tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91829959416176462082024-03-13T14:18:02.874-07:00Newspaper ThemesAnother Blogger Newspaper Themes.My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-40468332342211700142011-10-24T16:03:00.000-07:002011-10-24T16:03:13.879-07:00Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Credits for websites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBdB_gTwSKZlkhUjzpg0fEVC4e2xctn_UaNvTh4Cxruao58qmya5_NJ5AdY6wxtYIf2l22WBbXDQaVERsbvruov5FuGkj1w9QnFRy6HvbpNfweHZe_iMSL4YGLxQ-lcw1upHE0azFI45A/s1600/Facebook+Credits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBdB_gTwSKZlkhUjzpg0fEVC4e2xctn_UaNvTh4Cxruao58qmya5_NJ5AdY6wxtYIf2l22WBbXDQaVERsbvruov5FuGkj1w9QnFRy6HvbpNfweHZe_iMSL4YGLxQ-lcw1upHE0azFI45A/s320/Facebook+Credits.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Facebook has started working with a few developers to test the ability of using Facebook Credits on other websites. Palo Alto says the goal of Facebook Credits for websites is to let developers offer a more unified app experience beyond Facebook apps. <br />
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Facebook is not yet sure if it will expand the test more broadly. If demand for the virtual currency is high and the user experience is deemed solid, the company could one day allow all websites to process payments for virtual goods using Facebook Credits. <br />
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There is just one early example of the new system: GameHouse’s Collapse! Blast. If you are a developer interested in Facebook Credits for websites, you can sign up at the Facebook Credits Developer Support Form by choosing the fifth category from the list. <br />
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“At this time, we are focused on gathering early developer feedback,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “We will keep you posted as our tests continue.” <br />
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In related news, Facebook has added new payment methods for Facebook Credits. Some of the recent additions include: Axeso5 (Brazil), Join Card (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand), Malaysia OBT (Malaysia), MEPS FPX (Malaysia), MEPSCASH (Malaysia), PayEasy (Philippines), PaysBuy (Thailand), SafetyPay (Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Spain, Austria, Brazil), and WebCash (Malaysia). The social networking giant now supports over 80 payment methods in more than 50 countries around the world. <br />
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Facebook Credits launched as an alpha in May 2009. The beta stage started in February 2010 and ended with a final version in January 2011. As of July 2011, all Facebook game developers are required to only process payments through Facebook Credits. It is not (yet?) a mandatory payment option for Facebook apps. Earlier this month, Facebook Credits became available as a payment option to mobile app developers. <br />
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Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of all revenue earned through Facebook Credits, leaving developers with the remaining 70 percent. It’s not clear how much revenue the company makes from the virtual currency, but it appears to be a growing percentage of its overall revenue. It could be massive if Facebook Credits for websites takes off.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-begins-testing-facebook-credits-for-websites/4815"><b>ZDnet.com </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-85230200752329531682011-10-24T15:58:00.000-07:002011-10-24T15:58:24.102-07:00LinkedIn Wants to Make More Money From Job Recruiters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGV7G9KNmzTeRe5KaNj1K0ONy8YvkxFVgLkbZM4rvJAbSgN4VK_naJQMlgxe4d_ednG4yb1GmRQCk9wn_wajN9K_lH1ncHxrCwKHJ0V6bExxkpz47hgwNrp1nRsSm1NTt5EePoNXJC2qk/s1600/Linkedin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGV7G9KNmzTeRe5KaNj1K0ONy8YvkxFVgLkbZM4rvJAbSgN4VK_naJQMlgxe4d_ednG4yb1GmRQCk9wn_wajN9K_lH1ncHxrCwKHJ0V6bExxkpz47hgwNrp1nRsSm1NTt5EePoNXJC2qk/s320/Linkedin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>LinkedIn, the social network for businesspeople, is adding on to its biggest business: matching jobs to job seekers.<br />
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The company is announcing an addition to its hiring solutions business called Talent Pipeline at a conference for 1,500 job recruiters and personnel executives in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Pipeline is an effort to centralize the way recruiters find, track and stay in touch with potential hires and promotions. The product is intended to be used with candidates internally and outside the company. Employees, the company says, can more easily find out about job openings for themselves or candidates they know.<br />
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The company considers the recruiting industry as a fragmented global market worth $85 billion.<br />
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Not surprisingly, the Talent Pipeline also enables recruiters to connect the names on a résumé to their LinkedIn profiles. The idea is to enable them to build a bigger internal database with more information in it, including notes on a candidate that the hiring managers can share with each other, thus making LinkedIn more important to them.<br />
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“Most of the people you want to hire are in jobs where they are already happy – that’s why there are headhunters calling people up,” said Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn’s chief executive. But independent recruiters, with their personal networks and spreadsheets of candidates, tend to be specialized and incapable of looking globally for a lot of jobs, he said. “They don’t scale. We find when you unleash a search capability at scale you start looking through more variables, like geography, languages spoken, related fields and work history.”<br />
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The Pipeline will be introduced next year as part of the current service, called the Recruiter platform. It will also be available separately, though LinkedIn has not yet set a price for the service.<br />
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Building on hiring solutions is a big deal for LinkedIn. In the quarter that ended last June, the company made $58.6 million from Hiring Solutions, up 170 percent from a year earlier. That was 48 percent of the company’s total revenue, and its fastest-growing segment. LinkedIn’s second-biggest business is advertising, and it brought in $38.6 million. LinkedIn is a free service, but people pay premiums for things like access to anyone’s professional information; these premium subscriptions brought in $23.9 million.<br />
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Besides offering another reason to use the recruiting software, the company is looking to increase the time people spend interacting with its products, hoping it will also be used to structure how people work as well as how they get hired.<br />
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Some 6,000 companies use Hiring Solutions. LinkedIn is sharing parts of its database with partners like Success Factors, which makes software for planning and carrying out complex tasks, to build more uses for the talent data.<br />
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“We look at LinkedIn as an ecosystem or a platform,” Mr. Weiner said. “It’s not just about finding a job, it’s about helping people be great at the job they are in – they want to provide intelligence, participate in professional groups and share knowledge, share their expertise.”<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/linkedin-wants-to-make-more-money-from-job-recruiters/"><b>NY Times </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-4285558774349372482011-10-24T15:54:00.000-07:002011-10-24T15:54:36.131-07:00Twitter Founder Pushes Square’s Payment Device Into Wal-Mart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxC_wMwYAAZ46M19wi94TQTWL9IvBVP6nxnazKahlYun0xmXdJUqm6emxV2-KLvPt39sTKhDDbqxPT6e87ogk9PvjATBMdT2nbuuJ6H8Fw6sAoI58zdVwbFoEQNzAGLAhvulY_qgJ9rU/s1600/Twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxC_wMwYAAZ46M19wi94TQTWL9IvBVP6nxnazKahlYun0xmXdJUqm6emxV2-KLvPt39sTKhDDbqxPT6e87ogk9PvjATBMdT2nbuuJ6H8Fw6sAoI58zdVwbFoEQNzAGLAhvulY_qgJ9rU/s1600/Twitter.jpg" /></a></div>Square Inc., the mobile payments company created by Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey, said its credit-card reader for smartphones will be available in Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s locations nationwide, boosting the number of retail outlets where it is sold to more than 9,000. <br />
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The reader, which lets businesses handle payments via mobile devices, was previously available in about 200 Apple stores, as well as Target Corp., RadioShack Corp. and Best Buy Co. outlets. <br />
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Square is targeting small businesses that may not be able to afford machinery that handles credit cards, Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois said in an interview. The company is vying with EBay Inc.’s PayPal as well as providers of so-called near field communications to help consumers pay for things on the go. At stake is a mobile commerce market that Juniper Research predicts will surge to $670 billion in 2015. <br />
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“Payments have a lot of friction, a lot of distraction,” Rabois said. “We can’t eliminate all of that this month, but our mission is to make Square ubiquitous.” <br />
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Square’s technology lets U.S. businesses handle payments via Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad, as well as devices running on Google Inc.’s Android software. The card reader plugs into the headphone jack of the mobile device and lets merchants swipe customers’ credit and debit cards. <br />
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The device can be ordered free on the Web. The reader is sold at stores for $9.99, a cost that can be refunded online. Square makes its money from each transaction, with merchants paying 2.75 percent of the amount paid. <br />
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Square publicly launched last October and has about $140 million in funding, according to regulatory filings. <br />
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Square vs. NFC <br />
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The company is betting that consumers will choose its system over near field communications, which lets phones function like credit and debit cards by waving them in front of a reader. The process requires customers to take out a phone and place it near a reader, much like they already do with a credit card, Rabois said. <br />
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“We don’t currently believe that NFC as a payment technology is likely to improve either the merchant’s experience or the buyer’s experience,” he said. <br />
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More than 800,000 of Square’s devices have been shipped to merchants. The company says it is processing more than $2 billion in payments on an annual basis. PayPal expects more than $3.5 billion in mobile volume this year and processed $29.3 billion total in payments in the third quarter, according to a statement by the San Jose-based company last week.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-24/twitter-founder-pushes-square-s-payment-device-into-wal-mart.html"><b>Businessweek </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-40778998977467718212011-10-24T15:52:00.000-07:002011-10-24T15:52:06.839-07:00Facebook Creating Shadow Profiles of non-Users<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeieqqPjRtWXOxta5-RcByaj8MSQtLs-_vzXZmJN0FPEzwbAB5QfCYuLw9GrkE8PnPJtFCH1ETbePSd0UtEntyaM-uf6oiw1okDvK5vmHMe9PmuhwSFJZirlfRnKlsajYGBiFWUa-b0rk/s1600/Facebook+India.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeieqqPjRtWXOxta5-RcByaj8MSQtLs-_vzXZmJN0FPEzwbAB5QfCYuLw9GrkE8PnPJtFCH1ETbePSd0UtEntyaM-uf6oiw1okDvK5vmHMe9PmuhwSFJZirlfRnKlsajYGBiFWUa-b0rk/s1600/Facebook+India.jpg" /></a></div>Facebook is gradually building " shadow profiles" of non-users of the social networking site, a privacy watchdog has claimed. <br />
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Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) claims that users are encouraged to give out non-user's personal details, like names, phone numbers and email addresses, which Facebook uses to create "shadow profiles" of those people. <br />
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Ciara O'Sullivan, a IDPC spokeswoman told 'FoxNews.com' that its audit of Facebook Ireland's privacy policies was part of a "statutory investigation" that the office anticipates will lead to immediate changes. <br />
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"The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner will be commencing a comprehensive audit of Facebook <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ireland">Ireland</a> before the end of the month," O'Sullivan said. <br />
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However, Facebook, with 800 million users, has refuted allegations that it is tracking information of non-account holders too. "The allegations are false," Facebook's spokesman Andrew Noyes was quoted as saying. <br />
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He added: "We enable you to send emails to your friends, inviting them to join Facebook. We keep the invitee's email address and name to let you know when they join the service. <br />
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"This practice is common among almost all services that involve invitations, from document sharing to event planning. The assertion that Facebook is doing some sort of nefarious profiling is simply wrong." <br />
