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Obama takes on anti-Americanism, calls for new
era
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:34:15 AM
President Barack Obama began
his first speech before the U.N.
General Assembly by taking on
the anti-Americanism that spread
overseas in the aftermath of the
2003 invasion of Iraq (six years
before his presidency).
“I took office at a time when
many around the world had come
to view America with skepticism
and distrust,” he told world
leaders.
Misperceptions, misinformation,
opposition to U.S. policies, and a
belief that the United States acted
unilaterally “fed an almost
reflexive anti-Americanism
which, too often, has served as an
excuse for collective inaction,”
Obama said.
He called for embracing “a new
era of engagement based on
mutual interest and mutual
respect.”
Obama basically put on the line
his hopes for a new chapter in
U.S. relations with other
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countries, and made clear that he
was breaking from the unpopular
policies of his predecessor, former
President George W. Bush.
He ticked off action taken on
issues of friction, saying he has
prohibited torture, ordered
Guantanamo Bay prison closed
and worked on combating
extremism “within the rule of
law.”
At home, Obama faces
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seeing the president back off his
March pledge of providing the
resources necessary for our men
and women in Afghanistan.”
“The president has already lost
credibility with his commitment
to our allies, so why should we
believe his words today before the
United Nations?” the RNC said in
a statement.
Obama is trying to change
world perception of the United
States. Republicans are trying to
change American perception of
Obama.
Do you believe Obama will
succeed in reducing anti-
American opinion abroad? Will
Republicans succeed in turning
Republican and conservative A m e r i c a n o p i n i o n a g a i n s t
critics who question whether he is O b a m a ?
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Another kind
of death panels
By Emily Kaiser (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:59:40 AM
U.S. Representative Barney
Frank has never been shy about
expressing his opinions. His
opening remarks at a hearing he
chaired with Treasury Secretary
Timothy Geithner on Wednesday
was no exception. Frank poked
fun at a political squabble over
healthcare reform as he detailed
his position on what to do about
non-bank financial firms
considered "too big to fail."
"There will be death panels
enacted by this Congress, but they
will be for non-bank financial
institutions that will not be
considered too big to die.
I say that because we have this
euphemism that we are going to
be 'resolving' these institutions. It
has not been my experience that
when someone says they are
going to resolve something, they
kill it. We are talking about
dissolution, not resolution. We are
talking about making it unpleasant
for the entities. This is not a fate
people will want."
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The First Draft: Gaddafi, the tent and
The Donald
By Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:28:36 AM
Official Washington is gazing
northward this morning toward
New York and the United
Nations, where President Barack
Obama will be followed in the
General Assembly by Libya’s
Muammar Gaddafi. The big
question in the blogosphere is not
what Obama will tell the gathered
diplomats of the world — the
White House has indicated he will
stress a new tone in foreign policy
— but where Gaddafi spent the
night.
Unlike the rest of the assembled
envoys, Gaddafi prefers a
Bedouin tent to a hotel (hates
elevators, reportedly) but his
plans to pitch a tent in the
suburban town of Bedford, New
York, hit a snag with local
authorities. Construction of the
tent, featuring draperies with a
camel print, was halted on
Tuesday. ABC News reported that
he bedded down in Manhattan
close to the United Nations.
The titillation factor grew when
it was discovered that the estate in
Bedford was owned by none other
than Donald Trump, New York
real estate magnate and publicity
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So what’s the carbon footprint of
a motorcade?
By Caren Bohan (Front Row statements on climate change be
Washington) undermined by motorcades,
magnet extraordinaire. this the issue that’s grabbing the Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:36:08 PM gridlock, idling engines?
T h e m o r n i n g T V n e w s headlines? Is it because it’s The answer: electric
programs — NBC, ABC, CNN, something to spark outrage? World leaders in New York City m o t o r c a d e s !
CBS, FOX — all featured stories, Laugh at? Because of all the for the U.N. General Assembly (Would that mean electric
with video of the tent under gnarly problems of the world, this also bring motorcades, gridlock, sockets on every corner in
construction. A quick Web search i s o n e t h a t a t l e a s t i s and idling engines. midtown Manhattan?)
for tent+bedford+libya (leaving comprehensible? Let us know So when White House reporters, “I think the U.N. should make a
out Gaddafi’s name because of what you think. also in New York following p l e d g e t o e l e c t r i c v e h i c l e
the various spellings of it) Photo credits: President Barack Obama around, motorcades within five years,”
resulted in 227,000 hits. REUTERS/Hugo Correia got a briefing on U.N. climate U.S. climate negotiator Todd
There are plenty of critical (Gaddafi in his tent outside change talks, the question had to Stern told reporters.
issues before the United Nations Lisbon, Portugal, December 6, be asked. Photo credit: Reuters/Kai
General Assembly (and the G20 2007) CBS’s Mark Knoller wondered Pfaffenbach (power plug is seen
in Pittsburgh) this week: nuclear REUTERS/Chris Helgren (Tent about the carbon footprint of the next to an electric-drive car)
weapons proliferation, Middle for Gaddafi pitched on the s u m m i t : c o u l d t h e e a r n e s t
East conflict, climate change, the grounds of an Italian villa in
global economic slump. So why is Rome, June 9, 2009)
Obama urges ‘new era of engagement’
Pelosi 'in another world' (Politico) (Financial Times - US solve the problems of the world towards the US in the past.
1 second ago 2009-09- homepage) without them. “Those who used to chastise
23T09:47:22-07:00 Challenging the world’s leaders America for acting alone in the
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:00:08 AM
to work with the US to address world cannot now stand by and
Barack Obama on Wednesday global problems, he referred to an wait for America to solve the
promised fellow leaders a new “almost reflexive anti- world’s problems alone”.
relationship with the US and said Americanism” that had defined
neither he nor his country could the attitudes of many states
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Slide in support for healthcare overhaul slows, Gadhafi Slams Security

poll says Council - ABC News
By JoAnne Allen (Front Row healthcare overhaul initiative
Washington) suffered a setback as the hot topic (Most Popular - Google News) the General Assembly so
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:36:42 PM in a summer of raucous rallies and Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:30:10 AM diplomats could take new seats.
public debate. The U.S. Mission was
Public support for President More people still believe In his first U.N. appearance, represented at a low level by a
Barack Obama’s healthcare Obama’s healthcare plan is a bad Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi note-taker and an African expert.
reform initiative has rebounded idea than a good one, 41 percent issued a slashing attack on the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
slightly following his speech to to 39 percent, according to the Security Council and chastised the R o d h a m C l i n t o n a n d U . S .
Congress this month, according to NBC/WSJ poll. world body on Wednesday for Ambassador Susan Rice departed
an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll However, 45 percent now say it failing to intervene or prevent before Gadhafi ascended the
released on Tuesday. would be better to pass a some 65 wars since the U.N. was podium.
Forty-five percent of Americans healthcare plan than to stick with founded in 1945. After waiting for the room to
approve of the president’s the current system, while 39 Gadhafi called for reform of the settled, Gadhafi rose and swept
handling of healthcare, compared percent approved. percent don’t want any change at council — abolishing the veto his robe over him and strode to
to 46 percent who disapprove, the Obama delivered a healthcare all. power of the five permanent the stage, using the handrail on
poll found. In last month’s speech to Congress on Sept. 9 members — or expanding the his way up. He wore a shiny black
NBC/WSJ poll last month, 47 followed by a media blitz to body with additional member pin in the shape of Africa pinned
percent disapproved and 41 revive his case for reform. His s t a t e s t o m a k e i t m o r e over his heart, on his brown and
representative. tan Bedouin robes.
Skelton making point on Afghanistan with turn of "It should not be called the Gadhafi laid the yellow folder in
Security Council, it should be front of him and opened some of
phrase called the "terror council," he the handwritten pages as he
said. received scattered applause.
By Tabassum Zakaria (Front by the fight it chose in Iraq,” The veto-wielding Security The chamber was half-empty as
Row Washington) Skelton wrote. Council powers -- the United Gadhafi gave his first speech and
Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:47:32 PM “I believe that this was a States, Britain, China, France and held a copy of the U.N. Charter in
strategic mistake, robbing the war Russia -- treat smaller countries as his hands, each with a large, shiny
Sometimes it takes a colorful in Afghanistan of the necessary "second class, despised" nations, ring. For a moment, it seemed he
phrase to get the point across. resources and resulting in an Gadhafi said. lost his place in his speech while
And these days when it seems approach of ‘half-ass it and hope.’ "Now, brothers, there is no he sorted through the pages of his
almost everyone’s got an opinion We cannot afford to continue that respect for the United Nations, no yellow folder.
on Afghanistan, House Armed policy.” regard for the General Assembly," He appeared to be speaking
Services Committee Chairman Ike Can bumper stickers be far Gadhafi said. without a text, looking at a set of
Skelton’s words caught attention. behind? His speech followed President notes before him on handwritten
In a six-page letter to President resources he needs for the war. Photo credit: Reuters/Joshua Barack Obama's first General pages. He was not reading from
Barack Obama, the Missouri “The last administration allowed Roberts (Skelton on Capitol Hill Assembly address, but not before the TelePrompTer.
Democrat bared his view that itself to be distracted from the in 2008) a recess of some 15 minutes was
General Stanley McChrystal fight forced on us in Afghanistan called by the Libyan president of
should have the troops and
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homepage) services committee, on The Treasury’s desire to prevent lower borrowing costs because Submitted at 9/23/2009 1:54:00 AM
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institutions would not gain an such as Lehman Brothers and the government. Do you think your fave celeb's
Tim Geithner, US Treasury implicit government subsidy AIG from threatening the entire style is super sweet or totally
secretary, and Barney Frank, during a sometimes testy hearing system has sparked fears that beat?
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Obama urges world to stand united
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:08:15 AM
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US President Barack Obama
used his first UN address to urge
world unity
US President Barack Obama has
said the world must face stark
challenges, and the US cannot
tackle them alone.
In his first speech to the UN
General Assembly, he said global
problems included nuclear
proliferation, war, climate change
and economic crisis.
But the world shared a
"common future", Mr Obama
said, with all nations bearing
responsibility to resolve its
problems.
He was followed by Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi, who
criticised the major powers on the
Security Council.
Mr Gaddafi's speech, which
continued for more than an hour,
was his first address to the UN
General Assembly during his 40
years in power.
Relatives of victims of the 1988
Lockerbie bombing protested
outside the UN headquarters as
Col Gaddafi was due to arrive.
The Libyan convicted of the
bombing was released from a
Scottish prison last month.
Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who has previously
said he does not believe the
Holocaust happened, is due to
speak later on Wednesday.
Israel has called for a boycott of
his appearance and the Germans
have said they will walk out if he
repeats the claim.
'Act together'
In his maiden speech to the
forum of leaders from more than
120 countries, Mr Obama
acknowledged the expectations
that accompanied his presidency -
expectations, he said, which were
"not about me".
He said that when he took
office, "many around the world
had come to view America with
scepticism and mistrust".
He said some of this was based
on "misperceptions" but it was
also due to "opposition to specific
policies".
But "we share a common
future", he said, and "no longer do
we have the luxury of indulging
our differences".
Mr Obama outlined "four
pillars" which encapsulated the
challenges facing the world:
nuclear proliferation; peace and
security; preservation of the
planet; the global economy.
He also said "no world order
which elevates one nation above
others" could succeed in tackling
these problems.
He outlined ways in which he
said the US would act to tackle
the problems, but said all nations -
rich and poor - must join in.
"Those who used to chastise
America for acting alone in the
world cannot now stand by and
wait for America to solve the
world's problems alone," Mr
Obama said.
"We must build new coalitions
that bridge old divides... All
nations have rights and
responsibilities - that's the bargain
that makes this work," Mr Obama
said.
The president devoted a
significant proportion of his
speech to the challenges of
finding a peaceful settlement in
the Middle East - and called for
the relaunch of "negotiations
without preconditions".
He said he did not
underestimate the scale of that
challenge, but added: "I will not
waver in my pursuit of peace."
On Tuesday, at the UN's climate
change summit, Mr Obama
acknowledged that the US had
been slow to act, but promised a
"new era" of promoting clean
energy and reducing carbon
pollution.
Some countries may not take
kindly to his words urging greater
responsibility if it sounds too
much like a lecture, particularly
those who feel his commitments
to tackle global warning were
disappointing, says the BBC's
Mark Mardell in New York.
'Terror Council'
Following Mr Obama, Libya's
President Gaddafi fiercely
criticised the current power
structure of the United Nations,
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which he said was outdated and
unfair, concentrating power
unevenly.
Clutching a copy of the
preamble to the UN Charter, he
said: "It says nations are equal
whether they are small or big - are
we equal in the permanent seats?
No, we are not equal. Do we have
the rights of the veto?
"Sixty-five wars broke out after
the establishment of the United
Nations - are these wars and the
aggressions in the interest of all
nations? No, they were in the
interest of four or five countries."
Later, Mr Gaddafi said
democracy should not be a luxury
for the rich or more powerful.
"All nations should have an
equal footing. For those who have
a permanent seat, this is political
feudalism. It shouldn't be called
the Security Council, it should be
called the Terror Council."
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-
moon opened Wednesday's
proceedings by telling the
assembled leaders: "Now is the
time to put the 'united' back into
the United Nations".
He outlined problems facing the
world - including "catastrophic
climate change", the proliferation
of nuclear weapons, and the
global economic crisis - and said
the world was looking to the UN
for answers.
"We must act for all nations and
all people. So much is possible if
we work together. We are the UN,
the best hope for humankind, and
now is our time," Mr Ban said.
The order of the speeches is
based on protocol, with some
flexibility.
A UN spokeswoman described
it as a "challenging and
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Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on
campus (AP)
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Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:06:09 AM
ATLANTA – It's lurking in that
awesome party just off the quad,
hiding in the shot glasses passed
from person to person and in the
make-out sessions in the hallway.
Swine flu is swirling through
the nation's campuses, but despite
all the warnings, flu kits and
prominently displayed jugs of
hand sanitizer, many students, like
Georgia Tech freshman Elise
Woodall, just aren't that worried.
"I drink my orange juice," she
said. "I figure I'll be OK."
College administrators around
the country are faced with a
nearly insurmountable challenge:
trying to stem the spread of the
highly contagious swine flu virus
amid the almost round-the-clock
microbe-swapping behaviors of
college students many of whom
are not all that concerned about
the impending bug.
Since the first day of classes,
colleges have asked students to
isolate themselves once they
begin coughing and sneezing, but
the mild nature of this strain of flu
has some students ignoring that
advice, health center officials
said. And just a few people with
flu at a Saturday football game
which can mean 100,000 people
in a stadium at some colleges can
turn into dozens more cases
sitting in the waiting room of the
student health center on Monday.
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Emoticons are already pretty
"When you're in the stadium
with 90,000 of your closest
friends, it's not exactly great
infection control, especially when
I look around and see people
sharing a Coke," said Alan
Blinder, a sophomore at the
University of Alabama. "I know
people are aware of the advice,
but I don't know if they are
applying it."
From random hookups at
fraternity parties to the passing of
beer cans in dorm rooms, germs
have always made the rounds on
campuses with the speed of a viral
video.
"There's not a better way of
transmitting germs than packing
hundreds of young people into
poorly ventilated party rooms and
sharing glasses, smoking
materials, playing beer pong and
kissing," said Dr. James Turner,
president of the American College
Health Association and executive
director of student health at the
University of Virginia.
Combine higher education's
already germ-soaked environment
with the largely unpredictable flu
bug, and epidemiologists fear the
pandemic could explode this fall
and winter as the seasonal flu and
swine flu both hit. The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
even went as far as to recommend
sick students wear surgical masks
when they kiss.
Turner's association estimates
more than 13,000 college students
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have had flulike symptoms in the
last month at 250 colleges spread
across the country, though there is
no way to tell how many of those
are swine flu because health
officials are no longer testing
every sick student. That data is
the most comprehensive look at
how the swine flu is playing out at
colleges, though the numbers
don't account for all the country's
4,300 degree-granting institutions.
So far, two students have died
from the flu one at Troy
University in Alabama on Sept. 4
and one at Cornell University on
Sept. 11. Health experts say those
numbers will grow as more
students with other health
problems contract the virus.
Even so, on most college
campuses, student life in the era
of swine flu bears pretty close
resemblance to student life before
the bug arose. Students still
shuffle between classes, stopping
to chat in hallways and the
library, with the only really
noticeable difference being the
vats of sanitizing gel sitting in
most common spaces.
Georgia Tech sophomore
Christopher Bryan said he tries
not to touch door knobs and hand
rails where he knows germs are
easily shared, but the Panama
native said he's not really changed
his behavior otherwise.
"There is always a concern about
getting sick, but swine flu is
everywhere, not just here," he said
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waiting for a shuttle on the
Atlanta campus.
Colleges are offering isolation
dorms for sick students, providing
ample hand sanitizing gel and
sending multiple e-mails about
proper hand-washing techniques.
For Emory student Anand Saha,
the chills, sore throat and fever
started after he attended an Indian
dance workshop on campus that
packed 50 students into a tiny
room. Saha has his own bedroom
in his dorm, so he isolated himself
there instead of going to the
residence hall for sick students.
Now, the Memphis, Tenn.,
native, who is a resident assistant
in his dorm, said he uses hand
sanitizer as much as possible and
has hung up posters on how to
avoid getting swine flu in his
dorm.
"College life fosters close living,
whether it's in residence halls or
with sports teams that spend a lot
of time with each other," said
Saha, a neuroscience major. "It's a
lot of interaction with a lot of
different people on a daily basis.
Classes are pretty big, and a lot of
times you have people breathing
down your neck or you're elbow
to elbow with other people."
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Dollar falls to
one-year euro
low
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 2:16:12 AM
The US dollar has fallen to a one
-year low against the euro ahead
of the G20 meeting of world
leaders.
The dollar dropped to $1.4840
against the euro and it also fell
against a basket of other
currencies.
Traders have been switching to
other currencies as signs of
economic recovery have begun to
emerge, with many countries
having exited recession.
New Zealand has became the
latest nation to end its recession,
joining the likes of Germany,
France and Japan.
The New Zealand dollar rose to
its highest level against the US
currency for 13 months, after the
country unexpectedly pulled out
of recession in the second quarter
of the year. The New Zealand
dollar rose by more than a cent to
$0.7315, its highest since early
August 2008.
Against the Japanese currency,
the dollar fell to 90.90 yen from
91.24 yen, while the British
pound rose to $1.6366 from
$1.6352.
The low yield status of the US
dollar has also prompted
speculators to sell it ahead of a
Federal Reserve decision on
interest rates due later on
Wednesday. The US central bank
is expected to keep rates at record
lows.
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MOORPARK, Calif. – An 8,500 up and fire activity to increase. has declared a state of emergency acres 251 square miles of time UK Prime Minister Gordon
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t h r o u g h r u g g e d h i l l s a n d wide open country," Ventura The forecast for Wednesday was ignited Aug. 26. At its peak it head of state, President Hu Jintao.
m o u n t a i n s o f S o u t h e r n County fire Capt. Ron Oatman called for 100-degree heat and destroyed 89 homes and caused Did you watch the President's
California's Ventura County, but said. low humidity, making brush two firefighter deaths. speech? Does the United Nations
some areas are experiencing a lull The winds gusted to 45 mph in easier to burn. The fire remained 94 percent still have a purpose? Send us your
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story is below. manure at a local ranch, according where a gigantic arson-caused Angeles contributed to this report.
MOORPARK, Calif. (AP) An to a statement from the county wildfire continues to smolder a
8,500-acre wildfire in the Ventura Sheriff's Department. But Oatman month after it began. But Carol
County hills closed a college on called the statement premature Underhills, a spokeswoman for
Wednesday and threatened 1,000 and said the cause of the blaze the U.S. Forest Service, says a
Eurozone economic growth picks up
(Financial Times - US picked up this month but the pace for the 16-country region in than expected and the survey tempo.
homepage) of recovery could be losing September showed a second indicated that job cuts were being
Submitted at 9/23/2009 2:40:51 AM momentum, according to a closely consecutive monthly expansion in accelerated. France appeared to be
watched survey. private-sector economic activity. powering much of the growth –
Eurozone economic growth has Purchasing managers’ indices But the improvement was less while Germany’s recovery lost
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Microsoft Courier Heats up Tablet Sector - PC
World
(Most Popular - Google News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:35:10 AM
Late Tuesday night the tech
world's entire concept of what
cool should be wa s upended
when Microsoft's tablet project,
codenamed Courier, came to light.
If you haven't heard about this
yet, Gizmodo released an
exclusive report showing off a
double-screen tablet device that
functions like a day planner -- but
a really cool day planner.
It's not clear whether Courier
will ever hit store shelves, as the
device is just one of many tablet
prototypes that Microsoft is
developing, according to a CNET
report. Nevertheless, with rumors
swirling about an Apple tablet,
and Courier's similarity to Asus'
upcoming E-reader/netbook, it
looks like the tablet concept could
turn out be popular after all.
Funny thing is, there might just be
room for everybody's idea.
Microsoft's Courier
As described by Gizmodo,
Courier looks like it could
revolutionize personal business
devices. Details are scarce about
what the Courier can do, but so
far we know it comes in the shape
of book with two, 7-inch screens
(presumably in color), built-in
camera on the back, and Wi-Fi.
Courier embraces a vast array of
user inputs including multitouch
gestures like pinching and flicking
Wall Street cautious ahead of Fed statement
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:46:52 AM
US stocks stood still in early
as well as a stylus for handwriting
and drawing.
We've got no details on how
Courier would handle tasks like e-
mail or if it has a microphone or
Webcam for VoIP and
videoconferencing, but the
Courier concept does look like an
excellent digital replacement for
the traditional paper planner.
Unlike other digital planners like
PDAs from Palm and Research in
Motion, Courier appears to merge
the best of the paper planner --
two pages and large writing
spaces -- with a computer's
capability to manipulate and index
data. The Mythical Apple Tablet
As Gizmodo points out, Courier
is "almost the exact opposite of
what everyone expects the Apple
tablet to be." Apple's tablet is
assumed to be an expanded iPod
Touch with a 9- or 10-inch
multitouch display, iSight camera,
microphone, Wi-Fi, and 3G
capability, and run either the iPod
OS or some other version of Mac
OS X.
Even though analysts and
pundits have been talking about
the Apple Tablet for just over a
year now, we've never seen a
Courier-sized leak to figure out
what the device will actually be
like. All the details above are
based on rumor and hearsay, with
only a few blurry photos to back it
up. So it's possible Apple's device
may not even exist, but now that
trading on Wednesday as
investors braced themselves for
the Federal Reserve’s policy
statement this afternoon.
Microsoft's hand is tipped, Apple
may get into the tablet race
anyway. Courier vs Apple Tablet
Assuming that both devices are
real and coming to store shelves
soon, you couldn't dream up a
better example of the stereotypes
found in Apple's Get A Mac ads.
On the one hand, you have the
business-oriented device that
looks like it was born to display
spreadsheets and pie charts. Then
you have Apple's tablet, a sleek,
cool-looking device that will help
you start your own rock band and
create a cinematic masterpiece
within minutes.
The problem with the Apple
tablet may be this: Why is a
consumer device like this even
necessary? Why is this a better
option than a laptop/smartphone
combo? The tablet doesn't look
like it can replace either device,
and it appears the Apple tablet
wouldn't really be a netbook
either. So what is it? Presumably,
it's an entertainment device for
watching video, surfing the Web,
and playing games.
Although policymakers are
expected to leave short-term
interest rates unchanged, Wall
Street will be scrutinising any
Top News/ Finance/
Courier, on the other hand, is
immediately recognizable as a
useful device. It brings the two-
page paper day planner into the
digital world for the first time.
Courier takes advantage of data
mash-ups by flicking your
contacts onto a map to find a
location; you can take notes on a
reasonable-sized screen; and you
also get Web access. Courier also
appears to have nothing to do with
Windows Mobile or Windows 7,
but runs a new operating system
specifically designed for this
device.
This doesn't mean, however,
that Apple's tablet device can't
catch on or that Courier will
dominate the market -- just that
Courier and the Apple tablet are
for two different customer types.
Courier is for those who want a
smartly designed day planner that
will probably be able to do other
things like play videos and run
other entertainment applications,
just like a smartphone can.
Apple's device is geared toward
fun and will likely be very weak
as an enterprise device. So the
question is, which one do you
want? The PC or Mac tablet
concept?
Check out Courier's demo
video:
Connect with Ian Paul via
Twitter(@ianpaul).
comments on the economic
outlook and the government’s
stimulus measures.
7
Palm adds more
shares to its new
public offering
By Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:20:00 PM
Filed under: Palm Inc (PALM)
Just before Wednesday's
opening bell, tech giant
Palm(NASDAQ: PALM)
announced that it raised the
number of shares it will sell in a
new public offering. The
company will now offer 20
million shares rather than the
previously reported 16 million.
The offering will be at $16.25 per
share and should lead to $313.1
million in proceeds.
In early trading, PALM was up
more than 3% -- pushing the stock
through the $16 level. This level
had acted as resistance in the past,
so this technical advance is
important. We could see the $16
level act as support if needed.
Further support could come from
PALM's 10- and 20-week moving
averages, both of which are
advancing to catch up to the
equity's current position. More
support can be found in the form
of PALM's 10- and 20-month
moving averages.
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Dust storm shrouds Sydney, nearly Mackenzie Phillips says

closing airport - The Associated she had sex with her dad
Press - The Associated Press
(Most Popular - Google News) were also stopped for several on record Wednesday, and the (Most Popular - Google News) a relationship with his own child."
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:40:58 AM hours for safety reasons. New South Wales state Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:30:54 AM Phillips, who starred on TV's
The dust over Sydney had ambulance service said it had "One Day at a Time," said the
By ROHAN SULLIVAN (AP) – largely cleared by midafternoon, received more than 250 calls (AP) – 24 minutes ago sexual relationship with her father
1 hour ago though national carrier Qantas before midday from people CHICAGO — Former child star lasted a decade and ended when
SYDNEY — Australia's worst said severe delays would last all suffering breathing problems. M a c k e n z i e P h i l l i p s s a i d she became pregnant and didn't
dust storm in 70 years blanketed day because of diverted and late- People with asthma or heart or Wednesday her father, John know who had fathered the child.
the heavily populated east coast running flights. lung diseases were urged not to go Phillips, who was a leader of the She had an abortion, which her
Wednesday in a cloud of red The dust was still flying further outside and to keep their medicine 1960s pop group the Mamas and father paid for, and "and I never
Outback grit, nearly closed the north, however, and the sky over inhalers handy. the Papas, raped her when she let him touch me again."
country's largest airport and left the Queensland state capital of "Keeping yourself indoors today was a teenager and that her sexual Phillips told Winfrey that she
millions of people coughing and Brisbane was clogged with dust is the main thing to do if you have relationship with him later first tried cocaine when she was
sputtering in the streets. into the early evening. any of those conditions and b e c a m e w h a t s h e t e r m e d 11 years old. Her father did drugs
No one was hurt as a result of Such thick dust is rare over particularly if you're a known "consensual." with her, taught her to roll joints
the pall that swept in overnight, Sydney, and came along with sensitive sufferer such as children, Mackenzie Phillips writes in her and injected her with cocaine.
bringing an eerie orange dawn to o t h e r u n c o m m o n w e a t h e r older adults or pregnant women," new book, "High on Arrival," that Phillips said she's been clean for a
Sydney, but ambulance services conditions across the country in said Wayne Smith, a senior state she had sex with her father on the year after pleading guilty to
reported a spike in emergency recent days. Hailstorms have health official. night before she was to get possessing cocaine and entering a
calls from people with breathing pummeled parts of the country Sydney residents coughed and married in 1979 at age 19, drug treatment program.
difficulties, and police warned this week, while other parts have hacked their way through their according to People magazine. Phillips said the sexual
drivers to take it easy on the been hit with an early spring mini- morning commute, rubbing grit Phillips wrote in her book: "I relationship, although she believes
roads. heatwave, and wildfires. from their eyes. Some wore woke up that night from a it became consensual, was "an
Dust clouds blowing east from "It did feel like Armageddon masks, wrapped their faces in blackout to find myself having abuse of power" and "a betrayal"
Australia's dry interior — parched because when I was in the kitchen scarves or pressed cloths over sex with my own father." on her father's part. She said she
even further by the worst drought looking out the skylight, there was their noses and mouths. She told "The Oprah Winfrey forgave John Phillips on his
on record — covered dozens of this red glow coming through," "These dust storms are some of Show" in an interview that aired deathbed.
towns and cities in two states as Sydney resident Karen told the largest in the last 70 years," Wednesday that her siblings "I can't be the only one this has
strong winds snatched up tons of Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Nigel Tapper, an "definitely have a problem with happened to," Phillips said.
topsoil, threw it high into the sky radio. environmental scientist at Monash t h i s . " W i n f r e y a l s o r e a d a "Someone needs to put a face on
and carried it hundreds of miles The storms — visible as a huge University. "Ten very dry years statement from Genevieve Waite, consensual incest."
(kilometers). brown smudge in satellite over inland southern Australia and John Phillips' wife at the time of Copyright © 2009 The
International flights were photographs of Australia on very strong westerlies have the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's Associated Press. All rights
diverted from Sydney to other Wednesday — are the most conspired to produce these stepmother that said he was reserved.
cities — three from New Zealand severe since the 1940s, experts storms." "incapable, no matter how drunk
were turned around altogether — said. One was recorded traveling Copyright © 2009 The or drugged he was, of having such
and domestic schedules were from southern Australia all the Associated Press. All rights
thrown into chaos as operations at way to New Zealand some 1,400 reserved.
Sydney Airport were curtailed by miles (2,220 kilometers) away.
unsafe visibility levels. Passenger Officials said particle pollution
ferries on the city's famous harbor in Sydney's air rose to the worst
Dust Storm Slams Sydney: "It Was Like Waking Up on Mars"
By Betsy Mason (Wired Top An extreme dust storm blanketed turning the city a bright orange. this strange event.
Stories) Sydney Wednesday morning, Our readers sent in their photos of
Internet News Record Top News/ Finance/ Tech News/ 9

Confidant: Kennedys want ex-DNC 'Dirty war pilot' held in

chairman in Senate (AP) Spain
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) regularly visit Kennedy at his Michael Dukakis' unsuccessful (BBC News | Americas | World subsidiary of Air France-KLM,
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:34:39 AM Hyannis Port home before he died run for president in 1988. Edition) had been scheduled to be on the
there of brain cancer on Aug. 25. Kirk also co-founded the Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:00:39 AM ground in Spain for only about 40
BOSTON – The sons of the late Kirk also knows the senator's Commission on Presidential minutes.
Edward M. Kennedy have urged staff intimately and would likely Debates, which has sponsored A commercial airline pilot has During this time Spanish police
the governor to pick Paul G. Kirk be assured of their loyalty given every presidential and vice been arrested in Spain over his made the arrest after contacting
Jr., the former chairman of the his relationship with Kennedy. presidential debate involving alleged role in Argentina's 1976- Interpol.
Democratic National Committee, As a senior statesmen who has major candidates since 1988. 1983 "Dirty War". Mr Poch, who has dual Dutch
to temporarily replace their father never served in political office, he He now serves as chairman of Julio Alberto Poch, a Transavia and Argentine nationalities, is
in the U.S. Senate. would pose no threat to any of the the John F. Kennedy Library airline pilot, was held at Valencia said to have been a military pilot
A family confidant said candidates competing in the Foundation. He was in the airport as he was about to fly a at Argentina's notorious Naval
W e d n e s d a y b o t h E d w a r d special election. The Democratic national spotlight last month when passenger plane to Amsterdam, Mechanics School - one of the
Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Patrick field includes Attorney General he hosted a memorial service the Spanish officials say. biggest torture and detention
Kennedy, D-R.I., had endorsed Martha Coakley, vying to be the evening before Kennedy's funeral. Mr Poch is wanted in Argentina centres of the Argentine military
Kirk in separate phone calls. state's first female senator, and Kirk also is exceptionally close for allegedly flying planes used to regime.
A top aide to Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, the to Caroline Kennedy, who serves dump political opponents of the Mr Poch is alleged to have been
Gov. Deval Patrick confirmed the lone member of the state's as president of the library country's military regime into the involved in the so-called "death
contacts but added, "No decision congressional delegation in the foundation honoring her late sea. flights", in which political
h a s b e e n m a d e y e t . " A race. father. He stood on the stage with S o m e 3 0 , 0 0 0 p e o p l e prisoners of Argentina's military
spokeswoman in Patrick The family confidant, who like her and the late senator each year disappeared or died during the were drugged and dumped into
Kennedy's congressional office t h e P a t r i c k a i d e d e m a n d e d as they dispensed the library's junta's rule in Argentina. the sea from the planes.
declined to comment. anonymity to speak about private annual "Profiles in Courage" 'Death flights' pilot In 2005, Argentina's Supreme
Massachusetts lawmakers are conversations, refused to reveal awards. Mr Poch was held during a short Court struck down amnesty laws
expected Wednesday to give final whether the senator's widow, Asked recently whether he stopover at Valencia's Manises which had shielded alleged human
approval to a change in the Senate Vicki, had also endorsed Kirk. would be interested in an interim airport on Tuesday, Spanish rights abusers from prosecution.
succession law so the governor Vicki Kennedy has granted no appointment, Kirk told The officials said. Print Sponsor
can temporarily fill Senate interviews since her husband's Associated Press in an e-mail, "It They said the aircraft of the
vacancies. The interim senator death, but Patrick revealed would be much too presumptuous Dutch Transavia airlines, a
would serve until the seat is filled recently that she had told him she of me to even consider. Hope you Sept. 23, 1869: Here Comes Typhoid Mary
permanently through a special did not want to be considered for will understand."
election on Jan. 19. the interim appointment. Dukakis is among those who is By Tony Long (Wired Top disease among New York's
Patrick could announce his pick Kirk graduated from Harvard said to be under consideration. Stories) wealthy and privileged, without
as early as Thursday. College and Harvard Law School He, too, has declined to comment Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:00:00 PM even knowing it.
The 71-year-old Kirk, a Boston and served on Kennedy's staff on the question.
attorney, was close friends with between 1969 and 1977. He ran ___ An immigrant cook spreads the
the senator. He and his wife, Gail, t h e D e m o c r a t i c N a t i o n a l Associated Press Writer Jay
live on Cape Cod, and he was Committee in the run-up to Lindsay contributed to this report.
among the few people allowed to f o r m e r M a s s a c h u s e t t s G o v .
Chinese begin petrol supplies to Iran
(Financial Times - US Iran and now provide up to one- The sales come in spite of of implementing sanctions aimed
homepage) third of its imports in a moves over the past year by a t c u r b i n g I r a n ’ s n u c l e a r
Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:50:34 AM development that threatens to international companies, ambitions.
undermine US-led efforts to shut including BP and Reliance of
Chinese state companies this off the supply of fuel on which its India, to stop selling petrol to
month began supplying petrol to economy depends. Iran, and highlight the difficulties
10 Top News/ Tech/ Internet News Record

Brazil urges action on Honduras

(BBC News | Americas | World presidency of his country and Organization of American
Edition) must be alert to ensure the States Secretary General Jose
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:11:40 AM inviolability of Brazil's diplomatic Miguel Insulza said he would go
mission in the capital of to Honduras when the airports re-
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Honduras," Mr Lula told the UN open and "if there is a meaningful
L u l a d a S i l v a s a y s t h e General Assembly in New York. contribution that we can make".
international community demands Venezuelan President Hugo The political crisis erupted after
the reinstatement of ousted C h a v e z a l s o c a l l e d f o r Mr Zelaya tried to hold a non-
Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya. international action, telling binding public consultation to ask
Addressing the United Nations, reporters: "The United Nations people whether they supported
Mr Lula used the situation in should demand that Zelaya be moves to change the constitution.
Honduras as an example of where reinstated to government again," His opponents said the move
greater global political will was Reuters news agency reported. was unconstitutional and was
needed. In Honduras, troops have aimed at removing the current one
"Without political will, we will s u r r o u n d e d t h e e m b a s s y . -term limit on serving as
see more coups such as the one Electricity, water and telephone
that toppled Manuel Zelaya in services were cut off for a time on
president, so paving the way for
Mr Zelaya's possible re-election.
Shootout shuts US-
Honduras," he said.
Mr Zelaya has been holed up in restored.
Brazil's embassy in Honduras
Tuesday before being partially

