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Expo: nova media updates launch2net application

Macworld

- 37 minutes ago

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Get Up to $90 Back in Sprint Early Termination Fee Class Action Settlement [Sprint]

Gizmodo

- 40 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/sprint.jpg" width="250" height="180" /Money from a proposed settlement in the Sprint ETF class action lawsuit is up for grabs for just about anyone who entered into a wireless contract with Sprint between July 1999 and December 2008. /p pSpecifically, anyone with a time based clause in their contract with an ETF during that time is eligible. If you were charged an ETF and can provide proof, you stand to gain $90. If you did not cancel a contract during that time in order to avoid and ETF, you could gain an extra $35. Like all legal situations, there is a bit of a run around to go thoroughmdash;but a detailed explanation and information on how to file is available on the Sprint settlement website. [a href="http://consumerist.com/5126877/get-90-or-35-in-the-sprint-early-termination-fee-settlement"sprintetfsettlement/a via a href="http://consumerist.com/5126877/get-90-or-35-in-the-sprint-early-termination-fee-settlement"Consumerist/a]/p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a0c11db7d26dda5717b45d8c0aa3e4bfp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a0c11db7d26dda5717b45d8c0aa3e4bfp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a0c11db7d26dda5717b45d8c0aa3e4bf" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=HI19H0rL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=P7YUVmwr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qXaP5Jq4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=qXaP5Jq4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ZryFEPoN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=ZryFEPoN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/6oIMcsVJARQ" height="1" width="1"/

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In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web [Opinion]

Lifehacker

- 50 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2009/01/mstechnet.png" width="329" height="295" align="right" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" /You'd think that getting soundly beaten by Google and Yahoo over and over in the online space would mean that Microsoft would take the web a little more seriously. You'd be wrong./p pCase in point: Today's a href="http://lifehacker.com/5127558/windows-7-beta-available-pulled-no-eta-on-product-keys"epic failure around the distribution of the Windows 7 public beta download/a. This morning Microsoft's web servers fell to their knees under the pressure of constant web page refreshes by eager and willing enthusiasts who want to ivolunteer their time/i to test Windows 7 after Steve Ballmer's announcement the download would be available today. /p pIs it fantastic that Microsoft is offering this freebie preview? Yes. Is it shameful that they'd be so woefully unprepared for the demand it would draw? That also would be a YES. /p pSure, hosting a multi-gigabyte download on the web is an enormously expensive undertaking, but Microsoft has more money than God. Plus, while the download itself is large, it's only of interest to a relatively small portion of the population. If lack of infrastructure to handle an insane traffic spike over a few hours was truly the problem (even though these were conditions Microsoft created), there are lots of alternatives they could've used that would have kept their servers up. In fact, users have been happily downloading and distributing the Windows 7 beta build 7000 now for weeks using an efficient file-sharing protocol called iBitTorrent/i./p p(Think it's a crazy idea for a company to use BitTorrent to distribute large files? Ubuntu is always seeding a torrent of their main distro.)/p pSure, Microsoft's not the only one who's blown web launches. Apple did it spectacularly with MobileMe, and even an occasional Google product a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/google/gmail-why-hast-thou-forsaken-me-229500.php"craps the bed/a when the planets align the wrong way./p pBut for a company that's a href="http://lifehacker.com/5057714/windows-cloud-operating-system-release-within-a-month"pushing cloud computing/a and web services and trying so hard to prove that they're ready to a href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/windows-live/"move off the desktop and onto the web/a, today's Win7 borkfest proves Microsoft is still too clueless about how to do stuff online to be taken seriously./p br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ba22ce988c530c7b8f43b6a1afcb63ffp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ba22ce988c530c7b8f43b6a1afcb63ffp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ba22ce988c530c7b8f43b6a1afcb63ff" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=sWvnMkTK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=HlFHezoN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=YavDOmOI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=YavDOmOI" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=ZsoUc8hU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=ZsoUc8hU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/Q9D6tU3GbvY" height="1" width="1"/

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Ssangyong enters receivership

Autoblog

- 51 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/china/" rel="tag"China/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hirings-firings/" rel="tag"Hirings/Firings/Layoffs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a/pa href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={33388F5B-4074-44B7-ADF7-A2E81E3DD291}amp;siteid=rss"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/ssangyong_logo.jpg" //aCould it be too late for Ssangyong? Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) appears to have given up on Ssangyong Motor Co., allowing the company to slip into receivership. SAIC holds a 51% stake in Ssangyong, but gave up management rights in a bid to avoid liquidation and allow Ssangyong some time to get back in the black. The Korean automaker's Chief Executive Zhang Hai Tao and President Choi Hyung-tak both stepped down after the filing.br /br /As recently as a couple of days ago, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/06/ssangyong-gets-bailout-from-saic/"SAIC said they would help prop up Ssangyong/a, but that apparently has changed. As vehicle sales have fallen a whopping 50%, money was clearly tight. With the global economic crisis, credit was evidently unavailable to pay workers and new negotiations with the unions weren't going anywhere fast. This receivership agreement protects Ssangyong from creditors and keeps it from entering bankruptcy, allowing it some time to get back on its feet. For its part, SAIC said that it "will work with all parties so that Ssangyong can achieve a plan to normalize its operations." emThanks for the tip, Ken!/embr /br /[Source: a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={33388F5B-4074-44B7-ADF7-A2E81E3DD291}amp;siteid=rss"Market Watch/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/ssangyong-enters-receivership/"Ssangyong enters receivership/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={33388F5B-4074-44B7-ADF7-A2E81E3DD291}amp;siteid=rssRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/ssangyong-enters-receivership/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1424736/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/ssangyong-enters-receivership/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/kmnMercm4EhQ6FOcTQUkG7dkYRY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/kmnMercm4EhQ6FOcTQUkG7dkYRY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=RWoAXLLx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=RWoAXLLx" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=4UxplUL1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=4UxplUL1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/e4osmd7u0hk" height="1" width="1"/

