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Hye Rin Bae

Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin (Tone) - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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hum8 aow

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  • September 24, 2011, 2:30 am
  • Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin (Tone)
  • SURYATAPA BHATTACHARYA
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  • Suryatapa
  • at the age of six
  • Three months ago, I wandered into a salon in Kolkata with my mother and came
  • face-to-
  • face with a prejudice
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      In the conversation between Suryatapa and the beautician, I noticed that people in India are trying insist people with dark skin to be more "whiter"
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      The beautician made assumptions to Suryatapa that the cause of her dark skin is the result of roaming in the sun, but in fact, Suryatapa was born dark skinned. This tells me that in India, dark skinned people are not properly welcomed
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      Suryapata's aunts and strangers make assumptions, statements, and suggestions to make her look "whiter," and this makes her very irritated.
  • my beloved aunts, and maddening when strangers suggest my dark skin is something to be “fixed.”
  • No one in India seems to think it unusual to try to slap some bleach, or a herbal equivalent, on my skin to reveal a whiter me.
  • Darkie, Blackie and Kaalia
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      WHen Suryapata was a kid, people are her called names like "Darkie", "Blackie", and "Kaalia." Even when she is an adult, old friends call her names, and when she pointed that out, the friend told she was too sensitive.
  • My color defined me and it stuck.
  • self-conscious.
  • Kaalia, remember me? When I pointed out that it was insulting, I was called out for being “too sensitive.”
  • “We called you that with love,”
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      I have knowledge about neighbors, aunts, and strangers. Whenever they see you, they make staements, assumptions, and suggestions based on what you look. For instance, if you look skinny, they encourage you to eat more. If you look "dark," they make statements that you look really dark. 
  • Well-meaning aunts and their neighbors worried about my marriage prospects.
  • Like that should justify the hurt.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      Suryapata's aunts worried that her being dark skinned could affect her marriage, so they are worried, and suggest using homemade concoction, little less sun exposure, and extra layers of sandalwood paste.
  • Perhaps, they suggested, a little less sun exposure, or maybe a few extra layers of sandalwood paste or a homemade concoction that the neighborhood swore by?
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      I believe that the aunts never give up because they want Suryapata to look "whiter". Until she is totally bleached, then they will stop making statements and assumptions about her.
  • I wouldn’t let anyone touch my face.
  • The aunts sighed but never really gave up.
  • Instead, in this country, it is everyone’s business to correct it or cover it up.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      I realize now that in India, it is everyone's business to correct or cover up one's dark skin. Even though it is a personal thing, it is open to the public opinion. 
  • The personal is open to public opinion, whether it makes you squirm or not.
  • Few Indians seem to be comfortable in their dark skin.
  • So it is no surprise that a multi-billion rupee market in fairness products thrives in India.
  • whitened versions of themselves, urging you to pick up a tube or two of the latest product.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      In this passage, the context relates to Vietnam. In the passage, it explains that in India, there are many advertisements and commercials on the latest product of lotions, soaps, and deodorants to make you "whiter". Similarly, in Vietnam and internationally, the market of products of whitening cream and other lotions or soaps is thriving. Everyone that is looking forward to a "whiter" skin is urging to buy these products. 
  • From lotions and soaps to whitening underarm deodorant; every body part it seems is could be a few shades lighter.
  • Urban legends abound of how turmeric and milk, with their blood cleansing properties, had turned someone’s friend’s sister into a fair maiden – so I gulped down this vile concoction, gagged and never touched it ever again.
  • adolescent weakness,
  • I too was convinced to go on a regimen of drinking milk with crushed turmeric.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      When Suryapata was a teenager, like most teens nowadays, she was convinced in using products to make her look "better". But when she was an adult, she care less for these products and feel more comfortable and contented about herself. This shows that teens are usually not happy about the way they look, so they do stupid things that can harm themselves. 
  • As an adult I’ve become much more comfortable with the color of my skin.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      Before reading this article, I already know that in the US, having dark skin is a good aspect, and many people even look forward to tanning. But in India, people are being discontented by the dark skin.
  • Over a decade of living in North America – where tans are pursued and Halle Berry is a beauty icon – helped that.
  • So when I moved back to India, I was surprised and offended all over again, as I confronted people who still think porcelain skin is the epitome of beauty.
  • society that embraced a wider spectrum of skin tone.
  • Victorian ideas of beauty,
  • “Do you do tanning?” I was dumbstruck and could barely stammer out a surprised “no.”
  • In retrospect, her assumption says a lot about how Indians equate skin tone with beauty, confidence and social standing.
  • Suryatapa Bhattacharya is the India correspondent for “The National” newspaper.
    • Chozen Takei
      Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
       
