HTTP:: Free Weather Channel App for BlackBerry
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The Weather Channel Mobile announced on Monday the launch of a new version of its application for Blackberry devices, one that comes for free and is ad-supported. The Weather Channel app for BlackBerry comes with GPS-based Location Tracker, as well as with interactive radar maps. The new application can be downloaded for free from the BlackBerry App World, the company states. The interactive radar maps are not the only features that Weather Channel for BlackBerry comes with. In addition, the application also delivers current conditions, hourly, 36-hour and 10-day forecasts, all meant to help users who need to know these things in planning their current activities. Moreover, it also enables users to share weather alerts and current conditions and forecasts with their friends directly from the application, either via e-mail or text messages. In addition, the app also sports integration with the BlackBerry calendar and address book, so that it offers even more functionality !
to users. “Developing and releasing an ad-supported app enables us to deliver the most accurate weather content available to millions of BlackBerry users in the format they prefer,†said Cameron Clayton, vice president of mobile at The Weather Channel Interactive. “This increased accessibility is part of our ongoing effort ...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pingie: HTTP:: Altruism Comes from Nurture Not Nature
HTTP:: Altruism Comes from Nurture Not Nature
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently just finished drawing conclusions from their latest study, which dealt with explaining the sources of socially learned behavior, as well as self-sacrifice among strangers. In their investigation, the experts determined that people such as firemen, soldiers, blood donors and food-bank donors were influenced more in doing their acts of self-sacrifice by culture, than they were by nature. Details of the results appear in the October 12 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evolutionary social scientists have always been interested in studying altruism, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, this type of behavior does not make much sense, particularly because individuals not only risk dying, but they may also be helping others pass on their genes in the process. As a direct result, anthropologists say, this behavior should !
have not been favored by nature. But, as it stands, it is still here and, moreover, it can be found in other species of animals as well, including some primates and dolphins. In order to be able to describe how altruism came to evolve, the investigators used a mathematical set of calculations known as the Price equation. Essentially, the calcu...
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently just finished drawing conclusions from their latest study, which dealt with explaining the sources of socially learned behavior, as well as self-sacrifice among strangers. In their investigation, the experts determined that people such as firemen, soldiers, blood donors and food-bank donors were influenced more in doing their acts of self-sacrifice by culture, than they were by nature. Details of the results appear in the October 12 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evolutionary social scientists have always been interested in studying altruism, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announces. From a purely evolutionary standpoint, this type of behavior does not make much sense, particularly because individuals not only risk dying, but they may also be helping others pass on their genes in the process. As a direct result, anthropologists say, this behavior should !
have not been favored by nature. But, as it stands, it is still here and, moreover, it can be found in other species of animals as well, including some primates and dolphins. In order to be able to describe how altruism came to evolve, the investigators used a mathematical set of calculations known as the Price equation. Essentially, the calcu...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Firefox 3 6 to Add Support for Computer Orientation
HTTP:: Firefox 3 6 to Add Support for Computer Orientation
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Browser makers are on somewhat of an arms race trying to one-up each other with new useful or just plain fun features. The developers can't go all out in most cases of course, as there is still this little thing called web standards to consider but there are plenty of places left for innovation. Mozilla's upcoming Firefox 3.6 will be getting some needed updates but it will also be sporting an interesting new feature that will allow the browser to determine your machine orientation and tilt. “One new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available,†Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard wrote. “Originally built as something that we would include for our upcoming mobile browser release, we’ve made it available on desktop systems as well. Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain devices and drivers that expose this information. We’ve added support for Linux, Macs and so!
me Thinkpads where drivers and devices are available.†Web developers will be able to access the new API and get information about the machine orientation on devices that come equipped with an accelerometer and then use the information in whichever way they see fit. There aren't that many applicat...