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The social network also said information from users it not used to target advertisements and information is not sold to other people.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Facebook-creating-shadow-profiles-of-non-users/articleshow/10477623.cms"><b> Times of India</b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-2959213242449373692011-10-23T11:04:00.000-07:002011-10-23T11:04:49.101-07:00Successes Overseas Are Unlikely to Help Obama at Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTDXt84gHJvZxdzHGGdADg2o18gilVeAjWDOPIJRfpbU7GVDYzdiwcOCdFwzbdf-H-nP8MhfHh-VHXdi-r79RpGP6Pbt_D9qMJZr19qk2KJcpBvGK6fnLadWAn_WM_-hE36Z-1080V1c/s1600/Barack+Obama+USA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTDXt84gHJvZxdzHGGdADg2o18gilVeAjWDOPIJRfpbU7GVDYzdiwcOCdFwzbdf-H-nP8MhfHh-VHXdi-r79RpGP6Pbt_D9qMJZr19qk2KJcpBvGK6fnLadWAn_WM_-hE36Z-1080V1c/s320/Barack+Obama+USA.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>President Obama’s announcement that the last American soldiers will leave Iraq by the end of this year capped a momentous week in which he could also take credit for helping dispatch one of the world’s great villains, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.<br />
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Conventional wisdom holds that none of this will matter to Mr. Obama’s frayed political fortunes, which will be determined by the economy rather than the notches he is piling up on his statesman’s belt. <br />
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Yet Mr. Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq — a campaign pledge kept — and the successful NATO air campaign in Libya — with no American casualties, and at a tiny fraction of the cost of Iraq — allowed him to thread a political needle: reaffirming his credentials as a wartime leader while reassuring his Democratic base that he is making good on the promises that got him elected. <br />
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This one-two punch may also strengthen the president’s hand against his eventual Republican opponent, according to Mr. Obama’s supporters, by depriving Republicans of a cudgel typically used on Democratic presidents, that they are weak on national security. The swift and fierce criticism of his Iraq decision by the Republican candidates shows how reluctant they are to cede this advantage to him. <br />
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“There is an aggregate effect to all the president’s foreign policy successes,” said Bill Burton, a former White House aide who is a senior strategist at Priorities USA Action, a political action committee backing the Obama campaign. “The notion of who is a stronger leader will be deeply influenced by the promises the president kept.” <br />
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Mr. Burton said he could foresee television advertisements playing up Mr. Obama’s foreign successes, including the deaths of both Osama bin Laden and Colonel Qaddafi, though he did not say whether his group had made such plans. On Saturday, Mr. Burton circulated a memo to producers of the Sunday talk shows drawing a contrast between the cost of the Iraq war and the lower-cost Libya operation. <br />
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Still, there is little doubt the election will be dominated by the economy and the weak job market, where the president is dealing with a steady drip of bad news and scant hope of improvement before Election Day. <br />
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A discussion of foreign policy has been largely absent from the debates among the Republican presidential contenders, a striking fact given that the nation is enmeshed in three major military conflicts and that Republicans have historically claimed an edge in national security. <br />
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“Foreign affairs is important, but when placed against the scale of the problem with jobs and the economy, it’s dwarfed,” said David Winston, a Republican strategist. “It’s the equivalent of a house on fire: he’s fixing the window while the rest of the house is burning down.” <br />
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Karl Rove, a former strategist to President Bush, said, “To the degree Obama tries to suggest he should be re-elected because of foreign policy strength, he looks like he’s dodging the main issue.” <br />
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Mr. Obama’s poll numbers also show he is getting little credit for his successes. His approval rating shot up 11 points, to 57 percent, in a New York Times/CBS News survey after he ordered the commando raid in Pakistan that killed Bin Laden in May, but fell back below 50 percent a month later as fears about the economy punctured the euphoria. <br />
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Last week’s successes could fade too — if sectarian violence in Iraq flares up after the American troops leave, if Libya becomes another Somalia or if a terrorist group manages to stage an attack on American soil. <br />
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“If things go off track in the next year or two, it’s not going to matter what the military successes were,” said David Rothkopf, a foreign policy expert who has written a history of the National Security Council. <br />
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Even as former Bush administration officials praised Mr. Obama for the victory in Libya, the Republican presidential candidates were trying to draw attention to the failed talks between the United States and Iraq over legal immunity for a small force of trainers that the Pentagon had wanted to remain. <br />
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Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and Herman Cain all criticized the president’s decision, with Mr. Romney issuing the most strident condemnation. <br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/us/politics/successes-overseas-are-unlikely-to-help-obama-at-home.html?ref=politics"><b>NY Times</b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-33133131436523577692011-10-23T10:59:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:59:13.172-07:00United Nations Says Myanmar Has more Work to Do<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_iW1qI2aPxf1mRa4AKdHNLgR1iB94emmnyn4Ab2xLufinLKzHTBUw1txkRLJz5LWSbGopmL70rkYghWsf0idHOpdHTYWPboiDsWJXVUlK799a31XYMU_ueM6C3DeZC5E11YuUB5YkK8/s1600/Aung+San+Suu+Kyi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_iW1qI2aPxf1mRa4AKdHNLgR1iB94emmnyn4Ab2xLufinLKzHTBUw1txkRLJz5LWSbGopmL70rkYghWsf0idHOpdHTYWPboiDsWJXVUlK799a31XYMU_ueM6C3DeZC5E11YuUB5YkK8/s320/Aung+San+Suu+Kyi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Despite positive political developments in Myanmar, the government has a long way to go in addressing human rights concerns, a U.N. official said. <br />
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Last week, the government in Myanmar released around 200 prisoners as part of a general amnesty given to an estimated 6,300 detainees. <br />
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The release followed an appeal to the government from the head of the state-backed National Human Rights Commission to set free prisoners accused of ordinary crimes so they can participate in "nation-building tasks." <br />
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Tomas Ojea Quintana, the U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, told the U.N. General Assembly that despite the political progress, he was receiving allegations of human rights violations. <br />
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"Measures to ensure justice and accountability, including access to the truth, are essential for Myanmar to face its past and current human rights challenges and to move forward toward national reconciliation," he said in a statement. <br />
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Human Rights Watch staff members expressed concern about ethnic violence in northern Myanmar. The organization in September said sexual violence and torture against ethnic communities were on the rise in that region. <br />
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Quintana said those complaints, along with reports of military forces using prisoners as human shields, showed there was much work to be done in Myanmar.<br />
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Source from : <b><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/10/20/UN-says-Myanmar-has-more-work-to-do/UPI-32311319132708/">UPI.com</a></b>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-80469549032794003002011-10-23T10:52:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:52:38.372-07:00Bolivian Revolt over Jungle road Growing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1ogZht2bAJeLzoxubyHcGdl1WiHZpbrPoL5YUHhnrtVtzh4O90pwUELNP4_hs_SGR6kLGelaKbqzPjrz6vl8x_oMeH4O_9eNVjNTkD1YGNL7kNZUVR6Y1kFhmg5DaYGlPRlSvWr_Ksk/s1600/Evo+Morales.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1ogZht2bAJeLzoxubyHcGdl1WiHZpbrPoL5YUHhnrtVtzh4O90pwUELNP4_hs_SGR6kLGelaKbqzPjrz6vl8x_oMeH4O_9eNVjNTkD1YGNL7kNZUVR6Y1kFhmg5DaYGlPRlSvWr_Ksk/s320/Evo+Morales.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Bolivian President Evo Morales faced renewed pressures from Amazonian environmental protesters who want him to drop a Brazilian-funded road cutting through an environmentally fragile but impoverished part of the jungle. <br />
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As the protest entered the third month, campaigners calling for the road construction to stop spilled into La Paz, demanding immediate action from Morales, himself an ethnic Aymara and former trade unionist. <br />
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Officials said direct talks with the protesters' representatives wouldn't be ruled out. <br />
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The road will cut through about 185 miles of forest and will likely displace many of the clusters of indigenous communities. About 15,000 inhabitants are directly in the path of the highway, campaigners said. <br />
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The road protest has accentuated Bolivia's multiethnic politics, in which Morales enjoyed wide popularity across racial and social divides. But the road project has seen critics calling Morales elitist and disdainful of native communities from the Amazonian lowlands. <br />
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Opponents of the road project say the jungle highway, financed by Brazil, will ruin the Amazonian environment and deprive them of livelihood and a long-preserved lifestyle. <br />
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Opponents also say they fear the highway will bring organized crime, increase farming of coca, the main ingredient for cocaine, and encourage criminals engaged in illegal logging and land grabs. <br />
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As Morales foes seized on the protests to take the president to task, leaders of the campaigners said they had no quarrel with Morales and would seek an amicable settlement of the dispute. <br />
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Morales and his aides have said the highway is needed to help Bolivia's poorer regions develop and have accused the marchers of being influenced by Morales's foes. <br />
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Although the president has apologized to protesting citizens and ordered suspension of work on the highway, the campaigners want long-term assurances that the project won't be taken up again. <br />
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Only a few days ago thousands of Morales loyalists, including highland Indians, coca growers and union members, marched in La Paz in support of the government. <br />
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The pro-government rally contrasted with protest marches against the highway and other expressions of popular dissatisfaction, including blank ballots cast in a vote on the nomination of magistrates. <br />
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The road will link the Andean highlands of central Bolivia with the Amazon lowlands to the north increasing communication and trade exchanges between Villa Tunari and San Ignacio de Moxos. When the project began Bolivia and Brazil hailed it as a major step toward regional integration. <br />
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Opponents say the highway will irreversibly damage the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park, a rainforest region of exceptional biodiversity, known to be home to an extraordinary wealth of plant and animal species. <br />
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Isolated communities of Chiman, Yurucare and Moxos Indians live in the area, hunting, fishing and farming in the rainforest.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/10/20/Bolivian-revolt-over-jungle-road-growing/UPI-29461319134136/"><b>UPI.com</b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-56652408538219765922011-10-23T10:45:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:45:43.662-07:00Obama pulling in Wall Street donations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMBy3rjIzULNP5hFkp2rh3mQelG7HoH0LkD0-7bZVeUsqz7yM5vOkmQO4XtFNRrIecsEC9aQHU68FFXdfvHRy4H5hGJnv_N606jTlcLqnyNXw6MZYBL1rs63WViDAXmF65Vu1AkaoBMY/s1600/Barack+Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMBy3rjIzULNP5hFkp2rh3mQelG7HoH0LkD0-7bZVeUsqz7yM5vOkmQO4XtFNRrIecsEC9aQHU68FFXdfvHRy4H5hGJnv_N606jTlcLqnyNXw6MZYBL1rs63WViDAXmF65Vu1AkaoBMY/s320/Barack+Obama.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Democratic President Barack Obama is blowing away his Republican challengers when it comes to soliciting donations on Wall Street, fundraising figures show. <br />
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The Washington Post reported Wednesday its analysis of contribution data reveals Obama has raised more from the financial and banking sector this year than all of the GOP presidential hopefuls combined. <br />
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Obama, the numbers show, received more money from fewer donors, the newspaper said. <br />
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The president even out-raised Mitt Romney at Bain Capital, a private equity firm in Boston the former Massachusetts governor co-founded. Romney pulled in $34,000 from 18 Bain employees while Obama took in $76,600 from three Bain employees, the Post found in its review of data from the Center for Responsive Politics. <br />
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Obama's fundraising benefits from his raising money not only for himself but also for the Democratic National Committee, which then contributes to his re-election effort. <br />
