Le premier tour du vote des militants socialistes, qui désignent actuellement leur nouveau premier secrétaire, n’a pas permis de départager Ségolène Royal (43,1%) et Martine Aubry (34,5%). Benoît Hamon (22,83%) est éliminé et appelle à voter Martine Aubry. Un second tour aura donc lieu aujourd’hui.

Lire sur le Monde.fr : Un second tour Royal-Aubry pour la tête du PS

The 3,000 extra UN troops being sent to DR Congo must be elite soldiers from Europe, the UN's ex-peacekeeping chief says.

The number of properties repossessed by mortgage lenders rose by 12% to 11,300 in the third quarter of the year.

A bill to extend Russia's presidential term from four to six years wins the overwhelming backing of MPs.

Sweden becomes the 24th of the EU's 27 member states to ratify the controversial Lisbon Treaty.

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz have welcomed a baby boy, People magazine reports.

The forerunners of giant single celled organisms living on the ocean floor may have left fossil tracks often attributed to more complex creatures, say marine biologists.

Voici le très bon portfolio de ce photographe, Eolo Perfido, né en France et aujourd’hui basé à Rome mais qui travaille avec des clients du monde entier. Du beau travail !

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centerimg title="iPhone 2.2 Update Available" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="iPhone 2.2 Update Available" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/iphone-2.2-update.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pThe iPhone 2.2 update is officially available from Apple and here are the highlights:/p ul liGoogle Street View/li liPublic Transit maps/li liLocation sharing (via Email)/li liPodcasts downloads in iTunes/li liToggle auto-correction (Keyboard)/li/ul pOf course, you also get the traditional "Decrease in dropped calls" or "Improved stability and performance". Head to the a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/"iPhone 2.2 update page/a. Happy flashing./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/iphone_22_update_available.html"iPhone 2.2 Update Available/a from a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081121011925" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081121011925?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081121011925" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081121011925amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fiphone_22_update_available.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/l3QXxayHwPF9_PY0H5MbwD91nK0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/l3QXxayHwPF9_PY0H5MbwD91nK0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=c9EzKyij"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=CXH2MSth"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=CXH2MSth" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=3sZ12UmF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=O0CDCIfv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=O0CDCIfv" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=xxJf5mXZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=xxJf5mXZ" border="0"/img/a /div

Further proving that security through (very, very light) obscurity isn’t a good means of keeping things secret, a new beta version of Yahoo’s Mobile Front Page (generally known as just m.yahoo.com) has been found hiding just one character away from the beta announced to the public back in January.

Where as the public beta can be found at beta.m.yahoo.com, our tipster dug up the new version by instead navigating to beta2.m.yahoo.com. Unfortunately, it seems we weren’t supposed to see this just yet; within a half-hour of us reaching out to Yahoo! for comment, the page had become password protected - but not before we snagged a couple screenshots.

The screenshots you’ll see below are what you’d see on an iPhone - on most other handsets, the new beta will look more like the current standard mobile front page: white backgrounds, light image use, etc. The visual changes of the iPhone version from the first beta to beta 2 are somewhat minimal - at least, they’re much less extreme than the jump made between the current m.yahoo.com and the first beta. They’ve decreased the gloss on the gradients, but have rounded out the corners. They’ve also added in a spot for advertisements above the fold, which I don’t remember being there before.

More notable than visual tweaks, however, is the addition of Yahoo’s oneConnect and onePlace. oneConnect brings in the notifications and updates from your e-mail accounts (Gmail, Windows Live, Yahoo) and social networks (Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, Twitter, Dopplr, and a bunch of others), and allows you to update your status at all appropriate sites in one quick swoop. onePlace is a similar all-in-one concept but for general information, squeezing together news, weather, stocks, bookmarks, RSS feeds, and more.

Both oneConnect and onePlace were announced as downloadable applications in the first quarter of 2008, though it seems that an iPhone version of oneConnect is the only thing to have made it out thus far. This is the first time we’ve seen a browser based version of either.

Oh - and if you’re curious as to what Yahoo had to say on the matter after they locked it up tight: they’re “constantly working on innovations” but they have “nothing to announce anytime soon.”