The interim leader of Honduras,

Mr Zelaya has denied this and
said he always intended to hand
over to his elected successor in
Mexico crossing
since Monday. Roberto Micheletti, says he is January. (BBC News | Americas | World when the suspected human
He had been in overseas exile willing to talk to Mr Zelaya. Are you in Honduras? What do Edition) traffickers in three vans tried to
since July, when he was forced But Mr Micheletti said Mr you think of Mr Zelaya's return? Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:00:07 AM storm past border agents at the
from the country at gunpoint, but Zelaya must first accept that Send us your comments using the congested crossing between the
m a d e a s u r p r i s e r e t u r n t o planned presidential elections form below. Please turn on JavaScript. Media U S c i t y o f S a n D i e g o a n d
Honduras two days ago. would be held in November. A selection of your comments requires JavaScript to play. Mexico's Tijuana.
Brazil has warned Honduran Mr Micheletti has urged may be published, displaying your Emergency services at the scene The agents then opened fire to
security forces not to enter the Brazilian officials to either grant name and location unless you of a shootout at the San Ysidro stop the vans. However, some
e m b a s s y i n t h e c a p i t a l , Mr Zelaya political asylum or state otherwise in the box below. crossing reports say the smugglers shot
Tegucigalpa, and is seeking an hand him over to Honduran The BBC may edit your One of the busiest border first at the agents - across lines of
u r g e n t m e e t i n g o f t h e U N authorities. comments and not all emails will crossings between the US and traffic at the crossing.
Security Council to address the A curfew in the capital, in force be published. Your comments Mexico was closed for hours after Three people in the vans and a
crisis. since Monday afternoon, has been may be published on any BBC a gun battle between US agents m o t o r i s t w e r e i n j u r e d , U S
"The international community extended until 1800 local time on media worldwide. and suspected human traffickers. officials say. The incident is being
d e m a n d s t h a t M r Z e l a y a Wednesday evening (2400GMT Print Sponsor Four people were injured at the investigated by the San Diego
i m m e d i a t e l y r e t u r n t o t h e Thursday). San Ysidro crossing after the police.
agents fired shots to stop three The northbound lanes were shut
Austin Police Chief To Go After Anonymous Commenters vans from storming across the down for several hours, creating a
border, US officials say. massive traffic jam at the
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) police officers, on various internet commenters rather than focusing Some 70 suspected illegal c r o s s i n g .
Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:40:00 AM websites that he's going to start on actual crime prevention and immigrants crammed into the Some 40,000 vehicles enter
going after them. His complaint? solving would do a lot more to vans were arrested. California every day at San
Slashdot points us to the news Those comments "erode public erode the public trust in the police The San Ysidro crossing is Ysidro - one of the busiest ports
that the police chief in Austin trust in the [police] department." department. known as a major smuggling of entry along the entire border
Texas is so upset about Funny, I would think that wasting Permalink| Comments| Email corridor for drugs and illegal between Mexico and the US.
anonymous commenters, or public resources going after a This Story immigrants. Print Sponsor
commenters pretending to be bunch of random internet US officials say the gun battle
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Travolta Takes Stand, Describes Four hurt in US-Mexico

Attempt to Revive Son - E! Online border shootings
(Most Popular - Google News) was doing the breathing." treatment in the U.S. as on the (World news and comment Mexico. About 40,000 vehicles
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:05:20 AM That's about as far as Travolta island—and signed a release form from the Guardian | cross into the US at the port each
got in his testimony before the stating just that. guardian.co.uk) day, and it has 24 northbound
In what will no doubt go down court took their lunch break. He In the end, Jett was taken Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:43:19 AM lanes. Those lanes were closed
as the second most difficult day of and Preston were quickly ushered directly to the hospital after all. after the incident, causing a rush-
his year, John Travolta took the out of the courtroom; the star is It's unclear what accounted for the Drivers of three vans filled with hour traffic jam as drivers on the
stand this morning in the trial of expected to return to the stand this change in decision or why the illegal immigrants attempted to Tijuana side were turned back.
t w o B a h a m i a n s a l l e g e d l y afternoon. Preston is not on the threat of publication of the signedpass inspectors, say officials Motorists were told to make
i n v o l v e d i n a $ 2 5 m i l l i o n list of 14 witnesses who will be document seemed like a good US authorities shut down the their way through Tijuana's
extortion plot against his family. called during the trial. bargaining chip for the alleged nation's busiest border crossing crowded streets to San Diego's
A grim Travolta and Kelly Opening arguments kicked off extortionists. after federal agents fired shots at only other border crossing at Otay
Preston arrived at a Bahamian yesterday, with the Bahamian The second witness to take the three vans filled with illegal Mesa, about five miles (eight
courthouse this morning escorted chief prosecutor wasting no time stand yesterday, paramedic immigrants whose drivers tried to kilometres) to the east. Eight
by a fleet of security. getting to the heart of the matter. Derrex Rolle, testified that Jett storm past inspectors, officials northbound lanes were eventually
The actor took the stand and "Contact was made with certain was already unresponsive when said. reopened.
immediately began revisiting the persons to communicate a threat the emergency services arrived at Three people were shot and Rooney said the three vans
moments before his 16-year-old to John Travolta," Bernard Turner the actor's vacation home. injured in the vans crammed with p u l l e d i n t o t h e s a m e l a n e
son Jett's death on Jan. 2. said, referring to codefendants The trial is expected to last three
dozens of illegal immigrants, yesterday afternoon, and the first
Jett's nanny awakened Travolta Pleasant Bridgewater, a former weeks. authorities said, and one of the driver gave his license to a border
and Preston at roughly 10:15 a.m., senator, and Tarino Lightbourne, (Originally published Sept. 23, vans smashed into another vehicle agent. When the agent stepped
the actor said, informing them that a n a m b u l a n c e d r i v e r , w h o 2009, at 8:51 a.m. PT) as it tried to bypass border back into the booth to run the
Jett was unconscious in his together are alleged to have ________ inspectors, injuring a fourth license, all three vans drove
bathroom. attempted to extort $25 million Take a look back at the life ofperson. quickly into the US side.
"I ran downstairs with my wife from the grieving star. Jett Travolta. One person who was injured "They got caught in traffic, and
to help my son," Travolta At the root of the case is a • remained in critical condition last the last one tried to back up. The
recalled, adding that when he got refusal-to-transport document: • night, authorities said. The others other two drove wildly looking
to him, one of the boy's caretakers The trial's first witness, police • were expected to recover. The 74 for an open space to drive
was already performing chest inspector Andrew Wells, said • people who were inside the vans through," Rooney said. "That's
compressions. The actor quickly Travolta requested that Jett be • were taken into federal custody. when they encountered the three
jumped into action and began taken directly to the airport rather • San Diego police spokesman agents, who all ended up firing
administering CPR to his son. than the hospital—the reasoning • Lieutenant Kevin Rooney said the from different vantage points."
"Jeff, the other nanny, was doing likely being that he could just as van drivers tried to storm past The shooting will be
some compressions," he said. "I quickly get his son medical inspectors at the San Ysidro port investigated by the San Diego
of entry and enter the US without police department's homicide unit.
FBI Data-Mining System Sifts Citizens' Travel Urban Cowboy stopping. Two US Immigration • California
Records By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) and Customs Enforcement agents • US immigration
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:24:26 AM and a Customs and Border Patrol • Mexico
By Ryan Singel (Wired Top by Wired.com, there are tens of agent fired shots across nine lines • United States
Stories) thousands of records detailing • About Flickr to try to stop the vans, he said. guardian.co.uk© Guardian
Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:05:00 AM Americans' airline flights, hotel Flickr is a revolution in photo There was no return fire. News & Media Limited 2009 |
stays and car rentals. The FBI is storage, sharing and organization, "It was human smuggling, Use of this content is subject to
The FBI's got a secret database trying to use the database to making photo management an definitely," ICE spokeswoman our Terms & Conditions| More
for terror, criminal and spying predict future crimes. easy, natural and collaborative Lauren Mack said. Feeds
investigations, and according to process. Get comments, notes, The San Ysidro port of entry
government documents acquired and tags on your photos, post to connects San Diego and Tijuana,
any blog, share and more!
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Obama wants new age in US-UN relations

By Ewen MacAskill, Luke policies rejected by predecessor, United Nations." was also due to hold pivotal strategic nuclear arms reduction
Harding, Matthew Weaver ranging from signing up for the He said there were four pillars meetings with the new Japanese treaty to replace Start-1, which
(World news and comment UN millennium goals on poverty to his foreign policy ambitions – prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, expires in early December.
from the Guardian | to paying millions owed by the non-proliferation and and the Russian president, Dmitry Despite a marked improvement
guardian.co.uk) US to the world organisation. disarmament, the promotion of Medvedev. in US-Russian relations under
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:44:04 AM "Those who used to chastise peace and security, the Yesterday he held talks with the Obama, Russian sources said
America for acting alone in the preservation of the planet, and a Chinese president, Hu Jintao. there was little prospect of a deal
US president receives warm world cannot now stand by and global economy that advanced The US president needs the in the next three months.
reception as he tells delegates in wait for America to solve the opportunity for all. influence of Russia and China in US and Russian negotiators
New York he wants multilateral, world's problems alone," he said. Obama's speech emphasised gaining tougher UN action against have so far failed to agree on how
not unilateral, approach In the speech – his first to the challenges the world had Iran over its potential nuclear many delivery systems should be
Barack Obama today promised U N – O b a m a d e m a n d e d collectively failed to tackle. weapons programme, but neither scrapped on each side, as well as
to work with the United Nations something in return for the new "Extremists sowing terror in country is showing interest. other technical issues such as
rather than acting unilaterally, as international approach. pockets of the world. Protracted The issue is likely to dominate counting and verification.
the US did under the George Bush "We have sought, in word and conflicts that grind on and on," he the talks between Obama and The meeting between Medvedev
administration, when he addressed deed, a new era of engagement said. "Genocide and mass Medvedev, according to reports in and Obama could also be
the general assembly in New with the world," he said, echoing atrocities. More and more nations the Russian Kommersant overshadowed by reports that the
York. the co-operative theme he had with nuclear weapons. Melting ice newspaper. US plans to build military bases in
The US president called on p r o m i s e d a s a p r e s i d e n t i a l caps and ravaged populations. Kremlin officials told the paper Georgia by 2015.
other countries to work with candidate. "Now is the time for all Persistent poverty and pandemic the White House was unhappy Russia's Independent newspaper
America on climate change, peace of us to take our share of disease." about Russia's plans to deliver the claimed the Georgian president,
and nuclear non-proliferation. responsibility." The president added: "I say this S-300 anti-aircraft weapons Mikhail Saakashvili, would hold a
Obama – who was given a two- He addressed the hostility that not to sow fear, but to state a fact system to Iran. "secret" meeting with the US
minute ovation at the end of his had been felt towards Bush, – the magnitude of our challenges According to Kommersant, the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.
40-minute speech – said: "This saying: "I took office at a time has yet to be met by the measure US believes the system‚ which Russia – which invaded Georgia
cannot be solely America's when many around the world had of our action." could thwart a possible Israeli air last summer – remains
endeavour." come to view America with The Bush administration was strike on Iran's nuclear facilities‚ vehemently opposed to any US
H o w e v e r , p r o b l e m s o f scepticism and distrust ... this has generally hostile towards the UN significantly enhances Tehran's military presence in its post-
international diplomacy and fed an almost reflexive anti- and alienated many members, a military potential. Soviet backyard.
etiquette surfaced within minutes Americanism, which too often has mutual dislike that grew with the Obama is also likely to express The Iranian president,
of the end of his speech when the served as an excuse for our US-led invasion of Iraq without unease at Moscow's recent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was also
arrival of the Libyan leader, collective inaction." UN backing. multibillion dollar agreements to due to speak at the general
Muammar Gaddafi, at the podium The president said that, while he Obama called for a reduction in supply rocket systems and MiG assembly today, and was expected
sparked a walkout. would act in the US national the world's nuclear arsenals, and 29 aircraft to Syria, as well as to be defiant about Tehran's
T h e U S p r e s i d e n t w a s interest, his belief was that the called urged North Korea and Iran tanks and other weapons to nuclear ambitions.
applauded repeatedly throughout world, more than at any point in not to pursue nuclear weapons. Venezuela. • United Nations
his speech as he promised to push history, had a shared interest. "In their actions to date, the Russian sources, meanwhile, • Obama administration
for peace in Sudan and the Middle "The choice is ours," he said. governments of North Korea and indicated Medvedev was unlikely • United States
East, close Guantánamo Bay and "We can be remembered as a Iran threaten to take us down this to make concessions following • Muammar Gaddafi
tackle climate change. generation that chose to drag the dangerous slope," he said. "We Obama's decision to scrap the US • Guantánamo Bay
He said he was aware that arguments of the 20th century into respect their rights as members of missile defence shield in central Ewen MacAskill Luke Harding
worldwide expectations for his the 21st – we can be a generation the community of nations. Europe last week. Matthew Weaver
administration were rooted in that chooses to see the shoreline "I am committed to diplomacy But diplomats indicated he guardian.co.uk© Guardian
h o p e t h a t r e a l c h a n g e w a s beyond the rough waters ahead; that opens a path to greater would point out that Russia's News & Media Limited 2009 |
possible and that the US would be that comes together to serve the prosperity and a more secure contract to supply Iran with the S- Use of this content is subject to
a leader in achieving it. common interests of human peace for both nations if they live 300s was a "paper" agreement. our Terms & Conditions| More
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a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , O b a m a h a s to the promise embedded in the Obama's speech was the that Washington and Moscow can
already embraced many of the name given to this institution: the centrepiece of a day in which he reach agreement on a new
Internet News Record World/ Finance/ 13

Parents to sue First Choice over crash

By Jill Insley (World news and 208, crashed immediately after inspector of air accidents, said carefully at who they use to
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
take off.
Thomas suffered a fractured
that wearing the shoulder strap
could have reduced the flail area –
provide trips for their customers
on holiday, and to take a detailed
Blackstone reaps
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:08:00 AM skull and cerebral contusions. He
was taken to a local medical
the distance a body can move –
sufficiently for everyone to
look at the safety records or those
companies."
$3.8 billion on
If six-year-old had worn seat centre but attempts to resuscitate
belt, he would probably have him failed and he was declared
survive the crash: "If they had
been restrained correctly I would
First Choice said it was no
longer using that Venezuelan
the Orangina deal
survived Venezuelan crash, dead before he could be taken to not have expected a fatality to company for excursions. In a By Tom Taulli
inquest told hospital. ensue," he said. statement, the tour operator said: (BloggingStocks)
The parents of a six-year-old The inquest in Alton, He said that the manual "The Angel Falls excursion which Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:20:00 AM
boy who was killed in an air crash Hampshire, heard that the crew provided by Cessna points out in was sold to the Hornes was run by
w h i l e o n h o l i d a y i n S o u t h failed to tell passengers how to two places that not wearing the a third-party company and First Filed under: Private equity,
America are to take legal action fasten a four-point waist and shoulder harness could be fatal, Choice acted as the agent. Blackstone Group L.P (BX)
against the tour operator First shoulder seat belt, and that a and said it would "make great "First Choice holds the safety The past two years have been
Choice after an inquest heard he representative of a third-party sense" for aircraft manufacturers and wellbeing of its customers in terrible for private equity firms.
would probably have survived if company that organised the to make the shoulder strap an the highest regard and for third- But, now we're seeing signs of
correct safety procedures had excursion indicated that it was not inseparable part of the seat belt party air carriers we conduct life.
been followed. necessary. The plane also did not harness. appropriate assessments to ensure If fact, this week there was a
Jane and David Horne have have any safety instruction cards. He added that the prudent action hese carriers fulfil our safety liquidity event. That is, the
called on all tour operators to The pilot then failed to use the for the pilot would have been to requirements. Blackstone Group(NYSE: BX)
check the safety records of entire runway, and took off in the allow the plane to go off the end "First Choice notes the outcome and Lion Capital have received a
companies that they use to rain with a tail wind. of the runway, rather than of today's inquest into Thomas's binding offer to sell Orangina
organise excursions following the Mrs Horne, a paediatric nurse attempting a takeoff at greater death, where the coroner Schweppes to Suntory (a major
death of their son, Thomas. A from Camberley in Surrey, told speed. concluded that Thomas died as a Japanese drinks company). It
senior inspector of air accidents the inquest that the plane swayed Speaking after the inquest, at result of an accident. appears that the price tag comes to
told an inquest that Thomas from side to side, and the pilot which the coroner recorded a "Due to ongoing legal action, it $3.82 billion.
would probably be alive had he appeared to abort take off by verdict of accidental death, Mrs would be inappropriate to Continue reading Blackstone
been restrained properly by a seat allowing the plane to decelerate Horne said: "We strongly believe comment any further at this reaps $3.8 billion on the Orangina
belt. but then changed his mind and that Thomas's death was due to stage." deal
The Hornes were near the end opened the throttle. pilot error and the fact that there • Plane crashes Blackstone reaps $3.8 billion on
of a two-week holiday with First "There was a surge of power and were not sufficiently robust safety • Venezuela the Orangina deal originally
Choice on the Isla Margarita in we took off. It was like a white procedures in place on the flight. Jill Insley appeared on BloggingStocks on
Venezuela when they went on a knuckle ride," she said. As the Nothing will ever change our guardian.co.uk© Guardian Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:20:00 EST.
two-day excursion to Angel Falls, plane rose very steeply, a siren view that he may have survived News & Media Limited 2009 | Please see our terms for use of
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travelling in, a 14-seater Cessna Timothy Atkinson, a senior including First Choice, to look

Bed Bath & Beyond Q2 earnings preview

By Trey Thoelcke largest domestic superstore chain surveyed by Thomson Reuters Beyond Q2 earnings preview
(BloggingStocks) in the U.S., is scheduled to expect the New Jersey-based Bed Bath & Beyond Q2
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:00:00 PM discuss its second quarter 2009 company to report net income of earnings preview originally
results Wednesday in a $0.48 per share, two pennies per appeared on BloggingStocks on
Filed under: Earnings reports, conference call at 5:00 PM ET. share better than a year ago. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST.
Forecasts, Bed Bath and Beyond You can catch the live webcast of Revenue for the second quarter is Please see our terms for use of
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14 World/ Tech News/ Internet News Record

Swedish gang raid depot from above Travolta testifies over

By Angelique Chrisafis (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
son's death
Stockholm police were unable
to deploy their own helicopters
because a bag containing
the time of the raid or how much
was stolen.
Its Stockholm depot stores cash
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:02:45 AM suspected explosives had been left before it is transported to banks (World news and comment thanked his co-stars on his
at their hangar. Small spiked and other businesses in Sweden. from the Guardian | website for giving him time to
Getaway aircraft hovers for 15 objects had also been spread out The company offered a reward for guardian.co.uk) grieve through their efforts to
minutes as thieves hoist millions on the road near the depot in an information about the robbery, but Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:12:07 AM publicise the film.
of krona to rooftop attempt to hinder the approach of did not specify a sum. Travolta arrived at the supreme
Sweden has seen its fair share of police vehicles. Last year, a group of men broke John Travolta is the star witness court building in an entourage of
daring cash robberies in recent One witness who saw the into a mail processing centre in in a trial against two men accused sport utility vehicles for his first
years, from fake bombs used as rooftop operation told Swedish Gothenburg, leaving large parts of of trying to extort $25m from the appearance at the trial. Security
decoys to the hold-up of luggage T V : " T w o m e n h o i s t e d Sweden's second-largest city at a US actor was noticeably heavier than
handlers at major airports. themselves down. I saw when standstill after spreading out John Travolta described the previous days with Bahamas
But a spectacular raid by a they hoisted up money, too." spikes, burning cars in different moments before his son's death in police officers surrounding the
Stockholm gang today has so far Kjell Lindgren, a police areas and leaving suspected the Bahamas as he testified today courthouse.
left police stumped. spokesman, said: "I've never explosive devices in the centre. against two people accused of In his testimony, he said he and
The gang landed a helicopter on experienced anything like it." . In 2006, Gothenburg trying to blackmail him with Preston were awakened by a
the roof of a cash depot before An abandoned helicopter was International airport was partially private information about the nanny around 10.15am on 2
loading it with bags of money. later found in a recreational area closed after masked men crashed rescue effort. January, the day of Jett's death.
Just after 5am, the helicopter near a lake north of Stockholm, through a gate and held up With his actress wife Kelly Travolta said when he went
hovered over the roof of the G4S about 15 miles from the cash luggage-handlers as they Preston looking on inside the downstairs, another caretaker was
plc cash depot, in the Västberga depot. unloaded crates of foreign Nassau courtroom, Travolta said doing chest compressions and he
area of the city, as men jumped One witness living near the currency worth 7.8m krona that he performed CPR on his son began administering breathing
out onto the building, smashed a helicopter's landing site said he (£700,000) from a passenger after a nanny alerted him the teen help.
window and entered a stairwell. had been watching a news report aircraft. had fallen ill at a family vacation Police say the alleged scheme
Staff on the early shift were of the robbery at 7:30am when he Four years earlier, robbers home on Grand Bahama island. involved a document related to
working inside the depot at the heard the sound of engines and pulled off a similar heist at The chronically ill Jett Travolta Jett's treatment. It would have
time. looked out to see a red and white Arlanda airport, in Stockholm, as later died from a seizure. released emergency responders
Once the gang were inside in helicopter flying low over his staff loadeding foreign currency "I ran downstairs with my wife from liability if the family refused
the building, witnesses reported house. worth 43m krona onto an aircraft. to help my son," Travolta said. an ambulance but police said that
hearing load bangs, believed to "I thought it can't have been the • Sweden Travolta is the star witness at did not happen.
have been caused by explosives. one [involved in the robbery]," he Angelique Chrisafis the trial of two people — A police officer testified
The helicopter hovered for 15 said. "But now I realise the guardian.co.uk© Guardian paramedic Tarino Lightbourne yesterday that Travolta signed the
minutes, waiting for the men to helicopter I saw is the one that News & Media Limited 2009 | and former Bahamas senator release because he initially
load up the bags of stolen cash landed here in Skavloten." Use of this content is subject to Pleasant Bridgewater — who are wanted his son taken to the airport
from the rooftop. Meanwhile, a The British-based G4S, one of our Terms & Conditions| More accused of trying to extort $25m instead of a local hospital.
police Swat team attempted to the world's largest security Feeds (£15m) from the movie star. Both A nine-person jury was
gain entry to the cash depot using companies, did not say how much defendants pleaded innocent to expected to hear from a total of 14
a battering ram. money had been in the depot at extortion charges at the trial that witnesses, including Travolta.
began on Monday in this island • John Travolta
NYC Tweeters Give Iran Boss the Green chain off the Florida coast. • United States
Middle Finger It was a rare public appearance guardian.co.uk© Guardian
for Travolta, 55, who has kept a News & Media Limited 2009 |
By Nathan Hodge (Wired Top their protests against electoral low profile since Jett's death. He Use of this content is subject to
Stories) fraud. Now activists are using the skipped promotional events this our Terms & Conditions| More
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:00:00 PM micro-blogging tool to give summer for his latest film, The Feeds
Iranian President Mahmoud Taking of Pelham 123. He
Iran's pro-democracy movement Ahmadinejad an extra-special
was able to harness the power of welcome to New York City.
Twitter to mobilize support for
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Gaddafi banned from pitching tent Smartphone apps to spike,

By Haroon Siddique (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:47:09 AM
Erection on land owned by
Donald Trump angers New York
town of Bedford, which orders
immediate halt
In pictures: Gaddafy's travelling
tent
The list of international laws
that Muammar Gaddafi stands
accused of breaching stretches
from sponsoring terrorism to
abusing human rights. But he may
be about to get his comeuppance
for an altogether more mundane
transgression: pitching a tent in a
no-camping zone.
Added to that, it appears the tent
may have been pitched on an
estate belonging to the tycoon
Donald Trump, where residents
include the US domestic diva
Martha Stewart and the fashion
designer Ralph Lauren.
The town of Bedford, about 45
miles north of Manhattan, has
ordered work to stop on the
erection of a large bedouin tent
that the Libyan leader, due to
address the UN general assembly
today, uses while travelling
abroad.
Libya's oil wealth may have
helped to rehabilitate Gaddafi's
image in the eyes of other world
leaders but his international
standing apparently cuts no ice
with Bedford officials.
"There is no such thing as
diplomatic immunity when it
comes to complying with local
laws and ordinances," said Joel
Sachs, an attorney for the town.
"This is a private piece of
property and they have to comply
with the laws of this
municipality."
He said the tent was believed to
violate "several codes and laws of
the town of Bedford". Sachs said
an order to stop work was given
to the property's caretaker after it
was apparent that the construction
workers could not understand
English.
The Trump Organisation said
the entrepreneur, whose name is
more often associated with
skyscrapers than tents, had not
rented land directly to Gaddafi.
But it added that part of the estate
"was leased on a short-term basis
to Middle Eastern partners, who
may or may not have a
relationship to Mr Gaddafi. We
are looking into the matter."
A state department official,
speaking anonymously, told the
Associated Press that the property
was obtained for the duration of
this week's UN general assembly
and was likely to be used for
entertaining. The official said no
one would stay there overnight.
Gaddafi wanted to erect a tent in
New Jersey, where the Libyan
embassy owns property, but the
US government said he could not.
A request to set up tent in Central
Park was also turned down.
Gaddafi, who arrived in New
York yesterday, is likely to face
protests over Scotland's recent
release of Abdel Baset al-
Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of
the 1988 bombing of Pan Am
flight 103 which killed 270
people.
Nita Lowey, a US
congresswoman, said Gaddafi had
shown a lack of remorse for the
bombing and was "unwelcome
throughout the New York area".
• Muammar Gaddafi
• Libya
• United Nations
• United States
Haroon Siddique
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newspapers to miss it (again)
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:40:00 PM
Filed under: Google (GOOG),
Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com
(AMZN), Research in Motion
(RIMM), Smartphones,
Technology
By 2013, more than $4 billion
will be spent on smartphone
applications, according to a new
study by the Yankee Group... and
the estimate is said to be
conservative. With the average
owner of one of these devices
downloading around 20
applications a year, it's obvious
that this market is getting ready to
pop. Currently, only $343 million
is spent in this space. apps to spike, newspapers to miss
An increase in the number of it (again)
smartphone applications available Smartphone apps to spike,
-- for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) newspapers to miss it (again)
iPhone, Reasearch in Motion's originally appeared on
(NASDAQ: RIMM) Blackberry, BloggingStocks on Wed, 23 Sep
and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) 2009 12:40:00 EST. Please see
Android-- and rising prices for our terms for use of feeds. Read|
these applications will push the Permalink| Email this| Comments
total size of this market higher.
Continue reading Smartphone

Ford Motor forecasts rebound in U.S. auto sales

By Elizabeth Harrow expects U.S. auto sales to rise "So, it will be up a little now, then U.S. auto sales originally
(BloggingStocks) during the next two years. Vehicle will go down. But overall in the appeared on BloggingStocks on
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:40:00 AM sales in 2009 are expected to long term, the sales will grow Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:40:00 EST.
range between 10.5 million and with the GDP number." The CEO Please see our terms for use of
Filed under: International 11 million units, and Mulally added that Ford expects to be feeds. Permalink| Email this|
markets, Forecasts, Management, predicts that number will increase profitable by 2011. Comments
Ford Motor (F), India, Options to 12.5 million in 2010 and 14.5 Continue reading Ford Motor
Alan Mulally, president and million in 2011. forecasts rebound in U.S. auto
CEO of Ford Motor Co.(NYSE: "It has started to pick up right stimulus packages," said Mulally, sales
F), said Wednesday that he now because we have had the speaking before reporters in India. Ford Motor forecasts rebound in
16 Finance/ Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record

Flavored cigarettes off the The IMF on economic recovery:

shelves
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Snail's pace
(The Economist: News medium term as those that follow in each particular instance. For
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:00:00 AM analysis) currency crises (222 of which the this case, the findings of the
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:11:48 AM fund's economists also fund's economists are hardly
Filed under: Altria Group (MO) scrutinised). cause for cheer. They estimate
As of Tuesday, you'll have to The IMF on economic recovery None of that bodes well for the that countries where an unusually
cross a border to buy a clove. The Sep 22nd 2009 recovery of the global economy high proportion of income was
U.S. Food and Drug From Economist.com Recovery today. Part of the problem is that invested before a crisis (for
Administration's ban on flavored from this recession is likely to it is a long and messy task to example, by borrowing abroad to
cigarettes went into effect and take several years, says the IMF clean up a banking system. While speculate in assets, such as
prohibits the sale of candy and WHEN the chairman of the this is being done, many people housing) are worse off in the
fruit-flavored cigarettes. Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, lose their jobs and drop out of the medium term. As most rich
Authorized under the Family of strawberry, grape, orange, told a Washington think-tank this l a b o u r f o r c e a l t o g e t h e r . I n countries had a property boom
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco clove, cinnamon, pineapple, month that “the recession is very America, for example, the Bureau before the banking crisis, they
Control Act, the measure is vanilla, coconut, licorice, cocoa, likely over at this point”, he was of Labour Statistics said that in should expect more pain in the
intended to reduce the number of chocolate, cherry and coffee. careful to add that the American August 758,000 people were coming years.
children who take up the habit. Continue reading Flavored economy would remain weak for “discouraged workers”—people On the other hand, governments
Under the new ban, cigarettes cigarettes off the shelves some time yet. Analysis released who have given up looking for might be encouraged by the IMF.
that include "an artificial or Flavored cigarettes off the on Tuesday September 22nd by work because they believe there The economists also looked at the
n a t u r a l f l a v o r ( o t h e r t h a n shelves originally appeared on IMF economists who have been are no jobs for them. That is effects of macroeconomic policy,
menthol) or an herb or spice" BloggingStocks on Wed, 23 Sep studying the aftermath of 88 nearly double the figure of a year concluding that bigger increases
cannot be sold in the United 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see banking crises over the past four earlier. Even those who keep in government spending help to
S t a t e s . T h e l o n g , b u t n o t our terms for use of feeds. Read| decades, supports Mr Bernanke's looking may find that their skills limit the medium-term damage
exhaustive list of flavors, consists Permalink| Email this| Comments c a u t i o u s t a l k . W h i l e m o s t have grown rusty by the time a from recessions. Thus decisions
discussion of the worst recession recession ends, making it hard to taken to prime the fiscal pump
since the Depression looks at the find a new job. during this crisis, despite the
immediate pain from lost jobs and Profits also collapse during a enormous increases in
shuttered shops, the IMF analysis financial crisis because credit government debt in rich countries,
suggests that the effects of the becomes much more expensive; may turn out to have been the
iTunes 9.0.1 Update Now Available downturn will be felt long after it this in turn means that firms have
is technically over.
right ones.
less to invest when the crisis ends. Still, deciding when to end
[ITunes] It is not surprising that trouble If firms cut spending on research
in the banks results in big drops in
fiscal and monetary stimulus is
By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo) Podcasts in playlists to iPod or GDP: the IMF finds that output and development during the tricky. Doing so too early risks
iPhone. downturn that is likely to result in making the green shoots of
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:59:00 AM
per head falls steadily for three slower productivity growth recovery wither; waiting too long
•Fixes a problem sorting albums years after a typical banking
A couple of weeks after with multiple discs. later—nor does it help that many means even more debt to deal
crisis. Recovering from that takes productive firms go bust because with. Governments and central
releasing iTunes 9, Apple has •Addresses an issue with the a long time, even after a return to
released the 9.0.1 update to work Zoom button not switching to pre-crisis growth rates. Seven of credit shortages. The IMF banks have the difficult task of
out some of the kinks. Mini Player. concludes that falling ensuring that their actions do not
years after a typical banking crisis productivity, the employment nip in the bud what in any case is
•Resolves issues browsing the •Improves application syncing has ended output per head is 10%
iTunes Store. for iPod touch and iPhone. rate, and the amount of machinery likely to be feeble growth.
lower, on average, than it would
•Addresses a performance issue •Genius is now automatically have been in the absence of a and equipment available to Back to top ^^ Readers'
w h e r e i T u n e s m a y b e c o m e updated to show Genius Mixes. crash. The IMF also finds that workers each accounts for about a comments
unresponsive. Nothing major here, but it is recessions (such as this one) that third of the medium-term output The Economist welcomes your
•Fixes a problem where iTunes definitely worth upgrading. [ are associated with banking crises losses. views.
may unexpectedly quit. iTunes via Lifehacker] All this is what happens in a
lead to output declines that are typical crisis. The conditions, and
•Fixes a problem syncing about three times as large in the the effectiveness of policy, differ
Internet News Record
It's Neck-n-Neck at the Turn: Donnelley and Bowne in the
XBRL Filing Lead
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:18:25 AM
Yesterday was the first time I'd
seen complete XBRL filing
results for Bowne ( BNE) and
Merrill. Aliya Sternstein's
Nextgov.com article helps to
clarify the early leaders in the race
to provide XBRL filing services.
The article notes that Bowne &
Co. had "filed XBRL documents
on 120 public companies," and
"Merrill processed documents for
about 70 companies."
By combining these new results
with the XBRL Cloud Report, it is
possible to estimate the leading
filers' market shares. There were a
total of 427 XBRL filings made to
the SEC pursuant to the SEC
mandate as of Sept. 14, 2009.
There may be some additional
quarterly reports made for
companies filing late or with non-
calendar quarterly reporting dates.
RR Donnelley/EDGAR Online
149 XBRL filings
34.9% market share
RR Donnelley ( RRD 21.71, 52-
week range 5.54 - 25.52 ) is a
leading print and communications
company with global revenue of
$11.6 billion in 2008. EDGAR
Online ( EDGR 1.89, 52-week
range 0.60 - 2.49) is a financial
information company providing
XBRL data and solutions to
financial markets with 2008
revenue of $19.5 million. See
their joint website for XBRL
filings business. As an example of
the partnership's commitment,
note RRD's upcoming 33-city tour
scheduled with Ernst & Young.
Bowne & Co. ( BNE 6.99, 52-
week range: 0.85 - 12.10)
120 filings
28.1% market share
Bowne, with $767 million in
2008 revenues, provides
shareholder reporting and
communication services. The
company has a strategic
partnership with Rivet Software, a
leader in XBRL software tools.
Merrill Corporation
70 filings
16.4% market share
Merrill is a private company
providing XBRL and other
advanced solutions for business.
Fujitsu notes Merrill as one of its
partners in the XBRL field.
EDGARfilings (Thomson
Reuters)
55 filings
12.9%
Thomson Reuters( TRI 34.30,
52-week range 19.30 - 35.38) is a
global information provider of
$11.7 billion revenue for 2008.
The company has strategic
partnership with Rivet Software
for XBRL data and with EDGAR
Online for the I-Metrix financial
analytic tool. In the last couple of
years Thomson Reuters has
expanded its XBRL activities
including the purchase of
EDGARfilings.
Other Filers
33 filings
7.7%
Based on the current filing cost
for XBRL reports to the SEC of
roughly $20,000-$40,000 per year
per company, that rate of XBRL
filings would translate into $240 -
$480 million per year after all
companies were required to file in
2011.
XBRL is an emerging market.
For instance, the XBRL US
consortium recently launched
XBRL US Labs to consider new
applications of this advanced
interactive financial reporting
standard. In November, XBRL
US will sponsor a national
convention in New York. See
scheduled speakers here. Current
SEC filings in XBRL are a small
vs. the analytics, auditing,
business intelligence, and
government agency data
requirements to be spawned by
the SEC XBRL mandate.
In past reports regarding
EDGAR Online, the company's
market share of XBRL filings was
estimated based on early
voluntary XBRL filers. Now, with
the actual first-quarter data
available for the first-phase filers,
it has been confirmed that the
Donnelley/EDGAR Online
partnership is the leading provider
of XBRL-formatted filings to the
SEC. Using the mid-point of the
above revenue range and
adjusting for its assumed 50%
interest in the Donnelley/EDGR
partnership, annual revenue to
EDGR is estimated to be as
follows:
@34.8% market share
Year 1 with 149 filers:
$2,235,000
@continuation of above plus
30% of 1,800 new filers
Year 2 with 689 filers:
$10,335,000
@continuation of above plus
25% of 9,700 new filers
Year 3 with 3,114 filers:
$46,710,000
Total of EDGR revenue in first
3 years of SEC mandate:
$59,280,000
Since the new XBRL filing
revenue is incremental to EDGAR
Online's regular data solutions
and analytics business, the
potential $59,280,000 of
incremental revenue could have a
positive impact on the company's
bottom line, especially since
EDGR has over $35 million of
NOLs and a gross margin of
around 75%.
In considering the likelihood of
the above assumptions, it is
worthwhile to note that the
company has already converted
all the U.S. companies' financial
results into XBRL data for about
10 years! EDGAR Online did that
over the last 5 years or so to build
their giant XBRL interactive
database of U.S. companies. Since
they now daily tag and store daily
SEC reports---and have for many
years---they have developed
highly automated and proprietary
data capture and handling
techniques for using the SEC's
EDGAR System. I understand
that they have around 1.5 million
rules that "sit atop" their XBRL
database just for converting
financial data to XBRL format.
Even if one assumes that prices
for XBRL conversion will decline
after the initial filing stage for
companies, it is widely expected
that there will be many new
applications for XBRL such as for
proxy statements, mortgage-
backed securities, and other SEC
reporting data. EDGAR Online
also has a partnership with
Canadian News Wire for the
Canadian XBRL conversion
market.
This is a fairly dramatic
opportunity, and it appears not to
Economy/ 17
be lost on the company's
management. They announced in
the second-quarter conference call
that they have engaged Jordan,
Edmiston Group to consider
strategic equity partners.
Long-term, EDGAR Online
controls the only XBRL-
formatted database for U.S.
reporting companies, with a deep
reach into more than 6,000 data-
points on each company. Trying
to evaluate 10 years of usable and
as-reported data on the 10-Q and
10-K filings of U.S. companies
plus the associated proprietary
data-mining techniques of
retrieving and handling that data,
is tricky. Now, with the new
XBRL standard now in force, the
value of EDGAR Online's
database has no doubt become
significantly more relevant to
major financial information
companies. And, the SEC
mandate will probably give I-
Metrix analytic tool a boost in the
Thomson-Reuters channel to
CPAs and attorneys---who are
especially interested in accessing
as-reported company financial
data.
EDGAR Online's common
stock (Nasdaq: EDGR) currently
trading at 1.89 (52-week range
0.60 - 2.49). Its current $50.6
million market cap is less than its
expected 3-year revenue from just
the XBRL filings business. Even
in the current downturn in the
financial service area, EDGR
generated $553,000 in Adjusted
EBITDA for the quarter ended
June 30, 2009.
Disclosure: I am long EDGR
IT'S page 18
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Climate change and the UN: Nice words

