Thursday, November 10, 2011

'Unlimited' Android for $19 a month (on Wi-Fi)

Republic Wireless

By Athima Chansanchai

With more people buying smartphones, which require costly data plans, a new service is hoping to snag business by offering an Android handset with unlimited data, text and minutes for $19 a month, plus tax.

But there's a catch: it's only unlimited so long as you stay in Wi-Fi zones. Otherwise, there are limits to relying on cellular networks.

Republic Wireless?launched in beta mode Nov.8 with a member-based system that doesn't tie them down with contracts, but it does tie them to Wi-Fi.

As explained on its site under "What's the catch?":

Chances are, yes. Research shows that most people are around Wi-Fi networks 60% of the time, and growing. If that?s you, then all you have to do is set up your phone one time to access the Wi-Fi you have at home, work and wherever else you spend time. Our technology takes care of the rest.

Republic Wireless' "Hybrid Calling" will enable their phones to automatically switch over from Wi-Fi to cellular if there's no Wi-Fi around.

Live Poll

Are you going to try out Republic Wireless?

  • 166958

    Heck yeah. $19/month! And I'm around Wi-Fi most of the time.

    43%

  • 166959

    No thanks. I'm happy with what I have.

    17%

  • 166960

    Not until they get more phones.

    7%

  • 166961

    Not unti they get the iPhone.

    7%

  • 166962

    No thanks, I use cellular networks much more than Wi-Fi.

    26%

VoteTotal Votes: 122

Members can track the previous seven days' worth of their minutes, data and texts using Republic's Cellular Usage Index (CUI). Under the Republic "fair use" rules, each member is entitled to?550 minutes, send 150 texts, and download 300 megabytes of data without crossing the community?s fair use threshold.

The company considers this to still fall within an unlimited plan, as it won't charge for overages, limit download speeds, or restrict members to calling circles. But, because "membership here is a privilege,"?it will kick you out of the "community" if you "don?t bring your CUI back into a reasonable range." But there may be a reprieve, in that allowable cellular usage could increase with demonstrated, consistent Wi-Fi use.

So, if you make most of your calls at home, and you have Wi-Fi there, you should be able to stay safely within those boundaries. But if most of your calls are say, on the go, in the car (hands free, of course), out and about, this plan may not be for you.

Right now, the only phone Republic offers is the $199 (plus tax) LG Optimus, a 3G, 3.2-inch touchscreen device that runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera/camcorder (so don't expect the photos to give you the same wow factor as others), is Bluetooth-enabled and a talk time of about five hours.

But on its blog, Republic promises more handsets are on the way, and it looks like they'll continue to be Androids. (Although already, there is a clamor for iPhones.)

For those who want to dip their toes in this idea, there does seem to be a trial period, and members will be able to port over their existing numbers. From the comments on the blog, it looks like many are willing to give it a go, with some citing that the same plan at Sprint would cost $100 a month. Other carriers are comparable, and would cap the data after a certain point (2 GB, for instance) or throttle down the speed.?

There is certainly a demand for unlimited, as mobile consumers in the U.S. are an active, chatty lot, using?1.15 trillion minutes in the first half of 2011 (or more than 6 billion per day), according to the CTIA (the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry). in 2008, Nielsen called the U.S.?home to the most mobile Internet users than any other country.

Response has been positive, and going by Republic's Facebook page, overwhelming, as the company had to quadruple its capacity. It's also been having problems with its billing system, which it looks like it's trying to fix as fast as it can.?

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Check out Technolog on?Facebook, and on Twitter, follow?Athima Chansanchai, who is also trying to keep her head above water in the?Google+?stream.

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Dow average slides as Italian borrowing costs soar (AP)

NEW YORK ? The Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 240 points in early trading after Italy's borrowing costs soared.

The yield on the benchmark Italian government bond spiked above 7 percent, a sign that investors are losing faith in the country's ability to repay its debt. Analysts say Italy will not be able to refinance its debt at current rates, which will force it to either enact deep austerity measures or to receive financial assistance to prevent a default.

Greece, Portugal and Ireland required bailouts when their bond yields rose above 7 percent. But unlike those countries, Italy's $2.6 trillion in debt is too large for other European nations to bail out.

Europe's debt crisis continued in Greece as well. The country's two main political parties are still engaged in power-sharing negotiations and have yet to name a prime minister to lead the interim government. The new government must pass an austerity package to receive the next loan installment of emergency loans. Without the funds, Greece could default before Christmas.

