Twitter or for induction, making the (52.3) and Barry Larkin (51.6). around those topics or with those in the comments here. Baseball Hall of Fame in his Mark McGwire got 24 percent of people. One of our favorite If you got your invite and are ninth year of eligibility as results the vote after receiving 24, 24 aspects of the site so far is that now inside Quora, leave us a of the 2010 balloting were and 22 percent in his first three you can ask and answer comment and let us know what announced Wednesday. years of eligibility. Dave Parker, provocative questions you think! We'll be posting an in- In the annual voting by 10-year percent of ballots to earn who got 15 percent of the votes anonymously. depth analysis of the site later members of the Baseball Writers' induction. Dawson was named on and peaked at 25 percent in 1998, To get an idea of how the site today, and we'd love to know Association of America, players 77.9 percent of the 539 ballots. will be on the ballot for the final works and what it looks like, what you think. Discuss needed to be named on 75 time a year from now. check out these screenshots: Since the invite process is a lot 36 Politics/ TV/ E-reader News Edition Tea Party Leader Warns GOP Pols: It's time to start We're 'Turning Our Guns' On You worrying about One (Little Green Footballs) be very clear publicly” if they don’t listen. Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:38:30 AM Life to Live “If they continue to do things like Man. This is just classic. The By Allison Waldman (TV they did in Florida, it’s not going Squad) Washington Times reports that to be good for them,” Mr. “tea party leader” Dale Robertson Robertson said. “If they don’t get Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:02:00 PM is warning the GOP that the that and their party chairmen teabaggers are “turning their don’t get that, they are going to In 2009, the television industry guns” on Republicans who aren’t be ostracized.” closed shop on Guiding Light. In far enough to the right. If the name “Dale Robertson” 2010, CBS will pull the plug on A founder of the Tea Party sounds familiar, it’s because we As the World Turns. Is it time to movement said Wednesday he featured him just last Monday, start worrying about One Life to had a warning for Republican for showing up at the February Live, too? I'm afraid so. Over the delayed. ...It doesn't take a leaders: Back conservative 2009 tea party in Houston with holidays, One Life to Live posted Rhodes scholar to see that One candidates or else other states this sign: horrible Nielsen numbers, the Life to Live is vulnerable and the will suffer the same backlash that The Washington Times doesn’t lowest ever in fact. network is not doing much to toppled Florida’s Republican mention this little embarrassing There are other reasons to be alter that impression. Party chairman this week. incident, of course. concerned about One Life to Continue reading It's time to “We are turning our guns on movement nearly two years ago. These are the people who think Live. All My Children was the start worrying about One Life to anyone who doesn’t support He declined to say which states they have the GOP by the short New York soap opera that ABC Live constitutional conservative are next on the Tea Party’s hit and curlies. And the sad, pathetic decided to move to Hollywood. It Filed under: Programming, candidates,” said Dale Robertson, list. He said party leaders in those fact is that … they do. was also the show that was OpEd, Daytime, Cancellations, who operates TeaParty.org out of states would be warned privately, (Hat tip: KT.) transitioned to HD. One Life was Reality-Free Houston and helped start the but the movement’s wrath “will not only left behind in New York Permalink| Email this| | -- in AMC's old studio space -- Comments but the plans for it to begin broadcasting in high-def was SpongeBob Absorbs New Year With Top Cable Entertainment Telecast By Bill Gorman SquarePants rang in the New with kids 2-11 (4.4/1.6 million), demographics. (TVbytheNumbers) Year on top, earning basic kids 6-11 (4.6/986,000), tweens 9 Five Filters featured article:

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:48:04 AM cable’s top entertainment telecast -14 (3.3/709,000) and 2.9 million Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: for the week (12/28/09-1/3/09) total viewers. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, via press release: with 5.1 million total viewers Nick Jr. kicked off 2010 with its Term Extraction. NICKELODEON RATINGS (behind only ESPN’s NFL and most-watched week with 631,000 HIGHLIGHTS WEEK OF College Football and USA’s total viewers and an average of 12/28/09-1/3/10 WWE). SpongeBob SquarePants this week as the number-one 3.1/326,000 K2-5 for the week, Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob helped fuel Nickelodeon’s win basic cable network in total day up +24% with both E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ 37 Use Multiple Exchange Accounts on Your Jailbroken iPhone [IPhone] By Whitson Gordon You'll also have to change the (Lifehacker) last 4 digits of the

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:30:00 AM DAAccountPersistentUUID to something else (it doesn't matter Exchange is extremely useful for what it is, it just has to be syncing your data live to your different than the first account phone, especially since Gmail and have the same number of added Exchange—but iPhones digits). You'll also have to still only allow one Exchange change the last 4 characters of the account at a time. If you're Identifier string to something jailbroken, here's how to add as else—and make those same many accounts as you want. changes to the Sync Identifier The folks over at the string (so that the two strings Modmyi.com forums figured this match). Repeat this entire process one out through some trial and (starting with the copying and error, and since the instructions pasting) for each new Exchange require sifting a thread and account you want to add. picking out the important steps, When you're done, go back into we've narrowed down the process computer and open it up with a 2.5 Class>/key> ASAccount com.apple.Dataclass.ContactsSea your SSH client and upload your here. It looks a little daunting at plist editor (OS X has one built DAAccountPersistentUUID rch Identifier F4EBDF4A-8C1E- newly revised first (and you should proceed at in, and there are a few for 47F76882-2678-41C7-91B9- 486E-89A8-766C1C5D8170 com.apple.accountsettings.plist your own risk), but all it requires download on Windows). Be sure 5D1AD5F76BFA Short Type String Exchange file to the same folder you got it is a little bit of copying and to back it up before you edit it, DAAccountVersion 2 Sync Identifier F4EBDF4A- from, and you should be all set. pasting. In order to do this, you'll though, in case you mess up and DATrustSettingsExceptions 8C1E-486E-89A8- You don't even need to restart need to have jailbroken your need to go back to the original. b8fa0b7f 0e99494e e3210953 766C1C5D8170 Type Exchange your iPhone, if you just wait a iPhone or iPod touch and When you open it up, the 21fa4725 65454492 Type String Exchange minute it should ask you for the installed OpenSSH on it, as well Exchange account should be the YnBsaXN0MDChAdICAwQFW ActiveSyncpasswords and start syncing. as already have an Exchange first entry, and it should look 1NTTEhvc3RuYW1lWlNIQTFE kASAccountVersionKey 7 Thanks, Jan! Two Exchange account set up. something this: aWdlc3QITxAUuPoLfw6ZSU7jI Copy this whole section and Accounts First, you'll have to SSH into ASAccountEmailAddress QlTIfpHJWVFRJIICg8b paste it directly below itself—and (ActiveSync)[Modmyi.com your iPhone (which we've [email protected] JicAAAAAAAABAQAAAAAA then all you need to do is edit a Forums] covered how to do before) and ASAccountHost m.google..com AAAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAA few parts of the section you just grab theASAccountMailNumberOfPastD AAAAAA Pg== DisplayName pasted. Change the strings below com.apple.accountsettings.plist aysToSync 0 ASAccountUseSSL Gmail Enabled Dataclasses ASAccountEmailAddress, fileASAccountUsername com.apple.Dataclass.Calendars ASAccountEmailUsername, and from/private/var/mobile/Library/ [email protected] com.apple.Dataclass.Contacts DisplayName to correspond to Preferences/. Download it to your ASLastKnownProtocolVersion com.apple.Dataclass.Mail your second Exchange account. 38 Tech Tips/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition Resolved: Try New Software to Improve Your Experience (or Knowledge) [Resolutions] By Whitson Gordon a job, then let readers decide (Lifehacker) what they like best. The vote is

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:30:00 PM just another bit of data to supplement the Hive.) We all have our favorite Given that, this is my challenge programs, but we often ignore to all of us this New Year: try the possibility that something something new. My experiment else is better. This New Year, as with Songbird was a pretty hefty we're all trying new things, try undertaking; you don't need to try some new software to make your something as involved as a new life easier—or at least keep you media player. Start small—try a informed. new browser, or antivirus On a recent whim, I downloaded program, or IM client. Most of and installed Songbird, just to see the stuff we feature on how far it had come since its 1.0 Lifehacker is free, so what do release. Surprisingly, I found you have to lose? If you end up myself liking it so much that I liking the new program more ended up ditching iTunes—a than your old staple, then you've long-time dream of mine—and I just improved your user haven't looked back since. On the apparently futile case for way to find out what piece of claiming the "best" isn't exactly experience—and if you don't, flipside, I've also tried new Songbird, but to show how software is the "best" at the intent (rather, it is to find out then at least you're a bit more software and not been something as easy as something—the top 5 are usually which program Lifehacker informed the next time you say happy—I've used every Twitter downloading and trying out a a pretty good indication, but the readers use most), it seems likely "______is by far the best client known to man, but in the new program can seriously final vote normally indicates to me (as I, too, am victim to ______." end, I can't help but return to improve one's computing merely which tool is the most this), that though we may defend Tweetie for Mac, because experience, even if they go back used. (For example, AVG was our votes to the death, many of nothing else seems as good to to the original program they the most popular choice in our us probably haven't even tried the me. started with. last Hive Five Best Antivirus other competing options I share my experience not Many of you have commented Applications, but we still heartily available. because I think anyone (and I agree) that often the Hive recommend readers use ( Ed. note: The main goal of the particularly cares which media Five polls we have every week Microsoft Security Essentials if Hive Five has always been to player I use, nor to argue my aren't always the most accurate they want free AV.) And, while highlight five of the best tools for Under New Coach, Young Blues Must Mature By Christopher Botta having trouble keeping their late- the rink. You know stories like (Fanhouse Main) night shifts short. this come up when you're not

Submitted at 1/6/2010 4:00:00 AM "I hope it's not a problem," the winning as much as you should. I St. Louis Blues' 21-year-old left don't think this is a major issue." Filed under: Blues David Perron wing told FanHouse during a could not challenge or deny the phone interview. "I don't think hardly ever drink and pretty recent buzz that his team is I've partied once this year. I much keep to myself away from E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ Sports/ Popular News/ 39 Arizona Cardinals' Anquan Boldin was not in pads for Wednesday's practice By Pedro Gomez (ESPN.com) second-round playoff game at

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:01:16 PM Carolina. He wound up with 14 receptions, including eight in the Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Super Bowl against Pittsburgh, Anquan Boldin, who sprained his for 190 yards and one touchdown left ankle during Sunday's 33-7 during their run to the Super loss to the Green Bay Packers, Bowl. was relegated to the stationary Boldin caught 84 passes for bicycle at the start of 1,024 yards this season. It was Save Your Credit Card Customer Wednesday's practice. the fifth time in seven seasons NFC West blog that Boldin has caught at least 80 ESPN.com's Mike Sando writes passes and gained 1,000 yards Service Numbers to Guard Against about all things NFC West in his receiving. division blog. The Cardinals are scheduled to • Blog network: NFL Nation host the Packers Sunday Identity Theft [Identity Theft] Boldin was injured while trying afternoon in at NFC wild-card By Lisa Hoover (Lifehacker) any computer, anytime. basic anywhere-accessible to catch a pass over his head game. Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:00:00 AM Wallet Garden is also a great information. For a decidedly low- from backup quarterback Matt Pedro Gomez is a reporter for place to store phone numbers for tech approach, use a copy Leinart during the third quarter of ESPN. Credit cards have a phone your insurance cards, frequent machine. Drop all the cards in the regular-season finale. He was Five Filters featured article: number on them to call if your flier programs, gym your wallet face down on the not in pads Wednesday. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: card is stolen, but it's kind of memberships, and all those other screen and snag a copy. Then flip Boldin also was injured during PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, difficult to find that number after assorted cards you have crammed all the cards over and grab a last year's postseason run and Term Extraction. someone lifts your wallet. Wallet in your wallet. The info is sorted second copy. Store both sheets in was inactive for the Cardinals' Garden keeps those phone and stored according to category a safe place so you can pull them numbers at your fingertips, theft so you can prioritize who you out quickly if you need to report or not. need to call first if you need to lost or stolen cards. Nigerian man indicted in Wallet Garden is a free, easy-to- contact financial institutions in a Quick reporting is key to use online service that stores only hurry. protecting your identity If plot to blow up plane (AP) the name and customer service While we like what Wallet someone snatches your wallet or (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) phone number of the companies Garden aims to accomplish, you purse. What steps do you take to 06T12:40:02-08:00 Five Filters featured article: where you have credit cards—no certainly don't need to sign up for keep the personal information Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:30:34 PM account numbers or other yet another web site to you carry around safe? Share Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: S.T. buzzed up: More ex- detailed information required. accomplish the same basic thing. your ideas in the comments. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Guantanamo detainees joining Once you register at the web site, Create a plain text file with the Thanks, Osman! Wallet Term Extraction. militants: U.S. just drop in all the bank contact information and put it in your Garden[via Get Rich Slowly] 9 seconds ago 2010-01- info you want to remember and Dropbox (or other file-syncing) save. You can access it later from folder and you've got the same 40 Tech Tips/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition Report: After Isiah Comments, Knicks Deny Tickets to Magic Johnson By Anthony Olivieri (Fanhouse Main)

Submitted at 1/6/2010 4:18:00 AM Filed under: NBA Rumors The New York Knicks apparently are still protecting Isiah Thomas. The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that the Knicks denied Magic Johnson a comp ticket to their game against the Portland Trail Blazers on Dec. 7, due in part to Johnson's criticism of Thomas, the team's reported that the club was former coach and team president. looking to avoid a media It is no secret that Thomas firestorm if Johnson were present Enna is an Attractive Linux Media remains close to Knicks owner at a game. The Daily News also James Dolan, who gave the said that, according to a person former star point guard a long close to the team, the Knicks did Center Application [Downloads] leash despite catastrophic not respond to Johnson damage that was done to the By Whitson Gordon fanart, and information for user-friendly interface, Enna is immediately, causing the iconic franchise under Thomas' watch. (Lifehacker) you—and you don't have to still relatively young, and it's Hall of Famer to tell the team he The Knicks would neither switch in and out of a "Library missing some of the more had other plans. Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:30:00 AM confirm nor deny the story to the Mode" to see them, making advanced features, such as UPnP Daily News, but the newspaper Linux only: Previously navigation a bit nicer than some and DLNA support, that front- mentioned media center of its competitors. It's also added runners like XBMC and Boxee GeeXboX has finally released a books as a medium—and while have to offer. However, these and stable version of their new one may wonder who would many other more advanced interface, called Enna. Used with want to read books on their features are planned for the GeeXboX or as a standalone television screen, comic books future, so Enna still has a chance application, it handles all your are another matter. Enna of rivaling the top players one music, photos, videos, and even currently supports GoComics and day—just not quite yet. If you do ebooks—with style. OneManga as content providers, use Enna, let's hear what makes it Enna features a very attractive meaning you can read your your media center of choice in interface, with direct access to all favorite comics in a whole new the comments. Enna[via your hard drive's media in a very way. DownloadSquad] user-friendly way. It even Other than the bookstore, automatically fetches covers, though, and an arguably more E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ Sports/ Tech News/ 41 Track Gift Cards to Maximize Value South Florida Senior Says and Use [Money] Joel Miller Gave Details By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) of Jim Leavitt's Slap

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:00:00 PM By Brett McMurphy (Fanhouse Main) It's all too easy to lose, misplace, or under-use gift cards, leading to Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:35:00 AM their expiration and the loss of Filed under: South Florida the value on them. Don't let this TAMPA, Fla. -- A University of holiday season's gift card bounty South Florida senior said that go to waste. sophomore Joel Miller told him Photo by Rahim. that coach Jim Leavitt grabbed Whether it's because they're not him by the throat and slapped cold hard cash or as painful to him twice in the face at halftime lose as a credit card, it's easy to against Louisville. lose track of gift cards—once Wide receiver Colby when moving a piece of furniture Erskin(right) told FanHouse that I found a shocking bounty of yourself to use them before they including ways to donate the Miller also asked for his advice school coach, David Mitchell, Barnes and Noble gift cards stuck expire: unused balance of your gift cards on what he should do a few days that Leavitt struck him. That beneath it. Register card numbers and PINs to charity. Have a tip or trick for after the Nov. 21 incident. same day the university Over at MSN Money they have a at Leverage or Plastic Jungle, using gift cards—my favorite On Dec. 14, FanHouse initially announced it would conduct an list of tips for making sure you where you can track your trick is to wrap the receipt around reported that five members of the external investigation into the don't waste the value on your gift balances and check expiration the card so I always know the football program witnessed the incident. cards. The most obvious tip is to dates. You'll also have a backup remaining balance—let's hear incident and that Miller told his keep all your gift cards in the in case you lose your piece of about them in the comments. 8 father, Paul Miller, and his high same location so they are less apt plastic. Ways to Avoid Wasting Gift to go missing. You can also take Check out the article at MSN Cards[via Free Money Finance] advantage of online services for Money for additional tips, tracking the value and reminding Gauging Mass Tom Brady Is NFL's Comeback Player of the Year Opinion: Don't Label By Dan Graziano (Fanhouse September. Patriots quarterback quarterback threw for 4,398 Main) Tom Brady has won the yards and 28 touchdowns while it Social Media

Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:40:00 AM Associated Press NFL Comeback leading New England to a 10-6 By Alex Williams Player of the Year Award, one record and an AFC East division (ReadWriteWeb) Filed under: Patriots, NFL year after a knee injury sidelined title. Awards, NFL Quarterbacks him for 15 of the team's 16 Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:58:35 AM FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Some games. In the first generation of the elections are easier to predict Brady received 19 votes from a Bay Buccaneers running back social Web, the marketing groups than others. This one you could panel of 50 NFL writers across Cadillac Williams, who got 14 see coming as far back as the country, beating out Tampa votes. The Patriots' cover-boy GAUGING page 42 42 Game/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition GAUGING continued from page 41 Ricky Gervais and public relations teams would entering an era where the social to describe their sentiments. The Wilson. But the comments from develop reports to provide Web will serve as the main mass amount of data available the Web demonstrated that sings lullabies metrics for a particular campaign. territory for performing makes the process overwhelming. Anniston had greater appeal than They were pretty much the sole predictive analytics. Instead, the WiseWindow web Wilson. As a result, the trailers to Elmo users of "social media," WiseWindow is using artificial crawler will search for comments were changed to feature Anniston (Holy Kaw!) technologies. intelligence technology, web and other opinions across more than Wilson. That's a problem as far as crawlers and the processing thousands of sites that are not WiseWindow was founded in Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:21:48 AM WiseWindow is concerned. power of the cloud to get real- blocked by privacy restrictions. 2007 by Rajiv Dulepet. He has an Social media is a poor label for time results for enterprise The artificial intelligence trains impressive background. He was a Elmo is no stranger to describing how comments, blog customers. For example, this itself to look for a particular visiting scholar at Stanford's hobnobbing with celebrities — posts, updates and other opinions means that companies may topic. It brings back all related School of Management and schmoozing with the likes of can be leveraged to gauge views leverage the social Web to make opinions. The information is then Engineering, spearheading the Heidi Klum and Jack Black — across social networks and sales forecasts and gauge the distilled for the client or made development of presidential but now the fuzzy red Muppet thousands of Web sites. opinions of mass society to available through a web portal prediction projects for both the will be the talk of the tabloids "Labeling of it as social media immediately understand the where the data can be analyzed. 2004 and 2008 elections. after taking a high-profile celeb has limited its potential up to current opinions about its brand Recently, WiseWindow worked WiseWindow started developing to bed. Get your mind out of the now," said Marshall Toplansky, or those of competitors. with a client from the film its technology in 2007 and began gutter; it’s not an Ernie and Bert president of WiseWindow. "That WiseWindow calls the product industry. WiseWindow used its working with clients last year. situation. is why we are calling it mass Mass Opinion Business technology to research 400 films, The company has four patents for Ricky Gervais took a trip to opinion business intelligence and Intelligence, describing it as a generating 4.5 million comments its web crawling, auto- Sesame Street to sing “n” themed not social media analytics." service that goes beyond from 70,000 sites. They distilled classifications of opinions, lullabies to a pajama-clad Elmo Sponsor keyword search and click- the data to lean what is hot and relevance recognition and in and the result is pure Muppet-y Now, the social Web is a real- throughs to predict market what is not. statistical language applications. awesomeness. time engine. Cloud computing is movement. As another example, , Discuss Entertain yourself for hours with a reality and a new era is upon us According to WiseWindow, WiseWindow did research for the oodles of videos. that allows the enterprise to mine sentiment analysis has failed as a film, Marley and Me, starring Permalink| Leave a comment » the vast sea of comments, strategic research tool. When Jennifer Anniston and Luke reviews, updates and blog posts matching words, the context is Wilson. The pre-release from millions of people. We're lost. People use words differently promotions featured Luke Gran Turismo 5 is real enough for box art By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) successor to the self-described Check out a brand new video of Joystiq on Wed, 06 Jan 2010

Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:30:00 PM "real driving simulator." The Sony's long-awaited PS3 racer 14:30:00 EST. Please see our evidence? Box art! after the break. terms for use of feeds. Click for high-resolution box art. Mercedes-Benz's gull-winged Gallery: Gran Turismo 5 (SLS Permalink| Email this| 2010 is totally the future. How SLS AMG has the honor of AMG) Comments can we tell? Gran Turismo 5 will gracing the GT5 cover. It's a Continue reading Gran Turismo actually come out. Half a decade terrific marketing decision, if 5 is real enough for box art after Gran Turismo 4, Polyphony only to trick Back to the Future all about time travel. (It's not, Gran Turismo 5 is real enough Digital is finishing up a true fans into thinking this is a game we're afraid.) for box art originally appeared on E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Game/ 43 Copia Challenges Amazon, B&N and Sony: Unveils New E-Book Platform and 6 E-Readers By Frederic Lardinois touchscreen. The intermediate (ReadWriteWeb) models offer touchscreens and