(The Economist: News rapid climate change, urging the 175m hectares, of Chinese land is about climate change, he has a
analysis) world to act “boldly, swiftly and forested today; the government limited ability to enforce new
Submitted at 9/23/2009 1:02:49 AM together” to avert an “irreversible wants to see another 40m hectares policies. He has the power to do
catastrophe”. But he offered little added by 2020. China is now the some things by executive
Climate change and the UN that was practical or specific, world’s biggest greenhouse-gas decision, and has done so with
Sep 23rd 2009 | NEW YORK beyond noting that America emitter, and its emissions are efficiency standards on light bulbs
From Economist.com Leaders w o u l d s t a r t m e a s u r i n g i t s rising rapidly as its economy and cars. And a 2007 court
offer little of substance at the greenhouse-gas emissions more grows. Mr Hu wants to show the decision has ruled that the
latest climate change gathering in exactly, to better assess what world that he is taking concerns Environmental Protection Agency
New York progress is being made. He struck about the climate seriously. can directly regulate greenhouse- Codex and InkSeine
JUST over 70 days to go and an urgent tone but there was little
there is miserably little progress punch to the speech. A spokesman
However the Chinese president
did not offer hard targets on the
gas emissions which are
considered an “endangerment”, a
-- the roots of
yet. The outlook for the global f o r O x f a m , a n a i d a g e n c y , main issue, carbon intensity, only power that Mr Obama has Microsoft's Courier?
summit on climate change to be responded ruefully that someone promising a reduction by a threatened to use. But all sides in
held in Copenhagen in December had “switched the coffee to decaf “notable amount”. As long as America agree that legislation By Joshua Topolsky
is uncertain. The current version at today’s UN climate summit”. China continues to add coal-fired would be more comprehensive (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:54:00 AM
of the draft outcome document for To some extent Mr Obama was power at an alarming rate, Mr than an executive order.
the meeting is hundreds of pages upstaged by China’s president, Hu Hu’s promises will not satisfy But the slow progress of the bill
long, with thousands of passages Jintao, who at least offered some Yesterday, the cats over at
those who worry that global through Congress has foreign Gizmodo got a look at what
in brackets representing points of specific details of steps that his carbon emissions are growing too partners running out of patience
disagreement. Climate-watchers country is taking. He described appeared to be a pretty
quickly. Nor is his speech likely with the excuse that the health- groundbreaking product from
are steadily lowering their how, in China’s five-year to be enough to convince sceptics care bill must come first, or that
expectations. They had hoped that economic plan from 2006-2010, Microsoft -- the Courier-- a dual-
in America’s Congress who want Congress really is complex. screen, multitouch tablet with an
activities this week in New York, the country has set itself targets of China to commit to hard targets America must move at the same
scheduled around the UN General energy intensity—the energy advanced UI the likes of which
before—or at least at the same time as other economies, rich and we've rarely seen. According to
Assembly, might move things required to produce a unit of time as—America does. poor alike, a dilemma Scott
forward. So far there is little to GDP. Mr Hu says that China will the site's report, the product was
The cap-and-trade bill in Barrett, an economist at Columbia in "late prototype" stages, and
cheer. go further in the coming years, by Congress offers a target that many University, calls the “biggest
A speech by Barack Obama on trying to cut the carbon emissions judging from the video, it looked
Europeans consider to be collective-action problem in to be pretty far along (at least as
Tuesday September 22nd was per dollar of GDP produced, for weak—a 17% reduction in human history”. The lack of pace
e a g e r l y a w a i t e d . H e example by developing renewable far as software was concerned).
emissions on 2005 levels by 2020. of cap-and-trade in the Senate is Today, MobileTechWorld looks
acknowledged t h a t and nuclear energy. “We will But even that is imperilled by an ominous sign.
America—which failed to ratify endeavour to increase the share of as though it might be shedding a
almost total Republican Back to top ^^ Readers' little more light on the device and
the Kyoto protocol, encouraging non-fossil fuels in primary energy opposition, and the nervousness comments
industrialised countries to cut consumption to around 15% by its software... but it might not be
of moderate Democrats in The Economist welcomes your quite what you think.
e m i s s i o n s o f g r e e n h o u s e 2020”, he said. He also touted vulnerable electoral districts. views.
gases—has some catching up to plans to extend an existing Continue reading Codex and
Whatever Mr Obama’s personal InkSeine -- the roots of
do. He made clear the dangers of reforestation programme: 18%, or commitment to doing something Microsoft's Courier?
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AmREITs on Fire: Prelude or Crescendo?
(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:06:22 AM
Back on June 28 of this year, I
suggested to readers here that they
may want to look more closely at
high yielding a gency mortgage
backed real estate investment
trusts(AmREITs). I pointed out in
the article that as a group, a
divergence between AmREITs
and the S&P 500 index ETF (
SPY) had developed during the
previous two weeks.
The grey vertical line just before
July 9 on the chart below is the
point in time when I asked the
question, “ Are high yielding
AmREITs ready to run?” Looking
back, i t is now clear that this
divergence was sustainable and
AmREITs were indeed “ ready to
run.”
Source: ValueForum
Let’s look at how the six
companies in the AmREIT group
have done. Since the closing price
on the day after the article was
published (June 29), the SPY has
gained 15.5 percent. The table
below shows that American
Capital Agency ( AGNC), Annaly
Capital Management ( NLY),
Anworth Mortgage Asset ( ANH),
Capstead Mortgage ( CMO),
Hatteras Financial ( HTS), and
MFA Financial ( MFA) have all
outperformed the SPY, some
spectacularly.
The leading gainer in the group,
American Capital Agency with a
34 percent total gain, followed
closely by Annaly Capital
Management with a 30 percent
Model Behavior: 2010 New York Fashion Week
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
total gain. Annaly also happens to
be the largest in the group by
market capitalization and the most
liquid.
Note: The total return with
dividend reinvestment plan (
DRIP) column includes actual
dividend payments distributed
between June 29, 2009 and
September 22, 2009. Estimated
annualized yield includes likely
non-recurring dividend payments
for AGNC.
Source: ValueForum
In fact, an even larger
divergence developed between the
AmREIT group and the SPY as
five of the six companies hit 52-
week highs yesterday. The sixth,
Hatteras Financial missed a new
high by 5 cents. The AmREIT
Personalities shine backstage at
Alexander Wang, L.A.M.B., F u r s t e n b e r g , D e r e k L a m , Michael Kors, Allison Lewis, and
Yigal Azrouël, Diane Von
group gained an average of 3.3
percent yesterday compared to the
SPY which gained about 0.6
percent.
Driving these gains were several
bullish dividend declarations. On
Monday, Annaly Capital declared
a quarterly dividend of $0.69 per
share. Yesterday, Hatteras
Financial announced a $1.15 per
share quarterly dividend and
American Capital Agency Corp.
declared a $1.40 quarterly
dividend payment.
The following chart shows
yesterday’s closing price,
performance, and share volume
for each of the six companies in
the group.
Source: Self Directed Investor
Dividend hungry investors will
Thakoon, Phillip Lim, Anna Sui,
other spring 2010 shows!
Economy/ Fashion/
take note that the estimated
annualized yields for this group of
AmREITs range from 10 to 20
percent. Healthy distribution of
dividends seem likely to continue
as the Federal Reserve appears to
be in no hurry to raise short-term
rates amid a bottoming economy
and forecast for a jobless
recovery.
Remember, AmREITs take
advantage of the spread inherent
in the yield curve, borrowing
short term at low-cost while
investing in high-yielding, longer
term mortgage securities issued
by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and
other government sponsored
enterprises. The greatest risk is if
the yield curve flattens as the
economy recovers and the Federal
19
Reserve decides to raise the Fed
Funds rate. Funding risk, related
to systemic risk, is also a
possibility if the short term credit
markets fail.
The question now is whether
recent divergence between
AmREITs and the SPY signal
even higher future returns for
AmREIT shareholders. As long as
the Federal Reserve remains
reluctant to raise the Fed Funds
and Discount rates, AmREITs
look like a very good bet.
But remember, even if the
Federal Reserve does raise short-
term rates, it may not put an end
to AmREIT oversized returns. If
long-term interest rates are rising
along with short-term rates, a
favorable spread can be preserved
for the group. The key to an exit
strategy in AmREITs is to keep an
eye on the yield curve and its
spread.
AmREITs are currently in a
very favorable steep yield curve
environment that could last for at
least another year. Moreover,
valuations are not high by
historical standards. AmREITs are
a great option for income
investors who are willing to
manage the risk of a flattening
yield curve and able to tolerate
unlikely “funding risk.”
I recommend—again—that
readers look more closely at
AmREITs to see if they might fit
into your portfolio.
Full disclosure: Long AGNC,
NLY, ANH, CMO.
All Photos: Kelly Stuart
20 Economy/ Gadgets/ Internet News Record
Palm Getting Pummeled
First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Program: With App Submissions
For the Pre [Palm]
Morally Hazardous? By Sean Fallon (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:37:00 AM
(Financial Sector and Stocks be applied to sales made between occurred. The associations don't it's renewed, it would allow all
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) April 2008 and July 1 2009. want that momentum to slow. The homebuyers, not just first-timers, Good news for Pre
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:55:55 AM Buyers must close on their associations don't want that to claim it, as long as the property owners—Palm has literally been
homes before Dec.1. But because momentum to slow. is for a principle residence. The overwhelmed with app
First-time homebuyer tax credit much of the recent uptick in home "If we don't extend and expand bill would also increase the tax submissions on the heels of
claims soaring sales has been attributed to this the program, the seeds of growth refund to as much as $15,000. tomorrow's launch. As Palm
M o r e t h a n 1 . 4 m i l l i o n tax credit, housing industry planted could [die]," said NAHB The house bills all extend the Developer Community Manager
Americans have already claimed advocates worry that the market president Jerry Howard. deadline through at least the end Chuq Von Rospach notes, the
the new tax credit for first-time could quickly turn down again There are six bills before of December 2009 and two of the approval process has got off to a
home buyers, according to a after the credit expires. Congress that would extend the bills, introduced by Howard rocky start:
report from the Internal Revenue "Just like the Cash-for-Clunkers tax credit, two in the Senate and Coble, R-NC and by Dan Burton, We got more applications than
Service. program, there could be a four in the House of R-Ind., would have it run through we could handle well, which is a
The credit, which applies to hangover effect," said Mike Representatives. 2010. They would also open it up good problem to have.
sales as of January 2009, is good Larson, a real estate analyst for On Wednesday night, Senator to all homebuyers. Unfortunately, it means we
for 10% of the price of a home, up Weiss Research. Ben Cardin, D-Md., along with Sentiment backing efforts to dropped some things on the floor,
to $8,000, and supporters assert it That's why housing industry Senators John Ensign R-Nev., extend the credit appears to be on and that's bad, but with the
has helped stabilize the housing participants are pushing Congress Harry Reid, D-Nev., Johnny the rise, according to Jaret impending "stuff" that's coming,
market. It's available to anyone to keep the tax credit in place. Isakson, R-Ga., and Debbie Seiberg, an analyst with Concept this is all going to get a lot easier
who has not owned a home for "We're calling for extending the Stabenow, D-Mic., introduced a Capital's Washington Research for everyone and a lot more
three consecutive years prior to credit until the end of next year bill extending the tax credit Group. He put the odds of an transparent.
purchase, and to qualify for the a n d e x p a n d i n g i t t o a l l program for six months. extension at 2 to 1. Isakson's Despite these bumps in the road
full credit buyers must be h o m e b u y e r s , " s a i d N A R Reid released a statement version has already attracted 16 for developers, it does give
purchasing a primary residence, spokesman Walter Molony. "We saying, "Yesterday we learned co-sponsors, according to his consumers a reason to be excited
and couples can earn no more do think that housing will recover that new home sales have deputy chief of staff, Joan about the apps that arrive
than $150,000, while individuals without it but the market will increased in Las Vegas, and that's Kirchner. tomorrow. [ Palm Forums via
must make less than $75,000. come back faster and stronger good news. I hope this credit will [...] Another hurdle: The PreCentral]
The credit has been an with it." build on that so more Nevadans growing sentiment among fiscal
important stimulus tool for two Some 1.8 million people are can realize the American dream of conservatives that any extension
reasons. It's fully refundable, expected to participate in the home ownership." must be paid for by finding
meaning that even if buyers owe program by the time it lapses and Senator Isakson, a former real savings in some other areas. There
no taxes whatsoever, they'll get an the National Association of estate broker himself who has has already been $14 billion
$8,000 check from the IRS. And Realtors (NAR) estimates that it become a leading voice on allocated to the program -- and
this refund will put money in will result in an extra 350,000 housing market issues, had any extension would surely cost
consumers' pockets for good, as s a l e s . T h e N A H B m o r e introduced his own bill several billions more. [...]
opposed to the $7,500 first-time conservatively predicts 165,000 weeks ago. That would not only
homebuyer tax credit that could more home sales than would have extend the credit for a year after

iPod nano banned by many gyms

By Dave Freeman
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:54:20 AM
The iPod nano has become very
popular with the gym crowd. It’s
light, doesn’t skip, and is
inexpensive enough that if it gets
stolen, it’s not the end of the avoid. pick it up on the way out. One
world. The bad news is, many So should Apple make a nano word of warning, if you do
gyms are banning the new without a camera? The features of smuggle your nano in, please
version, due to the camera. Seems the new version make it perfect don’t forget that there is ‘good
that recording devices in general except for that pesky camera. naked’ and ‘bad naked’. Oh, and
are verboten in gym locker rooms, Perhaps gyms could allow you to don’t buy the yellow one.
a n d s o m e t h i n g s m a l l a n d exactly what they are trying to check your nano before you go [via Slashgear]
concealable like an iPod nano is into the locker room, and then
Internet News Record Economy/ Gadgets/ 21

Cramer Hammers AIG Founder Hank Greenberg Skateboard Tetris: First

(Financial Sector and Stocks Without naming names, the other than Maurice “Hank”
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) often fiery and always Greenberg, who is estimated to Sport of the Highly
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:29:49 AM controversial Jim Cramer turned have made $588 million on the Unofficial Video X
his outrage on another stock’s 21% rise on Monday. Games [Gaming]
“AIG has been what we call in controversial titan, AIG’s( AIG) While we understand Cramer’s
the business an up stock, meaning founder Hank Greenberg. The concerns that a bad actors get By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
it has been one way up since they problem as Cramer views it, is rewarded, this is what happens in Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:00:00 AM
did the split, the 20 for 1 reverse that Greenberg was the one that AIG, value has been destroyed the aftermath of the “too-big-to-
and that’s because of endless lead the company into its risky because AIG’s people and their fail” moral hazard. Greenberg Towering above San Francisco,
unconfirmed rumors and just derivatives business, but he rarely relationships — AIG’s business should take much of the blame for glowing Tetris pieces gently fall
gossip, gossip that something takes any heat for these decisions. — are leaving. The evidence is his leadership of AIG that led into place like just as they were
g o o d i s a b o u t t o h a p p e n . Furthermore, Greenberg has overwhelming and indisputable them to need for unprecedented fated since birth. But at the street
E m a n a t i n g , f r a n k l y , f r o m proposed a plan to reduce AIG’s that the American taxpayer is an government bailouts. However, as level level, skateboard Tetris is a
someone who should be made to, debt to the government, and with investor in a steadily diminishing taxpayers, we should all demand different, more intense
let’s say, be quiet immediately. the stock surging more than 20% asset.” repayment, especially those of us experience.
He’s the man who sewed the on Monday he is being hailed in Greenberg’s plan is to ask for who disagree with how the The skaters spin through nearly
seed for its destruction. Even some circles as a potential savior mercy from the government in the situation was handled in the first pitch black streets, donning
though he created the company, to the company. form of lower interest rates and a place. We doubt that the original glowing wireframe Tetris blocks
he’s the one who set up the rogue As everyone is well aware, AIG longer time-table for repayment. plan to sell off AIG in bits is for a hats. And then, at the last
London office. He’s the one who was bailed out to the tune of $85 Rep. Edolphus Towns’ House going to be able to get that money moment, they need to negotiate
commanded the company to billion the day after Lehman Oversight Panel is reportedly back (as the GAO stated in its just how they'll fit with all those
insure financials. I urge you to go Brothers fell, and they have since going to push for up to 20 years to l a t e s t r e p o r t ) , s o p e r h a p s other Tetris block heads on
back to the 2007 analyst meeting been bailed out three more times. repay the restructured debt, Greenberg’s approach would wheels.
to see how long this company was To date taxpayers have lent AIG instead of the original 5-year make the best of a terrible But...as long as no one was
doing stupid, stupid things like $182.3 billion, and after asset term. In so doing, there is a better s i t u a t i o n . W h e t h e r t h e hurt...we wouldn't mind seeing the
ensuring banks to allow them to liquidations AIG still owes the chance that taxpayers get paid government will bite on this deal effect recreated in an empty
get around European capital government about $120.7 billion. back, and AIG would have a is an different matter, considering swimming pool. [ TechEBlog via
r e q u i r e m e n t s . G r e e n b e r g Of course, there are doubts about much better opportunity to C r e d i t S u i s s e ( C S ) a n a l y s t technabob]
somehow takes no responsibility whether AIG will be able to pay survive as a healthy business. Thomas Gallagher calls the
whatsoever, is never called out on back the taxpayers anytime soon Cramer’s outrage stems from the Greenberg plan “farfetched”
this, and shamelessly hypes the as they have sold off many fact that you are rewarding the saying the terms of the loans are
company as undervalued to every valuable assets at fire sale prices. shareholders of this corporation already favorable for AIG.
media outlet imaginable. This A s G r e e n b e r g s a i d i n h i s that took far too many dangerous Original post
man is really off the reservation.” s t a t e m e n t b a c k i n A p r i l , risks. Primary among the
— CNBC’s Mad Money “Since the day the treasury shareholder beneficiary is none
9/23/2009 announced its plan to liquidate

Teclast to debut Android-powered PMP? Wake us up when it arrives

By Joseph L. Flatley media players with such exciting RMVB, MPEG-4, AVS, and Teclast to debut Android-
(Engadget) features as "buttons" and WMV9 files constitute your powered PMP? Wake us up when
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:29:00 AM "batteries," just might have a PMP favorite media types). Can the it arrives originally appeared on
in the works that sports the company manage to not bore us to Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009
Oh, Android -- it's obvious that buzzworthy open source OS. The tears with its next device? And 10:29:00 EST. Please see our
someone out there wants to see it T58, whose existence is being will it have to install a cellphone terms for use of feeds. Read|
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-- anything, really, that sports a sport the RK2808 chipset (with Only time will tell.
processor and a display (OK, d u a l - c o r e A R M 9 R I S C support for all of your favorite [Via PlayerBites]
never mind the toaster oven). p r o c e s s o r ) , 1 2 8 0 x 7 2 0 media types (that is, if H.264, Filed under: Portable Audio,
Now Teclast, fine purveyors of touchscreen, WiFi, GPS, and Portable Video
22 Economy/ Gadgets/ Tech Blog/ Internet News Record

Bank Fees Around the

World
(Financial Sector and Stocks as of October 19, Bank of
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) America ( BAC) will “not charge
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:36:16 AM overdraft fees on more than four
items per day”. What they don’t
The EU, after a long and mention in the press release is that
complicated study which I can’t the cap was increased from five to
even find on their website, has ten earlier this year: they seem to
come to a simple and powerful have adopted the yo-yo model of
conclusion when it comes to the b a n k c h a r g i n g , w h e r e y o u
subject of bank fees: maximally gouge your customers
High prices are directly linked u n t i l t h e S e n a t e F i n a n c e
to opaque price information. C o m m i t t e e s t a r t s a s k i n g
Therefore, consumers in countries questions, and then immediately
with opaque price structures are scurry backwards in a desperate
likely to pay more for bank attempt to avoid regulation.
accounts. Regulation is still very much
This is a universal law; it’s not necessary, no matter how much
confined to the EU. The poster BofA, JP Morgan ( JPM), and
child for high and opaque bank others try to avoid it. Anything
charges is Italy: there, someone they announce this week could be
who uses their bank account a lot unilaterally repealed next week,
gets charged €831 (over $1,200) a or next month, or whenever the
year, compared to just €27 for the issue gets forgotten about. A few
same level of service in Bulgaria. s i m p l e r u l e s w o u l d m a k e
That number includes overdraft everything much more transparent
fees, of course, which are the and customer-friendly.
cause du jour in the US. USB 3.0 has a SuperSpeed coming-out
Yesterday’s news is kinda funny:
What is the real-time web? party at IDF
(Scripting News) find a pointer to the library By Nilay Patel (Engadget) course, while lightning-fast SSD doesn't get you dreaming of hard
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:49:44 PM website, so I switched over to Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:07:00 PM transfers are nice, the showiest drives for the holidays, well, we
Google. Looked up Berkeley product on the floor is Point don't know what will. Video after
Four words: It Happens Without Public Library. My piece, The world better be ready for Grey's prototype HD camera here, the break!
Waiting. publshed less than a minute SuperSpeed USB 3.0, cause it's which streams uncompressed Gallery: USB 3.0 at IDF 2009
Narrative: Today I wrote a piece earlier. was the first item. Real- coming, baby -- and by the looks 1080p video over USB 3.0 -- it's Continue reading USB 3.0 has a
about the Berkeley Public Library time web. (True story.) of things at IDF, it's coming soon. not a final product, but it's SuperSpeed coming-out party at
on InBerkeley.Com. I wanted to I n t e l ' s " U S B C o m m u n i t y " apparently quite close. Yes, we IDF
pavilion is filled with SuperSpeed k n o w t h e g a l l e r y b e l o w i s Filed under: Peripherals
tech from a variety of companies, basically cable porn, but here are USB 3.0 has a SuperSpeed
and while some of the demos are the facts: USB 3.0 is 10x faster coming-out party at IDF
happening on crazy Frankenstein than 2.0 while using less power, originally appeared on Engadget
rigs, there's a bunch of stuff here and it's entirely backwards- on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:07:00
that's basically ready to ship, compatible, since the five 3.0 pins EST. Please see our terms for use
including controller chips from in the connector have been of feeds. Permalink| Email this|
NEC and Fujitsu, which are the cleverly engineered to sit above Comments
heart of the whole shebang. Of the four legacy 2.0 pins. If that
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Live at the Barnes and Noble Irex DR 800SG launch

By John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:30:59 AM

Nicholas is live at the Barnes &

Noble Irex reader event and will
report back what he’s seeing
including, but not limited to,
information on the e-reader.
Watch this post for more details
as they emerge.
11:42 – Ok folks, the Wi-Fi
connection here at the New York
Historical society is rubbish, so
I’m literally “e-mailing” the guys
my live reactions.
Better stuff a-comin’ later in the
afternoon.
Today IREX, which is a Philips
offshoot, is showing off its latest e
-reader, the DR 800SG. It’s got an
8.1-inch screen (the Kindle 2’s is
6 inches), and is optimized to be
used with a stylus. There’s a little
bar on the left-hand side that you
use to turn pages. Oh, and IREX
partnered with Barnes and Noble,
so all those e-books you buy from
there work on the reader.
11:47 – Verizon Wireless
provides the 3G wireless, which
I’m not sure yet if you have to pay
for extra. The Barnes and Noble
dude is on stage now, and
immediately opens with a joke:
“Well I want one!” There’s very
little laughter.
Let’s see, while he’s patting
himself on the back, let’s look at
some of the other specs. It comes
with 2GB of storage, which
should hold around 1,500 books.
And, unlike certain other e-book
readers, it supports PDF (and
EPUB, and Newspaper Direct,
and Fictionwise), which should be “open” Verizon Wireless has what it’s worth. 11:51 – Best Buy, which I’m a Best Buy this shopping season,
good news for those of you who become. Mmmhmmm. VZW is, VZW is all about finding new still boycotting, will sell the IREX you’ll have Best Buy staff explain
browse alt.binaries.e-books. however, “thrilled” to partner opportunities for folks to use the reader. Can you buy the Kindle in to you how “cool” the device is.
11:50 – The Verizon Wireless with IREX. He seems more VZW network. “Thank you for Best Buy? I don’t think so, but I 11:59 – Oh, duh, the price. It
man is now talking, Mr. Tony genuine than other suits I’ve seen the opportunity” with the could well be wrong. All that
Lewis. He’s talking about how over the years, so take that for partnership. means is that, when you walk into LIVE page 24
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continued from page 23
comes out in October for $399 at
“select” Best Buy stoes, whatever
that means. VZW is totally free.
The cost of the device covers the
cost of VZW
network access. So just like the
Kindle.
VZW just said nothing is off the
table vis-a-vis releasing a
subsidized model of the reader, or
a different model altogether. So
just like your VZW phone really
costs $8 billion, but you get it on
the cheap with a 2-year contract,
that MAY OR MAY NOT happen
in the future.
The Irex Press Release:
IREX TECHNOLOGIES
TURNS THE PAGE ON
EREADERS WITH NEW 8.1-
INCH CONSUMER DEVICE
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2009 –
IREX Technologies today wrote a
new chapter in digital reading,
combining technology that
provides a traditional reading
experience with an open approach
to buying and transferring
content. The company unveils the
IREX DR800SG – a sleek, 8.1-
inch, touch-screen eReader that
offers multi-mode 3G wireless
capabilities.
Complementing the modern
design of the device, users can
purchase books, newspapers or
magazines from a wide variety of
sources. In addition, IREX
supports multiple formats
including industry standard ePub
format and multiple DRM
solutions, rather than a single,
“closed” proprietary format that
locks content to a specific device.
The IREX device is supported
by key partners Barnes & Noble,
Inc., Best Buy, Qualcomm and
Verizon Wireless, which together
provide access to the content,
retail presence and the most
reliable wireless network in the
country, setting the DR800SG
apart in an increasingly
competitive market.
“Consumers are ready for
eReaders, but the device is only
one piece of the equation. People
want an enjoyable, easy reading
experience with no-hassle access
to content. IREX’s strategy –
based on giving consumers choice
– and the partnerships we have in
place make it easier for them to
purchase a device, access content
and enjoy it wherever they are,”
said Kevin Hamilton, North
American CEO of IREX
Technologies. “IREX has been a
driving force behind the evolution
of eReaders since its founders
invented e-paper display
technology based on E Ink
Corporation’s electronic ink. With
the DR800SG, we bring to market
all that readers have been asking
for: a stellar device that puts the
reader in the driver seat with
regard to where they buy content
and what they do with it.”
IREX teams with industry
leaders
The IREX device includes the
Barnes & Noble eBookstore from
Barnes & Noble, the world’s
largest bookseller, giving users
access to more than 750,000 titles,
including new releases and
bestsellers at $9.99. Barnes &
Noble expects its eBookstore
(www.bn.com/ebooks) will
increase to well over one million
titles within the next year,
inclusive of every available
eBook and eBook originals from
book publishers.
“The Barnes & Noble eBook
strategy is very much aligned with
IREX’s approach to the market,”
said William J. Lynch, president
of BN.com. “IREX’s open
platform, powered by Barnes &
Noble’s comprehensive
eBookstore, is an appealing
proposition for people who love
to read. Barnes & Noble is the
world’s largest bookseller, so we
understand how to create a great
shopping experience for people
looking for simple and convenient
access to their favorite subjects,
authors and material.”
3G wireless connectivity for the
IREX device is powered by
Verizon Wireless’ network – the
nation’s largest and most reliable
wireless network. With wireless
connectivity, customers can
purchase and quickly download
an eBook from an airport gate,
couch or coffee shop – without
being tethered to a PC.
“Verizon Wireless invests
heavily in its network to provide
consumers with the best wireless
experience possible, regardless of
whether they’ve purchased a
device directly from us or are
using one of the devices certified
through our open development
program,” said Tony Lewis, vice
president of open development for
Verizon Wireless. “Our 3G
network enables IREX devices to
quickly access content in more
places, giving IREX customers a
distinct advantage over customers
with other eReader devices.”
The IREX device also leverages
the Gobi™ multi-mode 3G
embedded module which contains
Qualcomm’s mobile broadband
technology for connectivity to 3G
networks around the world. The
IREX DR800SG is the first
eReader to leverage Qualcomm’s
technology to support global
connectivity enabling the device
to be activated in any market. The
IREX DR800SG will launch in
Europe the first half of 2010.
Additionally, users will have the
ability to download content to the
device while traveling abroad next
year.
“Wireless connectivity has the
potential to enhance many aspects
of everyday life, and the IREX
DR800SG is an example of the
type of flexibility and enhanced
user experience that can be
delivered through 3G,” said Barry
Matsumori, vice president of
product management for
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.
“Qualcomm’s Gobi technology
will bring a new level of freedom
to consumers using the DR800SG
worldwide.”
Best Buy will carry the
DR800SG at select stores
beginning later this fall. Giving
users access to the device through
a retailer recognized for providing
hands-on interaction with
technology will drive increased
awareness and understanding of
eReaders, as potential buyers can
see, touch and even test the
product – a must do for
consumers buying an eReader
device.
Key product specifications
· Big screen, compact design –
some competitive devices offer a
similarly-sized device but with a
much smaller display area.
IREX’s 8.1-inch screen is ideal
for books, magazines and
newspapers with detailed
graphics.
· Purpose-built device – the
DR800SG uses the latest
electronic paper display
technology to deliver an
experience that is closer to
reading ordinary paper than
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possible with a netbook or tablet
device. It also has longer battery
life and is lightweight.
· Easy navigation – the device
turns pages faster than competing
products, and navigation is easy
with an interactive touch screen
and straightforward buttons. Users
can search their library or add a
bookmark with a tap of a stylus or
skim an eBook with a touch of a
thumb.
· Customized reading – users can
enlarge or reduce text size and
margin widths or select portrait or
landscape mode to suit their
preferences.
“The availability of new devices
that empower consumers with the
freedom to purchase content from
a variety of sources will be a
major driver to the success of the
digital publishing market,” says
Allen Weiner, research vice
president, Gartner. “Sleek devices
with consumer-friendly features –
including the capability to
purchase content on the go – that
support open eBook standards
will introduce the eBook
experience to an entirely new
generation of readers. Publishers,
who have been on the sidelines
waiting for market maturity, will
now be inspired to become
eReader evangelists.”
Pricing and availability
The IREX DR800SG with a
leather cover will be available in
October at select Best Buy
locations. The device has an
MSRP of $399.99. Wireless
access to download content is
included in the cost of the
DR800SG and no contract is
required.
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IREX unveils DR 800SG wireless ebook reader (updated with

hands-on!)
By Paul Miller (Engadget) content from Newspaper Direct any heavy downloading, but the
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:40:00 PM and LibreDigital stores as well, reader takes a very long time to
and format support of PDF, create a connection -- a good 20-
IREX is currently, right this very E P U B , N e w s p a p e r D i r e c t , 30 seconds -- which might've
second, taking the wraps off its Fictionwise, eReader and TXT. been due to the concrete bunker
big new splash in the ebook Quite the mouthful, and IREX we're hanging out in, or just a sign
space, the new DR 800SG. The promises to follow wherever the of a slow processor, we're not sure
8 . 1 - i n c h u n i t h a s w i r e l e s s market leads when it comes to which. We love the "openness,"
connectivity courtesy of Verizon DRM. The $399 device includes a and it's great to see so many
in the US and Qualcomm's Gobi leather cover and stylus in the format alternatives right out of the
multi-mode 3G for switching it up box, and will be available this gate, but we're gonna need more
in the rest of the world. There's October in "select" Best Buy time with the DR 800SG before
also 2GB of built-in storage, stores and will hit Europe in the we're sure it's worth the plunge.
memory card expansion and first half of 2010. No wireless Gallery: IREX DR 800SG
stylus input ("true finger touch" is contract is required. reader hands-on
coming in Q2 2010 to a future Gallery: IREX unveils DR Filed under: Handhelds
product, right now you can only 800SG wireless ebook reader with IREX unveils DR 800SG
use the stylus, and a color reader touchscreen wireless ebook reader (updated
is in the works as well for 2011), Gallery: IREX DR 800SG with hands-on!) originally
and IREX claims to have the reader demo'd We got to play the stylus. A bar on the left side you get to text input is tapping appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23
fastest page refreshes in the biz. with the new reader briefly, and gives you a "tactile" method of away at an onscreen keyboard. Sep 2009 12:40:00 EST. Please
Perhaps most notable is that the weren't quite sure how to feel. On pushing right or left to turn the We're glad IREX avoided the see our terms for use of feeds.
reader is Barnes & Noble's first one hand, it's another sexy, slim page, but it feels pretty janky. visibility-hampering pitfalls of Permalink| Email this| Comments
big play in the space, with support reader, with a pretty great and fast Notetaking isn't enabled currently, S o n y ' s t o u c h s c r e e n e b o o k
for the B&N eBookstore-- though e-ink screen. On the other hand, so you can't draw on the screen, technology, but perhaps some
the whole thing is an "open the interface is totally minimal making the stylus feel a bit of a more thought should've been put
platform" with support from and a little nonsensical without burden, not a boon -- the closest into the alternative. We didn't do

