- Arizona Cardinals cut ties with QB Matt Leinart
The Arizona Cardinals will release quarterback Matt Leinart, a league source told ESPN.com's Adam Schefter.
- No. 4 Florida overcomes errors vs. Miami (OH)
Jeff Demps had a long scoring run, John Brantley added a fluky touchdown pass late and No. 4 Florida overcame an error-filled game to beat Miami (Ohio) 34-12 Saturday.
- Reeling NL West-leading Padres lose 9th straight
NL batting leader Carlos Gonzalez had three hits and two RBIs to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 win Saturday over the reeling NL West-leading San Diego Padres, whose nine-game losing streak is their longest since 2003.
- Dalton uses legs to overcome 2 INTs, lift TCU
Andy Dalton ran for two touchdowns and threw for another score to make up for his two interceptions and No. 6 TCU opened the season with a 30-21 victory over No. 24 Oregon State on Saturday night.
- U.S. Open: Fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic ousted by Kaia K...
Fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic was upset by 31st-seeded Kaia Kanepi 6-2, 7-6 (1) in the third round of the U.S. Open on Saturday.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. apologizes for Manny Pacquiao rant, ...
A day after Floyd Mayweather Jr. used a video sharing web site to go on an extended rant filled with profanity, racist and homophobic statements aimed at Manny Pacquiao, he apologized.
- Depleted UNC falls short in final ticks vs. LSU
Against all odds, undermanned North Carolina nearly rallied from a 20-point halftime deficit before losing 30-24 to LSU on Saturday night.
- Tiger Woods shoots 65 to keep playoff hopes alive; Jason ...
Tiger Woods didn't miss many shots and didn't make any bogeys on his way to a 6-under 65 that kept his playoff hopes alive in the Deutsche Bank Championship.
- Jacksonville State stuns Masoli, Ole Miss in 2OT
Jacksonville State quarterback Coty Blanchard completed a 2-point conversion pass to Calvin Middleton in double overtime as the Gamecocks pulled off a stunning 49-48 victory over Mississippi on Saturday.
- Speedway Motorsports Inc. owner Bruton Smith against endi...
Speedway Motorsports Inc. owner Bruton Smith isn't a fan of NASCAR's insistence on ending the season in South Florida.
- Democrats Plan Political Triage to Retain House The party is poised to redirect money from vulnerable incumbents to concentrate on protecting lawmakers who appear to be in the strongest position to fend off their challengers.
- Craigslist Blocks Access to ‘Adult Services’ Pages Craigslist, the classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its “adult services” section and replaced the link with a black label with the word “censored.”
- Diplomatic Memo: In Middle East Peace Talks, Clinton Face... The talks could cement the legacy of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a diplomat, or pose risks to any political ambitions she may harbor.
- Asian-Americans Climb Fashion Industry Ladder At the New York Fashion Week that begins on Thursday, many promising new designers are of Asian descent, an important demographic shift on Seventh Avenue.
- Ryder List in Pocket, and Close to Vest Corey Pavin, at the Deutsche Bank Championship, says he is trying to encourage without raising expectations as he talks to players.
- Obama to Pitch Permanent Research Tax Credit The proposal for a tax credit for business research expenses will be part of a pre-election initiative to spur job creation.
- A Crash. A Call for Help. Then, a Bill. Police and fire departments in some parts of the country have begun billing accident victims to offset budget cuts.
- Intended as Tribute, Criticized as Extravagance The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools project in Los Angeles, at the site where he was assassinated, has become a new chapter in a long battle.
- The Fans Cheer Loudly, but Blake Goes Quietly Novak Djokovic eliminated the crowd favorite James Blake in straight sets at a blustery Arthur Ashe Stadium.
- 'Don't give up,' plane crash survivors tell trapped miners For months, the men waited in isolation, struggling to survive. They forced themselves to eat the flesh of dead friends to sustain themselves.
- American Peace Corps volunteer fatally shot in Lesotho An American aid worker died from a gunshot wound suffered in Lesotho, the Peace Corps said in a statement.
- Adult services censored on Craigslist Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday.
- Relatives describe emotions as they awaited news of Chile... One month ago, the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners far underground. For the next 17 days, their families had no idea whether they were alive or dead.
- Adult services censored on Craigslist Online classified service Craigslist's decision to censor its adult services section could be a model for other websites, a leader in the fight against prostitution ads said Saturday.