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:33:03 AM the high-end versions will offer touchscreens and 3G Copia, a new e-book platform, connectivity. All models come plans to take on the big players in with tilt sensors and 4GB of the market by launching it's own internal memory. e-book store and a set of Copia, for example, are linked to These devices will go on sale on touchscreen e-readers. Copia also Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Copia's site in April. wants to combine numerous In addition, the service will offer Can This Work? New Super Street Fighter social networking features with collaboration tools that are We still have a lot of questions its e-book platform and plans to mostly geared towards students. about Copia. We don't know at IV Ultra Combos, alternate sell its services to OEM device Users can highlight and annotate what price the company plans to manufacturers. Copia's e-book books, for example, and share sell books and what DRM- costumes revealed store will offer over 250,000 these annotations with other solution Copia plans to books from over 1,500 users. Copia will also implement implement. At the same time, By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Chun Li's, above, is the most publishers, as well as 1,400 a rating system for book reviews. though, the company's plan to Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:27:00 PM visible from the scan. Thankfully, newspapers and over 750,000 OEM's will be able to offer all of sell both e-books and compatible GameTrailers has posted a much free books from Google Books. these features to their users as e-readers looks a lot like Recent Famitsu magazine scans clearer, wha-wha-wha-wooorld Sponsor well. OEMs will also be able to Amazon's strategy and there can have surfaced, revealing new exclusive look at the costumes in Copia's private, limited- integrate Copia's e-book store be no doubt that Amazon has Ultra Combos for Super Street action, along with some of the invitation beta will launch this into their own devices. Copia's E- been quite successful with this Fighter IV's world warriors and new Ultra Combos and rival month. The company plans to Readers: Ocean and Tidal strategy. Copia, however, doesn't friends. As an added bonus, battles, embedded after the break. expand this beta in March. Copia plans to offer 6 different e have any name recognition yet Eventhubs has actually translated [Thanks, Will] Copia bills itself as a hybrid -readers with prices ranging from and the e-book market is the descriptions of the attacks, so Continue reading New Super solution, as the company plans to $199 to $299. The 'Tidal' will currently dominated by big you can get a better idea of what Street Fighter IV Ultra Combos, offer both consumer-facing e- offer a 6-inch ePaper display and companies like Amazon, B&N you're squinting at. Chun-Li's alternate costumes revealed book solutions as well as an open the 'Ocean' will come in a basic 6 and Sony. If Copia is successful Kikosho fireball returns, and now New Super Street Fighter IV platform for OEMs. -inch version and two advanced in getting enough OEM partners, Ryu has a "Metsu-shoryuken" -- Ultra Combos, alternate costumes Focus on Social Networking versions with a 9-inch screens. though, it could establish itself as a super-powerful Dragon Punch, revealed originally appeared on Features Both of these models will come another major player in the duh. Most interesting, however, Joystiq on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 On the consumer side, Copia in three different variations. The market. The company's e-reader is Cammy's new Ultra Combo: 13:27:00 EST. Please see our wants to differentiate itself from most basic models will not offer lineup also looks like a potential the "Cammy Quick Combo" -- or terms for use of feeds. its competition by giving its users any wireless connectivity besides winner. Discuss "CQC" -- a counter move. Read| Permalink| Email this| a number of social networking WiFi and won't offer a The Famitsu issue also features Comments tools. Community profiles on images of new alternate costumes for the upgraded fighting game -- 44 Tech News/ Game/ E-reader News Edition MailBrowser: Get More Out of Your Google Contacts By Frederic Lardinois add this functionality in a future (ReadWriteWeb) version. Currently, the service

Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:57:03 AM can only display details about a is the "trend" section that appears contact's domain and website. MailBrowser wants to make at the bottom of the sidebar. More Features Coming Soon Gmail and Google Apps more Here, two graphs show a timeline MailBrowser has big plans for useful by offering a consolidated view of how many emails you the future. The company plans to view of all your contacts and sent and received from any given offer support for more services attachments in a browser sidebar. contact. (Yahoo Mail, Live Mail, etc.), In this sidebar, you can quickly MailBrowser stores all your data integration with enterprise apps search for contacts, see the latest locally on your hard disk, so no like Salesforce and integration emails you received from a information is ever shared with with social media services like Rock Band 2 patched on specific contact, add calendar the service. Because all the data Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. events and attach notes and tags is stored locally, MailBrowser Verdict to a contact. In many respects, also keeps a copy of all your For now, MailBrowser works PS3 to make way for MailBrowser looks a lot like attachments on your machine. just as advertised. It doesn't yet Xobni for Gmail. The application also syncs all the offer the rich feature set of Rock Band Network Sponsor data back to Google Contacts in Xobni, but the company is clearly By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Features the cloud, so any changes you working on that. hammer-ons and pull-offs" found in The Beatles: Rock Band, MailBrowser is currently only make on one computer will If you have a very large mailbox, Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:00:00 PM compatible with Internet automatically appear on another it can take a while for support for SingStar wireless Explorer and Firefox on the Mac machine. Xobni for Gmail MailBrowser to download and Harmonix continues to show that microphones, support for (OSX 10.5 and higher) and In many respects, MailBrowser index your information. Luckily, it cares about Rock Band 2 fans velocity sensitivity with Ion Windows, though the team is is very similar to Xobni- a the download process starts with with more than just weekly DLC. Drum Rocker drums, and the working on Safari and Chrome popular Outlook addon. Xobni, your most recent email, so that The developer has announced a ability to sort songs in Quickplay versions as well. however, puts a stronger you can be up and running long patch for the PS3 version of the by the number of stars you've The plugin offers a rich set of emphasis on giving you before your last email has been game that adds support for the earned on each song. features, including support for additional information about a downloaded. upcoming Rock Band Network The update will be available this multiple Gmail and Google Apps contact by looking at the Discuss Store -- the interface for selling Thursday. accounts and rich previews of contact's social networking songs added to Rock Band by Rock Band 2 patched on PS3 to attachments. Another nice feature profiles. MailBrowser plans to fans, musicians and record labels make way for Rock Band through the new Rock Band Network originally appeared on Network. If you were lamenting Joystiq on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 your current inability to purchase 15:00:00 EST. Please see our songs made by some dude, now terms for use of feeds. you can take heart! Read| Permalink| Email this| The update also adds the "much Comments more robust handling of chord E-reader News Edition Apple/ 45 21 iPhone Puzzle Games to Kill Time With By Andrew Bednarz TanZen (TheAppleBlog) Website– iTunes: 99 cents–

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:00:41 AM iTunes: Free TanZen is very peaceful and I think I’ve spent more time relaxing, aligning up triangles playing games on my iPhone into the silhouetted shape. than I have on my old TimeLoop Playstation, Playstation 2 or Wii. iTunes: 99 cents– iTunes: Free It simply boils down to the fact In TimeLoop you need to that whenever I’m standing perform multiple actions at once, around waiting in a line, waiting but you only have one guy. So for the train or in a dentist’s you need to go back in time to office, I can pull out my phone help do all the necessary parts. and have a quick game of Tiki Towers something. Having a great choice Website– iTunes: 99 cents– of games in your pocket means iTunes: Free you never need to be bored again Build bridges and towers by while waiting around. assembling bamboo sticks, so Here are my 21 favorite games your monkeys can get to where to wait around with. The key they want to go. common features for these games Toople & Topple 2+Plus are that they’re quick to start Website– iTunes Topple 2+Plus: playing and that you can achieve Free– iTunes Topple 1: Free goals quickly with available Stack different shaped blocks playtime of as little as a minute. and see how high you can go. There are no long drawn out Topple 2+Plus enables online strategic battles, epic adventures colors appear and its a race to Toobz Make the screen one color by leaderboards and profiles. Both or quests to get absorbed into. clear cells before they inevitably Website– iTunes: 99 cents– flooding the pixels with colors in are now free. Aztec Quest fill up. iTunes: Free the least number of moves. The KittyPuzzle Website– iTunes: 99 cents– Aurora Fient II: Arena Daemons Toobz is a simple pipe game flood always starts in the top left Website– iTunes: $1.99 iTunes: Free Website– iTunes: $4.99 where you try to get the water to and floods all matching colors. KittyPuzzle is a simple tile My new favorite puzzler, Aztec Aurora Fient offers an epic level the edge. While the graphics are Pocketball sliding game, but with gorgeous Quest requires you to get the ball -upping RPG with multi-player plain, the game play can be Website– iTunes: 99 cents– kitten pictures to reward you at to the destination utilizing the (of sorts) game play, based on a addictive and good fun. iTunes: Free the end. You can also use your available gadgets with some great simple puzzle clearing game Geared One or more balls will drop from own photos. physics based puzzles. (matching three or more of the Website– iTunes: 99 cents– the top, leaving you to guide Peggle BeeCells same blocks), offering the same iTunes: Free them to the correct bucket with Website– iTunes: $1.99 Website– iTunes: $1.99– iTunes: gameplay with different twists, Geared presents you with gears ropes attached to pegs. Peggle shouldn’t need an Free power ups and great sounds and you need to layout in the allowed Gravity Sling introduction, a cross between BeeCells is a simple puzzle graphics. This gives you quick spaces to make the required Website– iTunes: 99 cents– pinball and color clearing games game where you need to clear the gameplay wins with long preset gears rotate. iTunes: Free it is one of the most addictive colors by moving at least six of gameplay goals to obtain. Aurora Flood-It! Send the astronaut back to the games ever. the same colors next to each Fient costs $4.99 and is easily Website– iTunes: 99 cents– space shuttle by flinging him other. After each turn, more worth it in my opinion. iTunes: Free around planets. IPHONE page 48 46 Apple/ Game/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition A Plea for a Significant Aperture Update By Nick Santilli from Stockholm Syndrome, and Aperture photos with this (TheAppleBlog) are defending our captors rather information. Fix Tethered

Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:24:32 AM than breaking free for greener Shooting pastures. To my knowledge, it’s probably Through the past three quarters, As a potential conflict of limited to the Canon 40D, but Aperture users (like myself) have interest, I co-manage a Denver Apple broke the ability to shoot only seen two updates to the pro- area Photoshop and Lightroom in tethered mode for my dSLR a Add Mii to level photo processing and user group. It came about mostly while back. This is lame. I want a organization application from out of my enjoyment of mingling fix!! Focused Editing Sonic & Sega Apple — and those have really with other shutter-happy folks, Taking a page out of the Adobe only been stability type releases. but has resulted in slowly book, I’d like to see the ability to All-Stars Racing About a year ago we saw painting me green with envy. apply edits to only select parts of By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Aperture’s consumer-level Lightroom does some seriously to offer a pro-level tool, it needs a photo. Sometimes you only Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:30:00 PM sibling get places and faces and awesome stuff! Starting with the to give it care and feeding, want to lighten, darken, or You might not be able to play as some of us figured Aperture fact that it’s 64-bit (which is huge thusly, showing some love to change color of a specific part, Banjo and Kazooie in the Wii wasn’t far behind. Seems we may when handling large image those who’ve shelled out good not the whole thing. I realize this version of Sonic and Sega All- have figured wrong. I think processing tasks), and it can money for it. Here are some is more an image editing feature, Stars Racing, but you will be able Aperture users have been patient handle area-specific color editing features I think Aperture needs to and not processing, but I’ve seen to play as ... The Notorious enough — we want a meaningful with brushes, and so on. It’s a keep current users happy. 64-bit it in Lightroom, and I desire it. B.I.G.! No, Sega hasn't added a update already! super solid photo processing and Snow Leopard supports it now, These are just a few ideas, things selection of deceased rappers to First, to clear the air: I like organization tool. To boot, so what reason is there not to that are ultimately important to the game's playable cast (no Aperture, and it works well for Adobe is very public about offer this? I had a post similar to me (though I think they’re matter how many times we ask) - me. But it’s application envy making its beta release of the this ready around Snow Leopard general enough that others would - the publisher has merely that’s got my level of rile slowly upcoming version 3 available for launch, and trashed it because I agree). But what else? Let’s hear announced Mii support. compounding, as I watch the anyone to try. It’s getting harder figured it was a no-brainer that from the Aperture users, or Much like the racing Avatars in ‘little brother’ (iPhoto) get and harder to rationalize my we’d see an update along these potential Aperture users. What the Xbox 360 version, the Wii powerful features, and the devotion to Aperture. lines to Aperture in the following would you need to see in a version of Sega All-Stars Racing competing Adobe Lightroom Look, I realize Aperture isn’t weeks. I am Jack’s broken heart. hopefully sooner than later allows your Miis to compete continue to wow and delight broken, but neither was my last Faces & Places update to Aperture, to keep you against Sonic, Knuckles, Ryo users. And at a $200 investment MacBook when I replaced it. I Aperture should at least keep up happy and on board with Apple? Hazuki, and the rest of the in the software, I feel like I need think we’re all guilty (at some with its consumer level sibling. What would cause you to jump assembled Sega crew. Hey, this to stay committed to it and get level — I’m closer to the top, I’m Faces and places are very useful ship and pursue other solutions? is one way to get Segata Sanshiro my money’s worth. But I wonder sure) of wanting more. More tools — and it drives me batty back in the game-- where he at what point those of us using power, more bells and whistles, having to manually tag my Aperture have begun suffering more better! But If Apple’s going belongs. 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Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:31:39 AM First is price point. The latest rumors put the Apple tablet Hold it! Phoenix According to the New York somewhere around the $1,000 Wright available on Times, tonight at Microsoft CEO mark. The JooJoo, by contrast, is Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote currently selling pre-orders for WiiWare this Monday address, he will unveil an $499.00. I’d expect Microsoft’s By David Hinkle (Joystiq) ambitious new tablet device offering to be closer to the that’s the result of a partnership JooJoo in pricing, but to offer a Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:00:00 PM between Microsoft and HP. lot more in terms of functionality Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is Citing people familiar with as well. In fact, even if this new ready to head into the WiiWare Redmond’s plans, the NYT slate device doesn’t threaten courtroom this Monday, Capcom describes the tablet as a “novel Apple’s plans, expect it to all but reveals. You'll be able to relive take” on the format and says it eliminate demand for the JooJoo. the classic lawyer-em-up for will possibly be available mid- Never before has a company had 1,000 Wii Points ($10), where year. Right around when Apple’s the kind of power that Apple now Little is known about what with the rumors currently your Hamilton will net you the iSlate is rumored to also be wields. Simply by planting a seed first four episodes from the available. exactly Microsoft will be circulating about what Apple’s about a potential upcoming unveiling today, but the iSlate will also be packing. In original GBA game -- Capcom It’s just the latest in a recent crop product development, they can says the final fifth episode will be of PC tablet announcements, all information gathered by the New fact, if I didn’t know any better, change the direction of an entire York Times suggests that it will I’d think that Microsoft had been available later as DLC for 100 seemingly stemming from the industry. Imagine if the Mac Wii Points ($1). desire to beat Apple at a game no be competing with the Amazon following the speculation and maker was never even planning Kindle as well as with whatever theorizing about what Apple’s And if you're scratching your one is actually sure they’re even on creating a tablet to begin with, noggin, wondering what the big going to be playing yet. Apple’s Apple has in store: new wonder device would but just wanted to seem like it My sources, however, say that eventually look like as closely as deal is, feel free to check out influence and consumer cache is was to draw competitors into a a some recent videos from the now so powerful that the Mr. Ballmer will show the as-yet- I had, and then had rushed a money and time-wasting vortex unnamed H.P. device, which will rough approximation of that game. competition doesn’t want to be in a market that really has very Hold it! Phoenix Wright stuck endlessly going after an be touted as a multimedia whiz same device into production to little growth potential. Probably with e-reader and multi-touch match or possibly beat Apple’s available on WiiWare this iDevice-killer, and are instead not the case here, but scary, Monday originally appeared on trying to beat Cupertino out the functions. supposed timeline. nonetheless. That sounds pretty much in line The key to whether Microsoft’s Joystiq on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 gate. 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Street Chic: New York Comments By ELLE.com (ELLE News casual basics. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Blog) Photo: Kelly Stuart Become our Facebook fan!

Submitted at 1/6/2010 4:00:00 AM Think you are Street Chic? E- mail us your photo and you could Chic Daily. A graphic tee adds attitude to appear in ELLE.com's Street 48 Entertainment/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition IPHONE continued from page 45 Chile copper miners' Zen Bound where each game does go on for Fill up the screen by making Website– iTunes: $1.99– iTunes: a while, but is the type of game shapes as big as you can in the Free that can be put down, saves your available area, without letting strike ends Relax and paint objects by position and can be instantly them be touched by the critters (BBC News | Americas | Chuquicamata provides around covering them with rope. picked up to resume clearing to while growing and using the World Edition) 4% of the world's mined copper, Utilizing the accelerometer and end with the highest score. accelerometer to change the Submitted at 1/5/2010 10:58:45 PM with Codelco the biggest copper touch screen perfectly, this is one Simple and addictive. direction of gravity to your producer in the world. of the best original games for the Totemo advantage. Work is set to resume at the Market reaction to the news was iPhone. Website– iTunes: 99 cents Minesweeper Classic world's second biggest copper muted, however, with copper Zentomino Clear the screen by matching Website– iTunes: 99 cents– mine after workers voted to end a prices rising by another 1% on Website– iTunes: $1.99– iTunes: various configurations of totems. iTunes: Free strike over pay. Wednesday - reaching a new 16- Free Vortex Figure out where the mines are Workers at the Chuquicamata month high on the London Metal Zentomino is the same concept Website– iTunes: Free in the field, in a perfect mining complex in Chile have Exchange. as TanZen, filling the silhouette Get the spaceship back to earth translation of the Windows accepted a new pay deal and a Print Sponsor but with pentomino pieces by strategically placing black classic game. bonus from owners Codelco - Five Filters featured article: instead of triangles. holes, planets or various gadgets ending two days of strikes. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Orba to assist. Concern over the stoppage's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Website– iTunes: $1.99– iTunes: Polyhedra affect on production had helped Term Extraction. Free Website– iTunes: 99 cents– copper prices to soar to 16- Orba is a color clearing game, iTunes: Free months highs. Whether Burning Strip Clubs or Just Laying Around Miserable, Let's Take Some Pride In What We Do [Recessionomics] By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) why don't you give your job to commerce, but more importantly, There are no private sector left,

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:41:14 PM someone unemployed, and try it's a crime against proud anyhow. So you don't have to be starving while simultaneously arsonists. all like "I'll never take pride in The Way We Live Now: stealing toilet paper from fast And what about this god damn this dumb janitor service job." Ungratefully. Just like the mere food restrooms out of necessity, recession-plagued cul-de-sac the Because you will own the janitor knowledge that Ethiopians were you ungrateful person? Hmm? New York Times keeps writing service, as an entrepreneur! Built starving did not make you enjoy [DO NOT NOTE HYPOCRISY about? The people there are in pride. You're the only janitor, your mom's gross turnips, neither HERE, OK.] fucked up, optimistic, whatever, but still. You have to start does the knowledge of And another thing! The whole just like everyone else. Hey somewhere. We're on our way widespread unemployment make freaking country is falling apart. NYT, if I wanted to know what back down. you like your job. You ungrateful Take some pride in your goes on in a suburban cul-de-sac, [Pic via] bastard. surroundings, America. Take I would move to one, then kill Just look at this, with disgust: some pride in your work. In Unsuccessfully. With rats and myself shortly afterward. Only 45% of American workers Atlanta, strip clubs are trying to roaches and failed arson Take some pride in your work, are happy with their jobs. Well, shut down other strip clubs. attempts. It's a crime against America. E-reader News Edition TV/ 49 TruTV, TNT, TBS ratings notes for week ending 1/3 By Robert Seidman Gun Presents: World’s DVR viewing, with the Dec. 7 deliveries. Especially top movie telecasts for the week (TVbytheNumbers) Dumbest…(Thursday, Dec. 31, premiere of the series growing its noteworthy is the show’s Live + among adults 18-49 and adults 25

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:30:35 AM 10 p.m.). total audience by 36% in a 7 delivery of adults 18-34, which -54. comparison of Live + 7 to Live nearly doubled Live deliveries, • The Lord of the Rings: The via Turner: viewing. growing them by 97%. Two Towers was the top movie truTV • truTV is already continuing its The NBA on TNT continues to among adults 18-49 (1,376,000), Coming off its best year ever, record-setting success this week, deliver strong ratings for the followed by The Lord of the truTV has begun 2010 in record- with Monday, Jan. 4, scoring the • The Dec. 7 premiere, which 2009-10 regular season, Rings: The Return of the setting fashion, delivering its best network’s biggest night ever in holds position as ad-supported averaging a 1.1 national King(1,363,000). week ever in primetime delivery delivery of adults 18-49 cable’s top new series launch of household rating, up 10% over of adults 18-49 (675,000); men (939,000) and men 18-49 2009 among households and the first 20 games of the 2008-09 18-34 (159,000); and men 18-49 (521,000). The night was led by adults 25-54, also boosted its NBA season (1.0 national • Among adults 25-54, the two (368,000). truTV also ranked the 10 p.m. episode of Operation delivery significantly in DVR household rating). In addition, films swapped places, with The among ad-supported cable’s Top Repo, which delivered the viewing among those two total viewers are up 11% Return of the King garnering 10 networks in primetime for the network’s biggest audience ever, categories. Households grew by (1,723,000 vs. 1,551,000), and 1,481,000 and The Two Towers week with those three demos. with 2,286,000 viewers and 30%, and adults 25-54 grew by households are up 12% delivering 1,412,000. • Compared to same week in 1,301,000 adults 18-49. 43% when comparing Live + 7 to (1,313,000 vs. 1,175,000). primetime a year ago, truTV was Live viewing. Meanwhile, the • The network’s NBA coverage TBS up 10% among total viewers, TNT premiere episode also grew its has also seen significant The Wednesday, Dec. 30, 10:30 23% among adults 18-34, 16% TNT’s new hit series Men of a delivery of adults 18-49 by 40% increases in key demos, p.m. episode Tyler Perry’s Meet among adults 18-49, 23% among Certain Age continues to perform over Live viewing. including: the Browns scored as ad- men 18-34 and 12% among men extremely well, with the Monday, supported cable’s top sitcom for 18-49. Dec. 28, episode delivering the first week of the new year, 3,123,000 viewers; 2,345,000 • For the first two episodes • Adults 18-34: +16% (558,000 with 3,050,000 viewers; 810,000 households; 1,186,000 adults 18- combined, Live + 7 vs. Live in 2009 vs. 483,000 in 2008) adults 18-34; and 1,667,000 • The week was led by strong 49; and 1,526,000 adults 25-54. viewing of Men of a Certain Age • Adults 18-49: +7% (950,000 adults 18-49. In addition, the 10 performances from various series • The series also enjoyed a great delivered 34% growth among vs. 891,000) p.m. episode ranked second and specials that ranked among performance this week. The total viewers, 30% among • Adults 25-54: +7% (857,000 among adults 18-49, with cable’s Top 5 entertainment Monday, Jan. 4, episode garnered households, 40% among adults vs. 798,000) 1,391,000. programs in their time slots 3,096,000 viewers; 2,365,000 18-49 and 41% among adults 25- • Men 18-34: +17% (412,000 TBS claimed the top movie among key adult and male households; 1,290,000 adults 18- 54. vs. 351,000) presentation for the week among demos, including Operation 49; and 1,693,000 adults 25-54. • Men 18-49: +11% adults 18-34, with the racing Repo(Monday, Dec. 28, 10 p.m.); It ranked as ad-supported cable’s The Closer also earned (678,000 vs. 613,000) comedy Talladega Nights the network’s latest Disorder in top entertainment program for the outstanding growth for its first • Men 25-54: +13% delivery 727,000 in that key the Court special (Monday, Dec. time period among viewers, two December episodes in Live + (612,000 vs. 540,000) demo. 28, 10 p.m.); Most households and adults 25-54. 7 viewing, with extraordinary Five Filters featured article: Daring(Wednesday, Dec. 30, 8 70% growth among adults 18-49, TNT’s weekend telecasts of Sir Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: p.m.); C onspiracy Theory with 65% among adults 25-54 and Peter Jackson’s Oscar®-winning PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Jesse Ventura(Wednesday, Dec. • Men of a Certain Age has 45% among total viewers in a Lord of the Rings adaptations Term Extraction. 30, 10 p.m.); and The Smoking earned outstanding growth in comparison of Live to Live + 7 delivered ad-supported cable’s 50 TV/ E-reader News Edition MTV Hires Scripted Content Czar By Robert Seidman strong relationships in this experiment at the intersection of (TVbytheNumbers) business and great passion for music, creativity and youth

