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Friday, June 8, 2012
Microsoft Is Barring HTC From Making Windows 8 Tablets, Report Says
Don't expect to see any Windows 8 tablets from HTC. Microsoft is reportedly barring HTC from developing Windows RT tablets.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Taylor Swift's Label Inks Groundbreaking Deal With Clear Channel
Artists on Big Machine Records will now receive payment every time their songs are played on Clear Channel radio stations.
By Jocelyn Vena
Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift is in a brand-new relationship. No, she isn't dating some hot Hollywood star. Instead, Swift's label, Big Machine Records, has just inked a deal with Clear Channel that will allow artists on the label to get paid for songs played on their radio stations.
The label, as well as the performers on it — including heavy hitters like Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Reba McEntire — will share in the revenue with Clear Channel. Before this deal, the label and its performers did not collect royalties when their songs were played on terrestrial radio; only songwriters and publishers did.
Internet radio stations, however, already do pay performers and labels when their songs are played. Under the new deal, Clear Channel will be able to limit payments for songs streamed online, which will enable the growth of digital radio.
"Not only does this partnership enable Big Machine to participate in terrestrial broadcast revenues, but we are also helping to grow digital radio," Scott Borchetta, the label's president and CEO, said. "[It's] a great opportunity for all of us and a breakthrough opportunity for Big Machine artists."
But reportedly, it won't end there. Aceshowbiz.com further reports that Clear Channel will approach more labels for similar deals and Big Machine may ink more of these with other radio conglomerates.
"Today, 98 percent of our listening is terrestrial broadcast and 2 percent digital — with record labels and artists only paid for the 2 percent," John Hogan, chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, added in a statement about the landmark deal. "This new agreement expands label and artist participation from just digital to terrestrial broadcast radio revenue in one comprehensive framework that will give all of us a great incentive to drive the growth of the digital radio industry and allow everyone to participate financially in its growth."
This coup for Swift comes just months after she was named the top earner of 2012 by Billboard magazine on their "Music's Top 40 Money Makers" list. Swift sits at #1 thanks to reported earnings of $35.7 million in the 2011 calendar year. She ranks so high due to quadruple-platinum-plus sales of Speak Now and its accompanying tour, which grossed $88.5 million in the U.S. alone.
But she's hardly resting on her laurels. She is currently hard at work on her follow-up to the release. There is no word yet on when it might drop.
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Post offices, Ellis Island join endangered list
FILE - This Oct. 22, 2007, file photo shows the general hospital, behind some tourists on the south side of Ellis Island in the New York harbor. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2012 list of the 11 most endangered historic places. This year?s list includes historic U.S. Post Office buildings nationwide, the historic Atlanta district where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston, the hospital complex at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and the courthouses of Texas, among others. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - This Oct. 22, 2007, file photo shows the general hospital, behind some tourists on the south side of Ellis Island in the New York harbor. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its 2012 list of the 11 most endangered historic places. This year?s list includes historic U.S. Post Office buildings nationwide, the historic Atlanta district where Martin Luther King Jr. was born, the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston, the hospital complex at Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and the courthouses of Texas, among others. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
FILE - This May 29, 1962 file photo shows a curved ceiling and glass walls of the newly built Trans World Airway's terminal buiding at New York's Idlewild Airport. Today, the historic terminal, which was once on the National Trust for Historic Preservation list of endangered sites has been restored and serves as an entryway to the new JetBlue Terminal. Preservationists are continuing to work with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and JetBlue to sensitively reuse the terminal. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - This May 8, 2009, file photo shows Ellis Island's boarded up hospital for contagious disease ward, which opened in 1909 as part of the island's main hospital complex. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic places. In the past 25 years, the non-profit organization has listed 234 sites. New York State has made the list 18 times. This section of Ellis Island, where 29 neglected hospital and support buildings are located, has been cited three times, including this year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the National Trust for Historic Preservation shows the World Trade Center Vesey Street staircase in New York. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, which once included the staircase, which is now listed as "saved." Before the 2001 terrorist attacks, the stairs consisted of two granite-clad flights of stairs and an escalator that led from the trade center plaza to Vesey Street. When the towers collapsed, the heavily damaged stairs served as an escape route for hundreds of people. In 2008, the staircase was installed at the below-ground memorial museum being constructed at ground zero. (AP Photo/Robert Kornfeld, Jr. and Richard Zimbler, National Trust, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Hundreds of historic U.S. post offices nationwide face uncertain futures as the U.S. Postal Service downsizes, so preservationists on Wednesday added these American institutions to the list of the country's most endangered historic places.
