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Team 51% were considered felons, and Print Sponsor 11% of those had committed 2 Top News/ Finance/ Internet News Record Coke in US family New Greek prime minister to unveil leaner doctors alliance (Financial Times - US cabinet - AFP homepage) (Most Popular - Google News) "remains a riddle even to two years. foreign affairs or education, while Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:45:31 AM Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:01:16 AM Papandreou's close associates." Papandreou has promised a 100- former Athens prefect Fofi Papandreou, whose party won day plan to stimulate the economy Gennimata, 45, is touted for the Coca-Cola, the world’s largest By John Hadoulis (AFP) – 6 44 percent to sweep Karamanlis' by creating jobs and cleaning up health ministry. soft drink company, has formed a hours ago conservatives out of power, public finances. Two of the prime minister's corporate partnership with the ATHENS — Greece's new signed decrees on Tuesday that He says there will be new laws closest associates, his party leading US family doctors group socialist Prime Minister George created an economy super- to redistribute income to the poor, spokesman George to promote healthier diet and Papandreou formally took office ministry with powers over bolster public investment and Papakonstantinou and Pasok lifestyle choices, as it fights back on Tuesday and prepared to name development and shipping, a vital clamp down on corruption. Part of secretary Yiannis Ragousis, are against growing pressure from a slimmed-down cabinet to fulfil source of Greece's income. the stimulus will also be to order also set to receive senior posts. health policy groups for a tax on promises of steering the economy His Pasok party's finance salary and pension hikes above NET state television reported sugared sodas. out of recession. spokeswoman, Louka Katseli, the rate of inflation next year. that Papakonstantinou, 49, would The American Academy of Papandreou, whose party won a was expected to take on the But Papandreou must also be given a separate finance Family Physicians said on landslide victory in elections on economy ministry. quickly reach agreement with the ministry tasked with tax collecting Tuesday that Coca-Cola would be Sunday, was sworn in by Katseli, a 57-year-old European Union's executive while Katseli coordinates long- the first corporate partner in a new Archbishop Ieronymos, head of economics professor who taught commission over Greece's huge term economic planning. “consumer alliance” that would the Orthodox Church of Greece, at Yale University in the United budget deficit. Ragousis, a 43-year-old work “to educate consumers about in a ceremony watched by States and worked at the Public debt, one of the highest economist and former mayor of the role their products can play in President Karolos Papoulias. Organisation for Economic in Europe, is set to exceed 100 the island of Paros, could be given a healthy, active lifestyle”. He was expected to unveil his Cooperation and Development, is percent of gross domestic product the interior ministry responsible Boeing to take $1bn hit new team later in the evening and among several women this year, and the national for local administration and to cut the current number of 16 Papandreou reportedly aims to economy has come to a near elections. on 747-8 programme ministries in line with pledges to include in a government with standstill after years of steady Ministers in Pasok's last (Financial Times - US focus on development and equal numbers of male and female growth. administration, which organised homepage) environment-friendly policies as ministers. Papandreou, a former foreign the 2004 Athens Olympics, may Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:58:27 AM well as citizens' rights. Greece's other big earner, minister who engineered a also be offered jobs, including However he kept the names of tourism, was placed under the rapprochement with neighbour Papandreou's old challenger for Boeing to take $1bn hit on 747-8 his line-up under wraps and took culture ministry, which oversees and traditional rival Turkey, could the party leadership, Evangelos programme none of the potential ministers to archaeological sites and museums. again assume that portfolio. Venizelos. By Hal Weitzman in Chicago his swearing-in, as his An upgraded citizen's protection Meanwhile Anna Copyright © 2009 AFP. All Published: October 6 2009 predecessor Costas Karamanlis ministry also comes into effect to Diamantopoulou, a 50-year-old rights reserved. More » 15:19 | Last updated: October 6 had done. improve policing and fire former European commissioner 2009 16:58 The Kathimerini daily prevention after two massive for employment, is another commented that the cabinet wildfire disasters in the space of potential minister, possibly at Chile officers jailed for murder (BBC News | Americas | World Two former generals, Victor Croatia was in place during the of military rule in 1990. In addition to the two generals, Edition) Lizarraga and Carlos Krum, and break up of the former Yugoslavia Col Gerardo Huber, who was in Col Manuel Provis and Col Julio Submitted at 10/6/2009 3:29:22 AM two colonels got sentences in the early 1990s. charge of buying weapons for the Munoz, both retired, were also ranging from two to eight years In December 1991, Hungarian Chilean army, was found dead a jailed for conspiracy and murder. 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News: U.S. News) Laliberte — the first will spend more time, not (BBC News | Americas | World the tribunal explaining why it Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:09:26 AM professional artist to fly in space probably six months, but those Edition) opposes release. — sighed when a journalist asked guys are the professionals, I'm Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:17:33 AM The arrest of Polanski, who won CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – if his mission was a $35 million not, eh?" an Oscar in 2002 for The Pianist, The rich circus showman who publicity stunt. He calls it a Canadian astronaut Robert Film-maker Roman Polanski has a harrowing story of Nazi- bought a $35 million ticket to the "Poetic Social Mission" — the Thirsk said he's glad to have been denied bail ahead of his occupied Warsaw, has prompted International Space Station said words were emblazoned on the Laliberte on board. He's certainly possible extradition to the US, the an outcry among some politicians Tuesday it's been worth every white T-shirt he wore for the TV livened things up in orbit. On Swiss Justice Ministry has said. and Hollywood heavyweights. penny — and more. cameras. Monday, all nine space fliers put Ministry spokesman Folco Galli But last week, California Canadian billionaire Guy "I never denied this was a on the red clown noses that said the government maintains Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Laliberte, the founder of Cirque moment to create awareness Laliberte took up and posed for there is a high risk Polanski may said the film-maker should not get du Soleil, said from orbit that toward the situation of water in pictures. flee if released from custody. special treatment because he is a riding a rocket and visiting the the world, toward foundation One "Guy has the gift of being able to Polanski is being held in "big-time movie director". space station has been an amazing Drop," he said, referring to the convey the magic part of being in Switzerland over his 1977 A petition has been signed by journey so far. He launched into organization he created two years space," Thirsk said. "We can talk conviction for unlawful sex with a film-makers including Pedro space last Wednesday from ago. "I don't have 25 years, the about the benefits ... about the 13-year-old girl. Almodovar and Stephen Frears, Kazakhstan. world doesn't have 25 years to science and the engineering that He left the US in 1978 before he and actors including Monica The former stiltwalker and fire- address the situation of water, so I we're doing here. But Guy tells us could be sentenced and has never Bellucci and Fanny Ardant, eater said the best stunt he's pulled think this was a great opportunity and relates very well the returned. expressing dismay at Polanski's so far in space is hitting his head to combine a personal dream also, excitement, the emotional aspect Polanski was detained in arrest. three times on the same day, and having a greater benefit than of being here." Switzerland on 26 September as Other Hollywood luminaries, while trying to navigate in just coming in space." Even the former street he travelled from France to collect including film producer Harvey weightlessness. By the time Laliberte leaves the performer, though, has had a lifetime achievement award at Weinstein, have called for "I promise that I will be better space station Saturday, he will difficulty coming up with the the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski's release. within the next couple days," he have spent eight days at the right words, right now. Release call His victim, Samantha Geimer, said. orbiting outpost. He will return to "Every moment I live right now, "In our view, there is still a very sued Polanski in December 1988, As for the high cost, "yes, it's Earth on Sunday aboard a Russian I don't have the time to process high risk that he will flee and that alleging sexual assault, infliction worth every penny and more, I Soyuz spacecraft with two everything I'm experiencing, the a release on bail or other measures of emotional distress and believe, because over and above professional spacemen, a Russian magic of it," he said. "Right now, after a release cannot guarantee seduction. doing it for myself, there's a lot of and an American who have spent I'm absorbing everything. Right Polanski's presence in the The film-maker agreed to pay other stuff that's going on," six months up there. now, I have a big smile up to my extradition procedure," Mr Galli her $500,000 five years later. Laliberte said at a news Laliberte, 50, said there's no ears." said. But in January this year Ms conference. He has organized a way he could spend six months up ___ Polanski's legal representatives Geimer asked a US court to drop worldwide performance Friday there, even if he wanted to, On the Net: are also asking Switzerland's charges against Polanski, saying night to draw attention to the "because I have to go back and NASA: highest criminal court to free the continued publication of planet's water crisis, and will take create a show." He hinted that he http://spaceflight.nasa.gov Polanski. details "causes harm to me, my part by videotape. Participating might return for a shorter stay. One Drop Foundation: Mr Galli said the Justice husband and children". from Earth will be former Vice "There's so much to learn. http://www.onedrop.org Ministry has submitted a letter to Print Sponsor President Al Gore and musicians There's so much to discover. U2, Peter Gabriel and Shakira, There's so much to look at. ... It's among others. just a great environment. 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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A not comment on the baby-selling conference the day after the He is alleged to have been kidnapped newborn and three report. kidnapping for the baby to be A pilot held in Spain over his involved in the so-called "death siblings were taken away from Authorities said investigators at returned. But her reunion with alleged role in Argentina's "Dirty flights", in which political their mother following allegations first focused on finding the baby him on Saturday was short War" will stay in detention prisoners of Argentina's military that a family member tried to sell but now are looking into exactly because state child welfare pending a decision on extradition, were drugged and dumped into the baby, according to officials what happened and who was officials quickly took him and the a Spanish judge has ruled. the sea from the planes. familiar with the case. involved. Tammy Renee Silas, 39, other three children — ages 3, 9 Julio Alberto Poch, an airline Mr Poch's lawyers requested his Mom Maria Gurrolla was of Ardmore, Ala., was charged and 11. pilot, has been in custody in release at Tuesday's closed-door briefly reunited with newborn after authorities said they found Gurrolla told investigators she Madrid since his arrest last month. hearing in a high-security court in Yair Anthony Carillo over the the baby at her home about 80 had never seen the woman who He is wanted in Argentina for Madrid. weekend before state child miles south of Nashville. stabbed her. According to the allegedly flying planes used to Lawyer Ignacio Pelaez Marques welfare officials placed all four Gurrolla told investigators that arrest warrant, Gurrolla was dump opponents of the military told AFP news agency that his children in foster care. A custody after she was stabbed, the targeted while she and a cousin, regime into the sea. He denies the client denied ever having been hearing is set for Tuesday, but abductor made a phone call and identified only as "JS," were allegations. based at the Naval Mechanics records are closed because the said in Spanish "The job is done" running errands and visiting a Some 30,000 people School. case is in juvenile court. and that the mother "was dying," state food assistance office. disappeared or died during the Mr Pelaez said the judge had Two officials confirmed the according to the criminal A car that police said Silas junta's 1976-1983 rule. decided his client should remain baby-selling allegations but spoke complaint against Silas. rented was seen on a surveillance Mr Poch was held during a short in custody until a decision was to The Associated Press on Investigators are still trying to video following Gurrolla before stopover at Valencia's Manises made about extradition to condition of anonymity because answer "significant questions, the attack, and the car rental airport on 22 September, while Argentina, because of the gravity they were not authorized to perhaps the most important of information led police to her flying an aircraft for Dutch of the allegations he faces. discuss the case. They could not which is why this newborn was home. Transavia airlines, a subsidiary of In 2005, Argentina's Supreme say how or if the allegations were chosen over everybody else in the Yair's father lives in Nashville, Air France-KLM. Court struck down amnesty laws related to the kidnapping. city," Nashville police spokesman and Gurrolla's marital status was The 57-year-old, who has dual which had shielded alleged human Week-old Yair was safely Don Aaron said. unclear. Police have said they Dutch and Argentine nationalities, rights abusers from prosecution. recovered in Alabama on Friday, Silas has given a statement to were treating the case as a is said to have been a military Print Sponsor three days after he was snatched investigators, according to stranger kidnapping. pilot at Argentina's notorious from his Nashville home. His Tennessee Bureau of Police have not released a Naval Mechanics School - one of mother said he was taken after a Investigation spokeswoman motive, but Silas' live-in woman posing as an immigration Kristin Helm, who declined to boyfriend, Martin Rodriguez, told Exxon takes $4bn stake in Ghana oil field agent attacked her with a knife. detail what she said. No one could The Associated Press that she said (Financial Times - US potentially lucrative oil An Alabama woman is in name a lawyer for her. Gurrolla she could not have children and homepage) discoveries in recent years. custody, facing a federal and other family members could wanted to adopt a child from a Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:56:43 AM The deal was first mooted at the kidnapping charge. State officials not be reached at her home on relative in Texas who was going end of last year and attracted said only that they took Gurrolla's Monday, and it wasn't clear if to jail. ExxonMobil has agreed to interest from many of the world’s children after Yair was found they are being represented. acquire large stake in Ghana’s big oil groups, but became bogged because of safety concerns. Silas has not been charged in Jubilee oil field from its private down by horse-trading with Rob Johnson, a spokesman for the attack on Gurrolla, who was equity owners, paying about $4bn Ghana’s government. for one of Africa’s most ADVERTISEMENT: (BloggingStocks) Internet News Record Top News/ Finance/ 5 Cocaine vaccine may reduce 'use' - Prostitutes challenge Canada laws BBC News (BBC News | Americas | World defend the laws and argue that (Most Popular - Google News) week for 24 weeks. down. Edition) decriminalisation would Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:31:10 AM encourage sex tourism. 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Smith Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:57:38 AM Castle, 70, had said previously conservative and social moderate and comment from the and Boyle were honoured "for the that he was leaning against unafraid to go against the party Guardian | guardian.co.uk) invention of an imaging WILMINGTON, Del. – Nine- seeking a 10th term in the House, line. He has bucked the GOP's Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:59:38 AM semiconductor circuit – the CCD term Delaware Republican but instead would weigh whether positions on abortion and the sensor". congressman Michael Castle will to run for the Senate or retire. He budget, for example, as well as on Chinese-born Briton, Charles Speaking by phone to a press run for the U.S. Senate seat has never lost a political race energy policy and the Kuen Kao, shares Nobel prize in conference at the Karolinska vacated by Joe Biden last year since being elected to the state environment. physics with George Smith and Institute, Boyle said: "I have a after the Democrat was elected House in 1966. As chairman of the Education Willard Boyle for developing lovely feeling all over my body." vice president. Kaufman, appointed by then- Reform Subcommittee, Castle optical fibres The Nobel assembly said the The two-term former governor Gov. Ruth Ann Minner to fill the played a major role in the No A Chinese-born Briton who research "helped to shape the will declare his 2010 candidacy at Senate seat, has said repeatedly Child Left Behind Act of 2002. graduated from Woolwich foundations of today's networked a news conference later Tuesday, that he will not run in 2010, He has long championed Polytechnic in east London and societies. They have created many according to a person close to leaving some political observers embryonic stem cell research and became director of research at a practical innovations for everyday Castle and familiar with his to speculate that he was chosen as co-sponsored the first bill vetoed mobile phone company in Essex life and provided new tools for decision but who requested a placeholder for Beau Biden. by former President George W. has won this year's Nobel prize scientific exploration". anonymity because the The younger Biden, 40, returned Bush, a measure that would have for physics. Optical fibers make up the announcement was not yet home last week with his National expanded federal funding for Charles Kuen Kao won half of circulatory system of our official. Guard unit after a yearlong research on excess embryos from the prestigious prize for research communication-based society. Castle's run could pit him deployment to Iraq. fertility clinics. that allowed information to be The glass fibers allow for global against Biden's son, Delaware State auditor Tom Wagner, who Castle's signature issue in sent in beams of light along glass broadband communications Attorney General Beau Biden, besides Castle is the only other Congress has been the popular 50 fibres over distances of 100km including the internet. Light who is weighing a bid for the Delaware Republican currently State Commemorative Quarter and more. The research flowing in thin threads of glass Democratic nomination. 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It revolutionised any comment until after Castle's Wagner said. "I think the polling for several days after suffering a more familiarly known as the photography, allowing light to be announcement is official. numbers indicate that he's become small stroke, but doctors said he miniature digital cameras now captured electronically instead of Castle, Delaware's sole member the most popular politician in the was likely to recover fully with no ubiquitous in devices as wide- on film. The technology is used in of the U.S. House and the longest state." lasting impairment. He won re- ranging as mobile phones and many medical applications, such serving congressman in state During his long tenure in the election in 2006 and 2008 by spacecraft. as imaging inside the human body history, scheduled a news House, Castle has carved out a comfortable margins. 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Animal rights groups, including Vijaywada, which is home to indicated that a federal law aimed When Congress passed the law the Humane Society of the United Waters leave more than 250 more than 1 million people. at graphic videos of dog fights and then-President Bill Clinton States and the American Society dead and displace millions in In both states, the waters and other acts of animal cruelty signed it in 1999, lawmakers were for the Prevention of Cruelty to Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka continued to recede today after a goes too far in limiting free especially interested in limiting Animals, and 26 states have states as more rain approaches 48-hour halt in the rain, officials speech rights. Internet sales of so-called crush joined the administration in Thousands of troops and relief said. The state governments are The court heard argument on the videos, which appeal to a certain support of the law. The workers have fanned out across now focusing on assessing the Obama administration's appeal to sexual fetish by showing women government says videos showing southern India to provide aid to damage and ensuring that medical reinstate a 10-year-old law that crushing to death small animals animal cruelty should be treated areas where devastating flooding aid reaches the displaced to bans the production and sale of with their bare feet or high-heeled like child pornography, unentitled has left more than 250 people prevent disease from spreading. the videos. A federal appeals shoes. to any constitutional protection. dead and displaced millions more. Aid workers are also distributing court struck down the law and The government said the crush Stevens says he also opposes The floods, in Andhra Pradesh food and clean drinking water in invalidated the conviction of videos virtually disappeared after animal cruelty, including dog and Karnataka states, are the the relief camps. Robert Stevens of Pittsville, Va., the law took effect. Only three fighting. But he argues that the worst in decades. They have The head of India's ruling who was sentenced to three years people have been prosecuted government should not be able to destroyed homes, farms and Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, in prison for videos he made under the law. jail someone for making films that infrastructure worth more than and the home minister, P about pit bull fights. Justice Samuel Alito sounded are not obscene, inflammatory or 220bn rupees ($2.9bn), authorities Chidambaram, made aerial Several justices suggested that the most receptive to the untruthful. Free speech groups, say. surveys of the affected areas in the law is too broad and could government's argument. Alito the National Rifle Association, In Karnataka, the worse-hit of both states on Monday, Jagdish apply, for instance, to people who wondered whether the court hunters' organizations and book the two states, the death toll had said. make films about hunting. should focus on the potential publishers and sellers say the law risen to 194, and more than Just weeks ago, most parts of "Why not do a simpler thing?" prosecution of hunters or, citing a threatens First Amendment 150,000 people were staying in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Justice Stephen Breyer asked an Breyer example, someone who freedoms. hundreds of state-run relief were suffering from severe administration lawyer. "Ask produces foie gras from a goose. The NRA and hunters' groups camps, RV Jagdish, a government drought. Officials say an area of Congress to write a statute that "Or do we look at what's say the law could be used against spokesman, said. Hundreds of low pressure in the Bay of Bengal actually aims at the frightful happening in the real world?" he the makers of hunting videos, thousands more had sought shelter has caused the sudden torrential things they were trying to asked Stevens' lawyer, Patricia although the law's main sponsor, in the homes of friends and rains. More rain is forecast for the prohibit." Millett. Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., has relatives. area over the next 24 hours. But the lawyer, Deputy Solicitor Millett said Congress has to be said it is not intended to apply to In neighbouring Andhra • India General Neal Katyal, said very careful when restricting depictions of hunting. Pradesh, 60 people had died and • Natural disasters and extreme Congress was careful to exempt speech and must use a "scalpel, more than 1 million had sought weather hunting, educational, journalistic not a buzzsaw." shelter in 100 relief camps, • Flooding and other depictions from the law. 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Picchu ancient ruins, Antoni designed as an 18-tower church Anne Maley, interim CEO of Filed under: Analyst reports, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in telling the tale of the Holy Family the Frank Lloyd Wright The firm has a $50 target on Analyst upgrades and Newfield and a $58 target on Barcelona and a New Orleans and has been under construction Foundation, which operates both downgrades, Tiffany and Co elementary school are among the since the 1880s. sites, said she could not comment Ultra Petroleum. (TIF), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), • TJX Companies(NYSE: TJX) cultural heritage sites threatened Also threatened by new on their inclusion on the watch Corning Inc (GLW), Research in by neglect or overdevelopment, a development are traditional list. was upgraded to Conviction Buy Motion (RIMM), General Mills from Buy at Goldman. preservationist group said townhouses in Kyoto, Japan, The New York-based World (GIS), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), Tuesday. called machiya, which date from Monuments Fund issues its watch • General Mills(NYSE: GIS) Marriott Intl'A' (MAR), Analyst was upgraded to Overweight from The World Monuments Fund's the early 1600s and are list every two years. initiations watch list for 2010 includes 93 considered models of their type The list was initiated in the mid- Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley. Analyst upgrades: • Coca-Cola Femsa(NYSE: sites in 47 countries, ranging from throughout the country. The 1990s to call attention to sites that • UBS upgraded Corning(NYSE: Phajoding, a remote monastery in monuments fund said the are threatened by neglect, KOF) was upgraded to Buy from GLW) to Buy from Neutral and Neutral at BofA/Merrill. Bhutan, to the bridges along townhouses are being torn down, vandalism, conflict or disaster. It's raised its target to $19 from Connecticut's scenic Merritt diminishing Kyoto's cultural assembled by a panel of experts in Continue reading Analyst $18.50, citing the improved LCD upgrades, downgrades and Parkway. history. archaeology, architecture, art supply-demand outlook and "The 2010 watch makes it clear Machu Picchu, an important history and preservation. initiations: BP, CMCSA, GLW, improved sell-through ahead of MAR, RIMM, TIF, TJX ... that cultural heritage efforts in the Inca site and Peru's main tourist The last list, in 2007, was the the holiday season in China. 