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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Letter airs harassment claims against HP's ex-CEO
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's efforts to impress an HP event hostess included showing her his checking-account balance holding over $1 million, according to a letter detailing the sexual harassment allegations that led to his ouster.
The letter was obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press after the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that Hurd's lawyers, who had attempted to keep it confidential, didn't show that disclosing it would violate California privacy rights. The ruling said information that is only "mildly embarrassing" is not protected from public disclosure.
The letter, it added, does not contain trade secrets about the Palo Alto-based technology company or non-public financial information. Some sentences concerning Hurd's family were ordered redacted.
Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred sent the letter last year on behalf of Jodie Fisher, who was hired as a contract employee to help with HP networking events and who later accused Hurd of sexual harassment.
Although an HP investigation did not find any evidence to support the harassment claim, it uncovered inaccurate expense reports for his outings with Fisher. Hurd was ultimately forced out in August 2010. He now works as co-president at rival Oracle Corp.
Allred alleged in the letter that, while Fisher was ostensibly hired an HP event hostess in late 2007, she was really brought on to accompany Hurd to HP events held out of town. Throughout 2008 and 2009, Hurd made it clear he expected to have a sexual relationship with Fisher, using his "status and authority as CEO of HP," Allred alleged.
Allred claimed that Hurd made several sexual advances toward Fisher, which Fisher rejected. In 2008, while walking with Fisher in Madrid, Hurd stopped at an ATM and showed her his checking-account balance "to impress her," according to the letter.
After Fisher rejected him a final time in October 2009, she was not hired for any future HP events, Allred alleged.
Allred also alleged that in March 2008, Hurd told Fisher that HP was likely to purchase technology services vendor EDS. HP announced the $13 billion acquisition in May of that year.
HP shareholder Ernesto Espinoza had sued to have the letter unsealed. Hurd's attorney, Amy Wintersheimer, said his lawyers had requested that the letter be kept confidential because "it is filled with inaccuracies."
"The truth is, there never was any sexual harassment, which HP's investigation confirmed, and there never was any sexual relationship, which Ms. Fisher has confirmed," Wintersheimer said in a statement.
Both Allred and Hewlett-Packard Co. had no comment on the letter's contents.
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Ortutay reported from New York.
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Rick Perry: Abortion Okay If Woman's Life At Risk
INDIANOLA, Iowa -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has "always struggled" with his position on abortion and clarified remarks he made a day earlier to indicate he would allow abortion if a woman's life were at risk.
The Texas governor, campaigning hard in the final week ahead of Iowa's lead-off Jan. 3 caucuses, had told a pastor Tuesday that he had undergone a "transformation" on abortion rights after meeting a woman, Rebecca Kissling, who said she was conceived during a rape. She was featured in former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's anti-abortion documentary, "The Gift of Life," and Perry attended its Iowa premier.
A day later, Perry said he opposes abortion rights in cases of rape and incest, but would allow the legal procedure if the pregnancy threatened the mother's life.
"I think I've always struggled with that issue," Perry told reporters after meeting with voters in a sports bar. "After I went to see the movie a `Gift of Life' and had a conversation with Rebecca Kissling, and I really thought about this through the Christmas holidays and that's the conclusion I came to."
Asked if a mother's life was the only instance when he would allow abortion, he was concise as he boarded his bus: "That's correct."
In his push before Iowa holds its first caucuses, Perry is playing up his social conservative credentials. But his late shift on abortion drew questions about what exactly he believed on the issue many Iowans make their top priority.
A Time-CNN poll released Wednesday showed only 19 percent of those likely to caucus view cultural issues such as abortion and gay rights were unimportant to their selection of a candidate. A separate New York Times-CBS News poll earlier this month said 32 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers said they would not support and candidate who changed positions on abortion.
In Osceola on Tuesday, Perry told a voter he had changed his view.
"You're seeing a transformation," Perry said. "That transformation was after watching the DVD `Gift of Life,' and I really started giving some, some thought about the issue of rape and incest, and some powerful stories in that DVD."
He cited Kissling during that meeting at an electric co-op.
"When the lady who was in it was looking me in the eye and saying, `You need to think this through,' she said, `I am the product of a rape' and she said `my life has worth,'" Perry said. "It was a powerful moment for me."
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Rock Catholic Church in Madalla, 12 Killed
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25 December 2011
It was again a black Christmas in Madalla, Suleja local government area of Niger State as early morning bomb blasts killed twelve persons, including three policemen on the spot and left many injured.
The blast tore through St Theresa's Church in Madalla as worshippers gathered for Christmas services. The Church, located at the centre of the border settlement between the state and federal Capital, Abuja.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the bomb went off at about 7.30 am as many worshippers arrived church for the early morning mass to commemorate the Christmas.
No fewer than two hundred worshippers were gathered inside the church, which resulted in the high casualty rate. Several other persons were severely injured and rushed to various hospitals in Suleja and the F.C.T.
