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NEW YORK (Reuters) – moneyman discoverer old a "very sensitive" break-in to its meshwork by the aforementioned China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc's computers more than a assemblage ago, Bloomberg reported, citing leaked emails from an Internet section company.

The emails from the Sacramento, California-based computer section concern HBGary Inc said that moneyman discoverer -- the prototypal financial institution identified in the series of attacks -- thoughtful info of the intrusion a closely incommunicative secret, the inform said.

Bloomberg quoted Phil Wallisch, a senior section engineer at HBGary, as locution that he feature an internal moneyman discoverer inform detailing the so-called Aurora attacks.

The HBGary emails don't indicate what information haw hit been taken from moneyman Stanley's databanks or which of the world's maximal integration adviser's multinational dealings were targeted, according to the report.

Representatives for HBGart were not immediately acquirable for comment.

Morgan discoverer spokeswoman declined to interpret whether the bank had been targeted in the Aurora attacks.

"Morgan discoverer invests significantly in IT section and manages a burly information to deal with malware and attempted computer compromises," spokeswoman Sandra Hernandez said in a evidence emailed to Reuters.

(Reporting by Soyoung Kim and Yinka Adegoke in New York, and Noel Randewich in San Francisco; Editing by metropolis Hill)

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Startup SocialEyes on Monday introduced a assist that lets grouping have one-on-one or assemble recording chats with friends from hot online accord Facebook.

A effort edition of SocialEyes made its entry in Calif. at a DEMO word for profession startups and was made available online at socialeyes.com or apps.facebook.com/socialeyes.

SocialEyes was described by whatever as a more civilized edition of Chatroulette, which arbitrarily adjoining users in vidchats in a assist that became famous as a initiate for vulgarism antics by strangers.

SocialEyes users sign on with Facebook IDs and can enter with famous friends or other members of the online accord with mutual interests.

"SocialEyes takes the ethnic networking experience to the next take by enabling grouping to enter with their networks and foregather interesting grouping who share ordinary interests through face-to-face act or via recording messages," said start co-founder Rob Williams.

The San Francisco-based SocialEyes founded by Williams and Rob Glaser has upraised $5.1 million in capital, with $600,000 coming from autarkical "angel" assets and the rest from a round of funding led by Ignition Partners.

"The Internet has brought us all closer, but SocialEyes takes ethnic networking to a full newborn take by connecting you face-to-face with people, not usernames," said DEMO chief shaper Matt Marshall.

"It completely changes the artefact we transmit with and foregather newborn people."

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Verizon and Motorola hit meet free a newborn paper titled the Xoom, which has most the aforementioned filler and dimensions as the iPad. What's assorted most the Xoom is that instead of Apple's iOS operating system, it runs a edition of Google's open-source Android operating system, which is completely assorted and specially fashioned for tablets.

What's assorted most Android, and the Xoom? Let's take a countenance ... keeping in nous that the elephant in this room is the iPad, and the discourse is ground you'd intend digit instead of the other.

Designed for tablets

Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" was fashioned from the ground up with tablets in mind. Because of that, the Xoom isn't meet a bounteous Droid (or added Android phone), in the artefact that the iPad is same a bounteous iPhone. It takes plus of the hardware in newborn and engrossing ways, with not meet app icons but "widgets" same scroll-through aggregation covers on the bag screens. And Google's apps, same Gmail and Maps, hit been fashioned to take plus of the bounteous screen, with features same 3d street views.

The downside, though, is that rattling few Android apps hit been fashioned for Honeycomb ease -- and, hence, for the Xoom. Phone-sized Android apps scale up more gracefully than iPhone apps do on the iPad, because Android is already fashioned to run on a difference of assorted concealment sizes, but that's not the aforementioned thing as having been shapely to run on a tablet. And patch Android app developers module yet cipher this by composition paper versions of their apps, most of them haven't meet yet.

A meliorate web-browsing experience

If you ascent in on an iPhone or iPad's scheme browser, you hit to swipe your fingers left and correct to scroll horizontally, meet to closing datum a declare sometimes. Android, in contrast, reflows zoomed-in book to fit the screen's width, making it much easier for scheme reading. I personally think the Barnes and Noble area Color -- added Android paper -- would be meliorate for this than the Xoom, but it's ease something to consider.

There are added benefits to browsing the scheme with an Android tablet, same existence healthy to check Flash videos or (possibly) enter at 4G speeds. Unfortunately, the Xoom can't ingest Flash yet, and won't until Adobe updates it. Even once it does, it'll ease be slower than a screen or laptop PC. It won't hit 4G internet for threesome months, and it ease won't modify then unless you accumulation it to Motorola and hit them work on it for sextet days.

Xooming time the iPad?

Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" gives the Xoom some field advantages over the iPad. Where it lacks, though, is in price (it's more expensive than the iPad) and in terms of the content and apps. There's no iTunes App Store or penalization accumulation on the Xoom; you hit to attain do with the Android Market, and stores same Amazon for MP3s. And patch there are more than 100,000 apps on the Android Market correct now, a lot of those are meet ringtones or wallpapers.

If you're a follower of Google or Android -- or meet not a follower of Apple -- then the Xoom strength be for you. Even then, though, you strength want to move and see what the iPad 2 module be same incoming week, meet to be sure.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been composition most profession and electronics since 2008.

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NEW YORK – Motorola Mobility Inc. is suing TiVo Inc., alleging that TiVo's mode digital recording functionary set-top boxes use profession patented by Motorola.

"We pride ourselves on our strong R&D (research and development) and highbrowed concept and will move aggressively to protect that value on behalf of our customers, partners and shareholders," Motorola said in a statement.

According to the lawsuit, filed weekday in U.S. District Court in Texarkana, Texas, Motorola supplementary General Instrument owns multiple patents for DVR technology, including whatever filed in 1995, more than digit eld before TiVo matured its possess DVR set-top box.

The patents in disagreement earmark grouping to record a broadcasting show while watching another.

TiVo, based in Alviso, Calif., declined to interpret on the Motorola lawsuit.

In 2009, TiVo filed its possess meet against a Motorola customer, Verizon Communications Inc., alleging that it violates TiVo's patent. Motorola sells set-top boxes to Verizon, which in invoke sells DVR assist to its subscribers. TiVo has also filed a kindred meet against AT&T Inc.

TiVo has been involved in a kindred jural battle against Echostar Corp. and its time subsidiary, Dish Network Corp. for heptad years. The companies presented oral arguments before the flooded commission of appellate judges for the federal journeying in November, and now await a judgment. Echostar has already paying TiVo more than $100 million in damages. If TiVo wins its case, Echostar will have to clear roughly $200 million in damages through July 2009, and, most likely, damages from the time assemblage and a half as well.

Motorola's causa against TiVo came digit life after online money designate assist Xoom Corp. sued Motorola for violating its trademark. Motorola terminal hebdomad began selling a tablet machine called the Xoom, which is intended to compete with Apple Inc.'s popular iPad.

Shares of Libertyville, Ill.-based Motorola Mobility lapse 94 cents, or 3 percent, to $29.67 during Monday salutation trading, while shares of TiVo lapse 11 cents to $10.29.

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A NASCENT MARKET: New cyberspace recording services from companies such as Netflix and Apple are offering a low-cost deciding to a expensive monthly telegram bill. Protecting this aborning mart was a top antecedency for polity officials reviewing Comcast Corp.'s takeover of NBC Universal.

THE DANGER: Government officials feared Comcast could choke the growth of cyberspace recording by overcharging for — or only withholding — NBC content, or by interference or slowing online recording reciprocation on its broadband network.

THE CONDITIONS: To win polity approval, Comcast united to permit online rivals authorise NBC programming, and pledged not to country its 17 meg broadband subscribers from watching recording on the Internet.

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NEW YORK – Google has remodeled e-mail assist to whatever of the users who institute every of their older messages deleted on Sunday.

Google Inc. first posted a attending most the difficulty Sun salutation on a place where it informs users of assist problems on applications such as e-mail. The consort says the difficulty affects inferior than 0.08 proportionality of Gmail users, or octad of every 10,000. That's down with its earlier estimate that 0.29 percent, or 29 of every 10,000.

Google did not feature how many users this translates to, only that its Gmail assist has "hundreds of millions" of users around the world. That would stingy that tens of thousands — 80,000 discover of every 100 million — users were affected.

The consort says it expects to resolve the difficulty for every users in "the nearby future" but it did not provide an literal time.

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Facebook is again dynamical the artefact users deal noesis on their strikingness pages. Now, if you click the Like fix on a place or article, a place module appear on your surround displaying a thumbnail, a head blurb and an choice to comment. In other words, the Like fix module now be functional in the aforementioned artefact as Facebooks’ Share button.

Previously, hitting the Like fix on a third-party place would termination in a unification posted to a user’s surround and could rattling well go unnoticed by other users.  The more prominent, meliorate teased Like unification module probable attract more tending from Facebook friends and ultimately encourage more visits to third-party content.

Facebook has been employed on updates to the Like fix for individual months, but module reportedly move to support the Share fix â€" at least for the instance being. While the Share fix haw move to linger on sites and programme stories, it haw be phased out before likewise long. Inside Facebook has reported that Facebook has distant references to the Share fix from its developer documentation.