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:05:58 PM making television. He is the culture. For over 28 years, MTV perfect fit for this key role in our has evolved, challenged the via MTV release: programming organization, as we norm, and detonated boundaries DAVID JANOLLARI JOINS put a laser focus on scripted — giving each new generation a MTV AS EXECUTIVE VICE content,” said Mr. DiSanto. creative outlet and voice that PRESIDENT OF SCRIPTED “I grew up with MTV and have entertains, informs and unites on DEVELOPMENT always admired the power of the every platform and screen. On- NEW YORK, NY/SANTA brand. I’m excited to help lead air, MTV is the number one rated MONICA, CA– (January 6, them into the scripted series full-day ad-supported cable 2010) – David Janollari has been world at a time when young network for P12-24. Online, hired as Executive Vice President audiences want entertainment MTV.com averaged 8.5 million of Scripted Development for that speaks to their generation,” monthly unique visitors during MTV, it was announced today by said Mr. Janollari. the first quarter of 2009 — up Tony DiSanto, MTV’s President Prior to joining MTV, Mr. +6% from Q4/2008 and up +6% of Programming. Mr. Janollari Janollari served as President of year-over-year. Total video will report directly to Mr. Entertainment for The WB streams for the first quarter of DiSanto and will be based in Network where he was 2009 increased 21% over the MTV’s Santa Monica office. responsible for all facets of the same time period last year. And In this newly created role, Mr. network’s programming efforts, MTV’s successful sibling Janollari will be responsible for including development of new networks MTV2, mtvU and overseeing the production and shows and movies and on-going MTV Tr3s each deliver development of scripted projects series. During his tenure, he was unprecedented customized at the network – comedies and responsible for developing the hit content, super-serving music dramas – and movies to serve as shows “Supernatural” and fans, college students and young back door pilots for series. This “Beauty and the Geek.” American Latinos like no one key position will help round out An award-winning producer, Feet Under,” “The Hughley’s” Foxx Show” and “The Wayans else. MTV is part of MTV the new development and prior to joining The WB, Mr. starring comedian D.L. Hughley, Bros.” while serving as comedy Networks, a unit of Viacom production teams under Mr. Janollari co-found the The “American Family” starring development chief at Warner (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), one of the DiSanto which includes Liz Greenblatt Janollari Studio, an Edward James Olmos for PBS, Bros. Television, prior to The world’s leading creators of Gateley, Chris Linn, Brent independent television and “Elvis” starring Jonathan Greenblatt Janollari Studio. programming and content across Haynes, Dave Sirulnick and production company, with Rhys Myers for CBS. Mr. Mr. Janollari graduated from all media platforms Steve Tseckares. producing partner Robert Janollari has also been accredited New York University where he Five Filters featured article: “David has a proven track record Greenblatt. As an Executive with developing long-running hit, majored in film and television. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: of commercial and critical Producer, he produced several “Friends,” as well as “The Drew ### PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, success as both a buyer and a successful series, including the Carey Show,” “Living Single,” About MTV Network: Term Extraction. seller. He has incredible taste multiple Emmy and Golden “Suddenly Susan,” “The Jamie MTV is the dynamic, vibrant and creative instincts, along with Globe Award – winning “Six E-reader News Edition TV/ Popular News/ 51 If TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” Is a Hit, “Southland” Fans Should Be Optimistic! By Robert Seidman We should be able to do that (TVbytheNumbers) beginning next week, though the

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:11:26 AM first seven telecasts of Southland on TNT will be the episodes that I still see some references out of already aired on NBC last TNT to “the new hit” Men of a spring. If those episodes do Certain Age. I am not making worse than original airings of any comments on the show’s Men of a Certain Age and quality here as I have not seen it. Leverage there probably is I want the show to succeed if for absolutely nothing to make of it. no other reason than Baltimore But if those episodes are doing as Sun critic David Zurawik likes it well as first-run episodes of Men and posting about it gives him a of a Certain Age and Leverage, respite from obsessing over Kate that can’t be bad news. Gosselin. Update: via@TVBill: Men of a But I have seen a bit of the Certain Age had a slight uptick ratings and for its first Monday with adults 18-49 on Monday without having a new episode of a high-rated Monday Night I’d be hesitant to make any then Southland fans might indeed 1/4, up to a 1.0 rating, though it The Closer as a lead-in it Football Game and the numbers opinion on the show’s renewal have reason for optimism. lost a few overall viewers (3.096 averaged 3.123 million viewers from this past Monday (which I prospects on cable if the show While I wouldn’t encourage million). and a .9 with adults 18-49. I haven’t seen yet) ran against the had a 1.2 rating, but at a .9 rating Southland fans to be optimistic Five Filters featured article: think it will be more interesting Fiesta Bowl. it looks pretty gloomy, even for about a .9 rating with adults 18- Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: to see how it’s doing in another In the broadcast world, a show the basic cable world. On the 49, I would encourage them to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, week or so when we’ve distanced with a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating other hand, if that really justifies see keep an eye on how Term Extraction. ourselves from the holidays and will still usually get you “hit” status with the executives at Southland is doing compared to competition from NFL and canceled, but a 1.9 would be a TNT who make the scheduling Men of a Certain Age and also NCAA football (that men of a big hit for basic cable. decisions and not just with the TNT’s Leverage, which returns certain age certainly enjoy). The Not so much with a .9 though. people writing the press releases, next week too. episode I’m citing ran up against US 'museum gunman' dies in jail (BBC News | Americas | prison hospital, officials say. motivated crime over the 10 June was quoted as saying by the Five Filters featured article: World Edition) They say James von Brunn, aged attack. Associated Press. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:55:47 AM 89, died in Butner, North He was shot in the face during Last September, Mr von Brunn, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Carolina, where he had been the incident. a Holocaust-denier who ran a Term Extraction. A US white supremacist accused awaiting trial. Mr von Brunn died shortly racist, anti-Semitic website, of murdering a guard at Mr von Brunn had been charged before 1300 local time (1700 asked for a "fair and speedy trial" Washington DC's Holocaust with first-degree murder, killing GMT), Butner prison when he appeared in court. Memorial museum has died in a in a federal building and bias- spokeswoman Denise Simmons Print Sponsor 52 Entertainment/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition High School Students AOL Lusts for the Brad Pitt of the Blogosphere in Trouble for Twin Towers Shirts (and His Company) [Rumormonger] (FOXNews.com) By Ryan Tate (Gawker) brought up in meetings as Submitted at 1/6/2010 5:27:05 AM Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:15:56 PM possible driving force behind Seed," said our AOLer, referring DEARBORN, Michigan At AOL is interested in buying the to the stats-driven system for least nine Detroit area high world's largest tech blog, farming out editorial work to school juniors are in trouble for Mashable, we hear from a source freelancers. The notion that there wearing sweat shirts bearing a at the internet conglomerate. And have been acquisition talks design that evokes the terrorist in fact the two sides have been between the two companies is attacks that destroyed the World talking, people outside AOL have mere rumor at this point, but it Trade Center's Twin Towers. whispered to one another, and to has not escaped AOL's notice Dearborn Public Schools us. that Mashable writes the sort of spokesman David Mustonen has A sale to the content-obsessed content advertisers pay for at a told The Detroit News and internet company would mean time when AOL's own editorial Detroit Free Press that the shirts Mashable's founder Pete staff has been heavily reduced the boys wore to Edsel Ford High Cashmore really would have amid company layoffs, said our School on Monday are everything. Youth, being all of source, clearly no fan of Seed: "offensive" and in "poor taste." 24 years old. Looks, of the dark "Mashable has been getting so The boys are Arab-American, as and smoldering sort the Mainstream News, and their are about half the school's 1,700 Scotsman pulls off so well (his writers get paid in Twitter students. current squeeze is said to be followers and air, so it just seems They belong to the 2011 class. actress Lindsay Campbell, and like a good fit." On the shirts, the number 11 Inc. magazine popularized him as Disclaimer: Mashable writers do and will update this post if and appeal, then, our AOL insider resembles two buildings, with the " the Brad Pitt of the not literally get paid in Twitter when we hear back.) UPDATE: tells us. The site excels not only school's "Thunderbird" mascot blogosphere"). And cash, on the followers and air. But then, they Cashmore wrote back with a sort at writing Google-friendly flying toward them. Printed scale you don't get just by don't work for AOL yet. of "no comment;" see bottom of content but also at earning a beneath the image are the words, leaving TechCrunch in the dust If you know more, email us, post. flood of links on social networks, "You can't bring us down." to become the most popular tech we'd love to hear from you. A deal would work for AOL, most notably Twitter. That re- The boys are to meet with school blog on the internet, a feat Especially on pricing. It's entirely newly spun off from Time tweeting, in turn, is driven by the officials but suspensions are not Cashmore pulled off last year. possible, for example, that AOL Warner, as well. CEO Tim party tours Cashmore stages, planned. The only hitch might be execs will try to pay Cashmore Armstrong wants a " laser focus" which draw crowds of 400-500 in Five Filters featured article: negotiating with AOL; visa entirely in vests. But only if for the company, on content. He's cities across the country, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: issues have had Cashmore they're smart! already bought a local content according to Inc, and which no PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, hopping back and forth between UPDATE: Cashmore writes us, company from himself and doubt have helped the site Term Extraction. Silicon Valley, where Mashable "We don't comment on launched a strategy to tailor diversify beyond hard-cole young is based, and Scotland, leaving speculation, but we do hold our content to internet statistics like male geeks (Mashable has drawn one Valley observer to wonder if writers in high regard and pay a search queries. notice for its half female he would really attempt competitive salary for their Mashable's proven ability to audience, a rare thing among negotiating with AOL "from his tireless efforts." parent's basement in Aberdeen." generate great numbers and game Silicon Valley blogs). (We've emailed Cashmore's staff Google and Twitter is part of the Mahsable has "definitely been E-reader News Edition Entertainment/ Fashion/ 53 A Russian Oligarch's New Year's Eve Megaparty Photo Album, Starring Dr. Doom! [Party Gallery] By Richard Lawson (Gawker) these pictures and put them up on Gwen Stefani, does that mean

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:06:18 PM his own little Facebook page you're dancing *with* Gwen (where we found them), he's Stefani? Menacing Russian oligarch oftentimes the least interesting Madam Yellowdress! Who are Roman Abramovich threw the person in the photo. Go figure. you?? banging-est celebrity-filled NYE Roubini (right) & the Oligarch, That's fashion photographer party in St. Bart's. We've read who was the basis for the angry Terry Richardson on the right. about the St. Bart's bash, but now Russian real estate Aw, Marc Jacobs (right) with his we have pictures! All thanks to mogul/gangster in Guy Ritchie's supposed husband Lorenzo grim economist Nouriel Roubini, RockNRolla. Martone(left). Anyone know who who despite our impending Roubini & former Quentin the dude in the middle is? The economic doom, partaayyyed. Tarantino producer Lawrence waiter? He's everywhere in this The party was lavish — about Bender, plus two other randos. gallery. 250 celebrities and their hangers- (Names, anyone?) Marc, Nouriel, and a necktie. on were flown, on private jets, to Roubini & omg is that Orlando Is that Rachel Zoe? Abramovich's Caribbean winter Bloom?? Well, that's definitely Lorenzo Jacobs (???) palace, where they ate millions of British action star Jason Statham Dr. Cheekbones dollars worth of gourmet snacks in the background. Fireworks hat! With Roubini is and enjoyed the musical stylings Roubini & Ron Perelman, a shady financier and douchebag of Gwen Stefani, Beyoncé, and Lady, and the Waiter Update: Limon Zerga is actually Shala Monroque. Vivi Nevo. Prince. Who, lemme tell ya, do Roubini & A Young Girl (is she Jean Pigozzi, an Italian Oh look at all of these young, And now begins the Unnamed not come cheap (I'm trying to dancing on his feet?) philanthropist and art collector. young women. Other Women segment! Provide plan my own bar mitzvah). There Roubini & Limon Zerga from We're pretty sure that's the rarely Roubini & and someone we've names if you can. were also crazy fireworks amid 'Ocean's Eleven'. (But seriously, -photographed Bigfoot of the art named Madam Yellowdress. Is he grabbing her? the stormy weather and everyone can anyone identify this dude? world Larry Gagosian, busting a She's in lots of pictures. danced and had a good time. He's in a lot of pics.) Also beautiful move. Update: It is Told you. Though Nouriel posed for all pictured: Bored Asian Lady. Larry, dancing with his girlfriend If you dance awkwardly near Mulberry Creates Bag in Honor of Alexa Chung By ELLE.com (ELLE News carryall after her.) Now, thanks with snake trim (pink, black), bag, in oak Blog) to Mulberry, Brit cutie pie Alexa shiny leopard print (oak, pink), Mulberry’s Alexa bag for you

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:16:47 AM Chung is getting her very own and summer tweed (beige). Until and me bag too. Designer Emma Hill I can convince someone to create Follow ELLE on Twitter. Grace Kelly may have had the decided to create the Alexa, after the Whitney, the Alexa will Become our Facebook fan! Kelly bag. (In 1956, the Princess spotting the former MTV VJ with absolutely do. of Monaco was photographed Mulberry’s vintage men’s —Whitney Vargas shielding her pregnant belly from briefcase, the Elkington. Come sizes, as well as in leather (oak, Alexa Chung with Mulberry’s the paparazzi with one, and spring, the jolly good shape will navy, yellow, black), a lambskin original Elkington briefcase Hermes decided to name the come in regular and oversize Alexa carrying her new Alexa 54 Sports/ E-reader News Edition After Holliday’s Millions, How Much is Pujols Worth? (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) slugger electrified baseball in building.” Shanahan alone. At least, that is

Submitted at 1/6/2010 7:34:25 AM 1998 by swatting a then-record Meanwhile, Yahoo’s Dan the plan.”* * * 70 home runs, an achievement Wetzel argues President Barack Gilbert Arenas turns 28 The St. Louis Cardinals that’s been under a cloud of Obama should invite Boise State, Wednesday. How much the answered one question Tuesday suspicion over allegations he the Fiesta Bowl winners with the Washington Wizard will but might have raised another. used steroids. It’s hurt his perfect 14-0 record, to the White celebrate after tonight’s game at Getty Images This is how Matt chances to enter the Hall, but House. With that move, Wetzel Cleveland isn’t known, but the Holliday felt about his bat before Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski writes, Obama would be saying star’s bizarre behavior, which he reached a $120 million deal says McGwire is among eight the season saw No. 9 Georgia college football deserves a includes bringing guns into the with St. Louis. this year who deserve entry. Tech against No. 10 Iowa in the playoff to deserve to crown a team’s locker room, has the They signed power-hitting “We can argue back and forth Orange Bowl Tuesday night. The national champion.* * * Washington Post’s Mike Wise leftfielder Matt Holliday to a about whether McGwire a normally high-flying, triple- The Washington Redskins have wondering how Arenas became seven-year, $120 million probable steroid user should get option Yellow Jackets offense missed the playoffs in eight of 11 “the pariah of Washington contract. That’s the good news, a Hall of Fame vote,” Posnanski managed a paltry 155 yards on a seasons under Dan Snyder’s sports” so quickly.* * * Yahoo’s Jeff Passan writes, but writes. “People feel strongly both cool night in Miami, losing to the ownership, including an abysmal Canada has dominated the Albert Pujols can become a free ways. I have felt strongly both Hawkeyes, 24-14. Tech bombed 4-12 record this season. His latest World Junior Hockey agent after the 2011 season. What ways. I have finally come to to on the big stage again. expensive stab at a turnaround? Championships for years, kind of money will it take to sign this: The game was different “This makes two consecutive Signing coach Mike Shanahan, a winning five straight titles. The him? “Because while Holliday is then. There was no testing, and years Tech has fallen off a cliff in two-time Super Bowl champion last time Canada didn’t win gold, a great player with agent Scott steroid use was tolerated AND its final game,” Jeff Schultz with Denver, to a five-year Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Boras great work somehow accepted AND probably grouses in the Atlanta Journal- contract. Crosby was still a junior. On leveraging the Cardinals into $17 encouraged. It was part of the Constitution. “Does that qualify Or maybe not. At CBS Sports, Tuesday, Canada lost a 6-5 million a year long-term when game the way spitballs were part as a trend? Maybe a strong hint? Clark Judge doesn’t see how overtime nailbiter to Team the market for Holliday was more of the game, the way gambling In Season 1 under Paul Johnson, Shanahan can work under U.S.A., six years to the day since zygote than full-term he does was part of the game, the way the Jackets started out 9-3, only Snyder, a notorious meddler. the Americans beat the not, cannot and will not mean segregation was part of the game, to get boat-raced by LSU in the “Norv Turner couldn’t do it. Canadians for their first gold what Pujols does to the the way amphetamines were part Chick-fil-A Bowl 38-3. In Marty Schottenheimer couldn’t medal. In the Globe and Mail, Cardinals,” Passan writes. of the game and so on and so Season 2, Tech went 11-2 on the do it. Steve Spurrier couldn’t do Roy MacGregor says Canadians Sports Illustrated’s Cliff on.” way to an ACC championship, it. Heck, even Hall of Fame should admit that the U.S. is their Corcoran says the Cards have no One man certain to gain Hall and one month later got smacked coach Joe Gibbs couldn’t do it,” biggest rival in hockey, not the choice but to increase payroll. In entry is left-hander Randy in the face by Iowa.” Judge writes. “ So why should Russians. the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jeff Johnson, the lanky 46-year-old In the Des Moines Register, Shanahan break the trend? – Tip of the Fix cap to reader Gordon crunches the numbers on pitcher who announced his Sean Keeler says the Hawkeyes Because, Snyder supporters will Don Hartline. keeping financial sanity in St. retirement Tuesday after a 22- proved themselves on the contend, The Daniel has learned Found a good column from the Louis. year career that included a World national stage. “Hang this one on his lesson and will not be as world of sports? Don’t keep it to In another corner of the baseball Series title and a perfect game. the wall next to those Rose Bowl meddlesome and as manipulative yourself — write to us at world, a passel of top-notch ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick writes championships of 1957 and 1959, as he was in the past when he had [email protected] and we’ll major-league stars await the call that Johnson never embraced where it belongs,” he writes. acting GM Vinny Cerrato to push consider your find for inclusion Wednesday to be enshrined in stardom but accepted it. “The crown jewel of the Ferentz around. Cerrato is gone, and in the Daily Fix. You can email Cooperstown, among them Tim Marchman calls Johnson Era. The exorcism of the demons Bruce Allen has taken his place, Garey at [email protected]. Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven the greatest left-hander ever in a of January 2003, when Iowa was and Snyder will do what he and Don Mattingly. And, of Sports Illustrated piece.* * * run over by USC in this very couldn’t when Cerrato was there course, Mark McGwire. The The penultimate college game of which is to leave Allen and E-reader News Edition Sports/ Popular News/ 55 Tom Brady of New England Patriots voted AP NFL comeback player award By ESPN.com news services he gives us are just top shelf. had some great opportunities to and Saints, and Brady battled an (ESPN.com) Whether he did or didn't play last repeat what we had done in the assortment of injuries -- albeit