Markets fear that a chaotic default by either Greece or Italy would lead to huge losses for European banks. That, in turn, could cause a global lending freeze that might escalate into another credit crisis similar to the one in 2008 after Lehman Brothers fell.

The Dow was down 242 points, or 2 percent, to 11,928 ten minutes after the market opened. The S&P 500 lost 29, or 2.3 percent, to 1,246. The Nasdaq composite slid 64, or 2.4 percent, to 2,663.

In corporate news, General Motors Co. lost 7.7 percent after the company said Europe's economic woes were weighing on its profits.

The Wendy's Co. dropped 3.4 percent after the company said higher beef prices contributed to a larger third-quarter loss.

Dean Foods fell 1.9 percent after the company took a write-down in its fresh dairy business.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Canonical gets a little more precise about what's in store for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Look, codenames are all fine and dandy, but we want the meat -- we want to know exactly what Precise Pangolin has in store. Specifics are still a little hard to come by, but there were some tidbits out of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. For one, Canonical has decided to bump the size of the ISO from 700MB to 750MB. That might not seem like a huge deal, but it means CDs are out and thumb drives or DVDs are in for installs. The company is also considering using Ubuntu One accounts for logging into the desktop, allowing you to quickly sync your settings and files on any Ubuntu machine -- not unlike Google's Chrome OS. Lastly there are a few software changes coming. The Software Center will be getting some serious optimization for quicker launches and better performance, while Rhythmbox will be returning to the fold after being banished for Banshee in 11.04. You'll find a few more details about Ubuntu 12.04 at the source link.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Flacco rallies Ravens past Steelers 23-20 (AP)

PITTSBURGH ? Torrey Smith's night began with a penalty that wiped out a long Baltimore touchdown.

It ended with a catch that gave the Ravens a season sweep of Pittsburgh.

Five plays after a sure scoring strike tipped off his fingers, the Baltimore rookie receiver held onto a 26-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco with 8 seconds remaining to lift the Ravens past the Steelers 23-20 on Sunday.

"For him to keep coming back to me, that meant a lot," Smith said.

Smith was flagged for holding on the game's first play, negating Ray Rice's 76-yard touchdown run. But he capped Baltimore's game-winning 92-yard drive by beating William Gay down the right sideline as the Ravens (6-2) snapped Pittsburgh's four-game winning streak.

Flacco finished with 300 yards passing and Baltimore swept the season series from the rival Steelers (6-3) for the first time since 2006.

"This Steelers-Ravens game is a game for men," Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said. "This is a game for big men. You've got to shine bright in this game if you want to win this game. And nobody shined brighter than Joe Flacco in this game."

The Steelers appeared to be in control after rallying from a 10-point deficit to take a 20-16 lead with less than 5 minutes to go when Ben Roethlisberger hit Mike Wallace for a 25-yard score.

Pittsburgh's defense held once and the Steelers moved in range for Shaun Suisham to attempt a 47-yard field goal that could have bumped their lead to seven.

A delay of game penalty, however, pushed Pittsburgh back five yards and the Steelers opted to punt.

"I accept responsibility for that," coach Mike Tomlin said. "There was some hesitation on my part."

Flacco, who fumbled midway through the fourth quarter to set up Roethlisberger's strike to Wallace, atoned during a brilliant 13-play drive.

He converted a fourth-and-1 at the Pittsburgh 49 with less than a minute to go to keep Baltimore's hopes alive, and Smith made up for a drop with the biggest play of his young career.

The Steelers got the ball back with 8 seconds left but Antonio Brown fumbled a lateral from Wallace and the Ravens poured onto the Heinz Field turf in celebration.

How excited were the Ravens? Harbaugh received a cut on his chin after being dropped by Baltimore general manager Ozzie Newsome.

It's hard to blame the Ravens for their giddiness, particularly after two of their last three seasons ended on the same field.

"We swept them, but don't be fooled ? we'll see them again in January," Baltimore linebacker Terrell Suggs said. "This is the only team in the world that can play like we play and match us blow for blow."

With one dramatic drive, Baltimore ended Pittsburgh's surge and moved into a tie with Cincinnati atop the AFC North.

Flacco, who had come under fire from his teammates for inconsistent play, completed 28 of 47 passes and kept his head late after spending much of the second half trying to avoid Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison.

The All-Pro sacked Flacco three times in his first game back after missing a month with a fractured orbital bone around his right eye, but Pittsburgh's pass rush disappeared on Baltimore's final drive. Given time to work, Flacco picked apart the NFL's top-ranked pass defense.