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Browser makers are on somewhat of an arms race trying to one-up each other with new useful or just plain fun features. The developers can't go all out in most cases of course, as there is still this little thing called web standards to consider but there are plenty of places left for innovation. Mozilla's upcoming Firefox 3.6 will be getting some needed updates but it will also be sporting an interesting new feature that will allow the browser to determine your machine orientation and tilt. “One new feature that we’re including as part of Firefox 3.6 is support for web pages to access machine orientation information if it’s available,†Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard wrote. “Originally built as something that we would include for our upcoming mobile browser release, we’ve made it available on desktop systems as well. Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain devices and drivers that expose this information. We’ve added support for Linux, Macs and so!
me Thinkpads where drivers and devices are available.†Web developers will be able to access the new API and get information about the machine orientation on devices that come equipped with an accelerometer and then use the information in whichever way they see fit. There aren't that many applicat...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Paul Anka Says Michael Jackson Stole This Is It Song
HTTP:: Paul Anka Says Michael Jackson Stole This Is It Song
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,†a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard†by Safire, and that’s because it was practically the same song, as music icon Paul Anka has stepped forward to claim, as E! Online can confirm. The truth about the “new†Michael Jackson song is that it’s actually a track dating 20 years ago that was stolen by the singer from Anka’s studio. Anka and Jackson co-wrote the original and then recorded the vocals for it for what was Anka’s duets album “Walk a Fine Line,†it has emerged. Michael Jackson later returned to the studio and took the tapes, which were just recently used by the MJ Estate to make the new song, “This Is It,†without even crediting Anka as co-writer and clearly in violation of his copyright. Understandably, the music icon imm!
ediately alerted the Estate and Sony about the infringement, threatening to pursue legal action if the parties continued to ignore him. The Estate eventually agreed to offer him 50% of the publishing rights, along with an official apology for using his song without permission...
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The Michael Jackson Estate released yesterday “This Is It,†a never-before-heard Michael Jackson track, to promote the upcoming docu-film that drops at the end of the month. Some might have found that it sounded like a hit of 20 years ago, “I Never Heard†by Safire, and that’s because it was practically the same song, as music icon Paul Anka has stepped forward to claim, as E! Online can confirm. The truth about the “new†Michael Jackson song is that it’s actually a track dating 20 years ago that was stolen by the singer from Anka’s studio. Anka and Jackson co-wrote the original and then recorded the vocals for it for what was Anka’s duets album “Walk a Fine Line,†it has emerged. Michael Jackson later returned to the studio and took the tapes, which were just recently used by the MJ Estate to make the new song, “This Is It,†without even crediting Anka as co-writer and clearly in violation of his copyright. Understandably, the music icon imm!
ediately alerted the Estate and Sony about the infringement, threatening to pursue legal action if the parties continued to ignore him. The Estate eventually agreed to offer him 50% of the publishing rights, along with an official apology for using his song without permission...
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Pingie: HTTP:: No Comet in North America 039 s Past
HTTP:: No Comet in North America 039 s Past
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Many geologists and biologists believe that a huge comet impact devastated North America some 13,000 years ago, killing off many species of land animals, and completely destroying the Clovis culture. While this idea has been debated in the scientific community for a very long time, it would appear that its critics were correct. A new study has determined that there are little to no pieces of evidence to prove that an impact did occur, and that explanations for the sudden, “little extinction†need to be sought for elsewhere, Nature News reports. In the latest issue of the respected journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), experts report on the soil samples they collected from seven sites across the United States, all determined to be from the Clovis age. The investigations revealed little to no traces of magnetic cosmic debris, which was to be expected if North America was, indeed, hit by a comet. This is not the first paper to cast doubt on the !
impact hypothesis. Other researches were also unable to establish a direct correlation between the geological record and the theory itself. The idea appeared back in 2007, in a study conducted by Californian researchers. They analyzed evidence and soil samples from 25 locations, and determined that they contained magnetic microspherules,...
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Many geologists and biologists believe that a huge comet impact devastated North America some 13,000 years ago, killing off many species of land animals, and completely destroying the Clovis culture. While this idea has been debated in the scientific community for a very long time, it would appear that its critics were correct. A new study has determined that there are little to no pieces of evidence to prove that an impact did occur, and that explanations for the sudden, “little extinction†need to be sought for elsewhere, Nature News reports. In the latest issue of the respected journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), experts report on the soil samples they collected from seven sites across the United States, all determined to be from the Clovis age. The investigations revealed little to no traces of magnetic cosmic debris, which was to be expected if North America was, indeed, hit by a comet. This is not the first paper to cast doubt on the !