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:46:02 AM year, the fact that he didn't I 2007 season ... things happen. nothing as devastating as the torn guess qualifies him for this "It's a very physical sport, -up knee. Tom Brady has gone from award, but he brings those things football is. I had an unfortunate Williams tore the patellar tendon record-setting MVP to injured on a daily basis, and they are injury, but I think it's really in his right knee in September superstar to The Associated Press exceptional." helped me grow in a lot of ways 2007 and tore the patellar tendon Eeks! 2009 NFL Comeback Player of Brady received 19 votes from a as a person, as a player, as a in his left knee in the 2008 the Year. nationwide panel of 50 sports teammate. It really reinforces season finale, six games into his Brady's strong return from a left writers and broadcasters who how much I enjoy playing the return. This season, he rushed for Cartoons in knee injury that sidelined him for cover the NFL, beating Tampa game and how much I love the 821 yards and four TDs, adding all but the first quarter of the Bay running back Carnell game. And to have the chance to 29 receptions and three scores. real life 2008 opener earned the New "Cadillac" Williams, who got 14. go out this year and play, it's Brady is the second Patriot to (Holy Kaw!) England Patriots quarterback the A three-time Super Bowl winner great." win the award; linebacker Tedy award Wednesday. One of and a finalist for AP Player of the The Herd with Colin Cowherd Bruschi shared it with Carolina Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:55:00 AM football's biggest stars, Brady has Decade, Brady led New England Patriots QB Tom Brady has won receiver Steve Smith in 2005. He Prepare for a case of the gone from NFL Most Valuable to a 10-6 record and the AFC the 2009 NFL Comeback Player is the fifth quarterback honored heebeejeebies after taking a Player in 2007, when he set East title this season. He threw of the Year award, but Doug since the award began in 1998, gander at what your favorite several passing records, to for 4,398 yards and 28 Gottlieb explains why he doesn't including Chad Pennington, who cartoon characters would likely sidelined to earning his second touchdowns. deserve the honor. won in 2006 and 2008. look like in the real world. league award. Most significantly, he got the More Podcasts » Also receiving votes were Titans Apparently all that spinach didn't Comeback Player of the Year Patriots back into the playoffs, At times, Brady was great. In a quarterback Vince Young, do much to save Popeye's skin. Voting for The Associated Press and he showed more than a few 59-0 rout of Tennessee, matching Vikings quarterback Brett Favre, Fair warning: the full gallery is comeback player of the year glimpses of the player who the biggest victory margin since Bengals running back Cedric all sorts of creepy. award, as voted on by a guided the Patriots to the first 16- the 1970 merger, he threw for six Benson and his teammate, A whole slew of animation nationwide panel of media 0 regular season in NFL history, touchdowns and 380 yards in the quarterback Carson Palmer, and tidbits. members: throwing a record 50 TDs that snow. Against Jacksonville in Saints defensive end Anthony Permalink| Leave a comment » "Well deserved. He's had a year. another lopsided victory, he went Hargrove. tremendous year," Patriots coach "I think missing all of last season 23 for 26 for 267 yards and four Information from The Bill Belichick said Wednesday was a very challenging TDs. His passer ratings were Associated Press was used in this morning. "I think we all know experience because I love to play 152.8 against the Titans and report. that Tom brings so much to this the game," Brady said during the 149.0 against the Jaguars, and he Five Filters featured article: team and our organization -- on season. "I love to play the sport, had six games with a 100-plus Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: and off the field. His preparation, and to not have the opportunity rating. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, his leadership, his performance, to be out there with my Other times, he struggled, Term Extraction. his unselfishness. All the things teammates in a season where we particularly in losses to the Jets 56 Sports/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition Euro wobbles as The Count: Conference Winners and Losers in Stark says EU will Bowl Season not bail out Greece (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) account margin of victory, but 12 has averaged a -4.3. (Financial Times - US homepage) Submitted at 1/5/2010 1:11:24 PM Sagarin separately produces one Meanwhile, the SEC, Conference that does account for scoring USA and the Big East have all Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:07:08 PM Boise State’s victory over Texas margin, and is best, he’s found, at pretty much performed in line Christian in the Fiesta Bowl predicting game outcomes. He with expectations, on average, 19:45 GMT. Bourses in the US Monday was one of David over supplied me with the ratings of though some teams were big and Europe struggled to make David and of non-BCS teams this Predictor scheme for each outliers. Three of Texas’s Big 12 headway on Wednesday after over naysayers. It was also a bowl game, along with a slight opponents — Oklahoma State, overnight Asian trading provided victory of a WAC team over a adjustment for home-field Ten conferences have had more Missouri and Texas A&M — little fresh impetus and as Mountain West team. That was advantage when one team was than one bowl team play so far, were routed in bowl games that investors nervously awaited important for the WAC, which playing much closer to its and all 10 have had at least four were expected to be close, which Friday’s crucial jobs data. even counting the minor Fiesta campus. For each of the 62 teams representatives. And among those may give Alabama fans even A sudden tumble in the euro, Bowl upset, has had the most that have played in bowl games, I 10, the WAC has been the more reason for optimism ahead following reported comments disappointing bowl season of any subtracted their victory margin biggest bummer. Nevada’s of the Texas-Alabama game from a European Central Bank conference with at least four from that predicted by the disaster and Fresno State’s loss Thursday for the national title. executive board member, Jürgen bowl games under its best. The Predictor; that represents how by a touchdown to Wyoming in a Of course, some of these results Stark, that the European Union most pleasant surprise? The much a team outperformed game it was expected to win by may reflect other factors not would not save Greece from its Mountain West, even after TCU expectations — or 16.27 were too much for Boise captured by the ratings, such as fiscal problems, added to the lost. Associated Press Boise State underperformed them, if the State’s 11-point positive surprise weather, injuries and team uncertainty. The single currency gave the WAC something to result is negative. to overcome. The WAC was motivation. Also, the outcome of soon recovered, however, after celebrate in a rough bowl season. By that accounting, the biggest nearly 15 points per game worse, any single sporting event is based investors digested a report that To weigh bowl-game bowl surprise thus far was on average, than expected. The on a lot of luck and randomness. showed the region’s service performance by conference, the Southern Methodist’s 45-10 rout Mountain West, meanwhile, has Sagarin’s Predictor rating has sector was expanding at its typical step is to report the record of Nevada. Sagarin’s system saw been more than 15 points per gone a pedestrian 18-14 in games fastest pace in more than two of that conference’s teams. But Nevada as a 13-point favorite in game better than expected, so far — though he notes that his years. that equates a narrow win by a the game. Meanwhile, the most thanks to Wyoming and big wins own calculations of probabilities Five Filters featured article: heavy favorite with a rout by an predictable game was Texas Tech by Air Force, Utah and Brigham for each game suggests he could Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: underdog. Not all bowl -Michigan State. Despite all the Young. have expected to get roughly 20 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, opponents are created equal, nor drama surrounding the Red If you were wondering, the Big games right. ( Vegas odds Term Extraction. are all victory margins, so not all Raiders, they beat the Spartans 10 has been the next best at suggest the same degree of bowl wins are equivalent, either. by 10 points; Sagarin predicted a exceeding expectations, despite confidence from the I tried to account for this margin of 10.08 points. its checkered recent bowl history, bookmakers.) So he hasn’t been complexity with the help of Jeff Supporters of a particular followed by the ACC. The Pac- as disappointing as the WAC. Sagarin, who produces ratings for conference who insist their teams 10 has been disastrous, more than “Very fun bowl season,” Sagarin USA Today and for the Bowl are better than another 10 points per game worse than said, “and humbling!” Championship Series rankings. conference’s they don’t often get expected, and the Mid-American The BCS only includes computer to play might be particularly has been almost as bad. The Big rankings that don’t take into interested in the grouped results. E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 57 Baseball Hall of Fame: Andre Dawson the sole Iceland’s president fights inductee for 2010 to contain fallout By ESPN.com news services (539 votes were cast; 405 were reliever Lee Smith at 255 (47.3 after he left the Expos, Dawson (Financial Times - US (ESPN.com) needed for induction). Mark percent) and Edgar Martinez at signed a blank contract with the homepage)

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:26:41 PM McGwire, in his fourth year of 195 (36.2 percent). Cubs during spring training. eligibility, received 10 more Martinez, on the ballot for the Then-general manager Dallas Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:57:45 AM NEW YORK -- Andre Dawson votes than last year, and matched first time, is viewed as an early Green filled in the dollar amount Iceland’s president scrambled on was elected to the Hall of Fame, the total from his first two times test of how voters will receive of $500,000, making Dawson the Wednesday to contain the fallout while Bert Blyleven and Roberto on the ballot. players who were primarily second-lowest paid regular on the from his decision to block Alomar fell just short of earning Blyleven had 400 votes, up from designated hitters. team. legislation to repay Britain and baseball's highest honor. 338 last year, and likely will get Mark McGwire received 128 Dawson stayed with the Cubs the Netherlands more than Dawson, nicknamed "The in, what with two more tries on votes (23.7 percent), 10 more through 1992, then spent two €3.8bn ($5.5bn, £3.4bn) lost in a Hawk," received 420 of 539 the BBWAA ballot. The highest than last year and matching the seasons apiece with Boston and failed bank as the government votes in voting announced percentage for a player who total from his first two times on Florida. He had a .279 career proposed a date next month for Wednesday by the Baseball wasn't elected in a later year was the ballot. Eighth on the career average with 1,591 RBIs and 314 the referendum on the Writers' Association of America, 63.4 by Gil Hodges in 1983, his list with 583 homers, he has been steals, playing through 12 knee controversial deal. 15 more than the 75 percent final time on the ballot. stigmatized since evading operations. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson told the necessary to gain election. "Hopefully, next year will be my questions from Congress in 2005 He is one of only three players Financial Times he was living up Five of the ballots sent in were time," Blyleven said in an about the use of performance- with at least 400 home runs and to Iceland’s traditions as one of blank. interview on the MLB Network. enhancing drugs. 300 stolen bases, joining Barry the world’s oldest democracies The eight-time All-Star, Alomar received 397 votes (73.7 Dawson, who won eight Gold Bonds and Willie Mays. by referring the repayment plan appearing on the ballot for the percent) in the second baseman's Gloves and four Silver Slugger The close calls for Blyleven and to a national vote, amid warnings ninth time, had fallen 44 votes first appearance, and was awards, had a 21-year career with Alomar marked the first time in that his decision could plunge the short last year. followed by pitcher Jack Morris the now-defunct Montreal Expos, BBWAA balloting that two country into international "It was well worth the wait. I with 282 (52.3 percent), a big Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox players fell fewer than 10 votes isolation. can't really describe the elation," increase from the 237 votes he and Florida Marlins. short in one year. Five Filters featured article: Dawson said during a telephone got last year. He will be inducted into the Hall Information from The Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: conference call. "If you're a Hall "I feel disappointed, but next of Fame on July 25 in Associated Press was used in this PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, of Famer, eventually you're going year hopefully I make it in," Cooperstown, N.Y., along with report. Term Extraction. to get in, no matter how long it Alomar said at his home in New manager Whitey Herzog and Five Filters featured article: takes." York. "At least I was close." umpire Doug Harvey, who were Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: HAWK FLIES IN AT LAST Cincinnati shortstop Barry elected last month by the Hall's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Eight-time All-Star Andre Larkin, also making his first Veterans Committee. Term Extraction. Dawson, on his ninth try, got in appearance, was on 278 ballots A victim of the owners' with 77.9 percent of the vote (51.6 percent), followed by conspiracy against free agents Japan names new finance minister (Financial Times - US Hatoyama, has moved swiftly to minister, as his replacement. reasons. He presented Mr Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: homepage) contain the damage caused by Mr Fujii, 77, who was admitted Hatoyama with a medical verdict PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:10:27 AM Hirohisa Fujii’s decision to step to hospital late last month for on his health and a resignation Term Extraction. down as finance minister, naming high blood pressure and letter on Wednesday. Japan’s prime minister, Yukio Naoto Kan, deputy prime exhaustion, resigned for health Five Filters featured article: 58 Sports/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition Mike Shanahan introduced as coach Farc rebels admit of Washington Redskins governor murder By ESPN.com news services president and general manager half of his 14 seasons in Denver, (BBC News | Americas | between... Luis Francisco Cuellar (ESPN.com) Bruce Allen, but Shanahan will with only two losing seasons -- 6 World Edition) and paramilitaries, the aim of

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:32:23 PM have the ultimate authority on -10 in 1999 and 7-9 in 2007. His Submitted at 1/6/2010 3:08:29 AM holding him was not to kill him football decisions. greatest successes came early, nor demand a ransom but to put Shanahan Introduced As Asked if he will have final say with back-to-back Super Bowl Left-wing rebels in Colombia him on trial for corruption," the Redskins Coach Shanahan over football decisions, Shanahan titles after the 1997 and 1998 have said they killed a provincial statement, dated 24 December, Introduced As Redskins Coach indicated that he will -- but added seasons with running back Terrell governor shortly after seizing said. Mike Shanahan was introduced that he does not intend to Davis and quarterback John him from his home at gunpoint Mr Cuellar's death had been a Wednesday as coach of the exercise that authority and that he Elway. on 21 December. direct consequence of President Washington Redskins, saying will collaborate with Allen. His career regular-season record A Farc rebel statement said the Alvaro Uribe's order to use force he's "excited and honored" to "Maybe you can say that [I will is 146-98, including 138-86 with aim had been to try Luis to rescue hostages being held by take the reins of the franchise. have final say] but we will never the Broncos from 1995 to 2008 Francisco Cuellar for corruption the guerrillas, the Farc said. Shanahan, who won back-to- use that, because we will work and 8-12 with the then-Los and paramilitary ties. But Colombia's peace back Super Bowl titles with the together as a team," Shanahan Angeles Raiders in 1988-89. His "tragic" death had resulted commissioner, Frank Pearl, told Denver Broncos, succeeds Jim said. Shanahan's playoff record is 8-5. from a government order to use El Tiempo newspaper: "They are Zorn, who was fired Monday Shanahan is Washington's Shanahan's son, former Houston force to rescue rebel-held trying to justify with absurd after two seasons. seventh coach since Daniel Texans offensive coordinator hostages, the rebels said. words an absurd and unjustifiable Tuesday, Shanahan signed a five Snyder bought the team in 1999. Kyle Shanahan, will be the Government officials and Mr crime." -year contract to become the The Redskins are 82-99 on his Redskins' new offensive Cuellar's family said the rebels The guerrillas were thought to team's executive vice president watch, missing the playoffs in coordinator. were trying to justify the number some 16,000 fighters, but and head coach. Shanahan's eight of 11 seasons. Zorn went 12-20 in two seasons, unjustifiable. analysts suggest their ranks have contract is worth approximately Snyder has been a hands-on missing the playoffs both years. Mr Cuellar, the governor of the fallen to about 9,000. $7 million a year, The Denver manager yielding a strong Information from ESPN NFL southern province of Caqueta, They suffered a series of defeats Post reported. influence on roster decisions. But Insider Adam Schefter and The was found dead less than a day at the hands of the security forces NFC East blog three weeks ago he hired his first Associated Press was used in this after he was seized. in 2008, but they are still holding ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes general manager and didn't even report. He was the highest profile more than 20 police officers and about all things NFC East in his present his new coach at the news Five Filters featured article: politician to be kidnapped since soldiers, often referred to as division blog. conference -- the first time that's Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: 2002. "high-profile" hostages, seized • Blog network: NFL Nation happened since he bought the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, The authorities immediately more than a decade ago. Under the terms of the new deal, team in 1999. New GM Bruce Term Extraction. blamed the Revolutionary Armed They are also believed to have Shanahan will team with Allen handled that duty. Forces of Colombia (Farc) for his kidnapped hundreds of other Redskins executive vice Shanahan made the playoffs in murder, and said he had probably people, mainly for ransom. been killed as troops closed in on Print Sponsor his kidnappers. Five Filters featured article: The Farc statement appeared on Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Tuesday on the Anncol news PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, agency website, which regularly Term Extraction. carries rebel communications. "Despite the obvious links E-reader News Edition Fashion/ Popular News/ Economy/ 59 M Stanley settles Burj Tower Opens in Dubai Chinese By ELLE.com (ELLE News fireworks department with our Blog) Fourth of July spectacular, but derivatives lawsuit this was like nothing I have ever Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:43:13 AM (Financial Times - US seen. homepage) Happy new year to ELLE.com Fireworks shot up, down, around readers! I have been traveling and about the building, spiraling, Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:25:54 AM the world over the holidays and shining, and cracking away. At Morgan Stanley has ended a ended up in the Middle East for times, it seemed impossible that confrontation with a Chinese the opening of the Burj Tower in the Burj would be able to company over disputed hedging Dubai, now officially the world's withstand that much firepower, contracts in an out-of-court tallest skyscraper. but of course, it made it. settlement that may, however, By 7pm the night of the The most pleasing thing about it provide a worrying precedent for opening, everyone was packed was that the building itself is similar disputes. like sardines. Literally, there was magnificently designed and a The Morgan Stanley dispute no place to walk on the wonderful example of modern with China Haisheng Juice sidewalks: People were pressed architecture. Had it not been the Holdings was the most public of body-to-body, with women case, all the hoopla would have many between foreign pushing strollers unable to resonated as being a investment banks and dozens of maneuver through the masses. I overpompous show for a bout of mainland Chinese companies had to stand almost 20 minutes and get showered for the while their mates sprawled out mediocrity. So glad it wasn't so. over loss-making derivatives on a crowded stairway at the foot festivities. under the clear sky. Speeches What a way to start the decade. deals. of a bridge, sandwiched between In and out asap, hair perfectly were made and songs were sung, — Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Five Filters featured article: strangers and pushed against a blown-out, I went down to the all leading up to what would Follow ELLE on Twitter. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: barricade, just to get back to my hotel's pool area, which was become one of the most Become our Facebook fan! 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Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:36:30 PM attempted murder of 289 people Mr Abudmutallab allegedly mass destruction firearm, ie the bomb, in on board the plane. concealed two explosives - PETN • attempted murder within the furtherance of violent crime. A US grand jury has indicted Mr Abdulmutallab allegedly and TATP - in his clothing with special aircraft jurisdiction of the Nigerian Umar Farouk tried to detonate a bomb on other ingredients to make a US Print Sponsor Abdulmutallab on six counts Northwest flight 253 from bomb, according to the court • willful attempt to destroy and Five Filters featured article: over an alleged plot to bomb a Amsterdam to Detroit. document. wreck an aircraft Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: plane over Detroit on Christmas The plane landed safely after The indictment said the bomb • willfully placing a destructive PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Day. crew and passengers was designed for him to detonate device in or near an aircraft Term Extraction. The charges against the 23-year- overpowered him. at a time of his choosing. which was likely to endanger the 60 Fashion/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition Dodd, D-Conn., Gansevoort South Beach New Year's Eve retiring from Senate; By ELLE.com (ELLE News TVs so we could still share the Blog) excitement of the ball dropping AG to run (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Submitted at 1/5/2010 2:54:55 PM in Times Square. By the time the countdown began and we raised Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:23:36 PM I’m probably not the only party- our glasses to bring in the New goer out there who’s developed Year, I realized, “Wow, I’m EAST HADDAM, Conn. – an apprehension about New having a really good time!” Christopher Dodd, saying he was Year’s Eve. It’s just one of those Although we never know what in "the toughest political shape" celebratory holidays that New Year’s Eve will bring, this of his career, announced everyone puts so much effort and year I can honestly say I enjoyed Wednesday he will retire from concern into that the night myself. In one of the most the U.S. Senate, ending a four- inevitably ends up being beautiful cities, at a most decade career in Congress. lackluster. NYE 2009 was no amazing party, surrounded with Dodd, speaking outside his different, but I still decided to all the best of friends in a one of home in East Haddam, said he give Joonbug.com’s New Year’s would not run for a sixth term. of cultures, and the grand lobby the gorgeous aqua pool; a kind hotel, it was a night to Eve Plunge party hosted by His political stock fell after a of the hotel was already buzzing beautiful, sun-kissed people remember. Brody Jenner a shot, because, controversy involving low-rate with people who had flown in mingled, having a great time; our —Jade Frampton, Market Editor hey, why not? mortgages he received under a from all over the world. cabana was perfectly set up with Follow ELLE on Twitter. So, on a beautiful balmy evening VIP program, the financial Continuing up to the roof deck, I white plush couches and an array Become our Facebook fan! I arrived at the South Beach meltdown and his failed 2008 was pleasantly surprised by the of vodkas, juices, and delicious Gansevoort Hotel entrance, ready presidential bid. The 65-year-old relaxed cool atmosphere: elegant champagnes. Each cabana was to at least try and have fun. I’ve blush-lit cabanas wrapped around also equipped with flat screen DODD, page 63 always loved Miami and its mix Holocaust Museum Shooter Dies in Prison Hospital (FOXNews.com) SLIDESHOW: Holocaust trial for the killing of security shooting had written racist and "He was a good man. There's not

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:05:22 AM Museum Shooting guard Stephen T. Johns at the anti-Semitic screeds on the a day that goes by that I don't Simmons said von Brunn had "a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Internet. miss him," he said of Johns. "It's The 89-year-old man charged long history of poor health which Museum on June 10. Von Brunn One of the two guards who fired been very hard, there's not a day with a deadly shooting at included chronic congestive heart had been wounded by return fire. back at von Brunn said he had that I don't think about him when Washington's Holocaust museum failure and sepsis." She said he LiveShots: Holocaust Museum mixed feelings about his death. I'm on post." died Wednesday in a prison was pronounced dead at a local Gunman Dies "I'm shocked. I'm glad he's gone. Five Filters featured article: hospital, authorities said. hospital. Officials at the prison hospital I wish he had his day in court but Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: At Butner federal prison in Von Brunn's lawyer, A.J. had previously said chronic it'll never come," said Harry PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, North Carolina, spokeswoman Kramer, called the death "a sad medical problems had Weeks of White Plains, Md. Term Extraction. Denise Simmons announced that end to a tragic situation," but complicated a psychiatric Weeks returned to work in James von Brunn died shortly declined further comment. evaluation for von Brunn, a white August and said he thinks often before 1 p.m. Wednesday. Von Brunn had been awaiting supremacist who prior to the about his dead colleague. E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 61 Authorities Suspect $30M Fla. Lottery Winner Was Killed (FOXNews.com) payment of $16.9 million instead said family and officials. wants him to return because was carjacked and raped in 2001.