21st century must recognize the attraction, is threatened by its high first to add global warming to the Analyst upgrades, downgrades • Credit Suisse upgraded and initiations: BP, CMCSA, critical importance of sustainable volume of visitors. roster of forces the monuments Newfield Exploration(NYSE: stewardship and that we must The fund said two sites in New fund says are threatening GLW, MAR, RIMM, TIF, TJX ... 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Public companies are borrowing with the corpses of companies was that shareholders, workers, Comments money to pay dividends to that paid dividends instead of and creditors were wiped out shareholders. paying down debt, and the result completely in the name of a short- Internet News Record World/ Economy/ 9 IEA: carbon emissions will fall due to recession By John Vidal (World news switch to less carbon-intensive Nobuo Tanaka, the director of the He said that the climate talks 1990s with the economic collapse and comment from the energy sources, said the IEA's agency. due to conclude in Copenhagen in of the Soviet Union which Guardian | guardian.co.uk) chief economist, Fatih Birol. "The benefits will be that we December were fundamental to depended heavily on coal. Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:56:33 AM "Average growth in emissions avoid the worst implications of whether the world moved away Industrial output plummeted, coal has been 3% a year but we climate change which are from fossil fuels. "That requires mines closed and people could not Cut in greenhouse gas emissions estimate this year that emissions unquantifiable. Everyone will also signals. People do not invest in afford to heat their homes. provides countries with a unique will fall 3%. Because of the save money," he said. dirty power because they are bad More surprisingly, carbon chance to switch to less carbon- financial crisis, many industries Under the IEA's scenario of but because of the money. emissions also fell 0.3% in 1998- intensive energy sources, says have the chance to move away how the world could hold Without an incentive signal from 99, thanks partly to improved International Energy Agency from unsustainable power. If we emissions to 450ppm, countries Copenhagen it will not change," energy efficiency but mainly Man-made greenhouse gas get a good result at the would have rapidly away from the he said. because Britain and Germany emissions will drop 3% in 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, then internal combustion engine. "The IEA's report confirms what closed many coal mines and largely because of the worldwide they could be turned to "Ninety-five per cent of new cars we already know – that every switched to gas, and China financial crisis, the International sustainable energy," he said. today have internal combustion year's delay in climate action will reduced its energy subsidies. The Energy Agency (IEA) said today. The independent agency, which engines. To hold emissions to 450 significantly increase the costs," world economy continued to Three-quarters of the reduction is funded by the world's richest 28 [ppm] you need more and more said Kaisa Kosonen, Greenpeace grow, mainly though information has been the result of less countries, said it would be a hybrids and electric cars. By International policy analyst. technologies and service sectors industrial activity, with the rest catastrophe if countries continued 2020, only 40% of cars should The assessment confirms that that were not then major energy coming from countries turning to with business as usual. "We need have internal combustion current industrialised country users. renewable energy and nuclear an energy and environment engines," it suggested. targets are not enough to drive The 2009 fall in emissions due power. revolution. Business as usual For the first time, the agency energy efficiency and renewables to the credit crunch and the But the world's premier energy would increase temperatures by estimated the costs to Opec oil- on the scale needed. recession that has followed it is analysts calculated that to avoid 6C. To hold emissions to 450ppm producing countries of a It also confirms what the deepest since the 1970s. dangerous climate change, [parts per million], we need in the worldwide shift away from petrol Greenpeace's own scenario • Carbon emissions countries around the world will region of 18 nuclear power and oil. With no deal at shows, that energy efficiency will • Climate change have to spend $400bn a year stations, 17,000 turbines, 100 Copenhagen, it says, the industry play by far the biggest role in • Copenhagen climate change building more than 350 new concentrated solar power stations could expect to earn about $28tr solving climate change - over and conference 2009 nuclear plants and 350,000 wind and 16 carbon capture and storage between 2012 and 2030. But above any other technologies. The • Energy turbines in the next 20 years. plants to be built every year until holding emissions to 450ppm rise and fall of carbon emissions • Renewable energy They also estimate that by 2020, 2030," said Birol. would reduce the industry's Carbon emissions are strongly • Nuclear power three-fifths of cars will need to "We think the share of revenue by 16% to $24tr, said linked to economic growth and • Climate change use alternatives to the traditional renewables and nuclear which is Birol. have increased globally roughly • Global recession internal combustion engine. The now 18% worldwide needs to go "They would earn less, but it 3% a year since the 1950s. But • Global economy findings came in a special extract up to 33% by 2030," he said. "But would still be four times more they have also fallen three times John Vidal of the IEA's forthcoming annual energy efficiency will be the key." than they have earned in the last in the last 60 years. guardian.co.uk© Guardian world energy outlook report, The energy revolution 22 years, he said. "Oil, coal and The first drop occurred during News & Media Limited 2009 | published at the UN climate talks envisaged by the IEA would cost gas needs to peak at 2020 and the oil crises of the early 1970s Use of this content is subject to in Bangkok. about $400bn a year to fund then decline. 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After a tough to give this upgrade too Calyon Securities upgraded rally of nearly 90 points, the enough to upgrade it not one, but much weight considering the Goldman Sachs ( GS) today from analyst now likes the stock analyst's prior track record on 10 World/ Finance/ Internet News Record Israel deploys police as tensions rise By Rory McCarthy (World who suffered a moderate injury officers "worked to ensure Yemen's state-run television that news and comment from the when he was stabbed in the neck peaceful prayers" in Jerusalem Israel was "working on a daily Guardian | guardian.co.uk) on Monday while checking during the Islamic holy month of basis to Judaise Jerusalem." Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:46:30 AM identity cards on a Palestinian Ramadan in September. Although Palestinians would bus. But today appeared to pass Palestinian officials, however, agree with Abbas's concern, his Clashes with Palestinians mar without new clashes. accused Israel of escalating comments also helped deflect a Jewish holiday week of Sukkot Violence is rarely far below the tensions in the city. "Israel is widespread frustration among Israel deployed thousands of surface in the tense city of lighting matches in the hope of many Palestinians at his decision police on the streets of Jerusalem Jerusalem, and this latest round of sparking a fire, deliberately last week to drop support in the today to protect a Jewish holiday clashes appeared to have been escalating tensions in occupied UN Human Rights Council for a parade after days of rock throwing sparked by rumours that right- East Jerusalem rather than taking vote to endorse a highly critical Gold hits record and clashes with Palestinians. wing Jewish groups were intent steps to placate the situation," said UN inquiry into the Gaza war. The trouble began 10 days ago on marching onto the Temple Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian The inquiry, by the South high while the dollar when crowds of young Palestinian Mount. One leading Israeli negotiator. "What makes this all African judge Richard Goldstone, weakens -- why? men threw rocks at police, newspaper, the Yedioth Ahronoth, the more dangerous is the vacuum accused both Israel and Hamas of apparently after hearing that a described the troubles as "Sukkot created by the absence of a war crimes and called for By Connie Madon group of religious Jews was about riots" on its front page yesterday, credible peace process that offers international investigations and (BloggingStocks) to enter the Haram al-Sharif, and the Israeli press variously hope instead of more settlements." possible prosecutions of Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:10:00 AM known to Jews as the Temple blamed Hamas, the Palestinian Israel captured east Jerusalem in individual commanders. But the Mount, in the heart of Jerusalem's Islamist movement that controls the 1967 war and later annexed it, Palestinians at the last minute and Filed under: International Old City. Police fired teargas and Gaza, and its rival, the Fatah-led a move that has not been apparently under intense US markets, Rumors, Commodities, rubber-coated bullets at the Palestinian Authority in the West recognised by the international pressure dropped their call for a Oil Palestinians and closed access to Bank. community. The Palestinians want vote to endorse Goldstone's Gold jumped to $1033 per the holy site. A number of Israeli cabinet east Jerusalem as the capital of recommendations, handing Israel ounce on Tuesday, hitting a There was more rock throwing ministers singled out Raed Salah, their future state, but Israel has a significant diplomatic victory. record high. Oil rose $1 per and teargas over the weekend at the head of the Islamic Movement worked hard to exert its control • Israel barrel. The December dollar the start of the Jewish holiday in Israel, as inciting the clashes over the area, allowing more than • Palestinian territories contract is at $76.53, down $0.305 week of Sukkot, a time when and said his group should be 200,000 Jewish settlers to move in Rory McCarthy (as of 8:11 EDT). many Israeli Jews walk into the declared illegal. Israel's police and heavily restricting planning guardian.co.uk© Guardian Why is gold moving up? A Old City to the Western Wall to chief in Jerusalem, Aharon permits for Palestinians, enforced News & Media Limited 2009 | news story in The Independent, a pray. Dozens of Palestinians were Franco, said on Monday that by frequent home demolitions. 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Internet News Record World/ Economy/ Gadgets/ 11 Dinosaur footprints found in France Update: EDGAR Online By Lizzy Davies (World news enormous," he said. "This is new. Geneva, to stumble upon. and comment from the Some very big footprints have Marié-Hèlene Marcaud, a Guardian | guardian.co.uk) been found in the US but I don't teacher, and Patrice Landry, a Reports XBRL Filing Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:39:32 AM think they are as big as these." geologist, uncovered the tracks on The site's other, equally 5 April during one of their regular Local enthusiasts find sauropod important, attraction, Hantzpergue expeditions with the Naturalists' Results tracks up to two metres in added, was the geographical Society of Oyonnax. Amazed by (Financial Sector and Stocks filing requirement is not a one- diameter spread over large area in spread. The research centre said their find, they then contacted Analysis from Seeking Alpha) time event. XBRL is now the Jura mountains they were formed "over dozens if Hantzpergue and Jean-Michel Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:05:01 AM required ongoing format for SEC An "exceptional" collection of not hundreds of metres". Mazin at the National Centre of Forms 10-Q and 10-K. the biggest dinosaur footprints "These are very large distances," Scientific Research to confirm the On Monday, EDGAR Online ( Depending on EDGAR Online's ever recorded has been found by said Hantzpergue. "We've seen authenticity. EDGR) issued a special report to competitive performance, the two amateur enthusiasts on an tracks of maybe 50 metres in The Franco-Swiss border is no shareholders announcing their XBRL filings business may expedition near France's Jura France, around 100 metres in stranger to palaeontological market-share data for the first become a source of high recurring mountains, palaeontologists said Switzerland, and the world record treasures, and its ancient reporting period subject to the revenue for the company. today. is in Portugal … with about 150 landscape has allowed scientists SEC's XBRL mandate. See my EDGAR Online is the only Imprints measuring up to 2 metres. Now, we still have many to piece together the history of earlier summary report on the publicly traded company that has metres (6ft 6in) in diameter and hectares to search but we will biodiversity over the past 200 competitive landscape for this a material share of its revenue tied stretching over a vast area of land undoubtedly have more than 150 million years. XBRL filings market. to XBRL conversion and XBRL- have been uncovered near the metres at Plagne." A recent motorway project on EDGAR Online and RR based financial analytics software village of Plagne, 30 miles west The imprints are believed to the Swiss side of the Jura has led Donnelley ( RRD) formed a programs. Its I-Metrix Pro is now of Geneva, according to the have been those of sauropod to the discovery of not only partnership to provide XBRL offered as an Excel add-in and National Centre of Scientific dinosaurs, the gentle herbivorous dinosaur tracks but fossils of conversion services to companies also offered via Thomson Research. giants which roamed the region creatures including marine reporting to the SEC. See their Reuters's ( TRI) Checkpoint In a statement, the centre said about 150m years ago. They crocodiles and mammoths. On the joint website at financial management service. the significance of the prints appear to have been well French side sauropod tracks were www.TryXBRL.com. As part of its filing mandate, the could not be overestimated. preserved by a thick layer of found at Coisia, about 25 miles June 30, 2009 marked the end of SEC now requires XBRL- "According to the researchers' limestone sediment dating from from Plagne, in 2004 and on the the first quarterly period when reporting companies to present initial work, these tracks are the the late Jurassic period – the floor of the Loulle quarry in 2006. large public companies were XBRL-sourced data in their IR biggest ever seen," it said. geological era named after the • Dinosaurs required to file their Form 10-Qs website presentations. As a result Pierre Hantzpergue, a Jura mountains which lie just to • France in XBRL data format. A closer of new rules, the investor relations palaeontologist at the University the north of where the tracks were • Switzerland analysis of the potential impact of communications market is of Lyon who verified the prints discovered. Lizzy Davies XBRL filings business on EDGR changing. Note the IR product with a colleague at the research Despite the region's well-known guardian.co.uk© Guardian suggests that this new XBRL offered by EDGAR Online and centre, said the perfectly reputation for such discoveries – News & Media Limited 2009 | filings service may well have a Q4 Web Systems. XBRL preserved tracks could make in 2004, thousands of footprints Use of this content is subject to material impact on EDGR's future interactive data offers broad Plagne one of the most significant were revealed on the Swiss side of our Terms & Conditions| More financial results. functionality for IR dinosaur locations in the world. the border – this latest, and Feeds The second wave of new XBRL communication services, and I "What is remarkable about this probably most spectacular, find filers in 2010 is estimated to suspect there will be many new site … is firstly the sheer size of was left to amateurs from the include 1,500 - 2,000 reporting web services offered by small the footprints. They are really local town of Oyonnax, near companies, and the final wave in web development companies as 2011 is for about 10,000 well as large printers like RR additional companies. It is Donnelley and Bowne ( BNE). important to note that this new Disclosure: I am long EDGR. Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: It Still Sucks. By Greg Kumparak Windows Mobile 6.5, we wanted tired of ragging on. We went into Mobile 6.5 - it's just not going to (CrunchGear) to love you. We wanted you to this review with the full hopes of happen. Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:25:31 AM come along and wash away the emerging with a generally past, whisking away all signs of the antiquated 6.1 we've grown so positive outlook. Sorry, Windows 12 World/ Economy/ Tech/ Internet News Record Letterman apologises to wife – on Are Banks As Good as TV Goldman? By Adam Gabbatt (World news hoping for some sensitivity, she his Late Show staff, who had been (Financial Sector and Stocks and in turn, for itself. Since there's and comment from the was out of luck. "wonderfully supportive" over the Analysis from Seeking Alpha) no shortage of politics now in Guardian | guardian.co.uk) "I'll be honest with you folks, years – which, given the Submitted at 10/6/2009 4:59:36 AM finance, by giving an agreeable Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:04:35 AM right now I would give anything revelations, is something of an nod to the upcoming to be hiking on the Appalachian understatement – before turning Goldman Sachs ( GS), long the performances of the major banks, Talkshow host uses programme trail," Letterman continued, any his attention to his wife. darling (and jealously-driven it'll soften the political blow when to offer a less than stellar sincerity rather undermined by the "Now the other thing is my wife, scorn) of Wall Street, just gave an Goldman reports another record expression of regret to Regina reference to US governor Mark Regina," he said, introducing the emphatic gift to all its rivals by quarterly profit and annual bonus Lasko for his workplace Sanford, whose six-day topic in a way that made her declaring the American financial numbers that draft everyone else dalliances disappearance earlier this year sound suspiciously like an system is a worthwhile on The Street. David Letterman, lover of was credited by his staff to the afterthought. investment. With its own shares The company is known for the women, attracted further attention fact he had been hiking the 2,100- "She has been horribly hurt by more than doubling year-to-date, shredding and fleecing of most it last night with an apology to his mile trail. my behaviour, and when Goldman gave its investing does business with, and a recent wife, Regina Lasko, for his affairs Sanford had actually absconded something happens like that, if clientele the go-ahead to purchase report showcased that Goldman with staff. to Argentina for extramarital high you hurt a person and it's your other large banks, sending receives $1Billion if the Rather than the traditional jinks. responsibility, you try to fix it ... financial shares higher and institution CIT fails; a price tag method of grovelling – petrol Letterman's exploits have And at that point, there's only two leading the market to gains of just that would cost taxpayers station flowers, jumbo Toblerone already been the subject of much things that can happen, either about 1%. $2.3Billion will do nothing to and a hastily written card – mirth among fellow TV hosts, you're going to make some By claiming large banks will change that reputation. The well- Letterman once again used his with rival channel NBC's Jay progress and get it fixed, or you're outperform regional banks, publicized bailout of AIG during CBS talkshow to pay penance. Leno kicking off his show on going to fall short and perhaps not Goldman spawned gains of the meat of the financial crisis, of I am no expert on wooing back Friday with a warning to the get it fixed, so let me tell you between 2 and 6% for the major which Goldman Sachs was one someone you've cheated on, audience that: "If you came here folks, I got my work cut out for financial institutions. Despite the counter-party reportedly receiving although I like the sound of this tonight for sex with a talkshow me." shot of love Goldman has thrown billions of then federal dollars, is cat up a tree analogy, but I suspect host, you've got the wrong The apology ended to loud the financial companies, it finds just another such example. Letterman's fusion of comedy studio." applause, at least in the studio. itself battling one hell of a PR But isn't that exactly what you with contrition may not quite have While Jimmy Fallon, who also Lasko's response may have been campaign on the topic of want from an Investment Bank? appeased his spouse just yet. hosts a NBC chatshow, mused: more sober. excessive bonuses. The company To be the smartest group of guys The 62-year-old opened the "There's a new book out called • Television industry was looked at with balking eyes in the room? I'd say so, and show with a monologue where he Why Women Have Sex that says • Television as it reported near record profits despite any public or political hinted that all had not been rosy there are 237 reasons why women • United States and bonus levels in the first half backlash over bonuses, Goldman in the family home since his have sex. And folks, Letterman Adam Gabbatt of this year, a year only one is on tap to report another golden announcement last week. knows the top 10." guardian.co.uk© Guardian removed from the biggest quarter. And that's something Opening the show with a smile, Lasko, who has been with News & Media Limited 2009 | financial and market failure since worth owning. he asked the studio audience: Letterman for 23 years, had to Use of this content is subject to the Great Depression. Disclosure: Author owns GS "Did your weekend just fly by?" wait until later in the show for her our Terms & Conditions| More Perhaps Goldman wants to set a to loud applause. message. Feeds mood favourable for all banks, But if his wife was sat at home Her husband first apologised to French Politician Proposes Warning Labels On Any Photoshopped Ad Or Marketing Label By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) pushing a law that would require a of course, is that they don't want advertising (one I imagine must Permalink| Comments| Email Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:23:00 AM label on any marketing or ad campaigns to portray things in already exist)? If it's just a little This Story advertising image that was a manner that is not quite truthful. edit to make the photo more Mr. LemurBoy points out that photoshopped, airbrushed or But shouldn't there just be a reasonable, why should it require some French politicians are edited in some manner. The idea, simpler rule against deceptive some special disclosure? Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ 13 China and North korea: Putting a squeeze on (The Economist: News shape. As winter looms many that he has got from China: North Korea’s pledge to analysis) North Koreans cannot feed or economic assistance, a peace recommit itself to “denuclearising Dremel 4000 Must Be Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:20:05 AM warm themselves. United Nations treaty on the Korean peninsula to the [Korean] peninsula” has failed Two Times Better than sanctions and a maritime blockade replace the current armistice and to impress the South Koreans. China and North korea have squeezed the impoverished diplomatic relations with Hyun In-taek, South Korea ’s the Dremel 2000 [Tools] Oct 6th 2009 | SEOUL country further by cutting off Washington. The North Korean minister in charge of relations By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) From Economist.com China’s North Korea’s most profitable leader may want to bequeath to with North Korea, says “North prime minister, Wen Jiabao, export, weapons. his successor, perhaps his third Korea’s recent conciliatory Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:40:00 AM persuades Kim Jong Il to return to Mr Kim desperately needs son, Kim Jong Un, an gestures can be regarded as only Do-It-Yourself humans! Lust for nuclear-arms talks Chinese aid and Mr Wen obliged international environment that is minor shifts in attitude.” Another the Dremel 4000—the magic NORTH KOREA'S ailing the North Korean, according to less hostile to North Korea. complication is that North rotating tool that can sand dictator, Kim Jong Il, rarely Chinese news reports. China’s James Steinberg, America’s Korea’s leader hinted that he may surfaces, carve wood, polish ventures to the airport to greet prime minister signed a broad deputy secretary of state, says his want Japan excluded from metal, scramble eggs, mix visiting foreign dignitaries. But economic-assistance package with government is “prepared to have multilateral talks. Mr Kim is cocktails, and overstimulate China’s prime minister, Wen North Korea which has pledged to direct engagement with North angry that Japan continued to naughty bits with different Jiabao, who departed from North transform itself by 2012 into Korea” if the regime returns to six raise the issue of the kidnapping tips—for it's the new king of the Korea on Tuesday October 6th KanGsong Taeguk, a strong, -party talks with China, Russia, of its citizens by his regime at the multifunction tool hill. after a three-day visit, is no run-of prosperous and powerful country. Japan, South Korea and America six-party talks. It has new replaceable motor -the-mill VIP. China has been The package is perhaps in aimed at getting rid of North Mr Wen’s success in eliciting a with electronic feedback control, North Korea’s staunchest ally defiance of UN sanctions aimed at Korea’s nuclear weapons. These commitment from North Korea to which in theory will give you through war and uneasy peace. halting North Korea’s nuclear- discussions are crucial to Barack return to the six-party talks is consistent speed under pressure. Fraternal protocol demanded that weapons programme and missile Obama’s efforts to halt the evidence of its diplomatic muscle. The speed range goes from 5,000 Mr Kim greet Mr Wen on the development. But it may be a proliferation of nuclear weapons. North Korea had, just two months to 35,000 revolutions per minute, tarmac not only with a vigorous carrot intended to draw Mr Kim America wants to bring North ago, described the talks as “dead”. and it has the obligatory backward handshake but also a prolonged back into talks aimed at Korea back into the nuclear non- China has long been criticised for compatibility with all your hug. dismantling his nuclear arsenal. In proliferation treaty, which it left not using its considerable existing Dremel tips. [ Dremel Officially Mr Wen was in this Mr Wen seems to have in January 2003. America’s influence to bring North Korea to via] Pyongyang to celebrate the 60th succeeded, albeit with a caveat. president plans a nuclear-arms heel for its nuclear weapons and year of diplomatic relations North Korea’s official news summit in March next year and he intercontinental-missile tests. Mr between China and North Korea. agency says that Mr Kim desperately needs a diplomatic Wen has apparently convinced But since 1978 the two countries expressed readiness to hold breakthrough on North Korea. For North Korea to give some ground. have pursued very different multilateral talks depending on several months his administration Back to top ^^ Readers' economic policies. China's the outcome of talks between has been trying to convince Japan comments markets are open to the world; North Korea and America. Mr and South Korea to give their The Economist welcomes your North Korea remains in isolation Kim doubtless wants some of the blessing to negotiations between views. and its economy is in terrible same things from the Americans America and North Korea. Funktionide Substitutes Human Contact—If You Are a Big Blob Lover, That Is [Concept] By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) let's say I can get pass the stimulated—and no boobs to grab some day it will shift from Will the machines fall in love Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:20:00 AM creepiness of that video. Now, onto? Bad! satisfiying our basic funtional with us? where are the breasts? Based on EAP-technology needs to include our emotional I sure hope not. I once had an German designer Stefan Ulrich I mean, come on, all those "Funktionide" is a concept for an needs as well. affair with my beard trimmer, and says his Funktionide—a white bumps and shape-shifting magic emotional robot that substitutes How will this future be? How it didn't end well. At all. [ blob that changes shape thanks to thanks to the use of electroactive human contact. In a future where do we want it to be? Will it affect Dezeen] artificial muscle technology—can polymers—plastics that can technology will play a huge part our human interactions if we start "relieve loneliness." OK, Stefan, change form when electrically in our lifes it is very likely that to fall in love with machines? 14 Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech News/ Picture/ Internet News Record Let's Make a Deal Australia's economy: Coming back down under Search Engine, (The Economist: News before the end of the year. The big months to June. Across the are strong; minerals have grown Ask.com Says analysis) Australian banks anticipated the country, according to recent from 20% of Australia’s exports By Ryan Singel (Wired Top Submitted at 10/6/2009 4:24:10 AM central bank’s move, and have statistics from RP Data, a property to more than 40% in the past Stories) been increasing their fixed -information firm, prices jumped decade. David Forrester of Australia's economy lending rates throughout the year. by nearly 2% in August, the Barclays Capital, an investment Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:52:00 AM Oct 6th 2009 More rises are expected, fastest monthly rise since 2005. bank, expects central banks in Ask Deals — which hunts down From Economist.com Australia especially as Mr Stevens has Few other countries are other commodity-rich countries coupons and sales — takes its is the first large, rich country to concluded that the risk of serious enjoying such benign economic such as Norway and New Zealand place besides Ask’s more raise interest rates in more than a economic contraction in Australia conditions (although Israel, which to lift rates soon. conventional tabs for searches for year has passed. Annual inflation is is also relatively flourishing, However Australia is not news, video and images. It’s a AUSTRALIA’S central bank is 1.5%, but it is 2.5% when volatile pipped Australia to the post by invulnerable. The Australian response to a growing number of the first in a big, rich economy to items are excluded. But it seems raising interest rates to 0.75% in government is determined to stick searchers looking for discounts in raise interest rates since July last set to go higher. August). The Australian decision to a large stimulus package that tough times, the company says year. On Tuesday October 6th the Australia’s economy has been is not necessarily a sign of better was announced earlier this year, overnight “cash rate” was raised broadly protected from the economic health around the much of which remains unspent. by a quarter of a percentage point, economic storm raging in the rest world. “We don’t expect rates in That could drive up interest rates to 3.25%. Glenn Stevens, the of the world. Although the major economies of Europe, further if growth continues. And bank's governor, explained that unemployment is rising fast in America and Britain to be going Australia’s volatile exchange rate economic conditions in Australia many rich economies, the local anywhere for the foreseeable is a mixed blessing. Higher have been stronger than expected jobless rate has grown by only 1.4 future”, says Sukhy Ubhi of interest rates are helping to push and measures of confidence have percentage points in the past year. Capital Economics, a consultancy. up the Australian dollar rapidly as recovered “forecasts are being And since June it has remained Australia is enjoying almost the country becomes a more revised higher…and growth in flat at 5.8. Although the country unique economic circumstances. attractive place for international 2010 is likely to be close to saw one quarter of economic Its banking system has held up investors to park funds. A rising trend.” contraction late last year, it has well, with some national banks dollar in turn puts a squeeze on Is this the beginning of a avoided a technical recession posting healthy profits during the the tourism industry and other The White Sea general shift in monetary policy (generally considered to be two financial crisis. The banks exporters. Every silver lining has By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) as central bankers around the successive quarters of avoided subprime lending and a cloud. world begin to prepare for contraction). Since then the arrears rates remain tiny. Most Back to top ^^ Readers' Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:48:08 AM economic recovery? In fact economy has been looking up. important, the country’s trading comments Photos from quinnloganmckee, Australia is a special case. Interest House prices have barely budged position with Asia, and especially The Economist welcomes your carl kalabaw, photo61guy, teo de rates remain four percentage from historic peaks in 2007. China, is flourishing. China, views. pap, TroyMason, c.zwerg, points below their recent peak in Prices in Sydney and Melbourne, where growth is booming again, is slopjop, and NgirNgir. March 2008 and local markets Australia’s two biggest cities, now Australia’s largest trading had been expecting a rate rise surged by some 5% in the three partner. Exports of raw materials Augmented Reality example at CEATEC By Scott Merrill (CrunchGear) examples in the real world. iPod Touch. my experience trying the live Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:30:01 AM Yamaha has support for air tags The demonstration I saw was demo was less than stellar: in their new disklavier. This really neat, and I think this is a If air tagging really takes off, I Augmented reality is all the new means that you can play a song on really exciting new technology. It can see augmented reality failing buzz, I guess. I don’t know, your Yamaha disklavier and tag introduces a whole lot of before it even starts, as locations because I only have an iPhone 3G the whole thing. When you look wonderful new ways in which we get filled up with the augmented — mine’s missing that important at the area using Sekai Camera, can interact with our world over versions of “ Kilroy was here” “S” indicating it’s the new model you can see the tag for the song time (and hopefully paves the way graffiti and countless iterations of on which augmented reality can you recorded. Click it, and toward the technology that Vernor Chopsticks. actually execute. But at CEATEC FingerPiano Share can execute to song, allowing you to practice it Vinge posits in his novel today I saw some Sekai Camera show you the fingering for that or play along on your iPhone or Rainbows End). Unfortunately, Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech Reviews/ 15 IMF in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Financial Sector and Stocks recurrence of our recent financial Europe and the White House are Analysis from Seeking Alpha) crisis and crash, but they do not. not exactly encouraging in this Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:02:56 AM “We will remain vigilant to regard; they just don’t want to prevent financial sector excesses give up “jobs for the boys” and By Simon Johnson and reaccumulation of the option value that creates – in Sunday’s communique from the unsustainable global imbalances” some future crisis, you might International Monetary and (paragraph 2) is about the scariest want your guy in the managing Financial Committee(of the Board wording you can imagine in this director job, which comes with of Governors of the International context. Do you really think the great discretion and no constraints Verizon plans to support Google Voice, Monetary Fund) is incredibly financial sector respects or will under the usual rule of law. bland, even by their usual even notice official “vigilance”? The quota reform (paragraph 4) will launch two 'game-changing' standards. The degree of self- They are giggling on Wall Street. adds nothing new, and certainly congratulation and complacency And, in this context, is reference not enough to really restore Asian Android devices in coming weeks is slightly less pronounced than to “global imbalances” anything confidence in the IMF. The By Nilay Patel (Engadget) other's throats over 700MHz open what we saw from the G20 in other than a smokescreen (or Flexible Credit Line (paragraph 9) Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:37:00 AM -access rules. Now? Rainbows Pittsburgh, whose final statement another strange kind of joke) – see is a sensible and long overdue and kittens all around. Lastly, contained a classic moment of our Washington Post online innovation. But why has it been We're currently on a press call there will be a major app push hubris when the entirety of column for more on this point. taken up by only three countries with Verizon CEO Lowell coming from these two -- paragraph 5 read: “ It worked.” “We intend to adopt an open, (Poland, Mexico, and Colombia)? McAdam and Google CEO Eric Verizon's obviously going to Still, the IMFC (representing all merit-based and transparent Unless there are more customers Schmidt to discuss their new preload Android Market on its IMF member countries) seems to process for the selection of IMF in the pipeline soon, the lack of partnership, and while it's mostly devices, and there should be some be in the same cloud cuckoo land management at our next meeting” use for this facility will further a love-fest between the two with 10,000 apps available when all is as the G20 leaders. (paragraph 5) is moderately underline the IMF’s continuing no real announcements, there's said and done. Not a bad show of This is not surprising, as the interesting, but only because it issues with legitimacy among been some interesting tidbits. First support by Verizon, we'd say -- IMF appears to be increasingly appears to step back from emerging market member off, Verizon will be launching two and there was a lot of talk about under the auspices of the G20 – committing to appoint a non- countries. Tripling the IMF’s Android products in the coming long-term roadmaps and a despite the fact that this is European (and non-US) person as resources (paragraph 8) could weeks -- we'd say at least one of "family" of products, so we'd extremely awkward from a formal the next managing director of the only help stabilize the world’s them will be the Motorola Sholes, expect much more than just two governance point of view. The IMF. The current incumbent is economy if countries are willing and while the other is still a phones and smiles over the next IMF has 186 members; the G20 presumed on his way to campaign to borrow on a precautionary mystery, Google says it'll be few months. Things are certainly has 19 or perhaps up to 25, for the presidency of France (and basis or when they first come "game-changing." Very getting interesting, no? depending on how many as a smart politician, likely wants under pressure. intriguing. Second, and perhaps Filed under: Cellphones Europeans manage to gate crash to quit while he’s ahead), and And, given the clear much more interestingly, Verizon plans to support Google on a continuing basis. Who appointing a replacement from international commitment not to Verizon's making a big push to be Voice, will launch two 'game- elected the G20 to run the world? India, China, Brazil, or another tackle growing problems in the seen as the "open" carrier, and changing' Android devices in Perhaps this arrangement would major emerging market could be a global financial system, intense flatly stated that they'll be coming weeks originally appeared be tolerable if the G20/IMFC had significant move. But signs, pressure is what we should supporting Google Voice on their on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 an agenda for really avoiding a behind the scenes, from both expect. network: "Either you have an 10:37:00 EST. Please see our open device or you don't." That's terms for use of feeds. 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Once reported, our offensive language Illegal activities: Promote 16 Economy/ Gadgets/ Media/ Internet News Record MediaDailyNews: Bravo Fed Watch: Commercial Paper Outstanding, October Picks Up "Housewives" Of DC, Jersey 5, 2009 (MediaPost | Media News) (Financial Sector and Stocks rate on record, registering a Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:06:19 AM Analysis from Seeking Alpha) whopping 28.38% decline year- Bravo has expanded the "Real Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:12:44 AM over-year. Another important insight, at Housewives" franchise with "The The Commercial Paper (CP) $1.162 trillion the total CP market Real Housewives of D.C." and a market is essentially a private is now 3.2% smaller than the second season of "The Real debt market used by corporations $1.272 trillion seen at the bottom Housewives of New Jersey," both as a cheaper means of funding of the last contraction in late set for 2010. "The Real typical recurring operations than 2003. Housewives of New Jersey's" drawing on a line of bank credit. The CP market that expanded freshman season ranks as the Commercial paper, as financial wildly throughout 2004, 2005, highest-rated "Housewives" series instrument, is by no means a 2006 and most of 2007 is now no in all demos, averaging 2.55 recent innovation and, in fact, you million total viewers and 1.91 was able to artificially bring CP market. more, replaced instead by one can read about how the CP market smaller and contracting faster than million adults 18-49. "The Real was affected by the many historic rates down significantly since the The Federal Reserve calculates Housewives of D.C." is produced shocking 615 basis point spread and publishes the total amount of at any other time in this century. financial shocks experienced by click to enlarge by Half Yard Productions LLC the U.S. (read Panic on Wall blowout (A2/P2 spread) of late CP outstanding every week and as for Bravo. Street: A History of America’s 2008, they have apparently not of the latest published period, Financial Disasters). been successful in preventing an commercial paper outstanding is Although the Federal Reserve overall contraction in the CP contracting at nearly the fastest Robbie Bach sits down for a roundtable discussion, Engadget is there By Joshua Topolsky products. Zune, Xbox, and "research" going on right now. (Engadget) Microsoft phone products don't "The pen has been around for a Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:33:00 PM really play nice at this point. long time," he says. "There's work Robbie was hesitant to tackle the that has to be done." We're currently at a multi- actual question, sticking mostly to • Robbie says, "Microsoft is as purpose Microsoft event right the party line, though he did admit proactive as it is reactive." On the now -- an event touring the that their plans stretch further Zune HD "Where we broke company's holiday lineup, as well down the road than this -- a theme through is in software." as today's launch of Windows thus far. It sounds a lot like We're going to keep updating as phone devices (AKA, Windows Microsoft isn't where it wants to we chat -- so stay tuned! Mobile 6.5). We had a chance to be. In a later question, he asks us Filed under: Misc. Gadgets sit down with Robbie Bach, to "look where [Microsoft] is in Robbie Bach sits down for a President of Microsoft's two or three years." That's a long roundtable discussion, Engadget Entertainment & Devices time to wait guys. is there originally appeared on Division, and ask him some • An HTC HD2 is doing the Robbie seemed to glaze over the somewhat perplexing. Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 questions about where the big M rounds at the show (though it's in presence of the device. The line • Michael Gartenberg, one of our 12:33:00 EST. Please see our is headed with its recent lineup. someone's pocket) -- when we was "we want to work with all our contributors, asks about if the terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Here's a few of our takeaways. asked why the company hasn't partners." Why they wouldn't call company is "still committed to Email this| Comments • We asked about convergence highlighted the device (which is out what is a groundbreaking pen computing" -- Robbie says (or lack thereof) across Microsoft pretty darn sick, by the way), device for Windows Mobile is yes, and that there's a lot of Internet News Record 17 DJ Hero track list: 100 songs, 93 mash-ups By Doug Aamoth (CrunchGear) Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:00:00 AM Here you go – the official list of mash-ups that’ll appear in DJ Hero when it becomes available on October 27th. These are apparently all original, not- available-anywhere-else mixes. · 2Pac – “All Eyez On Me” vs. The Aranbee Pop Orchestra – “Bittersweet Symphony (Instrumental)” · 50 Cent – “Disco Inferno” vs. David Bowie – “Let’s Dance” · 50 Cent – “Disco Inferno” vs. InDeep – “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life” · Afrika Bambaataa – “Zulu Nation Throwdown” vs. Freedom Express – “Get Down” · Beastie Boys – “Here’s A Little Somethin’ For Ya” vs. DJ Shadow – “The Number Song (2009 Version)” (Produced and mixed by DJ Shadow) · Beastie Boys – “Intergalactic” vs. Blondie – “Rapture” · Beastie Boys – “Lee Majors Come Again” vs. Daft Punk – “Da Funk” (Produced and mixed by Cut Chemist) · Beck – “Where It’s At” vs. DJ Shadow – “Six Days (Remix ft. Mos Def)” · Bell Biv DeVoe – “Poison” Beat Juggle · Bell Biv DeVoe – “Poison” vs. Beastie Boys – “Intergalactic” (Produced and mixed by DJ AM) · Bell Biv DeVoe – “Poison” vs. Cameo – “Word Up!” · Benny Benassi – “Satisfaction” vs. Tiësto – “Elements Of Life” · Billy Squier – “The Big Beat” vs. N.E.R.D. – “Lapdance” (DJ- Guitar mix) · Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom Pow” vs. Benny Benassi – 18 Gadgets/ Internet News Record HERO continued from page 17 Sharp” vs. DJ Shadow – “Organ Beat Juggle · Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It · Street Sweeper Social Club – Donor (Extended Overhaul)” · Herbie Hancock – “Rockit” vs. Through The Grapevine” vs. “Fight! Smash! Win!” vs. Beastie · Dizzee Rascal – “Fix Up, Look N.E.R.D. – “Lapdance” David Bowie – “Let’s Dance” Boys – “Intergalactic” (DJ-Guitar Sharp” vs. Justice – “Genesis” (Produced and mixed by · Marvin Gaye – “I Heard It mix) · DJ Shadow – “Six Days Grandmaster Flash) Through The Grapevine” vs. · Tears For Fears – “Shout” vs. (Remix ft. Mos Def)” vs. D-Code · InDeep – “Last Night A DJ Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.” DJ Shadow – “Six Days (Remix Fukitorimushi: – “Annie’s Horn” Saved My Life” vs. Cameo – · Motörhead – “Ace Of Spades” ft. Mos Def)” · Eminem – “My Name Is” vs. “Word Up!” vs. Noisia – “Groundhog” (DJ- · Tears For Fears – “Shout” vs. Panasonic’s creepy Beck – “Loser” · Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back” Guitar mix) Eric B. & Rakim – “Eric B. Is cleaning robot (video) · Fedde Le Grand – “Put Your vs. Gang Starr – “Just To Get A · N.A.S.A. – “Strange Enough ft. President” (Produced and mixed Hands Up For Detroit” vs. Sandy Rep” (Produced and mixed by DJ Karen O, ODB & Fatlip” vs. Isaac by DJ Jazzy Jeff) By Serkan Toto (CrunchGear) Rivera and David Penn – “I Can’t Yoda) Hayes – “Theme From Shaft” · Tears For Fears – “Shout” vs. Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:40:44 AM Stop (David Penn Remix)” · Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back” · Noisia – “Groundhog” Beat Eric Prydz – “Pjanoo” · Foo Fighters – “Monkey vs. Third Eye Blind – “Semi- Juggle (Produced and mixed by · The Aranbee Pop Orchestra – The so-called Fukitorimushi Wrench” vs. Beastie Boys – Charmed Life” (DJ-Guitar mix) The Scratch Perverts) “Bittersweet Symphony (”wipe-up bug” in Japanese), a “Sabotage” (DJ-Guitar mix) · Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back” · Paul van Dyk – “Nothing But (Instrumental)” vs. LL Cool J – cleaning robot of a very special · Foreigner – “Juke Box Hero” vs. Third Eye Blind – “Semi- You” vs. Sandy Rivera and David “Rock The Bells” (Produced and kind, has been around for quite a vs. DJ Z-Trip ft. Murs – “DJ Charmed Life” Penn – “I Can’t Stop (David Penn mixed by DJ Jazzy Jeff) while now. But what was Hero” (Produced and mixed by · JAY-Z feat. Pharrell – “Change Remix)” · The Scratch Perverts Beats and showcased recently during a tech DJ Z-Trip) Clothes” vs. 2Pac – “All Eyez on · Public Enemy – “Shut ‘Em Pieces (Produced and mixed by exhibition in Tokyo was the · Foreigner – “Juke Box Hero” Me” Down” vs. Beck – “Where It’s The Scratch Perverts) newest version. And the thing is vs. DJ Z-Trip ft. Murs – “DJ · JAY-Z – “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” vs. At” · The Killers – “Somebody Told still creepy as hell. Hero” (DJ-Guitar mix, produced Eminem – “My Name Is” · Public Enemy ft. Zakk Wylde – Me” vs. Eric Prydz – “Pjanoo” What you see is basically a and mixed by DJ Z-Trip) · JAY-Z – “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” vs. “Bring The Noise 20XX” vs. · Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby” vs. robotic pillow that can move · Gang Starr – “Just To Get A Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back” Justice – “Genesis” (Produced and MC Hammer – “U Can’t Touch around in closed rooms like an Rep” vs. Mobb Deep – “Shook · JAY-Z – “Excuse Me Miss” vs. mixed by DJ Z-Trip) This” inchworm and cleans the floors by Ones, Pt 2 (Produced and mixed Rick James – “Give It To Me” · Public Enemy featuring Zakk · Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby” vs. making use of the world’s first by J. Period) · Jean Knight – “Mr. Big Stuff” Wylde – “Bring The Noise Paula Abdul – “Straight Up” nano-level superfine polyester · Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.” vs. vs. Masta Ace – “Born To Roll” 20XX” (DJ-Guitar mix) · Wale – “Lookin’ At Me” vs. fiber it’s mainly made of. The Blondie – “Atomic” · Jurassic 5 – “Jayou” vs. Billy · Q-Tip – “Good Thang” vs. Black Eyed Peas ft. Tippa Irie – cloth can absorb oil and pick up · Grandmaster Flash’s – “Boom” Squier – “The Big Beat” Billy Squier – “The Big Beat” “Hey Mama” ultra-fine dust particles. vs. “Tap” (Produced and mixed · Jurassic 5 – “Jayou” vs. Herbie (Produced and mixed by J. · Weezer – “Beverly Hills” vs. When the Fukitorimushi finds a by Grandmaster Flash) Hancock – “Rockit” Period) Evidence, The Alchemist, dirty spot, it lights up red, starts · Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool, · Kid Cudi – “Day ‘N’ Nite” vs. · Queen – “Another One Bites Aceyalone, Rakaa & 88 Keys – rubbing the dirt away and moves DJ Demo – “Here Comes My DJ” Black Eyed Peas – “Boom Boom The Dust” vs. Beastie Boys – “Fresh Rhymes And Videotape” on. It’s able to find its way back vs. Gary Numan – “Cars” Pow” “Brass Monkey” (Produced and (DJ-Guitar mix) to the charging station by itself, (Produced and mixed by · Kool Moe Dee – “How Ya Like mixed by DJ Z-Trip) · Wild Cherry – “Play That too. Grandmaster Flash) Me Now” vs. Reel 2 Real · Queen – “Another One Bites Funky Music” vs. Gang Starr – The Fukitorimushi was designed · Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback featuring The Mad Stuntman – “I The Dust” vs. Daft Punk – “Da “Just To Get A Rep” (DJ-Guitar by Panasonic, and Japan-based Girl” vs. Gorillaz – “Feel Good Like To Move It” Funk” mix) chemicals company Teijin Inc.” · Little Richard – “Tutti Frutti” · Rihanna – “Disturbia” vs. Kid Some pretty sweet mixes in provided the nano technology. · Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback vs. Shlomo – “Beats” (Produced Sister – “Control” there if you’re into this sort of The question is now who would Girl” vs. InDeep “Last