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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Facebook iPad App Still Snagged in Negotiations — It was almost ready to make its long-awaited debut. — In June, I reported that the Facebook iPad application had been in the works for almost a year and was essentially complete. According to people briefed on Facebook's plans at the time …
Discussion: Digits, The Register, Hip me to the Haps, Tech Cocktail, IntoMobile, AllThingsD and Friending Facebook Blog
Tom Loftus / Digits: Tech Today: All Eyes on Amazon
Kelly Fiveash / The Register: 'Delayed' Facebook iPad app claims lead coder casualty
Jeff Verkoeyen / Hip me to the Haps: Back to the Bay Area — The last few weeks have been a whirlwind.
Frank Gruber / Tech Cocktail: Evri Launches Topic Focused Personalized News iPad App
Charles West / IntoMobile: Facebook iPad app dev jumps to Google
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: Blabby Former Facebook Engineer Says He Joined Google Over Facebook iPad App Frustration
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog: Facebook's iPad app was done in May, developer defects to Google
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Launch iPad App at Apple's iPhone 5 Event [EXCLUSIVE] — Facebook will launch its long-awaited iPad app at Apple's iPhone 5 launch event on Oct. 4, Mashable has learned. In addition to the iPad app, Facebook is also expected to release a revamped version of its iPhone app …
Discussion: Softpedia News, iPhone, O'Grady's PowerPage, Appolicious Advisor, TiPb, Kyle Lacy, MacPost, The Next Web, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, The inneractive Blog, SocialTimes.com, Friending Facebook Blog, Redmond Pie, Mobile Entertainment, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, PhoneArena, TUAW, @scobleizer, @arnoldkim, GottaBeMobile and 9to5Mac
J.R. Bookwalter / iPhone: Rumor: Facebook Will Introduce iPad App At Apple's Next Event
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Rumor: Facebook to launch iPad-native app at Apple's October 4th media event
Andrew Wray / TiPb: Official Facebook for iPad app coming at iPhone 5 event?
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: Facebook for iPad has been 'feature complete' since May, engineer tells us why he quit for Google
Erica Ogg / GigaOM: Facebook iPad app: release delayed or imminent?
Chris Smith / AppleInsider: Facebook for iPad app may launch at Apple's Oct. iPhone 5 event - report
John Callaham / Neowin.net: Rumor: Facebook iPad app to launch next week
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: Facebook may launch iPad and HTML5 iPhone apps at Apple's October 4th event
Hilzfuld / The inneractive Blog: Facebook for iPad Coming Next Week? It Better Be Good After a Year and A Half of Waiting
Todd Ogasawara / SocialTimes.com: Long Anticipated Facebook for iPad App May be Announced Soon... Or Not?
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog: Facebook to launch iPad app at iPhone 5 event next week (rumor)
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice: Leaked Screenshots Suggest iOS 5 Will Bring Facebook Integration In The End
Megan Lavey-Heaton / TUAW: Mashable: Facebook to unveil iPad app at iPhone 5 event
Robert Scoble / @scobleizer: Mashable confirms what I've been saying for five days now: Apple and Facebook have a deal: http://t.co/mQ6AQ7ed New iPad app coming.
Arnold Kim / @arnoldkim: so Scoble said the same about the iPad app at Apple event on October 4th last week (per @viticci) http://t.co/Bf3EYwl8
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's iPad App Was Feature Complete In May, But They Won't Release It, So The Developer Quit
Facebook's iPad App Was Feature Complete In May, But They Won't Release It, So The Developer Quit
Discussion: DailyTech, Techland, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Inside Mobile Apps, Inside Facebook, T3 News, App Advice, mocoNews and Electronista
Erica Ho / Techland: Whatever Happened to the Facebook iPad App?
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Facebook iPad app could star at iPhone 5 launch
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps: Departure of Facebook's iPad Developer Highlights the Company's Slow-Moving Mobile Strategy
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook: Departure of Facebook iPad Developer Highlights the Company's Slow-Moving Mobile Strategy
Chris Smith / T3 News: iPad app news: Facebook delay caused by Apple rift
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
The Guy Who Created Facebook's iPad App Just Quit Out Of Frustration And Took A Job At Google
The Guy Who Created Facebook's iPad App Just Quit Out Of Frustration And Took A Job At Google
Discussion: Softpedia News, MacPost, T3 News, PadGadget, VentureBeat and iLounge
Joe Minihane / T3 News: Facebook iPad app developer quits over continued delays
Jesse David Hollington / iLounge: iPad App Developer Leaves Facebook in Frustration
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
On Wednesday, Amazon Will Unveil The "Kindle Fire" — Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn't give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed it was to unveil the new Kindle tablet.
