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Thursday Highlights: Should Apple save, or spend their cash reserves?; Forbes’ Nigam Arora suggests that Apple’s massive earnings validate Siri and iPad juggernaut in business; Toronto’s Globe and Mail infographic on Apple’s domination; there is a human cost to making Apple products, and the NY Times is determined to find out what it is; Google gave stamp of approval to Motorola in lawsuit over Apple’s iPhone, iCloud; Arik Hesseldahl reports of CAD-maker, Autodesk’s pleasure with their Mac software business; PC Advisor reviews Macgo, a Blu-ray player for Mac giving it 3 out of 5 stars finding it an acceptable, but “far from slick experience”; Joe Wikert on iBooks Author attempting to separate the facts from the fuss; and Chris Maxcer is hoping for Apple to make a “better, more integrated” solution to the two OSes in Apple’s stable, OS X, and iOS; Forrester report says almost half of businesses now issue Macs to employees, as well as support iPad, which happen to be used by employees over laptops in company loaner programs; a CIRP report reveals nine in ten iPhone buyers choose the iPhone 4S; Distimo shows that App sales have significant impact on revenue when they go on sale; Strategy Analytics show Apple maintaining “strong leadership” in global tablet shipments with 58% of the market; Macworld|iWorld has “new brand, a new focus“; MacDirectory interviews “pure Mac” guy, and husband to Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale; at Apple’s town hall on Wednesday, Tim Cook unveiled new, “hefty” employee discounts for Apple products; find the latest Apple patent applications down in our Hardware/Software section; Daily Ticker video report on “Inside Apple”; for many years, Apple fans were considered part of a “cult”, but Harry McCracken says that stereotype’s run is over; iPhone 5 rumors on the rise again, but Sascha Segan says they all miss the point because it’s all about the software; live in Pennsylvania? Are you aware of the new taxes on internet sales?
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- “Forrester: Nearly 50% of businesses now issuing Macs, 27% support the iPad”?VentureBeat?10:46 AM
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- “Forrester: 1 in 5 information workers tote Apple products”?ZDNet?12:34 PM
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- “21% of information workers use Apple products: Report”?iTWire?5:19 PM
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- “iPads For All: One Sales Team’s Story/Level 3 just gave iPads to its entire North American sales team, and IT packed them with apps customized to their jobs.”?InformationWeek?10:58 AM
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- “Company uses iPads instead of laptops in loaner program”?Network World?11:28 AM
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- “Nine Out of 10 iPhone Buyers Are Picking the 4S”?AllThingsD?8:09 AM
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- “Apple and General Motors Ads Dominate NFL Playoff Games According to Ace Metrix”?Business Wire?9:22 AM
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- “The Mac Comeback: Analysis Reveals 46% of Companies Issue Macs”?ReadWriteWeb?3:02 PM
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- “The Impact Of App Discounts And The Impact Of Being A Featured App”?Distimo?10:36 AM
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- “What Happens When Apps Go On Sale? Revenue Up 22% On iPhone, 29% On Android”?TechCrunch?10:36 AM
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- “Distimo: Being Featured In The Android Market Can Boost Apps’ Rank By 172% While Featured, 828% After”?TechCrunch?11:00 AM
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- “Strategy Analytics: Android Captures Record 39 Percent Share of Global Tablet Shipments in Q4 2011/According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Android jumped to a record 39 percent global share, while Apple iOS maintained its strong leadership at 58 percent.”?Business Wire?7:43 AM
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- “Apple doesn’t fear Android tablet gains, but PC makers should”?GigaOM?10:09 AM
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- “Strategy Analytics: Apple still owns tablet market, but Android narrows the gap”?Engadget?7:43 AM
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- “iPad Still King: Maintains Majority Marketshare of Tablet Shipments in Q4 2011″?PadGadget?3:24 PM
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- “Android to Topple iOS as Developer Platform of Choice”?PadGadget?8:58 AM
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- “Who Has Apples at Work? In Many Cases, It’s the Bosses”?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?10:13 AM
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- “Apple’s grip on tablet market said to be loosening as Android shipments tripled in Q4″?BGR?8:59 AM
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- “Macworld Conference Carries On Without Apple”?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?4:14 PM
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- “Macworld Expo Kicks Off Today At Moscone Center”?Bay City News?3:53 PM
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- “Macworld | iWorld: It’s about business, too”?Macworld?10:52 AM
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- “What’s new at Macworld: The 28-year-old expo has new brand, a new focus and hundreds of fizzy new products”?Fortune?9:59 AM
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- “AT&T outduels Verizon in iPhone”?CNNMoney?10:28 AM
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- “AT&T Sets Record With 7.6 Million iPhone Activations in 4Q11″?The Mac Observer?10:19 AM
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- “Apple’s Gain Is ATT’s Pain”?Forbes?11:40 AM
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- “Source: Apple’s Mobile Ad Business Was Held Back By Steve Jobs’ Illness”?Business Insider?2:46 PM