Night A and mixed by DJ Yoda) · Rihanna – “Disturbia” vs. The thing. The DJ Hero YouTube want such a robo pillow move DJ Saved My Life” (Produced · M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” vs. Killers – “Somebody Told Me” page has a handful of them in around in the living-room. and mixed by DJ AM) Eric B. & Rakim – “Eric B. Is (DJ-Guitar mix) quick 30-second bites as well. Have a look at the video below · Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback President” (Produced and mixed · Rihanna – “Disturbia” vs. The [via Kotaku] to see how the thing works: Girl” vs. Rick James – “Give It by The Scratch Perverts) Trammps – “Disco Inferno” To Me” · M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” vs. · Shlomo – “Beats” vs. Billy · Herbie Hancock – “Rockit” Wale – “Lookin’ At Me” Squier – “The Big Beat” Internet News Record Gadgets/ 19 HTC Imagio Review: HTC Is Microsoft's Best Critic [Review] By John Herrman (Gizmodo) Moreover, I don't really Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:00:00 AM understand how Verizon expects people to use this. You can't use it For Windows Mobile 6.5, the on a plane or a subway, so what, OS is only (and thankfully) half trains? During your lunch break at the story. Microsoft left plenty up work? There center part in the to the carriers and handset Venn diagram of times where you manufacturers, and with the might want to watch video Imagio, Verizon and HTC have at content but don't have a computer least created something or TV and times when you can interesting. The Gadget realistically use V CAST is small, Verizon's HTC Imagio is a as far as I can tell. But if live, touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.5 basic-cable-esque TV on your handset, or " Windows Phone," phone is something you can see with a healthy, if expected, spec yourself using, this set, iiiiinnncluding!: a 3.6-inch implementation is actually pretty WVGA screen, Wi-Fi, GPS, a 5- good. The (Mild) Tragedy megapixel camera, a 3.5mm This has been the story for a few headphone jack, and microSD years now, and it doesn't look like storage expansion (but sadly, no it's going to change with included card). It's also the first Windows Mobile 6.5: Handset smartphone with V CAST Mobile manufacturers will continue to TV, which is a Flo TV-based live make the OS bearable to use, and streaming TV service that looks knobbly, giving the handset a Mobile 6.5 in my review, but ever write. V CAST TV carrier will occasionally grant and feels a bit like digital cable, little friction, and a secure feeling guess what? HTC likes it even Based on Flo TV, which handsets interesting—if not phone-ified. Accordingly, it has in your hand. The bottom row of less. TouchFLO 3D reaches probably doesn't mean much to always useful—services to keep an adorable kickstand. The Price buttons—call, V CAST, Windows deeper into the operating system most people, V CAST is a customers' attention. That's $200 on contract with Verizon, Start Menu, back and end than ever before, to the point that categorically impressive exactly what the Imagio does, after a $100 rebate The Hardware call—are placed a little low to be during casual use you can't even technology. The best way to bonding pleasant hardware design HTC is the Taco Bell of the comfortable to press, but anyone tell you're using a Windows describe it is that it's like having a with a heroic salvaging of the handset world—they've only got a who's used to HTC handset Mobile phone. digital cable box, complete with phone's interface. At $200 after few ingredients that they put into designs won't have any trouble The Titanium homescreen? live broadcasts of familiar basic rebate, it's not a best value by a their long menu of products, but getting around this piece. Replaced. The new, larger cable stations (Comedy Central, long shot, but in Verizon's sickly the results are consistently pretty Performance is adequate, but contextual menus? How about CNN, the like), and a familiar smartphone line, it's not a horrible good, if not spectacular. Of the since this is the same Qualcomm prettier HTC versions instead? program guide interface. Video choice. bulging ranks of 528MHz- processor we've been complaining Mobile Internet Explorer 6? quality is fair, but definitely I would've liked to end this Qualcomm-based touchscreen about for months now, and the Replaced with Opera Mobile. watchable, and the experience of review on that happy note, but handsets, this is one of my 256MB of RAM isn't overly Virtually every other piece of flipping through live channels is while I was writing it Verizon favorite permutations. For its size, generous, it's nothing better than software that HTC had time to pretty novel. sabotaged my plan, those the Imagio is respectably what we've already seen in the revamp or cover up? Out of sight, As interesting as the underlying scoundrels: Two Android phones thin—about as thick as an iPhone, likes of the HTC Touch Pro2. out of mind. And for one final technology is, there are a few will be announced for the network but with a noticeably larger HTC's done plenty of work to kick in the nuts, the new Start serious problems. Watching TV is "within weeks," which means that screen—and pleasantly rounded make TouchFLO run Menu, which Microsoft even went neat and all, but on a mobile unless you're bound to Windows in the rear, with a subdued two- nice'n'smooth, sure, but it really so far as to require 6.5 phones to device, video on demand would Mobile either by software, your tone backplate accented with a wouldn't hurt to not just make a have a dedicated button for? be infinitely more useful. And at employer, or, er, extreme loyalty, shiny camera bezel and a chrome handset with speedier hardware, Replaced with a slightly better $12 or $15 a month, I don't think you'd be best advised to wait a kickstand. but to actually release it in the US. HTC variant. That, right there, is people will be satisfied with the little while. [ Verizon] The front of the device is The Software a better review of Windows somewhat anemic channel It's got an appealing design, framed by a perforated grille, I was pretty hard on Windows Mobile 6.5 than anyone could selection (full listings here). which looks and feels pleasantly HTC page 22 20 Gadgets/ Internet News Record How to Make Your Own Shroud of Turin [DIY] By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) over a student covered in red indicates that this could be done Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:20:00 AM ochre, using a mask that simulated with the use of inexpensive Jesus' alleged physiognomy. They materials and with a quite simple Further proving that the Shroud kept aging and washing the procedure. of Turin—a linen cloth that shroud, adding the necessary If they don't want to believe believers say covered Jesus after blood stains in the process. carbon dating done by some of the the crucifixion—is a big fake, This easy to do, inexpensive one world's best laboratories they scientists have made a -week process resulted in exactly certainly won't believe me. reproduction using inexpensive the same look as the Shroud of Indeed Luigi, indeed. These Logitech materials and easy techniques Turin, which has been repeatedly people won't take scientific proof from the Middle Ages. This is proven to be a fake made around that the relic is fake because they Squeezebox how: the 14th Century using different just like to do the Mulder and Italian chemist Luigi dating techniques. want to believe. Now, go back to Radio review Garlaschelli and his team used the Would this convince the kill Koopa Troopas and Goombas By Tim Stevens (Engadget) same type of linen. First they aged believers? Garlaschelli says he characteristics that cannot be after killing God yet one more the cloth with heat, using a doubt it: reproduced by human means. But time. I'm going to pull a Nietzsche Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:22:00 PM normal oven, and washing it with Many still believe that the the result obtained clearly and find myself a linen cloth to water. The shroud was placed shroud has unexplainable try. [ BBC and Daily Mail] Everybody knows internet radio is a hit when you're at your computer. Away from your computer? Not so much. Getting The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch- your streams into your living rooms, bedrooms, and semi- Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives [Hard Drives] detached servants quarters is rarely easy, and rarely fun. By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) strongbox. A symbol of strength Logitech's Squeezebox series has Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:40:01 AM mastered, of freedom guided, of been one of the most seamless incandescent magma heeding to ways to make it happen, and with I like the new LaCie Starck the form of its cast. The the Squeezebox Radio it gets even drives. I look at its surface and all interpretation is free. But the better. It's cheaper and prettier I want is to dunk carrot cake into mystery remains. than the Boom we enjoyed this all that melty chrome and eat it. See? He wants to lick and dunk time last year, and, a little more It's hard to find storage that you a carrot cake in his drives too. fun too. How much fun? Join in actually want to lick. Maybe a Krispy Kreme doughnut. and see. The looks are great—with a OK, Philippe, for $130 (1TB) and Gallery: Logitech Squeezebox chrome blob encased in a 3mm $250 (2TB) for the LaCie Start Radio unboxing sharp-angled box of resistant Desktop Drive—my Continue reading Logitech aluminum casing—but it also has favorite—and $100 (320GB) and kinds of touch. Example: A short incredible power whose limits are Squeezebox Radio review some really cool features. One of $140 (500GB) for the LaCie Filed under: Home them is the LED indicator in the tap will trigger the launch of an yet to be known. The power Starck Mobile Drive, I'm game. [ application, while a long caress remains, never abating, Entertainment, Portable Audio, shape of Starck's sign that is LaCie] Wireless projected onto the table. The can initiate an automatic backup. symbolically characterized by the In the words of Philippe Starck: sculptural magma that one Logitech Squeezebox Radio other, which is my favorite, is that review originally appeared on the surface is touch sensitive, so Technological genius explodes attempts to cleave, to master exponentially, each time with within this geometrically perfect Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 you can assign actions to different 12:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Internet News Record Gadgets/ Media/ 21

Motorola DEXT goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, maybe sneaking out today UberNES may be the greatest By Nilay Patel (Engadget) Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:57:00 AM screen saver since Johnny Statesiders will have to wait LaCie hard drives stand in another month before getting their Castaway hands on the Motorola CLIQ, but the party's getting started early in Starck contrast to the By Doug Aamoth downloadable demo movies “that the UK: the DEXT, as it's called (CrunchGear) provide over two full days of across the pond, goes on sale at Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:00:48 AM unique NES gameplay footage,” Orange shops tomorrow and competition (hands-on) according to the UberNES.com Be still my beating heart. The Phones4U stores the day after. By Thomas Ricker (Engadget) aesthetic and mass. And while the website. Aside from that, Still not soon enough for you? Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:01:00 AM models we received feature off- UberNES Nintendo Screen Saver installation consists of copying displays a grid of multiple We're also told that the Orange the-shelf disks from Samsung and the Nintendo Saver.scr file into store in Milton Keynes will be Ready for some churchin' up? Hitachi, LaCie adds a few working NES games when your your Windows/System32 computer is idle. Leave it be, and having early sales today -- do let Then step on in to the house of functional tricks to enhance that directory (yes, Windows only) us know if you snag one, won't Starck. Philippe Starck that is, the high-design form. Read on to see you’ll see all the various demos and then pointing it at your ROMs running at once. Hit the spacebar you? prolific designer who's left his if the two struck the appropriate directory to create a library [Via Boy Genius Report] mark on hotel interiors, balance. and you can actually start playing content to pull from. You don’t the games. Filed under: Cellphones motorbikes, and toilets across the Gallery: LaCie Starck Hard need to install a separate emulator Motorola DEXT goes on sale in globe. His latest contribution to Drives Tears of joy, my friends. Tears in order to play the games either. of joy. the UK tomorrow, maybe the economy of stuff also heralds Continue reading LaCie hard Nintendo Screen sneaking out today originally a return to LaCie (remember his drives stand in Starck contrast to If you don’t have any ROMs, Saver[UberNES via OhGizmo!] there are around 100 appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 "toaster" series?) with a pair of the competition (hands-on) Oct 2009 11:57:00 EST. Please new hard disk drives: the LaCie Filed under: Storage MediaDailyNews: Hammond Named CD For see our terms for use of feeds. Starck Mobile Hard Drive and LaCie hard drives stand in Read| Permalink| Email this| Desktop Hard Drive. Both drives Starck contrast to the competition TBWA LA Comments are conspicuously inscribed with (hands-on) originally appeared on Starck's name and flare for Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 (MediaPost | Media News) Partners, where he was an ACD, melding organic shapes within the 11:01:00 EST. Please see our Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:54:42 AM working with Adobe, Emerald rigid rules of geometry. Drives terms for use of feeds. Read| Nuts and Hyundai. Prior to that must be pressed to flesh to be Permalink| Email this| Comments TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles Goodby, he was at DDB Canada fully appreciated for their named Will Hammond creative and Rethink Communications in director, primarily focusing on the Vancouver. Visa account. Previously, he worked at Goodby, Silverstein & 22 Gadgets/ Tech/ Internet News Record Kempler & Strauss launch Get ready for the LCROSS lunar Billionair 6 WinMo phone impact this Friday By Laura June (Engadget) By Nicholas Deleon (CrunchGear) Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:34:00 AM Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:30:18 AM Kempler & Strauss (who just the other day unveiled an epically Be sure to set your alarm clock cool watchphone) have just for around 6am this Friday, for at announced the imminent arrival of 6:15am NASA will, in the its newest Windows Mobile immortal words of Matt Drudge, HOW TO: handset, the touchscreen “bomb the moon.” No, we’re not Billionair 6. This 3G HSPA devil talking about some dumb Integrate Facebook has a 624MHz ARM processor, Hollywood (redundancy alert!) boasts GPS and WiFi, and has a scenario, but the most exciting With Your Blog part of the Lunar CRater micro SD slot for up to 4GB of I think it’s fairly obvious that By Christina Warren storage, plus a 3 megapixel Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS) program: the lunar my knowledge of NASA-related (Mashable!) camera. The B6, as it's news is somewhat limited, but I impact. Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:18:55 AM affectionately called, runs a Kempler & Strauss launch can appreciate a good lunar custom interface over WinMo and NASA will webcast the event Billionair 6 WinMo phone on its Web site, so you don’t even impact with the rest of ‘em. Love it, hate it, or mildly tolerate boasts an accelerometer to boot. originally appeared on Engadget The B6 runs $260 and it's have to get out of your pajamas to on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:34:00 see the action. available now. EST. Please see our terms for use Continue reading Kempler & of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Strauss launch Billionair 6 Comments WinMo phone 'Approved' Fansub Anime To Filed under: Cellphones HTC Compete With Licensed Version continued from page 19 By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) An anonymous reader points out embracing of fansubbers, it large screen and minimal Windows Mobile 6.5, y'all Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:14:45 AM that 07th Expansion recently sold changed its mind, and told the branding Specs could use a bump; namely the rights of a new game to the fansubbers they could continue Kickstand! Ha! the aging 528MHz processor and We've discussed the state of company MangaGamer, which with their effort. HTC's done a hell of a job included storage "fansub" anime video and video includes the right to translate the Of course, even with the sprucing up Windows Mobile, as $200 isn't a great bargain, and games in the past, whereby many game. But the fansubbers were "competition" from fans, always Verizon' got some Android fans will team up and help already working on their own MangaGamer should have a huge V CAST TV is technologically handsets coming down the pike. translate a release for different version. So, would there be a advantage. The fansubbers admit interesting, but it's expensive and markets. While there have been clash? Apparently not. Both that they're slow and doing it as a I'm not really sure how people some complaints, many in the versions are moving forward hobby -- so they fully expect will use it anime community have figured legally with the approval of 07th MangaGamer to beat them to out how to embrace this and use it Expansion. MangaGamer even market by a long shot. But it's to their advantage -- in some cases did a good thing, offering to hire nice to see MangaGamer realize using the fansubs to determine the fansubbers to do the that this isn't the end of the world what other markets to look at for translating for the official version, and to just compete in the official releases. Earlier this year, but they were unable to do so for marketplace, even without an we wrote about how one work reasons. This did follow one exclusive monopoly on a developer from 07th Expansion bad move -- where MangaGamer translation patch to the game. was thrilled about the fansub asked the fansubbers to take down Permalink| Comments| Email work being done -- thanking the their version -- but after This Story fansubbers for "loving" his work MangaGamer went back and so much. learned of 07th Expansion's Internet News Record 23 HOW continued from page 22 it, you can’t dismiss Facebook’s getting everything set-up can still don’t care so much about community sites. Because many third-party commenting systems massive success. Even in markets be a bit complicated. Never fear, comments, but just want your of these sites might already have that integrate with a variety of where it doesn’t dominate the here are some great resources and blog content to show up on existing user profiles or logins, platforms and sites. social web, Facebook is catching tools for integrating your Facebook, you can follow Six adding Facebook connectivity can At Mashable, Disqus is our up and will likely succeed. WordPress blog with your Apart’s excellent guide to adding be attractive for users — because commenting system of choice. It’s easy to forget sometimes Facebook page: your external blog feed. It’s who wants to sign up for another Disqus added Facebook Connect that there was an Internet before WP-FBConnect— This plugin intended for TypePad users, but account — and for site owners support last December and you Facebook and many of us have was started by Facebook engineer good reading for anyone using a who want to build a broader and can link your Facebook and existing blogs or websites. Adam Hupp. Although it hasn’t blogging platform with RSS more robust community. Disqus profiles together. Disqus Integrating with Facebook is a been updated as much as some of support. There are a number of Facebook also lets users log in with Twitter great way to get additional the other options, it does offer a I would be remiss if I didn’t plugins for Drupal, but these are a credentials. exposure for your content, way to integrate Facebook point out Tim Marsh’s excellent few of my favorites: Similarly, JS-Kit’s Echo system whether you re-publish your blog Connect with WordPress. This Dummies Guide to Integrating Drupal for Facebook is really lets you log in with a number of content directly on Facebook, or way, users can use their Facebook Facebook into WordPress. I ran interesting because it isn’t just different identities and also you use something like Facebook login to leave comments (and across this in my research and was about letting users login with choose where you want your Connect to add the Facebook have them published to their feed) impressed with the level of Facebook credentials (which it comment published (on the site login/profile experience to your and have their Facebook avatar thought and care that went into can do), but about using the and to your Facebook friends, to own site. show up (with a Facebook the post. Tim also released a free power of Drupal to create your Twitter followers, etc.). Here are some great ways to designation) on your site. Check 40-page eBook(PDF link) that Facebook applications and to push Third-party commenting integrate your website or blog out Adam Breckler’s excellent you can download with even more Drupal-site content out to systems like Disqus and Echo, with Facebook. Custom CMS or tutorial for more help with this information. Movable Facebook. The project has been which take some of the stress and XHTML site plugin. Type/TypePad around for more than two years mess of OpenID and Facebook Although using something like Sociable Facebook Connect— Six Apart has two blogging and is actively developed. Connect out of the equation, can WordPress to power a site or blog Sociable.es has a Facebook platforms, the self-hosted Drupal Facebook Connect is a do a lot to encourage more people is becoming increasingly Connect plugin too and it is MovableType and the hosted module that plugs in Facebook to comment on your site. Share on common, many people have sites frequently updated and offers TypePad. Last December, Six Connect logins into an existing Facebook using either a custom CMS or other features, like the ability to Apart released the Facebook Drupal site. That way, users can You know that awesome “Share something coded in add a box displaying recent Connect Commenters plugin for login with their Facebook profile, on Facebook” button we feature XHTML/PHP, Ruby, Django, etc. visitors, commenters and friends. Movable Type. This will let users see what Facebook friends also here at Mashable? You can get If you fall into this category, the Be aware that the Sociable plugin log in with their Facebook have an account on that Drupal your own here, and there is even Facebook Developer Wiki is a will create a new user for your credentials, leave a comment, and site and publish customizable an easy plugin for WordPress great source of information. Facebook Connect users on your then share those actions on content back to their Facebook users. Even better, last week, blog (this isn’t always ideal). Facebook (so comments show-up feed. Users can also invite So site owners — how do you Facebook introduced the WPBook— WPBook does a in mini-feeds, etc.). Facebook friends to join the integrate Facebook with your Facebook Connect Wizard and few unique things, first, it lets you On the TypePad side, they’ve Drupal site. This is very cool for blogs and sites? What are some of Facebook Connect Playground cross-post all of your blog content built Facebook compatibility into anyone who has a web-app based the best practices you can offer to that makes implementing onto Facebook (which is great if the newest release (and are taking in Drupal. others? Did we miss your favorite Facebook Connect into your site you don’t already have that set- it even further with TypePad Drupal Facebook Connect plugin or tool? Let us know in the easier, and also offers up sample up). Second, it makes sure that Motion) — letting you post to Module is another option for comments! More Facebook code and widgets for comment comments published on one entry your blog from Facebook, show Drupal users that want to add resources from Mashable: boxes, Facebook Connect buttons, show up on the other. So if you your updates on Facebook, and let Facebook Connect logins to their - HOW TO: Use Facebook for and more. WordPress have comments on both your users comment using Facebook or existing site. Professional Networking WordPress is undoubtedly one Facebook Note and on your Twitter IDs. Drupal and Joomla On the Joomla front, - 5 Tips for Optimizing Your of the most popular publishing regular blog entry, everyone can Drupal and Joomla are two of jwFacebook Comments 1.5 allows Brand’s Facebook Presence platforms out there. 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Drupal in particular is often using their Facebook login, you a number of plugins available but Add Your Blog Feed— If you used when creating larger might want to look at some of the HOW page 25 24 Tech/ Internet News Record Gmail also hit by e-mail phishing VMware Fusion 3 scheme supercharged for Snow By Don Reisinger problem, it doesn't seem that users (Webware.com) are out of the woods just yet. Leopard Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:54:00 AM Google's representative told me that it will continue to force By Aron Trimble (The Hotmail users aren't the only password resets on newly affected Unofficial Apple Weblog ones who've been hit by a user accounts. (TUAW)) phishing scheme over the past Like Microsoft, Google was Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:30:00 AM week. Google told BBC News on quick to point out that the Tuesday that Gmail users have phishing scheme was a "scam to Filed under: Software, Snow also been affected by the hackers get users to give away their Leopard The latest release of who posted passwords online. through which hackers gained personal information to hackers" VMware's top-notch virtualization The problem is far more user credentials for Web-based and not an internal security issue. software " Fusion" has been widespread than was disclosed on mail accounts including Gmail It didn't say how users fell victim announced and some of the new Monday, possibly affecting accounts," a Google to the scheme. features are definitely worth Yahoo and AOL e-mail accounts representative told me in an e- Google's admission that Gmail taking a look. For the uninitiated, as well, according to BBC News. mail. users were affected by the virtualization is the act of Google described the issue as an The representative said that phishing scheme comes on the simulating a guest operating "industrywide phishing scheme." Google immediately "forced heels of Microsoft acknowledging system while running a host BBC News said it has seen two passwords resets on the affected that over 10,000 Live Hotmail operating system. Put simply, it store shelves October 27. lists posted online with "more accounts." accounts were compromised by allows you to run Windows Suggested retail price is than 30,000 names and All told, the Google the scam. The passwords without having to reboot. $79.99US and on the day of passwords" from Gmail, Yahoo, spokesperson said that fewer than apparently first hit the Internet on VMware Fusion 3 features launch upgrade pricing of AOL, Microsoft's Windows Live 500 Gmail accounts were affected October 1. highly improved Snow Leopard $39.99US will be available for Hotmail, and other service by the scheme. Updated at 9:10 a.m. PDT to support. Most notably, Fusion existing customers with previous providers. Despite Google's and include Google's comments. now sports native 64-bit versions of VMware Fusion. "We recently became aware of Microsoft's awareness of the compatibility and support for the I use Fusion 2 when I'm at my an industrywide phishing scheme 64-bit kernel. What this means for home office and while the the average user is improved performance has been good, I am CONFIRMED: Telus and Bell to Sell iPhones in performance for both the host and really looking forward to Fusion guest operating systems. 