Gay couldn't stop Flacco from hitting Anquan Boldin on the crucial fourth down and then couldn't stay in front of Smith on the game-winning play.

"That was, on my part, the worst drive ever," Gay said.

And perhaps the finest moment of Flacco's career.

"You don't really have anything to lose," Flacco said. "You either score or you don't score. ... You take a couple of shots at the end zone and see what comes of it."

The Steelers trailed by 10 going into the fourth quarter but roared back behind Roethlisberger. Rashard Mendenhall scored from 1 yard out to pull Pittsburgh within 16-13 and Harrison swatted the ball out of Flacco's hand on Baltimore's next possession.

Gay recovered and Roethlisberger put the Steelers in front when he rolled right to avoid pressure and threw in the direction of Brown. Wallace streaked in front of his teammate for the score and Pittsburgh appeared to be on its way to avenging a 28-point loss to the Ravens in the season opener.

Roethlisberger finished with 330 yards passing to become the first Pittsburgh quarterback to top 300 in three consecutive games, but the Steelers' defense couldn't contain Flacco at the end.

Suggs picked off Roethlisberger's pass in the third quarter to preserve a 9-6 Baltimore lead. A dozen plays later, Rice darted in from 4 yards out to put the Ravens up 16-6.

The NFL's top-ranked defense couldn't make it hold up, though for once Flacco bailed the defense out in a relationship that's often been vice versa.

"In my eyes, to be totally honest with you, they're the defending AFC champs, so they're still the team to beat," Suggs said of the Steelers. "But if we're playing football throughout, we'll see them again in January. But they've got to come to our house."

NOTES: Steelers WR Hines Ward left in the second quarter with concussion-like symptoms after a helmet-to-helmet hit by Baltimore LB Ray Lewis. Tomlin called the injury "minor." ... Pittsburgh punter Jeremy Kapinos averaged 33.3 yards on three kicks a day after being signed to replace injured Dan Sepulveda, who is out for the season with a knee injury. ... Rice, who ran for more than 100 yards against the Steelers in the opener, was held to 43 yards on 18 carries. ... Smith finished with five receptions for 71 yards.

(This version corrects stats for Smith in notes)

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Monday, November 7, 2011

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Caption Contest: Real-life Super Mario party searches for Princess Peach

Mamma Mia -- it's 'a me whole lot of Marios! If we were you, Bowser, we'd return Her Majesty to Mushroom Kingdom at once. Okay, okay... in actuality, the above was merely Nintendo hyping the upcoming US release of its psychedelic-consuming plumber's first 3DS title, Super Mario 3D Land. So there's no need to worry folks, Ms. Peach is safe -- at least until you get your grubby paws on the game come November 13th, that is.

Darren: "Mario has sabotaged the Beastie Boys' redux of Sabotage."
Terrence: "Occupy Mushroom Kingdom."
Joe: "Will the real Super Mario please jump up?"
Mat: "Someone got the infinite lives cheat massively, massively wrong."
Sean: "The Mario family reunion took a turn for the awkward when Luigi realized he was the only attendee out of uniform."
Tim: "It's 'a me... your worst nightmare."
Richard Lai: "I ate the wrong mushroom."
Jon: "After defeating multiple Agent Smiths, Neo finds that he advances to level 2 in the Matrix..."
Brian: "Moments later, the mob located a pet store, went to town on the turtle tank and escaped safely through the toilet."
Myriam: "Where's Waldo?"
Billy: "The first rule of Project Mayhem is..."
Brad: "This would've made that lousy Super Mario Bros. movie a whole lot better."
Amar: "King Hippo + $2 Taco Night = this"
Richard Lawler: "And not a single flying Cape Feather was given that day."
Josh Fruhlinger: "Another Sunday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn."

Caption Contest: Real-life Super Mario party searches for Princess Peach originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Gingrich faults media on Cain harassment claims

(AP) ? Republican candidate Newt Gingrich is decrying media coverage of the sexual harassment claims against rival Herman Cain and says that Cain's tax plans deserve more attention.

Gingrich has told WSB radio in Atlanta on Wednesday that he thinks it's "disgusting" that the news media has started what Gingrich described as a "witch hunt" against Cain. It was revealed this week that Cain's former employer, the National Restaurant Association, settled in the 1990s with two women who claimed that Cain had sexually harassed them.

A third woman has told The Associated Press that she considered filing a sexual harassment complaint but never did.