Post offices will join the list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places as a group for the first time. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is citing the bureaucratic process for disposing of thousands of post offices, saying developers and community groups interested in rehabilitating the historic buildings end up walking away when they don't get timely or clear answers from the Postal Service.
The group also said New York's Ellis Island hospital complex is threatened, even though it's a popular historic destination, because the facility where thousands of immigrants received medical treatment upon their arrival has been left open to the elements.
Princeton Battlefield, which turned the tide of the American Revolution in New Jersey, also is facing imminent danger from housing development that would change the landscape, preservationists said.
The nation's post offices, though, represent the largest number of sites that could be lost in towns and cities both large and small. Preservationists began getting calls more than a year ago about individual post offices, so they want to work with the Postal Service to help foster a process for adapting and reusing the historic buildings, said Stephanie Meeks, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
"This isn't about taking on the post office," she said. "Of course we don't quibble with the post office having to do what they have to do to manage their business, but we do want to make sure there's a thoughtful process in place for managing the historic resources."
One developer in Geneva, Ill., walked away from negotiations with the Postal Service after months of work, citing a lack of clear answers from the agency.
Another large group of sites being added to the endangered list includes the courthouses of Texas, with support from former first lady Laura Bush. The state's courthouses were first listed in 1998, but at least 70 of them still need critical repairs. Most are still in use.
Other sites are facing even more imminent threats.
President Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota's Badlands, which inspired his views on conservation, is facing development of a road and bridge project that would "mar" the landscape and "stain Roosevelt's legacy of conservation," the group said.
Three sites from black history also are being added to the list: Joe Frazier's gym in Philadelphia, the boyhood home of Malcolm X in Boston and Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District, where Martin Luther King Jr. was born and later preached.
This is the second time that Sweet Auburn has been among the most endangered sites. It was first listed in 1992 when the area around King's birth home was at risk. Since then, much of the area has been revitalized, but much of the commercial corridor remains vacant and could be wiped out by new development, said Mtamanika Youngblood, president of the neighborhood's Sustainable Neighborhood Development Strategies Inc.
"We fear that if we lose any more ... we will lose the essence of Sweet Auburn," she said, noting that the historic Atlanta Daily World Building and Atlanta Life Insurance Buildings stand vacant, along with the original Southern Christian Leadership Conference Building and others.
In practical terms, the area could also lose its historic district status if its commercial corridor disappears, she said.
"If this place is important enough for people to come halfway around the world to visit ... there should be some civic will," Youngblood said.
Federal and local officials do hope a coming $94 million streetcar project linking the Auburn Avenue district with downtown and the tourist hot spots near Centennial Park will attract businesses to a long-depressed economic area.
Diverse communities are often underrepresented in the preservation of cultural resources. Only 3 percent of the sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places represent diverse communities, Meeks said.
Additional sites being added to this year's list:
? Bridges of Yosemite Valley, Calif. A National Park Service plan would leave three historic Rustic Style bridges in danger of removal.
? Terminal Island at the Port of Los Angeles. This major shipbuilding center where America's tuna-canning industry was born and 3,000 Japanese Americans were held is threatened by long-term vacancy of its historic buildings.