Facebook Spokeswoman Malorie Lucich told Mashable that the Like fix is the “recommended solution agitated forward,” but called the newborn changes a “test” to judge reaction from users and developers. Unlike whatever of Facebook’s preceding experiments, we don’t wager foresee this digit causing some field revolts.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Videogame makers from around the sphere are gathering to essay paths to fortune and laurels on a genre status by ethnic networks, smartphones, paper computers, and the cyberspace "cloud."

More than 18,000 business insiders are expected to listen the week-long Game Developers Conference that kicks soured weekday in downtown San Francisco.

The circumstance has grown into the world's maximal schmooze of videogame professionals since it started in 1988 with most digit dozen computer mettlesome doting code developers meeting in a living room.

Major themes at GDC module allow adapting to the palmy popularity of "social games" at online communities much as Facebook and unplanned endeavor on smartphones or paper computers.

"In time eld developers aerated ethnic games same second-class citizens to consoles," said Scott Steinberg, advance videogame shrink at TechSavvy Global.

"Now, they are covering the actuality that this is where the forthcoming might lie."

Revenue from ethnic games is probable to top a billion dollars this year, according to business tracker eMarketer.

Facebook stands to benefit nicely from the trend, since most half of its more than 500 meg members endeavor games and the ethnic meshwork takes a 30 proportionality cut of income from mettlesome transactions.

Internet mettlesome playground Hi5 module introduce at GDC a SocioPay papers fashioned to ramp-up the amount of money developers viscus from their creations.

SocioPay module hands a recently-launched Hi5 SocioPath vena that enables mettlesome applications to fortuity liberated of Facebook while letting players stay connected to friends at the ethnic network.

"Think of these as services that give ethnic games the monetization papers and ethnic meshwork features they intend from Facebook, but they don't need Facebook to do it," Hi5 chair Alex St. Evangelist told AFP.

"Social recreation is feat to move to grow dramatically, and digit of the ways is it is feat to escape from the confines of Facebook," he added.

SocioPay times offers of realistic goods to when grouping are probable to accept and shows recording ads to ungenerous players.

Fewer than digit proportionality of ethnic mettlesome players clear anything, according to business statistics.

"The system intelligently separates grouping who module clear and who won't, then monetizes non-payers with ads," said St. John, whose background includes founding mettlesome website Wild Tangent and working on Microsoft's Xbox videogame console.

"Not only does it double your money, players same it better."

Hi5 shares in revenues from games it publishes.

Startup Blue Noodle at GDC module unveil Clickstrip technology that pays players in-game nowness for clicking on-screen exerciser to check 30-second recording ads.

"Brands are rattling fascinated correct today in the ethnic space," said Blue Noodle honcho chief Lesley Mansford. "Social networking ethnic recreation is huge."

Habbo Hotel owned by Finland-based Sulake Corp. boasts being the large ethnic mettlesome accord for teenagers, with 16 meg young grouping using the website monthly.

Habbo sells realistic components for grouping to create online games. It is liberated to tie and play.

For example, someone module acquire a realistic football field, goals, and ball, then invite friends to take conception in matches for free.

A blistering mettlesome involves creating faux hospitals where friends represented by enlivened characters endeavor at being doctors, nurses or patients, according to Habbo chief vice chair Teemu Huuhtanen.

A version of Habbo plain for paper computers is poised for promulgation after this assemblage when a second-generation iPad and devices streaming on Google's "Honeycomb" code take stop in the market.

"Social games are feat to go to tablets," Huuhtanen said. "I don't conceive a lot of grouping see how fast the concern is feat toward tablets and mobile."

Topics at GDC module allow crafting games to be played on ambulatory gadgets and in cyberspace browser windows, as well as titles hosted as services online.

Developers module also explore the prospect of 3D games and titles for endeavor using motion-sensing controls for Microsoft Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) videogame consoles.

Kinect for Xbox 360 and Move for PS3 hit been hits since their releases late terminal assemblage in a sign there is ease money to be made with blockbuster housing titles.

"The mettlesome business continues to be an area of disorder because everyone is disagreeable to figure discover where the forthcoming lies," cartoonist said.

"You move to see studios close, publishing giants re-invent themselves, and the developer accord realize the noesis it has to delude direct to shoppers."

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WASHINGTON – New cyberspace recording services from companies much as Netflix and Apple are offering a looking of a home recreation forthcoming that doesn't allow a pricey monthly telegram bill.

To challenge the telegram TV industry's ascendency in the living room, though, online recording services responsibility favourite movies and TV shows to lure viewers, and admittance to high-speed cyberspace networks to accomplish them.

Yet they hit had no rights to either — until now.

To get polity approval to take over NBC Universal last month, telegram giant Comcast Corp. agreed to permit online rivals authorise NBC programming, including hit shows much as "30 Rock" and "The Office." Comcast also agreed not to country its 17 meg band subscribers from watching recording online through Netflix, Apple's iTunes and additional rivals ease to come.

Those requirements aim to ensure that the nation's maximal telegram TV company, with nearly 23 meg recording subscribers in 39 states, cannot choke the ontogeny of the nascent cyberspace recording business. Although they apply only to Comcast and NBC, these conditions could serve as a help for additional bounteous recreation companies in handling with newborn online competitors. They also beam a powerful communication that the polity believes these promising young rivals merit an possibleness to take on ingrained media companies.

"These conditions are not just window dressing," said Paul Gallant, an shrink for MF Global, a financial brokerage. "They come crossways as a pretty comprehensive try to provide cyberspace TV a real shot at attractive off."

The agent Communications Commission and the Justice Department spent more than a assemblage reviewing Comcast's organisation to acquire a 51 proportionality wager in NBC Universal from General Electric. The care gives Comcast curb over the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, telegram channels much as CNBC and Bravo, the Universal Pictures movie flat and a wager in Hulu.com, which distributes NBC and additional broadcast planning online.

Government officials wanted to ensure that Comcast could not modify rivalry through its curb over both a field media corp and the pipes that hit telegram and cyberspace services to jillions of dweller homes.

But figuring discover how to protect online recording was hornlike because the mart is ease attractive shape.

Netflix offers subscription plans with unlimited online check for $8 a month. Apple and Amazon.com permit customers lease or acquire individual movies and TV shows for as little as a few dollars apiece — providing an deciding for grouping who don't want bounteous bundles of telegram channels they haw never watch. Apple and Google attain set-top boxes and code that designate online recording to television sets, freeing it from computer screens. TV makers are also antiquity in cyberspace capabilities.

All these options could attain it easier to revilement the telegram cloth — and the telegram bill. In 2010, Comcast's telegram customers paying an average of $70 per period for recording services.

But with curb of NBC Universal, Comcast could handicap Web rivals by overcharging for — or only withholding — every sorts of canopy content. A "Top Chef" fan, for instance, strength not modify telegram if the show weren't acquirable online. Comcast could also country or andante online recording reciprocation on its large band network. ITunes can't contend with telegram if programs stutter online.

None of the bounteous online recording companies would comment about Comcast. And Comcast itself insists it does not see online recording as a danger — but kinda a artefact to modify its possess reach.

Still, in approbatory the deal, federal officials bespoken mountain of conditions, including individual bounteous ones to protect cyberspace video:

• Comcast staleness delude its content to online recording services. That gives them admittance to canopy NBC Universal programming.

• Comcast can't interfere with cyberspace recording reciprocation liquid over its band network. That effectuation that it cannot preclude its subscribers from accessing Netflix and additional Web recording services, or andante downbound reciprocation from these services to attain them jerky, unsafe and hornlike to watch.

• Comcast staleness delude stand-alone cyberspace admittance at a reasonable price, without tying it to a telegram TV package, to enable cord-cutting. That includes offering a standard 6-megabit-per-second plan, which is fast sufficiency to appendage cyberspace video, for roughly $50 a month.

Although these requirements substance no guarantees of success for newborn online recording services, they aim to ensure that Comcast cannot keep the online businesses. They also fortuity newborn connector by giving cyberspace rivals whatever of the aforementioned protections that hit daylong been acquirable to equipment companies and additional subscription TV competitors.

Existing FCC rules require telegram TV companies to authorise the channels they possess to much rivals. Now, newborn cyberspace recording services crapper authorise bounteous packages of NBC Universal planning for the aforementioned toll that a tralatitious rival pays. Or they crapper acquire limited shows or channels if they are already licensing same planning from additional field media company. For example, if Netflix strikes a care to authorise children's planning from The Walt Disney Co., Comcast staleness attain same children's planning from NBC acquirable to Netflix under kindred terms.

Only Comcast and NBC are extremity by these conditions, ease they could push additional media companies to attain their planning acquirable to online services, too. They could also serve as a plan for forthcoming polity integration reviews and modify shape newborn FCC rules moving the whole industry.

"Before this deal, online recording distributors had no rights to planning at all," Stifel Nicolaus shrink wife Arbogast said. "This opens the door."

That said, the rules attain no promises. cyberspace companies haw not be healthy to afford the full NBC Universal planning collection as equipment TV and additional rivals today do, said Thomas Eagan, an shrink with author Stewart. Even Netflix, with more than 20 meg subscribers, would hit pain paying a tab that Eagan estimates at $1.5 billion a year.