Gingrich says Cain is trying to help a country that's in trouble and has gotten more coverage for what Gingrich termed gossip than for Cain's tax policies.

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

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Los Angeles opera company is filling a need for experimentation

The new production by Los Angeles company The Industry, 'Crescent City,' is a promising glimpse into what musical innovation can accomplish.

In spite of the seemingly hopeless terrain in which classical musicians attempt to carve a life, there is a faint but steady glimmer of hope trying to gain momentum in southern California.

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It takes the form of an opera company, though an unorthodox one at that, called The Industry. It launched last March, and, about a week ago, had its Visual Artist Launch at Los Angeles' iconic Barnsdall Art Park.

The company?s first production, composer Anne LeBaron?s "Crescent City," and the company itself seem inextricably linked: the essence of Ms. LeBaron?s term ?"hyperopera" is an instance of the nature of The Industry?s infrastructure and vice versa, says director Yuval Sharon, who worked as assistant director on L.A. Opera's mammoth "Ring Cycle" last season.

?At the heart of The Industry is a belief in opera as the first and ultimate interdisciplinary art form," Mr. Sharon said. "Each of our productions will aim to investigate the process of creating productions with a maximum degree of openness to new artistic disciplines.?

Hyperopera is a postmodern resuscitation of Wagner?s grandiloquent Teutonic notion that he called Gesamtkunstwerk. What Wagner meant by Gesamtkunstwerk, and what he wanted to achieve in producing his epic mega-operas (think heavy vibrato, German ladies, and Viking gear), was a synthesis of all art forms -- that is, the theatrical, the visual, and the musical. He believed the sum of these parts would exceed the potential of any solo effort. Hyperopera works largely under the same pretenses but, as you can imagine, the gamut of available arts to synthesize and ways to synthesize them is exponentially bigger and more complex than in Wagner?s day.

?Also, if truth be told, Wagner?s notion was not entirely democratic, and this is where LeBaron and The Industry come in.

?In hyperopera, we are still after the total experience, but we go about it in a way that strives to maintain the autonomy of the individual artist," Sharon, who seems to have a deep understanding of the meaning of opera and his goals for the Industry, says. "The process is less hierarchical and more collaborative than the traditional sense of Gesamtkunstwerk, but we are after a similar unification of the disparate arts at play.?

Wagner would have preferred if everything were synthesized in service to the music, but in hyperopera, the expectation is that everybody involved -- musicians, fine artists, choreographers, actors, etc. -- has their eye on everybody else, and together, something truly formidable is produced.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

LinkedIn posts 3Q loss; revenue growth accelerates

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Online professional networking service LinkedIn got demoted by many investors after suffering its first quarterly loss in its brief career as a publicly traded company.

The third-quarter setback, announced late Thursday, didn't come as a surprise. LinkedIn's stock nevertheless dropped by more than 9 percent. That wiped out some of the paper gains rung up since the company stimulated more interest in Internet companies with a rousing initial public offering of stock nearly six months ago.

Even before the IPO, LinkedIn Corp. made it clear that short-term losses were possible as it ramped up investments in buying more computers and hiring more employees in trying to build a business that changes the way people find jobs and advance their careers.

The third quarter showed LinkedIn isn't backing off that promise. If anything, the company is preparing to up the ante. Toward that end, LinkedIn filed plans to sell an additional $100 million of its stock to fund its ambitions. LinkedIn ended September with nearly $388 million in cash.

The proposed stock sale also will give some LinkedIn employees a chance to cash in some of their holdings.

The company's investments so far appear to be paying off. Its revenue growth is still accelerating while its service is adds about 5 million new members every month.

But it evidently will take more than that to support a stock that has been flying high since LinkedIn's stock market debut. The company's shares shed $8.19 to $79.31 in Thursday's extended trading.

After LinkedIn shares were priced at $45 in the initial public offering, they quickly doubled. Investors' rabid response sparked a debate about whether another investment bubble is forming around disruptive Internet companies, similar to the late 1990s dot-com boom that set the stage for a costly meltdown.

The fervor has subsided amid mounting worries about a fragile economy, although things could be about to heat up again. Online coupon distributor Groupon Inc. is expected to make its stock market debut Friday after pricing its IPO late Thursday. Zynga Inc., the maker of popular Web games such as CityVille, may go public later this month.

LinkedIn's third-quarter results provided a reminder of the growing pains that usually accompany hard-charging businesses.