      After finishing reading the article, I realize that different cultures have different POVs and understanding. 
  • Chozen Takei on 21 Oct 11
     
    In India, having a dark skin is discourage. Suryapata, now an adult, tells of how her life is affected because of having a dark skin. 
  • Hye Rin Bae on 24 Oct 11
     
    Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin (Tone)
Jeon Yap

How long does copyright last? - 0 views

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copyright Grand Canyon

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  • nature of the work
  • time when it was made and whether it has been published.
  • duration
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  • copyright works that have been published
  • generally lasts for 70 years after the death of the creator
  • some exceptions
  • Literary
  • musical works
  • subsists indefinitely in a literary, dramatic or musical work that has not been published, performed in public, broadcast or sold as a recording during the life of the author
  • work is posthumously made public in any of those ways, the copyright will terminate at the end of 70 years after that event.
  • Artistic works
  • asts for 70 years after the end of the year in which the artist dies whether or not it has been published
  • copyright subsists in an engraving that is unpublished at the author’s death until 70 years after publication or otherwise indefinitely.
  • Other subject-matter
  • generally 70 years from the end of the year of first publication.
  • If the film or sound recording is unpublished, the protection period is indefinite until it is published
  • copyright in radio and television broadcasts is 50 years from the making of the broadcast.
  • published editions of works lasts for 25 years from the year of first publication of the edition.
  • the protection period is indefinite until it is published
  • copyright protection for photographs taken before 1955, regardless of whether the author has since died or is still alive, has expired
  • Copyright in the published editions of works lasts for 25 years from the year of first publication of the edition.
  • Government owns copyright (ss 180-181)
  • Jeon Yap on 13 Sep 11
     
    Copyright Research
Hye Rin Bae

When does Copyright Protection begin, and what is required? - An Article by adni18 - 1 views

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sausage ninja copyright

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  • Hye Rin Bae on 13 Sep 11
     
    When does Copyright Protection begin, and what is required? Copyright protection begins when any of the above described work is actually created and fixed in a tangible form. If you write a poem, your copyright over that poem begins as soon as you set it in tangible form by writing the poem down on paper. Your copyright does not begin when you register it. It began when you wrote the poem on paper. Registering a copyright is just taking the protection a step further so as to leave no room for doubt that one is the creator of a work.
Ronald Trinh

Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil | Hsiao-Hung Pai | Commen... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...china-migrant-workers

hum8 aow events

shared by Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
  • Schools for children of migrant workers in China are being closed down.
  • "We live under the same sky, why are we not entitled to the same rights?"
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  • migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,
  • Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools
  • rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population
  • day-to-day inju
  • stices
  • hukou (household registration), set up in 1958
  • control rural-to-urban migration
  • Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.
  • as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"
  • Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.
  • Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",
  • half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.
  • As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.
  • They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.
  • the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.
  • The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.
  • Without hukou,
  • healthcare, education and housing.
  • urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
  • "These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."
  • hundreds such private schools were set up.
  • government-funded National Development and Reform Commission
  • admits it is an "institutional barrier"
  • government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.
  • voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities
  • Little happens as a result.
  • Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.
  • protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.
  • Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing
  • Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrant workers should have tell the police earlier so they won't be treated so violent. 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why does the chinese people have to segregated themself, they're from the same country! 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Why do they have to treat people like that? They're all from the same country!
  • Beijing "a city of violence"
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      it reflects the conflict of the urban dwellers and the migrant workers.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      I think maybe the urban dwellers pay the government to be on their side and act ruthlessly to the migrant workers.
  • Beijing's migrant worker slums
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      which means that the migrant workers cannot move to other city or quit their job, they have to work there and got treat badly, ruthlessly.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "I've had migrant workers tell me about their class origin, as if it were a stamp on your body for life. It was impossible for peasants to move their hukou to the cities."   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/20/china-migrant-workers
  • are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      the government is not fair!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      why dont the government get involve earlier if they already knew what's going on?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      they have to speak their own language?  not Mandarin? 
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Once the rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion??? that's so not fair and segregated.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants children are called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Urban childrens have free primary education while migrants children aren't be able to go to school because their parents cannot afford it. It costs 2/3 of their parents wages.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      IT'S NOT FAIR
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      Migrants workers continue to be burdened with the hukou system. So they won't be able to access any services in the cities like: helthcare, education or housing. While urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Even the government-funded National Development and Reform Commission admits it is an "institutional barrier" and believes it should be scrapped. However, these institutions aren't in the position to change things. "Protection of migrant workers' rights" is a rhetorical statement of state organisations, but the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands."
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      What? the government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers demands? Why? They think they're rich so they don't care about other people? These governments should be in jail!
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration. "   What??? There's no reason why they hate the migrants workers and childrens! They're all from the same root! They don't have a right to do this?
    • Ronald Trinh
      Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
       