- NATO service member killed in Afghanistan A NATO service member died Sunday following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said.
- British Airways CEO eyes India after Iberia merger Read full story for latest details.
- Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 17 in Guatemala At least a dozen people were killed when a mudslide buried a bus on a Guatemalan highway Saturday, authorities said.
- Police: Ohio man held family hostage, raped child Police in Ohio say a father cut his family off from the outside world, sexually abused at least one of his daughters and locked one child in a closet-sized room for a year.
- Failed blowout preventer hauled aboard ship A blowout preventer that may hold important forensic evidence as to why it failed, triggering the world's largest accidental oil spill, has been brought to the surface of the Gulf and placed on a vessel, officials said Saturday night.
- The ad that uses YouTube brilliantly A Liquid Paper-like product's ad, created specifically to run on YouTube, shows the possibility of creating something remarkable on a site for which display advertising is becoming a key profit-making component.
- Craigslist censored: Adult section removed In a remarkable twist to the battle over Craigslist's Adult Services area, the site removes the section and replaces the home-page link to it with a "censored" tag.
- Top-rated reviews of the week (photos) Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Garmin Nuvi 3790T, the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse, and an Iomega 1TB hard drive built for the Mac.
- CNET News, now on Android The iPhone is no longer the only smartphone with a CNET News app. Our breaking stories and in-depth features are now even easier to read and browse on Android devices, with the new free CNET News app. Read about what it does and why it's worth downloading.
- Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google's maligned Buzz launch.
- Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Four... VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week's show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.
- Facebook adds 'liked' news stories to search results Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like."
- Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.
- Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered? A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF.
- Apple TV isn't 1080p and you shouldn't care The new Apple TV doesn't support video content with 1080p resolution, but it shouldn't have a major impact on its image quality.
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Season 2 - Watch Jersey Shore Online
Watch Jersey Shore Season 2 Episode 5 The Letter – 26 August 2010 Watch Jersey Shore Season 2 Episode 4 Breaking Up –19 August 2010 Watch Jersey
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Penumbra fans rejoice! Amnesia: The Dark Descent is ...
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Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy...
Google has settled a class-action lawsuit over Buzz, and has agreed to a $8.5 million payout which will help fund groups that focus on privacy issues.
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Luke Hines' Massive Crash At ALMS Mosport Race (vide...
Fire may be the biggest worry of most racing drivers, but high-speed accidents are a lot more common. This accident is a testament to the safety of modern race car and track design. Driving down the fast, slightly curved back straight at Mosport during this weekend's American Le Mans Series race...
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Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traff...
It's terribly difficult to get reliable statistics, as numbers tend to vary drastically depending upon whom you ask, but if you're inclined to believe that Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS, though it's important to know that the iOS tallies apparently don't include the web-friendly iPad. You also might want to note that this is mobile web traffic here -- these days, we spend an increasing amount of our internet time in apps -- and since we're on a roll with the disclaimers, let's just add that these numbers have nothing to do with a company's financial success. Nokia can attest to that.Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic, says Quantcast originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Apple Insider | Quantcast Blog | Email this | Comments
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Painted Hills, Oregon Sunrise
Sunrise on the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills, Oregon. I had to travel three hours on very rural winding country roads in the dark, with steep drop-offs to get there for this opening shot of the day!
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Chrome Turns 2, New Version Launches To Celebrate
In order to celebrate 2 years, Google is releasing a new stable version (Chrome 6) that's even faster and more streamlined than prior versions. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance.
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How Sheep Determined the Size of Your Gadgets
It's easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They're all about the size of paperback books. But why are paperbacks that size? It all has to do with the sheep.
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Nikon wants to create a 'new market' with its new co...
We thought Nikon just wanted to join the burgeoning ranks of mirrorless interchangeable lens shooters that bridge the gap between full-fledged DSLR and pocket-friendly compact cameras. But oh no, as company president Makoto Kimura puts it, Nikon wants to create a whole "new market" with its next big idea. Noting that his lab lackeys have tested all sorts of eccentric possibilities, such as a head-mounted display, Kimura says it's time for digital cameras to move with the times and Nikon will be ready to take up its usual leadership position. When might that be, you ask? Well, in classic bigwig style, he keeps the roadmap tucked firmly inside the breast pocket of his smoking jacket, but at least we know that Nikon won't be sitting on the sidelines and letting whippersnappers like Sony's NEX-5 steal customers away.Nikon wants to create a 'new market' with its new concept originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkElectronista | Reuters |Email this|Comments
- Mark Hurd in Talks With Oracle (Wall Street Journal) Wall Street Journal:
Mark Hurd in Talks With Oracle — Mark Hurd, who resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. last month, is in talks to join Oracle Corp. as a top executive, people familiar with the matter said. — The exact nature of Mr. Hurd's new job couldn't be learned.