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- “Everything is Relative – Nokia Bounces as much as Apple”?Forbes?8:10 AM
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- “Part-Time Apple Employees Now Eligible to Participate in Charitable Matching Program”?MacRumors?3:24 PM
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- “Ron Johnson Reveals How He’s Going To Make JC Penney Look More Like Apple”?Business Insider?11:39 AM
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- “JC Penney Gets Apple-Like Bounce”?Barron’s?3:25 PM
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- “Logica says cloud is ‘railway of 21st century’”?Techworld?11:38 AM
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- “Kim Dotcom ‘email’ to neighbours: Don’t forget the cocaine”?Stuff: New Zealand?11:32 AM
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- “Toshiba considers global launch of BookPlace e-reader: Japanese manufacturer said it will have 100,000 titles by March for its online bookstore”?Techworld?11:39 AM
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- “Startup Nivio Offers Virtual Windows Desktop to Tablets, Phones”?PC Magazine?11:18 AM
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- “Zynga Accused of Ripping Off Idea for Dream Heights Game”?PC Magazine?11:17 AM
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- “Verizon Razr Maxx, With 21 Hours of Go Time, Now Available”?eWeek?10:48 AM
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- “New HTML5 Site Gives Coding Advice to Developers”?eWeek?10:47 AM
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- “Chrome lets Web pages use smarter autofill technology”?CNET News?10:10 AM
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- “Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future”?Wired Magazine?11:55 AM
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- “Google thinks this lady browses like a dude”?MSNBC?11:09 AM
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- “What JavaScript’s inventor really thinks about Google Dart”?InfoWorld?10:59 AM
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- “Google Experimenting With TCP For a Faster Web”?eWeek?10:48 AM
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- “Google Public Alerts Tips Users to Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Floods”?eWeek?10:47 AM
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- “Google stirs up privacy hornet’s nest: With no opt-out option, Google plans to combine users’ data across services”?Computerworld?10:39 AM
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- “AT&T chief bashes FCC, pleads for more spectrum: Accuses FCC of ‘picking winners and losers’”?Network World?11:24 AM
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- “AT&T loses whopping $6.7B on pensions, T-Mobile breakup”?CNET News?10:11 AM
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- “Nokia Names Risto Siilasmaa as Chairman to Replace Retiring Jorma Ollila”?Bloomberg?10:03 AM
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- “1 Billion Euro Loss and a Silver Lining for Nokia”?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?10:14 AM
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- “Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:40 AM
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- “Nintendo says Wii U to launch before 2012 holiday season”?Reuters [Free Registration Required]?10:56 AM
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- “Nintendo Slashes Annual Targets for 3DS Despite Price Cuts, Software Bonanza”?IDG News Service?11:20 AM
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- “Exclusive | Gavin Rossdale: Front & Center” ["'Yeah, I'm pure Mac'"]?MacDirectory?11:01 AM
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- “Macworld|iWorld Interview with Patrick O’Neill, CEO of olloclip”?Your Mac Life?12:56 PM
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- “Macworld|iWorld Interview with Jason Palmer of Epson”?Your Mac Life?11:47 AM
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- “Macworld|iWorld Interview with Paul Scandariato, Doxie Go + Wi-Fi”?Your Mac Life?10:58 AM
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- “Tim Cook at today’s Town Hall: Starting in June, Apple employees get $500 off Macs, $250 off iPads”?9 to 5 Mac?7:53 AM
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- “Apple to reward employees with hefty product discounts”?CNET News?8:58 AM
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- “Apple Reportedly gives big discounts to employees”?TG Daily?7:36 AM
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- “Apple Employees to Get $500 Off Macs, $250 Off iPads”?PCWorld?8:49 AM
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- “Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs ‘n slabs to staff: Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discounts”?The Register?9:14 AM
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- “iPhone 5 to feature larger display, Reports hint”?Crave @ CNET?8:10 AM
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- “Firmware Updates for Mac mini, MacBook, and 13-Inch MacBook Pro”?TidBITS?7:49 AM
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- “$4.99 iOS 5 Battery Fix Available From Cydia Is A Complete Scam”?Cult of Mac?7:52 AM
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- “KDDI Lifts Revenue Outlook on iPhone Demand”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?10:52 AM
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| Apple Patent Applications |
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- “Apple’s Second Siri Patent Discusses All Things Hands-Free”?Patently Apple?3:26 PM
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- “Apple introduces us to the Wild World of Coded Magnets”?Patently Apple?10:44 AM
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- “Apple’s universal remote concept hints at future television set”?AppleInsider?8:01 AM
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- “Apple patent filing hints at possible touchscreen TV remote”?Electronista?9:15 AM