      "In recent years, migrants have raised their demands through protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes. Although these have not always proved effective, workers have become more aware of their collective strength. In the past year they have won some improvements in wages and working conditions. Many migrant workers, now better informed, are far less willing to accept the status quo. As they grow in confidence, the regime will find it increasingly difficult to ignore their demands. China's rulers should realise now that it is in their long-term interests to listen." YES, they really should do this to show the government that they have a right to complain about what's right or wrong! If you're rich still doesn't mean that you have all the rights to do anything you want.
  • Chozen Takei on 22 Sep 11
     
    In China, poor migrants who earn a living by working low calss jobs in Beijing is treated unfairly. The chinese public schools, especialy nursery schools, would not let the migrant's children be enrolled. Yet, migrants are treated differently than Beijing citizens, and they can't have a normal life. 
  • Ronald Trinh on 22 Sep 11
     
    Despite China's growth, its workers endure a fundamental evil
Mojo joanne

Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple | ConceivablyTech - 0 views

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  • Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple
  • Mozilla is having issues especially with Apple
  • heading into a direct confrontation with the mighty Jobs.
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  • Mozilla is carefully circumventing the phrase of “waging war” against the creation of closed or “siloed” environments on the web.
  • competing, but not so by going directly against a rival, but by being “different”
  • That name would be Apple, which Mozilla’s chairman and chief lizard wrangler Mitchell Baker directly addressed in a series of sequential blog posts that outline Mozilla’s future direction. The attacks aren’t as crude and as we typically see between Mozilla and Microsoft. They are much more carefully worded, perhaps in an effort to remain polite and not to raise any unnecessary attention
  • “There’s no reason why “apps” can’t incorporate the characteristics that are important about the web. They don’t today because Apple didn’t build them that way. There’s no reason Apple should; Apple has a different view of the world. But we can. In fact, Mozilla is one of the very few organizations that can do this.”
  • Mozilla has yet to show what it plans to do and leaves us with its vision for now. Mozilla believes that its opportunity is a user’s desire to run anything he wants on any device he owns. Mozilla believes that a user wants to be in charge of his web experience, not Apple, Google or a device. Mozilla believes that a user would want to be in control of her/his identity and the information that is made available. Of course, Mozilla’s model is also based on Firefox and a web browser, which Apple could care less about at this time.
  • Mojo joanne on 17 Aug 11
     
    firefox slams apple 
katrina Sukumaran

Samsung's IPhone Killer Is Coming: Galaxy S II Due This Month | FoxNews.com - 0 views