Discussion: ZDNet, Google Watch, Epeus' epigone, Computerworld, the Econsultancy blog, Android News, Rumours …, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, TiPb, T3 News, THE WORLD IS NOT READY, FT Tech Hub, eWeek, DailyTech, PhoneDog.com, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, @mc_hankins, @anildash, MediaPost, GottaBeMobile, Business Insider, I4U News, @danprimack and PC Magazine
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: No one will care that Amazon's Kindle tablet is a RIM PlayBook
Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone: 'with Amazon' replacing 'with Google' on Android?
Patricio Robles / the Econsultancy blog: Amazon readies the Kindle Fire: report
Robert Nazarian / Android News, Rumours, and Updates: Amazon will announce Kindle Fire tomorrow
Stephanie Buck / Mashable!: Amazon's Competition: The 10 Most Influential Tablets on the Market
JP Mangalindan / Fortune: Today in Tech: The Amazon Kindle Fire
Andrew Wray / TiPb: Amazon Kindle Fire — Android software meets PlayBook hardware meets iPad content?
Luke Johnson / T3 News: Amazon tablet to land as the Amazon Kindle Fire tomorrow
Jaison De Montalegre / THE WORLD IS NOT READY: Why I'll Be Buying an Amazon Kindle Fire
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: Amazon Tablet Threatens Apple iPad, Nook, RIM PlayBook
Tiffany Kaiser / DailyTech: Amazon to Unveil "Kindle Fire" Tablet This Week
David Carnoy / CNET News: What to expect from Wednesday's Amazon event
Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans: More Details on Amazon's 7-inch "Kindle Fire" Revealed Ahead of Press Event
Matthew Hankins / @mc_hankins: @jackschofield @parislemon @techcrunch Kindle + Fire = Kindling?
Anil Dash / @anildash: Today's inadvertent Twitter name-squatting lottery winner is Donna Scanlon, with @kindlefire. Congrats, Donna!
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost: Amazon Lands Fox Broadcasting
Adam Mills / GottaBeMobile: Amazon Announcing "Kindle Fire" Tablet on Wednesday, Launches in November?
Dylan Love / Business Insider: Amazon's Tablet Will Be Called The "Kindle Fire" And Look A Lot Like The PlayBook
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Kindle Fire is Amazon Tablet
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: Amazon Tablet So Hot It's On 'Fire'?
Ryan Block / gdgt:
The Amazon tablet will look like a PlayBook — because it basically is. — As you might have heard from my man MG over at TechCrunch, Amazon's definitely got a Kindle tablet in the works, and supposedly looks a lot like RIM's failing (failed?) PlayBook: techcrunch.com/2011/ 09 …
Discussion: Business Insider, SlashGear, ITworld.com, thinq_, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, AndroidOS.in, Fudzilla, MobileWhack.com, Mashable!, AppleInsider, O'Reilly Radar, Gizmodo and CNET News
Jay Yarow / Business Insider: Amazon's Tablet Is A "Pretty Poor" "Stopgap" That The Kindle Team Didn't Even Work On
Gareth Halfacree / thinq_: Amazon 'Kindle Fire' tablet expected this week
Paul Lamkin / Pocket-lint: Amazon Kindle Fire price and publishers revealed?
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Amazon's Small Gamble
Gaurav Shukla / AndroidOS.in: Is Amazon tablet really a stopgap arrangement?
Peter Scott / Fudzilla: Amazon reportedly based its tablet on RIM's PlayBook
Jeff Baker / MobileWhack.com: Amazon Tablet to Be Dubbed Kindle Fire?
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable!: Amazon's Tablet: The iPad's Biggest Threat
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: New Amazon Kindle Fire tablet said to be slower version of RIM's PlayBook
Mark Sigal / O'Reilly Radar: Amazon's "Prime" challenger to the iPad
Kwame Opam / Gizmodo: Rumor: Amazon's New Tablet Will Be the Kindle Fire
David Carnoy / CNET News: New Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire?