(I’ve removed a bunch of the status updates from image 2 to keep it from making this page absurdly long. Click the image for the fullsize version.)

[Thanks Matt!]

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In addition to the release of iPhone Software 2.2 for iPhone and iPhone 3G, Apple has released the “iPhone 2.2 Software Update for iPod touch,” containing a comparatively shorter list of improvements. Notably absent in Apple’s changelog are references to improvements to the Maps application, which on the iPhone and iPhone 3G has gained Google Street View, transit information, and walking directions. Here is what Apple lists as improvements...

Sometimes there's that direct-to-video release that looks so ridiculous that you can't wait to get your hands on it. That's how I feel about Roy Knyrim's DEATH RACERS, whcih features the Insane Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J. The movie gained enough interest that the LA Times took a trip behind-the-scenes and brought us back some slick images. Read on to check 'em out. In a dystopian future, contestants compete in a cross-country road race in which killing is part of the game.

You've read the review, now Verizon's BlackBerry Storm is available for purchase.

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iPhone 2.2 firmware update available now, Google Street View and plenty more  —  It's here.  Google Street View and over the air Podcast downloads from iTunes.  Yup, public transit and walking directions too and the ability to share your location via email.

...you use a regular iPhone 3G that is locked to a carrier. Your chances of getting a software unlock in the future vanish.

Check the Dev Team's blog here

Only those of you owning a factory unlocked 3G iPhone (from countries like Italy, Greece, Belgium...) are safe to upgrade.

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At last, here it is, the Meizu M8 finished product.

Is it just me or does the background music remind one of Zune ads? Got to admit the UI is sophisticated and beautiful. Screen resolution of the Meizu M8 is crisp. The swiping touch control is almost as amazing as iPhone’s. It’s one of the best Windows CE 5.0 device we’ve seen here at PMPToday.

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h4Fuel for your HD TV/h4 pstrongRound-up/strong Happy Christmas, the format war is over. Now that Toshiba has abandoned HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray has emerged as the new standard for high-definition discs, and the millions of folk who've been watching ye olde standard-def TV programmes on their HD TVs can go out and buy themselves a Blu-ray player safe in the knowledge it's not about to become obsolete..../p

I know it;s a fad, but I don't think I'll ever get sick of companies pumping out retro posters. Today After Dark Films released a new one sheet for Craig Singer's Perkins' 14, which will open in theaters January 9th as part of next year's AFTER DARK HORRORFEST. The film revolves around the arrest of a suspected murderer and the bloodshed that follows.

Mobile data and web use has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year or two. One new stat says mobile data revenues are growing a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-ofcom-report-mobile-data-revenues-growing-five-times-faster-than-voice/"five times faster than voice/a (albeit from a much smaller base), while Facebook recently said it has a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=38212737130"15 million active mobile users/a. Some operators are trying to capitalize on this interest by deploying transcoders that take standard desktop pages and transform them into something understood by more basic phones' web browsers and that can be displayed on their small screens. That's all well and good, since users often complain about the differences between the mobile web and the "real web", and their inability to surf the same sites on their phone as they do on their PC, although the transcoders often do a pretty poor job of making sites very friendly to mobile users. br /br / One way around this is for web developers to create mobile-specific versions of their site, so they have more control over what's presented to mobile users, and many use auto-detection so that both mobile and PC users can access the relevant content at the same URL. So enter Verizon Wireless, with its a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20040701/1545223.shtml"long history/a of really grasping the mobile web, which has now a href="http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=1837"deployed a transcoder/a. The problem is that the transcoder breaks much of the auto-detection used by mobile web developers, resulting in their work to create mobile sites being rendered useless for Verizon users, who are then served a transcoded version of their PC site. Verizon and its vendor, Novarra, say the transcoder partially follows a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/ct-guidelines/"guidelines/a being worked on by the W3C to cover transcoders -- the process for which started after another Novarra install, at Verizon parent Vodafone, a href="http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/06/06/vodafone-uk-doing-a-lovely-job-of-supporting-the-mobile-web-by-breaking-it/"caused/a similar problems. It's worth pointing out that Novarra has a representative on the W3C committee working on the guidelines, so they should be familiar with them. It's also worth mentioning that Sprint rolled out a similar transcoder earlier this year, however, they responded to feedback from the mobile web community and a href="http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=536"changed it/a to avoid breaking auto-detection and other problems. br /br / On one hand, it's hard to get frustrated with Verizon for finally taking some positive steps to make the entire web available to its mobile users, even if transcoders don't always deliver the best results. On the other, it's particularly annoying to see them think that the way to do this is to undo much of the work done by web developers and content providers to make their content better for mobile users -- not to mention it's disingenuous for Verizon and Novarra to suggest they're following the W3C guidelines, as not only are they a work in progress, but forging user-agents and breaking auto-detection contravenes them. In any case, for Verizon, it's hard to see how providing users with a lackluster mobile web experience will help grow its data business. Frustrating users with poorly transcoded versions of sites, rather than versions that have been thought through by developers for mobile users, seems a poor choice. And if they really want to unleash the "desktop" web on their users, why not offer them something that does a good job of transforming it for mobile, like better browsers such as a href="http://www.operamini.com/"Opera Mini/a?p style="border-top: 1px #aaaaaa dashed;padding-top: 5px;margin-top: 10px;"emCarlo Longino is an expert at the a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"Insight Community/a. To get insight and analysis from Carlo Longino and other experts on challenges your company faces, a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"click here/a./em/p br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/0817592900.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/0817592900.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081120/0817592900op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d09c31aec465656a982ecf64dbefc383p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d09c31aec465656a982ecf64dbefc383p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d09c31aec465656a982ecf64dbefc383" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=6OcNn"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=6OcNn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/460566758" height="1" width="1"/