An emergency official told reporters that the authorities were struggling to cope with the casualties.
Spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Yushau Shuaibu told the BBC that the explosion had happened in the street outside the church. But he said the church had been badly affected by the blast, and the number of dead was likely to rise.
Earlier he told Reuters news agency: "We are presently evacuating the dead and the injured, but unfortunately we don't have enough ambulances.
"Most of our ambulances have gone to operate on the major highways of the country."
Witnesses said windows of nearby houses had been shattered by the explosion.
Officials at the local hospital said the condition of many of the injured was serious, and they were seeking help from bigger medical facilities.
No group has said it carried out the attack.
The Police Commissioner in charge of the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Maishanu said: " I can confirm that a bomb blast occurred in Madalla this morning and so far, 12 persons, including three policemen have so far died as a result of the blast and several others were injured.
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Detroit Complete Streets Coalition Makes City Streets Safer For Bikers, Pedestrians
It seems like a simple idea: Roadways should be safe for all users, whether they drive, ride public transit, bike or walk. But Detroit is the 12th-most dangerous metro area for pedestrians in the country, and the region has a long way to go.
In April 2010, Detroit received a federally-funded grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health to support efforts to pass "Complete Streets" policies, which dictate that pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street.
The Detroit Complete Streets Coalition was born, bringing together an all-star team comprising many advocacy groups, including the Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance, Department of Public Works, City Planning Commission, Detroit Department of Transportation, Detroit Police Department, Detroit Food & Fitness Collaborative, Wayne State University, City Connect Detroit, Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Transit Riders United and plenty of committed community members.
Its mission is to bring complete streets policies to life in Detroit, but its members won't be starting from scratch.
"It's the best city I've ridden a bike in," said Todd Scott, Detroit Greenways coordinator for the Michigan Trails & Greenway Alliance.
Citywide, changes are going into effect that are steadily making Detroit more accessible for walkers and cyclists. This year, the Southwest Detroit Greenway installed bike lanes and routes throughout the neighborhood.
The Southwest Detroit Greenway had been in the works for while, but had some fits and starts. The Greater Corktown Development Corp. had been supporting the project, until the group went defunct. A mix of funding from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Tour de Troit, and MDOT finally made the project a reality.
"Almost all the projects have occurred because there's a local champion who wants to see it happen," Scott explained. When complete, there will be 24 miles of new bike lanes and 11 miles of marked bike routes in the area.
Complete Streets has also been working to get an ordinance passed by the city that would affirm a commitment to pedestrian and bicycle safety. Currently, the ordinance is in the Law Department and will next be introduced to City Council for a vote.
The coalition is also working to get the Detroit Non-motorized Master Plan implemented. The document was passed by City Council and calls for 400 miles of bike lanes in the city.
Next year will see the beginning stages of a north-south greenway connecting Cass Tech High School to the Fisher Building, converting Second Ave. and Third St. into two-way streets with bike lanes.
Scott and others are working to make the city more bike-friendly in a variety of ways. Valuable online resources are making bike riding easier and safer -- Google Maps shows Detroit bike routes, and two informational Wikipedia pages, Cycling in Detroit and Trails in Detroit, are frequently updated.
Scott said there is sometimes concern that people will not take advantage of the projects Michigan Trails and Greenways has implemented, but anecdotal evidence (for example, the often crowded revamped Riverfront) and community information show how much the greenways are impacting the lives of Detroiters.
While the Motor City's automobile heritage is often celebrated, Scott reminds people not to overlook the long legacy of cycling in Detroit. Biking advocates went on to become the founders of the auto industry, from the Dodge brothers, who first made bicycles, to Henry Ford, whose first car, the Quadricycle, was made using bike parts.
And motorists have been amenable to the recent greenways changes -- Scott said that bike riders in Southwest have been surprised at how well drivers share the road and adhere to the new traffic rules for bike lanes.
And biking seems to be making a comeback. "We've seen a tremendous uptick in people out walking and biking," Scott said. "We really just want to see more and more folks choosing to walk and bike and building a healthier, more sustainable, more green community."
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
US cities struggle to control sewer overflows (AP)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. ? Twice in recent summers, visitors to parts of Michigan's western coast were greeted by mounds of garbage strewn along miles of sandy beach: plastic bottles, eating utensils, food wrappers, even hypodermic syringes.
At least some of the rubbish had drifted across Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, a vivid reminder that many cities still flush nasty stuff into streams and lakes during heavy storms, fouling the waters with bacteria and viruses that can make people seriously ill.