- Untangling the social web (Economist)
Economist:
Untangling the social web — Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly useful — TELECOMS operators naturally prize mobile-phone subscribers who spend a lot, but some thriftier customers, it turns out, are actually more valuable.
- The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Un...
Wade Roush / Xconomy:
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Undoing — Wade Roush wrote: — With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe.
- Apple's Ping tops 1M users in two days, but it's no Googl...
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Apple's Ping tops 1M users in two days, but it's no Google Buzz — Apple announced just a few hours ago that its new music-centered social network Ping has surpassed 1 million users in a mere two days. — While the announcement may seem impressive, if you consider that iTunes …
- Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung (Swizec/Cthul...
Swizec / Cthulhu and other crazies:
Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung — A few days ago Apple released a social network. Gee, how bloody creative of them and they used to be so cool. There are enough social networks, too many actually. But I digress. — Yesterday when I updated iTunes and got the slightly odd new version …
- iOS 4.1 confirmed for September 8th on Apple's UK website...
Laura June / Engadget:
iOS 4.1 confirmed for September 8th on Apple's UK website — According to Apple's UK website, iOS 4.1 will hit on Wednesday, September 8th. The US website still displays the non-commital “Coming Soon” message, so we'll have to keep our eyes peeled. We're going to go ahead and guess …
- Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down (Michael Ar...
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down — Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the [Erotic Services] Adult Services section of their site. It's gone, replaced by a large black and white “censored” logo. — I've reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply.
- Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not 'Suck' (Brian X. Chen...
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not ‘Suck’ — While winding down from Wednesday's iPod announcements, Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have taken some time to respond to an e-mail criticizing the new look of the iTunes icon. — Joshua Kopac, who oversees design work for advertising firm ValuLeads …
- Dubai's Police Chief Calls BlackBerry a Spy Tool crimeandpunishment writes "Does the battle over the Blackberry ban in the United Arab Emirates have its roots in a spy story? Dubai's police chief says concern over espionage (specifically, by the US and Israel) led to the decision to limit BlackBerry services. The UAE says it will block BlackBerry email, messaging, and web services on October 11th unless it gets access to encrypted data. Comments by Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim are often seen as reflecting the views of Dubai's leadership, and would appear to indicate a very hard line in talks with Research in Motion." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Radiohead Helps Fans Make Crowd-Sourced Live Show DVD Kilrah_il writes "After having a go with a Name-Your-Price album and an open-source video, Radiohead is again breaking new ground, this time with a fan-based initiative. A group of fans went to one of the band's shows in Prague, each shooting the show from a different angle. By editing it all together and adding audio from the original masters provided by the band, they have created a video of the show that is 'Strictly not for sale — By the fans for the fans,' adding, 'Please share and enjoy.' Can this be the future of live show videos?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- The Joke Known As 3D TV harrymcc writes "I'm at IFA in Berlin — Europe's equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show — and the massive halls are dominated by 3D TVs made by everyone from Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic to companies you've never heard of. The manufacturers seem pretty excited, but 3D has so many downsides — most of all the lousy image quality and unimpressive dimensionality effect — that I can't imagine consumers are going to go for this. 'As a medium, 3D remains remarkably self-trivializing. Virtually nobody who works with it can resist thrusting stuff at the camera, just to make clear to viewers that they’re experiencing the miracle of the third dimension. When Lang Lang banged away at his piano during Sony’s event, a cameraman zoomed in and out on the musical instrument for no apparent reason, and one of the company’s representatives kept robotically shoving his hands forward. Hey, it’s 3D — watch this!'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- DoD Takes Criticism From Security Experts On Cyberwar Inc... wiredmikey writes "Undersecretary of Defense William J. Lynn is being challenged by IT security experts who find it hard to believe that the incident which led to the Pentagon's recognizing cyberspace as a new 'domain of warfare' could have really happened as described. In his essay, 'Defending a New Domain,' Lynn recounts a widely-reported 2008 hack that was initiated when, according to Lynn, an infected flash drive was inserted into a military laptop by 'a foreign intelligence agency.' Critics such as IT security firm Sophos' Chief Security Adviser Chester Wisniewski argue that this James Bond-like scenario doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The primary issue is that the malware involved, known as agent.btz, is neither sophisticated nor particularly dangerous. A variant of the SillyFDC worm, agent.btz can be easily defeated by disabling the Windows 'autorun' feature (which automatically starts a program on a drive upon insertion) or by simply banning thumb drives. In 2007, Silly FDC was rated as Risk Level 1: Very Low, by security firm Symantec." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Nasty Data-Stealing Bug Haunts Internet Explorer 8 Trailrunner7 writes "There's an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 that enables simple data-stealing attacks by Web-based attackers and could lead to an attacker hijacking a user's authenticated session on a third-party site. The flaw, which a researcher said may have been known since 2008, lies in the way IE8 handles CSS. The vulnerability can be exploited through an attack scenario known as cross-domain theft, and researcher Chris Evans originally brought the problem to light in a blog post in December. At the time, all of the major browsers were vulnerable to the attack, but since then, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera all have implemented a simple defense mechanism. The upshot of this is that if a victim has visited a given Web site, authenticated himself to the site, and then visits a site controlled by an attacker, the attacker would have the ability to hijack the user's session and extract supposedly confidential data. This attack works on the latest, fully patched release of IE8." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement eldavojohn writes "Google's Buzz service will cost the company $8.5 million in settling a class action lawsuit related to the privacy debacle from the days after its release. Ars reports: 'In the proposed settlement submitted to the court this week, Google agreed to make efforts to better educate Buzz users on issues of privacy and the particular privacy features that Buzz offers. Additionally, Google also agreed to pay out $8.5 million to a fund which will be disbursed as cy pres awards for organizations that focus on Internet privacy policy or education.' In other words, the victims (Buzz users) won't see any of that money, but it will be used to promote healthy Internet privacy policies." Several readers have also noted that Google has simplified its privacy policy, condensing a number of product-specific policies into one and adding a privacy tools page in an effort to make everything more easily understood. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- Simon Singh Talks With Wired About His Libel Battle smellsofbikes writes "Wired has a short but pithy interview with Simon Singh about his defense against a libel suit brought by the British Chiropractic Association, in which he spent more than $200,000 and emerged victorious." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- The Many Iterations of William Shatner pickens writes "The NY Times weekend magazine has a long profile, well worth reading, of self-described 'working actor' William Shatner. He began acting at age 6 and at one point in the late 1950s was mentioned in the same breath as his contemporaries Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford — until, without explanation, his career faded before it bloomed. Shatner, now 79, pulls no punches in his memories of the Star Trek years. 'I never thought it'd become a big deal, just 13 episodes and out,' says Shatner. 'I didn't think I was hard to get along with. There were a few disaffected actors who came in once a week. I had nothing to do with them. Friendly! I was working seven days a week, learning 10 pages of dialogue a day. They had one line!' Which was the beginning of the William Shatner character. 'They said I was this William Shatner character, and I figured I had to be it. Pompous, takes himself seriously, hardheaded.' Shatner said that that character evolved slowly, until one day he realized he couldn’t change it. 'So I played it. But I didn’t see it. That character doesn’t seem like me to me. I know the real William Shatner.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit theodp writes "The winners of the childhood obesity infographic design contest sponsored by GOOD and First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative are in, and the overall winner calls out Sony's PlayStation as a major milestone on its timeline of childhood obesity (together with Coke, Pepsi, mall food courts, fructose and high sugar tariffs, TV, McDonald's, and other fast food). Somewhat ironically, the First Lady's other anti-childhood obesity efforts include a $60,000 video game contest." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- New Copyright Lawsuits Go After Porn On Bittorrent neoflexycurrent writes "Three adult media entertainment producers filed suit Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging copyright infringement against hundreds of anonymous defendants accused of trading videos using Bittorrent. This kind of action resembles the much-criticized mass litigation undertaken by the US Copyright Group against hordes of unknown accused Bittorrent users trading movies like The Hurt Locker. In this case, the subject matter promises to be more provocative." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