3's 64-bit support. Any other Canada Further, with support for Fusion users out there, how will OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9.0c you make use of VMware's latest By Stan Schroeder Wireless is no longer the Shader Model 3, gamers will now foray into the desktop (Mashable!) exclusive iPhone retailer in be able to play more demanding virtualization game? Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:18:27 AM Canada; regardless of which 3D games without the use of Boot TUAW VMware Fusion 3 mobile operator you prefer, Camp. Fusion 3 will also work We wrote yesterday that iPhone supercharged for Snow Leopard having more options is always beautifully with Microsoft's latest originally appeared on The exclusivity in Canada will likely good for the end user. The days of operating system by enabling the end soon, and that’s exactly what Unofficial Apple Weblog iPhone exclusivity are slowly full Windows 7 experience, side- (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 happened today, with Bell signing becoming a fact in history books; by-side with your Mac via Unity, a deal with Apple to sell the 09:30:00 EST. Please see our let’s raise glasses for competition complete with Windows Aero and terms for use of feeds. device starting November. iPhone 3GS to Canada this (and, hopefully, lower prices)! Flip 3D. Another Canadian telecom, Read| Permalink| Email this| November. Tags: Bell, Canada, iphone, VMware Fusion 3 is available Comments Telus, has also confirmed they’ll This means that Rogers Telus for pre-order now and will be on be bringing the iPhone 3G and Internet News Record Tech/ Entertainment/ 25 HOW continued from page 23 Google and Verizon Share the Brand on Facebook Reviews: Disqus, Drupal, Facebook, Joomla, Mashable, PHP, Twitter, Android Love TypePad, WordPress By Christina Warren unanswered questions: How open Tags: drupal, facebook, (Mashable!) will Verizon will be about facebook connect, how to, joomla, Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:41:08 AM Android’s software platform List, Lists, moveabletype, (especially given Verizon’s Wordpress The first Android phone was reputation for control)? Will launched nearly a year ago and having Android on Verizon although new phones and finally offer some competition partnerships are being announced and innovation in the smartphone all the time, few carriers actually space? Will the new partnership sell Android phones now. lead to more innovation in the That looks like it will be advantage of both Android and mobile market? Dr. Phil: Call Him Grandpa McGraw! changing. Google and Verizon Verizon’s infrastructure. The first We want to know what you (ETonline - Breaking News) excited when he heard the happy Wireless announced a partnership think. What do you think about Verizon Android handsets should Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:21:00 AM news. "We were actually to bring Android devices to the be released in a few weeks. Android as a platform? Are you vacationing with the whole family Verizon network. This is a big win for Android, more interested in giving it a try Dr. Phil McGraw is reportedly and were in Elba, Italy," he told Details on the partnership are which is often discussed in terms on Verizon? What mobile set to make a big announcement People. "Jay and [his wife] Erica relatively scarce right now, but of potential and not actual results. platform leaves you most excited? on his show today. had discreetly gotten several the two companies are holding a Having a strong partnership with Let us know. Reviews: Android, The TV doc has exciting news, home pregnancy tests the day joint press-conference at 10 am such a large US carrier could BlackBerry Rocks!, Google, according to People, his son Jay before in France, and they sat us EDT, which should give us some really propel the platform forward iPhone has a baby on the way! This will all down in Elba and said they had more details on the plans. and make it a real — rather than Tags: android, Google, iphone, make Dr. Phil and his wife Robin some exciting news! 'We are What we do know is that the theoretical — contender to RIM’s verizon first-time grandparents. pregnant!'" two companies are planning on co BlackBerry and the iPhone. The 59-year-old was naturally -developing several devices using There are still a lot of the Android platform to take Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic [Stats] By Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) Facebook provides the most loyal That said, it’s easy enough to Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:00:56 AM visitors, with 20% of those that provide sharing options for a originate from the social network multitude of social media sites Between search engines and in turn visiting the site they (case in point, this post!), so you social media, there are a lot of landed upon four or more times in can probably file this under the different ways that people can get a week. Among other social “nice to know” category of to your website. But which of media sites, Digg traffic produced statistics and use your own these sources provides loyal users loyal users 16% of the time, while analytics to gauge what is and that come back to your site Twitter traffic was only good for isn’t working. Reviews: Bing, multiple times? 11% loyalty. Digg, Facebook, Google, Twitter That’s the subject of a new In the realm of search engines, Tags: bing, digg, facebook, study by ad network Chitika, who Yahoo provides the most loyal provide stickier traffic isn’t long-run, encouraging your Google, statistics, twitter, Yahoo analyzed the browsing habits of visitors at 15%, followed by surprising, but what implications visitors to share on Facebook 33 million unique users over the Google and Bing with around do the loyalty rankings for might have the most value, even if course of September. 12% each. Facebook, Digg, and Twitter it doesn’t provide the most short- According to their findings, The finding that social sites have, if any? Perhaps that in the term traffic. 26 Tech/ Internet News Record TUAW Interview: Andrew Lacy of Apple quits the U.S. Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3 Chamber of Commerce By Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog over opposition to EPA (TUAW)) By Dave Caolo (The Unofficial the organization's "frustrating" Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:01:00 AM Apple Weblog (TUAW)) position on global climate change. Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:00:00 AM Specifically, the chamber has Filed under: Gaming, Software, opposed a proposal by the Features, iTunes, iPhone, App Filed under: Apple Corporate, Environmental Protection Agency Store, iPod touch, Music By the Portables Just 3 years ago, Apple to use the Clean Air Act to set time you read this, Tap Tap was targeted by Greenpeace as limits on greenhouse gases; a Revenge 3 should have made its being less environmentally proposal that would most likely way to the App Store. The latest friendly than they could be. take effect only if Congress failed version of the rhythm game/music Greenpeace even created a mock to pass climate legislation. platform for the iPhone and iPod Apple website in an effort to goad Apple isn't the only prominent touch is a huge release for them into action. member to leave the chamber for Tapulous-- from the series' Several months later, Apple this reason, just the one we humble beginnings as a pre-App earned a silver in environmental happen to write about. Store bit of code to the more evaluation(that rating has since [Via Think Progress] recent incarnations of artist- turned to gold) from an EPEAT TUAW Apple quits the U.S. specific music collections, sat down to talk with us just Continue reading TUAW survey ( EPEAT is a government Chamber of Commerce over Tapulous has taken Tap Tap a before the release of the software, Interview: Andrew Lacy of operation created to approve opposition to EPA originally long way in the still short history both about how he thinks Tapulous on Tap Tap Revenge 3 computers before they can be appeared on The Unofficial Apple of this gaming platform. And now consumers will react to the new TUAW TUAW Interview: purchased by other governmental Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Oct they're trying to go even farther: business model, and what's next Andrew Lacy of Tapulous on Tap institutions). Today, they tout " 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see they've introduced in-app for Tapulous and this series that Tap Revenge 3 originally the world's greenest line of our terms for use of feeds. purchases to the game (you can has come so far already. Tap Tap appeared on The Unofficial Apple notebooks." Read| Permalink| Email this| find a full list of songs available Revenge 3 should be in the App Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 06 Oct This week came the news that Comments now as in-app purchases inside Store very soon -- it's available 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see Apple has quit the US Chamber of the interview below), and they've for 99 cents, with extra music our terms for use of feeds. Commerce over what they called added in social features, from packs at six songs for $2.99, or Read| Permalink| Email this| customizable avatars to in-game two songs for 99 cents. Comments chat and score sharing. Gallery: Tap Tap Revenge 3 Tapulous COO Andrew Lacy Google Voice to Be Supported on Verizon’s Android Phones By Christina Warren “A device is open or it is not. The details of the first Android wake of the Apple-Google (Mashable!) This is an open device,” McAdam phones on the Verizon network controversy, which ended up with Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:44:14 AM said. “Google Voice will be were not revealed, but two its very own FCC query. coming to market with the first devices are planned for release by Verizon customers, are you Lowell McAdam, President and device.” the end of year — with the excited by the potential for CEO of Verizon Wireless said in Openness was a big part of the announcement coming in the next Android devices on your today’s webcast about his announcement, where Google few weeks. More devices will network? Reviews: Android, company’s deal with Google that CEO Eric Schmidt also follow next year, according to Google, Google Voice Google Voice will be supported commented on the new Verizon. Tags: android, Google, Google on the upcoming Verizon Android partnership, revealing that talking about working together on Verizon’s remarks regarding Voice, verizon phones. Verizon and Google first started mobile devices 18 months ago. Google Voice are important in the Internet News Record Tech/ Entertainment/ 27 Paula Abdul Judges 'Dancing with the Stars' From the Sidelines UK Politician's Cross Border (ETonline - Breaking News) Submitted at 10/6/2009 3:47:00 AM Attempt To Terminate Prostitute Can A Radio Station Give Paula Abdul may not be on the judging panel, but that won't stop Review Site Only Bumps Up Traffic her from voicing her opinion. She By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) noted how much she had helped Away Tickets To A Football had a front row seat next to Lance Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:02:00 AM the site's traffic: How much extra Bass Monday night at "Dancing traffic did you get on 30 Game? The Eagles Say No... with the Stars." ET's special There was some news coverage September, the day the story first correspondent Marie Osmond last week of the UK's "equalities broke? By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) may have the right to forbid entry caught up with the former minister" (what the hell is that?), Just over 2.7 million hits, more Submitted at 10/6/2009 3:52:35 AM to anyone, it seems like that "American Idol" judge after the Harriet Harman, asking Gov. than double the daily average. would be a dumb move on the show to chat about her favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger to shut We've noted the trend of trying team's part. My guess is that the performance of the night. Here's the graph from my server to cut down on scalping by using down a prostitute review site statistics for September: team's main concern is that it only Her days of criticizing Simon called Punternet. As many legal e-tickets to stop the transfer of wants partner (i.e., those who paid Cowell are behind her, but the http://www.punternet.com/daily_u tickets, but it appears that the commentators pointed out, this sage_200909.png One must a ton for broadcast rights) radio "Dancing" panel is fresh blood for was ridiculous for a variety of Philadelphia Eagles football team stations to give away tickets -- but Paula. She told Marie, "I don't assume that wasn't Harman's also is trying to stop radio stations reasons -- neither Harman nor intention. But, honestly, it makes that doesn't mean there's a legal understand the scoring system. I Schwargenegger had any legal from doing promotional right there. If the tickets were think things were a little blurry you wonder what sort of politician giveaways. The team has sued the authority to shut down such a site. these days doesn't realize that legitimately bought, why and out of whack tonight." However, the really ridiculous owner of the radio station, saying shouldn't the station be able to sell She expressed her support for calling for the shutting down of a that the terms on the back of the thing is that all this request did site will only boost the traffic to them or give them away? And, Mark Dacascos and his partner was give the site a ton of ticket forbid the use of the tickets considering that the radio station Lacey Schwimmer. She said, "I that site by a considerable for commercial purposes -- such attention. In a press release amount. was accurately describing the think to set the stage, this was one response, Punternet took issue as contests -- and also that the team when using the name, that of the best numbers I've seen and Permalink| Comments| Email station is violating the Eagles' with many of Harman's claims This Story shouldn't be a trademark I'm going on record saying that." about the site, and then at the end trademarks in naming them violation. around the ticket giveaway Permalink| Comments| Email promotion. This raises a bunch of This Story questions about the right of first sale on a ticket. While the stadium 20,000+ Gmail, Yahoo, AOL Accounts Compromised [ALERT] By Ben Parr (Mashable!) Unfortunately, Hotmail was resets on the affected accounts. frequently, check for any odd Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:43:13 AM only the beginning. Google has They also stress that it’s not a behavior, and never use the same now confirmed that thousands of breach of security, but the result password on multiple web apps. Yesterday, it was revealed that Gmail accounts were of certain users falling for Reviews: Gmail, Google 10,000+ Hotmail accounts were compromised by an “industry- phishing scams. The lists of Tags: aol, email, gmail, Google, compromised and all of the wide phishing scheme.” emails have been removed from hotmail, microsoft, Yahoo usernames and passwords of these According to the BBC, the login the web, but many scammers have accounts were posted online. 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The Friends, Around Me, Universe) thumbs up/thumbs down icon set Enhance Morning Runs service and TechStars grad follower/fan model Brightkite is and condensed them into a single in the top right corner of each By Ditching the Snooze Brightkite. We emailed founder adopting here is comparable to stream with drop-down menus for post. Although expression of Brady Becker and learned that what one sees on sites such as filtering options, including approval for users' posts is Button [Exercise] soon, his team would be rolling Digg and Twitter, and will likely filtering by location and type of encouraged, the site gives a By Azadeh Ensha (Lifehacker) out a second version of the site. make the whole experience more common-sense caveat. "Be post. Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:00:00 AM Read on for a glimpse of what fun for more users. 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Tips his Web site, Tyler Perry reveals and women as a child, giving a verbally abused by his father, who for an Optimal Workout[Runner's that 'Precious', the film he's detailed account about the mother he says would mock him for World] producing with Oprah, is close to of a childhood friend who locked reading books and beat him for Internet News Record Tech News/ TV/ Entertainment/ 29 Fire and Ice: Celebs Ice Spiffbox Says it Pays to be Social - No Really, Injuries and Heat Up Dance Floor on They Pay You with Cash 'Dancing with the Stars' By Sarah Perez interact with other Spiffbox Them: Great, thanks. Let's chat (ETonline - Breaking News) (ReadWriteWeb) members while logged into again later for more points! Submitted at 10/6/2009 4:03:00 AM Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:00:54 AM Facebook. You: Sounds good! Cya! However, unlike those two Oh, the horror. Frankly, most of The ice packs and ace bandages When building a new Web 2.0 popular social networks, which to learn that reaching that payout us have better things to do with are quickly replacing the sequins site, especially a new social are designed to connect you with number is not as hard as it may our time than trying to earn points and spandex on "Dancing with the network, there's always one people you know or admire, sound. Accepting a chat invite for small payouts of cash. What Stars." Read on to find out which hurdle that needs to be overcome - Spiffbox wants to connect you earns you 28 points, accepting a Spiffbox needs to remember is stars are succumbing to injury. establishing a large enough with others who fall outside your friend request is 10 points, and so that all the popular social Based on the judge's scores, userbase to make it both attractive social graph. That is, the site on. 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With trying to earn points. Spiffbox have a shot at becoming new userbase from scratch, each action, more points are You: OK, me too. the next big thing? Or is bribery a Spiffbox integrates with the social earned and when you reach a Them: So how long do we have bad choice? Let us know in the networks Facebook and Twitter. certain threshold (min. 2,000 to do this to get credit? comments. Discuss They even have their own points/$20), Spiffbox puts a check You: I don't know, I think this is Facebook application so you can in the mail. You may be surprised good. Letterman needs to stop talking about blackmail scandal... immediately By Joel Keller (TV Squad) fact, he started off the proceedings the next phase is to go on Oprah sincerely apologized to his staff Continue reading Letterman Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:07:00 AM with a bang, asking the audience, and sob. He even acknowledged for putting them through this needs to stop talking about "Did your weekend just fly by?" his odd comedic predicament by mess, and said he had a lot of blackmail scandal... immediately You knew that after a weekend Then he proceeded telling some trailing off on jokes about Bill work to do to repair things with Filed under: Late Night, of blackmail scandal news and pretty funny jokes about the Clinton, Mark Sanford and Eliot his wife, Regina Lasko. It was at Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality- tabloid stories, David Letterman scandal; he spent the weekend Spitzer, realizing that he's not in that moment (video below) that I Free wasn't going to open his show on "raking my hate mail," that it was the position to poke fun at those realized that Dave needs to stop Permalink| Email this| | Monday just telling jokes about "chilly outside the house and folks. talking about this mess... Comments Chicago losing the Olympics. In chilly inside the house," and that But then, after the break, he immediately: 30 Tech News/ Internet News Record Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Android Phones with Also Hit by Phishing Attack Google Voice are By Sarah Perez compromised accounts, which (ReadWriteWeb) includes login credentials for Coming to Verizon Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:06:00 AM Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, and Comcast users, contains some By Frederic Lardinois Yesterday's phishing attack in accounts that appear to be old, (ReadWriteWeb) which several thousand Hotmail unused, or fake. However, many Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:37:37 AM username and password others listed are, in fact, genuine. Verizon launched a new combinations were leaked to the There's no way to be sure at this This morning, Google and advertising campaign that web now appears to be just the point that the new list is a part of Verizon announced an agreement highlights the company's 3G beginning of a massive phishing the same phishing attack as that will bring Android phones to network and spoofs Apple's attack affecting users of multiple yesterday's or if it's a new and Verizon. Verizon, which has been "there's an app for that" campaign. webmail services including separate scam. trying to position itself as the While Verizon was always known Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, The website where the accounts 'open carrier,' will start to offer its for the quality of its network, and Earthlink. The original list were posted - pastebin.com - is first two Android phones within though, it was never known for was posted anonymously on now "down for maintenance." the next few weeks. In a clear jab offering cutting-edge handsets - pastebin.com, a site generally Visitors to the site today will against Apple, Verizon also something that could now change. used by developers sharing code receive a message that reads: announced that it will support During a teleconference after snippets. Again, that site recently Pastebin.com is getting an Google Voice on these devices. the announcement, both Verizon saw the addition 20,000 more phishing attack where a third- unprecedented amount of traffic Verizon also has no plans to make and Google stressed the fact that login details from other webmail party website was involved. due to a news story in which some any changes to the Android they want the phones to remain service providers, indicating what Phishing attacks are typically leaked Hotmail passwords have Market. open. Apple, of course, makes no may the largest scale phishing carried out via email messages been pasted on this site Last month, Sprint also such promises and has regularly attack to date. where the attacker tricks the Pastebin.com was intended as a announced that it will offer landed in hot water when it didn't Sponsor recipient into revealing their tool to aid software developers, Android devices in the near allow certain apps like the Google The Hotmail Attack username and password by not for distributing this sort of future, leaving AT&T as the only Voice app into its store. In yesterday's attack, the list of pretending to be some sort of material. Filters have been put in major wireless company in the US Big News for Android comprised Hotmail accounts were trustworthy entity such as the place to prevent reoccurrence, but that doesn't offer an Android Developers limited to those where the user's bank, IT administrator, a the current traffic level is handset - though AT&T, of Android developers will surely usernames started with the letter popular website, or an online unsustainable. course, still holds the exclusive be happy about this "A" or "B." However, that seemed service. In the case of the stolen Pastebin.com is just a fun side rights to the iPhone. announcement. Verizon, after all, to imply that the posted portion Hotmail passwords, it's possible project for me, and today it's not Sponsor will bring millions of new might actually be a part of a that the attacker sent emails which fun. It will remain offline all day Microsoft also announced the customers to the Android platform bigger list containing even more claimed to be from the end user's while I make some further launch of the first set of Windows and given that the company has login/password combinations. At email provider. If the user then modifications Mobile 6.5 devices today and no plans to make any changes to the time, a Microsoft followed the link contained within Paul Dixon chances are that the the Android Market, this will spokesperson said that the the malicious email, they would Regardless of whether or not Google/Verizon announcement open up a large new market for company determined "this was have ended up not on the actual you think your account was was timed to coincide with this Android apps. In this morning's not a breach of internal Microsoft email provider's site, but on a compromised, today would be a release. The first reviews of teleconference, Verizon also data and initiated our standard third-party site whose sole good day to change the password Windows Mobile 6.5 are not noted that it will pre-load devices process of working to help purpose was to capture their on whichever webmail service exactly positive, however. Taking with applications from Google as customers regain control of their username and password when you currently use. Better safe than on Apple well as third-party developers. accounts." Instead, claimed the entered. Beyond Hotmail: More sorry! Discuss There can be no doubt that this Discuss spokesperson, those users whose Webmail Providers Affected partnership is aimed directly at credentials were revealed were According to a story in today's Apple. Just a few days ago, likely to be victims of an online BBC News, the most recent list of Internet News Record Tech News/ Tech Tips/ Sports/ 31 Amazon Web Services Gets DDoS Attack and the Client Waits By Alex Williams he is spending a good bit of this (ReadWriteWeb) time working with customers who Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:17:47 AM are none too happy. Do a search on Twazzup and the complaints An apparent DDoS attack on about Bitbucket's problems run Amazon Web Services(AWS) conversation moved to Twitter down the page. over the weekend left a web- and you guessed it, that's when It's a trust game to this point in hosting code service down for Amazon realized perhaps this the cloud services world. A lag in about 20 hours before the problem might be a bigger problem than diagnosis prevented Bitbucket became resolved. The attack they thought. from getting back online. They raises questions about how fast Some of Bitbucket's large took a big hit. Not surprisingly, Amazon responds to its clients in customers contacted Amazon and they are considering other times of attack and what level of the problem climbed up the services. trust customers should place with customer support ladder pretty But for customers out there, it's one cloud service provider. fast. time to look more deeply at how Sponsor Up until this point, Amazon much faith you put in one cloud Bitbucket hosts everything on maintained they did not have a services provider. Amazon EC2. They also use EBS problem with the service. That From The Register: service for storage of everything line soon changed as the issue "The lesson here is: 'Don't bet Windows Mobile My from their database, logfiles, and became more severe. By this time the farm on a single cloud user data. senior executives were on the provider,'" says Craig Balding, Phone Backup Out of Beta Bitbucket first recognized the phone, engineering specialists founder of cloudsecurity.org and a attack on Friday night when their were being called in and security practitioner at a Fortune network storage became virtually Bitbucket had Amazon's full 500 company. "It's common sense [Downloads] unavailable. According to the attention. really. But people get lulled into By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) site—helpful especially for detailed account on their blog, the Twenty hours later, the service thinking they site is always going Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:00:00 AM digging through old text site crawled to a halt. had been restored. But the after to be available [when they host messages, or calling up a quick After the service went down, effects are still apparent. Jesper with a single provider]." My Phone, the cloud-based contact when your business phone AWS was contacted. After more Noehr created Bitbucket. He has Discuss Windows Mobile back-up service is off. than five hours of back and forth been tweeting continuously since we peeked at in beta in May, has Premium users (TechCrunch about the extent of the issue, the the problem began. You can tell officially launched. The free 200 reports a $4.99 price, but doesn't MB of online space for phone note whether that's monthly) can data remains the same, but also activate a few MobileMe-like Favre leads Vikings past Packers for 4-0 mark premium users get new location features for lost or stolen phones. By Associated Press current NFL teams. fifth career 300-yard passing and security features. From the My Phone site, Premium (ESPN.com) • The Vikings sacked Aaron game. 