Thousands of overflows from sewage systems that collect storm water and wastewater are believed to occur each year. Regulators and environmentalists want them stopped, and since the late 1990s the Environmental Protection Agency or state officials have reached legal agreements with more than 40 cities or counties ? Atlanta, Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis and Indianapolis among them ? to improve wastewater systems that in some cases are a century old. Costs are reaching hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
But the price of progress is becoming too high for local governments, with the bad economy cutting into tax revenues and residents rebelling against higher water and sewer rates. Responding to pleas for leniency, the Obama administration is promising more flexibility as hard-pressed cities look for less conventional and cheaper ways to reduce overflows.
"The current economic times make the need for sensible and effective approaches even more pressing," said an October memo to EPA regional offices from Nancy Stoner, who runs the agency's water policy office, and Cynthia Giles, chief of enforcement. They said EPA staffers would work out details of the new policy.
It won't be easy, considering the costs and inflamed emotions involved.
Carol Rodwell and neighbors carted away 18 bags of garbage from a 400-foot stretch of Lake Michigan frontage near Ludington after last year's trash flotilla. She was shocked to learn that federal law lets cities discharge untreated sewage when their plants and storage facilities are flooded.
"It was maddening that they had permission to do this and we had to live with the consequences," Rodwell said.
Kevin Shafer, executive director of the Milwaukee sewage system, insisted it was only partly to blame, saying some of the rubbish probably came from trash cans or dumpsters swamped when the area got about 9 inches of rain in a single day.
Milwaukee has spent $4 billion since the 1980s improving its sewer system, Shafer said. It now has 521 million gallons of storage capacity in underground tunnels. Since the mid-1990s, less than 2 percent of the water entering the system each year has been released without treatment.
The ultimate goal is zero overflows, but officials don't expect to get there until about 2035 because it will require being able to handle the kind of flooding that previously happened rarely but is becoming more common.
"It gets a lot more expensive to get that last drop," Shafer said. "The way the economy is today, you have to balance that cost with all the other needs we have. You don't want to bankrupt a community."
One partial solution gaining popularity with cities is "green infrastructure" ? natural and man-made features that enable more water to soak into the ground instead of washing into storm drains and creeks. Stoner and Giles of EPA instructed field staff last year to incorporate green features into storm water and sewer permits as much as possible.
Examples would include requiring office buildings to cover flat roofs with plants, using permeable pavement on roads and parking lots, and increasing parkland and urban green space.
Milwaukee is encouraging residents to use rain barrels and plant "rain gardens," which have wildflowers and deep-rooted vegetation particularly suited to absorbing excess water.
Indianapolis last year renegotiated an earlier deal with EPA that cuts the city's costs by hundreds of millions through greater use of green features, Mayor Greg Ballard said.
A new ordinance in Santa Monica, Calif., orders building developers to capture the first three-quarters of an inch of rainwater in a storm and encourages meeting the requirement with green infrastructure. Cleveland has pledged to spend $42 million over eight years on green projects, said Jennifer Elting, spokeswoman for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.
An assortment of measures are required in Chicago under a deal struck with EPA this month that sets deadlines for completing a gigantic tunnel and reservoir project, which has lagged since work began nearly 40 years despite repeated sewer overflows.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has pressured EPA to give cities more time and options for limiting overflows. Testifying before Congress this month, Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle said the agency's embrace of green infrastructure was a welcome change from a heavy-handed approach that demanded big-ticket investments in conventional water treatment equipment.
"Using enforcement actions as the default option sends the message via the mass media to our citizens that mayors are not trustworthy, and that they condone water pollution," Suttle said.
The federal government should help struggling cities pay for sewer improvements but shouldn't let them off the hook for overflows, said Lyman Welch, water quality program manager with the Alliance for the Great Lakes, a Chicago-based environmental group.
"Cities have had decades to deal with this problem," Welch said. "We need firm deadlines and we need strong enforcement so it can finally be solved."
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Iran warns it might close Hormuz strait, stop oil
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's official news agency on Tuesday quoted a top official as saying Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off oil exports, if the West imposes sanctions on Iran's oil shipments.
According to the IRNA report Tuesday Vice President Mohamed Reza Rahimi said Iran does not want hostilities but charged that the West continues its plots against Iran.
The West is considering limiting Iran's oil trade over its disputed nuclear program. Some 80 percent of Iran's foreign revenue comes from oil exports.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner called the threat "bluster." He said it was "another attempt by them to distract attention from the real issue, which is their continued noncompliance with international nuclear obligations."
Rahimi has no major role in Iran's foreign or military policy.
Iran is conducting a 10-day naval maneuver in the area the of the Strait of Hormuz, where about 40 percent of the world's oil supply passes. Closing the strait would have immense world economic impact.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Ga. towns aims to fuel trucks with cooking oil mix
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta suburb of Smyrna plans to fuel some of its city trucks with a mix that includes biodiesel, which is repurposed cooking oil the city plans to collect from dozens of restaurants that fry food.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/sZWyAM) that Smyrna joins at least two other Georgia cities - Roswell and Tybee Island - in using Department of Energy federal stimulus funds to start and run biodiesel programs for their fleets.
