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Bomb plot thrusts Obama into political storm New Touchless Mobile By David Morgan (Front Row on terror,” DeMint said. told NBC. “This is all about Washington) “But in the last few days, he politics and not security. What I Interface Could

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:36:08 AM seems to have come around to the want is a few hours of debate on Eliminate Fingerprint idea that there are people in Mr. Southers to help focus the Smudging Forever President Barack Obama is Yemen and other places who are nation back on security and get weathering a political storm over intent on hurting Americans,” the this politics, particularly union [Displays] last month’s suspected al Qaeda lawmaker added. politics, out of our security By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) plot to bomb a Detroit-bound A completely different picture apparatus.” Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:10:00 AM plane, particularly from comes from Bob Woodward, the TSA’s job is to protect all modes Republicans who say he dropped Pulitzer-winning journalist who of transportation, not just air Tokyo University had developed the ball on security while chronicled Republican George travel. That breadth of a touchless interface that can pursuing healthcare and climate W. Bush’s response to the Sept. responsibility could be important register 3D motion of a human reforms. But how much 11 attacks. the security debate. That means now that the Detroit bomb plot finger using a single camera. substance there is behind the “The new administration is not blaming Obama or members has put all the focus on airport Think of it like Project Natal, allegations may depend on who’s taking a very aggressive stance of the president’s team for security. only with cellphones. talking. on these matters and perhaps security lapses, at least not for “Al Qaeda has capabilities to do The camera requires video Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of even more than the Bush now. It also means retaining his other things. How about trains? capture at 154 fps—so the South Carolina told NBC’s administration, doing more about hold on the Senate confirmation How about buses?” Woodward handful of cellphones out there Today show that he believes the al Qaeda sanctuaries in places of Erroll Southers, Obama’s said. “You can’t fight the last with forward-facing cameras will Obama just woke up to the like Yemen,” Woodward told nominee for the Transportation terrorist attack.” not be able to handle the gravity of the al Qaeda threat. ABC’s Good Morning America. Security Administration. DeMint Photo Credit: Reuters/Hugh technology. However, it is “A lot of us have been concerned That view comes from reporting blocked that nomination out of Gentry (Obama) certainly plausible down the line. over the last year that the Woodward says he is doing for a concern that Southers would Click here for more Reuters The question is, will anyone want president did seem to downplay new book on the Obama White unionize the TSA. political coverage it? I mean, fingerprint smudging the threat of terror. He doesn’t House. “What I’ve asked for is just some is a pain in the ass and use the word anymore. He Meanwhile, DeMint says he debate and a recorded vote,” he everything, but I don't want to be hesitates to say that there is a war wants to eliminate politics from the guy walking down the street wildly flailing my fingers in the air like some sort of lunatic. Plus, Five New Year's resolutions for Google it seems like it would be difficult By Tom Krazit Stakes are high at Google pushing into new and risky to use in general. [ Gigazine via (Webware.com) entering 2010, as it attempts to markets. Intomobile via Geek]

Submitted at 1/4/2010 4:00:00 AM maintain one of the Internet's Originally posted at Relevant greatest cash machines while Results 2 Top News/ World/ Tech/ E-reader News Edition Counting population: Census road Alastair Campbell to tour begins appear before Chilcot By Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington) inquiry Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:25:57 AM (World news and comment dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons from the Guardian | of mass destruction. Road trip! guardian.co.uk) The Census Bureau on Monday As one of Mr Blair's closest launched the “2010 Census Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:14:53 AM advisers throughout that period, Portrait of America Road Tour” he is also likely to be asked more to reach out and convince Tony Blair's former head of generally about the government's everyone living in the United communications to answer attitude in the build-up to war. States to be counted in its once-a- questions next week about run-up Mr Blair himself is one of a decade population survey, which to war in Iraq number of ministers, past and can alter political districts and Tony Blair's former head of present, due to give evidence affect where billions of dollars in communications, Alastair over the coming weeks. federal funds are spent. Campbell, is to appear before the Sir John has decided that The tour set off from New York Iraq inquiry next week, it was Gordon Brown will not be called City and will include 13 vehicles announced today. to give evidence until after the visiting about 800 events around Campbell will give evidence to general election. the country over four months, of the population that returns the what it’s become, what it looks the inquiry, chaired by the retired • Alastair Campbell including the Super Bowl and survey, the government saves like, how it’s changed,” he said. senior civil servant Sir John • Iraq Mardi Gras. about $85 million, he said. “So “And it sets up a discussion Chilcot, on 12 January. • Tony Blair Vehicle updates can be followed it’s really important to turn that every decade in this society about Public hearings resume • Politics and Iraq on Twitter@2010Portrait and on in, if you’re worried about the what we’re becoming, how tomorrow at the Queen Elizabeth Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and federal deficit and things like we’ve changed, what the future II conference centre in guardian.co.uk© Guardian News YouTube. that.” might bear. And that’s a good Westminster after the Christmas & Media Limited 2010 | Use of The 10-question survey will be The effort is aimed at producing thing for the country to do every break. this content is subject to our mailed to every home in America a population count, as required once in a while, and the Census Mr Campbell is likely to face Terms & Conditions| More Feeds in March with a return deadline by the U.S. Constitution, by the allows it to happen,” Groves said. questions about his role in of April 1, regardless of the end of the year to determine The Census Bureau website compiling the government's resident’s citizenship. If the representation in the U.S. House includes guidance on filling out questionnaire is not mailed back of Representatives for each state. the survey in 59 languages. Chrome passes Safari in by late April, then Census Bureau Population also determines how For more Reuters political news, surveyors start knocking on much money different areas click here doors to try to get the receive from some federal Photo credit: Reuters/Lucas browser usage information face-to-face. programs. “The distribution of Jackson (New Year’s Eve By Stephen Shankland Chrome's growth outpaces “That’s a very expensive thing $400 billion a year is determined celebration in New York’s Times (Webware.com) Safari's. Still, Chrome 4.0 might for us to do,” Census Bureau by Census count,” Groves said. Square), Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi Submitted at 1/4/2010 5:58:00 AM not get out of beta as soon as Director Robert Groves told The less tangible reasons are (reveler wearing 2010 glasses planned. Reuters in a telephone interview. also important. “After every New Year’s Eve) IE and Firefox slip in usage from Originally posted at Deep Tech For every one percentage point Census the society is reminded of November to December, while E-reader News Edition Top News/ 3

First Lady proposes coup as Obama family finishes Hawaii vacation By Jeff Mason (Front Row Washington and the waiting back to Washington on Monday. Sasha and Malia, for “shave ice” Mrs. Obama announced her Washington) White House. A debate about U.S. national — a kind of snow cone that is a proposed coup.

Submitted at 1/3/2010 10:21:53 PM Unless First Lady Michelle security in the wake of the local trademark. (For those who The family arrives in wintry Obama has anything to say about attempted bombing of a U.S. were wondering, Obama does not Washington on Monday. All good things must come to an it, that is. airliner on Christmas Day awaits take his shave ice with beans at Photo credit: Reuters/Hugh end, including presidential “I’m trying to mount a coup,” him upon his return. the bottom — that is an option — Gentry (sun rises over Kailua vacations. Mrs. Obama joked to reporters The president spent about 11 but does take a scoop of ice Bay near where Obama stayed in After several golf games, beach about staying in the sunny island days in Hawaii, the state where cream.) Hawaii) days and dinners out, President state. “Are we all in?” he grew up, mixing family time Sunday he started the day off Barack Obama and his family are The president may wish that with work time. with a golf game and ended it leaving Hawaii to head back to coup had succeeded when he gets On Friday he took his girls, with a visit to the zoo, where 4 World/ E-reader News Edition Brown condemns 'abhorrent' Islamist Wootton Bassett protest plan By Steven Morris (World news attracted more than 120,000 march is "merely an act of town who honour very much our wishes in the country but have and comment from the members. incitement or provocation". Queen and country. We obey the chosen to cause outrage and Guardian | guardian.co.uk) Downing Street intervened in the In the letter, addressed "to the law and pay respects to our offence."

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:22:45 AM growing controversy with a families of British soldiers who servicemen who protect our Some postings suggest blocking statement from the prime have fallen", Choudary writes: "It freedom. the roads or writing to Islam4UK says it will try to win minister saying he was is worth reminding those who are "If this man has any decency councillors, while others take a people round to idea of parade on "personally appalled". still not blinded by the media about him he will not hold a more strident line. One same route used to return troops' Brown said: "I believe that we as propaganda that Afghanistan is march through Wootton Bassett." contributor says: "I want my bodies from Afghanistan a nation should honour those not a British town near Wootton The town is finding it England back." Gordon Brown tonight brave servicemen and women Bassett but rather Muslim land increasingly difficult to keep A spokesman for rightwing condemned as "abhorrent and who have made the ultimate which no one has the right to politics at bay. The BNP leader, group the English Defence offensive" plans by a sacrifice for our country. occupy, with a Muslim Nick Griffin, turned up for a League said if the march took controversial Islamist group to "Wootton Bassett has a special population who do not deserve recent parade and the BBC place it would "descend" on the stage a march through Wootton significance for us all at this their innocent men, women and filmed Question Time there last home address of Anjem Bassett. time, as it has been the scene of children to be killed for political month. Choudary and demonstrate In a statement, the prime the repatriation of many members mileage and for the greedy The North Wiltshire MP, James outside two mosques he minister said the Wiltshire town of our armed forces who have interests of the oppressive US Gray, said local people would not frequented. had assumed a "special tragically fallen. and UK regimes. be drawn into political conflict Tom Robinson said the group significance" in the life of the "Any attempt to use this location "The procession in Wootton with the group. "They will say had discussed organising a nation, which should be to cause further distress and Bassett is therefore an attempt to these are foolish people making a counter-march in Wootton respected. suffering to those who have lost engage the British public's minds silly point – we'll get on with our Bassett but felt the best way to The leader of Islam4UK has said loved ones would be abhorrent on the real reasons why their ordinary lives thank you. register its objections would be to he will try to persuade people in and offensive." soldiers are returning home in "This also misunderstands the protest outside addresses Wootton Bassett to back an anti- Choudary said Wootton Bassett body bags and the real cost of the nature of what the people of connected to Choudary. He said war parade along the main street had been chosen because it war." Wootton Bassett do. They are not he did not believe the march – the same route used to bring would attract huge publicity and Hundreds or thousands of people blood-thirstily in favour of the would actually take place in home the bodies of troops from that he had not yet spoken to the line the market town's high street war. Most people would say they Wootton Bassett. Afghanistan. police, who would have to regularly to watch coffins were not qualified to comment on The EDL has organised Anjem Choudary , whose group approve the parade. He also had carrying the bodies of service the rightness or wrongness. demonstrations in a number of is an offshoot of the radical al- no date in mind, leaving him personnel being driven to a "The people of Wootton Bassett cities in England and its Welsh Muhajiroun movement, has open to the accusation that the hospital in Oxford after landing are decent, quiet, pragmatic arm, the Welsh Defence League, caused anger by calling for idea is a publicity stunt. at nearby RAF Lyneham. people and they'll stay at home has done the same in Wales. The members to parade through the Choudary said he would try to The former mayor and instead [of reacting to the EDL marches have caused Wiltshire town carrying up to win the support of local people councillor Chris Wannell said of march]." community tension and some of 500 coffins symbolising the by engaging with them over the the idea: "We don't do what we The secretary of the Wootton the demonstrations have led to Muslim dead from the invasion coming weeks. He insisted he did do at Wootton Bassett for any Bassett British Legion, Anne clashes with anti-fascist activists. and occupation of Afghanistan. not want to upset residents or political reason at all, but to pay Bevis, urged the group to think • Protest Local politicians have asked families of dead service our respects to those who have "long and hard" before marching. • Freedom of Speech Choudary to abandon the protest personnel. given their lives for our freedom. The Facebook group that • Military and a Facebook site dedicated to In an open letter on Islam4UK's "We are a Christian country and opposes the march states: "This preventing the march quickly website, Choudary denies the a traditional old English market group can march anywhere it BROWN page 5 E-reader News Edition World/ Gadgets/ 5 BROWN John Major rewrites history | Denis MacShane continued from page 4 • Islam By Denis MacShane (World For Major, who presided for great. He boasted that he always Cook and Tony Blair summoned • Religion news and comment from the seven years over exactly the told the truth about conflict. Tell up the political courage and Guardian | guardian.co.uk) • Afghanistan same system that now causes that to the families of eight energy to put together the Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:15:31 AM outrage, to pose as a moralist on Fusiliers who were killed by US coalition that finally stopped the Steven Morris MPs' pay is outright hypocrisy. friendly fire in the first Iraq war. mass murders in a region of guardian.co.uk© Guardian News While criticising Tony Blair, the At least Shirley Williams, who Month after month, the Major Europe two hours' flying time & Media Limited 2010 | Use of former prime minister forgot his was guest-editing the government told lies to the from London. Major, by contrast, this content is subject to our own dismal record on big money programme, had the decency to grieving parents. Major himself did as much to stop Milosevic as Terms & Conditions| More Feeds and the Bosnian war point out that up to the early wrote long letters full of his isolationist predecessor, Suddenly it all came back. 1990s, an MP earned roughly the dishonest obfuscation about what Neville Chamberlain, did to stop Listening to the unctuous Sir same as a GP, but that GP and really happened. It required a fascism in Spain or central John Major on the Today other public sector professional campaign helped by the human Europe from unleashing its programme last weekend, in salaries have soared ahead. rights QC Geoffrey Robertson murderous horrors. surely the most unchallenging Major was not asked about the and a coroner who would not be Perhaps retired prime ministers interview of a politician in the brutal treatment of independent silenced by Whitehall to uncover should not face hard questions. programme's history, one heard Tory MPs under his reign, nor the truth with the help of Perhaps the Today political team the authentic voice of the why he promoted Jonathan America's Freedom of believes that today's issues – Bourbon Conservativism that Aitken or allowed the cash-for- Information Act. Major left the from MPs' pay to whether we learnt nothing and forgotten questions scandal to grow under families swinging in the wind of should pull out of Afghanistan – nothing. his leadership. No mention of the his refusal to tell them the truth. are brand new and have no roots Major opined on parliament as if Pergau Dam or the political party Or take the massacre of in the recent past. But the next his era as whip, minister and fund-raising by cabinet ministers Srebrenica. 8,000 European men time Major decides to unburden prime minister was a golden on overseas trips. David were taken out one by one in himself of his views on current chapter in the history of the Cameron has Lord Ashcroft and 1995 and shot dead in a manner political topics it would be useful Commons. Yet the wretched the Tory front bench is so stuffed Europe has not seen since the if someone researched the allowances and expenses system with millionaires that the killings at Katyn where Polish cuttings so that proper questions that has caused such damage and problem of MPs' pay and officers, public servants and can be asked of the worst prime The Lightsaber MP3 justifiable anger was put in place allowances is for other people, professors were killed in cold minister of the 20th century. Player Is Missing One in his time. There was an attempt not the shadow cabinet. But blood by Russians acting on • Tony Blair to link an MP's salary to that of a under John Major the fusion Stalin's orders. Major • Iraq Critical Component middle-rank civil service grade. between Tory politics and big equivocated and did nothing to • Conservatives [Mp3] That way, it was thought, the money and the transformation of intervene to deal with the • MPs' expenses By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) media hype every time MPs' pay underpaid MPs into cash-for- murderous activity of Milosevic, • House of Commons went up might be avoided. But questions and outside earners which inflamed Muslim public Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:00:00 AM under Major's premiership the helped devalue transparent opinion in Britain and helped Denis MacShane PSA: Until the Lightsaber MP3 first pay rise based on this link democratic politics. create the jihadist politics guardian.co.uk© Guardian News Player actually emits a highly was proposed and blocked to On the Iraq intervention, Sir amongst young Muslims here & Media Limited 2010 | Use of contained tube of deadly light, avoid one day's nasty headlines. John is now a revisionist. He and elsewhere in Europe. this content is subject to our $24 can only buy you a His whips pottered around the tea supported the 2003 invasion but If Tony Blair is guilty of Terms & Conditions| More Feeds Lightsaber Hilt MP3 Player. [ room soothing angry now the chance to undermine his removing Saddam Hussein, John NCSX via anythingbutipod] backbenchers. "Don't worry, successor, Tony Blair, whose Major is guilty of allowing chaps, we'll bump up allowances humiliating defeat of Major Slobodan Milosevic to stay in and expenses instead," they said. clearly still rankles, was too power for a decade until Robin 6 World/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Prejudiced Danes provoke fanaticism | Nancy Graham Holm By Nancy Graham Holm would have been the end to it – precept is merely an attempt to intellectuals, have serious issues Westergaard and all of them now (World news and comment but none came, and the give the perpetrators the moral with religious believers. have police protection. Four from the Guardian | humiliation was compounded. high ground when actually it is a Westergaard has been visiting months later, suicide bombers guardian.co.uk) Three months later several smokescreen for a deeply rooted America and giving talks about attacked the Danish embassy in

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:22:12 AM imams packed their briefcases prejudice, not against Muslims, his role in the 2005 Muhammad Islamabad, injuring 30 and and laptops and booked flights to but against religion per se. cartoon crisis. In New York on killing six. Al-Qaida took credit Publishing Kurt Westergaard's the Middle East. They carried Muslims are in love with their 30 September he told the for the attack, claiming it was cartoons was an aggressive act with them a 43-page document, faith. And many Danes are audience that Muslims need to retaliation for the cartoons and born of Denmark's reluctance to created by a group of Danish suspicious of anyone who loves develop a sense of humour and the 700 Danish troops in respect religious belief Muslim clerics from multiple religion. an appreciation of satire. They Afghanistan. In October 2008, On New Year's Day, Kurt organisations. This so-called On the last day of the American need to understand that they are two men were convicted in Westergaard and his Akkari-Laban dossier was Society for Muslim not " free of being mocked or Danish courts of preparing a granddaughter came close to designed to present their case and Advancement's conference in being offended". terrorist attack. losing their lives when an axe- solicit support for their outrage. 2006, Flemming Rose, Jyllands- Watching the nightly news in This time, Westergaard's wielding fanatic forced his way Denmark became an "enemy of Posten's cultural editor, who February 2006 was a shocking attacker was caught – but into their house. It was the latest Islam" and this resulted in the commissioned the Muhammad affair for most Danes. They someone else is out there waiting in a string of attempted attacks nation's worst foreign policy cartoons, agreed to meet the watched their flag burning in the for an opportunity to strike again. that can be traced directly to the crisis since the second world war. delegates and took more than an streets of Damascus, Beirut and • Muhammad cartoons row 2006 offence caused by Westergaard's Why did the editors of Jyllands- hour of questions. I witnessed Tehran. They cringed as • Denmark cartoons for Danish newspaper Posten want to mock Islam in this exchange and admired his demonstrators screamed violent • Global terrorism Jyllands-Posten in 2005. this way? Some of us believed it honesty. slogans and rioters attacked their • Islam One of these cartoons depicted was in bad taste and also cruel. "Are you not at all religious?" embassies. Police fired on the • Religion the prophet Muhammad in a Intentional humiliation is an someone asked him. "No. Most crowds, resulting in more than • Freedom of Speech turban with a stick of dynamite aggressive act. As a journalist Danes are not religious," he 100 deaths. protruding from the top. Muslims now living in the same town as responded. "Well then … can't Now the Danes won't back down Nancy Graham Holm failed to see Westergaard's Westergaard, I thought some at you at least respect religious and the few but fatally insane guardian.co.uk© Guardian News cartoon as satire. Instead, they Jyllands-Posten had acted like people?" "No, not really," Rose radical extremists will continue & Media Limited 2010 | Use of saw in it a defamatory and petulant adolescents. Danes fail answered candidly. "Generally the fight. The first major reaction this content is subject to our humiliating message: Muslims to perceive the fact that they have speaking, I think Danes are a came in January 2008 when Terms & Conditions| More Feeds are terrorists. Humiliation is a developed a society deeply little suspicious of religious Danish police arrested a cell of devastating feeling. But most suspicious of religion. This is the people." extremists that were accused of people who are insulted will real issue between Denmark and Danes are no more racist than planning Westergaard's accept an apology. If an apology Muslim extremists, not freedom any other western nation but assassination. There are 87 men been forthcoming, that probably of speech. The free society many of them, especially in Denmark with the name Kurt Video: iPhone hacked to support the Magic Mouse By Greg Kumparak BTStack might just be too clever Bluetooth keyboard support. It's a something - wouldn't it be nice to (CrunchGear) for their own good. First they bit awkward to be typing away be able to use a mouse instead?

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Submitted at 1/4/2010 4:00:00 AM underwent big changes in 2009, as well as some runners-up. 8 World/ Tech/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition Burj Dubai is the height of architecture – just don't look down By Steve Rose (World news 101, which it exceeds by more In environmental terms, the Burj free up ground space for parks, and comment from the than 300 metres. Dubai is way too tall to justify nature and leisure. WebOS Getting Doom, Guardian | guardian.co.uk) But, beyond height, is there itself, but there is at least some The Burj Dubai, by contrast, has Quake, OpenGL, and anything to celebrate here? From structural efficiency to the form. become the tentpole for several Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:03:14 AM Native SDK [Palm] our current perspective, the Burj Its Y-shaped plan – three wings more acres of anonymous, The world's tallest building may Dubai symbolises catastrophic extending from a central core, soulless, energy-hungry By Rosa Golijan (Gizmodo) be a triumph of beauty and excess – of money, confidence, like the roots of a tree – cityscape. You can apparently Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:31:37 AM ambition, but the soulless ambition, energy consumption. 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Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:56:11 AM 1980s, while his brother Conor because he is battling cancer. thank them for it. I hope I can was minister for integration "I will continue to fulfil the repay this goodwill by continuing • Brian Lenihan will undergo under Bertie Ahern. essential functions of my office. I to serve to the best of my ability chemotherapy for pancreatic The minister's health has been will supervise the work of my as I undergo treatment for my cancer the subject of intense speculation Department and meet delegations medical condition," he said. Samsung sold 2.6 • Minister intends to 'fulfil the since his cancer diagnosis was relevant to this work. I will His aunt, Fianna Fáil TD Mary million LED LCD TVs essential functions' of his office reported last week. Having prepare for and attend O'Rourke, said earlier today the in 2009, expects 10 Ireland's finance minister spoken with his doctors and government meetings. I will minister would continue in the million in 2010 insisted he will continue to try to Ireland's prime minister, Brian make myself accountable to Dáil position. "He told me he had a guide the republic out of Cowen, Lenihan said he will Éireann and carry out my long talk with the Taoiseach. By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) recession while being treated for continue in the finance portfolio parliamentary duties. I will They, the two of them, decided Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:00:18 AM pancreatic cancer. and "fulfil the essential functions convene and attend any meetings he would stay on and do his, as Brian Lenihan confirmed today of my office". required for the implementation he referred to it himself quaintly, If you read the headline, then that he will be undergoing "I am well aware of the of government policy," he said. his constitutional duty," she told you already know that Samsung chemotherapy this week. In a importance of the office I hold. During the last few months, Midlands Radio. She also pushed out 2.6 million LED LCD personal statement the minister My doctors have advised that I Lenihan has had to deal with the revealed her nephew would begin TVs in 2009. That’s nearly equal said he underwent tests before am fit to continue to fulfil my republic's banking crisis using medical treatment for his illness to the population of San Diego. Christmas, which identified a duties. If that position were to billions of taxpayers' money to on Thursday. But the company also expects blockage at the entrance to his change in the course of my rescue Irish banks, and draw up • Ireland 2010 to be bigger — a lot bigger. pancreas. He said cancerous treatment, I would be the first to one of the harshest cost-cutting Samsung plans on moving 10 tissue was identified in the recognise it," he said in his budgets in the country's history. Henry McDonald million LED LCD TVs in 2010, material that had caused the statement. In his statement today, Lenihan guardian.co.uk© Guardian News which would be one to every blockage, and he intends to begin The minister said he was expressed his gratitude to people & Media Limited 2010 | Use of person living in Beijing. That’s a treatment for cancer this week. "feeling fit and well" but would all over the country who have this content is subject to our lot, folks. But he insisted he would remain not be accepting invitations for been sending him messages of Terms & Conditions| More Feeds We’ll get a closer look at in his ministerial post. speaking engagements in the next goodwill since reports of his ill- Samsung’s 2010 HDTV lineup Lenihan is 50 years old and the few months. Lenihan revealed health became public. with week at CES. 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The firm raised its • Wynn Resorts ( WYNN) was the Full Gospel Church here in price target on shares to $39 from upgraded at UBS to buy from Sharakwe. Sofia found us while Filed under: Analyst reports, $30. neutral. we were drilling a well at another Analyst upgrades and • UBS upgraded Morgan Stanley • Investors Bancorp ( ISBC) was church in a nearby village. She downgrades, Intel (INTC), ( MS) to buy from neutral based upgraded to buy from neutral at came to us pleading for help. Boeing Co (BA), Bristol-Myers on strong capital and liquidity Janney Montgomery. “Without clean water, our Squibb (BMY), Morgan Stanley positions, building investment children and our herds are (MS), Analyst initiations banking pipelines, and Continue reading Analyst dying,” she told us. Children in Analyst Upgrades expectations for a turn in Upgrades, Downgrades and Sharakwe Village were suffering EPS/ROE, among other reasons. 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With a smile of could lead to Intel and its target on shares to $25 2010 11:45:00 EST. Please see We explained to Sofia that we her own, Sofia thanked us saying, outperformance. from $18, and upgraded Tesoro ( our terms for use of feeds. understood her situation, but the “Now, we have clean water. • Citigroup upgraded TSO) and Frontier Oil ( FTO) to Permalink| Email this| Comments waiting list for people wanting Now, we have life.” UnitedHealth ( UNH) to buy buy from hold. wells was long. But Sofia was Five Filters featured article: from hold on expectations the • Boeing ( BA) was raised to persistent. Her desperate tears led Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: us to change our agenda for the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, week, and we headed to Term Extraction. Sharakwe to drill a well. The Tablet PC Market Won't Materialize -- Except for Apple By Brian White product releases. For the gadget at the CES tradeshow, many The Tablet PC Market Won't (BloggingStocks) crowd (that is, most Americans), other companies that believe they Materialize -- Except for Apple

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:15:00 PM all the cool products are compete with Apple are expected originally appeared on announced sometime in January to have their own versions of a BloggingStocks on Mon, 04 Jan Filed under: Products and and released sometime in the tablet ready to leap off 2010 12:15:00 EST. Please see services, Industry, Apple Inc year. PowerPoint screens soon. our terms for use of feeds. (AAPL) Although consumer electronics Continue reading The Tablet PC Permalink| Email this| Comments The first part of every year is giant Apple ( AAPL) will not announce a tablet-like computer Market Won't Materialize -- marked by tradeshows and confirm that it's planning to Except for Apple E-reader News Edition Finance/ Gadgets/ Politics/ 11 Shocka! Right Ben Bernanke: Weak CVS, Walgreen: Pull- Wingers Speak Out Against Glenn Beck! Regulation Caused Backs Are Buy (Little Green Footballs) Economic Crisis Opportunities Submitted at 1/3/2010 7:39:57 PM By Mark Fightmaster By Joseph Lazzaro Finally! A group of right (BloggingStocks) (BloggingStocks) wingers is calling for a telephone campaign against Glenn Beck! Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:30:00 PM Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:45:00 PM I’ve been waiting for this to Filed under: Columns, Federal Filed under: Walgreen Co happen … Reserve, Recession (WAG), CVS Corp (CVS), Oh, wait. They’re angry at Beck Big Ben Bernanke is letting his Stocks to Buy for not pushing the birth opinions be known early in 2010, I'm reiterating my buy ratings certificate issue. I should have known. Never and he is pointing the finger of the nation's two premier drug comforts), which has offset blame for the economic crisis response to accusations that the store chains: CVS Caremark ( mind. reduced traffic for other drug (Hat tip: Mich-again.) right at weak regulation. Fed was a major contributor to CVS), first recommended on store trips, due to the U.S. Bernanke is waiting for the financial crisis. The Fed head February 16, 2009, at a price of recession. confirmation of his second term believes that the interest rates set $27.30; and Walgreen ( WAG), Continue reading CVS, Why I Don't Do as Fed chair and he is looking for by the Federal Reserve from first recommended on February Walgreen: Pull-Backs Are Buy Web Design greater regulatory authority from 2002 to 2006 were appropriate. 17, 2009, at a price of $25.46. If Opportunities Congress. Continue reading Ben Bernanke: you bought CVS in February, CVS, Walgreen: Pull-Backs Are Work Any More Bernanke told the American Weak Regulation Caused you're up 25%; WAG, up about Buy Opportunities originally (Little Green Footballs) Economic Association that Economic Crisis 40%. appeared on BloggingStocks on "Stronger regulation and Ben Bernanke: Weak Regulation As expected, each has performed Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:45:00 EST. Submitted at 1/3/2010 5:48:46 PM supervision aimed at problems Caused Economic Crisis well on increased store traffic Please see our terms for use of Because I’ve lived this with underwriting practices and originally appeared on stemming from the H1N1 flu feeds. Permalink| Email this| nightmare too many times: How lenders' risk management would BloggingStocks on Mon, 04 Jan virus (trips to purchase hand Comments have been a more effective and 2010 12:30:00 EST. Please see sanitizers, other disinfecting a Web Design Goes Straight to surgical approach to constraining our terms for use of feeds. items, and flu symptom Hell. the housing bubble than a general Permalink| Email this| Comments increase in interest rates." This statement was part of Bernanke's RCA’s 2010 HDTV lineup By Matt Burns (CrunchGear) but a few stand out from the rest 1366×768 panels and are necessary specs to meet the

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:30:10 AM with with modern specs, Energy equipped with the usual HDMI Energy Star 4.0 specs when they Star 4.0 ratings and presumably and component inputs. The 40- are enacted on May 1st, 2010. The RCA brand is still around low prices. inch (L40FHD2XF11) and 46- Prices for these sets haven’t been thanks to TTE Corportation and The F11 series all feature a new inch (L46FHD2XF11) however released yet, but it’s probably is ready for 2010 with a full-scale slim profile and down-firing are 1080p sets with 120Hz safe to assume that they will be HDTV assault. Most of the nine speakers that allows the TV to inch, 26-inch, and 32-inch are all support. All the sets besides the on the lower scale of things. upcoming models are a snozefest, maintain its sleek look. The 24- 24-inch already have the 12 Finance/ Gadgets/ Politics/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition ABC News: August Lloyd's Amps Up Super Bowl Ads: Only Saudi Assassination Attempt Used Same Insurance and Reinsurance Three Left! Undie Bomb Method By Tom Johansmeyer (Little Green Footballs) Capacity This Year (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 1/3/2010 10:59:11 AM

By Tom Johansmeyer Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:00:00 PM (BloggingStocks) Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab Filed under: Coca-Cola (KO), was not the first Al Qaeda Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:30:00 AM PepsiCo (PEP), General Motors terrorist to use a PETN bomb Filed under: Forecasts, Industry, (GM), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), hidden in his underwear; the Competitive strategy Gannett Co (GCI) terrorist who tried (and failed) to Lloyd's of London is poised to Despite the media slump that's General Motors ( GRM) -- assassinate Saudi prince take some risks in 2010. In fact, been running alongside the bowing out of the action. The Mohammed bin Nayef in August it's ready to put more than $36 pound relative to stronger worldwide recession, CBS ( first half is already sold out used the same method. billion into the insurance and currencies, such as the U.S. CBS) isn't having any trouble completely. Jan. 4: Braille, Pitman reinsurance world, according to dollar. moving ad space for the Super Continue reading Super Bowl analysts at reinsurance Continue reading Lloyd's Amps Bowl. Ads: Only Three Left! Birthdays Celebrate intermediary Guy Carpenter, a Up Insurance and Reinsurance The event is still more than a Super Bowl Ads: Only Three New Ways to Write division of Marsh & McLennan ( Capacity This Year month from now, but the network Left! originally appeared on MMC). Lloyd's Amps Up Insurance and reports having only a few BloggingStocks on Mon, 04 Jan By Randy Alfred (Wired Top The year-over-year increase Reinsurance Capacity This Year commercial slots left for the big 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see Stories) could be as high as 27% originally appeared on game. In fact, 95% of its 62 slots our terms for use of feeds. Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:00:00 PM compared to 2009, with the BloggingStocks on Mon, 04 Jan have moved, even with two of Permalink| Email this| Comments additional capacity coming from 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see the most committed Super Bowl Louis Braille and Isaac Pitman lower risk-transfer rates for some our terms for use of feeds. advertisers -- Pepsi ( PEP) and share a birthday, four years apart. lines of business, though much of Permalink| Email this| Comments Each is known for a new system it is being offered to compensate of writing. Coincidence? for the weakness of the British Hitachi’s develops brain signal-powered remote control By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) commercialize it within three to make that happen (the technology interface system weighs just 1kg.

