Some Apple iPhones didn’t ring in the New Year, and customers are angry about the alarm-application malfunction. – While it might not sound as harrowing as the legendary Y2K bug that threatened to melt down every computer on the planet (depending on whom you talked to), Apple iPhone users rang in the New Year with a glitch in the clock application of their devices that caused the alarm function to stop working a…
In recent years, “nerdy” pursuits are seeping their way into the mainstream, and celebrities are not as afraid to admit their deepest, nerdiest tendencies. The list of celeb comic nerds just may surprise you!
Better Break Out the Epideral: John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s yet-to-be-born baby boy Benjamin is set for a “silent” birth ceremony — in line with the family’s devout Scientology faith — when he arrives later this year, informants close to the longtime couple tell PopEater.com’s Naughty or Nice. “The couple will follow the church’s guidelines [...]
Smoke from cooking stoves kills poor people
AFTER vaccines and bed nets, could the humble cooking stove be the next big idea to save millions of lives in poor countries? Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, hopes so. She was marking the launch on September 21st of a new alliance that aims to raise $250m to supply clean stoves to 100m poor households by 2020. It is headed by the United Nations Foundation, a charity. Among its backers are governments (chiefly America, which has put up an initial $50m), charities (the Shell Foundation) and private firms (Morgan Stanley, an investment bank).
Around two billion people have no access to modern energy, and a billion have it only sporadically. The smoky stoves that many of them use, the World Health Organisation reckons, produce particulate pollution that causes around 2m premature deaths a year. Makeshift cookers also catch fire easily, maiming and killing. And lives are not the only things wasted. Women and girls in rural villages lose time and energy walking around collecting dirty solid fuels, ranging from crop waste to cow dung (better used as fertiliser). …
Japan Residential Assets Manager, the manager of Saizen Real Estate Investment Trust (Saizen REIT), says Godo Kaisha Choan, a TK (Tokumei kumiai or silent partnership) operator of Saizen REIT, has entered into a facility agreement with Societe Generale to refinance its JPY 5.9 billion ($90.2 million) loan, which was originally obtained from Societe Generale and due to mature in July 2011.
NASA calls it quits on the Phoenix Mars Lander as a photo suggests the spacecraft has sustained heavy damage. The space agency said the lander was not expected to survive the planet’s harsh winter. – NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has ended operations after repeated attempts to
contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful, the space agency reported. A new
image transmitted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showed signs of severe
ice damage to the lander’s solar panels.
quot;The Phoenix spacec…
Google, normally a vocal critic of threats to network neutrality, is taking a back seat to the Open Internet Coalition in the wake of a court’s decision to let Comcast regulate its network as it sees fit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled April 6 that the FCC did not have the authority to order Comcast to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. Ironically, this could push Google to be more aggressive in building out these networks as an alternative to pipes controlled by Comcast, Verizon and the rest of the incumbents.
– Anyone looking for Google to publicly complain about the ruling
that limits the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to tell network
operators how to manage their networks shouldn’t hold their breath. The Open
Internet Coalition is speaking for the search engine giant.
The U.S. Court o…
Adobe Systems will activate a new updater tool for its user base when it releases a security update April 13 for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The updater can be set to download security fixes for Windows users without any user interaction.
– Adobe
Systems is enabling a silent updating feature in two products in an effort
to ensure that users are running the most secure versions of the company’s
software.
With the new updater, Windows users can configure Adobe Reader and Acrobat
to automatically download updates without user intera…
Google declines to comment on a report from Engadget that it was mulling a move to make applications and components normally integrated on Android smartphones available through Android Market for users to download on their own schedule. Android has come under scrutiny because there have been so many versions released in just a few short years. Forrester Research Charles Golvin tells eWEEK that if Google does decouple its applications it would be a tacit acknowledgment that Android has become fragmented.
– If Google is really planning to roll out a version of Android that mitigates
the gross fragmentation issue among smartphones based on
that operating system, the company is keeping it to itself.
Google declined to comment on a report from Engadget that it was considering
a move to make applicati…
Motion Potion challenges America’s DJs to a “Silent Soundclash”
Wireless headphones from Silent Events propel a 2-channel Silent Disco battle in U.S. clubs
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For more than a decade, Motion Potion has been pushing “Electric Nostalgia,” a style that unites the past 40 years of dance music with its present and future. This spring he’ll be recruiting a battalion of DJs to help push the concept at “Silent Soundclashes” across America. With the help of hundreds of Silent Events wireless headphones, MoPo will be joined by DJs in 20 different markets for dance-floor excursions that put the choice in the hands of the listener. The Soundclash concept goes back to the earliest days of DJing in Jamaica and New York, where DJs would face off at free outdoor events in “winner takes the soundsystem” battles. “The “Silent Soundclash Series” updates this concept and allows the listener to choose with the flip of a channel switch.