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Reuters did not note energy group criticizing Obama reportedly "funded by the oil industry"

Media Matters for America

- 52 minutes ago

In a January 8 article about President-elect Barack Obama's emphasis on alternative energy production in his economic stimulus speech that day, Reuters wrote: "Not everyone cheered Obama's plan. Private companies could use domestic energy resources like oil and coal to create jobs without the hefty price tag for taxpayers, said Thomas Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research, in a statement." Reuters further quoted Pyle's assertion that "[t]he road to economic recovery will be paved with private sector investment, not government-sponsored asphalt." But the Reuters article did not note the Institute for Energy Research's own ties to "[p]rivate companies" with interests in "domestic energy resources like oil." In fact, the Institute's funders include the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, the president of which is an executive vice president of Koch Industries, whose subsidiaries "have been in the petroleum business since 1940." Further, Reuters previously reported that Exxon Mobil Corp. has funded the group. Indeed, according to a September 14, 2008, Washington Post article, the Institute is "funded by the oil industry."

According to Internal Revenue Service data compiled by mediatransparency.org -- a website recently acquired by Media Matters Action Network -- the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation donated $85,000 in grants to the Institute between 1997 and 2005. According to its IRS Form 990 for 2006 (accessed from the GuideStar database), the foundation donated an additional $25,000 to the Institute that year. According to his bio page on the website of the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, of which he is president, Richard Fink is president and serves on the board of directors of the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation. The bio also states that Fink is "an executive vice president and member of the board of directors of Koch Industries, Inc., where he leads the legal, government, community relations and communication capabilities for Koch Industries." Fink is listed as "President/Director" of the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation on the group's 2004, 2005, and 2006 IRS Form 990.

Koch Industries' website states:

Koch companies have been in the petroleum business since 1940, growing our refining capacity more than 80-fold. Today these companies engage in petroleum refining, chemicals and base oil production, crude oil supply, and wholesale marketing of fuels, base oils, petrochemicals, asphalt and other products.

Additionally, in a May 23, 2008, article, Reuters reported that "Exxon Mobil Corp is pulling contributions to several groups that have downplayed the risks that greenhouse gas-emissions could lead to global warming," including the Institute for Energy Research. Reuters further reported that Exxon Mobil Corp. "said in its corporate citizenship report that the groups' 'position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.' " Indeed, in disclosing its "Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments," Exxon Mobil Corp. reported that Exxon and its foundation contributed $95,000 to the Institute in 2007 and contributed $65,000 in 2006.

Reuters has quoted Institute staff criticizing Obama's alternative energy proposals and energy-related appointments in three other articles during the past four months, each time failing to mention the organization's ties to the oil industry.

From the January 8 Reuters article:

The solar industry is ready to create jobs as soon as funding from the stimulus plan comes through -- in hard-hit manufacturing areas like Ohio and Michigan, said Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

"The reality is what President-elect Obama is talking about are policies and incentives that will create jobs in all 50 states," Resch told Reuters.

Not everyone cheered Obama's plan. Private companies could use domestic energy resources like oil and coal to create jobs without the hefty price tag for taxpayers, said Thomas Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research, in a statement.

"The road to economic recovery will be paved with private sector investment, not government-sponsored asphalt," he said.

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SOCOM: Confrontation 1.30 patch finally brings Trophies, Party system, bug fixes

Joystiq

- 58 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2009/01/08/socom-1-30-patch-brings-trophies-and-more-tomorrow/"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="276" border="1" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/gam_socomparty_490.jpg" //abr //div If you've been putting off ema href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/SOCOM-Confrontation/"SOCOM: Confrontation/a/em until developer Slant Six worked out all the bugs (oh, and added a Quick Match/Party system ... and Trophies), then today's your lucky day, friend. The a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/13/quick-match-party-functionality-coming-to-socom-confrontation/"long anticipated 1.30 update/a was pushed out early this morning, bringing with it the aforementioned features and fixes. Will it be enough to restore Sony's once-proud franchise to the top of your multiplayer shooter-heap? We won't pretend to know the answer to that, so we'll ask you. Is emSOCOM/em back in action?p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/09/socom-confrontation-1-30-patch-finally-brings-trophies-party-s/"SOCOM: Confrontation 1.30 patch finally brings Trophies, Party system, bug fixes/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:22:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2009/01/08/socom-1-30-patch-brings-trophies-and-more-tomorrow/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/09/socom-confrontation-1-30-patch-finally-brings-trophies-party-s/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1424740/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/09/socom-confrontation-1-30-patch-finally-brings-trophies-party-s/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/b1PeSUtLx0a4V0gfU95fY9xd-dc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/b1PeSUtLx0a4V0gfU95fY9xd-dc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=1eJiWZTT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=1eJiWZTT" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=gy7uC4LF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=gy7uC4LF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/4RciNdagzvY" height="1" width="1"/

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