Google+ Now Open To Teens 13 And Up January 28, 2012 No Comments
Google is opening up its social networking service Google+ to teens as of today, according to a post from Google’s VP, Product Management, Bradley Horowitz. The move puts the network in closer competition with Facebook, which also requires that individuals be at least 13 year old before creating an account. Says Horowitz, everyone who’s old enough for a Google account (13+ in most countries), can now create a Google+ account too.
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Murdoch-backed music startup bankrupt before launch (Reuters) No Comments
(Reuters) ? Beyond Oblivion, a digital music startup backed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and investment bank Allen & Co Director Stanley Shuman has filed for bankruptcy protection after spending millions of dollars building a service that never saw the light of day.
Journalists were given a preview of the New York start-up service that aimed to give away a limitless library of digital music with devices that had the Beyond Oblivion software pre-installed.
Such a plan would have had music licensing costs running at tens of millions dollars even before it achieved any scale.
Beyond Oblivion owed creditors between $100 million and $500 million, with estimated assets of less than $10 million, according to a Chapter 11 filing at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York.
Its two largest unsecured creditors were major music companies Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group who are each owed $50 million, for what is described as “trade debt.”
The board of directors, which includes Shuman and News Corp’s digital chief Jon Miller, agreed to wind down operations earlier this month.
Beyond Oblivion, which was founded in 2008 by British entrepreneur and music producer Adam Kidron, raised nearly $90 million in venture funding in its last two years.
News Corp originally paid $9.2 million for a 23 percent stake in Beyond Oblivion in April 2010, according to company regulatory filings. At that time Shuman, a News Corp director emeritus, had an 18 percent stake. News Corp said in the filing that Shuman did not receive compensation for his Beyond Oblivion board service.
In the News Corp’s fiscal year through June 30, 2011, the company pumped an additional $2 million into the digital music company. As of June 30, News Corp and Shuman owned around 20 percent and 14 percent respectively.
While relatively small in the context of News Corp’s $45 billion market capitalization, the collapse of Beyond Oblivion is the latest misstep with digital start-ups for Murdoch’s company.
Murdoch, who has flirted with Internet businesses since the first dot-com boom in the late 1990s, famously bought social network leader MySpace for $580 million in 2005, only to see it lose its stature to Facebook. MySpace was sold last year for just $35 million.
Earlier this month on Twitter, Murdoch said about his company’s role with MySpace: “We screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons.”
Last year, Murdoch launched a tablet-only news magazine called The Daily, which has so far been slow to make a major impact with consumers.
News Corp Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey has said he expects the company to focus more on building the digital monetization of the major media brands it already owns such as Fox, the Wall Street Journal and its various TV shows and movies rather than try to start new digital businesses.
(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)
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Obama courts Latino vote on economic tour (AP) No Comments
BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. ? President Barack Obama is courting Hispanics in politically important states, setting himself up as a champion of the crucial Latino voting bloc and as a foil to Republican candidates fighting for a share of support from the same groups.
With Latino voters voting overwhelmingly Democratic, Obama is not in danger of losing the support of a majority of Hispanics. But he does need their intensity, and a Gallup tracking poll shows that while a majority of Hispanics approve of Obama, that approval is not as high as it is among black voters.
Pitching his economic agenda during a three-day, five-state trip this week, Obama has not ignored the fact that three of the states ? Nevada, Arizona and Colorado ? all have Hispanic populations of 20 percent or more. A majority of them are Democratic, but they also could be a factor in upcoming nominating contests in those states. Nevada and Colorado hold caucuses within two weeks and Arizona has a primary Feb. 28.
In Arizona Wednesday, where he was drawing attention to his efforts to increase manufacturing, Obama playfully interacted with a supporter who shouted out: “Barack es mi hermano! (Barack is my brother!)”
“Mi hermano ? mucho gusto (My brother, a real pleasure),” Obama shouted back.
And it was no accident that he scheduled an interview with Univision, the Spanish language network that reaches a broad swath of the U.S. Latino population, while he was in Arizona and with local Telemundo affiliates Thursday in Las Vegas and in Denver. All that while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the rest of the Republican presidential field were battling in Florida, another state with a key Latino voting bloc.