Submitted at 1/6/2010 4:37:35 AM of annual installments. Moore — who could not be detectives were searching her Officials said she concocted the He bought a Nissan Altima, a reached by The Associated Press home and car and looking for scheme so her insurance LAKELAND, Fla. In 2006, Rolex from a pawn shop, a $1 — said she was interested in blood on her belongings. company would reimburse her Abraham Shakespeare — a truck million home in a gated writing a book about One reason he wanted to leave, for the SUV, which she claimed driver's assistant who lived with community. He talked about Shakespeare's life. She became she said, was a child support case had been stolen. his mother — won $30 million in starting a foundation for the poor something of a financial adviser for a child he allegedly fathered The woman did not answer the Florida lottery. His good and insisted the money wouldn't to Shakespeare, who never after winning the lottery. several calls placed to a number fortune may have cost him his change him. graduated high school. "Abraham sold me his mess to listed for her in public records. life. "I'm not a material person," he Property records show that get a better life," she told the During a recent visit to the home Shakespeare vanished months said in 2007. "I don't let material Moore's company, American paper. she bought from Shakespeare, a ago. His mother hopes he is things run me. I'm on a tight Medical Professionals, bought She even gave the paper a video security box rang to a phone somewhere in the Caribbean, budget." Shakespeare's home for $655,000 that she said she took of number that had been lying on a beach and enjoying the The money quickly caused him last January. His mother said the Abraham. In the video, he says disconnected. good life away from all the problems. last time she saw him was shortly he is tired of people asking him Sheriff's officials won't comment hangers-on who were constantly A former co-worker sued him in afterward, around her birthday in for money. "They don't take no on Moore's involvement in hitting him up for money. 2007, accusing Shakespeare of February. for an answer," he says. Shakespeare's life. The sheriff has a more ominous stealing the winning ticket from The sheriff said the last time "So where you wanna go to?" The sheriff said that Shakespeare theory: Shakespeare was killed. him. Six months later, a jury anyone saw Shakespeare was in Moore asks in the video. spent the bulk of his lottery "There are a lot of odd and ruled the ticket was April — but it wasn't until Nov. 9 "It don't matter to me. I'm not a winnings. The fact that he didn't bizarre circumstances in this Shakespeare's. that he was reported missing, by picky person," Shakespeare call his mother on Christmas case," Sheriff Grady Judd said. Then there were the people a police informant. replies. reinforces the theory that "We fear and are preparing for constantly asking him for a piece And the story gets more bizarre. Moore told the paper that she Shakespeare is not just hiding, the worst. We're working this of his fortune. According to The Ledger of took the video to "protect Judd said. case as if it were a homicide." "They didn't wait. They just came Lakeland, the 37-year-old Moore herself." "I hope so much that he is alive Shakespeare, 43, won the big right after they found out he won contacted reporters at the Moore said she filed paperwork somewhere," said his mother. jackpot after buying a lottery this money," his mother, newspaper in April, saying to take over five mortgages "And I want people to know, if ticket at a convenience store in a Elizabeth Walker, said recently. Shakespeare was "laying low" totaling about $370,000 that had they ever win the lottery, I hope town called Frostproof, claiming She said her son was generous, because people tried to suck been owed to Shakespeare. She they know how to handle the later that he gave the last $3 in paying for funerals, lending money out of him. said she sold the loans at a loss to people that come after them. his pocket to a homeless man just money to friends starting That made sense to another person. 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Submitted at 1/6/2010 8:05:21 AM of annual installments. Moore — who could not be detectives were searching her Officials said she concocted the He bought a Nissan Altima, a reached by The Associated Press home and car and looking for scheme so her insurance LAKELAND, Fla. – In 2006, Rolex from a pawn shop, a $1 — said she was interested in blood on her belongings. company would reimburse her Abraham Shakespeare — a truck million home in a gated writing a book about One reason he wanted to leave, for the SUV, which she claimed driver's assistant who lived with community. He talked about Shakespeare's life. She became she said, was a child support case had been stolen. his mother — won $30 million in starting a foundation for the poor something of a financial adviser for a child he allegedly fathered The woman did not answer the Florida lottery. His good and insisted the money wouldn't to Shakespeare, who never after winning the lottery. several calls placed to a number fortune may have cost him his change him. graduated high school. "Abraham sold me his mess to listed for her in public records. life. "I'm not a material person," he Property records show that get a better life," she told the During a recent visit to the home Shakespeare vanished months said in 2007. "I don't let material Moore's company, American paper. she bought from Shakespeare, a ago. His mother hopes he is things run me. I'm on a tight Medical Professionals, bought She even gave the paper a video security box rang to a phone somewhere in the Caribbean, budget." Shakespeare's home for $655,000 that she said she took of number that had been lying on a beach and enjoying the The money quickly caused him last January. His mother said the Abraham. In the video, he says disconnected. good life away from all the problems. last time she saw him was shortly he is tired of people asking him Sheriff's officials won't comment hangers-on who were constantly A former co-worker sued him in afterward, around her birthday in for money. "They don't take no on Moore's involvement in hitting him up for money. 2007, accusing Shakespeare of February. for an answer," he says. Shakespeare's life. The sheriff has a more ominous stealing the winning ticket from The sheriff said the last time "So where you wanna go to?" The sheriff said that Shakespeare theory: Shakespeare was killed. him. Six months later, a jury anyone saw Shakespeare was in Moore asks in the video. spent the bulk of his lottery "There are a lot of odd and ruled the ticket was April — but it wasn't until Nov. 9 "It don't matter to me. I'm not a winnings. The fact that he didn't bizarre circumstances in this Shakespeare's. that he was reported missing, by picky person," Shakespeare call his mother on Christmas case," Sheriff Grady Judd said. Then there were the people a police informant. replies. reinforces the theory that "We fear and are preparing for constantly asking him for a piece And the story gets more bizarre. Moore told the paper that she Shakespeare is not just hiding, the worst. We're working this of his fortune. According to The Ledger of took the video to "protect Judd said. case as if it were a homicide." "They didn't wait. They just came Lakeland, the 37-year-old Moore herself." "I hope so much that he is alive Shakespeare, 43, won the big right after they found out he won contacted reporters at the Moore said she filed paperwork somewhere," said his mother. jackpot after buying a lottery this money," his mother, newspaper in April, saying to take over five mortgages "And I want people to know, if ticket at a convenience store in a Elizabeth Walker, said recently. Shakespeare was "laying low" totaling about $370,000 that had they ever win the lottery, I hope town called Frostproof, claiming She said her son was generous, because people tried to suck been owed to Shakespeare. She they know how to handle the later that he gave the last $3 in paying for funerals, lending money out of him. said she sold the loans at a loss to people that come after them. his pocket to a homeless man just money to friends starting That made sense to another person. She added that They can be dangerous." before the winning numbers were businesses and even giving a Shakespeare's mother — sort of. many of the people who Five Filters featured article: announced. million dollars to a guy known "I remember once, talking with borrowed from Shakespeare have Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Shakespeare — who had a only as "Big Man." me over the phone, he said he refused to pay, and she feels PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, criminal record that included Not long after he bought the might go to Jamaica," she said. threatened by some of them. Term Extraction. arrests and prison time for million-dollar home in early On Dec. 5, a sobbing Moore told Moore's past includes a year of burglary, battery and not paying 2007, he was approached by a The Ledger that she helped probation after she was charged child support — took a lump-sum woman named Dee Dee Moore, Shakespeare disappear, but now with falsely reporting that she E-reader News Edition 63 DODD, continued from page 60 chairman of the Senate Banking with the economic meltdown. Dodd led his primary challenger, for hardworking Americans, and 2004. His highest was 81 percent Committee, who also served And Dodd has played a businessman and former Air keep our nation strong and in March 2009. three terms in the House, was prominent role in the debate over Force officer Merrick Alpert, in prosperous," Obama said. "It's not over, but certainly the trailing former Republican overhauling health care, taking the polls, but those surveys The three Republicans running Democrats are in much better Congressman Rob Simmons in over for Kennedy during his suggested his Republican for Dodd's seat said his decision shape," Schwartz said. "The race the polls. illness and then after his death. challengers stood a chance of to drop out of the race won't hurt has flipped from leaning He acknowledged that 2009 was Some of the home-state backlash knocking him off in the their chances. Republican to leaning a tough year for him. came when, during his November election. "Whoever the Democratic Democrat." "I lost a beloved sister in July presidential bid, Dodd moved his "He really was not able to budge nominee is, he or she will have to Howard Reiter, a University of and, in August, Ted Kennedy. I family to Iowa several weeks his low honesty and trustworthy defend the failed Democratic Connecticut political science battled cancer over the summer, before the caucuses there. number and that's something policies of higher taxes, bigger professor emeritus, said and in the midst of all of this, The mortgage controversy really hard for an elected official government, exploding debt and Blumenthal starts out in a strong found myself in the toughest dogged him for several months. to change," Quinnipiac a misguided approach to national position, but "I don't think he's political shape of my career," he The Senate ethics panel cleared University Poll Director Douglas security," Simmons said. had a tough campaign in a long said. him of breaking rules by getting Schwartz said. "Once people Republican candidate Linda time." Connecticut's popular the Countrywide mortgages, but don't trust you, it's a tough thing McMahon, the former chief Blumenthal, a former Marine Democratic attorney general, scolded him for not doing more to turn around." executive of World Wrestling who lives in Greenwich with his Richard Blumenthal, quickly to avoid the appearance of Dodd said he was "very aware of Entertainment, said Dodd's wife and four children, is a announced he would run to sweetheart deals. Dodd insisted my present political standing here leaving the race doesn't change former federal prosecutor and replace Dodd. Blumenthal, 63, the mortgage rates he received at home, but it is equally clear anything for her. former state legislator. said he has had his eye on the were available to other that any certain prediction about The third GOP candidate, Peter ___ Senate for years. consumers with good credit. an election victory or defeat Schiff, said Blumenthal's Haigh reported from Hartford, "People in Connecticut know I The controversy faintly recalled nearly a year from now would be ideology is so similar to Dodd's Conn. AP writers Liz Sidoti and have never walked away from a the troubles that brought down absurd." that it will harm the attorney Andrew Miga in Washington, fight, and I have always put them his late father, former Sen. A spokesman for Dodd said the general in the race. D.C., and Dave Collins in first," said Blumenthal, who has Thomas J. Dodd, who was senator spoke with President "He praised Chris Dodd for his Hartford contributed to this been attorney general since 1990. censured by his colleagues in Barack Obama before making services to the state and all the report. Blumenthal praised Dodd for his 1967 for using campaign money Wednesday's announcement. great things he's supposedly Five Filters featured article: service and said he had learned of to pay personal bills. Thomas Details on what was said weren't done, which obviously shows me Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Dodd's decision within the Dodd served two terms in the released. Dodd didn't take he doesn't understand Chris PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, previous 24 hours. He said the Senate. questions at his news conference. Dodd's role in bringing about the Term Extraction. U.S. Senate had long been a "You have honored me beyond Obama said in a statement that economic conditions that are so personal career aspiration, and words with your confidence," Dodd's work isn't finished, but dire," Schiff said. that he wanted to go to Dodd said. "Let me quickly add that his leadership would be With Blumenthal as the Washington to fight against that there have been times when missed. candidate, Democrats have the scams and special interests. my positions and actions have "He has worked tirelessly to edge, Schwartz said. His lowest Dodd's banking committee was caused some of you to question improve the lives of our children job approval number since 2001 at the center of efforts to deal that confidence. I regret that." and families, support good jobs was 71 percent in November 64 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition Study Finds Most U.S. Terror Christmas Bomb Suspects Are Young Men Suspect Indicted by U.S. (FOXNews.com) homegrown terror, the report cases, researchers conducted in- identified 139 American Muslims depth interviews with more than Submitted at 1/5/2010 11:46:10 PM Grand Jury who were accused in the last 120 American Muslims in (FOXNews.com) A study released Wednesday of eight years of planning or Houston; Seattle; Buffalo, N.Y.; bomb was designed to allow [him] to detonate it at a time of American Muslims and carrying out violent attacks and around Raleigh and Durham Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:02:40 AM homegrown terror found that motivated by extremism. The in North Carolina. Each of the his choosing, and to thereby most of the publicly known cases cases include Army Maj. Nidal four areas had some cases of DETROIT A grand jury has cause an explosion about Flight since the Sept. 11 attacks Hasan, charged with the Fort alleged radicalization. indicted a Nigerian man accused 253." involved young men who were Hood mass shooting last The study found that the planned of trying to blow up a Detroit- Authorities say the 23-year-old U.S.-born or naturalized citizens. November, and the five young targets of most of the violent bound Northwest Airlines flight Abdulmutallab was traveling to More than half of the suspects men from Virginia who were plots were overseas. Seventy on Christmas Day. Detroit from Amsterdam when he were radicalized as part of a recently arrested in Pakistan, percent of the conspiracies were The six charges against Umar tried to ignite an explosive group. allegedly on their way to get pre-empted by law enforcement Farouk Abdulmutallab include aboard the airliner. Passengers The analysis by researchers from terrorist training and join the well before anyone was hurt. attempted use of a weapon of pounced on him and prevented Duke University and the Taliban in Afghanistan. All but one of the suspects were mass destruction and attempted disaster. University of North Carolina at The largest number of cases by male and most were under age murder. The indictment was filed He is being held at a federal Chapel Hill found the accused far occurred last year, with a total 30. Most were U.S.-born, Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. local prison in Milan, Mich. were almost evenly divided in of 41 suspects, although naturalized citizens or legal time. Abdulmutallab is set to appear in terms of ethnicity. researchers say it's too early to residents of the country. The indictment confirms that court on Friday. Although Arabs formed the know if that is an aberration or a The report urges civil authorities Abdulmuttalab was carrying a The Associated Press largest group of suspects, their trend. The 2009 increase is partly to increase their support for "concealed bomb" made with contributed to this report. numbers were only slightly due to the cases of young Somali American Muslims who are explosives PETN and TATP, as Five Filters featured article: higher than African-Americans, -Americans in Minneapolis starting youth groups, building well as "other ingredients." Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: South Asians, Somalis and believed to have joined Somalia's Islamic schools and starting other The indictment reads: "The PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, whites. About a third were al-Shabab jihadist, or holy war, projects that reinforce the bomb was concealed inside Term Extraction. converts to Islam. movement, the report's authors message that extremism is Defendant Umar Farouk The statistics were part of a said. U.S. Muslims accused of contrary to Islam. The study was Abdulmuttalab's clothing. The report, "Anti-Terror Lessons of sending money to overseas funded by the National Institute Muslim-Americans," that aimed terrorist groups were not part of of Justice, the research arm of the to learn why American Muslims the study. U.S. Justice Department. seem less prone to extremism Even with the common threads Five Filters featured article: than Muslims in Europe and among the cases, researchers said Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: elsewhere. they found no definitive pattern PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, The researchers concluded that of how the accused were Term Extraction. American Muslim self-policing radicalized and no geographic has helped stem radicalization. center of extremism in the U.S. Using a broad definition of In addition to reviewing criminal E-reader News Edition Popular News/ Economy/ 65 Obama Senate ally Dodd steps down What the duck? (BBC News | Americas | Connecticut. my career". World Edition) "I have been a Connecticut He said personal challenges, Clockwise vaginas thwart

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:56:58 AM senator for 30 years. I'm very including battling with prostate proud of the job I've done and the cancer and the death of his sister US Senator Chris Dodd, a key results delivered," Mr Dodd told over the past year, had also counterclockwise penises ally of President Barack Obama, reporters. influenced his decision. (Holy Kaw!) has announced that he will not "But none of us is irreplaceable. Correspondents say his decision Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:17:00 AM seek re-election in November. None of us are indispensable. to retire will allow the In a statement, Mr Obama And those who think otherwise Democratic Party to field a Hold onto your private parts thanked him for his service and are dangerous," he added. stronger candidate. because researchers at Yale have said his leadership on Capitol "In the long sweep of American But Senator Dorgan's decision discovered a new form of birth Hill would be missed. history there are moments for not to seek re-election in North control: vaginas that spiral Mr Dodd's move follows the each elected public official to Dakota is being seen as a big clockwise to thwart penises that decision by fellow Democratic step aside and let someone else blow to the Democrats. spiral counterclockwise. (Or is Senator Byron Dorgan not to step up. This is my moment to The Democrats, with the help of that countercockwise?) stand again. step aside." two independents, currently have Patricia Brennan, the lead author The Democrats have 60 Senate Embattled a 60 to 40 seat majority in the of the research, explains: “In votes, just enough to overcome The 65-year-old Connecticut Senate - the threshold number species where forced copulation Republican efforts to block senator has been a key figure in that allows them to override is common, males have evolved Not only that, but the study legislation. efforts to deal with the financial Republican attempts to hold up longer penises, but females have determines that erection occurs in The balance of power could crisis, and the healthcare debate. legislation. coevolved convoluted vaginas less than half a second. Oh, by change after November's But Mr Dodd, a former The party in power in the White with dead-end cul-de-sacs and the way, all this refers to duck elections, when a third of the 100 presidential hopeful, has been House tends to lose spirals in the opposite direction sex. Senate seats will be contested. increasingly embattled since congressional seats in mid-term of the male penis. This More on science. Voters will also elect all 435 2008 amid criticisms over a loan elections. coevolution results from conflict Photo credit: Fotolia members of the House of he received from a subprime Print Sponsor between the sexes over who is Permalink| Leave a comment » Representatives. lender. Five Filters featured article: going to control fertilization.” Senator Dodd, who chairs the Opinion polls have suggested Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Senate banking committee, made that he would not win re-election PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, the announcement that he would in November and Mr Dodd Term Extraction. not be seeking re-election for a appeared to acknowledge this as sixth term outside his home in he admitted he found himself in East Haddam, in the state of the "toughest political shape of Dodd decides against re-election bid (Financial Times - US that throws open his seat in Democrats’ chances of holding homepage) Connecticut and could influence their 60-seat super-majority in

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:08:52 AM financial regulatory reform. the Senate. Mr Dodd has suffered from Five Filters featured article: Chris Dodd, the Democratic consistently poor polling Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: head of the Senate banking numbers and his withdrawal from PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, committee, will not fight for re- the US mid-term elections is Term Extraction. election in November, a decision unlikely by itself to dent the 66 Popular News/ Picture/ E-reader News Edition Cold tightens grip, all the way to Fla. iguanas (AP) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) some locally heavier amounts like bread and milk.

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:00:11 PM Wednesday afternoon through Ann Warden of Brentwood, Thursday. Tenn., loaded eight grocery bags NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A In a rare turn for the South, into the trunk of her black luxury persistent arctic chill tightened its forecasters warned that snow and car Wednesday morning and grip on the nation Wednesday ice were possible Thursday from worried about a snowy forecast. and reached deep into the South, South Carolina to Louisiana and "You know Nashville gets where it was blamed for at least wind chills in the region could paralyzed with just one five deaths and threatened to get down to near zero at night. snowflake," she said. "I couldn't freeze crops and bring snow to "This air mass originated on the be caught without milk. And I places more accustomed to ice cap at the top of the world," got some nice wine at the liquor winter sunshine. said Bobby Boyd, a weather store." Authorities said four people in service forecaster in Nashville. 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If you just they are applicable and some of come to me and say, “You're the Submitted at 1/6/2010 1:56:36 AM the best analogies to use from IT expert, YOU figure it out”, it experts on explaining one's would take me a lot longer than if Art.view computer. Here are a few you were to immediately tell me Jan 6th 2010 examples: information on what's going on. From Economist.com Successful Why do I need disk space and That's also the reason why I auctions follow certain rules, RAM? would ask you more questions to even in an overheated market Think of your kitchen. The narrow down what the problem THERE were two lessons to be cabinets hold the dishes you're learned from the Asian art sales usually in their kitchen. Imagine (directory), go to the dresser is. not using at the moment (hard in Paris in mid-December. The EVERYTHING you own is in (subdirectory), top drawer Check out all ten of the helpful drive) and the countertop is used first was about timing, the second that one drawer. You'd never be (subdirectory). analogies for explaining common for items you are using about estimates. able to find anything! We Why should I listen to you, IT user issues over at TechRepublic! (memory). Unlike the market for Chinese organize our computers like we guy? More on technology news. Why can't I put everything on ceramics and decorative works of do our lives. If I want a pair of I have a key to start my car Permalink| Leave a comment » the desktop? socks, I go to the bedroom every day, but if the car runs ART.VIEW: page 68 Everyone has a junk drawer, Good Samaritan behavior influenced by smiles (Holy Kaw!) street, a different associate helping behavior toward a person

Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:59:00 AM dropped his/her diskettes on the who is not the smiler. These ground. The researchers kept findings are congruent with other If you stroll around with a track of which study subjects had results concerning the effect of grouchy face, you might want to seen a smile and those who did nonverbal behavior on helping consider turning that frown not and found that 50 percent behavior. upside down because researchers more of the grin-receivers Smile! It’s contagious. say a smile enhances the stopped to help than the non- All sorts of interesting willingness of strangers to help. smilers. psychology news and views. In a study conducted by French The researchers summarized: towards another person. These helping behavior in a new Photo credit: Fotolia researchers, a research associate Our results show that being findings are congruent with situation. Permalink| Leave a comment » either smiled or didn’t smile at a smiled at by a stranger enhances [previous research] and confirm Furthermore, these findings passerby and then, down the subsequent helping behavior the influence of smiling on show that smiling enhances 68 Economy/ E-reader News Edition ART.VIEW: American intelligence: Spooked continued from page 67 art, which is crowded with (The Economist: News was also created. But critics of Less reported, but causing more particular, has become an Chinese buyers from Hong Kong analysis) that approach think that devastation, was the bomb attack important, if somewhat dubious, and the mainland energetically centralisation and “all-source” on the CIA’s base in Khost, in ally in the fight against al-Qaeda. Submitted at 1/6/2010 2:51:11 AM seeking out treasures to bring analysis that is meant to produce Afghanistan. A Jordanian suicide Its security forces have claimed home, the markets for Japanese American intelligence comprehensive, authoritative bomber killed seven American victories against al-Qaeda, but and Korean works of art are Jan 6th 2010 | NEW YORK reports, are inadequate. Rather, employees and a Jordanian spy, some worry that these too have dominated by Western collectors. From Economist.com The spies and decision-makers (such the worst CIA death toll since a been penetrated by the terrorist This is a small and highly troubles of American intelligence as consular officials who decide 1983 bombing in Beirut. It group. specialised group who tend to ON TUESDAY January 4th, whether to grant visas) need emerged on Monday that the CIA The list of challenges goes on. buy through dealers rather than at Barack Obama met officials more flexibility and fluidity, the had not only been bloodied but The head of American military auction. Anyone trying to lure related to counterterrorism to ability to share information more duped. An Islamic extremist had intelligence in Afghanistan such buyers into the saleroom discuss how Umar Farouk Abdul quickly and freely without going pretended to be turned by complained in a report this week should not repeat Christie’s Mutallab, a Nigerian, was through central channels. Jordanian intelligence and that American spies there are too mistake and schedule a sale on allowed to board a Detroit-bound In the wake of the attempted apparently fed American and focused on killing terrorists, and December 21st, or even, as plane and try to blow it up, Christmas attack, further attempts Jordanian handlers enough not on understanding the Sotheby’s did, on December despite the fact that America’s to shake up intelligence methods reliable information to make country's politics, economy and 18th. Western collectors have spies had useful information on and organisation will follow. So himself trusted. When he claimed society. The spooks are re- other things on their minds in the him. His father had told the far, they have been piecemeal: to have urgent intelligence, he thinking a 2007 National week before Christmas. American embassy in Abuja, the government has decreed that was whisked through security Intelligence Estimate that said Both Paris sales were weak, Nigeria’s capital, that his son was travellers from 14 countries into the base. Iran had given up working on a especially Christie’s, where being radicalised. The CIA had where al-Qaeda is thought to This is a new kind of threat to nuclear-bomb design; they now nearly 60% of the 125 lots of heard about plans to develop a have recruits will undergo full- the CIA. Few had suspected that think that low-level work may Japanese works failed to sell. Nigerian suicide bomber. And it body screening before flying to al-Qaeda would be sophisticated indeed be going on. Spies like to This included a lovely piece of was known that Mr Abdul America. But it is unclear enough to develop a double agent say that their failures are known 20th-century lacquer, a Mutallab had travelled to Yemen whether other countries will who could fool both the to the world, their successes handmade box by Nishimura for training. But as Mr Obama implement these rules Jordanians and the CIA. Jordan’s hidden. At least half of that is Hikobei with a case shaped like a said after the meeting, there was immediately. The CIA, State intelligence service is one of the true beyond a doubt. teahouse (pictured above). With “a failure to integrate and Department and the NCTC are all most professional and trusted Back to top ^^ Readers' Korean works the bought-in rate understand the intelligence that reviewing what went wrong and partners of the CIA. The agency comments was even worse, at well over we already had”. are likely to come up with depends strongly on other The Economist welcomes your 70%. Some have blamed the office of differing conclusions. As for friendly spy services for cultural, views. In a fragile market a poor sale the Director of National more substantive intelligence linguistic and other kinds of Five Filters featured article: can have serious consequences. Intelligence. The post, created in shake-ups in the wake of the expertise. The CIA will now have Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Potential sellers, discouraged by 2004, was meant to get spies to Christmas attack, Mr Obama is to add countering al-Qaeda’s spy PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, low prices and high bought-in stop thinking in terms of “need to under pressure for quick action activities and worrying whether Term Extraction. rates, will hold on to their know” and instead to think that which may include sackings, its allies are doing the same to its treasures and wait for confidence they “need to share”. A National even if such steps may not lead to already daunting list of tasks. The to return to the market. So a weak Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC) good policy. government of Yemen, in sale today often means an uninteresting sale tomorrow, benefiting neither sellers nor buyers. The contrast with the Chinese ART.VIEW: page 70 E-reader News Edition Economy/ 69 Japanese politics: Bad blood Google’s (The Economist: News and replaced him with Naoto banquet at his home on New may be a shot across the analysis) Kan, the deputy prime minister. Year’s Day, engaging in a highly prosecutors’ bows. smart phone:

Submitted at 1/5/2010 9:49:54 PM Mr Kan already has a wide- publicised dispute with the In choosing Mr Kan as the new ranging government portfolio, imperial household and making finance minister, Mr Hatoyama Phoney war Japanese politics but the main alternatives for damning comments about has picked a man whose relations (The Economist: News Jan 6th 2010 | TOKYO finance minister were also no Christianity. Increasingly, the with Mr Ozawa are considered analysis) From Economist.com A change friends of Mr Ozawa. That may “shadow shogun”, as he is neutral, but who lacks the of finance minister shows who have ruled them out. known, is stepping out into the financial experience of Mr Fujii Submitted at 1/5/2010 10:27:37 PM wields power in Japan's ruling Mr Ozawa occupies an light. and at least one other of the Google’s smart phone party unparalleled position in Japanese The incident that appears to have candidates. Mr Kan was a Jan 6th 2010 | SAN WHEN Japan’s 77-year-old politics. As architect of the slighted the finance minister prominent social activist before FRANCISCO finance minister submitted his historic victory of the Democratic came in the midst of budget- entering politics and is a former From Economist.com Google resignation on Tuesday January Party of Japan (DPJ) in the drafting last month. Mr Ozawa health minister. Since the new unveils a rival to the iPhone 5th, the reason given was poor election in August, which ended single-handedly persuaded the government took office, he has FOR much of past year, Google health. The week before he had five decades of one-party rule, prime minister to scrap a been in charge of developing a told anyone who would listen been admitted to hospital Mr Hatoyama and the party campaign promise to cut petrol long-term strategy to deal with that it really didn’t intend to complaining of exhaustion and believe they owe him a debt of taxes without Mr Fujii’s Japan’s huge debt and other launch its own mobile phone, in high blood pressure after drafting gratitude. He is also considered agreement, says Osamu matters, and has been spite of persistent rumours to the the 2010 budget. crucial for delivering a big win Sorimachi, a news presenter on increasingly outspoken on the contrary. But on Tuesday January But illness was not Hirohisa for the party in elections for the Fuji TV. But the hostilities date need to tackle deflation. His 5th it proved the rumour- Fujii’s main problem. Instead it upper house this summer. back further. appointment is unlikely to mongers right by unveiling appears to have been a case of Yet he is also widely seen as a Last year Mr Fujii led a destabilise Japan’s financial Nexus One, a Google-branded bad blood at the top of Mr dark presence, whose influence successful campaign to stop Mr markets. However, it will not smart phone that represents the Hatoyama’s ruling clique. Mr hardly squares with a party that Ozawa becoming the DPJ’s dispel the impression that Mr company’s first direct foray into Fujii, people who have spoken to came into office vowing to prime-ministerial candidate after Hatoyama is, at times, the handset market. The new him say, grew increasingly improve the transparency of it became clear his office was worryingly like a puppet on Mr device, which runs on the web frustrated with the power Ichiro Japanese politics. All requests to under investigation over a Ozawa’s string. giant’s Android operating Ozawa, secretary-general of the DPJ lawmakers for public- political-funding scandal. People Back to top ^^ Readers' system, puts Google on a ruling party, had over Mr spending projects are channelled close to him continue to be comments collision course with Apple, Hatoyama, and a festering feud through him, and he often quizzed by prosecutors over The Economist welcomes your Nokia and other big purveyors of between the two men eventually appears to put the party’s funding issues; on Wednesday, views. smart phones. boiled over in the budget-drafting interests before those of the the Asahi Shinbun reported that a Five Filters featured article: All of these firms have set their process. government. Recently, he has Tokyo district court would Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: sights on capturing a big chunk After some hesitation, on flaunted his authority by taking summon Mr Ozawa for PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, of the fast-growing market for Wednesday Mr Hatoyama more than 100 DPJ lawmakers on questioning. Some believe Mr Term Extraction. mobile-internet services, which is accepted Mr Fujii’s resignation an official and inviting them to a Ozawa’s recent assertiveness being driven by a proliferation of web-enabled devices such as smart phones and e-readers. Many of those services are likely to attract a lot of web-based advertising, a business at which

GOOGLE’S page 71 70 PopSci/ E-reader News Edition ART.VIEW: continued from page 68 Next-Gen Mars Rover Gets portion of both sales could not and the bowls bore a rare six- centuries (it lacked reign marks have been greater. Chinese character sealmark from the reign by which to date it). Yet two Carbon-Sniffing Experiment dealers and collectors have been of Qianlong, the 18th-century bidders decided it was more than quick to recognise how much emperor. Consigned from a 200 years old, and pushed the porcelain, jade and cloisonné private French collection, where price up from a top estimate of to Detect Ingredients of Life there still is in private French they had been for 40 years, the €6,000 to €43,000. By Jeremy Hsu (Popular Center. "What we'll get are key collections, much of it unknown bowls were expected to earn Even lacquer, which is a more Science - New Technology, observations that tell us about Science News, The Future organic carbon sources and and uncatalogued. And they pay €6,000 ($8,600), but went on to uncertain market than either Now) attention to all Chinese sales, not sell for €73,000, including porcelain or jade, went with a processing on Mars -- shedding just those in Paris but in the commission and taxes. swing. The top lot, a rare early Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:57:04 AM light on the planet's carbon country too. At Sotheby’s Paris Dealers have come to believe green and red plate from the 14th cycle." sale 294 lots of Chinese works of that anything Chinese will sell in -century Yuan dynasty, had the NASA's Mars Science Related Articles After Earth- art were offered, at Christie’s this market, as long as there is advantage of coming from a Laboratory will check Based Sandbox Tests, NASA slightly fewer—233 lots. nothing wrong with it. The Paris private Japanese collection, extraterrestrial environments Trying One More Time to Get Although Sotheby’s bought-in sales were proof that they are where it would have been possibly favorable to the Spirit Rover Unstuck Testing a rate was higher (at just under right. At Christie’s only three of exceptionally well cared for. The development of life Super-Sized Parachute for 30%, whereas Christie’s was just the 192 lots that sold fetched less piece had been expected to fetch NASA's SUV-sized Mars rover Mars–Rover Sorry, Colbert – No under 20%), what did sell went than the low estimate. This also as much as €100,000. In the end now has the ability to check for Mars Rover For You Tags spectacularly well, most of it to means the estimates were set at a it sold for €241,000, proof that possible ingredients or signatures Technology, Jeremy Hsu, Chinese buyers. sensible level. The sales at for sellers it pays not to be of life. The U.S. space agency biosignatures, extraterrestrials, Nearly two-thirds of the Chinese Bonhams and Christie’s in Hong greedy. recently approved a new life, Mars, mars science art in Sotheby’s auction sold for Kong earlier in December Back to top ^^ Readers' instrument for the Mars Science laboratory, msl, Red Planet, more than the top estimate. At showed just how much can go comments Laboratory(MSL) that can robots, rovers Christie’s over 70% of the lots wrong when estimates are The Economist welcomes your closely study carbon-containing But heating normally breaks surpassed the high estimate, pitched too high: lot after lot in views. compounds, if any show up in the down carbon bonds and destroys some for as much as 12 times the both auctions failed to reach the Five Filters featured article: dozens of planned soil and rock molecular information. price they were expected to fetch. expected prices, including two Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: samples. Eigenbrode found a solution in A rare pair of white porcelain pieces of magnificent white jade PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, The Sample Analysis at Mars the form of bowls, decorated with a copper- that should have had Chinese Term Extraction. (SAM) instrument will carry out tetramethylammonium hydroxide red pattern of peach, buyers queuing up to bid. the initial search for organic in methanol (TMAH), a chemical pomegranate and persimmon, In Christie’s Paris sale a small compounds once MSL lands in that can preserve a sample's seemed to push all the buttons lotus water-dropper made of pale 2012. A robotic arm on the rover molecular structure despite (pictured left). The fruit celadon jade was sensibly will scoop soil and drill rocks for heating -- and can also survive symbolised longevity, fertility described in the catalogue as samples, and a separate device the higher radiation levels on and riches for the Ming Chinese, being from the 18th or 19th deposits the samples in a carousel Mars. -like device containing 74 tiny Such experiments should help tubes. Each filled tube then gets a MSL figure out if conditions on turn inside an oven that bakes the Mars look good for life, even if sample material and releases they aren't designed to directly gases for SAM to analyze. identify past or present life. Let's "Our experiment preserves just hope that this rover survives information on how these its descent and doesn't end up molecules formed," said Jennifer mired in a Martian sand trap. Eigenbrode, a scientist at [ NASA] NASA's Goddard Space Flight E-reader News Edition PopSci/ 71 GOOGLE’S continued from page 69 Manned and Unmanned Google excels. Its plan to launch is selling an “unlocked” version November. a range of phones beginning with of Nexus One directly to It may be no coincidence that the Nexus One is designed to protect consumers who can then choose Quattro deal has been struck Helicopters Most Efficient its lead in the online-advertising their own wireless service plan, now. Rumours abound that Apple arena as traffic switches from but it has also struck deals with will soon launch a tablet-style When Working Together personal computers to smart firms such as T-Mobile in mobile device that combines By Jeremy Hsu (Popular fly the RQ-7 Shadow drone. phones and other portable America and Vodafone in Britain wireless connectivity with a Science - New Technology, Related Articles Air Force devices. who will bundle it with their own sizeable screen that lets users Science News, The Future Reveals Identity of Mysterious The plan is not without risks. services and market it through read e-books and newspapers, Now) Skunkworks Stealth Drone Google will have to tread their traditional outlets. watch films and run software Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:24:49 PM Boeing's Latest Mobile Laser carefully in order to avoid If Google can churn out a series programmes. This would be an Weapon Tracks and Shoots upsetting firms such as Motorola of hit mobile devices it will obvious vehicle for carrying Flying alongside drones might Down Drone Video: An that are using the Android system inevitably butt heads more often online ads. Assuming the iTablet seem a bit strange for U.S. Army Annotated Predator Drone Strike in their own smart phones. with Apple, whose wildly or whatever it is called turns out chopper pilots, but it has major in Afghanistan Tags Technology, Several gadget gurus have popular iPhone has stolen an to be another smash hit for payoffs. The U.S. Army found Jeremy Hsu, army, drones, already anointed Nexus One, increasing share of the smart- Apple, it may not be long before that a mixed flight force of helicopters, kiowa warrior, which boasts some innovative phone market. The tension it has a Google Tablet to contend manned and unmanned manned, pilots, robots, uas, uav, features such as extensive voice- between the two firms has been with too. helicopters could locate and kill unmanned to-text translation capabilities, as growing as both manoeuvre to Back to top ^^ Readers' 90 percent of targets, compared These efforts to integrate the best Android-powered phone grab a bigger share of the mobile- comments to manned helicopter forces that manned and unmanned systems on the market—an accolade that advertising business. As Google The Economist welcomes your located just 70 percent of targets, signal the 21st century battlefield will hardly endear it to rivals unveiled its new phone, it views. according to DOD Buzz. where humans and robots using the same system. emerged that Apple had bought Five Filters featured article: Word of the study came from actively cooperate and share the Google will also have to keep Quattro Wireless, a firm whose Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Colonel Chris Carlile, head of the same ground, sea or airspace. mobile-phone network operators technology allows advertising to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Army's effort to create an The U.S. Air Force has continued happy, at least for a while, in be placed on the screens of Term Extraction. unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to revamp its ranks by training order to maximise distribution of phones and other mobile devices. roadmap. He mentioned one new drone pilots, and many more its new gadget, which is being Quattro competes with AdMob, a example of the lethal boost footsloggers are getting their built by HTC, an experienced company that Google provided by drone cooperation -- hands on technologies that allow Taiwanese manufacturer. Google successfully bid $750m for last an unmanned Kiowa Warrior them to access or control drone helicopter was able to fly several buddies. miles ahead of the main We only expect to hear more helicopter force and tip off stories like this in the near future, piloted Kiowas to eliminate given how well drones and enemies before the helicopters humans have cooperated so far. were spotted. But James Cameron must not The Army anticipates a major have read the tea leaves for his boost in unmanned aircraft with latest blockbuster Avatar, the Quadrennial Defense Review, because those futuristic human and is considering whether to mechs and gunships seemed combine piloted or unpiloted sadly lacking in drone support. Kiowa Warriors with units that [via DOD Buzz] 72 Media/ E-reader News Edition Media Magazine: The Dying of the Light (MediaPost | Media News) The cancellation of Guiding OWN cable network.

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:12:32 PM Light- produced by TeleNext Like Winfrey, could the soaps Media, the production arm of jump to another platform - Has the sand run out of the Procter & Gamble - wasn't a whether it is cable or the Internet hourglass at last, or will soaps surprise, given its chronically last - to ensure their survival? Is it return to their roots? -place ratings amongst the other possible that we might not see There is no denying that daytime soaps and an ill-conceived soaps on the broadcast networks, soap operas - once the cash cows decision to shoot much of the say, 10 years from now? "I can't of the broadcast networks - have show on location in recent years predict what's going to happen a seen better days, and it's safe to in an attempt to make it look like year from now," says Bruce say that we'll never see a return MTV's The Hills(no kidding). Evans, senior vice president of to those heady times when 30 But it was still a blow to soap current series at NBC. million viewers tuned in for Luke fans and the industry when CBS "Everything is changing so and Laura's wedding on General pulled the plug on what was one rapidly. Certainly, there's always Hospital back in 1981. The genre of the most beloved soaps. First much longer? Looking at the don't think that the death of a going to be a desire for content, famous for people returning from broadcast on radio from 1937- media coverage in the wake of show that hadn't won its time and there's always going to be a the dead, evil twins, amnesia and 1956 before transitioning to the cancellation of Guiding Light period in 20 years is a harbinger desire for what viewers get out of babies switched at birth has television in 1952, Guiding Light and then As the World Turns, the of anything other than a late daytime serials. Where there's a suffered a steep ratings decline ultimately became not only the general consensus is that the reaction by CBS to the reality of will, there's a way to get the that began in the mid-1990s longest-running soap opera, but daytime soap opera is, well, dead. that particular program's ratings." programming out there." when the O.J. Simpson trial also the longest-running drama in But Soap Opera Digest editor Brad Adgate, senior vice Last year, NBC started hijacked television, preempting television history. Stephanie Sloane, who has president and director of research streaming Days of Our Lives the soaps and disrupting viewing A few months after Guiding covered the industry for 19 years, for Horizon Media, has this to online and making it available for patterns. More women returning Light was extinguished, CBS maintains that there is life in the say: "The soap opera isn't dead viewing on mobile devices; ABC to the workplace, a plethora of pulled the plug on As the World genre. "Neither Guiding Light yet, but it is withering on the is already airing its own soaps, as syndicated shows and cable Turns late last year. The second nor As the World Turns vine." well as shows from other programming to compete with, longest-running soap opera has performed well in the all- To be fair, soap operas aren't networks on SOAPNet, its own and the rise of online media also until September to play out. important 18-49-year-old alone in facing a shrinking cable network; and you can hit the soaps hard. TeleNext Media is reportedly in demographic, which is what audience on daytime television. watch almost all of the soaps Going back to the early 1990s, search of a new home for As the determines ad dollars, but other Even a powerhouse like The online nowadays. The Young and the Restless, the World Turns, but industry shows are. It's not bad news all Oprah Winfrey Show has lost a Meanwhile, entrepreneurial soap top-rated soap for the last 20 insiders don't see much hope, over the landscape. Success substantial portion of its stars are striking out on their own years, averaged more than 10 especially given that there were stories are out there," Sloane audience. The show, which to produce soap-themed content million viewers per episode no takers for Guiding Light. says, citing Days of Our Lives, averaged 12.6 million viewers for the Internet. Eden Riegel of during the '91-'92 season - now When As the World Turns stops which surged in the women 18- during the '91-'92 season, brings All My Children and her the show brings in around 5 spinning, six daytime soap operas 34 demo last year. in just over 6 million per episode husband, Andrew Miller, million viewers per episode. - ABC's All My Children, Brian Frons, president of today. launched an online soap called Guiding Light, which had 6.5 General Hospital and One Life to daytime for the Disney-ABC While she didn't cite declining "Imaginary Bitches" in 2008, and million viewers watching each Live; CBS' The Bold and the Television Group, also insists ratings as a reason, Oprah the show was nominated for a episode during the '91-'92 season, Beautiful and The Young and the that the end of Guiding Light and Winfrey recently announced that daytime Emmy in the new was drawing little more than 2 Restless; and NBC's Days of Our As the World Turns don't spell her syndicated show will come to approaches category. Late last million viewers per episode when Lives- will remain on network doom and gloom for all daytime an end in 2011, and she will year, As the World Turns alum the show was cut from CBS' television. soaps. Speaking specifically of reportedly debut a new program MEDIA page 75 lineup last year. But the question is: for how Guiding Light, Frons says, "We on her soon-to-be-launched E-reader News Edition Media/ 73 Media Magazine: Double Coverage (MediaPost | Media News) past season saw attendance he's got." somewhat of a new tactic for

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:12:32 PM down, albeit slightly. He also has "I think he loves the business of Broadway. The NFL could ideas how to boost revenues it, but I think he loves the art of promote the play on its Web site Tony Ponturo could connect the through TV-style product it, too," says Sue Frost, a lead (maybe offer a link to buy gridiron and the Great White placement and sponsorships producer on "Memphis." tickets), while airing related Way in ways even Joe Namath common in corporate marketing. As Ponturo chatted that programming on its network. never dreamt of Broadway's appeal differs from December morning in his office, There's also talk of displaying The office is sparsely decorated, many of the marketing venues he was awaiting a script read- memorabilia, such as classic but exemplifies the dichotomy towards which Ponturo directed through and meetings with uniforms, in the theater lobby between a career left and a new A-B. While the company was potential directors. There was and the notion of giving a portion one beginning. A replica Super heavily involved in wide-appeal also a get-together with David of ticket sales to an NFL charity. Bowl trophy is on one side. programming, 70 percent of the Maraniss, whose 1999 biography Borrowing an approach common Directly across are two framed budget was spent in sports. They of Lombardi is the underpinning in corporate America, there could Playbills from Broadway were deeply committed to for the play. also be downstream opportunities productions he's involved in. NASCAR, for example; Choosing a director and a cast of for executives at league sponsors Tony Ponturo sits in a swivel succeeded in putting Bud Light six - including the man who will to attend premiere nights and chair in the middle. The Madison on the mat in Ultimate Fighting play Lombardi - is expected to be receive other special benefits - Avenue maypole left his Championship jousts, but failed completed sometime around something A-B would often do longtime post as Anheuser- to establish an edgy Bud.tv "But I think there's a good chance March. Same goes for a final with distributors and high-level Busch's marketing chief in late online content network. we'll be nominated." script from Eric Simonson, who customers at events with which it 2008, a role that gave him sway And Ponturo may be best known But while those shows keep did a previous play about the was involved. over one of the largest sports for making A-B part of the running, Ponturo is moving full 1960s Green Bay coach that Ponturo knows that to make the marketing budgets around. zeitgeist every year come Super bore into another project that received lackluster reviews. Lombardi show a hit, it will need On this chilly morning, the Bowl time. A cool $20 million finds him in a leading role: a 90- Lombardi's journey - from to attract both devoted affable 57-year-old looks relaxed annually gave it the most spots in minute play about iconic NFL afterthought to the most famous theatergoers as well as football and satisfied, but eager for a new the game, which usually had coach Vince Lombardi, planned coach in the country and winner fans that may never have gone to challenge. And he conveys an people talking the day after. for a late 2010 debut. of Super Bowls - is an unlikely a Broadway show before. easy optimism about what the As an entrepreneur and avid Ponturo is a coshow runner with one. A mystique unlike any other Ponturo uses a metaphor of next decade will bring. theatergoer for years, Ponturo's fellow general partner Fran surrounds him. appealing to both a left and right Ponturo formed his own multi- entrée into Broadway began with Kirmser, a Broadway veteran he With Ponturo moving ahead on a side of the orchestra. (Potential faceted firm a year ago. He made the revival of "Hair" last spring, met working on "Hair." Yin to project that could cost $3 million benefit: Green Bay fans are some investments and joined where he and his wife are Ponturo's yang, Kirmser is -plus just to get to opening night, known as some of the most rabid some boards. But more than associate producers. Those so- handling much of the creative he is flexing his marketing in the NFL and just might sell out anything, his passion now seems called "below the title" roles side, while Ponturo oversees the acumen by linking with the NFL, the theater by themselves.) to be landing shows in the famed means they were mostly business end, though he's also one of the most powerful brands A sign how Ponturo's theater strips off Times Square. investors, but with some closely involved with the artistic. around. Details are still being connections forged through 33 This is no dalliance; no vanity involvement in decision-making. "A lot of times in theater there hammered out, but the league has years in advertising are likely to play. He's investing some of the "Hair" led to a larger, coproducer are people like me who were increasingly embraced its past of serve him well in Broadway is millions of dollars he left A-B role in "Memphis" this fall. The dancers and actors that have sort late, and Lombardi is something how the NFL first became with. And he's looking to bring show, set during the early days of of worked their way to the other of its patron saint (his name is on involved. A breakfast some of his marketing acumen to rock 'n' roll, is likely to be a side of the stage," Kirmser says. the Super Bowl trophy). conversation with Roger Goodell energize an industry that often contender for a best musical "So, we don't come from a The league is not expected to be sufficiently intrigued the league's overlooks the promotional part of Tony this year. "You don't want an investor, but Ponturo hopes to business background and don't MEDIA page 76 the business. It may need it; the to jinx anything," Ponturo says. have the marketing knowledge draft off its promotional heft - 74 Media/ E-reader News Edition Media Magazine: Webisoaps Keep the World Turning (MediaPost | Media News) months of Guiding Light, popular soap opera actresses in

