A man allegedly molested three decades ago by a Jesuit priest was arrested Friday on charges that he tracked down the retired cleric in his retirement home and severely beat him. (Oct. 29)
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KIM GAMEL and AHMED AL-HAJ The Associated Press SAN’A, Yemen – The discovery of two explosive-laden packages sent from Yemen and aimed at U.S. and Western interests represents a new escalation in the terror threat emanating from this violence-wracked, poverty-stricken Mideast country. President Barack Obama stopped short of linking the failed plot to al-Qaida in Yemen, but U.S. officials said privately they were increasingly confident that was the source. Obama’s counterterrorism adviser John Brennan called the Yemeni wing the most active al-Qaida franchise. Militants from the terror network have been building up their presence for several years in this nation of 23 million people, finding…
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Argentines pay tribute to former president Nestor Kirchner, who died Oct. 27 of a heart attack at the age of 60. (Submitted by Ashley Carrington) Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was buried Friday in the southern city where he was born, ending two days of mourning that saw tens of thousands of Argentines fill the streets to pay their respects to one of the nation’s dominant political…
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Authorities on three continents thwarted multiple terrorist attacks aimed at the United States from Yemen on Friday, seizing two explosive packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues and packed aboard cargo jets. (Oct. 29)
Continue reading …Microsoft loosens up, enables Windows Phone 7 apps to run beneath screen lock
October 30, 2010 No Comment
We felt that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 was a product that would be perpetually evaluated, tweaked and overhauled as time went on, and sure enough, we’re already seeing those winds of change blow yonder. Reportedly, Microsoft has now removed the restriction that prevented developers from writing applications that would continue to operate behind a locked screen (without a user’s explicit permission, anyway), enabling a whole host of apps to breathe in a manner in which they simply should. Audio apps, for example, will now be able to run in the background without yet another layer of pointless Vista-esque permissions, and Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel said in an interview at its Professional Developer Conference that this move “is an example of us continuing to listen to customers.” Frankly, it’s just more fair — Microsoft’s own ingrained applications could already do this sans user permission (email, Zune playback, downloads, etc.), so it makes sense to give loyal developers that same opportunity. Of course, devs will have to prove that background apps won’t burn up an absurd amount of battery life, but that’s definitely not an unexpected qualification. Microsoft loosens up, enables Windows Phone 7 apps to run beneath screen lock originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will sign agreements to help build Vietnam's first nuclear power plant and a hydroelectric power station during a visit to the Soviet-era ally starting on Saturday, Kremlin sources said. Bolstering economic cooperation has been Russia's main focus in recent years in relations with Vietnam, site of a Cold War…
Continue reading …Conservative pundit and frequent flamethrower Andrew Breitbart has been added to the Election Night line-up on ABC News : ABC announced their election night coverage early on and Big Journalism Editor Dana Loesch will join the network in studio for 6 p.m. – 2 a.m. election night; Bigs founder and head of the Breitbart empire Andrew Breitbart will be bringing analysis live from Arizona. Why would they add Breitbart and Loesch to their line-up? They’re hoping that perhaps they can get some conservative viewers away from Fox News.
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Former NBA MVP Allen Iverson is headed overseas to play basketball. The 11-time All-Star signed a $4 million, two-year contract with Turkish club Besiktas during a news conference Friday at the upscale St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. (Oct. 29)
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Well, wouldn’t you know it? Seems that tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign may actually be working. Way back in April of this year, Sprint decided it would begin offering its own iPad case , despite the fact that even today the iPad isn’t sold in Sprint stores. The reason? It’s the perfect opportunity to push the Overdrive , a 4G mobile hotspot that’s able to take the iPad (and any other WiFi-enabled device) to 4G speeds where available. In a recent interview with GigaOM , the carrier’s CEO (Dan Hesse) confirmed that most iPads being sold are of the WiFi variety, and due to that, “the company has seen an uptick in demand for its Overdrive (3G/4G) MiFi wireless-hotspot device, as people use it to connect their iPads to the Internet when on the go.” He failed to exaggerate on actual numbers, but it’s obvious he’s in favor of Apple’s darling tablet selling like hotcakes — after all, how else are you going to get an iDevice into 4G territory ? Sprint CEO thanks iPad for uptick in Overdrive demand originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Amid revelations that doubts have surfaced about the cement Halliburton used to seal the well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, residents and officials say, if it’s true, Halliburton is only partially to blame. (Oct. 29)
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