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No winner for African leadership prize

By Mark Tran (World news and
comment from the Guardian |
guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:39:28 AM
Billionaire businessman says
committee considered a range of
candidates – but could find no
winner
A foundation set up to award a
$5m (£3m) annual prize for good
governance in Africa has said
there will be no winner this year
because it could not find anyone
to award it to.
In a snub to recent ex-presidents
and heads of state in Africa, the
Mo Ibrahim Foundation- set up by
the billionaire businessman and
philanthropist - said its prize
committee considered some
credible candidates, but could not
select a winner.
"The prize committee is
independent of the board,"
Ibrahim said. "It is the prize
committee's decision not to award
a prize this year and we entirely
respect it. We made clear at the
launch of the foundation that there
may be years when there is no
winner."
The seven-member prize
committee is chaired by Kofi
Annan, the former UN secretary
general. It includes Martti
Ahtisaari, the former president of
Finland and Nobel laureate,
Mohamed ElBaradei, director
general of the International
Atomic Energy Agency and
Nobel laureate, and Graça
Machel, the former minister of
education and culture in
Mozambique.
Launched in 2006, the Mo
Ibrahim foundation was designed
to encourage good governance in
Africa and to hand out the world's
largest annually awarded prize.
The Ibrahim prize for
achievement in African leadership
is worth $5m over 10 years and
$200,000 for life annually
thereafter.
Past winners include Festus
Mogae, the former president of
Botswana, Joaquim Chissano, the
former president of Mozambique,
and Nelson Mandela, who was
made an honorary laureate in
recognition of his "extraordinary
leadership qualities".
A Sudanese-born former BT
engineer, Ibrahim moved to
Britain in 1974 and created and
sold two highly successful
companies including Celtel
International earning himself a
personal fortune and turning many
people into millionaires in the
process. The Forbes rich list puts
his wealth at $2.5bn, and he
appears regularly at the top of lists
of influential black Britons.
Writing in today's Guardian,
Ibrahim defended himself against
critics who suggested he was
trying to "bribe leaders to do their
jobs". He said the critics "are
failing to take into account how
central governance and leadership
are for Africa's development".
He also argued that the lifelong
nature of the award provided
African leaders with the option of
continuing a life in public service
as they do not unlike leaders in
the west have the option of
jumping on the gravy train after
office.
In conjunction with the award,
the foundation publishes an
annual index on the quality of
governance in every African
country, designed to promote and
stimulate debate around the
world. Although no prize will be
given out this year, the planned
events in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, next month will go
ahead.
They will include a discussion
forum on issues critical to Africa's
future, including climate change,
agriculture and food security and
regional economic integration.
"At a time when, we are seeing
overall progress in Africa, despite
worrying setbacks in some
countries, it is vital that African
stakeholders and institutions come
together to look for a way forward
on the major challenges facing the
African continent," Ibrahim said.
"I look forward to the discussions
around this urgent African
agenda."
• African Union
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2 Top News/
The First Draft: White House vs. Fox News
By David Alexander (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:42:14 AM
In case you’ve not been paying
attention, the White House is
feuding with Fox News.
In the latest salvo, President
Obama’s senior political adviser
David Axelrod told ABC’s “This
Week” that Fox’s programming
“is not really news” but “pushing
a point of view.”
White House Chief of Staff
Rahm Emanuel echoed those
remarks on CNN’s “State of the
Union” program Sunday, saying
Fox “is not a news organization so
much as it has a perspective.”
The White House began
pushing back against Fox’s
coverage of the Obama
administration a week ago after
the president won the Nobel
Peace Prize.
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White House communications
director Anita Dunn noted that
conservatives who were
“rejoicing” over Obama’s failure
to bring home the Olympics
seemed “quite bitter” about the
Nobel prize.
“Fox News often operates almost
as either as the research arm or
the communications arm of the
Republican Party,” she said.
“What I think is … fair to say
about Fox, and certainly it’s the
way we view it, is that it really is
more a wing of the Republican
Party,” Dunn said.
Karl Rove, former President
George W. Bush’s political
adviser, told “Fox News Sunday”
the White House was dominated
by “Chicago-style politics.”
“If you don’t like the questions
that are being asked by Major
Garrett or Wendell Goler or Chris
Wallace, then you try and
demonize Fox News,” Rove said.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert
Murdoch saw a bright side to the
White House attacks.
“There were some strong
remarks coming out of the White
House about one or two of the
commentators on Fox News,”
Murdoch told an annual meeting
of News Corp. shareholders. “And
all I can tell you is that it’s
tremendously increased their
ratings.”
Despite all the back and forth
between the two sides, the White
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House says Obama will accept
interviews with the network.
“We’re going to appear on their
shows,” Axelrod told ABC.
“We’re going to participate, but
understanding that they represent
a point of view.”
For more Reuters political news,
click here.
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Young (Obama with Emanuel and
Axelrod at a meeting in Turkey in
April)
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Storm-hit Philippines in disease warning
By Justin McCurry (World
news and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 3:42:07 AM
Experts warn of deadly
epidemics in country still in the
grip of devastation caused by two
powerful storms
In pictures: Storm survivors
face disease threat
Survivors of two powerful
storms that caused widespread
destruction in the Philippines in
recent weeks are threatened by
outbreaks of potentially life-
threatening diseases, as the
country braces for another super-
typhoon, health experts have
warned.
Charity workers say disease and
poor sanitation could afflict large
numbers of people, many of
whom are still waiting for medical
and other supplies from the
government and international aid
organisations.
"It's a perfect storm because
there's standing water, there's
cholera, leptospirosis is endemic
in the population and there's a
disease called dengue which is
spread by mosquitoes," said Dr
Sean Keogh, emergency health
assessor for Merlin, a UK-based
medical relief agency.
More than 800 people died after
tropical storm Ketsana and
typhoon Parma swept through the
country in late September and
early this month.
Ketsana caused the worst
flooding in the capital, Manila, for
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more than 40 years, while Parma
lingered for a week, triggering
floods and deadly landslides in
mountainous areas of the main
island of Luzon.
A fortnight later, 340,000
people are still living in cramped
evacuation centres, while more
than 7 million people have been
affected by the storms, local
officials said. Many areas are still
underwater.
Today, preparations were being
made to evacuate areas threatened
by typhoon Lupit, which could
brush the northern tip of Luzon by
Thursday, according to the US
navy's joint typhoon warning
centre. Lupit's force has
intensified since the weekend,
with sustained winds of 108mph
and gusts of up to 130mph.
Forecasters said they expected
the typhoon, which would be the
18th big storm to hit the
Philippines this year, to spare
Manila but warned that Lupit
could wreak havoc in northern
regions.
The reassurances failed to put
Manila residents at ease, however.
"We're scared. We haven't even
recovered from the last flooding
and here comes another typhoon,"
said Gerardo Martin, who lives in
the city's suburbs.
In the mountainous Cordillera
region of Benguet province,
police officers have been ordered
to tell people to evacuate before
the typhoon arrives, although
some residents are reportedly
refusing to leave their homes.
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be viewed from all angles. The
About 290 people in the area,
located 130 miles north of Manila,
died in landslides triggered by
typhoon Parma.
"Those in critical areas should be
evacuated now that there is still
time," said the head of the
weather service, Prisco Nilo. "It
would be more difficult to rescue
people in the middle of a
typhoon."
Health officials say that as many
as 1.7 million people living in and
around Manila risk exposure to
leptospirosis, a waterborne
disease that has killed 96 people
this month.
The disease, which can be
contracted by wading through
floodwater, can lead to kidney
failure if left untreated. State-run
hospitals say they are inundated
with leptospirosis cases, with
many patients forced to sit on
chairs as there are not enough
beds.
The disease has infected more
than 1,300 people, according to
the National Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control. The
health department plans to hand
out antibiotics to 1.3 million
people in high-risk areas.
The government has packed
tonnes of food aid and prepared a
fleet of helicopters to lift people
to safety in Benguet and other
northern regions, the national
disaster co-ordination council
said. The international community
has pledged at least $100m
(£61m) in food and other
humanitarian aid.
"Most people are getting some
clean water, but the problem is
that people are using the standing
water as a toilet and children are
swimming through it," said
Keogh, who recently visited two
of the most badly hit areas.
"People are walking in the water
all day.
"All these things are coming
together. There's another storm
coming, there's standing water,
endemic disease and people
walking through the water, which
has all sorts in – petrol, human
waste – it's a complete mess. This
is a communicable disease
disaster in the making."
Keogh said he was concerned
that vital medical and other
supplies were not getting to
people in flooded areas quickly
enough, adding: "The death toll
has been modest for a disaster of
this scale. But this is something
that can turn around and bite
really quickly. These diseases can
spread like wildfire and once they
have got a grip in the community
it's a real struggle to contain
them."
• Natural disasters and extreme
weather
• Philippines
• Cholera
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Iran: IAEA
talks begin in
Vienna
By Julian Borger (World news
and comment from the
Guardian | guardian.co.uk)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:51:05 AM
Talks under way in Vienna on
future of uranium enrichment
The meeting here in Vienna on
the fate of Iran's enriched uranium
has started, amid lots of negative
noises coming from Tehran.
Everything about this meeting,
including team lists, has been
under wraps until the last minute.
The only senior-ish figure
known to be here is Dan
Poneman, the US deputy secretary
of energy, and a non-proliferation
veteran from the Clinton era.
There are reports that the head
of Iran's Atomic Energy
Organisation, Ali Akbar Salehi, is
in town to step in if needed but
that has not been confirmed.
No one knows how long it will
last, but it should be clear pretty
quickly if there is anything to
negotiate at all.
• Iran
• International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
• Nuclear weapons
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Afghanistan fraud inquiry 'strips Karzai of iRobot (IRBT):

From vacuums to
outright victory' military defense
By Jon Boone, Ewen results or the need for a runoff as whether they will accept or not, if 40,000 extra troops without a By Steven Halpern
MacAskill, Mark Tran (World required by Afghan electoral it is according to international credible government in place in (BloggingStocks)
news and comment from the law," said Aleem Siddique, a UN rules of investigation," he said. Kabul. Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:30:00 AM
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) spokesman in Kabul. In its published findings, the The administration has been
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:47:25 AM According to the independent ECC stressed that the IEC was delaying a decision on extra Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks
analysis by the US-based constitutionally bound to accept troops because of a divide to Buy
R e c o u n t b y U N - b a c k e d Democracy International, Karzai's its orders. Marastial said Karzai between members of the cabinet, "For a pure play in automated
watchdog ends with Afghan share of the vote fell from 55% to may also refuse to accept the aides, generals and the and remotely controlled vehicles,
president's tally falling below the 48.3% after fraudulent votes results if there was evidence of intelligence services. Emanuel is consider iRobot(NASDAQ:
50% required for outright victory identified by the EEC were "interference in the fraud among those advising the IRBT)," says Jim Powell. Here's
A U N - b a c k e d e l e c t i o n stripped away. The figures investigation". Karzai's supporters president not to send more troops, the latest from his Global
watchdog has declared invalid c o n f i r m e d v i e w s e x p r e s s e d have several times suggested that partly because of the impact on Changes & Opportunities Report.
hundreds of thousands of votes anonymously by several foreign the ECC is controlled by foreign domestic politics. The war is "The company is best known for
for Afghanistan's president in the diplomats and election workers interests. increasingly unpopular with its Roomba vacuum cleaners that
d i s p u t e d A u g u s t e l e c t i o n , that Karzai's share of the vote had Any refusal by the IEC to Afghans. wander around the house bumping
apparently stripping Hamid dropped to around 48%. accept the results would spark yet The US wants Karzai to accept into everything and setting off
Karzai of outright victory and The president's closest rival, another crisis for a country that the runoff to establish a security alarms.
setting the stage for a second Abdullah Abdullah, gained from has been paralysed by the two- semblance of legitimacy. The "A similar product cleans the
round. his preliminary tally of 28% to month delay in settling the Obama administration has long surface of swimming pools.
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investigations, the Electoral A spokesman for the Karzai announcement, pressure had been faith in Karzai because of the and product delivery carts for
Complaints Commission (ECC) – campaign, Moen Marastial, said mounting on Karzai to accept a widespread corruption in his businesses.
controlled by a majority of non- they would accept only the results possible second-round vote or government. Continue reading iRobot
Afghans – found Karzai's total published by the Independent work out a deal to break the Karzai has a fortnight's window (IRBT): From vacuums to
had fallen to 48.3%, according to Election Commission, an Afghan- deadlock. to hold a runoff before winter military defense
an independent analysis. He led organisation thought to be The tainted election has snow makes it impossible. iRobot (IRBT): From vacuums
needed 50% to clinch another heavily partisan in favour of undermined Karzai's credibility • Hamid Karzai to military defense originally
term in office. Karzai. and complicated Barack Obama's • United Nations appeared on BloggingStocks on
A separate election commission "Nothing has been officially decision on whether to send more • Afghanistan Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EST.
that backs the president will have announced so far. Only the ECC US troops to fight a resurgent Jon Boone Ewen MacAskill Please see our terms for use of
to endorse the findings and call has said some votes should be Taliban. Mark Tran feeds. Permalink| Email this|
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Commission] to implement those right to work on the procedures of staff, said the US
orders with haste and move and formulas of the investigations administration could not make a
swiftly to issue the final certified and after that they will decide decision about a request for
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Fed chairman calls for US to cut Crowdsource the CFPA!

(Financial Sector and Stocks
deficit Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:29:00 AM
exams by the agency.
Instead, the consumer
regulations would continue to be
(World news and comment warned. For the United States' rates and reel in the enforced in most cases by the
from the Guardian | part, "the most effective way" to unprecedented amount of money The credit unions and the banks agencies that monitor the financial
guardian.co.uk) boost national savings in this ploughed into the US economy have won: thanks to something condition of the banks. Mr. Frank
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:12:13 AM country "is by establishing a will be one of the biggest known as the Miller-Moore said that under the amendment,
sustainable fiscal trajectory, challenges facing the Fed in the a m e n d m e n t , t h e C o n s u m e r the new agency would still have
Remarks by Ben Bernanke come anchored by a clear commitment coming months. Remove the Financial Protection Agency will the authority to investigate
d a y s a f t e r U S g o v e r n m e n t to substantially reduce federal supports too soon and the now be barred from overseeing all complaints raised at any bank.
reported a $1.42tn deficit for the deficits over time," Bernanke recovery could be derailed. Leave but a handful of credit unions and So the CFPA can write rules for
year said. He didn't suggest ways to do the supports in place for too long any bank with less than $10 small banks, and can investigate
Ben Bernanke, the Federal so. risks unleashing inflation. billion in assets. That’s 98% of all complaints at small banks, but
Reserve chairman, today called And, for trade surplus countries In terms of the world economy, the banks in the country. Even so, can’t examine small banks, or
for the United States to whittle like China and most Asian "Asia appears to be leading the however, it’s not exactly suprising enforce its own regulations at
down its record-high budget economies, they need to get their global recovery," Bernanke said. to see the headline in The Hill this small banks? It all seems like a
deficits and for countries like consumers to spend more and rely "Recent data from the region morning: “Tweaks to consumer horrible mess to me.
China to get their consumers to l e s s o n e x p o r t - l e d g r o w t h , suggest that a strong rebound is, agency fail to calm banks, credit One thing is clear, though: in
spend more, moves that would B e r n a n k e s a i d . in fact, under way." unions”. Those lobbyists, they’re the wake of the amendment being
help combat skewed global trade "In large part, such action should Many economists predict the never satisfied. (If they were, accepted, consumer finance is
a n d i n v e s t m e n t f l o w s t h a t focus on boosting consumption," US economy — the epicentre of they’d be out of a job.) crying out for some kind of
contributed to the financial crisis. Bernanke said. the financial crisis — started I’m actually a little unclear on c e n t r a l i z e d , c r o w d s o u r c e d
Bernanke's remarks to a Fed The bulk of Bernanke's remarks growing again in the third quarter w h a t t h e M i l l e r - M o o r e database of bank fees and
conference in Santa Barbara, largely offered a scholarly at a pace of at least 3 percent, and amendment does. Here’s how the practices. If the CFPA is barred
California comes just days after assessment of Asia and how it is still expanding in the current NYT explains it: from examining banks itself, then
the federal government on Friday fared during the global financial quarter. Economic activity Under the Miller-Moore we should just get the banks’
reported a $1.42tn deficit for 2009 crisis, the focus of the Fed's contracted in the second quarter at amendment, the new agency customers to do its job for it. Then
budget year that ended on 30 conference. The Fed chief didn't an annualised rate of 0.7%, would have the authority to write violations of CFPA rules could be
September. The previous year's discuss the state of the US marking a record four straight rules for all banks and other a u t o m a t i c a l l y f l a g g e d a n d
deficit was $459bn. economy or the future course of quarters of decline. lenders, including lenders that forwarded on to the agency as
The Fed chief's comments were interest rates. • US economy have never faced significant soon as they arise, even without
aimed at reducing global Bernanke and his colleagues last • US economic growth and regulation. But the banks with formal examinations.
imbalances, and echo pledges month held a key bank lending recession assets of less than $10 billion and This content has passed through
made by leaders of the Group of rate at an all-time low near zero • United States credit unions smaller than $1.5 fivefilters.org.
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Video: Man breaks TV on Home Shopping Network while playing Wii

By Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:00:27 AM
Oh, this is embarrassing. A man
on the Home Shopping Network
is demonstrating how much fun it
is to play Wii Sports with one of
those plastic tennis racket
accessories. Gotta make the sale!
And it all goes well until he raises
his arm and goes for the serve…
BAM~! That’s one broken TV
you have there, mister. Maybe
you should have paid attention to
the warning that comes on when
you turn the Wii on: “please make
sure the controller is strapped to
your wrist, lest you break the TV,
and look like a fool.”
Though full credit to the man
for, as the Brits say, getting on
with it.
And for the life of me I can’t get
the video to queue up to where I
want it, so you’ll have to skip
manually to 4m53s if you just
want to go right to the action.
6 World/ Finance/ Tech Tips/ Internet News Record

South African police shot dead 556

in year
By David Smith (World news newspaper that an estimated 653 die, regardless of whether a cop
and comment from the people were shot dead by the shoots you or you were ill. Let's
Guardian | guardian.co.uk) police in 1976, the year of the not lose hope towards the police.
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:26:59 AM student uprising in Soweto. Let's keep on trusting them.
Police tactics ahead of next Forgiveness is what God wants.
Rise to highest toll for a decade year's World Cup are under This was her destiny, let's not
comes as father blames Zuma scrutiny after the killing this blame the police."
rhetoric for death of daughter month of 30-year-old Olga Dianne Kohler Barnard, the
mistakenly shot by police Kekana, who was on her way to a shadow police minister, called on
Police in South Africa shot dead party in a car with three friends Molebatsi to apologise for the
556 people – including 32 near Pretoria. Police allegedly comments. "Quite
bystanders – last year, the highest sprayed the grey Toyota with at
annual total for a decade. least 13 bullets after mistaking the
understandably, according to the
reports, her comments were
Earnings Preview: The
The increase was revealed as the occupants for hijackers. Kekana
father of a 30-year-old hairdresser died after being shot in the head,
mistakenly shot dead by police and two others were injured.
received very poorly by
mourners," she said. "Ms
Molebatsi's comments were
Bank of New York Mellon
blamed calls for a shoot-to-kill Kekana's father, Frans
policy from the president, Jacob Makgotla, blamed the police
callous and cold, and she ought to
publicly apologise immediately." Corp.
Zuma. actions on Zuma's rhetoric. The Cele has announced plans to (Financial Sector and Stocks low revenues, the analysts said.
The death toll of 556 suspects president has backed the demands rebrand the police as a force Analysis from Seeking Alpha) Separately, Rochdale analyst
and others up to April this year of the new national police instead of a service, with a Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:11:25 AM Richard Bove, in an interview
was the fourth consecutive rise commissioner, Bheki Cele, for a military-style command structure with CNBC, recently named Bank
recorded by the Independent return to apartheid-era legislation of generals and lieutenants. The Bank of New York Mellon Of New York as one of five banks
Complaints Directorate. It was making it easier for officers to • South Africa Corp.( BK) is expected to report whose stocks he would consider
almost double the 281 deaths that open fire on suspects without David Smith Q3 earnings on Tuesday, October owning. In addition, Sandler O'
resulted from police action in fearing the consequences. guardian.co.uk© Guardian 20 before the market opens, with Neill last month upgraded the
2005-06. The controversy deepened News & Media Limited 2009 | a conference call scheduled for 8 bank to Hold from Sell, with a
The toll has almost returned to yesterday when Zuma's African Use of this content is subject to am ET. Guidance $32 target. While a majority of
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David Bruce, of the Centre for the politicising Kekana's funeral. Feeds 47c on revenue of $3.16B. The next six months, Bank of New
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A f r i c a ' s M a i l & G u a r d i a n way or another we are all going to revenue, according to First Call. Meanwhile, the bankruptcy of
Analyst Views Reader's Digest may have a
Mozilla Releasing Unknown App for iPhone [Mozilla] J.P. Morgan's ( JPM) results significant negative impact on the
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Based on what Mozilla Mobile contained negative information b a n k , t h e N e w Y o r k P o s t
VP Jay Sullivan told us, the latter for trust banks such as Bank of reported. The publisher owes
Submitted at 10/19/2009 6:00:00 AM
seems more likely, but it'll be New York Mellon, UBS and Bank of New York Mellon about
Mozilla CEO John Lilly tells interested in any case to see what Goldman Sachs analysts said last $600M.
tech blogger Om Malik that the Mozilla app Apple would approve week. J.P. Morgan's results This content has passed through
Firefox maker will "release an app for use on the iPhone, given its indicated that its trust bank unit fivefilters.org.
to the iPhone App Store in the policies toward apps that had weak revenues in Q3 due to
next few weeks," and that "It'll "duplicate features" and "cause
surprise people." Kevin Tofel other evidence, but Malik tends confusion."[ Giga OM,
guesses it might be a Fennec-type toward an app to implement the jkOnTheRun]
browser, based on screenshots and synchronizing service Weave.
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Earnings Preview: Jefferies Group MySpace (still) refocusing

(Financial Sector and Stocks
Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:16:12 AM
Jefferies Group( JEF) is
expected to report Q3 earnings on
Tuesday, October 20 before the
market opens, with a conference
call scheduled for 9 am ET.
Guidance
Analysts are looking for EPS of
28c on revenue of $535.52M. The
consensus range is 23c-33c for
EPS and $461.40M-$608.36M for
revenue, according to First Call.
There have been several
optimistic reports about Jefferies
and its sector in recent months.
Last month, Reuters reported that
mid-size firms like Jefferies are
starting to win a bigger share of
merger advisory fees amid
worries about pay limits and other
restrictions at large investment
banks. Analyst Views
In August a Goldman Sachs
analyst upgraded Jefferies' sector
and raised 2010 and 2011
estimates for the company.
Goldman Sachs increased its
rating on the mid-cap brokerage
sector to Attractive from Neutral.
The firm expects the sector to
benefit from stepped-up M&A
activity and IPOs. Also in August,
Investor's Business Daily said that
the demise of some of Wall
Street's largest investment banks
had allowed Jefferies to hire many
experienced executives.
According to Investor's Business
Daily, Jefferies' biggest coup on
this front was hiring UBS' former
head of health care banking, along
with about 34 former employees
of the department. In July,
Investor's Business Daily
predicted that Jefferies would be a
leader in the mid-cap investment
banking sector if current trends
continue. Meanwhile, better than
expected trading results by
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan
may be a positive sign for
Jefferies' results. Jefferies sold an
additional $300M of 8.5% senior
notes last month. The company
had issued $400M of the notes in
June. Investors may try to
determine tomorrow if the
investment bank will need to issue
any further debt or shares anytime
soon.
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on entertainment content
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Internet, Google
(GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO),
General Electric (GE), Time
Warner (TWX), Walt Disney
(DIS), News Corp'B' (NWS),
Media World
A new executive team is trying August, MySpace attracted 64.2
to bring MySpace back to its million unique visitors from the
former glory. By focusing on United States, off 15% from
music, videos and games, it hopes August 2008, according to
comScore, while Facebook pulled
to recapture some of its luster.
With the MySpace refugees in 92.2 million unique U.S.
visitors - up more than 100% year
mounting, it's time for some new
blood to make some brilliant, -over-year.
Continue reading MySpace
future-changing decisions. This
week, the company is holding a (still) refocusing on entertainment
content
conference for its global ad sales
team to explore ways to bring in MySpace (still) refocusing on
entertainment content originally
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Earnings Preview: Comerica

(Financial Sector and Stocks $675M for revenue, according to last month that Comerica's shares
Analysis from Seeking Alpha) First Call. Analyst Views were pricing in overly severe
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:58:34 AM Credit Suisse downgraded tangible book value erosion. The
Comerica to Neutral from firm said the shares had strong
Comerica( CMA) is expected to Outperform earlier this month, upside potential, and set its target
report Q3 earnings on Tuesday, citing valuation and risk from the for the stock at $32.
October 20 before the market bank's consumer and construction This content has passed through
opens, with a conference call NPL/NCO book. More generally, fivefilters.org.
scheduled for 8 am ET. Guidance the firm thinks that regional point before the second half of October 5, citing moderating
Analysts are looking for EPS of banks' return to profitability may 2010. On the other hand, consumer credit and expectations
(53c) on revenue of $609.41M. be later than many investors Goldman Sachs upgraded for improved Q3 revenues.
The consensus range is ($1.03)- believe, while commercial real Comerica to Neutral from Sell on Meanwhile, J.P. Morgan wrote
(26c) for EPS and $582.20M- estate will not reach an inflection
8 Finance/ Gadgets/
GM can't find a new CFO who
will work for peanuts
By Zac Bissonnette
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: General Motors
(GM)
The Wall Street Journal
reports(subscription required) that
"General Motors Co.'s search for
an outsider to replace its chief
financial officer is being
complicated by the pay
restrictions the Treasury
Department is imposing on
companies that received large
bailouts from the federal
government, according to people
familiar with the matter."
GM is expected to be able to
offer its CFO a pay package
consisting of a significant amount
of stock (Hah!) but a salary of
only about $1 million per year --
not much for a company of GM's
size and problems. Plus, ya gotta
Blackstone: Piles to be made from theme parks?
By Tom Taulli
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Private equity,
Blackstone Group L.P (BX)
In the U.S., the prevailing
sentiment is that the consumer is
tapped out. And, even for those
that have money, there will
continue to be a good deal of
frugality.
So, it would seem that theme
parks would suffer, right?
Perhaps not. This is the thinking
What Could Possible Go Wrong on a Skatekeyboard? [Art]
By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:00:00 AM
ASDFG and ZXCVB—those
KaChing hopes to be the sound
of success
By Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Deals, Products and
services, Internet, Yahoo!
(YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL),
Mutual funds, Personal finance
KaChing! KaChing!
It only makes sense to call a
company a sound you like to hear.
live in Detroit and work with Fritz This is exactly what CEO and co-
Henderson. founder Andy Rachleff must have
Continue reading GM can't find had in mind. His new company --
a new CFO who will work for kaChing, of course -- is backed by
peanuts Marc Andreesen (a name often
GM can't find a new CFO who associated with that sound) and
will work for peanuts originally J e f f J o r d a n , t h e C E O o f
appeared on BloggingStocks on OpenTable(NASDAQ: OPEN),
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:30:00 EST. two guys who usually do a solid
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Continue reading KaChing
theme park investments,
according to Reuters.com.
Continue reading Blackstone:
Piles to be made from theme
parks?
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from theme parks? originally
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Group(NYSE: BX). Interestingly
enough, he's doubling down on
aren't just QWERTY strings,
they're also potential sounds you'll
make when face-planting off the MAKE]
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Kraft: Suddenly,
it's a 'frugal
consumer' play
By Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Kraft Foods'A'
(KFT)
Kraft Foods(NYSE: KFT) is
turning into a "frugal consumer"
play, which is why I'm reiterating
hopes to be the sound of success
KaChing hopes to be the sound my Buy rating for the company,
of success originally appeared on first recommended on July 13,
BloggingStocks on Mon, 19 Oct 2009, at a price of $26.88.
Kraft will benefit from the now-
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more and eliminate needless,
optional purchases. Included in
the above will be more meals
consumed at home per month,
which is good news for food
company Kraft.
Continue reading Kraft:
Suddenly, it's a 'frugal consumer'
play
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ultraportables are
basically Acer Timelines
Let’s
that saysay‘Gateway’
you’re intrigued by
Acer’s new Windows 7 Timeline
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ultraportables due to ship out this
Thursday but you like saying
“Gateway” more than you like
saying “Acer” for some reason.
You’ll be happy to know that
Gateway (which is owned by
Acer, by the way) has just
announced two ultraportable
computers that are spitting images
of two of the recently-announced
Timeline machines: an 11.6-inch
model and a 15.6-inch model.
The 11.6-inch Gateway EC14
series is virtually identical to the
Acer Aspire Timeline AS1810
series, save for a slightly lower
MSRP ($550 versus $600) thanks
to a slightly different CPU – the
Gateway has a low-voltage Intel
Pentium SU4100 at 1.3GHz with
2MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz
frontside bus while the Acer has a
low-voltage Intel Pentium
SU7300 at 1.3GHz with 3MB of
L2 cache and an 800MHz
frontside bus.
As for the 15.6-inch model, the
Gateway EC54 series and the
Acer Aspire Timeline AS5810TZ
series are identically spec’d and
carry the same $650 MSRP.
Granted, Acer/Gateway will likely
be offering a myriad of different
configurations for these machines
so you may be able to find
something that best fits your
needs in a Gateway versus an
Acer or vice versa.
Both are due this Thursday,
October 22nd, when Windows 7
ships.
Full press release:
Thin-and-Light Gateway EC
Series Notebooks Deliver Long
Battery Life and Distinctive Style
All-day productivity, fun,
communication with up to eight
hours of battery life in head-
turning lightweight and thin
designs
IRVINE, Calif.–( BUSINESS
WIRE)–The new Gateway EC
Series notebook PCs debut today
in two of the most popular sizes
for today’s busy computer users –
15.6-inch mainstream size for
productivity maximizers and the
11.6-inch ultraportable size for
road warriors – both delivering up
to eight hours of battery life.
The new Gateway EC Series
models will both be available this
week in retail stores nationwide
with the launch of Windows 7.
The new Gateway EC58, EC54
and EC14 notebook PC lines
deliver all-day productivity,
reliable wireless connectivity and
6-8 hours of battery life, so
customers can get more done
while away from their home or
office. Plus, the Gateway EC
models let customers go longer
without having to recharge,
reducing energy consumption and
making them very
environmentally friendly.
The upscale and distinctive
design of the new Gateway EC58
and EC54 lines is the ideal
complement to its advanced
battery life and thin-and-
lightweight form factor. Both
models start at only 5.29 pounds
and are merely an inch thin, so
they can be comfortably
transported by hand or in a
briefcase or backpack. The sleek
form factor still has room for a
large 15.6-inch LED-backlit HD
widescreen display that delivers
video in stunning detail, for
excellent mobile cinematic
entertainment. Plus, the EC58 and
EC54 notebook PCs come in a
sophisticated and understated
design featuring a brushed
aluminium alloy chassis available
in Arctic Silver and Pacific Blue.
Mobile enthusiasts who want to
remain connected and productive
on-the-go will find the Gateway
EC14 ultraportable notebook the
ideal choice for them. With its
11.6-inch HD LED-backlit
display, notebook-standard Intel
processors and a full-size
keyboard, customers can use it to
enjoy web browsing, video chats
and running all their usual
applications. Plus, it’s designed
for mobility — its integrated
802.11b/g/Draft N Wifi, compact
form factor and low weight of
only 3.79 pounds make it ready to
take on the road. Flashy and fun
in an eye-catching glossy chassis,
the Gateway EC14 series comes
in Cherry Red and NightSky
Black.
“The new Gateway EC Series
product lines were designed for
the many PC users that have
embraced the fun and productivity
of being able to compute and stay
in touch while away from their
home or office,” said Ray Sawall,
senior manager of product
marketing for Acer America.
“We’re delivering exactly what
they need – incredibly long and
reliable battery life, vibrant
widescreen displays, and wireless
connectivity – all in uniquely
stylish thin and lightweight
designs.”
Full Productivity and
Entertainment in a Sleek,
Lightweight Size
Elegantly crafted, the Gateway
EC58 and EC54 Series notebooks
are thin and light enough to take
anywhere, and so stylish that
customers will want to show them
off. The slim one-inch profile
simplifies mobility, since it’s easy
to grip and handle on the go. The
ultra-durable aluminium alloy
design delivers excellent
protection for the display, while
the brushed silky smooth cover is
upscale in its minimalist
approach.
The high-capacity 6-cell Li-ion
battery gives users up to eight
hours of battery life for all-day
productivity, fun and
communications. Integrated
802.11b/g Draft-N wireless
provides a reliable untethered
connection to hotspots and
wireless networks. Plus, the
integrated webcam and digital
microphone delivers smooth
video and voice quality for real-
time video streaming, online
chatting, and video conferences.
In addition, Gateway customers
can enjoy even more uptime with
the Gateway PowerSave one-
touch key, which puts the
notebook into energy
conservation mode with a single
touch. The Gateway EC58 and
EC54 lines feature the Gateway
MyBackup Manager for backing-
up important files and
information, as well as the
PowerSave solution for
maximizing battery life.
Designed to readily handle
everyday computing tasks, the
EC58 and EC54 notebooks use
ultra-low voltage Intel Core 2
Duo and Pentium Dual-Core
processors. The notebooks deliver
excellent computing performance
and generate low heat output,
since they use Intel’s Laminar
Wall Jet technology to cool
internal components and the case.
As a result, the Gateway EC58
and EC54 notebooks are
incredibly comfortable in
customers’ hands as well as on
their laps.
On-the-go entertainment is
dynamic and exciting with the
large 15.6-inch LED-backlit
display that features a 16:9 aspect
ratio and 1366 x 768 (WXGA)
pixel resolution. Images are
incredibly clear and crisp, while
the cinematic-quality video is
9
realistic and smooth. Dolby
Sound Room audio enhancement
and two built-in speakers deliver
crisp, natural surround sound to
complement the stunning video.
Compact, Packed with Features
They eye-catching design of the
Gateway EC14 Series lets
everyone know it’s the ultimate
notebook for on-the-go
computing. Available with a 6-
cell battery, the Gateway EC14
notebook line provides battery life
of up to eight hours, so customers
can use it nearly all day to stay in
touch. This long battery life is the
perfect complement to the
ultraportable notebooks’ sleek
size that measures only about an
inch thick and weighs only 3.79
pounds.
Updating social networking
sites and exploring web pages is
easy with the EC14’s integrated
Wifi 802.11b/g/Draft N. Plus,
customers can capture video and
photos and stay in touch via video
chat with the integrated webcam
and built-in digital microphone
that provides excellent voice
quality. Consumers will enjoy
listening to audio with the Dolby
Headphones and two built-in
stereo speakers.
To ensure customers have all
the horsepower they need to drive
applications, the Gateway EC14
line is well-appointed with Intel
Ultra Low Voltage Pentium Dual
Core, Intel Celeron Dual Core and
Celeron (single core) processors,
a hard drive up to 500GB in
capacity, a multi-in-1 media card
reader and 4GB of memory that
may be upgraded to 8GB.
The attention-grabbing design
of the Gateway EC14 models is
fun and youthful, while details
such as rounded edges, engraved
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logo and silver trim make the
design even more compelling.
The textured palm rest provides a
comfortable hand rest for
consumers.
Gateway Extras Maximize
Mobile Capabilities
The Gateway EC Series
notebooks enhance productivity
with a Multi-Gesture Touchpad
that can be used with unique
movements so customers can
Configurations, Pricing and
Availability
The new Gateway EC Series
will be available beginning Oct.
22, each with Windows 7 Home
Premium. Sample configurations
and pricing are listed below.
Gateway EC1430u: MSRP
$549.99
• Intel® Pentium Dual Core
Processor SU4100 (1.3GHz, 2MB
L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
• Multi-Gesture Touchpad with
Keypad lock
• Standard 6-cell Li-ion (5600
mAh) Battery
• 3.08 lbs.
• 11.2” (W) x 0.87-1.18” to
1.18” (H) x 8.03” (D)
Gateway EC5409u: MSRP
$649.99
• Intel Pentium® Dual-Core
Processor SU4100 (1.30GHz,
2MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
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• Gigabit Ethernet LAN
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port
• Multi-Gesture Touchpad with
Keypad lock
• Dedicated numeric keypad DIY: DSLR hand
• Standard 6-cell Li-ion (5600
mAh) Battery strap
• Gateway MyBackup Button
• 5.29 lbs. By Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
• 14.85” (W) x 1.01-1.08” (H) x Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:30:56 AM

