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We regret to inform you there will be fewer (well, fewer than usual) creepy crawlies under the tree this holiday season as IGN reports that THQ's Wii-exclusive Deadly Creatures has scurried underground until February 2009.

The delay marks the second of the eight-legged action title, which was originally scheduled to ship in October and then again in mid-December, though like a radioactive cockroach it simply refuses to die. Hopefully the extra time will give the developers a chance to improve on what we played earlier this year. Until then, we'll be replacing the game on our Christmas lists with some much needed bug spray.

Wii's Deadly Creatures delayed until February 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/80822?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+%27Super+ants%27+threaten+UK+gardens%2C+scientists+warnch=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Wildlife+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CUK+news%2CGardens+%28Life+and+style%29%2CScience%2CZoologyc5=Environment+Conservation%2CHomes+and+Gardens%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Livingc6=James+Randersonc7=2008_12_03c8=1127551c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Wildlifec13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FWildlife" width="1" height="1" //divpAn ant species that forms huge supercolonies and infests gardens and parks is marching rapidly across Europe and will soon invade the UK, according to entomologists who are monitoring its spread./ppThe colonies can swell to 10 or 100 times the size of those of common garden ants and scientists warn that they can cause significant damage to plants. /pp"When I saw this ant for the first time, I simply could not believe there could be so many garden ants in the same lawn," says Prof Jacobus Boomsma at the University of Copenhagen, one of its co-discoverers almost 20 years ago./pp"We reckon it's only a matter of time before [it invades the UK]."/ppThe invasive garden ant or ema href="http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=neglectusgenus=lasiusrank=speciesproject=macaronesiaants"Lasius neglectus/a/em was first identified in 1990 when it was found infesting an entire neighbourhood in Budapest, Hungary./pp"This ant basically looks like the garden ant that everybody knows, so you don't really become suspicious if you see a few of those crawling around because they are everywhere," he said. It has since become a major pest in central Europe and has spread as far as Jena in Germany, Ghent in Belgium and Warsaw in Poland./ppBoomsma and his team think it is moved around by the horticultural trade because it hides inside plant pots. "That is the most reasonable hypothesis for how these ants get transported because the ants themselves have lost the ability to fly so they are very poor disbursers," he said./ppIn research published today in the journal PLoS One, the team used genetic techniques to work out where the ants originated and what makes them so successful at taking over new regions. One reason is that they are able to form super-colonies. /ppThe ants occupy many interconnected nests with many queens. Because they are related, the ants in these nests do not show territorial aggression. When they reach new locations the parasites that usually keep the ants in check are no longer there, so they are able to expand their colonies rapidly./pp"We found that invasive garden ants developed from species in the Black Sea region that have natural populations with small networks of interconnected nests with many queens that mate underground and don't fly. /pp"It is now becoming clear that rather many ant species share this lifestyle, so it is no surprise that a number of them have become invasive pests with giant super-colonies based on the same principles," said Dr Sylvia Cremer, at the University of Regensburg./ppDr Jes Pedersen, a co-author at the University of Copenhagen, said: "The future will therefore see many more ants become invasive, so it is about time we understand their biology. This study is a major step in that direction."/ppMuch of the damage that the invasive garden ant causes is connected with the herds of aphids that it tends. The ants have a symbiotic relationship with the aphids in which the aphids provide sugary food while the ants provide protection from predators. /ppWith the ants around, aphid populations expand to large numbers causing damage to plants and releasing sticky secretions that create a mess on parked cars. Because the ant colonies are so large they can cause a nuisance by invading homes and spoiling food./ppInvasive ants have caused much more significant damage in other countries. The imported red fire ant, which has a nasty sting, causes $750m (£500m) of damage in the US each year to crops and livestock. The Argentine ant has spread along 6,000km of coastline in southern Europe, exterminating many local insects./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/wildlife"Wildlife/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardens"Gardens/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/zoology"Zoology/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/o3WUv1Oe4LJ5LdDrZqSllcEf89k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/o3WUv1Oe4LJ5LdDrZqSllcEf89k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/28273?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+De+Menezes+family+walk+out+of+inquest+as+coroner+rules+he+was+not+unlawfully+killedch=UK+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Jean+Charles+de+Menezes%2CLondon+%28News%29%2CUK+news%2CPolice+%28politics%29%2CPoliticsc5=Policy+Society%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Sandra+Lavillec7=2008_12_03c8=1127778c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Jean+Charles+de+Menezesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FJean+Charles+de+Menezes" width="1" height="1" //divpThe family of Jean Charles de Menezes walked out of his inquest yesterday as the coroner ruled the jury was forbidden from considering whether he was unlawfully killed./ppSir Michael Wright said he did not believe the testimony justified him allowing them to return a verdict which was tantamount to accusing police officers of murder or manslaughter./ppAs the De Menezes family and their supporters walked out the coroner said he knew the jury's hearts would go out to the dead man's mother, Maria Otone de Menezes. "But these are emotional reactions, ladies and gentlemen, and you are charged with returning a verdict based on evidence," he said./pp"Put aside any emotion - put them to one side."/ppOver the 10 weeks of the hearing jurors have heard from 100 witnesses, including the two specialist firearms officers, C12 and C2, who shot dead the Brazilian at point-blank range on a carriage at Stockwell station in London on July 22 2005./ppFor the first time, the public was given a full account of the incident from key witnesses on board the underground carriage where the shooting took place./ppPolice mistakenly believed he was Hussain Osman, one of a group of would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to set off bombs on a number of tube trains and a bus the previous day. De Menezes was living in a block of flats connected to one of the July 21 bombers./ppThe coroner is likely to send the jury out today with the instruction to consider a verdict of lawful killing or an open verdict. They have also been asked to answer a series of questions: yes, no or don't know./ppIn his legal ruling to the jury before he sent them out to deliberate, Wright said they could not find the firearms officers who fired the fatal shots or senior officers coordinating the operation liable under criminal or civil law for the death because inquest law prohibited any jury returning a verdict that would lay the blame at the door of an individual or individuals./ppHe told the court he had listened to submissions from the legal teams for all the parties before making his decision. "After hearing the submissions the conclusion that I have come to is that the evidence in this case taken at its highest would not justify my leaving verdicts of unlawful killing to you," he said./pp"This is so in respect of C12 and C2 concerning their direct involvement in shooting Mr De Menezes and also in respect of any of the particular senior officers in relation to their management and conduct of the operation."