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:30:15 AM four years. can naturally be used for other The company says similar The technology is being appliances as well). A headset systems are as large as a fridge. We all knew this would come developed not for lazy couch scans the user’s brain with near- (My apologies for the small one day, especially since the potatoes but for something that infrared rays, measuring changes picture, which is the only one basic technology has been around actually makes a lot of sense: in blood flow (which indicate available at this point.) for some time, and now we have Hitachi says they would like to activity) in the brain. It then Via Nikkei[registration required, it: A brain activity-powered see physically handicapped sends the brain signals to the paid subscription] remote control that can be used people using the remote control remote control through optical without you having to lift a in the future (think about how All that users need to do is to fiber, making the remote beam finger. The Hitachi device is many times a day you push think about changing channels or infrared signals to the appliance unfortunately just a prototype, buttons on your remote when control the volume on a TV to in question. but at least they’re planning to watching TV). Hitachi’s brain-machine E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 13 The Skiff Reader is 11.5-inches of pure ebook hotness By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:57:30 AM CES is bound to be full of slate computers and e-book readers. But the Skiff Reader might stick out from the rest thanks to its huge 11.5-inch display and very thin bezel. That’s nearly two inches bigger than the Kindle DX, but yet the whole device is only .25-inches thick. Nice, eh? Oh, and it uses Sprint’s 3G network. The screen is not only large and high-res at 1200 x 1600, but it’s also a next-gen e-paper type based on a thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil. The company claims that’s it’s a lot more durable than the glass kind used in other devices. Sprint is providing the wireless connectivity and a retail outlet for the reader. It will be available in more than 1,000 Sprint retail locations later this year. Pricing and exact availability wasn’t mentioned in the presser, but hopefully we can nail something down at CES. Too bad we don’t know yet what content will be featured. Having 3G wireless is a major feature, so Skiff Service to Deliver Glass Display dedicated device to integrate the diagonally) and a resolution of it’s probably safe to assume that Newspapers, Magazines & NEW YORK, January 4th, 2010 upcoming Skiff e-reading 1200 x 1600 pixels (UXGA). A Skiff has worked out some sort Books to e-Reader with Thinnest — Skiff, LLC and Sprint (NYSE: service, is remarkably sleek and full touchscreen enables users to of distribution deal. But with Form Factor, Largest e-Paper S) today announced that they will easy to use. At just over a quarter intuitively navigate and engage who? Display and Full Touchscreen, preview the Skiff Reader, the -inch in overall height, the device with the newspapers, magazines, SKIFF AND SPRINT TO via Sprint 3G Wireless Network first e-reader optimized for is the thinnest e-reader books and other digital content PREVIEW FIRST SKIFF Device Is First to Feature “Metal newspaper and magazine content, announced to date. It features the they purchase through the Skiff READER AT 2010 Foil” e-Paper Technology from at the 2010 International largest and highest-resolution Store, as well as personal and INTERNATIONAL LG Display, Consumer Electronics Show in electronic-paper display yet work documents. The device CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Enhancing Durability by Las Vegas later this week. unveiled in a consumer device, at SHOW Eliminating the Fragility of a The Skiff Reader, the initial 11.5 in size (measured SKIFF page 14 14 Politics/ E-reader News Edition SKIFF continued from page 13 weighs just over one pound and Skiff Reader available for connectivity via WiFi. Skiff Service platform, Skiff international push-to-talk lasts over a week of average use purchase later this year in more The Skiff Reader will feature the Store and Skiff-enabled devices. capabilities; and a global Tier 1 between charges. than 1,000 Sprint retail locations Skiff service and digital store, Skiff will sell and distribute Internet backbone. The “The Skiff Reader’s big screen across the U.S., as well as online allowing consumers to wirelessly newspapers, magazines, books, company’s customer-focused will showcase print media in at www.sprint.com. Availability, purchase and access a wide blogs and other content. Skiff strategy has led to improved first compelling new ways,” said pricing, additional distribution variety of newspapers, gives periodical publishers tools call resolution and customer care Gilbert Fuchsberg, president of channels and other details will be magazines, books, blogs and to maintain their distinct visual satisfaction scores. For more Skiff, LLC. “This is consistent disclosed at a later date. other content from multiple identities, build and extend information, visit with Skiff’s focus on delivering “The forthcoming launch of the publishers. Newspaper and relationships with subscribers, www.sprint.com. enhanced reading experiences Skiff Reader is an exciting magazine content delivered by and wirelessly deliver dynamic About LG Display that engage consumers, development for consumers who Skiff will feature visually content and advertising to both LG Display Co., Ltd. [NYSE: publishers and advertisers.” are looking for more and more appealing layouts, high- dedicated e-readers and LPL, KRX: 034220] is a leading The Skiff Reader is designed not choice in the arena of embedded resolution graphics, rich multipurpose devices. Skiff will manufacturer and supplier of thin just for sleekness but also for devices,” said Dan Dooley, typography and dynamic updates, also make it easier for consumers -film transistor liquid crystal durability. It is the first consumer president wholesale solutions, supporting key design qualities to access content from multiple display (TFT-LCD) panels, product to feature the next- Sprint. “We have witnessed a that help publications publishers across a range of OLEDs and flexible displays. generation of e-paper display – strong demand for e-readers in differentiate themselves and devices. Skiff is headquartered in The company provides TFT-LCD one based on a thin, flexible recent years and now Sprint is attract subscribers and New York City and also has panels in a wide range of sizes sheet of stainless-steel foil. This showing its commitment to Skiff advertisers. offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Visit and specifications for use in TVs, contrasts with the fragile glass by making this new device Besides the Skiff Reader, Skiff Skiff at www.Skiff.com. monitors, notebook PCs, mobile that is the foundation of almost available on the 3G network and is working with major consumer About Sprint Nextel products and other various every electronic screen – and a for sale in Sprint retail stores.” electronics manufacturers to Sprint Nextel offers a applications. LG Display primary source of vulnerability In October 2009, Sprint integrate Skiff’s service, digital comprehensive range of wireless currently operates eight and breakage risk in the devices announced the formation of its store and client software into a and wireline communications fabrication facilities and five that incorporate them. Skiff has Emerging Solutions Business that range of innovative devices. By services bringing the freedom of back-end assembly facilities in worked closely with LG Display focuses exclusively on the rapid supporting a variety of devices mobility to consumers, Korea, China and Poland. The (NYSE: LPL), one of the world’s delivery of machine-to-machine from multiple manufacturers, and businesses and government users. company has a total of 30,000 leading display manufacturers and mobile computing solutions through complementary Sprint Nextel is widely employees operating worldwide. and the innovator of the foil- to businesses and consumers. applications for major smart recognized for developing, Please visit www.lgdisplay.com display technology, to optimize Sprint’s partnership with Skiff phone platforms, Skiff will make engineering and deploying for more information. and implement this first-of-its- builds on more than 10 years of it easier for publishers to innovative technologies, ### kind non-glass display uniquely experience in working with distribute content and advertising including two wireless networks Skiff™ is a trademark of Skiff, for the Skiff Reader. vendors to provision non-Sprint- across a range of devices and serving more than 48 million LLC. Skiff has signed a multi-year branded devices to operate on its form factors, an increasingly customers at the end of the third agreement with Sprint (NYSE:S) networks, as well as extensive important goal as the e-reading quarter of 2009 and the first and to provide 3G connectivity for expertise in operating multiple market continues to grow. only 4G service from a national Skiff’s dedicated e-reading platforms and assets. About Skiff carrier in the United States; devices in the United States. In addition to 3G, the Skiff Skiff provides a complete e- industry-leading mobile data Plans are underway to have the Reader will also support wireless reading solution that includes the services; instant national and Tower (Little Green Footballs) E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 15 Skiff Reader: The Largest Yet Thinnest eBook Reader to Date [Skiff] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) 11.5" in size (measured

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:32:37 AM diagonally) and a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels (UXGA). A It's bigger than any Kindle or full touchscreen enables users to device from B&N. Optimized for intuitively navigate and engage magazines and newspapers, the with the newspapers, magazines, Skiff Reader offers a durable books and other digital content 11.5-inch (1600 x 1200) "Metal they purchase through the Skiff Foil" touchscreen display, but it's Store, as well as personal and still just a quarter of an inch work documents. The device thick. weighs just over one pound and Connecting to the upcoming lasts over a week of average use Skiff digital store via Wi-Fi and between charges. Sprint's 3G network, the Skiff "The Skiff Reader's big screen Reader will support yet will showcase print media in unannounced content compelling new ways," said partnerships including books, Gilbert Fuchsberg, president of specially focusing on large Skiff, LLC. "This is consistent format print like above- with Skiff's focus on delivering mentioned magazines and enhanced reading experiences newspapers—including "visually that engage consumers, appealing layouts, high- publishers and advertisers." resolution graphics, rich The Skiff Reader is designed not typography and dynamic just for sleekness but also for updates." And with a screen that's durability. It is the first consumer nearly two inches larger and product to feature the next- significantly sharper than even a generation of e-paper display – Kindle DX, the Skiff Reader one based on a thin, flexible certainly seems well-positioned sheet of stainless-steel foil. This for this role—even though it's contrasts with the fragile glass still just black and white. that is the foundation of almost There's no word on price or every electronic screen – and a availability (more specific than primary source of vulnerability 2010) just yet, but when the Skiff and breakage risk in the devices Reader is available, you'll be that incorporate them. Skiff has picking one up from Sprint. worked closely with LG Display NEW YORK, January 4th, 2010 newspaper and magazine content, dedicated device to integrate the is the thinnest e-reader (NYSE: LPL), one of the world's - Skiff, LLC and Sprint (NYSE: at the 2010 International upcoming Skiff e-reading announced to date. It features the leading display manufacturers S) today announced that they will Consumer Electronics Show in service, is remarkably sleek and largest and highest-resolution and the innovator of the foil- preview the Skiff Reader, the Las Vegas later this week. easy to use. At just over a quarter electronic-paper display yet first e-reader optimized for The Skiff Reader, the initial -inch in overall height, the device unveiled in a consumer device, at SKIFF page 16 16 Gadgets/ Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition SKIFF continued from page 15 display technology, to optimize available on the 3G network and appealing layouts, high- and implement this first-of-its- for sale in Sprint retail stores." resolution graphics, rich kind non-glass display uniquely In October 2009, Sprint typography and dynamic updates, for the Skiff Reader. announced the formation of its supporting key design qualities Skiff has signed a multi-year Emerging Solutions Business that that help publications agreement with Sprint (NYSE:S) focuses exclusively on the rapid differentiate themselves and to provide 3G connectivity for delivery of machine-to-machine attract subscribers and Skiff's dedicated e-reading and mobile computing solutions advertisers. devices in the United States. to businesses and consumers. Besides the Skiff Reader, Skiff Plans are underway to have the Sprint's partnership with Skiff is working with major consumer Skiff Reader available for builds on more than 10 years of electronics manufacturers to purchase later this year in more experience in working with integrate Skiff's service, digital than 1,000 Sprint retail locations vendors to provision non-Sprint- store and client software into a across the U.S., as well as online branded devices to operate on its range of innovative devices. By at www.sprint.com. Availability, networks, as well as extensive supporting a variety of devices BenQ's Joybook Lite U103 packs pricing, additional distribution expertise in operating multiple from multiple manufacturers, and channels and other details will be platforms and assets. through complementary an SSD for when you're feeling disclosed at a later date. In addition to 3G, the Skiff applications for major smart frisky, HDD for when you're not "The forthcoming launch of the Reader will also support wireless phone platforms, Skiff will make Skiff Reader is an exciting connectivity via WiFi. it easier for publishers to By Tim Stevens (Engadget) that battery life will indeed be development for consumers who The Skiff Reader will feature the distribute content and advertising Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:01:00 PM good, something that should also are looking for more and more Skiff service and digital store, across a range of devices and be helped by a 10-inch, LED- choice in the arena of embedded allowing consumers to wirelessly form factors, an increasingly If money were no issue we'd all backlit display of indeterminate devices," said Dan Dooley, purchase and access a wide important goal as the e-reading be rocking slinky notebooks with resolution. Also on the docket is president wholesale solutions, variety of newspapers, market continues to grow. terabytes of flash-based storage, pseudo-3D sound from the two Sprint. "We have witnessed a magazines, books, blogs and but alas this recession means a integrated speakers courtesy of strong demand for e-readers in other content from multiple more budget-conscious approach SRS TruSound HD, a multitouch recent years and now Sprint is publishers. Newspaper and is warranted. BenQ's solution is trackpad, and a weight of just showing its commitment to Skiff magazine content delivered by to offer a bit of both with its 2.4lbs. No price yet, but that by making this new device Skiff will feature visually latest Joybook Lite, the U103, should change soon enough. offering a large (500GB max) BenQ's Joybook Lite U103 HDD paired with an optional packs an SSD for when you're Get an Instapaper Text View of Any 32GB SSD. Install your OS and feeling frisky, HDD for when critical apps on the SSD, dump you're not originally appeared on everything else to platter, and Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 Web Article [Bookmarklets] make the most of what the 13:01:00 EST. Please see our By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) creator goes out of his way to cite company advertises will be an terms for use of feeds. Permalink eight hour battery. That the Fareastgizmos.com| BenQ| Email Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:30:00 AM the Readability bookmarklet precursor, but for those with laptop packs what is advertised this| Comments Fan of article-saving, reader- Instapaper accounts, or just as "Intel's new Atom" processor friendly webapp Instapaper? You looking for a new view of longer- (surely the N450) is a good sign can now convert any article you reading web articles, it's a handy come across on the web to standards with the Instapaper tool. [ Instapaper] Instapaper's very clean and clear Text bookmarklet. Instapaper's E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Tech News/ 17 Vegas-bound! What to expect from CES By John Biggs (CrunchGear)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:25:38 AM All of us at CrunchGear are prepping for the pain-fest we all know as the Consumer Electronics Show. For those not aware, every January, just after they’ve waddled away from the -name few e-readers, but don’t the spirits. Otherwise in terms of all-you-can-eat buffet called the expect anyone to break Kindle embargoed releases we’ve seen Holidays, journalists, bloggers, hegemony this CES. They can’t and the leaked stuff so far, I can’t and big box electronics buyers all even ship Nooks until February imagine there will be much to Alereon announces head to Las Vegas for more of and the rest of the e-readers will amaze us.• This is the year of the same. be also rans until popular demand recovery. Cynicism aside, CES This year we’re doing a few cool ramps up in the e-reader space.• will be big this year. Companies wireless USB NoWire things including a full live stream Tablets? What tablets? I doubt are coming out of the funk of the of our coverage right on the site we’re going to see much in the recession and by all indications laptop to HDTV extender thanks to our friends at way of “media tablets” at CES. If they’re ready to start launching By Donald Melanson is that the extender can also take LiveStream. We’ll be running the Apple launches anything at the product. Interestingly, however, (Engadget) stream 24/7 and we’ll try to grab advantage of some software and end of January, no one wants to they’re not launching loads of drivers for Windows for some just about every major meeting Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:22:00 PM be the doofus with a tablet product all at once this week and more advanced functionality. No and event we attend. However, “coming in Spring 2010 while are instead waiting for other I’ve just been going over our Looking to keep your computer- word on a price just yet, but it Apple rolls over the industry like events to blow their wad. to-TV extender setup as basic as looks like the extender will be sources and have a few basic the Juggernaut.• There will be no Otherwise, look for a healthy – predictions for you on CES. possible? Then you might just available sometime in March. October Surprise. This one is but not overly heady – mix of want to consider Alereon's new Head on past the break for a Watch live streaming video from getting me down. As far as we froth and substance. You can crunchgear at livestream.com NoWire wireless USB extender, quick video overview. can tell there will be no amazing read all of our CES coverage which does away with the need Continue reading Alereon • This is the year of 3D. surprises at CES. Motorola will right here. Although I doubt 3D will truly for any software or drivers along announces wireless USB NoWire have about five upcoming with the wires. As you might laptop to HDTV extender become mass market in 2010, Android phones, Samsung is Avatar will definitely encourage have suspected, however, that Alereon announces wireless dumping out some Android means it simply uses the wireless USB NoWire laptop to HDTV a slight uptick in Blu-Ray sales.• phones (but not at CES), and E-readers galore.. In fact, Sprint USB dongle to mirror your extender originally appeared on Palm, well, hopefully they’ll laptop display on your TV, which Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 just announcing something called release something nice to buoy the Skiff. There may also be a no itself must be outfitted with a 13:22:00 EST. Please see our shark fin receiver that connects terms for use of feeds. Permalink| via HDMI or VGA (with some Wireless USB Blog| Email this| Court to Cops: Stop Tasing People Into Cooperation help form a 3.5mm audio jack). Comments By David Hambling (Wired Tasers are becoming a be used simply to force a non- That obviously limits your Top Stories) ubiquitous "non-lethal" tool for violent person to bend to an options a bit, but the good news

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:38:00 AM law enforcement, but a federal officer’s will. appeals court rules that they can’t 18 Gadgets/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Playlist: Mighty Mouse's Android To Take Over Your Washer Dryer and 'New Adventures,' Flashsticks, Microwave Oven [Kitchen] SoulPancake By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) kitchen control center," with By Wired Magazine (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:30:38 AM widgets to play Pandora, show a photo of your dog, read the news, Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:00:00 PM Phones, GPS, computers... Do a web browser, and timers for we really want to give Android both the oven and the burners. Get your fill of what's Wired this the power to control our washer- Do you need your microwave to month, from praise for intrinsic dryers and ovens and printers be a kitchen command center rewards in the workplace to the too? Would someone hack them while I play music and watch eclectic funk of RJD2 and a to microwave your underpants, pictures of my dog in it all day, rewriting of history through wash your soup, and dry your while posting for Gizmodo images. Is that Batman at a Fidel pizza? through the web browser? I don't Castro press conference? It probably doesn't matter. I do it know about you, but I'll be there all the time. But better get used to like shareware. it, because this is what we are Wouldn't you? Yes, this reminds getting soon: me a bit of the old dot.com era, enterprise desktop phones. You what features they can get. The This is the NIM1000, an when everyone and their dogs put can't buy it, however: It's washer dryer has slide touch- capacitive touch-sensitive Java or Windows CE in every designed for manufacturers of screen controls, stain guides, and Android-based module that is single thing out there. And we all these products. a way to interpret the designed to control all kinds of know how that ended. appliances. It has the necessary Made by Touch Revolution, the extraterrestrial symbols that connections to plug into NIM1000 module will be come printed in clothe's labels. anything, from kitchen demonstrated at CES in these The microwave, according to appliances, to printers, and appliances and gadgets, showing Touch Revolution, "doubles a Skiff Reader is largest yet, will be hitting a Sprint Store near you By Tim Stevens (Engadget) above screenshot, should do and, hopefully, text-to-speech. Skiff Reader is largest yet, will

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:46:00 PM much better justice to magazine Content can be side-loaded over be hitting a Sprint Store near you and newspaper layouts than a mini USB jack or delivered via originally appeared on Engadget Amazon's Kindle DX may be we've yet seen from an e-ink- WiFi but, more importantly, 3G on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:46:00 big, but it's not the biggest any based reader. That's exactly the is also on offer thanks to Sprint, EST. Please see our terms for more. The Skiff Reader is here to sort of advance Hearst was who will also dedicate some use of feeds. Permalink| Skiff take that crown -- despite being a promising when it first space in its retail stores to sell the Reader| Email this| Comments mere quarter inch thick. It packs mentioned the device last month. thing when it launches sometime a 1600 x 1200 11.5-inch Skiff includes 4GB of on-board card expansion, and there's a this year. Price? That we don't touchscreen (finger and stylus) storage (just over 3GB is 3.5mm headphone jack for tunes know. that, as you can see from the available for content) with SD Gallery: Skiff Reader press shots E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ Tech News/ 19 Photo Gallery: Top Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make 10 Sci-Fi Weapons Food Cold? [Microwaves] That Actually Exist By Popular Science By Aaron Rowe (Wired Top a couple hundred degrees Stories) (Gizmodo) Fahrenheit-much colder than Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:00:00 PM Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:02:12 AM anything you'd want to put in your mouth-in less than a second. Microwaves can transform a But because it works most All the laser weapons, robots, frozen pizza into hot, melted efficiently on low-density gases sonic blasters and puke rays goodness in four minutes flat, but of atoms of a single element, pictured here are real. Really. they can't rescue your melted ice- physicist Mark Raizen of the Some of them, in fact, are already cream sundae. Or can they? University of Texas doesn't think in use. To cook food, a microwave oven it will be useful for cooling food converts voltage into high- anytime soon: "Not unless you frequency electromagnetic can subsist on a thousand sodium Give Us Your microwaves. The molecules in atoms." Pick for Car of the food-especially water and fat- Popular Science is your absorb this energy and wiggle at wormhole to the future. Decade University of Massachusetts. emit them every which way, high speeds, causing them to heat Reporting on what's new and Microwaves can only speed up causing the atom to hold nearly By Chuck Squatriglia (Wired rapidly and warm the what's next in science and atoms, not slow them down. still. Placing an atom at the Top Stories) surrounding food. Although technology, we deliver the future Scientists do have a high-tech junction of multiple beams can quickly turning leftovers cold now. Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:52:00 AM method for slowing atoms, slow its momentum in all would be handy, this is a one- Last week we laid out our 10 way operation, explains David however: lasers. Shoot a moving directions, decreasing its energy atom with a laser, and it will and cooling it. best cars of the decade. Now it’s Pozar, a professor and your turn. microwave expert at the absorb the laser's photons and re- This drops an atom's temperature Interead expands COOL-ER e-reader line-up, announces additional content By Donald Melanson While details on it are still a bit to say about that once CES fully (Engadget) light, the reader will apparently gets underway.

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:18:00 PM boast a touchscreen of some sort, Interead expands COOL-ER e- weigh just 5.8 ounces, and be reader line-up, announces Interead already let out some available sometime this Spring additional content originally early word about its COOL-ER (the COOL-ER 3G will follow in appeared on Engadget on Mon, 3G e-book reader with a little "mid-2010"). What's more, 04 Jan 2010 12:18:00 EST. help from AT&T, but it's now Interead has also now announced Please see our terms for use of made things doubly official, and a new range of content offerings more than 1,400 newspapers, though, it seems). Still nothing in feeds. Permalink| COOL-ER e- also take the opportunity to for its e-book readers, including along with "select websites," and the way of pricing, but we're readers, Coolermatic| Email this| announce a new WiFi-equipped the Coolermatic application, even Twitter feeds (no posting hoping Interead will have more Comments COOL-ER Connect model. which will give users access to 20 Gadgets/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition Toshiba mini NB305 adds Atom N450 to a successful formula (hands-on) By Paul Miller (Engadget) add up to a compelling offering. RealTime and a fridge-style

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:24:00 PM The regular version of the laptop Bulletin Board. with "true" chiclet keys goes for Gallery: Toshiba mini NB305 Toshiba hasn't strayed far from $400, while a black version with press shots its NB205 series of 10-inch a less impressive keyboard takes Gallery: Toshiba mini NB305 netbooks with the all-new mini the entry spot at $350. hands-on NB305, but the few tweaks made We got a few moments to play Toshiba mini NB305 adds Atom are welcome. Obviously the with the netbooks, and came N450 to a successful formula Atom N450 processor is the away pretty impressed. It might (hands-on) originally appeared central attraction, but tweaks like not be quite the bang-for-buck on on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan a 250GB hard drive, less offer from other manufacturers, particular fans of the oversized with a Media Controller app to 2010 12:24:00 EST. Please see protrusive 6-cell battery (which and the lack of a higher-end trackpad), the NB305 might be expose some of Windows 7's our terms for use of feeds. clocks in a purported 11 hours of graphics option is a little off- hard to beat. Toshiba's also media streaming abilities, along Permalink| | Email this| battery life), and a slightly lighter putting, but as for simple build pursuing the software angle here with a visual search app called Comments finished product (2.6 pounds) all quality and usability (we're CinemaNow 2.0: 3D, 1080p, Android & WinMo get a taste of online movie distribution By Richard Lawler (Engadget) -- and flip the switch bringing CinemaNow 2.0: 3D, 1080p,

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:39:00 PM streamed or downloaded 1080p Android & WinMo get a taste of or 3D, plus the ability to add online movie distribution Thought digital delivery would additional background info on originally appeared on Engadget get left behind in the jump to 3D? each movie or previously disc- on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:39:00 Roxio's CinemaNow 2.0 platform exclusive extras like multiple EST. Please see our terms for is ready to build on the success of audio tracks, subtitles and more. use of feeds. Permalink| its predecessor-- already Also new for 2.0 are plans for all you can eat subscriptions or a ask about that, and whether the CinemaNow| Email this| embedded in many devices and access on Android and Windows disc tie-in is the logical next step, new features will be backwards Comments powering the online stores for Mobile devices. We're still but we'll wait for a CES demo to compatible on old hardware. Blockbuster, Best Buy and Zip.ca thinking a combo of lower prices, Wired Science's Top Space Stories for Age of Solar System Needs to Be 2009 Recalculated By Betsy Mason (Wired Top space, a lot. Here are the space By Lisa Grossman (Wired Top the trusted equation used to Stories) stories they loved the most in Stories) determine the age of the solar

Submitted at 1/4/2010 2:30:00 AM 2009. Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:01:00 PM system is wrong. Wired Science readers love New measurements show that E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 21 Avatar has made more than $1 billion. That’s a lot of dollars. Change the Channel By Nicholas Deleon WIth Your iPhone and (CrunchGear) the L5 Remote IR Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:15:58 AM Adapter [IPhone] Pretty sure none of us here ever By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) said that Avatar would tank at the box office, but did we think it’d Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:27:02 AM make a billion dollars in just a For every million or so pointless, few days? I sure didn’t! (To be sacrificial iPhone accessories, we fair, I never really gave the topic get one good one. And the L5 much thought.) But yes, wipe the Remote infrared adapter may just look of shock off your face as it’s ZOMM uses Bluetooth to be that one accessory. now revealed that the James The idea couldn't be simpler: Cameron film made $1.02 billion You plug the L5 Remote adapter in three weeks. That includes tether you to your phone, into your iPhone's dock international receipts, too. That’s connector, it draws from the a nice chunk of change. your phone to you iPhone's battery to blast IR, and As it stands, the movie is well on By Tim Stevens (Engadget) and even let you take them, with the addition of bundled track to become the second typical popcorn movie that has a acting like a disconnected universal remote app, your highest grossing film of all time. Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:56:00 AM big opening weekend then falls speakerphone. Appropriately, the iPhone can suddenly change the (Presumably this list doesn’t take off the face of the Earth. Missing cellphones are a fact of poker chip-sized device will be channel on pretty much any TV, inflation into account.) Given the None of us (at least the east life for forgetful folks, and while on display at CES this week, cable/sat box or Front Row positive word-of-mouth reaction, coast morning crew) have seen the 'ol "call yourself and hunt the where there will surely be no compatible device up to 30 feet and with the Twitter echo- the movie, so we can’t give our feeble ringtone" technique works shortage of misplaced handsets of away. chamber having given the film its Highly Important thoughts on it. most of the time, some need a all shapes and sizes kicking We've seen iPhone remote blessing, it’s probably going to At least the 3D version looks little bit more. There are plenty around. solutions before, but nothing has hover around the top of the neat, I think. of software solutions out there, ZOMM uses Bluetooth to tether been nearly this elegant. Priced at weekly money charts for a little but ZOMM could be the perfect you to your phone, your phone to $50 whenever it's actually while yet. That’s unlike the hardware option for any handset you originally appeared on available, the L5 remote could that supports Bluetooth. It's a Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 finally give us one remote to keyring that tethers wirelessly to 11:56:00 EST. Please see our control them all. [ L5 Tech via your celly like a headset, starting terms for use of feeds. Permalink The Loop via Silicon Alley to buzz, blink, and chime technabob| ZOMM| Email this| Insider via DVICE] whenever you leave the phone -- Comments or the ZOMM -- behind. It will also alert you to incoming calls 22 Tech/ E-reader News Edition Singapore Court Rules That Online DVR Is Infringing... While Noting How Copyright Law Isn't Really Set Up For This By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) judges had to contort themselves provided by the cable company almost feels like it depended on says that under the law, as it

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:10:00 AM into all sorts of odd ways to make itself. Also, it's a web-based which eventual flip of the coin stands, the site is guilty of such a ruling make sense under service, rather than a TV-based came up which way. The judge infringement. But even it seems As copyright-watchers are well the law. The conclusion clearly one. Users log in and can agrees with the basic ruling in really troubled by what this aware, recently there was an made sense. Copyright law designate which shows (only Cablevision that it is not the means from a practical important case that went through wouldn't make any sense at all if from Singaporean channels that service provider who is liable for perspective: I leave open the the US court system over the length of a wire could change broadcast over-the-air) they want direct infringement. As in the possibility that such a DVR or whether or not cable company something from infringing to non to record, and the service will Cablevision case, it's the end VCR product or service, Cablevision could provide a -infringing. And yet, there were record those shows and make users who "pushes the button" operating remotely or locally, remote DVR service. ways to read copyright law that them accessible to that user only and thus is actually responsible digitally or via analog means, Effectively, Cablevision was would have found in favor of the for a limited amount of time. for the action. All good. But, the could amount to fair dealing setting up a bank of TiVo-like networks. The issue is really There is one other complicating lawsuit also focused on a under our Copyright Act only for devices at its own datacenter, and twofold. First, technology factor, in that the way RecordTV secondary level of infringement, the non-commercial facilitation allowing users to record and advances faster than copyright works has shifted over time. and here the court found that of end-users' time shifting. As playback shows as if they were law, and the conditions that were Initially it would record a show RecordTV, while not liable for we have seen earlier... it is recording them on a DVR settop in place when the law was once and allow anyone who the actual recording, could be inconsistent that the VCR is box sitting under their television. written aren't the same as what requested that recording to access found liable of secondary permitted to be sold at a price (in The only real difference is where happens later. Second, to deal the single file. But later it infringement in the later stores) but the [remote] DVR the box is (or, you might say, with this our esteemed elected switched to keeping a separate transmission of the content. (through advertising revenue) is how long the wire is between the officials simply apply duct tape- recording of each show that This seems like a total not, but until the occasion TV and the DVR). Since it's like patches to copyright law, someone requested, which seems headscratcher. So a user is requires, I shall not make any already well established that time adding new definitions and massively inefficient in terms of responsible for recording the file, pronouncements on this anomaly. -shifting is perfectly legal it was categories, that didn't exist storage. but not responsible for then And there you are. Even the difficult to see how anyone could before. But, then when new What's stunning again, however, accessing it (recognize that the judge seems to recognize that it's make the argument that technologies come along, the as you read through the ruling is user accessing the file is the same silly to find one service Cablevision's setup was question is what categories do the how conflicted the judge appears as the service provider infringing and the other not, but infringing. The only difference resulting outputs fall into, and the to be. There's a ridiculous transmitting it)? How does that basically says that with the way was the length of the wire. But, arguments are often about who amount of "on the one hand, on make sense? copyright law is set up, that's the of course, the TV guys objected gets to categorize the output to the other hand, but on the other There is a second issue also, ruling that makes sense. strenuously with bizarre their benefit. other hand"-type reasoning found which is that the court had Finally, this should be analogies that didn't make much It appears that the US is not the throughout the ruling, which you trouble with the fact that worrisome on all sorts of levels sense. only country going through this can see below: It's also RecordTV meant to be a for a variety of online services The appeals court sided with sort of debate. I've been alerted interesting to see that, despite this commercial enterprise in which it that seek to replicate perfectly Cablevision, saying that such a to a recent ruling in Singapore ruling being in Singapore, under would make money by having legal analog equivalents. The service doesn't infringe, and the that actually comes to a different Singaporean rule, the discussion ads. It used this issue as one of a fact that where a storage device is Supreme Court chose not to hear conclusion and finds infringing spends a lot of time looking at few factors that removed a "fair stored or how long a wire is the appeal, so this ruling stands, behavior on the part of the the Cablevision case in the US dealing/fair use" defense by the could totally change the legality at least in the Second Circuit, for service provider. The story here (and some other US and UK company. Again, though, there's of a product should suggest that the time being. But what was is slightly different. In this case, cases as well). a lot of "on the one hand, on the something is seriously wrong most telling about the actual the company is RecordTV -- a So, why does the judge come to other hand" type debates in the appeals court ruling was how the separate service, rather than a different conclusion? Well, it ruling until the judge basically SINGAPORE page 25 E-reader News Edition Tech/ TV/ 23 Bono: We Should Use China's Censorship As An Example Of How To Stop Piracy By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) against it because he was too on its last tour, you would think labels): But we know from creative economy in the world,