R2D2 features 8 consoles, projector

By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:30:00 AM
And here we see one of the most
useful implementations of an
astromech droid to date. Modder
Brian De Vitis gutted a novelty
R2D2 beverage cooler and
somehow managed to stuff eight
Hyundai goes nuts with OLED screens
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:40:39 AM
Hyundai? Pretty please bring
old-school consoles inside. And –
AND! – there’s a built-in
projector. Very nice.
From Popular Science:
“To get rid of the mess of wires
from his many videogame
consoles, PopSci reader Brian De
Vitis decided to repurpose his R2-
D2-shaped cooler. The
engineering student modified its
OLED screens to the automotive
world. It doesn’t have to be as
futuristic as the dashboard in the
Blue-Will concept car, but
legs and repainted it to look more
realistic. Then he stacked the
OLEDs are just so nice. Ford is
motherboards from the eight NES, Atari, Dreamcast, N64,
consoles on shelves inside, added SNES, Genesis, PS1, and Xbox.
a sound system, and rearranged That’s a lot of cords to keep
the inputs so he could plug in untangled, yes, but I think you’ll
controllers from the outside. To agree that it’d be totally worth it.
watch all the gaming action, he [ PopSci via HacknMod]
added a projector in the rig’s
dome, just like the real R2’s.”
Judging from the photo, it
appears that the consoles used are:
already using LCD screens in its [ CarAdvice via OLED-Info]
latest hybrids, but why not up the
game a bit, and do something
radical? Please?
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Intel announces quad-

core Core i7 Extreme
and Core i7 for laptops
By Nilay Patel (Engadget)
Apple 1 - Palm 0 On Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:20:00 PM

As expected, Intel just

iTunes Synchronization announced its Clarksfield laptop
chips, bringing Core i7 to the

War [Palm Vs Apple] Griffin iTrip now features laptop form factor. There'll be two
chips, a quad-core and a Core i7
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) more, the USB-IF says that Apple
has all the right to do what they
iPhone OS 3.0 integration Extreme that can run as fast as
3.2GHz in Turbo mode, which
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:59:00 AM
By Joseph L. Flatley technology for finding the best selectively shuts off cores and
are doing, since it's not agains the (Engadget) available frequency in any locale, uses the extra power to speed up
Bad news for Palm. They have rules:
been trying to plug into the Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:57:00 AM a n d a m i c r o - U S B p o r t f o r the the remaining cores while
Palm's allegation (if true) does charging any USB-powered iPod preserving battery life. The parts
iPod/iPhone ecosystem by forging not establish that Apple is using G r i f f i n , k n o w n f o r i t s or iPhone from a charger. iTrip is were demoed working in shipping
the Pre's USB identification its Vendor ID contrary to USB- accessories for the iPod and available for $49.99, and the iTrip -ready form on stage, but pricing
number, with Apple smashing IF's policies. iPhone, has just announced its Controller software can be and availability weren't mentioned
their efforts with each iTunes Palm told Business Week that latest and greatest (though just downloaded for free from the App -- we'll let you know what we can
u p d a t e . N o w , t h e U S B they are going to reply to the USB how great is still in question). The Store. dig up.
Implementers Forum says that Implementers Forum because they latest iteration of the iTrip takes Continue reading Intel
they should stop. Filed under: Cellphones,
believe the users have the right to full advantage of iPhone OS 3.0, Portable Audio, Portable Video announces quad-core Core i7
Palm whined to the USB-IF use whatever device they want to
about how Apple was blocking use their non-rights managed
allowing you to control the FM Griffin iTrip now features Extreme and Core i7 for laptops
transmitter from your iPhone / i P h o n e O S 3 . 0 i n t e g r a t i o n Filed under: Laptops
them every time they tried to media. They are right, especially iPod touch itself. Aren't luscious originally appeared on Engadget Intel announces quad-core Core
circumvent their vendor ID-based when Apple has an almost- touchscreen controls preferable to on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:57:00 i7 Extreme and Core i7 for
anti-non-iPod-devices system. monopolistic position on the the iTrip's tiny buttons anyways? EST. Please see our terms for use laptops originally appeared on
Here's part of the USB-IF reply: software music player market, and In addition to app integration, the of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009
Palm may only use the single they are trying to get a hold of it transmitter features track and this| Comments 12:20:00 EST. Please see our
Vendor ID issued to Palm for by limiting access to their own artist information on RDS- terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
Palm's usage….Usage of another devices. However, maybe they compatible radios, SmartScan Email this| Comments
c o m p a n y ' s V e n d o r I D i s should take the matter to the FTC
specifically precluded. instead of going against the rules.
Basically, what Palm is doing is [ Business Week]
against the rules of USB, and
Palm should stop doing it. What is
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Qualcomm’s FLO TV spied,
reveals little [update]
By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:00:21 AM
Info about the Qualcomm FLO
TV has been slowly leaking out
the last few weeks. First we saw
early concept art, then we released
the first screenshots, but now it
seems Boy Genius has a pic of the
real deal. Sure enough, it sports a
4:3-ish screen just like the
screenshots indicated. Besides
that little tid-bit there isn’t
anything else surprise that this pic
reveals. We already knew that it
was a pocketable FLO TV unit,
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Microsoft To Open
Cafe In Paris To Build
Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)
By Robin Wauters
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:26:40 AM
Microsoft is close to opening
Wait, This Is a Shoe? [Design] retail stores in several major cities
across the planet, but in Paris
By Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo) According to Hakes: they’re doing something special in
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:20:00 AM With a high heel providing the anticipation of the real shops and
heel is supported, even by the imminent launch of the
A shoe? What do you mean a standing on a wooden block the Windows 7 operating system.
shoe? This can't be a shoe! Oh foot naturally 'spans' the gap Microsoft France has surprised
well, I guess it is a shoe. naturally, with bones and tendons. inhabitants and visitors of the
And a high heel shoe at that. Maybe. I guess. Who knows. I French capital with the public
Designed by London architect need to see this because I have to preparation of a genuine coffee
Julian Hakes, the Mojito shoe is admit that I'm quite amazed by shop / cafe situated in the heart of
made of carbon fiber—to give it it—and so was Joanna when she t h e c i t y ( 4 7 B o u l e v a r d
s t r e n g t h a n d s p r i n g — a n d saw it. It will probably cost a Sebastopol). The Windows Cafe,
laminated with rubber on the gajillion dollars, and will make which will only be open to the
b o t t o m a n d l e a t h e r — f r o m this curve go completely vertical: public for a couple of weeks
furniture manufacturers in High [ Dezeen]
Wycombe, England—on top.
starting October 22nd, will boast a
number of Microsoft products that
visitors can play around with
what did you expect it to look
like?
Betty White Takes On '30 Rock' (Xbox, mobile devices and more)
Now all we need to know is the (ETonline - Breaking News) hat, and we took a vote, if you but they will not be able to
unit price, monthly rate, screen Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:38:00 AM could have one guest star for the purchase anything there besides
size, battery life, and range of whole season, who would it be?" snacks and drinks.
content. Yeah, we really don’t The "Golden Girl" Betty White White was the winner and she is
know jack about the upcoming has reportedly landed a guest spot reportedly shooting her part on
player, eh? More info will on the Emmy Award-winning the show this week. "30 Rock"
probably leak out soon though. show "30 Rock." has a long list of guest stars to
[update] A tipster just dropped White is set to appear on Tina have already appeared on the
us a quick note stating HTC is the Fey's NBC comedy, TVguide.com show including: Jennifer Aniston,
a c t u a l m a n u f a c t u r e r o f confirms. Actor Alec Baldwin O p r a h W i n f r e y a n d J e r r y
the portable device and not revealed how the show makes S e i n f e l d .
Qualcomm as many have thought. their decisions for guest stars,
saying, "We all put names in a
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HOW TO: Plan a DIY Wedding Using Social Media
By Josh Catone (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:51:51 AM
I’m getting married next July,
and being a Mashable editor, I’ve
naturally attempted to use social
media wherever possible when
planning my wedding. Some
things for the wedding have
required me to go the traditional
route — picking out a venue
meant actually going to see a few,
and to my knowledge, there isn’t
yet a way to actually taste food
over the Internet. There are plenty
of local wedding vendor
directories and review sites that
were helpful in locating vendors
to try out, but actually checking
them out in person is a must.
However, much of the wedding
actually can be planned via social
media and the web, especially if
you take a more DIY approach
and assemble bits and pieces of
the event on your own. I’m taking
that approach to the planning of
my own wedding and have been
relying on social media and web-
based tools to help. In this post,
I’m open sourcing my wedding
planning work-flow and sharing
all the tricks I’ve learned so far.
Feel free to share other ideas in
the comments. Planning
The first thing my fiancé and I
did when beginning to plan our
wedding was pick out a color
scheme. Once we had our colors
picked out, it became a lot easier
to start planning everything else
pertaining to the design of our
wedding, from the bridesmaid
dresses to the decorations to the
invitations. Check out
COLOURlovers and Adobe’s
Kuler for active communities of
designers that create and share
color palettes. If you are color
challenged, these sites will help
you identify colors that go well
together, and if you’d rather
create your own scheme, they
offer tools to easily create color
swatches.
Once we had our colors figured
out, the next thing we used the
web to help us out with was
creating our save-the-date cards
and invitations. We looked into
traditional, wedding-focused print
shops, but we decided that they
were both too expensive and not
personal enough — we wanted
something designed just for us,
not picked from a catalog. I am
lucky enough to have a close
friend who happens to be a great
graphic designer and she
volunteered to create my save-the-
date cards and invitations, but
prior to her generous offer, I was
planning to use a crowd sourced
design site like 99designs or
crowdSPRING to get my wedding
collateral created.
Before I actually send out my
save-the-date cards, I need to get
my wedding web site made (the
cards have the web site URL
printed on them). The web site
will have information about hotels
and air travel for guests, about
local attractions and wedding-
related activities, and about the all
-important wedding registry
(more on that in a moment). I also
plan for the web site to also serve
as a central repository for the
distribution of post-wedding
media.
There are plenty of services
online that offer web sites catered
specifically to weddings, but since
I have design-savvy friends and a
moderate amount of technical
knowledge, I’m planning to go the
DIY route. I’m in the process of
putting together a page built on
WordPress. I’m self-hosting, but
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combining items for any store on to get your wedding party
the web, or one from involved — dole out tasks to
MyRegistry.com, which lets bridesmaids, groomsmen, and
couples create a registry from relatives and keep track of
hundreds of different stores, and everyone’s progress.
request cash gifts (i.e., for a Another great application for
honeymoon or single, big-ticket those planning a wedding is the
item). WeddingWire iPhone application.
That’s the virtual stuff covered, WeddingWire’s app has a built-in
but what about the tangible items? vendor search, but more
t h e r e ’ s n o r e a s o n w h y What about the things that really importantly, it has to-do lists and
WordPress.com couldn’t work as matter, like what the wedding a budget calculator. One thing I
well (or any other hosted blog party is going to wear? I have one learned very quickly while
solution). word for you: Etsy. Etsy is planning my wedding is that
WordPress is actually a great probably the world’s largest everything costs money, and often
tool to power the back-end of a marketplace of handmade goods, times deposits are due at specific
wedding web site. It lets you keep and in it you can find almost dates (for the food, for the venue,
people automatically updated via anything you need for your for the flowers, for the
blog posts (and RSS), lets you w e d d i n g . I t h a s b e e n a n transportation, etc.). The
e a s i l y a d d s t a t i c p a g e s , i s invaluable resource for us while WeddingWire app can help you
infinitely customizable, and there planning our wedding, and we keep track of who needs to get
are already a slew of wedding like being able to support small paid, when, and how much. The
specific themes available for free business at the same time. Big Day
on the web. WordPress also has Etsy has a weddings category, All that planning is really the
iPhone and BlackBerry apps, so but branch out and search the rest hard part — or so I’m told — but
you can update your page on the of the site for the type of items there’s still a lot to do on the
go. In addition to a web site, I am you need. We’ve been able to find wedding day itself. My brother,
considering setting up a private everything from bridesmaid who was married five years ago
Twitter stream and Facebook dresses, to neckties for the and also took a do-it-yourself
Event page for guests, creating groomsmen, to wedding bands. approach, was actually up at 3
multiple channels for people to It should be clear by now: AM the night before the wedding
stay updated. planning a wedding is a mammoth assembling programs — I don’t
Of course the main reason for a undertaking (and ours is relatively want that to happen to me next
wedding web site is to tell people small at just over 100 guests). summer! So I’m trying to keep
what sort of presents to get you. Keeping track of all the details everything organized, and one
Right? Right. We considered can be difficult, but two tools are way I’m doing that is by using
going the traditional route and potentially invaluable for staying services like RememberTheMilk,
registering at stores like Crate & organized as the list of items you which offers to-do list apps for the
Barrel or Bed, Bath & Beyond — need to keep straight for the iPhone, Android, and other
and we probably will register at wedding grows larger. One of mobile devices so I (and my bride
one of those to accommodate for those resources is Backpack. -to-be) can keep the wedding day
older or less tech-savvy guests — Though initially designed for task list close at hand and make
but no store really completely business use, Backpack is a single sure everything gets done.
matched our taste or the small, but -page, wiki-style organizer that Because I’m a social media
eclectic list of things we’d like to can be amazingly useful for nerd, I’ve considered integrating
get as gifts. That’s why our keeping track of who is doing Twitter into my wedding
wedding web site will most likely what, what is left to do, and what reception. We’ll certainly have a
point to a Universal Wishlist from has already been accomplished. traditional paper guestbook that
Amazon, which allows users to Because Backpack pages can be
c r e a t e a c u s t o m r e g i s t r y shared, you can also use the app HOW page 30
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Paramount COO Shows FCC How To File Share, Blames Tech

Companies, Has FCC Hide Its Presentation
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) should not be placed online-- as Hollywood top execs still can't should Paramount's statement be Output Control proceeding(i.e.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:30:00 AM the FCC has done with all its figure out how to take advantage treated any differently? "We need to be granted the power
other hearings. Wow. Yes, this of it? • During the presentation, to shut off outputs on the back of
Last week, the FCC held what was a public government hearing. Mehan Jayasuriya points out the Huntsberry seems to suggest that your A/V gear, otherwise you will
was ostensibly a panel discussion Thankfully, the folks at Public many problems with the way the a number of legitimate technology unlawfully copy the films that we
about the National Broadband Knowledge went through a low FCC handled this whole event: companies, including Drop.io, broadcast via cable").
Plan, but which was actually quality video of the whole • Any presentation delivered at a Twitter, Google, Facebook, Not only did the FCC treat
focused on copyright issues. How, p r o c e e d i n g a n d p u l l e d o u t public government hearing should Apple, Boxee, Sony, LG, Yahoo!, Paramount's presentation with kid
exactly, is copyright an issue for Huntsberry's part, where he not be made available to the general PayPal and Rapidshare, are gloves, the agency also treated the
broadband? Well, mainly because only demonstrates how file public in a convenient format. Not arguably acting to enable or Hollywood execs preferentially
the entertainment industry has sharing works for the FCC, but everyone is able to travel to encourage unlawful filesharing. throughout the course of the
been trying for years to get ISPs goes on to implicate plenty of Washington D.C. for hearings and These companies and the users of workshop. Upon entering the
to act as copyright cops... and companies as aiding in the those who cannot should not be their products should have an room where the workshop was
apparently the FCC felt the need p r o c e s s , i n c l u d i n g G o o g l e , excluded--rather, they should be opportunity to respond to this held, attendees were greeted by a
to hear them out. While the deck Yahoo, eBay, Boxee and others: encouraged to participate in the allegation. massive vinyl banner--presumably
was mostly stacked in favor of the In the video, he demonstrates debate. The mission statement on • In the beginning of the clip, belonging to Paramount--on
entertainment industry in terms of using Mininova and Drop.io the Commission's new Huntsberry walks us through a which the aforementioned Star
speakers, thankfully the FCC (which is an amazingly useful site Broadband.gov site seems to timeline of when various Trek timeline was printed. While I
allowed Gigi Sohn of Public f o r m a n y t h i n g s t h a t h a v e agree: "A great way to create a camcorded copies of Star Trek appreciate the fact that a visual
Knowledge to take part as well -- absolutely nothing to do with connected America is to involve were leaked to the Internet. This aid can be helpful, I can't help but
and she questioned whether the unauthorized file sharing -- and is all Americans in the development timeline provides a great example feel like a PDF file submitted to
FCC even had any mandate over now being unfairly tarred by of a National Broadband Plan. of how widespread the problem of the record would have sufficed.
such issues and wondered why the Paramount). There isn't really The FCC welcomes civic camcording is, though it's worth But that's not all. Though these
hearing was even being held. anything surprising in the video. participation, and we look noting that camcording is already workshops were technically less
However, beyond stacking the He basically shows what everyone forward to more interaction illegal in most U.S. States and has procedural in nature than a formal
deck of speakers, it appears the knows: it's easy to share files through this website." If little relevance in the context of hearing would be, MPAA
FCC gave significant other these days. But he seems to miss Paramount was concerned that its this workshop (it's also worth Chairman and CEO Dan
b e n e f i c i a l t r e a t m e n t t o the point of that. That is, he wants video would encourage "piracy," noting that Star Trek made over Glickman was repeatedly allowed
entertainment industry speakers. the gov't to come in and try to then the company should not have $200 million at the box office to call his technical expert,
Paramount's COO, Frederick stop this (an impossibility), rather presented it at a public hearing. regardless of the fact that MovieLabs CEO Steve Weinstein,
Huntsberry, not only was given than recognizing that it's time for It's as simple as that. camcorded copies were available up to the stand to chime in with
twice the amount of time to speak him to shift his business model. • All of the other presentation within hours of its theatrical additional comments--even
as the rest of the speakers had (10 Yes, distribution is cheap and materials for all of the other release). This evidence that films though nothing he said was
minutes, instead of five, as Gigi e a s y t h e s e d a y s . I n m o s t workshops are available on the are commonly pirated while still actually technical in nature. The
was told), but also was able to businesses when distribution FCC's website, so that citizens can in theaters undermines many of Commission allowed Glickman to
convince the FCC that his talk becomes cheaper and easier, that's download, read, comment on, the arguments made by the
was"owned" by Paramount, and a good thing. Why is it that reference and critique them. Why studios in the FCC's Selectable PARAMOUNT page 35
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people can sign and we can keep
as a memento, but in an effort to
go geeky, I may attempt to use
Twitter to create a real-time
guestbook that anyone at the
wedding can contribute to and
see. The plan is to create a special
Twitter hashtag just for the
wedding (#catonewedding, for
example) and ask people to tweet
their thoughts, well-wishes, toasts,
or maybe even song requests
during the reception. Then, behind
the dance floor, we would project
the real-time stream of tweets
from wedding attendees using
Twitterfall, a laptop, and a
projector.
Another option in the same vein
is the Brightkite Wall, which ties
updates to location, supports SMS
(for those with older phones), and
can insert camera phone images
into the stream. I’ve been to
events utilizing the Brightkite
Wall, and it really is a lot of fun.
Of course, while not every
wedding needs tweets (though
they can’t hurt!), every wedding
does need music and photos. On
the music front, we’re planning to
use a laptop and iTunes playlists
rather than a band or DJ. It’s low
budget, but works well and allows
us to create separate playlists for
different parts of the evening (i.e.,
soft, background music for dinner,
upbeat dance tunes for after the
meal, and “Closing Time” by
Semisonic when we want
everyone to leave). At any time
during the reception, it will be
easy for someone from the
wedding party to man the laptop
to take requests.
One thing we won’t be able to
do due to a lack of wifi, is utilize
the Apple Remote iPhone app that
can hook into iTunes DJ and
allow anyone at your party to
browse your iTunes library from
their phone and make requests or
alter the playlist. That would have
been an awesome way to get
wedding guests involved in the
music decisions and out on the
dance floor, but the lack of wifi at
the old farmhouse we’re renting
for our wedding won’t make it
possible.
Update: Some commenters
point out that this should actually
work via a local area network —
no net access required. Good
point, and I’ll definitely look into
it!
Another thing a wedding needs
is pictures. We’ll be having some
of ours taken the old fashioned
way — by a wedding
photographer — but given that
everyone has a camera phone in
their pocket these days, we’re
anticipating that a lot of our
guests will be snapping photos.
We plan to invite everyone to
share the photos with us via
special, private albums on
Facebook and Flickr, and we may
even assemble our favorites into a
book using Blurb for any close
relatives that might want one (like
grandparents who may not even
own a computer, let alone know
how to view a private wedding
photo group on Flickr). The
Honeymoon
Just as important as the
wedding? The honeymoon. And
social media and web tools can be
just as helpful (or perhaps even
more helpful) in planning your
honeymoon. For ours, we’re
hoping to travel around Europe
for a couple of weeks, and though
our plans are still in their infancy,
one site that I know will be a huge
help to us is YourTour.
One thing that has always
frustrated me about most travel
booking sites on the web is that
booking a multi-leg trip that
requires travel between and
accommodations in more than one
city is a major hassle. The
recently-launched YouTour,
which right now works only for
France, allows visitors to easily
plan out multi-leg trips, including
transportation, hotels, and
activities in both circular or linear
itinerary patterns. Support for
more countries is reportedly
coming in the future, but even just
in planning the French leg of our
European honeymoon, YourTour
should prove extremely helpful.
Another site that I have on my
radar for honeymoon planning is
Stay.com, which lets users build
free, customized guide books that
highlight the specific places
you’re planning to visit — from
museums to restaurants. The site
supports a handful of major cities
right now, but has plans to
expand. In many ways, Stay.com
is similar to Offbeat Guides, a
service that automagically creates
travel guides based on your
itinerary with information gleaned
from around the web. In my
testing, though, the results from
Stay.com in the cities they support
was generally more relevant to
travelers. Though both sites could
do with a bit of polish (and each is
still under active development),
the concept of personalized travel
guides is a powerful one and as
the technology gets better,
services like Stay.com will
become must-haves for
globetrotters.
Of course, as mobile phones
become more powerful, the need
for paper guides will decrease.
There are a number of iPhone
travel tour applications already
available, such as those for a
select group of European locales
from travel writer Rick Steves(
iTunes link) that were featured in
a recent iPhone commercial.
Clearly, how to use social media
to plan a honeymoon could take
up an entire separate post, and I
am only just beginning to plan
mine. Please share any other
honeymoon planning apps, sites
and tips that you know of, as well
as any great social media
resources for wedding planning in
the comments below.
See also: HOW TO: Plan a
Wedding on the Web and
Comment Contest: What’s the
Most Romantic Thing You’ve
Seen on the Social Web?
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Frugalista! Frugalista!
Frugalista! Now...
Where's My Cease And
Desist?
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:38:00 AM
The term "frugalista" is
apparently quite popular, such
that the word has even been
defined by the Oxford English
Dictionary. There are a bunch of
bloggers who write about "frugal
living" who refer to themselves as
"frugalistas." It was a nice little
community... until a trademark
claim entered into the mess.
William alerts us to the news that
a blogger (who established her
blog long after the word was in
common usage) has trademarked
the term and is having her lawyer
send cease-and-desist letters to
other bloggers who refer to
themselves as frugalistas. A US
News reporter asked the woman's
lawyer how it could possibly
make sense that she could go after
people who used the term before
her client did, and the lawyer's
response was:"they all have to
stop now." Except... no. That's not
quite how trademark works. But,
once again, in a society where
people think they get to claim
ownership of whatever they want,
we end up in silly situations like
this. Hopefully the threatened
bloggers are able to stand up to
the bullying frugalista. Who knew
that living the frugalista lifestyle
included trademark infringement
suits?
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Future of mobile commerce, in a skinny vanilla latte?

By Caroline McCarthy text-message codes to redeem for Estimates vary on just how big customers outside of Silicon
(Webware.com) free drinks to the nascent pop-up the U.S. gift card industry is, but Valley and Seattle might not be
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:00:00 AM deals in geolocation app according to the Federal Reserve, seeing it any time soon.
Foursquare, are nothing new. And it's certainly well into the billions "We're really working on getting
Your decaf caramel macchiatos m o b i l e p a y m e n t s a r e and continues to grow. As for that (customer) feedback before
and no-whip pumpkin spice lattes commonplace in countries like Starbucks, already one in seven we put any long-term plans in
are going mobile. Japan and South Korea. In the transactions at the coffee chain future markets," Gillett said. "This
In a double-shot launch (sorry), U.S., they haven't caught on yet. involves its array of gift and really is a consumer-driven app in
coffee giant Starbucks unveiled But having a ubiquitous national loyalty cards, Gillett says. "We so many ways. This is an app that
late Tuesday its first two iPhone retailer like Starbucks in the game see a significant amount of our we need the customer experience
apps. The first one, called could change this. traffic represented by loyalty to have a very strong influence
MyStarbucks, is a no-brainer: you The barcode-based electronic cards of some sort," he said. on."
c a n u s e t h e p h o n e ' s G P S gift card from the new Starbucks And eliminating that need for a He was equally mum om
capability to find nearby stores iPhone app.(Credit: Starbucks) physical gift card is a pretty whether Starbucks Card Mobile
(previously, this was available via "We're really venturing into new obvious next step, especially if will offer advance mobile
text message), search ingredient w a t e r s i n t e r m s o f m o b i l e you've ever spent any time fishing ordering options or other potential
and calorie information for payment," Stephen Gillett, senior around for one in a handbag. features. "Again, we're really
Starbucks beverages, study coffee vice president of digital ventures The question is whether a new looking to this app hitting the real
bean varieties, and build virtual at Starbucks, said regarding the concept like barcode-based gift world before we lock in future
drinks to see what exactly would Starbucks Card Mobile app. cards can easily scale to a chain as functionalities," Gillett said.
be in one if you ordered it. "The mobile app is really the widespread as Starbucks. Mobile The same goes for taking the
But it's the second app, called powering of some of our most internally designated as test spots barcode systems have typically app beyond Apple's handset.
Starbucks Card Mobile, that could frequently used functions on (the for new Starbucks technology, been rolled out in far smaller Apple and Starbucks have a years
be worth a double-take. The app Starbucks card's Web site) and Gillett said. contexts--short-term advertising -long and complicated history
allows for balance check and our in-store activity in terms of "In some of these Seattle stores campaigns, for example, or encompassing both iTunes and
refilling of Starbucks gift cards, balance and payment and favorite we've tested store manager companies with far smaller reach AT&T wireless service, but a
which the company has expanded orders," Gillett said. The app was laptops, allowing them to get such as Equinox, a high-end gym mobile payment option ideally
into a customer loyalty program developed internally with some instant messaging, full access to e in a handful of U.S. cities that wouldn't be restricted to the
by offering discounts, free refills, help from third-party companies -mail, and conferencing," he said. recently began letting members iPhone.
and two hours of free Wi-Fi to like mobile billing start-up "These are some of the stores that check in with an iPhone-based "We are definitely interested in
c a r d h o l d e r s . A n d i n t w o mFoundry, he said. got the new AT&T Wi-Fi earlier." barcode. And while Starbucks has non-iPhone based platforms,
experimental test markets, the Unless you're geographically As a result, that means the been battered by the recession and particularly Windows and
S t a r b u c k s C a r d M o b i l e very lucky, you won't be able to integration process may be has closed several hundred stores Android and BlackBerry," Gillett
application can use a barcode to pay for a venti frappuccino with smoother for the test stores than it in the U.S., it still operates or said. "But at this point we're just
replace the plastic gift card your iPhone just yet. Only 16 would be for a random Starbucks licenses over 10,000 outlets in the really focused on the launch for
altogether. Starbucks outlets, eight in its elsewhere in the country. "The U . S . a n d t h o u s a n d s m o r e this."
As far as mobile e-commerce is home turf of Seattle and eight in store employees are used to o v e r s e a s . Originally posted at The Social
concerned, this could be a big Silicon Valley, can currently getting new kinds of technology, So Starbucks is taking a slow
deal. handle the barcode-based gift new kinds of services earlier than approach to mobile payment
Mobile retail promotions, from cards. These are stores already most markets," Gillett said. testing, which means that

New Study Reveals (Duh) Very Few People Will Pay For News Online
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) content online. In this case, only 50% of that 5%. At least. And yet,
Submitted at 9/23/2009 2:40:13 AM 5% said they'd pay for their industry folks still think that 15%
newspaper if it put up a paywall, will pay? Good luck...
We've been pointing this out for with most saying they'd find free Permalink| Comments| Email
ages, but a new survey once again alternatives instead. And, I'd This Story
confirms that very few people argue (as I have before) that even meaning that it's what people say they'd actually do. That means,
would be willing to pay for news that 5% is quite high. It's a survey, they would do, rather than what you can probably lop off at least
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Clearwire Supports Net
USB-IF to Palm: "Oh really? You've got some Neutrality? Does No
One Remember Its
explaining to do." History?
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
By Michael Jones (The USB-IF turned the tables, and
Unofficial Apple Weblog hinted that Palm itself may be in Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:22:52 AM

(TUAW)) violation of its own agreement

(emphasis added): How quickly people forget. With
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:45:00 AM
I attach for your information the the FCC's announcement about
Filed under: Hardware, iTunes, USB-IF's adopted and published support for net neutrality
Apple Didn't you hate it when you policy regarding Vendor legislation the PR and lobbying
were a kid, and you would Identification Numbers (VIDs). machines of the major telco and
complain to an adult about Under the Policy, Palm may only cable providers have cranked up,
something one of your siblings use the single Vendor ID issued to putting out all sorts of fear
was doing, just to end up getting Palm for Palm's usage. Usage of mongering letters and reports
yourself in more trouble than they any other company's Vendor ID is about the damage such a law will
ended up in? specifically precluded. Palm's do. There was one interesting
Well, you might say that's expressed intent to use Apple's exception. Some noticed that
exactly what is happening to Palm VID appears to violate the wireless broadband provider
and the ongoing dispute with attached policy. Clearwire appeared to support the
Apple over the Pre's ability to Please clarify Palm's intent and FCC's position(though, I'd argue
sync with iTunes. The company respond to this potential violation that the statement's wording is a
has landed itself in some hot within seven days. bit vague). While the article at
water after drawing the attention Vendor ID (VID) contrary to the simply identifying the device as What's next for Palm? Will the Moconews suggests this "isn't
o f t h e U S B I m p l e m e n t e r s USB-IF's policies... Therefore, an iPod that was made by Palm, to company finally decide to work surprising," I'm wondering how
Forum(USB-IF) by filing a under present USB-IF policies, actually using Apple's assigned something out with Apple? Will everyone seems to have forgotten
complaint against Apple for the USB-IF does not consider the U S B v e n d o r i d e n t i f i e r s t o Palm start embedding USB chips that Clearwire, in the past, was
violating "the letter and spirit of alleged use, without more, to be completely masquerade as a true out of refurbished iPhones so that one of the most aggressive
t h e U S B - I F M e m b e r s h i p 'improper.'" To summarize, the Apple iPod. it isn't technically misreporting broadband providers to support a
Agreement," which is "intended to USB-IF does not believe that non neutral network. A few years
Perhaps even more startling, the device's identity? Only time back, it was blocking VoIP and
facilitate interoperability between Apple is in violation of the h o w e v e r , i s t h a t P a l m i s will tell, and in the meantime, at
USB devices." streaming media and proudly
a g r e e m e n t , b a s e d o n t h e completely open about the whole least we can look back and say promised to block any type of
What that's referring to, of information provided in Palm's process, even going as far as "Palm, we told you so."
course, are Apple's repeated complaint. What is interesting detailing the workaround in the TUAW USB-IF to Palm: "Oh traffic or application it didn't like.
attempts to block the Palm Pre with this chain of events is how complaint to the USB-IF, saying r e a l l y ? Y o u ' v e g o t s o m e It also tried to get VoIP providers
from syncing with iTunes. The Palm continues to shoot itself in "Palm will shortly issue an update explaining to do." originally to get "certified" before promising
whole question of whether or not the foot trying to find a resolution. of its WebOS operating system appeared on The Unofficial Apple they could work on Clearwire's
Apple is in the wrong by doing so Rather than work out a deal with that uses Apple's Vendor ID Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep network. Of course, plenty can
is entirely debatable, but the USB- A p p l e o r w r i t e a c u s t o m number for the sole purpose of 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see change in a few years, but it's
IF seems to be of the opinion that a p p l i c a t i o n t o l e g i t i m a t e l y restoring the Palm media sync our terms for use of feeds. quite noteworthy that Clearwire
Apple is following the letter of the communicate with iTunes, Palm functionality." Although openness Read| Permalink| Email this| may have changed its tune on net
law: neutrality entirely.
has chosen the sly path of is usually a good thing, it seems Comments Permalink| Comments| Email
"In the view of the USB-IF, attempting to trick iTunes into that Palm may have encountered
Palm's allegation (if true) does not working with the Pre, first by too much of a good thing: the This Story
establish that Apple is using its
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Parties seek Google Books hearing First Look: Best Camera

delay; new deal brewing App for iPhone
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) scan those books, raising By Steven Sande (The
Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:42:00 PM anticompetitive fears and Unofficial Apple Weblog
provoking strong opposition from (TUAW))
Updated 2:18 p.m. PDT with authors, academics, privacy Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:00:00 PM
comment from Google. advocates, and some libraries.
The parties involved in the Judge Chin had been scheduled Filed under: iPhone, App Store,
Google Book Search settlement to decide whether or not the App Review The first thing I
have asked a federal court to settlement should go forward in a normally do when someone
postpone an October hearing to hearing at the U.S. District Court names their application "The
approve the proposed settlement for the Southern District of New Best..." is roll my eyes and delete
while they work out a new deal. g r o u p o f c o m p a n i e s a n d York. The parties asked for a the PR email. However, when I
When the Department of Justice organizations opposed to the November 9 status conference to saw a press release about the Best
made it clear last Friday that it settlement, declared victory. discuss the modifications they Camera app for iPhone, I decided
could not support the settlement "This is a huge victory for the plan to make to the settlement. to take a look and I'm glad I did.
as written--which would give many people and organizations It's not clear whether Judge Best Camera[ iTunes link] is a
Google unique rights to scan out- who raised significant concerns Chin will automatically approve collaboration between
of-print books still protected by that this settlement did not serve the request. He could still hold the professional photographer Chase
copyright law--it said the parties t h e p u b l i c i n t e r e s t , s t i f l e d hearing as scheduled and make Jarvis and iPhone dev firm
were in talks to amend the i n n o v a t i o n , a n d r e s t r i c t e d his own decision about whether or Übermind. The app gets its name
settlement. In a joint brief ( click competition. It's also an enormous not to approve the settlement, from Jarvis's book "The Best
for PDF), lawyers the Authors loss for Google, which had been although that seems highly Camera is The One That's With
G u i l d , t h e A s s o c i a t i o n o f saying for months that no changes u n l i k e l y g i v e n t h e r e c e n t You," a collection of photos taken changing photo wall. These
American Publishers, and others were necessary to the settlement. developments, especially the all over the world by Jarvis with photos are also viewable in the
asked Judge Denny Chin to delay Now, that settlement, as we know involvement of the DOJ. his iPhone. app itself, and by tapping a photo
a hearing on whether to approve it, is dead," the alliance said in a It's likewise not clear what types The US$2.99 app features 14 in either location, you can view
the settlement while the parties blog post Friday. of modifications to the deal are useful filters and effects that can information about the
work out the new terms of the photographer. On the website, the
In a statement, Google has this being discussed. The DOJ's main be stacked; in other words, you
information also includes a list of
settlement with the DOJ. to say: "The plaintiffs moved for objection to the deal was that "the can take a photo with the iPhone
"Because the parties, after an adjournment of the final Proposed Settlement seeks to camera, then apply several filters the filers or effects that were used
consultation with the DOJ, have Fairness Hearing, currently implement a forward-looking and/or effects before sharing your on the original photo so you can
determined that the Settlement scheduled for October 7. We are business arrangement rather than handiwork. The filters and effects re-create photos that you find
Agreement that was approved considering the points raised by a settlement of past conduct," are on a side-scrolling "dock" at fascinating.
preliminarily in November 2008 the Department of Justice and which is not what class-action the bottom of the screen, and you Check out the gallery below for
will be amended, plaintiffs others, and we look forward to suits are designed to do, it said in apply them by simply tapping on some screenshots of the Best
respectfully submit that the addressing them as the court a filing with the court last Friday. the icons. Sharing includes saving Camera app in action.
Fairness Hearing should not be proceedings continue." It is also concerned about the photo on your iPhone camera Gallery: Best Camera App
held, as scheduled, on October 7," TUAW First Look: Best
The parties had originally potential violations of antitrust roll, sending it out via email, or
Camera App for iPhone originally
the plaintiffs in the case said in a settled in October 2008, ending a law, concerns that Google has blasting it to your Facebook or
briefing. They said Google had dispute over Google's legal right grown accustomed to hearing with Twitter account. appeared on The Unofficial Apple
given them permission to indicate to scan copyright protected out-of mounting government scrutiny There's also one more place to Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 22 Sep
that the company was not opposed -print books. But the settlement this year. share your photo. While filters 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see
to the motion. Originally posted at Relevant and effects are nothing new, our terms for use of feeds.
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Bored? Goby helps you find things to MeetMe makes meeting

do up easier
By Josh Lowensohn But it's not going to be like that By Sang Tang (The Unofficial
(Webware.com) forever. Goby's CEO Mark Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:01:00 PM Watkins tells me that there will Submitted at 9/22/2009 8:00:00 PM
eventually be review links from
New search engine Goby is places like Yelp, as well as Filed under: App Store, App
launching Tuesday night, and mentions on places like Facebook Review
unlike Microsoft's Bing, or "beers" into its food and drink and Twitter--something that Pam recently moved to New
Hunch, Goby really is a "decision category, along with providing should give results some social York City to attend art school in
engine"--enabling users to very other category suggestions like flavor. For now at least, you're pursuit of her life long dream of
quickly find something to do "beer tastings", "breweries" and going to have to hoof it over to becoming an artist. Unfortunately,
nearby or in a far away place. "bars and pubs." Yelp, CitySearch, or some other this puts 120 or so miles between
Its task-centric search tool is You tell Goby what you want to local reviews place to get ratings Pam and her boyfriend, Jim, who
comprised of three boxes--a do and where you want to do it, and reviews for restaurants and happens to live in Scranton,
"what," "where," and "when." and it searches the Web to find other local businesses. Pennsylvania. Despite the
You just tell it what you want to e v e n t s a n d h a p p e n i n g Other things on the way include distance between them, they
do and where you want to do it, as p l a c e s . ( C r e d i t : C N E T ) a personal search history, which manage to visit each other
well as some general date (or no Along with helping users fill out will let users save their queries for frequently -- often times at rest
date at all), and it goes through its the beginnings of a search query, future searches that will show stops centrally located between
index to find you places or it also does a decent job at letting updated results based on date and the two cities. Obviously, finding
activities that match up with those them whittle down the results. For index changes. The company is new and different places for the
simple parameters. Oftentimes instance, if you want to limit the also working on an iPhone app two to meet may prove trying, as
this results in it finding events that results to a specific area, you can that will be able to automatically it would be for many in a similar vendor to both Points A and B, so
fall during the time period you just grab a pin from the map that fill out the "where" field based on situation. But, fortunately for you'll know who's really driving
originally selected, which is a sits on the right of the results the user's location, however this iPhone owners in similar shoes, more.
pretty neat trick for a search page, and it filters points of and the personal search history there's MeetMe[ iTunes link]. While the shortest distance
engine and potentially a huge time interest down to that vicinity. You will not be immediately available MeetMe provides meeting points between two points is a straight
saver if you're using it for can also restart a search query on launch. of interest between two points. line, your choice of what to do
vacation or business travel search. within one or more genres just by See also Diddit, a service that For MeetMe, these two points once you get there ought not be as
The tool does many things to clicking on their check boxes. launched back in February, that are Points A and B. In either one, straight and narrow. Fortunately,
help you fill out its three search One thing it's missing though helps people make lists of things you can choose to use your MeetMe may present you some
boxes quickly, and get straight to (and it's a biggie) is a way to tell to do, as well as discover local current location, use an address more options. MeetMe is
the results. For one, it offers up you how good any of these places lists made by others. There's also from your iPhone's contacts, or available at in the App Store for
suggestions as you type. You can are. If you're used to hitting Yelp Yahoo-owned Upcoming, which enter an address manually. After $1.99.
also cruise through a nested to hunt for a new place to eat, or provides local events and venues settling on the locations of both TUAW MeetMe makes meeting
folders of activities in its index for something fun to do on the listings. Points A and B, tapping the up easier originally appeared on
suggestions. In my case, it did a weekend, Goby doesn't offer any Originally posted at Web "places to meet" button provides a The Unofficial Apple Weblog
spot-on job at turning "tomorrow" kind of social-rating system or Crawler list of places to meet by category (TUAW) on Tue, 22 Sep 2009
into in real date. It also rolled tools of its own. and subcategory, for which 20:00:00 EST. Please see our
vendor ratings and reviews are terms for use of feeds.
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Swift.fm: Easy Music Sharing on Ask TUAW: Target disk