intuitively move through Internet
sites and digital media. For
example, customers can make an
inward or outward pinching
motion to naturally zoom in and
out on photos. They can move
two fingers horizontally to flip
through photos and web pages.
Also, customers can swirl their
fingers in a circular motion to
scroll through web pages, long
lists of files and music playlists.
The TouchPad can also be
disabled with a one-touch button,
eliminating accidental cursor
movement with palms and wrists
when using an external mouse.
Additionally, these new models
come with Windows 7 Home
Premium, which makes mobile
computing more reliable and
responsive, enhancing the user
experience. In addition, the
Gateway EC notebook lines are
Energy Star qualified.
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64
-bit
• 11.6-inch HD Widescreen
Ultrabright LED-backlit TFT
LCD (1366 x 768 resolution, 16:9
aspect ratio)
• Mobile Intel® GS45 Express
Chipset
• Intel Graphics Media
Accelerator 4500MHD
• 4096MB DDR2 Dual-Channel
667MHz memory upgradeable to
8GB
• 320GB(2) 5400RPM SATA
hard drive
• Integrated webcam
• Multi-in-1 digital media card
reader
• Intel® WiFi Link 1000
802.11b/g/Draft-N WiFi
CERTIFIED® featuring MIMO
technology
• Gigabit Ethernet LAN
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• HDMI port
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64
-bit
• 15.6-inch HD Widescreen
Ultrabright LED-backlit TFT
LCD (1366 x 768 resolution, 16:9
aspect ratio)
• Mobile Intel® GS45 Express
Chipset
• Intel® Graphics Media
Accelerator 4500MHD
• 4096MB DDR3 Dual-Channel
1066MHz memory upgradeable to
8GB
• 320GB(2) 5400RPM SATA
hard drive
• 8x DVD-SuperMulti Double-
Layer Drive
• Integrated HD webcam
• Multi-in-1 digital media card
reader
• 2 nd Generation Dolby Sound
Room® Audio Enhancement
• Intel® WiFi Link 1000
802.11b/g/Draft-N WiFi
CERTIFIED® featuring MIMO
10.0” (D)
Gateway Limited Warranty,
Service and Support
The Gateway EC Series
notebook PCs are backed by a one
year warranty. Gateway’s
commitment to quality and
reliability is evident in its award-
winning line of PCs as well as in
its exceptional service and support
programs. In addition to the
company’s standard limited
warranty options, its extensive
online support center helps
customers maximize their PC
investment; it gives them easy
access to customer support
representatives and information
on important issues such as
warranties, technical issues and
upgrading.
I’m not a big fan of the camera
neck strap. I never use it as a next
strap but I put up with it because I
would drop my camera if that
strap wasn’t there. However, I’m
going to ditch that strap and make
me one of these hand straps. That
is, of course, if something else on
the Internet doesn’t distract me
first.
The instructions are easy
enough. Basically the strap is
made up of nylon webbing and a
couple of grommets. The whole
thing is attached to the tripod
mount on the bottom and one of
the neck strap mounts up top.
What I like best about this simple
solution is that you could easily
switch the strap’s side for left
handed weirdos like my wife.

SNES / Sega Genesis USB cartridge adapter now available for pre-order
By Joseph L. Flatley project, Snega2USB, adds Sega 31 for $90 in the United States or cartridge adapter now available
(Engadget) Genesis, read and write for battery €75 in Europe. Video after the for pre-order originally appeared
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:04:00 AM -backed SNES games, open break. on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct
source firmware, and up to four [Via Gadgetoid] 2009 11:04:00 EST. Please see
Looks like our old friend, gamepads to the homebrew fave Continue reading SNES / Sega our terms for use of feeds. Read|
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USB SNES cart reader-- is back o'er. This is a work-in-progress, now available for pre-order
on the scene, and this time he's but all the pieces are in place to December, 2009 street date. Pre- Filed under: Gaming
going commercial. His newest have all orders met on the orders will be taken until October SNES / Sega Genesis USB
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Facebook, Twitter, Zune Video and Last.Fm on Where Plastic Goes

Xbox Live Hands On: Hrm, That's Interesting When It Dies: Birds'
Stomachs [Image Cache]
[Xbox Live] By Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:40:00 AM
By matt buchanan (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:33:13 AM This nature photography by
Chris Jordan isn't for the faint of
Twitter and Facebook, on your heart. The series of decomposing
Xbox. It's weird, like people who bird carcasses faithfully
put ketchup on their eggs. Tweet documents the impact of the Great
Tweet Pacific Garbage Patch on
Twitter actually makes the most albatross chicks in the Midway
natural jump to the Xbox. It's a Atoll.
really basic app, with your His collection of 30 hauntingly
timeline, search, and trending similar shots show what adult
topics, but it works, largely birds are feeding to their young:
because the vertical stream is bottlecaps, lighters, spray bottles
preserved, even if you can only and, in one case, a piece of what
see four (very legible) tweets at a looks to be a headphone.
time, so you won't be power- From the photographer:
browsing, TweetDeck style, by On this diet of human trash,
any means. It's slow, and typing's every year tens of thousands of
reeeeeeeally frustrating, like albatross chicks die on Midway
having your eyeballs poked out from starvation, toxicity, and
one pinprick at a time, if you don't choking.
have the chatpad (part of thinks To document this phenomenon
this entire update is all a giant as faithfully as possible, not a
conspiracy to sell more Xbox 360 single piece of plastic in any of
chatpads). Updates can sometimes their newsfeeds individually, but better if it could play in the u s e t h e p o s s i b l e k i l l e r these photographs was moved,
take forever to hit your Twitter you literally have to browse one background. It can't. Meaning feature—Party mode, where you placed, manipulated, arranged, or
stream, too. Still, it's pretty, and post at a time, which is agonizing, once you link your accounts and c a n w a t c h s t u f f w i t h y o u r altered in any way. These images
works the best of the new apps. making you far less inclined to all of you stations are nicely and friends—yet, but if anything depict the actual stomach contents
Facebookin' c o m m e n t o n u p d a t e s . T h e automatically ported over, to makes the Zune video store really of baby birds in one of the world's
Facebook uses the standard interface works much better, and listen to Last.fm, you just have to stand out, that could be it. most remote marine sanctuaries,
Xbox tile UI instead of rolling its feels way more natural, with sit there and leave it running, with Previews, alas, didn't come in at more than 2000 miles from the
interface, like Twitter did. Which photo albums. What's interesting band pictures floating up to your 1080p, even over FiOS, which nearest continent.
i s d i s o r i e n t i n g ( a n d is that, at least in the preview, screen every once in a while. clearly has the bandwidth to It's gross stuff, to say the least.
disappointing), since you're your friends have to link their Lame. Zune Video Marketplace deliver. Hopefully, if you're buying every
browsing through a stream X b o x L i v e a n d F a c e b o o k Not a whole lot to write home All in all, the new apps, they're USB foot warmer cigarette lighter
horizontally, one choppily- accounts together themselves in a b o u t y e t b e s i d e s 1 0 8 0 p interesting, they add something, that Brando releases, you're
animated tile at a time. Why is the order to show up in the "Xbox streams—it's a video store on but with the exception of Zune disposing of your plastics in a
tile-sliding animation so terrible Live Friends on Facebook" (and Xbox, with movies for rent or Video Marketplace, aren't critical. more sustainable way. (But really,
on a monster console like the vice versa) pages—you can't purchase, TV shows, trailers—but At least for now. in case it wasn't clear, we don't
Xbox 360? We don't know. Like manually go in and link Jason Zune Video is here and it, um, expect you to actually buy any of
Twitter, it's basic—focused on Chen's accounts so you'll see them works. You browse through the this junk...) [ chris jordan via
Newsfeeds. Your groups are together in your app. Last.fm standard Xbox interface, like Treehugger]
ported over, so you can browse This would be would be way Netflix. We didn't get a chance to
12 Gadgets/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

What On Earth Is Mozilla's Mystery

iPhone App? [IPhone Apps]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:14:35 AM

Mozilla's CEO says an iPhone

app is due within a few weeks,
and that it'll "surprise people." I
mean, that's neat and all, but the
m o s t e x c i t i n g
possibility—Firefox—would be
the least surprising. So, uh, what
is it?
Om Malik's got a little embryo
of a theory, and it revolves around
Mozilla's hosted services/browser
sync service called Weave:
I sat around gabbing with Lilly
and Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's VP of
Mobile, talking about Weave and
the Awesome Bar, which is a way
to get access to all your browsing
history and bookmarks by just
typing them in the URL bar on
your browser. And while we were
talking about Weave, I asked
them if it was going to be part of
this new, mysterious iPhone app.
Lilly and Sullivan smiled and
remained silent. Interestingly,
they didn't correct me.
It's a telling anecdote, and
nearly enough to assume that
Weave will be some part of the
app, and if the alternative is a
Video: Debi Mazar Dances into 'Castle'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:01:00 AM
ET was on the set of "Castle"
where Nathan Fillion and former
"Dancing with the Stars"
contestant Debi Mazar dish about
what's to come on Monday night's
episode of the hit ABC show!
Mazar was honored that a head
browser—which Apple probably
wouldn't be too excited to
approve—then maybe the whole
app. But goddamnit, let's indulge
our depressingly modest mobile
Firefox fantasies anyway!
Lifehacker flags a (cautious)
thesis by Kevin Tofel at
JKOnTheRun, who sees a Fennec
hiding behind the smoke:
Apple did begin to approve third
-party applications earlier this
year, so a Mozilla browser does
of ABC thought of her for the
part. She hopes this guest stint
could turn into a recurring role.
She told ET, "If they want to have
me back and if Steve McPherson
thinks I'm fabulous, then he'll
work out the dates."
In the episode entitled "When
the Bough Breaks," book agent
Paula Haas (Mazar) approaches
have a chance for approval. And
that could open the door for the
Weave service, as well. Apple's
Mobile Me service doesn't sync
bookmarks or web passwords
over-the-air currently, although I
suspect these functions could be
added in the future. In light of
that, I'm thinking we're about to
see Fennec on the iPhone.
So in conclusion, Mozilla: ^
This.^ [ GigaOm and
JKOnTheRun via Lifehacker]
Castle (Fillion) with an
extraordinary career opportunity
that would mean an end to his
relationship with Beckett ( Stana
Katic). Will this be their last case
together? Find out when "Castle"
airs Monday night at 10 p.m. on
ABC.
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How To Enable MMS on iPhone 2G, Tethering on

OS 3.1.2 [IPhone]
By John Herrman (Gizmodo) and the latter, from the Dev
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:32:04 AM Team Wiki, step-ified by The Google Voice
Beat Mix(the instructions are too voicemails appearing
What better way to kick off the long to include here; just check
week than with two questionably them out at the link). in public search results
safe iPhone hacks, each of which If they're soooooo dangerous, By Nilay Patel (Engadget)
scratches a particular nagging then why even mention them? Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:42:00 AM
itch: the first being lack of MMS Because in their respective
on 2G iPhones, and the second forums, the chatter around the We're not exactly sure what's
being tethering on OS 3.1.2. hacks is that they'll make their going on here, but it certainly
The hacks are pretty hardcore, way to the Cydia jailbreak app seems like at least some Google
and demand not just a jailbroken store before too long, and both be Voice voicemails are being
iPhone, but a working knowledge forums, courtesy of user Whiterat: 3. Chmod the new CommCenter installable with little more than a indexed and made publicly
of the handset's operating system 1. Backup original CommCenter to 755 tap. [ MuscleNerd's Twitter via available somehow. If you punch
internals. Basically, I wouldn't (goes without saying...) 4 . O p e n 9to5Mac] i n
recommend anyone who enjoys 2. Replace CommCenter in: /System/Library/CoreServices/Spr "site:https://www.google.com/voi
having a not-bricked iPhone try /System/Library/PrivateFramewor ingBoard.app/M68AP.plist and ce/fm/*" as a search string you get
either one. Anyway! The former ks/CoreTelephony.framework/Su insert a true boolean value for a few pages of what appear to be
comes by way of the Hackint0sh pport/ with a patched one. "mms" under capabilities test messages, with a couple eye-
opening obvious non-tests
GPS Puzzle Box Only Opens In One Specific Location scattered in there as well. Dates
on these messages range from a
[GPS] couple months ago all the way
until yesterday, so this is clearly
By Adam Frucci (Gizmodo) in a few local (US) gift cards to an ongoing issue -- hopefully
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:59:47 AM entice them to visit soon, a set of Google patches this up awful fast.
Kazuo Ishiguro audio books (on a P.S. - Google Voice
This box is a GPS puzzle build U S B k e y ) , a n d a n o v e r l y transcription accuracy really falls
as a wedding gift by Mikal Hart. sentimental card. And of course, off a cliff when it's listening to
It only opens when it's in a as I pointed out in the card, if muffled audio, doesn't it?
specific location, and the puzzle either of them fancies doing a Update: Google says it's
involves discovering just where little Arduino development, changed how shared messages are
that location is. t h e r e ' s a p e r f e c t l y g o o d indexed and made available to
The box has a button and an Duemilanove to play with, not to public searches, so we're hoping
LCD display on the lid. When you mention an LCD, a servo, and a this was just a one-time thing.
press the button, the display will error. Oh, and you can only press Spoiler: the box only opens GPS. [Via Boy Genius Report]
show you how far, in kilometers, the button 50 times. when brought to Île-de-Bréhat, I guess the puzzle itself is Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
you are from the goal location. It There's a pretty sweet disguised France. As for what's inside? present enough, really. Pretty cool Google Voice voicemails
doesn't give you directions, so back door built-in as well, just in With all the electronics, there stuff, no? [ Arduiniana via Make] appearing in public search results
you need to triangulate where case the battery dies or the GPS wasn't much room inside the box originally appeared on Engadget
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Gateway intros 15.6 and
11.6-inch EC Series laptops:
EC58, EC54 and EC14
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:26:00 AM
It's quite possible that you've
missed the memo, but Microsoft's
next major operating system
launches this week. Along with
pretty much every other PC maker
on the planet, Gateway is also
announcing new laptops that hum
along on Windows 7. Starting
things off is the 11.6-inch EC14,
which gets going at $549.99 and
includes a 1.3GHz Pentium Dual
Core SU1400 CPU, 1,366 x 768
resolution LED-backlit panel,
Intel's GMA 4500MHD graphics,
4GB of DDR2 RAM, a built-in
webcam and multicard reader,
320GB HDD, WiFi, gigabit
Ethernet, a trio of USB 2.0
sockets, HDMI output, multi-
Tiny $80 travel router does
wireless N
By Doug Aamoth
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:30:00 AM
Take it from me: a good,
inexpensive, small travel router is
hard to find. This $80 pocket-
sized wireless N-compatible
router may be just what the doctor
ordered, assuming your doctor is
progressive enough to write you
prescriptions for computer
peripherals.
The “Mini 300Mbps Wireless N
Travel Router” from
ThinkGeek.com is being pitched
as the “world’s smallest” and, at
2.5 inches wide by 3.25 inches
long by 0.75 inches thick, that
may very well be true.
According to the product
description:
“It has a reset button, power
gesture trackpad and a battery port, one 10/100Mbps Wide Area
good for around "six to eight Network Ethernet port, and an
hours" of life. The EC58 and LED display that communicates
EC54 models are 15.6-inchers, power and link status. The router
with a base model starting at features convenient Access Point
$649.99 and featuring most of the
same specs in a larger enclosure. Google Gives The Ultimate Holiday Gift: Free WiFi On
Naturally, the gang will ship on
October 22nd, complete with Virgin America Flights
bundles of " Wow!" in tow. Er, By Erick Schonfeld
wait. (CrunchGear)
Filed under: Laptops Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:26:25 AM
Gateway intros 15.6 and 11.6-
inch EC Series laptops: EC58, Google is going to make a lot of
E C 5 4 a n d E C 1 4 o r i g i n a l l y frequent flyers, and Virgin
appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 America, happy this holiday
Oct 2009 11:26:00 EST. Please season. As a gift to people who
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Will 'The Simpsons'
Create an Episode Based
Off of ‘Balloon Boy’
Saga?
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:50:00 AM
Characters and stars walked the
"yellow" carpet in honor of "The
Simpsons'" 20th Anniversary.
According to the Associated
Press, director Morgan Spurlock
said the "Balloon Boy" headlines
would make "such a perfect
'Simpsons' episode." He
continued, "It was American news
at its best. We run with something
and Access Point Client modes. without having all the facts. We
The latest in wireless encryption turn it into a big lead story."
"The Simpsons" had a lot to
protects valuable data, while
advanced Multiple Input Multiple celebrate as they cut their cake.
O u t p u t ( M I M O ) a n t e n n a The series is the longest-running
technology delivers high speed American sitcom, animated
wireless connectivity and broad program, and primetime scripted
coverage that minimizes dead entertainment program, according
spots.” to the AP. "The Simpsons 20th
Looks like it might be worth a Anniversary Special in 3-D on
closer gander for anyone who Ice" is set to air in January.
spends a lot of time on the road.
Mini 300Mbps Wireless N
Travel Router[ThinkGeek.com]
flies Virgin America. But Google
is really giving a gift to Virgin
America in the form of yet one
more incentive to fly its planes
over competitors'. Will American
Airlines and others with WiFi on
board between November 10, board have to respond with their
2009, and January 15, 2010. For own freebie giveaways? I hope so.
Google, this is a smart marketing
move because it generates tons of
good will among everyone who
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Original BlackBerry Storm to get Heat diodes give thermal
flick scrolling, better browsing computing a fighting chance
through firmware update? By Darren Murph (Engadget)
By Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:19:00 AM
Despite Verizon's best efforts to
ignore the obvious, RIM's
BlackBerry Storm2 is not only
official, it's (un)officially destined
for Big Red's airwaves. If you're
one of those slightly disgruntled
Storm 9530 owners, however, you
could be looking at a rather nice
firmware update coming your way
in the near future. According to
phoneArena, the Storm and
Storm2 will eventually be
"practically identical" in terms of
software, with a forthcoming
update to add flick scrolling,
tabbed browsing and threaded
texting to the original. Of course,
we should probably wait for VZW
to confirm the existence of the
Storm2 before expecting any
formal word on this, but feel free
to go about your day with
cautious optimism.
Filed under: Cellphones
Original BlackBerry Storm to
get flick scrolling, better browsing
through firmware update?
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Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:57:00 AM
Anyone who has tried their hand
at overclocking recognizes just
how evil waste heat is, and we're
guessing that one Wataru
Kobayashi at Waseda University
in Japan understands explicitly.
He, along with a few colleagues,
has recently devised a new diode
that allows heat current to travel
in one direction but not in the
other. The breakthrough
essentially paves the way for
thermal computing to actually
take off, with obvious
applications including heat sinks
for microprocessors. Kobayashi,
who may or may not be able to eat
a dozen hot dogs per minute in his
spare time, also hopes that his
discovery will lead to a thermal
transistor, thermal logic gates and
a thermal memory. The future's
yours, friend.
Filed under: Science
Heat diodes give thermal
computing a fighting chance
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Jennifer Love Hewitt &
Jamie Kennedy Debunk
Break-up Rumors
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:55:00 AM
The stars tried to keep a straight
face as they versed lady luck in a
charity poker tournament on
Saturday.
The host, Camryn Manheim,
personally invited ET to the event.
She attracted quite a full house,
with entrants such as Jennifer
Love Hewitt, with boyfriend
Jamie Kennedy by her side, Joely
Fisher, Cheryl Hines, and Jennie
Garth.
Despite rumors that they had
broken up, Jennifer and Jamie told
ET that they are still all in the
game of love. As he embraced his
girlfriend, Jamie said, "We're very
happy. Yes, we're a couple and
things sometimes are up and
down."

LG BL40 New Chocolate review

By Vladislav Savov (Engadget) the whole experience, with a side detail, and give you a definitive Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:44:00 AMserving of pictures and videos answer on just how useful that 11:44:00 EST. Please see our
thrown in. Today's candidate for a elongated screen really is. terms for use of feeds. Read|
You know the deal by now: we grilling is LG's BL40, which is Gallery: LG BL40 New Permalink| Email this| Comments
grab a slab of fresh new hardware, now available in Europe. You'll Chocolate review
fiddle, play, and tinker with it be familiar with it already from Filed under: Cellphones
until exhaustion or boredom is our hands-on look last month, but Mobile where we explore what's LG BL40 New Chocolate
reached, then wax poetic about do join us over at Engadget under the glossy hood in more review originally appeared on
Livescribe Plus Smartpen gets smarter
By John Biggs (CrunchGear) the audio around you at the time that holds 4GB for $199.95 and a and a charging cradle. It will be
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:12:22 AM of writing, that I’ve grown 2GB version for $169.95. It also available at Target and Apple
curious. Who out there has used comes in titanium. Stores shortly.
I’ve heard so much about the this little thinger? Is it good for There’s also a Business Bundle
Pulse Smartpen, the little pen that students? The elderly? Members Anyway, there’s a new model for $249 that includes a A5
records what you write along with of the Spanish Inquisition? notebook, transcription software,
16 Gadgets/ Tech/ Entertainment/ Internet News Record

Gartner: Loosen up on social

networks, security
By Stephen Shankland down administration, said Peter another vice president. IT security
(Webware.com) Sondergaard, senior vice president staff should think carefully before
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:16:00 AM of research at Gartner. exercising a reflex to prevent
"We're moving from control to employees from communicating
ORLANDO, Fla.--OK, IT greater autonomy," Sondergaard with Facebook's e-mail or Skype's
managers, it's time to loosen up. said. Managers also must find an Internet telephony.
That's how analysts advised a p p r o p r i a t e p l a c e o n t h e Paul Proctor, a Gartner vice
Gartner Symposium attendees spectrums of in here vs. out there president(Credit: Stephen
h e r e M o n d a y , a r g u i n g t h a t and owned vs. shared. Shankland/CNET)
corporate computing departments To underscore her view, Companies should rationally
shouldn't block social networking Rozwell argued that humans are evaluate services such as Google's
a n d t h a t s e c u r i t y s h o u l d n ' t social creatures and that there's Gmail and decide whether the
Video: Extreme Hang Gliding with c o m p l e t e l y l o c k d o w n more to employee relations than a potential cost savings might well
communications with the outside paycheck for work performed. be worth the risks. Even
the Nikon D300s [Photography] world. And even if information "While a job may be regarded as evaluating such services will be a
By Danny Allen (Gizmodo) with a 10.5mm fisheye lens. A technology authorities want to an economic transaction, the big step for IT departments
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:25:00 AM custom hardwired trigger and shut down such activity, they h u m a n b r a i n t h i n k s o f t h e accustomed to being able to rule
release mechanism was used to can't. workplace as a social system," she their own domain with an iron
This isn't the first time Nikon fire both video and stills. Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice said. Social networking can make fist.
has teamed up with sports Of course, the $1800 D300s p r e s i d e n t ( C r e d i t : S t e p h e n employees "feel valued, a part of "You cannot protect yourself
photographers to showcase the now has some serious semi-pro S h a n k l a n d / C N E T ) a community, and earn the respect from everything. You must learn
D 3 0 0 s ' n e w 7 2 0 p v i d e o competition from the $1900 "Banning access to social media of peers." to balance risk and performance,"
capabilities, but this footage of the Canon 7D. And the 7D is an 18- from the corporate network is Peter Sondergaard, senior vice Proctor said. "The cloud and
world's top hang glider surfing megapixel, 1080p video beast. futile," said Carol Rozwell, a president of research(Credit: software as a service have appeal,
Australia's mysterious " Morning Click through the links above for Gartner vice president. "The S c r e e n s h o t b y S t e p h e n but they introduce a huge shift in
Glory" wave-cloud phenomenon, our in-depth primers. [ YouTube world we live in is digitally S h a n k l a n d / C N E T ) how technology is managed and
is just as spectacular. via CrunchGear] enabled and socially connected." Employees should get used to a controlled."
The D300s was mounted to the T h e a d v i c e r e f l e c t s t h e greater corporate presence in their He was no Pollyanna. Software
front of the hang glider and fitted transformation of the information social-networking lives, though. for intrusion detection, antivirus,
technology world as the Internet For companies, social networking and firewall protection is still
Jenna Elfman Reveals Why She steadily pervades more and more can reveal previously unknown
corners of everybody's life. influence and performance in
essential, he said. But there are
limits to what's practical.
Returned to TV Although the Gartner event employees, and companies should China's incoming firewall
historically has concerned itself tell employees that corporate revealed that while it's possible to
(ETonline - Breaking News) character is expecting a child with with matters such as justifying the conduct rules apply online, too. block some incoming information,
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:51:00 AM a much younger man. "It feels expense of a new enterprise "We can't stop social it's not practical to block the
great to be back on a show that I resource management computing networking, but harnessing the widespread outbound flow of
"Accidentally on Purpose" star love. ... I laughed out loud reading system, the broadening show
Jenna Elfman is giving ET's Mark these scripts," she tells Mark. passion of employees and information.
reflects the growing scope of e d u c a t i n g t h e m a b o u t t h e "Don't try to shut down the two-
Steines an inside look into her "Everyone on this cast, honestly, work that IT managers face.
new show and revealing why she is the most decent, hard working, responsibilities is essential," way flow of information because
Overall, companies must
chose this time to return to loyal, wonderful human beings acknowledge that not everything Rozwell said. you can't stop it," Proctor said.
television. Computing security, too, is "Transparency is in."
I've ever met, and completely is under control of their own top- changing, argued Paul Proctor, Originally posted at Deep Tech
A pregnant Elfman also plays a talented."
mommy-to-be on the show. Her
Internet News Record Tech/ 17