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- “Apple Eyeing SDK For IAP Accessories”?MacNews?8:52 AM
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- “Apple Patents Reflect Work On Even Better Displays”?MacNews?8:51 AM
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- “Apple Patent Is For Magnetically Implemented Security Devices”?MacNews?9:12 AM
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- “Steve Jobs’ Name Appears On Interface-Related Patent”?MacNews?9:17 AM
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- “Kingdom Rush For iPad Is $0.99 Today (Was $2.99)”?Apple Sliced?12:30 PM
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- “Kingdom Rush For iPad Is $0.99 Today (Was $2.99)”?Apple Sliced?12:30 PM
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- “Kingdom Rush For iPad Is $0.99 Today (Was $2.99)”?Apple Sliced?12:30 PM
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- “PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 18 iPad Apps on Sale”?PadGadget?7:45 AM
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- “15″ MacBook Pro Prices & Sales”?MacPrices?7:47 AM
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- “MacBook Air Prices & Sales”?MacPrices?7:47 AM
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- “Apple MacBook Pro Buyer’s Guide -13 Inch Models -Best Prices, Reviews & Information”?MacReviewZone?12:39 PM
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- “Apple MacBook Air Buyer’s Guide -Models, Prices And Information”?MacReviewZone?12:39 PM
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- “iPod Touch Buyer’s Guide… The Best iPod Touch Prices, Deals, Reviews And Information”?MacReviewZone?12:43 PM
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- “iPod Nano Buyer’s Guide -The Best iPod Prices, Deals, Reviews And Information”?MacReviewZone?12:43 PM
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Deal Brothers Daily Deal: iMac 27-inch 2.8GHz Intel Quad-Core i5 processor:? $1449.00 Delivered
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- “Cassandra -Friday Review: The Weekend Arrives”?eXtensions?9:31 PM
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- “Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes: In the hunt for innovation, that elusive elixir of economic growth and corporate prosperity, try a little jazz as an inspirational metaphor.”?New York Times [Free Registration Required]?5:00 PM
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- “Five Ways to Improve Gmail for iOS”?Ken Yarmosh?4:59 PM
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- “These charts will make the Fandroids want to puke”?MacDailyNews?4:15 PM
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- “It’s An Apple iPhone World, We All Just Live In It”?Forbes?3:26 PM
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- “Apple Management: Falling Down on the Job?”?WSJ Blogs?3:26 PM
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- “Is Apple’s New Patent Proof of an iTV Set?”?Minyanville?1:13 PM
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- “Why Apple’s Trumping Android in Enterprises”?Forbes?12:42 PM
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- “Are These Idiotic iPad Thieves Uploading Their Pics to Photo Stream?”?Gizmodo?12:42 PM
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- “‘Figuring Out’ Apple Feels Like A Sisyphean Task”?Investopedia?12:42 PM
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- “Apple, Electronics and Environmental Ills”?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?3:23 PM
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- “Former Apple Executives Address Working Conditions in Suppliers’ Factories”?MacRumors?11:39 AM
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- “Science Project + Daughter + Dad = iTunes Hit?”?Wired?10:38 AM
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- “The Macalope Daily: Better safe than right”?Macworld [Insider Content]?10:12 AM
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- “Apple’s stingy employee discount”?ZDNet?9:59 AM
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- “Media spotlight shines bright on Macworld|iWorld Day One”?The Mac Observer?9:12 AM
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- “Fancy A Prototype Apple Laptop?”?AppleBitch?9:11 AM
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- “For carriers, the bittersweet drug that is the iPhone”?CNET News?9:02 AM
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- “On Apple’s Efforts to Improve Supply Chain Conditions”?iDownload Blog?8:49 AM
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- “iWant: Automatic Sync for iPods, iPhones and iPads”?Kirkville?8:10 AM
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- “Apple in China: The New York Times goes for the Pulitzer”?Fortune?8:10 AM
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- “Should Apple Do More To Help The US Economy?”?MacNews?8:09 AM
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- “2012, The Next iPhone, And LTE”?MacStories?8:02 AM
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- “Apple’s Rotten Side Has a Familiar Look”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:56 AM
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- “How iPad Demand Led to Last Year’s Deadly Foxconn Explosion”?Gizmodo?9:23 AM
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- “Former executives accuse Apple of ignoring supplier labor abuses”?AppleInsider?8:01 AM
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- “Pricing in Apple Online Stores in Thailand and the rest of the World”?eXtensions?7:50 AM
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- “CFOs Ponder M&A as Apple’s Billions Hint at Future Deals”?CFOWorld?7:49 AM
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- “Google’s New Unified Privacy Policy: Much Ado About Nothing?”?The Mac Observer?12:33 PM
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- “Behind Ubuntu’s shift into mobile”?ZDNet UK?12:00 PM