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Apart from the nearly $12 million he helped raise for the DNC, Obama has raised $3.9 million from the finance sector for his own campaign committee, compared with Romney's $7.5 million and nearly $2 million by Texas Gov. Rick Perry. No other GOP candidate surpassed $400,000 from the finance sector, the Post said.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/10/19/Obama-pulling-in-Wall-Street-donations/UPI-18421319065415/?rel=43881319360400"><b>UPI.com</b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-82759582267022787472011-10-23T10:40:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:40:44.953-07:00Obama Announces End of Iraq War, All Troops Gone by 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfQsYDGu38hlJ5WXzYfNjYG94ySWSlkv2MNvNqdZzPfnqkSCMp-eWEqNrfF9yH2krVupclqXfHs_bK2ruEVSqpWcUekPBupicSBewNqp3z-KbuHjNCPZF46uZWMGq3szPk3HBzp21-n4/s1600/Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfQsYDGu38hlJ5WXzYfNjYG94ySWSlkv2MNvNqdZzPfnqkSCMp-eWEqNrfF9yH2krVupclqXfHs_bK2ruEVSqpWcUekPBupicSBewNqp3z-KbuHjNCPZF46uZWMGq3szPk3HBzp21-n4/s320/Obama.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>President Obama announced the complete withdrawal of all remaining troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.<br />
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"As a candidate for president I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to an end," the president said Friday, speaking from the White House.<br />
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"Today I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over."<br />
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Pledging that troops stationed in Iraq will "definitely be home for the holidays," the president praised the more than one million men and women who have served in Iraq since war was declared there in 2003.<br />
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"The last American soldiers will cross the border out of Iraq with their heads held high...that is how American military efforts in Iraq will end," the president said.<br />
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He also noted that the end of the war in Iraq would reflect a transition in America's military priorities. "The tide of war is receding," he said.<br />
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The drawdown of 100,000 troops from Iraq since Obama took office freed the armed forces to focus on the war in Afghanistan and the fight against al-Qaeda, he said, with results that have been seen in recent months, including the killing of Osama bin Laden.<br />
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Obama's remarks came after a morning call with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and followed the breakdown of U.S. efforts to come to an agreement with the Iraqi government about how residual troops in Iraq would be treated if they remained into 2012, according to The Washington Post. Around 150 troops will remain in Iraq to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the paper reported.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/obama-announces-end-of-iraq-war-all-troops-gone-by-2012/247162/"><b>The Atlantic </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-59704903384587385982011-10-23T10:29:00.000-07:002011-10-23T10:29:37.909-07:00Gaddafi's last Words as he Begged for mercy: 'What did I do to you?'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FzQJU6BHOPsXhyZUTz-nehqEOQxTF0m9WX4cAMrBCn1BlJvRqwisLkFf00HCroLnEaoEW5056cRC2hycfyDokWUbnpuAih7nJkm8ZKg12IkknYeOXLiyV-HBu1-yf9Q7U57kIky3FjI/s1600/Muammar+Gaddafi+Dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6FzQJU6BHOPsXhyZUTz-nehqEOQxTF0m9WX4cAMrBCn1BlJvRqwisLkFf00HCroLnEaoEW5056cRC2hycfyDokWUbnpuAih7nJkm8ZKg12IkknYeOXLiyV-HBu1-yf9Q7U57kIky3FjI/s320/Muammar+Gaddafi+Dead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>As National Transitional Council fighters fought their way into Sirte, radio intercepts spoke of 'an asset' in the besieged city. But no one knew until the final moments that the deposed dictator was within their grasp<br />
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Osama Swehli is bearded and wears his hair long, tied back in a thick ponytail. A soldier with the National Transitional Council's fighters in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, his English is fluent from his time living in west London.<br />
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Until the fall of Sirte – Muammar Gaddafi's home city – Swehli was one of those who listened in to the radio frequencies of the pro-Gaddafi defenders of the besieged city.<br />
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Twelve days ago, the Observer encountered Swelhi at a mortar position in Sirte close to the city's still contested television station at the edge of District Two where the Gaddafi loyalists would be trapped in a diminishing pocket. "We know some of the call signs of those inside," Swehli explained, as men around him fired mortars into the areas still under Gaddafi control.<br />
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"We know that call sign '1' refers to Mo'atissim Gaddafi and that '3' refers to Mansour Dhao, who is commanding the defences. We have an inkling too about someone known as '2', who we have not heard from for a while and who has either escaped or been killed." That person, he believed, was Abdullah Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief.<br />
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"There is someone important in there, too," Swelhi said, almost as an afterthought. "We have heard several times about something called 'the asset' which has been moved around the city." Precisely who and what "the asset" was now is clear, even if most government fighters in and around the city could not believe it at the time. They were convinced that Libya's former leader was in all likelihood hiding in the Sahara desert. But the asset was Gaddafi himself, who would die in the city, humiliated and bloody, begging his captors not to shoot him.<br />
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Already the last minutes in Gaddafi's life have gained a grisly status. A spectacle of pain and humiliation, the end of the man who once styled himself the "king of the kings of Africa" has been told in snatches of mobile phone footage and blurry stills and contradictory statements. It is the longest of these fragments of a death – a jerky three minutes and more shot by fighter Ali Algadi on his iPhone and acquired by a website, the Global Post – that describes those moments in the most detail. A dazed and confused Gaddafi is led from the drain where he was captured, bleeding heavily from a deep wound on the left side of his head, from his arm, and, apparently, from other injuries to his neck and torso, staining his tunic red with blood. He is next seen on the ground, surrounded by men with weapons shouting "God is great" and firing in the air, before being lifted on to a pickup truck as men around him shout that the ruler for more than four decades should be "kept alive".<br />
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There are other clips that complete much of the story: Gaddafi slumped on a pickup truck, face smeared with blood, apparently unconscious; Gaddafi shirtless and bloody on the ground surrounded by a mob; Gaddafi dead in the back of an ambulance. What is not there is the moment of his death – and how it happened – amid claims that he was killed by fighters with a shot to the head or stomach. By Friday, the day after he died, the body of the former dictator once so feared by his Libyan opponents was facing a final indignity – being stored on the floor of a room-sized freezer in Misrata usually used by restaurants and shops to keep perishable goods.<br />
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If there is an irony surrounding the death of Muammar Gaddafi, it is, perhaps, that he should have met his end in Sirte, a city more than any other associated with his rule. Gaddafi was not born in the city itself but in Bou Hadi, a sprawling, largely rural area of farms and large villas on the city's outskirts.<br />
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It was Sirte that Gaddafi turned into his second capital – a former fishing village that he transformed into a place dedicated to both his own ego and his Third Revolutionary Theory, which he embodied in his Green Book that was taught in all Libyan schools. It was here, too, that the nomenklatura of Gaddafi's regime had their second homes, sprawling villas in roads lined by eucalyptus trees, beside well-tended parks or overlooking the Mediterranean. And as the city fell, bit by bit over the weeks, its nature was revealed.<br />
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Abandoned houses reveal evidence of a city's dedication to the Gaddafi cult. The Observer found a discarded mobile phone belonging, it seems clear, to a friend of Mo'atissim Gaddafi with pictures of parked white stretch limousines. There are pictures in the wealthier houses of Gaddafi with their occupants and stylised beaten copper images of Gaddafi on the walls. In one building, discovered by paramedics with the government forces, there is a trove of snapshots of Gaddafi and his sons. No wonder, perhaps, that this is where he chose to make his last stand.<br />
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The conflict around the city – during the long siege that began in September – reveals another nature of Sirte that must have made it attractive to Gaddafi. There are concrete walls within walls, compounds within those barriers, easy for Gaddafi and his protectors to defend. For those attacking Sirte they seemed for a while to be insuperable obstacles, not least the long barrier blocking access to the vast plaza of the Ouagoudougou conference centre.<br />
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During the weeks of the siege, life on the Gaddafi side of the lines in Sirte was thrown up in fragments, as disjointed as the last moments of Gaddafi's life. There were small counter-attacks as the government forces crept forward, sometimes with rocket-propelled grenades that burst in the air or crashed into buildings. At other times machine-gun fire rattled into the bullet-pocked facades of offices, banks, schools or villas. But it was at night that Gaddafi's forces were most active. They probed for weak positions. There were rumours of cars attempting to break out as the net closed.<br />
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Twice the Observer heard accounts of sightings of a car belonging to Mo'atissim Gaddafi. And with each day fighters posed the same question to which they could not supply an answer: why was it that those fighting on the Gaddafi side would not give up?<br />
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It is only now, after Gaddafi's death, that any sketchy details of how he lived on the run have begun to emerge and, indeed, who was ultimately responsible for his safety. How Gaddafi came to be in Sirte – if not the reason that he went to one of the few locations still strongly supportive of him – remains murky. It is believed he fled from Tripoli shortly before it fell in August.<br />
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Motorcades carrying his wife and daughter to Algeria, and at least one other son to Niger, were spotted and the details leaked to the media by Nato. But the convoy carrying the dictator appears to have been missed. For his escape, Gaddafi had only one highway to travel – leading south of the capital to Beni Walid, 90 miles from Tripoli, the only highway not in rebel hands. A further detour would then have been necessary to avoid the rebels who were pushing in all directions out of the coastal city of Misrata, involving the convoy driving south-east, deeper into the Libyan desert, to the only traffic junction leading to Sirte at Waddan. This city, which fell to the rebels last month, was under 24-hour surveillance, according to the Pentagon, with drones keeping a close eye on the chemical weapons store five miles north of the city – home to Libya's remaining stockpile of nine tonnes of mustard gas.<br />
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The rebels were deeply divided over where Gaddafi was. Some believed he had fled on one of the convoys carrying his wife and other sons that were spotted crossing south to Niger and east to Algeria. Misrata's Shaheed brigade set up a special unit, suspecting that Gaddafi had been trapped in the capital by the speed of the rebel advance and for the last two months they have been carrying out raids in Tripoli hoping to find him.Still others thought he had driven to the fabled Bunker, a possibly mythical concrete complex constructed deep in the desert by the dictator for such an emergency. They were all wrong.<br />
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The truth of Gaddafi's last movements has now been revealed by one of his inner circle who travelled with him on his last convoy: Mansour Dhao – number "3" in the pro-Gaddafi radio codes – a former commander of Libya's Revolutionary Guards. And like Gaddafi, Dhao was not supposed to be in Sirte. Instead, it was widely reported that Dhao had fled Libya in a convoy of cars heading for Niger. But as the weeks of the siege of Sirte went on, it became clear this was not true. Even as it was revealed that Gaddafi and his fourth son Mo'atissim were dead, Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, stumbled across an injured Dhao in hospital, who confirmed he had been in the same convoy with Gaddafi when the former Libyan leader had been captured and his son killed.<br />
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A day later Dhao was interviewed by a television crew. What Dhao had to say contradicted not only some previous understanding of who was conducting the war on Gaddafi's behalf but supplied the first description of how events had unfolded on Gaddafi's last day. While it was believed that Gaddafi's son Khamis had directed the regime's attempts to put down the rebellion against it, Dhao insisted that it was Mo'atissim. Not only that, Mo'atissim took control of his father's safety, making all the key decisions until the end. "He was in charge of everything," said Dhao. His face heavily bruised, Dhao insisted it was Mo'atissim who organised each movement of Gaddafi as he was ferried between safe houses for the two months since the fall of Tripoli, moving location on average every four days before becoming trapped in Sirte, the monument that became his living mausoleum. Crucially, it has been Dhao who has provided the most compelling account yet offered of Gaddafi's last day of life as he attempted to leave the last pocket in the shattered seaside District Two to reach the countryside beyond Sirte's eastern boundary.<br />