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:23:00 AM rich, and people would point that that Bono would be aware of this. America's noble effort to stop where music, film, TV and video out. As for his claim that the internet child pornography, not to games help to account for nearly It's no secret that Paul Apparently he forgot that part. is harming the up-and-coming mention China's ignoble effort to 4 percent of gross domestic McGuinness, U2's longtime As pretty much all of you are songwriters, again, all this shows suppress online dissent, that it's product. The problem here is manager, has been making sending in, Bono has posted his is how incredibly out of touch perfectly possible to track that, again, Bono seems to equate bizarre and easily refuted claims regular NY Times column, about Bono is. In the past, the "young, content. Now, Bono is file sharing with a loss of money that everyone but the music 10 big things that are important fledgling songwriter" couldn't technically (beyond his role with or decrease in output from the industry is at fault for not making for the next 10 years and live off ticket or t-shirt sales U2) a venture partner at the wider creative industries. He's U2 even richer than it is. And apparently, protecting his either. He had to hope that he venture capital firm Elevation flat out wrong. The overall that's because they're all royalties... I mean... stomping out got the lucky golden ticket from a Partners, and you would think industries continue to grow. It's conspiring to bring piracy to the piracy makes it to number two on record label and that they didn't that would require some basic just a small group of the more world, which is destroying music the list. It's the same then crush his spirit and level of technological knowhow. powerful middlemen, who have revenue while pumping up the McGuinness blather, of course. originality before discarding him But, you get the feeling Elevation refused to adapt and change with revenue of lots of other Apparently, piracy is really all as an unrecouped has-been. brought him on for his star the times, who are stuck in the companies. Of course, none of the ISPs' fault: A decade's worth Today, however, the power, rather than his keen past. And it's because of their that is true. Music-based of music file-sharing and swiping opportunities for the young, technology insights, or he might own unwillingness to adapt, that revenues continue to climb quite has made clear that the people it fledgling songwriter to build a realize that neither America's they may be losing some money. nicely, and the revenue that ISPs hurts are the creators -- in this following, build a business model efforts to stop child pornography, But the creative output, and the and Google and others are case, the young, fledgling and make a living has grown nor China's efforts to suppress economic impact of those overall making from "piracy" is barely songwriters who can't live off tremendously. Ask Jonathon online dissent have worked very industries continue to grow, no worth mentioning. Does anyone ticket and T-shirt sales like the Coulton. Or Corey Smith. Or well. Neither has shown that it's matter how confused some really think that broadband least sympathetic among us -- Matthew Ebel. Or Moto Boy. "perfectly possible to track rockstar on a crusade might be would have noticeably fewer and the people this reverse Robin Or any one of thousands of other content." In fact, they've shown about them. customers without music piracy Hooding benefits are rich service songwriters who didn't go the the reverse. They've shown that So if we're looking for big trends going around? providers, whose swollen profits major label route, but have the further you try to track over the next ten years, how Still, there had been some perfectly mirror the lost receipts figured out ways to make a living people, the further underground about we learn to stop listening to questions about where U2's of the music business. Hmm. So, (or better) that simply would not they go. out of touch rockstars who insist outspoken frontman, Bono, felt apparently all the money that have been possible just a few And is Bono really (really?) they know stuff they are clearly about these issues. Back in 2008, people used to spend on music, years ago. suggesting that we force ISPs to uninformed about (or, rather, he did say that he mostly agreed they now spend on internet So what's Bono's solution to this use the same tactics used to try to informed by a few biased and with McGuinness that somehow connections? If only there were non-problem? Apparently it's for silence dissent in China to protect factually-challenged parties)? ISPs were to blame for all of this. some evidence to back that up. ISPs to spy on what everyone his royalties? Yikes. Perhaps Permalink| Comments| Email Then, in early 2009, there was an But, as we noted, the music does and to fork over money they movie moguls will succeed This Story amusing interview where he business has been growing, just get to the musicians (well, he where musicians and their basically said that piracy is bad, not the sales of CDs. says musicians, but what he moguls have failed so far, and but he couldn't really speak out Considering how much U2 made really means is the major record rally America to defend the most Video: Project Runway returns to NYC; Season 7 Premiere on Lifetime January 14 By Robert Seidman Five Filters featured article: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, (TVbytheNumbers) Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Term Extraction. 24 Tech/ E-reader News Edition Acer Aspire Netbook sports new Social network nixes Atom chip users who 'let (CNET News.com) • Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:23:53 AM themselves go' CERTIFIED (CNET News.com) Acer Aspire One • 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN (RJ- network. "Every year we see that some of AO532h(Credit: Acer) 45) Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:38:00 AM Acer has unveiled the latest • Built-in Webcam our members from western entry to its hot Aspire One • Two Built-in Stereo Speakers BeautifulPeople.com, a social- cultures eat and drink to excess Netbook line--this one powered • Multi-Gesture Touchpad networking and dating site for over the holidays and clearly by Intel's new N450 Atom • 3 - USB 2.0 Ports "attractive people," announced on their looks suffer," Hodge said in processor. • 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 Monday that it has removed a statement. "The USA has been The newly-launched Acer Aspire is 93 percent standard size, mAh) 5,000 members from around the grossly over-indulging since One AO532h, driven by Intel's according to Acer, so it should be • 2.76 lbs. | 1.25 kg world for putting on too much Thanksgiving--it's no wonder that next-gen N450 chip, is designed less cramped than many other • 10.17" (W) x7.28" (D) x .99" weight over the holiday season. so many members have been to offer better performance and Netbook keyboards. (H) According to the site, "many expelled from the network. We longer battery life than older Like most Netbooks, the • Windows 7 Starter members posted photos of hope they will be back after Netbooks. Acer claims the new AO532h comes with Windows 7 • Three stylish colors: Onyx themselves celebrating Christmas shedding the festive pounds." machine can last up to 8 hours Starter Edition, which is the Blue, Garnet Red and Silver and the New Year--revealing that "As a business, we mourn the with the standard 6-cell Li-ion lowest cost but least robust Matrix they have let themselves go. loss of any member, but the fact (4400 mAh) battery or 10 hours edition of Windows 7. Starting at • MSRP: $299.99 Vigilant members, who take remains that our members with a high-density 6-cell (5600 $299, the AO532h is expected to pride in the standards demanded demand the high standard of mAh) battery. be available sometime this Acer now joins the ranks of by the site, called for action." beauty be upheld," The N450 processor frees up month. several other Netbook makers by Greg Hodge, the site's managing BeautifulPeople.com founder space by integrating the graphics The full specs listed by Acer for unveiling new machines running director, said in a statement that Robert Hintze said in a statement. processor onto the CPU, so the Aspire One AO532h: the N450 Atom. In December, the service "responded to He went on to say that allowing Netbooks can be smaller and Asus debuted its Eee PC 1005PE. complaints by moving the newly those members to stay on the site thinner. The Aspire One AO532h • Intel Atom Processor N450 HP's "unannounced" Mini 210 chubby members back to the "is a direct threat to [the comes in just under an inch thick (1.66GHz, 512KB L2 cache, Netbook then hit the news, rating stage. This is the same as company's] business model and and weighs a bit over 2.5 pounds 667MHz FSB) followed by models from having them re-apply. Their re- the very concept for which while sporting a 10.1-inch • 10.1" WSVGA Acer Toshiba and Gateway. Many of applications were reviewed by BeautifulPeople.com was screen, according to Acer's specs. CrystalBrite LED-backlit Display these companies will be showing existing members and only a few founded." The new Netbook comes with • Mobile Intel NM10 Express off their latest N450-powered hundred were voted back in. Now it's time to hear from you. 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB Chipset Netbooks when CES launches in Over 5,000 were rejected." Did BeautifulPeople go SATA hard drive, a 10/100 • Integrated Intel Graphics Las Vegas this week. The United States led the list of overboard? Is the site itself Ethernet port, 802.11b/g/Draft-N Media Accelerator 3150 Five Filters featured article: ousted members with 1,520 troubling, since users are judged Wi-Fi, a media card reader, and a • 1024MB DDR2 667MHz Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: people being told to leave the by their looks? Let us know in Webcam. Acer also includes a Memory PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, social network. The site also let the comments below. multi-gesture touch pad that lets • 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Term Extraction. go of 832 people from the U.K. Five Filters featured article: you use glide, pinch, and swirl Drive and 533 from Canada. Russia lost Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: your fingers to more easily move • Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card the fewest people with just 88 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, around the screen. The keyboard Reader being told to find a new social Term Extraction. E-reader News Edition Tech/ 25 Venture-backed companies see year- Tough To Punish Those end surge Who File Bogus DMCA (CNET News.com) expect the IPO window will re- million generated by Chicago- open in the coming year." based Echo Global Logistics, Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:10:07 AM Takedowns The $7.3 billion raised by which provides technology to By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) Battery maker A123 Systems in mergers and acquisitions in the companies in the transportation websites (and, at one point, were used to try to take down the late September scored the biggest fourth quarter was a 49 percent industry. Submitted at 1/4/2010 6:40:07 AM IPO among venture-backed jump from the $4.9 billion seen Prices paid for start-ups backed entire ISP). The details are a bit companies in 2009, helping boost in the same quarter in 2008. by venture capitalists also grew We all know that it's quite convoluted, but basically, a the overall value of such initial Still, 2009 overall was a down in the fourth quarter, according to common for the DMCA group of people critical of what public offerings markedly from year for mergers, acquisitions, VentureSource. For the first time takedown process to be abused to was being said on a website the preceding year. and IPOs of venture capital- since 2000, the median price paid suppress content that the issued a series of DMCA Amazon's acquisition of Zappos, backed companies in the U.S. For for a venture-backed firm shot takedown sender did not hold the takedowns to keep the site down which closed in November, was the year, only $16.2 billion was past $100 million, hitting $145 right to, or which was clearly every time it came back up the biggest takeover of a venture- generated from 326 mergers and million, almost eight times higher covered by fair use. Technically, following a counternotice. This backed company in 2009. acquisitions, a 37 percent drop than the $19 million median paid the DMCA has section (f) which seems like a perfect case where That economic activity from the from the $25.6 billion raised during 2008's final quarter. But makes the notice issuer liable for the takedown issuers should be final months of the year is through 380 mergers and the $27 million median price for misrepresentations, and could hit with sanctions of some sort, grounds for optimism about acquisitions in 2008, according to 2009 overall was 18 percent less force them to pay legal fees. But but the case was dismissed on 2010, according to industry Dow Jones VentureSource. than for the previous year. it's difficult to think of many procedural grounds instead, tracker Dow Jones The largest acquisition for both "Several large deals spurred a cases where this has been which seem to be based on a VentureSource. the year and the final quarter was dramatic increase in the median actually used successfully. misunderstanding of the DMCA "The fourth quarter has set the that of Zappos, an online shoe amount acquirers paid for a Often, those caught abusing the itself. stage for an active year in M&As and clothing seller, which was company during the fourth DMCA just say "sorry, it was a But, more important is how this [mergers and acquisitions] in scooped up by Amazon for $847 quarter," Canning said in a mistake" and get away with it. case demonstrates how the 2010," Jessica Canning, director million. statement. "But the median Funny, of course, that the same DMCA is abused not to prevent of global research for Dow Jones Eight new IPOs, meanwhile, amount paid throughout 2009 doesn't work in the other copyright infringement, but to try VentureSource, said Monday in a managed to raise $904 million in was still below the levels seen in direction for those caught to silence speech that someone statement recapping 2009's 2009, a 64 percent jump from the 2007, a positive sign for infringing on copyrights under doesn't like. We've had plenty of activity in private markets. "As $551 million generated by seven acquirers looking to purchase the DMCA. Say "sorry, it was a discussions about the conflicts the economy improves, acquirers IPOs in 2008. The year's largest companies at reasonable prices." mistake" and you still might owe between the First Amendment are gaining confidence in their IPO was in the green-tech sector, Five Filters featured article: thousands of dollars. and copyright law, but here is a own financial situation and as Massachusetts-based A123 Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Eric Goldman highlights a case case where Congress has made a returning to strategic Systems, a maker of rechargeable PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, where an ISP tried to use section law that is all too often used to acquisitions. At the same time, lithium ion batteries, raised $371 Term Extraction. (f) to go after a bunch of folks stifle speech. the steady trickle of public million. The largest IPO in the who issued questionable DMCA Permalink| Comments| Email offerings is teasing investors who fourth quarter was the $80 takedowns that were clearly This Story designed to harass a couple of SINGAPORE continued from page 22 with copyright law. This Story Permalink| Comments| Email 26 Tech/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition Cisco Realizes It's A Waste Of Time Apple's "renaissance" is To Focus On Patent Quantity under way By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) evidence for those accusations patents they hold. The NPEs By Megan Lavey (The Unofficial Apple Weblog Submitted at 1/4/2010 4:38:52 AM (though, I'm sure they'll accuse (patent trolls, patent hoarders, me of being on the take for Cisco whatever you want to call them) (TUAW))

A few weeks back, we noted even though we've never done aren't suing those who have the Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:00:00 AM how some were freaking out over any business with Cisco in any most patents. They're suing the fact that patent applications way whatsoever). whoever has (1) products on the Filed under: Switchers, Cult of were down, without bothering to That said, I do find some of the market and (2) a large bank Mac A few months ago, I walked look behind the numbers at why. comments from Cisco odd and account. Cisco could have no into a Paradise Bakery & Café in Instead, they jumped to the somewhat unsupportable:"The patents at all, and it would still be Phoenix -- a place known for its Group stated that PC sales were conclusion that innovation in the arms race approach doesn't pay getting sued just as much by excellent food and free Wi-Fi. down as a result of the US was dropping. johnjac points off," he says. "It doesn't do you a NPEs. So, frankly, I don't buy Like a lot of places with free impending launch of Windows 7. us to an article where folks at lot of good to have a lot of the claim that the more patents Internet access, there were plenty Or, it could also be indicative Cisco suggests that it might just patents." you have, the more likely you are of laptop users. What stood out to that Windows users are finally be tech companies realizing that Why? The patent landscape has to get sued. Instead, my guess, is me was that all but one of the getting fed up. patenting everything is a waste of changed dramatically. Patents that Cisco has realized that computers was either a MacBook "If Microsoft Windows is seen as time and money. In fact, the often land companies in court as getting patents (especially in such or MacBook Pro. a buggier, less-secure product story states that Cisco recently they fight over who invented the large numbers) is an expensive It's not just me looking through that is slower, harder to use and changed its patent strategy from idea first. Lawsuits still might process, for little benefit. It may at the world with an Apple-tinged ultimately raises costs for trying to patent everything to involve competitors, but help in some lawsuits against bias. The more places I go, the everybody, that opens up the trying to focus on things that it increasingly Cisco finds it is competitors (when Cisco can more I see people using Macs, or market for Apple to gain that believes is really innovative, battling what Chandler calls "non threaten to counter sue over other at least considering them. The high-end segment. . . ," Harvard rather than everything it can -practicing entities." These are patents), but you only need so Apple stores in Phoenix are still Business School's David Yoffie possibly get a patent on. companies that exist only to many patents for that. So, it nearly elbow to elbow with said in The Daily Gleaner. "If I can already hear the usual acquire patents and then seek to looks like Cisco is building up a people every time I visit, Windows 7 is not seen as more of crowd of patent holders in our extract money from big stable of defensive patents, and however the lone Microsoft store an improvement (over Vista) then comments. They hate Cisco and companies for infringing on has realized that you don't need in Scottsdale was pretty empty I think you'll see more erosion at pretty much any big company. them. The more patents you hold, the largest number. That's a good the one time I visited. the high end." They'll interpret this statement as the more likely one of these thing, but the claim that more There's now data to back up TUAW Apple's "renaissance" is meaning that Cisco has become companies will sue you. The first patents makes you more of a these observations. Macsimum under way originally appeared on less inventive and is more part is true. Lots of companies target just doesn't make sense. News reports that iMacs were the The Unofficial Apple Weblog focused on "stealing" inventions. find themselves being sued by Permalink| Comments| Email top-selling desktop for the month (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 Of course, what's amusing is that non-practicing entities, but it's This Story of October 2009 according to the 11:00:00 EST. Please see our they'll never present any not because of the number of NPD Group. After the proverbial terms for use of feeds. jaw-dropping moment, there was Read| Permalink| Email this| Total in $2.25bn gas deal with Chesapeake quickly speculation as to why Comments (Financial Times - US Chesapeake 16:23 Macs finally outpaced PCs when homepage) By Carola Hoyos, Chief energy Five Filters featured article: it came to desktops. According to The Daily Gleaner, the NPD Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:23:41 AM correspondent Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Published: January 4 2010 16:23 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Total in $2.25bn gas deal with | Last updated: January 4 2010 Term Extraction. E-reader News Edition Tech/ Entertainment/ 27 HTC and other OEMs prepared to Seesmic Acquires challenge the iSlate Ping.fm By Steven Sande (The Microsoft could get into the CES By Jennifer Van Grove Unofficial Apple Weblog tablet action by having CEO (Mashable!) (TUAW)) Steve Ballmer demonstrate the Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:01:16 AM Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:00:00 PM Courier device. The announcements are sure to Seesmic, maker of popular Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, place some price pressure on desktop and mobile Twitter Apple The Apple tablet, whether Apple: Freescale's design is clients, has just acquired you want to call it the iSlate, the intended for retail prices in the Ping.fm— a service that lets iTablet, or "Betty," hasn't even $200 range, much less than the users post to 50 social networks been verified to exist at this $600 - $1,000 expected for with a single status update — for Ping.fm currently boasts point. However, that's not Apple's device. Of course, Apple an undisclosed sum. 200,000 updates a day from its keeping other manufacturers is all about the design, The acquisition includes both 500,000 registered members. from coming out with their own have been designed and built by functionality, and user experience talent and technology, so Ping.fm More than 100 applications competition to the mythical HTC or other OEMs. of their devices and software, and co-founders Adam Duffy and already use the Ping.fm API for device. HTC isn't the only company the capabilities of the tablet will Sean McCullough are now cross-posting purposes, and At this year's Consumer jumping into the tablet fray; need to show perceived value to Seesmic shareholders and key although Seesmic will assume Electronics Show, which runs Freescale Semiconductor will be potential customers. One thing is members of the management full control of the platform, from Thursday, January 7th showing a "tablet reference for sure -- tablets have sparked team. They will begin they’re committed to maintaining through Sunday, January 10th, design" at CES as well. The the imagination of the public and immediately integrating Ping.fm it and supporting the developer several vendors may be showing Freescale device (at right) has a manufacturers, and we're going technology into Seesmic community. devices to compete with an 7" display and is designed to take to hear a lot about them in the applications. The maneuver no doubt means Apple design that hasn't even up about one-third the volume of upcoming year. Sometime in January you can that Seesmic is now infringing been leaked, cheesy specs a current netbook. Freescale's [via Smarthouse, I4U] expect updates to Seesmic’s upon TweetDeck’s territory and notwithstanding. tablet will be shown running both TUAW HTC and other OEMs Blackberry, Android, web, mission with ambitions to be Mobile handset heavyweight Google Android OS and some prepared to challenge the iSlate Windows and OSX (via Air) much more than just a Twitter HTC, the same company that will variety of Linux, and is rumored originally appeared on The apps. Each will add advanced client. Ultimately, Seesmic aims debut the new Google Nexus One to have "all day" battery life and Unofficial Apple Weblog Ping.fm integration, supporting to be your primary gateway to the Android phone on January 5th, is instant-on functionality. (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 the ability to post to 50 social social web and to serve expected to have a tablet ready to While the HTC and Freescale 12:00:00 EST. Please see our networks with a single update, 1,000,000 updates per day in show at CES. HTC is an OEM, tablets are designed for sale by terms for use of feeds. special Ping.fm triggers to 2010. so it's not likely that a tablet will other companies, an Indian Read| Read| Permalink| Email specify posting to specific social Tags: ping.fm, seesmic, social appear under the HTC label. startup called Notion Ink will be this| Comments sites, and the option of using media, trending Instead, traditional PC sellers showing a 10.1" touchscreen Ping.fm’s e-mail, SMS and chat such as ASUS, HP, and Dell will device at CES that they have functionality. probably announce devices that designed and will build. Even Two Cops Shot in Vegas Courthouse [Crime] By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) A US marshal and a court morning, and the shooting is currently a mess. [ LVRJ]

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:23:18 AM security officer were shot inside a suspect was then shot and killed Las Vegas courthouse this by police. Downtown Las Vegas 28 Tech/ TV/ E-reader News Edition What You Missed Last Nokia: We will match Apple, RIM Night: It's 1984 on The (CNET News.com) mail for everyone." Cleveland Show By 2011, Simonson predicted, Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:11:00 AM By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Nokia's "efforts will start A new Nokia device to lead the producing results, as we will be Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:01:00 AM way in 2010?(Credit: Nokia) at par with Apple and RIM in I don't laugh much at The Nokia is a rather interesting smartphones." Cleveland Show, but I laughed at company. The firm is still a Nokia plans to do so by making this from last night's episode. It major player in the mobile space, its e-mail platform more opened with a flashback to 1984, holding on to the largest share of appealing, while increasing the and the show riffed on shows and the market. But 2009 was a value of its software through movies that do everything they difficult year for Nokia as its grip extras, like music and can do make us understand what on the space continued to slip. entertainment. year it is, from having songs Worst of all, Apple's iPhone and However, Simonson didn't make from that year on the soundtrack, RIM's BlackBerry models have a single mention of the fact that references to things in the news, made Nokia devices look old and many people are happy with and the clothes that the characters obsolete. RIM's e-mail service. Others are are wearing. I ain't 'fraid of no Perhaps that's why the content with the iPhone's e-mail ghost! company's new mobile chief, program. He also failed to Wallace should be carrying a Rick Simonson, decided to spoke mention how Nokia will fight Mac though. with the India Times on Monday Apple's App Store, which is [Watch clips and episodes of The to clear the air. Simonson becoming an increasingly bigger Cleveland Show and other shows acknowledges that things aren't and the stabilization of the positioned in North America, threat to the competition than at SlashControl.] great, but he's not willing to Symbian operating system, which is a huge market." RIM or Nokia want to admit. Filed under: Video, Animation, throw in the towel. which by the way, continues to But his company has a plan. Regardless, Simonson expects Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free "Yes, we have lost ground in the be the platform for the largest According to Simonson, Nokia that Nokia can match Apple and Permalink| Email this| | smartphone space over the past number of smartphones, will start "focusing on RIM. Do you believe him? Comments 18 months, but the decline has globally." 'messaging' in a very big way." Five Filters featured article: stopped and stablized in the Simonson went on to say that He added that "the likes of RIM Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: second and third quarters of Nokia shipped over 200 million are known for their success in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, 2009," Simonson told the India smartphones in 2009. The main high quality, very expensive e- Term Extraction. Times. "The new year will see problem for Nokia, Simonson mail solution, [but] Nokia's [our] recovery in smartphones said, is that it's "not well strategy is to bring inexpensive with the introduction of Maemo Google doodle animates Newton's apples (CNET News.com) even. And now, ever more know, the first Apple tablet, bright idea from a Google little could be more inspiring

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:25:00 AM animated. would have been 367 years old engineer's cranium. than this lovely piece of This heartwarming piece comes on January 4, 2010. I cannot remember too many animation. Google's business side is as the world organizes parties So Google, at its heart an Google doodles springing into Five Filters featured article: becoming ever more robust, and beneath apple trees to celebrate engineering concern, not only action. So for all those searching Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: ever more, well, business-like. the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. Sir offers us the branches of an apple for something to enliven PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, But its doodles are becoming Isaac, one of the developers of tree, but, if you wait, an apple themselves as the world of work Term Extraction. ever more charming, whimsical differential calculus and, you gently falls from it, like the latest begins to churn into another year, E-reader News Edition Tech/ TV/ 29 GoToMyPC now includes Mac Apple gains control of "i compatibility -phone" trademark in By Mel Martin (The Unofficial Mac from either a PC or Mac. Apple Weblog (TUAW)) LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone China provides remote control from an Submitted at 1/3/2010 7:30:00 PM By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial sells for $69.95 per year for iPhone (or iPod touch) to a PC Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Filed under: Software, Odds and access to 1 PC or Mac, and running Free or Pro, or a Mac ends After a long beta period, higher priced versions allow Mac running Free. It is a one-time Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:00:00 PM GoToMyPC is now offering a access from an iPhone app. Our purchase from the iTunes app full Mac release version of the readers also point out there is store and not an additional Filed under: Apple Corporate, popular remote access software. also a free version that allows subscription fee. Hardware, iPhone Back in 2002, The cheapest option for the only screen sharing. Our latest product for Macs, now Apple applied to register the software and service, which is GoToMyPC generally gets good in beta is LogMeIn Pro2 for Mac. iPhone trademark in China, but called "GoToMyPC for Mac," reviews, and I would like it a lot It introduces premium remote that application was limited to The iPhone's performance in allows you to access one other better if the company would let Mac access, including remote computer hardware and software, China has been interesting, as the computer (Mac or PC) and costs up on the obnoxious and constant printing, sound and file not mobile phones. A year later government's communication US$19.95 per month after a 30 radio promotions for the transfer/folder synch). It is (three years before the iPhone's restrictions, a bustling black day free trial. The Mac version software. The advertising has available for free trial at this introduction), Chinese market and cheaper competition requires Safari 3.0 or newer, or probably worked for them, link.. manufacturer Hanwang in Hong Kong got things off to a Firefox 2.0 or newer, Mac OS X though, because GoToMyPC is a TUAW GoToMyPC now Technology applied for the slow start. Just last week, China 10.4 or later, and either a big seller to both corporations includes Mac compatibility trademark "i-phone" for a device Unicom reported that they had PowerPC G4/G5 or an Intel and individuals. originally appeared on The they briefly sold. I sold 300,000 iPhones, which based Mac. GoToMyPC for Mac is available Unofficial Apple Weblog Since then, Apple has been tripled claims of only 100,000 There are other somewhat now. Wouldn't it be nice if they (TUAW) on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 working to acquire the trademark units sold by the start of similar solutions, including would just call it GoToMyMac? 19:30:00 EST. Please see our "i-phone," and this week they December. Apple's Back to My Mac(if you Update- These comments from terms for use of feeds. finally succeeded. According to TUAW Apple gains control of "i get get it working on your the LogMeIn folks: Read| Permalink| Email this| Macworld, the record for the -phone" trademark in China router), and LogMeIn. Back to LogMeIn has had a Mac version Comments trademark now shows Apple's originally appeared on The my Mac only works Mac to Mac, of our Free product - LogMeIn name where it used to list Unofficial Apple Weblog so if there is a PC in the mix Free - for quite some time, which Hanwang Technology. On (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 you're out of luck. LogMeIn Pro provides full remote control of a Monday a Hanwang 13:00:00 EST. Please see our representative stated that Apple terms for use of feeds. has indeed acquired the Read| Permalink| Email this| trademark, but refused to give Comments any details. Brit Hume has some advice for Tiger Woods By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) advice yesterday. It wasn't about in your pants, pal." Hume said [via TV Newser]

Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:27:00 AM his golf swing or what media that the only way that Woods can Filed under: News, Video, strategy to embrace to get back be truly forgiven is if he changes Celebrities, Reality-Free Fox News Channel's Brit Hume on the good side of the public or his religion. Permalink| Email this| | gave Tiger Woods a little bit of even just a general "hey, keep it Let the controversy begin! Comments 30 Tech/ E-reader News Edition AppMakr Makes iPhone App Find Available Domains Creation a Snap and Twitter Names with By Christina Warren feeds into the mix. Pricing and (Mashable!) Special Mashable Launch Tweexchange Discount Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:54:57 AM By Stan Schroeder AppMakr has two pricing (Mashable!) Having your own iPhone app for options, $199 for AppMakr to your website or blog is becoming publish your app — which means Submitted at 1/4/2010 6:44:50 AM an increasingly common way to you don’t have to have your own promote and extend your brand. Apple Developer Account Remember Tweexchange? It used to be a Twitter username notify you when a domain that is However, actually creating that (AppMakr gets credit in the app’s pending removal will be application and getting it into the showing off how fast it was to opening splash screen) or $499 if marketplace, which seemed like a solid (or, better put, inevitable) removed. You can also back App Store can be a lengthy and create an app for Mac|Life. you want to use your own Apple order taken web domain names, expensive process, especially if Paint-by-Numbers iPhone Apps Developer Account, but still have idea, but it obviously didn’t last very long, since the site has been and bid for domains that are for you have little development We’ve covered some other paint AppMakr take care of the sale directly from the service. In experience. Today PointAbout is -by-numbers iPhone app services provisioning and management purchased by Blast Applications and now hosts a completely a world where a Twitter launching a new product called in the past — like Swep Apps features. username is almost equally as AppMakr, which is designed to and MobBase— and while this However, from 1/4/2010 (today) different service. The new Tweexchange lets you important as a web domain name make creating your own iPhone sort of approach doesn’t make through 1/6/2010, you can take (or a Facebook name, for that app simple and inexpensive. sense in all cases, it is especially $150 off the $199 option by quickly find available Twitter usernames and web domain matter), Tweexchange makes it AppMakr is a streamlined attractive for businesses and sites using the code “ MASHABLE” really simple and fast to find a system that creates a native with existing content, but without at checkout. names (through GoDaddy) at the same time. The results appear name that’s available on both iPhone application out of your the time or budget to commission Have you created an iPhone app fronts. existing RSS feeds. You can a custom app. for your website or blog? Did fairly quickly, as you type the name in the search box, which Tags: social networking, customize elements of the app What we like about AppMakr is you do it yourself or use an tweexchange, twitter, web and the artwork and then submit that the content it displays can be outside service or company? Let gives you a nice side-by-side it directly to the App Store. You stored offline (so this isn’t just an us know! comparison of available names. can even embed ads from places App Store wrapper on a mobile Tags: app store, appmakr, If you like, Tweexchange can like AdMob directly into the app. website) and it has the ability to iphone AppMakr made this demo video integrate lots of different types of Web Analytics Firm Quantcast Raises $27.5 Million By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) others. The company, whose approach and technology for and Revolution Ventures also

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:14:24 AM competitors include services like delivering high-value, targeted participated. Compete and Alexa, says it will advertising aligns with the needs Tags: analytics, compete, Quantcast, a service that lets use the funding primarily to of Cisco’s customers, from money, Quantcast, venture anyone check stats and audience expand its ad platform. service providers to media capital information about websites, As for why that’s of interest to companies and ultimately announced this morning that it the increasingly diverse Cisco, consumers.” has raised $27.5 million in fresh the SVP and general manager of Group Dan Scheinman said in a The round was co-led by Polaris funding from Cisco Systems and the company’s Media Solutions statement that “Quantcast’s Venture Partners. Founders Fund E-reader News Edition Tech/ Entertainment/ 31 Dating Site Expels 5,000 “Fatties” More Indie Movie Makers Over Holiday Weight Gain Realizing The Benefits Of By Jennifer Van Grove members. Each is said to have Releasing Movies Free Online (Mashable!) received an email encouraging By Mike Masnick (Techdirt) successes like Avatar. But, of them to re-apply when they are Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:44:01 AM Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:41:54 AM course, that's the wrong back to looking their best. They comparison. These are indie Put on a few extra pounds this have also been sent details of There really isn't that much new filmmakers, and the comparison holiday season? Don’t expect a recommended boot camps.” in this recent article in Time should be to where they would welcome mat from If you’re keeping count, the Magazine about indie film likely be right now if they had BeautifulPeople.com, a dating United States was the most makers releasing their movies for not released the film for free site who recently made like a overindulgent group of the free online. The article covers online. In most cases, it seems high school bully: belittling and actions and have been notifying bunch, with 1,520 members some of the more well-known quite clear that they would have a booting members for weight former members via e-mail of getting the boot. The United cases of filmmakers doing so. lot less attention, a lot fewer gain. their expulsion. Of course, all is Kingdom was a distant second But what's interesting is to see people having seen the movie, According to the Guardian, the not lost; should those same with 832 members ousted, and this in such a mainstream and -- for those who site has just expelled 5,000 members get fit again, they can Canada took home the bronze publication like Time. Now, implemented smart business members for packing on the reapply for membership. medal. since we've already discussed models to go with the free release pounds. To add insult to injury, The report details: The disturbing news is no doubt most of the examples used in the -- would have made a lot less the site’s founder, Robert Hintze, “The site’s managing director, a big publicity stunt, but one of article, I know what the critics money. stated, “Letting fatties roam the Greg Hodge, pointed out that the the worst variety. I’d hate to be will say immediately: that none Permalink| Comments| Email site is a direct threat to our fate of the exiled ‘chubby one of those members waking up of these count because they This Story business model and the very members’ had been to an e-mail informing me that weren't huge multi-million dollar concept for which democratically decided. ‘Their re I’m too fat for a social network. BeautifulPeople.com was -applications were reviewed by That’s rejection of the worst 'Twilight' Star vs. 'Real founded.” existing members and only a few kind. Housewife': Celebs Apparently decisions were made hundred were voted back in,’ he [img credit: Cimmerian, Sparkle in Identical based on photos posted to the said. ‘Over 5,000 were rejected.’ iStockphoto] dating site. Those holding the According to the site, however, Tags: Food, social media, weight Dresses reins blame members’ holiday managers have been kind in (ETonline - Breaking News) overindulgences for their harsh breaking the news to former Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:20:00 AM It's a fashion face-off for style- Nirvana + Lady GaGa = Epic Mashup [VIDEO] savvy celebs! From 'Twilight' By Brenna Ehrlich mashups of the recently deceased can click here for even more actress Ashley Greene and "The (Mashable!) year. masterful mashups from 2009. Real Housewives of Orange County" star Gretchen Rossi's Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:29:47 AM Yes, Lady GaGa has been a [via Buzzfeed] little… shall we say, overplayed Tags: Lady Gaga, Last.FM, shimmery styles, to 'Sex and the The bizarre pop princess this year (being Last.fm’s official nirvana, twitter, viral video City' actress Sarah Jessica Parker recently got a coolness upgrade Fame Monster as well as one of and news anchor Paula Zahn's when “Poker Face” met Twitter’s most influential topics green get-ups, see which stars are “Poker Face” seem semi-fresh. stepping out in a similar fashion. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen of 2009). Still, this vid is worth a And if you’re so inclined, you Spirit” in one of the best serious look. It almost makes 32 Tech/ TV/ Picture/ E-reader News Edition MarketWatch: Keep your eye on UberTwitter Adds Support Apple in 2010 for Lists, Retweets and By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial promised and, from an outsider's Apple Weblog (TUAW)) perspective at least, is back to Location on BlackBerry