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:12:32 PM announced that Jessica Leccia, the history of the genre, stars in the actress who played her the upcoming action-drama "The Watching episodes of today's girlfriend on GL, would play her Bannen Way," set to debut in low-budget, limited-run Web lover on the Web series. Sure January on Crackle. (If the soaps (with their average running enough, "Venice" opened with a sensationally cinematic trailer for times of approximately five PG-13 bedroom make-out scene Kin Shriner of General Hospital, nominated for a Daytime Emmy "Bannen" is an accurate depiction minutes), it is difficult to imagine between the two, indicating that Lisa Peluso of Loving, Anna in the New of what's to come, this series the genre developing into Chappell meant what she said in Stuart of Another World, Kurt Approaches/Entertainment could do for Web programming something that might rival or recent interviews about taking McKinney and Maeve Kincaid of category and was honored in what Avatar will do for movies.) replace the daytime dramas of advantage of the greater creative Guiding Light and Brianne 2009 with two Webby Awards. "Bannen" isn't a Web soap, but broadcast television. But freedom the Web can provide. ( Moncrief of All My Children. The first season is now available Marcil's involvement and her remember, television soaps in GL fans had clamored for love Most Web soaps are taking on DVD and a feature film enduring connection to the soap their infancy ran for only 15 scenes between the two, but shape with early (and minimal) adaptation is in development. opera community are doing a lot minutes and were shot with static physical contact between them financial backing and no active Guiding Light veterans to help generate publicity for it. cameras in black and white (and was kept to a minimum.) Filmed business model, though "Venice" Lawrence Saint-Victor and Karla And then there's "Empire," an those were a quantum leap from on location in Venice Beach, is an exception. Chappell decided Mosley have also hit the Web instantly addictive serial drama the radio serials before them). In Calif., "Venice" also features early on to charge viewers $9.99 with "Wed-Locked," a series that doesn't feature any soap the '50s and early '60s, it was Galen Gering of Passions, Nadia for each season of 12 episodes. about a young couple opera stars in its cast, but should. unimaginable that soaps would Bjorlin of Days of Our Lives, (The first episode is free.) Should humorously navigating the It plays like a soap; it is great fun blossom into the handsomely Tina Sloan and Jordan Clarke of "Venice" amass enough minutiae of modern marriage. and it deserves the kind of produced, big-budget Guiding Light and Hillary B. subscribers through this pay-per- Much like Riegel with "Bitches," attention it would receive if a extravaganzas that they became Smith of One Life to Live, season model to finance Saint-Victor and Mosley aren't so soap actor or two were featured in the '80s and early '90s. among other soap stars. It looks production, Chappell will have much trying to produce a soap on its canvas. Still, there is much for soap great, though the first two indeed broken new ground. opera for the Internet as deliver So far, none of these Web soaps opera enthusiasts to be excited episodes are compromised by There has recently been a something new that would likely come close to the slick about as a new decade in Internet uneven sound quality. significant migration of soap never be seen on television. professionalism of "The Lake," a content development begins. "Gotham," created by and opera talent from television to the Perhaps because of its relative teen serial that debuted last (The same holds true for starring As the World Turns Internet, particularly actors who intimacy, "Wed-Locked" has a summer on thewb.com. "The advertisers who understand that alumna Martha Byrne, opened in are looking to develop their own certain sexy charm about it that Lake" was produced and directed there are no viewers of video November on a somewhat quieter material and, ideally, create new the more ambitious "Venice" and by Jason Priestley and sponsored entertainment who are as loyal to note, moving a bit too quickly in jobs for themselves. (They're also "Gotham" are missing. by Johnson & Johnson's Clean & shows and sponsors as soap its premiere to introduce a seeking to remain visible in the Meanwhile, former General Clear skin care for teens. Filled fans.) The two latest entries in handful of its characters and plot entertainment community and Hospital star Tristan Rogers is with fresh-faced young actors the Web soap arena, "Venice" threads in under three minutes. hold on to as much of their fan developing a multiplatform and actresses frolicking in the and "Gotham," are well-stocked But its lush settings and fine base as possible.) Former All My online serial titled "Reality sun, some of whom were seen with popular stars from past and fashions (supplied by Nicole Children star Eden Riegel paved Bytes." One Life to Live actor using the product line during the present daytime dramas. Miller, with much onscreen the way in 2008 with "Imaginary Nicholas Gonzalez can be seen in drama of it all, "The Lake" was "Venice" became an online credit) made clear that with time Bitches," an online series about a "Then We Got Help!" an ongoing the perfect Web union of serial sensation long before its and resources it could develop lonely young woman who creates Web drama about four couples in and sponsor. Which puts the soap December debut when cocreator into a slick, sophisticated serial. two imaginary friends that turn therapy that should appeal to fans right back where it started. and star Crystal Chappell, who The soap stars on its roster out to be very outspoken and of HBO's In Treatment. Another Read more about soaps in " The was featured in a popular lesbian include Michael Park and Paolo demanding. More a comedy than General Hospital alumna, MEDIA page 75 love story during the final Seganti of As the World Turns, a true soap opera, "Bitches" was Vanessa Marcil, one of the most E-reader News Edition 75 MEDIA continued from page 72 Martha Byrne debuted "Gotham," month - okay, technically, it is a ABC, for one, has done a and Campbell's was featured as similar story line and product while Crystal Chappell, of Days cost-cutting move, but Pine number of integration deals an in-show sponsor of a luncheon integration for the V8 brand of Our Lives, produced "Venice: Valley's production values will lately, including one that had celebrating the new wing; One through CBS last year, gaining The Series," for which she hopes actually go up, and the show will references to the Rob Marshall Life to Live found iconic exposure on all of the network's to sell subscriptions or fund be seen in HD come February; feature film Nine written into characters Viki Davidson, who soaps. Over at NBC, Days of Our through sponsorships. and SOAPNet has also had some episodes of All My Children, has a history of heart disease, and Lives has done product Clearly, these three soap stars good news ratings-wise - ABC's One Life to Live and General Dorian Lord putting aside their placement deals with brands such see potential for the soap outside soap cable network posted its Hospital in December. Those differences to cohost the second- as Cheerios, and the show is of broadcast television. In fact, seventh consecutive quarter of Nine mentions got extra play annual Go Red Ball sponsored by currently working on an for all of the talk about the soap viewership increases last because each episode was shown Campbell's; and over at General integration deal for an unnamed opera being dead, the genre is November, with the third quarter an additional four times on Hospital, Maxie, the recipient of client that will have a social abuzz with activity these days. of 2009 becoming SOAPNet's SOAPNet. a heart transplant, got a look at networking component to it, Film star James Franco began a most-watched quarter in total The ABC soaps - as well as The what her life would have been Evans reports. guest stint on General Hospital in viewers in prime and total day. View- were also part of a four- like without the gift. Reaction to the increased November at his request, and he And let's not forget that despite show story line and product "In the final analysis, we wound amount of product placement on penned an op-ed on the audience erosion in the United integration for Campbell's in up having over a half-hour's the soaps these days is mixed, experience last month for The States, The Bold and the support of the American Heart worth of daytime content just though. "I've seen criticism of Wall Street Journal(guess Soap Beautiful is still a huge hit all Association's Go Red for Women devoted to our story lines, and we product placement from fans and Opera Digest or Entertainment over the world. Syndicated in Movement. Mediaedge:cia thought it was a very impactful people in the industry, but this is Weekly would have been 100 foreign markets, the show is brokered the deal for the way to get the message out," the new reality," Sloane says. stooping for the Columbia estimated to have a daily program, which ran in February Tiranno says, noting, "We "There may be better ways to University student), maintaining worldwide audience of 450 2009 as well as February 2008. wanted the viewers to be integrate the products, where it's that his excursion into the world million - that's right, 450 million "The reality is, soap operas are educated, but we also wanted not as glaring, but if we want of daytime soaps qualified as - viewers. the place to be if you want to them to be entertained, and the these shows to succeed, and this performance art. "My hope was There are plenty of advertisers reach older women," explains soap operas gave us a wonderful is what they need to do, then so for people to ask themselves if who still see value in the daytime Christine Tiranno, opportunity to do that." be it." Read about the future of soap operas are really that far soap, especially when it comes to Mediaedge:cia's director of Additionally, throughout the the soap in " Will Webisoaps from entertainment that is product integration, which, after national television, noting that month, ABC Daytime talent Keep the World Turning?" considered critically legitimate," all, is how the form originated - ABC soaps delivered Campbell's delivered messages about heart Five Filters featured article: he wrote. first in newspapers and then on message to two key demos: health via interstitials that aired Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: While Franco's thesis was rather radio serials. You're seeing more women 35 plus and women 25- throughout the daytime lineup PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, pretentious, it certainly stirred up of it on the soaps these days, 54. and on SOAPNet. There were Term Extraction. talk about the often-maligned marking a return to the glory Campbell's and Mediaedge:cia also commercials running during soap. days when the soaps - the worked on the story lines with each of the daytime soaps, In other news, All My Children original branded content - were the writers of the shows: On All touting Campbell's heart-healthy is shifting production from New sponsored by the soap My Children, Pine Valley foods. York City to Los Angeles this manufacturers. Hospital opened a cardiac wing, Mediaedge:cia brokered a MEDIA continued from page 74 Dying of the Light" PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Five Filters featured article: Term Extraction. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: 76 Media/ E-reader News Edition MEDIA continued from page 73 commissioner. to 10 to 20 Broadway shows a I would hope that we've found a marketing executive. The NFL has had relationships year. decent way to do some things But the marketing budget on with many films, notably the When the couple lived in St. with the Lombardi project; there Broadway pales beside A-B's. On recent Sandra Bullock tearjerker Louis - A-B's base - Ruthe seems to be a natural opportunity average, for a play, ticket sales The Blind Side, but never has it taught high school and directed there," Ponturo says. (A similar need to pull in between $225,000 taken a gambit on the Broadway musicals. The pair met when they effort for "Memphis" with some to $300,000 a week just to cover stage. were both pages at NBC, when beer brands didn't work out.) operating costs. Perhaps $40,000 "The commissioner said 'Why Ruth was aspiring to a Broadway To be sure, product integration is to $50,000 of that is available for don't we take a look at this and career. not entirely new on Broadway. advertising, making efficiency take it on; it seems like As Ponturo looks to bring some Hormel linked with "Monty key. Media something that could be very new marketing and revenue- Python's Spamalot," Red Bull Broadway marketing is also interesting.'" says Tracy Perlman, generating concepts to appeared on stage in "Legally increasingly moving online. A-B who runs entertainment Broadway, high on the list is Blonde," and the musical inspired has boosted its budgets there in Magazine: marketing for the league. expanding product integration by the Tom Hanks movie "Big" recent years with initiatives from By the end of Ponturo's 26 years onstage. Weaving brands into was set in FAO Schwarz. And the failed Bud.tv to social media. Fast Forward at A-B, he headed global media film and TV has boomed in Ponturo's involvement in the "You can be much more specific (MediaPost | Media News) and sports marketing and ran the recent years - A-B has done its Lombardi show, by sheer dint of in targeting an audience (via the company's in-house media group. share - and Ponturo sees no his experience, might be enough Web) and more than half the Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:12:32 PM He made multiple efforts in reason why marketers can't be to attract a CMO. tickets for Broadway are sold January columns are always branded entertainment, and some persuaded to get involved. That "Tony is a smart marketer," says online," says Alan Wasser, who ones for waxing on about the minor attempts at Broadway ties. could stretch from rudimentary ESPN's head of sales, Ed Erhardt, manages shows such as year ahead. And, rest assured, I Those included the musical "In product placement to maybe a a friend with whom he frequently "Phantom of the Opera." will, but first let me talk a little the Heights," with which A-B spot in a script, so long as it attended Broadway shows. "He As Ponturo embarks on a new about the year behind - very envisioned a marketing doesn't tinker with authenticity. clearly looks at every situation as stage, he's eager for another act little. It sucked. It sucked so partnership. Ponturo hoped the "It's a provocative channel from an opportunity to connect brands that could be "more interesting much so, that I watched a lot of company could use the show to the standpoint of planning how to with the content in the right way. and more enlightening than just good people - really good people appeal to a Hispanic audience, get a message across," says That's one of the things I'm to rehash what I've already done. - get displaced. which in turn would bring Gregg Pruitt, a MediaCom looking forward to watching "It's just moving the ball Luckily, we at MEDIA mag, and publicity for the show. But the executive who has worked in going forward." forward," he says. our parent MediaPost, came producers wanted more cash theater. There is also a feeling on That's a metaphor that fits. away virtually unscathed. We upfront and didn't share his A play may only reach 8,000 to Broadway that new marketing Read Ponturo's thoughts on didn't let a single person go. But vision. "I felt they missed the real 10,000 people a week, but it can methods are needed, and some whether or not Bud will drop the we did tighten our belts, and you opportunity which was the bring an upscale, highly are looking to Ponturo for bowl. may have noticed our reduced marketing," Ponturo says. educated, captive audience guidance. There weren't many Five Filters featured article: midriff in the form of diminished Even as he was buying loads of advertisers chase elsewhere. venues A-B didn't at least Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: frequency of this very magazine. sports advertising, Ponturo Ponturo is optimistic that the experiment with - giving him a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, We didn't make any noise about maintained a personal interest in Lombardi show will yield some wide vantage point. Term Extraction. it, but we went to an every-other- theater, partly driven by his wife, deals. The coach's era was before "He's innovative and he looks at month frequency in 2009, and Ruthe. He went to 27 straight Gatorade dousings, but maybe he doing things in a fresh way," says we're going to get even less Super Bowls, but was also going had a Pepsi machine in his office. Jim O'Connell, a NASCAR frequent in 2010. But in a way, that may be a good thing. Following this January issue, we

MEDIA page 77 E-reader News Edition Media/ 77 MEDIA MEDIADAILYNEWS continued from page 76 continued from page 77 are going quarterly. The good hear from you about that, and, as MediaPost, we did not pick some conventional marketing networks. It argues that the news is that the issues will be always, you can reach me at unit of Starcom MediaVest organization, but to an array of amount is "substantially lower" bigger, and hopefully better. [email protected]. Group as our Agency of the innovative, but also quite than the rates for networks with Among other things, we're Some of the themes we're going Year. Don't get me wrong, SMG insidious, marketers known as comparable performances. making the guest editor role that to be addressing in the quarters was good - really good - in 2009. "malvertisers," who have found Scripps argues the cable we previously have used for our ahead are: screens - how There were just some loopholes in online advertising company's latest offer to keep the annual Future of Media Issue a marketers are innovating and organizations that did a better job business practices and networks on its air would still permanent fixture. So each of the changing the way they think of delivering on the criteria we technology that have enabled make Food Network among the upcoming quarterlies will have a about and use media; and, of use for selecting them: strategic them to propagate in new and "lowest paid" on its line-up. special outsider working with us course, our annual FOM issue vision, innovation and industry alarming ways. Cablevision maintains the rate as editor. Some, as Bob Guccione will be tied to its namesake leadership. Read on, and As for 2010, well, anything's got increases Scripps is seeking are Jr. did for our 2008 Future of forum during Advertising Week hopefully you'll agree with our to be better than the year we've excessive. Media issue, may play a pretty in September. Our sister rationale for choosing Havas' left behind. But I think it's going "If Scripps wanted people in this hands-on editing role (believe magazine, OMMA, will continue MPG as Media Agency of the to be better than many people market to see "Iron Chef," they me, he did). Others, like 2009 to publish as a monthly. Year, and Interpublic's expect. While the macro shouldn't have irresponsibly FOM guest editor Alex Bogusky, (Apparently there's more demand Mediabrands as Media Agency economy will be the ultimate yanked their programming off may play more of a thematic, for print magazines focused Holding Company of the Year determinant, I do believe that the Cablevision, effectively holding curatorial role, steering the primarily on digital media - go for 2009, not to mention Publicis' media industry is going to help their own viewers hostage in overall idea behind the issue. In figure.) Spark as Media Boutique, and stimulate, not be a drag on its pursuit of a $20 million annual any case, I'm excited about all the Meanwhile, you may notice Hulu as Media Supplier of the growth. rate increase," Cablevision said possibilities, and possible guest something else that's different Year. We did have one repeat Five Filters featured article: in a statement. "That's not editors. But I only know what I about this issue of MEDIA again this year. Actually, it was a Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: 'pennies,' as Scripps has know, and as Bogusky put it this magazine: The inclusion of our threepeat that went to Goodby, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, claimed." past September, I don't even annual Agency of the Year Silverstein & Partners, for Media Term Extraction. Scripps and Cablevision have know what I don't know. What awards supplement. And, as you Department of the Year. been running a substantial do you know? More specifically, may already know, there's But the most unusual part of this number of ads in order to build who can you think of who would something unusual about those year's awards probably is our support for their positions in the make an interesting guest editor awards, too. For the first time in selection for Media Client of the MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 78 of MEDIA magazine? I'd love to the six years I've been at Year, which went not to a MediaDailyNews: Food, HGTV Nets Air On Tribune (MediaPost | Media News) of its networks' popularity and since the beginning of the year. Bobby Flay. Both Food and HGTV are top-

Submitted at 1/6/2010 12:29:02 PM prompt them to lobby The Tribune stations in New 20 networks by one measure in Cablevision to alter its demands York and Hartford, Conn., both It would appear to be a good the cable rankings in the adult 25 With Scripps' networks group in the increasingly contentious in Cablevision territory, have deal for the stations, which run -to-54 demo and are experiencing pulling HGTV and Food matter. each cleared two prime-time the programming free from large ratings increases. Network off the Cablevision Tribune has a financial stake in hours this Sunday for a re-airing Scripps and get to sell the ad time Scripps is seeking higher system in a fee dispute, the the contretemps; it has a 30% of a Food Network "Iron Chef" and garner the full revenues. carriage fees from Cablevision, company has turned to an ally -- ownership stake in the Food special. (It aired on Food on Jan. Each CW affiliate normally airs saying the operator has been Tribune -- for help. Network. The channel, along 3.) movies in the time slot. paying it 25 cents a month per Scripps will air re-runs on with HGTV, has been dark in The "Iron Chef" special involved In addition, an HGTV special subscriber to offer the two Tribune-owned broadcast millions of Cablevision homes in the head White House chef and will also air on the stations at 3 stations, hoping to remind people the extended New York area notables Emeril Lagasse and p.m. on Friday. MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 77 78 E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition MEDIADAILYNEWS continued from page 77 Will E-Readers Help Spread Knowledge, Or Wall debate. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: It Off? Here's A Scorecard That We Can Use PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) (Yahoo! News Search Results knowledge than arguably we've had writing and is 5. Free options are more widely for e-readers) anything else in history. Ideas everpresent even today (see available. There are a few

Submitted at 1/6/2010 9:15:07 AM and arts once only accessible to churches burning Harry Potter, libraries experimenting with the wealthy and privileged fatwas against Danish lending Kindles, but this is a DMC Worldwide Upendra Shardanand is the Chief became available to everyone. cartoonists, and China). violation of Amazon's Terms of Introduces Suite of Executive Officer and Founder of The e-book movement could be a 7. Books last longer. At least as Service. FAIL COPIA E-Readers Daylife, which helps publishers force to democratize knowledge long as a paper book. 6. Books are harder to censor. add content and inventory even further – or not. Today, e-books are such a small Amazon answered that one when (Business Wire via without additional staff or There are plenty of scorecards to percentage of the book market it magically caused 1984 to Yahoo! Finance) engineering. He also co-founded compare the myriad technical that they really have no impact at disappear from customers' (Yahoo! News Search Results Firefly Network, a spinoff from specifications of e-readers. Now all. But just for kicks, and Kindles. When the Chinese for e-readers) his work at the MIT Media Lab, we need one to help evaluate because the Kindle is the government asked Google that he sold to Microsoft. whether a particular set of e-book dominant e-reader (with an (NasdaqGS: GOOG- News) to Submitted at 1/6/2010 5:01:00 AM Plenty of holiday shoppers spent rules would be a net positive or estimated six out of every 10 get rid of all references to the LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS hours puzzling over which e- negative for society at large. devices sold), let's tally how the Falun Gong and Tiananmen WIRE)-- DMC reader to purchase, comparing In my view, the rise of e-books hit Amazon (NasdaqGS: AMZN- Square massacre, Google Worldwide(DMCWW), a leading traits like screen size and battery will have a profoundly positive News) device fares using this complied. FAIL enterprise and consumer life, and weighing non-tech specs impact on the world if: scorecard. 7. Books last longer. Digital technology company, today like the utility of being able to 1. Books are cheaper. The less 1. Books are cheaper. Only if you books can last forever. (Provided introduced its suite of COPIA ( lend a book once for 14 days expensive they are, the more are a bookworm and buy enough Amazon doesn't choose to follow www.thecopia.com) e- (Nook) and the whether it matters people can read them. books to defray the cost of the the music industry and work hard readers and related accessories. that a company (Amazon) can 2. There is a better secondary Kindle. For the average reader, to make your old media The e-readers, branded OCEAN delete a customer's books if it market. Used books are more FAIL obsolete.) WIN and TIDAL, are full-featured chooses. affordable and circulate long 2. There is a better secondary Two up, five down. It's clear that wireless reading devices that But there's another, more after the title is out of print. market. Not only not cheaper, but if we're going to do well on this enable users to connect with profound question about e- 3. Books are easier to share. Or actually nonexistent. Amazon's scorecard, the e-reader market the COPIA ( www.thecopia.com) readers that gets very little hand down to your kids, donate terms of service explicitly doesn't will have to be a competitive one. community to discover, enjoy, attention from the army of to a book drive, or leave on your allow you to "sell, rent, lease, As an optimist and technophile, I share and purchase digital journalists scrutinizing every bell stoop for passers-by to take. distribute, broadcast, sublicense hope for the best. But some content including books, and whistle on the devices. E- 4. There are more books. And or otherwise assign any rights" to vigilance couldn't hurt. newspapers and magazines. book sales will disrupt not just more knowledge, more your e-books. FAIL What do you think? Will there The COPIA e-readers offer an the publishing industry and the information, more perspective. 3. Books are easier to share. Not be a happy ending to the story? immersive and connected reading act of reading – it will 5. Free options are more widely unless you're willing to part with Five Filters featured article: experience. The suite dramatically alter the availability available. Such as a library your Kindle for a few days. FAIL Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: includes both monochrome e- to knowledge in our society. Will (thanks to robber baron Andrew 4. There are more books. Given PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, paper-based touchscreens and this disruption be for better or Carnegie for building thousands). trivial reproduction costs and Term Extraction. worse? 6. Books are harder to censor. Or infinite shelf space, it's safe to DMC page 79 The printing press and public recall or delete. Censorship has assume more books will be libraries did more to democratize been a consistent threat as long as available. WIN E-reader News Edition 79 DMC continued from page 78 panels with robust Wi-Fi or a compelling social networking CES 2010, Central Hall, Booth • ePaper display The DMC Worldwide family of 3G wireless connectivity and experience, collaboration and #9817. To schedule a •QWERTY soft keypad companies has sold advanced color e-readers intuitive shared discovery with briefing, please contact • 6” screen hundreds of millions of consumer designed for rich content. Each meaningful reading content. [email protected]. • 600 x 800 pixels electronics products by device is designed to extend Students, as well as book groups, Product Specifications • Size: 124 x 170 x 8.9 mm leveraging its robust mature the collaborative online can highlight, annotate and The COPIA lineup of OCEAN • 2 GB internal memory infrastructure. The DMC experience of COPIA, a device- connect to each other and TIDAL e-readers consists of • ePaper display Worldwide family of companies agnostic platform that DMC directly from the COPIA e- six devices designed to meet • 6” capacitive touchscreen includes DMC Capital Funding, Worldwide unveiled today. readers to the online COPIA the needs of all reading levels. • 600 x 800 pixels LLC, a leading private equity “The COPIA platform – community. Specs for each device • Size: 124 x 170 x 8.9 mm company focused on including the online community, Broad Access to Content include: • 4-directional tilt-sensor strategic investments in middle- e-commerce engine and The COPIA e-reader users will OCEAN 9 OCEAN 9 3G • Robust WiFi (802.11b/g) market, technology product broad suite of devices – were have access to a compelling array OCEAN 6 TIDAL TIDAL • 4 GB internal memory companies; Xact Technology, designed to satisfy consumers’ of content across best-sellers, TOUCH TIDAL TOUCH 3G • Micro SD card slot LLC, a leading provider of GPS ferocious appetite for content popular titles, textbooks, public • ePaper display • Earphone jack and microphone tracking solutions; and consumption, as well as a shared domain titles and an array of • 9”capacitive touchscreen • ePaper display Cocoon Innovations, LLC, a experience,” said Ben Lowinger, additional entertainment content, • 768 x 1024 pixels • 6” capacitive touchscreen leading provider of personal EVP, DMC Worldwide. “The with new content being • Size: 162.8 x 207.8 x 11 mm • 600 x 800 pixels organization and protection devices match perfectly to added daily. Current and future • 4-directional tilt-sensor • Size: 124 x 170 x 8.9 mm systems. The company is the experience of reading a book, content agreements can be • Robust WiFi (802.11b/g) • 4-directional tilt-sensor headquartered in New York magazine or newspaper, and found at• 4 GB internal memory • 3G connectivity City with offices in Hong Kong. both TheCopia.com and COPIA www.thecopia.com/press. • Micro SD card slot • 4-directional tilt-sensor For more information, please e-readers offer a compelling Pricing and Availability • Earphone jack and microphone • Robust WiFi (802.11b/g) visit http://www.dmcww.com. online and hardware The COPIA e-readers will be • ePaper display • 4 GB internal memory Photos/Multimedia Gallery platform to deliver entertainment available for purchase online in • 9”capacitive touchscreen • Micro SD card slot Available: content through an experience April 2010 and at retail by • 768 x 1024 pixels • Earphone jack and microphone http://www.businesswire.com/cgi which creates communities, June 2010 with prices ranging • Size: 162.8 x 207.8 x 11 mm About Distribution Management - drives commerce and fosters from $199- $299 (MSRP). • 4-directional tilt-sensor Consolidators Worldwide bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6132591&lang collaboration.” TheCopia.com will begin its • 3G connectivity DMC Worldwide (DMCWW) =en Key features of the COPIA e- private, limited-invitation beta in • Robust WiFi (802.11b/g) is a leading enterprise and MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: readers include: Jan. 2010. The public beta • 4 GB internal memory consumer technology http://www.businesswire.com/cgi The Connected Experience will launch in March 2010. • Micro SD card slot company with a heritage that -bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6132591 COPIA e-reader users can For more information on the •Earphone jack and microphone spans more than 40 years Five Filters featured article: instantly connect to COPIA e-readers, including hi- • ePaper display investing in, developing, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: TheCopia.com, a device- resolution images and a press • 6” capacitive touchscreen manufacturing and distributing PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, agnostic, online destination that release on the entire COPIA • 600 x 800 pixels cutting-edge consumer Term Extraction. enables readers of all ages to solution, please visit • Size: 125 x 170 x 11 mm electronics products. The experience a completely new way TheCopia.com media web site at • 4-directional tilt-sensor company holds deep expertise in to discover, enjoy, share and www.thecopia.com/press. • Robust WiFi (802.11b/g) sales channel development, purchase books, newspapers, DMC Worldwide will display the • 4 GB internal memory supply chain management sales, magazines and a wide variety of COPIA e-reader lineup and demo • Micro SD card slot marketing, distribution and digital content. COPIA combines the COPIA experience at • Earphone jack and microphone customer service and support. 80 E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition Copia Challenges Amazon, B&N and Sony: Unveils New E- Book Platform and 6 E-Readers (ReadWriteWeb) (Yahoo! News Search Results Users can highlight and annotate though, the company's plan to for e-readers) books, for example, and share sell both e-books and compatible