Twitter mode, energy saver prefs,
By Christina Warren
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:49:08 AM
more users sign up for the service.
Still, even it its early form, I like
the direction that Swift.fm is
iTunes sharing and more
going in and I like its approach to By Chris Ullrich (The Unofficial the slot-loading drive. I tried the
This post is part of Mashable’s discovering and sharing tracks Apple Weblog (TUAW)) tricks I know like Open Firmware
Spark of Genius series, which using Twitter. Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:00:00 AM (gives me a weird error) and
highlights a unique feature of Do you share music over holding in the mouse button (I
startups. If you would like to have Filed under: Software, iTunes, hear the drive spin up but nothing
Twitter? If so, what service(s) do iWork, Ask TUAW Welcome
your startup considered for you use? Spark of Genius Series else happens). I have a newer G4
inclusion, please see the details back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Quicksilver. Will it be able to
Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark Mac troubleshooting Q&A
here. The series is made possible BizSpark is a startup program boot up into Target Disk Mode
With Swift.fm, you can not only column. This week we've got even though the filesystem is
by Microsoft BizSpark. search Swift for tracks to play and that gives you three-year access to
Name: Swift.fm questions about target disk mode, damaged? (Then I can try to
share with friends, you can upload the latest Microsoft development energy saver prefs, Safari file repair with Disk Utility or
Quick Pitch: Swift.fm is a new, your own MP3s (up to 10MB in tools, as well as connecting you to
free service that leverages Twitter size) to share. That’s really nice, a nationwide network of investors issues, iTunes album artwork, reinstall from there) or will it fail
to let users discover music from and it adds a Tumblr-esque and incubators. There are no iTunes sharing and more. like a normal boot does?
f o l k s t h e y ’ r e f o l l o w i n g o n simplicity to sharing those upfront costs, so if your business As always, your suggestions and Continue reading Ask TUAW:
Twitter. questions are welcome. Questions Target disk mode, energy saver
obscure tracks that might not exist is privately owned, less than three for next week should be left in the prefs, iTunes sharing and more
Genius Idea: Think of Swift.fm in iMEEM. years old, and generates less than
as a friend-powered Pandora. comments. When asking a TUAW Ask TUAW: Target
What I like about Swift.fm is U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, question please include which disk mode, energy saver prefs,
Users can share music tracks with how smoothly it integrates into you can sign up today.
friends by either tweeting in a Twitter. You sign in using OAuth, machine you're running and iTunes sharing and more
Entrepreneurs can take which version of Mac OS X(we'll
special format or uploading a no other account stuff needed, you advantage of the Azure Services originally appeared on The
t r a c k d i r e c t l y t h r o u g h t h e can tweet from the site or use a platform for their website hosting assume you're running Leopard Unofficial Apple Weblog
Swift.fm site. Swift.fm also takes special syntax to tweet from your and storage needs. Microsoft on an Intel Mac if you don't (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009
all the songs your friends “swift” favorite Twitter client. You can recently announced the“new specify). And now, on to the 11:00:00 EST. Please see our
and turns it into a custom radio also monitor Swift.fm mentions CloudApp()” contest– use the questions. terms for use of feeds.
station. computergeeksjw asks: Read| Permalink| Email this|
and tag songs as favorites so you Azure Services Platform for I have an old iMac Blue G3. Comments
Services like Blip.fm are great can play them back again, as well hosting your .NET or PHP app,
on their own, and integrate well as retweet songs you like that you and you could be the lucky winner The fliesystem failed, but I can't
into Twitter, but you are often see in your Swiftlist (basically a of a USD 5000* ( please see reformat because there is a disc in
l i m i t e d b y w h a t s o n g s a r e listing of what people you follow website for official rules and
available on Blip’s servers. This is are also listening to) or that you guidelines).” Reviews: BLIP,
actually a problem for most of the find via search. Blip.fm, PHP, Pandora, Tumblr,
services that offer music sharing The service is still in beta and Twitter
via Twitter— you are limited to the real Pandora-esque attributes Tags: blip, music sharing,
what online streaming libraries won’t really be apparent until swift.fm, twitter
those tools access.
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do this so many times that and Disney Vice President Troy engage in this kind of behavior. FCC's mandate that it has any say
Weinstein also started calling D. Dow. Perhaps I'm being overly And, again, uh.... what does in copyright policy?
others from the audience up to the cynical but I doubt that the copyright have to do with Permalink| Comments| Email
stand, including Disney Executive Commission would have allowed broadband policy in the first This Story
Vice President Preston Padden any of the other panelists to place? And where is it in the
36 Tech/ Internet News Record

Latest Thunderbird rolls search changes

By Seth Rosenblatt change your folder view until Windows users should also find
(Webware.com) you're looking at the one you that Thunderbird results will now
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:01:00 PM prefer. Thunderbird will appear when search in Windows
remember your last setting, so Vista and Windows 7, while Mac
Mozilla released a major update when you restart it won't jump users will find Growl notification
Tuesday to the beta build of its back to the smart folder setting. If support for new e-mails,
d e s k t o p e - m a i l c l i e n t you have multiple e-mail integration with the Mac OS X
Thunderbird, debuting a new accounts, though, this should address book, and support for
search feature, "smart" folders, an make managing your e-mail Mail.app. Beta 4 doesn't support
activity manager for monitoring stream much easier. legacy versions of Windows prior
communication with your mail Apparently, there was a lot of to Windows 2000 or Mac OS X
s e r v e r , a n d b e t t e r G m a i l code that was overhauled in this 10.3 and older.
integration among the list of fourth beta and that might explain Thunderbird 3 beta 4 supports
improvements. Thunderbird 3 why my default button bar and the nightly builds of the
beta 4 is available for Windows, toolbar settings reverted to calendaring plug-in Lightning, but
Mac, and Linux. normal. It might also have been many other add-ons are likely to
Search results in the new beta because of the introduction of the break until their publishers release
open in their open tab, and are new search bar, which defaults to compatibility updates. The full list
filterable.(Credit: Screenshot by a significant chunk of window by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) appeared spotty at times. Searches of Thunder 3 beta 4 changes can
Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) space. The global search bar I found the new search to work d o p r o d u c e a n i f t y c h a r t , be read here.
T h e s m a r t f o l d e r v i e w features auto-complete as well as well, opening the results in a new accessible by clicking on the blue Originally posted at The
condenses your various in-boxes more robust filtering tools for tab, although occasionally bar graph at the top of the search Download Blog
into one gestalt in-box, but it's narrowing down a broad search narrowing down results did not results, that's good for numbers
easy to switch back to the quickly. produce the desired result of junkies who want to see how
traditional view if you don't like Thunderbird 3 beta 4 introduces fewer e-mails in the results often that particular search term
it. In the folders pane, use the left tighter folder integration for window. Searching by tags also shows up.
and right arrows at the top right to Gmail users.(Credit: Screenshot

Accordance: powerful Bible study software, only for the Mac

By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Software, Reviews
"I switched to the Mac to use
this!" might be the highest praise
a Mac developer could ever hope
to hear. Switching platforms
means not just buying a new
computer, but also buying a bunch
of new software. There are
probably only a handful of
applications that merit changing
platforms all on their own, but
Accordance Bible Software is one
of them. Accordance isn't just
widely respected within the Mac
world, it's widely respected within
the entire scriptural research
software universe. Bible Software
Review wrote:"Anyone who
knows a little bit about Bible
software has heard of
Accordance."
The current version is
compatible with Snow Leopard,
and yet still runs on System 7.5!
This is the first time I've seen a
Mac application vendor talk about
running Mac software in
emulation rather than the other
way around. Accordance is
proudly Mac-only, suggesting to
users that once they have
switched to Mac they shouldn't
put up with "Windows software"
on their Macs, and offering
crossgrades for those who have
made the switch.
Being first is nice, but once
other companies have come into
the market, it doesn't take long to
forget who was first and start to
compare based on which features
each product provides.
Fortunately, Accordance has a lot
to offer. There are a wide variety
of packages available, ranging
from $49 to several thousand
dollars, depending on the library
options. Like other Bible software
programs, you are buying two
parts: first, the app itself; second,
items for your library, such as
commentaries, different
translations of the Bible, maps,
and so forth. Most users should
expect to make an initial
investment of at least $100,
perhaps $200-$300, but those
purchases will almost certainly
reflect savings over buying the
printed versions.
Continue reading Accordance:
powerful Bible study software,
only for the Mac
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Bible study software, only for the
Mac originally appeared on The
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(TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009
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Spread The Word on

Twitter, Get a Free MP3
From Jack Johnson’s
New Album
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 1:47:32 AM

Jack Johnson, the author of

many mellow melodies that’ll
make you want to stay in bed all
day, has figured out a really cool
way to promote his new live
album on Twitter.
It’s really simple: just head on
to twitter.jackjohnsonmusic.com.
There’s a premade Twitter
message there (you can add 24
more characters if you like) that
promotes the new album, titled En
Google Toolbar adds comments with Sidewiki Concert, and all you need to do is
login into your Twitter account
and send it. The download of the
By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) This idea has been tried before by comment's usefulness. or clarify static Web pages that
others, but Google is proposing to You can share your comments don't allow reviews or comments promised tune (it’s a 192 kbps
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:25:00 AM
use an algorithm to rank with your Facebook or Twitter directly on the page. MP3) will start automatically.
Sidewiki--shown on the left- comments by quality and to link accounts, and can post a link to a Google Toolbar is available for This is probably one of the
hand side of this page--lets comments to a user's Google blog item discussing that Web Internet Explorer and Firefox, and simplest and best examples of
G o o g l e T o o l b a r u s e r s a d d Profile. page with a snippet of the text, you'll need to download the how a musician can promote his
comments to any Web Google has developed an Sengupta said. Only Google toolbar to get started with work via Twitter, because
page.(Credit: Google) algorithm that it says can filter out Toolbar users will be able to see Sidewiki. Current Google Toolbar everyone wins: you get a free
Google plans to try its hand at obvious spam, naughty words, the comments on the Web page, users will see the Sidewiki button song off the new album, and Jack
t h e b a n e o f m a n y a W e b and the classic all-caps technique obviously, but Google plans to shortly as Google works out a few Johnson will probably get a free
publisher's existence: comment e m p l o y e d b y s o m e o f t h e work on an API (application kinks in the delivery process, but Twitter trend and lots of good
moderation. Internet's more unhinged pundits, programming interface) that will they can re-download the toolbar vibes. Reviews: Twitter
Sidewiki is a new addition to said Caesar Sengupta, group allow developers to use Sidewiki if they want to get started. Tags: Jack Johnson, promotion,
the Google Toolbar that will let product manager at Google. As in other places. Originally posted at Relevant twitter
users read comments on any Web comments build over time, a This kind of service will likely Results
site and add their own in a special recursive algorithm can analyze sink or swim on the strength of its
interface on the left hand side of the quality of past comments ranking algorithms, but could give
the screen enabled by the toolbar. u s i n g r e a d e r v o t e s o n t h e readers a way to discuss, correct,
38 Tech/
Sidewiki: Google’s Newest Attempt to Make the
Browser Social
By Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:44:37 AM
Google’s taking a stab at making
web browsing social. And in
classic Google fashion, it’s
turning to algorithms to do it.
The company has announced
and launched a new project,
Google Sidewiki, a Firefox and
Internet Explorer add-on (Chrome
support is in the works) that adds
a sidebar for commenting on
websites across the web.
Users with the plug-in installed
can add their own opinions to the
discussion of specific web pages.
While there are a range of
products that already do this sort
of thing, Google differentiates
with its algorithm.
Point of Wealth: The reverse ATM
By Rafe Needleman
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:14:00 PM
Point of Wealth co-founder
David Prehn (left) pitches to USA
Today writer Ed Baig. The POW
system lets employees who are
paid in cash deposit their money,
pay bills, and top off pre-paid
credit cards.(Credit: Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
At DemoFall 2009, one of the
few hardware companies
launching is Point of Wealth,
which makes a bank machine. It's
like an ATM, but in reverse: You
can only put cash in, not get it out.
The kiosk is designed to be
placed in businesses where
Google’s explanation of the
technology is actually quite
succinct, so here is their
explanation on the Google Blog:
“In developing Sidewiki, we
wanted to make sure that you’ll
see the most relevant entries first.
employees are paid mostly in
cash. The idea is that the
employees, when they're paid, can
then deposit their cash in the
machine and distribute it as they
wish -- to pay bills, put money
into IRAs, or top off debit cards
We worked hard from the
beginning to figure out which
ones should appear on top and
how to best order them. So
instead of displaying the most
recent entries first, we rank
Sidewiki entries using an
for use later. Of course they can
keep whatever cash they want in
their pocket, too.
CEO and bar owner Doug
Lindstrom told me that the kiosk
can also be used by business
owners to pay their employees, by
algorithm that promotes the most
useful, high-quality entries. It
takes into account feedback from
you and other users, previous
entries made by the same author
and many other signals we
developed.”
Let’s be clear: this is not a new
idea. There are a ton of players in
this space ( AddATweet and
Kutano come to mind), but with
Google’s reach, the results could
be different. Here’s a video
further explaining the project:
What do you think? Is this a tool
you’ll use or a waste of Google’s
resources? Let us know in the
comments. Reviews: Chrome,
Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer
Tags: Google, Sidewiki
transferring funds from their bank
account to their employees' pre-
paid debit card accounts.
Full-service ATMs do many of
the same things, but they
generally don't serve the
"unbanked," like this business
does. Point of Wealth is a very
solid concept with a strong
business model: The machines are
free to the establishments that
install them, and Point of Wealth
takes small fees for each
transaction.
Originally posted at Rafe's
Radar
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Having ISPs Fight
Piracy Could Cost More
Than Claimed 'Losses'
From Piracy
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:10:00 AM
While I'm sure defenders of
kicking people off the internet
will quibble with the numbers,
ISPs are pointing out that the cost
of implementing Lord
Mandelson's plan to have ISPs
police the internet for file sharing,
will cost the industry significantly
more than the music industry
claims it's losing to "piracy." Even
if you accept that the ISPs may be
exaggerating the cost, we already
know for a fact that BPI
massively exaggerates its loss
numbers. So if you cut back the
ISP estimates significantly, the
overall cost is still likely to be
much higher. Meanwhile, we're
still waiting for anyone to explain
how kicking people off the
internet gets more people to buy
stuff. It's difficult to see how
anyone could support this plan if
they've actually put more than two
seconds into thinking about it.
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An Onslaught of Windows
Mobile 6.5 Phones Coming
Before Year’s End
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:59:48 AM
In May of this year, we wrote
that Google expects around 18
Android-based handsets to be
released before the end of 2009,
and it seemed like quite a lot.
Now, Microsoft is stepping up to
the challenge.
According to Benjamin Tan,
senior director of the GCR Mobile
Team Unit at Microsoft China,
over 30 smartphones running on
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5
will be launched this year, by as
many as 15 different vendors.
Given the fact that Windows
Mobile 6.5 is not even available
yet(the first devices based on the
OS will appear on the 6th of
October), this sounds like a bold
prediction, but Microsoft has
obviously managed to get great
support from manufacturers for
their new mobile platform.
Unreleased Michael Jackson Song to
be Revealed
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:58:00 AM
The first new Michael Jackson
song since his tragic death is set
to be unveiled -- and ET has the
single's release date.
On October 12, Jackson's brand
new song "This Is It" will be
revealed followed by a two-disc
album to come at a later date. The
album, also titled This Is It, will
be released internationally on Oct.
Tech/ Entertainment/ 39
VIDEO: Drug Raid
Turns Into a
Loooong Wii Session
By Stan Schroeder
Manufacturers that will be (Mashable!)
offering a Windows Mobile 6.5 Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:37:06 AM
phone this year are HTC, Acer,
When they say the Wii is
Samsung Electronics, LG addictive, they don’t necessarily
Electronics, Sony Ericsson,
mean “so addictive that policemen
Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard. On the
telecom end of the spectrum, we
can expect WinMo 6.5 phones
Courier new? Gizmodo posts will forget they’re on a drug raid
and start playing Wii”, but now
from AT&T, Sprint Nextel,
Verizon Wireless, Orange, T-
alleged pics and video of MS we have video proof that this is
exactly the case.
The amazing fact about this
Mobile, Vodafone, NTT
DoCoMO, Softbank Mobile, Tablet video, taken by a home security
system, is the length of the Wii
SKT, Telstra and Telus. By Sang Tang (The Unofficial addition, Courier is said to include s e s s i o n t h a t e n s u e s . T h e
Tags: Mobile 2.0, smartphones, Apple Weblog (TUAW))
a camera on its back cover. policemen are completely taken
Windows Mobile 6.5 Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:45:00 AM According to Giz, J. Allard, by a game of Bowling, and they
Microsoft's "Chief Experience keep on playing for about nine
Filed under: Rumors Officer," is heading the Courier hours. And I consider myself a
According to the Wall Street project, which is said to be in late gamer, with my puny 5-hour
Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs prototype stage. sessions. See the video, bound to
has been focusing almost all of his Readers, tell us what you think. become an instant YouTube hit,
attention on the company's Apple allegiances aside, what do after the break.
26 and in North America on Oct. purported tablet-like device, you think of Courier? From what we can see in the
27. The two-disc set features which is said to be under his TUAW Courier new? Gizmodo video, the policemen actually get
m u s i c i n s p i r e d f r o m t h e Jobsness's fine eye to detail. And posts alleged pics and video of pretty good at the game. That’s
documentary of the same name. i f G i z m o d o ' s d e t a i l s o f MS Tablet originally appeared on what 9 hours of practice does to
The first disc will include Microsoft's Courier are the real The Unofficial Apple Weblog y o u r W i i B o w l i n g s k i l l s .
original masters of some of deal, then it looks like Steve Jobs (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 R e v i e w s : Y o u T u b e
Jackson's biggest songs arranged and Apple won't be alone at the 08:45:00 EST. Please see our Tags: police, video, Wii
as they would be in the film, touchscreen tablet ball. Courier terms for use of feeds.
while the second disc will be will purportedly sport dual 7 inch- Permalink| Email this|
comprised of unreleased versions "ish" multitouch screens, with C o m m e n t s
of some of the King of Pop's support for "writing, flicking and
classic songs. drawing with a stylus." In
40 Tech News/ Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

Machine Vision on the Horizon: Vitamin D

Launches Object Recognition for Video
By Jolie O'Dell zero configuration and a simple demo packages, developed in
(ReadWriteWeb) rules wizard that sets up conjunction with Vitamin D.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:00:00 AM notifications for specific events. The demos show small video Quickly Scan Your
Ultimately, Vitamin D Video clips being processed in real time Gmail Spam for Missed
A 2-year-old Silicon Valley could eliminate the need for for machine recognition of
startup is working on technology humans to stuff text-based data humans in video, even in low Messages [Spam]
to solve the problems of machine around their videos. "Vitamin D light, in crowded environments, By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
v i s i o n . T h e i r n e w p r o d u c t , envisions a near future in which and in environments with multiple
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:00:00 AM
launching today at DEMO, will all the world's video can be moving objects.
lay the foundation for true video searched, monitored, understood, It is important to note that HTM Gmail's spam filter is good, but
search, wherein software will and reacted to in more automated generation of artificial
intelligence, or more specifically, systems are trained rather than not perfect. If you've got a
learn, recognize, and understand ways," company rep Allen Bush programmed in the traditional sneaking suspicion there might be
patterns and take subsequent wrote to us in an email. "If enabling computers to recognize,
learn, and understand patterns in sense. According to the Numenta a false positive, shoulda-seen-it
actions rather than relying on computers could understand video website, "Sensory data is applied email trapped in your Spam bin,
m a c h i n e - r e a d a b l e t a g s a n d content without having to be told massive amounts of data. Their
HTM platform, the foundation for to the bottom of the hierarchy of the Digital Inspiration blog
metadata. by humans, many disruptive an HTM system, and the HTM suggests a quick search to find it.
In its current form, Vitamin D applications would surface." Vitamin D's app, is also
applicable to a broad class of automatically discovers the Using a combination of Gmail's
Video is targeted for video This application will be underlying patterns in the sensory search operators and "OR"
analytics and monitoring, but the available to any user with a other problems, from machine
vision to fraud detection to input. HTMs learn what objects or combinations, Amit Agarwal
underlying technology, called simple webcam or IP camera and movements are in the world and suggests a quick search that runs
Hierarchical Temporal Memory, will be free throughout the beta semantic analysis of text. HTM is
based on a theory of neocortex how to recognize them, just as a through your Gmail spam to find
or HTM, is modeled on the testing period. Vitamin D sees the child learns to identify new any messages directly address to
human neocortex and is the stuff app as particularly useful for first described in Hawkins' book
On Intelligence and was objects." you that don't start with "DEAR
of AI-yet-to-come. video surveillance and security as Vitamin D CEO Celeste SIR/MADAM." Head up to the
Sponsor subsequently turned into a
well as mobile capture and mathematical form by Numenta Baranski said, "We've witnessed search bar (or tap the / shortcut)
Vitamin D, founded by some of lookup, contextual advertising, the incredible growth and and enter a personalized version
the key UX, engineering, and entertainment, and general visual co-founder Dileep George.
Other HTM-based applications importance of searching text- of this string:
marketing folks behind the search. Interested parties can based content. But we're still in in:spam to:me "Hello Kevin"
original Palm and Treo products, check out their demo. solve such problems as
recognizing objects in images, the dark ages when it comes to OR "Hi Kevin" OR "Dear Kevin"
tells us that their video application The company is based in Menlo finding things in video... There is OR "Hey Kevin"
can distinguish between people Park and has received small recognizing behaviors in videos,
identifying the gender of a a clear need for a better way to I added the "Hey" greeting to
and other objects in live or amounts of angel funding from detect, recognize, and filter Amit's suggestion, because I find
archived video in ways that no investors that include HTC CEO speaker, predicting traffic
patterns, doing optical character objects. Vitamin D Video is the a lot of email senders using that
other system can, not even the Peter Chou. first of many smart applications informal intro more and more
highest enterprise-grade analytics recognition on messy text,
In 2005, Jeff Hawkins, Palm evaluating medical images, and that will unlock the value inside these days.
and monitoring technologies. Computing founder and brain video across a broad range of Hit the link for Amit's
It condenses enormous amounts researcher, founded a company predicting click through patterns
on the web. Check out some consumer and business explanation of how this string
of video into distinct and valuable called Numenta. Numenta's HTM applications." Discuss works, and how you can expand it
events very quickly. It also has technology is focused on a new sample applications and their
to catch more missed messages,
and leave your own spam-
reclaiming search suggestions in
the comments. Scan the Junk
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Report: The Future of RFID Smart
Cards Looks Bright
By Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:00:00 AM
This post is sponsored by IBM's
A Smarter Planet blog, where it
has also been cross-posted.
In recent posts we've looked at
three of the world's leading RFID-
powered Smart Cards: Japan's
cutting edge Suica Card, London's
Oyster Card and Hong Kong's
long-running Octopus Card. The
most conservative of those three,
the Oyster card, can only be used
on London's public transport
system. However that alone is a
huge mainstream market for RFID
chips. What's more interesting
though is how Smart Cards are
being used in Japan and Hong
Kong.
Sponsor
In both countries the cards (and
other devices, such as phones and
watches) may be used to purchase
goods from selected shops. It's
more pervasive in Hong Kong,
where the Octopus can be used at
more than 1,000 merchants.
Furthermore, in Hong Kong the
card can be used as an access
device for places like apartment
Mackenzie Phillips Says She Had Sexual Relationship with
Father
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:16:00 AM
Former "One Day at a Time"
child star Mackenzie Phillips
opened up to Oprah Winfrey
about her alleged incestuous
relationship with her father, The
buildings and schools.
Hong Kong is leading the way
in the use of smart cards, but how
is the overall RFID smart card
market tracking?
A report released last month by
VDC Research Group looked at
the global demand for RFID
Smartcards. Despite the economy
and difficulties in implementing
RFID products, VDC believes
that "the future remains bright for
the RFID Smartcards market."
According to VDC Research
Group, RFID smartcards revenues
were nearly US$700M in 2008
and are predicted to grow at more
than 26% per annum through
2013.
Image: VDC Research Group
Most interestingly, VDC stated
that "several emerging
applications are quickly
approaching their tipping points."
VDC mentions contactless
payment and ticketing as
examples. Both are already
Mamas and the Papas lead singer
John Phillips.
Phillips said her father started a
sexual relationship with her when
she was about 18 years old and
claims the relationship continued
for 10 years.
"It didn't happen every day,
features of the Octopus Card in
Hong Kong.
At ReadWriteWeb we'd argue
that RFID smart cards for
ticketing on public transport has
already tipped. Just look at the
number of cities across the world
that use smart cards for that
purpose.
What hasn't yet tipped, in our
estimation, is using smart cards
for a wider range of purposes -
shopping, access to buildings, e-
commerce, a range of identity
purposes. Hong Kong has, over
the past decade, developed into a
great test case for many of those
things. What's more, the citizens
of Hong Kong appear to have few
privacy and security concerns.
However we suspect those issues
would be much more high profile
in, say, the United States.
We've only seen the beginning
of RFID smart card use cases,
although Asia is clearly ahead of
the curve. What we're most
looking forward to is web
applications built off an RFID
smart card platform. Japan's Suica
Card has begun to do that, with its
Suica-enabled posters. But there's
much more to come. Discuss
didn't happen every week, but it
did happen many times," the
actress told Oprah on
Wednesday's "Oprah Winfrey
Show" of the incest. "It became a
consensual relationship over
time."
Tech News/ Entertainment/
Stewart Brand: Save the
Slums
By Douglas McGray (Wired
Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:00:00 PM
Some people see a squatter city
in Nigeria or India and the
desperation overwhelms them:
rickety shelters, little kids
working or begging, filthy water
and air. Stewart Brand sees the
same places and he's encouraged.
The pioneering environmentalist,
technology thinker, and founder
of the Whole Earth Catalog has
written a new manifesto, Whole
Earth Discipline, in which he
defends genetic engineering,
nuclear power, and other longtime
nemeses of the green left as good
for the planet. Brand also makes a
counterintuitive case that the
booming slums and squatter cities
in and around Mumbai, Nairobi,
and Rio de Janeiro are net
positives for poor people and the
environment. Wired asked him to
elaborate.
Wired: What makes squatter
cities so important?
Stewart Brand: That's where
vast numbers of humans—slum
dwellers—are doing urban stuff in
new and amazing ways. And
hell's bells, there are a billion of
them! People are trying
desperately to get out of poverty,
so there's a lot of creativity; they
collaborate in ways that we've
completely forgotten how to do in
regular cities. And there's a
transition: People come in from
the countryside, enter the
rickshaw economy, and work for
41
almost nothing. But after a while,
they move uptown, into the
formal economy. The United
Nations did extensive field
research and flipped from seeing
squatter cities as the world's great
problem to realizing these slums
are actually the world's great
solution to poverty.
Wired: Why are they good for
the environment?
Brand: Cities draw people away
from subsistence farming, which
is ecologically devastating, and
they defuse the population bomb.
In the villages, women spend their
time doing agricultural stuff, for
no pay, or having lots and lots of
kids. When women move to town,
it's better to have fewer kids, bear
down, and get them some
education, some economic
opportunity. Women become
important, powerful creatures in
the slums. They're often the ones
running the community-based
organizations, and they're
considered the most reliable
recipients of microfinance loans.
Wired: How can governments
help nurture these positives?
Brand: The suffering is great,
and crime is rampant. We made
the mistake of romanticizing
villages, and we don't need to
make that mistake again. But the
main thing is not to bulldoze the
slums. Treat the people as
pioneers. Get them some grid
electricity, water, sanitation,
crime prevention. All that makes a
huge difference.
42 Tech News/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