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samsung S II iphone Killer

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  • Samsung Galaxy S II
  • to be the only real competition to the Apple iPhone.
  • can't get it in the United States-- yet.
  • ...35 more annotations...
  • Samsung's
  • a date for the U.S. release
  • its hotly anticipated phone,
  • sold lavishly in foreign markets
  • r 5 million people worldwide
  • bought the flagship Android phone
  • 85 days it has been on the market
  • one sold every 1.5 seconds,
  • Samsung
  • "a major product announcement"
  • an invitation to journalists early Friday
  • Galaxy S II
  • Aug. 29.
  • Galaxy S II by name,
  • The Galaxy is coming.
  • "It isn't rocket science to understand that it's the Galaxy S II announcement,"
  • It isn't an overstatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy S II is the strongest competition the iPhone faces.
  • sports a 4.3-inch, 800x480 screen, a 1.2-GHz processor, fast 4G network connectivity, and a sleek, simple design evocative of the iPhone. By contrast, the Apple iPhone 4  has a 3.5-inch, 960x640 screen, a 1-GHz processor, and a slower, 3G connection.
  • Bigger and faster?
  • Though it hasn’t gone on sale yet in the U.S.
  • Galaxy S II are copious
  • obscene.
  • 24 days, the company sold 1 million units
  • The 2 million units sold in 42 days would fill two and a half soccer fields.
  • That's a lot of smartphones. But it's more than that: It's a lot of good smartphones,
  • "If the U.S. versions are anything like the international versions, these are going to be spectacular smartphones," he told FoxNews.com. Segan gave an international version of the phone an Editors' Choice award, calling it the finest Android smartphone available today.
  • Apple iPhone 5
  • he elephant in the room
  • he 3 million Galaxy S II phones sold in just over 50 days are as heavy as 100 elephants)
  • iPhone 5 is widely expected to be coming out in September, Segan noted.
  • And getting the right price could make all the difference for Samsung. "They don't want to be more expensive than the iPhone," Segan said.
  • But that 4G network connection may prove a major difference between the two. 
  • Unless Apple has made some sort of secret breakthrough, [the faster LTE network] might make a Verizon iPhone too thick and power-hungry for Apple's demands this year. Apple may skip it for now and wait for smaller and cooler chipsets," Segan noted.
  • That faster connection really pays off for anyone surfing a lot of complicated websites or viewing movies over Netflix, he said. 
  • But in the end, pricing, a final feature set and the design is all up to the carriers. "The mainstream price for a smartphone is $199 with contract," Segan noted. "We're all hoping for $199."
katrina Sukumaran

HTC Ruby and Samsung Galaxy S II may hit T-Mobile Oct. 26 - 0 views

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samsung S iphone Galaxy

shared by katrina Sukumaran on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Yesterday,
  • including the HTC Ruby.
  • Samsung Hercules (a T-Mobile name for the Samsung Galaxy S II). According to a document leaked by TmoNews, the phones will hit shelves Oct. 26, 2011
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  • a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch qHD (960×540) touchscreen, a dedicated camera button, a dedicated video button, an 8MP rear camera, a 2MP front camera, 1GB of RAM, and Bluetooth 3.0.
  • HTC Ruby
  • handset rumor roundup,
  • be more powerful than the Hercules (S II),
  • 1.2GHz dual-core processor and a 4.3-inch 480×800 screen. Both phones will be “4G” capable, meaning they will run on T-Mobile’s high-speed HSPA+ network.This is all speculation, of course, as is most early handset news. Handset manufacturers don’t
  • like to announce release dates or device information before the day of launch, likely because of how fast the industry moves an
  • d how much control is in the hands of the wireless carriers, which have a good amount of power over handset sales here in the United States.
  • Samsung is holding a Galaxy S II event on August 29.
Dan Lamx

What is copyright? - 0 views

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copyright Ict8 Grand canyon

shared by Dan Lamx on 13 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Copyright protects the physical expression of ideas
  • As soon as an idea is given physical form,
  • Both published and unpublished works are protected by copyright.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • Copyright is normally owned by the creator(s)
  • Copyright is a property right and can be sold or transferred to others
  • Copyright is regulated by law
unchan ki

Yao lauded for impact on NBA after early retirement - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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NBA

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  • Yao Ming'
  • era is over
  • Chinese superstar has left a legacy
  • ...23 more annotations...
  • helping
  • 7-6, 310 pounds,
  • true giant
  • Yao averaged 19.0 points (9,247 total)
  • NBA into a global brand
  • 9.2 rebounds (4,494)
  • 1.9 blocked shots (920)
  • in seven full seasons
  • leg injuries led him to retire in July
  • Yao, 31 next month
  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
  • contributor
  • As a player entry
  • Yao is not eligible for induction until 2017.
  • elected as coaches
  • Three hundred million Chinese play basketball.
  • five games last season,
  • 51 networks in China was up 11%.
  • Yao is "a transformational player,
  • eight-time All-Star
  • Yao's jersey is the 36th most popular.
  • here were 4.7 billion page views on the NBA's website from China this past season
  • 43% increase
Mojo joanne