Yahoo betting on content biz revival

By Tom Krazit (Webware.com) Yang, a renewed focus on search can attract the types of brand- traffic but not necessarily the media operation forever--or
Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:00:00 AM as Yahoo's bread and butter, the name advertisers that still plow kinds of high-profile advertisers nearly forever, joining the
distracting--and equally disastrous most of their money into that Yahoo likes. company after it acquired Launch
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Drive --takeover fight with Microsoft television. Bartz has set clear priorities for Media in 2001, where he had been
about 350 miles down U.S. 101 and Yang's eventual departure By the numbers the Media group: do what you do vice president of business affairs.
from Yahoo's Silicon Valley from the corner office. Yahoo has the second largest best, and we'll find resources to As a result he has seen all the ups
campus and you'll find what CEO It's possible, however, that the collection of Web sites in the invest in your business by getting and downs of the previous decade
Carol Bartz appears to believe is Internet content idea was clever, world, as measured by unique rid of dead weight. Yahoo at Yahoo, and while he refuses to
the future of her pioneering even if the execution was terrible. visitors, trailing Google by 5 announced a round of targeted slag Braun directly he does admit
Internet company. Bartz, the former CEO of CAD- million unique visitors. 160 layoffs in April that were that the company has learned its
Yes, we're talking about software maker Autodesk and no million people visited a Yahoo designed to funnel investment lessons from that era.
Yahoo's often-ridiculed Media tech-industry dilettante, appears to site in September 2009, according toward businesses the company Jimmy Pitaro, vice president of
Group headquartered about two believe this. Yahoo's new strategy to ComScore, and Yahoo Media wants to stay in for the long haul, Media at Yahoo.(Credit: Yahoo)
miles from the famous Santa hinges on a basic premise that counted 85.9 million unique and the Media group will be During a recent lunch in the
Monica pier and a world away many have figured out, but some visitors, up from 80 million a year perhaps the largest beneficiary of restaurant below the Yahoo's
from the technology-oriented still don't get: The Internet ago. Those sites include Yahoo that investment. And that doesn't Santa Monica offices, Pitaro
plans of Bartz's predecessor, demands a unique approach to News (48 million unique visitors even count the savings that will makes roughly 5,397 attempts
company founder Jerry Yang. content creation. You can't just in September), Yahoo eventually be realized if Yahoo's (perhaps a slight exaggeration) to
Yahoo is turning its focus back pick up a newspaper or television Entertainment (44 million), search outsourcing deal with make sure I understand that
toward content with an eye to and plug it into an Ethernet jack. Yahoo Sports (38 million), and Microsoft is approved by federal Yahoo is not going to be
shows like Prime Time in No And you can't take the network Yahoo Finance (22 million), regulators. producing 22-minute programs
T i m e , s t a r r i n g F r a n k TV approach to Internet among others. What does Yahoo plan to do with earnest moms and dads
N i c o t e r o . ( C r e d i t : Y a h o o ) programming, as Braun's failures If it was counted as a separate with that money? Yahoo's content solving life's little crises, or
Just a few years ago, amid the demonstrated. Yahoo executives entity, Yahoo Media would be the sites currently obtain their content searing crime dramas ripped from
ruins of the disastrous reign of are finally trying to marry the seventh-largest property on the from three different buckets: the headlines.
former Yahoo media boss Lloyd huge audience afforded by its Internet as measured by unique aggregation, original content Instead, Yahoo wants to
Braun, that notion would have technology products such as e- visitors. That's not the best way to created in-house, and content continue developing shows
been laughable. Sure, lots of mail and instant messaging with look at it--since many of those partnerships. At the moment, that similar to Prime Time in No
smart people agreed the Internet news and entertainment content visitors first entered Yahoo's division roughly breaks down at Time, a Talk Soup-like show
was going to be a big deal for designed for the 21st century. world by checking their e-mail or about 80 percent aggregation, 10 featuring comedian Frank
content creators, and Braun, We're talking about shows like customized home page--but any percent original content, and 10 Nicotero that glibly summarizes
having selected hit show after hit Prime Time in No Time, a 3- to 5- way you cut it, it's a lot of people. percent content partnerships: the the previous evening's prime time
show for ABC, was at one point minute recap of last night's prime- Those visitors--a mass that divisions are slightly different for network shows. ("The gift that
considered one of the smartest time television shows, perfect for covers many demographics--are different properties. reality TV gave us," Goldman
and best-suited individuals to giving you a few quips to share the kind of people that big-brand During the next year, managers chortled.)
build a real media business at over the coffee machine at work advertisers covet. Yahoo Sports such as Goldman are being asked The company claims Prime
Yahoo. without having to actually watch and Games get the guys, and to increase the amount of original Time in No Time is the most
But his tenure was a flop-- the shows. Or Yahoo Sports Yahoo has launched a number of content they produce. That means watched original show in the
perhaps most notable for a Minute, which won't get confused women-oriented sites over the last building on the success of shows history of the Internet, with 280
controversial Los Angeles Times with ESPN's SportsCenter but year--such as OMG and Shine-- like Prime Time in No Time-- million streams since it launched
piece that declared, among other gets the basics across. drawing readers, viewers, and which Yahoo claims is the most- in early 2008 and several million
tech industry heresies, Braun The result could be a page-view advertisers with a conscious watched original show ever viewers per day, comparable to a
received a special parking space machine. Yahoo lost the second decision to focus on "sunny and developed for the Internet--and mid-tier broadcast network
a n d a d e l u x e o f f i c e . ( T h e round of the Internet advertising friendly" entertainment and avoiding the mistakes of the past. program and much easier to
historical record was disputed by wars to Google and its ubiquitous women's news, said Sibyl By the Internet, for the Internet produce: Nicotero rolls into the
some, including All Things D's search engine, but as Yahoo Goldman, vice president of Jimmy Pitaro, head of Yahoo's office after watching the east-
Kara Swisher.) He lasted a little prepares for its third-quarter entertainment at Yahoo. That's Media group, wants to make it coast network feeds at home to
more than two years, and former earnings call Tuesday it's hoping compared with some of the more very clear that Yahoo is not in the tape the short show.
CEO Terry Semel soon followed that by increasing its focus on tawdry sites in this category-- sitcom business.
him out the door. Then came quality, home-grown content it think TMZ--that draw a lot of Pitaro has been with Yahoo's YAHOO page 18
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YAHOO
continued from page 17
News and entertainment will be
Yahoo's focus over the next year,
Pitaro said. He wants to make
Yahoo known as a source of
breaking news developed by
professionals, building on several
high-profile scoops involving
college athletics and recruiting
generated by the Yahoo Sports
team, which he built in his prior
role as vice president and general
manager of Yahoo Sports. He
wants to expand Yahoo's original
programming to include longer 10
- to 12-minute scripted programs
with more of a documentary or
news magazine style. And he
wants to bring in people who can
offer point-of-view content, as
opposed to straight news or flame
bait opinion.
But whatever Yahoo ends up
producing, it has to take
advantage of the Internet's
proclivity toward short-term
attention spans and viewer
participation, Pitaro said. This
was the fatal mistake of the Braun
-era Yahoo, which Yahoo execs
tried to replicate the TV
production process on the
Internet.
Yahoo learned that approach is
simply too expensive and too
fraught with risk to work on the
fast-moving Internet. TV
Office 2010 to enter public beta next month
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:00:00 AM
Microsoft on Monday is
announcing that it will release in
November a public test version of
Office 2010.
The software maker released a
limited technology preview of the
software in July and plans to
executives green-light dozens of
programs to fill out the clock,
knowing full well that only a
handful of those programs will
turn into long-term successes. But
they have to fill airtime to sell
commercials, whereas Internet
businesses don't need to
"program" against time slots and
they can develop programs that
fill specific needs rather than
trying to ram another hospital
show down our throats.
Developing short Internet-
focused scripted comedy or drama
shows is equally risky. There have
been a few successes, but more
failures, and such programs don't
necessarily fit in with the rest of
Yahoo's newsy content.
Will it blend?
Yahoo's strategy with the Media
group hinges on a couple of
factors. One is that advertisers
will increasingly invest in display
ads. That's Yahoo's historical
strength, but it's a category
advertisers have considered less
attractive than search ads for
several years.
In the first half of 2009--albeit a
terrible six months for Internet
advertising--companies spent $5.1
billion on search ads and $3.8
billion on display ads, according
to the Interactive Advertising
release the final version next year.
It also started testing of the
browser-based "Office Web
Apps" in September.
Microsoft, which is making the
announcement at its SharePoint
conference, is also detailing some
of the features of the next version
of its portal software, which will
also enter beta next month.
Bureau, with search ad spending
rising slightly and display ad
spending falling slightly year over
year. Display ad spending grew
from 2007 to 2008, but search
grew faster, and some analysts
think that pattern will repeat as
the industry emerges from
recession.
Another risk is the competition:
Advertisers might prefer to work
with Google's YouTube as they
build out their display advertising
strategy: CFO Patrick Pichette
said last week that Google is now
monetizing 1 billion video views
a week and sold out 90 percent of
its home page inventory in the
third quarter.
Google recently launched a
revamped display ad exchange
that has a long way to go to catch
Yahoo but could create problems
for the company if Google is able
to sign more content deals with
publishers to put professionally
produced content on YouTube.
Still, Google seems unlikely to get
into the content production
business itself.
A third risk comes from the
establishment media: Will they
finally get their act together
online? At the moment, they've
mainly focused on ways of getting
their television content online
The new version, SharePoint
2010, includes Office's Ribbon
user interface as well as enhanced
support for video, audio and
Silverlight. Programmers will also
be able develop Sharepointl sites
using the next version of the
company's Visual Studio, which is
going into a second beta this
week.
through partnerships like Hulu,
but they haven't put a strong focus
on developing shows unique to
the Internet, with a few exceptions
like The WB that was once a
television network and is now an
online-only destination.
But with Bartz at the helm,
Media group execs no longer feel
like Yahoo's weird cousins from
Southern California. "With Carol
coming on board, she's providing
a clarity around becoming a
destination," said Kyle Laughlin,
head of sports and games at
Yahoo. Jerry Yang had famously
attempted to describe Yahoo as "a
place where you start your day,"
but Bartz is attempting to refine
that definition by making sure
Yahoo develops the kind of
content that gets people in the
door--any door, any time--and
encourages them to stay.
And so, the fate of one of the
Silicon Valley Internet industry's
seminal companies might be
determined by a group of
Angelenos. The perennial Yahoo
debate--is it a technology
company or a media company?--is
entering another round.
Originally posted at Relevant
Results
SharePoint is an important
product for Microsoft as it is one
of the company's fastest growing
large businesses. Last year it
brought in more than $1.3 billion
in revenue, up 20 percent from the
prior year.
"SharePoint 2010 is the biggest
and most important release of
SharePoint to date," CEO Steve
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Penn Badgley:
Relationship with Blake
Lively Might Not Be a
Smart Move
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:55:00 AM
Penn Badgley-- who's dating co-
star Blake Lively-- reveals that he
believes dating your co-worker
could be a big mistake!
The "Gossip Girl" star talks to
Men's Health about love -- and
jeans -- in the magazines
November issue and "Denim
Guide: 2009."
Speaking about his co-star and
real-life love Blake Lively, Penn
says, "Having a relationship with
someone you work with might not
always be the smartest move," he
says.
Ballmer said in a statement.
"When paired with Microsoft
Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 will
transform efficiency by
connecting workers across a
single collaboration platform for
business."
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Using A Security
Gartner: Loosen up on social networks, security Breach As An
(CNET News.com) responsibilities is essential," Upsell Opportunity?
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:16:00 AM Rozwell said.
Computing security, too, is By Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
ORLANDO, Fla.--OK, IT changing, argued Paul Proctor, Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:00:00 AM
managers, it's time to loosen up. another vice president. IT security
That's how analysts advised staff should think carefully before Danny Sullivan has a blog post
Gartner Symposium attendees exercising a reflex to prevent blasting Citibank for how it
here Monday, arguing that employees from communicating handled a security breach,
corporate computing departments with Facebook's e-mail or Skype's requiring him to get a new credit
shouldn't block social networking Internet telephony. card. Apparently a vendor where
and that security shouldn't Paul Proctor, a Gartner vice Sullivan had used the card had a
completely lock down president(Credit: Stephen breach, meaning Citibank sent
communications with the outside Shankland/CNET) him a new card. But did they tell
world. And even if information Companies should rationally him which vendor it was so that
technology authorities want to evaluate services such as Google's Sullivan could avoid doing
shut down such activity, they Gmail and decide whether the business with them in the future?
can't. potential cost savings might well Of course not. But much more
Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice be worth the risks. Even insulting is that when he went to
president(Credit: Stephen evaluating such services will be a activate the new card, Citibank
Shankland/CNET) big step for IT departments tried to upsell him on a credit
"Banning access to social media accustomed to being able to rule check offering. As Sullivan notes,
from the corporate network is their own domain with an iron shouldn't Citibank be offering that
futile," said Carol Rozwell, a fist. to him for free? It's probably
Gartner vice president. "The "You cannot protect yourself cheaper than having to send out
world we live in is digitally from everything. You must learn thousands of new cards every
enabled and socially connected." to balance risk and performance," time a vendor screws up. Of
The advice reflects the Proctor said. "The cloud and course, when Sullivan points that
transformation of the information software as a service have appeal, out to the person on the phone, the
technology world as the Internet but they introduce a huge shift in person at the other end says
steadily pervades more and more how technology is managed and "we're just the activation
corners of everybody's life. controlled." department, you'd have to talk to
Although the Gartner event He was no Pollyanna. Software customer service for that." Of
historically has concerned itself spectrums of in here vs. out there president of research(Credit: for intrusion detection, antivirus, course, if they're just the
with matters such as justifying the and owned vs. shared. S c r e e n s h o t b y S t e p h e n and firewall protection is still activation department, why are
expense of a new enterprise To underscore her view, S h a n k l a n d / C N E T ) essential, he said. But there are they doing sales as well? I'm sure
resource management computing Rozwell argued that humans are Employees should get used to a limits to what's practical. the big banks will claim that these
system, the broadening show social creatures and that there's greater corporate presence in their China's incoming firewall sorts of sales processes work in
reflects the growing scope of more to employee relations than a social-networking lives, though. revealed that while it's possible to that enough people are suckered
work that IT managers face. paycheck for work performed. For companies, social networking block some incoming information, into these high margin upsell
Overall, companies must "While a job may be regarded as can reveal previously unknown it's not practical to block the offerings, but wouldn't it be nice
acknowledge that not everything an economic transaction, the influence and performance in widespread outbound flow of to have a bank that actually
is under control of their own top- h u m a n b r a i n t h i n k s o f t h e employees, and companies should information. treated customers well?
down administration, said Peter workplace as a social system," she tell employees that corporate "Don't try to shut down the two- Permalink| Comments| Email
Sondergaard, senior vice president said. Social networking can make conduct rules apply online, too. way flow of information because This Story
of research at Gartner. employees "feel valued, a part of " W e c a n ' t s t o p s o c i a l you can't stop it," Proctor said.
"We're moving from control to a community, and earn the respect networking, but harnessing the "Transparency is in."
greater autonomy," Sondergaard of peers." passion of employees and This content has passed through
said. Managers also must find an Peter Sondergaard, senior vice e d u c a t i n g t h e m a b o u t t h e fivefilters.org.
appropriate place on the
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KaChing takes on mutual fund industry
By Rafe Needleman
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 4:47:00 PM
When I wrote about KaChing
last December, the site was a
fantasy stock market where you
could track the pretend portfolios
of other investors. But the game
of make-believe is coming to an
end at the company, and KaChing
is now letting users attach real
money to their accounts. In doing
so, this company is taking on the
$11.5 trillion U.S. mutual fund
industry. It looks like a great
opportunity, both for the investors
in the company and consumer
equity investors.
KaChing lets anyone create and
manage a portfolio on the site,
and any user can see these
portfolios and track their returns.
Unlike other fantasy stock-trading
sites, though, with KaChing you
can actually commit money to
mirroring another user's portfolio.
This feature should be live on the
site Monday.
The site offers some protection
for users choosing to track others.
It awards "genius" badges to
portfolio managers to only those
players who have been on the site
for a year, who have qualified for
and signed trading regulatory
documents, and whose consistent
performance measures over a
certain level. Only genius users
can be mirrored.
KaChing's "geniuses" might be
worth investing real money
in.(Credit: Screenshot by Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
KaChing traders also have to
specify their fund or portfolio
philosophy, which is tracked and
rated by the system. If you say
you're a health care investor, for
example, and then you make a
killing on Apple, your return may
go up but your "sticks to strategy"
rating will decline, and people
following you or investing
alongside your portfolio will be
sent "drift alerts" to tell them that
you might have moved from the
"good" category into either the
"lucky" or "reckless" bins. As
CEO Andy Rachleff says, with a
typical mutual fund, there's no
way to tell if the investors are
lucky or good, and especially not
in between quarterly statements.
To invest alongside KaChing
geniuses, you have to use fund a
brokerage account at Interactive
Brokers, which KaChing will do
for you, online. KaChing works
with this particular brokerage
since it has an API that lets
KaChing make fast trades fairly
cheaply, at 2 cents a share.
Geniuses on the site set their
own management fee, of which
KaChing takes 25 percent.
KaChing also will collect margins
on stock trade commissions.
Investors who are mirroring
KaChing geniuses can stop doing
so whenever they wish and trade
their stocks out thereafter.
Unfortunately, you can't yet trade
into another genius' fund without
setting up a new trading account
yourself, but that should be fixed
shortly. Account minimums are
low, though ($3,000) and there
are no exit fees.
Rachleff told me that the real
secret behind KaChing is the
observation that the Ivy League
endowments outperform the S&P
due to "a superior strategy to
choosing investment managers,"
which is what KaChing's
algorithms check for.
Oversimplified, KaChing rates
adherence to strategy coupled
with returns, not just returns
themselves. That makes returns
predictable, Rachleff says.
Top KaChing genius Min Thang
believes in health-care.(Credit:
Screenshot by Rafe
Needleman/CNET)
Of more than 8,000 KaChing
users with public portfolios, only
ten, so far, are geniuses whose
accounts can be mirrored.
Hopefully that number will rise.
These ten people need
competition, and users need
options.
I'm one of millions of
consumers dissatisfied with the
returns in my mutual funds as
well as the lack of transparency in
these investments. I am a big fan
of KaChing's model, enough so
that I am strongly considering
putting some of my own money
into the service once there are
more genius managers to track.
Originally posted at Rafe's
Radar
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Donny Osmond:
'We're beating each
other up!'
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 5:50:00 AM
New video: ET is with Donny
Osmond as he prepares for this
week's "Dancing with the Stars"
challenge, where the question is --
will he make it to the show
unharmed?
He and partner Kym Johnson
are doing the Argentine tango,
which is very fast -- and
dangerous! "She's beating me up
again," Donny says with a laugh.
"We're beating each other up!"
"It's really fast footwork, Kym
says. "We've had a few misses. I
scratched [Donny's] eyeball."

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Firefox blocks insecure .Net add-on-- Sprint to acquire iPCS

awkwardly to end lawsuit
By Stephen Shankland on its .Net programming situation. (CNET News.com) Nextel is the only operator that
(Webware.com) foundation. The add-on already "Pushing a change to our Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:14:00 AM has used the iDEN wireless
Submitted at 10/18/2009 6:04:00 PM was something of a thorn in the blocklist software that will let technology in the U.S., divesting
sides of some Firefox users: it was Firefox 3.5 users override the Sprint Nextel has settled its legal these assets appeared unlikely.
Mozilla on Friday disabled a a u t o m a t i c a l l y i n s t a l l e d v i a blocking of .NET FA/WPF plugin dispute with its wireless affiliate As the deadline looms, it
Microsoft plug-in for Firefox Windows Update with the .Net if they're patched," Shaver iPCS by striking a deal to acquire appears that Sprint was either
c a l l e d t h e . N e t F r a m e w o r k Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 tweeted Sunday. But a few hours the company in a transaction unable or unwilling to get rid of
Assistant because of a security without telling the user the add-on later, he added, "We're still valued at around $831 million. its Nextel iDEN assets in this area
problem--then scrambled to give was being installed or giving an working on the blocklist tweaks to Sprint announced Monday that and has instead decided to strike a
people with patched systems an option. More hackles were raised help enterprises override the it plans to buy iPCS for $24 a deal with the company.
override option. because it wasn't compatible with blocking of the WPF plugin, stay share, a 34 percent premium to its Once the merger is completed,
Mike Shaver, Mozilla's vice Firefox 3.5, Shaver said, and tuned!" Friday closing price of $17.88, Sprint said that it will no longer
p r e s i d e n t o f e n g i n e e r i n g , because removing it initially Update 6:47 p.m. PDT: Crisis which means the company will be have to divest its iDEN network
announced the first step late required people to edit their partially averted, apparently. At spending about $426 million in in the iPCS markets.
Friday night on his blog. "It's Windows Registry--a technically about 6:10 p.m., Shaver tweeted, cash. Sprint also agreed to assume Sprint's merger with Nextel has
recently surfaced that it has a onerous task for most people. "MSFT confirmed that the .NET $405 million of debt, bringing the been blamed for many of the
serious security vulnerability, and Firefox checks a Mozilla server Framework Assistant is not total price tag to $831 million. problems facing the wireless
Microsoft is recommending that periodically for a list of add-ons exploitable, so we've removed it The deal is expected to close in operator today. One if its main
all users disable the add-on," to avoid. Although Mozilla's from the blocklist; one down!" late 2009 or early 2010. And once problems has been a steady loss of
Shaver said. "Because of the blocking move was intended to Update 8:34 p.m. PDT: There's it is completed, the companies valuable wireless subscribers.
difficulties some users have had protect users, it caused other still another blocked Microsoft plan to suspend litigation. Since its new CEO Dan Hesse
entirely removing the add-on, and problems. Shaver indicated that add-on that's vulnerable, one that The original agreement between came on board nearly two years
because of the severity of the risk Firefox's changed behavior irked concerns the Windows Sprint and iPCS precluded Sprint ago, the company has worked to
it represents if not disabled, we some system administrators. Presentation Foundation (WPF), from operating a competing improve its network and customer
contacted Microsoft today to That led Justin Angel, a former which also is installed with the wireless service in its territory. service. It's also been trying to
indicate that we were looking to Silverlight program manager at .Net service pack. Shaver said it When the company bought Nextel repair its damaged reputation.
disable the extension and plug-in Microsoft, to tweet, "When was more serious. in 2005, it violated this But even Hesse has admitted
for all users via our blocklisting business users can't use their core "We're hard at work on agreement, iPCS has argued. that customer perceptions do not
mechanism. Microsoft agreed business functionality--they improving the experience for The courts have sided with iPCS change overnight.
with the plan, and we put the uninstall stuff." (especially enterprise) users who on this issue. Last year, the Sprint said the iPCS transaction
blocklist entry live immediately." One issue was that Mozilla's wish to override the blocking of Supreme Court of Illinois upheld is valued at 6.4 times estimated
This warning sign greeted add-on blocking technology the WPF plugin before we remove a lower court's ruling that Sprint 2010 adjusted earnings before
Firefox users after Mozilla couldn't tell if people had patched it from the blocklist," Shaver said must stop owning, operating, and income, taxes and depreciation.
blocked use of a Microsoft add- their software and so weren't in a Sunday night blog post that managing its Nextel iDEN The company forecasts $30
on.(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen vulnerable anymore. "We can't announced the other plug-in had network in Sprint affiliate iPCS's million of annual cost savings and
Shankland/CNET) distinguish patched from been removed from the Firefox territory. expects the deal to add to free
The.Net Framework Assistant unpatched, so we're blocking it blocked add-on list. Sprint was given 360 days to cash flow in 2010.
a d d - o n l e t s F i r e f o x u s e while we sort that out," Shaver Originally posted at Deep Tech divest itself of the iDEN assets in This content has passed through
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22 Tech/ Internet News Record

Why Would The Copyright Lobby Mac 101: Add Screen

Be Concerned About An Anti-Spam Sharing folder to Dock
Bill? for quick access
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) spyware/DRM: Sources say that collection is made by accessing a By TJ Luoma (The Unofficial
Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:43:25 AM the Liberals have introduced a computer system or causing a Apple Weblog (TUAW))
motion that would take these computer system to be accessed Submitted at 10/18/2009 3:00:00 PM
Up in Canada, there have been practices outside of the bill. In its without authorization." In other
ongoing discussions and place, they would define words, email harvesting and Filed under: Mac 101 More Mac
negotiations over an anti-spam computer program as, among spyware would not be permitted 101, our series of tips and tricks
l a w . W h i l e I h a v e v a r i o u s other things, "a program that has and would not qualify for the for novice Mac users.
reservations over anti-spam as its primary function...inducing PIPEDA exceptions found in This is really two tips in one.
legislation (here in the US it's a user to install software by Section 7. The first is a fairly basic one that
done little to stop spam, but intentionally misrepresenting that The copyright lobby is deeply new Mac users might not know:
plenty to outline how to installing that software is concerned that this change will you can drag any folder to the
"legitimately" spam people), it's a necessary to safeguard security or block attempts to track possible right-hand side your dock (to the
bit surprising to find out that the privacy or to open or play content infringement through electronic right of the faint-white lines
c o p y r i g h t l o b b y i s h e a v i l y of a computer program." This sets means. The Section 7(1)(b) which separate the Trash from
involved in the process as well. s u c h a h i g h b a r - p r i m a r y exception in PIPEDA currently applications). When you first set
Why would the copyright lobby f u n c t i o n , i n t e n t i o n a l states that collecting personal up an account, the Applications,
care about an anti-spam bill? mispresentation - that music and information without consent or Documents, and Downloads
Apparently, they're afraid that it'll software industry can plausibly knowledge of the individual is folders are already there.
hinder their use of DRM, since argue that surreptitious DRM permitted if it is reasonable to The second is a "news to me"
the current bill requires consent installations fall outside of C-27. expect that the collection "would tip: did you know that when you
connect via screensharing to disappear from the "Shared"
before installing software on A n d , o f c o u r s e , o n c e t h e compromise the availability or section in Finder. The files in the
computers. And, as we learned in copyright lobby can put spyware accuracy of the information" and different Macs, a file is created in
your home directory at Screen Sharing folder will still be
Sony's famous rootkit debacle, on your machine, they want to be the collection is "related to there, so if you are having trouble
p l e n t y o f D R M w o r k s b y sure they can spy on you and use investigating a breach of an ~/Library/Application
Support/Screen Sharing/? connecting, you might check
surreptitiously installing software that information against you: agreement or a contravention of Finder to make sure that it still
that watches what you do with PIPEDA currently features a the laws of Canada." It's really These files can be used to
reconnect to those machines "sees" the computer you are trying
content. Of course, the last thing series of exceptions to the stunning what kind of sense of to reach.
the entertainment industry would s t a n d a r d r e q u i r e m e n t s f o r entitlement the entertainment simply by clicking on them. This
means that you can launch Screen Henrik Nyh also suggested
want is to be required to be 100% o b t a i n i n g c o n s e n t f o r t h e industry has -- insisting that it putting VNC shortcuts in a Stack
upfront and truthful with you collection of personal information should have the right to install Sharing without having to switch
to Finder, locate the machine, and in the dock, and he adds the
when it's installing spyware/DRM (found in Section 7). Bill C-27 spyware on your computer notion of picking some suitable
on your computer. That would -- includes a provision that bars without you knowing about it, and then click the "Screen Share..."
button. If you screen share to a icons for them. Check out his
in their minds -- defeat the point. t h o s e e x c e p t i o n s i n c a s e s to then collect all sorts of private rundown here.
So, the copyright lobby has involving computer harvesting of info about you and what you do different Mac, the .vncloc file will
automatically be added to that TUAW Mac 101: Add Screen
been making sure to water down e m a i l a d d r e s s e s a n d t h e on your computer. Shameful. Sharing folder to Dock for quick
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UK ISP Shows Why Kicking People Meet New People Near

Off The Internet Based On An IP You Using Your iPhone
Address Is Dumb and Loopt Mix
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt) of Tom and Jerry and you will To be clear, in this case, the By Christina Warren
Submitted at 10/19/2009 2:21:32 AM never catch the mouse. The mouse music downloads were both done (Mashable!)
always wins in this battle and we legally -- and the company Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:41:23 AM
UK ISP TalkTalk has been a need to be careful that politicians checked with the WiFi access
strong critic of the way the do not get talked into putting point owners first to make sure Geolocation is one of the big
recording industry has tried to legislation in place that, in the they were okay with it -- but the current trends in social networks
turn ISPs into copyright cops in end, ends up looking stupid.... point is still clear. Just because and mobile applications. And why
the past. A year and a half ago it If people want to share content you have an IP address, it doesn't not? Being able to find out what’s
swore it would not be a copyright they will find another way to do act as any sort of proof. going on around you and what
c o p , a n d s c o l d e d B P I f o r it.... TalkTalk is continuing to TalkTalk's director of strategy and your friends are doing nearby is
s u g g e s t i n g i t h a d a n y show how silly the recording regulation, Andrew Heaney made pretty awesome. It’s one of the nearby? You can send them a free
responsibility to enforce the industry's plans are, by doing a the point clear:"The Mandelson reason apps and services like message and see if they want any
entertainment industry's poor little demonstration. The company scheme is every bit as wrong- Foursquare are gaining traction. company or want to meet
excuse for a business model -- sent out a security expert on staff headed as it is naive. The lack of Today, Loopt, one of the early somewhere close-by.
while also complaining about "the to an ordinary street in Stanmore, presumption of innocence and the players in connecting users to You can post status updates
most unbelievably rude letter" Middlesex. Then it had him find absence of judicial process their friends based on location, is showing what you’re doing – so if
t h a t B P I s e n t T a l k T a l k i n all the WiFi connections there -- combined with the prevalence of launching a new app that helps you are playing basketball and
demanding it do so. At the time, noting that many were totally wi-fi hacking will result in you meet new people, called looking for someone to join in,
he told them:"They're not just open, and many others used weak innocent people being Loopt Mix. you can include that information
shutting the stable door after the security. From a few open ones, disconnected." This, of course, is Loopt Mix(iTunes link) is a free so that would-be ballers can know
horse has bolted -- the horse has he went and downloaded some the same point that plenty of app for the iPhone that lets you to message you to join in on the
left town, got married, and started songs including Barry Manilow's people have been making for connect with people nearby that fun. Meeting new people can be
a family." Well said. Then, earlier hit Mandy and the soundtrack to ages, but the recording industry you don’t already know, but hard and the social web is
this year, TalkTalk's CEO also the 1992 film Peter's Friends -- never has a good response. They might want to meet. With it, you supposed to make it easier.
pointed out how naive it was to those two choices in honor of also haven't been able to respond create a profile (your e-mail Unfortunately, that isn’t always
think that the industry could do P e t e r M a n d e l s o n , t h e U K to a more important point: how address is never shown and you the case. Loopt Mix is aiming to
anything to stop unauthorized file Business Secretary who suddenly will kicking people off the can choose to hide or show your fix that.
sharing, noting: If you try speed because a supporter of kicking file internet make anyone more age) and you can search for What do you think about using
humps or disconnections for peer- sharers off the internet using a interested in buying music? people nearby. the social web to meet new people
to-peer, people will simply either three strikes provision after dining Permalink| Comments| Email Your exact location is never while on the go? How do you
disguise their traffic or share the with entertainment industry This Story shown and you can choose to hide meet new people when you are in
content another way. It is a game mogul, David Geffen. your profile from public view at a new city or looking to expand
any time (so if you’re on a date your social circle? Let us know!
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Wolfram Alpha iPhone app is cool Alex: Dual Screen