“It’s an important community in this country and he will continue to have those interactions,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said of Obama’s efforts to reach out to Spanish language media.
No issue reverberates more in the appeal to Latinos than immigration.
For Obama, it reared up suddenly for him Wednesday when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who signed one of the toughest laws to curtail illegal immigration, greeted him at the airport tarmac in Mesa, Ariz., with a handwritten invitation for the president to join her in a visit to the Mexican border.
Obama replied coolly, noting that he did not appreciate the way she had depicted him in a book she published last year, “Scorpions for Breakfast.” In the book, Brewer writes that Obama was condescending and lectured her during a meeting at the White House to discuss immigration. “He was a little disturbed about my book,” Brewer told two reporters shortly after the encounter.
Obama continued to promote his economic plan Thursday in Nevada and Colorado, focusing on energy policy and his attempts to expand oil and gas exploration while also emphasizing clean energy.
“Doubling down on a clean energy industry will create lots of jobs in the process,” the president said at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, where the Air Force has installed solar panels and tested jets that run on biofuels.
As such, he was indirectly pitching to Hispanics as well. A new Pew Research Center poll found that 54 percent of Latinos believe that the economic downturn has been harder on them than on other groups in the U.S.
“There is no question that Latinos were hard hit, especially by the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting steep decline in construction work,” Carney said Thursday. “Latinos are overrepresented in the construction industry. It’s one of the reasons why, certainly, Latinos would greatly benefit from infrastructure investments that put construction workers back to work.”
In 2008, Obama beat Republican John McCain by a 2-1 margin among Hispanics.
To win again, he will need that level of enthusiasm to make up for weaknesses elsewhere in his voter support. In a bright spot for Obama, the Pew poll found that even though Hispanics believe their economic condition is poor, two-thirds of those polled said they expect their financial situation to improve over the next year, whereas 58 percent of the overall population expect the same.
In his interview with Univision, Obama made a point of noting that both Romney and Gingrich have said they would veto legislation, known as the DREAM Act, that would give a pathway to citizenship to children who came to the United States illegally but who attend college or enlist in the military.
“They believe that we should not provide a pathway to citizenship for young people who were brought here when they were very young children and are basically American kids but right now are still in a shadow,” Obama said. “They’ve said that they would veto the DREAM Act. Both of them.”
At a debate Monday on NBC, however, both Gingrich and Romney said they would support modified legislation that only applied to young people who joined the military. “I would not support the part that simply says everybody who goes to college is automatically waived for having broken the law,” Gingrich said.
Obama, in the interview, explicitly connected the Republican presidential field to congressional Republicans, who suffer from bottom-dwelling approval ratings right now. Asked why he had been unable to deliver on his promise for overhauling the immigration system, Obama replied:
“Well, it’s very simple. We couldn’t get any Republican votes. Zero. None,” he said. “So this is the kind of barrier that we’re meeting in Congress. We’re just going to keep on pushing and pushing until hopefully we finally get a break.”
SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users No Comments
Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new application called SwitchMe will work in a pinch. Word of caution, this app requires root privileges, which may deter many folks.
Rather than allowing multiple sessions to run simultaneously, as you’d expect on a desktop computer, SwitchMe lets users to easily jump between different installations of Android — they exist separately and don’t talk to each other. Naturally, this also allows hobbyists to easily jump between their favorite ROMs, and gives developers clean sandboxes for app testing. The first hit is free, but if you want to manage more than two installations, you’ll need to buy the unlock key for $1.98. Still, those who find the SwitchMe useful should consider tossing the developer a few bones.
Update: As a commenter pointed out, multiple ROMs are not supported at this time. The developer has verified this, stating that any content inside /system cannot be changed. Bummer.
[Thanks, Alan]
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NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso’s ‘closed eye’ No Comments
ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) ? Powerful Cyclone Funso’s eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA’s Aqua satellite noticed it had “closed” and become filled with high clouds on January 27.
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Funso on January 27 at 0730 UTC (2:30 a.m. EST). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured a true color image of the storm that showed Funso’s eye has now filled with clouds and appears ragged. Despite being filled with high clouds, the eye appears on multi-spectral satellite imagery to be 30 miles (48.3 km) in diameter. The MODIS image showed that Funso was moving south past the southern end of Madagascar to the east.