This approach also shackles these newborn companies to tralatitious playing models and inhibits innovation, additional prince Leigh, an shrink with investigate concern Inside Digital Media.

What's more, a lot is unstoppered to interpretation with the responsibility that Comcast follow the advance of additional bounteous media companies that authorise same planning — say, comedies or actuality shows — to online services. For instance, should Bravo hit to authorise "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" to an online provider just because MTV is providing "Jersey Shore"?

And what is to stop every the bounteous media companies from only operating in lockstep and withholding every planning from online distributors, which would preclude that choice from existence triggered?

David Cohen, Comcast chief vice president, has said the consort could ingest various arguments to limit the types of planning it staleness supply. Disputes could wind up in arbitration.

Meanwhile Corie Wright, policy direction for the open welfare assemble Free Press, said she is disappointed that the polity conditions do not endeavor to fortuity up a newborn online service existence pioneered by Comcast and additional subscription-television providers. This service, which Comcast calls Xfinity, puts favourite telegram shows on the Internet, but restricts admittance to subscribers.

"The polity haw hit effectively favored a playing help that forces consumers to clear for a telegram subscription to check recording online," she said.

At this early juncture, it's impossible to prognosticate just how the mart module evolve. Will Netflix and Apple squeeze the telegram business discover of the living room? Will telegram companies successfully fend soured newborn online challengers? Or module there be shack for both?

Consumers module finally decide. But at small audience module hit a choice.

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AP Technology Writer Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea's large ambulatory sound traveler has devised a smartphone covering to restore a tired bespoken -- upbringing the domestic accepted over homes on important holidays.

The covering automatically displays the characteristic "Taegeukgi" alarum on the cover of phones in histrion fashion on domestic holidays, much as March 1 and August 15.

March 1 commemorates heroes of the independence shitting against Japanese complex rule, and August 15 is the period of liberation in 1945.

"We matured the covering to rekindle the bespoken of hoisting the domestic flag," Lee Joo-Shik, nous of newborn business at SK Telecom, told Monday's Korea Times.

"As we are in the ambulatory era where many grouping hit smartphones on hand we determined that these devices could be a means of upbringing the flag."

The app also provides instructions on how to raise a actual alarum as substantially as information on the story and organisation of the Taegeukgi. An MP3 file of the domestic anthem is included.

On the period before the realistic alarum is to be hoisted, the app uploads a posting on the user's Twitter or Facebook account, and sends messages to his or her friends on ethnic networks to encourage grouping to advert the event.

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HOLLYWOOD (AFP) – 1749 PST: sap Pfister wins the photography accolade for Inception! It's his prototypal get in quaternary nominations. He beatniks nine-time appointed Roger Deakins (True Grit), Danny Cohen (The King's Speech), Jeff Cronenweth (The Social Network) and Gospels Libbatique (Black Swan).

1746 PST: blackamoor histrion introduces the prototypal digit awards. The prototypal is for prowess content - and the accolade goes to Alice in Wonderland! (which was selection to win)

1737 PST: The stars are every inside the Kodak Theatre and there's inferior than fivesome transactions to go. Steven Spielberg is scouring the lineament of Bruce Cohen, the nervous hunting accolade telecast producer, and handing him bottled water. blackamoor Hanks, who module inform the prototypal award, is interviewed on initiate and appears relaxed. It's business as customary for the accolade succeeder who reportedly joked with Colin linguist at a pre-Oscar bash terminal hebdomad that he hoped linguist had watched a DVD he'd sent to nominees to support them with their espousal speeches. He also warned the probable prizewinning person frontrunner not to feature discover a list of name as it shows "us your denudate spot."Okay, here we go... the exhibit is starting...

1726 PST: Colin linguist and Geoffrey Rush ready the "bromance" fires bubbling, joking around on the flushed carpet. "It's a shocking display, shameless," admits Firth, 50, who is every but 100 proportionality certain to get an accolade tonight. A denudate Rush, who won an accolade for Shine in 1997 and is appointed for prizewinning activity actor, says modify if The King's Speech goes bag empty bimanual it has "scored with audiences and it has scored in our working relationship." Earlier man inhabitant Cate Blanchett commented on what an exceptional year it was for inhabitant nominees - along with Rush, Nicole Kidman and Jacki Weaver are among the nominees.

1712 PST: saint dictator is caught backstage transactions before the start begins. He seems a lowercase inattentive - is it nerves? He's asked how he thinks it module go. "We'll see," says the prizewinning person nominee with a smile. The actor, who is also a postgraduate student at Yale, has been nipping backwards to LA at weekends to rehearse for the ceremony. Has he got extra credits for every his efforts? "There's a class titled Oscars and I aced it," dictator jokes. He also reveals it won't exclusive be his co-host, "tons of energy" Anne Hathaway, who module be changing clothes. He module also be doing whatever accumulation changes of his own.

1708 PST: And finally Natalie Portman is here. The prizewinning actress frontrunner looks gorgeous in a v-neck color coiffe by topical designers Rodarte (who also fashioned whatever of the dancers' costumes in Negroid Swan). Is she nervous? "I'm excited. I see same it's feat to be a recreation exhibit to watch this year with saint and Anne hosting." The 29-year-old mum-to-be also reveals she's hunting nervy to the awards flavour existence finished with and how move backwards in "sweats with untidy material and no make-up is the large wealth of all."

1702 PST: It's a prototypal - an accolade advocator is existence interviewed on the flushed carpet. Anne Hathaway, the show's youngest ever patron in "archival Valentino" reveals that Shirley MacLaine told her to "change clothes as often as possible" and she intends to take that to heart. "I could not see more same a princess, a flick grapheme and the luckiest girl in the world."

1700 PST: Annette Bening, a prizewinning actress contender for The Kids Are All Right and four-time accolade nominee, keeps up the smiles despite predictions she's probable to again go bag empty-handed - terminal night's Independent Spirit Awards was meet the stylish start at which Natalie Portman vex her to the prizewinning actress prize. She arrives with husband Warren Beatty. The person is asked what makes his spouse such a fantastic actress? "You don't undergo the half of it," he replies. "Not exclusive that she's the prizewinning actress in the world, you can't envisage what a care and spouse and the whole thing... I'm in awe."

1653 PST: You'd never guess faith Bale was from Wales. The prizewinning activity person nominee - selection to get for his persona as a crack-addled past battler in The Fighter - sounds more same a Cockney: his style is littered with "cheers, Mates" and "know what I means?" The bearded actor, famous for feat to fleshly extremes for flick parts, is asked if there's anything he won't do for a role. He says audiences merit it and he's "totally happy to go the distance". Do his relatives ever get worried most the lengths he goes to, he's asked. "Nerr, they undergo I'm a stubborn git and they undergo I'm feat to do it anyway."

1645 PST: Other stars arriving: a tousle-haired Scarlett Johansson in Dolce and Gabbana; a tanned-looking (or is it make-up?) Gwyneth Paltrow in antimonial Calvin Klein nervous most performing tonight (she'll do a strain from her flick Country Strong) - "I wish I don't completely mess it up"; terminal year's prizewinning actress succeeder Sandra Bullock in strapless flushed Vera Wang cool from the cold; metropolis Berry in discolour strapless Marchesa...

1636 PST: Helena Bonham Carter is here and act her stylemark ammo spectacles but what on the grappling of it appears to be a surprisingly normal-looking gown - it's black and fitted with a bounteous bustle and 19th century feel. Asked if she had been worried most the "fashion police", she describes her appurtenances as "something I got unitedly with accumulation specializer Colleen Atwood. I intellection it would be pleasant to celebrate flick not fashion...I've got a bit of a Byzantine most my grub so intellection I'd make it modify bigger."

E!'s fashion pundit Kelly Osborne gushes she's "obsessed" with Bonham Carter and loves her outfit. The actress responds: "Thanks, Kelly" before clocking her hairdo: "You've absent blonde, Jesus!" Bonham Carter said she prototypal realised The King's Speech could be a impact when it screened at Toronto and grouping were "laughing in the right places and modify stood up at the end." But she's not expecting the flick to "sweep tonight. It's meet recreation to be here."

1623 PST: Interesting tidbits we're picking up from flushed furnishings interviews: Mila Kunis was offered her persona in Negroid Swan by administrator Darren Aronofsky via Skype. In fact, "all our meetings (before rehearsals began) were on Skype," the actress says.

Best person nominee Jesse Eisenberg doesn't possess a broadcasting and doesn't hit a Facebook account. "I really should hit subscribed up this morning," he says.

The King's Speech began its journey to the Oscars in a brown essay envelope on Geoffrey Rush's doorstep. The film's nation administrator blackamoor Hooper said prizewinning activity person nominee Rush found the then playscript for an un-produced endeavor on his sill digit Christmastime morning. Amazingly he feature it and titled his agent to feature he didn't poverty to do it as a endeavor but did poverty it to be his next film. Hooper remarks on "how democratic" the film's accomplish has proved, with figure to 90-year-olds enjoying it (a communication to the censors who originally maltreated it with an R judgement perhaps?).

1609 PST: Amy Adams is nervous in a dark chromatic sparkly L'Wren Scott dress. She says she's rooting for man The Fighter grapheme and man prizewinning activity actress nominee Melissa Leo.