but overpriced eReader With Google
By Rafe Needleman The Wolfram Alpha iPhone app power Wolframers that the app is
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 9:07:00 PM
makes it easier to enter
calculation queries.(Credit:
targeted at. If you need it, then the
"price of 12 lattes from
Android
Screenshot by Rafe Starbucks," which I'm told is By Christina Warren
The iPhone app for Wolfram N e e d l e m a n / C N E T ) another way the team is thinking (Mashable!)
Alpha( iTunes store link) got Now, to be fair, the iPhone app of the price, is as they might say Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:59:08 AM
approved by Apple surprisingly is a much better way to use in the halls of some physics
quickly, I was told in a breathless Wolfram than the Web site, for a departments, trivial. Amidst all of those tasty Apple
e-mail from Wolfram PR on few reasons. But as they would tell you in the Tablet and Microsoft Courier
Sunday. But the real surprise was The Wolfram Web site renders economics department, you're rumors, some very real products
the price: The app is $49.99. all answers, even text, as GIF being taken for a ride. are preparing to enter the
The rationale is twisted. graphics, which means that text Also, Wolfram Alpha doesn't eReader/web-browser space.
"It's less than half the price of a doesn't automatically wrap, or know the price of 12 Starbucks Last week we got more
graphing calculator, but it does even scale well, on the iPhone's lattes either, but it did tell me the information on the forthcoming EPD. Spring Design says users
more," the rep told me. By the small screen. The app fixes that, stock price of SBUX and, to its Barnes & Noble eReader, and can toggle where data shows up in
w a y , " p r i c e o f a g r a p h i n g and results render nicely on the credit, if you enter "12 lattes" as a today Engadget points us towards order to save battery life.
calculator" is a calculation that iPhone. Also, entering complex query, you'll get all sorts of another eReader/browser hybrid The device has both Wi-Fi and
Wolfram Alpha can't compute. queries using numbers and nutritional information, such as from a company called Spring support for mobile networks like
For much, much less than the symbols on the iPhone's standard calorie content for the 12 lattes Design— and this one runs on 3G, EVDO and GSM (which
price of a graphing calculator, or keyboard is a real drag, but the (1,654), carbohydrates (61 percent Google’s Android. makes it sound like it could be
$ 0 . 0 0 , y o u c a n p o i n t y o u r Wolfram app has a special of daily recommended intake), The Spring Design device is customize for multiple carriers)
i P h o n e ' s S a f a r i b r o w s e r a t keyboard that gives fast access to and cholesterol (162 mg). called “Alex” and like the Barnes and has an SD slot for more
Wolframalpha.com and have full the symbols you'll need if you're a Just like the dozen lattes, this & Noble eReader, it features a storage options and for viewing
access to the service for free. heavy Wolfram user. app is hard to swallow. dual-screen. The top portion of other media. There’s also a
Divide by that, Wolfie. There are several other nice Previously: Wolfram Alpha the screen is a 6 E-Ink EPD headphone jack, which
Also, the $49.99 price doesn't features. You can bookmark opens API to developers. display and the lower display is a emphasizes the multimedia nature
get you an actual standalone queries, e-mail them, and Twitter Originally posted at Rafe's 3.5 color LCD. This seems to be of this type of device.
graphing calculator, since the app them. They really do make the Radar the popular work around for There’s no word on price or
doesn't work when it doesn't have Wolfram app very handy for taking advantage of the partnerships — but Spring Design
a Web connection. frequent users, and it's those readability and energy saving says they are working with a
features of E-Ink, while also number of content providers and
MPAA's CEO will leave in 2010 offering support for color graphics
and multimedia.
Spring Design has patented
plan to release it by the end of the
year.
(CNET News.com) significant in driving me." the MPAA's antipiracy efforts. What do you think of these web
On Friday, I cited an industry On Friday, I wrote that the what it calls its Duet Navigator browser/eReader hybrid devices?
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:31:24 AM
source who said that Glickman MPAA canned three of dual-screen technology, which Is this something you could s
Dan Glickman, the chairman and wouldn't last until the end of his Glickman's top antipiracy chiefs allows hyper-linked content and Tags: alex, android, ereader,
CEO of the Motion Picture contract. Apparently, the studios and also changed the name of the images to show-up in the lower spring design alex
Association of America, will walk will let him stick around until then unit from "antipiracy" to "content screen, while text shows up on the
away from the job in September, but it's unlikely that many would protection" as part of a major
when his contract runs out. have asked Glickman to stay overhaul.
Glickman told the blog Politico: beyond that, my sources said. The content protection group is
"My guess is that I'll end up in the Politico's story on Monday cited also being combined with the
nonprofit or academic world. p r o b l e m s w i t h G l i c k m a n ' s MPAA's legal department.
People who know me know I've lobbying efforts in Congress. My This content has passed through
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Thundergod gets you out in the rain

without getting wet
By Mel Martin (The Unofficial producing prowess. It's a good
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) introduction to their technique.
Submitted at 10/18/2009 12:00:00 PM Thundergod is not cheap. It's a
U.S. $9.99 app, but of you look at
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, the App Store reviews you'll be
App Review I'm spending the surprised how many purchasers
weekend in Northern Arizona on thought the app was worth the
a photo shoot. It's dry up here, but money.
I took along a little iPhone/iPod The sounds are not short
touch app that put me in the repeating loops, but something
center of several dramatic like a long concert that has a
thunderstorms. beginning, a middle and a
The app is called Thundergod[
iTunes link]. With creative
conclusion. I liked the 'Thor'
environment the best, because it
Three-wheel vehicles
microphone technique, and a good was the most dramatic and
set of headphones, you'd swear
you were in a raging storm, or a
attention-grabbing. It's not for
relaxation, but for stimulation. If
eligible for federal funds
rain forest, or one of 5 other relaxation is what you want, there (CNET News.com) Friday. The new guidelines will
environments, listening to nature are sonic environments included Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:08:00 AM now allow vehicles that get an
at its most spectacular. You can for that as well. average of at least 75 miles per
listen and let your mind drift off, My suggestion is that you try Worth promoting with federal gallon and can carry at least two
consider the state of the universe, This effect doesn't work through the free intro app, and if you like dollars?(Credit: Aptera) adults, according to the report.
or just fall asleep in a soft rain speakers. It can sound nice, but i t , t h e n g o a h e a d a n d g e t Congress has approved a Vista, Calif.-based Aptera plans
using the built in sleep timer. it's not startling or compelling. Thundergod. The effect can't measure that will allow makers of in the middle of next year to start
I suspect the techniques used to With headphones the sound really be described, but must be three-wheel cars to receive producing its 2e, a three-wheel
make these recording are similar comes alive, and you can begin to experienced. funding for fuel-efficient auto electric vehicle that it says will be
to the highly regarded binaural have an emotional reaction to TUAW Thundergod gets you t e c h n o l o g i e s , a c c o r d i n g t o able to go at least 100 miles on its
technique, using 2 microphones what you are hearing. out in the rain without getting wet published reports. battery charge.
separated by the approximate The app also allows for a originally appeared on The The bill, which still needs to be Elio, based in Tempe, Ariz., is
distance between your ears. Then special equalization curve if you U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g signed into law, could be a boost developing a narrow, three-wheel
when you play back with good are using earbuds like the ones (TUAW) on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 t o c o m p a n i e s d e v e l o p i n g gasoline car it says gets more than
headphones, you are instantly Apple includes, and it is effective. 12:00:00 EST. Please see our alternative car designs, notably 70 miles per gallon. It intends to
transported to a hyper-realistic, T h i s a p p a s p r o d u c e d b y terms for use of feeds. Aptera Motors and Elio Motors. sell the vehicle for less than
almost holographic place that Holographic Audio Theater, who Read| Permalink| Email this| Both companies have argued that $7,500.
closely duplicates being in a real gave us the free app Naturespace Comments their three-wheel cars deserve General Motors, which is
space with real sounds. that shows off their recording and federal funding meant to promote applying for DOE funds to
more efficient vehicles. promote electric vehicle
Karzai vote ‘fell short of victory’ The legislation, passed late last production, has opposed changes
week, would overturn an Energy i n t h e r u l e s i n t h e p a s t ,
(Financial Times - US outright victory in the country’s between Mr Karzai, who is Department rule that limited A u t o m o t i v e N e w s s a i d .
homepage) flawed presidential poll, raising adamant that he won the August funding to four-wheel vehicles This content has passed through
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:28:49 AM the chances that a prolonged 20 vote, and western powers meeting emissions and fuel- fivefilters.org.
election crisis may result in a run- embarrassed by evidence of economy benchmarks,
Fraud investigators ordered off. massive rigging in their ally’s
Afghan election officials on Automotive News reported on
The findings of the United favour.
Monday to deny Hamid Karzai, Nations-backed watchdog will This content has passed through
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TUAW Tips: Sync The Hit List on multiple machines with

DropBox
By Kent Pribbernow (The process on every machine running
Unofficial Apple Weblog THL. That's it!
(TUAW)) There is one small caveat. It's a
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:00:00 AM good idea to always ensure that
Dropbox has fully synced all of
Filed under: Software, Tips and your local changes before loading
tricks, TUAW Tips THL on another machine, or else
One of the great torments of you risk losing your most recent
owning several computers is data. Be wise to this and you'll
keeping all of your personal data have no troubles at all. You're
in sync; having multiple copies of welcome.
the same application speak the By the way, if you use Things
same jive. Take The Hit List, for rather than The Hit List for your
example. I use this app on my task management, be sure to see
MacBook Pro at work for our previous post about how to
organizing tasks and collecting sync it using Dropbox as well.
thoughts like a virtual inbox to my just this, and all that is required is Good, now let's do this. not quite done yet. Here's where TUAW TUAW Tips: Sync The
brain. At the end of the day I need for each machine to be running First, you need to locate THL's the magic happens. Hit List on multiple machines
a way to get all the day's notes Dropbox. By now all of you main database file which can be Hold down the option key while with DropBox originally appeared
from my laptop into my home should be using this amazingly f o u n d h i d i n g launching The Hit List. A dialog on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
desktop, which also happens to be awesome free service for saving in/Users/userprofile/Library/Appli window will appear, asking what (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Oct 2009
running THL as well. What to do? and sharing data to the cloud. If cation Support/The Hit List. Look the hell you've just done with its 07:00:00 EST. Please see our
The ideal solution is to get each y o u h a v e n ' t y e t o p e n e d a n for a file called The Hit List library. Just select "Choose terms for use of feeds.
machine sharing the same THL account, and downloaded and Library.thllibrary. Find it? Good, Library" and point it the file Read| Permalink| Email this|
database file synced to the cloud, installed the Mac desktop client, now simply drag this file to your located in your Dropbox folder. Comments
instead of a locally rooted file. go now. It's ok, I'll wait. Got it? Dropbox folder. Hold on, we're You must repeat this part of the
Fortunately, there is an way to do

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Shepard Fairey Destroys Evidence,
Goodwill; Harms His Case For No
Good Reason
By Michael Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:30:00 AM
On Friday morning, someone
"working with" Shepard Fairey
alerted me that some news was
coming out that day about his
lawsuit with the Associated Press
over his famous Barack Obama
poster: I finally got the "official"
statement from Fairey late on
Friday, just as I was about to
leave work for the weekend, and
the whole thing was so ridiculous
that I just figured I'd leave it until
today. Apparently, Fairey, for
absolutely no good reason, tried to
destroy evidence and then lie
about which photo he actually
used to make his poster. He's now
come clean about this, and while
he's right in his statement that this
shouldn't have any impact on the
underlying case, it certainly
doesn't help. It was already pretty
well known that Fairey was
hardly the poster child of fair use
-- given that he has a history of
going after others who copy his
own work, despite being an
"appropriation artist" himself.
But, even so, this is beyond dumb
-- something I don't say lightly.
Fairey still has a very strong fair
use claim -- which is entirely
separate from the question of
whether or not Fairey did
something incredibly stupid here.
Even if he used the image the AP
claimed he did (which he now
admits), it still seems like this is
an obvious case of fair use. But
destroying evidence and lying --
especially when there was no
good reason to do so -- just harms
his credibility and makes it that
much more likely that he'll lose
his case not for any legitimate
reason, but because of his own
separate actions in dealing with
this case. There are important fair
use issues at play here, and Fairey
just made it that much harder to
maintain the high ground.
While some are pointing out
that this is the sort of thing that
happens when copyright laws
always seem to stack the deck
against fair use, that's still no
excuse for lying and trying to
destroy evidence. Yes, the system
sucks, but doing something like
this only harms an otherwise
strong case.
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Cameron Diaz and Mike
Myers Banned From
Twitter?
By Stan Schroeder
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 3:50:59 AM
We’ve been reporting about the
use and misuse of a social media
policy in companies for quite a
while now, but it all got a bit
more mainstream when NFL
players were prohibited from
using Twitter (or have someone
update their account) during
games.
A couple of days ago, we heard
that even Hollywood is afraid that
its stars will reveal something
they shouldn’t on the
microblogging network. Now we
know the first victims: Cameron
Diaz and Mike Myers.
While we haven’t seen this
explicitly confirmed by the actors
themselves, it seems that the folks
at DreamWorks want to make
sure Diaz and Myers will keep
mum about the new Shrek sequel,
in which they’ll both be starring
next year.
Biggest ad markets will see no growth
until 2011
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:07:45 AM
The world’s largest media
markets will return to growth in
2011, according to the latest
advertising spending forecast, but
with only a “meagre” recovery as
emerging markets take a greater
share of global ad budgets.
ZenithOptimedia, the media
Tech/ Economy/ 27
We know that actors’ contracts
routinely contain confidentiality
clauses, but it seems that there are
now specific clauses on top,
related to social media and
Twitter in particular. We hate to
disappoint you, Hollywood, but
Facebook and Twitter are just
forms of communication. You can
also leak information by, you
know, speaking, or writing an
email.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
LPETTET Reviews: Facebook,
Twitter, iStockphoto
Tags: Cameron Diaz, Mike
Myers, twitter
agency owned by Publicis
Groupe, said on Monday that
advertising spending in the
developed markets of western
Europe, North America and Japan
would fall by 2.9 per cent next
year, growing 1.5 per cent in
2011.
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Fed confirms
What do you do after you start Twitter? Invent a reverse repo tests
credit card reader. (Financial Times - US
homepage)
By Steven Sande (The Store?), I think Dorsey has bigger Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:30:27 AM

Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion,
Hardware, Retail, Odds and ends,
iPhone, iPod touch If you were
Jack Dorsey, one of the co-
founders and current chairman of
Twitter, you'd want to think about
something else big to follow up
on your huge success.
While it doesn't sound like
anything groundbreaking,
Dorsey's new company Square is
developing a tiny white cube (see
photo above) that plugs into the
headphone jack on either an
iPhone or iPod touch. The cube is
a credit card reader, something
missing from all of those credit
card apps currently in the iTunes
App Store.
The Square iPhone Payment
System consists of the reader and
an app. After a card swipe, the
customer uses a finger to sign the
iPod touch or iPhone, one of the
participants in the transaction
enters the customer's email
address, and a receipt with the
location of the transaction, the
signature, and other standard
information is emailed to the
customer.
While most online journalists
are anticipating that this device
and software are going to be used
in retail (can you say Apple
ideas - let's face it, the guy doesn't
think small. So why not make it
possible for anyone with an
iPhone or iPod touch to be able to
accept credit cards for payments?
Word has it that the card reader's
manufacturing price will be as
low as US$0.40, which means
that Square could give away the
readers and still make money on
the transaction fees.
[via Engadget]
TUAW What do you do after
you start Twitter? Invent a credit
card reader. originally appeared
on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Mon, 19 Oct 2009
11:00:00 EST. Please see our
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The Federal Reserve on Monday
confirmed it had been testing
reverse repurchase agreements -
known as “reverse repos” - with
primary dealers and said it had
broadened the use of these
monetary policy tools to include
triparty repos.
In a statement released to clarify
market concerns about the
monetary policy implications of
the Fed’s recent testing of reverse
repos, the central bank’s New
York arm sought to downplay the
immediate effects.
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Talkcast reminder: it's Mac Help night, live at 10 pm ET

By Michael Rose (The subscribe in iTunes. keying in *-8. Talk with you then!
Unofficial Apple Weblog We'll be back live tonight with TUAW Talkcast reminder: it's
(TUAW)) one of our every-so-often Mac Mac Help night, live at 10 pm ET
Submitted at 10/18/2009 1:30:00 PM Help hours; call in with your Mac originally appeared on The
OS X questions, concerns and Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: TUAW Business, headscratchers and we'll do our (TUAW) on Sun, 18 Oct 2009
Podcasts best to advise you, live and in real 13:30:00 EST. Please see our
Last week, we were joined by time (yes, this can go off the rails terms for use of feeds.
NPD & Engadget's own Ross very easily -- that's part of the Read| Permalink| Email this|
Rubin for a fun-filled hour of spectacle). Comments
tablet speculation, iPhone VoIP To participate on TalkShoe, you should call in. For the web UI, advantange of your free cellphone
consideration and Talkshoe & can use the browser-only client, or just click the"TalkShoe Web" weekend minutes if you like): dial
Skype frustration. You can you can try out the classic button on our profile page at 10 (724) 444-7444 and enter our
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Bill Cosby Learns the

Twitting, Tweeting, Twit and
Tweetie [VIDEO]
By Pete Cashmore
Join TUAW for Apple Q4 (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 5:08:40 PM

earnings call liveblog at 5 Bill Cosby is back, and he’s

taking over social media.
Waveboard: Google
Wave Client for Mac
PM EDT today Bill is returning to the spotlight
to promote “The Cosnarati”, a and iPhone is Coming
By Steven Sande (The US$1.42 per share. That's 13 socially conscious hip-hop group
Unofficial Apple Weblog percent over the same quarter a he hopes will guide young people Meanwhile, Cosby is getting to By Stan Schroeder
(TUAW)) year ago, and higher than Apple's to do good with their lives. grips with a certain micro- (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:00:00 PM own forecast of US$1.18 - As such, Bill’s “people” have blogging site that he calls “ Twit Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:50:39 AM

US$1.23 per share. determined that Cosby needs to and Tweetie” (he’s@billcosby).
Filed under: Apple Financial, As usual, we'll be covering the get involved with this glitzy new And he’s learning the ropes at the The desktop version of
Liveblog Time flies when you're earnings call via CoverItLive. “social media marketing” thing “Twitter for video” site Waveboard for Mac, although in a
having fun -- it seems like it was Drop by TUAW at approximately the kids are all doing these days. 12seconds, as the video below very early stage, is already
only a few weeks ago that we 5 PM EDT (2 PM PDT) and join Bill’s social media tendrils have attests. available for download. Official
were enjoying the Q3 earnings us. Bring your questions, and reached out across 12seconds, Will you be following Bill info on the app is very scarce, but
report from Apple, Inc. w e ' l l s u p p l y t h e n e w s a n d Facebook, Flickr, Blog Talk Cosby? Let us know in the some users have tried it out and
Well, today the wizards of c o m m e n t a r y . Radio, MySpace and Cinch comments. called it “simple and practical”.
Cupertino are on the phone again TUAW Join TUAW for Apple among others, and he’ll be hosting Reviews: 12seconds.tv, The same developer is currently
with top Wall Street analysts to Q4 earnings call liveblog at 5 PM a live stream on Ustream.tv on Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, waiting for Apple’s approval of a
report how the company did EDT today originally appeared on Monday October 19 (tomorrow) Twitter Google Wave client for the
during the fourth quarter (July - The Unofficial Apple Weblog at 7pm ET. He’s got a Facebook Tags: cosby, twitter iPhone under the same name. You
September, 2009). Many analysts (TUAW) on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 app too– it lets you dress yourself can already run Wave on your
are expecting Apple to continue 12:00:00 EST. Please see our in a Cosby-style sweater. iPhone by simply accessing
its recession-defying high wire terms for use of feeds. wave.google.com/wave from your
act, with an analyst poll by Permalink| Email this| iPhone, with mixed results (works
Thomson Reuters Financial C o m m e n t s a bit better on Nokia N900), but
showing an earnings forecast of we expect the app to make the
entire experience far smoother.
Microsoft to Restore Some of the Lost Sidekick Data This Week All you Mac users out there,
please let us know how you like
By Stan Schroeder announced that they were able to -lists, marketplace data, and high the application in the comments.
(Mashable!) recover “most, if not all” of the scores) shortly thereafter.” Reviews: Google Wave
Submitted at 10/19/2009 1:08:59 AM lost customer data. Now, if you’re Sounds encouraging; if you’re Tags: Google Wave, mac,
one of the users who’ve been one of the affected Sidekick users, Waveboard
Recently, Microsoft and T- affected by this incident, you’ll be please let us know how the data
Mobile had a very embarrassing happy to know that your data will restoration process is going.
episode: after a server failure, be restored soon. Tags: microsoft, sidekick, T-
Sidekick data was lost for a From Microsoft’s official Mobile
portion of users, and originally announcement on the matter:
Microsoft had said that the data “We continue to make steady contacts for affected users this
was lost forever. progress, and we hope to be able week, with the remainder of the
Shortly after that, Microsoft to begin restoring personal content (photographs, notes, to-do
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Wolfram Alpha's iPhone App Launches: Lots of
Power, But Too Expensive
By Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 5:23:46 PM
Quite a bit ahead of schedule,
Wolfram Alpha's iPhone app
appeared in the iTunes App Store
today. The app, which costs
$49.99, gives users full access to
Wolfram Alpha's capabilities and
greatly improves on the speed and
ergonomics of Wolfram Alpha's
mobile site. The company is
targeting this app at students and
professionals and marketing it as
a replacement for stand-alone
graphing calculators, which is
clearly reflected in the price.
Sponsor
Dual Keyboards
One of the most interesting
feature of the app, besides the
ability to quickly access all of the
power that Wolfram Alpha now
offers, is the fact that the
company has found a way to
make inputing queries very easy.
Instead of a single keyboard at the
bottom of the screen, the app
actually displays two keyboards -
one for numbers and symbols, and
a regular QWERTY keyboard at
the bottom of the screen. Given
the nature of a typical query for
Alpha, this makes perfect sense
and we hope that others will
follow Alpha's lead here. A Web-
Connected Graphing Calculator,
But With Some Limitations
It's important to note that the
app only works when a user is
connected to the Internet. This
could be a deal-breaker for some,
but then, the app store already
offers plenty of basic graphing
calculators for those times when
you don't have Internet access.
Thanks to its vast database of
chemical compounds, nutritional
data, geographical information,
financial data, and its ability to
solve pretty much any math
problem that a high school or
college student will ever
encounter, the app can do a lot
more than any current graphing
calculator can offer.
For some students, though, the
problem could be that some
teachers won't allow them to bring
a full-blown Internet-capable
device like the iPhone or an iPod
touch into an exam. In addition,
it's also important to note that the
Wolfram Alpha doesn't offer the
ability to write programs inside
the app, though maybe somebody
else will build an app that can do
this based on Alpha's newly
released API.
It's also important to remember
that Alpha isn't as easy to use as
Google. Alpha, and, by extension,
the app, can be rather strict about
how you structure a query, for
example. If you don't capitalize a
chemical formula, the app won't
know what to do with these
symbols. While Google has
virtually no learning curve, Alpha
works best if you invest some
time into exploring the intricacies
of how to structure queries. To
help you along the way, the app
features a demo video, lots of
example queries, and an FAQ
section. Native App Offers a Bit
More Than the Web Service, But
Is That Enough to Justify the High
Price?
In its press materials, the
Wolfram Alpha team stresses that
the app offers a number of
features that the web app can't
currently offer. The app can now
make assumptions based on your
location, for example. Wolfram
also has added quite a few
features that make using the app
easier than using the web service.
You can easily bookmark queries
and the app keeps a running list of
recent searches available as well.
In addition, you can easily email
queries or share them on Twitter.
Is $50 Too Much?
At $49.99, there can be no
doubt that Wolfram Research is
pricing the app at the higher end
of the spectrum. A spokesperson
for Wolfram Alpha told us that
the company wants to target the
app at "serious users, and is priced
as such." The team is clearly
aware that this price could be
controversial, especially given
that the mobile web site offers a
similar interface, though without
the ergonomic benefits of the
native app. In addition, Wolfram
tells us that the team wants to use
this price to make a statement
about the "non-trivial nature" of
Wolfram Alpha's capabilities.
While the company plans to
offer regular discounts and sales,
we can't help but wonder if the
price isn't a bit too high. At $9.99
or even $19.99, the app would be
more of an impulse buy, while
now, even though it obviously
offers more features than a user
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would ever expect from a high-
priced hardware graphing
calculator which would generally
retail for more than $100. Verdict Ex-Googler & Brizzly
Wolfram Alpha launched to so
much hype that a backlash was
Creator on Real-Time
inevitable when it finally Web Filtration
launched. As Schoeller Porter, the
By Jolie O'Dell
product manager for the iPhone (ReadWriteWeb)
app, notes, the company is also
launching this app "as an Submitted at 10/18/2009 10:13:50 PM
opportunity to highlight how far
At the ReadWrite Real-Time
the system has come since Web Summit last Thursday, Jason
launch." Indeed, the Wolfram
Shellen, a former Google engineer
Alpha team continues to add new and current Thing Labs CEO, sat
data sources and new ways to
down to talk with us about
query them, making the service filtration and discovery on the real
more useful with every new
-time web.
dataset it adds. One of the greatest problems of
The high price will probably
this environment is said to be the
keep quite a few potential users capacity for information overload.
from downloading the app,
At a Summit session,
however. While we understand representatives of some of the
the company's rational behind this
most "filter-geeky" real-time
high price, users generally startups debated the methods and
consider a $10 app to be a
merits of parsing data from the
'premium' product. $49.99 is a real-time web. Shellen's was one
hefty price for this app, especially
of the most authoritative voices in
considering that the majority of the session, and his one-on-one
features is available through the
insights are well worth listening
web service. If you are a student to.
or engineer who really needs
Sponsor
these features, though, the app is Discuss
worth a look, but we recommend
you try the web service and see
how it works for the kinds of
queries you would enter before
you spend $50, especially given
that the company will surely offer
discounts or bring the base price
down at some point. Discuss
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Sweb Apps 2.0: Build Your Own Mobile
Storefront for the iPhone
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 6:59:19 AM
New from Sweb Apps, the
company whose online service
lets anyone create their own
iPhone application - no coding
required - is Sweb Apps 2.0, the
next generation of the company's
app builder product. Among a
handful of new features, including
a real-time WYSIWYG style
landing page builder and
YouTube integration, is the ability
to create an iPhone-based store
where you can sell inventory
within your app and take
payments via PayPal.
Sponsor
Sweb Apps is an interesting
company to watch because it's one
of the first to democratize the
iPhone app-building business by
taking the complexity of coding
out of the equation. With their
service, anyone can create their
own application in as little as five
minutes. Of course, you aren't
necessarily designing any
masterpieces with this sort of
click-to-build process, but it
provides an easy - if a bit
simplistic - way for small to
medium-sized businesses to
establish a presence in the iTunes
App Store. Real-Time View of
App Creation
With the next generation of the
Street Chic: New York
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:00:00 AM
A perfectly fitted blazer chicly
product, Sweb Apps 2.0, some of
the original concerns about the -
well, let's say it- rather boring
user interface of the Sweb-built
apps - have begun to be
addressed. Whereas before you
could only customize your own
background color and upload your
own buttons, today you can
customize the background to be
an image instead. And if you don't
have one of your own, Sweb Apps
is providing an online library of
images to choose from. That's a
step in the right direction even if
some of the backgrounds are
reminiscent of early GeoCities
webpages or Windows 98
wallpapers....after all, you have
crawl first before you can run.
As you build your app's landing
page, you're provided with a real-
time view of your app in progress
which makes it much easier to tell
whether your images, buttons and
colors look good together or not.
That's a handy feature for SMB
owners who may be doing app
creation on their own without the
aid of a professional designer. The
app builder also uses drag-and-
drop functionality to make the
process even more painless for the
inexperienced end user. Mobile
Storefronts
However, one of the most
interesting developments in the
2.0 version of Sweb Apps' online
service is the new "store"
tops a simple black sheath.
Photo: Jonathan Alpeyrie
Think you are Street Chic? E-
mail us your photo and you could
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streams, and YouTube
integrations, all of which stream
the audio or video within the app
itself as opposed to launching an
external program such as the DIY Hand Strap Keeps
functionality. Now, as easy as it is iPhone's own built-in YouTube
t o b u i l d a n a p p , y o u c a n app. Also news is the ability for Your DSLR Off the
essentially build a mobile users to manage multiple Ground [DIY Creations]
storefront for your business. This applications from one account.
feature, still in beta, allows you to Sweb Apps says they've seen By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
categorize, subcategorize, itemize, good results since their August Submitted at 10/19/2009 5:35:00 AM
and write descriptions for your 2009 launch with a 400% increase
products. You can manage and in sales, but won't share any A long camera strap is great for
maintain your inventory through actual numbers. That doesn't carrying a camera hands-free, but
Sweb's CMS and your mobile really tell us much about the if you're more concerned about
customers can "check out" via the service's adoption by the SMB dropping your photo rig,
included PayPal integration. market. Since the company isn't Photojojo's got a cheap and
Sweb Apps tells us that they touting any high-profile clients or customizable hand strap anyone
envision this sort of feature being case studies in their PR though, can make.
used by restaurants, boutiques, we have to imagine that they're The materials are fairly cheap
and small retailers. It's easy to flying a bit under the radar on the and accessible at your local crafts
imagine. For example: wish you business front at this point. Still, or hardware store. Find a good
had picked up a t-shirt from that it's very early in the game and piece of one-inch-wide nylon or
seafood place where you dined on services like this can take a while polyester webbing, a few bits of
vacation? In theory, you could to catch on and gain popularity. miscellaneous straps and slide
now even if you were halfway The pricing for Sweb Apps hardware, and find a needle and
home thanks to these new mobile remains the same despite the new thread and a match, and you're on
storefronts. In a way, these sorts features. The company offers your way. If you wanted, you
of mobile storefronts are an even four, six, and eight button could likely use the hand strap in
better choice than having the packages which all include a one conjunction with a longer, neck-
same functionality on via an time set-up fee of $50 per button. strung strap to alternate uses of
online store on the "real" web Then there is a $25 monthly your camera. The Dashing DIY
mainly because not everyone hosting fee applied to every Hand Strap[Photojojo]
ports their laptops around with application going forward.
them 24/7. But their iPhones? Discuss
People don't leave home without
them. And More...
Other features being introduced
today include podcasts, audio
Daily.
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Google Enterprise Campaign Shifts
Into High Gear on the Eve of
Sharepoint Conference
By Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 1:00:25 AM
On the eve of Microsoft's
Sharepoint conference in Las
Vegas, Google is launching its
international phase to an
advertising campaign that is the
largest ever for its push into the
enterprise and one of the most
extensive in the company's
history.
The "Gone Google," campaign
is significant in a number of ways.
Sharepoint is one of Microsoft's
crown jewels. It's a huge business.
The technology generates a cool
$1 billion in revenues. The
technology is at the heart of
Microsoft's strategy to remain
king over the enterprise. Steve
Ballmer says Sharepoint will
surpass 1 million developers in
the next year.
Sponsor
Steve Ballmer is banking on
customers making major
investments in Sharepoint 2010.
With the upgrade, customers face
a host of new IT expenses.
For example, Sharepoint 2010
requires upgrade from 32-bit to 64
-bit technology on all servers.
Office 2007 will run on
Sharepoint 2010 but Microsoft is
recommending investments in
Office 2010 for richer integration.
Office 2003 users will need to
upgrade to Office 2007 to run
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Spring Design Announces
Android-Based Dual-
Screen eReader
By Frederic Lardinois
across the globe. With the launch, (ReadWriteWeb)
Google launched a montage
Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:05:18 AM
video. We find this interesting. If
nothing else, YouTube offers company plans to give developers
Spring Design, a relatively and publishers the ability to
Google a great way to promote its unknown hardware design
Sharepoint 2010. own products. enhance the text that appears in
company, just announced that it the eInk screen with multimedia
Google App services require no Google has not slowed down will enter the eBook market with
IT environment to manage, no with it service offering. In content on the LCD screen. This
a dual-screen eReader based on could open up a lot of new
expensive software upgrades and September, Google announced an the Android operating system.
no new server purchases. That's application program interface avenues for publishers, but at the
This device, the 'Alex,' will same time, we have to wonder if a
enticing for any size business. (API) for its Google Sites combine a 6-inch eInk display
T h e G o o g l e c a m p a i g n technology, effectively providing lot of publishers will be willing to
with a 3.5-inch color LCD develop new content for this
highlights why the Microsoft users with a way to import and touchscreen. According to Spring
model may be slipping a bit. export apps from Microsoft device. Creating an eBook version
Design's press release, the of a manuscript is easy, but
Companies are questioning if they SharePoint sites. Google Wave is company will use an 'enhanced'
n e e d t o m a k e s u c h m a j o r a collaboration platform. It has adding additional content to this
version of the Android OS that text could quickly become a
i n v e s t m e n t s i n M i c r o s o f t received mixed reviews, its has been optimized to facilitate
technology. effectiveness in the enterprise still costly undertaking. Color us
the integration between the two Skeptical
For its part, Google has more too soon to tell. screens. Spring Design plans to
than 2 million businesses on Google and many others see a Given how vague the details
release this device later this year. are, we remain skeptical about
Google Apps, representing 20 giant in Microsoft that can be Sponsor
m i l l i o n u s e r s . G o o g l e i s slow and at times uneasy in how it this device until we get more
Hardware details. For now, all we know is
expanding its Google Apps steps through the market. With The dual-screen concept is
service to the United Kingdom, each step, they face a community that it will run Android, feature
definitely interesting and two screens, that it will have an
France, Canada, Japan, Australia network of micro-size businesses somewhat reminiscent of the
and Singapore. Clients include that are proving formidable with SD card slot, and that users will
rumored Barnes & Noble-branded be able to cache web content on
Motorola, New York Life and their best-in-breed technologies. eReader that is scheduled to be
Konica Minolta. It's a big week for Microsoft. the device and then display it on
announced tomorrow. For now, the eInk screen.
The "Gone Google," campaign Sharepoint is at a juncture. With Spring Design's press release
is a continuation of the roll out Google in such an aggressive We also can't help but look at
remains quiet about any content the device and think that it would
they did over the summer. It mode, Microsoft will have to partnerships. Even though the
features changing messages from move faster with its own product be rather unwieldy to use. It is
company says that the device will definitely exciting to see that
businesses that have switched to development, convincing its be able to connect to 3G,
Google for Google Apps, Google customers that what they provide somebody is using Android to
EVDO/CDMA and GSM develop an eReader, but this
Search Appliance and services is still the best choice for the networks, Spring Design doesn't
such as Google Postini, their enterprise. device seems to forego usability
appear to be ready to announce for novelty. While we are all
hosted security and archiving Discuss any partnerships there either.
service. looking forward to color eInk
Multimedia Books displays, this device looks like an
The campaign is now running Maybe the most interesting
odd Discuss
aspect of the device is that the
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Loopt Launches "Loopt Mix": Less
about Networking, More about
Dating
By Sarah Perez
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:01:00 AM
Loopt, the makers of a popular
mobile social networking
application by the same name, is
introducing a new iPhone
application today called Loopt
Mix. Where their original app
focuses on connecting you with
your friends while you're out-and-
about, Loopt Mix is more about
introducing you to "the people
you wish you knew." In other
words, "people" like that
attractive person giving you eyes
from the other end of the bar.
Sponsor
The new application is actually
a spinoff of Loopt's "Mix" feature
which lets you browse the Loopt
profiles of those around you
within its original mobile social
networking application. Now Mix
is its very own app - a change that
could attract a whole new user
base looking to do a little more
than just basic "networking."
Although the company is not
specifically marketing Mix as a
dating application, it's clearly
designed for mobile singles
because - let's face it- who else
wants to browse the photos and
profiles of nearby folks and strike
up IM-based conversations with
those who look interesting? If
that's not about dating, then it's
just borderline creepy.
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Cartoon: Blogging Was
Made Possible by...
By Rob Cottingham
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:09:31 AM
ability to send you real-time push
notifications - something which a The new FTC guidelines for
few other social networking apps, disclosure by bloggers have
Facebook included, have yet to stirred up some anger among
adopt. bloggers accustomed to getting
In Loopt Mix, the push free stuff and blogging about it
notifications work with the app's without the heavy hand of
built-in chat functionality so governmental Big Brother yadda
you're notified when and if yadda - oh, you can finish the
someone responds to you without sentence yourself. struggling to make ends meet,
you having to sit there looking Sponsor there are countless more blog
uncool while constantly reloading I can respect that it might get readers - the people the marketers
the page or staring at the still- people's backs up to suggest that are really trying to reach. Don't
While Loopt Mix is not the first blank chat window. their integrity is for sale, they deserve to know about the
iPhone-based dating application - It's also worth mentioning that especially for such low prices. relationship between product and
others like DatingDNA and Skout you don't have to be out on the (Although, the last time I checked blogger when they assess what
have beaten them to the punch - town to take advantage of Loopt the exchange rate, integrity was they're reading?
the company may have a leg up Mix. Since it simply locates down sharply against the dollar... I'm a fan of disclosure, and
on their competition already people near you, you could use and against the free chewing while I haven't examined the FTC
thanks to brand recognition alone. this anytime - even from your gum.) Then again, I've seen guidelines in detail, I support the
That's because Loopt was featured own home - to find and connect to enough obviously feigned idea in principle.
in one of the many iPhone TV o t h e r i n t e r e s t i n g p e o p l e . enthusiasm in some "reviews" to But it's interesting that the FTC
commercials last year as a great However, should you ever want to convince me that at least a few went after bloggers rather than,
way to stay in touch with friends. go offline, you and the other bloggers are happy to rent their say, entertainment writers who
Given widespread exposure like person would have to make voices - and readers - to any don't mention the expensive
that, Loopt is already well-known a r r a n g e m e n t s t o m e e t marketing department with a gift junkets that movie studios take
outside of the early adopter set. somewhere...just like you would card and blogger outreach them on. A blogger who has to
Loopt Mix Features on a "real" dating website like program. disclose that she or he received a
Like its competitors, Loopt Mix Match.com or eHarmony. The All easy enough for me to say, free package of hot dog weiners
lets you tap into the iPhone's only difference with Loopt Mix is of course; I have a job and make a has every right to feel burned after
location-based features to see that, unlike traditional dating pretty good living (touch wood). I dropping fifty bucks to take the
what other Loopt Mix members sites, the app is completely can imagine that I might be family to the latest
are nearby. You can browse their free.That, too, could help Mix tempted to modify my views if "THRILLING!" "FANTASTIC!"
profiles, view and post photos and grow - especially in this tough money was short and a blog "SURE-FIRE WINNER!"
status messages, and start chat economy where finding love for a review could put another meal on More Noise to Signal. Discuss
sessions - all of which are par for fee is a luxury many can no the table for my kids. Then again,
the course in mobile dating apps longer afford. Discuss for every blogger out there who's
these days. In fact, there's nothing
all that revolutionary about Mix's
feature set except for perhaps its
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The Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7
[Windows 7]
By The How-To Geek
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:00:00 AM
The final version of Windows 7
is being released this week to the
general public, and after you get
your hands on it the first thing
you'll need to know is: Do all my
tweaks still work?
If you haven't already made the
switch over to Windows 7, be
sure to check out our guide to
upgrading to the Windows 7 RC,
which should still be applicable
for the final release. If you aren't
sure whether you want to make
the switch full-time, you can
always setup a dual-boot with
Vista or XP.
Disable Shortcut Icon Arrows
This is one of those little
annoyances that doesn't really
affect functionality at all, but if
you are worried about making
your system look just right, you
might want to get rid of the
unseemly arrows that show up on
any shortcut. There's loads of
different methods to get rid of
these icons—back in XP you
could just use Tweak UI, but
starting with Windows Vista you
needed another application: the
Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover.
It still works in Windows 7, and is
just about the simplest way to get
rid of the arrows. Why this setting
isn't built into Windows, I just
don't know.
Disable Shortcut Icon Arrow
Overlay in Windows 7 or Vista
Add Defrag to the Right-Click
Menu
If you want to quickly
defragment your drive, there's
way too many clicks that you
have to go through to start the
defrag process—but you can use a
simple tweak that adds defrag to
the context menu for each drive.
It's as simple as a little registry
hack, which you can download
and install without having to mess
around in the registry yourself.
Add Defragment to the Right-
Click Menu for a Drive
Create Shortcuts to Lock the
Screen, Shutdown, Restart
Microsoft keeps moving the
shutdown buttons around with
every new version of Windows,
but it seems like people are still
asking for shortcuts to shut down
or restart the PC, and the good
news is that the old tweak still
works just fine on Windows 7.
You can even assign a shortcut
key to them if you choose, just
make sure to put the shortcut on
the start menu or desktop if you
want the shortcut key to work.
Create Shutdown / Restart /
Lock Icons in Windows 7 or Vista
Make Windows Log On
Automatically
When you are the only person
using your PC at home, there's
really not much reason to require
a login every time you restart your
computer. Luckily there's an easy
way to make sure that Windows
doesn't ask you for a password
when you log on, using the
netplwiz utility.
Make Windows 7 or Vista Log
On Automatically
Stop Windows Update from
Automatically Restarting Your
PC
This is my personal pet peeve
with Windows—you are right in
the middle of a few dozen things,
with a ton of applications open on
your screen, and you come back
to your computer only to find that
your PC has restarted because of
Windows Update decided that
rebooting that instant was more
important than all that work you
had on your screen. If you are
sitting in front of your PC, you
can always temporarily disable
the automatic reboot, but there's
another registry hack that will
prevent it from happening in the
first place.
Prevent Windows Update from
Forcibly Rebooting Your
Computer
Add Any Folder To Your
Taskbar
This tweak has worked on every
version of Windows for a very
long time, and even with the new
taskbar in Windows 7, it still
works perfectly. Just right-click
on the taskbar, choose Toolbars
–> New Toolbar, and pick the
folder you'd like to add. You can
make them icon-only, remove the
label, or make them use large
icons. You can even use this trick
to add the Quick Launch folder
back to Windows 7.
Add "My Computer" to Your
Windows 7 / Vista Taskbar
Add "Take Ownership" to the
Context Menu
If you were rocking an
administrator account on
Windows XP, you pretty much
had access to do anything you
wanted, but since Vista, Windows
made it extremely difficult to
change files and folders in any of
the system directories. To easily
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solve this problem, there's a
simple little registry hack that will
add a "Take Ownership" item to
the context menu, after which you
can rename, delete, or do
whatever you'd like.
Add "Take Ownership" to
Explorer Right-Click Menu in
Win 7 or Vista
Add Copy/Move to the Context
Menu
Sure, there are loads of ways to
copy or move files around in
Windows, but there's one simple
little registry hack that will add a
"Copy To folder" and "Move To
folder" option to the context
menu. Once you've added them to
the menu, you can pop up a dialog
box that lets you easily choose a
folder to move or copy the items
to—it's one of those great little
hacks that's been around forever,
and still works in Windows 7.
Add Copy To / Move To on
Windows 7 or Vista Right-Click
Menu
Disable the Caps Lock Key
The Caps Lock key is by far my
least favorite key on the
keyboard—at least the scroll lock
key doesn't interfere with my
typing when I hit it by accident.
Thankfully it's easy enough to get
rid of with a simple registry hack,
or you can map any key to any
key using an easy freeware utility.
If you'd rather not disable it, you
can instead use Caps Lock as a
keyboard-friendly navigation tool
or turn it into a dedicated
minimize button.
Disable Caps Lock Key in
Windows 7 or Vista
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Sleep/Shutdown Button to
Windows Update
So you're rushing to finish up
that TPS report so you can duck
out early and avoid Lumberg
asking you to work on the
weekend, only to realize that
Windows hijacked your
Sleep/Shutdown button and is
now slowly installing updates for
the next twenty minutes or so.
Thankfully there's another simple
registry hack that will prevent
Windows from changing out your
regular shutdown button with the
install updates variety.
Stop Windows Update from
Hijacking the Sleep Button
Enable Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop doesn't come
with all the flavors of
Windows—you can only use it if
you are running the Ultimate, Pro,
or Business editions. If you are
using one of those versions and
want an excellent way to control
the PC in the other room, Remote
Desktop is where it's at—in
Windows 7 or Vista it will even
enable Aero through the Remote
Desktop session. To enable for
yourself, simply head into System
properties, choose Remote
Settings, and then change the
radio button to enable it.
Turn on Remote Desktop in
Citigroup might lose Mexican subsidiary
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 4:42:21 PM year placed its Mexican
Mexico’s Supreme Court is this national law, which bans foreign
week set to probe a case that governments from owning a stake
could potentially force Citigroup, in domestic banks.
the troubled US bank, to sell its
profitable and highly prized fivefilters.org.
Mexican subsidiary.
A group of opposition senators
Windows 7 or Vista
Disable Sticky / Filter Keys
Dialogs
Have you ever been playing a
game, or doing something else
that required pressing the Shift or
Ctrl keys a bunch of times, and
then had the "Do you want to turn
on Sticky Keys?" question pop up
on your screen? It might be a
great feature for some people, but
it's not useful for the rest of
us—and it's really annoying.
Thankfully you can disable the
keyboard shortcuts entirely by
heading into the Control Panel's
Ease of Access center and looking
under the keyboard section.
Disable the Irritating Sticky /
Filter Keys Popup Dialogs
Disable Windows Explorer
Click Sounds
Ever noticed that every time you
double-click on anything in
Windows Explorer, it makes an
annoying clicking sound? If you
do a lot of file management, this
sound can quickly drive you batty.
Thankfully there's a really simple
way to disable it—just head into
the Sounds panel and find the
item called "Start Navigation" in
the list. Once you've disabled that
sound, you should be finally free
of the irritation.
Turn Off Windows Explorer
has pointed out that the US
government bail-out of Citi last
subsidiary, Banamex, in breach of
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Vista
Disable User Account Control's
Annoying Prompts
UAC has noble intentions, but
for power users who know what
they're doing, they can be
extremely annoying. Windows 7
makes it so much easier to get rid
of those annoying prompts than
Vista—you can simply head into
Control Panel, find the UAC
settings panel, and then drag the
slider to fit the level of annoyance
you feel like dealing with. If you'd
rather keep UAC enabled but
want to prevent the prompts for a
particular application, you can
always create shortcuts that
bypass the UAC prompts with a Windows 7 Recovery Discs
simple task scheduler trick.
Disable User Account Control
(UAC) the Easy Way on Win 7 or
Gets Your System Out of
Vista These are just a few of the
many Windows tweaks that still Tight Spots [Downloads]
work in Windows 7. Do you have By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) pre-installers.
a can't-live-without tweak that Submitted at 10/19/2009 4:30:00 AM Boot your system from
you want to still use in Windows NeoSmart's CD, and you'll get a
7? Tell us in the comments. Windows 7: If you run into a stripped-down Windows system
The 20 Best Windows Tweaks boot-up error with Windows 7 with a window offering startup
that Still Work in Windows and don't have a recovery disc file repair, Restore Point returns,
7[How-To Geek] handy, you're usually in for some recovery from a whole-cloth
manic fiddling, or you're just out image, memory testing, and a
of luck. NeoSmart's recovery command prompt for those dire
discs, however, can set things moments when only frantically
right. Google-d terminal instructions
Download NeoSmart's recovery can save you.
discs for 32- and 64-bit systems, These Windows 7 System
burn them to CD, and pop them R e c o v e r y D i s c s a r e a f r e e
into any system that claims it's download via BitTorrent from
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These discs contain the same directly from file-hosting site
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Android 2.0 Features Combined Inbox, Three Rivers: Good Intentions -