Waze: Free Turn-by-Turn Directions Nils Christie: Empty the

for Mobile Users Prisons
By Sarah Perez slowing things down. Users can By Vince Beiser (Wired Top ones are so incorrigible that they
(ReadWriteWeb) upload photos, too, so other Waze Stories) need to stay behind bars.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:40:00 AM drivers can actually see what's Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:00:00 PM Christie's approach may sound
causing the problem. This feature implausible in the US, where
Waze is a free mobile navigation is a little disconcerting, though, From the death penalty to "three crime is far more prevalent than in
application which uses What's most interesting about since it does require the driver to strikes" laws, Americans love his home of Norway. But our
crowdsourcing to build its maps. Waze is how it uses the power of interact with the phone while tough responses to crime—but not n a t i o n a l p r e d i l e c t i o n f o r
Simply by having the application the crowd to build its map behind the wheel. However, Waze necessarily smart ones. Nils punishment has gotten out of
open and running, drivers using database. Just by driving along encourages the use of these Christie has a better idea: Stop hand. The Land of the Free
GPS-enabled smartphones can with the application open, users features only when stopped, or t r e a t i n g l a w b r e a k e r s l i k e incarcerates more citizens per
contribute map data to Waze are contributing data to Waze. even better, by having a passenger criminals. capita than any other country on
where it then becomes part of the Although this does make the enter this info instead. (At least "I don't like the term crime—it's Earth, almost half of them for
base map. Through passive service somewhat dependent on they disabled typing while the car such a big, fat, imprecise word," nonviolent offenses. And it's not
tracking features which monitor building critical mass in order to is in motion. Whew!) says the renowned University of because of a rise in crime
speed, direction, and starts and be successful, the company is Also new to Waze is turn-by- Oslo criminologist. "There are rates—in fact, those have been
stops, Waze can also identify confident they can do so. That's turn directions, now available for only unwanted acts. How we falling for nearly a decade.
traffic patterns to warn you of because Waze originally launched free within the application. That perceive them depends on our Rather, tough sentencing and anti-
jams ahead. Drivers who want to in Israel and in less than a year's feature alone should encourage relationship with those who carry drug laws have put a growing
t a k e a m o r e a c t i v e r o l l i n time, they already have 91% of more users to give it a shot, them out." If a teenager swipes a number of marginal offenders
contributing content on hazards the country mapped. Here in the especially those who haven't wallet, we call it a crime. If he behind bars. Maybe that's why
and accidents can do so from the U.S., that process will obviously purchased their own standalone snakes a twenty from his dad, it's some US officials are starting to
app...although hopefully, not take longer, but Waze believes GPS-based navigation device yet. a family issue. Locking up the think like Christie. California and
while driving. they'll have at least one Early adopters can download pickpocket only sets him up to a few other states now mandate
Sponsor metropolitan area completed in the free mobile application from learn worse tricks from hardened t r e a t m e n t r a t h e r t h a n
At this week's DEMOfall 09 the next three months - the San the company's homepage here. thugs. Better, Christie says, to imprisonment for certain drug
conference, Waze announced that Francisco Bay area, of course. Just remember: this service only treat him like a badly behaved offenders, and many communities
their mobile application is now Since the application is arrived in the U.S. this May so at son. Send him to counseling and have launched victim-offender
available on the Windows Mobile designed to provide traffic alerts, this point, it may be more about require that he compensate his mediation programs.
a n d S y m b i a n p l a t f o r m s i n one of its features allows users to helping build the map data than it victim. Similarly, drug abuse If nothing else, cutting the
addition to iPhone and Android. contribute additional information is about using what's already should be considered a matter of prison population helps the
Blackberry, however, is still in the like whether that's a speed trap there. Discuss public health, not criminal justice. bottom line. Each inmate costs US
works. ahead or just a fender bender Give addicts treatment instead of taxpayers more than $22,000 a
incarceration and you'll cure more y e a r . A n d r e t u r n o n t h e
John Travolta and Kelly Preston Arrive for Bahamas of them and (bonus!) foster a investment stinks: Two out of
more humane society. Of course, three prisoners released are
Extortion Trial seriously violent criminals should arrested again, according to
be locked up, but Christie points government studies. Now that's a
(ETonline - Breaking News) Two men are being prosecuted Travolta testified on Wednesday out that the justice system does a crime.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:26:00 AM i n t h e t r i a l f o r a l l e g e d l y about the day his son died, poor job of determining which
attempting to extort $25 million according to the Associated Press.
ET has the latest... from the actor. The trial began on The AP reports that Travolta
ET has obtained a new Tuesday and prosecutors are performed CPR on his chronically
photograph of John Travolta and alleging that the paramedic who ill son after he and his wife were
his wife Kelly Preston arriving at treated Travolta's late son Jett, 16, alerted to his son’s condition
a Bahamas courthouse for a trial threatened to go public with when they were awakened at
related to an alleged extortion confidential information unless 10:15 a.m. by a nanny.
attempt. the actor paid him.
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Annotate the Web: Google Launches Now There's Even an
SideWiki App That Lets You Pay
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:35:09 AM
for Coffee at Starbucks
Over the years, numerous
companies have offered services
that allowed users to annotate web
pages. Now, with a new project
called SideWiki, Google is going
to join the fray as well. SideWiki,
which will be distributed with a
special version of the Google
Toolbar for Firefox and Internet
Explorer, allows users to publicly
annotate any page on the web.
Entries will then be sorted by an
algorithm that filters out low-
quality comments and moves the
most interesting items to the top.
Sponsor
The sorting algorithm and
SideWiki's ability to display notes
about the same topic on various
sites make SideWiki somewhat
unique. Google uses a quote from
a speech by President Obama as
an example here. SideWiki will
recognize the quote on multiple
sites and aggregate them together,
no matter whether somebody
commented on this quote on Little
Green Footballs or Daily Kos.
Backstage Beauty: SS10 NY Fashion Week
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 9:55:02 AM
Backstage beauty looks at this
year's hottest designers...
Karlie Kloss at Derek Lam
All Photos: Kelly Stuart
Du Juan at Derek Lam
Ginta Lapina at Derek Lam
Mathilde Frachon at Yigal
You can also leave a comment
about the entire page, of course.
For some popular sites that
haven't been annotated yet,
Google will also pop up a
notification that comments exist,
but the sidebar will actually be
filled with related blog posts,
which is another feature that
makes Google stand out from the
competition in this field.
API: Making SideWiki a
Universal Commenting System
A lot of companies have tried to
offer similar services and the ones
that have succeeded did so
because they focused on a very
specialized market. We will have
to see where this Google project
goes in the long run, but unlike a
lot of other companies that
offered annotation features,
Google will offer an API for
SideWiki. The SideWiki Data
API will give developers the
ability to access all of these
comments and include them on
Azrouel
Tara Gill at Diane Von
Furstenberg
Karmen Pedaru at Alexander
Wang
Bruna Tenorio at Diane Von
Furstenberg
Katie Fogarty at Alexander
Wang
their own sites or in a widget, for
example. How Will Google Use
this Data?
We can't help but wonder how
Google will use the data it gathers
from this service. After all, there
is often valuable information in
comments. Google, for example,
could use sentiment analysis to
see its users' reactions to a page
and then influence search results
accordingly. The company could
also expose some of this data in
the search results. Outside of
SideWiki, Google currently only
exposes annotations in a user's
Google Profile.
Right now, when a forum post
appears in Google, it will display
some extra data about how many
posts there are and how many
authors contributed. Google could
do something similar for every
page with SideWiki - though
chances are that third-party
developers will quickly build a
Firefox addon or Greasemonkey
script that will do the same within
a few days from now.
Discuss
Tao Okamoto at Michael Kors
Constance Jablonski Michael
Kors
Vlada Roslyakova at Michael
Kors
Ranya Mordanova at Yigal
Azrouel
Alana Zimmer at Isaac Mizrahi
Tech News/ Fashion/ 43
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:22:19 AM
Starbucks just launched two
iPhone apps. One app,
myStarbucks, allows users to find
stores, build drinks, and browse
the coffee chain's menu and find
nutritional information. While this
is interesting, the second app is
far more exciting. Starbucks Card
Mobile gives users a virtual
Starbucks Card and in 16 select
stores in Silicon Valley and
Seattle, users will be able to use
this app to pay for their drinks. that use mobile phones have
already become relatively
The app will display a barcode
that the baristas at these stores widespread in other countries, the
US is still lagging behind, though
will be able to scan.
Sponsor some interesting mobile payment
projects have already made it to
In addition, the mobile payment
app will also allow users to check the market. Just last month, Nokia
announced its Nokia Money
their card's balance, reload it with
any major credit card, and view service, but it remains to be seen
if this service will be able to gain
their transaction history. For now,
this feature will only be available any traction.
Starbucks, on the other hand,
in these two test markets, which,
according to Starbucks, were already has a large user base for
its Starbucks Card and given that
chosen because of the high usage
rates of iPhones and Starbucks' customers have to use their card
to get access to Starbuck's Wi-Fi
loyalty cards. After this trial,
Starbucks will decide whether it network, customers already have
will bring this feature to other a pretty strong incentive to use the
card and the app.
markets.
While similar and more Discuss
sophisticated payment schemes
44 Tech News/ Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

French Officials Propose Disclaimer

on Photoshopped Ads
By Dana Oshiro
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:42:14 PM
French member of parliament
Valerie Boyer recently proposed a
law to include a disclaimer at the
bottom of all enhanced press,
political, art and advertising-based
photographs. Backed by 50 other
French members of parliament,
Boyer's efforts aim to reduce the
instances of eating disorders
across the country. While the
attempt is certainly a noble one
given France's influence on the
fashion world, enforcing the
legislation may be another story.
While Boyer has already managed
to pass a charter against inciting
skinniness, policing image
doctoring may prove to be a much
tougher task.
Sponsor
According to Reuters, if the bill
passes, failing to add the
disclaimer "would be punished
with a fine of 37,500 euros
($54,930), or up to 50 percent of
the cost of the advertisement." In
the case of Fashion Week
advertisements, this could add up
to millions. And trust me, it's rare
that any fashion, celebrity or
campaign photograph hasn't been
retouched unless purposely made
to reveal the subject's flaws.
Dartmouth computer science
professor and forensic imaging
specialist Hany Farid is convinced
that photo manipulation isn't just a
20th century phenomenon as
employed in a Polish Microsoft ad
last month, but rather something
that has existed since at least the
1860's. He cites an image of
Lincoln as being a composite of
the President and of another
politician's body.
Says Farid in a recent issue of
the IEEE Spectrum, "Even as
experts continue to develop
techniques for exposing
photographic frauds, new
techniques for creating better and
harder-to-detect fakes are also
evolving. As in the battle against
spam and computer viruses, it
seems inevitable that the arms
race between the forger and the
forensic analyst will continue to
escalate, with no clear victor."
Farid points to abnormalities in
quantization(or image
compression) and multiple points
of light as telltale signs of image
tampering. As services like Picnik
and Fotoflexer continue to power
the editing features in common
photo sharing sites like Flickr,
Photobucket and Picasa, it will be
interesting to see how many
forgeries are actually detected
should the law pass.
Photo Credit: Art
Comments(Lead Image), Hany
Farid's "Photo Tampering
Through History" (Inset) Discuss
Apple Releases iTunes 9.0.1
Update [Updates]
By Adam Pash (Lifehacker) • Fixes a problem syncing
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:30:00 AM Podcasts in playlists to iPod or
iPhone.
Two weeks after releasing • Fixes a problem sorting albums
iTunes 9, Apple has pushed out a with multiple discs.
small update to the popular music • Addresses an issue with the
player in the form of iTunes 9.0.1. Zoom button not switching to
The update addresses several bugs Mini Player.
and improvements, but doesn't • Improves application syncing
offer any significant updates (not for iPod touch and iPhone.
surprising considering iTunes 9 • Genius is now automatically
just came out). Fixes include: updated to show Genius Mixes.
• Resolves issues browsing the So while the update doesn't
iTunes Store. address any of the items in our
• Addresses a performance issue iTunes wishlist, if you're an
w h e r e i T u n e s m a y b e c o m e iTunes user you should definitely
unresponsive. grab it when you get the chance. [
• Fixes a problem where iTunes iTunes]
may unexpectedly quit.

Make Your Own Homebrew Soda [Recipes]

By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) experiment we posted for How To Make Your Own Soda
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:00:00 AM homemade ginger ale, this one on Howcast
uses actual fermentation to get the Made your own homebrew non-
Homebrew soda was a lot more bubbles into your non-alcoholic alcoholic beverages you'd like to The Beginner's Guide to
common in the days before there brew. As commenters at a Serious brag about? Had a DIY soft drink Tricking Out Your
were 212 varieties available at Eats post note, that means you turn disaster? Tell us all about it
every gorcery store. Grab some need to closely watch your in the comments, and share the WordPress Blog
yeast, sugar, water, and flavoring, proportions and not let it sit too recipes! How To Make Your Own [WordPress]
however, and you can craft your long in tight containers before Soda Video[Howcast.com via
own bubbly soft drink in your drinking. Then again, it's a very inspires us to give it a go—in the Serious Eats] By Gina Trapani (Lifehacker)
fridge. cheap experiment to learn from, garage, stored near a drain pipe: Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:00:00 AM
You took the leap and installed
Unlike the last DIY soda and this semi-ridiculous video BEGINNER'S page 45
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WordPress.com stats doesn't
count visits to your own blog, and
unlike the richer Google Analytics
service, there's no day-long delay
to see what's happening on your
site. To run this plug-in, you have
to get a WordPress.com API key
(it's free) and enter it into the plug
-in's settings.
Search Meter(Stats): If you have
a search box on your site, you'll
want Search Meter, a plug-in
which shows you what readers are
looking for and finding (or not) on
your site. Search meter also offers
widgets you can add to your site
which shows readers what other
readers are searching for.
WP SuperCache(Optimization):
The first time a highly-trafficked
site like Digg links to your blog,
you'll wish you had installed this
plug-in, which maintains high-
speed, database-call free "cached"
copies of your WordPress pages
on your server. Your site will run
faster and won't buckle under the
strain of a lot of traffic if you're
caching it with this excellent plug
-in.
Akismet(Comments Spam
killer): Because comment spam
can get so bad, WordPress now
ships with the Akismet spam
filtering plug-in. Since I'm
requiring user registration to leave
comments on my WordPress blog,
I don't have any experience with
how good Akismet is (and haven't
had any spam at all), but word on
the street is it's absolutely
essential for sites with open
comments. Like WordPress.com
stats, Akismet requires a
WordPress.com API key.
Finally, to make your site as
accessible to Google and other
web search engines as possible, a
45
few Search Engine Optimization
SEO plug-ins help. I use All in
One SEO Pack and Google XML
Sitemaps. Make Your WordPress
Theme Yours
If you've got HTML and CSS
chops, you can make your
WordPress theme sing your tune.
(For advanced stuff, some PHP
skills come in handy, too.) First
you want to start with a base
theme. WordPress' default theme
is ok, but if you google "free
WordPress themes" or take note
of what themes sites you like
already use, you'll find an insane
number of gorgeous and eye-
catching site layouts. Picking your
theme is one of the most fun (and
most time-consuming, if it's tough
to make a decision) parts of
setting up WordPress, but it's
worth it.
Once you've installed the theme
you want by downloading the .zip
file and putting it in your
WordPress themes folder, you can
dig into the CSS and markup and
make it your own. WordPress
offers a theme editor in its
interface which lets you update
files on the fly. While this is
convenient, it's also dangerous if
you hit the wrong key, save the
file, and don't have a backup. My
recommendation is to set up
WordPress and your theme of
choice on your own computer,
edit it in your favorite text editor,
and upload it to your live server
when it's perfect. I started my
WordPress blog with Lucian
Marin's Journalist theme, and
made it mine by adding color to
the header and tweaking how
comments look.
If you've got patience and
custom HTML you want to turn
into a brand new WordPress
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46 Tech Tips/ Picture/ Internet News Record

Greatly Improve Your Physical Workspace with Small

Changes [Supercharged Workspace]
By Jason Fitzpatrick from the ravages of repetitive monitor as bias lighting.
(Lifehacker) stress injuries. We've shared Taking care of plants may not
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:30:00 AM several resources over the years to be high on your daily list of
help you plan an ergonomic priorities, but having them in your
Many of us spend quite a lot of workspace like a workstation workspace provides fresh air and
time in our workplaces yet spend designer, and a guide to setting up a mood boost. We've gathered up
precious little time thinking about a healthy and usable workspace. some guides to five hard-to-kill
how that workspace is laid out. Make sure to carefully consider houseplants for your home or
It's time to assess the state of your each component of your setup. As workspace as well as three great
workplace and improve it. a personal example, no matter plants for cleaning the air in your
Photo by foundphotoslj. what I did I couldn't find a office. Don't underestimate the
Why take the time to assess the comfortable position for my importance of quality air. I've
current state of affairs? Because if mouse. I tried adjusting my arm worked in offices so tiny and with
you don't you'll end up like an old rest, changing mice, changing the such poor air circulation that
coworker of mine. I questioned position of the chair, and so on. closing the door would cause the
once, why his desk was arranged Finally while reading a web site people inside to slowly fall asleep
in such a peculiar fashion. He about RSI injuries and the like deep space voyagers on a
paused, shrugged and said "That's importance of keeping the angle mission gone wrong.
how it was when this office of your arms neutral I realized We can't offer suggestions for
became mine." The office had that my enormous keyboard was every possible issue with your
become his some ten years earlier, the problem. I couldn't put my office, but we can offer nearly a
so for a decade he had simply left arm in a neutral position with the hundred featured workspaces
the desk at an odd angle and numerical keypad pushing the from the Lifehacker archives for
poorly arranged for the room. mouse so far to the right. I your to browse and get ideas for
Don't simply accept that the s w i t c h e d t o a k e y b o a r d , a solving your office problems.
poor arrangement of your work Microsoft Sidewinder, where I You'll find everything from
space is fate. Whether you're could place swap keypad to the interesting lighting to effective
stuck working in the constraints left hand side of the keyboard and use of space. Check out the all of
of a corporate cubicle or you've I've been happy and ache free ever You've Ever Had and The Best there a significant amount of glare the featured workspaces here.
got carte blanche to do as you since. Give your own workspace Keyboard You've Ever Had. Both on the monitor? Is it possible to If you've made positive changes
wish with your home office, make that kind of detailed look over and are compilations of the mice and turn off or diffuse the source of to your workspace, big or small,
the most of the space you have. you'll be able to banish your aches keyboards Lifehacker readers the glare? Although it might look we'd love to hear about them in
Before all else, assess your and pains too. love. Photo by blupics. silly, if putting a simple monitor the comments. You're advice
ergonomic situation. How do you Before we leave the topic of Once you've assessed the hood eliminates glare from might make a fellow reader's
feel, physically, after working in ergonomics and peripherals, if ergonomic situation and overhead lights you can't turn off office all the more bearable.
your workspace all day? Are your your interested in replacing your determined that your workstation it's well worth it. You may want
shoulders sore? Do your wrists keyboard or mouse with a more isn't going to give you carpal to consider inexpensive sources of
ache? Although tweaking your comfortable model we'd urge you tunnel or scoliosis you can begin alternate light such as using cheap
workspace for ergonomic issues to check out two previous features considering other aspects of the rope lights as ambient lighting or
isn't glamorous it will save you at Lifehacker: The Best Mouse space. How is the lighting? Is a simple CFL bulb behind your
Red dust over Sydney
By Zack Sheppard (Flickr Blog) everything under it red. Above are giant sandworm, don’t move.) Coates‘ Red Dust gallery.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 3:40:08 PM a few images from Flickr Photos from Highranger,
members. You can see more by tomhide, africadunc, asphotos,
Right now there is a dust storm doing a search for sydney dust if you are in Sydney and see a abbt1947, and Andrew Knott.
in Sydney turning the sky and and sorting by most recent. (Also, Featuring photos from Tom
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BEGINNER'S
continued from page 45
theme, copy the default theme's
files into a new folder and get to
hacking. The WordPress Codex is
an invaluable resource for both
starter reading and reference as
you go. That is, when you get to
the part where you're thinking
"WTF is wp_list_comments?",
Google it and you'll find the
function reference at the codex. It
took me a full weekend of pretty
intense theming work to get my
first custom theme done and ready
to go live, so give yourself some
time, and most importantly, have
fun with it. Here are some tips and
links from my Twitter followers
on creating a custom WordPress
theme. Sidebars and Widgets, Oh
My!
The easiest way to customize
your WordPress blog without
digging into code or your FTP
client is to do so with widgets.
The latest versions of WordPress
offer drag-and-drop custom
modules you can add to and
remove from your blog. When
you're logged into WordPress'
admin interface, under
Appearance, click on "Widgets"
to see what's available and add
and remove what you want on
your site's sidebar (or top bar or
bottom bar, depending on where
your theme puts it). Advanced
trickery
Here's a few more tips for
advanced WordPress hackers who
want to troubleshoot or try even
more customization:
• Use multiple custom sidebars:
WordPress' sidebar and widgets
feature is very powerful and
customizable; in fact, you can
create and customize multiple
sidebars or site zones to show up
on different pages. (For example,
the sidebar that shows up on a
post page can look different than
the one on the front page.
• Troubleshoot slowness and
other problems with Firebug:
Every web developer knows that
the Firebug Firefox extension is
absolutely essential when
developing any site, and it's true
for WordPress, too. When my WP
site went down because of
multiple background 404's doing
resource-sucking searches,
Firebug revealed the problem and
so I knew how to fix it.
• Use tags to display content
differently: You can use
conditional tags to display
different types of content on your
blog in different ways, like a short
link or big photograph. I use
has_tag to display "quick links"
with smaller inline headlines on
my front page by assigning the tag
"brief."
• Set up a "staging" server: Once
your blog's up and running and
live, you don't want to make huge
changes to it with the whole world
watching. Set up WordPress on
your local computer, hack away
on your theme and/or plug-ins,
then upload your changes when
they're complete and ready.
This post only scratches the
surface of WordPress
customization possibilities. The
good news is WordPress' open
nature and huge community
means that you can find the
answer to almost any WP
question hitting up Google—or in
worst case, asking the forums.
Special thanks to the author of
this CSS Tricks post who also
writes the excellent Digging into
WordPress, which I referenced for
this post.
So what did I miss? What are
your favorite WordPress tricks,
hacks, themes, plug-ins, security
measures, and widgets? Shout 'em
out in the comments.
Gina Trapani, Lifehacker's
founding editor, loves herself a
little WordPress hacking. Her
weekly feature, Smarterware,
appears every Wednesday on
Lifehacker. Subscribe to the
Smarterware tag feed to get new
installments in your newsreader.
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Apple OKs first porn
star apps for the iPhone
(CNET News.com) tamer than what some may have
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:07:46 AM expected, GrindHouse did admit
that in the first round they were "a
Apple has approved the first two l i t t l e t o o ' h o t ' f o r A p p l e ' s
iPhone apps dedicated to the c o m p l i a n c e d e p a r t m e n t . "
careers of popular (or, ahem, so GrindHouse went back to the
we're told) porn stars. drawing board to redo the apps so
Developed by GrindHouse they would be accepted on the
Mobile and the stars, the two apps App Store.
mark the first time that Apple has "We worked closely with Apple
allowed the porn industry into the to meet all of their guidelines
store in such an obvious way. while developing an offering that
While these apps may be more is compelling and user friendly,"
in-your-face than some of the GrindHouse said in a statement.
apps showing bikini-clad women There was no word from Apple
that are already on the App Store, directly on its assessment.
the content of these apps is Apple has run into some
relatively tame. They appear to controversy with its App Store
show no more than suggestive approval process, pretty much
photos--the same as the apps that s i n c e i t b e g a n a c c e p t i n g
preceded them. submissions from third-party
In other words, there is no developers. For instance, e-book
nudity. reader Eucalyptus was rejected
The apps, which feature adult because it could allow access to
a c t r e s s S u n n y L e o n e a n d the Kama Sutra, an ancient text
Penthouse Pet Aria Giovanni, known for its description of
seem to be more of a way for fans sexual encounters. And an app
to keep up with the latest from from the band Nine Inch Nails
their favorite starlets. Leone's app was rejected because of sexually
features a blog, various sets of "objectionable content" in a song.
photos, and personal videos, along For the time being, at least, you
with a Premium section through can get Sunny Leone's free app
which updates are pushed to your and Aria Giovanni's 99 cent app
phone. Giovanni's app doesn't from the App Store.
appear to be much different.
While the apps are probably

It's Jack Bauer! On Call of Duty!

By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) that sounds like Jack Bauer." I elsewhere. I surfed around Continue reading It's Jack
listened, and sure enough, that
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:42:00 AM YouTube and found a video of Bauer! On Call of Duty!
unmistakable "Fire!" was indeed Sutherland in the recording Filed under: OpEd, 24, Video,
I was playing Call of Duty: Keifer Sutherland, a.k.a. Jack studio, along with Gary Oldman, Celebrities, Reality-Free
World at War with my son the Bauer on 24. who played James Gordon on The Permalink| Email this| |
other day (hey, I'm the cool It's always fun when stuff like Dark Knight, among dozens of Comments
mom), and he said, "You know, this happens, where you recognize a beloved TV character's voice other films.
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Think of Your Savings Plan as a
Bedroom Dresser [Money]
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:00:00 AM
New data shows that more of us
are cutting spending, shaving
debt, and saving more. Many of
us, though, don't have a multi-
location plan for that stashed cash.
The Wall Street Journal suggests
using a bedroom dresser metaphor
for better saving.
Photo by goatling.
Why a dresser? Because each
drawer contains clothing you
always need, or only occasionally
need, and each dresser serves a
different purpose to get you
dressed. Family money writer
Karen Blumenthal explains a bit
further:
Just as you have to have that all-
important underwear drawer, you
need an emergency-cash drawer.
This drawer will give you daily
comfort and keep you out of
trouble, allowing you to pay the
bills for a few months if you lose
your job, get sick or face a
financial emergency. Unless you
have stocks or bonds that you are
willing to liquidate, you need
enough cash to cover a few
months of crucial expenses, such
as the rent or mortgage, bills and
groceries.
Dana White: Rampage Jackson 'Acting Like a Baby' But Can Do What He Wants
By Michael David Smith
(FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:45:00 AM
by Michael David Smith
Filed under: UFC Shortly after
Rampage Jackson wrote on his
Just as you need a sock drawer,
you also need a retirement drawer
to keep you warm in your later
years. If your company still
provides a pension, that drawer
may be filled for you. But most of
us need to contribute to it, and the
tax incentives and potential
employer match of a 401(k) or a
similar account make that an
attractive place to put your
savings.
Read the whole article to get
"dresser" setups for young folks
just starting out, families with
web site that he was retiring from
mixed martial arts to pursue a
career in acting, UFC President
Dana White said he was
disappointed in Jackson for
"acting like a baby" -- but he
added that he understands Jackson
kids and with kids out of the
house, and those on the edge of
retirement. Too nervous about the
market and your money to even
think about saving? Start out by
buckling down to ride out the
financiapocalypse. A Savings
Plan That Will Sock You Into
Action[Wall Street Journal via
Sree Sreenivasan/Twitter]
can do whatever he wants with his
life.
Internet News Record
Weels aims to let
browser users toss their
keyboards
(CNET News.com) including Amazon--and drop the
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:27:01 AM copied product information onto
the Amazon logo. The result? The
SAN DIEGO, California--It's not Amazon page for that product
that today's Web browser users pops right up.
don't have keyboards. It's that we Similarly, different users can set
don't really need to use them. up a sharing relationship, with
That's the business case of each user having a spot on the
Weels, a startup that presented at toolbar. Then, content can be
DemoFall 09 Wednesday: that dragged to that user's spot and it
much of what we do in browsers, immediately appears on their
including sharing content between screen. That can include text,
users, can be done strictly with a photos, videos and many other
mouse. items.
The idea is that, in a browser, The service also features what's
everything can be manipulated-- called "collages," which are
moved around, copied to folders basically pastiches of content that
and shared--solely by being can be saved and arranged as a
dragged and dropped with the user wants for later investigation.
m o u s e . A f t e r a s i m p l e Collages can also be shared
registration, users see what between users.
amounts to a toolbar at the top of For now, the company appears
their browser and can then get to be just getting off the ground,
information related to various and its founders--some college
kinds of data by moving that data and high school students--made a
into the appropriate place on the point of calling for investors
toolbar. while on stage. And it's not at all
For example, say you want to clear how they would make
get product information about a money off their free service. But
h i g h - t e c h g a d g e t f r o m the idea is intriguing, since it
Amazon.com, you could click on simplifies the way users live with
the gadget from a product review their browsers, their keyboards
site and then, with a click of the and their mice.
mouse, bring up a list of sites--
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We'll be immortal in 20 years, says Kurzweil
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:12:00 AM
I want to live forever. I want to
learn how to fly. High. I feel it
coming together.
And, thankfully, so does
celebrated large brain and, who
knows, maybe "Kids from Fame"
aficionado Ray Kurzweil.
In an article reported by the
Telegraph, Kurzweil says that our
technological and genetic know-
how is marching at such a furious
pace that in 20 years' time we
should be holding in our sweaty,
excitable hands the
nanotechnological secrets of our
existence. This is all part and
parcel of the nano-forecasting he's
been doing for years, along with
his rather singular vision of the
man-machine future.
These secrets should allow us to
replace our kidneys, livers, hearts
and, hey, what about minds, with
functioning vital organs made by
human hands.
Dell launches first laptop with Intel's Core i7
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:51:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO--Dell is
launching its first laptops with
Intel's new Core i7 processor for
laptops.
The Intel "Clarksfield" Core i7
processor boasts four cores and is
the chipmaker's first mobile chip
based on its new Nehalem
microarchitecture. Most Intel
processors will move to this
design in 2010.
Dell is trying to take an early
lead in embracing the new
technology. Dell's flagship
They say Kurzweil is 61. He
doesn't look a day over 43 to
me.(Credit: Null0/Flickr)
Kurzweil's contemplations, first
published in The Sun, offer us
these vast nuggets of hope: "I and
many other scientists now believe
that in around 20 years we will
have the means to reprogram our
product for the mobile Core i7
will be the 15-inch Alienware
M15x gaming laptop. Dell is also
offering the chip as an option on
other laptop models worldwide,
including the Studio 15 and
Studio 17.
At the Intel Developer Forum
today, David Perlmutter,
executive vice president and co-
general manager of Intel
Corporation's Intel Architecture
Group, is discussing Intel's mobile
Nehalem platform that also
includes a future chip codenamed
"Arrandale," which will integrate
graphics into the CPU, or central
bodies' stone-age software so we
can halt, then reverse, aging. Then
nanotechnology will let us live for
ever."
Yes, you can be 28 again. You
can drink yourself stupid and let
those nano-nano folks just slip
you a new liver. You can have
sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and
processing unit.
The Alienware M15x
configurations include the Intel
Core 920XM CPU and 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
Tech Reviews/ Media
still be able to perform Whitney
Houston karaoke better than
Whitney herself can these days.
"If we want to go into virtual-
reality mode, nanobots will shut
down brain signals and take us
wherever we want to go," said
Kurzweil. "Virtual sex will
become commonplace. And in our
daily lives, hologram-like figures
will pop in our brain to explain
what is happening."
One can only hope those
hologram-like figures don't
resemble the chaps from Google
too closely.
And I am not entirely sure I am
persuaded by the concept of
virtual sex. Perhaps worse would
be the concept of some
Googleperson-like hologram
talking one through virtual sex.
And whispering to one after it.
Still, Kurzweil's passionate
certainty offers us all hope for a
very different future from the one
we might have imagined.
I can't wait. No, really. I can't.
graphics chip.
The Alienware M15x will come
with Intel's first Core i7 mobile
processor.(Credit: Dell)
The Dell Studio 17 will feature
49
MediaDailyNews:
Weisenberg to SVP,
Marketing, Sundance
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:03:13 AM
Sundance Channel named Shari
Weisenberg senior vice president
of marketing. She reports to Sarah
Barnett, executive vice president
and general manager. Weisenberg
joins the network from SyFy,
where she was vice president of
strategic marketing. There, she led
SyFy's sales marketing initiatives
and played a major role in the
networks recent rebranding from
SciFi. Prior to joining SyFy, she
served as director of marketing
for Bravo, where she was
responsible for the development
of British Airways integrated
partnership of "Queer Eye for the
Straight Guy."
the Intel Core i7 720QM 1.6GHz
processor, a 1GB ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 4650 graphics chip,
17.3-inch HD+ (1600x900)
display, and 9-cell battery.
The Studio 17 starts at $1,099.
Dell will also offer the Studio
15 with Core i7. Configurations
include Core i7 720QM 1.6GHz,
512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD
4570 graphics chip, and 4GB of
memory. Pricing start at $999.
And the Dell Studio XPS 16
will come with a Core i7 option,
with a starting price of $1,249,
Dell said.
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Apple’s HD Cinema Display: Or, How I Overcame Monitor

Envy
By Liam Cassidy amazing displays. Perhaps they Apple’s own Mini-DV standard on the market. It makes me
(TheAppleBlog) haven’t always been the first isn’t supported without an wonder what might be happening
Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:30:22 AM choice of graphics professionals, adapter. with the ageing 30 inch line.
but at least they’ve been But by far the biggest problem A quick visit to both the
In 1999 I was building websites consistently better than the cheap with the 30 incher is its price. At American and UK versions of the
with UltraDev and Drumbeat. I m o n i t o r s o f f e r e d b y P C $1,799 it’s a fantastically Apple website revealed that, at
was playing with DHTML and a manufacturers. So early this year, expensive monitor. Our own some point since April this year,
cool new thing called CSS. I was as I switched completely from PC James Dempsey compared Apple quietly removed the
dropping the word “recordset” to Mac, I made sure I bought the Apple’s behemoth with Dell’s 30 dedicated microsite for the 30
into conversations with other geek biggest and best displays Apple inch UltraSharp Widescreen and inch display. The only link you’ll
friends via the just-released MSN could offer. And that meant the concluded he preferred the Dell. find now is to its product page in
Messenger Service. I considered g a r g a n t u a n , b e a u t i f u l , Read the article to see his reasons the online store. My old
myself pretty technologically breathtaking 30 inch Cinema HD why, but I’ll tell you now that bookmarks no longer work. So —
accomplished. But then one day a Widescreen Displays. Two of price was an important factor. what’s happening? Is Apple
friend visited and used my them, as it happens. than one monitor? The answer But I have no regrets — and a discontinuing the 30 inch Cinema
computer to check his email. As And they are amazing. falls conveniently down to a good job, too, considering how HD Display, perhaps planning to
he took his seat before my beige Positioned side by side before me, single word: productivity. Quite expensive these things still are. replace it with a refreshed new
plastic 15 inch CRT he mumbled I practically swim in Cinema simply, people who (properly) use Whether you buy from Apple or line based on their LED monitors?
“Ugh! It’s so small.” Display goodness. To clarify; multiple monitors work more elsewhere, they’ll set you back a I emailed no fewer than four of
I was crushed. My monitor was when I work on my 15 inch efficiently and productively. painful $1,799 each! Personally, my contacts at Apple who, two
smaller than his monitor. How Macbook Pro, despite the beauty Don’t take my word for it — look however, these displays are by far weeks later, have remained utterly
embarrassing! of that glossy screen, I’m acutely at this report(PDF) from Pfeiffer, t h e m o s t i m p r e s s i v e n o n - silent on the matter.
Since that day I have always aware that it provides a limited, which goes into extraordinary television panels I’ve had the But I’ve never quite gotten over
strived to use the largest monitor narrow view of the digital world, depth examining the virtues of pleasure of using. Call me insane, that brief period of monitor envy
possible, and usually two of ‘em a little like peering through the extensive screen-space. There’s but I enjoy needing to slide my in 1999. I’ve always hated it when
side by side. And while dual mail slot in my front door. With Always a Down Side chair a little to the left to more I’ve walked into a room and
monitor setups are not so common these enormous cinema displays, I The Cinema HD Display isn’t comfortably see what’s going on discovered, to my silent horror,
in most homes, at least we’ve don’t need to peer through the perfect. Sure, Apple generously on my other screen. The Future bigger and better monitors than
come a long way since the mail slot because the door has endowed it with two USB ports As with all things Apple, there’s my own. So I’m going to enjoy
primitive days of 15 inch CRTs. b e e n t h r o w n w i d e o p e n . and two Firewire 400 ports within the knowledge that what’s top-of- my beautiful cinema displays
The first flat panels ordinary Sometimes, it feels like the door easy-reach, and if you’re using a the-line today will be old-hat while I still can, because I know
people could afford were tiny, low has been taken off its hinges. And M a c P r o , t h o s e p o r t s a r e tomorrow. Buy a brand new it’s only a matter of time before
resolution, low color saturation, sometimes, I feel a little silly fantastically useful, saving you MacBook Pro and enjoy the Apple makes them feel like that
low-light things. The contrast having all this display. In fact, f r o m m a k i n g t r i p s t o t h e pleasure of being at the cutting- old, beige 15 incher that started it
(pun intended) to today’s cheap, u n l e s s I ’ m d o i n g s o m e mysterious, cable-strewn world edge while it lasts — because new all. Read our latest analysis piece,
bright and capable LCD screens is graphics/video work, I don’t Beneath the Desk. But FW400 is models will be out before you " Why Startups Aren’t Changing
remarkable, but it has been a very maximize windows. Doing so old now, and since these displays know it. Well, the 30 inch Cinema the World." Only on GigaOM
short journey from one to the feels… I don’t know… over the were launched they haven’t been HD Displays have yet to be Pro.
other. top, somehow. refreshed. Newer standards, such surpassed. But Apple does have
I always knew that Apple made So why does anyone need more as HDMI, are unsupported. Even some very nice new LED screens
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Google Picasa 3.5 Takes Some Cues New Pioneer In-Dash
From iPhoto ‘09 Nav Units Get Hardware
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:00:41 AM
Specific iPhone App
In case you’re an Apple user
who isn’t on board with iPhoto
‘09, Google has just updated its
own free image management
software, Picasa, which shares its
name with the web-based Flickr
rival. Picasa 3.5 for Mac takes a
lot of direction from iPhoto ‘09,
borrowing at least two major
features from Apple’s own
software.
Picasa web users will recognize
the “new” features for the desktop
version, which haven’t previously
been available on locally installed
instances of Picasa in the past.
They include face recognition,
which Picasa calls “Name Tags,”
and support for geotagged photos
with location data.
With Name Tags, Picasa will
analyze your photos and group
them according to faces it find in
them, at which point you’re able
to assign names to these faces,
and then search your library based
on people you’ve tagged. If it
sounds like Faces in iPhoto ‘09,
that’s because it is, with the
exception that when signed into
your Gmail account with the app,
Picasa will offer auto-complete
Apple/ 51
share with your Google contacts
all in one fell swoop. Tagging is
also better than it was before, with
better batch tagging, quick tags, By Darrell Etherington
and tag counts for image groups. (TheAppleBlog)
If you’re looking for an Submitted at 9/22/2009 1:10:54 PM
alternative to iPhoto, and you’re
already very plugged into Google At least one company is taking
via its various personal the hardware integration features
information management apps, of iPhone OS 3.0 seriously.
Picasa is a good choice. It isn’t Pioneer, which announced A/V
much of a resource hog, it’s very home theater receivers with some
good at combing and organizing serious iPhone connectivity in
your computer’s image files June, has just revealed an iPhone
suggestions of names you start without much intervention on app(iTunes link) designed to
typing. your part, and it plugs into your integrate with two of its brand
Google also baked-in location e x i s t i n g G o o g l e a c c o u n t new in-dash navigation units.
support in Picasa 3.5, which information to fill in a lot of While the iPhone app doesn’t
resembles iPhoto ’09’s Places blanks. If I weren’t a MobileMe provide iPod control without a
organizational feature. That user (which I might not be for hardware cable connection, it
means photos with embedded l o n g a f t e r y e s t e r d a y ’ s does allow you to search for
geotagging EXIF data, like those announcement), I’d definitely points of interest or trip
taken with the iPhone’s built-in consider using Picasa as my full- destinations on the iPhone, which
camera, or using an Eye-Fi Geo time solution. then communicates said diner isn’t a POI, cool though it
card, can be optionally displayed information to the navigation unit. might have been.
Picasa 3.5 is available now for If you’re in the market for an in-
on a map in Picasa 3.5. If you’ve Mac and PC, though not for Basically, it’s like having an
t a k e n y o u r p h o t o s w i t h o u t Linux, and it’s an English-only advanced, user-friendly remote dash nav system, and you already
embedded location information, download. It’s completely free, for your GPS unit instead of own an iPhone, then there’s really
you can simply drag them to the which is something iPhoto ‘09 is having to fumble with clumsy on- not much of a downside to going
appropriate location on a built-in not, if you haven’t purchased a device controls. with these Pioneer models. The
Google map to achieve the same new Mac lately. Read our latest You can also access any POI entry-level AVIC-U310BT will
effect. information on the nav system set you back $699, while the
analysis piece, " Mobile Sites much snazzier AVIC-Z110BT has
Version 3.5 also brings an Show Little Improvement." Only over Bluetooth via your iPhone,
improved importing process, so on GigaOM Pro. so it’s a two-way conversation. a $1,799 price tag. The more
that you can star your favorite Also, the app automatically expensive model will get you a
shots, upload to the web, and searches your device for motorized screen, rear cam
geotagged photos taken with the readiness, voice control, and
iPhone’s camera and uses those as A2DP stereo Bluetooth support.
custom POI entries. I can see this Forgive me for also wanting it to
becoming annoying, since every drive the car for me at that price.
photo I take with my iPhone has Subscribe to GigaOM Pro and
geographic information associated gain access to our Webinar, "
with it. The neat spider I saw Biggest Opportunities in the
when we stopped at that roadside Smart Grid," on Oct. 7, 2009.
52 Apple/ Fashion/ Internet News Record