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"Gaddafi did not run away, and he did not want to escape," Dhao said. "We left the area where we were staying, to head towards Jarif, where he comes from. The rebels were surrounding the whole area, so we had heavy clashes with them and tried to escape towards Jarif and break out of the siege. After that the rebels surrounded us outside the area and prevented us from reaching the road to Jarif. They launched heavy raids on us which led to the destruction of the cars and the death of many individuals who were with us.<br />
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"After that we came out of the cars and split into several groups and we walked on foot, and I was with Gaddafi's group that included Abu Bakr Yunis Jabr and his sons, and several volunteers and soldiers. I do not know what happened in the final moments, because I was unconscious after I was hit on my back."<br />
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Some things do not ring true. According to Dhao, Gaddafi was moving from place to place and apartment to apartment until last week, but given the state of the siege of Sirte at that stage it seems unlikely that he could have entered the city from outside. The net was closing around the last loyalists who were squeezed into a pocket, surrounded on all sides, that was becoming ever smaller by the day.<br />
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Dhao made no mention either of the attack on the Gaddafi convoy by a US Predator drone and a French Rafale jet as it tried to break out of Sirte, attempting to drive three kilometres through hostile territory before it was scattered and brought to a halt by rebel fighters. It is possible that Dhao did not know that the first missiles to hit the Gaddafi convoy as it tried to flee came from the air.<br />
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What is clear is that at around 8am on Thursday, as National Transitional Council fighters launched a final assault to capture the last remaining buildings in Sirte, in an area about 700 metres square, the pro-Gaddafi forces had also readied a large convoy to break out.<br />
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But if Dhao was not aware of the air strike, then neither did Nato's air controllers and liaison officers with the NTC fighters know that Gaddafi was in the convoy of 75 cars attempting to flee Sirte, a fact revealed in a lengthy statement on Friday.<br />
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"At the time of the strike," a spokesman said, "Nato did not know that Gaddafi was in the convoy. These armed vehicles were leaving Sirte at high speed and were attempting to force their way around the outskirts of the city. The vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and ammunition, posing a significant threat to the local civilian population. The convoy was engaged by a Nato aircraft to reduce the threat."<br />
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It was that air attack – which destroyed around a dozen cars – that dispersed the convoy into several groups, the largest numbering about 20. As NTC fighters descended on the fleeing groups of cars, some individuals jumped from their vehicles to escape on foot, among them Gaddafi and a group of guards. Finding a trail of blood, NTC fighters followed it to a sandy culvert with two storm drains. In one of these Gaddafi was hiding.<br />
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Accounts here differ. According to some fighters quoted after the event, he begged his captors not to shoot. Others say he asked of one: "What did I do to you?" But it is what happened next that is the source of controversy.<br />
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What is certain from several of the clips of video footage – most telling that shot by Ali Algadi – is that Gaddafi was dazed but still alive, although possibly already fatally wounded. The question is what happens between this and later images of a lifeless Gaddafi lying on the ground having his shirt stripped off and propped in the back of a pickup truck and the next sequence which shows him dead.<br />
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Here the accounts differ wildly. According to one fighter, caught on camera, he was shot in the stomach with a 9mm pistol. According to doctors not present at his capture and ambulance staff, Gaddafi was shot in the head. Some NTC officials have said anonymously he was "killed after capture", while others have said he was killed after capture in a crossfire.<br />
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If there are suspicions that Gaddafi was summarily killed, already raised by Amnesty and UN human rights officials, they have been deepened by the death, too, of his son Mo'atissim in even more dubious circumstances. He was filmed alive but wounded smoking a cigarette and drinking from a bottle of water, before the announcement that he also had died.<br />
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On Saturday, in the cold storage unit where Gaddafi's body was being stored as the family demanded its release for burial, those filing in to film his corpse were less bothered about how he had died than the legacy of his 42-year rule. "There's something in our hearts we want to get out," Abdullah al-Suweisi, 30, told Reuters as he waited. "It is the injustice of 40 years. There is hatred inside. We want to see him."<br />
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And in confirming that Gaddafi is no more, the Libyan people want to bring the final curtain down on his tyranny.<br />
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Source from : <b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/23/gaddafi-last-words-begged-mercy">The Guradian </a></b>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-5379972169974742712011-10-23T08:32:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:32:49.067-07:00Marco Simoncelli Dead After Horror Moto GP Crash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtoKmJ0SaZivRNF7E-aQqspbriHwNNkWNNDpeGqvwIpLW_ELlLmEH9lcLXmn__0H1x32f2FJPqruE809c0RO1SWme4cUC988S5nrMulbkMHEhtlOZe1SDKGLoU-_NOeXV5DQZs3GeCq-4/s1600/Marco+Simoncelli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtoKmJ0SaZivRNF7E-aQqspbriHwNNkWNNDpeGqvwIpLW_ELlLmEH9lcLXmn__0H1x32f2FJPqruE809c0RO1SWme4cUC988S5nrMulbkMHEhtlOZe1SDKGLoU-_NOeXV5DQZs3GeCq-4/s320/Marco+Simoncelli.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In sad news for the motorsport world, Italian MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli has passed away after a crash at the Malaysian GP. <br />
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The crash which claimed the life of promising young rider Marco Simoncelli came just four minutes in to the Malaysian MotoGP. <br />
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Simoncelli was aged 24. <br />
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In the second lap of the race Simoncelli, who had been fourth placed at the time, lost control of his bike and veered across the track, immediately into the path of his fellow riders. <br />
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He was struck by Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards. Edwards was thrown from his bike by the force of collision but escaped serious injury.<br />
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Simoncelli lost his helmet in the incident, and lay motionless on the track as medical staff rushed to his aid. <br />
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In the immediate aftermath of the incident Australian rider and 2011 champion Casey Stoner spoke of his concern for the rider.<br />
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"<b>As soon as I saw the footage, it just makes you feel sick inside</b>," Stoner told BBC2 shortly after the incident. <br />
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After being rushed to hospital following the crash, he was listed as in critical condition in early media reports but a little over an hour later it was confirmed that he had passed away from his injuries. <br />
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The race was immediately red flagged, and later cancelled as a sign of respect for Simoncelli. <br />
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Marco Simoncelli was considered by many to be an up and coming rider in the motorcycle racing world. He was a favorite among fans for his unusual riding style, but this style often contributed to crashes on the track. <br />
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Just days before he had spoken with confidence about his chances of winning the races that would in the end claim his life. The Sepang circuit had been the same one in which he had secured his 250cc win in 2008. <br />
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After a slow start to the 2010 MotoGP season, his first, Simoncelli managed to a final rank of 8th, ahead of more experienced riders such as Edwards and Capirossi. Up until the Malaysian GP he had been ranked 6th in the 2011 MotoGP season, having reached a career high in the Australian GP, finishing second. <br />
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He had previously been the world 250cc Champion in 2008 and third placed rider in the following season, with 12 career wins from 64 starts in the format. <br />
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The crash was the first fatal incident in the MotoGP since 2003, when Daijiro Kato was killed following a collision with a wall at up to 120km/h. <br />
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Simoncelli's death comes a week after the death of veteran racing driver Dan Wheldon in a 15-car pile up during the IndyCar World Championship.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.suite101.com/news/marco-simoncelli-dead-after-horror-motogp-crash-a394226#"><b>Auto Racing </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-69040672651716061892011-10-23T08:25:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:34:24.807-07:00Is Facebook looking to challenge LinkedIn in job postings?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv33y0FArWrUMpF4IEhVmLMhyphenhyphen2aYWeQaBCyOwUi_Xsop5FKdVwbbvq8N9wgJ7tYTgz0IrDYDwXrP7z0WPleNC1_HC2CyD5iS0YW8L-7kCTLji6WRN3NUUsHblOvXR__N0Wyt8MhF-dt3A/s1600/Facebook+Internet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv33y0FArWrUMpF4IEhVmLMhyphenhyphen2aYWeQaBCyOwUi_Xsop5FKdVwbbvq8N9wgJ7tYTgz0IrDYDwXrP7z0WPleNC1_HC2CyD5iS0YW8L-7kCTLji6WRN3NUUsHblOvXR__N0Wyt8MhF-dt3A/s320/Facebook+Internet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Facebook has struck a partnership with the U.S. Labor Department to help the unemployed find jobs. <br />
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The partnership harnesses the popularity of Facebook, and the Labor Department wants to expand it to Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking sites to provide resources to job seekers as the nation wrestles with a 9.1% unemployment rate. <br />
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But does the new partnership position Facebook to move beyond social into professional networking? <br />
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Pundits have long speculated that Facebook, with its more than 800 million users, would eventually use its social networking dominance to challenge LinkedIn on the job-recruiting front. <br />
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LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman shrugged off the notion of Facebook as a competitive threat Wednesday at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit. <br />
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Asked whether LinkedIn would be held back by its demographic –- the average user is in his or her early to mid 40s –- Hoffman retorted: <br />
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"You mean, like someone who could give you a job?" Hoffman said. <br />
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His response got quite a few chuckles from the audience. <br />
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A year ago, LinkedIn Chief Executive Jeff Weiner said LinkedIn keeps Facebook away with keg stands. <br />
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"While many of us in college probably were at parties having a good time, doing things like keg stands, or being exposed to keg stands, I don't know that many of us would look forward to having a prospective employer have access to picture of those events," Weiner said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit last year. <br />
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Or, as conference host John Battelle added helpfully, "bong hits." <br />
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In other words, LinkedIn's position: People want to keep their personal and professional identities separate. If Facebook is a place for your friends, LinkedIn is a place for your professional connections. <br />
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But does that hold true now that Facebook has begun to make it easier for its users to share status updates, photos and other information just with the friends they designate? And what of Google's ambitions for its social network Google+? <br />
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All of which is not to say that LinkedIn is not plugged in. It is coming off a successful initial public offering and boasts more than 120 million users. <br />
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And it has its own close ties to the Obama administration. President Obama made his case for his jobs bill in September in a town hall forum with Weiner in which Obama took questions about creating jobs and goosing the economy. The forum was similar to one held at Facebook in April. <br />