open thread
"Car Home" [Android] By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:33:00 PM

Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:00:00 AM

I hate when football runs over. I
The Boy Genius Report got its want to watch 60 Minutes but two
hands on the upcoming Android teams insist on ending the fourth
Verizon phone, "Droid," and quarter in a tie and have to go to
toured its early-release 2.0 overtime. Even when it's not OT
firmware. The blog finds a few the game often runs over, and for
keen features to be released, some reason CBS then goes to
including a unified inbox and another game instead of starting
voice-controlled car accessibility. the prime time shows right away.
The screens come from Last night they went to another
Motorola's phone, now heavily game and fans of Cold Case were
advertised over the weekend as a left in the dark because CBS
didn't have enough time to show SlashControl.]
direct competitor to the iPhone, Filed under: Other Drama
but the Android 2.0 features will the popular square-burger-patty other offerings. the episode.
chain. A "combined inbox" loads What's still missing from But Three Rivers fans got to see Shows, Watercooler Talk, Reality
presumably make their way to -Free
Android phones of all stripes your work email messages, SMS, Android 2.0 from a software Alex O'Loughlin and his friends
Facebook pings, important blog standpoint? Tell us your take on try to save lives. What did you Permalink| Email this| |
(eventually). The neatest stuff Comments
inside, from a usability updates, and other messages into the presumed future of Google's think of the episode?
standpoint, includes a "Car one screen (though Gmail remains open source phone system in the [Watch episodes and clips of
Home" that presents big buttons separate), and settings offerings comments. Android 2.0 Three Rivers and other shows at
and voice-controlled instructions, like haptic feedback (subtle screenshot walkthrough[Boy
like saying "map of wendys" and vibration) for virtual keys, Genius Report] Wall Street digests
selective account syncing, and
getting a Google Map filled with mixed earnings
LastPass Adds Auto-Fill Password Management to results
(Financial Times - US
Google Chrome [Downloads] homepage)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:45:33 AM
By Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Firefox and Internet Explorer, and extension-supporting Chromium
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:00:00 AM it's a bit more convenient and on Ubuntu, however, led to US equities were mixed, with
functional than its bookmarklet consistent crashes, and I'd expect S&P 500 modestly higher, early
Google Chrome (on Windows): form filler. The concept remains the same out of Mac OS X builds, Monday as a slate of earnings
Password saving and management the same: you only have to at least until those platforms reports damped some pre-market
webapp LastPass offers a single remember your LastPass login, mature or LastPass gets around to optimism about the latest
space to drop your web site and LastPass remembers all your addressing them. quarterly results.
passwords and quickly use them other passwords and, if you want, LastPass' Chrome extension is a BB&T said its quarterly profit
on any browser—now including credit card and form data, too. free download, works wherever fell 58 per cent as the financial
Chrome, through an extension Before you ask, here's how Chrome does, and requires a company continued to sort
available to development channel LastPass justifies its safety and LastPass account to use. LastPass through credit issues lingering
users. encryption. development channel version of - Downloads[via MakeUseOf] from the financial crisis. Its shares
LastPass works on Chrome The extension and its features Google Chrome on Windows. were down 4.7 per cent at $26.91.
similarly to how it does on w o r k e d a s p r o m i s e d o n a Testing it out on a daily build of This content has passed through
fivefilters.org.
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Apple Pulls EyeTV App

Over 3G Streaming
By Charles Jade of AT&T’s terms of service in the
(TheAppleBlog) U.S. and Apple’s policy
Submitted at 10/19/2009 5:00:26 AM everywhere else. Just last month,
another video streaming app,
Although El Gato’s EyeTV app SlingPlayer, was released in
has been able to stream content Europe, still shackled to Wi-Fi
over AT&T’s seemingly fragile only. Sad, but those are the rules,
3G network since last month, it which makes you wonder why El
wasn’t until this past weekend Gato broke them. According to
that people were talking about it. Julio Ojeda-Zapata of Your Tech
Make a Rolling Tool Chest From a Discarded That talk, at Gizmodo, was Blog, El Gato says “test code”
followed by swift and decisive was “accidentally left in the
Dresser [DIY] action by Apple. EyeTV is no EyeTV app.” El Gato has already
more at the App Store. resubmitted a version of the
By sarahrae (Lifehacker) need of tool storage inside her San drawer organizers and hardware For those who don’t know, the EyeTV app without the offending
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:30:00 AM Francisco apartment. Like any from IKEA, plus casters that EyeTV app accesses content from code.
good crafter with a repurposing allow the unit to roll from place to a n E y e T V , t h e c o m p a n y ’ s Personally, I applaud El Gato
A rolling tool chest is a mind, she found a starting point place. She did some basic repair television recording device, for its user-friendly sloppiness.
functional way to store your tools, for just $10—a dresser that had to the piece before beginning, attached to a Mac, and sends it to The real error here is allowing
but it's not always the most definitely seen better days. which will help it hold up to the an iPhone. As the pictured telecommunication companies to
attractive option for your home if Although, it was in a sad state of weight of her tools overtime. warning from the app clearly regulate content on any network.
it needs to inhabit a space where affairs before, a little paint, Hit up Craftynest to read the full states, a Wi-Fi connection is As Q4 begins, online video is
it's always on display. A rolling primer, and hardware can go a tutorial and list of materials required. However, tapping the now mainstream. Read the, "
dresser addresses this problem long way, and she's created a needed to recreate this project at warning text instead of the “OK” Connected Consumer Q3 Wrap-
nicely. functional place to keep her tools home. Old Dresser = Rolling Tool button enables streaming over a up."
Monica Ewing of the home in order. Cabinet[Crafty Nest] cellular connection.
decor weblog Craftynest was in Ewing also used some simple Unfortunately, that’s a violation
38 Apple/ TV/
Rock Band Comes to the App Store
By Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:22:51 AM
It had to happen sooner or later.
EA Mobile’s Rock Band is now
available in the iTunes App Store.
From the EA Mobile web site:
Take your band on the road with
20 legendary songs from great
bands like Smashing Pumpkins,
Lynyrd Skynyrd & the Beastie
Boys, all delivered with the
highest, MP3-quality sound.
Rock out solo on lead bass,
drums, guitar & vocals, or start a
band with other rockers from
around the world! Jump into
Quickplay for casual jam
sessions, or take it on the road in
Tour Mode in EA Mobile’s
ROCK BAND!
The big-brother version of Rock
Band (for major consoles such as
the XBOX 360 and PS3) requires
the use of mock instruments,
which lends a certain sort of
verisimilitude to the gaming
experience — that is, so long as
you can ignore the Thunderbirds-
style avatars and the fact that
you’re not actually playing an
instrument, you’re just thumbing
buttons on a plastic stick. Oh, and
you absolutely must be prepared
to ignore how foolish you and
your friends look while you’re
doing it. But that’s really all part
TLC's Heavy Haulers looks like fun
By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:34:00 AM
Following the season six
premiere of American Chopper on
Thursday at 9 PM (I sure hope
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What's On Tonight:
already firing up iTunes to get it.
Otherwise, take a look at the
Accidentally on Purpose, Little
bundled songs and decide whether
there’s enough here to warrant
People, Big World, Gossip Girl
hitting that Buy App button and By Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
parting with $9.99. Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:15:00 PM
• Attack– 30 Seconds To Mars
• Girls Not Grey– AFI • At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour
• Move Along– All American Dancing with the Stars, then a
Rejects new Castle.
• Sabotage– Beastie Boys • CBS has a new How I Met
• All The Small Things– Blink- Your Mother at 8, followed by
182 new episodes of Accidentally on
of the appeal of Rock Band. It’s • Hanging on the Telephone– Purpose, Two and a Half Men,
supremely silly and mountains of Blondie Big Bang Theory, and CSI:
fun. • Learn To Fly– Foo Fighters Miami.
Obviously the iPhone’s • Everlong– Foo Fighters • NBC has new episodes of
320×480 pixel capacitive • Bad to The Bone– George Heroes, Trauma, and The Jay
touchscreen is hardly reminiscent Thorogood & the Destroyers Leno Show.
of a Stratocaster. Without the faux • Hymn 43– Jethro Tull • FOX has a new House, then a
-instruments, Rock Band for • Bad Reputation– Joan Jett new Lie To Me.
iPhone offers an unavoidably • Simple Man– Lynard Skynard • The CW has a new One Tree
watered-down gameplay • Ace of Spades ‘08– Motorhead Hill at 8, followed by a new • TLC has a new Ultimate Cake-
experience. In short, it loses the • Debaser– Pixies Gossip Girl. Off at 10.
original feel of Rock Band. • Ladybug– Presidents of The • ABC Family has a new Lincoln • Bravo has a new Million Dollar
Instead, it becomes a clone of the United States of America Heights at 8, then a new Greek. Listing at 10.
hugely popular Tap Tap from • Give It All– Rise Against • TLC has two new episodes of Check your local TV listings for
Tapulous, which was first • Lazy Eye– Silversun Pick Ups Little People, Big World at 8, more.
released in the App Store way • Cherub Rock– Smashing followed by a new Jon & Kate After the jump, the late night
back in September 2007. Pumpkins Plus 8. talk shows.
Rock Band for iPhone and iPod • Take The Money and Run– • Also at 8: Food Network has a Continue reading What's On
touch launches with 20 songs Steve Miller Band new Good Eats. Tonight: Accidentally on Purpose,
(listed below), and it’s probably • We Got The Beat– The Go • At 8:30, ESPN has Monday Little People, Big World, Gossip
only a matter of time before more Go’s Night Football, the Broncos vs. Girl
tracks are made available via in- In Q3, NewNet focus turns to the Chargers. Filed under: Late Night,
app purchasing. If you’re a fan of business models and search. Read • At 9, USA has a new Monday Programming, Celebrities, Talk
Rock Band and want a complete the, " NewNet Q3 Wrap-up." Night RAW. Show, What To Watch Tonight,
collection, you’re probably • Food Network has a new Reality-Free
Unwrapped at 9. Permalink| Email this| |
• At 10, Food Network has a Comments
new Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
those squabbling Teutuls can machinery, I'm wondering how Shows, Programming
work things out), TLC is you even get into the thing once Permalink| Email this| |
premiering a new pilot titled you get where you're going. Comments
Heavy Haulers at 10 PM. That Continue reading TLC's Heavy
picture sort of says it all, doesn't moving such a huge piece of Haulers looks like fun
it? In addition to the logistics of Filed under: Other Reality
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WolframAlpha iPhone: Why the $50 Ann Coulter has the most
Asking Price? annoying voice ever
By Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:36:26 AM
WolframAlpha Web App
When it was first released,
WolframAlpha generated a lot of
buzz surrounding the impressive
computational power the new
search engine-type service
offered. Specifically for
mathematical and statistical
queries, it goes quite beyond what
Google is able to offer. But does
all that power justify a $50 price
tag on the site’s iPhone app
treatment?
Wolfram Alpha LLC seems to
think so, since it’s asking $49.99
for the just-released app, the first
developed using Wolfram Alpha’s
new API. Mashable also seems to
agree, but I’m not so sure, and I’ll
tell you why.
Mashable’s Christina Warren is
quick to point out that the iPhone
version “is much more than just a
mobile version of the website,” a
claim which I definitely agree
would justify at least some kind of
extra expenditure, but then I
compared my results on the web-
based version running in Safari to
the ones she showed from the app
itself. Guess what? The results are
identical. In the app, things are
slightly more readable and
optimized for the iPhone’s screen,
but the data is exactly the same,
and the web interface is far from
clunky itself.
Things like Source Information
do seem to work a lot better in the
app than in the web interface,
because they weren’t specifically
designed for mobile touchscreen
platforms, but if you’re like me,
you don’t go around dropping $50
to resolve every minor
inconvenience that comes your
way.
The Mashable piece also rolls in
the value of the Wolfram app as a
graphing calculator, which would
be useful for students, it goes on
to suggest. Putting aside the fact
that you get the same graphs using
the web app as you do with the
app, students would never be able
to use this app in a test situation,
when cheating is an issue, and a
device that requires network
connectivity to work is involved.
Professionals that might use it
would benefit just as much from
using the web app, so I don’t buy
this argument either.
So is the price of WolframAlpha
for iPhone an example of absurd
hubris on the part of its
developers? I don’t think so. I
think they’ve just made a highly
polished, non-browser based
version of their awesome
computational engine targeted at
professionals and businessmen
who look at a $50 application as a
justifiable expense for something
they use many times daily. Don’t,
however, try to tell me that the
price is justified by added features
or functionality, or that anyone
other than an elite class of niche
users would find enough value to
merit the cost. The price will
come down if Wolfram decides it
wants to sell the app, so my
advice is to just be patient if
you’re anxious to get your mobile
stats analysis on.
What was the big news that
happened in your sector in Q3?
Catch up with GigaOM Pro's, "
Quarterly Wrap-ups."
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By Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:33:00 AM
I don't fit neatly into any one
political category. There are
things I like about the Republican
party and things I like about the
Democratic party. I watch Fox
News and CNN equally, and there
are talking heads on both
networks that I like and don't like.
I will say this, though: Ann
Coulter has one of the most
annoying voices on TV right now.
It's hard to listen to what she's she's like a skit waiting to happen.
saying, because her whiny voice Aside from their political views,
is so distracting. Sometimes when what other commentators just bug
I'm just listening to her but not the heck out of you? (Yes, I
watching her, I almost expect to realize I'm going to be in the eye
look over at the TV and see a of the storm here; keep it as clean
cartoon character droning on as possible!)
about ... whatever.
Filed under: News, OpEd,
I don't watch Saturday Night Celebrities, Talk Show
Live regularly, but surely
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someone must have spoofed her Comments
by now. With her nasal voice, hair
fixation, and political opinions,
MediaDailyNews: CNBC Launches
Free Real-Time App
(MediaPost | Media News) Plus, users will have access to
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:31:53 AM CNBC business videos and
market updates via CNBC video
CNBC has launched the CNBC on demand. The CNBC Real-
Real-Time App on the App Time App is available for free
StoreSM. Users can access live f r o m t h e A p p S t o r e S M o n
streaming, real-time stock quotes, iPhoneTM and iPod touch or at
before, during and after market www.itunes.com/apps/CNBCReal
hours, directly from both the -Time.
NYSE and NASDAQ. The app This content has passed through
also provides breaking news alerts fivefilters.org.
and analysis and the ability to
track stocks live, in real-time.
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Apple Acknowledges Battery I'm psyched about Crystal

Chappell's return to Days of
Overheating in First-Generation iPod Our Lives
Nano By Allison Waldman (TV
Squad)
By Darrell Etherington shortage of pages like this that Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:03:00 AM
(TheAppleBlog) seem to indicate that Apple users
Submitted at 10/19/2009 6:53:32 AM were well aware of the tendency a I'm still not really over the end
full four years before Apple of Guiding LIght, but if there's
If you have a first-generation decided to acknowledge them. If one thing soap fans know, you
iPod nano (the one that looks like you bought your device in 2006 have to move on. You get over the
a slimmed-down version of the and you paid extra for extended end of Santa Barbara, mourn the
iPod video and comes in only AppleCare service, you may still loss of Another World, remember
black and white), you may be able be covered, but it’s unclear forever that before vampires were
to get a replacement or a fix from whether devices not under in vogue in prime time, Barnabus
Apple, depending on what kind of warranty will be eligible for Collins ruled daytime, despite
symptoms your device is replacement. rickety sets and off-the-rack
exhibiting. If I was the suspicious type, I’d costumes.
Specifically, Apple think it highly unusual that Apple That said, even while people are
acknowledged via a knowledge would wait this long to saying that soaps are dead -- or
base article that the early nanos than 0.001 percent) and the issue acknowledge a problem that dying -- I'm excited about Crystal
have a tendency to display battery has been traced to a single battery s e e m s t o b e f a i r l y w e l l - Chappell returning to Days of Our return.
overheating problems, an issue supplier. There have been no documented in the past. Even if it Lives. Continue reading I'm psyched
that it seems like every one of its reports of serious injuries or is providing replacements for You want to know how excited? about Crystal Chappell's return to
production mobile devices is property damage. Additionally, those without AppleCare, which I'm going to watch. After Deidre Days of Our Lives
accused of at one time or another. there have been no reports of such seems to me unlikely without an Hall and Drake Hogestyn were Filed under: OpEd, Daytime,
The article posted by Apple does incidents with any other iPod official announcement of an unceremoniously dumped by the Video, Casting, Reality-Free
admit to the problem in the 1G nano model. extension of eligibility, the timing soap, I drifted away. But I'm Permalink| Email this| |
nanos, but it sure goes out of its Discoloration, overheating, and means that many nano owners willing to give Days another try, Comments
way to downplay its significance, case deformity near the battery will already have ponied up for a especially because my curiosity
as is evident from the following are all symptoms of the problem, newer model, or an iPhone. has been piqued about Crystal's
passage: so it should be fairly easy to tell if If you have an affected model
Apple has determined that in y o u r m o d e l i s a f f e c t e d . iPod nano, do us a favor and
very rare cases, batteries in the Remember, though, that there’s contact AppleCare and let us
iPod nano (1st generation) sold overheating and then there’s just know how Apple responds.
between September 2005 and plain heating, which is something What was the big news that
December 2006, may overheat all Apple devices do even when in happened in your sector in Q3?
and prevent the iPod nano from fine working order. Catch up with GigaOM Pro's, "
working and deform it. Interestingly, if you do a quick Quarterly Wrap-ups."
Apple has received very few and dirty Google search for nano
reports of such incidents (less overheating woes, you find no
Berlin Festival of Lights
By Kevin Collins (Flickr Blog) Now, as suggested in Flickr mr172, Ole Begemann and ksfoto.
Submitted at 10/18/2009 11:26:18 AMCentral by phoenixesrose, we To enjoy more, there are some
present you with something from lovely pools to look at, or you can
The Flickr Blog has really been the 2009 Berlin Festival of Lights try a search or two.
lit up the past week, with Diwali, which is going on through 25 Photos by d3us,| p | a | t | p | i | x This content has passed through
and Asuka Lighting Festival. October. |, chris grabert, tomkpunkt, fivefilters.org.
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Verizon Attacks iPhone With Does loving Glee make me a

bad feminist?
“Droid” By Hemal Jhaveri (TV Squad)
By Charles Jade Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:03:00 AM