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:00:00 AM business as usual. As Cioffi By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)

pointed out, what happened in Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:30:23 AM Filed under: Apple Corporate, Steve's absence is even more Apple Financial, Steve Jobs In an important for Apple's future: The Third-party Twitter apps have article on MarketWatch, Frank stock continued to climb despite been in a race to keep up with the Cioffi explains why he believes rumors of his rapidly-declining onslaught of new Twitter Apple will deserve the investor's health and Apple demonstrated a functionality, and today popular attention in 2010. First off is strong bullpen of talent beyond BlackBerry app UberTwitter is continued strong iPod sales, and Jobs. out with support for a number of we've got to agree. After Cioffi goes on to list strong Mac the microblogging service’s Twitter’s native geolocation sustaining a rate at or above 10 sales, the App Store's major new features. capabilities. million units sold per quarter, performance and the ever-present UberTwitter Beta 6 adds There are more than a dozen you've got to wonder, "Doesn't tablet rumors as additional points Twitter’s new retweet significant new features in all, everyone have one already?" last year. Also, there are rumors of note, so go and read the rest of functionality (with the option to which you can read more about But seriously, the annual updates about that Apple is pursuing a the article. Here's to a prosperous use the old style RTs too), on the UberTwitter’s site. The are compelling enough to prompt subscription model with the 2010! Twitter lists and the ability to download is available here. people to upgrade (iPod touch, major television networks. [Via AppleInsider] geotag your tweets. Previously, What’s your favorite Twitter app nano with video) or cheap Expect to hear more from the TUAW MarketWatch: Keep UberTwitter had its own for BlackBerry? Let us know in enough to warrant a second unit Apple TV team in 2010. your eye on Apple in 2010 geolocation features that attached the comments. (iPod shuffle). Apple knows how Additionally, Cioffi focused on originally appeared on The a link to a map with your Tags: blackberry, Mobile 2.0, to sell iPods and the trend should Steve Jobs himself. Unofficial Apple Weblog whereabouts to your tweets, but twitter, ubertwitter continue in the new year. "...Jobs' determination is as (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 now this is combined with Also notable is Apple's extraordinary as his ability to 10:00:00 EST. Please see our seemingly renewed commitment create compelling products." terms for use of feeds. Standing Stones to the Apple TV. Once described After missing half of the year to Read| Permalink| Email this| as a " hobby," Apple released recover from a liver transplant, Comments By Kevin Collins (Flickr Blog) version 3.0 of its software late Steve returned to work in June as Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:56:31 PM • About Flickr If you can make fun of this breast exercise ad, Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an you're a better man than I or a woman easy, natural and collaborative By Danny Gallagher (TV exercise machine ad. I honestly bar, well you do the math Dr. Filed under: Video, process. Get comments, notes, Squad) do. But when the ad in question Freud. Commercials, Reality-Free and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and more! Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:29:00 AM features attractive women Wait, I think I feel a joke Permalink| Email this| | working on their "bust line" by coming in. Yes...oh wait, that's Comments Five Filters featured article: I really want to make fun of this stroking a retractable exercise not a joke. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. E-reader News Edition Tech/ Politics/ Entertainment/ 33 Apple tops "Best of" 2009 lists Sunday Night Music: Randy By Michael Grothaus (The Unofficial Apple Weblog Newman, 'God's Song (That's (TUAW)) Why I Love Mankind)' Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:00:00 AM (Little Green Footballs) That’s why I love mankind”

Filed under: Steve Jobs, Apple Submitted at 1/3/2010 6:27:10 PM The Christians and the Jews The end of the year brings the were having a jamboree inevitable "best/worst of" lists, There’s a great version of this The Buddhists and the Hindus and 2009 was no different. We cynically on-target song on The joined on satellite TV reported earlier that Apple Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. They picked their four greatest nabbed four of Engadget's "10 1.(Here it is at the iTunes priests Gadgets of the Decade" list, but Store.)[Video] And they began to speak what may be surprising is just Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not They said “Lord the plague is on how many other "best of" lists why the world Apple was part of. Philip Elmer- If the children of Israel were Lord no man is free DeWitt over at Apple 2.0 has supposed to multiply The temples that we built to you compiled a list (surprise!) of all Then why must any of the Have tumbled into the sea the "best of" lists Apple made in children die? Lord, if you won’t take care of 2009. The lists that he found • "Get a Mac": Campaign of the The Yale Book of Quotations, So he asked the Lord us Apple or Steve Jobs on included: Decade. Adweek's Best of the which, Yale states,"is the most And the Lord said: Won’t you please please let us 2000s. complete, up-to-date, and “Man means nothing, he means be?” • S teve Jobs: CEO of the • Apple Releases iPhone: Top 10 authoritative quotation dictionary less to me And the Lord said Decade. Fortune magazine. Tech Stories of the Decade. ever compiled." than the lowliest cactus flower And the Lord said • Steve Jobs: Best Performing CNN.com. TUAW Apple tops "Best of" or the humblest yucca tree “I burn down your cities — how CEO in the World. Harvard • Apple: Company of the 2009 lists originally appeared on he chases round this desert blind you must be Business Review. Decade. Om Malik. The Unofficial Apple Weblog cause he thinks that’s where I’ll I take from you your children • Steve Jobs: Person of the (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 be and you say how blessed are we Decade. Wall Street Journal. There's more in the complete list 09:00:00 EST. Please see our that’s why I love mankind You all must be crazy to put • Apple: Brand of the Decade. over at Apple 2.0. Oddly enough, terms for use of feeds. I recoil in horror from the your faith in me Adweek's Best of the 2000s. Apple's "There's an app for that" Read| Permalink| Email this| foulness of thee That’s why I love mankind • S teve Jobs: Marketer of the iPhone ad campaign slogan also Comments from the squalor and the filth You really need me Decade. Adweek's Best of the made it into the 2009 edition of and the misery That’s why I love mankind” 2000s. How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me Brooke Shields Gets 'Skanky' on 'The Middle' (ETonline - Breaking News) Middle," in which she plays just so excited," Patty tells ET, In this episode of "The Middle," always one neighbor that no one

Submitted at 1/4/2010 3:14:00 AM Frankie's ( Patricia Heaton) tacky "especially because she's playing Frankie fears a confrontation else gets along with. neighbor. completely against type, which is with Rita (Shields) when Brooke Shields goes trashy -- "I met her a long time ago in an very brave of her. She is playing Frankie's daughter Sue ( Eden sporting a mullet, a tattoo, a cold elevator and she was so lovely our horrible, skanky neighbor, Sher) has a run in with the boys. sore and drinking beer -- but it's and gracious, so when I heard she who has four really nasty boys And Brooke says she can relate all in fun for an episode of "The was coming on the show, I was who terrorize the neighborhood." to her role, because there is 34 Tech/ Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition

Wallpaper Juggler Downloads and Rotates Fresh Wallpaper [Downloads] By Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:00:00 AM Windows: Whether you've already got a folder full of wallpaper or you'd like to find some new images for your desktop, Wallpaper Juggler can rotate and keep your backgrounds fresh. Wallpaper Juggler is a small application that does two things: it rotates existing wallpaper in your wallpaper directory on a iSlate specs "revealed." We also have a bridge to schedule of your choosing and it downloads new wallpaper from both Interfacelift—the winner of sell you. our Wallpaper-centered Hive By Michael Grothaus (The document "reveals" that the were real, Apple legal would be comments! Five—and Wallpaper Stock. Unofficial Apple Weblog iSlate will run "Mac OS X on them like a bear on honey. TUAW iSlate specs "revealed." Between the rotation of your (TUAW)) Clouded Leopard" on a 7.1-inch • After just refining OS X 10.5 We also have a bridge to sell you. already collected wallpaper and Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:30:00 AM multitouch display with "Leopard" with 10.6 "Snow originally appeared on The the infusion of new wallpaper in fingerprint-resistant coating, Leopard", Apple is not going to Unofficial Apple Weblog the size you specify from the Filed under: Rumors 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo processor, confuse customers with another (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 aforementioned sites, you'll never We are publishing this purely for 2GB DDR3 RAM, 120GB hard OS X called "Clouded Leopard" 07:30:00 EST. Please see our have to stare at a bland desktop the sake of community interest. drive, and... a built-in projector. terms for use of feeds. again. PhoneArena.com has published PhoneArena admits they don't Read over the document Read| Permalink| Email this| Have a favorite tool for keeping photos of "internal Apple know if the document is real or yourself. What do you guys and Comments your desktop fresh? Let's hear documents" that claim to list the not, but I'll tell you the top two gals think of the specs? Are the about it in the comments. specifications of the impending reasons why it's a fake: documents fake, really fake, or Wallpaper Juggler[via Download Apple iSlate. The two-page • The document is still up. If it really really fake? Tell us in the Squad] E-reader News Edition Politics/ Entertainment/ 35 Ashley Tisdale American Evangelicals Enabled Uganda's Death Graduates from 'High School' into Producer Penalty for Gays Role (Little Green Footballs) people straight, how gay men complaining that they feel Just appalling. This is where the (ETonline - Breaking News)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:07:11 AM often sodomized teenage boys “duped.” rhetoric of the religious right Submitted at 1/4/2010 3:12:00 AM and how “the gay movement is The three Americans who spoke leads, and don’t fool yourself — Here’s the disgusting religious an evil institution” whose goal is at the conference — Scott Lively, there are many people on the Ashley Tisdale's production right story of the day, as the New “to defeat the marriage-based a missionary who has written right who support Uganda’s company, Blondie Girl York Times reports on a visit by society and replace it with a several books against persecution of gays, and would Productions, has entered into a three US evangelical leaders to culture of sexual promiscuity.” homosexuality, including “7 like to see the US do the same producing deal with Uganda that helped trigger the Now the three Americans are Steps to Recruit-Proof Your thing. Just read through the RelativityReal, the reality and full scale persecution of finding themselves on the Child”; Caleb Lee Brundidge, a comments at any right wing site alternative programming branch homosexuals: After Americans defensive, saying they had no self-described former gay man that covers this story; for of Relativity Media, according to Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for intention of helping stoke the who leads “healing seminars”; example, here’s a typical thread Variety. Gays. kind of anger that could lead to and Don Schmierer, a board at Free Republic, the first one The actress of 'High School KAMPALA, Uganda — Last what came next: a bill to impose member of Exodus International, that popped up in a search for Musical' fame will have the March, three American a death sentence for homosexual whose mission is “mobilizing the “Uganda,” about Republican opportunity to create, develop, evangelical Christians, whose behavior. body of Christ to minister grace Senators who are opposed to the and executive produce series for teachings about “curing” One month after the conference, and truth to a world impacted by Ugandan legislation: Republicans broadcast and cable networks. homosexuals have been widely a previously unknown Ugandan homosexuality” — are now Condemn Uganda’s Anti-Gay RelativityReal CEO Tom Forman discredited in the United States, politician, who boasts of having trying to distance themselves Bill. called the young star "the very arrived here in Uganda’s capital evangelical friends in the from the bill. One of many similar comments: definition of a multitalented artist to give a series of talks. American government, “I feel duped,” Mr. Schmierer This is simply cowardice and with unique insight into young The theme of the event, introduced the Anti- said, arguing that he had been people stating things that they demographics," says Variety. according to Stephen Langa, its Homosexuality Bill of 2009, invited to speak on “parenting don’t really believe in order to be Aside from acting and producing, Ugandan organizer, was “the gay which threatens to hang skills” for families with gay politically correct. Tisdale has found success as a agenda — that whole hidden and homosexuals, and, as a result, has children. He acknowledged Bunch of wimps. These recording artist. dark agenda” — and the threat put Uganda on a collision course telling audiences how Republican cowards deserve to RelativityReal is stocking up on homosexuals posed to Bible- with Western nations. homosexuals could be converted be gang raped by a horde of gay the star power. The company also based values and the traditional Donor countries, including the into heterosexuals, but he said he Hell’s Angels. And Uganda teamed with Wilmer Valderrama African family. United States, are demanding that had no idea some Ugandans were should be commended for taking last May. With the conclusion of For three days, according to Uganda’s government drop the contemplating the death penalty a stand against the gay gestapo. the 'High School Musical' participants and audio recordings, proposed law, saying it violates for homosexuality. 12 posted on December 22, 2009 franchise, Tisdale lends her voice thousands of Ugandans, human rights, though Uganda’s “That’s horrible, absolutely 6:15:58 PM PST by to Disney's animated series including police officers, teachers minister of ethics and integrity horrible,” he said. “Some of the MGMSwordsman "Phineas and Ferb." She also and national politicians, listened (who previously tried to ban nicest people I have ever met are It’s easy to find thousands of starred in the Disney Channel's raptly to the Americans, who miniskirts) recently said, gay people.” comments like this one at Free "The Suite Life of Zack and were presented as experts on “Homosexuals can forget about What a shock — preaching Republic, Fox Nation, Hot Air, Cody" alongside Dylan and Cole homosexuality. The visitors human rights.” hatred leads to hatred. Who could etc. Sprouse and Brenda Song. discussed how to make gay These morons are now ever have guessed? 36 Tech Tips/ E-reader News Edition Resolved: Keep Your PC Clean, Safe, and Backed Up in 2010 [Maintenance] By The How-To Geek software that you really shouldn't (Lifehacker) be installing—cluttered up dries

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:00:00 AM from too many junk apps is the single biggest reason why people It's the start of a new decade, and reinstall Windows on a regular while you're busy making basis when they shouldn't need resolutions for yourself, you to. shouldn't forget about your PC. It's not only questionable We suggest making a resolution software sources that you need to to keep your PC clean, safe, and watch out for, however—you backed up for 2010. Here's how need to be careful when installing to make it easy. any piece of software to always Image remixed from use a Custom install, and viagallery.com. Keep Your PC carefully read every option. Too Backed Up Automatically many people just hit the Next There's one thing that most users button through the install neglect or procrastinate on rather process, and end up installing than actually doing, and it's also toolbars, startup system tray the most important system apps, and other crapware maintenance task you really need components, even with popular to do: Keep your PC backed up. software like Digsby (an app that, The thing is, this doesn't need to earlier this year, was taking be a time-consuming task; in fact, advantage of people that don't your best bet is to spend a small system, you should strongly first place. Lifehacker's own Belvedere to know any better). amount of time configuring consider making a full image of If you're already using Windows automate your self-cleaning PC. If you need to install a bunch of automatic backups of your hard your hard drive so you can 7 or Vista, your PC automatically For less specific and more wide- software at once, you should drive and just leave it alone. restore more easily in case of a keeps your drives defragmented, ranging cleanouts of system files, check out Ninite, which bulk- A handful of great backup tools failure. You've got a number of but Windows XP users can check your best bet is to setup CCleaner installs freeware applications are available to choose from, but tools to choose from, but if you out our guide to setting up a self- to run automatically on a while avoiding any of the it doesn't really matter which one want step-by-step instructions, repairing hard drive and setup a schedule, keeping your PC nice optional toolbars that you you use, as long as you make we've got a full guide to hot scheduled task to run the and tidy without any action on wouldn't want. Make Sure Your sure you're backing up your data imaging your hard drive with cleaning automatically in the your part. If you want to be able PC is Safe and Secure the right way. The most DriveImageXML. Setup Your background. to trigger it manually, you can Even if you carefully choose important factor is that all your PC to Clean Itself Keeping your drives always setup a shortcut to run what you install, backup your PC data exists in more than one Now that your data is safe, defragmented isn't nearly as CCleaner silently. Be Smarter regularly, and keep your system place—you can't backup to secure, and backups are totally useful if your PC is completely About What You Install clean, you still need to make sure second drive, get rid of the automated, you should use some cluttered with temporary files and With your data backed up and that you don't get hit with the original files, and consider more automation to set your PC other junk that needs to be your PC cleaning itself latest security hole. Make sure yourself backed up. Redundancy to keep itself clean, keep your cleaned out on a regular basis. If automatically, the next step is to that you keep Windows PC is key. hard drives healthy, and prevent you just want to keep your user keep Windows running as fast as While you're backing up your problems from happening in the folders organized, you can use possible by avoiding junk RESOLVED: page 37 E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ Popular News/ 37 Kiefer Sutherland on Flexamail Helps You Social Network and Browse '24' in NYC: 'Fear is the Dominant Emotion' From Behind a Firewall [Firewall] (ETonline - Breaking News)

By Jason Fitzpatrick and then begin accessing the Submitted at 1/4/2010 3:13:00 AM (Lifehacker) internet through your Flexamail "24" is back in action Sunday, Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:30:00 AM account by sending commands to Flexamail by using special email January 17 on FOX, and Kiefer If you're bent on updating your addresses and subject line Sutherland's spilling secrets social network status or checking commands. Check out the service about the upcoming eighth out a new web site, firewalls be in action by watching the video season that sees the show moving damned, Flexamail can help you below: to New York! update your accounts and receive Check out the full site for "It's absolutely a character in the web sites via email. additional information, including piece," says Kiefer about using Rather than engage in a more video guides here and a the Big Apple as the setting for complicated game of cat and how-it-works guide here. Have the new season. "We didn't feel mouse involving proxies, your own favorite way of getting that there was another city in the tunneling, and other maneuvers, The chances of email being in social networking as you are in your fix of the wide-open- United States that would suit the Flexamail goes for an out-in-the- blocked at your workplace are just getting access to sites from internet behind a firewall? Let's energy of '24' more than New open approach to helping you extremely slim, so you'll always behind a firewall, you can also hear about it in the comments. York." update your social networks have a way to sneak out status use Flexamail to serve up sites Flexamail[via Devil's Workshop] In the shadows of the Statue of when the corporate firewall changes, pictures, and other via email. Liberty and the United Nations, you're behind won't allow you to updates through the Flexamail You sign up for an account, Day Eight unfolds as President access the actual sites—email. server. If you're not as interested register an email with Flexamail, Allison Taylor ( Cherry Jones), alongside new chief of staff Rob RESOLVED: Weiss ( Chris Diamantopoulos), continued from page 36 negotiates international security patched and updated, install won't take our recommendation attack. So what about you? Do with Omar Hassan ( Anil important Firefox updates as of Microsoft Security Essentials, you have any New Year's Kapoor), a determined Middle soon as they come out, install you've got a bunch of free resolutions for your PC? Let's Eastern leader visiting the U.S. Flashblock(not everyone would utilities you can choose from. hear about 'em in the comments. on a peacemaking mission. What suggest this, but Flash is often Just remember, you really should The How-To Geek likes to could go wrong? Good thing Jack the source of browser security stop paying for Windows automate tedious tasks like Bauer's in town… holes), and get rid of Adobe security. backups so they don't end up Reader in favor of a better You can't talk about security forgotten. His geeky articles can alternative. Once you've done without mentioning passwords, be found daily here on 2 guards shot in Las Vegas that, you'll be a lot safer—but be and you should make sure to Lifehacker, How-To Geek, and sure to read our full guide to choose and remember a great Twitter. federal building (AP) protecting your PC from a drive- password, use a password (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) 04T10:11:23-08:00 by browser attack. manager for those really Five Filters featured article: It should go without saying that complicated passwords, and up Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:25:36 AM Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: you probably want to have an your savvy to avoid getting MANHATTANBABE buzzed PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, antivirus app installed, and if you scammed online with a phishing up: Cable TV standoffs threaten Term Extraction. viewing costs, choices (AP) 20 seconds ago 2010-01- 38 Tech Tips/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition Sushi Huh Grabs Linux Packages for Offline Installation [Downloads] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:00:00 AM Windows/Linux: If you're planning a re-install of your Linux system that might involve being offline, free utility "Sushi Huh?" (actual name) can grab your software, and all the nagging dependencies, for easy installation without internet access. The Sushi Huh? package is a no- installation-needed package that Cacoo Makes Diagram opens a new tab in your browser, asking for your distribution, you can run the app as an to save themselves a download Creation and Collaboration version, and 32- or 64-bit administrator to have it later, it's really helpful as a tool platform specs. After that, you automatically search your you can run from Windows, check off the official repositories package manager and grab especially if you need to grab the Simple [Diagrams] you want it to search through, whatever you've got installed. right wireless drivers for your By Jason Fitzpatrick in real time with other team and then check the packages you The packages Sushi Huh Linux installation. Sushi Huh? is (Lifehacker) members. You can also export downloads are ready to install a free download, runs on Linux want to grab and download. Submitted at 1/4/2010 6:30:00 AM your creations or embed them They'll automatically appear in without any dependencies or or Windows systems. Sushi, into your blog or wiki—edits you the folder you're running Sushi other requirements. Huh?[via Web Upd8] If you need to make diagrams, make to the original will be Huh? from While Sushi Huh? is helpful wire frames, network charts, and reflected in the embedded item. (inside/src/downloads), though enough for Linux geeks looking more but you don't have much Check out the video below to see experience with graphic design, Cacoo in action. Cacoo makes chart creation as Want to try out other online Jake Pavelka Gives ET a Private simple as drag and drop. chart-creation tools? Check out Cacoo has a huge library of previously reviewed Gliffy, icons you can drag and drop to Lovely Charts, and Creately for Tour of His 'Bachelor' Pad create site maps, flow charts, other ways to create charts and (ETonline - Breaking News) commercial pilot quite the hunk, really good beef barley stew. You mind maps, and more. You can diagrams. Have a favorite tool of easily align them to each other, your own to share? Let's hear Submitted at 1/4/2010 3:15:00 AM but he can also cook! And Jake know on days when it is really tells ET that he likes to cook for cold -- maybe a Sunday after you connect them with lines and about it in the comments. Just in time for the season women, because going out to get back from church or arrows, and easily rearrange Cacoo[via MakeUseOf] premiere of "The Bachelor: On dinner all the time gets old. something like that -- it takes all them. Caccoo supports multiple the Wings of Love," ET gets a "My most romantic meal would day to cook and then around four users, you can edit your creation private tour of Jake Pavelka's probably be either a lemon or five in the afternoon, it is Texas bachelor pad! pepper chicken or chicken perfect," Jake says. Not only is the 31-year-old piccata. Or, I can actually do a E-reader News Edition Tech Tips/ Tech News/ Entertainment/ 39 Delete Giant Email Chains to Speed ComScore Ups the Ante Up Gmail Mobile Webapp [Mobile in Mobile Analytics By Mike Melanson Apps] (ReadWriteWeb) By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:01:00 AM That's 9,700 developers more Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:00:00 AM ComScore, a leading Web than the company started with statistics provider, has joined just a year ago. Gmail's iPhone/Android- with Flurry Analytics to provide optimized webapp is nearly as Using Flurry's data, comScore a more complete picture on the will add "real-time consumption good as a mail client, but not if who, what, when, where and how you keep multi-multi-message data, including frequency of use, of our use of mobile media. length of use, user geographic threads near the top of your Founded just over a year ago, queue. One blogger saw a nearly location, new vs. repeat usage Flurry has grown immensely and and Wi-Fi vs. carrier network 7-second decrease in loading this move will only serve to time after killing one seemingly usage" to its mobile application boost its popularity. data. endless chain. Flurry announced the The Just Another iPhone Blog Flurry provides a variety of partnership on the heels of its information including what types saw his webapp refreshes crawl reactive, with a renewed refresh wondering why their speeds merger with Pinch Media last to an average of about 10 of applications users are most rate of about two seconds. So I seem so different from day to month. The service boasts a likely to continue using over time seconds from the 2-3 second guess the moral of the story for day. My iPhone Gmail web app nearly ubiquitous presence in the norm he was used to over 3G and return to frequently, as heavy Gmail users is to clear was insanely slow – it turns out mobile market and will add a shown in the following graphic. service. The culprit? A really your inbox of huge e-mails…or one convo was too big -[Just host of real-time data to long email chain (40 messages) This data can then be used by maybe just don't talk so bloody Another iPhone Blog] comScore's reports. companies to lure potential about various post drafts. much under the same subject Sponsor Once I archived that advertisers or by advertisers header. ;) Flurry collects mobile looking for potential targets. conversation my Gmail web app Sage advice in any email client, application data from was back to being spry and In a market that's only going to but very relevant for mobile users approximately two out of every see growth, some, like Om three iPhone and Android Malik, are already predicting devices. Each month, the Flurry's acquisition by a big-time GOP Operative Endorses Obama's company aggregates application player in the near future. usage data from over 1 billion Analytics remains hot, as Suits [Huh] end-user sessions across more evidenced further by this than 50 million unique handsets morning's news of a $27.5 By Pareene (Gawker) known as a particularly natty from more than 200 countries. million investment in comScore- dresser, when he is dressed. Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:26:48 AM Over 10,000 developers have competitor Quantcast by Cisco Barack Obama and Carla Bruni chosen to integrate Flurry and Polaris Ventures. Discuss Roger Stone—yes, that Roger top the best lists, with Michael Analytics within their Stone—has published his Moore and Sarah Silverman(?) applications. apparently annual best- and worst operative and dirty trickster and heading up the worsts. -dressed lists! sex partier has always been The 57-year-old political 40 Tech News/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition Seesmic Looks Beyond Twitter - A Startup Movie: Never Acquires Ping.fm Mind the Valley, Here's By Frederic Lardinois day. Seesmic's own Twhirl has (ReadWriteWeb) offered support for Ping.fm since Boulder early 2009. Seesmic Wants to be Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:00:00 AM By Jolie O'Dell a Lot More Than Just a Twitter (ReadWriteWeb) Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm, a confirmed that this acquisition Client status update service that allows now makes him an investor in Given Seesmic's vision, it Submitted at 1/3/2010 2:00:00 PM users to update posts on over 50 doesn't come as a surprise that Seesmic. It's no secret that we at social networks through SMS, Seesmic's founder Loic Le Meur the company is interested in mobile apps, IM services and 3rd broadening its scope beyond ReadWriteWeb have a lot of love notes that he hopes that this for startups that make their party apps that support the acquisition will allow the Twitter. The acquisition of service. Seesmic plans to Ping.fm gives Seesmic all the homes outside Silicon Valley and company to speed up "its vision the Bay Area. integrate Ping.fm into all of its of becoming your default necessary infrastructure like SMS applications in the near future. In and IM gateways to execute this Over the last year, we decided to application to stay in touch with make a few videos spotlighting addition, Seesmic's users will be your friends and constantly vision. Ping.fm offers it's own able to send updates to their URL shortener and gives users some unique, unexpected managing your online social locations where startups thrive, favorite social networks through presence." Through Ping.fm, access to detailed statistics about analysis in 2010. Happy holidays Ping.fm's email, SMS and IM how these links were used. where tech scenes are vibrant, from Team ReadWriteWeb! Seesmic's users will soon be able where cooperation outstrips gateways. Ping.fm's founders to easily update their status on a One of the most interesting With the startup accelerator Adam Duffy and Sean aspects of the company's recently competition, and where creativity program at TechStars acting as a wide variety of social networks runs rampant. One of the first McCullough will join Seesmic as like Ning, Yahoo Meme, announced native Windows lightning rod, this area has grown full-time employees and continue client, for example, is that it cities we'd like to introduce you from an earthy university town to Yammer and Status.net. Seesmic to is home to between 150 and to work on Ping.fm. already offered built-in support includes support for a plugin a true hotbed of innovation. In Sponsor architecture. This will allow 170 startups as well as a thriving certain parts of downtown, you for Facebook, Linkedin and entrepreneurial and creative Neither Seesmic nor Ping.fm MySpace. developers to integrate support can't throw a rock without hitting disclosed the terms of the for virtually any social network community. Welcome to some startup's offices, and I According to Le Meur, Ping.fm Boulder, Colorado. acquisition. It's worth noting, currently has over 500,000 into Seesmic. In the near future, could barely walk three blocks however, that both Creative Seesmic plans to expand this Sponsor without bumping into at least one registered users, though the Editor's note: This story is part Commons CEO Joi Ito and number of active users is likely feature to all of its clients. entrepreneur, developer, or LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman Discuss of a series we call Redux, where designer working at a company far smaller. In total, Ping.fm we'll re-publish some of our best invested in Ping.fm in December posts about 200,000 updates per such as Threadless or AOL. 2008. Update: Joi Ito just posts of 2009. As we look back We interviewed a couple of local at the year - and ahead to what startup advisors and one startup next year holds - we think these team about the culture and Houston mayor calls swearing-in a gay are the stories that deserve a community in Boulder. Watch second glance. It's not just a best- and listen to what they have to milestone (AP) of list, it's also a collection of say; there are more than a few posts that examine the reasons tech-minded residents (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Washington (AP) PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, fundamental issues that continue love this gorgeous mountain 16 seconds ago 2010-01- Term Extraction. Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:33:15 AM to shape the Web. We hope you town. 04T10:15:01-08:00 enjoy reading them again and we Discuss David buzzed up: Obama ends Five Filters featured article: look forward to bringing you Hawaiian holiday, returns to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: more Web products and trends E-reader News Edition Tech News/ Apple/ Entertainment/ 41 More Smartphone Users Now Use 'The Bachelor' Premieres Their Phones to Shop Online Tonight! Meet Jake Pavelka's By Frederic Lardinois scanning a barcode - will only New Bachelorettes! (ReadWriteWeb) drive these numbers up in the (ETonline - Breaking News) Dallas with the new "Bachelor" Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:24:34 AM coming months. Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:48:00 AM Jake Pavelka, when "The smartphone owners who tried to The second most popular Bachelor: On the Wings of Smartphone users are becoming buy something from their phone shopping-related activity for The wait is over! "The Bachelor: Love," the 14th edition of ABC's increasingly comfortable with were simply unable to do so. smartphone owners is finding On the Wings of Love" is finally popular romance reality series, using their phones to shop online. Sponsor consumer reviews. 39% of all here! premieres Monday, January 4 at According to new data from Most Popular Shopping-Related iPhone users and 31% of all What do an NBA dancer, a 8 p.m. ET has a first look at the Compete, about 37% of Activities: Price Comparison and Android users use their devices corporate flight attendant, a 25 women who hope to win smartphone users have purchased Finding Reviews for this. mortgage loan officer and a Jake's heart and hand in something with their handset in Researching products is still the Big-Ticket Items captain in the Air National Guard marriage. the last 6 months. Among the most popular shopping-related Only 9% of all iPhone users and have in common? They all have most popular items that these activity on the smartphones. 11% of all Android users said their sights set on moving to users bought are music, books, According to Compete's survey, that they would buy big-ticket DVDs, video games and movie 41% of iPhone users and 43% of items over $500 from their tickets. At the same time, though, Android owners check sale prices phone. In general, the majority of Compete also found that while they are shopping. Surely, smartphone owners is most likely smartphone users are very likely the popularity of mobile apps like to buy lower-priced items under to abandon shopping sites that ShopSavvy and RedLaser- which $10. haven't been optimized for make checking prices as easy as Discuss mobile usage. Almost 8% of Clonezilla Makes Quick Work of Hard Drive Data Restoration By Lisa Hoover can reinstall everything in just a work its magic. There are several ticket. (TheAppleBlog) few clicks. tutorials on Clonezilla’s website What are your tips for easy and

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:45:10 AM Clonezilla supports Intel-based that walk you through the process inexpensive data backup? Macs and comes in two versions: of saving and restoring images, In Q3, Uncle Sam was the green We all know the importance of Live, for a single machine and creating recovery CDs, and more. IT king maker. Read the, " Green backing up the data on our hard SE for managing as many as 40 There are plenty of ways to IT Q3 Wrap-up." drive but, honestly, restoring all computers. As if that’s not handy create backups of your data, but your stuff after a catastrophic enough, you have your choice of most are complicated or hard drive failure can be a real storage and reinstallation prohibitively expensive. If you’re pain. Clonezilla is a free, open methods — CD, USB flash drive, software onto a media storage looking for a great — and cheap source app that burns a mirror or USB hard drive. device, boot it into the machine — way to keep your data safe, image of your drive’s data so you Once you’ve shoehorned the you want to clone and let the app then Clonezilla might be just the 42 Apple/ E-reader News Edition Upon Further Review: How I Spent My Money in 2009 By Mark Crump However, at some point the got each of these as part of a While it’s rare I’ll attempt to do (TheAppleBlog) Version 4 trial got my system in features. As an aside, check out Thanksgiving sale for a buck a work on these, the few times I’ve Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:25:57 AM a state where I couldn’t easily ScreenCast Online’s excellent piece. I like both of them: Hero is had to use them puts them in the downgrade from it and preserve LaunchBar tutorials. No regrets. a nice God of War clone and no regrets column. One of my end of the year rituals my virtuals and I ended up iLife 09: Granted, it came with NFL 2010 is a serviceable Things: I’ve covered this is looking back on what I saying, “screw it” and upgraded my new MacBook, but I had also football game. No regrets. already, but the iPhone app is a dropped my hard-earned coin on to 4.0. I still use it heavily as purchased a license on my old Myst: I got this trying to relive perfect companion to the over the year. This is a reckoning there are Windows apps I need to laptop. I only really use iPhoto my gaming youth. While it’s an desktop; I tend to use the iPhone on software I thought would be a use. It gets used enough I’ll and it’s been a mixed bag. The amazing technical app more than the desktop grand idea at the time and how I likely be upgrading to Version 5 Faces feature thought my wife accomplishment — it’s the entire version. I only have two feel about the purchase at the end next year. No regrets. was both a booth babe from E3 Myst game, right there on your complaints: I can’t define Areas of the year. Hardware Things: I’m constantly and a bearded game developer. I iPhone — I’ve been of Responsibility on the iPhone, 13” MacBook Pro: It was time to struggling with managing my to- like the Flickr and Facebook disappointed; I just don’t think it and the data sync doesn’t happen retire my cira-2006 WhiteBook do list. Until I got Things, no exports, but I’m disappointed it scales down well to the iPhone via the cloud, but they seem to be and I chose the low-end Pro system worked for me. I tried doesn’t sync photos I’ve screen. This one is a regret. working on that. model. I debated upgrading to the Moleskine notebooks, Google uploaded to non-iPhoto created Flight Contro l: Holy cow, is this AutoStitch: I wrote about this higher-end 13” or the 15”, but, Tasks, Evernote, having my wife sets. However, I like having a game addictive or what? Not one here, but suffice to say, I use since I had a 500GB drive I remind me, iCal alerts — you central photo storage that I can only do I regret getting this it enough to instantly make it a would be transferring, I decided name it. I got Things because of get to from any application game, I think my boss regrets me no regret. on the low-end model. It’s a its iPhone integration (more on (using the new Services in Snow getting it too — when he got an Byline: I float between Byline fantastic machine I don’t want to that in the iPhone section) and I Leopard). Slight regret. iPhone and asked for a game and the Google Reader web app. picture life without. No regrets. love it. I was the site lead for an iWork 09: I’ve been waffling recommendation, it was the I frequently use Byline more Logitech Wave Keyboard: I’ve ISO audit and it was incredibly between iWork and Office for immediate choice and we’re both because it’s a stand-alone app never been a big fan of Apple’s helpful managing the project. No most of the year. Each have their infatuated with it. Seriously, and syncs very well with Google keyboards. The clear white regrets. advantages, but I’m finding how though, no regrets. Reader. However, both of them model feels too squishy, and the The Sims 3: The Sims franchise well iWork integrates with Snow Peggle: This is a game that’s expose a limitation of the iPhone aluminum one feels too firm. I and I go way back; I’ve played Leopard’s Services has resulted hard to describe; it’s like an OS that drives me nuts: because got the Logitech Wave on an all of them. Once I got the new in me using it more. Keynote inverted version of Blockout apps can’t talk to each other, I impulse buy at BJs Warehouse Macbook and could actually run simply rocks; I used it for every merged with pinball. The idea is can’t “send to Evernote” as I can one day and I like it. My only games, I grabbed the Sims 3. presentation I had to give this to make these colored blocks go when viewing Reader in a complaint is it’s not bluetooth, Overall, I like it. I was hoping year. No regrets. iPhone Apps away by aiming a canon of sorts traditional browser. No regrets. and with the laptop I’ve stopped it’d let me run without the CD I started going through my at them. It’s a fun game, but my Simplenote: This is a handy using it because I don’t want to like Spore does, and that’s iTunes receipts to give an one big issue is being color blind, Notes app that also has a web lose the dongle or tie up a USB probably the biggest reason I accurate list of everything I I have a hard time telling the client, so, unlike the iPhone’s port. No regrets. OS X Software don’t play it much — I thought bought … and rapidly decided difference between some of the Notes app you sync over the Snow Leopard: I upgraded day it’d be a perfect on the train that list was too long to bore you blocks. cloud. It makes me wish I could one and haven’t looked back. I game, but I tend to forget to grab with, so instead I’m just going to Productivity delete the built-in Notes app. love the new Automator, Stacks, the CD. Slight regret, only mention the high and low points. Quickoffice and DocsToGo: I Wooji Presentation Remote and and Expose. I can’t think of any because I don’t play it as much as There’s also a few I bought just bought them in a hope that my Apple’s Keynote Remote: This major hiccups I’ve had. No I’d like. because there was a great deal on iPhone would become a netbook was the year where I had to give regrets. LaunchBar 5: I had to upgrade them, so I’ll ignore them for of sorts, and it didn’t quite work a few presentations, and, being Parallels Desktop 4.0 Upgrade: I when I went to Snow Leopard. I now, too. out that way. It’s not a fault of the geek that I am felt I needed hadn’t planned on getting this — use this tool every day and still either program (they are both Games UPON page 44 version 3 was doing fine for me. barely scratch the surface on its Hero of Sparta and NFL 2010: I good) but my own work habits. E-reader News Edition Apple/ 43 Apple Misses Windows 7 Bootcamp Deadline, Apparently Everyone Except Me Really Cares By Liam Cassidy software update to Boot Camp. I might offer a less florid and most Mac owners in the (TheAppleBlog) The rest of the note was just a possibility; could it possibly be world not only use Windows,