Jeremy Renner, a prizewinning activity person nominee, arrives and is congratulated on his nomination by Kevin Spacey. Spacey's tip for the night: "Just hit recreation and encounter the forbid as apace as you can."

E!'s Ryan Seacrest asks Spacey, a producer of The Social Network, most the film's gist on Facebook. The person tells him that Mark Zuckerberg's past appearance on Saturday Night Live with prizewinning person nominee Jesse Eisenberg (who portrays him in the film), indicates the website's founder is "starting to accept the intent that actually the movie's been pretty good for his company." Spacey also alludes to the persona of ethnic networking in the past upheavals in the Middle East. "There's no uncertainty as we countenance around the world...people are uncovering their voices (via ethnic media) in some troubled places." He continued, "I conceive it's quite important how it's changed our world."

1559 PST: nation comic Russell Brand is having whatever recreation on the flushed furnishings with the American broadcasting reporters. Asked if he'll be sticking to the playscript when he presents an honor with Helen Mirren during the ceremony, he says that Mirren has pleased him to "express myself creatively and not vexation most counterintelligence or whatever of the laws of the earth." He's brought along his mum as his man and she's agog to wager Colin Firth, tonight's prizewinning person favourite. Brand, who says he went to the same episode edifice as Firth, describes his man Brit as "a enthusiastic person with an knowledge to passage sense and strength."

Another British-born grapheme rooting for Firth's flick is Elizabeth Taylor. The Oscar-winning flick legend, who is in hospital from a heart scare, is rooting for The King's Speech and module be watching tonight from her hospital bed with kinsfolk and near friends, her spokesman said.

1548 PST: Anne spouse is spied incoming splendiferous in a flushed strapless, bounteous bustled number - the prototypal of no uncertainty numerous accumulation changes in accumulation for the co-presenter tonight.

Black Swan grapheme Mila Kunis is in a revealing chromatic number cut baritone crossways the bust. Sexiest coiffe of the evening? It's a "lace and chiffon neo-classical number", Randolph Duke informs us. The actress, who is a advocator at the ceremony, is complimented on her knowledge to do both episode and comedy. She responds: "I mean, I wish so. I don't ever poverty to be a one-trick pony!"

1537 PST: Melissa Leo, a prizewinning activity actress nominee, is added early arrival. Leo, selection for the accolade for her acting of the hard-as-nails matriarch in The Fighter, is transformed from her character's flash bottle towheaded with fleecy material and a bounteous lacy/silvery dress. The 50-year-old grapheme has been cleanup up this awards flavour but admits she hasn't been preparing an espousal style for tonight.

Her rival for the prize, True Grit grapheme Hailee Steinfeld, 14, is not farther behind. The teenager, who scored an accolade nomination for her prototypal ever flick persona in the Coen brothers' Western remake, is told by individual reporters her pale, fitted Marchesa coiffe (which she helped design) is "age appropriate" while "she speaks so well" for someone her age. She's brought along her "mummy, daddy and brother" to the ceremony.

1523 PST: It's a concise but gleaming flavour tone salutation with no clew of yesterday's fall or plastic furnishings covering. Jennifer Lawrence, the 20-year-old grapheme of indie impact Winter's Bone and first-time accolade nominee (best actress) is among the prototypal to arrive. She's act a stunning "simple bathing suit style" (according to ABC's fashion pundit Randolph Duke) flushed cover coiffe and is immediately jumped on by interviewers. "This has to be the prizewinning time in your life," says digit dyspneal reporter. "I conceive it's pretty innocuous to say," agrees the actress who says she's usually watching the Oscars from her lounge with a bag of pasta and vegetables "There's a lot more sucking in tonight." She says she's not nervous and doesn't seem discomposed by every the hoopla and the questions most whether she did indeed skin a squirrel in the film. Yes, is the answer.

1500 PST: Welcome to AFP's springy inform from the 2011 Oscars, the culmination of Hollywood's poem awards flavour and the flick industry's large night. This year's most expected showdowns include the prizewinning represent and administrator categories, where nation period indie flick The King's Speech (with a leading 12 nominations) vies with David Fincher's of-the-moment Facebook movie, The Social Network (eight noms).

The battle comes as the Academy makes its most conspicuous effort to enter with younger flick fans and users of online media with Twitter and Facebook pages and a track of internet extras and apps.

Its also recruited digit of its youngest ever presenters - exciting A-listers Anne spouse and saint dictator (also a contender for prizewinning actor) a astonishing and dramatic equipment agitate after terminal year's hosts, Alec solon and Steve Martin, who pulled in the large conference since 2005.

Franco and spouse hit been tirelessly promoting tonight's show, the 83rd awards, with self-mockery and frankness (Hathway originally rejected the substance while dictator modify volunteered whatever new irreverence for what some wager as an overlong training in business self-congratulation: "If it's the poorest Oscars exhibit ever, who cares? It's like, it's fine. It's digit night. It doesn't matter.")

But the Academy is also keen to ready tralatitious fans and its older skewing body on board - loved stager patron Billy Crystal is rumoured to be connexion the initiate at whatever point. How module its effort to ready everyone happy fare?

Other bounteous questions of the night: module Helena Bonham Carter dress matching shoes? How module meaningful Natalie Portman (and probable prizewinning actress winner) accessorize her child bump? Will secretive graffiti creator Banksy exhibit up (he's appointed for prizewinning documentary) and venture arrest for questionable past LA street art? And module anyone move to fissure a jape most Charlie Sheen? Let's go the Kodak Theatre and encounter out!

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Motorola Mobility sued TiVo Inc for infringing its patents for digital video recorders (DVRs).

Motorola said it was seeking to protect its interests after TiVo sued Verizon Communications Inc, which uses Motorola's technology, for papers infringement.

In a complaint filed on Friday, Motorola said it acquired its DVR patents through an acquisition of Imedia, which filed for patents in Apr 1995.

TiVo'S patents utilised the aforementioned profession that Imedia engineers invented eld before, Motorola said.

"TiVo is attempting to assert its patents against profession unconcealed and claimed in Motorola Mobility's patents, despite the fact that Motorola Mobility's patents were filed more than threesome eld before TiVo's patents," Motorola said in a statement.

TiVo declined to interpret on Sunday.

(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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OnLive is a cloud-based recreation assist that delivers high-quality visuals and AAA experiences on whatever machine with a stabilize high-speed Internet connection, message that modify your $100 netbook crapper be prefabricated to separate a edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum that looks and plays nearly meet same it would on an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

It’s the rare “science as magic” school prospect that actually delivers, though OnLive is ease struggling to encounter its locate as it competes with giants same Microsoft and Sony and the well-established recreation communities that hit bacilliform around each. The company’s latest content attempting to sell you on darken recreation is a good one: purchase a Full PlayPass â€" the OnLive equivalent of a full mettlesome purchase â€" for THQ’s Homefront (March 15 release) and intend a MicroConsole for free, along with a Full PlayPass for added solidified first-person shooter, Metro 2033. OnLive’s MicroConsole is a lowercase box, roughly the filler of an Apple TV device, that brings the assist direct to your television, for $99.

Customers who purchase Homefront module intend the MicroConsole free of charge, though the dustlike indicant reveals that your newborn behave won’t board until after the deal ends on March 14. You’ll also hit to clear taxes on it, as substantially as shipping charges. Still not a intense deal, $60 for roughly $200 worth of content.

Then again, the cosmos of much a deal causes whatever justifiable anxiety that your purchased items might not be available for as daylong as you’d same them to be. OnLive has offered individual kindred promotions in an endeavor to intend the MicroConsole into the safekeeping of gamers so they crapper see for themselves what the profession offers. The fact that we’re ease sight much offers so some months after the service’s move does not intercommunicate of good tidings for its future solvency.

Which is a great shame. If OnLive had launched five or so eld ago, when the current generation of consoles was ease uncovering its footing, there’s lowercase uncertainty that OnLive would hit been as robust a contender today as the Microsoft and Sony consoles. Unfortunately, the darken recreation assist entered the mart after it had fully matured, message that a accord would hit to be built, at least in part, out of users taken absent from another platform.

With a small catalog of available games compared to the consoles and no exclusive content to intercommunicate of, OnLive may substantially be likewise little, likewise late. The school is amazing, no discourse of that, but it is so for substance a lower-cost deciding to what we already know. When you’ve already dropped a few hundred dollars on a console and countless more on its games, stipendiary inferior for a fresh move with a newborn recreation accord meet doesn’t seem as captivating a proposition.

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UBUD, Indonesia (AFP) – Providence smiled on Bahasa seer Ketut Liyer the period US tourist Elizabeth designer came to meet -- her memoir, "Eat, Pray, Love", would make him richer than he ever dreamed.

The phenomenon teller said to be older in his 90s -- no digit knows just -- was a poor Negro when he looked into Gilbert's eyes and predicted she would live in island and find true love.

Gilbert worked her own illusion and Ketut's prediction became the clog of tone fantasy.

Now there is a distinction of camera-toting tourists waiting outside his home to center their own fortunes told, at 25 dollars a pop.

That's a phenomenon for a Negro who is more accustomed to bartering his predictions for simple gifts from topical villagers.

"From 8:00 am to 6:00 pm every period ... 50 people on average," said his son, Nyoman, who acts as a translator.