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Amazon Kindle, tablet lineup will test the water for bigger form factors in 2012
Amazon Kindle, tablet lineup will test the water for bigger form factors in 2012
Discussion: Kindle Review, Thanks:beijingdou
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Most — But Not All — Big Magazine Publishers Sign On for Amazon's Tablet
Most — But Not All — Big Magazine Publishers Sign On for Amazon's Tablet
Discussion: The Tech Trade, Engadget, Medacity, Amazon.com, AppleInsider and Computerworld, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Gorman / Engadget: Big publishers to provide fuel for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet?
Kim LaCapria / Medacity: Hearst and Conde in With New Kindle Tablet, Time Isn't- Yet
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Amazon signs magazine publishers, Fox ahead of tablet launch
Richi Jennings / Computerworld: Amazon Kindle tablet to take on iPad 3 at "$171"
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Delicious Relaunches Tonight: Exclusive Q&A with CEO Chad Hurley — Tonight is the relaunch of Delicious, the little bookmarking site that helped inspire a wave of social companies in the eight years since it was founded. New owners Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (aka the creators of YouTube) …
Discussion: The Next Web, @kevglobal, @chad_hurley and @tonysphere
Matt Brian / The Next Web: Delicious relaunches with new link playlists, an improved design and simpler navigation
Mr Anderson / @kevglobal: Delicious finally, finally, finally gets an update. Very happy to see new life on such a valued service after Yahoo's neglect.
Chad Hurley / @chad_hurley: Live! www.delicious.com
A New Flavor...Still Delicious — Hey there, we have some great news - the new Delicious site is now live! Today's a big day for us, and there's lots to share. We'll try to keep it brief so you can start using the new service and giving us feedback! — Back to Beta — "What if they say I'm no good?
Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch, Laughing Squid, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, Quick Online Tips and Pocket-lint
Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: Delicious hopes new taste will prove a hit
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid: Delicious Relaunches With New Stacks Feature
John Callaham / Neowin.net: New Delicious web site launches
Paul Lamkin / Pocket-lint: Delicious relaunched for stacks of fun
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Denied Trademark for Multi-Touch — In a decision handed down by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Apple has been denied an application for a trademark on Multi-Touch. Apple originally applied for the trademark on January 9, 2007, the day the iPhone was introduced.
Discussion: Inquirer, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, iPhone, TechEye, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Fudzilla, Android Phone Fans, CNET News, DailyTech, MacNN, TUAW and Gizmodo
Lawrence Latif / Inquirer: Apple is denied a trademark on 'multi-touch'
J.R. Bookwalter / iPhone: Apple Denied Trademark Appeal On Term "Multi-Touch"
Nick Farrell / TechEye: Apple denied trademark on multi-touch
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile: Apple Denied Patent on Multi-Touch
Chris Davies / SlashGear: Apple multi-touch trademark application rejected
Nedim Hadzic / Fudzilla: Apple denied multi-touch trademark
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News: Apple denied trademark for 'Multi-Touch' in the U.S.
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Quick Note: Apple's Trademark Application for "Multi-touch" Rejected, Again
Michael Grothaus / TUAW: Apple can't get "multi-touch" trademark
Casey Chan / Gizmodo: Apple Has Been Denied the Multitouch Trademark
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox Creator Says the Web is Dead Meat; Android Creator Disagrees — Joe Hewitt, one of the most important software developers in recent history, published a provocative and sad post on his personal blog today, predicting that unless the open and free Web gets someone to own …
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook Defends Getting Data From Logged-Out Users — Facebook on Monday defended its practice of gathering data from "Like" buttons even after users have logged out, saying that the collection is part of a system to prevent improper logins and that the information is quickly deleted.
Discussion: TheAustralian, Inquirer, The Next Web, New Media Age, CNET News, PSFK and VatorNews
Chris Griffith / TheAustralian: Facebook vows privacy fix 'in 24 hours'
Dave Neal / Inquirer: Facebook promises to fix tracking cookie issue
Matt Brian / The Next Web: Facebook confirms 'Like' data collection, will fix three cookie-related issues within 24 hours
Charlotte McEleny / New Media Age: Facebook collects data about users on third-party sites even when logged out
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News: Facebook: We do track logged-out users, but trust us
Emma Hutchings / PSFK: Facebook Can Track Users Online Even After They've Logged Out
Nathan Pensky / VatorNews: Can Facebook track you even when logged out?