(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 10/18/2009 6:23:43 PM
There are plenty of ill-conceived
female characters all over prime-
Over the weekend, Verizon bromides, Verizon nitpicks the few vague adjectives like hi-res, time TV (just pick any show on
launched its second attack against camera and appeals to nerds over hi-speed, video, tunes. As for the CW for starters) but is it fair
the iPhone, a condescending multi-tasking and philosophical concrete features, how about to dump Glee into that category?
teaser for an upcoming Android- d i f f e r e n c e s c o n c e r n i n g speech recognition and 10,000 While Glee undoubtedly has some
based phone, Droid. However, d e v e l o p m e n t . plus apps. It’s actually kind of sad of the most egregious, misshapen
unlike the first ad, which The latter is especially hilarious, to see Verizon forced to advertise teen girls around, I don't think it's
rightfully attacked AT&T’s because until the success of the comparative dearth of Android this fall's worst offender.
anemic network coverage and Apple’s App Store, Verizon not apps to the Apple App Store Sadie over at Jezebel makes
dependability, the Droid ad goes only told developers what they because the latter simply cannot some very salient points in her
after the iPhone. could sell, but how much they be ignored when advertising gender-critique of Glee, but she
According to Verizon, the could charge. The company is smartphones anymore. misses the mark when she calls
iPhone doesn’t: currently planning a new store In fact, the whole “iDon’t” t h e s h o w " c h e a p a n d This is a Ryan Murphy show. And
• have a real keyboard t h a t , w h i l e n o t t e c h n i c a l l y concept reminds me of an ad from d i s i n g e n u o u s . " Y e s , s t o c k no one comes out looking good in
• run simultaneous apps excluding competitors, aggregates the console wars during the last portrayals of female characters a Ryan Murphy show.
• take 5-megapixel pictures content under its own store. How millennium. Back then, Sega can reinforce harmful stereotypes, Continue reading Does loving
• customize open of them, but what about the l a u n c h e d a “ N i n t e n d o n ’ t ! ” but I don't think that's what's Glee make me a bad feminist?
• run widgets Droid itself? campaign highlighting the many happening on Glee. Filed under: OpEd, Reality-
• allow open development Besides the fact that it’s an perceived failures of the Super As an avid fan, I think you can Free, Glee
• take pictures in the dark Android 2.0 phone to be released NES when compared to the appreciate the show without Permalink| Email this| |
• have interchangeable batteries sometime in November, we don’t Genesis. We all know how that dismissing it because it doesn't Comments
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Review: Bored to Death - The Case of the Lonely White Dove

By Jonathan Toomey (TV premise of the show coupled with Continue reading Review:
Squad) a really great cast speaks to the Bored to Death - The Case of the
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:28:00 AM potential Bored to Death has, but Lonely White Dove
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NFL Diary: Saints 48, Giants 27

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) York hosts Atlanta. Or maybe left. Looks like Brees has been and looking to burn clock here, so
Submitted at 10/18/2009 8:17:49 AM they were exposed this week and pulled. Say hello to old Mark it’s time for hand-offs to Pierre
an ugly meltdown is just Brunell, hero of the Jaguars Thomas. But the Giants do
The Journal provides minute-by- beginning. One thing is for sure: it inspiring 1996 playoff run. themselves no favor and allow
minute analysis of the New won’t be fun being around Tom 4:09: Jeremy Shockey is Thomas to break free to near
Orleans Saints’ 48-27 victory over Coughlin for the next week. smiling, laughing and slapping midfield. Approaching ten
the New York Giants at the The Saints, meanwhile, looked backs on the sidelines. But minutes to play.
Superdome in New Orleans. flawless. It wasn’t just Brees. His sure, like he said, this game 3:48: Fourth and goal from the
Guest blogger Steve Kornacki receivers, most notably Marques doesn’t mean anything special to 10. Manning scrambles and finds
offers commentary on the game Colston (who finished with 8 showing him what it’s like to take him… Brandon Jacobs in the end zone.
and the Fox telecast. catches for 166 yards), made a sack. 4:06: Oh, hey, look: the Saints But….we have flaggage. Not
Getty Images The Saints’ some terrific catches, and the 4:21: By the way: Touchdown scored a touchdown. How novel. surprisingly, it’s holding on the
Roman Harper forces a fumble by T h o m a s / B e l l / B u s h t r o i k a Giants! Ex-Texas Houstan (or is it This time, it’s fullback Heath Giants. Now it’s fourth and goal
Giants quarterback Eli Manning. accounted for 133 yards and three Houston Texan?) David Carr hits Evans, who Fox tells us is the from the 20. A field goal doesn’t
Before kickoff, I wondered touchdowns on the ground. This is Nicks for 37 yards. 48-27 now, seventh Saint to make it to the end get you much here. But Coughlin
about the Giants’ soft schedule a dangerous, multidimensional approaching the two-minute zone today. 48-20 Saints, 7:04 left sends Tynes out anyway and he
coming in to this game. Were they offense. Seven different players warning. in the game. makes it: 41-20 Saints with 12:09
a “real” 5-0 team, or had they just accounted for the Saints seven 4:18: More mail! This from 4:05: To paraphrase Warner to go. I guess now at least the
mimicked your typical college- touchdowns. Michael in Japan, who writes: Wolf: If you have the Giants and Giants don’t need to go for two
football powerhouse and loaded Just as notable was the pressure “Hi Steve - Im a New Orleanian 27 1/2 points, you’re on the edge when they get those three
up on cream puffs? Three-and-a- that the Saints’ defense was able reading your awesome blog in of your seat right now! touchdowns.
half hours later, it looks like the to apply against Manning. They Japan since 2:00 am here. Instead 4:00: A friend just reminds me 3:45: Manning hits Hixon. Just
latter. The Giants had barely only sacked him twice, but the of saying that the Saints may that I advised him yesterday to enough for a first down. The
blinked before finding themselves pressure forced several bad finally be one of the elite teams in start Eli Manning instead of Joe dream is still alive! (If “the
down 14-0 today, and they never throws, including a key third the NFL, the analysts are saying Flacco for his fantasy team today. dream” means “the possibility of
figured out how to disrupt Drew quarter interception that snuffed that the GIANTS didnt play any My reasoning, I think, was that scoring more than 20 points in
Brees — who finished 23 for 30 out what remained of the Giants’ good teams before today. Were Manning would be ready for a big this game.”)
f o r 3 6 9 y a r d s a n d f o u r chances. New York managed no t i r e d o f b e i n g t h e R o d n e y game in his hometown, while 3:43: Fourth and 8 from the 20.
touchdowns. (And it could have comparable pressure on Manning. Dangerfield of sports. Who do we Flacco would hand the ball off too Giants will go for it. Eli takes a
been far worse than that; the N e w O r l e a n s l o o k s l i k e a have to beat to get some respect!” m u c h . C u r r e n t s t a t l i n e s : timeout. Big play coming up. I
Saints got conservative once they frighteningly complete team. I hear your frustration, Michael, Manning– 13 of 28, 176 yards, 1 guess.
pulled three touchdowns ahead.) 4:30: It’s a final. 48-27. Saints and you’re right. Unfortunately, TD, 1 INT; Flacco - 24 of 35, 347 3:40: Manning finds Hakeem
Even after getting suckerpunched are 5-0 for the first time since that’s the way the media works: If yards, 2 TD’s. Whoops. Nicks, who takes it all the way
at the start of the game, the Giants 1993. Maybe that’s a bad omen, it has “New York” in it, the whole 3:58: You knew it was coming: down near the Saint 20. I guess
had opportunities to climb back though: that year’s team crashed world revolves around it. So my With just over eight minutes left it’s technically a three-possession
in. But they failed, time and down the stretch and missed the advice is simple: Make like the i n t h e g a m e , o n e o f t h e game right now: three TD’s and
again, to slow the New Orleans playoffs. But anyone who just Angels in baseball and rename a n n o u n c e r s — A i k m a n — three two-point conversions
a t t a c k . T h e y w e r e s i m p l y watched this game isn’t expecting your franchise the New York mentions Mike Ditka’s 1999 would tie it up for the Giants.
overwhelmed today. that to happen this time. Saints of New Orleans. Then decision to trade the entire Saints Which is kind of like Bob
Of course, there’s always a 4:29: Carr and the Giants are you’ll get some respect. draft for Ricky Williams. Which Uecker’s famous line that, despite
danger of reading too much into just running out the final minute 4:16: Fun fact: The Giants gives me an excuse to run a link trailing 8-0, “a couple of grand
one game. Maybe the Giants came now. This one looks like it will haven’t given up this many yards to this picture. slams and the Brewers are right
in believing too much of their end 48-27. You can’t say enough in a game since the Carter 3:56: New Orleans’ three- back in this thing.”
own hype, as the cliche goes, and about how well the Saints — and administration. headed running attack is paying 3:37: Sampling of Giant-related
needed an atrocity like this to Brees in particular — played 4:15: I tell you, Mark Brunell off here. Everyone’s legs are comments from Facebook friends:
s h a k e t h e m s e l v e s o u t o f today. They made a case today may be 39, but he hands the ball fresher. After Thomas’ carry, Bell “ Why does it seem like the
complacency. Perhaps the Giants that they could be the best team in off like he’s 29. takes it for eight yards. Then a Giants are playing with 5 guys on
team we all expected to see today the league. 4:12: Fourth and 8 for the Giant penalty gives the Saints a defense?”; “XXX XXXXX thinks
will show up in the Meadowlands 4:26: Nice to see Brunell out Giants now. Coughlin elects to first down.
next Sunday night, when New there trying to tutor Brees, punt. Saints get it back with 5:57 3:53: The Saints are easing up NFL page 43
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that with Giants having a bye
today, they will show up healthy
and alert for next week’s game!”;
“XXX XXXXX notices that tom
coughlin is always yelling at
someone on the sidelines and
usually it’s one of the refs.”
FOURTH QUARTER
3:34: It’s way too late, but
finally the Giants manage some
pressure — and Brees
underthrows Devery Henderson,
who otherwise would be
celebrating a touchdown right
now. The quarter is over. The
Saints lead 41-17. Will they crack
50? Stay tuned!
3:32: The onslaught won’t stop.
Brees hits Colston, who has now
has 164 receiving yards, again,
and the Saints are in New York
territory. Inside of a minute left in
the third.
3:30: If you have Drew Brees
on your fantasy-league roster,
you’re probably having a very
enjoyable Sunday.
3:28: My cousin, the Giant
lunatic, texts that “Despite the
loss, the Giants by the end of the
season will be the team to beat in
the NFC.” Ah, New York sports
fans. Always humble in defeat.
3:26: Play action. Brees to —
who else? — Colston in the end
zone. That’s four TD’s for the
Purdue man, if you’re keeping
track at home. 41-17 Saints now,
with 4:10 left in the third. Gen.
Coughlin is now negotiating the
formal terms of the Giants’
surrender.
3:23: Colston makes an
acrobatic catch near the Giant 10,
but it’s called back because he
stepped out of bounds while
running downfield. Not that it
matters: Brees finds Moore in the
middle of field on third and 17.
Saints had slipped out of field-
goal range there, but now it’s first
and 10 at the 19.
3:19: Third and 7 for New
Orleans from the Giant 31. A first
down here could be back-
breaking.
3:17: Efficient third-and-short
carry for Reggie Bush moves the
chains, and keeps the clock
ticking. First down Saints at their
own 40, midway through the third
quarter.
3:14: Chance squandered.
Manning gets rid of it under the
pressure and manages a beautiful
pass….to Saints cornerback Jabari
Greer. There are a lot of
differences in this game, but
pressure on the QB is one of
them. The Saints have managed to
get in Manning’s face and have
forced two Giant turnovers. Brees,
meanwhile, has gone practically
untouched and has completed
about 90 percent of his passes.
3:13: Bradshaw takes it inside
the Saints 40 for a first down. Just
under ten minutes to play in the
third. Chance for the Giants to get
some points here.
3:09: This kind of reminds me
of the 2005 game between the
Giants and Brees’ Chargers,
which marked Eli’s first game
against the team from which he
demanded a trade at the 2004
draft. Brees’ stat line that night:
19 for 22 for 191 yards and two
touchdowns in a 45-23 San Diego
win.
3:08: Giants manage to get
some pressure on Brees on third
and 2, and his pass is just off the
mark. The rumors are true: The
Saints do have a punter!
3:06: Fox stat reminds us that
the Saints under Payton are 0-3
coming off bye weeks. I also saw
earlier that since the bye week
was instituted in 1990, the Giants
are 8-2 against teams coming off
bye weeks (in games when the
Giants themselves haven’t been
coming off a bye week — if that
makes any sense). Both of those
stats look like very flawed
indicators right now.
3:02: When you’re down 17 on
the road in the second half, every
drive is big. And what do the
Giants get from their first
possession out of the locker
room? A three and out — two
Brandon Jacobs runs and a
incomplete long ball. The
practically unstoppable Saint
offensetakes over at its own 25
with 13:09 left in the third. A
touchdown here would be the
Saints’ sixth in seven drives —
and would ice this one.
THIRD QUARTER
2:46: Manning takes a knee and
the half ends. The story of the first
half, obviously, is Drew Brees,
who goes 17 for 20 for 247 yards
and three touchdowns. Only one
Saint possession ended without a
touchdown in the first half —
their second-to-last drive, which
was stuffed inside the Giant 1.
Manning, by contrast, is just 7 for
12 for 85 yards and a TD. Fox is
making much of the Giants’ weak
schedule before this week.
2:43: Shows what I know.
Reggie Bush takes Brees’ hand-
off and scampers to the corner of
the end zone. No blocked extra
point this time, and with nine
seconds left in the half, the Saints
are up 34-17.
2:42: The prize for the first
Giant to break up a Brees pass
goes to Justin Tuck, who just
batted down Brees’ first-down
pass — his first incompletion in
16 attempts.
2:41: The call stands. First
down Saints. 18 seconds. One
timeout, but please Sean Payton,
just throw the ball here.
2:40: The dispute here is
whether it will be first and goal
for New Orleans with 18 seconds
left, or if that last play ended in a
safety, with Shanle’s fumble
bouncing back to the end zone
where the Giants’ Kevin Boss fell
on it.
2:37: I think I can hear my
Giant fan neighbors killing
themselves. After hitting
Manningham for 20 yards,
Manning and the Giants (who
have no timeouts) take way too
long getting off the next play —
which ends with Manning getting
hit and coughing it up. After a
furious scramble, the Saints’ Scott
Shanle comes up with it at the
New York 7, where the play is
whistled dead. But this could be
reviewed, since replays make it
look like Shanle wasn’t down
when he in turn coughed it up.
2:33: Nope. Just a hand-off to
Thomas and he’s stopped short.
Giants ball. Plus, New Orleans is
flagged for unsportsmanlike
conduct, so New York will start
near the 15, instead of the goal
line. Kind of surprised Payton
didn’t try a pass play in that goal-
line series, given how Brees has
been playing.
2:32: Looks like Bell is stopped
on his attempt to dive into the end
zone on third down. One minute
on the clock and it’s fourth and
goal from the 1. Payton doesn’t
even hesitate. The Saints will go
for it. Good call. Play action?
2:29: The announcers keep
talking about the Giants D coming
up with a stop on a New Orleans
possession. But they haven’t even
forced an incomplete Brees pass
since early in the first quarter.
2:27: This is just unreal. Brees
connects with Marques Colston
for 40 yards. He’s 16 for 18 now
and the Saints have it inside the
Giant 30. No, wait…make that
43
inside the 10 — Brees just hit
Colston again. I can’t keep up
with this guy. We’re at the two-
minute warning and New Orleans
is eight yards from another TD.
2:23: Touchdown Giants!
Manningham barely — just barely
— grabs Manning’s 15-yard pass
away from Sharper and the Giants
pull within 10, 27-17. The bad
news: There’s still 3:19 left in the
half — more than enough time for
Brees to return the favor.
2:21: Brees stats update: 15 for
17, 187 yards, three touchdowns
and no interceptions. And (I
think) ten straight completions.
2:19: My cousin might get his
wish. Hixon returns it all the way
to the New Orleans 36. 4:53 left
in the half. Huge possession here
for Eli. Big difference between 27
-10 and 27-17 at halftime.
2:16: Brees goes play action and
hits a wide-open Lance Moore
from 12 yards for six. 5:04 left in
the half and it’s now 27-10 New
Orleans. My ever-optimistic
cousin Anthony, a raving Giants
maniac, texts me that “We need to
turn it into a shootout. 27-17 by
half and get the ball first for the
3rd.”
2:14: Another Saint TD is called
back by a penalty, with a holding
call negating Mike Bell’s 6-yard
run to the end zone.
2:13: Corey Webster, who grew
up 30 miles from New Orleans
and played at LSU, is flagged for
a very questionable pass-
interference call, setting up the
Saints at the Giant 10. The call
may have been bad, but the time
the G-men gave Brees to throw
was inexcusable.
2:09: We’ve got mail! Tom
from Pennsylvania is furious that
the NFL has designated the
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northern Poconos a secondary
market for the Eagles — even
though “you couldn’t find an
Eagle fan up here unless they
were on vacation.” He wants to
watch the Giants game. I know
little about Pennsylvania
geography and demographics, but
as a someone who grew up in
Massachusetts rooting for a non-
Massachusetts team, I can relate
to Tom’s pain.
2:06: Ahmad Bradshaw runs it
in on third down from the 11 to
make it 20-10 Saints with 7:41
left in the half. What a swing.
Without that roughing-the-passer
call, it would be 27-3 New
Orleans now. Instead, the spread
is just ten and, if the Giants can
somehow stop Brees here, they’ll
have a chance to make it a one-
possession game before the half.
And they’ll get the ball coming
out of the locker room too.
2:04: Big break for the G-men,
as Manning’s pass goes right into
the hands of Sharper, who for a
brief instant appears to have
snagged his sixth career Eli pick.
But Jonathan Vilma is flagged for
roughing the passer, giving New
York a first down and 15 yards.
They’re near the Saints 10 now.
2:01: Call stands. First down,
Giants. Saints lose timeout they
don’t need. Fox gets to air a few
extra commercials. Everyone
wins.
1:59: Saints challenging the
spot. If it is overturned, the Giants
will almost definitely go for it on
fourth and inches from midfield.
1:57: Saints get pressure on
Manning and force an early
throw. Third and 10 now from the
Giant 39 — Manning finds Hixon
right at the marker and gets a
good spot. First down, Giants.
1:55: Brees’ stats so far: 13 for
15 for 170 yards, 2 TD’s, no
interceptions, no sacks. And eight
-for-eight on his last two drives.
1:49: Brees takes a hit this time,
but only after he gets off another
completion to Shockey. Then on
first and 10 from the Giant 37, he
hits Robert Meachem in the end
zone. Flag, though. I’m thinking
holding. But I’m wrong! It’s
illegal contact on the Giants.
Penalty declined. Touchdown
Saints. PAT is blocked, but it’s 20
-3 Saints now, with 12:40 left in
the half. Prize to the first Giant
defender who can disrupt a Brees
pass.
1:47: If the Giants can’t slow
the Brees Train down on this
drive, they might be buried. The
Saints’ QB is (I believe) 10 for 12
for the game and went six-for-six
on his last drive. He’s getting
great field position here, and the
Giants have had no luck so far
putting pressure on him.
SECOND QUARTER
1:44: The quarter fittingly ends
with a horse-collar call against the
Giants’ Travis Beckum on the
kickoff, which sets the Saints up
at their own 42, instead of their
own 27.
1:42: Tynes stays on the field
and connects on what is officially
a 49-yard kick to make it 14-3
with three seconds left in the
quarter. Not sure what was the
best call there. I guess it’s good
psychologically to get on the
board, but why not take a shot at
the first down when you’re near
the other team’s 30? If you miss,
you’re not giving them great field
position.
1:39: Manning misses Steve
Smith for what would have been a
touchdown on third and 5.
Lawrence Tynes is on to try a 50-
yard field goal with eight seconds
left in the quarter. Or is he?
There’s a timeout. Maybe
Coughlin is thinking of going for
it?
1:37: I notice that a commenter
is annoyed with Troy Aikman’s
use of “defense” as a verb, as in
“to defense the run.” This is a
very good point, although Aikman
is hardly the first or only football
analyst to do this. It goes back at
least as far as Dick Vermeil, back
when he was calling college
games in the early ’90s. You’d
think that after a few years
of doing this, these guys would
learn how to analyst the game
better….
1:36: Hixon returns the kick to
midfield. Special teams just did its
job. Can Eli make this a game
now?
1:32: Play-action pass to
Shockey, who catches it for the
touchdown, does a little dance,
and spikes the ball. Brees was six-
for-six for 80 yards on that drive,
and New Orleans is now up 14-0
with 2:11 left in the quarter. This
is about as bad as things could
have started for the Giants. Maybe
this is what happens when you get
fat off 0-5 and 1-4 teams to start
the season.
1:31: It is overturned. First and
goal at the 1 for the Saints.
1:28: Wow. Two more passes,
two more completions — the
second one to Marques Colston
for a touchdown. It looks like
Colston was down before the ball
actually made it into the end zone,
so Tom Coughlin is challenging
this one. He’s probably right, but
even if he is, the Saints will still
have driven 79 yards in five plays.
Hard to imagine the Giants
keeping them out now.
1:26: And he looks just as
efficient on this one: three passes,
three catches, three first
downs, 45 yards total. Saints now
have a first down at the Giant 35.
1:24: New Orleans will start at
its own 20. Brees was very
efficient on the last possession, as
was the running game. No Giant
defender has been able to get in
his face yet.
1:21: And the first Giant hand-
off goes to Brandon Jacobs, who
takes if for seven yards — double
his average this year. But it
doesn’t help much, because
Manning airs it out on third and 3
but can’t complete it to Domenik
Hixon. Giants forced to punt, and
with that, their first-possession
scoring streak is over.
1:19: Two short completions for
Manning to lead off, one to Steve
Smith and one to Mario
Manningham (for a first down).
But the Saints look like they’re
going to have more luck getting
pressure on Manning than the
Giants will on Brees.
1:17: Now the pressure is on Eli
to answer. He’ll start at his own
23. How will the locals treat him?
1:14: Payton heeds my advice,
and is rewarded accordingly – a
touchdown as Mike Bell takes the
handoff and dives into the end
zone. Saints chew up nearly eight
minutes of clock on that drive and
take a 7-0 lead. They have now
scored on their first possession in
all five of their games this year.
1:13: Oooh, decision time.
Thomas takes it near the 1. Looks
like the Saints will be less than a
yard short of the first down (and
two of the end zone). Come on
Sean Payton, go for it!
1:12: Let’s see if they can keep
it going. Pierre Thomas carries it
to the 4 on second down, bringing
up a third and 3.
1:10: That’s three third downs
on this drive for the Saints, and
three conversions. This time,
Brees connects with Lance Moore
at the Giant 11.
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1:08: Thom Brennaman notes
that both the Giants and Saints
have scored on their first
possession in every game this
year (the only teams to do so).
And the streak is still alive (for
now) as the Saints convert a third
and 7 to the Giants 25.
1:07: Brees looks for Shockey
again, but misses this time.
1:03: Out of the shotgun, Brees
keeps it on third-and-3 for a first
down. Then he finds Shockey for
a first-down catch in Giants
territory. The crowd responds as
the ex-Giant gets the ball early.
1:02: Saints win toss and choose
to receive. You mean they didn’t
take the wind?
FIRST QUARTER
12:59: A typically insightful and
revealing pre-game interview with
a player. Foxs Pam Oliver gets Eli
Manning to say that weve just got
to play our game, we cant turn the
ball over, and we need to avoid
bad plays. And here I was
thinking the Giants were planning
to turn the ball over and seek out
bad plays.
12:55 p.m. ET: Were less than
15 minutes from kickoff, so lets
try to set the table for whats to
come.
For the Giants, the road to 5-0
hasnt exactly been tough, with
wins over Washington (current
record: 2-3), Dallas (a very shaky
3-2), Tampa Bay (0-5), Kansas
City (0-5), and Oakland (1-4).
Thats a combined opponents
record of 6-19. So while everyone
figures the Giants are a good,
probably very good team, right
now theyre the equivalent of a
college team that opens the year
with a bunch of I-AA and non-
BCS opponents.
Today that changes. Beating an
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Cliff Lee, Philly’s One-Man Bullpen Cure
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:35:35 AM
Baseball teams aren’t supposed
to just swap a bunch of prospects
for a big-name star and ride said
star to the World Series. Baseball
is complicated, after all, and one
player can only do so much and
now, it seems, we maybe have an
outlier on our hands. The
Philadelphia Phillies sent a
package of prospects to Cleveland
at the trading deadline for 2008
American League Cy Young
Award winner Cliff Lee. Lee
pitched brilliantly down the
stretch and has since announced
himself as the defining super-ace
of the 2009 postseason. Lee struck
out 11 in a thoroughly dominant
eight-inning showing Sunday
night as the Phillies claimed an 11
-0 win and a 2-1 series lead over
the Los Angeles Dodgers. Reuters
Watching Cliff Lee and CC
Sabathia dominate this month
probably doesn’t comfort
Cleveland fans as LeBron James
heads into a contract year.
“Cliff Lee spent 43 minutes, give
or take a few seconds, on the
pitchers mound Sunday night,”
Yahoo’s Jeff Passan writes. “TBS
spent nearly an hour of the
National League Championship
Series airing commercials. One
was far more entertaining than the
other.” In the Philadelphia
Inquirer, Andy Martino marvels at
how the locked-in Lee “impose[d]
his patience on the entire game.”
Lee’s brilliance — and the anti-
brilliance of Dodgers starter
Hiroki Kuroda, who allowed six
earned runs and got just four outs
— did much to conceal the
continuing issues with
Philadelphia’s ramshackle
bullpen. Both managers in the
NLCS have drawn criticism for
their handling of pitchers thus far.
Joe Torre heard about it for
leaving Clayton Kershaw in too
long in Game One. Charlie
Manuel drew heat for pulling
Pedro Martinez too soon in Game
Two. In the Washington Times,
Mark Zuckerman encourages
Manuel to throw out his regular-
season playbook.
While the Dodgers are down in
their series, the New York
Yankees remain seemingly
inevitable in holding up their end
of what Diane Pucin reports is
America’s preferred World Series
match-up — Dodgers and Yanks.
The Yankees’ dramatic, or at least
very long and very cold, 13-
inning win over the freezing,
flubby, balaclava-clad Angels
Saturday gave them a 2-0 series
lead. In the New York Times,
Jack Curry addresses the suddenly
mistake-prone Angels.* * *
It might be the team’s almost
proud heritage of losing. It might
be the memories of owner Tom
Benson’s embarrassingly stumble-
intensive pseudo-second-line
“boogie” from back in the day. Or
it might be the fact that this year’s
seemingly unstoppable Saints
feature a fun run-and-gun offense
headed by an astonishingly locked
-in passer in Drew Brees, and thus
have been given the dreaded
“finesse” tag. But whatever the
reason, something delayed the
acknowledgement of the now-
inarguable for-realness of this
year’s very talented New Orleans
team. The Saints rudely
dispatched the previously
unbeaten New York Giants
Sunday, 48-27. Or, in the words
of Saints defensive end Bobby
McCray, “finesse-ively” kicked
some blue rear end.
And yet the Saints continue to
resist the “finesse” label. At CBS
Sports, Pete Prisco argues that
they shouldn’t. “Trust me, it isn’t
a bad thing,” Prisco writes. “What
that word means for the Saints is
that they are a precision passing
team that is led by one of the
game’s best passers, who has his
plays called by the NFL’s best
play-caller. If that makes them a
finesse team, so be it.”
The outcome was never in doubt
in Sunday’s Saints win, but that
game was a nailbiter relative to
the New England Patriots’
whipping of the Tennessee Titans.
Tom Brady passed for six scores
in New England’s merciless 59-0
stomp-out of the winless Titans,
which brought back memories of
the remorselessly, seethingly
dominant Patriots of a couple
years ago. “If this were smooth-
sailing 2007, youd say it was
business as usual,” The Patriot
Ledger’s Eric McHugh writes.
“Since this is up-and-down/hard-
to-figure 2009, youre not sure
what to make of Patriots 59,
Titans/Oilers/Human White Flags
0. Maybe its the start of
something great.”
For the flailing Titans, who
wound up passing for minus-7
yards in the snowy conditions, it
was more of the same. “You felt
like you were watching a Madden
game between someone who had
been playing for two decades and
a novice gamer,” FanHouse’s
Clay Travis writes. The Boston
Globe’s Bob Ryan found the
stunningly lopsided game — New
England’s 45-0 halftime lead set
an NFL record — hard to believe.
The Baltimore Ravens nearly
pulled off a hard-to-believe result
of their own by charging back
from three scores down in the
fourth quarter in Minnesota
Sunday. The Vikings held on to
win thanks to some late-game
heroics from Brett Favre and
receiver Sidney Rice, but still
could’ve lost had Ravens kicker
Steve Hauschka made a 44-yard
field goal with seconds left on the
clock. He didn’t, and the Vikings
have their first 6-0 start since
2003. In the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, John Shipley discusses the
kicker fellowship that led Vikings
kicker Ryan Longwell to seek out
Hauschka after the game.* * *
Both the University of Texas
and University of Florida have
solid chances at the BCS
Championship this season. You
probably already know this. But
those who watched both teams
pull out none-too-inspiring
victories Saturday might need a
reminder. Texas beat Oklahoma,
16-13, as Longhorns quarterback
Colt McCoy led the team to
victory despite playing with a
broken thumb. FanHouse’s Greg
Couch does some pre-emptive
deflation on the dominant
narrative of the latest Red River
Rivalry game.
“[When you] hear the fairy tale
of McCoy, keep this in mind: He
wasn’t any good,” Couch writes.
“And Texas? Worse. The
Longhorns are a long, long way
from being a legit national
championship team. Sure, the fun
and pageantry of the rivalry were
great, as always. But the game?
Sports/ 45
Bad. Texas? Worse.”
Sports Illustrated’s Stewart
Mandel wasn’t impressed with
either the ‘Horns or the Gators,
who pulled out a 23-20 win over
Arkansas on a late field goal.
Florida’s uninspired and
uninspiring effort led voters to
move undefeated Alabama into
the top spot in the BCS rankings
on Sunday. “Technically
speaking, it’s all a formality,”
Mandel writes. “All three still
control their own BCS destinies,
since the two SEC powers would
ultimately face one another in a
conference-title elimination game
should they win their preceding
games. The question is, do you
still believe Florida and Texas
will make it to December
undefeated?”* * *
Dan Snyder, a forward for the
Atlanta Thrashers, was killed in a
car accident a little over six years
ago. On Sunday, his former
teammates visited the small Dan
Snyder Memorial Arena in
Elmira, Ontario, for an open
practice. Teams seldom practice
after back-to-back games, but as
ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun writes, this
was much more emotional than an
ordinary practice, both for the
Thrashers and the 1,500 mostly
young fans who came out to
watch them.* * *
It’s hard to know what to make
of the United Football League,
which has quietly kicked off its
inaugural season. The league’s
progenitors — from the doomed
meatheadism of the XFL to the
fun-but-bankrupt USFL — don’t
suggest much reason for
optimism. But the UFL has some
big-name coaches to its credit,
many semi-notable football names
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continued from page 44
undefeated Saints team in the
Superdome would be a very
powerful statement for the Giants,
whose schedule includes Arizona,
Philadelphia, San Diego and
Atlanta in the weeks ahead.
One key for the Giants will be
finding a way to put pressure on
Drew Brees, who has been sacked
just four times in 129 passing
attempts this year. Last week
against Oakland, the G-men
recorded six sacks. But Brees is a
master of getting rid of the ball
fast.
Also worth keeping an eye on:
Will Brandon Jacobs snap out of
his funk? The Giants running
back is averaging just 3.6 yards
per carry and is more than a 100
yards off his 2008 pace. Ahmad
Bradshaw, whos averaging more
than six yards a carry, is
threatening to eclipse Jacobs as
the Giants premier back — and
Jacobs began voicing frustration
this week. Who will get the most
carries today?
The Saints, meanwhile, have
proven more in the early-going
this year, with a convincing win at
Philadelphia in week 2 and a solid
victory over the Jets two weeks
ago. Sean Payton took New
Orleans to the NFC title game in
his first year at the helm, but the
Saints have fallen short of the post
-season in the two years since.
Win today and we can talk
seriously about this team going
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continued from page 45
and novelty in its favor.
In the Washington Post, Les
Carpenter tells the story of
another notable UFL name. Paul
Pelosi, owner of the California
Redwoods, is a wildly successful
Northern California investor and
deep into the playoffs. Lose
decisively, though, and that 4-0
start may begin to look like a
mirage.
The most interesting Saint to
watch today will probably be
Jeremy Shockey, the old Giant
tight end getting his first crack at
revenge. Shockey, who leads the
Saints in receptions, has
adamantly maintained this week
that he harbors no hard feelings
for the way things ended in New
York. Yeah, right.
Also, pay attention to old
Darren Sharper, the Saints safety
who has had Eli Mannings
number these past few years.
Sharper has picked off Manning
five times in his career.
Pregame: New Jersey and New
Orleans, two dens of Catholicism,
political corruption and social
vice, have long been kindred
spirits separated by a thousand
miles of boringness. The
similarity is what prompted A
Confederacy of Dunces author
John Kennedy Toole to label the
Crescent City that Hoboken in the
Gulf of Mexico.
And yet theres no reason to
believe that Eli Manning, a New
Orleans native who now lives in
Hoboken, and his fellow East
Rutherford Giants will feel at
home when they play the Saints in
the Superdome today.
There have been plenty of years
when Mannings return to his
husband of Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi.
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Don Hartline and fellow Fixer
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hometown — and, actually, his
first game in the Superdome —
would be the main attraction for
the locals. But the days of Rick
Venturi, Billy Joe Hobert and
giving up entire drafts for Ricky
Williams are over. These Saints,
with one of the leagues top
offenses (and a much-improved
defense), are now 4-0. There wont
be any empty seats or paper bags
in sight and the decibel level will
be soaring — so much that the
Giants are ready to go with a
silent count, if need be.
That frenzied atmosphere, at
least on paper, looms as the
potential difference maker,
because theres not much else to
separate these undefeated teams.
The Giants come in with the
leagues second-ranked offense,
averaging 417 yards a game —
just three more than the Saints,
who rank third. Through five
games, Manning has thrown for
1,212 yards and 10 touchdowns,
against just two interceptions.
Through four games, Drew Brees
has gone for 1,031 yards and nine
TDs, with just two picks.
And this year, the Saints have
discovered balance on offense.
Instead of just relying on Brees
arm, theyve established a three-
headed rushing attack with Mike
Bell, Pierre Thomas, and Reggie
Bush, and their ground game now
ranks second in the league. (Last
year it was 28th.) The Giants,
yourself — write to us at
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behind Ahmad Bradshaw and
Brandon Jacobs, rank fourth.
Statistically, the Giants boast
the NFLs best defense. But New
Orleans, under first year
coordinator Gregg Williams, has
stepped its up dramatically and is
ranked sixth.
There are only three match-ups
this week between teams with
winning records, and this is the
only one featuring two
undefeateds. Vegas lists the Saints
as a three-point favorite, which is
another way of saying its a pick
em game that happens to be in
New Orleans.
If NBC could move games to
prime-time this early in the year,
youd have to think theyd bite on
this one. Instead, its relegated to
the 1 p.m. slot on Fox, which
wont even send its top announcer,
Joe Buck, whos busy with the
baseball playoffs. (His
replacement: Thom Brennaman.)
But that doesnt matter. The
game promises to be high-scoring,
close, and just plain fun
especially if Jeremy Shockey, set
to meet his old team for the first
time, manages to wake up and get
to the stadium on time. Ill be
keeping tabs on the action from
my living room, which is a lot
closer to Hoboken than it is to
New Orleans, and no matter
where you are, I hope youll stop
by.
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LeBron James says
cancer scare in January
was 'nerve-racking'
By ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:36:01 AM
CLEVELAND -- Cleveland
Cavaliers superstar LeBron James
tells a newspaper that a cancer
scare earlier this year was "nerve-
racking" and had him on edge for
a few days.
James had to wait for biopsy
results in January after doctors at
the Cleveland Clinic found a
growth in the right side of his jaw.
He tells The Plain Dealer that
doctors didn't think it was cancer
but had to make sure.
"I was working with some good
professionals," James said. "They
were telling me they didn't think it
was cancer, but we had to be sure,
of course."
He says his family was nervous,
too. James says he was glad the
season was under way, so he
could focus on basketball.
It turned out the growth was
benign. James had surgery to
remove it in June, a few days after
the Cavaliers' season ended.
"I wasn't scared," James said,
"but it wasn't something I was
comfortable with."
He says the week of bed rest
following the operation was some
of the best sleep he's ever had.
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Police search for suspects in slaying of UConn