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Facebook downplayed the significance of rolling out resources for job hunters for the first time on Facebook. <br />
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"We are simply creating a central location for employment services for people who are on Facebook, because we want to connect job seekers to the resources available to them. This is not a competitive service, it's a public service," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/facebook-labor-department-professional-networking.html"><b>Los Angeles Times </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-90387775690138269052011-10-23T08:19:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:19:53.701-07:00Premier League Players Nude Photos Circulating on Twitter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTuOpQbJTbhkvUm3nP1Z_Z5pO7OfZT1tg4MEOmW2Bg5_UnrdLcny70v5huuWtLWHsupTurplOmew7VPIniFyoryBGcmIezQZiRY1iIS2UoF9MyqZRtNfUimThjUE1XGj-v4PIkVZsyhw/s1600/Craig+Bellamy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXTuOpQbJTbhkvUm3nP1Z_Z5pO7OfZT1tg4MEOmW2Bg5_UnrdLcny70v5huuWtLWHsupTurplOmew7VPIniFyoryBGcmIezQZiRY1iIS2UoF9MyqZRtNfUimThjUE1XGj-v4PIkVZsyhw/s1600/Craig+Bellamy.jpg" /></a></div>Two nude photos of Premier League players when she was bathing in the locker room, circulating in the social media site Twitter. Both players who become the victims were both derived from the Manchester City club, namely goalkeeper Joe Hart and striker Craig Bellamy. <br />
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Twitter users who upload photos naked Hart and Bellamy admitted taking pictures both in home and away games, where both players were brought down. <br />
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Manchester City's management has ordered their lawyers to discuss the case. Police expected to investigate the circulation of nude photos if there have been two reports from one of the victims. Tabloid The Sun said the photos seronok Hart and Bellamy has been removed from Twitter yesterday. <br />
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Misterirus Twitter account owner's claims to be working for Endemol, the company that makes the TV show Big Brother, and Chelsea. "My perfect day when I saw Joe Hart bath for the first time," he said. <br />
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He asserted to have video footage of Manchester United striker, Michael Owen, who also was in the shower. He also revealed a video tape with scenes performed at Everton midfielder Phil Neville. "I've seen you naked about 20 times Phil," the source was in a Twitter account. <br />
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Endemol denied spreading nude photos of Premier League players were working at their company. Chelsea claimed not to know whether the spreader to work for them or not.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.bloggermaps.com/2011/06/premier-league-players-nude-photos.html"><b>Blogger Maps </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-49103775357189380552011-10-23T08:17:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:17:31.614-07:00Facebook Hold Skype Provide Video Chat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGq-eewbl0_nziBR6zrnsUStUAu1vhm02JHyEnkiW-D7U_u82hczA1vzSbpXrpKhHeygqAbgwJy91UWvzBeIZoQK3no5CPSiFvpqA6bazEY3TzZb8eGcpR4XAKCMzFNgdAjKtadvMipLM/s1600/Facebook+Mark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGq-eewbl0_nziBR6zrnsUStUAu1vhm02JHyEnkiW-D7U_u82hczA1vzSbpXrpKhHeygqAbgwJy91UWvzBeIZoQK3no5CPSiFvpqA6bazEY3TzZb8eGcpR4XAKCMzFNgdAjKtadvMipLM/s320/Facebook+Mark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Facebook</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">lovers</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">, get ready</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">for</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the more</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">pampered</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">This</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">social</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">networking</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">next week</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">will launch a</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">platform of "</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">with</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Skype</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">support</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">TechCrunch</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">reports</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">said the</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">team</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">up</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">in Seattle</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the United</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">States</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">was behind the</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">preparation of</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the new</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">features</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Indeed there has been</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">no official confirmation from</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Skype</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">and Facebook</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">about this.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">But</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Ben</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Parr</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">of</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Mashable.com</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Friday</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">(</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">07/01/2011</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">)</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">when</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">America</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">declared that</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">" on Facebook</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">is now</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"confirm</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">to be released</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">next week.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Indeed</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">, this is</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">not the first time</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">we hear</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">with</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the power of</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Skype</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">on Facebook</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Rumor has</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">it</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">actually been</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">heard</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">since</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">last year</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">but have not</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">been realized</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Facebook has</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">a serious</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">partnership</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">which</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">integrates</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Facebook social</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">media</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">data</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">directly</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">into</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the Skype</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">client</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">This is what</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">will</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">happen to</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Facebook and</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Skype</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">in the near future</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Then how</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">the partnership will</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">work</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">?</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Is there a need</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">to download</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">software</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">?</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Will this</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">support</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">group "</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">this</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">?</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">If this is</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">realized</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">, no doubt</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">this</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">will</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">be</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">a</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">great</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">addition</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">to the</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Facebook platform</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif"></span><span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Google</span> + <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">reportedly</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">will feature a</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">group of</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Google</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">+</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Hangouts</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Google</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">will look</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">to have</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">many features</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">But</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">if Facebook</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">released products</span> <span class="hps atn" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">video</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">chat</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">"</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">this</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">next week</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">,</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Google</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">+</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Hangouts</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">may</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">not</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">seem</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">as</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">revolutionary step</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">again</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">'ve</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Imagined</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">it</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">fun</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">friends</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">chat</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">while looking at</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">faces</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">directly</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">?</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">Let's</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">wait</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">up for this</span> <span class="hps" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">latest move (Source from Mashable)</span><span class="" title="Klik untuk terjemahan alternatif">.</span></span>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-40554385782526580232011-10-23T08:05:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:05:04.181-07:00Facebook Accused of Retaining Deleted User Data, Could face fines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtFcYzrmJ0hcayOlNXTZsf1POzuDgMUCTKtCXGYOO7e1s8yTz-CAkaTw37yvWSD0X-tFBk8tLM6TOFqPbhW-oTnKX1UZkVmyU2ddklLA2l4dg9kawCUS0XwOUc-hCGQRDCiwQxcmbxYY/s1600/Facebook+Small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtFcYzrmJ0hcayOlNXTZsf1POzuDgMUCTKtCXGYOO7e1s8yTz-CAkaTw37yvWSD0X-tFBk8tLM6TOFqPbhW-oTnKX1UZkVmyU2ddklLA2l4dg9kawCUS0XwOUc-hCGQRDCiwQxcmbxYY/s1600/Facebook+Small.jpg" /></a></div>Facebook’s international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland is facing an audit this month for keeping users’ deleted data. The company could face a $138,000 (€100,000) fine if it does not comply with Irish data protection laws. <br />
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The audit was triggered by an Austrian law student named Max Schrems, who requested a copy of all of his personal data from Facebook while writing a paper on privacy laws. What he received was a CD containing 1,200 pages of information on everything from his ignored friend requests to deleted messages. <br />