? Village of Zoar, Ohio. This 195-year-old village was founded by religious separatists fleeing Germany but is threatened by the potential removal of a levee that could lead to massive flooding or require demolition of much of the town.
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National trust for Historic Preservation: http://www.preservationnation.org/
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Sony PlayStation Wonderbook hands-on (update: video added)
Last night, we caught a demo of PlayStation's new Wonderbook during the company's E3 press event. Today, we grabbed a few moments of hands-on time with the new PS Move peripheral at the Sony booth. As we learned last night, the first title for the new tech is a collaborative effort with J.K. Rowling, entitled Book of Spells. The kit makes use of an augmented reality book in tandem with the Move hardware to project images and animations (basically the game itself) right on the pages. Consisting of only six spreads (12 pages), the software will track your progression through the chapters, and beginning a new quest simply means heading to back to the front of the book. We got a closer look (free from last night's demo fail), so have a peep at the gallery below and head on past the break for some impressions.
Update: We've added a video of the hands-on just beyond the break for your viewing pleasure.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Spurs' Ginobili back in starting lineup for Game 5
SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Spurs guard Manu Ginobili is back in the starting lineup for Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.
Ginobili replaces Danny Green, who is shooting just 8 of 28 in the Western Conference finals. It's the first start for Ginobili since March 23 and just his eighth all season.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich wouldn't discuss any lineup changes before the game. But the move is a big shake-up for the Spurs after they dropped Games 3 and 4 in Oklahoma City following a 20-game winning streak.
Ginobili is averaging 13.1 points in the playoffs.
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Did someone hack Mitt Romney's Hotmail account?
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An anonymous tipster claims to have hacked into Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's private email account.
The tipster told Gawker Tuesday?that by guessing the answer to a security question ? What is your favorite pet? ? he was able to gain access to mittromney@hotmail.com, the account Romney used to communicate with his staff as recently as 2006.
In an email to Gawker, the tipster said he learned of Romney's Hotmail address through a batch of old emails released Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal. In his tip, he included the answer to the security question, and the new password he allegedly set up for the email account as well as Romney's Dropbox account. (Gawker blacked out both the answer to the security question and the new password.)
SecurityNewsDaily sent an email to the alleged hijacked account. It was not immediately returned.
Romney's campaign communications director, Gail Gitcho, said in a statement Tuesday evening that the?"proper authorities are investigating this crime and we will have no further comment on it."?
Also, the Associated Press reported, Gitcho?would not say whether Romney still uses the Hotmail account.?The address became public because Romney used it to conduct state business when he served as governor of Massachusetts, and some of his private emails were obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, the AP said.
Romney isn't the first politician to face security problems with a private email account. Just weeks before the 2008 presidential election, a Tennessee college student accessed the private emails of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The student, David Kernell, was convicted in April 2010 after Palin and her daughter Bristol testified about harassment and disruption they suffered. Kernell had correctly guessed answers to security questions guarding Palin's account, giving him access.
Romney's private Hotmail account was accepting email as recently as March 2012. As of Tuesday evening, the address was returning emails to the AP?as undeliverable, citing an "unknown address." ?
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
The Consistency of the Strategic Clinical Outsourcing Business
In 2011, the global clinical outsourcing business grew by 11.1% and is expected to keep steady growth through 2012. ?With the recent economic climate, these numbers may be surprising, but it's easy to see why. ?As Pharma has adopted the strategic clinical?outsourcing?model with preferred partners, the global CRO business has grown. ?What is being outsourced? Clinical work, site management, data management, study statistics and even tech services according to CROS NT.This fall at the Clinical Business Expo, we present Strategic Clinical Outsourcing as one of six events to help Pharma companies control costs and improve quality at every step of?the clinical trial process. ?This specific track will optimize sourcing models, vendor selection, and relationship management?to take partnerships from tactical to strategic. ?For more information on CBE, download the brochure here. ?As a reader of this blog, when you register to join us an mention code XP1725BLOG, you'll save 15% off the standard rate!
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