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite had a good view of powerful tropical cyclone Funso on January 26, 2012 at 1341 UTC (8:41 a.m. EST). TRMM data showed that Funso had moderate to heavy rainfall around the center and in bands of thunderstorms north of the center of circulation. The heavy rain was falling at a rate of 2 inches (50 mm) per hour.
On January 27 at 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST), Funso’s maximum sustained winds were near 105 knots (120.8 mph/194.5 kph). The storm was over 440 miles (708 km) in diameter as it moved south-southeast at 4 knots (4.6 mph/7.4 kph) through the southern end of the Mozambique Channel. Funso’s center was located about 385 nautical (443 miles/713 km) miles east of Maputo, Mozambique, near 25.9 South and 39.7 East.
Funso is weakening more as it moves to the south-southeast and will encounter stronger wind shear and cooler waters, both of which will sap the energy from the cyclone more quickly. Funso is expected to become extra-tropical over the weekend of January 28 and 29, 2012 in the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean.
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Grandma’s last resting place? A Fla. storage unit No Comments
CLEARWATER, Fla.?? The skeletal remains of a woman who died in 1995 have been discovered in a storage unit in Florida, according to police.
The discovery Thursday came after the manager of the self-storage business in Clearwater called the person who leased the unit because she was behind on her rent.
The woman told him that her grandmother was in the storage unit.
Police found the remains inside a blue coffin.
A district manager for the facility said the family had been delinquent on monthly payments for Unit B8 since Dec. 1, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
Mother’s remains?
The paper said the family had put old TVs, banana boxes and other things in the unit, which is not air-conditioned, for 25 years.
The woman who rented the unit told police that she learned about the coffin last year, when her mother told her as she was dying, the Times reported.
The Times said police did not think there was anything suspicious about the way the grandmother died.
Death certificates for the mother and the grandmother were found by police, the paper said.
Improper disposal of a body is a crime, the Times said, but no charges had yet been brought.
It added that, as of Thursday night, officers had not located the mother’s remains.
The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46161066/ns/us_news-life/
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Iraq War veteran accused of posing as Ore. officer (AP) No Comments
PORTLAND, Ore. ? Eugene Police Officer Dan Baker drove a blue SUV and set off sirens to clear cars in front of him at traffic lights. He pulled over motorists ? though it’s unclear if he ever gave out tickets. And when he stopped by a youth shelter as a volunteer, he came in full uniform.
There’s just one problem: There has never been an Officer Dan Baker in the Eugene Police Department.
Police in Oregon’s second-largest city say the man with the badge was Daniel S. Alloway, and investigators are now trying to piece together at least a year of his alleged exploits while posing under the guise of an officer of the law.
“In one respect, I think he considers himself a public servant,” said Eugene police Sgt. Scott McKee. “There’s admissions by him, in his own mind, that he was doing a service.”
McKee said Alloway acknowledged the impersonations under questioning Thursday night. He was arraigned Friday on one count of criminal impersonation, and police said they expect to file at least two dozen more charges.
Alloway was assigned a public defender and didn’t enter a plea Friday. The Public Defender Services of Lane County did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Authorities fear the victims of Alloway’s alleged transgressions could go beyond the department’s reputation. McKee said Alloway’s uniform, badge, handcuffs and radio could have easily convinced anyone, including the 15- to 20-year-old boys at the youth shelter, that he had the power to arrest and charge them.
“People get automatic credential with the public,” McKee said. “Somebody could use that to isolate a person, a 16-year-old, and that is dangerous.”
Alloway, 39, was no stranger to being an authority figure. He is an active-duty member of the Oregon Army National Guard’s Alpha Company, 2-162 Infantry Battalion, headquartered in Cottage Grove, Ore.
He was deployed three times to Iraq, in 2004, 2007 and 2009, serving a year tour each time. An Oregon Military Department spokesman said Alloway received service awards for each tour.
He also works a day job as a security guard. That job may have given him access to authentic-looking badges and a utility belt that included a Taser, handgun, pepper spray, radio and handcuffs, said Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin.