Ann Kirk, executive director of Keep Smyrna Beautiful, said her city's program will begin in January. It was modeled on a program in Hoover, Ala.
Kirk said it will be phased in as supplemental fuel for the city's fleet, with the idea that eventually some of the city's trucks will run entirely on the repurposed cooking oil.
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4 personal finance technology trends for 2012 (AP)
NEW YORK ? If you're one of the holdouts still paying bills with checks, tracking your accounts with pen and paper or clipping coupons from the newspaper, 2012 could be the year you take the digital plunge.
A host of budding personal finance services and applications are poised to go mainstream in the new year, and together, they will likely have a big impact on the way Americans bank, shop, and track their finances. Some of the services are web-based, but many take advantage of the proliferation of smartphones, which are now carried by one-third of U.S. adults ? with more likely to join that crowd in the next few days after receiving the gadgets as holiday gifts.
Whether online or mobile, here are some personal finance technologies to watch in 2012:
? Mobile money
The September launch of Google Wallet was just one high-profile move toward the use of smartphones for payments, replacing credit or debit cards. The technology allows users to wave their phones in front of payment terminals and have transactions deducted from linked bank accounts or credit cards. Expect more options for electronic payments from mobile service providers and card networks next year, and wider adoption of the terminals by retailers, mass transit systems and more.
Another innovation that is already being heavily promoted is person-to-person payments. American Express Co., MasterCard Inc., Visa Inc. and PayPal all offer ways for their customers to send and receive money using links to various accounts and cards. As the TV commercials depict, if this technology takes off there will be no more fumbling for cash when it's time to split the check at a restaurant, and sending money across town or across borders will be easier, faster and less expensive.
? Non-bank money management
Mint.com, the popular personal finance site, was only the beginning. A raft of new money management tools are now available that can help users keep track of bills, investments and other aspects of their financial lives.
Among the standouts is Manilla.com, which not only pulls together household bills and financial accounts, but also helps users keep track of details like travel rewards points and magazine subscriptions. The service provides reminders for when bills are due and has features that make it easy to pay bills or set up auto payments. Since the company's goal is to help its customers eliminate paper clutter, there's even a way to store electronic account statements. And it has a smartphone app for accessing all these functions on the go.
Other non-bank options include Pageonce, an app that automatically tracks bills and enables users to make payments on their phone; savvymoney.com, a site that offers debt-management help; and Betterment.com, a site designed to simplify investing.
? Targeted deals
The combination of geo-location technology that can track your movements when you're carrying your smartphone, and QR codes, those weird squares appearing more and more often in advertising, is enabling companies to offer personalized discounts and on-the-spot deals to customers willing to opt into their programs.
Mall shoppers have already started getting texts and emails designed to lure them into certain stores, and the technology can also be used to encourage customers to enter contests, demonstrate new apps or products and even contact customer service.
? Social commerce
Javelin Strategy & Research, a financial services research firm, is using this term to identify the trend toward the combination of commerce and social networking on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
While these sites are moving toward making it easier to shop without navigating toward a link, that's just one step toward social commerce.
The concept of financial social networking is also being expanded by companies like Weemba.com, whose site allows individuals to search for a loan by posting nontraditional details like a description of the need for the money ? debt consolidation, a mortgage refinance, or a kitchen makeover complete with the designer's plans, for instance. The details posted add depth to the usual credit score and financial information that banks and other funders may review, and the site opens the lending request to a wider audience.
Other examples of the use or concept of social networking include Kickstarter.com, where creative types can seek funding for their artistic endeavors and those willing to provide seed money can choose to provide all or part of the needed funds to get the project off the ground.
Saveup.com is a game aimed at helping individuals pay down debt and build savings, and Bundle.com uses data tracking and spending information to produce lists of popular restaurants and stores in selected cities, helping users find the right spot at the right price.
Banks are also experimenting with ways to make use of social networking to interact with customers, with some success. Even Bank of America Corp., a recurring target for gripes large and small about the financial system this year, has nearly 365,000 "likes" on its official Facebook page, which it uses for efforts like supporting community causes and advertising opportunities like its Student Leader program, which offers paid internships to high schoolers who work at charitable organizations.
Customers can expect more on these fronts from startups and big financial institutions in the next 12 months.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Report: AFP photographer released in Turkey (AP)
ANKARA, Turkey ? Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have released an AFP photographer, along with 12 other people who were detained as part of an investigation into a group prosecutors accuse of having links to Kurdish rebels.
Anadolu Agency said however, that a court early on Saturday ordered 35 other suspects formally arrested pending trial over their alleged involvement in the Union of Kurdistan Communities ? which authorities say is an offshoot of the PKK rebel group.
AFP photographer Mustafa Ozer was among 48 suspects, including a number of other journalists, detained in police raids in seven cities on Dec. 20, sparking increased concerns over media freedoms in Turkey.