/ppWright said the decision did not indicate police did nothing wrong on July 22 2005, but he said all interested persons agreed that a verdict of unlawful killing could only be considered if jurors could be sure a very serious crime, such as murder or manslaughter, had been committed to a criminal standard of proof, ie beyond all reasonable doubt./ppEven if the jury concluded that a number of people made different mistakes which together resulted in the shooting of De Menezes, unlawful killing should also not be considered./ppExplaining his decision he said: "The accusation that is made against C2 and C12 on behalf of the family is an allegation of murder. That is to say the deliberate killing of another human being without any lawful excuse; that is the allegation of murder./pp"The response of the two officers to that accusation is that they were acting in lawful defence of themselves and of many other people in that they fired their weapons in order to prevent detonation of body-borne, improvised explosive devices."/ppHe said that given the evidence did not amount to proving a verdict of unlawful killing, the jury must consider lawful killing first and then an open verdict. They should find that De Menezes was lawfully killed if they believed it was probable he died by "deliberate application of force against him" and that the person causing the injuries used reasonable force in self-defence or defence of another person, or to prevent a crime, or to assist in lawful arrest, even if the result of the action was fatal./ppThe coroner added the jury may consider whether some witnesses were lying. As an example, he said they may consider the testimony of C12, who said he shouted a warning of "armed police" to De Menezes, which was contradicted by all the civilian witnesses./ppBut he urged caution on judging anything they viewed as lying too harshly. "You must decide whether the person has lied or made an honest mistake. If you can prove that the witness has lied you should bear ... in mind people tell lies for a variety of reasons, not necessarily to put their own part./pp"In the context of this case it might be to mitigate the impact of ... a tragic mistake or to support others in explanations they may have put forward."/ppHe added that if they found C12 had been lying, it would not automatically follow that C12 could not still have been acting in lawful defence of himself or others./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/menezes"Jean Charles de Menezes/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london"London/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/police"Police/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/OcfTeIwFZQ6YbD7G0m8VKUMD_Ec/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/OcfTeIwFZQ6YbD7G0m8VKUMD_Ec/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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The coroner at the inquest of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police on the London Underground, ruled out a verdict of unlawful killing today.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/10053?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+De+Menezes+coroner+rules+out+unlawful+killing+verdictch=UK+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Jean+Charles+de+Menezes%2CUK+news%2CLondon+%28News%29c5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Peter+Walker%2CSandra+Lavillec7=2008_12_02c8=1127437c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Jean+Charles+de+Menezesc13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FJean+Charles+de+Menezes" width="1" height="1" //divpThe jury at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will not be permitted to consider returning a verdict of unlawful killing, the coroner conducting the hearing said today./ppThe coroner, former high court judge Sir Michael Wright, began summing up seven weeks of evidence by telling jurors they will only be allowed to return a verdict of lawful killing or an open verdict./ppHaving considered all the evidence, a verdict of unlawful killing could not be supported, he said./ppAfter consideration, he told the 11-strong jury, "I so direct you that the evidence in this case, taken at its highest, would not justify my leaving verdicts of unlawful killing to you"./ppDe Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, was shot dead by armed police at Stockwell underground station in south London on the morning of July 22 2005./ppPolice mistakenly believed he was Hussein Osman, one of a group of would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to set off bombs on a number of tube trains and a bus the previous day. De Menezes was living in the same block of flats connected to one of the July 21 bombers./ppThe coroner told the hearing that the jury should not be able to "return a verdict which found any individual or institution criminally or civilly liable". /ppThis included both the elite firearms officers who shot De Menezes dead inside a tube carriage, identified at the inquest only as C12 and C2, as well as senior officers involved in the "management and conduct of the operation", he added./ppThe jurors would be able to consider questions including whether C12 lied when he said police had shouted warnings to De Menezes before opening fire, Wright said./ppHowever, he added, even if the jury found the officers had lied they would not be able to blame them for the death, he explained, saying: "Many people tell lies for a variety of reasons ... [including] to mitigate the impact of what might be a ... tragic mistake". /ppThe officers told the inquest earlier that they shouted "armed police" before shooting. One said the Brazilian moved towards him with apparent aggressive intent, making him fear that the electrician was about to detonate a bomb./ppHowever, some passengers travelling on the carriage where De Menezes was shot contradicted this account, saying they heard no warnings and that De Menezes gave no significant reaction to the police officers' arrival./ppThe coroner told the jury, sitting at Oval cricket ground, near Stockwell station, that he was aware the Brazilian's mother, Maria Otone de Menezes, had attended much of the hearing and "your heart will go out to her"./ppHe added: "But these are emotional reactions, ladies and gentlemen, and you are charged with returning a verdict based on evidence./pp"Put aside any emotion - put them to one side."/ppThe summing up is expected to last two days./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/menezes"Jean Charles de Menezes/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london"London/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HTozo0W093vlRzyCVDtK7B8pC7k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HTozo0W093vlRzyCVDtK7B8pC7k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest version of Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi (also now available). The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B even if there isn't a proper (routing) road system available. Pedestrian routes now take in footpaths and parks.
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route.
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version is now accessible from http://maps.ovi.com, though with some browser compatibility issues (it runs as a plug-in). Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
Of special note is that Maps 3.0 isn't directly compatible with previous versions, in that new maps and a new PC installer are needed. As a result (and presumably to avoid confusion), Maps 3.0 is only available via this new 'Nokia Maps Updater', which manages the process.
Existing navigation licenses are preserved, by the way.
Ewan's tried to install Maps 3.0 on the AAS N85 (the only non-N96 FP2 he and I have to hand), but failed, Maps Updater seems to be a little flaky at this stage.... If you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. more screens, from Nokia's data sheets:

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Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest version of Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi (also now available). The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B even if there isn't a proper (routing) road system available. Pedestrian routes now take in footpaths and parks.
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route.
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version is now accessible from http://maps.ovi.com, though with some browser compatibility issues (it runs as a plug-in). Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
Of special note is that Maps 3.0 isn't directly compatible with previous versions, in that new maps and a new PC installer are needed. As a result (and presumably to avoid confusion), Maps 3.0 is only available via this new 'Nokia Maps Updater', which manages the process. Ewan's trying this as I speak - more later!
Existing navigation licenses are preserved, by the way.
We'll have more on the new Nokia Maps soon... and, once you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. more screens, from Nokia's data sheets:

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Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released (via Beta Labs) the latest versionof Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi. The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info, download link (for selected devices) and notes below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode.
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries.
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B even if there isn't a proper (routing) road system available. Pedestrian routes now take in footpaths and parks.
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route.
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version will be accessible from http://maps.ovi.com imminently. Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
Of special note is that Maps 3.0 isn't directly compatible with previous versions, in that new maps and a new Map Loader are needed. As a result (and presumably to avoid confusion), Maps 3.0 is only available via a Windows PC installer which manages the process. Ewan's trying this as I speak - more later!
We'll have more on the new Nokia Maps soon... and, once you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. more screens, from Nokia's data sheets:



More...