Nik Cubrilovic:
Facebook Fixes Logout Issue, Explains Cookies
Facebook Fixes Logout Issue, Explains Cookies
Discussion: BetaNews
Nik Cubrilovic / BetaNews: This is how Facebook tracks you
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft employees allegedly left "in droves" during Ballmer's company meeting speech — Microsoft employees allegedly left "in droves" during Steve Ballmer's recent speech at the recent annual Microsoft Company Meeting. — The claims were made in comments at mini-Microsoft …
Discussion: Business Insider, Fortune, Electronista, Inquirer, The Microsoft Blog, TechEye, Gizmodo and MacDailyNews
Dylan Love / Business Insider: Steve Ballmer Fails To Inspire The Microsofties At The Company's Big Internal Staff Meeting
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: 'Steve Ballmer has done to Microsoft what George W. Bush did to the United States'
Lawrence Latif / Inquirer: Microsoft employees walk out during Ballmer speech
Tamlin Magee / TechEye: Microsoft's Ballmer faces mutiny
Kelly Hodgkins / Gizmodo: Has Steve Ballmer Lost The Support Of Microsoft Employees?
Business Insider:
Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu — Remember how a group of bidders was circling around Hulu a couple weeks ago? Whatever happened with that? — Two sources tell us that satellite TV provider Dish was the highest bidder, coming in around $1.9 billion. It beat out both Amazon and Yahoo.
Discussion: VentureBeat, FierceIPTV and Electronista
Star Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:
Fire Has Broken Out At Foxconn Plant again (Video) — Breaking news. Yes, yet again, fire has broken out at one of the Foxconn factories in China this morning! There are reports coming in of a substantial fire and possible explosion at a Foxconn plant in Yantai, a city in northeastern Shandong province of China.
Discussion: BGR, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, thinq_ and Geek.com
Todd Haselton / BGR: Fire extinguished at Foxconn factory; production unaffected [video]
Casey Chan / Gizmodo: Another Foxconn Factory Suffered a Huge Fire
James Nixon / thinq_: iPhone 5 maker Foxconn hit by fire in China
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: Color-spraying explosion causes major fire at Foxconn factory
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Plus Traffic Went Up 1269% Last Week — New data from Experian Hitwise show a dramatic increase in traffic over the week since the service opened to everyone. Visits to Google Plus increased by 1269% last week. The site received 15 million U.S. visits, up from 1.1 million the week before.
Discussion: ZDNet, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Register, Heather Dougherty, Paul Allen, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, BetaNews, The Equity Kicker, NevilleHobson.com, ITworld.com, memeburn, Digital Trends, The Wall Blog, 9to5Google, Business Insider, @mathewi, Search Engine Watch and TechCrunch
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Google+ shows explosive growth
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: Google+ Usage Skyrockets, Hits 50 Million Users?
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: Whopping Google+ traffic growth: 1269 percent in a week, hits 50M members
Kelly Fiveash / The Register: Google+ chases MySpace for second place
Paul Allen / Google+: Google+ Reaches 50 Million User Mark in About 88 Days
Kelly Hodgkins / Gizmodo: Does 50 Million Users And a 1269% Traffic Increase Mean Google + Is Now Relevant?
Frank Reed / Marketing Pilgrim: Google+ Benefits From Opening Doors to All
Chris Nerney / ITworld.com: Google+ gates open, many barbarians storm in!
Jeff Hughes / Digital Trends: Google+ gets a traffic surge of 1269 percent
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: according to Hitwise, traffic to Google+ has risen to 15 million visits from about 1 million a week ago: http://t.co/aSmtlvdi
Miranda Miller / Search Engine Watch: Google+ May Have 43 Million Users
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Google+ Now Lets You "Share" Your Circles With Other Users
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Is New York's Tech Boom Sustainable? — The battle royale brewing between New York and Silicon Valley to be the nation's dominant epicenter for tech innovation and hot start-ups wages on. — On Monday night in downtown Manhattan, Paul Graham stood before a jam-packed auditorium of 800 entrepreneurs …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Betabeat
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: YC NYC: Paul Graham Shares The Antidote To Startup Poison
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID … Each Windows user wants to have the ability to set up and use a PC in a way that is unique to them. Doing so, however, can be challenging in today's multiple user and multiple PC environment. We know that shared PC usage is common …
Discussion: Inquirer, Softpedia News, TechPinions, Gizmag Emerging …, LiveSide.net, GeekWire, All about Microsoft Blog and WinBeta
Dave Neal / Inquirer: Windows 8 offers Live ID user logins
Steve Wildstrom / TechPinions: Many Windows, One Login — A post at the official Building …
Darren Quick / Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine: Windows 8 lets users sync personalized settings and apps across multiple PCs
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net: Live ID in the age of Windows 8
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: How Microsoft's Windows 8 will sync users' settings and apps
Agam Shah / Macworld:
Intel: Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables — Thunderbolt ports on Apple's current Macintosh computers will be compatible with upcoming fiber optic cables, which should be ready by next year.