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- “We need to talk about ITIL”?ZDNet?11:58 AM
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- “Saying goodbye to a legendary robot”?TG Daily?11:41 AM
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- “LTE-Advanced gets the go-ahead, but don’t expect faster 4G as a result”?IDG News Service?11:01 AM
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- “How Not To Destroy Your Professional Reputation On Facebook”?Forbes?10:52 AM
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- “The Cloud Will Transform Every Company in Every Sector”?E-Commerce Times?10:45 AM
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- “Reuters Magazine: The Hashtag Revolution”?Reuters?10:15 AM
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- “Can you snag a tech job with training alone?”?Fortune?10:03 AM
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- “Nokia Sells 1 Million Windows Phones, But Symbian Dropping Faster than Expected”?AllThingsD?9:51 AM
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- “Android’s tablet share at 39 percent as shipments triple, says study”?IDG News Service?11:00 AM
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- “Google, Look Out Behind You!”?TechCrunch?11:37 AM
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- “Are analysts missing the big picture on Google?”?MarketWatch?10:04 AM
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- “Google’s new cross-service info sharing: Why the hubbub?”?Network World?11:23 AM
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- “How to choose what you share with Google”?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?9:53 AM
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- “How Google keeps your secrets private”?CNNMoney?9:49 AM
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- “Buying a Super-Bowl-Worthy TV”?SmartMoney?9:41 AM
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- “Inside SAP’s Skunkworks as It Takes Aim at Oracle”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:39 AM
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- “Logical Step: Samsung Shifts Its Focus for Chips”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:38 AM
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- “Netflix Doesn’t Want to Compete With Cable, Hulu, iTunes or Gamefly. But HBO…”?AllThingsD?10:39 AM
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- “Google passes Facebook as the most global-friendly website, Apple doesn’t make the top 10″?The Next Web?8:59 AM
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- “7 Things I Learned From Building My First Desktop PC”?PCWorld?8:32 AM
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- “When Metadata Comes to Twitter”?PCWorld?7:46 AM
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- “Pearls Before Swine”?GoComics?7:51 AM
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- “Mackie’s iPad Controlled Mixer Lets Sound Techs Escape the Booth”?Gizmodo?7:18 PM
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- “Blue Announces New Microphones for Mac, iPad, iPhone”?The Mac Observer?7:18 PM
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- “Expo Notes: iSupport debuts three iPhone mounts for shooting steady Video”?Macworld?7:01 PM
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- “iWorld 2012: Bottle Opener Cases, Wave Cradle, Nomad Brush, Wallet Case”?MacRumors?5:00 PM
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- “ATARI’s ‘Breakout?: Boost+’ Hits The App Store”?RazorianFly?3:54 PM
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- “‘Junk Jack’ for iPad Might Be Closer than You Think”?Touch Arcade?3:02 PM
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- “Steam hits iOS and Android for buying, but not playing games”?Electronista?2:46 PM
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- “Lantronix xPrintServer Allows iOS Devices to Use Network Printers”?The Mac Observer?2:41 PM
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- “QuickShot Automatically Syncs Photos Taken With Your iOS Device to Dropbox”?iClarified?12:43 PM
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- “Jailbreaking is Not a Crime, Sign the Petition”?iClarified?12:43 PM
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- “Launch Center Automates iPhone Apps Using Notification Center”?Wired?12:34 PM
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- “Kidz Gear Launches Headphones for Kids Made Especially for Apple Devices”?Thomas PR?12:32 PM
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- “Corporate PowerPoint files now play on iPad/Macworld|iWorld: Enterprise version of Brainshark’s PowerPoint translator debuts”?Network World?11:28 AM
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- “ShoeBox App Now Integrates With Facebook Timeline, Lets You Add Photos To Years Past”?TechCrunch?11:01 AM
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- “Drchrono Raises $2.8M From Yuri Milner And Others To Help Bring Medical Records To The iPad”?TechCrunch?11:01 AM
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- “‘RAGE HD’ Updated With New Levels, Better Models”?Touch Arcade?10:46 AM
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- “Vid.ly Universal Video Platform Reveals Android Gaining on iOS in Mobile Video Wars”?PRNewswire?10:11 AM
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- “Sogeti Launches Free iOS and Android Software Testing Life Cycle App: TMap? Life Cycle”?PRNewswire?10:11 AM
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- “Headquake Absolute 3D Sound iPhone App Launch @ CES”?PRWeb?10:11 AM
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- “MoPho, an App That Allows iPhone Users to Purchase Photo Gifts and Products Directly From Their Device, Hits Top 20 Photography Apps in the US Within 2 Week of Release.”?PRWeb?10:11 AM
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- “Zombie: the Rescue–Recipe for App Store Success Launches”?PRWeb?10:10 AM