Firefox 6: Is it really faster? - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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is mozilla firefox 6 faster ?

shared by Mojo joanne on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • There are also plenty of nice security tweaks on Firefox 6,
  • Meanwhile, Laptop magazine's Dan Howley takes full stock of the speed of Firefox 6, which was rumored to be substantially faster than Firefox 5.
  • measures a browser’s capabilities using Java, Firefox 5 scored 4,733. We then ran Firefox 6 on the same system using Peacekeeper, and recorded a similar score of 4,572
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Higher scores are better.)
  • Howley says Firefox 6 lagged behind its main competitors on the same Peacekeeper scale
  • score of 4,830, while Chrome managed to score a 8,400
  • Firefox 6 isn't quite as speedy as some analysts had hoped. But hey, maybe Mozilla can correct that in the next major update, due in about 6 weeks.
Kyu Won Shim

Twitter, Facebook, Skype and foursquare are all coming to the Playstation Vita - 0 views

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PSP Twitter facebook skype vita

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  • The PS Vita will not only have the computing power of the PS3, at the same price, but you will also be able to tweet your new high-score directly from the device
  • Users will be able to download the apps through Sony’s PlayStation Store for free. Once the apps are installed you can launch them directly from the home screen.
  • We are curious to see just how each of these social apps will be implemented on the Vita
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  • Only time will tell exactly how all of these apps will work. One thing is for sure having these types of apps will make the Vita an overall more appealing product.
  • The real app that we are waiting to hear confirmation about is NetFlix, with the Vita’s amazing screen it would be a great viewing experience
  • Kyu Won Shim on 17 Aug 11
     
    There is new psp that contains apps of facebook, twitter, and skype.
Anh Vu

You Can Now Watch "The Big Lebowski" With Your Facebook Friends - 0 views

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watch facebook friends

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  • You Can Now Watch “The Big Lebowski” With Your Facebook Friends
  • 48-hour rental is 30 Facebook Credits ($3), which is the same amount other studios are charging for similar titles.
  • Users that rent the film can “like” and make comments on memorable scenes and quotes throughout the film.
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  • They can also see what other Facebook fans and friends have said while watching the movie.
  • The cult classic The Big Lebowski is now available to rent on Facebook.
  • reward up to five friends with a $1 discount on the Facebook rental
  • Even though the film is available on DVD, Blu-ray and through digital download services such as Amazon, Cinema Now and Vudu, we think a Facebook offering makes sense for this type of film.
  • this would be a great way for friends spread out across the country to share a funny, infinitely quotable movie together.
Na Young Kim

Firefox 6: Four Reasons Not to Upgrade | PCWorld Business Center - 0 views

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firefox 6

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  • Is there anything revolutionary or Earth-shattering about Firefox 6? No, not really
  • wasn't really any major change
  • Mozilla knows that too
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • Pushing out patches to fix security holes or resolve bugs does not qualify as a new version of the browser
  • Firefox 4.1, and Firefox 6 is really just Firefox 4.2
  • Firefox launching a "new version" every six weeks is a nightmare.
  • but it still has 50 percent more market share than Firefox and Chrome combined
  • latest flagship browser from Microsoft--Internet Explorer 9-
  • It breaks add-ons--again
  • 5 was launched, many users complained that it broke add-ons
  • It is filled with serious security vulnerabilities
  • no longer supported by Mozilla
  • Firefox isn't riddled with security holes
Chozen Takei

Steve Jobs: American Genius - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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Apple Steve Jobs

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  • Exit the King
  • How did Steve Jobs become a wizard among muggles? And what will Apple do without its willful inspiration at the helm?
  • showman who knew how to end on a high note
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  • Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,
  • impeccable.
  • 14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile
  • Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold
  • surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil
  • most valuable company in the world.
  • Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments
  • graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant
  • In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985
  • visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman
  • Now Jobs, 56, retires,
  • awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,
  • Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.
  • Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.
  • It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.
  • like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents
  • Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times
  • doctorate in political science
  • He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.
  • his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability
  • icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
  • “dropout”
  • drop-in”:
  • leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.
  • That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.
  • fruitarian” diet that left him constantly hungry.
  • Chozen Takei on 29 Aug 11
     