Hundreds of Kurdish activists have been charged as part of the investigation since 2009.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
iOS 5, Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: Which is the Best OS?
It is a tough ask to compare two very different but established mobile operating systems - Apple's iOS 5 and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) - with the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
iOS, the first mobile operating system, was launched on Oct. 12, 2000.?It was then known as the iPhone OS, named as it was after Apple's flagship smartphone series. A year later, the Android OS made its debut, with the launch of HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1). Windows was a later entrant to the sphere.
In any case, it appears the stage is now set for a battle among these three. Google's Android has been given more firepower with the acquisition of Motorola handsets. Microsoft finds solace in a promising collaboration with Nokia and Apple.
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Each of these platforms has its own strength and weaknesses, which are discussed below:
iOS 5 vs WP7 Mango vs Android 4.0
- When it comes to apps, the iOS rules the market with a massive archive of more than?500,000 apps, including custom-built games, software and media and music. It is closely followed by Google's Android Market, with more than 250,000 apps, while Windows Mango has the weakest app support with just about 30,000 apps.
- The iOS 5 comes preloaded with an inbuilt music player (iTunes), a custom browser (Safari) and a stock productivity suite (iWork). While, the Android 4.0 lacks a pre-loaded music player, it does include a custom browser, Google Chrome, and a stock productivity suite - Google Docs. Windows Mango, on the other hand, offers Zune - a music player, a custom browser - IE9 and a stock productivity suite - Office Mobile.
- Apple's iOS 5 added Twitter integration to its software but does not support Flash. On the other hand, both Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Mango support Flash alongside Twitter.
- Android misses out on Wi-Fi Sync support, something that both the iOS 5 and Windows Mango have native support for.
- Fortunately for hard-core gamers, all three platforms support hardware acceleration.
- The iOS 5 has carrier support limited only to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. Meanwhile, both Windows Mango and the Android upgrade extend support to all major U.S. carriers.
- The iOS 5 incorporates "Pseudo-multitasking" wherein only one application window is active at a time; the others run in the background. On the other hand, both Windows Mango and Ice Cream Sandwich enjoy the privilege of real-time multitasking capability.
- Finally, iOS 5 and Windows Mango include robust integrated security features and hence no third-party security is necessary. But their Android counterpart is vulnerable to security exploits and malware attack, and third-party security is a must.
- Apple's software is limited to icon-centric home screens, whereas both Windows Mango and Ice Cream Sandwich extend support to widgets besides icons.
- Both the iOS 5 and the Android 4.0 include platform support for tablets, while Windows Mango misses out on this key feature.
- The iOS 5 supports limited customization options after jailbreaking the device. Windows Mango offers barely any such support. On the other hand, the Android counterpart supports a much richer range of possibilities.
- Over-the-air updates and screenshot functions are limited to the iOS 5 and Android 4.0, while Windows Mango loses out.
- In addition, both the iOS 5 and Google's Android support their native e-book stores, namely iBooks and GoogleBooks; Windows Mango misses out on this.
- iOS 5 supports a wireless Cloud Backup with up to 5GB free storage. The other two platforms just don't qualify.
Apple's iOS 5 has been designed and revamped to offer maximum feature support for users while keeping?customization to a minimum, although this is expected to come at the expense of reliability and performance.
Google's Android upgrade aims at delivering superior performance, complete customization capabilities and regular updates to users' feature requirements.
The decision of choosing one over the other - revolving as it does around questions of balance between features, usability and performance - is that of the final user.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/271884/20111223/ios-5-ice-cream-sandwich-windows-phone.htm
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Column: Buckeyes just have all the luck (AP)
What are the chances Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith was laughing out loud when he composed his response to the additional sanctions heaped on his school by the NCAA?
"We are surprised and disappointed by the NCAA's decision," his statement read. "However, we have decided not to appeal the decision because we need to move forward as an institution."
Based on the kid-gloves treatment afforded the Buckeyes, that shouldn't be a problem. Ohio State had already offered to vacate the 2010 season, return bowl money, go on two years of NCAA probation and use five fewer football scholarships over the next three years. On Tuesday, the NCAA tacked on a year of probation, took away four additional scholarships and imposed a one-year bowl ban. Even combined, those penalties are roughly half as severe as those the NCAA dropped on Southern California in June 2010.
A comparison of the cases is instructive. At USC, Heisman trophy-winning running back Reggie Bush and basketball star O.J. Mayo were found to have pocketed thousands of dollars in improper benefits from agents. The bigger sin, though, appears to have been the Trojans' decision to be less than cooperative when NCAA investigators began snooping around the program and downright defiant when the enforcement people issued veiled threats. As a result, the NCAA leveled the dreaded "lack of institutional control" against USC, banned the Trojans from postseason play for two years and docked them 30 scholarships for the next three.