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- “Ntractive Announces Elements CRM for iPad: Ntractive has taken their desktop cloud application and moved it to the iPad platform. Elements CRM for iPad is the first of its kind iPad app that looks, works and feels just like a desktop app.”?PRWeb?10:10 AM
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- “IntelliChief Document Management Goes Mobile: IntelliChief Extends IBM i Series, and Other Documents by Taking Them Mobile via Apple?, Android?, and Windows? Mobile Devices”?PRWeb?10:10 AM
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- “One Touch iPad and iPhone Uploader for Apple iOS 5″?Business Wire?9:23 AM
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- “SRS Labs Showcases Award-Winning Audio Accessories and Apps at 2012 Macworld | iWorld”?Business Wire?9:23 AM
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- “Viggle? Loyalty Program for TV Now Available in iTunes App Store: Free app enables users to check into TV shows and get real rewards such as gift cards, movie tickets, music and much more; innovative brands and networks onboard for launch”?Business Wire?9:23 AM
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- “Intuit’s Free Mobile App Helps Low-income Taxpayers Find, Claim Overlooked Credit: Earned Income Tax Credit Finder Can Put Up To $5,700 in People’s Pockets”?Business Wire?9:23 AM
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- “Shazam to Make ESPN’s Winter X Games Aspen 2012 More Interactive: Winter X Games to serve as first Live Telecast for Shazam for TV? – gives fans convenient mobile access to music, highlights and related social media”?Business Wire?9:22 AM
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- “WD demos its first Thunderbolt drive at Macworld”?CNET News?4:46 PM
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- “Western Digital MyBook Thunderbolt Duo eyes-on at Macworld 2012 (Video)”?Engadget?3:53 PM
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- “WD’s MyBook takes a Thunderbolt to the chest: 2-drive external storage system for mega-fast read/writes”?The Register?9:15 AM
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- “Siri voice translation comes to the iPhone 4S via Lingual”?The Verge?8:59 AM
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- “SpotON Radio app brings more Spotify to iOS”?iPodNN?7:52 AM
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- “PDFpen and PDFpenPro 5.7″?TidBITS?7:49 AM
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- “Top 10 iPad game of the year now available for iPhone and iPod touch”?Prank Ltd?7:49 AM
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- “Miss Pivot releases interactive book via mobile app- Fire Cupid”?prMac?3:02 PM
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- “Hygiene-O-Meter – an iPhone app to test your hygiene score released”?prMac?10:46 AM
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- “Fragmented HD 1.0 for iPad – The Easiest Way To Share Your Photos”?prMac?7:58 AM
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- “Sculpt My Pregnancy for iPhone and iPad – Safe Uniquely Tailored Fitness”?prMac?7:45 AM
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- “Middle School Writing 1.0 Takes Writing Preparation Skills to New Levels”?prMac?7:45 AM
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- “How to Get to App Store’s What’s Hot list for Lifestyle in one month”?prMac?7:45 AM
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- “AntiCrop for iOS – First Photo Uncropping App in Existence”?prMac?7:45 AM
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- “Half Breed 1.0 released for iOS and Android – New Action Game”?prMac?7:45 AM
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- “Spy Pirates for iPhone and iPad, Sneaky New Game, Lots of Fun, Adventure”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “Facebook Timeline Cover Designer For iPhone Brings Out Your Inner Artist”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “Personalize Your iPhone Ringtones, Text Tones and Alert Tones”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “Super Swap! – Popular Puzzle Game Now Free For iPhone and iPad”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “SimpleSort Counting: A Preschool app that teaches early math skills”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “Besserwisser – An original multiplayer quiz game”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “Education With iOS: Apps to Reinvent Your Science Classroom”?prMac?7:44 AM
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- “NEC to cut 10,000 workers, forecasts $1.3 billion loss in year through March: NEC will slash 3,000 jobs outside Japan as it copes with the effects of the Thai floods and problems in its mobile business”?IDG News Service?10:29 AM
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- “NEC to Eliminate 10,000 Jobs After Forecasting $1.3 Billion Full-Year Loss”?Bloomberg?10:20 AM
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- “NEC slashes 10,000 jobs ? blames Thai floods, smartphone slump”?The Register?11:44 AM
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- “NEC Posts Loss, Cuts Jobs”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:50 AM
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- “Microsoft Ready To Wage War Against Apple, Google With Nokia Lumia”?Forbes?10:03 AM
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- “Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in fourth quarter to adopt Windows Phone 7; billions more to follow”?Computerworld Blogs?10:30 AM
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- “Microsoft Paid Nokia $250 Million To Switch To Windows Phone, And That’s Only The First Payment”?Business Insider?10:03 AM
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- “Challenges Ahead for Windows 8 on ARM”?Forbes?9:59 AM
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- “Microsoft’s magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux”?The Register?11:45 AM
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- “Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure”?ZDNet?11:58 AM