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:24:35 AM list of the nine older models of just a delay? Y’know, like they need Windows and, more iMac and MacBook that Microsoft experienced when it than any other version, they I have a confession to make. I wouldn’t support the Boot Camp delayed the release of Windows absolutely must have Windows 7, don’t dual boot. I don’t use update. 95. And Windows 98. And so Apple’s missed deadline is Windows on my Mac. I don’t AppleInsider reached out to Windows… oh, you get the nothing short of scandalous. need to. There’s not a single bit Apple for comment last week, as point. Look, software delays True? Because if that’s not true, of software I need that is 2009 drew to a close. An Apple happen and they don’t have to all of that breathless reporting Windows-only. And even though employee responsible for dealing mean anything! over the weekend about missed I have Office:Mac 2008, I open with Bootcamp enquiries told Thurrott’s Apple-fan-baiting deadlines and Apple’s ‘fears’ Word and Excel documents in them: aside, I have a serious question; would prove a tad silly, wouldn’t Pages and Numbers. (I don’t hate …it was very unlikely that the I’m not sure a missed deadline is am I so completely out of touch it? Office, I just find iWork to be a update would surface in the next the same as Apple demonstrating that I’m the only Mac user in the Actually, I have had one issue more rewarding experience!) 24 hours, adding that a release they unequivocally ‘would not’ world who doesn’t dual boot? since switching to the Mac; my But, apparently, I’m in a sometime early next year would support Windows 7, but the OK, I played with some friends don’t use iChat. They’re minority, and every other Mac be a safer bet. drama doesn’t end there. Here’s virtualization tools a while back stuck with Skype or — horror of owner on Earth is simply aching MacWorld UK writes a little Paul Thurrott’s take, from a blog out of sheer curiosity, and the horrors –Windows Live to run Windows 7 on their Apple more dramatically about the post entitled “Shame on Apple half-hearted belief that I really Messenger for video hardware. Well, you’d be missed deadline: for not Providing Windows 7 might need Microsoft Office conferencing and collaboration. I forgiven for thinking as much, On the same day in October that Drivers by Now”: (note: I didn’t) but it wasn’t long pity them. It’s the one thing I given the articles doing the rival Microsoft launched Previously, Apple promised to before they were removed. A Tad wish Apple would release for rounds on tech sites this past Windows 7 , Apple promised that provide Windows 7 drivers Silly Windows. The world would be a weekend, most of them tersely it would revise Boot through its Boot Camp utility Mac OS X, iLife and iWork better place then, I’m sure. reporting how Apple has missed Camp… Apple has still not […] by the end of 2009. So have most my bases covered for So, tell me, Mac Majority, is its own deadline for providing released a Boot Camp revision to they’re late. But these drivers can personal creativity and Boot Camp’s (temporarily) official Boot Camp driver its Software Update service. and should have been delivered productivity. And while I do a lot absent Windows 7 support really support for Microsoft’s latest Although Microsoft officially to customers when Windows 7 of online collaboration with a the Big Deal the tech press have version of Windows. unveiled Windows 7 in late shipped, in October. I guess the wide circle of colleagues and made it out to be? Am I truly in Here’s what Apple had to say in October, the company first company was too busy fixing a friends, most of whom are on some peculiar Mac Minority who a (very short) support note provided developers with early widely-reported user data Windows machines, I’m not don’t install Windows on their published in October last year: builds a year before that, and deletion issue in Snow Leopard exaggerating when I say — it’s Apple hardware? Am I, in fact, Apple will support Microsoft began offering previews to the to bother supporting a competing simply not an issue. Honestly, missing a far bigger point? Please Windows 7 (Home Premium, general public in February 2009. system that just works. there isn’t a single thing I’ve enlighten me. Professional, and Ultimate) with Apple did not elaborate on why So thanks for nothing Apple. We come across in 18 months that Growing mobile data use turned Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow they would not support know you’re scared of Windows absolutely demanded I use up heat on carriers in Q3. Read Leopard before the end of the Microsoft’s newest operating 7, but come on. Windows. the, " Mobile Q3 Wrap-up." year. This support will require a system. But apparently, that’s unusual, 44 Apple/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition UPON Rumor Has It: Are These the Specs for the Apple continued from page 42 an app on the iPhone to control Keynote. It was a disaster, Since Tablet? it uses a Wi-Fi connection to the By Darrell Etherington something which has been laptop the iPhone battery drained (TheAppleBlog) making the rounds recently. too fast and I felt myself looking down at the iPhone for my cues, Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:57:56 AM Maybe most interesting of all, and possibly most damning, is falling into the dreaded “staring File this one under “seriously the news that the new tablet will at the index cards” presentation not likely,” but for what it’s run “Mac OS X Clouded method. I ended up going back to worth, a site called Leopard,” a modified version of the Apple physical remote and PhoneArena.com is showing off Snow Leopard designed using my Macbook and Keynote images it says are of a leaked specifically for the platform that in presentation mode. document that details the uses widgets and can download In 2008 it felt like I had more hardware specifications of and run App Store software. regrets than 2009. Perhaps that Apple’s upcoming tablet. The Also, this is minor, but there’s a was a case of the App Store iSlate moniker is used, but there missing period at the end of one launching and just going nuts are a number of elements that of the bullet points on the buying it, or this year I was more suggest you might not want to document describing “Clouded discerning about my purchases. bet the farm on the credibility of Leopard,” and in another one the How about you? What purchases this particular source. words “Up” and “to” aren’t did you make in 2009 you liked The specs themselves aren’t all separated by a space. Could just or regret? that suspect, and in fact could be iPod touch, and include a like that found on the newest be bad proofing or the document What was the big news that quite representative of what the 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros. The screen is is an early draft, but it’s enough happened in your sector in Q3? actual hardware will look like processor and support for up to listed as 7.1 inches and boasts the to raise my suspicion level. Catch up with GigaOM Pro's, " when it is eventually released, 8GB of RAM, with 2GB built-in same oleophobic coating found What are your thoughts? Do you Quarterly Wrap-ups." though it’s not quite as to the base configuration. There’s on the iPhone 3GS. think Apple will go this way with impressive as video. But there are also a 120GB 4200 RPM SATA But here’s where it gets weird. its new wonder device, or stick to a couple odd usages of terms and HDD, which strikes me as a In addition to the built-in iSight more of a iPod touch/iPhone some specs that seem outdated, particularly odd choice for what (not weird), there’s a built-in hardware format? which alone could just mean the is presumably meant to be a thin projector listed too (very weird). As Q4 begins, online video is document itself is rather old, but and light portable device. And the Airport Extreme is said now mainstream. Read the, " taken with the other oddities Other hardware niceties include to be based on the 802.11n draft Connected Consumer Q3 Wrap- seem much more suspect. two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card specification, when we all know up." The hardware details of the slot, built-in speakers and mic that specification was finalized in tablet read more like an entry- and a combined September. Also, no mention is level MacBook than an upgraded digital/headphone out and line in made of 3G connectivity, An American Tourist — [Pullquote] By Gabriel Snyder (Gawker) who bumped into New York recap of her holiday vacation.

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:23:31 AM Post columnist Cindy Adams while she was in Santiago, Chile, according to the gossipeuse's E-reader News Edition TV/ 45 TV Ratings: Sunday Night Football Finishes On Top; Simpsons, Housewives Return Up By Bill Gorman for local coverage or other (TVbytheNumbers) programming. Fast Affiliate

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:44:03 AM ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ Due to the nature of live sports significantly from the final programming the ratings for results, because the data reflect NBC (Sunday Night Football), normal broadcast feed patterns. CBS and FOX (NFL overruns) For example, with a World Series are approximate and subject to game, Fast Affiliate Ratings significant revisions in the final would include whatever aired numbers. See below for more from 8-11PM on affiliates in the information on these Fast Pacific Time Zone, following the Affiliate Ratings. live football game, but not game Of course the final Sunday Night coverage that begins at 5PM PT. Football game lifted NBC to the The same would be true of ratings win for the night, but a Presidential debates as well as lopsided game, a Fox football live award shows and breaking overrun and CBS repeats gave news reports. both Fox and ABC a chance for Rating: Estimated percentage of an up night with their new the universe of TV households episodes. (or other specified group) tuned Compared to their last original to a program in the average airings on 12/13/09 the early Fox minute. Ratings are expressed as lineup was all up. The Simpsons a percent. tallied a 4.0 rating for adults 18- Share (of Audience): The 49, up 25%. The Cleveland Show percent of households (or was up 10% to a 3.3 rating, and persons) using television who are Family Guy was up 3% to a 3.9 (compared to 12/6) to a 5.2 before rising to a 6.9 rating from day after telecast, and are tuned to a specific program, rating. Only American Dad was rating. If that holds up in the final 8:32-11:09p in the Finals. released to subscribing customers station or network in a specific down, falling 10% to a 2.8 rating. ratings, that would be a season - daily. These data, from the area at a specific time. (See also, ABC had it’s best Sunday night high for Housewives, its previous You can see TV ratings from National People Meter sample, Rating, which represents tuning overall this season and its best high was a 5.0 rating. Only other recent Overnight ratings are strictly time-period or viewing as a percent of the rated Sunday night since Brothers & Sisters fell, down 3% reports here. information, based on the normal entire population being November 2008. America’s (vs. 12/6) to a 3.6 rating. Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The broadcast network feed, and measured.) Funniest Home Videos tied its NBC’s Sunday Night Football Nielsen Company. All Rights include all programming on the Time Shifted Viewing– Program best adults 18-49 rating (2.7) Game 17: Bengals vs. Jets Reserved. affiliated stations, sometimes ratings for national sources are since 2/8/09. Extreme Makeover: delivered a 5.5 adults 18-49 Definitions: including network programming, produced in three streams of data Home Edition increased 6% rating from 830-11p, down from Fast Affiliate Ratings: These sometimes not. The figures may – Live, Live+Same (compared to its last original on last week’s Game 16 (Redskins first national ratings, including include stations that did not air Day(Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. 12/13) to a 3.3 rating. Desperate vs. Cowboys) which posted a 6.0 demographics, are available at the entire network feed, as well Housewives was up 6% rating in the Fast Nationals approximately 11 AM (ET) the as local news breaks or cutaways RATINGS: page 47 46 TV/ E-reader News Edition NBC Announces Celebrity Apprentice Lineup including Cyndi Lauper, Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, Sinbad and Rod Blagojevich By Robert Seidman Selita Ebanks Will All be making for entertaining surprise (TVbytheNumbers) competing for Charity visits by some of the world’s

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:43:09 AM NEW YORK – Monday, biggest stars along the way. January 4, 2010 – NBC and Trump and his advisors in the It seems like a lot of this info Donald Trump announced today boardroom will judge all of the was release several months ago, the all-star celebrity cast for the tasks. Returning back to the and I remember reading about third season of “The Celebrity boardroom are Trump’s children Blogojevich getting court Apprentice” premiering on (and colleagues) Ivanka and approval to participate (after not Sunday, March 14 (9-11 p.m. Donald Trump Jr., alongside being allowed to fly to Costa ET/PT). longtime Trump Organization Rica to participate on “I’m a Over the course of the celebrity employee and “Apprentice” Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here.” seasons, over $3.5 million has advisor George Ross. The But with the season premiere still been donated to charities boardroom will again feature a more than a couple of months worldwide in addition to money “rotating seat,” allowing a variety away, I guess they figured now raised from the awareness and of famous business leaders and was a good time to make it exposure on the show. Now 14 industry legends to join Trump in official. new celebrities will rise to the spirited judgment on each task. Via NBC: challenge once again it will be As with last season, the winning NBC ANNOUNCES THE 14 men versus women. All the celebrity teams will relish the ALL-STAR CELEBRITIES celebrities will be vying for the opportunity to watch the losing TAKING ON DONALD coveted title as they fight for team squirm in the boardroom TRUMP IN THE their respective causes close to from the comfort of their own BOARDROOM FOR THE their hearts. war rooms. When all is said and THIRD SEASON OF ‘THE Donald Trump said “This season done, 13 celebrities will be CELEBRITY APPRENTICE’ of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is New York City using their fame, hours, grueling mental famously fired and only one will PREMIERING SUNDAY, going to be fantastic. The list of rolodexes and their business challenges, personality clashes emerge to become The Celebrity MARCH 14 (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) celebrities we have this season is acumen to win weekly tasks and and intense scrutiny — all Apprentice. Darryl Strawberry, Cyndi outstanding and the show will money to donate to their favorite without the help of their regular Five Filters featured article: Lauper, Bret Michaels, Sharon really resonate with our core charities, while ultimately support system of agents, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Osbourne, Michael Johnson, viewers and fans. I expect this battling with each other to stay managers and personal assistants. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Holly Robinson Peete, Goldberg, season of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ out of the boardroom and avoid Certain tasks encourage the Term Extraction. Carol Leifer, Sinbad, Summer to be the best one yet.” hearing those dreaded words contestants to reach out to their Sanders, Rod Blagojevich (left), The celebrities will compete in “You’re Fired!” network of celebrity contacts for Maria Kanellis, Curtis Stone and business-driven tasks around They’ll be subjected to long assistance or donations — E-reader News Edition TV/ Picture/ 47 RATINGS: Despite Blowouts, NFL Doubleheader continued from page 45 Time shifted figures account for viewing that takes place during incremental viewing that takes the 7 days following a telecast. featuring Giants vs. Vikings and place with DVRs which are For more information see currently in approximately 24.4% Numbers 101 and Numbers 102. of all U.S. TV households. Five Filters featured article: Eagles vs. Cowboys Scores for FOX Live+Same Day(Live+SD) Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: By Robert Seidman were decided by scores of 44-7 game on CBS. That 11.7/22 ties include viewing during the same PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, (TVbytheNumbers) (Giants at Vikings) and 24-0 as the NFL on FOX’s second- broadcast day as the original Term Extraction. Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:09:24 AM (Eagles at Cowboys). best Regional rating of the year, telecast, with a cut-off of Yesterday’s 14.0/26 is +16% behind only the Vikings-Steelers 3:00AM local time when meters via FOX Sports: better than last year’s 12.1/24 for game in Week 7 (13.0/28). transmit daily viewing to Nielsen NFL WEEK 17 OVERNIGHTS a Week 17 Doubleheader, FOX concludes the 2009 for processing. Live+7 Day SCORE FOR FOX coincidentally anchored both REGULAR SEASON with a ratings include incremental Doubleheader +16%; National year’s the same games (Giants- 12.7/25 average for Sunday Game +14% Vikings early and Eagles- games in the metered markets, The 2009 NFL ON FOX regular Cowboys late). FOX’s +6% better than both last year’s Your Best Shot 2009: Bubbles -season concluded yesterday with NATIONAL GAME earned a 12.0/24 on FOX and CBS’s By Fiona Miller (Flickr Blog) process. Get comments, notes, an excellent 14.0/26 average 16.3/29, a +14% bump over last 12.0/24 this year and tied NBC’s Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:46:26 AM and tags on your photos, post to household rating/share for a year’s 14.3/27 with 79% of the prime time package (12.7/20). any blog, share and more! WEEK 17 DOUBLEHEADER, US seeing Eagles-Cowboys. The Five Filters featured article: • About Flickr Five Filters featured article: according to metered overnight REGIONAL GAME earned an Chilcot Inquiry. 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Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:16:00 PM • PBS has a new Antiques • TLC has a new Cake Boss at 9. After the jump, the late night Roadshow at 8. • E! has a new Bank of talk shows. • ABC Family has the season Hollywood at 9. Continue reading What's On • At 8, ABC has the season premiere of Secret Life of the • There's a new Unwrapped on Tonight: Bachelor, Good Eats, premiere of The Bachelor, American Teenager at 8, then the Food Network at 9. Secret Life, Hoarders followed by Conveyor Belt of season premiere of Make It or • At 10, TNT has a new Men of Filed under: Late Night, Love. Break It. a Certain Age. Programming, Celebrities, Talk • NBC has a new two-hour • Food Network has a new Good • A&E has a new Hoarders at 10. Show, What To Watch Tonight, Heroes at 8, then a new Jay Leno Eats at 8. • Bravo has a new Chef Reality-Free Show. • TLC has a new Little People, Academy at 10. Permalink| Email this| | • FOX has the Tostitos Fiesta Big World at 8. TNA Wrestling. Comments Bowl at 8, Boise State vs. Texas • Also at 8: Spike has a new • At 9, USA has a new Monday Check your local TV listings for 48 TV/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition Allstate Sugar Bowl Audience Review: The Simpsons - Sweet; New Year’s Night Audience Thursdays with Abie By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) Up +67% Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:30:00 PM By Robert Seidman (S21E09) You can always count (TVbytheNumbers) on The Simpsons for a timely Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:16:04 AM reference. Why it was only back in 1997 that Mitch Albom's via FOX Sports: Tuesdays with Morrie book came ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL out, so it's high time we riff on it. AUDIENCE SWEET Wait, that TV movie with Hank New Year’s Night Audience Up Azaria they referenced? That's +67% more recent. 1999 recent! The University of Florida’s rout 449 episodes later, The of the University of Cincinnati in Simpsons may no longer be the the 2010 ALLSTATE SUGAR source for the most cutting edge BOWL on Jan. 1 resulted in an humor, but at least they've 8.5/15 average household reclaimed a lot of the heart this long special and the only rating/share and 15.5 million deliver FOX a dominant win for Cincinnati topped all metered season that was missing early on. MacFarlane show to make the viewers according to fast national the night. Based on metered markets with a 27.1/42 for the Next week is the big 450th grade is his own version of a ratings issued by Nielsen Media market ratings, FOX not only Allstate Sugar Bowl. Jacksonville episode celebration, which not-so "traditional" family sitcom: The Research. That’s up +57% in won the night but beat the was next with a 26.5/42 followed -coincidentally is the week FOX Cleveland Show. rating and +67% in audience over combined delivery of the second by Birmingham (25.2/38), a has opted to celebrate officially Continue reading Review: The last year’s New Year’s night and third-place networks. FOX Florida Gator rival. Rounding the 20th anniversary of the Simpsons - Thursdays with Abie FedEx Orange Bowl (5.4/9 – 9.3 ranked first for the night with an out the top five were Tampa stalwart comedy. Filed under: OpEd, The mill for Va Tech-Cincinnati), and 8.7/15 from 8-11pm. ABC was a (23.3/39) and Orlando (20.4/33). For those tired of Seth Simpsons, Animation, Episode up +9% in rating and +16% distant second with a 4.8/8 for a Five Filters featured article: MacFarlane dominating the Reviews, Reality-Free compared to last year’s Allstate night that included a Rose Bowl Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Sunday lineup, next week, it's a Permalink| Email this| | Sugar Bowl (7.8/13, 13.4 mill for overrun. CBS and NBC were PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, reversal of fortunes, as The Comments Utah-Alabama) on Friday, Jan. 2. further back at a 3.2/5 and 2.3/4 Term Extraction. Simpsons is joined by an hour- Despite the blowout score, the respectively. Allstate Sugar Bowl projects to President Barack Obama & First Lady Return to White House Following Hawaiian Holiday (ETonline - Breaking News) the holidays and the New Year in on Air Force One as they

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:55:00 AM Hawaii with his daughters Sasha returned to Washington D.C. and Malia, President Barack ET has the pics of the first Back to work! After celebrating Obama joined his wife Michelle family's island getaway! E-reader News Edition TV/ Entertainment/ Economy/ 49 How will Benjamin Bratt do on Modern Family? By Allison Waldman (TV Squad) Kate Major Makes It to Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:05:00 AM the Big Time of PA Last night there was a fresh, new Celeb Boxing Circuit episode of Brothers & Sisters on ABC. I was so elated that I nearly [Celebrity Science] jumped from my chair to see a By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) non-rerun. Well, this week were sorta/kinda back from vacation as Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:11:01 AM a bunch of shows will be airing basically a cameo as Phil's dad; When Star reporter Kate Major Sundays with Seth: A new shows. For that, I say, and in one episode, Elizabeth quit "journalism" in order to "Hooray!" Banks and Ed Norton pursue love with Jon Gosselin, One I'm really looking forward embarassed themselves as bizarre some questioned whether the horse is a horse, uness to seeing is Wednesday's Modern characters. move was wise. Well, the haters Family with Benjamin Bratt Continue reading How will can quiet down: Kate's made it. guesting as Manny's father. The Benjamin Bratt do on Modern To celebrity boxing (refereeing). it's The Rock reason for my anticipation is this: Family? Straight from the press release: By Jason Hughes (TV Squad) any modification to the intro I haven't liked any of the guest Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Who: Meet Kate Major for her Casting, Reality-Free, Modern Submitted at 1/4/2010 1:03:00 PM sequence at all, or spotlight it in turns on Modern Family thus far first public event since the Jon any self-aware way. I still wish this year. I thought Shelley Long Family Gosselin Saga as she will referee Between The Rock's bizarre last week's epic could have been was over-the-top as Jay's ex-wife, Permalink| Email this| | the female Celebrity Boxing guest appearance on Family Guy, in widescreen, but with Family the mother of Claire and Comments match between Model Hanna and Stan's dirty deed on Guy now the only holdout on Mitchell; Fred Willard was Pearce and Actress Michelle American Dad, it was a strange Animation Domination, the Shuster and several of the Male week in the twisted mind of Seth whole thing feels a little weird. US manufacturing activity actors on the undercard. MacFarlane. But in a twist M. Shouldn't the marquee show for And Michael Lohan will be there Night Shyamalan would be proud Seth MacFarlane be in strongest since 2006 that night too! See you Jan. 6 at of, it was Family Guy's Meg widescreen before its offspring? the Della Pollas Tavern in (Financial Times - US Griffin who had the most Continue reading Sundays with commerce department said that Milmont Park, PA! memorable stand-out moment of Seth: A horse is a horse, uness homepage) construction spending fell to the the night. Uncomfortable, but it's The Rock Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:17:32 AM lowest level since 2003 in memorable. Filed under: Other Comedy November as residential We also got the first episode of Shows, OpEd, Animation, US manufacturing activity homebuilding investment waned. American Dad in the 16:9 Episode Reviews, Reality-Free climbed to the highest level in Five Filters featured article: widescreen ratio for the first Permalink| Email this| | more than three years last month, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: time, and they didn't take Comments as a surge in new orders PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, advantage of the change to make continued to fuel factory output. Term Extraction. Separately on Monday, the 50 Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition ALM in 2010: Furloughs, But Maybe a Raise [Internal Memos] By Hamilton Nolan (Gawker) You have my thanks for all you would rather keep a larger staff Reduced Work Week of Directors to create a bonus

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:54:38 AM have done to help us through the employed for 51 weeks, than a In 2010 we will continue pool for over-budget storm. smaller staff employed for 52 allowing employees, on a performance by the company as a This memo just went out to The Road Ahead weeks. We think that's a better voluntary basis and with whole (somewhat akin to a profit employees of B-to-B publisher Looking ahead, as I mentioned choice for all of us and for our management approval, to take up -sharing plan). Our intent would ALM( formerly Incisive Media), on my blog a few weeks ago, my customers. to one week of additional unpaid be to use that pool to provide updating them on the year to long-term view of the business is This year's furloughs will work vacation time and/or to request a merit bonuses at year-end for come. Furloughs are back, but optimistic even though I think the much like last year's with many reduced work week schedule. both staff and management. the outlook is slightly less dire challenges of 2009 will carry employees taking their days Unlike the furlough which 401K Plan than last year. The full memo: through for at least the first half during the last week of the year employees must take, the With respect to our US Welcome back. I hope you had of the new year. I am very when much of the Company will additional unpaid vacation and employees, we are not planning an enjoyable break for the confident that our decision to be closed. To help answer your reduced work week programs are to make any changes to our 401K holidays and took the time to invest in product development furlough questions, the HR completely voluntary. The plan in 2010 which means we celebrate with your family and opportunities in the Department will be distributing Human Resources Department will continue providing friends. research/information services detailed furlough guidelines later will be distributing detailed participants an employer match As we begin the New Year, I sector as well as the today. guidelines about these programs of 25% of the first 4% of thought a few words about what reorganization of our national Our hope is that by aggressively later today. contributions. US employees 2010 looks like from my desk advertising sales team will leave managing our expenses through No Vacation Carry-Over who are not yet enrolled in the and how we'll proceed would be us poised for success when the furloughs and the other initiatives As we did in 2009 and per our 401k should consider doing so at in order. It has been, as you economy rebounds. But since we mentioned below we will be able Vacation Policy, employees must this time. We are also pleased to know, a challenging 15 months at do not expect to see that growth to avoid the type of large scale use all of their vacation days in announce that beginning this year ALM and in the media industry for many months we will need to lay-offs we experienced last year. the year in which they are earned. employees in Canada will be since the downfall of Lehman exercise the same fiscal Compensation Adjustments Travel and Entertainment eligible for Company RRSP Brothers and the downturn in discipline in 2010 as we did in The good news is that we have We will continue with the contributions. Additional details both the general economy and, 2009. That means keeping our designated a portion of this year's guidelines developed last year for about these contributions will be particularly, the markets we expenses low, our spending budget for potential mid-year all travel and entertainment sent to employees shortly. Staff serve. Nonetheless, through a conservative and our investments compensation adjustments. But expenses. members in the U.K. and Hong great deal of sacrifice and focused on areas that will lead to utilization of those funds is Tuition Assistance Kong are covered by local creativity, we managed our way significant revenue growth in the contingent on meeting our The Tuition Assistance Program benefits plans, which will be through the crisis and remained coming years. Unfortunately it financial targets for the first half which was temporarily addressed separately as true to our mission – providing also means that we will once of the year. If approved, I would suspended in 2009 will be re- appropriate. high value content to our again be asking employees to assume that increases will implemented in the second half If you have any questions about sophisticated audiences while take 5 days of unpaid furlough in primarily be given on a merit of 2010. Employees who are these programs please contact finding creative ways to meet the 2010. We did not come to this basis or where market conditions interested in participating in the [redacted]. needs of marketers seeking to decision lightly but given our absolutely require salary program should refer to the Once again, thank you for all reach those same audiences. And short term revenue predictions adjustments. I will have a better Educational Assistance Policy in you have done over the past year we did so while maintaining the and the significant savings that sense of how this process will the Policies and Guidelines for ALM and its customers. confidence of our investors and the furlough provides we simply work as the summer approaches section of InHouse. Regards, lenders, no small feat in the can't afford to eliminate it at this and will update you at that time. Bonuses Bill current financial environment. time. Or, put another way, we Voluntary Unpaid Vacation and We are working with our Board E-reader News Edition Entertainment/ Fashion/ 51 The New York Post 's Col Allan Decade [Leadership] By John Cook (Gawker) Daily News," which is odd Six staffer (and, for that matter, "After seeing today's daily news I

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:49:13 AM because it's not coming from the bitter former Gawker writer) Ian am contemplating two courses of Daily News—then it appears that Spiegelman, Allan managed to action: taking a blunt axe to the If New York Post editor Col his abject failure to contribute parlay his status as editor of the jogger—we know a lot about Allan is indeed contemplating one dime to Murdoch's coffers in city's most powerful tabloid into her—or taking the view this book "retirement" at the ripe old age of decade may have finally caught free, um, services at the strip was never written. not a sentence, 57, as New York's Gabriel up with him. The Post's annual club. not a word shared with our 2.2 Sherman reports, his departure loss has been estimated at He Let His Gossip Columnists million readers. Which of these would cap off a decade of anywhere from $10 million to Shake Down Just About two options would you colossal editorial and business $50 million over the past decade, Anybody They Wanted To recommend?" embarrassments for the paper. but Sherman reports that the Page Six writer Jared Paul Stern He Royally Screwed Up the How Allan has retained his job paper is expected to finish out lost his job over his attempt to Post's Attempt to Raise Its Cover for this long has been an 2010 a whopping $70 million in employee at an office party, extort Ron Burkle out of a Price enduring mystery for anyone the red. That number is one dismissed protesters against Sean quarter-million dollars, but Allan Allan was cocky enough with who follows the rather substantial reason Murdoch took the Delonas' racist cartoon depicting let top Page Sixer Richard the Post's rising circulation in and ongoing parade of evidence extraordinary step of reaching out Barack Obama as a dead Johnson stick around even 2007 to double its cover price that he is a dick of epic to his archrival, Daily News chimpanzee because "most of though he admitted accepting a from 25 cents to 50 cents. But the proportions. You could chalk it owner Mort Zuckerman, to them are minorities," and likes to $1,000 cash "Christmas present" Daily News got tipped to the up to Rupert Murdoch's loyalty, discuss a joint operating show female staffers from restaurateur Nello Balan in change and cut its cover price in but everyone knows that agreement under which both pornography for kicks. 1997. (That was before the Col half on the same day, resulting in Murdoch is loyal only to papers would share back-end He Published This Cartoon era at the Post, but the bribe came a humiliating fiasco—the Post money—indeed, here's how resources and a printing plant. He Published This Front Page to light in 2007.) had to reverse itself 10 days later Allan described his boss' thinking The talks fizzled several months He Takes Foreign Dignitaries to He Threatened to "Take a Blunt and now trails the Daily News in to Lloyd Grove in a 2007 profile: ago, Sherman reports. Strip Clubs, Where He Looks at Axe" to the Central Park Jogger circulation by 36,000 weekday I'll get fired not because Rupert Money aside, the argument for Boobies For Free According to Grove, after the copies. doesn't like the stories I put in the Allan's ouster is, as they say in In 2003, Allan showed Daily News scooped the Post That last bit is, according to paper. I'll get fired because we psychiatric circles, Australian MP Kevin Rudd with the identity of Trisha Allan, what Murdoch cares about don't sell newspapers. And that overdetermined. Here is the bill around New York by taking him Meili—the previously more than anything. It's our judgment is made not by Rupert, of particulars: to Scores to see some naked anonymous "Central Park sincere hope that after a decade but by the market, and by the He Hates Black People and ladies gyrate. Revelation of the Jogger" who was raped and of Bushesque hubris, audience. And I think that's Women trip caused something of a nearly beaten to death in 1989 incompetence, and fratboy pretty democratic. I like that deal. A flurry of lawsuits from all the scandal in Australia when Rudd, and revealed herself in a 2003 carousing, Allan has finally If Sherman's sources are nonwhite editorial staffers Allan who fancies himself a good memoir—Allan sent an e-mail to found something to get fired right—Allan, through a fired in recent months contain Christan, ran successfully for Meili's agent threatening to either over. Lord knows he's tried. spokesman, calls the retirement allegations that he " rubbed his prime minister in 2007. destroy Meili's reputation or rumor "wishful thinking at the penis up against" a female According to bitter former Page ignore the book in retaliation: Street Chic: New York By ELLE.com (ELLE News warmth—and a funky edge. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Blog) Photo: Kelly Stuart Become our Facebook fan!