impact hypothesis. Other researches were also unable to establish a direct correlation between the geological record and the theory itself. The idea appeared back in 2007, in a study conducted by Californian researchers. They analyzed evidence and soil samples from 25 locations, and determined that they contained magnetic microspherules,...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Logic Pro 9 0 2 for Mac OS X
HTTP:: Download Logic Pro 9 0 2 for Mac OS X
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In just under a month since the release of update 9.0.1 for Logic Pro and Logic Express, Apple has issued a new software update for users of the Pro version of the digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer for Mac OS X. The update, weighing in at 183MB, improves the overall stability and provides numerous fixes and enhancements, according to the company behind the Mac operating system. As usual, Apple uses its Support section to describe the contents of its Logic Pro 9.0.2 update. There, customers can find out that, in addition to improving the overall stability, Logic Pro 9.0.2 provides numerous fixes and enhancements. According to the Mac maker, the issues addressed include: - Flex Markers can align & snap to MIDI notes; - Performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode now behaves correctly; - The I/O plug-in adds an option for latency measurement; - TDM plug-ins now behave as expected (only affects users with Pro Tools HD audio hardware). The update is recom!
mended for all users of Logic Pro 9, Apple says, not only to address these particular issues, but also because it includes all the fixes and enhancements delivered in last month’s update â€" Logic Pro 9.0.1. “For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: Logic Pro Relea...
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In just under a month since the release of update 9.0.1 for Logic Pro and Logic Express, Apple has issued a new software update for users of the Pro version of the digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer for Mac OS X. The update, weighing in at 183MB, improves the overall stability and provides numerous fixes and enhancements, according to the company behind the Mac operating system. As usual, Apple uses its Support section to describe the contents of its Logic Pro 9.0.2 update. There, customers can find out that, in addition to improving the overall stability, Logic Pro 9.0.2 provides numerous fixes and enhancements. According to the Mac maker, the issues addressed include: - Flex Markers can align & snap to MIDI notes; - Performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode now behaves correctly; - The I/O plug-in adds an option for latency measurement; - TDM plug-ins now behave as expected (only affects users with Pro Tools HD audio hardware). The update is recom!
mended for all users of Logic Pro 9, Apple says, not only to address these particular issues, but also because it includes all the fixes and enhancements delivered in last month’s update â€" Logic Pro 9.0.1. “For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: Logic Pro Relea...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Romania to Host Most Powerful Laser in the World
HTTP:: Romania to Host Most Powerful Laser in the World
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Three former Soviet-Bloc countries in Eastern Europe have recently been selected to host one of the most ambitious physics experiments devised by the European Union. The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) aims to build the most powerful exawatt-class laser in the world near the Romanian capital, Bucharest, which will enable scientists to perform a wide range of experiments at never-before-reached light intensities. Additionally, the facility will also be dedicated to investigating the laser-matter interactions in the unexplored ultra-relativistic regime, as well as to developing unprecedented, intense, ultra-short particle and radiation sources for fundamental and applied sciences.The pioneering laser facility has been equally awarded to Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it's total worth being estimated to be of around 500 million euros (some $728.5 million). According to preliminary plans, scientific research will be conducted on issues such as nuclear physics, astr!
ophysics, cosmology, and high-energy physics, although research into cancer therapies and other courses of treatment will also take place, Hungary's Prime Minister, Gordon Bajnai, has recently announced. The construction of the impressive facilities, which will employ some 300 scientists and 600 supporti...
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Three former Soviet-Bloc countries in Eastern Europe have recently been selected to host one of the most ambitious physics experiments devised by the European Union. The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) aims to build the most powerful exawatt-class laser in the world near the Romanian capital, Bucharest, which will enable scientists to perform a wide range of experiments at never-before-reached light intensities. Additionally, the facility will also be dedicated to investigating the laser-matter interactions in the unexplored ultra-relativistic regime, as well as to developing unprecedented, intense, ultra-short particle and radiation sources for fundamental and applied sciences.The pioneering laser facility has been equally awarded to Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it's total worth being estimated to be of around 500 million euros (some $728.5 million). According to preliminary plans, scientific research will be conducted on issues such as nuclear physics, astr!
ophysics, cosmology, and high-energy physics, although research into cancer therapies and other courses of treatment will also take place, Hungary's Prime Minister, Gordon Bajnai, has recently announced. The construction of the impressive facilities, which will employ some 300 scientists and 600 supporti...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download Google Chrome 3 0 195 27 Beta and Stable
HTTP:: Download Google Chrome 3 0 195 27 Beta and Stable
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Google Chrome has made yet another step forward with the availability of two new releases for version 3.0. At the start of October 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant kicked up a notch both the Stable and the Beta flavors of Chrome. It appears that Google is ready to make a habit of this, because, as of October 12, fresh new Beta and Stable builds of Chrome are now available for download. Users of Google Chrome will be able to update to version 3.0.195.27, up from 3.0.195.25. The build string is an indication that the latest releases of Google Chrome Beta and Stable bring to the table minor fixes, focused on stability, reliability and security. “Both the beta and stable channel have been updated to 3.0.195.27 and contain the following fixes: Fixed an issue where menu items for certain Indian languages were not properly visible. Add support to blacklist the faux www.paypal.com certificate. Added NTLMv2 support on Windows. FFmpeg files now properly have NX/DBCompat!