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Facebook’s international headquarters in Dublin supports all Facebook users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Because of its location, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner has jurisdiction over the non-U.S. and Canada segment of the company. Users in the U.S. and Canada, however, have contracts with Facebook Inc. in Calif., and their rights are covered under different laws. <br />
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After seeing the breadth of information on him, Schrems and 21 other students filed complaints against Facebook with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, alleging the company is creating “shadow profiles” of its members, and even non-Facebook users, without their consent or knowledge. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner then decided to do its own audit of Facebook. <br />
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According to the complaints, Facebook is illegally holding on to information on members and non-members, including phone numbers and email addresses. Schrems says Facebook scrapes this information from the data its users synch with their profiles, say from a mobile phone or email account. The group has also started the Europe vs Facebook group, which includes instructions on how to request your own data from Facebook (for users outside of the U.S. and Canada only). Facebook has already received an influx of requests. <br />
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A $138,000 fine isn’t likely to harm a company valued at over $80 billion, but the real result of the audit will be increased attention to the issue and a requirement to comply with the law.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/22/facebook-could-face-fines-for-retaining-delted-user-data/"><b>Social Beat </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-66703011266780584432011-10-22T08:45:00.000-07:002011-10-22T08:45:59.831-07:00Nokia Windows Phone will be Released in October 26, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2XAiCqDLewCr9Nz6wwvFYsx8qsM3GiQpQzkT9lxZlnt6ZNY76tuto0OXP9j7mXWuQwYVxbZE-Ypl8jPejMedF46OGJ4sfSpouBr_RaCCkd7CT1cV1-V6WN47LzxgVPQhvTemSdlPwIY/s1600/Windows+Phone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC2XAiCqDLewCr9Nz6wwvFYsx8qsM3GiQpQzkT9lxZlnt6ZNY76tuto0OXP9j7mXWuQwYVxbZE-Ypl8jPejMedF46OGJ4sfSpouBr_RaCCkd7CT1cV1-V6WN47LzxgVPQhvTemSdlPwIY/s320/Windows+Phone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Nokia will show off the first Nokia smartphone that uses Windows Phone on Nokia World event which will take place on 26-27 October 2011 in London, England. This statement was delivered by the head of Microsoft's Windows Phone division, Andy Lees.<br />
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Statement from Andy Lees is in line with previous statements that mention Nokia's first device with Windows Phone will be released in Europe, later this year. At Nokia World 2011 event is likely Nokia will release a smartphone is not just one type only, the statement implied that Lees uses the plural form of the noun (plural) in the word "Nokia phones".<br />
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Lees also said the new Nokia smartphone will be very different, both in hardware and software. Which means, you will see a smartphone Windows Phone Mango units are different, not just the same as the smartphone Windows Phone Mango output of other brands.<br />
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Specifications from Microsoft, the first generation of Windows Phone 7 have almost the same hardware. Nokia is the freedom from Microsoft in determining hardware and software specifications his smartphone.<br />
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Some time ago, Nokia has reduced the number of employees in a rather large, due to poor sales of the product types of smartphones. Therefore, Nokia is very serious in developing and marketing the latest smartphones that use Windows Phone from Microsoft.My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-26316623269599001422011-10-21T15:19:00.000-07:002011-10-21T15:19:22.168-07:00Steve Jobs, Creator of iPad, iPod and iPhone was Gone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilTTxW3yl2MMc-d4u2uDtEf15X2txigX19RClSwnNHIu5yEceeX8iThqTiBeAmtx55PSe_vdoOmBPm5WRUcnk_Saar5B6j1v-J-GQdyMtY-7Z3mygBbY1nUXMgV69wRP4vpAq4q_peeOg/s1600/Steve+Jobs+Memory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilTTxW3yl2MMc-d4u2uDtEf15X2txigX19RClSwnNHIu5yEceeX8iThqTiBeAmtx55PSe_vdoOmBPm5WRUcnk_Saar5B6j1v-J-GQdyMtY-7Z3mygBbY1nUXMgV69wRP4vpAq4q_peeOg/s1600/Steve+Jobs+Memory.jpg" /></a></div><b>Steve Jobs</b>, Apple's founder as well as the man behind the creation of the iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, and iTunes, has died at the age of 56 years. <br />
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So far Apple has not been told Jobs the cause of death, although in recent years he was known to fight against pancreatic cancer and get a liver transplant. <br />
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"<b>We are very sad to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,</b>" a statement on Apple's board of directors. "<i>Brilliance, passion, and Steve is a source of energy innovations that enrich our lives. The world becomes a more beautiful place because of Steve. Love administered greatest for his wife, Lorene, and their families. Our hearts are sympathetic to them and everyone who was touched by his work extraordinary.</i> " <br />
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Apple Web page even today, Thursday (09/06/2011), decorated with photographs Jobs with the words "<b>Steve Jobs 1955-2011.</b>" <br />
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When the image is clicked will show the text "Apple has lost a creative genius and visionary, and the world lost an extraordinary human being. Those who have ever known and worked with Steve has lost a good friend and inspiring mentor. Steve left the company that can only be made by him, but his spirit will always be the foundation for Apple. " <br />
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Jobs founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, together with his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, he sold what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II. <br />
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The technology industry observers said Jobs as a master creator, who sometimes equated with a Thomas Edison, who changed the way people use computers, enjoy music, and communicate.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.bloggermaps.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-creator-of-ipad-ipod-and.html"><b>Blogger Maps </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-14503406080470695902011-10-21T15:17:00.000-07:002011-10-21T15:17:10.345-07:00Who Owns Your Identity on the Social Web?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxC_wMwYAAZ46M19wi94TQTWL9IvBVP6nxnazKahlYun0xmXdJUqm6emxV2-KLvPt39sTKhDDbqxPT6e87ogk9PvjATBMdT2nbuuJ6H8Fw6sAoI58zdVwbFoEQNzAGLAhvulY_qgJ9rU/s1600/Twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGxC_wMwYAAZ46M19wi94TQTWL9IvBVP6nxnazKahlYun0xmXdJUqm6emxV2-KLvPt39sTKhDDbqxPT6e87ogk9PvjATBMdT2nbuuJ6H8Fw6sAoI58zdVwbFoEQNzAGLAhvulY_qgJ9rU/s1600/Twitter.jpg" /></a></div>When I go to a bar, the bouncer usually stops me and asks for an ID. I show him my state-issued driver’s license and walk on by. This may be unusual, as I’m 36 (thanks, mom, for the good genes), but we’re all pretty accustomed to presenting our official identification when needed. We need IDs to vote in an election, and when we get pulled over for speeding. If identification is so commonplace in the physical world, why is it still such a hazy area on the Internet? <br />
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In the old days of web publishing, almost every site required its users to register in order to access certain functionalities, like commenting. However, each login was only useful to its corresponding website. Users had to remember a myriad of usernames and passwords just to read up on the morning news. <br />
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With the rise of social networks and search platforms, a few large B2C companies evolved into large-scale consumer identity providers (a.k.a. IdPs) — Facebook, Twitter and Google, among others. These companies began to fill the identity-management gap by giving users a few different IDs that worked across media websites. For instance, you can register at Mashable using your Facebook or Twitter ID, and a few others (like Google) will be activated soon. <br />
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As many of you know, when you register on a media site with your Facebook or Twitter identity, you’re usually asked to give access to your profile data (like name and email address), and allow that site to publish to your feeds (like your News Feed on Facebook, or your Timeline on Twitter). Presumably, media sites, not unlike Mashable, do this with the best of intentions. But they’re only going to publish content to your feed that you’ve expressed interest in, and then follow up with you via email, right? Maybe. <br />
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For instance, we just launched our Mashable Awards 2011 microsite. By registering with Mashable using your Facebook or Twitter account, you can nominate your favorite company, person, site, game, app or gadget for any of the 28 categories. Once you nominate, we’ll publish a notification to both your Twitter and Facebook accounts. When your notification appears on your feed, presumably your friends will see it, and stop over at Mashable to nominate their own favorites. (This is, in fact, what’s happening now, and the main reason why Awards is such a fun project for us.) <br />
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So, what’s the harm in this? None really, as long as this newfound power is wielded properly. In short, the media company posts to your feed when it’s supposed to. If you get annoyed, simply revoke access. You can take my word that we, at Mashable, will use this access appropriately. But that’s just it: You have to take my word. Easier said than done. <br />
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There’s a great burden placed on identity providers to police the media companies that connect with their users. There’s also a great burden on media companies to fulfill and not violate the trust of their end-users, and to behave appropriately. <br />
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In the end, if we violate your trust, you’ll just revoke our access and probably not return. But, is that the best means of policing media companies, or more generally, is that the best way of policing access to your shared identity? <br />
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How can we prevent media companies from abusing this level of access to your identity? <br />
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Or, how can identity providers give users greater control without making the whole process too complicated? <br />
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Identity management, and more pointedly, identity ownership, is a topic of great concern. Many heated viewpoints exist; the only agreement so far is that the “driver’s license” of the Internet faces a long road of obstacles.<br />
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t the Mashable Media Summit 2011, I’ll discuss this and more with my esteemed colleagues: Paul Berry, CTO of The Huffington Post, Andy Mitchell, strategic partner development at Facebook, and Andrew Nash, director of identity products at Google. <br />
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I won’t guarantee an answer, but I can guarantee a good discussion. Bring your thinking caps, your questions and, so you can get in the door, your driver’s licenses.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/21/web-identity/"><b>Mashable.com</b></a><span id="goog_1010896318"></span><span id="goog_1010896319"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-89203628866843582622011-10-21T15:11:00.000-07:002011-10-21T15:11:18.665-07:00Myspace Plays Up Music as it Woos Advertisers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCocyzK6IZSnnG5n5qlqQaEHonVSBWFU5hapqZ2voXyHjtjy32Q5YyF0Hv4vpYOBNMyfTPtjDfkSWGtmWj-bEwrt3fVagPARCy1R9JPjj9EXkUwJg3Av0h6zutkWJJ1yvW3Jovb0Gsq_8/s1600/Myspace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCocyzK6IZSnnG5n5qlqQaEHonVSBWFU5hapqZ2voXyHjtjy32Q5YyF0Hv4vpYOBNMyfTPtjDfkSWGtmWj-bEwrt3fVagPARCy1R9JPjj9EXkUwJg3Av0h6zutkWJJ1yvW3Jovb0Gsq_8/s1600/Myspace.jpg" /></a></div>Myspace has kicked off what its new owners hope will be its comeback tour.<br />
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The site's senior executives joined with creative partner Justin Timberlake in outlining plans Monday to return Myspace to its musical roots. Their presentation for top advertisers gathered at Radio City Music Hall in New York was followed by a VIP concert whose lineup included contemporary artists Far East Movement, Natasha Bedingfield and B.o.B.<br />
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The splashy promotional affair came three months after Irvine advertising firm Specific Media bought Myspace for $35 million and touted Timberlake's ability to lend cachet to the once-dominant social network that long ago lost its magnetism. But charisma alone won't bring sexy back to Myspace, which over the last three years has been upstaged by its innovating chief rival, Facebook Inc.<br />
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Myspace's rejuvenation will hinge on streamlining and simplifying the site and promoting its key asset: an extensive trove of music and videos from major-label and independent artists and unsigned acts.<br />
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"The great thing is pretty much everybody knows about Myspace, but the favorable opinion of Myspace has fallen off," Specific Media and Myspace Chief Executive Tim Vanderhook said in an interview. "For that to happen, it's about the product and the experience."<br />
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Social media experts expressed skepticism that Myspace could orchestrate a successful second act — a feat that has eluded other faded Internet titans such as America Online and Yahoo Inc.<br />