Snapture Goes Legit and Gets Cheaper

By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:00:27 PM
The iPhone’s camera app is OK,
but it really leaves much to be
desired. That was why Snapture
came to exist in the first place.
Snapture is a jailbreak app that
many users on that side of the
fence have sworn by for quite a
while now.
Now owners of legitimate, non-
jailbroken devices can take
advantage of the nice little suite of
usability enhancements and
feature additions that Snapture
brings to your iPhone’s static
media capture capabilities. The
app has been approved by Apple
and is available via the App Store.
This isn’t a pale, feature-
reduced version of its former self.
According to Just Another iPhone
Blog, who received word directly
from Snapture’s developers about
the release, the app is making the
switch from renegade to law-
abiding citizen feature-intact.
For those of you unfamiliar with
Snapture, those features include:
• Patent-pending Picture-in-
Picture Technology (allows users
to view and delete recent photos
directly on the viewfinder)
• Multi-Touch Pinch and Pan
Zoom (5X max)
• High Speed Multishot: 3 rapid-
fire snaps to capture every
moment of action.
• Easy Snap: Tap anywhere on
screen to take a photo.
Those who’ve already been
shopping around for a solid
camera app alternative may
to the tap-anywhere shutter
controls. Tapping an unobtrusive
arrow icon at the bottom of the
stream brings up your detailed
controls, which allow you to turn
on or off the auto level aid, and
change your image resolution,
along with accessing the zoom
and burst fire modes. You can
also email photos directly from
the app, so you shouldn’t even
have much cause to open up
Photos.
If you’ve purchased Snapture
via Cydia, you’ll be disappointed
to learn that legitimate App Store
customers get a special launch
pricing deal on the app. For a
limited time, Snapture will sell for
$1.99, making it 75 percent
cheaper than its jailbreak
predecessor.
rightly point out that these Kudos to Apple for being open
features aren’t really anything to the advances of developers who
new (aside from that PIP thing) are willing to come in from the
and can be found in other apps, cold. It’s one of the few reasons I
but can they be found altogether still have some hope for the future
in one program? Snapture is of the App Store as a fair and well
meant to be a true replacement, so - r u n s o f t w a r e d i s t r i b u t i o n
that you never have to open platform. Read our latest analysis
another camera app again. piece, " Will Apps.gov Raise the
By default, your view is Bar for Cloud Providers?" Only
unobstructed in Snapture, thanks on GigaOM Pro.
Odin, open
By blogeditor1 (Material
Interest on Men.style.com)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:21:26 AM
As we reported last month, it's
been a busy season for the guys at
Odin: a new collection of
colognes, a collaborative line with
Duckie Brown, and a little retail-
space musical chairs. The new
West Village shop is now open in
Oliver Spencer's old Greenwich
Street digs (and Spencer's up and
running on East 11th Street).
Here's a peek inside: From the
look of it, grabbing brunch at the
neighboring Spotted Pig just got a
lot more dangerous for your
bottom line.
750 Greenwich St., NYC, (212)
420-8446, odinnewyork.com
[via WWD] MATTHEW
SCHNEIER Photos: Courtesy of
Odin

USB Forum Sides With Apple Over Palm

By Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:00:43 AM
After months of software
updates by the respective
companies to disable and enable
the Pre syncing with iTunes, the
USB Implementers Forum(USB-
IF) has ruled on the issue.
Palm loses.
The standards group has not
only rejected Palm’s claim of anti
-competitive behavior by Apple,
but says that it is Palm that’s
violating the USB-IF Membership
Agreement, John Paczkowski at
Digital Daily reports. The Pre’s
touted “feature” of
media syncing with iTunes is
accomplished by spoofing
Apple’s USB vendor ID, in effect
making the Pre appear to be an
iPod.
In its letter to Palm and Apple,
the USB-IF noted that “Palm may
only use the single Vendor ID
issued to Palm for Palm’s usage.
Usage of any other company’s
Vendor ID is specifically
precluded.” Further, the USB-IF
has asked Palm to clarify its
“intent and respond to this
potential violation within seven
days.” Palm’s immediate response
was to pontificate, asserting that
the company believes “consumers
should have freedom and choice
in how and where they use the
non-rights managed media they
already own.”
And they do. The Pre is
perfectly capable of managing
media by drag-and-drop all by
itself, and if Palm is all about
“freedom and choice,” then where
is the support for Zune software?
Clearly, this has never been about
consumer choice, but rather a
beleaguered Palm maximizing its
potential customer base with
minimal development effort on its
own part. Subscribe to GigaOM
Pro and gain access to our
Webinar, " Biggest Opportunities
in the Smart Grid," on Oct. 7,
2009.
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iTunes 9.0.1: Return of the Mini- Waltzing Women of ‘Dancing

Player with the Stars’’ Talk to Marie
By Charles Jade Option key while clicking zoom. Osmond after Their Debut
(TheAppleBlog) Were Ralph Waldo Emerson (ETonline - Breaking News) the commitment of her partner
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:30:55 AM alive today, he might have said Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:54:00 AM Jonathan Roberts, saying, "The
something about foolish thing about Jonathan is…he loves
Two weeks after introducing consistency and iTunes 9, and it’s The women embarked on the dancing, so it's really infectious
iTunes 9 at the “It’s Only Rock highly likely a lot of people did long road leading to the mirror and you kinda get excited about it
and Roll” music event, Apple has because Apple has restored the ball trophy in part two of the with him."
released the first update to the previous behavior. Clicking the season premiere of "Dancing with One-time rocker chic Kelly
software. zoom button toggles between a the Stars." ET's special Osbourne morphed into an elegant
Version 9.0.1 of iTunes normal window and the mini- correspondent Marie Osmond ballroom dancer. She told Marie,
cryptically addresses performance player window. Holding down the spoke to all of the dancers "If you would have seen the
and stability, as well as resolving Option key and clicking zoom backstage after the show. person that I was a year ago
unnamed issues when browsing toggles between normal window Singer Macy Gray won over the compared to now, I don't even
the iTunes Store. Syncing issues states. hearts of the audience--and Marie- think I was capable of doing
related to applications and u p t h e m i n i - p l a y e r . T h i s Available for both the Mac and -with her debut routine and anything like this or becoming
Podcast playlists have been c o n t r a d i c t e d A p p l e H u m a n Windows, including a 64-bit personality. She brought the this. That's what's so great about
addressed. The Genius now Interface Guidelines, which states version for Vista, iTunes 9 can be audience, even her male this show. It allows you to
automatically updates to show that the zoom button “toggles a had through Software Update or opponents, to their feet. Lost in become this person that you've
Genius Mixes, and the issue of window between its standard state downloaded directly. Read our the whirlwind of emotions, Macy always been frightened to be."
sorting albums with multiple discs and its user state.” With iTunes 9, latest analysis piece, " Mobile didn’t even realize the response
has been fixed — finally. Lastly, the decision was made to make Sites Show Little Improvement." she had earned. She appreciates
there is the matter of the zoom the behavior of the zoom button Only on GigaOM Pro.
button behavior. consistent with other applications.
Through iTunes 8, clicking the A c c e s s i n g t h e m i n i - p l a y e r
zoom — green — button brought window was done by holding the

The SUL as a tool to control news?

(Scripting News) There's no doubt that Twitter why, we can only speculate that it
Submitted at 9/22/2009 5:29:43 AM has received a lot of help from the was because they ran a piece that
press, and much of it is genuine Twitter didn't like.
SUL is Twitter's Suggested enthusiasm for a communication 7/16/09: Twitter's Internal
Users List. tool that at least hints at the future Strategy Laid Bare: To Be "The
It's a group of approximately of news. Pulse Of The Planet."
500 Twitter users who are Many of the suggested users are People have always questioned
"suggested" to new users when news organizations, reporters, whether there was a connection
they create an account. The stated columnists, marketers, and as a between being on the list and not
purpose is to provide people to result, most have over a million being too critical of Twitter. At
watch when you're starting out. followers. Almost all of the top this point, there isn't much doubt
But are there other purposes? tech news organizations are on the Compare this to the graph for We know this much -- that the connection is there.
Could it be used to reward list. And TechCrunch was one of Mashable, over the same period. TechCrunch was dropped from
positive coverage and punish them until something happened in And plotted on the same graph. the Suggested User List, right
negative coverage? I think we J u l y a s i s e v i d e n t i n t h i s It's pretty clear something around the time their follower
now have some data on that. TwitterCounter graph. happened in July. count started heading down. As to
54 Tech Blog/ TV/ Media
Sharing links in the River2
community
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:54:56 AM
A new feature makes it easy to
share links to stories from the
River2 news page to followers on
Twitter.
http://newsriver.org/r2ly.html
It also maintains a Top 40 list
for River2 users.
This feature is itself a bootstrap
since one of the key ingredients
are the people using it. Just the
right number and the right kind
(thoughtful, passionate, forgiving,
visionary) are needed. The result
can be an editorial product in its
own right. And the first
experiences will probably
certainly suggest the second and
third level of features.
Bootstrapping is for users too.
In fact at some point, without
users participating, the bootstrap
stops. You have to wait until they
show up, or keep trying to figure
out what it will take to entice
them to participate.
I realized something yesterday,
that bootstrapping is hard because
you have to use things that don't
exist yet.
Around the Net In Media: Dow Jones Shutters 'Far Eastern
Economic Review'
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:52:07 PM
Dow Jones will cease publishing
Far Eastern Economic Review, its
Asian news magazine, effective
with the December issue. Starting
then, Dow Jones will feature more
I often use bridges as metaphors
to describe bootstraps in software.
Here goes..
People hardly notice driving
across the Golden Gate Bridge,
they might notice the scenery, or
the walkers or bike riders, or think
about the oncoming traffic. But
one day, a long time ago,
someone stood on one side or the
other -- in San Francisco or Marin
-- and looked at the Golden Gate
(which was the waterway before it
was the bridge) and thought "I bet
we could put a bridge here." Nice
thought, but then what? What's
the first step? And when that
doesn't work, what's the next first
step? Long before there's a bridge,
someone has to make the trip in a
content from Asia within the Wall
Street Journal and its other
remaining properties.
Hugo Restall, the mag's editor
since October 2004 -- two months
before the magazine switched to a
monthly frequency -- will
continue to serve on the WSJ
bucket hanging from a cable.
Today, River2 users are those
kinds of people.
I've been having an on-and-off
discussion with Marshall about
this. He's been frustrated by the
software. I understand. But I need
people like him to struggle
through it, tell me what went
wrong, so I can try to fix it, and
then tell me if it worked. The
rewards mostly come from within,
to know that you played a role in
making something new happen. In
this case it will be a distributed
loosely-coupled 140-character
message network that is free from
YWFFTMMR. And there might
be business opportunities to
provide services to users. No
one's saying you can't get rich.
But it has to be fair, and people
should always have lots of choice.
One more note -- it's taking a
long time for the domain I'll use,
r2.ly, to come through the
registration process. So to begin
with we'll use a teamrss.com
domain to share links. If you see
one of these on Twitter it's
coming from this part of River2.
editorial board. Far Eastern
Economic Review was launched
in 1946 by Eric Halpern, an
immigrant from Vienna, and was
based in Hong Kong.
What's On Tonight: Old
Christine, Cougar Town,
Glee, CSI: NY, Top Chef
By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:11:00 PM
• At 8, ABC has a new Dancing
with the Stars, followed by the
series premieres of Modern
Family, Cougar Town, and
Eastwick.
• CBS has the season premiere
of Old Christine at 8, then the
season premieres of Gary
Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and
CSI: NY.
• NBC has the series premiere of
Mercy at 8, followed by the
season premiere of Law and
Order: SVU and a new Jay Leno
Show.
• FOX has a new So You Think
You Can Dance and a new Glee.
• There's a new America's Next
Top Model on The CW at 8, then
a new The Beautiful Life.
• Cartoon Network has a new
Bobb'e Says at 8, followed by a
new Dude, What Would Happen?
• At 9, Discovery has a new Man
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vs. Wild.
• Food Network has a new
Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 9.
• History Channel has a new
Nostradamus Effect at 9, followed
by a new MysteryQuest.
• Also at 9: Syfy has a new
Ghost Hunters, then a new
Destination Truth.
• At 10, Bravo has a new Top
Chef: Las Vegas.
• Travel Channel has a new Man
vs. Food at 10.
Check your local TV listings for
more.
After the jump, the late night
talk shows.
Continue reading What's On
Tonight: Old Christine, Cougar
Town, Glee, CSI: NY, Top Chef
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Bill Lawrence talks Cougar
Town
By Joel Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:04:00 AM
A couple of weeks after I got
some Scrubs scoop from Bill
Lawrence in Pasadena, I asked if
we could talk by phone about his
new show, Cougar Town. The
Courteney Cox-led show, which
follows the travails of a forty-
something Florida real estate
agent and single mom as she tries
to re-enter the dating world, starts
tonight at 9 PM ET on ABC.
We talked a little more about
Scrubs(I'll print that in a few
weeks), then about Cougar Town.
I opened with the fact that at the
session he had for the show at the
TCA press tour, he seemed to
spend a lot of time defending the
"noisy title" of the show.
The conversation ranged far and
wide from that point, from what
he thinks about the future of the
multi-camera sitcom, why NBC's
dependence on Jay Leno is
shortsighted, why he's so outgoing
to us press types, and why
Courteney Cox let him talk
everyone's ears off during the
press tour session. You can read
the long but interesting full
TV/ 55
The Office:
season five
DVD review
By Kona Gallagher (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:00:00 AM
When I received my copy of The
Office season five DVD in the
mail, the first thing I noticed was
Warehouse 13: Macpherson that there may or may not be a
Golden Ticket enclosed that
(season finale) would win me a trip to
Hollywood. I tore into the
By Mike Moody (TV Squad) other, and they also gave the show packaging, and saw that I had not,
transcript if you're eager to find Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:21:00 AM a real sense of danger and in fact, won. So, this DVD set
that stuff out. An edited version of purpose. Oh, and Macpherson sucks. THE END.
the interview is after the jump. (S01E13) It took a while, but also gave us Claudia and Leena, ...Okay, I've been informed that I
Continue reading Bill Lawrence Warehouse 13 finally broke away apparently. won't get paid unless I tell you
talks Cougar Town from the stale case-of-the-week Macpherson returned to twist about what's actually on the
F i l e d u n d e r : I n d u s t r y , episodes (and the stale dialogue) the knife one more time in a DVDs. So, let's get to that.
Interviews, TCA Press Tour, to become the summer's most s e a s o n f i n a l e p a c k e d w i t h The short version of the story is,
Reality-Free, Cougar Town amusing slice of sci-fi TV. The surprises, red herrings, and a few the folks who make The Office
Permalink| Email this| | shift happened a few weeks ago insane artifacts (Timothy Leary's DVDs do so with fans in mind.
Comments when Roger Rees' smug and psychedelic glasses? That was a They are not creating merely a
sadistic baddie, Macpherson, good one.) collection of episodes: They
showed up to make trouble for the Continue reading Warehouse chock the DVDs full of enough
team. 13: Macpherson (season finale) extras and other goodies to make
Macpherson turned out to be the Filed under: Other Sci- buying the DVDs preferable to
big bad Warehouse 13 was Fi/Supernatural Shows, Episode say, buying a season pass on
missing all along. He was an ex- Reviews, Reality-Free iTunes or just not erasing the
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against Artie and the regents. His Comments DVR.
evil plots forced Artie and the Continue reading The Office:
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Mad Men marathon this Sunday
By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:40:00 AM
There was a real conundrum for
Mad Men last Sunday night. Did
you watch the Emmys and see
Mad Men win as Outstanding
Drama Series or were you tuned
in to watch latest episode from
Season Three? Of course, most of
you reading are DVR owners and
could watch one live and record
the other, but watching an award
show after you know the winners
is a little like watching sports
when you know the results.
Well, if a Mad Men fan has
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Chicago Cubs' Milton Bradley would
return to team if allowed, his mother
says
By ESPN.com news services Heights) Daily Herald of Illinois. 3-year-old son has faced at
(ESPN.com) Bradley, who was scratched from school.
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:53:32 AM Saturday's lineup with a sore left "When racism hit his 3-year-old
knee, was quoted as saying, "You baby in school, he couldn't take
The mother of banished Chicago understand why they haven't won that," Rector said in a radio
Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley in 100 years here." interview earlier this week,
said her son would consider As of Tuesday, the Cubs still according to the Sun-Times.
returning to the team if it will hadn't filed any formal papers "Parents, teachers and their kids
have him back. with Major League Baseball, the called him the n-word. He didn't
The Cubs suspended the volatile players' union or Bradley's agents even know it was a bad word until
Bradley on Sunday for the rest of outlining the suspension. He his mom told him."
the season for what amounted to remains absent from the team and When asked why her son shared
conduct detrimental to the team, it is still unclear whether the
one day after he criticized the suspension is with or without pay.
the information only with her this
season, Rector said, "Milton is a
missed any episodes this season, f r a n c h i s e i n a n e w s p a p e r Bradley has two years quiet person. Stuff like that, he
or if they're piled up on the i n t e r v i e w . remaining on a three-year, $30 keeps to himself. He doesn't want
DVR/Tivo queue, making you “ million contract that he signed as to talk about that because he
feel guilty for not keeping up, Milton eats, sleeps and drinks a free agent last offseason. doesn't think anybody cares. It is a
here's an out. AMC is going to baseball. He loves it. That's all he Hendry said Sunday he did not heartbreaking situation."
show a Mad Men Season Three wants to do.”-- Charlena Rector, know if the relationship can be She believes it affected his play.
marathon on Sunday, September mother of salvaged. Bradley struggled at the plate,
27, starting at 10 a.m. All six Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley "Recently, it's become batting .257 with 12 homers and
episodes will air up to the Speaking to the Chicago Sun- intolerable to hear Milton talk 40 RBIs this season, and was
premiere of the last, episode Times on Tuesday, Charlena about our great fans the way he booed vigorously by home fans at
seven, at 10 p.m. Rector said: "All the people on has," Hendry said. "We pride Wrigley Field.
Continue reading Mad Men TV keep saying, 'Oh, Milton has ourselves on having the greatest "I watched his swing, and I
marathon this Sunday played his last game for the fans in baseball, so at this time we could tell what was wrong,"
Filed under: Programming, Cubs.'" But, she added, that won't felt it was best to send him home Rector told the Sun-Times. "His
OpEd, Reality-Free, Mad Men be the case if Bradley has any say for the rest of the season." mind wasn't on baseball. He was
Permalink| Email this| | with management. The Cubs haven't won the thinking about all of these other
Comments "Milton eats, sleeps and drinks World Series since 1908 and, things."
baseball. He loves it. That's all he though they had high postseason Information from The
wants to do," Rector told the hopes entering 2009, they are 78- Associated Press and ESPN.com
newspaper. 72 through Tuesday and out of the senior writer Jayson Stark was
Cubs general manager Jim playoff races. used in this report.
Hendry said he decided to send According to his mother,
Bradley home after learning of the Bradley's unhappiness in Chicago
player's remarks in the (Arlington stems in part from racism that his
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Why Let Stats Cloud an MVP Debate?
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:57:48 AM
It’s not news that the Minnesota
Twins and New York Yankees
won Tuesday night. The Twins’
win helped the team keep pace in
an attempt to catch the Detroit
Tigers in the AL Central, while
New York’s clinched a playoff
berth. Nor is it news that those
teams’ two top stars — Joe Mauer
and Derek Jeter — each spent
roughly half their nights on base.
They’ve been doing it all year,
and that’s why they have been at
the center of a debate over the
rightful American League Most
Valuable Player. How and why
that debate has grown so
unusually heated is another story.
Reuters Does Derek Jeter deserve
a lifetime-achievement MVP
award?
Mauer leads the league, by
generous margins, in batting
average (.372), on-base
percentage (.442) and slugging
percentage (.609), has hit a career
-best 28 homers despite missing
the first month of the season to
injury, and has keyed the Twins’
improbable late run in the AL
Central. Jeter, for his part, has less
impressive stats but is enjoying a
terrific season for a winning team,
is one of the game’s most revered
players and has never won an
MVP. By the numbers, be they
averages and homers or advanced
metrics like WAR, it’s hard to
make an argument for Jeter over
Mauer as MVP, but many have
made the case for Jeter
nonetheless MLB.com’s Hal
Bodley, for instance based on
both Number Two’s intangible
contributions and the fact that the
future Hall of Famer has not yet
won an MVP.
The relative squishiness of the
pro-Jeter case has led to a
backlash in the more stat-friendly
online baseball community. The
Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s
Michael Rand was more polite
than some in his dismissal (it’s
Minnesota, after all), but no less
dismissive. Yahoo’s Gordon Edes
predicts that Mauer will win the
argument, and the MVP, in the
end.
At this point, though, the debate
less is about which player has
been more valuable than about the
interlocutors themselves the
traditionalists arguing for Jeter on
near-mystical grounds and the
increasingly enraged objectivists
in Mauer’s corner. Ken Rosenthal
of Fox Sports, for one, picks
Mauer as his MVP but feels
picked on by the statheads making
the case for him. “Sabermetricians
were ignored for so long, they had
to shout to be heard,” Rosenthal
writes. “Now they are getting
heard — properly heard in the
highest levels of baseball media
and front offices. But some
continue to shout, dismissing
those who disagree as ignorant
dolts. Last I checked, it’s a free
country.”
Joe Posnanski thinks
Rosenthal’s dialing up the huff a
bit too much, given that “the
mainstream media is still, you
know, mainstream.” “It strikes a
fun image of stat-heads holding
mainstream media members
hostage with slide rulers and
mechanical pencils,” Posnanski
blogs. “[But] Ive got to believe
that Kens whole notion that
baseball bloggers are so powerful
and overbearing that they are
stifling free speech and peoples
willingness to push for Derek
Jeter as MVP over Joe Mauer is
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at least partially tongue in cheek. Couch celebrates the return of
At the Daily Deal, Matthew “the best women’s tennis player
Wurtzel imagines Prokhorov as a in the world.”* * *
Russian answer to Dallas NBA commissioner David
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Stern’s hard line in negotiations
The prospect of an NBA team with the NBA referees union —
— even a team that one hugely discussed in this recent Fix—
talented and utterly shameless seems destined to lead to a
Nets fan tagged a serious disgrace lockout and replacement refs. In
pretty comical. I think the power in its current iteration — passing the New York Times, Howard
that comes from the best bloggers into the hands of a Russian Beck remembers 1995, the last
who use statistics is that what they oligarch will surely result in more time the NBA broke out
write MAKES SENSE.” interesting articles along the way. replacement referees. “Fourteen
An argument for ambiguity an While you wait, check out Julian years ago, the N.B.A. locked out
argument for the argument, if you G a r c i a ’ s a b l e r e c a p o f its referees, handed their whistles
like comes from the temple of Prokhorov’s interesting past in the to an army of wide-eyed
objective stats that is Baseball New York Daily News.* * * substitutes and watched the
Reference. At BR’s Daily Blog, Considering that Kim Clijsters insanity unfold,” Beck writes.
Bill Baer makes the case for a wound up winning the U.S. Open “The games got messy. The
nebulously defined MVP. “If we in just her third tournament after players got antsy. They wanted
follow the statistics and simply e n d i n g a t w o - y e a r c a r e e r their old referees back — the
mechanically hand out the awards sabbatical, it’s perhaps not that same ones who, in any other
based on what FanGraphs and surprising that Justin Henin, the season, would be the targets of
Baseball Reference say,” Baer 2007 U.S. Open champion and their fury.”
writes, “then theres no more winner of seven Grand Slam At the blog 48 Minutes of Hell,
reason to hold any interest in the tournaments, announced Tuesday Graydon Gordian steps back from
end-of-season awards.”* * * that she was ending her own 16- the negotiating table jockeying
It’s not an appealing word. But month retirement. While all these and examines the human stakes of
there isn’t really a more accurate c o m e b a c k s m a k e f o r n i c e a referee lockout.* * *
term than “oligarch” to describe television narratives, they have During NBC’s Sunday night
M i k h a i l P r o k h o r o v , a also raised the question of why so broadcast, the network’s
controversial Russian nickel- m a n y t e n n i s p l a y e r s f e e l broadcasters all but wrote a love
mining magnate with an estimated compelled to leave the sport — if poem to the budget-busting
net worth of $9.5 billion and an only for a little while — at their gaudiness of the new Cowboys
increasingly serious interest in peaks. Stadium. A few of the less-
purchasing the NBA’s New Jersey “Despite its genteel roots, discussed downsides to Jerry
Nets. Of course, it’s still kind of m o d e r n t e n n i s h a s b e c o m e Jones’s new palace: Parking costs
hard to tell exactly how serious p r o g r e s s i v e l y c o n d u c i v e t o $40, a 20-inch pizza really costs
this is — Nets executive Brett f l a m e o u t s , ” U S A T o d a y ’ s $60, and the tax burden placed on
Yormark is one of the most Douglas Robson writes. “From a the community by construction
relentlessly on-message human young age, players are subjected overruns is a whopping $933
beings on earth, and he isn’t t o i n c e s s a n t g l o b a l t r a v e l , million.
talking. Prokhorov, for his part, increasingly physical matches and Eric Deggans of the National
expressed his interest in a Russian a grinding season that runs until Sports Journalism Center injects
language LiveJournal post. The N o v e m b e r f o r w o m e n a n d some welcome perspective with a
Newark Star-Ledger’s Dave December for men. Examples of column that ponders the thin line
D’Alessandro blogs the goofily players in their prime that took between enthusiastic reportage
Borat-ian Google translation. At time off and returned, or left the and outright boosterism. “If youre
Field of Schemes, Neil deMause s p o r t f o r g o o d , l i t t e r t h e
wonders if Prokhorov’s post was landscape.” At Fanhouse, Greg WHY page 61
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Plaxico Burress sentenced to two years in prison on firearms
charge
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 8:28:23 AM
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• Plaxico Burress Begins Prison
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• Burress' Attorney Addresses
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NEW YORK -- One-time Super
Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was
sentenced to two years in prison
Tuesday for violating New York's
stringent gun laws and was
immediately taken into custody
following his hearing.
Burress agreed to a plea deal
last month and pleaded guilty to a
lesser firearms charge. The
charges stemmed from an incident
late last fall, in which Burress
accidentally shot himself in the
thigh at a Manhattan nightclub
with a gun that had not been
licensed in New York.
He is expected to serve about 20
months with credit for good
behavior -- meaning he could be
released as early as the spring of
2011 -- followed by two years of
probation.
Burress arrived at the
courthouse at 9:41 a.m. ET on
Tuesday wearing a jeans and a
long-sleeved T-shirt, a stark
contrast to the dark blue suit he
wore last month when he entered
his guilty plea.
He was accompanied by his
pregnant wife, Tiffany; his almost
3-year-old son, Elijah, whom he
carried; his father and stepmother;
and his grandmother.
Before the sentencing began,
Burress asked for and was granted
permission by Judge Michael
Melkonian to say one last
goodbye to his wife and family,
seated in the fifth row of the
courthouse.
The hearing was brief, as the
prosecution and defense told the
judge they had previously agreed
to the guilty plea and two-year
sentence.
A soft-spoken Burress then
apologized to his family and fans
and thanked them for their
support. "We will all get through
this," he said.
He was then taken into custody.
The Giants, through spokesman
Pat Hanlon, said, "This has been a
tragic, sad, disappointing situation
from the beginning. Our concern
has always been for Plax's
welfare, and for his family, and
that continues to be our overriding
feeling."
Michael Strahan, a former
Giants teammate who is now an
NFL television analyst, used his
Twitter account to support
Burress: "My Thoughts and
Prayers are with my man Plaxico
and his family today!!!"
Antonio Pierce, also a former
Giants teammate who was with
Burress the night of the incident,
and former Giants linebacker
Kawika Mitchell, now with the
Buffalo Bills, re-tweeted the
Strahan comment.
Burress was transported to
Rikers Island jail in New York,
where he arrived at 1:20 p.m. ET,
according to Steve Morello, a
deputy commissioner with the
New York City Department of
Corrections. He will later be
transferred to another correctional
facility for processing before
being sent to one of New York
state's 34 medium-security prisons
to serve out his sentence.
Afterward, his defense attorney,
Benjamin Brafman, called the
case "terribly sad and very tragic."
"This has been a very emotional
experience for him," Brafman
said. "He's sad about what he's
done to his life, his career, and
more importantly to his family.
He's a fundamentally good man
who has used bad judgment and is
going to pay a very, very severe
penalty."
The case went to a grand jury
after months of negotiations
between prosecutors and Burress'
defense attorney broke down,
apparently because Manhattan
District Attorney Robert
Morgenthau insisted that the
former New York Giants wide
receiver serve at least two years in
prison for violating the city's strict
gun laws. Mayor Michael
Bloomberg had also publicly
called for Burress to be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of
the law.
On July 29, Burress took the
rare and risky step of testifying
before the grand jury, hoping to
convince the panel that the gun
was not used in the commission of
a crime and that he was the lone
victim. But days later, Burress
was indicted on two counts of
criminal possession of a weapon
and one count of reckless
endangerment. He faced a
minimum sentence of 3½ years if
convicted at trial.
On Aug. 20, the day he was to
be arraigned, Burress agreed to a
plea deal and pleaded guilty to
attempted weapons possession in
the second degree.
Hours after Burress pleaded
guilty, the NFL announced that
commissioner Roger Goodell had
suspended the receiver and said
Burress is ineligible to sign with
any team until he completes his
prison term. After that, Burress
may sign with an NFL team
without further review.
Burress, a nine-year veteran
with the Giants and Pittsburgh
Steelers, became a Super Bowl
hero when he caught the winning
touchdown pass in the last minute
of the Giants' 17-14 upset win
over the previously unbeaten New
England Patriots in Super Bowl
XLII.
Burress and Pierce were at the
Latin Quarter nightclub in
Manhattan in late November 2008
when a gun that was tucked into
Burress' waistband slipped down
his leg and fired, shooting him in
the right thigh.
The bullet narrowly missed a
nightclub security guard who was
standing inches away, prosecutors
said. It lodged in the floor and
was recovered by a bartender.
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The gun was not licensed in
New York or in New Jersey,
where Burress lived. His license
to carry a concealed weapon in
the state of Florida had expired in
May 2008.
Prosecutors said Pierce drove
Burress to a hospital, then took
the gun to his own home in New
Jersey. It was later delivered to
Burress' home. Pierce, who also
testified before the grand jury,
was not charged.
The Giants released Burress in
April, but the 32-year-old told
ESPN he hopes to resume his
NFL career when he completes
his sentence.
"When I get out, I'll be 33, not
43," Burress said in an interview
broadcast in August. "I'll still be
able to run and catch. I'll still have
the God-given ability to snag
footballs; that's what I love to do.
Of course, I want to play again."
Gil Brandt, an analyst on NFL
Sirius Radio and the former head
of player personnel for the Dallas
Cowboys, said Burress won't be
too old for a comeback when he's
released from prison.
"First of all, Plaxico is a guy
who keeps himself in pretty good
shape," Brandt said. "Lots of
times guys get heavy in the
offseason. He is not a guy who
has done that."
ESPN reporter Sal Paolantonio
and The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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Dolphins Dominate All Stats but Final Score
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:52:47 AM
Winning the time-of-possession
battle in a football game can be
about as valuable as the $10 you
collect for winning second prize
in a beauty contest in Monopoly.
It doesn’t hurt, but as the Miami
Dolphins can attest today, it
doesn’t necessarily help much,
either. Getty Images Peyton
Manning takes time from his busy
schedule filming commercials to
steer the Colts to victory.
The Dolphins controlled the ball
for over 45 minutes out of 60 yet
lost 27-23 to Indianapolis on
Monday, thanks to Peyton
Manning’s quick-strike
capabilities. The Colts
quarterback threw a TD pass on
the game’s opening play and
another late in the fourth quarter
to beat Miami. Those drives
required all of 44 seconds
combined. The Dolphins also
rushed for an impressive 239
yards on 49 carries, another stat
that won’t make them feel any
better about dropping to 0-2.
“The point is that the view from
two losses in the first two games
of any NFL season isn’t a pretty
one,” Greg Stoda writes in the
Palm Beach Post. “Jacksonville,
Tennessee, Cleveland, Kansas
City and the Dolphins are
working from that AFC
perspective at the moment;
Carolina, Tampa Bay, Detroit and
St. Louis are the NFC
counterparts. How’s that for a
miserable bunch of teams? If
there’s a championship contender
among those groups — or, for that
matter, a playoff participant —
it’s pretty well-disguised.”
“Despite what the clock might
lead you to believe, Manning was
the more efficient quarterback on
Monday night,” Vinnie Iyer
writes for the Sporting News.
“You can’t ‘fault’ him for
[Dallas] Clark and [Pierre]
Garcon making great moves to
score in a blink. That’s just the
nature of having explosive
playmakers.”
The Indianapolis Star’s Bob
Kravitz imagines Johnny Unitas
in football heaven celebrating
Manning’s efficiency and his
119th victory, breaking the
legendary quarterback’s franchise
record. “Seriously, did you see
my boy, 18? Is that kid a leader,
or what?” Kravitz writes,
channeling Unitas. “He spent
more time on the sideline talking
to Tiger Woods than he did on the
field. Seemed like he needed 10
plays to score 27 points. That, my
friends, is more than quarterback;
that’s a leader.”
While the Dolphins are winless,
division rival New York is 2-0.
But don’t celebrate too early, Jets
fans, Jeff Pearlman warns at
Sports Illustrated.
In Washington, the Redskins
needed an ugly 9-7 win over St.
Louis on Sunday to get to 1-1
before displeased fans.
Afterwards, a tweet from
linebacker Robert Henson led to a
torrent of criticism of the rookie
Monday, Dan Steinberg writes in
the Washington Post. It’s never a
good thing to refer to your own
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spectacularly,” Justice fumes. New York Times. A country
“Had Dave Clark, who managed stereotypically known for its
six years in the minor leagues and polite citizenry is suddenly
is held in high esteem in the fighting accusations of poor
clubhouse, gotten a chance earlier, sportsmanship.* * *
a cloud of doubt and negative Some message Formula One
emotions would have been lifted.” sent Monday. The sport’s
Sports Illustrated’s Ted Keith governing body gave Renault a
thinks the Astros will be hard- two-year suspended sentence for
fans as “dim-wits.”* * * pressed to contend next year even its role in Nelson Piquet Jr.’s
The community-owned Packers with the managerial change. “The deliberate crash at last year’s
thrive in Green Bay, the NFL’s Astros are old and it shows,” Singapore Grand Prix. While
smallest market. But it’s a Keith writes. “They have only two team boss Flavio Briatore was
different story in Jacksonville, position players younger than 29, banned for life and engineer Pat
where the Jaguars likely will not and when veterans like Miguel Symonds was banned for five
sell out any games this season. Tejada and Lance Berkman years, Renault didn’t even get a
For Sunday’s home opener, a 31- stopped producing as they did in hefty fine.
17 loss to Arizona, the Jags their prime, their offense was “The governing body of motor
announced attendance of 46,520 rendered largely punchless.”* * * sport has failed in its duty
but the crowd appeared much Most baseball teams run sufficiently to penalize Renault
smaller. High unemployment and academies in the Dominican and its Formula One team for one
foreclosure rates and little Republic, injecting over $100 of the worst acts of cheating in
corporate support are major m i l l i o n a n n u a l l y i n t o t h e sporting history and allowed
reasons Dan Wetzel of Yahoo economy, because of the wealth commercial considerations to
Sports labels this small-market of talent they reap from that cloud its judgment,” Edward
NFL experiment a failure.* * * investment — the most of any Gorman wonders in the Times of
The Houston Astros surprised foreign country. But the game in London.
no one by firing manager Cecil the D.R. is rife with steroids, In the New York Times, Rob
Cooper on Monday. Afterwards, fraud and kickbacks, Kevin Hughes writes that Briatore’s
Cooper’s replacement, third-base Baxter writes in the Los Angeles suspension poses a problem for
coach Dave Clark, watched the Times.* * * British soccer, too.
Astros fall to their eighth straight Canada and the U.S. usually – Tip of the Fix cap to reader
defeat, 7-3 to St. Louis. have an amicable relationship. Don Hartline.
Poor signings and a weak minor The two countries share the Found a good column from the
-league system contributed to the world’s longest undefended world of sports? Don’t keep it to
Astros’ early elimination from the border and are each other’s largest yourself — write to us at
playoffs, the Houston Chronicle’s trading partners. But things aren’t dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
Richard Justice writes. But they hunky-dory as Canada prepares consider your find for inclusion in
aren’t the biggest reason for for the Winter Olympics in the Daily Fix. You can email
Houston’s failures, at least February. Hoping to sit atop the Garey at ris84rap@gmail.com.
according to Justice. “Cooper was medal standings and win its first
a huge part of the problem. In gold medal as host, Canada is
almost every way a manager can l i m i t i n g t r a i n i n g a c c e s s t o
b e m e a s u r e d , h e f a i l e d American and other foreign
athletes, John Branch writes in the
60 Sports/ Internet News Record