In Ohio State's case, five players swapped jerseys, rings and assorted memorabilia for thousands in cash and tattoos, former coach Jim Tressel learned of the exchanges in April 2010, and not only kept the news to himself, but lied about it to his superiors or the NCAA on four separate occasions. There is no better example of lack of institutional control than what Ohio State's clueless president, Gordon Gee, said in the middle of the unfolding scandal, when he and Smith tried to staunch the damage last March by suspending Tressel for two meaningless games and fining him $250,000: "I'm just hopeful the coach doesn't dismiss me."
But it got better. Barely 10 days later, Tressel's suspension was extended to five games and by the end of May, he was forced out. In July, Ohio State half-heartedly punished itself and in August appeared before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. Then we learned that months after the original scandal made headlines, nine players got paid by a longtime booster for showing up at charity events and cozy summer jobs. By November, the NCAA upgraded the notice of allegations to include "failure to monitor" and Ohio State offered to cut five scholarships.
But it got even better. For reasons that have yet to be explained, the NCAA's enforcement staff stopped short of lack of institutional control charges, meaning the infractions committee can't whack Ohio State the way it did Southern Cal. In the end, the school's athletic department gave Tressel a hefty severance deal and nearly all of the blame and that was good enough for the NCAA. It slapped the once-beloved coach with a five-year "show-cause" order that likely means he'll never coach in college again. Tressel has been reduced to a job as a game-day consultant with the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.
And if the Buckeyes escaping the punishment they deserve because of a technicality sounds familiar, it should. The five players originally suspended last December after the tattoo-parlor portion of the story broke were allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl thanks to an NCAA ruling so favorable that it should have made everyone involved blush redder than one of Tressel's sweater vests. Together, Ohio State and the NCAA dusted off an obscure interpretation of the rules that allowed postponement of a suspension ? in the case of the so-called "Tat 5" it was supposed to be five games ? to preserve a "unique opportunity." Then, conveniently, they decided the Sugar Bowl presented just such an opportunity.
Maybe some schools just have all the luck. Or maybe by cooperating, even as incompetent as Ohio State has been from the beginning of the investigation to the bitter end, the Buckeyes bought themselves enough good will to avoid the scorched-earth treatment USC got. Whichever it is, based on the lack of guts the NCAA showed in this case, it might be the one outfit in America that would finish behind Congress in a popularity poll ? especially if the survey was conducted in the Los Angeles area.
In the coming months, North Carolina and Miami will face the infractions committee for scandals that are every bit as juicy. When committee member Greg Sankey was asked whether the additional penalties the NCAA levied against Ohio State meant things would be tougher for future violators, he replied, "I would not suggest this is necessarily a new day, but these penalties are significant."
Right. And North Carolina and Miami would sign on the dotted line for the same deal in a heartbeat. Ohio State, after all, is hoping to start recovering from its disappointment with a trip to the Gator Bowl, despite a 6-6 record.
"I'm disappointed on the one hand," Gee said when reporters caught up with him at halftime of a basketball game Tuesday night. "But on the other hand I'm very relieved because I feel closure. I think we can now move forward.
"I have been one of the most outspoken advocates for reform in the NCAA," he added a moment later. "My hope is that what the NCAA is signaling is a higher bar and a higher standard."
Easy for Gee to say ? right after he and his school slithered underneath it.
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Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org. Follow him at Twitter.com/JimLitke
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
RIM: Next-generation phones not out till late 2012 (AP)
TORONTO ? BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Thursday that new phones deemed critical to the company's future will be delayed until late 2012.
Mike Lazaridis, one of the company's co-CEOs, said the BlackBerry 10 phones will need a highly integrated chipset that will not be available until mid-2012, so the company can now expect them to ship late in the year. He disclosed the delay on a conference call with analysts.
Analysts say RIM's future depends on the new software platform. RIM needs to come up with a compelling BlackBerry as U.S. users have moved on to flashier touch-screen phones such as Apple's iPhone and various competing models that run Google's Android software.
Earlier Thursday, RIM said BlackBerry sales will fall sharply in the holiday quarter, providing further evidence that it is struggling to compete. It also has been having a hard time finding a niche in the tablet-computer market, which is dominated by Apple's iPad.
RIM continues to enjoy success overseas, but market researcher NPD Group says RIM's market share of smartphones in the U.S. has declined from 44 percent in 2009 to 10 percent this year.
The company's stock fell nearly 8 percent Thursday.
The delay in BlackBerry 10 phones is the latest in a series of setbacks for the once-iconic Canadian company. Its PlayBook tablet computer hasn't been selling well, forcing the company to sell them at a deep discount. A widespread outage frustrated tens of millions of BlackBerry users in October. RIM fired two executives after their drunken rowdiness forced the diversion of an Air Canada flight. The head of its operations in Indonesia faces charges related to a stampede at a recent promotional sale where dozens of consumers were injured.