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Switch to access (Android, Pre, Windows down a page to its basic elements, holster, since it will "sleep" (when your battery is new and decent EDGE/2G usage in your settings, Mobile), don't feel obligated to and save your phone from having inside it) No silver bullets there, enough, don't keep it plugged in preferably with a widget or keep them present. to burn its battery pulling down but sound advice—especially on all the time, or it dies the death of shortcut. • Use a black or dark theme: giant banner ads. the holster bit. a thousand tiny discharges. Use • Switch off any unneeded Except for the iPhone, most BlackBerry iPhones the battery almost all the way service: Goes without saying for phones let you set your own If you're rocking a BlackBerry, Apple's game-changing, full- when you use it, charge it when it anyone who's learned the hard wallpaper, and some give you the chances are that disconnecting web-browsing phone has had its needs it, and, if necessary, let it way. Having your phone ability to "theme" your phone's your network to save on battery battery life detractors from the get completely run down and constantly look for new Bluetooth entire look. It might be a minor life isn't an option. Instead, you -go. Luckily, some have put their recharge it every so often to devices, Wi-Fi hotspots, GPS point, but using a darker-colored might try a few of these tips. efforts into fixing that. Photo by refresh its own sense of longevity. positions, and Exchange server theme doesn't make your Photo by liewcf. Mat Honan. • Keep it cool and out of pocket: emails that don't arrive at 4 a.m. backlight and screen work quite • RIM's official tips: To • Apple's official tips: To If you're outside, don't leave your will definitely kill your battery. so hard, and saves your battery summarize: Close your browser summarize: Don't get it too hot or phone facing the direct sunlight. If Find the most convenient way just a bit. with the ESC key when you're too cool, turn off unnecessary you can pull it off without looking your phone offers to turn these • Fiddle with screen time-outs done surfing, use shortcuts instead services, "lock" it frequently, and like a hyper-aggressive real estate things off, or automate their use, and brightness: Tweak how long of Java-based menus, get crazy let the battery run completely agent, belt-clip your phone, or and act on it. your screen stays lit after a quick with the extensive settings, and down, and then charge to 100 generally keep it out of your • Be frugal with background time check, modify how bright it use the Desktop Manager(now percent, at least once a month. pocket and away from close applications and notifications: It must stay during the daylight, and available for PCs and Mac OS X) • Gizmodo's suggestions: To quarters with your body heat. feels like living in the future when you'll likely pull a bit more use to load media, rather than have summarize: Change from Push to • Switch off 3G when it's new emails, Twitter messages, time from your handset. your phone resize and compress it Fetch email, turn off contacts and unnecessary: It's faster than Facebook updates, calendar • Use mobile site versions: Find all. calendar sync if you're not a CEO, EDGE or GRPS and can deliver appointments, and other minutiae and bookmark the mobile versions • Radio Saver and AutoStandby: both voice and data in a are delivered minute-by-minute to of the sites you always visit (often Radio Saver turn off your phone's EXHAUSTIVE page 33 Internet News Record TV/ 33 EXHAUSTIVE continued from page 32 cancel scanning for new Wi-Fi email notifications, but it also • Keep the power widget handy: Pre mentions its "deck of cards" networks, and avoid games with makes manual email fetching When your Android 1.6 (a.k.a. multi-tasking and Sprint's vibration and 3D graphics (except more reliable, so users can set it to Donut) update arrives, you'll have seriously speedy data networks. in seriously long airport lines). an hourly or manual interval to a new widget available, "Power Yeah, you guessed it—both • Toggle networks with save on battery use. Thanks Control," that puts some require a little power precaution. SBSettings jailbreak app: By drjonze and wbullockiii! important on/off switches—Wi- • Treonauts' battery tips: To default, the iPhone's on/off Android Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, auto-sync, summarize: Turn it off (or into switches are tucked inside the The current crop of Android and screen brightness—all on one airplane mode) when in very settings, and the phone can only phones have almost universally horizontal strip. Keep it weak coverage, and follow the automate screen brightness. With crummy battery life. Luckily, the someplace handy on your home same kind of auto-check and SBSettings installed on a system's open platform has given screen, and power down when background app recommendations Lie to Me: jailbroken phone (from the app developers lots of leeway to you're at your most casual. made earlier in this post. BigBoss repository), you can not squeeze every drop out of them. • See what's eating your juice: • Battery Saver: This homebrew Truth or toggle all your data connections Photo by sugree. Also new in Android 1.6: A app is only really useful if there on and off from a flip-down • Automate your phone rules: percentage Battery Use chart you are parts of the day where another Consequences widget, and fine-tune other When you're asleep, you want can access under About Phone in phone provides you with By Jonathan Toomey (TV battery-grabbing aspects of your important calls to come through, your Settings. It shows what's emergency contact—like at home, Squad) phone. See and read more about but you don't need to check your been pulling in power since the if you have an alternate line. If Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:40:00 AM SBSettings at The Apple Blog. email every hour. When you're at last time you charged your phone, that's the case, though, turning Thanks j_rich! work, your screen doesn't need to which can help remind you of your phone to airplane mode at ( S02E02)"I mean, how can I not • Use the battery percentage be so bright, and you've already background apps and other power pre-set parts of the day gives you judge someone who creates their indicator: The standard battery got net access. Using an app like drains. the advantage of a quick power- own harem and then tosses out the indicator can leave you guessing Locale, you can make turning on Windows Mobile on or contact check, while also competition when they hit as to how healthy your iPhone and off your phone's most power- Older than almost all its saving on battery life. puberty?" - Foster actually is, and sometimes hungry features automatic, based siblings, but Windows Mobile has Symbian (Help Wanted) Already this is shaping up to be misreports its state entirely. on time of day, location, battery grown to incorporate all the same To be honest, the vast variety of leaps and bounds ahead of season Enable a numeric percentage read status, and other factors. battery-killing background powers Symbian phones with customized one of Lie to Me. The cases are on your lock screen by heading to • Learn to love APNdroid: It's as its brethren. Photo by Titanus. firmwares give us pause at more interesting, the writing is Settings, General, and then Usage more severe, but APNdroid is also • WMExperts' tips: To offering a standard set of apps or tighter, and most importantly, it's to toggle "Battery Percentage" to the most sincere battery saver out summarize: Avoid Wi-Fi recommendations for bettery becoming far more personal for On. there. Click its app icon, and your whenever possible, dial down battery life. That said, if you the employees of The Lightman • Use Prowl, GPush, or very EDGE/3G cell networks are your email checking, and dig into know of a tip, trick, or app that Group. Every case has far more light Push for Gmail: We first turned off, while your basic call your settings to modify screen saves battery life on Symbian meaning when Cal and his team showed you how to use Prowl and connection remains in place. time-outs and vibration frequency. phones, tell us in the comments. are in it for more than just a Growl to push Gmail to your That's better than Airplane Mode, • WMLongLife: Basically, this We'll update the post here to paycheck. That isn't to say that iPhone, and it remains a more which totally renders you independent app switches your reflect the best suggestions. I'm against seeing cases like we battery-efficient means of getting inaccessible, and, used wisely, phone from 3G service down to Hopefully you'll find something saw in the season premiere with important email notifications, you'll definitely notice the 2G when it's in standby mode, so useful in these tips to give your Erika Christensen, but finding out particularly while your main work difference when you start background data grabs and non- mobile data hub a bit more life that Cal's daughter Emily has a computer is running. We also charging every other day. Bettter essential pings drain less battery. from each charge. Did we miss connection to a statutory rape case detailed a work-around with still, it seems a Locale plug-in is The developer also states it has a anything major? By all means, tell he's investigating is far more GPush that works at any in the works, so turning off your beneficial impact on, erm, other us about it in the comments, and compelling. time—when it works, period. wireless access when it's not functions. share your own battery life Continue reading Lie to Me: Since then, Gmail has added needed could become a no- Palm Pre discoveries. Truth or Consequences official push support for instant brainer. Everybody who digs the Palm Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Lie to Me Permalink| Email this| | Comments 34 Tech Tips/ Sports/ Internet News Record Grind Your Own Meat for Safe(r) Burgers [Food] By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 10/6/2009 5:30:00 AM You might have seen, or heard about, a front-page New York Times story about ground beef, one that definitely raises a few health and safety questions about your standard burger. One solution, then, is to grind your own beef. Photo by VirtualErn. No meat is perfect, of course, and ground beef in particular has a lot of surface area, and needs to be closely looked after to hit the CopyTransManager is a Snappy right internal temperature while cooking. But buying a whole cut and Light-Weight iTunes of meat that you know the quality and source of eliminates a vast meat, not a meat purée. The finer to know your butcher, and have Alternative [Downloads] number of variables that you grind the meat, the more him or her grind your meat to By Jason Fitzpatrick You can create and edit playlists, commercial products leave you likely you are to pack it together order. That post also contains a (Lifehacker) import artwork, edit track guessing at. too tightly, which will make the few more nitty-gritty tips on cuts, Submitted at 10/6/2009 6:30:00 AM information, search and NY Times food writer Mark burger tough. seasoning, and patty preparation. synchronize your music, and even Bittman has suggested that if you If you want to delve a bit deeper Have you long been DIY-ing Windows only: If all you really store CopyTransManager on your don't have your own grinder, into the specifics of ground beef your burger patties? Got any tips want out of your iPod experience iPod to access it wherever you can either stand-alone or attached to a issues, a Grocery Guy blog post for those of us looking to escape is the ability to load music, access portable applications. KitchenAid-type mixer, a will indulge your curiosity—just the shrink-wrapped section? Share movies, and podcasts onto your CopyTransManager is available standard food processor can do a don't read it right before lunch. the wisdom in the comments. For iPod without any bulk or bloat, as a stand-alone portable fine job of meat grinding, if you That said, he brings up a nice the Love of a Good Burger[The portable and free application or part of the watch what's happening: halfway compromise to making a Minimalist/NYTimes] CopyTransManager is a speedy CopyTrans Suite which includes Next, don't overprocess. You mess of your kitchen counter: Get iTunes-alternative. CopyTrans (allows you to want the equivalent of chopped Click on the image above for a repopulate your iTunes library closer look. from your iPod) and CopyTrans Sources: Fredi Gonzalez to manage Florida Marlins in 2010 You can use Photo (photo syncing between By Buster Olney (ESPN.com) 12 games above .500 with the Buster Olney is a senior CopyTransManager to manage your iPod and PC). Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:31:24 AM smallest payroll in baseball. baseball writer for ESPN The your iPod, iPod Touch, and CopyTransManager is free, Owner Jeffrey Loria met with Magazine. Information from The iPhone. All major functionality, Windows only, and portable. Fredi Gonzalez will return as the organization officials Monday in Associated Press was used in this sans things like access to the CopyTrans Manager[via Florida Marlins manager in 2010, New York to discuss the status of report. iTunes stores and ripping CDs, is MakeUseOf] sources said. Gonzalez and his coaching staff. present in CopyTransManger. The Marlins failed to make the Gonzalez is under contract playoffs, although they finished through 2011. Internet News Record Tech Tips/ TV/ 35 Webmail Password Leaks Extend to Two and a Half Men: Mmm, fish. Yum. Gmail, Yahoo, AOL [Email] By Allison Waldman (TV By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Squad) Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:00:00 AM Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:26:00 AM More than 10,000 Hotmail (S07E03) So far this season, passwords were posted online Two and a Half Men has been yesterday, but users of other sailing along, continuing to popular webmail services haven't provide plenty of laughs and just been let off the hook. A similar enough vulgarity to keep its phishing attack exposed another crown as a raunchy pleasure. 20,000 user/password Tonight, however, they hit an combinations, so consider iceberg. Too bad really, but half resetting your own login the show -- no pun intended -- credentials. was spot on. If only the other half The BBC reports seeing a list of had been as good. 20,000 usernames and passwords For some reason, the writers at a site normally used to Concerned? Fair enough, but by going directly to web sites to have this idea that Alan as the Continue reading Two and a exchange programming code there are plenty of log in. Learn how your browser object of affection to older Half Men: Mmm, fish. Yum. snippets—temporarily shut down countermeasures. These reports a suspected web forgery, women is funny. No, not really. It Filed under: Other Comedy at the moment. Many appeared usernames and passwords were as Firefox does, and take the time didn't work when Carol Kane Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, fake, expired, or unused, but obtained by phishing, or fake web to choose and remember strong guested as the mother of a girl Reality-Free others were verified real by the sites used to capture usernames passwords. Scam hits more e-mail Alan was dating and it didn't work Permalink| Email this| | BBC, and came from Gmail, and passwords. Reinforce the accounts[BBC News via tonight with Annie Potts as Comments AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail (and its trickiness of the situation by ReadWriteWeb] Judith's mother, Lenore. Live.com derivatives), as well as judging the examples in the residential Comcast and Earthlink Phishing IQ test, and train accounts. yourself to avoid phishing entirely What's On Tonight: Hell's Kitchen, Nova, Dragon's Den, The Forgotten By Bob Sassone (TV Squad) Hell's Kitchen and So You Think • At 10, FX has a new Sons of talk shows. Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:11:00 PM You Can Dance. Anarchy. Continue reading What's On • There's a new 90210 on The • Lifetime has a new Sherri, then Tonight: Hell's Kitchen, Nova, • At 8, ABC has a new Shark CW at 8, then a new Melrose a new Rita Rocks at 10. Dragon's Den, The Forgotten Tank, followed by new episodes Place. • A&E has two new episodes of Filed under: Late Night, of Dancing with the Stars and The • PBS has a new, two-hour Nova Parking Wars at 10. Programming, Celebrities, Talk Forgotten. at 8. • Travel Channel has a new Show, What To Watch Tonight, • CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then • At 9, Syfy has two new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World Reality-Free new episodes of NCIS: Los episodes of Scare Tactics, then a at 10. Permalink| Email this| | Angeles and The Good Wife. new ECW. • Also at 10: Bravo has a new Comments • NBC has a new, two-hour • Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs Flipping Out. Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a at 9, followed by a new Ghost episode of The Universe at 9. Check your local TV listings for new Jay Leno Show. Lab. • BBC America has a new more. • FOX has new episodes of • History Channel has a new Dragon's Den at 9. After the jump, the late night 36 Tech Reviews/ Sports/ Internet News Record Two Verizon Android phones coming in 2009 (CNET News.com) software that ran on its devices, offers," he said. Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:34:00 AM and that left Verizon customers McAdam and Stratton deflected with a stable network but several questions about what this Google and Verizon Wireless on relatively unpopular applications. partnership would mean for Tuesday announced what would However, ever since Apple's Verizon's existing partners, of have once seemed a very unlikely iPhone shook up the mobile whom Research in Motion and partnership, pledging to "advance industry in 2007, Verizon has Microsoft are perhaps most the discussion" in the mobile pledged to improve the quality of prominent. Verizon chose to make computing market with a family the software that runs on its this announcement on the eve of of jointly designed devices to phones by scaling back its control the CTIA Wireless IT and appear over the next few years. over that software to allow Entertainment conference in San Verizon has joined T-Mobile outside developers a greater say Diego, overshadowing the debut and Sprint in support of Google's over what software is available on of Windows Mobile 6.5. Android software, with plans to Verizon phones. Stratton did say that Verizon release two new Android phones The Android devices that sees room for multiple partners on this year.(Credit: James emerge from this partnership will its network. The carrier is still Martin/CNET) have Google's Android Market expected to bring the Palm Pre to Eric Schmidt and Lowell preinstalled on the phones, said its network next year, according McAdam, CEOs of Google and John Stratton, executive vice to analysts. Verizon Wireless respectively, president and chief marketing A few years ago, smartphones worked on this partnership for 18 officer for Verizon Wireless made up around 10 percent of months before they were ready to parent company Verizon Verizon's devices, he said. Now, officially bring it to light, they Communications. Verizon also it's more like 40 percent and the said Tuesday morning in a pledged to support applications growth has not stopped amid a Webcast press conference. Two such as Google Voice, currently at global recession that has hurt mobile phones running Google's the center of a controversy among demand for many consumer Android mobile operating system Google, Apple, AT&T, and the electronics products. will launch on Verizon's network Federal Communications Still, Google and Verizon have by the end of the year, and that's Commission over Apple's pledged to create services and just the start of a joint road map decision to prevent Google Voice reader that will run on Verizon's or Sprint. With 87 million applications that may or may not that will include other Android- from reaching the iPhone. network. customers, Verizon has more be exclusive to Verizon Android based devices beyond phones, the The companies declined to Verizon will become the third subscribers than Sprint and T- handsets. Partnerships are a dime companies said. name hardware partners for the U.S. carrier to support Android, Mobile combined. a dozen in the tech industry, but Verizon is known for the strong initial devices, but Motorola and with the notable exception of Schmidt spoke several times the combination of two giants of performance of its data network, HTC have been rumored for iPhone carrier AT&T. T-Mobile during the call about Google's Verizon and Google's size has to but has not historically been months as the initial phone has been perhaps the most vocal eagerness to team up with a be taken seriously by the rest of known for its mobile software, at makers expected to work with Android backer in the U.S. to network of that scale and implied the mobile industry. least not in a good way. The Verizon. Beyond that, it sounds date, although Sprint has also that developers should like that carrier was perhaps most like Verizon and Google expect to pledged its support for Android. combination as well. "Developers emblematic of the wireless release other devices, such as Verizon, however, is playing in need the kind of data network that industry's desire to control the Netbooks or perhaps an ebook a different league than T-Mobile is the base of what Verizon Rush Limbaugh, Dave Checketts joined in bid to buy St. Louis Rams By Associated Press Limbaugh said Tuesday he is agreement with Goldman Sachs, Limbaugh also declined to the Rams franchise has a value of (ESPN.com) teaming up with St. Louis Blues the investment firm hired by the discuss other partners that might $929 million. Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:13:47 AM owner Dave Checketts in a bid to family of former Rams owner be involved in the bid, but said he Copyright 2009 by The purchase the St. Louis Rams. Georgia Frontiere to review assets and Checketts would operate the Associated Press ST. LOUIS -- Conservative Limbaugh declined to discuss of her estate. Frontiere died in team. radio talk show host Rush details. He cited a confidentiality January 2008. Forbes magazine has estimated Internet News Record Tech Reviews/ 37 Report praises Apple's environmental Tech pioneers win 2009 efforts Nobel prize in physics (CNET News.com) environment. Not only does it of bromine and chlorine. (CNET News.com) CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:11:00 AM show the individual products, Nan Ya and Indium were added Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:54:58 AM Using the photoelectric effect Apple calculates the impact of its to the list for their efforts to theorized by Albert Einstein, the Apple won praise for its latest products from mining the produce bromine- and chlorine- "Two revolutionary optical sensor transforms light into efforts to rid its products of materials and use to recycling. free components for printed technologies" have won the 2009 electric signals. The team's major harmful chemicals in a new report Apple's environmental Web site circuit boards, while maintaining Nobel prize for physics. hurdle was determining how to released Tuesday from is broken down into several the reliability of the products. Charles K. Kao, who discovered gather and read out those signals environmental organizations categories, including Life Cycle Semiconductor manufacturer how to transmit light through into a large number of pixels in a ChemSec and Clean Production Impact, Product Usage Impact, Silicon Storage Technology was fiber optics, and the team of short burst of time. Action. and Product Environmental among the first company to Willard S. Boyle and George E. George E. Smith(Credit: Photo: While Greenpeace seems to Reports. There is also a section provide bromine-free chips to Smith, who designed the first National Inventors Hall of Fame have completely missed Apple's for Apple to post its own updates. companies like Apple. digital imaging sensor, split the Foundation/SCANPIX) environmental advances in its While Apple was the only Apple on Monday resigned its award, announced by the Nobel The first consumer camera with latest report, ChemSec and Clean computer manufacturer to make membership to the U.S. Chamber Foundation on Tuesday. a CCD was designed in 1981, Production Action's report, the list, the report praised six of Commerce in protest over the Charles K. Kao(Credit: Photo: leading to a revolution in digital "Greening Consumer Electronics: other companies for their organization's environmental Richard Epworth) photography. Moving Away from Bromine and environmental efforts, too. policy, according to a report on Born in Shanghai, China, "When combined with the laser Chlorine," highlights Apple's With its products 99.9 percent the San Francisco Chronicle. Charles K. Kao made a discovery and the transistor, the invention of efforts as one of seven companies free of brominated flame "Apple supports regulating in 1966 that would lead to today's an efficient, low-loss optical fiber who have come up with solutions retardants (BFRs), Sony Ericsson greenhouse gas emissions, and it fiber optics. A man ahead of this has made nearly instantaneous negating the use of harmful will have no PVC components in is frustrating to find the chamber time, Kao calculated how it would communication possible across chemicals. Apple was the only its products by the end of 2009, at odds with us in this effort," be possible to transmit light over the entire globe," said H. computer maker to make the list. according to the report. ChemSec Catherine Novelli, Apple vice 100 kilometers (62 miles), Frederick Dylla, Director of the "Apple established an innovative and Clean Production Action president of worldwide compared to only 20 meters (65 American Institute of Physics. program that restricts the use of praised the company for "not only government affairs, wrote to in a feet) for the fiber cables available "This mode of communication is nearly all bromine and chlorine removing substances of concern letter to chamber President in the 60s. He discovered that by essential for high-speed internet compounds across all their from their products but also Thomas Donohue. removing impurities and creating and forms the optical backbone of product lines," the report says of taking on the complicated task of With its resignation, Apple a more pure type of glass, the 21st century commerce. The CCD Apple. "As such, Apple now establishing full chemical becomes the fourth company to fiber could be made more sensor has revolutionized offers a wide range of PVC and inventories for all their product leave the Chamber of Commerce efficient and absorb less of the technical, professional, and BFR free consumer products lines." in the last several weeks, light over great distances. consumer photography in the last including iPhones and iPods, as Hard drive manufacturer, according to the Washington Post. Kao's research stimulated other few decades. Taken together these well as computers that are free of Seagate, eliminated chlorine- and The others--Pacific Gas and scientists to join the effort, inventions may have had a greater BFRs and most uses of PVC." bromine-based chemistries from Electric, PNM Resources, and leading to the first ultrapure fiber impact on humanity than any Apple recently unveiled a major its disk drives, and Netherlands- Exelon--have all been power cable created in 1970. others in the last half century." overhaul of its environmental based DSM Engineering Plastics companies. Another breakthrough in Kao will take home one half of Web site, allowing users to see is one of the first to offer technology was the invention of the award prize of 10 million exactly what it is doing to help the engineering plastics that are free the first successful digital imaging Swedish Kronors ($1.4 million) sensor, used today in everything with the team of Boyle and Smith from consumer cameras to splitting the other half. Awarded surgical devices. by the The Royal Swedish Willard S. Boyle(Credit: Academy of Sciences, Nobel Copyright: National Academy of prizes are given each year for Engineering1) achievements in science, Working at Bell Labs in New literature, and economics. Jersey in 1969, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith built the first 38 Tech Reviews/ TV/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record CNET to add phone service data to Christian Slater talks about handset reviews The Forgotten, life at 40, (CNET News.com) markets: New York, Los Angeles, zoom out to view the coverage on and his love of TV Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:37:22 AM San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, their commute route. Washington, Dallas, and We're doing this because we By Mike Moody (TV Squad) Thanks to the hard work of Kent California's Orange County. Once know there's a huge need. We Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:00:00 AM German, Bonnie Cha, and Nicole enough data is sampled, the recently conducted an online poll Lee, CNET's reviews of mobile information will be available on of our users in which 26 percent Stealing scenes on the small handsets are unparalleled: we are CNET for cell phone buyers to of you said you had returned a screen is nothing new to Christian the place on the Web to get in- determine the quality of service cell phone due to poor service, Slater. The actor, known for films depth evaluations of nearly every around their home, on their way and nearly half of you feel that like Heathers, True Romance and handset offered by the major to work, and at the office. there is not enough information Pump up the Volume, has made carriers. The information, being available on service quality. memorable guest appearances on But we're not satisfied because collected for the four major It may be premature to write shows like Alias, The West Wing we know you're not. wireless carriers--AT&T, Sprint, about this now, but I couldn't and My Name is Earl. His first Judging a phone by its features, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless-- wait. I've seen the working shot at his own series, the NBC design, and quality is just half the covers three key service concerns: prototypes, and I know that this is spy thriller My Own Worst story when determining whether it • Average signal strength and the going to be big hit for our users. Enemy, struggled to find an is worth purchasing. The other number of signal bars for the Rather than rely on anecdotal audience, leading the network to half of the equation is the quality selected carrier in a specified area evidence from friends or user cancel it halfway through the first of service provided by the carrier- • Data connectivity and reviews, or even from CNET's season. -and that's a factor we have not throughput editors, you will have empirical Slater is back starring in a new yet provided. After failing to find • Network issues such as drop data on which to base your series, The Forgotten, produced a solution for many years, we've calls or failed data connections purchasing decisions. by CSI head honcho Jerry finally arrived at one that I expect This is no small effort. It entails We have collected data in those Bruckheimer. The ABC characters would think about his will rattle the market. installing software on a variety of eight markets so far, and we'll be procedural follows a team of latest role. We've partnered with a phones and collecting real data on beta-testing for the remainder of amateur detectives who work Continue reading Christian company called Root Wireless, those key metrics. The 2009, with a general release as murder cases involving Slater talks about The Forgotten, which is led by some cellular- information--which includes time early as January 2010. And don't unidentified victims, or John and life at 40, and his love of TV industry veterans, to provide of day, terrain, and number of fret, if your city wasn't listed in Jane Does. Slater plays former Filed under: Other Drama consumers with detailed, real- users in an area--is transmitted to the first batch of eight because cop Alex Donovan, whose search Shows, Industry, CSI, Interviews, world coverage of major U.S. a database and made available via we'll be adding many more areas for his missing daughter inspires Celebrities, Reality-Free cities. a Web interface. Users can drill in the next year. him in the field. Permalink| Email this| | With Root, we're now collecting down to see how the big carriers I got the chance to talk with Comments data in eight major metropolitan perform in their neighborhood or Slater about The Forgotten, his new career in TV, and what one of his most famous big screen Stars React to David Letterman Extortion Scandal (ETonline - Breaking News) the A-listers responded to the ahead of everything, and he seems Favreau, Bateman, Kristen Bell, former ET correspondent Carlos Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:59:00 AM David Letterman extortion trial. to have handled it in a very Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman Ponce, who plays the couples' "I honestly have not seen his professional way, which you and more -- centers around four shirtless-and-muscular yoga ET has the latest... response to it but from what I wouldn't expect anything less couples who travel to a tropical instructor. Our Mark Steines was on hand understand, what he's done has from him. It's not going to make island for a vacation but are for the star-studded premiere of been consistent with the kind of me stop watch it." forced to work on their marriages the new comedy 'Couples Retreat' guy that I know," Jason Bateman Meanwhile, 'Couples Retreat' -- and participate in therapy where things turned serious when said. "He's very intelligent, very starring Vince Vaughn, Jon sessions. Also, keep an eye out for Internet News Record Apple/ Sports/ 39 Alleged assault by From Newton to Bathroom Web Surfing: The Braylon Edwards of Cleveland Browns History of the Fabled iTablet subject of NFL By Liam Cassidy [the] tablet since at least 2003… tablet would fit in my daily life is investigation (TheAppleBlog) One prototype, developed in While hardware challenges can a no-brainer. But then, I’m a geek, By Associated Press Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:00:47 AM 2003, used PowerPC microchips eventually be overcome, the and hardly representative of (ESPN.com) made by I.B.M., which were so problem of defining clear purpose Apple’s core target market. Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:17:22 AM The New York Times added power-hungry that they quickly is a harder one to solve. In Will Steve Jobs throw the some noise yesterday to the drained the battery. discussions about Apple’s tablet, proverbial spanner in the works LeBron Feuding With Braylon seemingly-unending buzz “It couldn’t be built. The battery I’ve found that people fall into again? It doesn’t seem wise to Edwards LeBron Feuding With surrounding Apple’s legendary life wasn’t long enough, the one of two types; those who delay the project much longer, Braylon Edwards Tablet device. I say “legendary” graphics performance was not immediately see its potential when faced with growing demand CLEVELAND -- The NFL is in the sense that, despite a enough to do anything and the purpose, and those who don’t. It’s for touch-based, internet- investigating whether Cleveland complete and total absence of any components themselves cost more a bit like Twitter that way. connected consumer electronics (a Browns wide receiver Braylon sort of confirmation from Apple than $500,” said Joshua A. Finding a clear purpose for the market that existed before the Edwards violated the league's such a device even exists, it has Strickland, a former Apple tablet is apparently an issue with iPhone but, arguably, only found conduct policy following already generated acres of column engineer whose name is on which Apple has been wrestling: its feet riding on Apple’s success accusations he assaulted a man inches. several of the company’s patents “I can imagine something like with that device). outside a nightclub. The NYT puts it somewhat for multitouch technology. the iPhone with a much bigger And it’s a computing paradigm Edwards allegedly punched more prosaically; “[tablet devices This touches on a point I made screen being a gorgeous device that suffered a shaky start, to be promoter Edward Givens, a friend have] …gripped the imagination last week, that a reason for the with great capacity, but I don’t sure. Microsoft’s first efforts in of NBA superstar LeBron James, of tech executives, bloggers and apparent failure of Microsoft’s know where I would fit that into Tablet Town failed to inspire early Monday morning following gadget hounds, who are projecting Tablet PC was its overly my life,” said a former Apple anyone’s imagination. But with an argument in downtown their wildest dreams onto these ambitious vision. Simply put, executive, who declined to be the Courier project coming to Cleveland. literal blank slates.” Microsoft’s vision for tablet named because of Apple’s secrecy light in recent weeks, it’s clear "We are looking into it," league To recap very briefly; the latest computing was too far ahead of policies, but who anticipates an Redmond is still seriously spokesman Greg Aiello said round of rumors tell us the tablet what was practical and affordable Apple tablet next year. “Those are pursuing a touch-based future. Tuesday in an e-mail. "It is will have a 10.7 inch screen, run for manufacturers to build. The the debates that have been While Microsoft isn’t entirely premature to speculate about the iPhone OS, feature an iPhone- components of the early 2000’s happening inside Apple for quite there yet, Windows 7’s touch potential discipline." like curved back, come in both 3G were not small enough, converged some time.” functionality takes a huge step in Although Edwards has not been chip and non-3G chip enabled enough, power efficient or For what it’s worth, I have that direction. charged with a crime, the league's flavors and offer 720p resolution. reliable. absolutely no difficulty figuring I’m sure Apple isn’t the conduct policy states that It is a replacement for printed While Microsoft left those out where the tablet would sit in slightest bit concerned over how discipline may be imposed for books and magazines, not a problems in the hands of its OEM my personal computing long it takes to get the tablet right. "the use or threat of violence." replacement for netbooks. So partners to figure out, Apple ecosystem. When I need to free If the NYT’s sources are correct, James called Edwards "childish" What’s New? chose the opposite path — it myself from my desk and go it’s a device Apple has been for punching his friend. The NYT article offers a decided not to release anything at mobile, I currently have two working on for most of this Copyright 2009 by The succinct overview of Apple’s all. In hindsight, it seems that was choices: my MacBook Pro or my decade. I wonder though, after all Associated Press tablet endeavors, starting with the the smarter decision. Bathroom iPhone. The former is overkill in this time, after all this speculation Newton MessagePad in 1993 and Browsing size, weight and computing and analysis and hype… will the taking a sideways look at Beyond the hardware limitations power. The latter is perfectly product Apple finally announces Microsoft’s tablet vision of the of the day, the article explains that capable — but just too darned early next year have any chance early noughties. Where it gets subsequent tablets were small. of living up to our expectations? It really interesting, however, is in repeatedly shelved because When I stop to think about it is 3D Week at GigaOM Pro! Read quotes about Apple’s tablet from “…Mr. Jobs, whose incisive long enough, I am astonished I our latest reports on the future of the company’s former employees, critiques are often memorable, don’t already have a machine that 3D TV, mobile, computing and who, naturally, remain nameless. asked, in essence, what they were sits somewhere between those two movies. Says the New York Times: good for besides surfing the Web devices. So, figuring out where a Apple has been working on in the bathroom.” 40 Apple/ Sports/ Fashion/ Internet News Record Exclusivity Ending: iPhone Coming to Bell, Telus in Canada By Darrell Etherington with Cupertino following the (TheAppleBlog) launch of the iPhone 3GS, Submitted at 10/6/2009 7:30:15 AM probably owing to the fact that neither of its competitors even First it was Orange and had the correct technology in Vodafone in the UK announcing place to allow the iPhone to plans to offer the iPhone, thus function. As far as I know, this is ending O2’s exclusive deal with the first instance of mobile Brett Favre 'Sticks Apple, and now another member providers changing the nature of of the Commonwealth is their network rather than just It' to Green Bay, following suit. In Canada, where asking a hardware manufacturer Rogers is currently the sole for a CDMA version of a device, Revives His Youth iPhone provider, two of the the something which I doubt Apple By Jay Mariotti (FanHouse) other three major carriers, Bell would respond favorably to Submitted at 10/6/2009 2:50:00 AM Canada and Telus, have just anyway. announced that they, too, will As of now, Rogers’ pricing for by Jay Mariotti offer the iPhone. the iPhone is in line with U.S. Filed under: NFL As was the case in the UK, pricing, but the subsidy is actually MINNEAPOLIS -- So here comes Rogers saw a huge sales surge heavier because of the exchange the folk hero once more, teasing thanks to the iPhone when it was rate. The provider does require a 3 when he should be wheezing, first introduced in Canada last big moves to try and win away Bell will launch its GSM -year contract from new charming when he should be year when the iPhone 3G was subscribers from the other two, so network beginning next month, subscribers, though. It’s unclear farming, reminding us again why released. Telus and Bell have prices and contract requirements and will begin selling the iPhone yet whether Bell or Telus will we really, really want to love him. been playing catch-up ever since, stay high. Very high. at the same time, according to offer a better deal. If either did, Anyone who had buried Brett in a market that has traditionally Both Bell and Telus will be sources speaking to The Globe the iPhone could be the first step Favre as a mercurial mope -- and been pretty evenly split. adding GSM capabilities to their and Mail, and an official release towards a drastically changed who hadn't, other than friends, Too evenly split, if you ask existing CDMA 3G networks, in early this morning. It isn’t yet Canadian wireless landscape. It is family and John Madden? -- was people who live in Canada (i.e., preparation for the 2010 clear when Telus will begin 3D Week at GigaOM Pro! Read left to shut the hell up Monday me). Virtually no competition Vancouver Olympic games. The offering GSM service, but the our latest reports on the future of night and nod admiringly at exists in the wireless market fact that Rogers experienced 7 source reports that they will 3D TV, mobile, computing and another inspirational portrait on a because only Rogers, Bell and percent growth over the past year officially announce partnerships movies. canvas unlike any other. Telus are allowed to offer service despite the recession, and that with Apple as early as today or Brett Favre 'Sticks It' to Green (relative newcomer Virgin is also iPhone users spend on average tomorrow, and will begin selling Bay, Revives His Youth involved, but they remain a low- one and a half times what the the device in time for the launch originally appeared on Fanhouse - cost provider and don’t mess with normal wireless customer does of its new networks. Jay Mariotti on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 the big boys too much). As a per month, probably also had Clearly, Rogers hadn’t worked 02:50:00 EST . Please see our result, the three rarely make any something to do with the addition. out any kind of exclusivity deal terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Linking Street Chic: Paris Blogs| Comments By ELLE.com (ELLE News mini is perfectly paired with a soft Daily. Blog) knitted sweater. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Submitted at 10/6/2009 4:00:00 AM Photo: Stylesight Think you are Street Chic? E- appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic A hard-edged quilted leather mail us your photo and you could Internet News Record Apple/ TV/ 41 Apple Leaves U.S. Chamber of Commerce Due to Climate Stance By Darrell Etherington recent action challenging the EPA (TheAppleBlog) is inconsistent with our view that Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:09:58 AM climate change is an issue in need of urgent action. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce In the past, Apple has made its is alienating its member political leanings known when it companies with a hard-line stance felt the issue was important it’s taken against the enough. When Proposition 8 was Environmental Protection Agency announced, Apple donated (EPA) and climate change $100,000 to oppose the bill. The legislation currently making the decision was met with strong rounds in the Senate. The latest reactions from both sides of the casualty in the conflict generated debate, with some questioning the by the Chamber’s controversial right of a company to come out so position is Apple, which greenhouse gases. Apple supports publicly in favor of one side or yesterday gave up its membership regulating greenhouse gas another on such a contentious with the organization. emissions, and it is frustrating to issue, and some lauding the The specific stance Apple took find the chamber at odds with us uncharacteristic show of corporate issue with is the Chamber’s in this effort. political action. Castle: Inventing the Girl position against the idea that the Three other firms, California- I imagine this latest display of a EPA should regulate greenhouse based Pacific Gas and Electric political stance will be greeted By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad) world, then with Castle's gas emissions, using the authority and Exelon, and New Mexico’s with less controversy, since many Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:31:00 AM realization that he is at the age in it already has to do so under the PNM Resources, have all left the see the value of climate change which the beautiful young woman Clean Air Act. Most agree that the Chamber of Commerce based on legislation. And the departure of a (S02E03) I don't watch Castle he meets isn't someone he met at a EPA doesn’t actually want to do the same policy decision. Both high profile company like Apple because I really need another New party, but rather the gawky girl this, but that it’s a last resort GE and Johnson & Johnson have will do much to raise awareness York-based police procedural in who babysat his daughter and measure in case the Democratic both issued statements making of the issue in the business world. my life. I watch it because it's watched High School Musical climate change bill that passed the clear their disagreement with the Still, the Chamber still counts funny, quirky, and because with her. All the while, Castle's house in June and now faces the Commerce’s official stance. Nike more than three million Nathan Fillion is dreamy. So mother is dealing with the fact Senate ultimately fails. stepped down from the executive companies among its while I would be hard-pressed to that she is no longer getting the Apple spokeswoman Catherine branch of the Commerce, but membership, so the departure of ever find a bad episode of Castle, ingenue parts, but is instead being Novelli wrote to Thomas maintains its membership, and four of those companies is this one wasn't my favorite. It just offered that of the the crazy Donohue, the Chamber’s made clear its position in a unlikely do much effect the wasn't fun enough. granny who dies offstage. president, explaining Apple’s statement of its own: organization’s relevance. It's 3D I'm not really enthralled with Continue reading Castle: decision to leave: As we’ve stated, we Week at GigaOM Pro! Read our models, so the whole "behind the Inventing the Girl We strongly object to the fundamentally disagree with the latest report, " 3DTV Market is scenes at Fashion Week" thing Filed under: Other Drama chamber’s recent comments US Chamber of Commerce on the Ready for Takeoff." really doesn't appeal to me very Shows, Episode Reviews, Reality- opposing the EPA’s effort to limit issue of climate change and their much. However, I do like how the Free theme of youth and beauty plays Permalink| Email this| | itself out throughout the show; Comments first with the obsession over these qualities inherent in the modeling 42 Apple/ Sports/ Media/ Internet News Record MediaDailyNews: Verizon Ad Mocking AT&T Pays Homage to ITV, Mattel Strike iPhone Production Deal By Charles Jade (MediaPost | Media News) (TheAppleBlog) Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:09:26 AM Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:00:08 AM ITV Studios and Mattel, a “There’s a map for that” is the leading toy manufactuer, struck a catchphrase for a new ad from deal to develop several of Mattel's Verizon that plays upon the board-game brands into ubiquitous advertising meme for international TV formats and the iPhone and Apple’s App multiplatform properties. ITV Store. However, the ad has Studios Global Entertainment will nothing to do with Verizon’s own also distribute the content. Brands application store, instead include Scrabble, Pictionary and highlighting the disparity of 3G UNO. Remy Blumenfeld, director coverage between Verizon and of formats at ITV Studios, states: AT&T. "Scrabble and Pictionary are The ad shows some guy playing immediately recognizable brands Rock Band on a Samsung that we can integrate into a brand Rogue—ugh—while walking new gaming format or develop as down the street. As a voiceover stand-alone formats with our rhetorically asks if you want to broadcast partners around the world." know why 3G coverage works so Is it really a good idea for that Apple’s market share could exclusivity, but that could be well on Verizon’s network, the Verizon to highlight its own rise to 10%, on average, in a made up in volume. coverage map pops up above his apparent iPhone envy, not to multiple carrier distribution model In this ad, Verizon could be head and we hear that “there’s a mention the oblique mention of from 4% today. speaking to iPhone users on map for that.” the wildly successful App Store? Her analysis is that Apple could AT&T’s network, who then pass When an AT&T customer, It depends on who Verizon is double iPhone sales by moving to along their yearning for Verizon presumably using an iPhone and advertising to, exactly. Via a multi-carrier business model, in increasing numbers to Apple. sporting a goatee—where’s his Silicon Alley Insider, a research the logic being most individuals What might come of that could be beret and cup of free trade note from Morgan Stanley analyst choose carriers over phones, even a new map in 2010 and beyond, expresso?