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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Zynga's new CEO reportedly discussed buying the company while still at Microsoft
Don Mattrick might still be arranging his desk stationery and getting his nameplate fitted on his new office door, but the former Microsoft Studios boss was apparently eyeing up Zynga for at least three years prior. According to Bloomberg, Mattrick discussed the idea of buying the company with founder Mark Pincus, bringing Zynga's social games (and hopefully some of its millions of users) to Microsoft's Xbox. People "with knowledge of the matter" say that talks eventually broke down, which is probably why you don't see Farmville taking up acres within Xbox Live. At least, not yet.
Filed under: Gaming, Microsoft
Source: Bloomberg
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
BBM for Android, iPhone face existing dominance
The BBM launch excitement for Android and iPhone is clear, especially within schools where teens are talking about the cool BlackBerry Messenger features they like and want to see on iOS and Android phones.
While there is a certain amount of success expected thanks to those that already desire to download the BBM app on iPhone and Android, it is also clear that when the chat app arrives it will do so at a time when another app is ruling this area in most countries.
BBM vs. WhatsApp on Android and iPhone ? one of our readers explained it perfectly in a recent article, ?those of you that previously used BBM on a BlackBerry phone will love BBM for iPhone or Android?. The reason for this is that these people wills till have a number of contacts using a BlackBerry device, so naturally they?d love BBM for Android and iPhone.
The big problem for BlackBerry is the current dominance of WhatsApp. If just about everyone you know is on one chat app, then why using another? You?ll want to be using the same app as everyone else.
You can see a clear picture if you look at the iTunes Store charts for their top 10 paid apps. We had a quick look at the time of writing and notice WhatsApp is currently in first position for the most downloaded paid app, and amazingly this is not just in one location like the UK.
WhatsApp is currently the top paid app in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Australia and many other countries. The chat app is currently second to Where?s My Mickey in the United States.
Most importantly, BlackBerry?s home country of Canada has WhatsApp listed as the top paid app as well, so it will be really interesting to see how this all changes at the BBM launch for iPhone and Android.
Would you leave WhatsApp for BBM on your iPhone or Android phone? You can read about the impact of BBM on Android and iPhone from a financial point of view in this article, although we did notice a lot of our readers still see BBM as a great way to connect with friends and family not using WhatsApp on their BlackBerry phones. It is also good to remember that while WhatsApp dominates, there are still plenty of other apps that BBM will need to combat as well on iPhone and Android devices.
Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/07/07/bbm-for-android-iphone-face-existing-dominance/
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Study in Spain via Berklee | Undergraduate Admission Blog
The following entry was written my Anna Lindgren, Class of 2014
My unequivocal recommendation to incoming college students is to take advantage of study abroad opportunities. Through its continued partnership with Berklee, Emerson has just added an exciting new destination to our external program options: Berklee College of Music?s Valencia Global Studies Program.
Berklee Valencia Campus at Night
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During this semester-long program, Emerson and Berklee students live in a residence hall in Valencia and take classes at Berklee?s satellite campus in la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (the City of the Arts and Sciences), an entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex that is now a major modern tourist attraction. Completed in 2005, the building that houses Berklee?s satellite campus, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, is an opera house and performing arts center. The complex is also home to Valencia?s opera and ballet, so students are surrounded by not only their peers and professors, but by world class musicians and performers.
The program offers a wide variety of classes from music business to performance and technology as well as liberal arts courses. Students can also take advantage of private music lessons during their time at the Valencia campus. Berklee?s Valencia campus is fully decked out with state of the art concert halls, studios, equipment and rehearsal spaces.
The Berklee Valencia program would be ideal for a student interested in the music industry, whether in the performance or business side of it. Much like the ProArts Consortium, the courses at Berklee Valencia offer a different perspective than those at Emerson, so this is a totally unique opportunity to supplement your cirriculum with courses that might not be available in Boston. And did I mention the program also includes two excursions to Madrid and Seville? Who wouldn?t want to spend a few months bopping around Spain?
Source: http://press.emerson.edu/undergraduateadmission/2013/07/05/study-in-spain-via-berklee/
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Usher might ruin your dog s Fourth of July
For many, the Fourth of July is about food, food, alcohol and more food (maybe with a side of baseball). But as late afternoon rolls around and people prepare for fireworks displays, you might remember, ?Hey? didn?t Banjo freak out about the fireworks last year??