The Count: Wildcat Has Been a Starting linebacker A.J. Jones

Boon to Dolphins among 6 out of Florida Gators
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) though, that would make the practice for flulike symptoms
Submitted at 9/22/2009 4:29:20 PM yardage increase even more By Associated Press hoarse from "screaming too
impressive, because yards are (ESPN.com) much" during practice.
The Wildcat offense, featured by harder to come by close to the end Submitted at 9/23/2009 4:35:03 AM Previously, running back Jeff
the Miami Dolphins in their zone. Yardage also can matter Demps, tight end Aaron
Monday night, 27-23 loss to the more or less depending on the GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- No. 1 Hernandez and defensive end
Colts, got a bad rap on the ESPN situation, as Football Outsiders Florida Gators kept six more Jermaine Cunningham were
telecast. Associated Press Ronnie reminds readers in a review of this players out of practice Tuesday isolated because of flulike
Brown and the Dolphins did well past weekend’s games. because of flu-like symptoms. symptoms.
with the Wildcat on Monday. Still, the Wildcat numbers last Gators coach Urban Meyer said "They're still not 100 percent,"
Broadcasters cited statistics year were impressive, and they starting linebacker A.J. Jones was Meyer said. "We had six others
showing that last year, the were even more so last night, among those feeling ill. No player come down today with it, so we're
Wildcat formation — a kind of when the average Dolphins play has had a confirmed case of swine battling a little bit right now."
option offense that allows the out of the formation gained 8.9 flu, but Meyer has expressed The Gators all had a round of
offense to was used on 8.4% of yards, compared to 4.1 yards for concern that the virus could flu shots Sunday, about a week
Dolphins’ snaps, and amounted to all other plays. That suggests that ravage the defending national after one school official predicted
10.5% of Miami’s total yardage Miami should be using the champions. that as many as 40 percent of
from scrimmage. To Ron offense more often. Though the Receivers coach Billy Gonzales, students could catch swine flu this
Jaworksi, this demonstrated that team can’t be called conservative who was sent home the day before season.
the Wildcat represented just a 2% when it’s trying Wildcat more because he had a fever, returned Team doctors and trainers
improvement; he dismissed it as a than its peers, the underuse of to practice Tuesday wearing responded by placing hand
gimmick. But as reader Kenneth season. SI used the numbers, such a successful strategy is gloves and a mask. sanitizer and prevention checklists
Levin points out, those figures though, to make the opposite consistent with NFL teams’ SEC blog all around the facility.
suggest that the average Wildcat point — that the Wildcat has been reluctance to go for it on fourth ESPN.com's Chris Low writes When asked about the flu,
play gained far more than other very successful for Miami. The down. Football analyst Brian about all things SEC in his linebacker Ryan Stamper jokingly
plays –28% more yards, on magazine also reported that plays Burke studied when teams should conference blog. coughed at reporters, then
average. The two percentage- out of the formation accounted for kick and when they should try to • Blog network: laughed.
point difference looks small, but 20% of all Dolphins touchdowns. get the first down, and came up College Football Nation "We're doing a real good job
is more a reflection of the But that understates the Wildcat’s with a handy chart coaches can Also not at practice were with that, trying to keep guys
infrequency with which Miami effectiveness relative to other consult. He also credits the defensive back Josh Evans, from catching that," Stamper said.
deployed the unconventional offensive plays, because it R e d s k i n s w i t h s o m e g u t s y receiver Justin Williams, running Also Tuesday, linebacker
formation, despite all the attention includes two interception returns decisions on fourth down, and back Mike Gillislee, defensive Brandon Spikes (Achilles tendon)
it gets. for touchdowns. The Wildcat names the game last season with end Earl Okine and walk-on and receiver Deonte
“Most ’standard practices’ of contributed 21.5% of offensive the most egregious decisions not offensive lineman Shawn Thompson(hamstring) did not
today started as what could be touchdowns. That means plays to go for it on fourth down. Schmieder. practice. Meyer was optimistic
described as a ‘gimmick, gadget, out of the Wildcat were almost Bonus NFL numbers: Pro "We're all right," Meyer said. Thompson would be able to play
or trick (GGT)’ that proved three times as likely to result in Football Reference identifies the "We've just got to get ready. Saturday at Kentucky.
successful over the long term,” touchdowns than other plays. teams that have had the least and We're doing what we've got to do. "They ran him again today and
Western Kentucky University These numbers don’t account most turnover of talent since the What we can control, we control. he's feeling really good, but I'm
economist Brian Goff writes. for the position on the field when inception of free agency. Guys are wiping down just kind of cautious right now,"
Those stats aired by ESPN also the plays were run. Perhaps the everything. We're doing Meyer said. "We didn't hit the
were cited by Sports Illustrated in Wildcat was used more often everything we can. I think we'll be mark last week, so I want to hit
a preview of the Dolphins’ close to the end zone. If so, all right." the mark this week."
Meyer sounded as if he were Copyright 2009 by The
coming down with something Associated Press
himself, but insisted he was just
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Fan asks Oregon Ducks coach Chip Source: Dallas Cowboys

Kelly for refund after loss at Boise running back Marion Barber
State, gets a check for $439 in return gets treatment, hopes to play By Matt Mosley (ESPN.com) yards on 18 carries Sunday
against the Giants, isn't ready to
By ESPN.com news services everydayshouldbesaturday.com, to shut me up," Seminary said, Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:25:48 AM

(ESPN.com) he was so unhappy with what he according to the Web site. "When go, second-year player Tashard
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:35:05 AM saw, he sent Ducks coach Chip I received that check, I was Nursing a strained quadriceps Choice will take on a larger role
Kelly an e-mail, with an attached literally speechless. muscle in his left leg, Dallas on the offense. When Barber and
Plenty of disgruntled fans have i n v o i c e f o r $ 4 3 9 i n t r a v e l "I think of Coach Kelly as a Cowboys running back Marion Felix Jones were out with injuries
said they wanted their money e x p e n s e s . totally different person now," B a r b e r r e c e i v e d t r e a t m e n t last December, Choice stepped in
back after an underwhelming "The product on the field Seminary said, according to the Tuesday morning and hopes to and made a very favorable
performance. Thursday night is not something I Web site. "I have a different bond play against the Panthers on impression.
But how many have made that was at all proud of, and I feel as with him now. ... Let's just say he Monday, a league source told Jones tied a career high with 96
complaint -- and then received a though I'm entitled to my money lost every game as an Oregon ESPN.com on Tuesday. rushing yards and scored a
check in the mail, signed by the back for the trip," he wrote, coach. You would never hear me An MRI taken Monday morning touchdown on seven carries
coach? according to the Web site. calling for his head. It just confirmed the strain. Coach Wade Sunday.
Tony Seminary did. “ wouldn't happen. The guy showed Phillips said the Cowboys would Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
The story starts in Boise, Idaho, Let's just say he lost every game an incredible amount of class." have to "wait and see on that" questioned Barber's toughness
where on Sept. 3, Oregon lost its as an Oregon coach. You would Kelly would not address the when asked about Barber's status w h e n h e w a s i n j u r e d l a s t
season opener to Boise State-- and never hear me calling for his situation on Monday. d u r i n g M o n d a y ' s n e w s December, which seemed
star running back LeGarrette head. It just wouldn't happen. The "I've got no comment on that," conference. The Cowboys will see completely out of place for one of
Blount lost his temper and guy showed an incredible amount Kelly said Monday during a how Barber's quad responds to the most punishing runners in the
responded to an apparent taunt of class.”-- Oregon alumnus Tony media conference call. "We're treatment over the next few days league. Jones attempted to retract
from Boise State's Byron Hout Seminary, getting ready to play California." and then make a decision. his comments later, but it still
with a punch. on coach Chip Kelly Oregon athletic director and Barber pulled up lame at the end made for a bizarre situation.
The 19-8 loss was disappointing According to the Web site, former football coach Mike of a 35-yard run in the fourth To add depth, the Cowboys
for Oregon, which started the Kelly replied to Seminary's e-mail Bellotti said that during his career, quarter of the Cowboys' 33-31 signed running back Chauncey
s e a s o n w i t h B C S b o w l with a question: "What is your he has received e-mails and letters loss to the Giants on Sunday Washington to their practice
aspirations. The punch and address?" demanding money back, night. squad on Tuesday.
Blount's behavior afterward, in Sure enough, a check for $439, according to The Register-Guard Television station KXAS-TV in Washington played in six games
which he had to be restrained apparently signed by Kelly, of Eugene, Ore. But he never D a l l a s - F o r t W o r t h c i t e d for the Jacksonville Jaguars in
from approaching fans in the arrived in Seminary's mailbox, complied with those requests. anonymous sources in reporting 2008 as a rookie seventh-round
stands, led the team to suspend according to the Web site. "I've never heard of a coach on Tuesday that Barber will miss draft pick out of USC. He had
him for the season. Seminary was so impressed by the sending money," Bellotti said, one to two weeks, but the only four carries for 9 yards and
Seminary, an Oregon alumnus gesture, he returned the check to according to the report. "Chip Cowboys initially said the running one catch for 9 yards.
from the Portland area, attended Kelly with a thank-you note, [doing that] is one for the ages. back was "50-50." Now, it To make room on the practice
the game in Boise. According to rather than cashing it. He earns my respect." appears to be a waiting game. s q u a d f o r W a s h i n g t o n , t h e
t h e W e b s i t e "As a sales guy, it's really hard NFC East blog Cowboys released fullback Julius
ESPN.com's Matt Mosley writes Crosslin.
WHY
continued from page 57
about all things NFC East in his Matt Mosley covers the NFC
division blog. East for ESPN.com. Information
going to wow us with breathless debut of this behemoth — or at yourself — write to us at • Blog network: NFL Nation from The Associated Press was
facts on the size of the joint and least tone down the genuflecting.” dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll Having one extra day certainly used in this report.
celebrate the games record- – Tip of the Fix cap to fellow consider your find for inclusion in helps the running back's situation.
breaking status,” Deggans writes, Fixer Garey Ris. the Daily Fix. You can email But if Barber, who ran for 124
“surely theres also a little time to Found a good column from the David at droth11@gmail.com.
acknowledge any downside to the world of sports? Don’t keep it to
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Webb Reportedly Will Not NBA Players Union Stands

Restructure Option for With Refs
By Tom Ziller (FanHouse)
Arizona Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:15:00 AM

By Pat Lackey (FanHouse) by Tom Ziller

Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:33:00 AM Filed under: NBA Referees
Hornets guard Chris Paul may not
How's Everyone
by Pat Lackey be worried about replacement Feeling? Who's Ready
Filed under: Diamondbacks, NL referees coming to the NBA, but for Training Camp and
West One of the big stories of the Paul's union apparently feels
early offseason in 2009 is going to differently. Derek Fisher, the
Who Isn't
be Brandon Webb's 2010 option. Laker who heads the National By Matt Steinmetz (FanHouse)
The Diamondbacks hold a team Basketball Players Association,
option on their ailing ace worth league to treat players fairly in Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:00:00 PM
put out a statement Tuesday ongoing collective bargaining
$8.5 million and they're supporting the referees union in by Matt Steinmetz
understandably a little hesitant to agreement negotiations.
its labor dispute with the league. NBA Players Union Stands Filed under: NBA Injuries
pay such a steep price for a In the statement, Fisher called Several NBA players missed
pitcher coming off of a shoulder With Refs originally appeared on
the implementation of B-level Fanhouse NBA Blog on Wed, 23 significant parts of last season
injury, even if that pitcher is referees "unacceptable" and said because of injury. Here's a quick
Brandon Webb. Sep 2009 09:15:00 EST . Please
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In that vein, the Arizona compromise the integrity of the doing with training camps set to
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the D'backs are planning on do with their ace. treat the refs fairly, presumably Gilbert Arenas, Washington
approaching Webb about Webb Reportedly Will Not because Fisher would like the (knee): He's had three surgeries
restructuring his contract. Of Restructure Option for Arizona on his knee in a year and a half,
course, in the same story it was originally appeared on Fanhouse but Arenas said he'll be ready for
reported that Webb has absolutely MLB Blog on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 the start of training camp. Of
no interest in any sort of contract 10:33:00 EST . Please see our course, he took things a step
restructuring of his deal. That terms for use of feeds. further by saying that had he
means the D'backs have until Permalink| Email this| Linking continued to rehab in Washington,
shortly after the World Series to Blogs| Comments instead of working with trainer
figure out what they're going to Tim Grover in Chicago, he
wouldn't have made it back as
CFL Fan Climbs Goalpost, Somehow Avoids Breaking Neck fast.
By Adam Gretz (FanHouse) the north? Well, they raise the Multiple video's after the jump. How's Everyone Feeling? Who's
stakes to daredevil levels and CFL Fan Climbs Goalpost, Ready for Training Camp and
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:15:00 AM
climb the goalposts. Somehow Avoids Breaking Neck Who Isn't originally appeared on
by Adam Gretz During the Hamilton Tiger-cats originally appeared on Fanhouse Fanhouse NBA Blog on Wed, 23
Filed under: Blogs And you vs. Calgary Stampeders game on Backporch on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EST . Please
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Lions Worst in NFL in Long-
Haired Hippies, Too
By Ryan Wilson (FanHouse)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:00:00 PM
by Ryan Wilson
Filed under: Sports Media I love
that the Wall Street Journal's
David Biderman, as part of his
job, spent a few hours clicking
through every headshot of every
player currently on an NFL roster
for the sole purpose of writing this
post: "More NFL Players Are
Letting Their Hair Down." Rupert
Murdoch must be spinning in his
grave.
But out of Biderman's work
comes some interesting findings.
Like this: NFL defensive backs
have longer hair than any other
position. Or this: Quarterbacks are
among the cleanest cut.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace
Walker characters revealed
in Famitsu
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
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Haired Hippies, Too originally
appeared on Fanhouse Backporch
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METAL page 64
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Xbox 360 system
update preps Twitter,
Facebook, Last.fm
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 10:42:00 AM
Metroid Prime producer If you're playing hooky from
work or school today to get in
some quality time with Halo 3:
hints at future Prime titles ODST, you know that a
mandatory system update is
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) for the DS in Metroid Prime putting a pause on your action.
Hunters, and it's possible Tanabe Major Nelson reports that the new
Submitted at 9/23/2009 11:02:00 AM
is speaking about future Prime system update doesn't bring any
With the recent release of titles for Nintendo's handheld i m m e d i a t e c h a n g e s t o t h e
Metroid Prime Trilogy, it was system, hearing about more Prime Dashboard and only prepares
easy to presume that the Prime g a m e s i n a n y c a p a c i t y i s some backend support for the
series of Metroid games had intriguing news. While Team upcoming additions of Twitter,
received a final nail hammered N i n j a i s b u s y w o r k i n g o n Facebook and Last.fm to Xbox
into its coffin. According to a Metroid: Other M, it's possible Live later this year.
recent interview with Kotaku that Prime series dev Retro Oh, and if you do decide to link
though, it appears the series' Studios could be working on the up your Twitter and Facebook
producer isn't quite done. In future of its brand of Metroid. accounts to your Xbox 360 when
response to a question regarding Don''t just take it from us, take it that update launches, be careful
multiplayer in the series, Kensuke from Retro Studios prez and CEO about faking sick when the next
Tanabe said: Michael Kelbaugh who said so Halo rolls out. We'd hate for your
"As all I take part in is the Prime himself! boss or principal to find out you're
series, I am not capable of Metroid Prime producer hints at all too well"pwning n00bs!"
c o m m e n t i n g o n t h e w h o l e future Prime titles originally Xbox 360 system update preps
Metroid series. But we will keep appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm
considering multiplayer for the Sep 2009 11:02:00 EST. Please originally appeared on Joystiq on
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Hideo Kojima has remained tight
-lipped about the characters that
will appear in Konami's upcoming
PSP spy romp, Metal Gear Solid:
Peace Walker-- so far, we only
know four: Snake, Snake, Snake
and Snaaaake! However, Famitsu
has revealed a few other faces that
will make an appearances in the
game: Amanda, Huey, Chico,
Coldman, Strangelove, Galvez,
Cecile, Paz, and, most notably,
Master Miller from Metal Gear 2.
The magazine also included
illustrations of these characters,
who look as colorful as their
names might suggest.
Famitsu also provides details
about the co-op modes seen in the
nine-minute trailer released last
month. When two players get
close to one another, "Co-op"
mode activiates, merging the
New AoT: 40th Day screens drop shield, charge head first
By Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 12:31:00 PM
We're misleading you a bit. The
screenshots aren't quite dropping
anything themselves, so much as
the stars of upcoming bromance
sequel, Army of Two: The 40th
players' health gauges and
allowing them to trade items.
When they get really close, they
go into "Snake-in" mode, in
which one player controls both
Snakes' movements so that the
other can focus on murdering
fools.
We wonder if all four players
can merge in this manner, forming
a growling, bearded train of
death?
[Thanks, Ryan]
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
characters revealed in Famitsu
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Day, are putting down their
shields. Donning masks with
flames -- so as to terrify enemies
into thinking they're being
advanced upon by White Zombie,
of course -- Salem and Rio are
clearly concerned with meeting professional workplace: sporty,
attire standards for the
THQ takeover talk causes
stock bump
property.
Yeah, well ... we talked to an
analyst, too. Wedbush Morgan's
Michael Pachter tells us he doesn't
THQ's stock jumped up a solid believe a buyout is likely either.
13 percent yesterday over He concurs, "THQ is heavy on
whispers that the publisher is in a licensed content, and many
takeover company's line of sight. licenses potentially terminate on
Optimism has recently surrounded change of control. I don't see their
the once fumbling publisher, as it recent performance instilling a lot
pulled off a couple retail of confidence in their ability to
successes and has put on a good manage a bigger library of content
show with some surprisingly that would be presented in a
frank talk about its future. media buyout." Hmmm, from
However, as much as investors where are investors getting this
believe a buyout is in the works, buyout notion then?
Reuters spoke with an analyst THQ takeover talk causes stock
who isn't so sure. MKM Partners bump originally appeared on
analyst Eric Handler says rumors Joystiq on Wed, 23 Sep 2009
of a THQ buyout crop up almost 11:29:00 EST. Please see our
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yet hardcore.
That's what those bad guys get
for standing in the way of movie
night!
Gallery: Army of Two: The
40th Day (TGS 2009)
New AoT: 40th Day screens
drop shield, charge head first
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Left 4 Dead's 'Crash
Course' landing
September 29
By David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 9:59:00 AM
DLC over here! Valve has
announced that, next Tuesday,
fans of Left 4 Dead will get a new
campaign to play. " Crash
Course" will take place between
the events of "No Mercy" and
"Death Toll," providing a series of
survival maps and a streamlined
version of Versus mode on top of
the new co-op campaign action.
The DLC will be free for PC on
September 29 ... and 560($7) for
the Xbox 360 version. Did you
hear: a true sequel will be out just
7 weeks later?
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Kate Lanphear on LFW Where Richard, Olafur,

By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:28:04 AM
spirit about London, so this
production is such a departure,
but I also think it's amazing that
Murakami, and Marc
It was the last night of London
Fashion Week and Burberry threw
Burberry is here. It's the British
brand; for it to be showing in
London this season is so
meet
an extravaganza unlike any that important, and we all really came By blogeditor1 (Material
London has ever seen. While out to celebrate the brand. I think Interest on Men.style.com)
waiting for it to begin, I asked it's great that it's all happening in Submitted at 9/22/2009 10:20:37 AM
ELLE's very own Kate Lanphear one season. That was really the
what she thought of this week and exciting thing. it's been so buzzy. In the spirit of full disclosure
how it differed from her past It seemed like every week we (and getting it out of the way):
experiences. Kate is one of the were getting a new press release Yes, Rizzoli's mammoth new
few major international editors about which designer will be Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and
who makes LFW a regular stop on showing in London and then Architecture has a lot of handbags
her Fashion Week schedule, so everyone was talking and asking, in it. Keep reading anyway. The
she was at the top of my list of 'Are you going to London?' And encyclopedia (it's alphabetized) of
experts on the topic of how LFW it will be very interesting to see the brand's collaborations with
has changed in its 25th year. everything had to become a little what happens next season. artists, architects, and other
Here's what she had to say: bit more polished and produced, While it did feel different this designers goes far deeper than just
" E v e r y t h i n g c h a n g e s b u t for better or for worse. Coming time, it didn't lose its essence. It is purse projects and testifies to the
everything stays the same. When here in the past, I have always still really grassroots and is house's long-standing support of
you are on the bandwagon going said, some of the best ideas I have creative for the sake of creating. the arts. LV has deep pockets and
from city to city, every city really s e e n a n y p l a c e , e v e r y You know, underground, seedy, good taste; it can make the kind of
does have its own flavor and its season—maybe sometimes the cool—none of that was lost." offers not many can refuse. ("If
own feeling and its own voice, execution wasn't quite there, but —Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin this works, I can retire," Richard
and I don't think the voice here in the ideas certainly were—were in Click here to see the Burberry Prince tells Glenn O'Brien of his
London changed so dramatically. London. 2008 collaboration with creative as well call it giving credit where
collection. credit is due. It's hard not to be
You really get the feeling it one- I don't think that's changed at Follow ELLE on Twitter. director Marc Jacobs on show
upped itself, it upped the ante and all. I think there is a renegade invitations, installations, and an glad that Vuitton supports the
enormously popular line of, well, artists, designers, and architects it
does, especially when few seem
Gentlemen, Raise Your Bidding Paddles bags; one of his acrylics pictured,
left.) The book catalogs all of inclined to either half-ass their
By stylemens (GQ: The a car engine—and all of the these projects, which include store contributions or rest on their
Editors) money raised for this item design and merchandising (by Jun laurels after cashing their checks.
Submitted at 9/22/2009 11:58:37 AM benefits research for Duchenne Aoki, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Take Prince's project. It worked.
Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic Fernández) and limited-edition (The bags sold out.) He didn't
It’s not everyday that our d i s o r d e r t h a t c a u s e s r a p i d product designs (by Murakami, retire.
accessories editor tells us, “This is muscular degeneration in 1 out of Prince, Stephen Sprouse, Zaha $85, available today at Rizzoli
one of the coolest watches I have every 3,500 boys. The one-of-a- Hadid, Rei Kawakubo, and on and stores and rizzoliusa.com and at
ever seen.” Even less often is it kind piece is being auctioned off on). Each project is lavishly Louis Vuitton boutiques; for
that 100% of the proceeds for said this Thursday by Patrizzi & Co. illustrated and accompanied by an locations, visit louisvuitton.com
timepiece go toward a good cause. Auctioneers. And while you essay (O'Brien's on Prince and MATTHEW SCHNEIER Photo:
Which is why the "Only probably can’t be there for the Sprouse are alone just about © Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion,
Watch"—the latest from luxury actual event in Monaco, you can worth the price of admission). and Architecture, Rizzoli New
watchmaker MB&F—turned our wire design by artist Sage place a bid at the auctioneer’s web And while there's a hagiographic York, 2009.
heads. It’s got more bells and Vaughn, automatic winding site in real-time.— andrew tinge to the whole, we might just
whistles than you could hope double-dials, and Swiss richdale
for—an 18-karat gold, barbed- movement so complex it runs like
66 Fashion/ Internet News Record

Jude Law’s Latest Film

is All the Rage
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 12:41:32 PM

Last night Jude Law, Steve

Buscemi, Lily Cole, Bob Balaban,
Patrick Adams, and John
Leguizamo gathered at downtown
nightspot The Box to celebrate the
premiere of Rage, an
experimental work by British
director Sally Potter. The
minimalist murder mystery, which
sees the aforementioned actors as
fashion-industry personalities,
follows a week in the lives of a
cross-dressing supermodel (Law),
critic (Judi Dench), photographer
(Buscemi), and catwalk darling
(real-life model Cole). Rage has
the singular distinction of being
the first film released via mobile message: the themes Rage
Web (starting this week, viewers explores include, in Potter’s
can access daily episodes through words, “the power of the internet;
the service Babelgum). the reversal of power into the
But straight–to–cell phone was hands of the young, who know the
not how Potter initially imagined internet much better; the effect of
the project. “I wrote a script about
ten years ago,” she told me. “But I
globalization on the lives of
individuals; and the relationship
Finally, one-stop shopping for your yacht and
didn’t really ever feel that it was
quite working the way I had
between the world of appearances
and the inner self.” Or as Buscemi your watch
conceived it. And it was only after observed, “It’s not about fashion, By blogeditor1 (Material (basically every one you could have picked out their three
having a website and blog myself it’s about human nature.” Interest on Men.style.com) want, from Audemars to Zenith favorites (including the
that I began to really understand —Erin Clements Submitted at 9/22/2009 2:34:11 PM [pictured]) designed one-of-a-kind HM2—this might get interesting).
the power of the internet. And that Photo: Patrick McMullan pieces, the proceeds from which Prices are sure to be plutocrat-
gave me a clue about how to re- Follow ELLE on Twitter. Astonishingly, we're not making will support research on muscular level, but hey, compared to those
conceive the film.” And of course, our usual trip to Monaco this year. dystrophy, and bids can be made of the yachts on offer, they'll
the medium is part of the But luckily that doesn't forestall in real time on the auction house's practically be bargains.
us—or, for that matter, Web site. Anticipation's building, Auction begins at 12 p.m. EST
you—from bidding at Patrizzi & and everyone's got their eye on a Thursday, September 24, at
Co.'s Only Watch auction, which particular specimen or two: Our patrizziauction.com MATTHEW
will be held at the principality's friends at The Q are into MB&F's SCHNEIER Photo: Patrizz & Co.
yacht show on Thursday. For the HM2 by artist Sage Vaughn,
auction, 34 major houses while the devotees at Hodinkee
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Research Brief: Mobile
Internet Engagement and
Ad Clickthroughs Out of
Sync
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/23/2009 6:15:49 AM

According to the results of

research exploring mobile Internet
engagement levels among
smartphone owners, as compared
to owners of other devices,
InsightExpress found that 68% of
smartphone users reported feeling
positively engaged (enjoyment in
activity) while using the mobile
Internet, second only to the 70%
of users who were positively
engaged while on a computer.
Horns aplenty Alternately, only 47% of feature
phone users reported positive
By blogeditor1 (Material clothing (leather, suede, shearling, mobile site engagement.
Interest on Men.style.com) and fur) as well as plywood, When mobile Internet users
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:52:14 AM marble, and a few natural were asked to identify the top
products. More antlers? Well, we three elements that most influence
We're not sure when he finds might've been a little weary of
time to do it—what with a men's those in the past, but if anyone's
Burberry's Wildly Chic Front Row their decision to return to a mobile
line, a women's line, a fur line, capable of breathing new life into By ELLE.com (ELLE News Paltrow in a worn-in tee paired Internet site, they reported:
and two diffusion lines—but an overused design detail, our Blog) with a hot-off-the-runway skirt, • The speed at which the site
s o m e h o w R i c k O w e n s a l s o money's on this guy. Submitted at 9/23/2009 5:29:00 AM and Emma Watson in gold (or, as loads
designs furniture. And as a new Joe Zee tweeted, “shiny like a • The ease of navigation on the
Through September at
London gallery show of his Sebastian+Barquet London, 19 Stylish stars came out in full gold Christmas tree decoration”). site
interior work makes clear, he's got Bruton Pl., London, 011-44-20- force last night to celebrate Whose look would you most like • The quality of the content on
plenty to fall back on if he ever 7 4 9 5 - 8 9 8 8 , Burberry’s return home to the to wear out? the site itself
decides this fashion thing's for the sebastianandbarquetlondon.com London catwalk. My front-row Click here to shop Burberry's Among mobile Internet users,
birds. Owens' pieces range from favorites were Victoria Beckham fall collection. s e veral small but telling
[via WWD] MATTHEW differences were revealed when
chairs and sofas to lamps and SCHNEIER Photo: Courtesy of looking ladylike as ever in a —Violet Moon Gaynor
tables, using some of the same Sebastian+Barquet swingy dress from her spring Photos: Getty Images comparing smartphone owners to
materials he's worked with in 2010 collection, Liv Tyler Follow ELLE on Twitter.
wearing all black, Gwyneth

Around the Net In Media: Saving Newspapers From Their Saviors

(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 9/22/2009 7:50:46 PM
Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-
Md., early this year introduced a
bill that would allow newspapers
to reorganize themselves as
nonprofits. But the last thing
newspapers need is the sort of
help from the government that
turns them into NPR, "endlessly
begging for contributions,
pursuing wealthy philanthropists,
and standing in line for
government handouts," says Slate.
A previous round of
government intervention damaged
the newspaper business in the
cities where the feds approved
joint operating agreements, which
have basically failed. The
government's attempt to prop up
newspapers with rewrites of the
tax code or Sarkozy-esque direct
subsidies of government
advertising and free subscriptions
for young people are misdirected.
They only interfere with the
already-in-progress transition
from print to digital news
delivery.
Propping up troubled papers
weakens the enterprises that are
rising from below to compete
with them to deliver advertising
and deliver news. "There's no
better way to hinder the rise of
such Web sensations as Politico
and Talking Points Memo" than
rewriting the rules to benefit
traditional newspapers, Slate
concludes.
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RESEARCH
continued from page 67
feature phone owners, says the
report:
• Both groups prioritized the
speed at which a mobile site
loads,
• Smartphone users looked next
at the quality of the content,
ranking ease of navigation as less
important
• Feature phone users found ease
of navigation almost as essential
as their number one concern, how
fast the mobile site loads.
Mobile Web site features that
had the least impact on a users
decision to make a return visit
were the absence of advertising,
the ability to personalize, and the
number of links, videos or images
on the site. Publishers will likely
welcome the news that the
presence of advertising on a site
does not lessen its appeal,
concludes the study.
Joy Liuzzo, Director of
Marketing and Mobile Research.
"Mobile advertising presents a
unique opportunity to take
advantage of high engagement
levels and less clutter on the
pages... advertisers enjoy a large
share of voice per page since there
is often only one advertisement on
the page and it takes up more
screen space... "
And, an almost concurrent study
by Chitika of mobile vs. non-
mobile Internet usage, based on a
sample of 93 million impressions,
mobile users are approximately
half as likely to click on an
advertisement as non-mobile
users. Non-mobile held an 0.83%
clickthrough rate, while mobile as
a whole pulled a mere 0.48% -
just over half of the average.
It appears, given the numbers,
that mobile users are not receptive
to advertising. This phenomenon
that is not surprising, concludes
the report, given the mobile users'
propensity to be searching for
quick answers or directions.
Of the five major smartphone
operating systems, iPhone ranked
the worst for clickthrough rate at
0.30%. iPhone also accounted for
the bulk of mobile hits, at 66%.
The group which clicked on ads
the most is the "Other" group,
comprised mainly of BlackBerry
users and a small handful of other
phone operating systems
(including Symbian, Nokia, and
HTC).
The clickthrough rates, says the
report, are certainly lower than
expected, given the industry's
general consensus that mobile
users are more likely to click ads.
Possibly, concludes the study,
because the ads displayed on
mobile devices are the same as the
ones displayed to non-mobile,
rather than comparing standard
online advertising with mobile-
oriented ads.
However, concludes the report,
though "... (though) mobile
accidental clicks are more
relevant than in non-mobile ad
serving, it appears that mobile
Internet users are disinterested in
advertising at an extremely high
rate... "
To review the Chitika report,
please visit here, and to read the
InsightExpress release in its
entirety, please go here.
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TV Watch: A Tax For
Bad TV? If It Works
For Sugar...
(MediaPost | Media News) the time. (Give comedy writers a
Submitted at 9/23/2009 7:45:17 AM break here, considering the recent
poor history of launching new
Things that are bad for us sitcoms).
compel others to consider a tax to Reality television should do it
curb those activities. Too much part as well. Producers need to
smoking? Tax it. Too much find more real-life, voyeuristic
alcohol? Tax it. moments to satisfy our empty
Now, according to a recent voyeuristic lives. If producers
report, people are throwing can't find angry, back-biting
around the concept of taxing stuff w a n n a b e b u s i n e s s p e o p l e ,
that contains too much -- or any -- h a i r s t y l i s t s , c h e f s , f a s h i o n
sugar. designers, singers, dancers, car
What about bad TV shows? drivers, models, bull riders,
Programming that is too sweet, athletes, poker players, or actors -
trite, hackneyed, not funny, not - they are not doing their jobs.
well cast; shows with bad A New York Times story says
direction, poor lighting, not research suggests a tax on sugar-
believable sound effects. I figure sweetened beverages would have
all those should be taxable. strong positive effects on reducing
In this economy, everyone and consumption.
everything needs to be Ah hah! Rid yourselves of that
accountable. Talk to your media bad-tasting entertainment. Most
buying and planning professional TV advertisers have long yearned
about efficiency and eliminating for more engaged -- less sweet --
waste. One can get fired for much TV viewers, anyway.
less. Tax program license fees, the
Bad critical reviews could be cost of TV commercials that
one level of tax. Poor viewership support those shows, or any
could be another. What to do f o r t h c o m i n g d i g i t a l T V
with those tax dollars? Pay back subscription fees. I don't care.
viewers for their wasted time. If cash can't be returned to the
Our new economy is being built viewer, then that tax money
for 50- or 100-mile-per-gallon should be used to make better
cars. Why not demand more from shows.
TV? Dramas should move you to In TV advertising-speak, that's
tears -- or whatever -- 75% of the my version of a viewer make-
time. Comedies should make you good.
laugh -- or smile -- at least 65% of