    Steve Jobs changed the world, and his company is one of the best in the world. He retired at the age of 56, and now he is chairman of Apple, not the executive manager.
katrina Sukumaran

iPhone 5 rumors continue: Sharing Samsung Galaxy S II release date? - 0 views

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  • iPhone 5 could launch on October 7th or 14th.
  • unofficial Apple blog
  • Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone 5 in October 7th or the 14th depending on the supply.
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  • upcoming Apple smartphone
  • , T-Mobile’s Samsung Hercules
  • The leak said October 26th. 
  • Samsung Galaxy S II
  • iPhone 5 will arrive in October
  • better under the hood specification
  • Apple delayed the launch of the iPhone 5 to take advantage of the so-called Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping rush.
  • more powerful back and front cameras.
  • next-generation Apple smartphone.
  • based in Asia.
  • supply of the units from Apple’s manufacturing partners
  • also added that Apple is still internally “debating” on either the September 29th or the 30th preorder date, but the latter seems more likely.
  • much-anticipated smartphones this year.
  • iPhone 5
  • expected by the end of September
  • iPhone 5
  • new A5 chip, the dual-core dedicated processor of the computer company, as well as bigger RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a non-VGA front-facing camera and could sport a new design. The new iPhone 5 is also the expected device to launch with iOS 5 out of the box.
  • iPhone 5′s design is “curvier”
  • f Samsung Mobile
  • Android OEM
  • launch a “defensive” strategy against the iPhone 5 by launching the company’s most popular Android smartphone to date
  • Samsung Galaxy S II.
  • Galaxy S II was heralded this week, claiming that the Samsung Hercules, or the Samsung Galaxy S II variant for the US carrier T-Mobile.
  • AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless
  • also expected to sell the Samsung Galaxy S II,
  • Other Android devices that are also expected to arrive by Thanksgiving are the HTC Vigor, Motorola Droid Bionic and the new Nexus smartphone from Google.
  • Android “team” compete against the iPhone 5? I
  • Android smartphone that could possibly steal some of the iPhone 5 customers?
Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox (v9) for Windows Free Download and Reviews - Fileforum - 0 views

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  • Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source Web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is the second most widely used browser.
  • To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko
  • which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
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  • OK beta news, please fix the wording of this information. Mozilla Firefox (v9) for Windows 9.0 Alpha 1. A better way is to say Mozilla Firefox version 9 alpha-1 for windows. There are people that have nothing better to do than to say dah! I don't have windows 9. Read it and see that they have a point about the wording of this. It's stupid and you have been told before about this wording situation.The same goes for the other Firefox beta's that you are listing. The wording is the same as this one, like someone got hit with a stupid stick while typing it out.
  • They have to be joking.... How dumb do they take us for?
  • Mojo joanne on 19 Aug 11
     
    Mozilla Firefox explain that Mozilla and Firefox has been a very big browser and pp are saying how stupid do they think the pp are because everyone knows this fact. 
Mojo joanne

Palin to visit Fair on Friday, activist says | Iowa Caucuses - 0 views

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  • Sarah Palin of Alaska will make an appearance Friday at the Iowa State Fair, a popular venue for presidential candidates.
  • Palin, who captures intense media attention wherever she goes, has been accused of spotlight-grabbing before. She slipped into New Hampshire the day Mitt Romney was there to announce his second presidential run. She visited Iowa in June for a movie screening the day President Barack Obama was in the state. Palin sent an email via her political action committee, SarahPAC, just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, saying she’s relaunching a tour of historic sites around the country. “The heartland is perfect territory for more of the One Nation Tour as we put forth efforts to revitalize the fundamental restoration of America by highlighting our nation’s heart, history, and founding principles,” she wrote. “We accept with gratefulness an invitation to meet folks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this week. … I’m also excited to try some of that famous fried butter-on-a-stick, fried cheesecake-on-a-stick, fried Twinkies, etc. I’ll enjoy them in honor of those who’d rather make us just ‘eat our peas’!” A State Fair spokeswoman said no one from Palin’s staff has contacted the fair. Palin, a former governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee, had not been expected to appear in Iowa before Labor Day weekend, when she’s scheduled to address a tea party gathering in Waukee. She has been flirting for months with a presidential bid, but has said only that she will make her decision in early fall.
  • “I think it will be a very interesting week for those who thought it was getting a little stale around here,” he added. Rogers said Organize4 Palin, a grass-roots group unaffiliated with Palin, also been doing screenings of the two-hour documentary about Palin, “The Undefeated,” around Iowa in the last three weeks. Palin made her first visit to Iowa in seven months on June 28 for the premiere of “The Undefeated” at an opera house in Pella. That visit fell a day after GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann announced her campaign in Waterloo. On that visit, Palin invited Beach, a GOP fundraiser, to lunch. Over a meal at a Panera Bread in Urbandale, Beach described the fair. “She’s gotten to be a very good friend of mine, and I’m really excited she’s coming,” Beach said.
  • Mojo joanne on 11 Aug 11
     