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"I've been working in online since 1994, and there's no such thing as a comeback," said Jay Baer, president of Convince & Convert, a social media consultancy. "There are reconstitutions, there are name changes, there are strategic shifts. But in terms of somebody essentially committing user-satisfaction suicide and somehow sewing their wound shut, it's never happened."<br />
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There's no question Myspace has been bleeding. It attracted 33 million U.S. visitors in August, a precipitous 44% drop from a year earlier and well off its peak of 76 million users in 2008, according to measurement firm ComScore Inc. Revenues are in a similar free fall. Once at the top of the social network food chain with $604 million in global advertising revenue, researcher EMarketer estimates that Myspace will bring in just $183.5 million this year.<br />
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"I know there's tremendous amounts of skepticism — if I were on the outside, I'd be skeptical too," Vanderhook said, conceding that such a turnaround "has never been done before."<br />
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Yet Vanderhook, who founded Specific Media in 1999 with his brothers Chris and Russell, insists the situation is not as bleak as it appears. He said Myspace's audience of about 70 million worldwide users is larger than it was in 2005, when the social network was on a growth trajectory and News Corp. paid $580 million for it. He said traffic has stabilized, after taking hits from a failed repositioning of the site last year as an entertainment destination and the subsequent damage inflicted by rumors of its impending sale.<br />
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Vanderhook said the Specific Media team has taken stock of Myspace's assets and examined ways to repair a user experience that he termed "terrible."<br />
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"To find a song is clunky. It's very, very tough to move around. It's an overall bad experience," he said. "One of the things we're focused on is simplicity."<br />
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Myspace is working to improve the site's navigation, eliminate clutter and simplify social networking features, such as the ability to comment on a music video. Vanderhook sees Myspace's competitive edge as its ability to marry the elements of community with its rights to stream 42 million songs free of charge.<br />
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"Underneath all of that clutter, we have a strong equity in pop culture and an equity in music," said Al Dejewski, Specific Media's senior vice president of global marketing. "We feel fairly confident we can rebuild this property."<br />
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Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson had the same insights about the social network's strengths in 2008, when they launched MySpace Music — a joint venture with the major record companies that allowed users to instantaneously stream songs, assemble playlists and post them to their public Myspace profile page, where friends could listen too. The initiative failed to meet the labels' expectations.<br />
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Turning back the clock on Myspace, to the time when it was the place people went to discover music and emerging acts went to get noticed, is the first step toward recovery. Dejewski said Myspace plans to create original programs rooted in music — say, a dance show that not only demonstrates new moves but also encourages users to submit their videos showcasing their own choreography.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/04/business/la-fi-ct-myspace-20111004"><b>Los Angeles Times </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-83581188202533178242011-10-21T13:10:00.000-07:002011-10-21T13:10:34.092-07:00With Khadafy gone, are the rebels ready to lead?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQjaGuZoe9SV5DHcxCt30ihuga6mG0GGBVIiFBN4Wszw5WgdTdmNqCCxqzyYqwkUNqC8fVO9fUuS30PYbiODAIzEhivOmnF6w7WMuyIB_Iuf8UETVB-6VHw-HbPPwBoGb_xYYrg5-FQM/s1600/Muammar+Gaddafi+Libya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQjaGuZoe9SV5DHcxCt30ihuga6mG0GGBVIiFBN4Wszw5WgdTdmNqCCxqzyYqwkUNqC8fVO9fUuS30PYbiODAIzEhivOmnF6w7WMuyIB_Iuf8UETVB-6VHw-HbPPwBoGb_xYYrg5-FQM/s320/Muammar+Gaddafi+Libya.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I've covered stories in Libya several times, and interviewed the late Moammar Khadafy on a few of those visits. <br />
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On Thursday, 9News asked me to talk about him on the day he was caught and killed. "What's next for Libya?" I was asked. My answer was, "If I sit here and actually tell you what's next for Libya, kick me out of the room." <br />
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No doubt, plenty of experts will authoritatively tell us anyway. But here's why they shouldn't: No one knows. And if you don't believe that, consider this: At the beginning of this year, you could have asked that question to the leaders of the very nations where rebellions rose up -- Khadafy in Libya, Mubarak of Egypt, Assad in Syria, Ben Ali in Tunisia, Saleh of Yemen -- and they themselves didn't have a clue ... even though each one had eyes and ears on every street corner of his country. <br />
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So we can only guess about what's next, and we can only base those guesses on our experience. Mine, covering many nations rent by revolution, is that a whole spectrum of opinions and ideologies bands together to fight a common foe. The Arab adage is, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." But that bond sometimes doesn't last beyond the last rifle shot. One thing we know about Libya is some of the rebels who fought shoulder-to-shoulder were guys who, before the revolution, wouldn't have sat at the same table together. <br />
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History also shows that when so many have waited so long for a place at the table, they'll push everyone else out of the way to get a chair. Such conflicts can torment a nation. <br />
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What's more, those who speak now for Libya liberally use the word "democracy." However, that means different things to different factions. For some, it means American-style freedoms of everything from speech to religion to opportunity. But for others, democracy means too much freedom -- the freedom to upset moral and cultural norms that have stood them well for millennia. <br />
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I never went to Libya without meeting someone who told me, "Oh, I have a brother living in the United States," or, "My son is going to college in your country." There is not the kind of intellectual vacuum in Libya that I've seen in less sophisticated countries like Afghanistan, Sudan or Yemen, a vacuum that can enable the radical forces of terror to gain a dominant hold on power. Quite simply, Libya has an educated and comfortable middle class whose lives have gotten better these past few decades -- and they know it wasn't thanks only to the force of Allah. <br />
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But now that the rebel factions must actually govern, they face a problem. For 40 years, Libya was a one-man show, with Khadafy at the top of everything: government, military, business, oil. Under his leadership, there was no individual initiative. Not even individual sports; everything had to be a team endeavor, everything had to be in the collective. <br />
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That's one reason he stayed in power so long: He didn't permit the organization of any kind of civic group that might grow into organized opposition. Every decision about people's lives emanated from the top. <br />
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The new Libya is born without a skeleton to build on. That's worrisome. On the other hand, the new Libya is born without a legacy to emulate. That's encouraging.<br />
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<b>Greg Dobbs</b><br />
Covered foreign stories for more than 30 years, first as is a correspondent for ABC News, then for HDNet television.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_19159642"><b>Denverpost.com </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-45923414866850355532011-10-21T13:05:00.000-07:002011-10-21T13:05:01.676-07:00With Gaddafi dead, what is next for Libya?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5kc3sD6YPAcqbhtPpkEOyedJv9Eut2E941E8n3-nwkX48VLs9NBa2YU5iMGuo0uISAzwZsGhb_iWwvG1r01-t3eEooCuULkEe0nKo36UBvBaLnRzRQYxQDSx31sssTLilbRmw4gst2_0/s1600/Muammar+Gaddafi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5kc3sD6YPAcqbhtPpkEOyedJv9Eut2E941E8n3-nwkX48VLs9NBa2YU5iMGuo0uISAzwZsGhb_iWwvG1r01-t3eEooCuULkEe0nKo36UBvBaLnRzRQYxQDSx31sssTLilbRmw4gst2_0/s320/Muammar+Gaddafi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>National Transitional Council (NTC) authorities have confirmed the Libyan leader is dead and his remains are in a Misrata mosque. He was killed while trying to flee his hometown Sirte. <br />
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According to reports, fighting stopped almost immediately as news of Gaddafi’s death spread. <br />
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As most Libyans celebrate on the streets, Libya’s transitional government has begun the process of rebuilding the country. <br />
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The NTC’s primary concerns in the immediate future are security and peace. Many fear widespread retribution against those who fought with Gaddafi’s forces, or in the worst case, a state of near-civil war driven by ethnic and tribal divisions. <br />
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At the United Nations on Thursday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for all Libyans to focus on reconciliation and unity, calling on combatants to lay down their arms and for the NTC to include all Libyans in the new government. Now is “a time for generosity of spirit, not revenge,” said Ban. <br />
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Elections are scheduled to be held eight months from now. <br />
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Libya’s economy is still suffering from the effect of Gaddafi’s 4-decade rule. Despite a wealth of natural resources in the country, most Libyans live on less than $2 per day, and unemployment is estimated at 40 per cent. <br />
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Some speculate Gaddafi’s death could put other leaders in the region (Syria or Yemen, for example) under more pressure to transition out of power. <br />
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The Stream spoke with Syrian-American Hip-Hop artist Omar Offendum and Mark Vlasic, international criminal lawyer and member of the U.S. delegation to the Pan Am Lockerbie trial at the Hague. We also spoke via Skype with Libyan-American doctor Mahmoud Traina, Libyan blogger Ali Tweel, and Libyan Fighter and intern doctor Mohammed Ali. <br />
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Source from : <a href="http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/gaddafi-dead-what-next-libya-0021482"><b>Aljazeera</b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-34571377992453882902011-10-21T12:56:00.000-07:002011-10-21T12:56:19.469-07:00Nokia promises Windows phone Soon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6mzI29yI3a-te4lbHZvcU0FBgtcv4AiQ8-dw_jiPicJwHsSMup9er7-I0FPOVPLgnMNn8H7RXHpeoq9zKL4-F7X7Ys7M4YbV_o5dTWLl1BnqzmhDhpDuVq2UpCuOAWt21Wo7r65WnajI/s1600/Nokia+Windows+Phone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6mzI29yI3a-te4lbHZvcU0FBgtcv4AiQ8-dw_jiPicJwHsSMup9er7-I0FPOVPLgnMNn8H7RXHpeoq9zKL4-F7X7Ys7M4YbV_o5dTWLl1BnqzmhDhpDuVq2UpCuOAWt21Wo7r65WnajI/s320/Nokia+Windows+Phone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>On the day that Apple launches the fifth generation of its ubiquitous iPhone, the once mighty Nokia is still weeks away from mounting a fightback. <br />
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Stephen Elop, chief executive of the Finnish mobile phone maker, on Tuesday promised to unveil its first Windows-based smartphones this quarter but it remains to be seen whether the they will start shipping in time for Christmas. <br />
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The launch is expected to coincide with the annual Nokia World trade show in London at the end of October and deliveries would need to start in early November to get the phones to consumers during the peak of the holiday-sales season. <br />
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In the past, Nokia has often unveiled phones half a year before deliveries started, but the company has said it plans to change that. <br />
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Addressing a technology fair, Elop argued there is room for the new Windows smartphone in an already fiercely competitive market dominated by the iPhone and models based on Google's Android operating system, which has won around half the market globally in the last few years. <br />
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"Our belief is that there is a clear opportunity for an alternative ecosystem," Elop said. <br />
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Meanwhile Apple, which only entered the cellphone industry in 2007, is expected to unveil the new version of its iconic iPhone later on Tuesday. <br />
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"You could argue that one of the most fundamental disruptions that the industry faced happened around 2007 ... when the iPhone was introduced," Elop said. "The iPhone did something disruptive. It introduced a new level of experience." <br />
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"They created a new bar... that all of a sudden everything else was measured against," he said. <br />
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<b>Market wants action</b><br />
