Sep 17
Sep 17
Judge decides against lifting US injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, for now
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While Samsung wasn’t happy with everything in the billion dollar jury decision concerning its case vs. Apple back in August, it did find some use in a ruling that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not infringe Apple’s design patents. Based on that, it’s trying to get the months-old injunction on sales of the device lifted, but CNET and AllThingsD report Judge Lucy Koh has declined to do so at this time, citing a lack of jurisdiction. She did state that Samsung’s motion raised a “substantial issue” with the injunction, but will apparently need to wait for the appeals court to send it back to her court room. The two companies still have a court date on Thursday, as well as the December 6th hearing where they’ll argue about possible injunctions for some of the other devices involved in this case.
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Judge decides against lifting US injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, for now originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 17
KABUL, Sept 18 (Reuters) – A suicide attack on a minibus in the Afghan capital killed 12 people on Tuesday, including seven foreigners, and the Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group claimed responsibility, saying the blast was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
“A woman wearing a suicide vest blew herself up in response to the anti-Islam video,” said Zubair Sediqqi, a spokesman for the militant faction, which does not usually carry out such attacks.
The attack near Kabul airport underscored growing anger in Afghanistan over the film, which has enraged much of the Muslim world and led to the killing last week of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
Thousands of protesters clashed with police in the Afghan capital on Monday, burning cars and hurling rocks at security forces in the worst outbreak of violence since February rioting over the inadvertent burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers.
The suicide attack was the first in Kabul involving a woman and the foreigners killed were mostly Russian and South African pilots working for an international courier company, senior police sources said.
The toll was the highest on foreigners in the city since last April when an Afghan air force pilot gunned down eight U.S. military flight instructors and an American civilian adviser after an argument at Kabul International Airport.
Hezb-e-Islami, which means Islamic Party, is a radical militant group which shares some of the Taliban’s anti-foreigner, anti-government aims.
But the political wing of the group, founded by warlord and anti-Soviet fighter Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has recently been in nascent talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a peace deal to end the 11-year war.
The attack on the van took place as it stopped to refuel near the airport. Body parts were scattered over an area at the western end of the heavily fortified airport, outside a wedding hall.
Police said several civilians were caught up in the blast, which again underscored the ability of militants to bypass police checkpoints in the city, which had been manned by extra security forces after Monday’s rioting.
“The target was a minivan carrying employees of a foreign company who had a contract with Americans. The seven foreigners killed were Russians and South Africans,” said General Mohammmad Dawod Amin, a deputy for Kabul’s police chief. (Writing by Rob Taylor; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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Sep 17
Hollie Weeks, 3-Year-Old With Meningitis, Saved From Near Death By iPhone App Symptom Checker
Posted in: Today's ChiliIf Claire Weeks had waited another hour to call an ambulance for her 3-year-old daughter, Hollie Weeks, she likely would not have made it, doctors said.
The close call can’t just be chalked up to Week’s motherly instincts. In fact, it was an iPhone app called “Meningitis Signs and Symptoms” that led the British mother to realize just how serious her young daughter’s symptoms were.
“I went on my iPhone symptom checker from Meningitis Trust because something just didn’t sit right. I had a feeling in my gut,” Weeks told The Sun. “I went through her symptoms — headache, vomiting and stiff neck — and they were on the app checklist so I decided I wouldn’t take a chance and called an ambulance.”
Sep 17
‘Cruel Summer’: From Kanye West & Big Sean To Ghostface & Raekwon, Meet The 22 Artists On The Album
Posted in: Today's ChiliSummer’s cooling off, but Kanye West’s passion project has finally arrived. Cruel Summer, the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album, hit stores Tuesday.
There are 22 artists featured on the disc — a veritable “something for everyone.” Hip-hop heads were amped when Wu-Tang giants Raekwon and Ghostface first appeared on the tracklists floating around the internet, and more mainstream, Top 40 fans are sure to be pleased by the inclusion of buzzy young stars like Big Sean and genre mainstays like Jay-Z.