RIM said its net income sank 71 percent as revenue fell and the company took a large accounting charge on the PlayBook.
RIM earned $265 million, or 51 cents per share, for the quarter that ended Nov. 26. This compares with $911 million, or $1.74 per share, a year ago. The company said revenue fell 6 percent to $5.2 billion. The PlayBook charge was $485 million before taxes.
The company shipped 14.1 million BlackBerry smartphones during the third quarter and 150,000 PlayBook tablets, but its guidance received particular attention because it had warned about the third-quarter results earlier. Although RIM has said it would sell fewer BlackBerrys in the current quarter, the forecast given Thursday appeared worse than expected.
RIM said it would only ship between 11 million and 12 million BlackBerrys in the fourth quarter and said earnings would be in the range of 80 to 95 cents per share.
Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. in New York, said earlier that if RIM reveals that it will ship no more than 12 million BlackBerrys in the current quarter, then the company needs to get its new phones out fast. Otherwise, RIM could lose money in future quarters as it continues to struggle to sell the current, stopgap models.
On Thursday, BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said the guidance was terrible.
Jim Balsillie, the other co-CEO, said the last few quarters have been among the most challenging times in the company's most recent history. He said executives are working to turn it around, but said it may take time.
"We are not satisfied with the performance of the business in the United States," Balsillie said.
Balsillie said he and Lazaridis have reduced their cash salary to $1 per year, though they will continue to earn stock options and other compensation.
RIM's stock fell $1.20 to $13.93 in extended trading Thursday after the results were released.
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Video: After Kuwait, next stop for troops is home
>>> the war in iraq is officially over, but there are still u.s. troops in the country preparing to make the long journey home. it begins with a layover in the place where it all began for our troops nine years ago. and our chief foreign correspondent richard engle is there.
>> reporter: a last roll call before going home .
>> it's definitely a great thing. i can't wait to go home.
>> seeing my wife again. spend some time with the family.
>> reporter: the u.s. military command closed in baghdad, but troops are still leaving iraq, crossing the border and coming here to kuwait . kuwait is iraq's official out processing center, where the war is packed up and shipped home.
>> we're all looking forward to getting home. but six months, a year from now, everybody's going look back on it, wow, we were the last people there.
>> reporter: the iraq war was launched from here in kuwait nearly nine years ago. now everything seems in reverse. the troops are leaving from where they once prepared to fight a dictator. the war is ending where it began. tanks are being washed instead of prepped for battle. kuwait 's now being described as the world's biggest parking lot. it's packed with $8 billion worth of vehicles.
>> it's coming all here, it's getting put on the property book and making sure we can account for all the equipment.
>> reporter: for the troops, the procedures are relatively simple but can seem slow and boring. most of the troops spend about five days in kuwait , turning in gear, filling out paperwork, packing and loading. until finally a preflight inspection x-raying weapons in a scene that might terrify the tsa. then as they pass a sign that reads "freedom" the troops move to a holding pen called lockdown. with home so close, kuwait can feel like the worst five-day layover. they play cards and games, but the flights do eventually come.
>> happy to go home.
>> reporter: and after a war that tested and at times tore the nation, the army is going home . richard engle, nbc news, kuwait .
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45708943/
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Tired Jaguars limp home with tough loss (AP)
ATLANTA ? As badly as Atlanta's John Abraham dominated Jacksonville's offense, rookie quarterback Blaine Gabbert blamed himself.
Abraham, a four-time Pro Bowl defensive end, sacked Gabbert 3 1/2 times and forced two fumbles, one of which led to directly to a touchdown by Atlanta nose tackle Corey Peters, in the Falcons' 41-14 win over the Jaguars on Thursday night.
"I've just got to get rid of the ball," Gabbert said. "I can't take those sacks and those fumbles. That's completely on me. I've got to find our checkdowns, find our hot reads and get rid of it."
For Gabbert, the NFL's No. 10 overall draft pick, the night couldn't have gone much worse for his team.
The Jaguars (4-10) trailed 27-0 at halftime and 41-0 midway through the third quarter, but they were still within two scores when Jarett Dillard fumbled away a punt return deep in Jacksonville territory early in the second quarter.
Yet after Atlanta's Sean Weatherspoon recovered the loose ball at the Jaguars' 5-yard line and Michael Turner ran for a touchdown on the next play, Dillard had to recheck his self-confidence.
"It's an easy call," Dillard said. "I should've fair caught it. I thought I had more room than I did. I was just trying to make a play when there was no play to be made. Just fair catch it, and let's go with the offense, but it's something I've learned from and I've just got to move forward."
Unfortunately, Jacksonville kept going backward. The offense followed with a pair of three-and-outs before Gabbert lost his first fumble on Abraham's second sack and Curtis Lofton recovered the ball for Atlanta at the Jags' 19.