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Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:05:49 AM This weekend, the New York Times tried to find redeeming value in MTV's Jersey Shore, the most important sociological Brit Hume Thinks Tiger artifact of our time. Sorry, but Can Find Salvation in trying to find any good in this Christianity show is missing the point entirely. By Ryan Wilson (Fanhouse Yes, Jersey Shore is Main) irredeemably trashy—which we Submitted at 1/4/2010 2:30:00 AM learned is the opposite of "classy," which is what all good Filed under: Sports Media, guidos and guidettes aspire to Current Events, Golf Brit Hume be—so Neil Genzlinger's gambit retired from Fox News in 2008, to find anything good in it is although he regularly appears on entirely misguided. He tries to the network as a political analyst. cover up the alcohol-fueled The new title allows him to do Jacuzzi romps, wanton acts of more than just report the news in aggression, and general stupidity a fair and balanced manner; it of the eight seven castmembers allows him to actually weigh in with the little bits of goodwill the stench of a garbage truck. find dangerous. They exist called Karma, or having sex on with opinion. that the show is doing humanity. The problem is they're staring at without malice or guile and are national television with a hulking And that's exactly what His listicle includes that they the truck the whole time, trying unashamed of their exploits, so mass of muscle, but isn't it fun to happened this weekend when made the Jersey Shore (like the to avoid being struck by it and we shouldn't feel ashamed for watch people who haven't Hume, appearing on Fox News actual geographical location) turned into an orange-hued, big- watching. learned their lesson yet (and Sunday, offered Tiger Woods, interesting again, that they might haired, juiced-out freak of their Like Genzlinger says, no one probably never will)? These are who had been out of the news for kill the Kardashians (heavens, own. Guess what, everyone, it is actually wants to be like our media avatars, acting in 15 minutes, this advice: "Turn to no!), that they are good negative time to enjoy this stink for what ShamWOWW, The Situation, irresponsible ways that we could the Christian faith." examples for children, and they it is. Snooki, or Sammi Quiznos, but only dream about, and allowing show us which institutions need What makes this show brilliant haven't we all been a little bit like us to feel the concurrently joys of to be fixed so we never get kids is that the kids don't care about them at one point in our lives? vicarious scuzziness and utter like the JS crew again. These are their trashiness. In fact, it is the These are people in their 20s superiority. There is nothing all stupid reasons. goal of their existence. They all getting drunk and screwing guilty about this pleasure, it is Everyone is always trying to place a high value on clothes that around on vacation. Who isn't unmitigated bliss. explain, relegate, or ironically we find tacky, hairdos we find guilty of that? Now most of us Pic via detach themselves from Jersey outdated, behavior we find have grown out of the phase Shore's utter grossness like atrocious, skin color we find without ever being punched in they're trying to run away from garish, and sexual encounters we the face, thrown out of a club E-reader News Edition Sports/ 53 NFL Playoff Teams Get Second Chance in Next Week’s Rematches (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Vikings have, but they have just ranked going into the game, but Leach somewhat, the focus has

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:23:44 AM about everything else you could both played entertaining, all-out shifted from the coach to his possibly want heading into the football right up until the last accusers. The NFL playoff picture is set at playoffs,” Vaccaro writes. “A play of overtime — which At CBS Sports, Dennis Dodd last after Week 17. Said picture few weeks ago, that seemed happened to be “Heater,” a fake bemoans the role played by wasn’t big enough to contain destined to be the looming field goal set-piece that ESPN analyst Craig James — the several of Sunday’s winners, but tragedy of this season, a Northwestern coach Pat father of Leach’s accuser, Adam too-little-too-laters such as the capitalized WHAT-IF to last all Fitzgerald described as “a James — in the whole sordid Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston through the offseason. Now it is Thought That Happened Already: modern-day fumblerooskie” and saga. “I thought from the Texans are nothing new in the an opportunity to scare the hell After a 4-12 campaign, the which left the Wildcats two yards beginning it was borderline NFL. No, what makes this out of a few folks.” Washington Redskins fired coach short of the goal line and on the unethical that friends and co- playoff picture different from If the presence of the Jets in the Jim Zorn, who spent the second wrong end of a 38-35 score. In workers of James were reporting those of years past is the fact that playoffs is something of a half of the season redefining the the Chicago Sun-Times, Herb this story,” Dodd writes. “It had it looks uncannily like Week 17: surprise, the absence of several term “lame duck.” In the Gould tells the story behind that ‘railroad’ smell to it from the Three of the NFL’s four first- bold-face names is perhaps a Washington Post, Michael “Heater,” and Bleacher Report’s beginning with James being round playoff matchups next bigger one. The New England Wilbon bemoans the way Zorn’s Jonathan Hodges dissects the portrayed as the protective week are reruns of Week 17 Patriots will be without ace extended professional deathwatch play itself. parent. There is definitely games. As playoff pictures go, receiver Wes Welker for their was handled.* * * At ESPN, Eric Adelson takes a another side to this, a side that this one is the equivalent of game next weekend against As is the custom, seemingly look at Northwestern senior ESPN hasn’t reported.” At experimental video art. European Baltimore — a rematch from innumerable college-football quarterback Mike Kafka, whose Yahoo, Matt Hinton notes the Pressphoto Agency The Jets hope Week 4 rather than Week 17 — games were played in various career concluded in a career day strange disjunction between sport Brad Smith saved some tricks for and the Packers will may be bowls with varying degrees of that saw him set numerous -pundits and Tech fans — who next week’s rematch with the missing cornerback Charles national renown during the days Outback Bowl records, but have both turned James into a Bengals. Woodson when they meet around the New Year. Many of without the ending he had in villain and Leach into a martyr At Fanhouse, Dave Goldberg Arizona again next Sunday. these, such as the lopsided wins mind. In the Huntsville Times, — and the players themselves, addresses the anomalousness of Welker and Woodson both were by Florida (51-24 over Cincinnati Evan Woodbery applauds the who seem to see things the other the NFL’s impending week of injured in relatively unimportant in the Sugar Bowl) and Nebraska strides Auburn made under first- way around.* * * reruns. Week 17 games for their teams (33-0 over Arizona in the year coach Gene Chizik. Injuries, bad luck and bad None of the three looming — only playoff seeding was at Holiday Bowl), are worthy of Texas Tech was also a winner on performances from a few rematches — Philadelphia- stake. In the Journal, Jason Gay mention only because of the big- New Year’s Day, but the Red supporting players led to a lost Dallas, Green Bay-Arizona and indulges his inner Monday name programs involved. But Raiders’s Alamo Bowl victory season in ‘08-09, but the New York Jets-Cincinnati — Morning Quarterback on the others were worth watching. over Michigan State did little to Washington Wizards seemed were terribly close in Week 17, subject of sitting stars. In the College football’s biggest bowl diminish the controversy that ready for a playoff run as this but the New York Post’s Mike Indianapolis Star, Bob Kravitz games are yet to come, but those surrounds last week’s stunning season began. Instead, the Wiz Vaccaro argues that the Jets’s 37- remains outraged by the vaunted upcoming clashes of dismissal of head coach and look more lost than ever, thanks 0 domination of the Bengals in Indianapolis Colts’s use/misuse undefeated teams will be hard- certified offensive master-builder to an embarrassing story particular may augur well for of their stars and backups over pressed to measure up to the Mike Leach. Garey did an allegedly involving (and just put Gang Green. “The Jets are the last two weeks, which outrageously entertaining excellent job summarizing that “alleged” or “allegedly” before missing the leading-man brought two losses to AFC East Outback Bowl matchup between story last Thursday, but after a everything to follow in this quarterback that the Colts and the foes. Northwestern and Auburn. New York Times report on Saints and the Pats and the And from the Department of I Neither team was nationally Friday that seemed to exonerate NFL page 58 54 Sports/ E-reader News Edition Washington Redskins fire Jim Zorn fired after two seasons: 'Status quo not acceptable' By Adam Schefter Snyder bought the team in 1999, time the players are expected to far as stories. There already has given to consultant Sherman (ESPN.com) a span in which they've made be debriefed about Zorn's been. So I get that. I'm working Lewis, who had been retired and

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:20:20 AM three playoff appearances, won a dismissal and in which direction on our team meeting, our was calling bingo games at a division title and had six head the franchise will go. offseason schedule, and until I'm senior center and delivering Shanahan Favorite For Redskins coaches: With Zorn out of the picture, the told that I'm on any other effort, Meals on Wheels two weeks Job Shanahan Favorite For Bruce Allen, Washington's new focus will shift to whether I'm getting ready." earlier. Redskins Job VIDEO executive vice president and Snyder can do enough to lure He also said: "I'm still reeling At the time, Zorn stopped short PLAYLIST general manager, said Zorn was former Broncos coach Mike from this loss. Anything that I of saying he was given an • Shanahan Favorite For informed of the decision shortly Shanahan to Washington. say about my future here would ultimatum, but said he would Redskins Job Shanahan Favorite after the team returned from San It is no secret that Snyder just be babbling along. I'm going comply with the request "because For Redskins Job Diego. admires Shanahan. The two men to be forthright and ask and get I want to stay here and win." • SportsCenter Right Now "The status quo is not have known each other since the things moving, but I certainly Days later, then-executive vice SportsCenter Right Now acceptable," Allen said in a late 1990s, when they attended want to be the head coach here." president of football operations statement. "I felt it was necessary the same Pro Bowl, stayed in the Zorn started 6-2 as a rookie head Vinny Cerrato said Zorn would Jim Zorn has been fired as the to not waste a moment of time to same hotel in Hawaii, and wound coach last season, but finish out the season. Cerrato head coach of the Washington begin building this team into a up having dinner together one Washington struggled down the abruptly resigned last month. Redskins, the team announced winner." night. Since then, the two men stretch and finished 8-8. Zorn, formerly a quarterbacks Monday morning. Zorn left team headquarters with have remained in contact and This year's team has been coach with the Seattle Seahawks, The Redskins were 4-12 this a security escort around 4:45 a.m. have had a friendly relationship. dogged by numerous injuries, a joined the Redskins as an season, capped by a 23-20 loss to without commenting, according Shanahan would represent a lack of depth and off-the-field offensive coordinator in 2008. the San Diego Chargers on to The Washington Post. higher-profile coach than Zorn, distractions, but also by an Two weeks later, he found Sunday. It was the team's worst "Bruce Allen spent many hours who was hired as the Redskins' inability of Zorn's West Coast himself the team's head coach record in 15 years. Zorn was 12- examining the football offensive coordinator before offense to consistently find the after the team had interviewed 20 in two seasons in Washington. operations, and we are both being promoted before he had end zone. coaching candidates for a month. "No one in the organization is determined to do whatever it coached an NFL game. Zorn appeared to be on the brink He had never been a coordinator satisfied with our record over the takes to build a championship Mosley: Zorn Held His Own of being fired in October, when for an NFL team before the last two years," Redskins owner team," Snyder said. "That process Jim Zorn displayed an play-calling responsibilities were Redskins hired him and wasn't Dan Snyder said in a statement begins today." uncommon affability during his taken from him after a loss to the even on Snyder's list of released by the team. "And I am The Redskins were expected to coaching tenure with the Kansas City Chiefs dropped the candidates when Joe Gibbs sure that Jim would concur with hold a news conference around Redskins -- despite the results, Redskins to 2-4. retired at the end of the 2007 that statement. It has been painful noon ET to announce what had writes ESPN.com's Matt Mosley. Mike and Mike in the Morning season. for him, too. I certainly accept been speculated about and Blog ESPN NFL insider Adam NFL Insider Adam Schefter responsibility for mistakes that I rumored on for months, ever Zorn was peppered with Schefter talks about what's next Check out Schefter's Insider blog have made. I am hopeful that our since Washington lost to Detroit questions after Washington lost for the Redskins after firing Jim for more NFL coverage and fans will accept my commitment in Week 3. Zorn later was its regular-season finale to San Zorn and what other coaches analysis. and pledge to deliver a franchise stripped of his play-calling Diego. could be on their way out. • Blog network: NFL Nation that can compete in the NFC East responsibilities prior to an Oct. Asked about the reports that he Schefter also says that it's very Whoever follows Zorn will be every season." 26 game against Philadelphia. would be fired Monday, Zorn unlikely that Brandon Marshall the seventh coach hired by the At The Helm, Or On Parade? One Redskins player said the responded: "I would not even returns to Denver next season. Redskins since Snyder bought The Redskins are 80-96 (.455) in team has called a team meeting comment on that. There are a lot More Podcasts » the 11 seasons since Daniel for 11:30 a.m. Monday, at which of things, I'm sure, out there as Those responsibilities were WASHINGTON page 57 E-reader News Edition Sports/ 55 Tom Brady says the New England Patriots are 'going to evolve' without Wes Welker By ESPNBoston.com playoff game against Baltimore. higher this season (68) than it is ... You're not going to be able to was confident Welker would (ESPN.com) “ without him (56.3). Still, Brady make him into Wes Welker. return to the Patriots the same

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:51:36 AM Nobody loves Wes [Welker] thinks the Patriots can use You're just going to have to caliber of player he is now. more than me. Going through a Welker's absence as a strategic allow him to do the things that he "Everyone goes through it a little Patriots Dealing With Injuries knee injury last year was a hard advantage Sunday in their wild- does well." bit differently, everyone's got Patriots Dealing With Injuries thing for me but in ways it was a card game against the Ravens. On a personal level, it was clear different knees," Brady said. VIDEO PLAYLIST good thing for me. It taught me a "We're going to evolve a little bit Brady felt for Welker, who was "Him being a receiver is a little • Patriots Dealing With Injuries lot and I think for Wes it's going as an offense now," Brady said seen in tears on the sideline after bit different than it was for me. I Patriots Dealing With Injuries to do the same thing. He's as hard on WEEI. "It was a very Wes the injury and was carted off the can afford to wear the knee brace • Patriots enter playoffs without a worker as anyone I've been Welker-oriented offense. Maybe field with a towel covering his the whole time in the game and Welker Patriots enter playoffs around and he's everything you part of the advantage is head. Having suffered a similar I'm sure he's not going to want to without Welker ask for.”-- Patriots quarterback Baltimore doesn't really know injury to Welker's in the first do that. ... Tom Brady what they're going to see from us game of the 2008 season, Brady "For Wes it's just about going New England Patriots "You can't replace him, there's no now. We're going to have shift knows the challenges his through the process. He's as hard quarterback Tom Brady spoke doubt about that," Brady said focus and they're really not sure teammate is facing. a worker as anyone on our team, Monday morning for the first Monday in an interview on where that focus is going to go. Reiss: Devastating loss anyone I've ever seen. He's going time about receiver Wes Welker's Boston sports radio station "In some ways that's an The Patriots seemed to be to work just as hard through this knee injury, saying the team WEEI. "There's nobody that can advantage for us. There's a lot of gaining momentum heading into as he would through the regular "can't replace him" and would substitute in for Wes and think things we've done with Wes that the playoffs. Then they lost Wes offseason program. He'll be back have to "evolve a little bit" on that they're going to be Wes. He we don't do with anybody else. Welker to a knee injury. Welker's at some point better than ever. I offense without its leading is everything you ask for. We're going to find other areas to season is likely over; is the Pats', know that." receiver. "We've got to move on and we've exploit and use the talents of too? Story » Brady also touched on reports Welker suffered a devastating got to go out there and play, and Julian and Sam [Aiken] and • ESPNBoston.com that he has been playing recently knee injury while making a cut in everyone I think in different Randy and Chris Baker and "Nobody loves Wes more than with broken ribs and a broken the first quarter of Sunday's areas has to pick it up. I have to Kevin [Faulk] and Laurence me," Brady said. "Going through finger on his throwing hand. regular-season-ending loss to the play better, Julian [Edelman] has [Maroney] and Fred [Taylor] and a knee injury last year was a hard "What's the injury report say?" Houston Texans. Initial tests to play better, Randy [Moss] has Sammy [Morris], ands all those thing for me but in ways it was a Brady joked when asked if he showed he tore both the anterior to play better, the offensive line, other really great players we have good thing for me. It taught me a could confirm the validity of the cruciate ligament and medial running backs, tight ends, we all on offense to be able to move the lot and I think for Wes it's going reports. collateral ligament in his left have to do more. I think that's the ball." to do the same thing. He's as hard "I'm feeling really good. knee, but he is scheduled to commitment we have to make to The player likely to be called a worker as anyone I've been Everyone breaks bones over the undergo more testing Monday, a one another." upon most to step up in Welker's around and he's everything you course of the year. I'm feeling source close to the situation told Welker broke his own franchise absence will be Edelman, who ask for." pretty good. It's the best I've felt ESPN NFL Insider Adam record with 123 catches this had 10 catches and 103 yards It's unclear how much time in a while." Schefter. season and piled up 1,348 yards receiving Sunday in Welker's Welker will miss, but others with Five Filters featured article: Should the diagnosis hold up, and four touchdowns despite absence. similar knee injuries have needed Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Welker's season would be over missing the first two games of "He has a different skill set than six to 12 months to recover. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, and he would face a long the season and most of Sunday's Wes," Brady said of Edelman. While acknowledging that Term Extraction. recovery period. Meanwhile, the loss. Brady's completion "There are things that you do Welker's recovery will be Patriots are beginning percentage with Welker in the differently with Julian and things different than his because of the preparations for Sunday's home lineup is more than 11 points that you do differently with Wes. position he plays, Brady said he 56 Sports/ E-reader News Edition USC Trojans impose postseason ban, forfeit wins on NCAA rules violations By ESPN.com news services most highly-sought prep recruits thought they had a chance to be part in the 2008 NCAA Garrett said. "When allegations (ESPN.com) at the time. respectable." tournament. The Trojans went 21 were made regarding our men's

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:26:35 AM When asked Sunday if Mayo O'Neill told Naqi he first learned -12 (11-7 Pac-10) in 2007-08, basketball program we would provide a comment of the sanctions from USC Mayo's only year at USC, and immediately began an USC has imposed sanctions on regarding USC's self-imposed athletic director Michael Garrett reached the first round of the investigation and worked closely its men's basketball program for sanctions, Grizzlies director of after Saturday night's game NCAA tournament, losing to with the NCAA and the Pac-10 NCAA rules violations, including media relations Dustin Krugel against Arizona State. O'Neill Kansas State. in an attempt to ascertain the a ban on postseason competition referred all inquiries to Mayo's says he met with the USC players New Pac-10 commissioner Larry truth. When we've done at the end of this season, a agent, LaPoe Smith. When Sunday morning and called his Scott said the league has been something wrong, we have an reduction of scholarships and reached by phone, Smith told recruits afterward. working closely with USC and obligation to do something about vacating all of its wins from 2007 ESPN's Kelly Naqi that Mayo The players were "stunned, the NCAA in independent it and that is exactly what we are -08. "will have no comment at all" on shocked, disappointed" to learn investigations of the Trojans' doing here." The university said the self- USC's sanctions. of the sanctions, O'Neill said. basketball program. The self-imposed sanctions imposed sanctions resulted from Reached Monday, Floyd told The Trojans are 10-4 overall and "USC's decision to self-impose include: an internal investigation that Naqi "because of the pending 2-0 in the Pac-10 as of Sunday aggressive penalties on itself is • No postseason play in 2009-10, found NCAA rules violations NCAA case, I can't comment." and have won eight straight clear recognition of how including the Pac-10 conference related to O.J. Mayo, who played Floyd, now an assistant with the games. seriously the university takes this tournament. for the Trojans during the 2007- New Orleans Hornets, has never "[I] told them what the situation matter and the sincere • A reduction of one scholarship 2008 season under former coach addressed the allegations was and it was our expectation commitment of the athletic for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 Tim Floyd. Mayo is now with the involving Mayo. that they do the best job they can department, university leadership academic years. NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. Johnson, who told Naqi on in the classroom and on the court and new coach Kevin O'Neill to • Reducing the number of The sanctions are connected to Sunday that he had no comment moving forward," O'Neill said. correct mistakes that were made coaches permitted to recruit off- Mayo's involvement with Rodney on his role in sanctions, did say "Nothing changes in our daily in the past and to set the program campus by one during the Guillory, who under NCAA rules he was not surprised by the lives; it's just unfortunate that our on a track to maintain the highest summer of 2010. became a USC booster due to his school's decision. last game is March 6th. standards expected of every • Reducing the number of role in Mayo's recruitment. "I hope the NCAA doesn't come "The only real emotional part of institution in the Pac-10 and the recruiting days for the 2010-11 In 2008, on ESPN's "Outside down harder than this. I feel bad this, this team has won eight in a NCAA," Scott said in the academic year to 110 from 130. The Lines," Louis Johnson, a for the [current players] and row, has battled adversity all year statement. Information from ESPN's Kelly former associate of Mayo and everyone who is going to have to long. It will test our mettle but The sanctions affect only the Naqi and The Associated Press Guillory, accused Guillory of go through this difficult period I'm convinced they'll respond men's basketball program. The was used in this report. providing Mayo with improper for their basketball program. It very well ... or as well as you university's football program is Five Filters featured article: benefits while the guard played was never my intention to bring could." also under investigation for Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: for USC. down the USC basketball USC said it will vacate all wins allegations that Heisman Trophy- PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Floyd abruptly quit in June program," Johnson said. during the 2007-08 regular winning running back Reggie Term Extraction. following allegations that he gave "[Current USC head coach season, which was when Mayo Bush received improper benefits $1,000 in cash to Guillory, who Kevin] O'Neill and the guys got competed while ineligible. It will while he played at the school. helped steer Mayo to the Trojans. the program back to also return the money it received "USC takes allegations of NCAA Mayo was one of the nation's respectability when no one through the Pac-10 for taking rules violations very seriously," E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 57 WASHINGTON Mediator to weigh Manny Pacquiao, Floyd continued from page 54 the team in 1999. Snyder has interviewed assistant coach Jerry Mayweather Jr. beef Gray for the job, according to the By Dan Rafael (ESPN.com) including the one at the center of agreed on all points on the Mayweather Promotions. Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors minority hiring in the Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:01:52 AM the bad blood: ownership of the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight In the suit, Pacquiao alleges they promotional rights to Pacquiao, except for one: The protocol for made false and defamatory NFL. With time running out to save a who had signed contracts with drug testing. statements and sullied his Gray's interview was an effort to potential March 13 megafight both companies before eventually Even though the Nevada State reputation by accusing him of comply with the Rooney Rule, between Manny Pacquiao and pledging his loyalty to Top Rank. Athletic Commission, which taking performance-enhancing which requires teams to consider Floyd Mayweather Jr., the camps When the disputes were settled would oversee the bout at the drugs. Pacquiao denies he has a minority candidate for its head- are heading to mediation on in June 2007, Arum and Golden MGM Grand in Las Vegas, ever used PEDs and has never coach position. With the Rooney Tuesday in an effort to work out Boy CEO Richard Schaefer both doesn't require blood testing, failed a drug test. Rule satisfied, the Redskins are their differences. credited Weinstein's steady hand Mayweather has insisted on If mediation fails, and the fight free to act quickly to hire a Mediator Daniel Weinstein will for getting them to reach an random blood testing. Both sides does not get made, Arum said he replacement for Zorn. preside over the meeting in Santa accord. Under the global have already agreed to unlimited will match Pacquiao with junior "I don't know what to expect. Monica, Calif. Weinstein, a settlement, Top Rank retained random urine testing. middleweight titlist Yuri Nobody does," Gray said after retired federal judge, also Pacquiao's promotional rights Pacquiao has refused training Foreman, whom he also Sunday's game. "Bruce is going mediated the acrimonious dispute with Golden Boy receiving a camp-long random blood testing, promotes, on March 20 at the to evaluate everybody." that kept Top Rank, Pacquiao's percentage of Top Rank's profit agreeing only to three tests, one Thomas & Mack Center in Las Asked if he would like the job, promoter, and Golden Boy, from his future bouts. during the week of the kickoff Vegas so Pacquiao could attempt Gray said: "Well, if it's open and which represents Mayweather, The hope is that Weinstein can news conference, which would to win a title in a record eighth they call me, of course I do." from doing fights together for once again help the sides see take place in the next week or so weight division. Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL almost two years. their way through what has if they finalize the fight, one Mayweather could still fight on Insider. "We're going into mediation," become an increasingly nasty random test to be conducted no March 13 at the MGM and Five Filters featured article: Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, battle in an effort to finalize the later than 30 days before the fight potentially face former junior Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Pacquiao's promoter, told bout between welterweight titlist and a final test in his dressing welterweight titlist Paulie PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, ESPN.com. "This guy was Pacquiao and Mayweather, the room after the fight. Malignaggi. Term Extraction. successful resolving our nutty two best pound-for-pound Mayweather would be subject to Dan Rafael in the boxing writer problem before and hopefully he fighters in the world, in a fight the same testing procedures. for ESPN.com. can be successful this time. He's many believe will break the pay- One issue sure to be discussed in Five Filters featured article: a guy who is a big fight fan and per-view record of 2.44 million front of the mediator is the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: loves the sport, and I found him buys. Mayweather's 2007 fight impact of the defamation lawsuit PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, last time to be a delight to deal with Golden Boy president Oscar Pacquiao filed last week in Term Extraction. with. Everybody did." De La Hoya set the record. Nevada U.S. District Court At the time of the previous AOL Fanhouse first reported the against Mayweather Jr., Schaefer, mediation, the companies had mediation plans Sunday night. De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather several ongoing lawsuits, Top Rank and Golden Boy have Sr., Roger Mayweather and Third western embassy closes in Yemen (Financial Times - US Yemen 14:38 homepage) By Andrew England in Sana’a Five Filters featured article:

Submitted at 1/4/2010 6:38:25 AM and Jean Eaglesham in London Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Published: January 3 2010 11:00 PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Third western embassy closes in | Last updated: January 4 2010 Term Extraction. 58 Sports/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition NFL continued from page 53 Reports: Buffalo Bills sentence, please) high-stakes Washington Post, Dan Steinberg months since Henin played her clubhouse gambling and a pair of examines the idiosyncratic way last match but, on yesterday’s the team’s guards — backup in which Arenas uses Twitter, evidence at the Queensland fire interim coach Perry Javaris Crittenton and franchise and wonders just what Agent Tennis Centre, Kim Clijsters player/beloved NBA joker Zero is talking about.* * * might not be the only Belgian Gilbert Arenas — brandishing Kim Clijsters did it first, but woman capable of winning a Fewell, entire staff firearms at each other in said there was something more grand slam title just three By ESPN.com news services capping a decade in which they clubhouse. Arenas faces what dramatic about fellow Belgian tournaments after returning to the (ESPN.com) enjoyed only one winning season could be some very serious women’s tennis star Justine game,” Pearce writes. Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:02:17 AM -- a 9-7 finish in 2004. consequences, thanks both to Henin’s retirement from the tour. In the Daily Telegraph of Fewell, the team's defensive D.C.’s ultra-stringent handgun Henin was ranked first in the London, Mark Hodgkinson ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The coordinator, finished with a 3-4 laws and the image-conscious world when she retired, for one contrasts the two un-retiring Buffalo Bills have fired interim record as interim head coach. and very displeased NBA. thing, and was retiring not Belgians and warns the tennis coach Perry Fewell and the rest Except for highly respected “It’s clear Arenas will try to use because she wanted to become a scene to make room for the of his staff, according to multiple special teams coordinator Bobby his charm and clownish antics as mother — Clijsters’s reason — returning champ. reports. Fewell will still April, most of the Bills assistants, the cornerstone of his defense,” but because the relentless grind — Tip of the Fix cap to fellow interview for the vacant coaching including Fewell, had been hired Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski of the tour had worn her down. Fixer Garey Ris. job. by Jauron. writes. “Whatever legal issues Now, like Clijsters — who came Found a good column from the The decisions came a day after The timing of the changes comes could arise with the strict gun back to win the U.S. Open last world of sports? Don’t keep it to the Bills beat Indianapolis 30-7 as the Bills embark on their fifth laws in D.C., there’s still the year — Henin has returned to yourself — write to us at to end their season at 6-10. coaching search since Hall of matter of [commissioner David] action at the Brisbane [email protected] and we’ll AFC East blog Famer Marv Levy retired after Stern’s punishment.” International in impressive form, consider your find for inclusion ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes the 1997 season. Arenas took to Twitter to defend notching a 7-5, 7-5 victory in the in the Daily Fix. You can email about all things AFC East in his Former Steelers coach Bill himself, issuing the sort of first round over second-seeded David at [email protected]. division blog. Cowher has been mentioned as a stream-of-consciousness Nadia Petrova. In the Sydney • Blog network: NFL Nation candidate. Several media outlets, monologue — in 140-character Morning Herald, Linda Pearce The Bills are in the midst of a including ESPN and The Buffalo increments, naturally — that the was very impressed by Henin’s major shakeup. Coach Dick News, have reported the Bills medium demands. In the showing. “It had been almost 20 Jauron was fired in November. have spoken to Cowher. Last week, national scout Buddy Information from The Nix was promoted to general Associated Press was used in this Merger news boosts European and US manager. report. FoxSports.com first reported the Five Filters featured article: firings. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: markets The Bills closed their 50th PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, (Financial Times - US and surveys showed the global Novartis was buying a majority season by missing the playoffs Term Extraction. homepage) manufacturing sector continued stake in Alcon of the US gave an for a 10th straight year, and

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:44:18 AM to rebound. early boost to trading. Investors had been fearing there Five Filters featured article: 16:45 GMT. The “Teens” might be a hangover from Wall Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: opened with a bang as the first Street’s sudden, late 1 per cent PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, trading day of the decade dip on New Year’s eve, but news Term Extraction. delivered a $50bn healthcare deal that Swiss-based drugs group E-reader News Edition Sports/ Economy/ 59 Jim Zorn Fired by Redskins Let's Hear It for Rex in By Will Brinson (Fanhouse statement about the personnel Main) moves: the City "This has been an extremely Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:30:00 AM By Jay Mariotti (Fanhouse difficult season for our Main) Filed under: Redskins, NFL organization and for the fans. Coaching Jim Zorn has, finally Bruce Allen spent many hours Submitted at 1/3/2010 4:32:00 PM and/or officially, been fired by examining the football the Redskins. In a move that operations, and we are both Filed under: NFL EAST surprises no one, GM Bruce determined to do whatever it RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- In the Allen announced that the team takes to build a championship frozen, tailgating-trashed parking would be going in a different team. That process begins today. lots outside Giants Stadium, the direction next season. Zorn was "No one in the organization is drinkers and stoners renamed the given the news at a 4 a.m. satisfied with our record over the place. "FINAL GAME AT JETS STADIUM,'' read their T-shirts, meeting upon the team's return that they have a deal already in last two years, and I am sure that worn by folks who have felt like from San Diego. place with Mike Shanahan and Jim would concur with that second-class bums for 26 years in "The status quo is not have circumvented the Rooney statement. It has been painful for the structure named for New acceptable," Allen said in a Rule by interviewing Zorn him too. I certainly accept clinching their first postseason York's blueblood NFL team. statement. "I felt it was necessary assistant Jerry Gray a month ago. responsibility for mistakes that I berth since 2006. Wisely, the Other than the Los Angeles to not waste a moment of time to Allen has scheduled a 12:30 have made. I am hopeful that our team decided not to sell beer at Clippers, no franchise in sports begin building this team into a press conference to discuss his fans will accept my commitment stadium concession stands, citing has dealt with a civic inferiority winner." decision. and pledge to deliver a franchise the late start and unique complex quite like the Jets, who Zorn has been on the hot seat for Share In his two years as that can compete in the NFC East circumstances. "We feel it is not are to the Giants what a street several months -- and more or Redskins head coach, Zorn every season. prudent to serve alcohol,'' a team vendor is to a Fifth Avenue less considered all but fired for produced a 12-20 record and was "Finally, I am mindful that this is spokesman said. There is no jeweler and whose crazier fans the last few weeks -- and the 6-18 in his last 24 games. a tough day for Jim and his critical need for beer or breast- have passed time with stunts such Redskins are now free to pursue Washington finished the 2009 family, and I do want to wish flashing, of course, when the fans as encouraging women to bare the available candidates out season with a 4-12 record. him success in his next have an entertaining coach, a their breasts, which some there. Update:'Skins owner Daniel endeavor." monster defense, a power actually do. It's widely rumored -- and Snyder released the following running game, a rookie believed by plenty of people -- But on Sunday night, Gang quarterback who has learned to Green won its revenge. While the stay out of the way and a former Giants crashed in one of their quarterback who's a serious worst finishing stretches ever, the weapon in the Wildcat offense. Jets closed down their Meadowlands co-share by Novartis seeks to complete Alcon buy-out (Financial Times - US out minority shareholders in Swiss pharmaceuticals group to Five Filters featured article: homepage) Alcon, the US eyecare company, purchase the remaining 52 per Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:07:07 AM for the equivalent of $11.2bn in cent of Alcon still held by Nestlé, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, equity. in the second stage of a two- Term Extraction. Novartis surprised investors on The move came alongside a phase $38.5bn transaction agreed Monday by saying it would buy widely expected decision by the almost two years ago. 60 Sports/ Game/ E-reader News Edition Revis KOs Ochocinco, Reports: Bills Fire Awaits Rematch 'Entire Coaching Staff' By Dan Graziano (Fanhouse By Will Brinson (Fanhouse Main) Main) Submitted at 1/3/2010 5:12:00 PM Submitted at 1/4/2010 3:45:00 AM EA pulling plug Filed under: Bengals, Jets, NFL Filed under: Bills, NFL Playoffs EAST RUTHERFORD, Coaching The Bills have fired on older sports N.J. -- Chad Ochocinco said his their entire coaching staff, Sunday night matchup with Jets according to Fox Sports' Jay games' servers cornerback Darrelle Revis would Glazer on Twitter(the Buffalo By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) be like Pacquiao-Mayweather. naturedly -- he and Revis are News also reported the news), But it turned out to be more like friends) on Twitter and in a meaning that Black Monday is Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:35:00 AM Tyson-Spinks. And Ocho wasn't conference call with New York off to a rip-roaring start. It also It's a new year, and the hammer Tyson. reporters that Revis couldn't means that the most recent must fall once more on the EA The Jets dominated the Bengals cover him and promised to over/under on coaching firings they're rumored to have met with games that the company has Sunday night, and Revis celebrate in a Bengals fire helmet was incorrect, because it failed to last week, then they need to clean deemed "unfit" to play. But the dominated Ochocinco, who when he scored a touchdown. take Buffalo into account. house ASAP. server shutdowns (which are caught zero balls for zero yards "He'll be fine," Bengals coach Perry Fewell's dismissal -- and Additionally, the promotion of traditionally closer to the middle and left the game at halftime with Marvin Lewis said when asked the subsequent termination of all Buddy Nix to general manager of the year) are earlier than ever a knee injury he suffered during about Ocho's injury. "His pride coaches -- should be no surprise, over the holidays was a strong this time (beginning February 2), warmups. The disappointing got bruised." though. Fewell did a good indication that Buffalo was so fans of Facebreaker, Fantasy night for Ochocinco capped a enough job as interim head coach headed in a drastically different Football 09, Fight Night Round 3 week in which he bragged (good- after replacing Dick Jauron, but if direction. on PS2, and many other soon-to- Buffalo wants to bring in a big be retired online sports games name like Bill Cowher, whom have little time to achieve their last feats of glory. Texans Owner Says Gary Kubiak 'Definitely' Will We've got the full list of server shutdowns -- courtesy of MCV-- after the break. Let us know if Be Back you're still playing any of the By Stephanie Stradley McClain noted that Kubiak may appreciation for the way that the games getting the axe. (Fanhouse Main) end up getting an extension, and Steelers conduct their business, Continue reading EA pulling plug on older sports games' Submitted at 1/4/2010 4:35:00 AM that decision will be made at the and in an effort to follow that end of the month. model, doesn't want to be a servers Filed under: Texans, AFC South Though there was much meddling owner that changes EA pulling plug on older sports As reported by John McClain in speculation about Kubiak's job, coaches and philosophies every games' servers originally the Houston Chronicle, Texans those who follow the Texans few years. appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 owner Bob McNair said that head closely knew that McNair would Jan 2010 10:35:00 EST. Please coach Gary Kubiak definitely keep Kubiak unless there the likes and respect Kubiak -- see our terms for use of feeds. will return to coach in 2010 -- the team suffered a complete Houston's owner has expressed Read| Permalink| Email this| final year on his current contract. collapse this season. McNair on numerous occasions his deep Comments E-reader News Edition Sports/ Game/ Media/ 61 Jets Roll Bengals, and Just Might Again By Dan Graziano (Fanhouse Main)