“The Silent Soundclash Series” is a step towards the potential fulfillment of the long-term promise of the “Silent Disco” concept. What started as a way for festivals like Bonnaroo and Glastonberry to run late-night parties is headed towards a day when an urban house party could rock on without waking the neighbors. Using Silent Events’ patented headphones not only allows the best in wireless sound (on their own unique FCC-approved band) but also the ability to switch channels, allowing two DJs to rock a party head-to-head. The partygoer will no longer have to “choose with his feet” by leaving the dance floor but rather just change the station.
“Rocking the “Silent Disco” at Bonnaroo the past four years has been an incredible musical and social experience.” said MoPo “With this tour we’re bringing that amazing vibe right into people’s hometowns and allowing their favorite local DJs to participate in the experiment and join the fun.”
The “Silent Soundclash Series” will take place in the middle of Motion Potion’s Spring 2010 “Electric Nostalgia” Tour, coinciding with the release of a series of three “Electric Nostalgia EP’s” and the launch of the new online community at www.motionpotion.com. The first “Silent Soundclashes” will take place at WMC Miami and will continue on for more than a month across the Eastern United States. MoPo will then head back towards San Francisco to play a series of shows with electronic legends like Tipper, NAPT and Fort Knox 5.
“Electric Nostalgia” Spring Tour 2010
MOPO at SOUTH by SOUTHWEST
Tuesday, March 9 – Austin Tx – SXSW – The Red Fez
Wednesday, March 10 – Austin Tx – SXSW – The Parish with Brothers Past
Thursday, March 11 – Austin, Tx – SXSW – Mal Verde – with DJ Manny and DJ Bigface
Saturday, March 13 Austin, Tx – Creekside Lounge
Tuesday, March 16- Austin Tx – SXSW – The Red Fez – with J.Boogie, Shakey, Manny
SILENT SOUNDCLASH SERIES
Wednesday, March 24 DAY- WMC Miami – “Hush – Silent Disco” at K17 Beach Club
Thursday, March 25 – University of Miami – the Rathskeller
Friday, March 26 – WMC Miami – TBA
Saturday, March 27 – TBA
Tuesday, March 30 – Savannah Ga. – Live Wire Music Hall
Wednesday, March 31 – Boone, NC – Boone Salloon
Thursday, April 1 – Wilimington, NC – Green Light Lounge
Friday, April 2 – Athens, GA – New Earth Music Hall
Saturday, April 3 – Atlanta, GA – Purgatory @ Masquerade
Tuesday, April 6- Blacksburg, Va – Attittudes
Wednesday, April 7 – Charlottesville, Va – Random Row
Thursday, April 8 – Baltimore, MD – Quarter @ Bourbon St
Friday, April 9 – Philadelphia, Pa. – The Note
Saturday, April 10 – New York, NY – Rocks Off Boat Cruise
Tuesday, April 13 – Syracuse, NY – Wescott Theatre
Wednesday, April 14 – Rex Theatre
Thursday, April 15 – Grand Rapids MI – The Intersection
Friday, April 16 – TBA
Saturday, April 17 – TBA
ADDITIONAL ELECTRIC NOSTALGIA DATES
Thursday, April 29 – Sebastopol Ca – the Hopmonk – “Juke Joint”
Friday, April 30 – SFO – “Loose Joints” at the Makeout Room
Saturday, May 8 – SFO – Mighty – “Freqo de Mayo” with Tipper
Sunday, May 9 – SFO – Silent Soundclash TBA!
Friday, May 14 – SFO – Mezzanine – with the Breakestra & Fort Knox 5
Saturday, May 21 – SFO – Mighty – with NAPT
Serbia’s police and prosecution have not made any statements regarding the accusations heard from Stanko Subotić aka Cane. In a B92 TV program on Monday evening, hosted by journalist Jugoslav Ćosić, Subotić phoned in to accuse that Delta Holding owner Miroslav MiÅ¡ković and businessman Milan Beko used his money – EUR 50mn of it – to buy Port of Belgrade and Belgrade-based daily VeÄernje Novosti.
A minute’s silence is held across the Belgian rail network in memory of those who died in Monday’s train crash. Authorities say 18 people were killed and 171 injured, while three more are unaccounted for.
Dejan Stojadinović, who attacked opposition New Serbia (NS) party leader Velimir Ilić on Friday, refused to make any statement when questioned by police. This is according to Serbian police (MUP) Director Milorad Veljović, who spoke in Belgrade on Tuesday.
US First Lady Michelle Obama had at one time given her husband silent treatment during his presidential campaign because a large number of women used to flirt with the ex-senator, a new book has revealed.
Christopher Andersen’s book, titled ‘Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage’, claimed that many women “pushed their bodies up against [...]
Havana, Cuba – July 15, 2009 On Sunday, July 12, Las Damas de Blanco (The Ladies in White), celebrated Mass at La Iglesia de Santa…
Amid the international outcry over the trial of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, neighbouring India has been conspicuous in its silence. Once a staunch and vocal Aung San Suu Kyi supporter, India began engaging Myanmar’s junta in the mid-1990s — a shift that has seen security,