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:54:40 AM these annotations with other e-readers looks a lot like users. Copia will also implement Amazon's strategy and there can Copia's private, limited- a rating system for book reviews. be no doubt that Amazon has invitation beta will launch this OEM's will be able to offer all of been quite successful with this month. The company plans to these features to their users as strategy. Copia, however, doesn't expand this beta in March. well. OEMs will also be able to have any name recognition yet Copia bills itself as a hybrid integrate Copia's e-book store and the e-book market is solution, as the company plans to into their own devices. Copia's E- currently dominated by big offer both consumer-facing e- Readers: Ocean and Tidal companies like Amazon, B&N book solutions as well as an open Copia plans to offer 6 different e and Sony. If Copia is successful platform for OEMs. -readers with prices ranging from in getting enough OEM partners, Focus on Social Networking $199 to $299. The 'Tidal' will though, it could establish itself as Features offer a 6-inch ePaper display and another major player in the On the consumer side, Copia the 'Ocean' will come in a basic 6 market. The company's e-reader wants to differentiate itself from -inch version and two advanced lineup also looks like a potential its competition by giving its users versions with a 9-inch screens. the high-end versions will offer Can This Work? winner. a number of social networking Both of these models will come touchscreens and 3G We still have a lot of questions Five Filters featured article: tools. Community profiles on in three different variations. The connectivity. All models come about Copia. We don't know at Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Copia, for example, are linked to most basic models will not offer with tilt sensors and 4GB of what price the company plans to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. any wireless connectivity besides internal memory. sell books and what DRM- Term Extraction. In addition, the service will offer WiFi and won't offer a These devices will go on sale on solution Copia plans to collaboration tools that are touchscreen. The intermediate Copia's site in April. implement. At the same time, mostly geared towards students. models offer touchscreens and E-reader News Edition Gallup Poll/ 81 Democratic Support Dips Below Majority Level in 2009 (All Gallup Headlines) by the 38.6% average of 2007.

Submitted at 1/6/2010 6:00:00 AM Longer term, however, the 2000s showed a decline in political PRINCETON, NJ -- The year independence compared to the 2009 marked the end of a three- 1990s, with an average of 36.8% year run of majority Democratic of Americans identifying as support among U.S. adults. Last political independents from 1990 year, an average of 49.0% of -1999, compared with 34.8% Americans identified as from 2000-2009. Meanwhile, the Democrats or said they leaned proportion of Americans Democratic, the party's first identifying as Republicans was a yearly average below 50% since point higher in the 2000s (30.9%) 2005. Still, Democrats than in the 1990s (29.9%), while maintained an average eight- Democratic support was steady at point advantage in support over 33.3% in both decades. Republicans last year, as 40.7% Gallup did not begin regularly of Americans identified as measuring leaned party Republicans or leaned identification until 1991. But the Republican. average percentage of The 2009 results are based on Republicans and Republican- aggregated data from all Gallup year. In the first quarter of 2009, several years of the George W. point drop in the percentage of leaning independents was similar and USA Today/Gallup polls coincident with the beginning of Bush administration have Democratic-leaning in the 1990s (42.5%) and the conducted last year, the Obama administration, disappeared. independents. 2000s (42.6%), as was the encompassing interviews with Democrats enjoyed one of the Gallup's Daily tracking data Rise in Independence in 2009 percentage of Democrats and more than 21,000 Americans. In largest advantages for either showed similar trends in 2009. One other notable development Democratic-leaning independents each poll, Gallup asks Americans party since 1991, 13 percentage Though total Republican support in the 2009 party identification (47.6% from 1991 to 1999, and whether they consider themselves points (51.7% of Americans did increase last year, this came data is an increase in the 47.9% from 2000 to 2009). Republicans, Democrats, or identified as Democrats or leaned mostly from what can be percentage of Americans These decade-long averages independents. Independents are Democratic, versus 38.7% who considered "soft support." The identifying themselves initially as suggest much long-term stability subsequently asked if they lean to identified as or leaned increase in overall GOP support political independents (regardless in party preferences, even though the Republican or Democratic Republican). In each subsequent is owing to an increase in the of whether they subsequently these preferences can move in the Party."The increase in overall quarter, the percentage of percentage of Republican-leaning said they leaned to either party). short term. GOP support is owing to an Democratic supporters declined, independents, from 11% in the The 36.6% of Americans who Sign up for Gallup e-mail alerts increase in the percentage of and by the fourth quarter, the first quarter to 15% in the third identified themselves as or RSS feeds Republican-leaning Democratic advantage had and fourth quarters. The independents in 2009 was up Get Gallup news on Facebook independents, from 11% in the shrunk to 5 points (47.2% to percentage of Americans with a from 34.9% in 2008. and Twitter first quarter to 15% in the third 42.2%). stronger attachment to the GOP - It is not unusual for the Survey Methods and fourth quarters." The five-point party gap in the - those who initially identify percentage of independents to Results are based on aggregated The 2009 yearly averages do not fourth quarter of 2009 represents themselves as Republicans -- was increase in a non-election year. data from Gallup polls conducted tell the whole story of changes in the smallest Democratic stable and, if anything, showed a But the 2009 average did mark in 2009, each based on telephone party support last year, as they to advantage since the second slight decline over the course of the second-highest percentage of interviews with 1,000 or more some degree obscure the sharp quarter of 2005. Thus, the gains the year. Also, there was a two- Americans calling themselves national adults, aged 18 and decline in the Democrats' the Democratic Party made in point drop in the percentage of independents in the just- advantage over the course of the public support during the last Democratic identifiers and a two- completed decade, eclipsed only DEMOCRATIC page 83 82 Gallup Poll/ E-reader News Edition Obama Starts 2010 With 50% Approval (All Gallup Headlines)

Submitted at 1/5/2010 8:00:00 PM PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama begins his second year as president with 50% of Americans approving and 44% disapproving of his overall job performance. This is well below the 68% approval rating Obama received in his first few days as president, and matches his average for all of December -- which included many days when public support for him fell slightly below that important symbolic threshold. The latest job approval score is based on Gallup Daily tracking from Jan. 2-4, 2010 -- the first Gallup Daily survey conducted entirely within the new year."Obama enjoys 84% approval from Democrats, but closer to 50% approval from independents (currently 47%) and minimal support from Republicans (14%)." President Obama has been walking the public opinion tightrope represented by the 50% job approval line since about mid -November, with his rating wavering between 47% and 53%. rating in his second year as Reagan's was (44% vs. 40%). presidents (other than Obama) to where they have stood in However, even when 47% of president is among the lowest for The 50% approval threshold is with the lowest approval ratings recent weeks. Obama enjoys 84% Americans approved of Obama's elected presidents since Dwight important because no sitting at this stage of their White House approval from Democrats, but overall job performance (in early Eisenhower. Only Ronald president whose average careers were both re-elected, and closer to 50% approval from December), slightly fewer Reagan -- who, like Obama, took approval rating fell below this one of those with the highest independents (currently 47%) Americans (46%) disapproved. office during challenging level in the year he ran for re- approval ratings (George H.W. and minimal support from Obama has yet to see his job economic times -- began his election succeeded in winning a Bush) was not. Republicans (14%). A majority approval rating descend to the second year in office with a second term. However, it may Generation and Gender Gaps of nonwhites nationwide (76%) point that more Americans lower approval score (49%). not have much significance According to the Jan. 2-4 data, approve of the job he is doing, disapprove than approve. However, Obama's disapproval relative to re-election at the views of Obama among various Still, Obama's initial approval rating is slightly higher than beginning of year two, as the two population subgroups are similar OBAMA page 83 E-reader News Edition 83 OBAMA DEMOCRATIC continued from page 82 continued from page 81 compared with fewer than half of that means his position with the and Twitter older. For results based on the question wording and practical whites (41%). Regionally, American public in 2010 starts Survey Methods total sample of 21,905 national difficulties in conducting surveys support for Obama ranges from a about where it left off in 2009, Results are based on telephone adults, one can say with 95% can introduce error or bias into high of 58% in the Middle which is to say hovering interviews with 3,032 national confidence that the maximum the findings of public opinion Atlantic states along the East precariously around 50% adults, aged 18 and older, margin of sampling error is ±1 polls. Coast, down to 35% in the Rocky approval. conducted Jan. 2-4, 2010, as part percentage point. Five Filters featured article: Mountain states. The meaning of the 50% of Gallup Daily tracking. For Interviews are conducted with Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Women overall are slightly more threshold is somewhat relative. A results based on the total sample respondents on land-line PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, positive about Obama's job 50% job approval rating would of national adults, one can say telephones (for respondents with Term Extraction. performance than are men (54% have been cause for major with 95% confidence that the a land-line telephone) and vs. 47%), and adults under the celebration by George W. Bush maximum margin of sampling cellular phones (for respondents age of 50 are more approving for much of his second term. But error is ±2 percentage points. who are cell-phone only). than those 50 and older. As a given the speed at which Obama Interviews are conducted with In addition to sampling error, result, Gallup finds a stark descended to this level in his first respondents on land-line difference in approval of the year, today it is more of a telephones and cellular phones. president between younger warning light that this initially In addition to sampling error, women and older men, with a muscular administration remains question wording and practical solid majority of the former on the threshold of losing difficulties in conducting surveys approving (58%), and a majority majority support. At the same can introduce error or bias into of the latter (55%) disapproving. time, 50% is symbolically the findings of public opinion By contrast, younger men and superior to 49%, and perhaps polls. older women have generally offers some encouragement to Five Filters featured article: similar views about the president. Obama's supporters that 2010 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Bottom Line will bring some improvement in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, The New Year's tradition of how Americans perceive the Term Extraction. resolving to make a fresh start in president. areas of deficiency doesn't Sign up for Gallup e-mail alerts readily apply to public opinion of or RSS feeds presidents. For President Obama, Get Gallup news on Facebook 84 PopSci/ E-reader News Edition The Year 2020, As Seen By the Scientists Who Will Take Us There By Clay Dillow (Popular lasers," say Thomas M. Baer of Science - New Technology, Stanford and Nicholas P. Science News, The Future Bigelow of the University of Now) Rochester. As with everything,

Submitted at 1/6/2010 10:28:46 AM the future of lasers is size, and by that we're talking about the nano Leading scientists present their scale. Lasers with apertures no 2020 visions bigger than a single molecule The journal Nature, ever the will revolutionize everything forward-looking publication, is from genome sequencing to hard finished with all of this best-of- disks, which could hold petabytes the-last-decade nonsense. To on a single PC. Even cosmology celebrate the dawn of a new and physics will be upended. decade, the editors tapped experts Lasers will measure drift in across the scientific community, fundamental constants in the asking them simply "where will universe, create forms of matter your field be ten years from now, found only at the heart of stars and how will we get there?" Our and possibly even create fusion favorite five predictions are reactions that could provide collected below. limitless, non-carbon energy. Not SEARCH bad for a decade's work. Search is only ten years old, says RESEARCH Google's Director of Research BIOLOGY healthy -- and make us unhealthy nations. Synthetically But how do we get this all done? Peter Norvig. So imagine what David A. Relman, Chief of -- can we move toward a state of engineering parasite-resistant Richard Klausner of the Column it's going to be like when it's Infectious Diseases at Veterans better overall health. crops or photosynthetic Group and David Baltimore of twice the age it is today. "The Affairs Palo Alto Health Care SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY organisms that churn out the California Institute of majority of search queries will be System, thinks medical research "The challenge for the next biomass, we can alter the Technology have perhaps the spoken, not typed, and an will turn away from the processes decade will be to integrate economic landscape. "As costs most radical -- and amazing -- experimental minority will be of the human body, about which molecular engineering and drop, such technology will allow vision for the next decade. It through direct monitoring of we know much, and focus on the computing to make complex developing nations to leapfrog starts at the National Institutes of brain signals." But while the microbial processes that occur systems," says George Church, a fertilizer-wasting, fossil-fuel- Health but calls for a change in thought of beaming movie times inside the body, of which we professor of genetics at Harvard intensive and disease-rife the culture of how we treat and YouTube vids directly to the know very little. The various Med. By integrating great farming for cleaner, more science. When it comes to doling brain is incredible, the obstacles microbes that live and function advances in computing power to efficient systems, just as they are out funding, they argue, we need search faces in the next decade within our own biology carry out biological processes, we can leapfrogging costly landlines in to focus on the researcher, not the are the same fundamental ones it some amazing science all by deliver drugs more effectively, favour of mobile-phone research. The best way to make faces today. Google and its themselves, and learning about engineer crops, cure cancer and networks." creative breakthroughs is to fund comrades/competitors need to these microbial habitats could engineer bacteria to carry out our LASERS creative people. Awarding risk- refine search to measure quality lead to myriad breakthroughs. bidding. We can even change the "Like the inventors of 1960, we takers rather than good grant and accuracy rather than just Only by understanding how these normal course of economic are probably still underestimating popularity, Norvig says. Agreed. ecosystems within us keep us development in depressed the full potential and impact of YEAR page 85 E-reader News Edition PopSci/ 85 Toshiba Cell TV Converts All Video to 3-D With Playstation 3's Processor By John Mahoney (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:25:26 AM Sped-Up Bacteria Could When it comes to their home Transform Carbon entertainment gear, Toshiba loves Dioxide into Natural Gas to do two things: stick Cell processors (the same brain By Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science - New Technology, powering the Playstation 3) Science News, The Future inside them, and tout the ability Now) to upconvert your crappy standard-def or web-streaming Submitted at 1/6/2010 11:00:51 AM video to glorious high-def. Their Cell TV, just unveiled at CES, Japanese researchers tell pokey promises to do both things, but bacteria to hurry up and make with an added selling point with the methane befitting this year's 3-D theme: But aside from the 3-D magic, to constantly tweak the picture video using the Cell processor, Bacteria naturally turn carbon upconversion of any two- the cell TV packs in plenty of while you're watching for the including the live feed of dioxide into methane gas over dimensional source into 3-D in other features: the included set- best possible quality. It will keep Grandma's face from the built-in billions of years. Now Japanese real time. top box (which houses the 3.2 track of 512 local dimming zones videophone. Grandma HD! How researchers want to give that Their are a few worn adages that GHz, 8-core Cell processor) in its LED backlight (quite a few nice. process a speed boost, to help come to mind: "If it sounds too essentially as a home theater PC, more than is standard now) to The Cell TV will be available in counter global warming and good to be true, it probably is." with its included Blu-ray player, keep blacks as black as possible, sizes going from 46 to 65 inches create some much-needed natural Or perhaps something about a pig 802.11N wi-fi, 1TB hard drive and an ambient light sensor later this year. As is usually the gas. Agence France-Presse in lipstick? Either way, we're and a DLNA server and client adjusts color balance and case at CES, there is no info on reports that Japan hopes to obviously holding judgement on (for playing back video from brightness according to the pricing or an actual release date. reduce the transformation period the quality of the 3-D conversion other devices on your network). lighting conditions in your living [ PopSci at CES] from billions to about 100 years. until we actually get to strap on As for the picture quality, room. They're also, of course, The researchers at the Japan our frame-sequential glasses and Toshiba's hyping the Cell's promising even more impressive SPED-UP page 86 try these for ourselves. processing power with its ability upconversion of standard-def YEAR continued from page 84 writers will fuel a new generation encouraging new generations of youngest, freshest, most open elders? Radical indeed -- and we of scientists working on the kind independent scientists to begin minds out of the grad student- like it. of outside-the-mainstream ideas productive careers by aiding their doctoral student-post doctoral [ Nature] that landed America on the development outside the usual hierarchy that keeps them moon. As such, "we should be academic routes." Take our tethered to the old ideas of their 86 CES/ E-reader News Edition SPED-UP continued from page 85 CES Welcomes Press and Bloggers Agency for Marine-Earth Science that can soak up carbon even and Technology plan to develop better than the real things. a method within five years for Few would probably complain if Today speeding up the bacterial the Japanese can pull off this neat By Lyn Slater (CEA Digital pick up your badge on-site at the There will be lots of CES staff transformation. Their target: trick and produce some natural Dialogue) press/analyst registration in either on hand to help you direct you at produce methane gas from gas in the bargain. But we'll keep Submitted at 1/5/2010 2:16:05 PM The Venetian (lower level lobby) both venues to help you find the carbon dioxide buried about our fingers crossed that the new or the Las Vegas Convention line and then your seat but I 6,600 feet (2,000 m) beneath the super-strain of bacteria doesn't By Carolyn Slater Center press room (S229). recommend arriving early sea bed, just off the northern tip cause any unforeseen I arrived in Vegas yesterday Despite this feeling of déjà vu enough to secure a place in line. of Japan's main island. consequences. leaving behind a cold and windy and camaraderie you only get at Webcasts of the keynotes will be Many nations have already built [via Agence France-Presse] Washington, DC with a brief stop CES, some things have changed available on our website a short massive carbon sequestration at a freezing cold and snowing this year. For instance, the time after they take place live in plants that can store carbon Cleveland. Seeing the clear blue keynoter s will be at the Hilton case you can’t be here in person dioxide underground, as part of a skies, gently swaying palm trees Hotel, conveniently located right for them. worldwide effort to curb and the huge (and already a hive next to the LVCC. After our If you attend the Microsoft greenhouse gas emissions. And of activity) Las Vegas press room meeting this morning keynote tomorrow, there will be some researchers have Convention Center, it didn’t we went for a walking tour of the free shuttle buses waiting at the experimented with synthetic trees seem like a whole year had Hilton Center, where the South Patio of the Hilton to carry passed since the 2009 show. It’s keynotes will begin tomorrow you back to your hotel afterwards good to be back! evening with Microsoft’s Steve Then I recommend getting a This morning the press room Ballmer. The Thursday keynotes: good night’s sleep to be ready for staff all met to become re- Alan Mulally of Ford and Paul the official show opening acquainted – it seems we’re all Otellini of Intel, will also take Thursday morning. CES veterans this year. We’re place in the Hilton Center. Then So if you’re a CES veteran, blue-shirted and ready to serve on Friday, Dr. Paul E. Jacobs of welcome back! And if you’re a you with your press needs Qualcomm will be in the Hilton first-timer, prepare to be amazed! whether it’s in the press rooms Center but the Technology in I hope to meet you at tonight’s and blogger lounges, at CES Emerging Countries program and CES Unveiled event. Unveiled, press conferences and keynotes, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo Follow@IntlCES on Twitter for keynotes. Please note that if you of Nokia and Zhou Houjian of regular show updates. submitted your press registration Hisense, will take place in the after December 7, 2009, you can Hilton Theater.