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released the latest version of Nokia Maps, v3.0, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi. The combination of Nokia Maps 3.0 plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps. Screenshots, info and download link (for selected devices) below.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps 3.0 include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B. (I'll have to test this, I thought that this was what pedestrian navigation already did!)
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


Nokia Maps 3.0 (for all S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices except the N96) is now available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. A version for the N96 and other S60 3rd Edition phones will be available shortly. The online (planning) version will be accessible from http://maps.ovi.com imminently. Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
We'll have more on the new Nokia Maps soon... and, once you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. Two more initial screens:


More...

Today at Nokia World 2008, Nokia has released the latest version of Nokia Maps, as well as a full personalized 'online mapping experience' on Ovi. The combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi is claimed to be "the first free service that allows people to pre-plan a journey at home and synchronize with their phone, giving access to pre-planned routes and favourite destinations while on the move." Nokia Maps has also been updated to include higher resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities across the world and terrain maps.
Taking a very Web 2.0 standpoint, Nokia say that "Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences."
Other new options for Nokia Maps include:

• a route overview screen in navigation mode
• instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries
• Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations
• better pedestrian navigation, adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B. (I'll have to test this, I thought that this was what pedestrian navigation already did!)
• in pedestrian mode, beeps and vibrations alert you when you need to make a turn along your route
• the level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can, for example, view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station

The higher map quality is apparently a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and the bought-in NAVTEQ.
Downloading


The new version of Nokia Maps (for selected devices) is available on the Nokia Beta Labs web site. The online (planning) version will be accessible from http://maps.ovi.com imminently. Both versions are released as a Beta, so the usual precautions apply.
We'll have more on the new Nokia Maps soon... and, once you've tried it, your comments most welcome!
Steve Litchfield
PS. Two more initial screens:


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Yesterday marked the 20th World AIDS Day, and although the event was marked on a small scale in the Armenian capital, it was nevertheless observed in a country where such subjects as sexual health and alternative sub-cultures are usually considered somewhat taboo. Pink Armenia posted the schedule for the day which also included a concert by three local underground punk bands.

December 1st, at 4pm we will gather near the Vardan Mamikonyan statue and start our march till Republic Square, and after all will go to Pushkin street, Avangard folk-club (Pushkin 3a) to start the main event at 5pm, which includes punk underground rock concert, presentations, films and live shows. During the event we'll distribute different information materials on HIV issues and condoms.

Perhaps the most popular ground-breaking Armenian LGBT blog, Unzipped: Gay Armenia summed up the day as well as posting a retrospective on the year since the last World AIDS Day as it pertained to HIV/AIDS in Armenia.

Meanwhile, Armenia: Higher Education & Sciences provides a background to the extent of known HIV infection in the country and comments on a media report casting doubts over a drug developed locally to combat the symptoms of the disease.

The first HIV infection in Armenia was reported in 1988. Since then 150 people have perished according to Armenia’s AIDS Prevention Centre; 128 of them were men and 22 were women. According to the same report, 649 people are currently HIV+. UNAIDS, however, puts the total number at 2,400, of which 610 are women. There are no estimates of the number of Armenian AIDS/HIV+s who have left the country in search of easier, cheaper and more confidential access to treatment.

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The two most common transmission causes are unprotected/high risk heterosexual intercourse (49 percent) and sharing infected needles by intravenous drug users (44 percent). Other causes such as unsafe homosexual intercourse and mother-to-child (perinatal) transmission constitute the remaining 7 percent.

According to the data, almost all infected intravenous drug users are men including a good number of migrant workers who might have been infected in Russia or in Ukraine. All Female HIV+s (98.7 percent) have been infected through unprotected sexual contact.

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2008 is also the 10th anniversary of Armenicum, the so-called wonder drug. For years people have been told about the wonders of this Armenian formula with curative powers over the HIV virus.

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The article says that what most Armenians probably do not know is that their tax money is paying for Armenicum, which is more than triple the cost of the world’s only proven treatment for HIV, antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. They probably also are not aware that in a few months Armenicum may be the only choice available in Armenia for future HIV-infected patients. ... instead of paying for all accepted treatments for HIV patients, the government is ... requiring that AIDS Center doctors offer the drug, while unproven, as a choice.

Photos: © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2008, licensed under Creative Commons