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- “15 essential open source tools for Windows admins: Microsoft offers great tools for enhancing your server-side experience, but open source has impressive options as well” [Slideshow]?InfoWorld?10:59 AM
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- “Rumors Aside, XBox 720 Needs To Keep Its Eyes On The Prize”?Forbes?10:53 AM
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- “New Xbox may block used games”?TG Daily?11:40 AM
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- “Dell Confident In Long-Term Prospects, Will Continue Buying Back Shares”?Barron’s?10:02 AM
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- “Dell teams with Microsoft on private cloud starter system”?V3?11:50 AM
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- “IBM Mixes Scientists, Social Media, And Supercomputers — Here’s What They Get”?Business Insider?9:57 AM
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- “A Hidden Reason That IBM’s Earnings Are Outstanding”?The Motley Fool?9:57 AM
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- “HP WebOS Open Source Timeline Revealed: HP will release Open WebOS 1.0 in pieces during the next eight months, disappointing some developers who’d hoped to get the entire platform at once.”?InformationWeek?10:57 AM
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- “WebOS Open Source Launch Set for September”?Techland?11:48 AM
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- “HP Hopes to Lure Mobile App Developers to Open webOS”?PCWorld?11:20 AM
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- “HP webOS open source begins ? what next?”?ZDNet?11:59 AM
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- “HP updates small-business color printer line”?ZDNet?11:58 AM
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- “Intel pays $120M for RealNetworks video patents, software”?CNET News?10:10 AM
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- “RealNetwork To Sell Patents, Video Codec To Intel For $120M”?Forbes?9:59 AM
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- “RealNetworks to Sell Patents to Intel”?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:50 AM
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- “Cisco CEO Chambers on Strategy, Outlook” [Video Report]?Bloomberg?9:55 AM
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- “Cisco’s Chambers: Business is easier in Russia”?CNNMoney?9:49 AM
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- “Cisco takes a bite out of the datacenter server market”?ZDNet?11:58 AM
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- “Say goodbye to Fast Ethernet: 10G Ethernet is expected to make up the majority of revenue in Ethernet switching by 2016 due to data center requirements for the higher-speed ports”?Network World?11:00 AM
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ITN’s Sue Saville reports.
Updated 5:20 p.m. ET: The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday with a promise never to forget the genocide at?Auschwitz during World War II.
Friday was the 67th anniversary of the Nazi camp’s liberation by Soviet troops. Jan. 27 was designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations in 2005, and marked with ceremonies across Europe.
In Poland, Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of the memorial site, died Friday on the anniversary of its liberation.
Smolen died in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum.
Sawicki said soon after Smolen’s death the news was announced to Holocaust survivors who had gathered at the vast site of dilapidated barracks still enclosed in barbed-wire fencing, The Associated Press reported. They fell silent for a minute in his honor.
Smolen was born on April 19, 1920, in the southern Polish town of Chorzow Stary. He was a Pole involved in the anti-Nazi resistance who was arrested by the Germans in April 1941 and taken to Auschwitz in one of the early mass shipments of prisoners there. He left the camp on the last transport of prisoners evacuated by the Germans on Jan. 18, 1945, nine days before its liberation. He later attributed his survival to good health and extreme luck.
He once explained his decision to return to the camp to manage it as a way of honoring those who were killed there.
“Sometimes when I think about it, I feel it may be some kind of sacrifice, some kind of obligation I have for having survived,” he said.
In other gestures of remembrance, Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg apologized for his nation’s role in arresting and deporting Jews after it was invaded by Nazi Germany. During the war, 772 Norwegian Jews and Jewish refugees were deported to Germany. Only 34 survived.
He said it’s time the nation acknowledges that politicians and other Norwegians took part and expressed “our deep regrets that this could have happened on Norwegian soil.” He spoke at a ceremony in Oslo attended by the last surviving Jew in a group of 532 deported from Norway in 1942.
In Turkey, state television on Thursday broadcast the epic French documentary “Shoah,” about the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime. It was the first time the film has been aired on public television in a predominantly Muslim country.
“It is a historical event,” filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, 87, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home in Paris. “It is extremely important that it is being shown in a Muslim country.”
Germany’s Parliament also gathered Friday for a special sitting to remember the Holocaust.
Prominent survivor and literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki recalled how the Nazi SS informed members of the Warsaw ghetto’s Jewish council in July 1942 of plans for the inhabitants’ “resettlement” to the east.
Reich-Ranicki, 91, recounted how a “deathly silence” was followed by uproar. He said those present “seemed to sense what had happened: that the sentence had been pronounced for the biggest Jewish city in Europe. The death sentence.”