If you live in NYC, R&B star Usher is ?curating? the 2013 Macy?s Fourth of July Fireworks, which means that while Usher himself is not upsetting any dogs today (hopefully), Usher is indirectly ruining many dogs? day. While dogs are known for their noses, they also come equipped with an excellent auditory system, which might not always be beneficial. Almost half the owners in a recent survey reported that their dog shows fearful behavior when hearing fireworks.
What does it look like when Banjo freaks out?
?Freaking out? in association with loud noises can take a number of different forms, either catatonia, which is a state of motor immobility, or panic and mania, marked by excessive movement. In one study, dogs exposed to simulated thunderstorms panted, paced, hid, stayed near the owner, and whined and barked. Another study found that lab beagles exposed to thunderstorm sounds in an open-field testing room were most likely to display a freezing response. Dogs might also howl, perform destructive behaviors, attempt to escape, or even urinate or defecate. Even if a dog doesn?t overly respond to cars backfiring or thunderstorms, this doesn?t necessarily mean that 20 to 30 minutes of loud booming and cracking fireworks will go unnoticed.
The bottom line: When loud noises come out, many dogs are not having a good time. In the study exposing companion dogs to simulated thunderstorms, dogs? salivary cortisol levels (which assesses dog stress response) ?increased 207%, and these levels did not return to baseline within 40 min.?
While many around the US of A are oohing and ahhing at the blasts of red, white and blue filling the sky, many Banjos around the country would rather move to Canada. But maybe this year can be different! The Fourth of July should not be about massive dog defection or owners regretting that a companion dog had a horrible day. Here?s what you can do to combat Usher.
?I wish I hadn?t taken my dog to the fireworks?
My mom?s friend recently brought her new dog to the loud fireworks display at the public pool. Her words: she ?regretted bringing the dog because the dog was so frightened.?
Ways to avoid this regret:
- Don?t do it: Don?t take a dog to a fireworks display.
- Lend a helping hand: If possible, have someone stay home with the dog. One study found that reassuring a dog did not intensify or reinforce a dog?s fear response.
- Good food: Veterinary behaviorist, Ilana Reisner recommends cooking up irresistible food to give the dogs during the event. ?Cut meat into tiny pieces and stock a treat bag. Feed one piece at a time to your dog throughout the fireworks to countercondition and distract. If your dog is willing, make a game of it and ask her [to] sit, down, shake hands and other distracting cues. Freeze a Kong with kibble mixed with baby food. Feed dinner through the toy.?
- Make a comfy ?chill? spot: Some dogs might retreat and hide instead of taking food. Make a comfy hang out spot for your dog.
- Be nice and don?t punish your dog: Dogs might perform behaviors we don?t typically like, like digging or scratching. Remember that those behaviors are part of an emotional response. Change? the underlying emotional state and you can change the resulting behavior.
- Bring in assistance: Anxiety wraps, white noise, dog appeasing pheromone (DAP) and pharmacological support could help. Before adding medication, always check with a veterinarian, or even a veterinary behaviorist who is specifically trained in behavioral medicine.
Although Usher and many others around the States are adding loud, booming noises to the sky tonight, there are steps you can take to make your dog hold less of a grudge against Usher.
Photo: Usher @ Air Canada Centre, Toronto.? Tony Felgueiras via creative commons.
References
Blackwell et al. 2005. Firework fears and phobias in the domestic dog. RSPCA
Bowen 2010. Behaviour: Firework fears and phobias. Companion Animal
Dreschel & Granger. 2005. Physiological and behavioral reactivity to stress in thunderstorm-phobic dogs and their caregivers. Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Cottam et al. 2012. The effectiveness of the Anxiety Wrap in the treatment of canine thunderstorm phobia: An open-label trial, Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Arachnophobics Beware: This Creepy Spiderbot Is Incredibly Lifelike
If you've got $1,350 burning a hole in your pocket and an arachnophobic friend you love to terrorize, the folks at Robugtix will happily trade your heard-earned money for this incredibly lifelike robotic spider called the T8.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Record-toppling heat heads north, and it's 'just going to get hotter'
Excessive heat continues in the West, where the added danger of monsoon flow can deliver dry lightning strikes. KNBC's Fritz Coleman reports.