Submitted at 1/3/2010 4:53:00 PM Filed under: Bengals, Jets, NFL Playoffs, NFL Analysis EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Well, if that's all Cincinnati's got, it's no wonder the NFL wants to get the Jets-Bengals playoff game out of the way first. The Jets thrashed the Bengals thoroughly and Bengals' building this time) in the convincingly here Sunday night, first NFL playoff game of 2010. pasting the AFC North champs And while it's possible that the 37-0 in what's almost certainly Bengals, who wrapped up their the last game in the history of playoff spot last week, got waxed Giants Stadium and leaving us to Sunday night because they had wonder whether Saturday's nothing to play for, it's also playoff rematch will be a possible that they're out of gas, mismatch. and that the Jets could go to Yes, these two teams meet again Cincinnati and do this again. Modern Warfare 2 leads UK game Saturday afternoon (in the sales for 8th straight week MediaDailyNews: eDiets By James Ransom-Wiley five years ago. This week, ten. Can we get a "TAROK (Joystiq) Bayonetta gets her first shot at MAKTO!"? taking down the reigning champ. Source- Call of Duty Ends the Names Mercury Media Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:59:00 AM Additionally, Assassin's Creed II Year on a High [GFK Chart- Following another week of tepid continued its rebound up the Track] AOR new releases (er, were there any week's towering sales list, Source- Latest UK Software (MediaPost | Media News) programs, including strategic releases at all?), and despite a 41- perched at the number two Charts [GFK Chart-Track] percent drop in sales, Modern position, followed by a trio of Modern Warfare 2 leads UK Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:44:53 AM planning, media buying, results tracking and optimization. New Warfare 2 remained atop the UK casual Wii games. FIFA 10 game sales for 8th straight week Mercury Media has been named TV spots will air on Hallmark all-formats sales chart for the dropped four spots into sixth originally appeared on Joystiq on ad agency of record by Movie, MSNBC and Discovery week ending January 2. This place as weekly sales of the Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:59:00 EST. eDiets.com. The agency is Health networks. marked the eighth straight week soccer sim"footie fax" fell 61 Please see our terms for use of responsible for all aspects of Five Filters featured article: that Modern Warfare 2 led UK percent. Finally, UbiGaga's Just feeds. direct response television Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: game sales, a feat unequaled Dance made a fevered surge up Permalink| Email this| advertising media buying for the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, since the gritty street sequel, to seventh on the chart, with New Comments online provider of personalized Term Extraction. Need for Speed: Underground 2, Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart nutrition, fitness and weight-loss captured the British imagination and Avatar rounding out the top 62 Game/ E-reader News Edition TwO Brothers' Climb to the Top of the Castle on consoles By Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) question, considering the game's among others. And in indie

Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:59:00 AM title, but, what exactly is the goal games, Jonathan Blow is in Climb to the Top of the inspiring. As a whole, we think Tim, 23, and Orion Araya, 20, Castle? the indie game industry is pretty are the two brothers behind TwO The goal in the game is exciting right now. Bros. Games, recent winners of obviously to climb to the top of Continue reading TwO Brothers' the 2BeeGames Indie Game the castle and die a lot! Climb to the Top of the Castle on Competition for their submission The game is simplistic by consoles Climb to the Top of the Castle. design, so what's its defining TwO Brothers' Climb to the Top Like Auditorium and Storm attribute? of the Castle on consoles before it, the siblings' game has As far as what makes the game originally appeared on Joystiq on earned a digital distribution stand out, besides the visuals, Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:59:00 EST. publishing deal through Zoo there just aren't many classic 2D- Please see our terms for use of Games. style games out there, it's kind of feeds. Joystiq recently exchanged like with Shadow Complex: the Castle. I guess the main reason Braid, and Prince of Persia: Permalink| Email this| emails with the Arayas about game innovates with old ideas. was the desire to make an old- Sands of Time. Comments their game and what to expect Name some inspirations for the school-style platformer with a As far as people we admire in from the upcoming console game's design. persistent goal to reach. A few the industry, you have to start version: There where a lot of inspirations games that influenced the idea with Shigeru Miramoto, also This might seem like a silly for Climb to the Top of the were Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Peter Molyneux, Hideo Kojima, Nintendo shuts down Zelda fan film, four years in the making By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) feature-length film's creation. would be ridiculous. Twilight

Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:59:00 PM Apparently, that's not the case -- Princess, on the other hand, the movie's official site was seems like a logical choice. A few weeks ago, the fruits of updated on New Years Day, Nintendo shuts down Zelda fan four years of labor finally paid explaining that the studio had film, four years in the making off for independent film studio come to an agreement with originally appeared on Joystiq on BMB Finishes when its Zelda- Nintendo to stop distributing the Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:59:00 EST. based movie, The Hero of Time, film online. Please see our terms for use of was released for public The update sounds less miffed feeds. consumption over the internets. than you might imagine, stating, unspoiled by fan's interpretation missive jokingly ends by saying, Read| Permalink| Email this| Reaction to the film was mixed, "we understand Nintendo's right of the franchise, Nintendo needs "I'm sure our next project will be Comments but it seemed like everyone to protect its characters and to protect itself - even from fan- right around the corner! No, it's appreciated the 1,460 days of trademarks and understand how works with good intentions." The not Majora's Mask." Yeah, that hard work that went into the in order to keep their property E-reader News Edition Game/ 63

NintendoWare Weekly: Fast Draw Showdown, Independent Games Trajectile, Final Fight 3 By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Festival 2010 finalists Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:05:00 AM This week might be a bit lighter Red Alert 3 currently on the triple-A WiiWare content announced than last week(which saw the By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) We find ourselves particularly unplayable online releases of Castlevania: The Submitted at 1/4/2010 11:28:00 AM invested in this year's awards Adventure ReBirth and The show, as -- deep breath now-- Magic Obelisk), but there are still The contenders for the 12th AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAA numerous titles available for Wii Annual Independent Games AAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard through Steam and DSi owners. One of which is Festival awards have been For Gravity was nominated for By JC Fletcher (Joystiq) current error, though the solution Final Fight 3! announced today -- you can find Excellence in Design. We've got, Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:29:00 PM required the game to be re- And one more of which, you the full list of finalists after the like, a million jokes we still want downloaded directly from EA lucky downloaders, is the jump. In addition to the Seamus to make about that game title, but Those who bought Red Alert 3 (complete with SecuROM promised Fast Draw Showdown, McNally Grand Prize (nominees we're running out of during Steam's holiday sale are DRM). Still, EA's eventual which means you can be shooting for which include Joe Danger and opportunities to do so. finding themselves with a intervention in Steam's Spore at full motion video-captured, Super Meat Boy), there are Continue reading Independent partially useless game purchased issue is a possible sign that these Old West-types today. A "yee- specialized categories Games Festival 2010 finalists at an admittedly excellent price. Red Alert 3 woes will be haw" would seem appropriate recognizing excellence in art, announced Steam users report that the alleviated in a more timely right now. design, audio, and technical Independent Games Festival downloaded copies of Red Alert manner. Gallery: Trajectile (DSiWare) achievement. There's also the 2010 finalists announced 3 don't include serial numbers, [Thanks, Reid] Continue reading NintendoWare Nuovo Award, which honors originally appeared on Joystiq on which the game requires for Red Alert 3 currently unplayable Weekly: Fast Draw Showdown, "abstract, shortform, and Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:28:00 EST. online play. online through Steam originally Trajectile, Final Fight 3 unconventional game Please see our terms for use of A similar issue occurred recently appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 NintendoWare Weekly: Fast development." Previous winners feeds. through Steam with the digital Jan 2010 12:29:00 EST. 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Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments 64 Fashion/ Popular News/ E-reader News Edition 2 Guards Shot Give Back with Natalia Vodianova and Lutz & Inside Las Vegas Patmos Federal Building By ELLE.com (ELLE News believe that “play is a necessity, (FOXNews.com) Blog) not a luxury.” Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:48:10 AM Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:15:12 AM This purchase is not just an investment for your closet but A deputy U.S. marshal and a Before Natalia Vodianova was a also for the little ones in Russia. court security officer were shot supermodel and a supermom to If you’re looking for a last- after gunfire broke out Monday three children, she helped her minute gift that will keep on inside the lobby of a federal mother sell fruit on the streets of giving long after the holidays, courthouse in Las Vegas. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. 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From each purchase, $50 Fashion Credits Editor with a shotgun, was killed on the her husband’s (Justin Portman) Vodianova collaborated with will be donated to Naked Heart. Follow ELLE on Twitter. scene. charity, Naked Heart, she has Lutz & Patmos on their pre- Since 2006, the Naked Heart Become our Facebook fan! Oney said he didn't have made it possible for children spring collection and designed a Foundation has built 23 immediate information about the growing up in her childhood sleek Italian doubleknit and silk playgrounds and play parks in condition of the marshal and the hometown and other urban habotai two-way dress ($495) urban Russia and continues to guard. Russian cities to have access to Police and federal agents swarmed the multi-story building that houses federal courts and Spring 2010 Wishlist: Everyday Essentials offices for officials including By ELLE.com (ELLE News jumpsuit and sleek pencil skirt —Violet Moon Gayn or U.S. Sens. 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Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 65 Third Western Yemen embassy shuts (BBC News | Americas | countries, including those the US reported. of an attack in September 2008 in year. World Edition) considers to be state-sponsors of The German foreign ministry which 19 people died, including It was clear, he said, that Mr

Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:59:36 AM terrorism - Cuba, Iran, Sudan and confirmed security had been a young American woman. The Awlaki had also been in touch Syria. tightened at its mission but that attack was blamed on AQAP. with Nidal Malik Hasan, the US France has become the third Yemen and Nigeria - through the embassy remained open. On Sunday, the US deputy Army major charged with Western nation to shut its Yemen which the alleged bomber An overt US military presence is national security adviser for shooting dead 13 people at Fort embassy, after threats from an al- travelled - also face the new politically impossible, as Yemen homeland security and counter- Hood. Qaeda offshoot, the foreign restrictions. is a conservative tribal society terrorism said there were On Saturday, the head of US ministry in Paris announced. Passengers flying from other where hostility to the US runs "indications that al-Qaeda is Central Command, Gen David The US and UK missions, which countries will be checked at deep. planning to carry out an attack Petraeus, visited Yemen's closed on Sunday, remain shut. random. Yemen is being torn apart by a against a target inside of Sanaa, President Ali Abdallah Saleh to Reports that the closures were On Monday in Paris, French tribal rebellion and a secessionist possibly our embassy". pledge support for its fight with prompted by Yemeni security foreign ministry spokesman movement. This has been a John Brennan told ABC the al-Qaeda, after Washington forces losing track of six trucks Bernard Valero told reporters bigger priority for the group had "several hundred doubled its counter-terrorism aid. full of arms were denied by their Yemen ambassador had government than al-Qaeda. members" in Yemen and Saudi Yemeni officials last week said British officials. decided the previous day to Government authority in much Arabia, and was posing an they had sent more troops to hunt Al-Qaeda in the Arabian suspend public access to the of the country is non-existent. increasing threat. down al-Qaeda militants in the Peninsula last week said it was embassy. Tribal chiefs run these areas, and Last week, AQAP urged provinces of Abyan, Baida and behind an alleged plot to bomb a French citizens in the country are sometimes willing to Muslims to help in "killing every Shabwa. US airliner. had been warned to be vigilant accommodate al-Qaeda militants. crusader who works at their Correspondents say the security It urged attacks on "crusaders" in and limit their movements, he Other issues include worsening embassies or other places". situation in Yemen is embassies. added. poverty and unemployment, The group also said it was complicated by an abundance of US Secretary of State Hillary The US was the first to already the worst in the Arab behind an alleged failed attempt firearms, an insurgency in the Clinton said Yemen was a threat announce the closure of its world, and the jockeying for to destroy an Amsterdam-Detroit north and a secessionist both regionally and globally. embassy on Sunday, citing power among different factions flight with nearly 300 people movement in the south. Threats to US interests in Yemen "ongoing threats" by al-Qaeda in as President Ali Abdallah Saleh aboard on Christmas Day. But the prospects of re-asserting pre-dated the Christmas holiday the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), ages. Mr Brennan told CNN there central government authority period, and the embassy would and the UK followed suit. Spain restricted public access to were "indications" a radical US over the lawless areas where al- be re-opened only when A US diplomat told the Reuters its embassy. cleric of Yemeni origin had links Qaeda is based look, in the circumstances permitted, she said news agency on Monday: "The The Yemeni authorities have both to the Nigerian charged with opinion of some analysts, remote in Washington. embassy is still closed again tightened security measures at the bomb plot, and the man - even with beefed-up American From Monday all travellers today... We are continuing to Sanaa's airport, as well as around accused of November's shootings support. flying to America are being make the security review." several other embassies. at a Texas military base. 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Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:16:41 AM official was not authorized to Witnesses said a 23-year-old inconvenience possible. officials in Amsterdam said last speak publicly and requested Nigerian, Umar Farouk If the security measures are not week they would begin using the WASHINGTON – Some people anonymity. Abdulmutallab, ignited an followed, the TSA can penalize scanners on passengers bound for traveling to the United States TSA also said Sunday that all explosive mixture but it failed to the airlines, according to another the U.S. from or through Yemen, Nigeria, passengers on U.S.-bound do serious damage to the TSA official who was not In the Yemeni capital, security Saudi Arabia and 11 other international flights will be Northwest jetliner or its authorized to speak about the personnel at the San'a airport countries were subjected to extra subject to random screening and passengers. He has told U.S. enforcement rules. The penalties were ordered to apply strict security screening, including full airports were directed to increase investigators he received training could include warnings, fines and measures, including careful body pat-downs, Monday as U.S. "threat-based" screening of and instructions from al-Qaida recalcitrant airlines could baggage examinations and officials refined their response to passengers acting in a suspicious operatives in Yemen. ultimately be barred from flying patting down travelers, especially a failed terrorist attack in Detroit manner. President Barack Obama, who to the U.S. those departing for the United on Christmas. People who are from or traveling returned to Washington from his A Saudi security official, also States as the final destination, an The Transportation Security from or through these countries Hawaiian vacation, was meeting speaking on condition of official said. Administration outlined the new are supposed to have full-body with his homeland security anonymity, says there are more The security official, speaking rules in a directive sent to airlines pat-downs and have their carryon adviser on Monday. The deputy security personnel at the airport on condition of anonymity Sunday. They went into effect luggage checked: Cuba, Iran, homeland security secretary was in Riyadh. He had no other because he is not allowed to talk Monday, but initial reports from Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, traveling to London on Monday details. about security measures to the several European countries Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, to meet with officials on A spokesman for Pakistan media, said the airport was indicated that they were still Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, international aviation security. International Airline said the expecting to receive some new scrambling to digest and Somalia, and Yemen. TSA security directives are company has instituted new equipment to provide better implement the new rules. The U.S. has designated Cuba, issued to the airlines to be carried security standards for U.S.-bound security. Many other passengers who are Iran, Sudan and Syria to be state out. passengers. ___ not from those 14 countries or sponsors of terrorism. The other David Castelveter, spokesman Passengers are subjected to Associated Press writers Joan traveling through them will 10 countries are considered "of for the Air Transport special screening, including full Lowy in Washington and Ahmed continue to see additional interest." People from there or Association, which represents body searches, in a designated Al-Haj in San'a, Yemen screening measures, according to traveling through there could also major U.S. air carriers, said he area of the departure lounge, said contributed to this report. a senior TSA official. For be subject to full-body scanning would not discuss any new TSA the spokesman, Sultan Hasan. ___ instance, in another refinement of and explosive detection measures because doing so might The airline has run On the Net: measures put in place after the technology as part of their compromise security. "We are advertisements in newspapers to TSA: http://www.tsa.gov Christmas incident, it is now up screening. not having discussions about the advise passengers of the stepped- Five Filters featured article: to the plane's captain whether to The new security measures come measures or how they work or do up security. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: require passengers to put away in response to the failed not work," Castelveter said in an British Prime Minister Gordon PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, electronic devices during the Christmas Day attempt to bomb a interview. He said the measures Brown announced Sunday that Term Extraction. flight and to remain seated for the jetliner as it approached Detroit are being implemented with the full body scanners would be MediaDailyNews: NBC To Produce 18 Pilots In 2010 (MediaPost | Media News) declines in ratings after moving seasons of declining ratings, season. More new shows increase Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:15:41 AM Jay Leno to 10 p.m. The net reports Bloomberg. The 18 pilots the odds of developing hits, say PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, plans to increase production of planned for the season starting in Angela Bromstad, NBC prime- Term Extraction. NBC wants to change is future, new shows to the most since September 2010 compare with 11 time entertainment president. since it's endured eight straight 2003 to reverse seven straight that were made before the current Five Filters featured article: E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 67 Woman Arrested for Giant Amazon fish 'under threat' Punching Out (BBC News | Americas | taxonomic review done over 160 and need very specific habitats to specialise in hunting arapaima McDonald's Window World Edition) years ago. both live and reproduce. with harpoons can accurately (FOXNews.com) Submitted at 1/4/2010 2:57:08 AM Adults grow to almost 3m in Their research also shows that count the fish, due to the fish's length and can weigh more than populations of the fish are being habit of breaching the surface for Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:33:04 AM The arapaima, a giant species of 200kg, making the fish the put under severe pressure by air. fish that lurks in the Amazon largest with scales living in fishermen. The fishermen can then select a TOLEDO, Ohio Police say an river, may be threatened by freshwater anywhere in the Because of the fish's huge size sustainable proportion of the Ohio woman punched through a overfishing. world. and habit of coming to the population to hunt. McDonald's drive-through Studies reveal that errors in the They are also air-breathers, surface, it has long been a "Populations of arapaima window because she couldn't get classification of the species could coming to the surface every 5 to favoured fish to catch, with managed with this system Chicken McNuggets. mean that it is being pushed 15 minutes to gulp air, a fisherman using harpoons and increased about 50% annually, Twenty-four-year-old Melodi closer to the edge of extinction behaviour which allows them to gill nets to land their prey. while yielding increasing catches Dushane has pleaded not guilty than thought. colonise muddy oxygen-poor "They have the curse of being and hence economic profits to the to a vandalism charge in Toledo. The arapaima is the largest rivers and lakes within the tasty and of having to breathe fishermen," says Dr Castello. Police were called Friday to the freshwater fish with scales in the Amazonian basin and prey on air," says Dr Castello. Around 100 such community restaurant where she allegedly world. other fish that find it difficult to Fishermen have been catching schemes are in place, and some became upset because chicken But there may actually be four move in such conditions. large numbers of arapaima in this previously overexploited nuggets weren't available. species rather than one, say However, in an ongoing study, way since the 1800s. populations have recovered. Police say Dushane was treated scientists, and a lack of research Prof Stewart has analysed nearly But now, while a few "Such results are extremely rare for injuries, then jailed. She was and management may allow all preserved specimens of populations are increasing, others in wildlife conservation, released on a recognizance bond some to be fished to extinction. supposed arapaima available in are being overfished, say the especially in tropical countries and ordered not to have contact The threat to the future of these museums in the world. researchers, who have published where wildlife conservation with the restaurant. The phone fish has been revealed in research So far he has only found one a paper warning of the fish's fate challenges are greater than number for her home address conducted by Dr Leandro specimen of Arapaima gigas. in the Journal of Applied elsewhere," says Dr Castello. isn't listed. Castello of the Woods Hole The others are suspected to be Ichthyology. But much more needs to be done A manager at the McDonald's Research Center in Falmouth, closely related species, including And while Brazil implemented to research these fish in more declined Monday to discuss the Massachusetts, US, and Professor some as yet unreported. regulations to manage arapaima detail and prevent overfishing, incident. Donald Stewart of the State "Our new analyses indicate that fisheries some 20 years ago, most the scientists warn. A Fort Pierce, Fla., woman was University of New York in there are at least four species of fishermen do not follow the In particular, "the present cited last March on a charge of Syracuse, US. arapaima," says Dr Castello. regulations, say the authors. situation may be one in which misusing 911 after calling three They have reviewed what is "So, until further field surveys of "Arapaima can be viewed as one species of arapaima is times to complain about not known about populations of the appropriate areas are completed, badly overexploited and under recovering in certain areas, while getting McNuggets she ordered. arapaima, and conducted detailed we will not know if Arapaima some level of threat of unrecognised species are going Five Filters featured article: investigations into the status of gigas is extinct or still swimming extinction," says Dr Castello. extinct," they say. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: the fish in the wild. about." One solution, they say, is to Print Sponsor PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Previously, it was thought there Concern about the fish's encourage community-based Five Filters featured article: Term Extraction. was one species of arapaima ( numbers comes from other work schemes for fisheries, and there is Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Arapaima gigas), which also goes done by Dr Castello and Prof much need for additional action PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, by the common names pirarucu Stewart. on the part of the government. Term Extraction. or paiche. That suggests that arapaima For example, their research This perspective is based on a sexually mature relatively late, shows that fishermen who 68 Popular News/ E-reader News/ E-reader News Edition US toughens air screening rules Promote use of e- (BBC News | Americas | travellers coming from or via is extreme and very dangerous. Petraeus, head of US military readers in schools World Edition) countries on the US state "All of a sudden people are operations in the Middle East and (AsiaOne) Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:13:08 AM department's sponsors of labelled as related to terrorism Central Asia, visited Yemeni terrorism list - Cuba, Iran, Sudan just because of the nation they President Ali Abdallah Saleh to (Yahoo! News Search Results for e-readers) The US has introduced tougher and Syria. are from." pledge US support for the fight screening rules for passengers Random checks Earlier, UK Prime Minister against al-Qaeda. Submitted at 1/3/2010 8:37:14 PM arriving by air from 14 nations The other nations whose Gordon Brown gave the go- The visit came a day after the which the authorities deem to be passengers face enhanced ahead for full body scanners to general announced that the US AS SINGAPORE rings in the a security risk. screening are Afghanistan, be introduced at Britain's would more than double counter- new year and schools reopen, I Travellers from Nigeria, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, airports. terrorism aid to Yemen this year. hope that the Ministry of Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Embassies shut Have you arrived by air in the Education (MOE) would Yemen and Cuba will be among Somalia and Yemen. The machines are expected to be US today? Were you singled out consider promoting the use of e- those facing body pat-down As part of the new guidelines, installed at London's Heathrow for additional searches? Please readers, especially in primary searches and carry-on baggage passengers travelling from any Airport and other hubs within send us your experiences and schools. checks. other foreign country may also be weeks. comments using the form below. Carrying fewer books and It follows an alleged attempt to checked at random. Also on Sunday, both the US A selection of your comments learning materials would mean blow up a plane on Christmas The main suspect in the alleged and Britain closed their may be published, displaying that young children have a lighter Day. airliner plot is Nigerian, and embassies in Yemen, citing your name and location unless load to bear. US President Barack Obama has Yemen-based militants have said security threats. you state otherwise in the box This also helps schools go green, been under pressure to make they trained and equipped him. John Brennan, the US deputy below. as less paper will be used to visible security improvements. Hours after the measures were national security adviser, said an At no time should you endanger produce learning materials. He promised to act quickly to fix announced, there was an alert at al-Qaeda offshoot had "several yourself or others, take any Amazon.com has sold more e- flaws in the security system, in Newark International Airport hundred members" in Yemen. unnecessary risks or infringe any book downloads than physical the wake of the alleged bomb near New York City as a man Last week, a Yemen-based laws. books this Christmas season for plot. entered a secure area without group called al-Qaeda in the The BBC may edit your the first time in its history. The new security directives being screened. Arabian Peninsula urged comments and not all emails will This indicates a growing trend. came into effect on Monday. Terminal C was locked down Muslims to help in "killing every be published. Your comments The MOE could take this But the BBC's Jane O'Brien in and passengers were evacuated crusader who works at their may be published on any BBC opportunity to go green on a Washington says it is unclear from the secure area, while some embassies or other places", as it media worldwide. large scale and take advantage of whether a pat-down could have flights were grounded. claimed the alleged US plane Print Sponsor the latest technology. found the device investigators The man was not found, but bomb plot. Five Filters featured article: Mr Colin Ong Tau Shien say the alleged would-be bomber, officials said every passenger The US mission in Sanaa was Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: For more my paper stories click 23-year-old Umar Farouk was fully re-screened. the target of an attack in PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, here. Abdulmutallab, had in his Civil rights activists criticised September 2008 which was Term Extraction. Five Filters featured article: underwear. the new measures. blamed on al-Qaeda and in which Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: The Transportation Security Nawar Shora, of the American- 19 people died, including a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Administration said in a Arab Anti-Discrimination young American woman. Term Extraction. statement the new rules apply to Committee, told US media: "This On Saturday, Gen David E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 69 Online Campaign TSA: Man who caused breach at NJ airport soon Launched to Find left (AP) Missing Utah Mom (FOXNews.com) (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) introduced anything to the sterile Tom Hiletch, of New York City, "It's a bit hard to lose one day Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:03:01 AM Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:34:53 AM area." was trying to get to St. Thomas when you have one week only, Authorities found nothing on Monday with his wife and and there could also be more NEWARK, N.J. – A man who suspicious when they searched toddler. delays," Belbo said. Friends and family of Susan caused a security breach at the terminal after evacuating "When we got here this morning, Kristian Hoynes, 19, of Floro, Powell launched a three-day Newark Liberty International passengers. They are still trying there were thousands of people. Norway, worried about missing social media blitz on Monday to Airport, forcing major delays and to determine the man's identity. Long, long lines, people delayed, his second anniversary dinner help find the missing Utah grounding flights for six hours, Terminal C, where the security people rerouted," he said. "It was with his girlfriend of two years, mother of two who disappeared left about 20 minutes after he breach occurred, is used mostly pretty frustrating." who was staying with her parents almost a month ago. walked the wrong way through a by Continental Airlines. Airline But Emily Martin, who was in Warrenton, Va. Friends saturated social security checkpoint, the spokesman Susannah Thurston traveling home to San Francisco "We'd sort of planned a dinner," networking sites, like Facebook Transportation Security said the airline still had delays, on Monday with her husband and said Hoynes, a sophomore at the and Twitter, and organized a Administration said Monday. particularly with flights that two small children, said the University of Charleston, W.V. mass e-mail campaign to spread Someone picking up a passenger originated at Newark and are security breach the day before "But now I don't know." information about Powell told an officer guarding the exit now running behind schedule at hadn't affected her family's flight. Also Sunday, the TSA through the Internet, The Salt that he thought he saw a man other airports. "It's been smooth sailing for us announced that passengers flying Lake Tribune reported. enter through the doors Sunday, Sarah Kornblet, 29, of all the way," she said. to the U.S. from nations regarded Powell, 28, was last seen on TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis Washington, D.C., was in At Oslo's Gardermoen airport, a as state sponsors of terrorism and Dec. 7, when her husband says said. TSA reviewed surveillance Newark and just about to board Continental flight to Newark that countries of interest would be he left their suburban home in video before sweeping the her Continental flight to Mumbai was scheduled to leave at 11 a.m. subject to enhanced screening. West Valley City at about 12:30 airport, she said. on Sunday when the security local time Monday was delayed ___ a.m. to take their two boys, ages The video confirmed the man breach occurred. She was at least six hours. Passengers sat Associated Press writers Geoff 2 and 4, camping in freezing had entered through the exit, and evacuated for about three hours on suitcases and chatted among Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J., conditions. Police have named officials made passengers leave and then had to go through themselves as they waited in a Colleen Long and Kim Gamel in her husband as a "person of the terminal and be rescreened. security again. check-in line that barely moved Newark, N.J., and Maria interest" in their investigation. The video also showed the man "Newark airport was a mess. Not for one-and-a-half hours. Sanminiatelli in Oslo contributed Kiirsi Hellewell, Powell's friend, leaving the terminal through one single announcement was Ragnhild Belbo, 26, of to this report. posted a slideshow with pictures another exit about 20 minutes made, with these thousands of Trondheim, Norway, was Five Filters featured article: of the missing woman on later, Davis said, although it was people waiting for hours," traveling to St. Paul, Minn., with Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: YouTube and is hoping her unclear when authorities learned Kornblet said. "We learned about her 82-year-old grandmother to PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, disappearance will become a the man had left. it from watching CNN." visit her brother, a student at St. Term Extraction. popular topic on Twitter, the "We have to operate under the Her flight was repeatedly Olaf College. She was Tribune reported. assumption that he's still in the delayed. The latest estimate she disappointed to learn they would Organizers said there will also sterile area," Davis said. "We heard was a departure of 4:45 likely have to spend the night in be a purple ribbon campaign to have to ensure that he hadn't p.m. Monday. Newark. raise awareness of her disappearance and Facebook users are being asked to change their profile pictures to a purple ribbon. "We're hopping today that by ONLINE page 70 70 Popular News/ E-reader News Edition ONLINE Winter system drops record snow, continued from page 69 giving everybody so many 24 hours while police had his different options to become minivan in custody to process it chills the South (AP) involved online that we can for evidence. (Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Vermont State Police cited a man disappeared shortly after the actually make this go viral and Powell has declined to speak people can see Susan's face and again with police and local news Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:32:34 AM after stopping him pulling a sled storm started Friday night. — with a rider in it — behind his Unseasonably cold weather here about her situation in every crews were reportedly turned MONTPELIER, Vt. – Snow car on Interstate 89 on Sunday. extended well to the south, where corner of the world," family away from his father's house over falling like New Year's confetti The driver was cited for driving farmers in South Florida braced spokeswoman Shelby Gifford the weekend. joined forces with a chill that with a suspended license. for a possible freeze Monday said in an interview Monday with Friends of Powell's told the dipped deep to the South on In upstate New York, it was a night. Fox News. Deseret News that they have Monday to close schools, delay similar scene. So-called "lake In Lower Alloways Creek, N.J., Powell's husband, Joshua turned over to police e-mails that commuters, threaten fruit farmers effect snow" blanketed parts of one nuclear power plant was shut Powell, reported her as missing she sent them last year, in which and shut down at least one the state with more than 3 feet. down and another put on reduced on the same day when she failed she reportedly wrote that she nuclear power plant. Fulton, in Oswego County, had power because of ice in the to show up for her stockbroker feared her husband. A weekend snowstorm dumped received 42 inches since last Delaware River. The federal job at Wells Fargo and her They also said Powell kept a an all-time record of more than Friday night, while Williamson, Nuclear Regulatory Commission children were not dropped off at notebook at her work desk that 33 inches on Burlington, the which is on Lake Ontario east of said Salem Unit 2 was shut down day care. detailed threats allegedly made largest city in Vermont. That Rochester, got nearly 27 inches, around 8 a.m. Sunday because it Police have seized several items by her husband in 2008, broke a single-storm record of according to the National was taking ice into its cooling from the family's home but have according to the newspaper. nearly 30 inches set in 1969. Weather Service. mechanism. Salem Unit 1 was not charged Joshua Powell in Click here for more from The "It just dropped a tremendous The weather slowed commuters also reduced to 80 percent power connection to the disappearance. Salt Lake Tribune amount of snow," said Steve in western Pennsylvania and for the same reason. Authorities are seeking cell Click here for more from Goodkind, public works director caused hundreds of school It wasn't clear early Monday phone records, though police Komonews.com for the city of Burlington, which delays. Ohio students got their when the two plants would return have declined to say whose The Associated Press had a dozen plows and nine holiday break extended Monday to full power. phone records are being contributed to this report. sidewalk snow removers out because of lake-effect storms that Five Filters featured article: examined, the Tribune reported. Five Filters featured article: Monday. "It looks like mid- dumped a foot of snow over the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Authorities are also trying to Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: January, after we'd have a bunch weekend and are threatening PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, determine where her husband PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, of smaller storms." another foot. Term Extraction. traveled in a rental car two days Term Extraction. Most Vermonters took it in Searchers in Maine were seeking after his wife was reported stride. Others took it too far: an 18-year-old snowmobiler who missing. He reportedly logged hundreds of miles on the rental vehicle. Joshua Powell rented the car for E-reader News Edition Popular News/ 71 Avatar smashes box office record (BBC News | Americas | World Edition)