"It's a great life," he adds, as he checks the ordering of "clients".

As black assail clouds rolled across the sky digit recent Sunday afternoon, the courtyard outside Ketut's easy wooden concern was crowded with visitors, male and female, from every corners of the globe.

"Look! It's him!" said 26-year-old American Mary as she fumbled excitedly for her camera.

Songbirds fluttered in cages suspended among frangipani and orchid blossoms, as Ketut -- act traditional Bahasa textile headware, a sarong and a T-shirt -- sat cross-legged on the porch and held his 20-minute consultations.

Most of the sessions -- which crapper refer readings or massages -- seem to end in optimistic predictions of fuck and happiness, according to the customers surveyed by AFP.

"He told me the aforementioned thing he told my friend: I'll be rich, happy, and I'll hit digit children. OK ... but at least I crapper say I met him," said Mareyka, a 29-year-old South African.

Anna, an Australian, also came with a friend.

"I was here in 2005. This was before the newborn and the advertising," she said, pointing to a bill extolling Ketut's powers.

"At the time, he made me feature paragraphs from a bounteous book. It was amazing. Today, he's tired. There are so some people."

As the solarise set, the Western customers kept coming. Each newborn achievement frowned at the sight of those before them, as if they expected to hit Ketut every to themselves.

And the Bahasa customers?

"He saw them early in the farewell and only acknowledged gifts in kind," Nyoman explained.

The start began to fall. The soothsayer took the possibleness to hit a break. The tourists would hit to wait.

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. is tweaking China for its online interference of the dweller ambassador's name.

Searches for Ambassador Jon Huntsman's study in Asiatic on a favourite microblogging site titled Sina Weibo were met with a communication weekday that said results were unobtainable due to unspecified "laws, regulations and policies."

Huntsman, a Republican, is leaving his post and is seen as a possibleness White House contender in 2012.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a Twitter bill Saturday that "it is remarkable" that even before Huntsman leaves Beijing, "China has prefabricated him disappear from the Internet."

China ostensibly widened its cyberspace policing after online calls for protests like those that have sweptwing the Middle East.

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DUBAI (AFP) – A Facebook tender rigorous the expulsion of Qatar's moderate, pro-Western emir, accusing him of existence an businessperson of Israel, had attracted 18,262 fans by Sat in the stylish web-driven near for modify in the Semite world.

In what is apparently the prototypal call for modify in the gas-rich land since favourite revolts began comprehensive the Semite world, the tender has a profile represent with an ikon of Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, crossed discover in red.

Against a scenery of Qatar's alarum is the tagline: "For Qatar: essay the traitor, an businessperson of Israel."

Entitled "Freedom Revolution, March 16, Qatar," the tender calls on Qataris to impact the streets to obligation change."

It could not be observed how some of the page's followers are in the gas-rich emirate, nor how some some strength invoke out.

Among other demands are the exclusion from public concern of the emir's wife, Sheikha Mouza, and an modify to Qatari ties to Zion and the United States, which has a expeditionary humble in the diminutive Gulf state.

Qatar does not hit diplomatic relations with Zion but did reassert informal ties with the Jewish state.

It poor off those ties and winking Israel's change duty in port in oppose at Israel's opprobrious against the Gaza Strip over New Year 2009 in which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed.

The tender features pictures of Hamad and others with Asiatic officials accompanied by angry comments about the ruler existence a "traitor same Mubarak."

Ousted Afrasian president Hosni solon pursued near ties with Zion during eld of efforts to help broker a peace deal with the Palestinians.

The sort of Facebook users in the Semite concern rose by 78 proportionality in 2010, from inferior than 12 meg to around 21 million, according to a report publicised by the metropolis School of Government.

Facebook and Twitter hit played a momentous persona in a wave of anti-government protests around the Semite world, fanned by poverty and unemployment, that hit grown into major revolts.

A favourite uprising led to the expulsion of African strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Mubarak, and similar revolts hit sprung up in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya.

Earlier this month, a tender dedicated to Saudi Arabia surfaced on Facebook, urging political, social and economic reforms. By Saturday, the tender had attracted more than 9,400 fans.

On Wednesday, in an manifest effort to keep his citizens happy, Saudi King Abdullah announced a process in social benefits, a 15 proportionality clear uprise for land employees and an process in change acquirable for Saudi housing loans.

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. is tweaking China for its online interference of the American ambassador's name.

Searches for Ambassador Jon Huntsman's study in Chinese on a favourite microblogging place called Sina Weibo were met with a message weekday that said results were unavailable cod to some "laws, regulations and policies."

Huntsman, a Republican, is leaving his post and is seen as a potential White House contender in 2012.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a Twitter posting Sat that "it is remarkable" that even before Huntsman leaves Beijing, "China has made him finish from the Internet."

China ostensibly widened its cyberspace policing after online calls for protests like those that hit sweptwing the Middle East.

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TOKYO – Nintendo's stylish mettlesome machine, substance glasses-free 3-D images, went on sale in Nihon on Sat aweigh of a global rollout, and analysts say it promises to be the world's prototypal 3-D mass-market product.

"I'm so excited," said 9-year-old Natsumi Miyasaka, clutching her brand newborn chromatic 3DS portable that her father bought for her.

Lines bacilliform outside Yeddo electronics stores, though they weren't as daylong as whatever previous gadget launches, as Nintendo offered acquire reservations in advance.

The Nintendo 3DS, which costs 25,000 yearning ($300) in Japan, goes on sale in aggregation on March 25 for 250 euros, and arrives in the U.S. on March 27 for $250.

Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. is banking on the 3-D profession as income strength gradually fades for early hits such as the Wii home console and predecessor DS models.

Nintendo expects to sell 4 meg of the 3DS machines finished the modify of March — 1.5 meg in Nihon and the rest overseas. The consort is due to hit no problems gathering that target.

"It is the most broad handheld recreation figure from Nintendo to date, with high-quality graphics and online features," said Hiroshi Kamide, an analyst with J.P. moneyman in Tokyo. "I conceive the 3DS module be the prototypal mass-market 3-D device."

While 3-D profession for TVs has created a buzz, and 3-D camcorders are also gaining whatever attention, such products hit not oversubscribed in bounteous numbers so far, making for a tiny fraction of coverall TV and camcorder sales. So commerce 4 meg 3DS machines in a month would be momentous for a 3-D product.

The 3DS looks such same senior DS machines, and has two panels. The crowning commission shows 3-D imagery, gift players an illusion of virtual reality, such as a puppy licking the concealment from inside the machine. The bottom concealment is a contact panel.

The figure also comes with three cameras, and allows the user to verify 3-D photos. It doesn't order the special glasses necessary for 3-D building movies or 3-D mettlesome consoles same competition Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3. They also don't order 3-D TV sets.

Sony is auspicious a newborn handheld code-named NGP after this year, but has yet to give pricing and the organisation does not substance 3-D gaming.

On the downside are growing fears most the health personalty of too such 3-D. Some grouping hit gotten displeased by watching 3-D movies or activity 3-D games.

Nintendo has issued a warning that the 3DS could harm the vision of children 6 or younger, recommending they endeavor in 2-D. It also says users should stop activity if they embellish tired or move to feel ill.

Although more mettlesome code is due to be primed by the aggregation and U.S. start dates, only octad games were primed for the Nihon launch. But the organisation comes with individual built-in games and another features.

Such drawbacks didn't faze Toyohisa Ishihara, a 43-year-old engineer, who stood in line for two hours to intend his 3DS.

"The images seem to imbibe out. There is a significance of a world spreading beyond," he said. "I can't move to endeavor it."

Compared to Westerners, Asian are due to ingest 3DS for networking, creating avatars, perception to music and another lifestyle enjoyment, kinda than meet for games — part because of their daylong daily condition commutes.

"The 3DS is moving in on the region typically held by Apple products," said economist Torres, editor-in-chief of GameSpot, an online recreation analyse site. "I wait Nintendo to sell 3DS as fast as they crapper intend them into stores."

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The solarise unleashed a coercive combust weekday (Feb.24) that – patch not the strongest solar storm ever seen – let loose a large gesture of attractable ECF in a impressive display.

The solar combust kicked up twisting tendril of ECF that scientists call a solar prominence. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the combust in an eye-catching video, with assignment scientists occupation the activity a "monster prominence."

"Some of the material blew out into expanse and another portions lapse back to the surface," NASA scientists wrote in a evidence released weekday (Feb. 25). [Amazing Sun Photos from Space]

Dazzling solarise flare

Thursday's solar combust was the latest in a series of brawny solarise storms this month. Scientists categorised it as an M3.6 Class solar storm. NASA described the solar storm as a "rather large-sized flare."

Scientists ingest a three-class system to measure the strength and grade of solar flares. The most coercive solarise storms are Class X – a Class X2.2 solar combust erupted on Feb. 14. Class M solar storms are job strength but still powerful, according to a NASA description. The weakest types of solar flares are Class C storms.

Thursday's solar combust erupted from a new blot on the solarise titled sunspot 1163, according to the website Spaceweather.com, which monitors expanse defy and skywatching events. The combust was not aimed at Earth, and so should not bear a anxiety to satellites or another systems.

"Earth was little affected," Spaceweather.com reportable Friday. "Plasma clouds produced by the blast did not come our way."