Police said they started receiving information from people in the community that something about “Officer Baker” wasn’t right. That led to Alloway’s arrest Thursday afternoon, which was not without drama.
No one answered the door when local police and Federal Protective Service officers arrived at Alloway’s Eugene apartment. They later said they heard a gun being loaded from behind a locked door, but when they broke out a window, Alloway was missing.
He was on a county bus and out of cellphone range but returned calls from the police and was arrested a short while later in downtown Eugene.
Inside the apartment, McKee said police found several shoulder patches from various law enforcement agencies, framed like artwork.
One complication to the investigation was pure happenstance. Baker is a common name for Willamette Valley police officers: One family featured two Eugene police officers and one longtime Springfield officer.
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Nigel Duara can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/nigelduara.
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Egyptian protesters plan sit-in until army leaves (Reuters) No Comments
CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egyptian youths camped out on Thursday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and vowed to stay put until the army hands power to civilians, a day after a mass demonstration marked a year since an uprising which brought down Hosni Mubarak.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into the square and onto streets of other cities for the January 25 anniversary of the day the revolt began. Although good-natured, the demonstration exposed rifts in the Arab world’s most populous nation.
The Tahrir crowds were broadly split between youths demanding the army cede control to civilians immediately and Islamists celebrating a political transformation that has handed them sweeping gains in parliament after decades of repression.
Sit-ins have in the past sparked violence when the police and army have sought to clear protesters out, but on Thursday the scene was peaceful.
Scores of youths occupied the square surrounded by dozens of tents pitched on traffic islands. Vendors sold hot drinks and some activists huddled round open fires to keep warm in the morning air.
“The military council commits the same abuses Mubarak committed. I don’t feel any change. The military council is leading a counter-revolution. We will protest until the military council goes,” said 23-year-old student Samer Qabil.
The army council took over when Mubarak was ousted and is led by his defense minister for two decades, Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. It has insisted it will hand power to civilians after a presidential election in June.
But many activists say they fear it wants to hold onto power behind the scenes.
Although troops were cheered when they were ordered onto the streets in the uprising, they have since drawn the wrath of many for heavy-handed tactics against protests demanding they go back to barracks.
“There will be a sit-in until they leave,” said Alaa Abdel Fattah, a blogger and activist who was detained by the army after clashes outside state media offices killed 25 protesters in October.
In Alexandria, a Mediterranean port that is Egypt’s second-biggest city, about 100 protesters had also set up tents late on Wednesday near police headquarters, demanding the army hand over power immediately.
Mubarak, 83, is on trial for his life and a new parliament was installed this week that is dominated by his Islamist adversaries. But many youthful activists who launched last year’s revolt are weary of army rule and worry that Islamists may stifle their hopes of a deep purge of the old order.
The activists fear Islamists will make political concessions to the army as they seek to secure their new gains in mainstream politics.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which now has the biggest bloc in parliament after the first free election in decades, and other Islamists deny any deals with the military.
The once banned Brotherhood had warned against a sit-in but said some of its members stayed in the square to help it stay peaceful.
The army and police kept their distance from the square during Wednesday’s demonstration in an apparent effort to ensure there was no cause for friction.
(Additional reporting by Marwa Awad in Cairo and Abdel Rahman Youssef in Alexandria, Writing by Lin Noueihed; Edited by Richard Meares)
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iPhone Accounted for 80 Percent of AT&T Smartphone Sales Last Quarter January 27, 2012 No Comments
In AT&T’s best quarterly smartphone performance ever, the carrier saw 9.4 million smartphone sales in Q4 2011. A remarkable 7.6 million, or more than 80 percent, of these sales were iPhones.
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Haley Smith Aims for a Fourth Job on American Idol No Comments
She’s already a House cleaner, a busser and a meat packer.
But Haley Smith, an 18-year old who – by her own admission – lives “in the middle of nowhere” in Colorado, hopes to add a fourth job to her resume: American Idol champion!
The nature lover auditioned on last night’s Aspen-based episode and blew the judges away with a cover of “Tell Me Something Good.” Randy and Jennifer both loved her retro vibe, comparing her to artists from the 1960s and 1970s, while Steven said it was an “honor” to her Haley sing.
That’s high praise. See for yourself if it was deserved:
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