By M. Alex Johnson and Jeff Black, NBC News, NBC News
The brutal heat wave baking much of the Southwest was bringing record-breaking temperatures Monday to traditionally cool parts of the Northwest where summer is more a state of mind than a season of sweat.
The oppressive heat ? unusually high even for summer ovens like Death Valley, Calif., and Las Vegas ? has immersed the western third of the country in dangerous conditions, feeding wildfires and droughts with little relief in sight. It has?already killed at least one person, an elderly man who suffered cardiac arrest Saturday in an un-air-conditioned residence in Las Vegas,?NBC station KSNV reported.
After setting records across the Southwest, the weather system ? a?smothering dome of high pressure stretching from Montana to Arizona ? was starting to broil western areas of Washington and Oregon, where high temperatures might top out in the mid-80s once or twice a year, thanks to the cooling effects of the Oregon Coast Mountains and the Olympic Mountains in Washington.
But "right now, we're not feeling the cooling from the ocean at all," National Weather Service meteorologist Shawn Weagle?told the Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore.
"It is just going to get hotter," said Mike Linden, a meteorologist for NBC station KNDU of Kennewick, Wash.
Heat advisories and warnings covered Washington, Oregon and Idaho through Tuesday evening.
Two guys from the National Weather Service harnessed the power of the sun and took advantage of the extreme heat wave scorching the Western U.S. to bake up some fresh cookies on the dashboard of their car. TODAY's Dylan Dreyer reports.
"The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will combine to create a dangerous situation in which heat illnesses are likely," the National Weather Service said.
"Hot weather isn't frequent in Seattle," Mayor Mike McGinn said. While the forecast high later Monday of 93 degrees would be welcome relief for people in the Southwest, it would shatter Seattle's July 1 record of 87.
The city was closing the University Bridge, a major commuter passage, for 10 minutes every hour so it could be flushed to keep it from getting too hot, the Seattle Times reported. East of Renton, a southern suburb, work crews were trying Monday to repair a busy road that buckled in the heat ? essentially melting open, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
McGinn noted that?many homes don't have air conditioning, and he urged residents to use the 18 city library branches that do have it as cooling centers.
In other Northwest cities where the Pacific and the mountains have little effect, triple-digit temperatures were expected Tuesday. Yakima, Wash., was forecast to hit 106 degrees. Ashland, Ore., was forecast to hit 105. And Boise, Idaho, was expected to top out at 109 ? 2 degrees below the all-time record, set on July 19, 1960.
"It's amazing how much we take for granted shade and cool weather until it gets really hot like this, and then you really realize it," Abby Sweet, who was outside watering plants Monday at CFW Earth and Wood Nursery in Missoula, Mont., told NBC station KECI.
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Death Valley National Park employee Anna Gilay makes her usual seven-mile morning run at 6:55 a.m. with the unofficial temperature already reaching 103 degrees as a heat wave spreads across the West on Sunday.
The Northwest was only going through what residents of the rest of the West have been experiencing since last week. How hot has it been? It even hit 83 degrees Sunday in Fairbanks, Alaska.
It's hard to set records for heat in the Southwest, but more fell Sunday. Las Vegas hit 117 degrees.?Since record-keeping began there in 1937, the only other times the temperature reached 117 degrees were on July 19, 2005, and July 24, 1942, according to the National Weather Service.?
In addition to the man who died, seven other people were hospitalized for heat-related illnesses Sunday, the Las Vegas Sun reported.
The mercury rocketed to 128 degrees Sunday in Death Valley National Park, the National Weather Service said, tying the record for the hottest June day anywhere in the country. ?But the Los Angeles Times reported that the National Park Service thermometer ? 200 yards away ? recorded a temperature of 129.9, which shatters the record for June.?
The highest-ever recorded air temperature on the planet, according to the Weather Service, was 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley?s Greenland Ranch.
Nearly half of Utah, where temperatures reached triple digits for the fifth straight day in Salt Lake City, was suffering a severe drought, NBC station KSL of Salt Lake City reported.
"We have a huge drought situation," Claudia Jarrett, chairwoman of the Sanpete County Commission, told KSL. "There's just been no rain. The streams are not filling and the ponds are not filling. It is a critical water situation."