According to TorrentFreak, The Dark Knight was the most pirated movie of 2008. Ummm, hooray? Somehow I doubt Warner Bros. will include that stat on the DVD packaging. The movie’s been on and off the list of top BitTorrented films throughout the summer as people took video camera footage of the film in theaters or ripped it from screeners.

TorrentFreak’s Top Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent As of Nov. 16, 2008 Rank Last Week Title 1 (new) The Dark Knight 2 1 Traitor 3 4 Tropic Thunder 4 2 WALL-E 5 3 Step Brothers 6 (new) Max Payne 7 9 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 8 6 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 9 5 Taken 10 8 Burn After Reading

Over at TV by the Numbers‘ breakdown of the most DVRed broadcast TV shows, McDreamy and crew still dominate the list with 4.089 million viewers via DVRs for the week of Oct. 17-Nov. 2. As TVbtN points out, Obama’s infomercial ran during this week but does not appear on this list because of missing data.

It looks like High School Musical clips helped propel John4210 to the top spot on Video Breakouts’ Cool 100 list, followed closely by Chinese TV programming from New Tang Dynasty TV.

Video Breakouts Cool 100 November 17, 2008   Now Last Weeks Name Views Lifetime 1 … 1 John4210 57,152,736 59,596,283 2 … 1 NTDTV 19,927,407 19,927,407 3 4 1 17 BritneyTV 17,564,681 249,185,499 4 … 9 mileymandy 11,362,475 61,037,024 5 2 3 17 expertvillage 8,791,137 283,989,132 6 … 1 TheFrankFactor 7,631,026 7,631,026 7 9 2 17 hollywoodrecords 7,354,131 245,017,407 8 10 2 16 SHOWTIME 6,720,170 114,307,015 9 3 6 18 huluDotCom 6,644,338 130,893,947 10 11 1 15 JonasBrothersMusic 6,208,780 254,213,304   Key:   Gain   Loss   No Change   New  

NOTE: TorrentFreak data is based on http downloads of .torrent files from various BitTorrent sites. The data is collected by TorrentFreak and is for informational and educational reference only. Currently both DVDrips, DVD Screeners and R5 rips are counted. The “back” designation means that the title was in the list before and has reappeared, possibly in a new format.

The Video Breakouts Cool 100 offers a weekly snapshot of the most-viewed Internet video authors and producers. Click any author in the list to see their Author Summary Report. All Video Breakouts lists and statistics are gathered through selective discovery and tracking. Where available, Video Breakouts uses video site Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to retrieve statistics. For sites that do not publish APIs, the company analyzes their HTML web pages to discover assets and track statistics.