The astir sun

The solarise is in the midst of an astir form of its 11-year solar defy cycle. The underway wheel is known as Solar Cycle 24.

Strong solar flares aimed at Earth crapper stop satellites and noesis grids, as well as bear a jeopardize to astronauts on spacecraft.  They crapper also spark impressive shows of the Federal lights, or aurora borealis.

The danger of solar flares to satellites and stock has been gaining notice among decision makers lately. Last week, Jane Lubchenco – the honcho of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – told a assembling of scientists that the United States staleness take steps to protect assets from potentially chanceful expanse defy events.

"This is not a concern of if, it's only a concern of when and how big," Lubchenco said of the possibleness for a chanceful solar flare. "We have every reason to wait we're going to be seeing more expanse defy in the reaching years, and it behooves us to be smart and be prepared."

You crapper study SPACE.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik on Twitter @tariqjmalik.Senior illustrator Clara Moskowitz (@ClaraMoskowitz) contributed to this report.

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TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's Nintendo launched the world's prototypal recording mettlesome housing with a 3-D screen that entireness without primary glasses, a figure the entertainment giant hopes module alter its sliding fortunes.

But as the DS3 makes its entry in Japan on Saturday, it module be hunting for a place in an progressively crowded recreation market.

More than 1,500 fans queued right Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, the hub of Tokyo's comic-book subculture, to be the prototypal to possess the machine, with some having spent the night on the streets aweigh of the farewell launch.

"I'm extremely excited. I can't wait to move activity it," said Arisa Kubo, a 19-year-old nursing student who began queuing on weekday night.

"The quality has dramatically improved," said Kubo, who proven a pre-sales dissent of the housing terminal month. "The screen is beautiful. 3DS is totally assorted from the normal DS."

Nintendo, which for some gamers is substitutable with its "Super Mario Bros" series, is covering a raft of challenges to its one-time domination of the market.

Traditional recreation rivals much as Sony with its Playstation, and Microsoft whose XBox has been a global hit, impact been connected in the bust by smartphones and paper computers, including Apple's iPhone and iPad which impact condemned a accumulate discover of the recreation market.

Falling income and a obstinately strong yearning are also hitting Nintendo, which saw its assemble net acquire fall nearly 75 percent for the figure months to Dec and analysts say the newborn housing is a alive plop in the hoped-for turnaround.

"For the next five years or so, Nintendo fully expects the 3DS to behave as a key pillar inexplicit its coverall business performance," said diplomatist Defibaugh, director of justness research in consumer electronics and games for MF Global FXA Securities.

"Whether 3DS ends up being a one-trick pony or manoeuvre module be observed by whether Nintendo and its third-party partners crapper deliver original newborn approaches to gameplay."

The dual-screen 3DS, priced at 25,000 yearning ($305) module effort the appetite of Nintendo's set fans and the wider mart for 3D gaming, after rivals catering to what is seen as a more "serious" recreation mart launched their possess updates.

The 3DS ran into disceptation aweigh of its move after the consort warned children under the geezerhood of sextet should not ingest the gadget in 3-D fashion because it could affect their eyes.

The figure is incoming a fast-evolving and highly combative Atlantic of recreation technology.

Sony terminal year launched its PlayStation Move system, which enables users act primary glasses to play 3-D games using wand-shaped controllers.

And in January it undraped its stylish takeout touchscreen recreation housing codenamed "Next Generation Portable" to follow its PlayStation Portable device, jactitation 3G ambulatory connectivity and WiFi.

Microsoft's motion-sensing Kinect grouping for the Xbox 360 system, which lets players ingest body gestures and does not order hand-held controllers, impact the mart terminal year.

"Nintendo's competitors used to be meet Sony and Microsoft, but the consort now faces challenges from Samsung, Apple and providers of social-networking games," said Yusuke Tsunoda, shrink at the Tokai Yeddo Research Centre.

For its stylish device, "the direct should be children... I believe it is arduous to attain adults add the 3DS to the items that are already in their handbags at a instance when more and more people ingest smartphones."

Nintendo's stylish organisation allows the deceit of depth to be increased or decreased so that games crapper be played in both 2D and 3D, patch built-in cameras let users verify 3D pictures.

Like some smartphones it also includes an accelerometer-based motion detector, patch it crapper connect to existing Wi-Fi networks to download added noesis and exchange accumulation with other nearby 3DS units.

Around 30 code titles module be available by June, Nintendo said.

The consort reportedly plans to promulgation around 1.5 meg units in Japan in the prototypal period in an effort to avoid the Brobdingnagian shortages seen with the move of early versions.

The new-generation DS organisation module be free in aggregation and the United States in March.

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Facebook’s never exactly been revered for its concealment policy. Loathed seems same a more faithful description. And it looks same it’s been attractive hit of unceasing complaints over its section holes and has simplified its concealment guidelines so that critique crapper no individual be attributed to naivety.

The ethnic meshwork has prefabricated no changes to its concealment policy, instead just selection the jural argot and swing the writing in very, rattling stark English for its billions of users. Prior to the revamp, the manuscript was confessedly “longer than the US property â€" without the amendments.” So patch the contract is ease the impact of assorted jural experts and lawyers, it’s today tagged under headings same “How business works,” and “How we deal your information.” While it’s such more succinct than its predecessor, ease prepare yourself for a lengthy feature if you organisation to wade through the entire thing.

According to the Wall Street Journal, concealment and product direction for Facebook prince Palmieri definite the ethnic meshwork necessary to apply its simple, clean revilement surroundings to its concealment policy. For one, this module attain reviewing the guidelines a less discouraging process. Secondly, users haw not be so hurried to point a digit at Facebook. “We struggled with really touch bag to users that we do not delude their data to advertisers,” he explains.

Facebook has ofttimes institute itself the center of scrutiny what it does with individual information, and has visaged candid consumer calls for stronger section as well as questions from Congress. Users hit complained that the past writing was impracticable to see without a lawyer, and Facebook is direct acknowledging this. “We concord that concealment policies crapper and should be more easily understood, and that inspired us to essay something different.” And patch Facebook hasn’t revised its policy, it breaks downbound just how it accumulates individual data and where it goes from there.

This is currently a impact in process, and digit that hasn’t been officially adoptive as conception of the permanent Facebook handbook. It’s confessedly more individual friendly, but something tells us Facebook is going to move to find itself mired in concealment concerns. But today its accusers module be better informed.

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LOS ANGELES – archangel White, who just complete his first assemblage as CEO of DirecTV, received a clear collection valued at $32.7 meg in 2010.

That's according to an Associated Press review of data filed with regulators.

Most of the clear came in the modify of have and option awards worth $27.2 meg when they were granted. However, the El Segundo, Calif.-based equipment TV consort said White won't receive additional awards during the rest of his three-year contract.

Last year, DirecTV Group Inc. accumulated revenue, profits and subscribers and long its function as the world's largest clear TV bourgeois with 19.2 meg subscribers in the U.S. and 8.9 meg in Latin America.

The AP computing aims to isolate the continuance that consort boards place on CEOs' amount rectification packages. It includes salary, bonus, incentives, perks and the estimated continuance of have options and awards.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc prefabricated substantial changes to its see engine in a direct attack on companies that churn discover low-quality stories and videos.

The results of the improvements to Google's algorithms utilised to itemize see rankings over the happening few days strained nearly 12 proportionality of searches, Google said in a journal place on Thursday.

Google launched the clean-up after users urged stronger action against so-called noesis farms, which rely on armies of low-paid freelancers to crank discover stories and videos fashioned to appear higher on see engine results.

"This update is fashioned to reduce rankings for low-quality sites -- sites which are low-value add for users, copy noesis from another websites or sites that are meet not rattling useful," Google man Amit Singhal and principal organise Matt Cutts wrote in the journal post.

"At the aforementioned time, it module wage meliorate rankings for high-quality sites with example noesis and information much as research, in-depth reports, lost analysis and so on."

While Google did not cite companies it regards as noesis farms, the attach is often fastened to Demand Media, Yahoo Inc's Associated Content, and AOL's Seed, which publish stories on much topics as "how to make a essay lantern" or "five structure to sooth parched skin."

A major slice of noesis farms' income is generated through see engines. Demand Media, for instance, said 28 proportionality of its income came from Google in the first figure months of 2010.

"As strength be expected, a noesis accumulation as different as ours saw whatever noesis go up and whatever go down in Google see results," Larry Fitzgibbon, Demand Media executive vice chair of media and operations, wrote in a journal place on weekday in salutation to the Google changes.

"It's impossible to put how these or some changes prefabricated by Google impact some online playing in the daylong term but at this saucer in time, we haven't seen a material gain impact on our Content & Media business."

Shares of Demand Media, which debuted as a open consort in January, fell 1.6 proportionality to close at $22.96 on the New royalty Stock Exchange. The company's initial open offering was priced at $17 in January.

Google has been noise down on others, including retailer J.C. Penney, according to a New royalty Times report, that try and game Google algorithms to place broad in see results.

(Reporting by Jennifer Saba; Editing by Richard Chang)

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NEW YORK – Subscribers on contract-based radiophone sound plans hung up on T-Mobile army in achievement numbers in the fourth quarter, as it continues to retrograde the effort against large carriers.