Three plays later, Matt Bryant's 31-yard field goal gave the Falcons a 27-0 lead.
"Any time you go on the road against a good football and turn the ball over and you're not able to protect the quarterback consistently enough and the defense isn't able to stop the run like we need to and get off the field on third down, it's going to be a tough day," interim coach Mel Tucker said. "But give them credit. They've got some really good players on both sides of the ball."
Frustration began to boil over as the deficit mounted. Tucker had to calm down Nate Collins when the second-year defensive tackle was called for unnecessary roughness after Atlanta's Julio Jones caught a 9-yard pass in the third quarter.
"I told them to be disciplined," Tucker said. "After the whistle, that is something that we won't stand for. We confronted that immediately and we need to correct that and get better."
Jacksonville had few answers when Atlanta (9-5) paired quarterback Matt Ryan with Roddy White and Jones, the receiving tandem that combined for 15 catches, 220 yards receiving and three touchdowns.
"They did a great job of checking at the line," cornerback Drew Coleman said. "He them into some good plays. My hat's off to them. They came in and they just punched us in the mouth tonight. They just kind of beat us up. It's been tough. It's been like this the whole season, but we'll take tomorrow and get this behind us. We've just got to stay positive with this whole thing."
Running back Maurice Jones-Drew was one of the Jaguars' few bright spots, rushing 17 times for 112 yards, but there wasn't much else to like.
Until their final two possessions, the Jags had minus-29 net yards passing. They had the ball 17 minutes fewer than the Falcons, who have won four of five. Jacksonville, which began the game with a long injury list and then lost right tackle Gus Whimper to a swollen knee, has lost four of five.
New owner Shahid Khan, who bought the franchise for an estimated $760 million, watched as his exhausted team slogged through its third game in 11 days.
It didn't take long to see that the Jags were hurting. Falcons running back Michael Turner broke off a 15-yard run on Atlanta's first play from scrimmage. On Jacksonville's first snap, Abraham sacked Gabbert, who completed 12 of 22 passes for 112 yards, one TD and one interception, for a 10-yard loss.
"Right now, this is a very embarrassing loss," Jones-Drew said. "I think our lack of execution hurt over and over again. We felt that our game plan was solid enough, but we just didn't execute enough."
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Jewish settlers set fire to mosque, defy Netanyahu (Reuters)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) ? People thought to be Jewish settlers set fire to a Palestinian mosque, damaging its interior, in the West Bank on Thursday after Israeli forces tore down structures in a settler outpost built without government approval.
The vandalism appeared to be the latest act of defiance by militant settlers whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to rein in after similar attacks on mosques and vandalism at an Israeli military base.
Although Israel continues to expand larger official settlements in occupied territory that Palestinians seek for a state, it has been evacuating smaller, unauthorized outposts, in line with court orders to move against them.
Most countries regard as illegal all settlements Israel has constructed on land captured in a 1967 war. Israel cites historical and biblical links to the West Bank, which it refers to as Judea and Samaria.
In the village of Burqa, near Ramallah, the interior of the local mosque was doused with petrol and set alight. Its carpet, walls, chairs and electrical wiring were damaged.
"Thankfully, the torching occurred shortly before dawn prayers, and the villagers who arrived at the mosque put out the fire," said Mahmoud al-Habash, the Palestinian minister of religious affairs.
The mosque was defaced with Hebrew graffiti that said "war" and "Mitzpe Yitzhar," the name of the outpost where the demolitions had taken place hours earlier.
On Wednesday, radical Jews burnt the exterior of an unused Jerusalem mosque and scrawled "Death to the Arabs" on its walls.
A day earlier, young Jewish settlers rampaged through an army base in the occupied West Bank. The attack sent shock waves through Israel, where many revere the conscript military.
"HATE CRIMES"
Israeli leaders have condemned the settler attacks, saying they attracted hostility in an already volatile Middle East.
"We will not let them ignite a war of bloodshed, a religious war, with our neighbors," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Tel Aviv convention of his right-wing Likud party.
"We won't let them harm either Jews or Arabs," he said.
The Palestinian Authority described the mosque burnings as "hate crimes" and in a statement called on foreign powers to hold the Israeli government responsible for settler violence.
Attempts to demolish unauthorized outposts have been resisted by radicals who scuffle with troops or carry out night-time sabotage to inflict what they call the "price tag" for "selling out" the settlements.
After consulting with security chiefs, Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would take the rare step of ordering so-called administrative arrests -- detention without trial -- of Israelis suspected of vigilante attacks.
The measure, widely seen as having been sparked mainly by the attack on the army base, has been more commonly used against Palestinians suspected of involvement with militant groups.
Israel has long been accused of failing to arrest or investigate settlers for acts of violence against Palestinians.
Israeli police said they had entered Burqa to investigate the arson attack on the mosque.
(Additional reporting by Dan Williams; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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