Tracy Jarrett and Alastair Jamieson of NBC News contributed to this report.
Dozens of people have been hospitalized because of heat-related injuries in the high temperatures that are gripping the Western U.S. Some cities have seen temperatures soar far past the hundred-degree mark, while the heat continues. TODAY's Dylan Dreyer reports.
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This story was originally published on Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:39 PM EDT
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Jay-Z Shouts Out 'Good-Looking' Pharrell In Vintage Interview
In a 2000 interview with MTV News, Hov shouts out his 'I Just Wanna Love U' collaborator, who's also working on Magna Carta.
By Nadeska Alexis
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1709883/jay-z-pharrell-magna-carta-holy-grail-collabo.jhtml
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Ten states to tackle gay marriage next
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Army Capt. Michael Potoczniak, center left, and Todd Saunders, of El Cerrito, Calif., are married by deputy marriage commissioner John Loschmann, center, as witnesses Bill Hershon, left, and Sean Boileau watch at City Hall in San Francisco, Saturday, June 29, 2013.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Energized by two big victories at the Supreme Court, advocates of gay marriage are turning their attention to a handful of states that they believe are most likely to allow it next.
One of those two wins made California the 13th state where gay couples can now legally get married. Counting the District of Columbia, gay marriage is legal in places covering about 30 percent of the U.S. population.
National gay rights groups say they now hope to persuade either the Supreme Court or Congress to legalize gay marriage across the country ? in a matter of years, not decades.
?The answer is to win more states, win a critical mass of states, and a critical mass of public support, which creates a climate that encourages the court to do its job,? said Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, a pro-gay-marriage group.
Here are the states that advocates say will be the next battlegrounds.
COULD HAPPEN THIS YEAR
Illinois: Gay marriage almost passed the Legislature this spring, but a Democratic state representative tearfully told his colleagues that he didn?t have the votes and would give them time to talk it over with constituents.
Advocates say the next try will probably come in late October, when lawmakers gather for a short session. They believe the Supreme Court rulings, particularly one extending federal benefits to gay spouses, could make the difference.
?It?s one thing to be against the marriage bill ideologically,? said Randy Hannig, director of public policy at the pro-gay-marriage group Equality Illinois. ?It?s another thing to stand in the way of people receiving benefits.?
New Jersey: Gov. Chris Christie, a potential Republican presidential candidate for 2016, vetoed a gay-marriage bill last year. He said last week that he?d do it again, and that the state should ?let the people decide.?
Democrats in the Legislature are considering whether to try to override the veto. The Legislature could also put gay marriage on the ballot this fall. A Rutgers University poll two weeks ago suggested it would pass easily.
There?s also a path through the courts. New Jersey has civil unions, but seven gay couples are arguing that those don?t comply with a 2006 state Supreme Court ruling that gay and straight couples should have equal rights. A hearing is expected in August.
Hawaii: Fear that the Aloha State would become the first to allow gay marriage led Republicans to write the Defense of Marriage Act, which was signed by President Bill Clinton and stood from 1996 until the Supreme Court struck it down last week.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, supports gay marriage, and bills to authorize it have been introduced in the state House and Senate. Hawaii has had civil unions since January 2012.
Advocates for gay marriage are pushing in Hawaii federal court, too. But Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign, said he wouldn?t be surprised to see lawmakers act first ? ?much sooner than later.?
2014 AND BEYOND
Oregon: It?s one of 29 states with a constitutional ban on gay marriage, and it could be the first state where voters repeal such a ban. Advocates are eying the November 2014 election and need 116,000 signatures to get on the ballot.
Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio: Voters could be asked as early as November 2014 to overturn the constitutional ban, but advocates must decide whether to wait for 2016, a presidential election year, when turnout will be higher.
Nevada: The earliest gay marriage could get on the ballot is 2016, Rouse said, because of a quirk in a state law requiring two votes in the Legislature with a general election sandwiched in between.
New Mexico: It?s complicated. A court case could be decided as early as next year. The Legislature could act, too, but bills both to enact and prohibit gay marriage have gone nowhere so far, and Gov. Susana Martinez opposes it.
This story was originally published on Mon Jul 1, 2013 3:31 AM EDT
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