The company lost $1.6 million, or 2 cents per share, in the July-September as it invested more money to expand. That contrasted with earnings of $4 million, or 2 cents per share, at the same time last year.

The latest quarter marked the first time that LinkedIn has recorded a loss since the final three months of 2009, according to documents filed in preparation for its IPO.

If not for items unrelated to its ongoing business, LinkedIn said it would have earned 6 cents per share. On that basis, analysts polled by FactSet had expected LinkedIn to break even.

Revenue more than doubled from last year to $139 million ? about $11 million higher than analysts forecast. The company expects to generate as much as $158 million in revenue in the current quarter ending in December, up from nearly $82 million at the same time last year.

Besides impressive revenue growth, LinkedIn added 15.4 million more accounts in the quarter to end September with 131.2 million members. That may have been a slight letdown for investors, though, because LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner had said in early August that the company was adding an average of two members per second. That pace would have translated into LinkedIn having about 132 million members at the end of the quarter.

Since September, LinkedIn's membership has climbed to 135 million, Weiner said during a Thursday conference call. He said the LinkedIn is still adding an average of two members per second.

The company, which is based in Mountain View, remains relatively small compared with Facebook, a website where about 800 million people worldwide go to have fun. Facebook is expected to file its IPO plans next year.

LinkedIn doesn't charge people to post their resumes, but attracting more members is important because a bigger audience makes the service more compelling to employment recruiters and advertisers.

The company gets more than two-thirds of its revenue from fees it charges companies, recruiting services and other people who want broader access to the profiles and other data on the company's website. The rest comes from advertising.

LinkedIn added 282 employees during the quarter to end September with nearly 1,800.

Associated Press

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You Can Literally Scare a Dragonfly to Death [Wtf]

I used to be scared of dragonflies—they were big and buzzy and always zippin' their damn wings. Plus, the dragon part of their name was intimidating! Turns out though, dragonflies are really just a bunch of wussies. They can be scared to death. More »


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Art (and Trickery) of Persuasion: Slate?s Negotiation Academy

In this week?s installment of Slate?s Negotiation Academy, we teach you some of the basics of persuasion in negotiations. Think you should always go in guns blazing? Think you only win if the other guy loses? The truth is much more subtle, and won't leave you feeling like a bully. (Also: Learn why you might want to wear a lab coat to the negotiation. And brush your hair. And bring home-baked brownies.)

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

AlphaOutlook Offers Social Media Monitoring In China

alpha outlookBattlefield company AlphaOutlook has just launched their native social media monitoring service for the Chinese market. Founded by CEO Chad Pankewitz, the company currently has a major client, Burson-Marsteller in China. "China?s social media and Internet landscape has many unique characteristics that render the existing tools and platforms inoperable in China," says Pankewitz. "There are 485 million people online and 900 million mobile users in China. We believe it is important to give businesses, inside and outside of China, the tools they need monitor, track, and gain meaningful insights into the millions of online conversations taking place in real-time. Understanding these conversations and social media trends is critical for making the right business decisions in China."

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'Man Of Steel' Star Henry Cavill Grateful For 'Support'

'I think I won a lot of people over,' he tells MTV News after leaked set photos.
By Kara Warner


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For the "Superman" fans out there, it's safe to say that by now, you've probably seen and overanalyzed "Man of Steel" star Henry Cavill looking all ripped and rugged in the leaked photos from the film's set.

For the most part — nitpicky casting and director complaints notwithstanding — the collective judgment that has come down via various fan sites was: "Cavill looks awesome." And no one was more relieved to hear and see those reactions than the hard-working actor in question.

When MTV News caught up with Cavill recently as he promoted his upcoming sword-and-sandals flick "Immortals," we asked for his thoughts about the constant attention paid to him and the production, as well as his reaction to the leaked photos.

"I think the best part has been recently when people have sort of seen all the work that has gone into it," Cavill said, speaking to his physical transformation. "I think I won a lot of people over, and I felt the support really come behind me, which is a really good feeling, because when you're doing this all for [the fans], telling a story for them ... you want to do it justice," he said, adding that on the particular day when the shirtless photos were snapped, he was fighting very chilly temperatures and 80 mph winds from a helicopter hovering above him.

"It's wonderful to have all the people online going, 'This is great, this is amazing, I can't wait, thank goodness it's him.' It's wonderful, so thank you to everyone out there," he said, speaking to camera. "I do appreciate it."

What do you think of Cavill's commitment to becoming the Man of Steel? Tell us in the comments!

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