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The iPhone 5 - expected to be faster, thinner and larger-screened - will arrive on the shelves just in time for the holidays. It should sustain Apple's smartphone momentum and help ward off a challenge from close runner-up Samsung, which uses Android. <br />
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Market sentiment towards Nokia has improved recently. According to Thomson Reuters data, with 14 analysts currently rating Nokia shares a buy and 17 saying sell. This compares with 9 on buy and 21 on sell at the start of September. <br />
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But the Windows phone has got it all to do. <br />
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"Mr Elop is talking. I want action - show me the products and show me when you will ship them," said John Strand, founder of Danish mobile industry consultancy Strand Consult. <br />
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The world's largest phone maker by volume, left in the dust by Apple and Google, announced a high-risk new strategy at the start of the year to ditch its home-grown Symbian software for a deal with Microsoft . <br />
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The switch - which Elop likened to jumping from a burning oil platform - meant a tough eight-month changeover period during which investors fretted about the delay between the announcement and the first of its Windows smartphone models reaching the market. <br />
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Already struggling with falling sales and profits, Nokia has seen its shares halve since the announcement on worries it would lose so much market share before the new phones come out that it might never make up lost ground. <br />
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Both Apple and Samsung outstripped Nokia in the smartphone market last quarter, ending its 15-year reign at the top of that market. Nokia's quarterly phone sales to end-June dropped 20% at a time when the market grew 10%.<br />
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The firm is expected to report a €0.02 loss per share for the September quarter, according to estimates gathered by Thomson Reuters. Elop, who took over a year ago, last week unveiled a plan to cut 3 500 jobs in his second major restructuring in six months. The redundancies come on top of cost cut plans set out in April, which included laying off 4 000 staff.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Nokia-promises-Windows-phone-soon-20111004"><b>News 24 </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-84993582227647410532011-10-20T02:37:00.000-07:002011-10-20T02:37:49.822-07:00Lionel Messi Has Fans 7 Million People in 7 Hours on Facebook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKYwGpbkPgVNh7-l9T3n0VdmZSnvnhsTNMZFNgLuKlJ7ChT7BNmzXdOehvaLzrw1fjyXn2umSIdHR-ebW0ECz2wLKCX7zmB9vy49-kgHm4N1ETB_QbXUvAj9pqZMVnlWsqzZSqnQHhXw/s1600/Lionel+Messi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDKYwGpbkPgVNh7-l9T3n0VdmZSnvnhsTNMZFNgLuKlJ7ChT7BNmzXdOehvaLzrw1fjyXn2umSIdHR-ebW0ECz2wLKCX7zmB9vy49-kgHm4N1ETB_QbXUvAj9pqZMVnlWsqzZSqnQHhXw/s320/Lionel+Messi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Lionel Messi, soccer players who come from the clubs Barcelona, Spain has provided a surprise to his fans around the world. Messi Fans on facebook social networking, through the number 7 million people in just over 7 hours since his fans facebook account is created. This is of course very surprising considering the previously messi chose not to make a facebook account. <br />
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Social media blog Mashable was first preached by the report that less than one day after Lionel Messi officially make the page up, the Argentine soccer star has collected approximately 6.9 million fanss up. Lionel Messi by using the Spanish language, saying "Hola" or Welcome to all the people on his facebook fans page. "Thank you very much for a large number of messages I receive. I am very happy! From now on we will be more closely connected through Facebook".<br />
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At this time, facebook page Fans Lionel Messi has grown to include photos, videos, and favorite links, such as UNICEF and the Foundation Leo Messi, and biographies inspirasionalnya. "No matter the title, trophy and honor," Messi said, "I will always be children who grew up in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.'s Where I learned to walk just to be able to pursue a dream." <br />
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Ok, at least I would to say hope Lionel Messi always succes to communication with his fans, whatever what cain social network he use for that. Hola Messi, and I'am waiting for your action and beautiful goals again in every games with FC Barcelona and Argentina national team.<br />
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Source from : <a href="http://www.bloggermaps.com/2011/04/lionel-messi-has-fans-7-million-people.html"><b>Blogger Maps </b></a>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-19692420796355426702011-10-19T22:58:00.000-07:002011-10-19T23:09:13.383-07:00BlackBerry "Down", the CEO of RIM Make Video Apologize<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #444444; float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left; width: 300px;"><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="hps">Founder</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">Co</span><span class="atn">-</span><span class="">CEO of</span> <span class="hps">RIM</span> <span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span> <span class="hps">specifically</span> <span class="hps">apologized for the</span> <span class="hps">problems</span> <span class="hps">on the BlackBerry service</span> <span class="hps">in various countries</span><span class="">.</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Founder</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">Co</span><span class="atn">-</span><span class="">CEO of</span> <span class="hps">RIM</span> <span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span> <span class="hps">specifically</span> <span class="hps">apologized for the</span> <span class="hps">problems</span> <span class="hps">on the BlackBerry service</span> <span class="hps">in various countries</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">Specifically, the</span> <span class="hps">RIM</span> <span class="hps">recorded</span> <span class="hps">his statement</span> <span class="hps">in the video</span> <span class="hps">that was launched</span> <span class="hps">at</span> <span class="hps">the company's</span> <span class="hps">YouTube</span> <span class="hps">channel</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">posted on</span> <span class="hps">his website.</span><br />
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<span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">Since launching</span> <span class="hps">the BlackBerry</span> <span class="hps">1999,</span> <span class="hps">my goal</span> <span class="hps">is to provide</span> <span class="hps">reliable</span> <span class="hps">real-time</span> <span class="hps">communications</span> <span class="hps">throughout the</span> <span class="hps">world</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">We have never had</span> <span class="hps">a problem</span> <span class="hps">sepelik</span> <span class="hps">this</span> <span class="hps">week</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">I apologize for</span> <span class="hps">his</span> <span class="hps">service</span> <span class="hps">down</span> <span class="hps">this week</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">We have</span> <span class="hps">to make you upset</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">but we</span> <span class="hps">assure</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">we</span> <span class="hps">try to</span> <span class="hps">resolve it as quickly</span> <span class="hps">as possible,</span> <span class="hps">"said</span> <span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span><span class="">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps">He realized</span> <span class="hps">it</span> <span class="hps">was too</span> <span class="hps">early to say</span> <span class="hps">that</span> <span class="hps">the problem</span> <span class="hps">has been solved</span> <span class="hps">completely</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">However</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">he tried</span> <span class="hps">to convince</span> <span class="hps">bahawa</span> <span class="hps">BlackBerry service</span> <span class="hps">recovery</span> <span class="hps">efforts</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Europe</span><span class="">, the Middle East</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">India</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">and Africa was</span> <span class="hps">close to perfect</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">RIM</span> <span class="hps">promised to</span> <span class="hps">continue to</span> <span class="hps">monitor the system</span> <span class="hps">continuously</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">working hard</span> <span class="hps">to restore the system</span> <span class="hps">to be</span> <span class="hps">stable</span><span class="">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">We hope the</span> <span class="hps">development</span> <span class="hps">continues to improve</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">It may be</span> <span class="hps">some</span> <span class="hps">instability</span> <span class="hps">but</span> <span class="hps">it is an</span> <span class="hps">effort to</span> <span class="hps">restore the system</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">normal conditions</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">all regions</span><span class="">,</span><span class="">" said</span> <span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">RIM</span> <span class="hps">will routinely</span> <span class="hps">report progress</span> <span class="hps">through the</span> <span class="hps">recovery</span> <span class="hps">process</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">social networking</span> <span class="hps">websites</span><span class="">.</span><br />
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<span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span> <span class="hps">acknowledges</span> <span class="hps">eager</span> <span class="hps">notify all</span> <span class="hps">customers'</span> <span class="hps">BlackBerry</span> <span class="hps">when</span> <span class="hps">recovery</span> <span class="hps">worldwide</span> <span class="hps">is estimated to</span> <span class="hps">be completed</span><span class="">.</span> <span class="hps">However</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">he can not</span> <span class="hps">say</span> <span class="hps">for now.</span><br />
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<span class="hps atn">"</span><span class="">For those of you</span> <span class="hps">who are victims</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">I</span> <span class="hps">know this is</span> <span class="hps">frustrating.</span> <span class="hps">We do the</span> <span class="hps">best possible</span> <span class="hps">action</span> <span class="hps">on all fronts</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">restore</span> <span class="hps">service</span> <span class="hps">to normal</span> <span class="hps">and we are working</span> <span class="hps">tapa</span> <span class="hps">tired to</span> <span class="hps">restore</span> <span class="hps">your</span> <span class="hps">confidence</span><span class="">,</span><span class="">" said</span> <span class="hps">Mike</span> <span class="hps">Lazaridis</span><span class="">.</span></span>My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182995941617646208.post-4437741794715088722011-10-19T22:52:00.000-07:002011-10-19T22:52:16.947-07:00One Million Code Lines To Building Android 4.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjR5y-ZWsZfYh6ZSBjbPpZKZ-h1XZo7P80QHH67Z8egUbG5UIqFCdIIL2Sas1FfJ0Rt2vskjCrhnBVgosXnW5aF9wNqlHu119SeDSF_-bv6lvKgkhyZxLHFRj-c0ifG31_0bdyym4SFN8/s1600/Android.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjR5y-ZWsZfYh6ZSBjbPpZKZ-h1XZo7P80QHH67Z8egUbG5UIqFCdIIL2Sas1FfJ0Rt2vskjCrhnBVgosXnW5aF9wNqlHu119SeDSF_-bv6lvKgkhyZxLHFRj-c0ifG31_0bdyym4SFN8/s320/Android.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A few hours after Samsung and Google launched the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), SVP Mobile Google's Andy Rubin at conference sessions AllThingD's Asia platform and talk about Google's plans for the future.<br />
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As quoted from TheNextWeb, Rubin discuss the launch of the Galaxy Nexus and Google Android 4.0 and plans to smartphone Nexus and Google Android smartphone made by other vendors.<br />
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Rubin also tells how many Google engineers and designers worked hard to build Galaxy Nexus. They are all involved directly in the manufacture and design of Google's smartphone operating system is the latest. Google workers are working with all the hardware partner, Samsung and Texas Instruments for his cell phone as the processor supplier.<br />
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Rubin adds, behind Android Ice Cream Sandwich there is more than one million lines of code. Yes, it takes one million lines of code to build the latest Android.<br />
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Andy Rubin said, "You certainly do not want to build something that is mediocre and then threw over the fence", is related to the Galaxy Nexus is used as a "reference design". That is, Google wants to Galaxy Nexus can be a reference to the mobile phone vendors in designing Android smartphones and tablets.<br />
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In building the Ice Cream Sandwich, Rubin said Google has been working hard to improve the quality of the user interface platform, by making it more intuitive.<br />
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He says "It takes a long time to increase the ability of honeycomb. Ice Cream Sandwich is the best platform we have ever made."My Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906889778712113396noreply@blogger.com0