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RIM’s PlayBook tablet is facing an onslaught of competitive products that could marginalize the devices impact in the mobile space. – RIM’s PlayBook tablet is scheduled to hit store shelves early
next year. In that time, it’s possible that the company will offer up several
new features that it hasn’t talked about yet. But for now, critics and
supporters of the device alike need make do with what they know and that means
a devi…
Four U.S. Democrats in Congress bashed the network neutrality plan put forth by Google and Verizon, which called for separate rules for wireline and wireless Internet services. – Four members of U.S. Congress banded together to attack the network
neutrality plan put forth by Google and Verizon, a proposal so contentious that
parties from all over the Web have weighed in to denounce it.
Democratic Reps. Edward Markey, Anna Eshoo, Mike Doyle and Jay Inslee wrote
in a lette…
In hot pursuit of a fuel that is less risky and more accessible
“THE bad news is we didn’t hit oil,” ran the old wildcatter’s joke. “The good news is we didn’t find gas.” Potentially dangerous and always more difficult to manage than pouring liquid into a barrel, natural gas used to give oil companies a headache. Now gas is dominating the thoughts of Western oil bosses and, increasingly, their firms’ portfolios. Seven of the eight projects Exxon Mobil completed last year were for natural-gas developments. Two of the three it has scheduled for this year are also gas-related. Royal Dutch Shell says that by 2012 half of its output will come from gas. The current high oil price still makes crude the prize for any self-respecting major. But the West’s big oil companies are growing gassier.
In part this is because oil is getting harder to find, for geological and political reasons. Global oil production will peak within a few decades, if not before. And the remaining “easy oil”—which can be extracted without fuss or expense—is increasingly out of bounds for Western firms. Almost 90% of it is in the hands of national oil companies which have, with few exceptions, blocked Western giants from their riches. This is forcing Big Oil into trickier and pricier areas, notably deepwater fields, such as those in the Gulf of Mexico and off Africa’s west coast, and unconventional reserves, such as Canada’s tar sands. Hence the appeal of gas, and a string of deals in Australia and America. …
Kourtney Kardashian and her sister Khloe have posed nude in a new ad for the Miami branch of their retail store, Dash.
The reality stars along with two of their employees can be seen covered in black bodypaint in the ad.
Also, a white colour canvas on their body reads, ‘Dash Dolls’.
“Kourt and I came to Miami [...]
Passengers on Paris to Cardiff plane evacuated and flights diverted to other airports after crew report fault
Haroon Siddique
An emergency landing of a plane en route to Cardiff closed a runway at Gatwick airport this morning.
Flybe flight BE1432 flying from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was diverted to the West Sussex airport after the crew reported a technical fault, with reports suggesting smoke on the aircraft.
The airport’s fire and ambulance services were deployed “as a precautionary measure” but no one was injured, according to a Gatwick spokesman who said the passengers were able “to exit down the steps in the normal way”. The Dash 8 plane, carrying 46 passengers and four crew made the emergency landing at 12.25am. The runway reopened just before 1pm, after the plane was moved.
Eleven flights due to land at Gatwick were diverted to other airports, while another 15 were put in waiting-to-land “stacking” positions.
“Three other flights have been held on the ground,” the Gatwick spokesman said. “This is a busy day but it’s not our most busy of the summer. We’re hoping that delays will be kept to a minimum.”
A Flybe spokeswoman said alternative travel arrangements were being made to transport the passengers to Cardiff as soon as possible.
The Bombardier Dash 8 is a twin engined medium range turboprop aircraft. In February a Continental Airlines Dash 8 Q400 crashed into a house in suburban Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 passengers. In 2007, Scandinavian airlines, SAS, removed its Dash 8 Q400 type aircraft from service permanently after three safety scares in two months. The company cited “diminished” confidence and customer doubts.
Dash Snow, a promising young New York artist, died Monday night at Lafayette House, a hotel in Lower Manhattan. He was 27 and lived in Manhattan.
Dash Snow: an art icon for our times?
The works of the controversial New York artist, who died this week, were shot through with drugs and violence – but there was beauty there too
There aren’t many icons around these days. It sometimes feels like there are no James Deans or Jimi Hendrixes or Sylvia Plaths left. Yet artist Dash Snow, who has died at the age of 27, perhaps deserves the title. Snow died from a drug overdose at the Lafayette Hotel in Manhattan on Monday night. He was one of the most promising young artists on New York’s Lower East Side art scene, the so-called Bowery School, and in many ways was their mythical figurehead. Short, tattooed, with long blond hair and a shaggy beard, Dash was more rock star than artist.
Dash Snow’s work fed on his extreme living. He captured images of mayhem. His work was visceral, bodily, often disgusting. He had few boundaries. He and his friends – Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, Terence Koh and Dash’s ex-wife Agathe Snow – injected the New York art scene with an energy that hadn’t been there for years.
Snow’s background often raised eyebrows. He came from the De Menil family, one of America’s richest and most prominent art collecting dynasties. Yet he rebelled against them, growing up on the streets of New York from the age of 15, after spending two years in juvenile detention. Dash started creating graffiti as a member of the notorious and inventive Irak crew. He stumbled into art after friends Colen and McGinley encouraged him, initially creating Polaroid images filled with sex and hard drugs. The Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine went on to sing his praises. He was featured in the Whitney Biennial. His work was snapped up by major collectors like Dakis Joannou and Anita Zabludovic.
In London, he is perhaps best known for his work in USA Today, Charles Saatchi’s 2006 exhibition at the Royal Academy. Snow showed typically confrontational art: 45 newspaper cuttings about American police corruption hung on the walls like a giant collage. The clippings were covered in Snow’s own semen and entitled Fuck the Police. The following year he spent a week ripping up phone books and covering a room in urine, semen and alcohol for the wildly criticised Nest installation at Deitch Projects. Snow’s installations and films contained penises, semen, nudity and a violent sort of freedom. He taunted the audience, daring them to accept sex and drug binges as fine art.
His death has shocked anyone who had any contact with him or knew his work. The drugs were all there in the artwork (and the rumours), but so was a sense of real beauty and honesty. It wasn’t necessarily the aesthetic of his work, but its independence that made it so influential. He simply didn’t give a shit.
A statement by Peres Projects says it all: “Dash was the gentlest of souls and one of the most sensitive artists of his time. He found beauty where most would not know to look. We will treasure his life always.”