The Nazis set up the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940, cramming hundreds of thousands of Jews into inhuman conditions. Most who survived disease and starvation in the ghetto were transported to death camps.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10252029-holocaust-remembered-across-the-world
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LOS ANGELES ? Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and “semi-conscious, barely,” according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.
The woman tells emergency operators that Moore, 49, had been “having issues lately.”
“Is she breathing normal?” the operator asks.
“No, not so normal. More kind of shaking, convulsing, burning up,” the friend says as she hurries to Moore’s side, on the edge of panic.
The recording captures the 10 minutes it took paramedics to arrive as friends gather around the collapsed star and try to comfort her as she trembles and shakes.
Another woman is next to Moore as the dispatcher asks if she’s responsive.
“Demi, can you hear me?” she asks. “Yes, she’s squeezing hands. … She can’t speak.”
When the operator asks what Moore ingested or smoked, the friend replies, but the answer was redacted.
“Some form of … and then she smoked something. I didn’t really see. She’s been having some issues lately with some other stuff. So I don’t know what she’s been taking or not,” the friend says.
The city attorney’s office advised the fire department to redact details about medical conditions and substances to comply with federal medical privacy rules.
“She smoked something. It’s not marijuana. It’s similar to incense,” the friend says to the 911 operator.
While Moore’s friends don’t say exactly what she smoked, an increasingly popular drug known as Spice is sometimes labeled as “herbal incense.”
Spice is a synthetic cannabis drug and also called K2. It’s sold in small packets over the Internet, in smoke shops and at convenience stores. The packaging sometimes reads “not for human consumption” to conceal its purpose.
In 2011, there were twice as many spice-related calls to Poison Control Centers nationwide as in the previous year, according to the National Office of Drug Control Policy.
The adverse health effects associated with synthetic marijuana include anxiety, vomiting, racing heartbeat, seizures, hallucinations, and paranoid behavior.
Asked if Moore took the substance intentionally or not, the woman says Moore ingested it on purpose but the reaction was accidental.
“Whatever she took, make sure you have it out for the paramedics,” the operator says.
The operator asks the friend if this has happened before.
“I don’t know,” she says. “There’s been some stuff recently that we’re all just finding out.”
Moore’s publicist, Carrie Gordon, said previously that the actress sought professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health. She would not comment further on the emergency call or provide details about the nature or location of Moore’s treatment.
The past few months have been rocky for Moore.
She released a statement in November announcing she had decided to end her marriage to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher, 33, following news of alleged infidelity. The two were known to publicly share their affection for one another via Twitter.
Moore still has a Twitter account under the name mrskutcher but has not posted any messages since Jan. 7.
During the call, the woman caller says the group of friends had turned Moore’s head to the side and was holding her down. The dispatcher tells her not to hold her down but to wipe her mouth and nose and watch her closely until paramedics arrive.
“Make sure that we keep an airway open,” the dispatcher says. “Even if she passes out completely, that’s OK. Stay right with her.”
The phone is passed around by four people, including a woman who gives directions to the gate and another who recounts details about what Moore smoked or ingested. Finally, the phone is given to a man named James, so one of the women can hold Moore’s head.
There was some confusion at the beginning of the call. The emergency response was delayed by nearly two minutes as Los Angeles and Beverly Hills dispatchers sorted out which city had jurisdiction over the street where Moore lives.
As the call is transferred to Beverly Hills, the frantic woman at Moore’s house raises her voice and said, “Why is an ambulance not on its way right now?”
“Ma’am, instead of arguing with me why an ambulance is not on the way, can you spell (the street name) for me?” the Beverly Hills dispatcher says.
Although the estate is located in the 90210 ZIP code above Benedict Canyon, the response was eventually handled by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
By the end of the call, Moore has improved.
“She seems to have calmed down now. She’s speaking,” the male caller told the operator.
Moore and Kutcher were wed in September 2005.
Kutcher became a stepfather to Moore’s three daughters ? Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle ? from her 13-year marriage to actor Bruce Willis. Moore and Willis divorced in 2000 but remained friendly.
Moore and Kutcher created the DNA Foundation, also known as the Demi and Ashton Foundation, in 2010 to combat the organized sexual exploitation of girls around the globe. They later lent their support to the United Nations’ efforts to fight human trafficking, a scourge the international organization estimates affects about 2.5 million people worldwide.
Meanwhile, Millennium Films announced Friday that Sarah Jessica Parker will replace Moore in the role of feminist Gloria Steinem in its production of “Lovelace,” a biopic about the late porn star Linda Lovelace. A statement gave no reason for the change. The production, starring Amanda Seyfried, has been shooting in Los Angeles since Dec. 20.
Moore can be seen on screen in the recent films “Margin Call” and “Another Happy Day.” Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen on TV’s “Two and a Half Men” and is part of the ensemble film “New Year’s Eve.”