—shakes his head at his Kathryn Huberty remarks on the if the phone is arguably the the iPhone on Verizon’s next-gen phone, the voice asks about possibility of Apple moving away greatest telecommunication LTE network. “spotty coverage.” The AT&T from the exclusivity agreement device in the history of the Subscribe to GigaOM Pro and coverage map then appears and with AT&T. universe. Sure, Apple will no gain access to our Webinar, " we again hear that “there’s a map “In the top six iPhone markets doubt lose the pound of revenue Biggest Opportunities in the for that.” Ha, ha, I guess, but then that are still exclusive, we believe flesh they got from AT&T for Smart Grid," on Oct. 7, 2009. I thought about it. Carlos Boozer Wouldn't Mind Staying With Utah Past Trade Deadline By Chris Tomasson Jazz opened last week at it light these days after an see our terms for use of feeds. (FanHouse) EnergySolutions Arena. But some offseason in which things got Permalink| Email this| Linking Submitted at 10/6/2009 5:00:00 AM fans did get riled up enough to heavy. Blogs| Comments express displeasure whenever Carlos Boozer Wouldn't Mind by Chris Tomasson forward Carlos Boozer's name Staying With Utah Past Trade Filed under: Jazz SALT LAKE was called. Deadline originally appeared on CITY -- It was a typical listless "That's how they cheer me. They making a play on his name. Fanhouse NBA Blog on Tue, 06 preseason crowd when the Utah say 'Boo,''' cracked Boozer, At least Boozer is trying to keep Oct 2009 05:00:00 EST . Please Internet News Record Sports/ 43 Favre’s Systematic Torture of Cheeseheads Continues (WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) And yet Favre probably didn’t “How can anyone trust or root for to be pretty forgiving of players Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:43:29 AM have the best game of any Viking. him after he blew a Breathalyzer who do bad things in their That honor would likely go to test (.26) that was double the personal lives,” Sullivan writes. One man cannot win a football defensive end Jared Allen, who number of hours remaining until a “For Cabrera, though, to put game all by himself. Too much piled up 4.5 sacks and spent most Saturday night game that could himself in a situation that could be goes into even one play for one of the game in Rodgers’s personal have prevented the need for the interpreted as showing disinterest player to reap all the credit. But space. In the Minneapolis Star- Twins showdown?” Kaduk fumes. in the success of his team — to a this isn’t going to work. Anyone Tribune, Chip Scoggins praises “How can [Detroit GM Dave] fan, there is no greater insult.”* * who watched the Minnesota Allen’s dominating performance Dombrowski continue to play a * Vikings beat the Green Bay and the broader brilliance of the very patchy offense. Of all the player he had to pick up from the The NFL’s vaunted parity Packers on Monday already Vikings’ D-line. hitters in that lineup, Miguel police station that morning? The remains intact, by and large. But knows that Brett Favre defeated Perhaps the least surprising part Cabrera — he of the .323-33-101 answers are 1) no one can and 2) long-term parity doesn’t make the the entire Green Bay Packers of the game was the adulation line and .936 OPS — would seem he shouldn’t.” NFL a league of equals. This year, organization. With nothing more poured on Favre from the to be the one about whom the In the Detroit News, Neal Rubin as in every other season, the NFL than a rocket arm, overwhelming broadcast booth. While Al Tigers would least need to worry. examines the Tigers’ unsavory abounds in super-stinky teams. At charisma and … well, great Michaels and John Madden set a You’d think that. options for disciplining Cabrera CBS Sports, Ray Ratto asks the receivers, a punishing defensive high bar for Favre love in the past, But when Cabrera showed up and argues that the whole question that has occurred to front and an offensive line that ESPN’s team of Mike Tirico, Ron for the last two games of the epidsode tarnishes not just everyone who has watched the kept him from being sacked even Jaworski and Jon Gruden may Tigers’ vital series against the Cabrera’s reputation but that of Raiders or Browns or Bucs play once while Green Bay counterpart have eclipsed it. In the Onion AV White Sox with vivid scratches all the Tigers organization, which this season — are this year’s bad Aaron Rodgers went down eight Club Milwaukee, Steven Hyden over his face, rumors swirled opted for message control over teams worse than usual? times. Associated Press As a put it succinctly: “ESPN made about what might have caused the benching or fining Cabrera over “This is hard to do with research consolation, Brett Favre offers sweet, slow love to No. 4 last marks. In the Detroit Free Press, the weekend. Elsewhere in the because hindsight colors one’s Aaron Rodgers one free appetizer night.” In the Milwaukee Journal- Tammy Stables Battaglia and News, Lynn Henning makes the judgment, but it seems that there at the steakhouse he still owns in Sentinel, Bob Wolfley offers a Michael Rosenberg replace those unassailable point that Cabrera are more irredeemably bad teams Green Bay. more nuanced, less racy take on rumors with reportage that almost clearly has some growing up to at this stage of the year than Just because the broadcast the broadcast. certainly left Tigers fans nostalgic do. ever,” Ratto writes. “Sure, you overhyped the significance of Finally, in the New York Times, for rumor. In summary, they And in the Detroit Free Press, can do it just by looking at wins Favre facing the team with which Pat Borzi describes the difficulty report that Cabrera went out after Rosenberg encourages everyone and losses, but your notion is bent he spent 16 seasons doesn’t mean of turning the Metrodome from a Friday’s game with friends who involved, from the Tigers brass to by subsequent events — like it wasn’t dramatic to see the baseball stadium to a football are White Sox players, got drunk, Cabrera himself, to take the reading a mystery novel from future Hall of Famer at his very field and then back to a baseball almost got in a fight, came home, personal and professional back to front. You already have best, passing for an efficient 271 stadium again in three days, in got in a physical altercation with investment implicit in Cabera’s the gist, now you’re just working yards and three scores. “The preparation for tonight’s one- his wife and blew an astonishing $152 million contract a bit more on the headache.”* * * uniforms were all mixed up but game AL Central playoff between .26 on the breathalyzer when the seriously. “A lot of ballplayers Shoe companies spend millions the play was something out of a the Twins and Tigers.* * * police came to pick him up, and enjoy the nightlife, and this isn’t a of dollars developing new designs decade ago,” Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel The Detroit Tigers have plenty was bailed out by Tigers GM moral judgment,” Rosenberg and technologies and marketing writes. “You can remain skeptical to worry about heading into Dave Dombrowski at 8 a.m. writes. “It’s about an investment. strategies for running shoes (and (as I do) of Favre’s season-long Tuesday’s posteason play-in Saturday. And then went a The Tigers have to do what they dozens of dollars manufacturing prognosis, but there was little game. For one thing, as Jon Paul combined 0-for-7 in Saturday’s can to make sure they keep those shoes in special economic doubt about this one. It was a Morosi points out at Fox Sports, loss and Sunday’s win. So, no, not getting their money’s worth from zones that are more or less the performance right out of his peak, visiting teams have terrible the sort of thing that wins a fellow Cabrera. And Cabrera needs to saddest places on earth). And yet Favre making all the right throws, records in these one-game a Roberto Clemente Award. listen, for his own sake.” running without shoes — all the correct reads, all the proper playoffs. For another, the Tigers Yahoo baseball blogger Kevin At the ever-great Seattle barefoot, that is — has started to decisions. This was no game just got done fumbling away a Kaduk argues that the importance Mariners blog Lookout Landing, make a quiet comeback in management, no complementary divisional lead they’d held since of the Tigers sending a message to Jeff Sullivan ponders the impact California, Roy Wallack reports role.” Sports Illustrated’s Peter May 10, are starting a 20-year-old Miggy is more important than that the 26-year-old Cabrera’s in an entertaining piece for the King reports that the 39-year-old rookie in the most important game having his brilliant bat in the very bad night could have on his Los Angeles Times. Wallack’s was anxious and emotional of their season and are powered, lineup Tuesday. Or for the rest of career once the hangover fades. before, during and after the game. such as that word applies, by a the postseason, for that matter. “History has shown that fans tend FAVRE’S page 44 44 Sports/ Internet News Record Sources: Michael Crabtree to talk to Tigers' Hopes Lie With Poised Porcello San Francisco 49ers By Ed Price (FanHouse) By Calvin Watkins few weeks. the 49ers' offer for approximately Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:00:00 PM (ESPN.com) Eugene Parker, Crabtree's agent, five years and $20 million, with a by Ed Price Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:10:11 AM is scheduled to arrive in San reported $16 million guaranteed. Francisco on Tuesday. Parker The 49ers have until Nov. 17 to Filed under: Tigers, Twins, AL Crabtree Saga Nearing End? declined comment when reached. sign Crabtree in order for him to Central If the Tigers are going to Crabtree Saga Nearing End? Niners coach Mike Singletary play this season. If Crabtree is not pop champagne, they will need DALLAS -- First-round draft said Monday that he would still signed and he is not traded, he help from someone who is not pick Michael Crabtree left for San like to have Crabtree play for the would go back into the April allowed to drink it. Francisco from Tampa, Fla., on team this season. draft. Detroit will start 20-year-old Monday to renew contract talks "Any guy that can play and help The 49ers (3-1) are in first place Rick Porcello in Tuesday night's with the 49ers, according to us win, I would never say, 'No, in the NFC West without one-game playoff at Minnesota sources familiar with the we don't need him,'" Singletary Crabtree, but their offense ranks for the AL Central title. But negotiations. said. "We need all the good 28th in the NFL. San Francisco's Porcello has already shown he is NFC West blog football players we can get." passing game also ranks 28th, and far from an ordinary 20. ESPN.com's Mike Sando writes Crabtree, the 10th overall none of the team's wide receivers "Oof," Twins manager Ron about all things NFC West in his selection in April's draft, is the rank among the league's top 50 in Gardenhire said recently. "He's a nice pitcher. He's just got really division blog. only unsigned first-round pick. He receptions. 2 with a 3.09 ERA this year. • Blog network: NFL Nation has missed the first four weeks of Information from The good stuff. He's got a great sinker, slider. And you know what, quick Tigers' Hopes Lie With Poised Crabtree was unavailable for the regular season. Associated Press was used in this Porcello originally appeared on comment. The Dallas native and The 22-year-old Crabtree is report. arm action. A little deception to him. His ball moves all over the Fanhouse MLB Blog on Tue, 06 former Texas Tech receiver has seeking money comparable to Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST . 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Seattle is about 115 miles tolerate bright lights and he The industry analysts at Game from Canada, and it's a two-hour doesn't have a headache. That was Developer Research could have Florida coach Urban Meyer's drive to Vancouver; it is a sporty, metro area in the country, seldom Miles says the Tigers are prepping saved themselves a whole mess of athletic town where people spend latest medical update Monday to face either Tebow or his time and money by releasing the gets mentioned as a potential concerning his recovering a lot of time indoors because of NHL location. And there are backup, John Brantley. following statement in lieu of the wet weather; and the only pro quarterback as the top-ranked Tebow or Brantley? LSU to latest edition of their annual Top plenty of arguments against it. Gators prepare for Saturday's team in town during the winter Would Seattle Work for the Adjust originally appeared on 20 Publishers report: " See now is the NFL since the NBA showdown at No. 4 LSU. 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So if Mii, or a professional skater, or a every Wii game was going to let the in-game Tony Hawk avatar professional skater's Mii in Tony you play as your Mii? And then doesn't have a big enough head Hawk Ride remember when that didn't for you, there's a built-in solution. Play as your Mii, or a happen and the inclusion of Miis In addition to the extra Mii professional skater, or a into every third-party game was a features, Tony Hawk Ride on the professional skater's Mii in Tony Big Deal? This news about Tony Wii will include two exclusive Hawk Ride originally appeared on Hawk Ride makes us nostalgic for levels. Usually, motion controls Joystiq on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 both of those times. are enough of an exclusive feature compensate. Enjoy some footage Tour and 5 included Mii modes, 11:45:00 EST. Please see our Developer Buzz Monkey and for a game's Wii version, but this from the Wii game after the Xbox Avatar support was new for terms for use of feeds. Activision have received the time, of course, that isn't the case, break. the latest GH game. We've Read| Permalink| Email this| mysteriously elusive permission and it looks like Activision has While both Guitar Hero World contacted Activision to determine Comments from Nintendo to include Mii found interesting ways to 46 Game/ Internet News Record

EA trademarks 'The Ripper,' could be Visceral's next game By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:15:00 AM It's a well-known fact that for the past year or so, Electronic Arts Activision files trademark for has developed an insatiable Microsoft: Avatar clothing addiction for new intellectual Call of Duty film adaptation property. Rather than kick the changed 150 million times habit, the company's making By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) with Xavier Gens, director of the By Justin McElroy (Joystiq) a bit worried about some of you. moves to further feed its franchise Submitted at 10/6/2009 10:45:00 AM Hitman film while in town. fixation -- EA recently filed two Talking game films." Sure, we Submitted at 10/6/2009 11:15:00 AM Gang, please, keep your dignity intact: Set it once -- walk away. trademarks reserving the title Perhaps the reason why video would've rather had Bowling meet "The Ripper" for use in a game-to-film adaptations have with Mr. Scorcese to talk Duty Speaking at the First Annual It's the only sane thing to do. Of Microsoft Open House in NYC, course, Bach also said that computer game (or other failed so ubiquitously is because movies -- but in the grand scope "entertainment service"). none of them were of a truly epic of video game films, Hitman Robbie Bach, president of the 200,000 games of 1 vs. 100 were company's entertainment and being played every weekend, so Now, this title could mean one scale. Perhaps what the ailing ranks high on the "not completely of two things: It may be a genre needs is a massive, Saving abysmal" end of the spectrum. devices division, was touting the maybe you guys are just trying to strength of the 360 platform. get spiffed up for Chris Cashman. Visceral Games-developed action Private Ryan-esque cinematic [Via Trademork] title based on Jack the Ripper, a endeavor -- which might just be Activision files trademark for Along with the impressive news We hope it was worth it. that the results of 425 million Microsoft: Avatar clothing project which was hinted at by coming in the form of a movie Call of Duty film adaptation anonymous EA sources to the LA based on Activision's Call of Duty originally appeared on Joystiq on games had been crunched for changed 150 million times matchmaking, Bach also said that originally appeared on Joystiq on Times back in July. It could also franchise, as hinted at by a recent Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:45:00 EST. be an interactive biography of the trademark filing. Please see our terms for use of Avatar clothing had been changed Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:15:00 EST. more than 150 million times. Please see our terms for use of life of Rip Taylor, which has no Adding fuel to the speculative feeds. supporting evidence behind it fire is Infinity Ward's Robert Read| Permalink| Email this| When you divide that by the 20 feeds. million Xbox Live users the Permalink| Email this| whatsoever, but would make us Bowling (aka FourZeroTwo) who Comments happy for the rest of our lives. recently tweeted,"grabbing lunch company's claiming, that's ... Comments more than 7 changes each. We're [Via Superannuation] EA trademarks 'The Ripper,' GAME could be Visceral's next game continued from page 45 originally appeared on Joystiq on placed first (again), EA came in The full, totally unsurprising list why Publisher A is still infinitely Joystiq on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:15:00 EST. second (again), Activision -- which was calculated based on better than Publisher B can be 12:40:00 EST. Please see our Please see our terms for use of Blizzard followed in third (again), number of games released, found further below. terms for use of feeds. feeds. Ubisoft retained its fourth place average review scores for said [Via Gamasutra] Read| Permalink| Email this| Read| Permalink| Email this| position (again), and Take-Two games and estimated revenue for Game Developer Research's Comments Comments moved up from sixth to fifth, each company -- can be found 'Top 20 Publishers 2009' stays the bumping Sony out of the top five. after the jump. Comments stating same originally appeared on Internet News Record Game/ Fashion/ 47

Rodarte's Scene- Stealing Dolls By ELLE.com (ELLE News Blog) Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:43:38 AM Nintendo sells 2.2 million DSis, Last night, Colette hosted an event celebrating a small art says Walmart is biggest exhibition that the Rodarte sisters, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, curated customer Lily Allen at Chanel at the store. As expected, it was well-attended by the fashion set By David Hinkle (Joystiq) handhelds without the help of By ELLE.com (ELLE News the photos. Needless to say, there Blog) was thunderous applause after the and the exhibit was beyond Submitted at 10/6/2009 12:15:00 PM retailers and according to Reggie, wonderful. Walmart has been the biggest Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:49:04 AM show. Rihanna made her appearance But it were these rag dolls that During a recent interview with customer. We're not surprised -- were the quiet scene-stealers. CNBC, Nintendo's Reggie Fils- Walmart is supernatural, after all. The entire Grand Palais was as a front-row guest, and of rocking and rolling as Lily Allen course was decked out in the Sitting pretty in the little sunken Aime addressed the Wii's recent Continue reading Nintendo sells room on the second floor of the price drop(surprise: it's seen 2.2 million DSis, says Walmart is emerged from out of the floor Chanel. As I was leaving the with band in tow and performed show, she and I exited together, boutique, they were pointed out to positive results) and the biggest customer me by my fashion industry company's strategy for the Nintendo sells 2.2 million DSis, live during Chanel. It caught and she is as pretty in person as everyone by surprise and as she she is on screen. Flawless doesn't godfather, Mickey Boardman. He upcoming holiday season. The says Walmart is biggest customer grabbed Lynn Yaeger and me and manufacturer is counting on a originally appeared on Joystiq on sang, the crowd was in awe, some even begin to describe her skin. sang along, and of course cameras Sometimes a show can be all took us to see the little cuties, strong showing for its DSi Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:15:00 EST. upon which I immediately fell in handheld, with Reggie revealing Please see our terms for use of wouldn't stop flashing. spectacle, but not Chanel; even The clothes kept coming out as without the mind-blowing set and love. It's rather a mind trip to see that 2.2 million units have now feeds. Rodarte knits in such a small been sold, presumably in North Read| Permalink| Email this| she did her thing (with a giant musical performance, the smile on her face, mind you) and collection is to die for. scale, especially since they were America alone. Comments hanging out not too far from the Of course, Nintendo couldn't models like Karlie Kloss sashayed —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin past the songstress and posed for Follow ELLE on Twitter. actual designs themselves. have possibly sold that many —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Follow ELLE on Twitter. Flats Ruled the Runway at Vanessa Bruno By ELLE.com (ELLE News runway yesterday in Paris, the heel, I can only hope those —Violet Moon Gaynor Blog) designer herself took to the stage platforms make it from Bruno's Flat sandals, left, and punchy Submitted at 10/6/2009 5:06:00 AM at the end of her spring 2010 feet to a boutique near me come platforms, right, on the runway at show wearing a chic high-heel February. Vanessa Bruno While Vanessa Bruno's models sandal in a sunny yellow hue. To get your hands on Vanessa Photos: Imaxtree wore strappy flat sandals on the Since I rarely leave the house in anything less than a three-inch Bruno’s fall collection, click here. 48 Media/ Internet News Record TV Board: Bearing The Bull Or Baring the Bull: A Need For Set Top Box Straight Talk (MediaPost | Media News) Tank, Council for Innovative space - one that is necessary to Submitted at 10/6/2009 8:47:17 AM Media Measurement, the Nielsen prove the efficacy of TV funded Council for Research advertising as well as evolve cross • Interactive TV program guide Excellence), data driven TV media televisual metrics (linear maker Rovi, formerly known as buying platforms (Google TV TV, broadband, mobile and all Macrovision, has joined forces Ads, Invidi, Microsoft's Navic varieties of on demand) - they will with media measurement Admira), dataminers (Acxiom, promulgate both the promise and company TNS Media Research, to Allant, Experian), exotic flavored perils of set top box data in ways analyze TV viewer actions, data analyzers (TiVo/Quantcast, that obfuscate and mislead the including use of IPGs and TRA), predictive modelers community. Case in point: in late reactions to IPG advertising. (AdsVantage, Google TV Ads, summer, a major research entity The list of players invested or Microsoft's Navic Admira), and published some analytics investing in this burgeoning arena technologists/manufacturers comparing program viewership in is becoming legion: set top box (NDS, OpenTV, Rovi and digital cable homes versus clickstream data-ists (Navic rumored BigBand and Motorola). satellite only households versus Reveal, Nielsen Media Research, A renaissance of sorts for NPM sampling and the effect it Rentrak, TiVo, TNS Media audience measurement. would have on revenue Research), cross industry My concern: as the industry generation. "Some examples from collaboratives (Collaborative mandarins squabble for hegemony the '08-'09 season: Alliance Set Top Box Think within this expansive, fertile TV Watch: TV's Ad Sound Check: Not Hearing You Through All The Noise (MediaPost | Media News) noise of a TV commercial starts. This move was much to the media agencies are obviously Submitted at 10/6/2009 9:45:13 AM But that's about to end; chagrin of my father, who was looking to make up for TV's Congress is getting involved. And used to the loud ambient noise of lesser clout -- especially on U.S. viewers may be fast- it's about time. The House New-Wave music selling cars, or network TV, where there has been forwarding commercials in a Energy & Commerce Committee toilet paper jingles accompanied viewership erosion. greater number -- which seems in is readying the Commercial by energetic -- high volume -- Now, this has drawn the direct relationship to the ever- Advertisement Loudness commercial announcers. attention of those they least want increasing volume of TV Mitigation Act. Otherwise know The goal is obvious: The higher to get involved: Congress. commercials. as CALM. Nice. the volume of commercials, the My suggestion: Lower the TV For some time now, savvy TV Long before DVRs, I did my greater chance viewers will sit up din; pump up some new marketers/programmers have been own part to avoid commercial and take notice. But badgering marketing notes. jolting viewers to lunge for the distractions -- turning down the isn't the way to go about it. remote after the room-temperature sound, keeping the peace. The Louder commercials feel sound volume of a programming button is right there on your somewhat desperate: TV segment ends and before the high remote. It's called MUTE. networks, TV marketers, and their