Huskies cornerback Jasper Howard
By Associated Press competition of the game. His want his team to return to the practice also take either Howard's jersey or
(ESPN.com) and his will would be for us to go field on Tuesday and "get back to his helmet with him to all their
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:55:53 AM out and play." a little bit of normalcy." remaining games this season.
An autopsy showed Howard There has been nothing normal West Virginia plans to honor
UConn Community Mourns was killed by a single stab wound about the last 48 hours for the Howard in some way as well on Sorting the Sunday Pile,
H o w a r d ' s D e a t h U C o n n to his abdomen, and the state Huskies. Howard's death has Saturday, head coach Bill Stewart Week 6: Brett Favre, 40-
Community Mourns Howard's medical examiner's office ruled shaken the UConn community said. He will announce specifics
Death his death a homicide. and put Edsall in situations he on Tuesday. Stewart addressed
Year-Old Game
There are at least two Forsberg: Butler carries on never thought he'd have to deal the tragedy with his team at a Manager
Connecticut players who have Patriots cornerback Darius with. meeting on Sunday afternoon. By Ryan Wilson (FanHouse)
been so strongly affect by the Butler tries to focus on football Edsall said he will pick up "I opened up with the story,"
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:00:00 AM
stabbing death of cornerback after learning of the death of Howard's family at the airport this Stewart said. "Our youngsters
Jasper Howard that they may not former teammate Jasper Howard, afternoon, drive them to see the from the Miami area that knew by Ryan Wilson
play Saturday at West Virginia, E S P N B o s t o n . c o m ' s C h r i s doctor that attended to him and him took it very, very hard. Our Filed under: NFL
coach Randy Edsall said. Forsberg writes. Blog then take them to see Howard's guys were quite shaken, as they Sorting the Sunday Pile looks
Edsall declined to identify them The medical examiner's office body. should be. They really, really back at the NFL weekend that
Monday, calling it a private released its findings Monday. Edsall tried to find other liked that young man." was. It's also an unofficial John
matter, but said one player had Jasper Howard and another coaches who had been through a Edsall said he had heard from Riggins blog.
held Howard in his arms after the male student were stabbed outside similar situation, losing a star every head coach in the Big East We're six weeks into the 2009
stabbing, while another tried to the UConn Student Union early player to tragedy in the middle of in the past 24 hours and that he season and Brad Childress looks
address the wound and was Sunday morning, after a pulled the season, but he couldn't find was grateful for the outpouring of like a bald, bearded genius. When
covered with blood. "I've talked to fire alarm forced an evacuation any other examples. He said he support. Brett Favre chose to announce his
both of them each day," Edsall during a university-sponsored talked to someone who lost a "It's times like these when a annual unretirement plans
said. "If they don't feel like they're dance. The other student, who has teammate in the offseason. close conference like the Big East (conveniently after training camp
mentally ready to play, that's their not been identified, has been "You've got to be yourself in this needs to come together," Rutgers had started), Childress was the
d e c i s i o n , a n d I w i l l h o n o r released from a local hospital. situation," Edsall said. "As the coach Greg Schiano said. guy who picked him up at the
whatever decision they want to UConn police Maj. Ronald focal point and the leader, you Brian Bennett covers Big East airport. Not typically part of the
make." Edsall said there was no Blicher said Monday that no have to be strong and stand football for ESPN.com. job description for a head coach,
real thought about postponing this arrests have been made and strong, be the pillar of strength for Information from The Associated but he probably wanted to stress
week's game in Morgantown. authorities have no suspects. our coaches, my players and even Press was used in this report. that his future with the
"I know Jasper wouldn't want us Blicher says the stabbings the players' families, and that's This content has passed through organization would be directly
to do that," he said. "That's the stemmed from a dispute between what I'm trying to do." fivefilters.org. tied to Favre's performance.
real reason. He was a competitor, two groups of people, including UConn will honor Howard by Obviously the actions of a man
a guy who loved the game, the some who were not students. wearing "JH" stickers on the clinging to his job. Follow Us on
spirt of the game and the Edsall said it will be good for backs of their helmets. They will Twitter Friend Us on Facebook
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Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Jeff Reed cited for public intoxication 6: Brett Favre, 40-Year-Old Game
Manager originally appeared on
By Associated Press blocks from where the team beat with the law this year. says the team is still gathering Fanhouse Backporch on Mon, 19
(ESPN.com) the Cleveland Browns a few hours He paid $543 in fines and information and has no comment. Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST . Please
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WNBA's Detroit Shock reportedly Washington Redskins

moving to Tulsa have Sherman Lewis
By Associated Press
(ESPN.com)
league by the end of October with
the goal of having a team in
Oklahoma next season.
people, would be the second-
smallest city with a WNBA
franchise -- after Uncasville,
calling plays
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:00:23 AM By Associated Press the play calling for an offense that
Cameron and fellow investor Conn. The team would play at the (ESPN.com) is averaging only 13.2 points per
The WNBA's Detroit Shock are David Box -- both Oklahoma City BOK Center, which holds about game.
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:21:00 AM
moving to Tulsa, Okla., a team businessmen -- announced last 18,000 and opened last year. The front office stripped Zorn of
official told The Associated Press. month that former Tulsa and Cameron and Box are members Schefter On Zorn: 'He Will Get the play-calling role following
The official spoke on the Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson of the ownership group of the Fired' Schefter On Zorn: 'He Will Sunday's 14-6 loss to previously
condition of anonymity Monday would serve as the WNBA team's Tulsa Talons of arenafootball2. Get Fired' VIDEO PLAYLIST winless Kansas City. The
because he was not authorized to coach and general manager if Cameron also is part of the • Schefter On Zorn: 'He Will Get Redskins are 2-4, and they have
make the announcement. Tulsa landed a franchise. ownership group of the NBA's Fired' Schefter On Zorn: 'He Will failed to score a touchdown in two
Detroit made its debut in the The Shock had a lot of success Oklahoma City Thunder. Get Fired' of their home games.
league in 1998 and won titles in on the court, but not in the stands That group bought the then- • Schefter: NFL QB Woes Two weeks ago, Lewis was
2008, 2006 and 2003. The Shock i n a s t a t e w i t h f o u r m a j o r Seattle SuperSonics and the Schefter: NFL QB Woes enjoying retirement in Michigan,
lost last month to the Indiana professional teams along with WNBA's Seattle Storm in July ASHBURN, Va. -- From calling calling Bingo games at a senior
Fever in the Eastern Conference Michigan and Michigan State 2006, but sold the WNBA Bingo to calling plays, Sherman center and delivering Meals on
finals after rallying to earn a athletics. franchise to Seattle investors Lewis is taking Jim Zorn's Wheels. He previously spent 22
playoff spot. In the 2003 WNBA Finals, before moving the NBA franchise favorite duty. years as an NFL assistant and was
Last week, a group of investors Detroit did draw 22,076 fans -- to Oklahoma City last year. The Mike and Mike in the Morning originally hired as a consultant for
in Tulsa said they would formally setting a record for the largest Shock's move would give the state Hall of Famer and ESPN NFL the Redskins' offense.
apply to the WNBA to purchase a crowd to watch a women's of Oklahoma two professional analyst Mike Ditka talks about The move is a blow for Zorn,
franchise. professional basketball game -- basketball teams. how good the Saints are, both who feels he had a knack for
Lead investor Bill Cameron has but most games were sparsely Copyright 2009 by The offensively and defensively. Ditka calling plays.
said his group, called Tulsa Pro attended with a curtain covering Associated Press also talks about the decision in Copyright 2009 by The
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The Washington Redskins said
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Police Account of Steve McNair Death Doesn't Add Up

By Michael David Smith before committing suicide. But a about when Kazemi supposedly about whether she purchased the
(FanHouse) new investigation from CBS bought the murder weapon. Police gun at all.
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:58:00 AM News raises serious questions claimed that they had pinpointed Police Account of Steve McNair
about whether the police properly the time when Kazemi bought the Death Doesn't Add Up originally
by Michael David Smith investigated the incident, and murder weapon as during a two- appeared on Fanhouse NFL Blog
Filed under: Titans, NFL Police whether they may have reached hour period when she was absent on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:58:00
Blotter The law enforcement the wrong conclusion. from work. But Keteyian reported EST . Please see our terms for use
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Steve McNair and his girlfriend, correspondent Armen Keteyian the date on which Kazemi was Permalink| Email this| Linking
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Internet News Record Sports/ 49

Bobby Valentine, Manny Furry Furor Growing Over

Acta, Travis Fryman Named David Beckham's Beard
By Randy Kim (FanHouse)
Finalists in Cleveland Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:49:00 AM

By Pat Lackey (FanHouse) by Randy Kim

Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:29:00 AM Filed under: English Premier
League When is a beard more
by Pat Lackey than a beard? When it's attached
Filed under: Indians, AL to the face of an international,
Central, MLB Rumors The
Indians' managerial search has
metrosexual heartthrob who has
one of the most recognizable
Triple Threat
apparently whittled its way down
to just three names after a round
visages on the globe.
Yes, America, it's time to beard
Pacing Phillies
of phone interviews last week.
Paul Hoynes at the Cleveland
it like Beckham, as the English
soccer star is going grizzly these
in October
Plain Dealer is reporting that the days. By Ed Price (FanHouse)
Indians have called Bobby While this news might only arch Submitted at 10/19/2009 1:36:00 AM
Valentine, Manny Acta, and a few eyebrows on this side of the
Travis Fryman to Cleveland for a pond, in England they're going by Ed Price
second round of interviews and positively batty over the beard. Filed under: Dodgers, Phillies,
that GM Mark Shapiro is likely to The Guardian, for one, doesn't MLB Playoffs, National League
name a manager before the World own, after dark.
exactly give Beckham's Furry Furor Growing Over Championship Series
Series ends. hirsuteness rave reviews: It's the PHILADELPHIA -- So far this
Valentine's name is the big one David Beckham's Beard originally
way (the beard) reaches far down appeared on Fanhouse Soccer postseason, Ryan Howard has as
that's obviously going to get he would want. beneath his chin and his neck, many triples as home runs.
people talking. He's got over Bobby Valentine, Manny Acta, Blog on Mon, 19 Oct 2009
Travis Fryman Named Finalists in over his Adam's apple, toward the 11:49:00 EST . Please see our That's not a bad thing.
1,000 career wins and a National top of his chest, like an "Ryan's a lot of fun to watch,"
League pennant over his 15-year Cleveland originally appeared on unstoppable hairy fungus ... It's terms for use of feeds.
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he's made it clear there are teams Blogs| Comments Ryan Howard right now, but we
he won't manage for in 2010, so have a great hitter in Ryan
presumably the Indians are a job Howard, delivering, driving in
RBIs."
FanHouse Preview: Jazz A lot of RBI. Game 3: Phillies
By Chris Tomasson ago. happen in Utah. 11, Dodgers 0| Box Score| Series
(FanHouse) Heading into the season, "If they keep us together, we can Home
Boozer's status is the biggest issue be very good,'' he said. Triple Threat Pacing Phillies in
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:00:00 AM
surrounding the team. He said FanHouse Preview: Jazz October originally appeared on
by Chris Tomasson during radio interviews during the originally appeared on Fanhouse Fanhouse MLB Blog on Mon, 19
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50 Sports/ Game/ Internet News Record

CBS' Jim Nantz Gets Emotional

During Divorce Trial
By Ryan Wilson (FanHouse)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:30:00 AM

by Ryan Wilson
Filed under: Sports Media I
watched part of the Titans-Patriots Need for Speed
game Sunday, a lopsided affair
that saw Tom Brady throw six Nitro rushes to retail
touchdowns (five in the second
quarter), and Tennessee lose by in early November
59 points. CBS, as the network By Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq)
usually does for its marquee NFL
matchups, had Jim Nantz and Phil
Simms calling the action. And
During Divorce Trial originally
appeared on Fanhouse Backporch Xbox 360 update to add Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:01:00 PM

on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:30:00 Need for Speed Nitro, the graffiti
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taking place, nothing seemed out
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Music Games Store, news -laced second entry in EA's
"fresh" Need for Speed trio, has
of the ordinary.
Except that Nantz, just a few
days before, had been in court for
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than expected. Promising a
his divorce trial. By David Hinkle (Joystiq) As for the News and More mixture of "the franchise's
CBS' Jim Nantz Gets Emotional Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:40:00 AM section of Inside Xbox, it's trademark attitude, sense of speed
described as "a regularly-updated and addictive gameplay," the
s t r e a m o f c o n t e n t f r o m colorful Nitro has gone gold, with
First Assassin's Creed: Lineage Microsoft has revealed new
details about its Fall 2009 Xbox MSNBC.com, MSN Autos, The both Wii and DS versions now set
360 Dashboard Update -- yes, the New Yorker and Dilbert." We're to ship on November 3 in North
episode debuts Oct. 27 same update set to bring Twitter,
Last.fm and Facebook support.
totally expecting some Akira-like America and November 6 in
monstrosity that is equal parts Europe.
By David Hinkle (Joystiq) YouTube on October 27. New to the list of update features balloon boy, coffee station chit- Capitalizing on its Unique Art
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:04:00 AM What we really want to know is: i s a d e d i c a t e d X b o x L i v e chat and political cartoons we Style, the game will drape in-
How did Giovanni manage to storefront for music games DLC don't understand; though we're game vehicles with skins designed
It's hard out there for an assassin. keep his whites so white? With all and a specific area of Inside Xbox sure in reality the feature will be by popular "lifestyle brands,"
It was hard for Giovanni Auditore of that blood flying around, it called "News and More." less scary and far less life- including Upper Playground,
da Firenze, anyway; father of must have been one helluva The Music Games Store will threatening. tokidoki, and i am 8-bit. You'd be
Assassin's Creed II protagonist laundry day for the 15th century take a big step toward dealing Xbox 360 update to add Music right in calling it a product of
Ezio. As you can see in the teaser assassin. with the clutter on Xbox Live, Games Store, news section marketing, but it's preferable to
for Assassin's Creed: Lineage Gallery: Assassin's Creed: offering a one-stop shop for all originally appeared on Joystiq on the alternative conjured up by the
above, the dude had a lot on his Lineage (behind the scenes) Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Lips Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:40:00 EST. Dante's Inferno promotional team:
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Live Hairstyling
Window Display at
Bloomie's Today!
By ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:33:18 AM

Bloomingdale’s 59th Street

flagship store in NYC has
Romero's Slipgate Ironworks redesigned their cosmetics
department—and one of the most
bedazzling features of the new
FIFA 10 won't relinquish top cuts staff, work continues beauty floor is the Bb.StylingBar
and Shop! Perfect for fashionistas
By Alexander Sliwinski audience." The game will now on the go, the hair destination
UK sales spot to Uncharted 2 (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 11:22:00 AM
launch with a "smaller core team." offers no-wash-no-appointment
Gazillion is also publishing the styling services and one-on-one
By Alexander Sliwinski on the PS3 chart during its second delayed Jumpgate Evolutions and consultations with Bumble and
(Joystiq) week at retail. Brütal Legend's P u b l i s h e r G a z i l l i o n 2012's Marvel Universe MMO.
assault of the charts was less Entertainment has confirmed bumble pros. The interactive
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:29:00 PM Source-- Gazillion Confirms
savage. The Tim Schafer creation layoffs at John Romero's studio, Layoffs At Romero-Led MMO station also has touchscreen
FIFA 10 may have seen a 54 premiered in the seventh position Slipgate Ironworks, which is D e v S l i p g a t e I r o n w o r k s styling and product menus, and
percent sales drop in the UK last behind -- really?!-- Mario and currently working on an unnamed [ G a m a s u t r a ] video tutorials.
week, but it still maintained its Sonic at the Olympic Winter MMO. Although the publisher To celebrate the partnership
Source-- Romero's Slipgate w i t h B l o o m i e ’ s , B b .
place in the top sales spot for the Games. wouldn't reveal the number let go, Ironworks Hammered Down, e x t r a o r d i n a i r e R o l a n d o
region. The soccer football title Source-- FIFA hat trick [Chart Kotaku reports that former MMO Project Still On [Kotaku]
has now surpassed the million Track] Beauchamp (clients include Mary
staffers estimate around 50 people Romero's Slipgate Ironworks
sales mark and has done so three Source-- All formats chart are looking for a new place of c u t s s t a f f , w o r k c o n t i n u e s -Kate Olsen and Kim Kardashian)
weeks faster than FIFA 09 did last [Chart Track] will be creating runway-ready
work. originally appeared on Joystiq on hairstyles on models in a live
year. FIFA 10 won't relinquish top A statement from Gazillion Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:22:00 EST.
Last week's PS3 mega-release, UK sales spot to Uncharted 2 obtained by Gamasutra claims Please see our terms for use of window display today at the
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, originally appeared on Joystiq on that the company decided to feeds. corner of Lexington Avenue and
entered the " All Formats" chart in Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:29:00 EST. "change the format" of the 60th Street. Swing by on your
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Virtual Console, and DSiWare
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Full Band Hero track list,
importable songs revealed
By Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 10:34:00 AM
If you've been savoring the slow
trickle of track list announcements
for Activision's tween-oriented
rhythm title, Band Hero, your
prolonged pleasure is about to
come to a satisfying, yet abrupt
end. The publisher has revealed
all of the songs that will be
available on the generically
monikered game, and we've
posted them -- along with details
about compatible DLC and song
importing from other Guitar Hero
games -- after the jump in the
least confusing manner we could
Around the Net In Media: NBCU Connects Shows, Causes to Snag Ads --
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secured distribution in the top 30
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million households, an increase of
more than 100% over a year ago.
New HMC launches year-to-date
include Comcast systems in
Detroit, South Florida, San
Francisco, Washington State,
Portland, Boston, Atlanta,
Houston and Pittsburgh; on Time
possibly conjure. To help in this Warner in Charlotte; on Cox
endeavor, we've even added a systems in Phoenix and Las
table of contents! Vegas; and, on Charter in St.
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for our own good. programming and marketing for
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Sheriff: Balloon boy hoax may have conspirators (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) carries out various scientific down. being struck by a media outlet. but likely won't face charges
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:14:05 AM experiments. The National Guard provided "No, that wasn't us," Snyder because of their ages. The oldest
"This will be the most significant two helicopters in an attempt to said. son is 10.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The UFO-related news event to take rescue the child, costing several The sheriff said he expected to Alderden said investigators had
lawyer for the man accused of place since the Roswell Crash of thousand dollars. When the recommend charges of an "aha" moment that the story
perpetrating the balloon boy hoax 1947, and the result will be a balloon landed without the boy, conspiracy, contributing to the was a hoax when Falcon turned to
to promote a reality show said dramatic increase in local and officials thought he had fallen out delinquency of a minor, making a his father during a CNN interview
M o n d a y t h a t h e e x p e c t s national awareness about The and began the grim search for his false report to authorities and Thursday and said what sounded
authorities to bring charges Heene Family, our Reality Series, body. attempting to influence a public like "you had said we did this for
against his client in the coming as well as the UFO Phenomenon Larimer County Sheriff Jim servant. Federal charges were also a show" when asked why he didn't
days as investigators analyze e- in general," according to a copy of Alderden announced Sunday that possible. come out of his hiding place.
mails that show Richard Heene the show's proposal provided to he's seeking charges, including The most serious charges are On Friday, Falcon got sick
and an associate discussing the the site by Thomas. felonies, against Richard and felonies and carry a maximum during two separate TV
stunt months ago. Gawker.com editor-in-chief Mayumi Heene. Alderden said the sentence of six years in prison and interviews when asked again why
Lawyer David Lane said he Gabriel Snyder confirmed the stunt two weeks in the planning a $500,000 fine. Alderden said he hid.
expects charges to be filed by New York-based Web site paid was a marketing ploy by the they would be seeking restitution Alderden said they didn't
Wednesday and that Heene and Thomas, but declined to say how Heenes, who met in acting school for the costs, though he didn't question the family Friday
his wife Mayumi are willing to much for the story billed with the in Hollywood and have twice have an estimate. because they wanted to keep the
turn themselves in. Lane declined headline: "Exclusive: I Helped appeared on ABC's reality show As Alderden told reporters family's cooperation by
t o s a y d i r e c t l y w h e t h e r h e Richard Heene Plan a Balloon "Wife Swap." Sunday that the whole thing was a maintaining the appearance that
believes the incident was a hoax Hoax." "We certainly know that there's a hoax, the Heenes were shopping they believed their story. That's
but said the Heenes are innocent Snyder said Thomas was conspiracy between the husband for snacks at Wal-Mart, where the same day the sheriff gave a
unless convicted. planning to meet with and wife, you've probably seen Richard Heene told the AP he was press conference in which he said
"If they (prosecutors) can prove investigators, though sheriff's some of the e-mails and some of "seeking counsel." he believed the saga was a "real
their case beyond a reasonable officials did not return messages the things on the Internet "This thing has become so event." He said Sunday that those
doubt, that's one thing. If they seeking confirmation. Messages suggesting that there may be other convoluted," Heene said, tears assurances were part of his effort
can't prove their case beyond a l e f t f o r T h o m a s b y T h e conspirators," Alderden said. welling in his eyes. He said his to keep the family's trust.
reasonable doubt, that's another," A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s w e r e n o t Alderden said documents show wife was holding together better Records show that police have
he told The Associated Press. returned. that a media outlet has agreed to than he was. responded to the house at least
In addition to drawing up Thomas, 25, said in his pay money to the Heenes with Once investigators got a good twice in the past year, including a
possible felony charges against Gawker.com story that the plan he regard to the balloon incident. look at the "flying saucer" they possible domestic violence
t h e 4 8 - y e a r - o l d H e e n e , knew about did not involve Alderden didn't name the media determined that the thin mylar incident in February. No charges
investigators say they want to Heene's children. outlet but said it was a show that balloon covered with foil and held were filed.
question an associate of his after e The emergence of the e-mails is blurs "the line between together with duct tape would not Alderden said officials tried
-mails surfaced showing the two the latest twist in a story that entertainment and news." have been able to launch with the Saturday to persuade Mayumi
had discussed a balloon hoax played out live on national It wasn't clear whether the deal 37-pound-boy inside, according to Heene, 45, to go to a safe house,
months ago as part of a public television on Thursday when a was signed before or after the Colorado State University physics but she declined.
relations campaign for the reality silver, helium-filled balloon alleged hoax, or whether the professor Brian Jones. Alderden said the children were
show. floated away from the Heenes' media outlet was a possible Alderden said he didn't know still with the parents Sunday and
Robert Thomas of Denver home with 6-year-old Falcon conspirator. whether the 6-year-old had been that child protective services had
claimed Heene had told him he believed to be aboard. But he was "Let's call it (my statement) short hiding in the rafters of the been contacted to investigate their
was planning a media stunt to never in the balloon. of speculation that a media outlet family's garage during an intense well-being. On "Wife Swap,"
promote a proposed reality show. Some flights at Denver was in on the hoax, but let's not five-hour search, as the family Heene was portrayed as erratic, at
T h o m a s , a s e l f - d e s c r i b e d International Airport had to be discount the possibility," he said. claimed. one point throwing a glass of milk
researcher, sold his story to changed to a different runway, but In an e-mail Sunday to the AP, "For all we know he may have on a participant on the program.
Gawker.com and provided the the airport remained open during Snyder said editors at been two blocks down the road "Clearly, from all indications,
Web site with e-mail exchanges the balloon's flight, airport Gawker.com had not contacted playing on the swing in the city Mr. Heene has somewhat of a
between him and Heene. Thomas spokesman Chuck Cannon said the Heene family or offered them park," the sheriff said. temper," Alderden said.
said the show would feature Monday. Previous reports said the money for their story, referring to The sheriff said all three of the
Heene as a mad scientist who airport was temporarily shut Alderden's reference to a deal Heenes' sons knew of the hoax, SHERIFF: page 54
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SHERIFF:
Bankruptcy filing delays church sex abuse case continued from page 53
Lane said Alderden should "put