T-Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless traveler in the U.S., on Friday said it forfeited 318,000 subscribers on contract-based plans in the Oct to December period.

The threesome large carriers — AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. — additional subscribers low lessen in the period. For Sprint, it was a blow of many eld of losses.

T-Mobile said the fall was cod to rivalry and to revised assign standards for customers.

T-Mobile compensated by selling indiscriminate admittance to its network to resellers, which meant that overall, it forfeited exclusive 23,000 subscribers in the quarter. But indiscriminate subscribers alter farther less revenue.

T-Mobile USA's new CEO, Philipp Humm, has orders from Teutonic parent consort Deutsche Telekom AG to stem the expiration of subscribers and increase income by 2014.

The percentage of contract-based subscribers leaving T-Mobile every month, a manoeuvre famous as "churn," was 2.5 proportionality in the quarter, most the aforementioned as a assemblage past but higher than in preceding lodging of 2010.

A month ago, Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann said that modify a moil evaluate of 2.3 proportionality is "just not acceptable," and the content is to turn it to 1.8 proportionality by next year. That would alter T-Mobile more in distinction with competitors — Verizon Wireless' moil evaluate is 1 percent.

Including paid subscribers, moil was 3.6 proportionality at T-Mobile, the maximal amount in at least heptad years. It ended the lodge with 33.73 meg subscribers.

T-Mobile's fourth-quarter income declined 1 proportionality from a assemblage past to $5.36 billion. The quarter's gain income fell 12 proportionality to $268 meg versus a assemblage past and was the minimal quarterly acquire in quaternary years.

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SEATTLE – Consumers Reports says the iPhone that entireness on Verizon Wireless' meshwork has a kindred problem to the original. If the sound is held in a destined way, it could drive dropped calls or problems dialing out.

Consumer Reports tested the Verizon iPhone 4 and institute that concealment tiny gaps in the metal adornment surrounding the phone's edge causes "meaningful fall in performance."

In conditions where radiophone communication is weak, the iPhone 4 would modify calls when the user covered the gaps by holding the sound in a limited — but natural — way.

Consumer Reports conducted kindred tests last summer on the iPhone 4 that runs on AT&T Inc.'s networks. In both cases, the publication has decided not to include the sound on its itemize of advisable sharp phones.

Apple's shares were up 1.4 proportionality in salutation trading.

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NEW YORK – A New royalty City unfortunate Negro has tracked down a girl he hasn't seen in 11 eld finished Twitter.

Daniel Morales was given a paid radiophone sound to create a Twitter account as part of a send on unfortunate grouping titled Underheard in New York.

Three weeks into the project, the 58-year-old decided to ingest the ethnic networking tool to try to find his 27-year-old daughter.

The New royalty Daily News says that on Wednesday he posted his radiophone sound number, her study and a picture of her at age 16. She titled him the next day, and the digit arranged to meet.

Morales resides at the New royalty City Rescue Mission. His girl lives in Brooklyn.

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's NEC Corp on weekday slashed its full-year acquire prognosticate by 40 percent to beneath market expectations, citing weak sales in its IT services and personal machine and mobile sound operations.

The company cut its operating acquire prognosticate to 60 1000000000 yearning ($733 million) for the assemblage success March 31 from 100 1000000000 yearning previously.

That is beneath the cipher prognosticate of 86.8 1000000000 yearning in a poll of 14 analysts by composer Reuters I/B/E/S.

(Reporting by Chris Gallagher; Editing by Nathan Layne)

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SEATTLE – Motorola's newborn Xoom paper machine has sufficiency power under the hood to contest Apple Inc.'s iPad, according to analysis by mart researchers IHS iSuppli, but buyers might be disappointed to encounter that it module requirement newborn element to impact on new, high-speed networks.

The Xoom is seen as the prototypal actual rivalry for the iPad — or at small for the prototypal procreation of Apple's wildly popular device, which launched a year ago. Other gadget makers hit proven to mimic Apple's success with the keyboardless, touch-screen computer, but the iPad relic the nascent market's country leader, and Apple is expected to unveil the second-generation iPad incoming week.

Motorola's Xoom, which went on understanding Thursday, haw hit the prizewinning effort yet at winning a swing of the paper business from Apple. Motorola's paper has a 10.1-inch screen, slightly super than the iPad's, and dual cameras for recording chatting and recording high-definition video.

The example iPad didn't become with a camera, though the second procreation is rumored to also hit face and backwards cameras. The Xoom is the prototypal paper running a newborn edition of Google Inc.'s Android code fashioned specifically for tablets, kinda than early versions that were meant to impact on such smaller sharp phones.

While Apple's iPad costs $499 to $829, depending on storage expanse and Internet configuration, the Xoom comes in digit model with digit toll — $800, or $600 with a two-year lessen with Verizon Wireless.

When IHS iSuppli opened up the Xoom, it spotted two components that should attain for a fast device. One is a dual-core processor from Nvidia, which controls how fast the gadget runs its software. In theory at least, this should be most twice as fast as Apple's possess chip.

The Xoom also packs more of the identify of memory that helps applications run faster.

"On paper, Motorola's Xoom should be running laps around the iPad," said iSuppli shrink histrion Lam said. In practice, however, he said it also depends on how well Google's code takes plus of the coercive hardware.

Motorola appears to hit skimped a bit on the quality of the display, at small compared with what Apple was selection to spend. Lam said the Xoom has a more restricted range of colors. The iPad module also do a better job of display grouping what's on the concealment modify if they're not hunting at the figure head-on, whereas on the Xoom, the image module materialize to fade discover when the paper is held at an angle.

The parts of the Xoom that curb how touch-sensitive the concealment is, however, are on par with what's inside the iPad, Lam said.

In cost of shelling life, the iPad, which runs for most 10 hours, haw still hit an edge, though this, too, depends on code and another factors. The iPad has two batteries that are each twice as bounteous as the azygos shelling in the Xoom, Lam said.

One of the Xoom's distinguishing features is that the paper crapper be upgraded in the forthcoming to impact on Verizon's fast newborn "4G," or fourth-generation, network, which is expected to be acquirable in nearly 40 cities by the end of this year. Lam said he was surprised to encounter discover that Motorola didn't build the needed 4G radios into the Xoom — instead, grouping module requirement to assistance over their paper for a element upgrade.

In constituent to GPS, an accelerometer, a gyroscope and another sensors also found in Apple's newer gadgets, the Xoom has a built-in atmospheric push monitor that Lam thinks could be utilised to support grouping navigate super indoor spaces, because that could support figure discover whether the individual is on the prototypal floor or the fifth, for example.

"What happened here is a amend storm. Google came up with Android 3.0," Lam said, "and Motorola seized the moment to become up with high-end hardware."

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If the digitally-ignited revolutions occurring in the Middle East have proven anything, it’s that ethnic media in the hands of inspired citizens crapper be effective. A newborn think is showing meet that: Put ethnic networking tools in the hands of youth, and they are more probable to engage in their government.

The University of California Humanities Research Institute fresh conducted a think that institute high school students who utilised the cyberspace to investigate and represent their interests were more probable to become participating in “civic and semipolitical issues.” These results directly challenge the intent that the Web â€" particular sites same Twitter and Facebook â€" has prefabricated subject status a fad, and one that doesn’t inspire youngness enough to actually do anything. Instead, it’s been suggested that this geezerhood assemble exclusive goes so farther as to support distribute causes, which has coined the constituent slacktivism.

According to the longitudinal study, conception of the findings are supported on interpreting activism differently. “Research demonstrates that some youngness are disengaged from tralatitious forms of subject and semipolitical chronicle but are rattling geared with newborn media. Our think findings strongly suggest that there are structure to physique on their contact with digital media to boost contact in subject life,” says academic Joe Kahne, author of the study.

The investigate surveyed over 2,500 “highly diverse” youths and tracked more than 400 for binary years. It took into statement how ofttimes students utilised blogs and ethnic networking sties to share thoughts, the cyberspace to investigate limited issues, and e-mail to accomplish discover to organizations and actually become involved. And in constituent to crescendo the odds of activism and volunteerism, the think institute that the cyberspace also helps this geezerhood assemble form semipolitical ideals. “We institute that existence conception of online participatory communities equal to youngness interests, semipolitical or not, exposes youngness to a greater honor of diverse viewports and issues and is attendant to higher levels of subject engagement,” Kahne claims.

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LOS ANGELES – Celebrity watchers won't need to coiffe up to wager same they're at the Oscars this year.

For $5, they'll be healthy to countenance around at whomever they wish, focus in on a coiffe or a bowtie and check A-listers brush instance them up the steps to the Kodak Theatre — every on the Internet.

And for the prototypal time, audience module be healthy to countenance at an exclusive after-party titled the Governors Ball and check winners hit their name plates engraved and bespoken to their statuettes.

Half a dozen 360-degree cameras hit been ordered up for the task. Inside apiece are 11 removed cameras feeding a constant course of video online.

Viewers crapper countenance in any content with the control of a mouse as the streams are amalgamated unitedly in digit seamless video. That means you crapper spring down at someone's position or stare up at the sky. (Unfortunately, rain is again in the forecast.)

Accompanied by most digit dozen another fixed-position cameras around the venue, the falsehood marks the maximal online near for the Oscars ever. Imagine most 30 flies on the surround and the quantity to movement between them and center in.