It’s inspiring to see West continue to build up those who supported him. From Grammy-winning songwriter Malik Yusef (one of the folks behind “All of the Lights”) to young vocalist Teyana Taylor (you’ve unknowingly heard her on “Dark Fantasy” and “Hell of a Life”), Kanye continues to shine a light on the people who have built him up. It’s a narrative not often seen in the media, where lazy tales of Kanye’s sometimes erratic behavior dominate headlines for weeks. But it’s clear to anyone paying attention to music that West not only cares deeply about production quality, but about those around him.
Sep 17
Attitude really is everything.
A new study shows that having a healthy, “can-do” attitude is linked with good-for-you lifestyle choices like healthy eating, exercising and abstaining from smoking.
“Understanding the psychological underpinning of a person’s eating patterns and exercise habits is central to understanding obesity,” study researcher Deborah Cobb-Clark, director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, said in a statement.
Sep 17
NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn’t apologize Monday night for remarks at a closed-door fundraiser about how voters supporting President Barack Obama are “dependent on government” and “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.”
Several conservative journalists and authors agreed that Romney didn’t need to take back the controversial remarks, while also arguing Monday night that the media’s making too big a deal of the recently unearthed video clips.
“Watched the nothingburger that is the
Sep 17
Falcons Defeat Broncos, 27-21: Atlanta Capitalizes On 3 Peyton Manning Interceptions
Posted in: Today's ChiliATLANTA — Matt Ryan made sure he threw the ball to his teammates.
That was more than Peyton Manning could say.
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Sep 17
Plantronics outs Voyager Legend Bluetooth headset with enhanced voice recognition, improved battery life
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For the most part, the headsets we’ve seen from Plantronics this year have been aimed at gamers, but make no mistake, the outfit is still churning out Bluetooth earpieces for road warriors: the company just announced its fifth-generation Voyager headset, the Voyager Legend. In many ways, it’s an iterative product, with longer battery life (seven hours, up from six), and more mics (three instead of two). It also has an elongated windscreen and is 25 percent smaller than its predecessor, though Plantronics claims the in-ear fit hasn’t changed. Key internals include Bluetooth 3.0, not 4.0, and support for streaming over A2DP. All told, exactly what you’d expect from the latest and greatest BT headset.
But even more important than enhanced performance and a more compact design, the headset responds to voice commands in a smarter way. Say, for instance, that you receive an incoming call and happen not to be wearing your headset (maybe you took it out to charge). You can put the earpiece in and the headset will automatically pick up the call. Or, if you’re not wearing your headset you can have it route calls to the phone instead. As for answering calls, you can say “answer” or “ignore,” and you don’t even have to press a button to activate the voice recognition. The earpiece can also announce your caller’s name, so long as it’s in your phone book. Additionally, the headset responds to about 10 other commands such as “check battery” and “pair me,” but in these cases you do have to press a button first. Rounding out the feature list is a new Android-only Find MyHeadset app that uses tones and geolocation to help you figure out where you last saw your earpiece. The headset is available today for $100, and the company is also selling a desktop stand and charging case, both priced at $30.
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Plantronics outs Voyager Legend Bluetooth headset with enhanced voice recognition, improved battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 17
Fannie Mae has paid $1.5 billion to a dozen banks that manage its massive home loan portfolio so that it can hire a companies it thinks will do a better job with loans in danger of foreclosure, according to a government watchdog report released Tuesday.
The report, issued by the inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, concludes that Fannie Mae is probably contractually required to pay a breakup fee in order to move these loans, but that in many cases the government-backed mortgage giant appeared to be paying millions of dollars too much.
The report does not say how much Fannie might have overpaid, only that the agency should not be paying more than the what the contract dictates. The inspector general found that while the contract allows for a breakup payment of twice the annual fees a bank would collect, Fannie has paid on average 2.3 times that amount in order to quickly close the transactions and forestall a bank from marketing the rights on its own.
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