    this is the news abt blahblah blah
Hye Rin Bae

BBC News - Driver spotted using two mobile phones is banned - 0 views

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  • A man spotted using two mobile phones while behind the wheel of his car has been banned from driving for 12 months.
  • Norwich magistrates heard David Secker, 34, was seen talking on one phone while holding the other as if texting.
  • endorsed
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  • Secker, who is unemployed, did not appear to be holding the steering wheel when he was spotted on the 70mph A47 at Blofield, near Norwich on 17 May.
  • magistrates
Chozen Takei

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  • Sony announces PlayStation 3 and PSP price cuts
  • PS3 to £199
  • cheaper version of PSP is on the way
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  • from £250 to £199
  • launch a new cheaper version of its PSP handheld console, with a price point of 99 euros.
  • launched in 2006 and has now shipped over 50 million
  • cheaper slimline machine in 2009.
  • supermarkets likely to go as low as £180
  • The new, cheaper PSP, which removes the Wi-Fi functionality from the six-year-old handheld, surprised many in the audience.
  • "Our strategy is to provide the best quality entertainment experience at accessible prices. With PSP at 99 euros, Vita starting at 249 euros and PlayStation 3 at 249 euros, we feel confident gamers can enjoy the incredible games available on PlayStation whatever level of investment suits their budget."
  • smartphones
  • tablet gaming.
  • while the new PSP price point makes that console very attractive,
  • "That's a big change from PS3's previous price drop."
  • Sony has assured gamers that PS3 will have a ten-year lifespan, and it's likely PlayStation 4 is a few years away yet.
  • Chozen Takei on 17 Aug 11
     
    Sony made the price of the PS3 cheaper so gamers will buy it
Na Young Kim

Flash Mobs: Is Technology to Blame? - International Business Times - 0 views

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  • increase of violent "flash mobs"
  • United States
  • Not all flash mobs are violent
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  • networking are connecting people
  • groups of people -- primarily young people -- are using the tools at their disposal to wreak havoc.
  • social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, or through text message, BlackBerry Messenger or e-mail.
  • leaving one unconscious
  • broken jaw
  • June, some gangs attacked pedestrians and people leaving restaurants,
  • robbed train passengers.
  • stolen goods.
  • easy to blame technology
  • networks are only a tool
  • Twitter, texting or other means be illega
  • Chile earlier this summer
  • students amassed in Santiago's Plaza de la Ciudadanía
  • broke into a choreographed and costumed dance
  • educational system, which they say is currently rotten and dead
  • technology is indeed a double-edged sword.
  • made these events easier to organize,
  • also made them easier to stop
  • 7-Eleven
  • robbed
  • terrifying riots that rocked England
  • over 1,000 have been charged.
  • technology
  • four years in a juvenile cent
  • Jordan Blackshaw, 20, invited about 100 people to an event called "Smash Down in Northwich Town,"
  • h Facebook.
  • , 22, created a group called "The Worthington Riots."
  • Cleveland, Ohio thinks such measures are inappropriate and legally questionable.
  • last weekend kept the streets of Philadelphia relatively quie
  • anyone 17 or younger must be home by nine p.m.
  • 18 must be indoors by midnight
  • 13 must be off the streets by 10 p.m.
  • The juveniles will face fines of upto $300.
  • Philadelphia, Penn
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