Submitted at 1/3/2010 10:07:09 PM Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Watch a scene from the blockbuster - Courtesy of 20th Century Fox Avatar has become the fastest movie ever to achieve $1bn (£625.6m) in ticket sales around the world. Distributors 20th Century Fox say it has earned more than $350m (£217m) in the US and more than $670m (£415m) in the rest of the world in only 17 days. The 3D science fiction blockbuster was directed by blue aliens - combines live action don't normally go to the movies, But as Hollywood enters its James Cameron, who also made with digitally-enhanced they've heard about it and are traditional slow season, with few Titanic, the best selling movie of performances. saying, 'I have to see it'," he said. big films due for release, Avatar all time. It was reportedly the most "Then there are those people is likely to dominate the box The latest figures make Avatar expensive film ever made, with a seeing it multiple times." office for several more weeks, he already the fourth-biggest film budget of at least $300m Avatar has now reached most adds. ever made. (£186m). parts of the globe. It opened in Print Sponsor Ahead of it are Titanic ($1.8bn; Expensive tickets China on Saturday and is due to Five Filters featured article: £1.1bn), The Lord of the Rings: "This is like a freight train out of reach Italy - its final market - on Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: The Return of the King ($1.12bn; control," said 20th Century Fox 15 January. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, £695m) and Pirates of the distribution executive Bert The huge box office takings are Term Extraction. Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Livingston. "It just keeps on partly down to the higher cost of ($1.07bn; £664m). going. tickets for 3D performances, says Avatar - about a disabled marine "I think everybody has to see the BBC's Peter Bowes in Los who infiltrates a race of giant Avatar once, even people who Angeles. 72 Popular News/ Media/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban Japan Airlines: A (BBC News | Americas | disease at the end of the 1980s. a result of the restrictions. It's World Edition) It put the US in a group of just now likely to go ahead as broken resolution 12 countries, also including planned," she said. Submitted at 1/3/2010 9:06:37 PM (The Economist: News the government was doing just Libya and Saudi Arabia, that In October, President Obama analysis) The US has lifted a 22-year excluded anyone suffering from said the entry ban had been that when, after months of indecisiveness, it hinted on immigration ban which has HIV/Aids. "rooted in fear rather than fact". Submitted at 1/3/2010 11:40:43 PM stopped anyone with HIV/Aids The BBC's Charles Scanlon, in He said: "We lead the world December 30th that Japan from entering the country. Miami, says that improving when it comes to helping stem Japan Airlines Airlines might be headed for President Obama said the ban treatments and evolving public the Aids pandemic - yet we are Jan 4th 2010 | TOKYO bankruptcy. was not compatible with US perceptions have helped to bring one of only a dozen countries that From Economist.com The But after the shares slumped by plans to be a leader in the fight about the change. still bar people with HIV from government should let the courts 24% to an all-time low on the against the disease. Rachel Tiven, head of the entering our own country." decide the fate of Japan’s same day, ministers lost their The new rules come into force campaign group Immigration Print Sponsor flagship airline nerve over sanctioning what on Monday and the US plans to Equality, told the BBC that the Five Filters featured article: THE run-up to New Year is a could be one of Japan’s biggest host a bi-annual global HIV/Aids step was long overdue. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: time to tidy up loose ends in corporate failures. Despite strong summit for the first time in 2012. "The 2012 World Aids PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Japan so that in January differences of opinion within the everything starts afresh. For a The ban was imposed at the Conference, due to be held in the Term Extraction. JAPAN page 73 height of a global panic about the United States, was in jeopardy as fleeting moment, it looked as if TV Watch: Feels Like 1980: Media Companies Aim To Sell Paid Content Model Again (MediaPost | Media News) ride, entertainment business Decades ago the one big craft get for free (sans that broadband Consumers are a keen lot - and

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:47:30 AM executives are saying the buck that did sneak out of the harbor, access fee). as the U.S. economy still teeters, stop here. Perhaps in 2010 free, and cruise the high seas, was Media companies will fail if the perhaps through 2011, they'll be The big test for media advertising-supported content by cable. About 30 years ago the sales line is: "We owned the throwing more stuff overboard, companies in 2010 will be how itself won't be the future TV gamble was that people would content; and now you pay for it." all to lighten their load. to get consumers to pay for model of the future. pay a monthly or regular fee to Just ask the music industry how You want consumers to pay content -- perhaps on a monthly News Corp. has been thinking get content, after years of getting this marketing premise has again? More so than in 1980, basis. Does this sound familiar? this way- along with Hulu.com TV programs for free. worked for them. Even with media companies will have to It should. (of which News Corp. is one- Turns out, this wasn't a problem. iTunes, there are still massive come up with some really good Media companies are publicly third owner) and Variety.com; The cable industry gave piracy issues. reasons to keep their boats afloat. throwing down the gauntlet even YouTube is considering consumers more content and All this requires a strong Five Filters featured article: because revenue keeps dropping dipping its toe in the pay-for-fee better connections - or at least the marketing campaign -- or at least Chilcot Inquiry. 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E-reader News Edition Media/ 73 JAPAN Research Brief: Green continued from page 72 Marketing More of a government a new support appears to have prevailed for Lines or a strengthened one with Japan would not be crippled. As package was cobbled together now because of the fear that if American Airlines and the it is, Japan has too many routes, Trend Than a Fad over the holiday weekend, JAL is put into administration, its Oneworld alliance. The prospects largely as a result of the scores of (MediaPost | Media News) doubling the state-run suppliers, from oil companies to from a closer relationship with useless airports built to provide Development Bank of Japan’s snack providers, might baulk at JAL for either American carrier cushy administrative jobs to Submitted at 1/4/2010 5:16:01 AM credit line to JAL, as the airline is doing business with it. has improved thanks to an open- retiring bureaucrats. Environmental Leader and called, to 200 billion yen ($2.2 Shareholders are also opposed to skies agreement between the two Letting JAL go bankrupt would MediaBuyerPlanner partnered to billion). bankruptcy because JAL, with countries that was signed last send a strong signal that the new study Green Marketing through That led to a 31% rally in JAL’s about 800 billion yen of debt, has month, which liberalises air government was curbing the long the audiences of five industry share price on January 4th, a negative net worth so it is traffic and would allow partners -standing practice in Japan of publications to help determine if huge jump even by the airline’s unlikely they would salvage to co-operate on prices and throwing good money after bad. it's a staple or a fad. The report bumpy standards. It is unlikely to anything, says Makoto scheduling almost as if they were That would reassure voters. found that 33% of respondents be the end of the rough ride for Murayama, an analyst at Nomura one airline. Each airline has However, the ruling Democratic said green marketing was more JAL’s investors, however, Securities. Creditors also prefer a separately offered to inject funds Party is also keen to win upper- effective than their because for many reasons the government-backed rescue, he into JAL to cement a partnership, house elections this summer, and normal marketing efforts, with future of Asia’s largest airline says, because in that case only but a long stint in bankruptcy unions—eight of which are just 7% saying it was less remains uncertain. the largest are likely to take might cool their interest. involved with JAL—are effective. The remainder Firstly, the government is significant haircuts on their There are two big factors that important supporters. The bottom either did not detect a divided over the merits of loans. should weigh heavily against line is that the government will difference between their regular bankruptcy (even when it is Predictably, management of JAL continued public support for add its own complicated political marketing efforts and their softened euphemistically to also wants the state to bail it JAL, however. The first is that its interests to those of the airline’s green efforts, or did not know “court-backed rehabilitation”). out—as it already has on several problems are largely of its own customers, investors and which was more effective. The hawkish view of the deputy occasions in recent years. In an making. Analysts say that despite creditors. Bankruptcy would be a Additional information from the prime minister, Naoto Kan, and interview published on January the September 11th 2001 terror neater and ideologically sounder Executive Summary is included the finance minister, Hirohisa 3rd in the Asahi Shimbun, a attacks it continued to fly large, solution. for your perusal, and purchase Fuji, is that there is no money in Japanese newspaper, Haruka long-haul aircraft, which hurt Back to top ^^ Readers' information is available from a Japan’s already strained budget Nishimatsu, JAL’s president, profitability when for reasons of comments link at the conclusion of this for the government to rescue took issue with the state-backed disease, war or economic slump, The Economist welcomes your Brief. corporate behemoths. Such bail- Enterprise Turnaround Initiative people flew less. Its domestic views. Companies that view themselves outs recall the cosy ties between Corp, the body charged with rival, All Nippon Airways Five Filters featured article: as the most green spend the most government and business that overseeing debt-ridden firms, (ANA), flew smaller planes with Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: on green marketing, observes the voters rejected when electing the which has floated the idea of higher-paying passengers and has PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, report, while those that see Democratic Party of Japan for the bankruptcy. withstood the traffic downturns Term Extraction. themselves as least green spend first time in August. Instead, he appears to be pinning better. It also has much leaner just a fraction of their marketing But Seiji Maehara, the transport his hopes on fresh public funds, a staffing costs. JAL’s unions are a budgets on such tactics. minister, is less keen to throw an recovery in flights to and from big part of its problem. Marketers are backing up their airline that accounts for more Asia, and either a new What’s more, even if JAL were beliefs of the company's level of than 60% of air traffic in Japan to partnership with the SkyTeam to go into bankruptcy it would "greenness" with marketing the mercy of the courts. His view alliance including Delta Air not stop flying. Air traffic in campaigns, rather than creating green campaigns to be part of the trend. The research suggests that management first buys

RESEARCH page 74 74 E-reader News Edition RESEARCH continued from page 73 into "greenness" and, later, green marketing budgets tend to spend • Companies with media • Changing products to reflect marketing, rather than beginning more on green marketing. Firms Those firms that used the most budgets of more than $10 million greener values (such as changing green marketing efforts simply with a marketing budget of under trackable media are also those annually showed a much ingredients, packaging or out of a desire to appear green. $250,000 spend just over 26% that said green marketing worked higher proclivity to have their intended use), at 54% 71% of firms indicated that they on green marketing, while those better than the average marketing own employees as their target were in the "somewhat green" to with budgets of more than $50 message. audience, with customers And the Executive Summary "very green" categories, but million spend 6% on green • 48% of respondents who being targeted in only 70% of observes that nearly half of they tended to believe their marketing. employed direct marketing in their efforts respondents said the decision- customer base thinks them less The most popular medium for their media mix said that it • Firms with budgets less than makers at their companies green than they really arr. This green marketing was the internet, was more or much more $250,000 were about 80% more hold green marketing in high belief is persistent among the with effective, much like those who likely to target customers regard, compared to just 15% respondents, and may indicate • 74.2% of respondents used internet (43%) directly, and only about half who hold it in low regard. why green marketing is on the having spent money online, • That contrasts with those targeted their own staff Companies with decision-makers rise. followed by respondents who had employed who have a low regard for green Here are some of the key • Print (49.8% TV, 25% of whom said it was 50% of marketers themselves marketing tend to be those with findings explained in the study: • Direct (40%) more effective than average, indicate they have complete or the larger marketing budgets 82% of respondents indicated • Outdoor (7%) indicating that green consultative control of green between $10 million and $50 they expect to spend more on • Radio and TV (7%) marketing works better than marketing, while 57% of PR million per year, where more green marketing in the future. • Mobile (6%) those who don't or can't measure folks say that have control of the than a quarter indicated that their Among manufacturers, that results think it does. sustainability program. Sales and decision-makers held green number is significantly higher. At 29% of marketers with budgets operations, on the other hand, are marketing in low regard. Smaller least half, if not more, of between $10 million and $50 Direct-oriented media showed skeptical that marketers have so companies, concludes the report, respondents plan to engage in million, and 25% of those with the more positive results when much control of the sustainability may believe green marketing to online marketing efforts in the budgets of more than $50 asked if customers would pay programs, with just 41% be more effective than larger future. million, used outdoor, compared more for green products or to and 21% respectively saying companies do. 28% of marketers to 7.3% for all marketers. a green company: control lies in the hands of To read a brief summary, visit themselves think green marketing Mobile was also a popular • Of the people who used the marketers. However, those mediabuyerplanner here, or to is more effective than other medium for marketers with the two least trackable media, TV in management tended to agree purchase your copy of the report marketing messages, compared to highest budgets: and outdoor, only 29% and that control of the sustainability or acquire a data license, please 6% of marketers who think it is • 14% of those in the $10 25% respectively indicated that program is in the hands of visit here. less effective. Management is million to $50 million budget customers would pay more marketers, at 50%. Five Filters featured article: even more optimistic, with 46% category spent money on • That compares to 44%, 42% About half of companies Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: of them indicating a belief that mobile and 46% for internet, print and reported that they are consciously PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, green marketing is more • 16% in the more than $50 direct respectively taking steps to become more Term Extraction. efficacious. Just 23% of those in million budget category spent green. The most popular actions operations think green money on mobile Larger companies are more are: marketing is more effective. • Compared to 6% for all likely to target employees rather • Conserving energy in Companies with smaller marketers than customers: operations, at 59% E-reader News Edition Media/ E-reader News/ 75 MediaDailyNews: Good High-tech industry optimistic about New: Sinclair 4Q Revs 2010 (Houston Chronicle) (Yahoo! 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(MediaPost | Media News) Submitted at 1/3/2010 6:30:21 PM manufacturers. displays and Internet-connected Chip maker Nvidia is hosting a The company also noted the auto Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:41:13 AM Last year, with the economy cars — to success. media event, where it should be category will be down by tearing into the tech industry, the A record 330 new vendors will showing off tablets from partners A slightly improving TV approximately 4.0% in the fourth Consumer Electronics Show in be exhibiting at CES, with using its Tegra processors. business will benefit of one of quarter versus its prior estimate Las Vegas felt like a party … on bookings for show floor space “The time is right for the tablet the nation's large TV stations for auto to be down by high the Titanic. increasing through the last form factor. There will be a lot of groups. teens. Attendance fell by 20 percent to month. activity around tablets at CES Sinclair Broadcast Group, which In addition, Sinclair announced 113,000, while anxious “Last year, companies were and Tegra will be in the thick of operates 58 television stations in affiliation agreements with the companies pulled their booths coming in with a lot inventory on it all,” said Neil Trevett, Nvidia 35 markets, covering 22% of ABC Network for nine stations it from the exhibition floor at the the shelves and they were trying vice president of mobile content. U.S. television households, said owns and/or operates have been last second, leaving 5,000 square to manage something that was Another emerging product: its fourth quarter revenues will extended for one month while the feet of empty space. Many of changing very rapidly,” said smartbooks, super-thin notebooks now be at $153.8 million, up two sides continue to negotiate. CES' famous soirees were Karen Chupka, senior vice built with cell phone processors. from a forecast of $143.3 million. The network affiliation canceled or downsized. president for the CEA. “Now, The devices take netbooks one The station's group revenues will agreements were due to expire on Executives exchanged grim looks people have already come in step further, delivering a simple now be 6.5% lower than in 2008, Dec. 31, 2009. and wondered aloud how bad leaner and they're ready to do Web-browsing experience using when it was $164.4 million. Actual fourth quarter results will 2009 could be. business and push the envelope.” svelte hardware that can start up Perhaps one of the best pieces of be reported Feb. 17. It turned out to be a very bad Some of the hottest areas of quickly and stay in use all day news comes from automotive Five Filters featured article: year, with consumer electronics interest will be in devices that fill like a smart phone. advertising, which Sinclair said Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: revenues falling by 7.8 percent, in the gaps between smart phones Jean-Laurent Poitou, managing rose during the period. Increased PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, according to the Consumer and laptops. E-book readers will director of electronics and high business came from both auto Term Extraction. Electronics Association. get their first dedicated tech zone technology for consulting firm dealers and domestic In 2010, the annual gadget fest at the show with 23 companies Accenture, said one size doesn't — the largest in the world — exhibiting. fit all in the gadget market. resumes with the economy still Plastic Logic of Mountain View, “It won't be one device winning 8 tech trends to watch recovering. The CEA, which Calif., will be unveiling its Que e it all, it will be a flurry of hosts CES, is predicting a slight -reader at the show alongside different ones,” he said. this week at CES (CNN) decline in attendance to 110,000 other readers like the Skiff reader Five Filters featured article: and a drop in overall square from Hearst and the Entourage Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: (Yahoo! News Search Results Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this for e-readers) footage from 1.7 million to 1.4 Edge. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, week: million square feet. A robust cousin to the e-reader, Term Extraction. "In my 28 years of attending the Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:27:01 AM But the industry feels more the Internet tablet, will also CES and participating in it and optimistic about the prospects for dominate the spotlight with new (CNN)-- If you like bold being a part of it and running it predictions, here's one, courtesy for most of that time, I can of the president and CEO of the honestly say there will be more Consumer Electronics innovation at this show than any Association, which hosts the TECH page 76 massive Consumer Electronics 76 E-reader News Edition TECH continued from page 75 one in history," Gary Shapiro optimism. Heard of the Amazon Kindle? connect to the Internet, he said. products demonstrated so far said. Here is our take on eight of the The Barnes & Noble Nook? The One spinoff trend to watch: require viewers to wear clunky 3- This from the head of the yearly hottest consumer tech trends to Sony Reader? Several new services, like Boxee, D glasses in order for images to show that has launched such big watch at CES. Add your ideas in All of these e-readers -- portable offer interfaces to help couch jump off of the screen. tech ideas as compact disc the comments below. And reply devices that let readers consume potatoes surf Internet video New at CES, Shapiro said, will players, high-definition television to this CNN iReport assignment digital books without the eye without having to jump from one be 3-D technology from 3M that and Blu-ray. with questions you would like strain caused by computer TV network's Web site to does not require glasses for CES is the year's largest CNN to answer at CES this week monitors -- will face new another. viewing -- as well as laptops and consumer technology trade show or cool gadgets you want to see. competition at CES this year. The software side of Internet- video games that display three- and one of the best chances to see We will do our best to report Look for an ultralight e-reader enabled-television trend is likely dimensional images. new technologies before they hit back with answers. from Plastic Logic that's big to be hot at CES as well. Boxee AMD and Blu-ray also say they the market. Tablets and midsize screens enough to display a standard is expected to offer hardware that will demonstrate high-definition Despite Shapiro's enthusiasm, Size is everything in computing sheet of letter paper. It's called connects TVs to Internet content, 3-D home entertainment at CES. though, this week's CES buzz these days. Netbooks -- those 8- the QUE. too. In December, Blu-ray announced may be dampened by the to 10-inch dumbed-down laptops What do you want to see at Mobile TV that it had arrived at a technology lingering economic recession and -- were big news in 2009. This CES? Tell CNN iReport In June, the U.S. switched from standard for producing content in the fact that big announcements year, they may be eclipsed by an Futurist Ray Kurzweil tells analog to digital television three dimensions. from Google and Apple are likely abundance of other midsize Wired magazine that he will (goodbye, rabbit ears!). A quiet Connected cars to bookend the show this month. computing devices. debut a color e-reader interface at side effect of that change: U.S. Cars are turning into computers. On Tuesday, Google is expected "There's the large screen, which CES called Blio. The software is television signals now can be Ford and other automakers have to launch its own mobile phone is the television. There's the expected to work on a number of viewed on mobile devices like announced in-car wireless called Nexus One, and rumors small screen, which is the devices, from e-readers to tablets smartphones and portable media Internet. Ford will offer one of are flying that Apple will unveil a wireless phone or the and phones. players. the keynote addresses at CES, touch-screen tablet computer smartphone," Shapiro said. "Then Look for new e-readers with Shapiro said mobile television which emphasizes the growing January 26. Neither of the tech there's a middle category, where color screens at CES as well. will be a major focus of CES, importance of the in-car giants is scheduled to exhibit at there's a tremendous opportunity TV + Internet, or "Smart TV" and products that play live TV on technology industry, Shapiro CES, although Google said in an for growth. TVs will continue to morph into the go should hit the market in said. e-mail to CNN that it will attend "That's the netbook, the living room-based computers in 2010. "We expect them to say a CES media event. smartbook, the dualbook, the 2010. The industry calls the new Cydle, a South Korean company, something fairly significant," he Watch a video about what to nettop, the desktop, the laptop -- generation of televisions "Smart says it will debut mobile TV said, adding: "They are also expect from CES tablets. There's a lot going on in TVs" or "Connected TVs," and products for cars. And iMovee positioning themselves as a tech Attendance at CES 2009 that middle screen-size space." they do things like download announced that it will unveil company rather than a car plunged 20 percent compared Toteable "tablet" computers Netflix films, stream Pandora several mobile TV products. company." with 2008 numbers, largely ditch keyboards in favor of touch music, check e-mail and Look for South Korean mobile The emergence of mobile because of the economic -screen interfaces. Apple's communicate with other phone and electronics maker LG television also probably means recession, Shapiro said. The rumored tablet is getting all of electronic devices in the home. to get in the U.S. mobile TV live TV will come to automobile number of people at CES this the buzz from tech blogs, but The idea isn't especially new, but market as well, as is rumored by consoles and headrests soon. week is estimated to hold flat at Shapiro said CES will debut the interfaces are changing. Plus, tech blogs. Once that happens, Shapiro said, about 110,000 people. tablet computers that run on the Shapiro said, Internet-connected 3-D TV, games and laptops a whole new avenue for the Still, after a slump in 2009, some Android operating system that TVs stand to shake up the cable In the wake of hit 3-D movies advertising industry will open up. market analysts predict a brighter Google produces. industry. like "Avatar" and "Up," several A family watching TV in their future for consumer electronics Bloggers expect Dell to be "You may need the cable TV makers including Sony and car while driving through North this year -- and the innovative among the companies company to get broadband, but Panasonic have announced plans Dakota, for instance, might see CES that Shapiro predicts could introducing an Android tablet. you may not need it to get cable to sell 3-D television to TECH page 78 blossom from this preliminary E-books and e-readers services" when more TVs consumers in 2010. Most of the E-reader News Edition E-reader News/ 77 Apple's Tablet May Come with E-readers (Times News) (Yahoo! News Search Results The E-readers have the potential Content Subscriptions (Enterprise for e-readers) to revolutionize publishing. Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:28:34 AM Randy Bennett, of the Newspaper Association of Security Today) Will books go the way of the America, feels that there may not (Yahoo! News Search Results support music, video, e-books YouTube videos on a larger rotary telephone? be an immediate mass market, for e-readers) and iPhone apps. The price is screen? Some analysts believe The old saying "turning the but there is a segment of the page" – as in turning the page on population that will be looking Submitted at 1/4/2010 12:11:20 AM rumored to be around $800. that by cutting content deals, The iSlate is exciting not just Apple could make its tablet a a new year – could soon for that kind of platform for their For the first time, Apple won't Apple "fanboys" but also Wall must-have device. "The driver disappear faster than you can say news and information. be at the annual Macworld trade Street. Apple's stock has reached behind it will be content," said 8-track tape. A number of other editors and show, scheduled this year for unknown heights in recent weeks Kathryn Huberty, a Morgan That phrase, which conjures up writers feel that we've already Feb. 9-13. But CEO Steve Jobs as the rumor mills started going Stanley analyst visions of books with real leather passed the tipping point and that and his team will still make the crazy. The stock price has risen A Financial Times story reported bindings, is destined to go the it's just a matter of time before E- next few months interesting. from $192 on Dec. 18 to about that Apple is in talks with CBS way of rotary telephones, vinyl book publishing becomes Apple has scheduled a press $211 on New Year's Eve, giving and Disney about a new records and manual typewriters – accepted among a mass audience. briefing for Jan. 26 in San the company a market subscription-based service to things that many of us grew up It was nearly six centuries ago Francisco, and Apple watchers capitalization of $190 billion. watch television shows over the with but which today draw blank that a goldsmith named Johannes are salivating at the prospect of a Is Content King? Internet. While Apple sells many stares from the younger Gutenberg set this planet on a tablet computer that looks like an There are also rumors that Apple TV shows for download and generations. course to literacy with the iPhone on steroids. is cutting content deals with other services like Hulu.com According to Craig Berman, vice invention of his mechanical A MacInsider report that Apple publishers, broadcasters and allow viewers to watch shows on president of global behemoth called the printing registered the domain name movie studios, suggesting Apple a computer, no "killer app" for communications at Amazon.com, press. islate.com at least as far back as intends its device to be a Kindle Internet TV has emerged. The the best-selling, most-wished for So, fellow page-turners, as we've 2007 fueled rumors that the tablet killer. An influential review in Apple tablet could be the right and most-gifted product among now entered a new decade, brace may be named iSlate. While The New Yorker magazine form factor -- much bigger than its millions of products the online yourselves! Apple has steadfastly refused to panned Amazon's Kindle e-book an iPhone and much more mobile company offers has been the This technology train is a fast- comment on the rumors, there is reader and said reading books on than a laptop-- to help online TV- Amazon Kindle, or wireless E- mover. a consensus among the Apple the iPod touch was a superior watching take off.(continued...) reader. The Barnes and Noble By Jim Zbick cognoscenti that the device will experience. Five Filters featured article: version of E-reader is called The [email protected] be a 10-inch-wide tablet, not Is the crazed enthusiasm Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Nook. Five Filters featured article: much thicker than an iPhone, appropriate? Will consumers PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Essentially, these hand-held Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: feature the same multi-touch really flock to Apple stores to Term Extraction. devices become your virtual PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, screen as the iPhone and iPod pay close to $1,000 -- far more library, having the capacity to Term Extraction. touch, be keyboard-free, and than a Kindle -- just to watch hold as many as 1,500 books. 78 PopSci/ E-reader News Edition TECH continued from page 76 TV ads about local attractions The Android platform, which phone applications, Shapiro said. and eateries. A trip to New York runs on phones like the Droid Expect that to be a big draw as might yield entirely different ads. and myTouch, also is expected to iPhone owners look for the next Android everywhere extend its reach from big games and app functions. Despite the recession, smartphones into other In addition to the apps, touch- smartphones -- those mobile electronics like televisions. screen cameras, a third devices like the BlackBerry and Apps and accessories generation of USB data cables iPhone that work almost like With consumer spending down, and GPS add-ons for phones all computers -- were hot buys in cheap buys like mobile phone could be big CES finds. 2009. applications and accessory Five Filters featured article: Expect a fair bit of mobile-phone electronics may take center stage Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: buzz at CES, although Google's at CES. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, rumored announcement of its Apple's iPhone is the dominant Term Extraction. Android phone on Tuesday -- and device for using mobile the absence of Apple, maker of applications. The iTunes app the iPhone -- could dampen some store has sold more than 2 billion of the intrigue. apps since it opened in July 2008. But Shapiro said new phones An iLounge at CES will feature using the Android platform will 100 exhibitors with Apple-related be unveiled at CES. products, including new mobile With Dramatic Fireworks, Burj Dubai Opens For Business By Jeremy Hsu (Popular and soars far above former Dubai is banking on the $1.5 Science - New Technology, titleholder Taipei 101 at just billion tower and a related $20 Science News, The Future 1,670 feet tall. The Wall Street billion development to help Now) Journal notes that one-bedroom resurrect its status as a

Submitted at 1/4/2010 8:45:55 AM apartments in the mega- commercial megapolis that can skyscraper sold at $2,776 per host the biggest and best events The world's tallest building square foot at the height of around, including a huge surpasses former skyscraper king Dubai's property boom -- one of airshow. Taipei 101 with a height of 2,684 the most expensive apartments at Whether or not the gamble pays feet the time sold for more than $3.5 off, the Burj Dubai has already Dubai is looking forward to million. succeeded in providing some of better times. What better way to Building the best manmade the scariest and shakiest ring in the New Year than by rooms with a view requires some contains a six-sided concrete and Chicago Tribune. That design YouTube footage to date at its claiming the world's tallest tricky engineering to withstand steel core supported by more came courtesy of Chicago pinnacle. building? 120-mph winds, as we noted concrete walls holding up the architects Skidmore, Owings & [via Chicago Tribune and Wall The 160-story Burj Dubai, now early on during the building's three wings of the Y-shaped Merrill, as well as former design Street Journal renamed the Burj Khalifa, stands construction. skyscraper, according to the partner Adrian Smith. at an estimated 2,684 feet tall, The surprisingly thin tower E-reader News Edition PopSci/ 79 Russia Wants to Launch Armageddon-Style Mission to Deflect Asteroid By Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

Submitted at 1/4/2010 10:19:58 AM The head of Russia's space agency says such a mission Synthetic Alcohol Gives would save lives, but U.S. Drinkers a Buzz Minus astronomers strongly differ the Hangover, Addiction Leave it to Russia to jumpstart the long-debated idea of By Clay Dillow (Popular deflecting killer asteroids that Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future might threaten Earth. A top Now) Russian space official announced just prior to the New Year that he Submitted at 1/4/2010 9:30:37 AM wants to put together a mission for heading off the space rock Still feeling the sting of New Apophis, which represents a Year's Eve all these days later? A poster child of sorts for the risk synthetic alcohol substitute of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). developed from chemicals But NASA astronomers caution similar in composition to Valium allow us to prevent a collision, NASA's Near-Earth Object that flattened a Siberian forest that a failed deflection attempt could give users the pleasant rather than sit and wait for it to Program Office saw Russia's was 10 times smaller. could simply make matters feelings of tipsiness without happen and kill hundreds of interest as a good sign, even as it At least Russia's comment may worse. affecting the parts of the brain thousands of people." emphasized that Apophis spark some international Anatoly Perminov, head of that lead to barroom brawls, Perminov did not provide details presents very little risk. But Paul discussion about how to tackle Russia's Federal Space Agency, crippling addiction, and sleeping about how a spacecraft might Chodas, a member of that NASA dangerous space rocks. Putting told Golos Rossi radio that he in your car. nudge the 900-foot-long asteroid office and an astronomer at some more cash into the sky- had heard from a scientist of a Unlike all those bunk point-of- aside, but did say that Russia NASA's Jet Propulsion watch coffers might not hurt, possible Apophis collision with sale hangover remedies, this would not use nukes (and Laboratory, told SPACE.com either, given the current lack of Earth in 2036. NASA currently headache-eluding synthetic is presumably also wouldn't enlist a that an attempted deflection funding for NASA to track puts the Apophis collision risk being developed by some serious oil rig crew for the job). carries its own risks -- failure potentially threatening space during that swingby at just a brainpower at Imperial College Scientists and NASA astronauts might push the space rock into a rocks. three-in-a-million chance, or London. Professor David Nutt, alike have proposed various more dangerous path. [via SPACE.com] about 1-in-333,000. one of Britain's top drug experts, schemes, such as gravity tractors, NASA itself once considered a "People's lives are at stake," was recently relieved of his for protecting Earth against an mission to better track Apophis, Perminov said. "We should pay position as a government advisor Armageddon or Deep Impact which is larger than two football several hundred million dollars for comments about cannabis and threat. fields. The Tunguska meteoroid and build a system that would MDMA. Now, he's trying to change the way Britons think, SYNTHETIC page 80 80 PopSci/ E-reader News Edition SYNTHETIC continued from page 79 and feel, about getting drunk. last, keeping good-timers within but as a matter of public health By harnessing benzodiazepines legal limits whether they like it or it's not such a far-fetched idea. like diazepam, the chief not. If one did find the buzz too After all, alcohol has been both a ingredient in anti-anxiety med intense for a particular task -- bringer of good cheer and Valium, Nutt sees a future of say, driving home after a long destroyer of lives for thousands drinking without becoming night at the pub -- those warm of years now, and a 21st-century addicted, belligerent or -- and feelings of inebriation could be update to an ancient favorite here's the kicker -- intoxicated. instantly turned off with a simple could be in order. In the Using one of thousands of antidote pill that mutes the meantime, we're sticking with possible benzos, researchers are synthetic's effects on brain scotch. working to tailor a colorless, receptors. [ Telegraph] tasteless synthetic that could The skeptics (and delinquents) eventually replace the alcohol among us wonder exactly why content in beer, wine and liquor. Nutt and company think that Drinkers could toss back as people who enjoy getting roaring many glasses of the swill as they drunk would voluntarily switch want but would remain only to a tipple that lacks the knock- mildly drunk from first drink to down power of authentic alcohol, Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? By Sandeep Ravindran water and fat—absorb this energy and cooling it. (Popular Science - New and wiggle at high speeds, This drops an atom’s Technology, Science News, causing them to heat rapidly and temperature a couple hundred The Future Now) warm the surrounding food. degrees Fahrenheit—much colder

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:27:26 AM Although quickly turning than anything you’d want to put leftovers cold would be handy, in your mouth—in less than a Microwaves can transform a this is a one-way operation, second. But because it works frozen pizza into hot, melted explains David Pozar, a professor most efficiently on low-density goodness in four minutes flat, but and microwave expert at the gases of atoms of a single they can’t rescue your melted ice University of Massachusetts. element, physicist Mark Raizen -cream sundae. To cook food, a Microwaves can only speed up of the University of Texas microwave oven converts voltage atoms, not slow them down. atom with a laser, and it will still. Placing an atom at the doesn’t think it will be useful for into high-frequency Scientists do have a high-tech absorb the laser’s photons and re- junction of multiple beams can cooling food anytime soon: “Not electromagnetic microwaves. The method for slowing atoms, emit them every which way, slow its momentum in all unless you can subsist on a molecules in food—especially however: lasers. Shoot a moving causing the atom to hold nearly directions, decreasing its energy thousand sodium atoms.” E-reader News Edition PopSci/ 81

Photographed: Ratchet- Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut By Sandeep Ravindran Heidelberg, Germany, however, (Popular Science - New showed that contractions Technology, Science News, bringing epithelial cells into the The Future Now) gap were generated by a different

Submitted at 1/4/2010 7:47:00 AM set of cells “acting like a primitive muscle.” One of the steps in fruit-fly By taking more microscope development is similar to the pictures per minute and healing of wounds. Until combining these with computer recently, scientists believed that simulations, the researchers when fruit-fly bodies take form showed that after the quasi- during a process called dorsal muscle cells contract, the actin closure, long strings of the cable around them prevents the protein actin behaved like the epithelial cells from moving drawstring of a purse, pulling back, acting like the locking together the epithelial cells that mechanism in a ratchet. This eventually form the fly’s skin. insight may help scientists find Damian Brunner’s research ways to improve wound-healing group at the European Molecular in humans. Biology Laboratory in