(AP) up or shut up" about domestic

violence.
"For the sheriff to put out for
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) hundreds of Catholic children," enough to cover what it might be, was dismissed. public consumption that Richard
Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:41:00 AM Neuberger said in a statement. b e c a u s e t h e c o u r t s a w a r d At least three bankruptcy cases is a wife beater and not have any
Malooly said the decision was a n y t h i n g . " ended with payments for victims. charges even considered to be
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A sex made "after careful consideration The bankruptcy filing lists the In May 2008, the Davenport filed is irresponsible and is
abuse case against Delaware's and after consultation with my diocese's assets as being between diocese agreed to pay $37 million designed solely to turn the public
Catholic Diocese of Wilmington close advisers and counselors" $50 million and $100 million but to more than 150 people. A $50 even more against the Heenes, in
and a former priest will be and that he believed "we have no said its estimated debt is between m i l l i o n s e t t l e m e n t i n 2 0 0 7 particular Richard," Lane said.
delayed after the diocese filed for other choice." He said "filing for $100 million and $500 million. involving about 175 lawsuits Heene has a profile listed on a
federal bankruptcy protection on C h a p t e r 1 1 o f f e r s t h e b e s t Lawsuit plaintiffs as well as banks ended a bankruptcy filing by the Web site that helps people get cast
the eve of trial. o p p o r t u n i t y , g i v e n f i n i t e and pensions were listed as Portland archdiocese, which set in reality shows, and the producer
The bankruptcy filing late resources, to provide the fairest creditors. aside another $20 million for of "Wife Swap" said it had a show
Sunday delays a lawsuit that had possible treatment of all victims Monday's case would have been future claims. The Tucson diocese in development with the Heenes
been set to start Monday in Kent of sexual abuse by priests of our the first to come to trial under a emerged from Chapter 11 in 2005 but the deal is now off. TLC also
County Superior Court, the first of diocese." Delaware law that created a two- after creating a fund of more than said Heene had pitched a reality
eight consecutive abuse trials "Our hope is that Chapter 11 year "lookback" window that $20 million for people molested show to the network months ago,
scheduled in Delaware. proceedings will enable us to allowed claims of abuse to be by clergy. but it passed on the offer.
"This is a painful decision, one fairly compensate all victims brought regardless of whether the More than 20 Delaware ___
that I had hoped and prayed I t h r o u g h a s i n g l e p r o c e s s statute of limitations had expired. plaintiffs have filed lawsuits Associated Press writers
would never have to make," the established by the Bankruptcy More than 100 lawsuits were filed against former priest Francis Catherine Tsai, P. Solomon Banda
Rev. W. Francis Malooly, the Court," Malooly said. before the period ended this DeLuca. DeLuca served for 35 and AP contributor Breck Larson
bishop of the diocese, said in a Pat Arndt, 61, a bookkeeper, summer, with four being settled. years but was defrocked last in Fort Collins provided material
statement on the diocese's Web read about the bankruptcy filing Civil liability is the only summer after having been jailed for this report.
site. in a newspaper Monday morning recourse for victims of abuse that i n 2 0 0 7 i n N e w Y o r k f o r (This version CORRECTS that
Wilmington is the seventh U.S. before attending Mass at Holy happened long ago because the r e p e a t e d l y m o l e s t i n g h i s sheriff said some parts of Heene
Catholic diocese to seek Chapter Cross Church in Dover, Del. U.S. Supreme Court has said g r a n d n e p h e w . story were in doubt sted definitely
11 bankruptcy protection since the "We put full trust in our priests states cannot change the statute of The diocese has paid more than untrue. )
church abuse scandal erupted and then we have this happening," limitations for criminal cases. $6.2 million since 2002 to settle This content has passed through
s e v e n y e a r s a g o i n t h e said Arndt, who believes the Under federal bankruptcy rules, sexual abuse lawsuits. Like others fivefilters.org.
A r c h d i o c e s e o f B o s t o n . diocese was wrong to file for a bankruptcy filing results in an around the country, it also has
The Wilmington diocese covers bankruptcy and that it was an automatic stay or halt to all paid settlements to alleged victims
Delaware and the Eastern Shore a t t e m p t , i n p a r t , t o a v o i d litigation in which the filer is a who did not file lawsuits.
of Maryland and serves about r e s p o n s i b i l i t y . defendant. The trial would be ___
230,000 Catholics. " T h e y ' r e j u s t p r o l o n g i n g delayed for the duration of the Associated Press writer Randall UConn coach: 2
Thomas Neuberger, an attorney something that's not right," she b a n k r u p t c y . H o w e v e r , t h e Chase in Dover, Del., contributed
representing 88 alleged victims, said. lawsuits could move forward if to this report. teammates with player
described the bankruptcy filing as David Balcerak, 70, a member the plaintiffs ask and the request ___ when stabbed (AP)
a "desperate effort to hide the of the Knights of Columbus and a is approved by a judge. On the Net:
truth from the public and conceal Eucharistic minister who delivers Attorneys negotiated throughout C a t h o l i c D i o c e s e o f (Yahoo! News: U.S. News)
t h e t h o u s a n d s o f p a g e s o f Communion to the homebound, S u n d a y t r y i n g t o r e a c h a W i l m i n g t o n : Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:12:53 AM
scandalous documents" from was not aware of the bankruptcy s e t t l e m e n t , b u t c o u l d n ' t . http://www.cdow.org
being made public in court. f i l i n g b u t s a i d h e c o u l d Before Wilmington, bankruptcy (This version CORRECTS that STORRS, Conn. – One
"This filing is the latest, sad understand the reasons behind it. protection was also sought in diocese, not church, filed for teammate performed CPR while
chapter in the diocese's decades "They may not be able to afford abuse scandals by dioceses in bankruptcy.) another comforted a University of
long 'cover-up' of these despicable it," he said of the damages that Davenport, Iowa; Fairbanks, This content has passed through Connecticut football player who
crimes, to maintain the secrecy c o u l d b e a w a r d e d i n c i v i l Alaska; Portland, Ore.; San fivefilters.org. was fatally stabbed during a fight
surrounding its responsibility and lawsuits. "They probably have Diego; Spokane, Wash.; and
complicity in the sexual abuse of insurance, but probably not Tucson, Ariz. The San Diego case UCONN page 55
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outside a school-sanctioned dance
over the weekend, their coach said
Monday.
Coach Randy Edsall wouldn't
identify the teammates or say how
many players witnessed the fight
that led to the death of 20-year-
old Jasper Howard, a native of
Miami.
"One had Jasper in his arms and
the other was pressuring where
the wound went in and had blood
on his hands," Edsall said. "And
those two young men are pretty
deeply affected right now."
The state's medical examiner's
office said Monday that Howard
died from a single stab wound to
the abdomen. The death was ruled
a homicide.
Police interviewed dozens of
witnesses on Monday but said
there were no suspects and no
arrests, although around 300
people were in the area when a
fire alarm sounded and students
evacuated the building.
"We're pursuing active
investigative leads," UConn
police Maj. Ronal Blicher said.
"The investigation will continue
into this week."
A second student was also
stabbed and was treated and
released from a local hospital.
UConn police would not identify
the student.
Blicher said Howard was
wounded during a fight between
two groups that included students
and non-students. The altercation
broke out just after a fire alarm
went off in a student center,
forcing around 300 people to
evacuate from the party and dance
sponsored by the school's West
Indian Awareness Organization.
Blicher said it was the first
homicide at the university in the
more than 30 years he has been
associated with the school.
The violence came less than 12
hours after UConn's 38-25
homecoming victory over
Louisville. Edsall identified
Howard's body at St. Francis
Hospital and Medical Center in
Hartford Sunday morning.
He said he doesn't know if the
two teammates who helped
Howard will play when the
Huskies visit Big East foe West
Virginia on Saturday. The team
will wear a sticker with Howard's
initials on their helmets for the
rest of the season and will carry
Howard's helmet or jersey to
away games, Edsall said.
"I've talked to both of them each
day," he said. "I've got to see
where they're at today, see where
they're at tomorrow and I will tell
them if they don't feel they are
mentally ready to play, that's their
decision, and I'll honor whatever
decision they want to make. "
Howard, a junior and the team's
starting cornerback, came to the
school to get away from the
violence on the streets of his
hometown. He was the first
person in his family to go to
college.
Blicher said officials don't
believe anyone else is in danger
and that the stabbing did not
appear premeditated.
"The university does not have an
individual walking around just
stabbing people," Blicher said.
Some students on Monday said
they never considered their
campus unsafe before. Some, like
freshman Alexander Wegh of
Terryville, stayed indoors on
Sunday as police gathered
evidence.
"I kind of just stayed inside
(Sunday) because they really
didn't tell us what was going on,"
he said. "I didn't come here
thinking about safety, because its
not like when you pick your
school you're like, 'Oh, its going
to be really safe or not.' You
assume it's going to be safe."
Howard's death was especially
tragic, because he was about to
become a father, Edsall said.
Neither police nor the university
provided any additional
information about the expectant
mother, whom Edsall identified as
Howard's girlfriend.
The coach gathered his team at
its training facility at 6 a.m. to
deliver the news.
Howard and the other student
who was stabbed were taken to
Windham Community Memorial
Hospital, where the surviving
student was treated and released.
Howard was later airlifted to St.
Francis, where he died.
Howard had a career-high 11
tackles Saturday and made
perhaps the game's biggest play,
forcing a fumble as Louisville
was about to score with UConn up
21-13 in the third quarter.
"I felt my hand go on the ball
and I felt that I had a chance to
get it out," he said after the game.
"I just stripped it out. It was a big
play. We needed it."
Joanglia Howard said she got
news of her son's death about 4
a.m. Sunday, and described him
as a "good kid" who never got
into trouble.
"All I wanted him to do was go
to school and get an education,
and he was doing what I asked
him to do," she told WSVN-TV in
Miami.
Edsall planned to meet
Howard's parents at a Connecticut
airport later Monday. He also had
two teenage sisters.
Edsall said the team will not
practice until Tuesday.
"It'll be good for us to be getting
back on the practice field
tomorrow and getting a little bit of
what in this tragic situation, back
to a little bit of normalcy with
what we have to do," he said.
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US offers
Sudan
'incentives'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:22:30 AM
US President Barack Obama has
offered "incentives" to Sudan, if it
acts to improve the situation in
Darfur.
However, as he unveiled a new
policy on Khartoum, Mr Obama
threatened "increased pressure" if
Sudan failed to make progress
towards achieving peace.
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said the US was still
focused on addressing the effects
of "genocide" in Darfur - a term
Sudan said was "unfortunate".
The UN estimates that 300,000
people have died in Darfur since
2003.
In a statement, Mr Obama said:
"If the government of Sudan acts
to improve the situation on the
ground and to advance peace,
there will be incentives.
"If it does not, there will be
increased pressures imposed by
the United States and the
international community."
He said the world must act
"with a sense of urgency and
purpose" on Sudan.
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Fed boss says US should cut budget deficit (AP)
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Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:05:18 AM
WASHINGTON – Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
on Monday called for the United
States to whittle down its record-
high budget deficits and for
countries like China to get their
consumers to spend more, moves
that would help combat skewed
global trade and investment flows
that contributed to the financial
crisis.
Bernanke's remarks to a Fed
conference in Santa Barbara,
Calif., comes just days after the
federal government on Friday
reported a $1.42 trillion deficit for
2009 budget year that ended Sept.
30. The previous year's deficit
was $459 billion.
The Fed chief's comments were
aimed at reducing global
imbalances, and echo pledges
made by leaders of the Group of
20 nations at their summit last
month in Pittsburgh.
"As the global economy recovers
and trade volumes rebound,
however, global imbalances my
reassert themselves," Bernanke
warned. For the United States'
part, "the most effective way" to
boost national savings in this
country "is by establishing a
US drone 'shot down over Somalia'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:32:38 AM
Islamist insurgents say they have
shot down an unmanned US spy
drone off the coast of southern
Somalia.
An al-Shabab official said the
drone had been hit by anti-aircraft
sustainable fiscal trajectory,
anchored by a clear commitment
to substantially reduce federal
deficits over time," Bernanke
said. He didn't suggest ways to do
so.
Fielding questions after his
speech, Bernanke said the United
States is in a "difficult fiscal
situation" and that Congress and
the White House will need to
develop an "exit strategy."
That's important to maintain
confidence in the U.S. economy
and the dollar, Bernanke said. The
Fed chief said he believes those
stakes are "very well understood
in Washington."
Red ink from the budget deficit
reflects costs of spending on wars
in Iraq and Afghanstan and on
fighting the financial crisis at
home. It also reflects the bite of
the recession on tax revenues,
which plunged.
And, for trade surplus countries
like China and most Asian
economies, they need to get their
consumers to spend more and rely
less on export-led growth,
Bernanke said.
"In large part, such action should
focus on boosting consumption,"
Bernanke said.
The bulk of Bernanke's remarks
largely offered a scholarly
fire and had fallen into the Indian
Ocean near the port of Kismayo.
The claims could not be
independently verified.
US forces last month launched a
helicopter raid in southern
Somalia and said they had killed a
senior al-Qaeda suspect who was
working with al-Shabab.
The BBC's Mohamed Olad
assessment of Asia and how it
fared during the global financial
crisis, the focus of the Fed's
conference. The Fed chief didn't
discuss the state of the U.S.
economy or the future course of
interest rates.
Bernanke and his colleagues last
month held a key bank lending
rate at an all-time low near zero
and pledged to hold it there for an
"extended period." Many
economists believe that means
through the rest of this year and
into next year.
Deciding when to boost interest
rates and reel in the
unprecedented amount of money
plowed into the U.S. economy
will be one of the biggest
challenges facing the Fed in the
coming months. Remove the
supports too soon and the
recovery could be derailed. Leave
the supports in place for too long
risks unleashing inflation.
"Unwinding the stimulative
policies introduced during the
crisis will require careful
judgment," Bernanke said, not
only for industrialized countries
like the United States but others
countries as well. "Policymakers
will have to balance the risks of
withdrawing policy support too
early, which might cut short a
Hassan in Mogadishu says the
incident increased Islamist
suspicions of US activity in
Somalia.
He says that, if confirmed, it
would be the first time that al-
Shabab fighters had shot down a
US drone.
An Islamist official told the
BBC: "The suspected US aircraft
nascent recovery, against the risks
of leaving expansionary policies
in place for too long, which could
overheat the economy or worsen
longer-term fiscal imbalances," he
said.
In terms of the world economy,
"Asia appears to be leading the
global recovery," Bernanke said.
"Recent data from the region
suggest that a strong rebound is,
in fact, under way."
Many economists predict the
U.S. economy — the epicenter of
the financial crisis — started
growing again in the third quarter
at a pace of at least 3 percent, and
is still expanding in the current
quarter. Economic activity
contracted in the second quarter at
an annualized rate of 0.7 percent,
marking a record four straight
quarters of decline.
Skewed trade and investment
patterns, or global imbalances, not
only played a role in the most
recent financial crisis but also in
others like the 1990s Asian
financial crisis, Bernanke said.
That's why guarding against
another is so "extraordinarily
urgent," Bernanke said.
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had been flying in Kismayo
airspace for days before being
shot down two miles north-east of
the town on Monday morning.
"It fell into the water and our
fighters are trying to locate it."
Al-Shabab and other Islamist
groups control much of southern
Somalia, while the UN-backed
government controls only a few
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Adviser: Obama
waits on finished
health care bill (AP)
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Submitted at 10/19/2009 6:15:41 AM
WASHINGTON – The White
House is waiting for Congress to
settle on a final health care bill,
even though President Barack
Obama has a clear preference in
favor of at least one specific —
the much-debated public option,
advisers said.
Obama, however, will not
demand that legislation include a
government-run insurance plan
intended to drive down costs
through competition with private
insurers, they said.
Instead, the White House will
let Congress work out the details
required to get something passed.
"There will be compromise.
There will be legislation, and it
will achieve our goals: helping
people who have insurance get
more security, more
accountability for the insurance
industry, helping people who
don't have insurance get insurance
they can afford, and lowering the
overall cost of the system,"
presidential adviser David
parts of the capital, Mogadishu.
US forces have long been
working against Somalia's
Islamist groups from their military
base in Djibouti, north-west of
Somalia.
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Balloon family 'ready for arrest'
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 9:11:35 AM
The US couple accused of faking
the disappearance of their son in a
weather balloon are ready to turn
themselves in to police, their
lawyer says.
David Lane said he shortly
expected police in Colorado to
bring charges against his client,
Richard Heene.
"These folks are absolutely
willing to turn themselves in, so I
don't want to see a 'perp walk'
done for media consumption," Mr
Lane told NBC TV.
Mr Heene and wife Mayumi are
accused of planning the hoax as a
publicity stunt.
The disappearance of their son,
six-year-old Falcon Heene,
became a media drama, but he
was later found at home.
His parents appeared on several
TV networks with Falcon and his
two brothers to talk about the
incident and insist it had not been
staged.
Acting abilities
Official details of any charges
the Heenes might face have not
yet been made public.
However, Sheriff Jim Alderden
said on Sunday that charges might
include conspiracy and
contributing to the delinquency of
a minor.
Some of the most serious
charges each carry a maximum
sentence of six years in prison and
a $500,000 (£305,000) fine.
Sheriff Alderden said that at
first the parents' acting abilities
had made them appear credible to
the police.
But it had become clear when
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"First, we must seek a definitive
end to conflict, gross human
rights abuses and genocide in
Darfur. Second, the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
between the North and South in
Sudan must be implemented to
create the possibility of long-term
peace".
In his statement, Mr Obama said
he would renew tough measures
against Khartoum later this week.
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Hillary Clinton: "Backsliding by
any party will be met by credible
pressure"
The US has stressed the new
approach does not mean it will
deal directly with Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir, says
the BBC's Kim Ghattas in
Washington.
Mr Bashir is wanted on an
the son referred to his hiding as Heene talk about a possible Denver International Airport international arrest warrant for
p a r t o f " a s h o w " d u r i n g a balloon stunt to promote a was temporarily shut down during crimes against humanity in
television interview that they were proposed reality TV show. the incident. Darfur.
Mrs Clinton said the US
not telling the truth. Police have searched the house When the balloon landed in
Sheriff Alderden said the of Richard and Mayumi Heene for fields there was no trace of him, remained intent on "reversing the
authorities were investigating evidence that the family was prompting a major ground search dire human consequences of
whether anyone else may have hoping to use the incident to and further fears for his safety. genocide" in the Darfur region by
been involved, including a media obtain a lucrative contract for The sheriff said the police may addressing problems in refugee
outlet that may have been in on such a show. seek compensation for the time camps and protecting civilians
the hoax. The family has made previous wasted. from attack.
She said Washington's
"We certainly know that there's a appearances on a US reality show, He did not give an estimate,
conspiracy between the husband Wife Swap. though the Associated Press news engagement with Sudan would
and wife, you've probably seen Other conspirators? agency said the cost of two police hinge on the provision of a safe
some of the e-mails and some of US news networks devoted helicopters sent out on a rescue haven for refugees.
t h e t h i n g s o n t h e i n t e r n e t hours of live coverage to the mission was $14,500 (£8,900). "We are looking to achieve
suggesting that there may be other drama on Thursday after it was The boy, his two brothers and results through broad engagement
conspirators," he told reporters. reported the boy might be in a his parents gave numerous TV and frank dialogue," she said.
Investigators have said they b a l l o o n f l o a t i n g h i g h o v e r interviews late on Thursday and There had been a fierce debate
want to question Robert Thomas, C o l o r a d o . early Friday. Falcon was twice in the US on how to deal with
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Axelrod said.
The White House and
lawmakers are trying to blend five
House and Senate committee
versions of health care reform
legislation into a bill that will pass
both houses. Near unanimous
Republican opposition is
expected.
The bill approved last week by
the Senate Finance Committee
drew the only Republican vote yet
cast with Democrats on the health
care overhaul. Even then, Sen.
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, did not
commit to supporting the final
version of the legislation.
House Democrats are insisting
on the government-run plan, or
public option. In the Senate,
Republicans and some Democrats
oppose the measure, meaning
inclusion of the public option
would fail to gain the 60 votes
needed to overcome a Republican
filibuster. Some in the Senate
strongly support inclusion of the
public option.
Obama "will obviously weigh in
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but not so much as to completely
infuriate the anti-Khartoum lobby
in America.
The word "genocide" is
intensely annoying to Mr Bashir's
camp, it seems sanctions are to be
renewed, and the warnings about
"credible, meaningful
disincentives" if progress is not
made will not please, either.
But the offer of "incentives" and
engagement would not have been
made by an American
administration a few years ago.
Sudan has said the new US
strategy is an improvement on the
when it's important to weigh in"
on the possibility of a public
option, chief of staff Rahm
Emanuel said. Added Obama
senior adviser Valerie Jarrett:
"He's not demanding that it's in
there. He think it's the best
possible choice."
The president promoted his
health care initiative Saturday in
his weekly radio and online
address and challenged policy
makers to resist special interests.
He accused the insurance industry
of "filling the airwaves with
deceptive and dishonest ads" and
paying for studies "designed to
mislead the American people."
A study commissioned by the
industry reported that the
Democrats' health care effort
would drive up premiums for the
insured, a conclusion faulted for
taking a decidedly narrow view of
legislation. The industry also has
been running an ad that could
easily be interpreted as asserting
that basic Medicare coverage is at
risk.
previous US stance.
"Compared to previous policies
there are positive points, we don't
see the extreme ideas and
suggestions which we used to see
in the past," said senior
presidential adviser Ghazi
Salaheddin
"I will say it is a strategy of
engagement, not a strategy of
isolation."
But he said the use of the word
"genocide" to describe the
situation in the Darfur region was
"unfortunate" and "does not
reflect the realities in Darfur".
Asked if Obama would sign a
bill that ended the antitrust
exemption for the insurance
industry and allow caps on
premiums, Axelrod said, "We'll
see what Congress does." A 1945
law lets states regulate insurers
without federal interference.
Axelrod was also noncommittal
when pressed about whether
Obama would support taxing
insurance benefits, a proposal that
has brought criticism from labor
unions and others. "I think that
this thing is going to be adjusted
as we go along," he said, "so let's
see what the final proposal says
before we talk about what the
president will or won't sign."
Axelrod spoke on ABC's "This
Week," Emanuel spoke on CNN's
" State of the Union" and CBS'
"Face the Nation" and Jarrett
appeared on NBC's "Meet the
Press."
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The Obama administration will
no doubt face criticism from
human rights group, who oppose
engagement with Sudan because
of the indictment against Mr
Bashir, says our correspondent.
It also remains unclear what
incentives the US is offering and
what the consequences will be for
Sudan if the situation does not
improve, she adds.
The Darfur conflict began in
2003 when rebel groups attacked
government targets, accusing
Khartoum of oppressing black
Africans in favour of Arabs.
Bankruptcy move
delays abuse case
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 12:01:02 AM
A Catholic diocese based in the
state of Delaware has filed for US
bankruptcy protection on the eve
of a civil trial involving high-
profile sex abuse.
The move automatically delays
the case, the seventh of its kind in
the US since a scandal in Boston
seven years ago.
The bishop of the diocese said
the move offered the best chance
for victims of sexual abuse to be
treated fairly.
But an attorney for the victims
said the action was a desperate
attempt to hide the truth from the
public.
The case, due to be heard on
Monday, would have been the
first to go to trial under a state law
creating a two-year window
Pro-government militiamen hit
back with brutal force, which the
US and some rights groups have
labelled genocide.
Khartoum denies supporting the
militias, but the international
court in The Hague issued an
arrest warrant earlier this year for
Mr Bashir, accusing him of war
crimes.
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allowing claims to be brought
even if the statute of limitations
had expired.
'Cover-up'
About 230,000 Catholics live in
the Wilmington diocese, which
covers Delaware and eastern
Maryland.
"This is a painful decision, one
that I had hoped and prayed I
would never have to make,"
Bishop W Francis Malooly said in
a statement on the diocese's
website.
He said that talks with the eight
victims bringing Monday's case
had broken down, and there were
fears that too large a settlement
would leave the diocese without
sufficient resources to compensate
another 133 people with
outstanding claims.
"Filing for Chapter 11
Jackson's ex
-wife seeks
$500,000
(BBC News | Americas | World
Edition)
Submitted at 10/19/2009 8:37:28 AM
Michael Jackson's ex-wife
Debbie Rowe is suing a woman
for nearly $500,000 (£316,000)
over claims she wanted money
rather than custody of her
children.
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Rebecca White told the US TV
show Extra that Ms Rowe was not
interested in access to her two
children with Jackson - Prince
Michael, 12, and Paris, 11.
Ms Rowe sued over the
comments in July, but Ms White
fees and $245,000 (£150,000) in
punitive damages.
In the TV interview, Ms White
claimed she had exchanged e-
mails with Ms Rowe after
Jackson's death on 25 June.
Described on the TV show as a
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[bankruptcy protection] offers the
best opportunity, given finite
resources, to provide the fairest
possible treatment of all victims
of sexual abuse by priests of our
diocese," he said.
But Thomas Neuberger, a
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Opel, GM and the
said in a statement, the Associated
Press news agency reported.
EU: A spanner in
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failed to respond.
Her lawyers are now seeking a
default judgment. A court hearing
to decide the outcome is
scheduled for November.
In legal papers filed in Los
Angeles, Ms Rowe's lawyers
claim she should be awarded
$490,000 (£300,000) in general
and punitive damages.
The defamation and invasion-of
-privacy action is seeking to
recoup any money that Ms White
may have been paid for her
interview, Lawyers have
estimated the fee to be $100,000
(£61,000).
They are also seeking $100,000
for emotional distress, $45,000
(£27,000) for medical and legal
"close friend", Ms White said Ms
Rowe had emphatically stated she
did not want custody of Jackson's
children.
Ms Rowe denies both sending e-
mails to White and that they are
friends.
The 50-year-old has some
visitation rights with her children
under an agreement with
Jackson's mother, Katherine.
No money is believed to have
changed hands in the
arrangement.
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lawyer representing 88 of the
victims, said the purpose of the
bankruptcy filing was to conceal
"thousands of pages of scandalous
documents" and vowed to contest
the move.
"This filing is the latest, sad
chapter in the diocese's decades-
long 'cover-up' of these despicable
crimes, to maintain the secrecy
surrounding its responsibility and
complicity in the sexual abuse of
hundreds of Catholic children," he
(£3.79m) to settle sexual abuse
cases and has settled with other
victims who did not go to court.
The largest pay-out to date was
by the Los Angeles archdiocese,
which settled 508 cases with
$660m in July 2007.
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Opel, GM and the EU
Oct 19th 2009
From Economist.com Magna’s
plans to acquire Opel, GM’s
European arm, may face a
problem
AS THE week commences
when General Motors is set to
conclude a deal to sell Opel, its
European arm, the American car
giant finds that the European
Union has thrown a spanner into
the engine bay. Late on Friday
October 16th the European
Union’s competition
commissioner, Neelie Kroes,
tentatively suggested what

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everyone else saw plainly when
the bidding process for Opel
concluded in early September: the
winner got a big push from
Germany that gave it an unfair
advantage. Mr Kroes belatedly
Now Mrs Kroes suggests in a
letter to Germany’s economy
minister, Karl-Theodor zu
Guttenberg, that the bidding
process may have been a bit
lopsided. Germany’s government
British, Belgian and Spanish
governments, which feared that
Opel plants in their countries
would be hit disproportionately by
the deal. Now the indignation at
Germany’s manipulation of the
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has come to the conclusion that
this might fall foul of the EU’s
competition rules.
The potential area of dispute is
over €4.5 billion ($6.7 billion) of
German state aid to Opel that was
apparently only available if GM
chose Magna, a Canadian car-
parts maker, and its partners,
Sberbank, Russia’s largest retail
bank, and GAZ, Russia’s second-
largest carmaker, to take over the
business. Magna’s bid was
alluring to Germany’s
government as the Canadian firm
promised to keep open all four of
Opel’s factories in Germany with
minimal job losses, regardless of
their efficiency. This would look
appealing at any time but saving
German jobs was a priority as
elections loomed at the end of
September. Without a favourable
deal for Opel Chancellor Angela
Merkel may have suffered at the
polls and thus found it trickier to
pull together her favoured
coalition.
had long made it known that it
favoured the Magna-led
consortium. Other companies with
an interest in acquiring Opel
dropped out as the race went on,
including Italy’s Fiat, and GM
settled on RHJ, a Belgian private-
equity firm, as its preferred
bidder. A deal with RHJ would
have allowed GM to buy back
Opel if its fortunes improved. But
letting Magna take over Opel will
mean that GAZ, a rival car
company, will get its hands on
GM’s valuable small-car
technology.
Late in the bidding battle GM
even emerged as a potential
saviour for Opel itself, as rumours
swirled that its improving fortunes
after emerging from bankruptcy
might allow it to keep and
restructure its European arm. But
Magna had captured the hearts of
German politicians with their
hands on the purse strings.
Magna’s victory prompted
immediate complaints from the
bidding for Opel has sparked
some action from the EU. Mrs
Kroes has said that there are
“significant indications” that the
state aid was contingent on
Magna’s winning Opel and has
asked that Germany reconsider
the bidding process.
Mr zu Guttenberg insisted on
Saturday that any
misunderstanding over the state
aid would be cleared up swiftly.
And indeed on Monday Germany
cheerfully said that the money
was of course available to all
bidders. Confidence was no doubt
buoyed by the fact that RHJ is no
longer interested in Opel—having
found fresh takeover targets. Fiat
ruled out a revival of its interest in
Opel in September. Even Beijing
Automotive, an outsider in the
stakes to acquire Opel, has turned
its attentions to Saab, a European
cast-off of GM, and will be
unlikely to re-enter the fray.
It remains to be seen whether
the EU’s competition watchdogs
could become bogged down in a
lengthy legal wrangle after the
event. But Germany’s convenient
claim should not be enough to
satisfy Mrs Kroes.
Adding to intrigue, rumours
have begun to circulate that GM
may revive its attempt to hang on
to Opel. This would undoubtedly
result in far bigger job cuts than
those planned by Magna, and
Germany would not be spared.
And perhaps GM will now be
eligible for the German
government’s hand-out. Mrs
Merkel will at least be grateful
that she managed to avoid this
mess until after she was safely re-
elected.
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Are you a TV show without a
phone app? Better not be. Better
yet -- are you a canceled TV show
with a phone app? What now?
Industry estimates are there are
some 20,000 entertainment
iPhone applications in existence,
out of some 80,000 estimated
overall apps. (Google's Android-
based phones have around 5,000;
Blackberry and Nokia phones
have around 1,000 each.)
Phone apps are extra gravy for
shows like "Gossip Girl," "Lost"
and "The Office". But what do
apps do for small TV brands?
They may get a little more
awareness, possibly a few more
advertising and/or promotional
dollars.
If you are a Food Network fan,
the network's phone app (Food
Network Nighttime) will help you
figure out what to make for
dinner, with perhaps Bobby Flay

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Submitted at 10/19/2009 7:00:48 AM The outlook for the U.S. projects only a tepid 0.7% gain. understates the decline suffered advertising - the only form of
advertising marketplace is even "More details have emerged by the industry as a whole. The advertising that has continued to
We're not out of the woods yet. worse. According to the agency's about how painful the first half of average figure does not include grow. Apart from Google, every
A c c o r d i n g t o a t l e a s t o n e most recent forecast issued this 2009 was for the media industry," the results of the US publisher and one of the top media owners
respected ad industry forecaster, morning, domestic ad spending ZenithOptimedia explains in the broadcaster Tribune Company, shrank in the first half of 2009."
Publicis' ZenithOptimedia Group, will decline 12.9% in 2009, and new report. "The world's largest which entered Chapter 11 As a result, the agency revised
the rate of global ad budget will erode another 4.4% in 2010 media owners suffered an average bankruptcy in December 2008. It its global ad expenditure growth
erosion is declining, but it is still on top of that. The U.S. ad 13.1% drop in their media does include 4.0% growth from
eroding this year, and will post market, in fact, will not rebound revenues in the first six months of Google, which has been the main MEDIADAILYNEWS: page 61
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projection to -9.9% from a more
optimistic -8.5% released in its
last outlook in July.
The internet is the only medium
we expect to grow in 2009, by
9.2%. This is slightly lower than
the 10.1% growth we forecast in
July, but we have downgraded
internet advertising by less than
the market as a whole. Most of
this growth is coming from paid
search and innovative formats. In
the US - where we have the most
detailed breakdown of internet
advertising by type - we forecast
paid search will grow by 20% in
2009, while internet video grows
19%, social media grows 45% and
mobile grows 69%. Traditional
display and classified are
practically static in comparison:
we forecast them to grow by 3%
and 2% respectively this year.
Globally, we predict internet
advertising to account for 14.9%
of all ad expenditure by 2011, up
from 10.2% in 2008.
Among the major media,
ZenithOptimedia expects only the
Internet to see any growth, and
even that has been tapered back
some from earlier, more robust
online ad spending forecasts.
"All other media are shrinking.
Most are shrinking at around the
market average rate, but
newspapers and magazines are in
steep decline," the agency reports.
"We forecast newspaper ad
expenditure to fall 17% this year,
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and magazine ad expenditure to
shrink 20%. In both cases this is a
particularly severe example of a
longer-term trend; these media
have been in decline since 2007,
and we expect them to remain in
decline for the rest of our forecast
period. By 2011 we forecast
newspaper ad expenditure to be
25% below its 2007 peak, while
magazine ad expenditure is 28%
below its own peak. Prospects for
other media are more
encouraging: we expect
television, cinema and outdoor
advertising to return to growth in
2010, followed by radio in 2011."
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himself directing you around
grocery aisles.
If you are watching a
Bloomberg TV show, its mobile
app will help you sweat over
whatever's left of your 401K.
ESPN with its ESPN ScoreCenter
will show you where the Yankees
and/or Angels have gone wrong
so far in their playoff series.
What's the downside to a phone
app? Very little, I'm guessing.
Software and technology
development costs aside, the only
hitch might be a TV app lost in an
ever-bigger ocean of apps.
You might ask: "Hmm... Does
this show I'm watching on
Icelandic lifeguard-saving dogs
have a phone app?" When I asked
one entertainment mobile
financing executive about this, the
answer came back: "Whatever
you are thinking about, there
should be an app for it."
Still, after a while, you figure
there's got to be some waste.
Some TV marketers may be
cluttering up consumers phones
with lame products and/or
attached advertiser messaging,
which could harm the integrity of
their main video product
disseminated on traditional TV
airwaves.
For canceled TV shows, phone
apps can become a nuisance of
sort. Do we still need an app for
"Harper's Island," CBS' limited
mystery murder series from the
summer? Well, it could return and
move to Manhattan Island.
Until then, can we quietly kill
(delete) some TV shows
ourselves?
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