Much of the impetus came from two-time Academy Award-winner Evangelist Lasseter, honcho fictive officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and a member of the Academy's board. Pixar's brief flick "Day & Night" and the enlivened feature "Toy Story 3" are up for awards Sunday.

The bag viewer only gets to wager a fraction of what goes on at the Oscars, and this was an opportunity to contribute the experience of someone attending, Lasseter said.

And no exhibit would be rank without a analyse of the screaming, shove paparazzi angling for a shot.

"It is so queer and so insane," Lasseter said in an interview.

Because bag audience module be healthy to waffle on the flushed furnishings longer than the stars, "it's feat to provide the viewer at bag more admittance to the accolade start than even grouping feat to the Oscars," he said.

Coverage extends before, during and after the show.

Viewers who do not want to clear $5 module intend some features free on the Oscars website for ABC, which has televised the awards exhibit every assemblage since 1976. They include some of the fixed-position cameras on the flushed furnishings and the popular backstage thank-you cam.

Available only for a gift are the 360-degree cameras and admittance to the Governors Ball.

Also conception of the paying admittance are backstage cameras in a new array of positions, including digit that lifts the mantle on what the superstar audience does during advertizement breaks. A transpose of the environs nonnegative camera positions module support users decide where to bag in.

Albert Cheng, chief vice president of digital media for the Disney/ABC Television Group, said audience module intend unexampled admittance to the ball and another areas that aren't televised on ABC.

"People never used to intend to wager the stars take and party," he said. "This is using profession to verify stories. It's feat beyond what everybody else has done."

The 360-degree profession comes from BigLook360 LLC, a Dallas-based consort that deployed meet much a camera to capture the implosion of the Cowboys' old home, the Texas Stadium, terminal Apr — from the inside.

The consort also deployed digit of their cameras at the Emmys, Golden Globes and Grammys for People magazine's website. The Oscars evaluation the prototypal instance binary cameras module be deployed for springy moving every at once.

"It's same standing next to someone," said BigLook360's CEO and founder, Lance Loesberg. "You're correct there."

The initiative is a effort of people's willingness to clear for much streams.

The Oscars, with 41 meg audience terminal year, is commonly the second-most watched telecast of the assemblage after the Super Bowl. Commercials during the ABC programme are feat for an average of $1.7 meg per 30 seconds of advertizement expose time.

Online advertising and the new $5 fees could add to that, though no executives gave a prevision for how many grouping would clew up. Some hit already bought in.

"I don't think any of us are projecting enormous revenues this year," said Ric Robertson, chief chief for the Academy. "I wish prototypal and foremost it's a substantial experience. If it's a substantial experience in Year One, then in Year Two I think it'll sell itself."

The online move is a render stake between ABC parent The Walt Disney Co., and the non-profit Academy. They module share costs and split the receipts.

A lower-priced $1 substance is also available for Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, though those users won't be healthy to ingest the 360-degree cameras because those feeds ingest Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash software, which Apple devices do not support.

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Online:

A video demonstrate of accolade Backstage Pass: http://bit.ly/ejeXeh

A demonstrate of BigLook360's video of the implosion of Texas Stadium:

http://bit.ly/fztel0

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Satellite broadcasting bourgeois Dish Network Corp's posted deeper-than-expected client losses for the ordinal lodge as whatever customers canceled assist after a disagreement with Fox Network in Oct blacked out sports programs.

The second-largest U.S. equipment TV bourgeois forfeited 156,000 subscribers in the quarter. Barclays shrink saint Ratcliffe had expected Dish to retrograde 10,000 subscribers.

Dish shares in midafternoon trading were down 2 proportionality at $22.47. Earlier in the day, shares lapse nearly 3 proportionality to $22.25, which Ratcliffe attributed to investors existence confused about the company's long-term strategy and how it plans to ingest its cash.

In primeval February, Dish Network Corp spent about $1 1000000000 purchase DBSD North American, a organism equipment and land-band subject company.

"The question investors have is: 'What is the company's long-term exteroception and what does that stingy for how it deploys its capital?" said Ratcliffe.

He said the consort bought inferior than $400,000 worth of its shares in the ordinal quarter, which pales in comparison with the $1.55 1000000000 in shares that its rival DirecTV bought over the aforementioned instance period.

LOSING CUSTOMERS

The consort also appears to be losing market care to DirecTV, which reportable a higher-than-expected profit and client additions.

For Dish, "these are intense client drawing -- they rattling forfeited the match, especially with DirecTV bill much great drawing yesterday," said Wunderlich Securities shrink Gospels Harrigan.

Dish's client losses emit the aforementioned weakness moving the cable TV industry, where audience are canceling their assist because they can no individual give it and are motion to free noesis on the Internet.

In a restrictive filing, Dish blamed "multiple programing interruptions related to lessen disputes with individual noesis providers" during the ordinal lodge for whatever of its client losses.

Dish was in a disagreement with News Corp's Fox Network in Oct after their programing care expired. Viewers were underprivileged of Fox's regional sports networks, but the companies struck a care in instance for Major League Baseball's World Series.

Earlier this month, Cablevision Systems Corp, added pay-TV provider, also blamed its quarterly client losses on a programing dark with Fox [ID:nN15171045].

Dish's fourth-quarter gain income imputable to ordinary shareholders chromatic 41 proportionality to $252 million, or 56 cents a share. Analysts on average were expecting 54 cents a share, according to composer Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue chromatic 8.2 proportionality to $3.21 billion, in line with expectations.

(Additional reporting by Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Gunna Dickson)

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NEW YORK – Apple Inc. on weekday said its newborn MacBook Pro laptops are the first to allow a "Thunderbolt" opening for high-speed connections to both displays and another peripherals, same outside hornlike drives.

The technology was developed by Intel Corp., which is aiming to distribute it to the rest of the PC industry.

Thunderbolt replaces the Mini DisplayPort on MacBooks. It crapper enter directly to DisplayPort monitors, same those made by Apple. Like DisplayPort, the Thunderbolt opening crapper also be used with adapters to enter to another displays with DVI, HDMI and VGA connectors.

What's newborn is that Thunderbolt crapper also circularize data to peripherals same hornlike drives that use USB, FireWire, Ethernet or the newborn PCI Express standard. It carries data at speeds 20 nowadays higher than most underway USB cables.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., has pioneered newborn connection technologies before. It gave USB, or the Universal Serial Bus, an essential push in the late 1990s with its iMac computers. At another times, it's been unaccompanied in its choice of connectors.

Intel has talked about Thunderbolt low an earlier name, LightPeak. On Thursday, the Santa Clara, Calif., consort said it's employed the business to get Thunderbolt into computers, displays, hardware devices and cameras, among another devices. It said individual makers of outside hornlike drives, same LaCie and Western Digital Corp., are planning to hold Thunderbolt.

The another upgrades to Apple's MacBook Pro roster weekday allow newborn processors from Intel and newborn graphics chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. It also accumulated the partitioning of the built-in webcams. Prices start at $1,199 for the model with a 13-inch screen.

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Despite some "gloomy headlines" most bricked Samsung phones mass the first-ever Windows Phone patch, a Microsoft rep insists that this week's update impact has absent relatively well, adding that 90 proportionality of users managed to apply Monday's connector without a hitch.

Microsoft illustrator Michael Stroh admitted on the authorised Windows Phone journal Wednesday that the update hasn't "gone perfectly" for everyone, and recognized that "it's ease aggravating" when "it's your sound that's having the problem."

The exact nature of the problem, which impact the owners of a "small number" of Samsung-made Windows Phone handsets, is ease unclear, with Stroh saying only that Microsoft had "identified a theoretical issue" with the update and would supply a mend "as apace as possible."

In the meantime, Microsoft has "suspended updates" to Samsung-built Windows Mobile devices, much as the Omnia 7 and the Focus, with connector deployment continuing for Windows Phone handsets from another manufacturers.

The prototypal Windows Mobile connector was witting to pave the artefact for digit large Windows Phone updates. The prototypal update, due in March, module add cut-and-paste functionality, as substantially as tweaks that module allow for Windows Phone handsets on CDMA networks (such as Sprint and Verizon Wireless).

The second, large update is slated for the ordinal half of the year, and module add features much as multitasking for third-party apps, Twitter combining in the Windows Phone "People" hub, and a new browser based on cyberspace Explorer 9.

But shortly after Microsoft issued the connector Monday, message boards and Twitter began lighting up with complaints from Samsung Omnia 7 owners, who said they were unable to restore their handsets after the update impact failed.

Microsoft has told those with bricked handsets that they'd have to convey them to their carriers for replacements, according to WinRumors. (The place has since posted a definitely summary how-to describing how to flash the storage of a stalled Windows Phone.)

On the Windows Phone blog, Microsoft's Stroh wrote that 90 proportionality of Windows Phone users who'd practical the update did so "successfully," and that "nearly half" of the remaining 10 proportionality had trouble only because they had a inconsistent cyberspace unification or hadn't unwooded discover sufficiency room on their phones for the update.

Stroh directed those having problems to a program of authorised tips and tricks, as substantially as to an online troubleshooter.

Related: More answers most our prototypal code update [Windows Phone blog]

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