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120127/ap_en_mo/us_people_demi_moore
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Big profits from Apple and a promise from the Federal Reserve to keep rock-bottom rates for at least two more years powered the U.S. stock market higher on Wednesday.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) led the Nasdaq to a 1 percent gain. Shares of the maker of iPhones and iPads surged to a record, making it the most valuable U.S. company in terms of market capitalization. Apple finished up 6.2 percent at $446.66.
Buying picked up after the Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates near zero through at least 2014, which was longer than many investors anticipated. The actions were taken as a sign of the central bank’s commitment to boost a sluggish economic recovery.
“What caught the market off guard was obviously the fact they are going to keep rates lower for longer,” said John Canally, investment strategist at LPL Financial in Boston.
“This statement (on an inflation target) moves the ball slightly down the field” for possible more quantitative easing later, Canally said, referring to a type of monetary stimulus.
The Fed also took an historic step of setting an inflation target of 2 percent, which brings the U.S. central bank in line with many of the world’s other central banks that use an explicit benchmark for policy.
Apple was a standout in what has otherwise been a fairly lackluster earnings season. So far, 57 percent of companies reporting have beaten forecasts, while at this stage in past earnings seasons, the beat rate averaged 70 percent.
Apple shares hit an all-time high of $454.45 on results issued after Tuesday’s market close that sailed past expectations. The move higher pushed Apple’s market capitalization above that of Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), making it the largest publicly held U.S. company.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) rose 83.10 points, or 0.66 percent, at 12,758.85. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (.SPX) was up 11.41 points, or 0.87 percent, at 1,326.06. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) ended up 31.67 points, or 1.14 percent, at 2,818.31.
In other earnings news, both United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) and Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK.N) slightly missed revenue forecasts. United Tech shares closed down 0.2 percent at $77.65 and Rockwell dropped 2.9 percent to $79.42.
Another diversified manufacturer, Textron Inc (TXT.N), surged 14.6 percent to $24.76 after it raised its 2012 profit forecast. The S&P industrials index (.GSPI) gained 1.2 percent.
Corning Inc (GLW.N) tumbled 10.7 percent to $13.05 as manufacturers cut back on the production of big-screen televisions that use the company’s specialty glass.
Greece was hoping to reach a deal with its bondholders as talks were set to resume this week to avoid a messy default. Such an outcome could threaten the stability of other debt-laden members of the euro zone as well as the global economy.
(Reporting By Angela Moon; additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120125/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) ? Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has halted its work in detention centers in a Libyan city because it said its medical staff were being asked to patch up detainees mid-way through torture sessions so they could go back for more abuse.
Rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about torture being used against people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, suspected of having fought for Muammar Gaddafi’s forces during Libya’s nine-month civil war.
The agency said it was in Misrata, 200 km (130 miles) east of the Libyan capital and scene of some of the fiercest battles in the conflict, to treat war-wounded detainees but was instead having to treat fresh wounds from torture.
“Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for more interrogation,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes said in a statement.
“This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.”
The agency said it has raised the issue with the authorities in Misrata and with the national army. “No action was taken,” said Stokes. “We have therefore come to the decision to suspend our medical activities in the detention centers.”
Reports of the mistreatment and disappearances of suspected Gaddafi loyalists are embarrassing for Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council, which has vowed to make a break with practices under Gaddafi and respect human rights.
The allegations are also awkward for the Western powers which backed the anti-Gaddafi rebellion and helped install Libya’s new leaders.
An official with the Libyan government said it paid attention to all credible reports of abuse.
“There is no doubt that there are acts of violation of human rights but these are to do with the mentality of the people who are in charge of these prisons,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
“Neither the government, nor the NTC, nor any Libyan group supports these acts. These actions are individual acts and the authorities will take a very serious view of them.”
DETAINEE “BEATEN AND WHIPPED”
But the ability of the government in Tripoli to rein in torture is limited because, in most cases, it is carried out by locally based militias who are outside the NTC’s chain of command.
U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, speaking to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday, said that detainees from Libya’s civil war held by revolutionary brigades continue to be subjected to torture despite efforts by the provisional government to address the issue.
Human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday it had evidence of several detainees dying after being subjected to torture, including some in Misrata.
It quoted one man who said he had been tortured earlier this month in the headquarters of Misrata security forces.
“They took me for interrogation upstairs. Five men in plain clothes took turns beating and whipping me,” Amnesty quoted the man as saying.
“They suspended me from the top of the door by my wrists for about an hour and kept beating me. They also kicked me.”
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday that it has visited 8,500 detainees across Libya but declined to comment on the MSF decision to suspend its work.
(Additional reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Writing by Christian Lowe; Edited by Diana Abdallah)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120126/wl_nm/us_libya_torture
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