enabled. ([The] issue will be made public once this release is fully deployed). V8 crash fix,†revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager. The first time that Google joined the Beta and Stable channels of Chrome at the hip, it did it for the sake of introducing new artist themes for the open-source browser. ...
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Google Chrome has made yet another step forward with the availability of two new releases for version 3.0. At the start of October 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant kicked up a notch both the Stable and the Beta flavors of Chrome. It appears that Google is ready to make a habit of this, because, as of October 12, fresh new Beta and Stable builds of Chrome are now available for download. Users of Google Chrome will be able to update to version 3.0.195.27, up from 3.0.195.25. The build string is an indication that the latest releases of Google Chrome Beta and Stable bring to the table minor fixes, focused on stability, reliability and security. “Both the beta and stable channel have been updated to 3.0.195.27 and contain the following fixes: Fixed an issue where menu items for certain Indian languages were not properly visible. Add support to blacklist the faux www.paypal.com certificate. Added NTLMv2 support on Windows. FFmpeg files now properly have NX/DBCompat!
enabled. ([The] issue will be made public once this release is fully deployed). V8 crash fix,†revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager. The first time that Google joined the Beta and Stable channels of Chrome at the hip, it did it for the sake of introducing new artist themes for the open-source browser. ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: HTC Dragon 039 s CPU to Be OMAP
HTTP:: HTC Dragon 039 s CPU to Be OMAP
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation was rumored not too long ago to plan on releasing to the market a new handset running under Google's Android operating system, namely the HTC Dragon. The first reports on this device showed that we'd soon have the chance to enjoy a really powerful Android phone, powered by a 1GHz processor, supposedly a Snapdragon. However, the most recent rumors on the device unveil the fact that, while the 1GHz chipset will still be included with the HTC Dragon, it will not come from Qualcomm. It will actually be an OMAP 3640 chipset from Texas Instruments, based on an ARMv7 Cortex A8 CPU. According to a recent article on PCGeecks, we're still waiting for one of the fastest devices around, only that it will feature another processor than originally expected. Moreover, the news site also suggests that the yet unannounced HTC Dragon will come to the Chinese market only as a CDMA device. It seems that the Taiwan-based handset vendor will releas!
e the phone only in China, and it is testing it with the OMAP chipset on board. Moreover, apparently the Dragon will have a similar fate to HTC Qilin, which was reported back in August to head to China as Dopod T8388, based on an OMAP3 chipset and sporting GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity. There are no details here that the HTC Dragon will ...
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation was rumored not too long ago to plan on releasing to the market a new handset running under Google's Android operating system, namely the HTC Dragon. The first reports on this device showed that we'd soon have the chance to enjoy a really powerful Android phone, powered by a 1GHz processor, supposedly a Snapdragon. However, the most recent rumors on the device unveil the fact that, while the 1GHz chipset will still be included with the HTC Dragon, it will not come from Qualcomm. It will actually be an OMAP 3640 chipset from Texas Instruments, based on an ARMv7 Cortex A8 CPU. According to a recent article on PCGeecks, we're still waiting for one of the fastest devices around, only that it will feature another processor than originally expected. Moreover, the news site also suggests that the yet unannounced HTC Dragon will come to the Chinese market only as a CDMA device. It seems that the Taiwan-based handset vendor will releas!
e the phone only in China, and it is testing it with the OMAP chipset on board. Moreover, apparently the Dragon will have a similar fate to HTC Qilin, which was reported back in August to head to China as Dopod T8388, based on an OMAP3 chipset and sporting GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity. There are no details here that the HTC Dragon will ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Raid reveals Talibans Punjab links
HTTP:: Raid reveals Talibans Punjab links
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Rawalpindi attack demonstrates Pakistani Taliban's reach beyond northwestern region.
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Rawalpindi attack demonstrates Pakistani Taliban's reach beyond northwestern region.
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