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac: Intel: Existing Thunderbolt Macs will support optical cables
Nick Farrell / Fudzilla: Intel confirms that Macs will get fibre
Chris Rawson / TUAW: Intel says Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Web 2.0 Map Adds Cities of Data (But One of Facebook's Skyscrapers Just Got Taller!) — The term "Web 2.0" isn't often used these days, but it signifies the era of the Web in which social, read/write technologies came to the fore. Google was the golden child in Web 2.0 …
Discussion: Google Maps Mania
Keir Clarke / Google Maps Mania: The Google Map of the Internet
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Square COO: There's no value in NFC — The COO of mobile payment startup Square, Keith Rabois, thinks that the mobile payment technology Near Field Communications (NFC) has no value proposition for consumers and merchants, he said at GigaOM's Mobilize conference on Monday.
Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, PhoneArena, paidContent, Electronista, SlashGear and DeWitt Clinton
Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog: 2012 will be a pivotal transition period for mobile payments (panel)
Shane McGlaun / SlashGear: Square COO says NFC has no value
DeWitt Clinton / Google+: Heh. Gotta hand it to +Keith Rabois. He may be partisan as hell …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Taps Kleiner-Backed Inrix To Provide Real Time Traffic Data For Maps And Navigation Apps — Google recently removed its realtime traffic data from its Maps product, informing users that they are "currently working to come up with a better, more accurate solution."
Discussion: Search Engine Land and GeekWire
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google Maps To Bring Back Real Time Traffic Via Inrix?
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Mindbloom Life game teaches you how to live better — Most games can be time sinks, stealing time away from the things that you're supposed to be doing. But Mindbloom is the kind of game you can feel good about playing. It is a simple game aimed at improving your quality of life by rewarding …
Discussion: GeekWire
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
MySQL.com Sold for $3k, Serves Malware — A security firm revealed today that mysql.com, the central repository for widely-used Web database software, was hacked and booby-trapped to serve visitors with malicious software. The disclosure caught my eye because just a few days ago I saw evidence …
Discussion: Inquirer, Help Net Security, CSOONLINE.com, Armorize Malware Blog, The Register, TrendLabs, Ars Technica, Techi.com, thinq_, CNET News, TG Daily, Naked Security, eWeek and Network World
Lucian Constantin / Inquirer: Mysql.com infects visitors with malware
Robert McMillan / CSOONLINE.com: A Russian hacker said he would sell root access to the domain for $3,000
Maxim Goncharov / TrendLabs: Underground Radar: Possible Compromise of MySQL.com and its Subdomains
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: Hackers turn MySQL.com into malware launchpad
Gareth Halfacree / thinq_: MySQL.com bought for $3,000 by malware pusher
Elinor Mills / CNET News: Hacked MySQL.com used to serve Windows malware
Emma Woollacott / TG Daily: Hacked MySQL dishes out malware to visitors
Graham Cluley / Naked Security: MySQL.com hacked for second time in a year
Fahmida Y. Rashid / eWeek: Attackers Subvert MySQL.com With BlackHole Exploit Kit to Serve Malware
Alan Shimel / Network World: MySQL.Com Website Hacked
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Is A Pageview Machine, Now Bigger Than Wikipedia — If you are wondering why Tumblr just raised $85 million, all you have to do is look at its pageviews. The super-easy blogging platform saw its pageviews jump from about 2 billion a month to 13 billion since the beginning of the year.
Discussion: Guardian, Business Insider, Softpedia News and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Halliday / Guardian: Boot up: Tumblr valued at $800m, Zynga posts 95% decline in year-on-year profits, and more
Tom Johansmeyer / Business Insider: Five reasons why Tumblr picked up ANOTHER $85 million
Ryan Tate / Gawker: The Porn and Spam Behind Tumblr's Meteoric Rise
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Sprint confirms it will stick with unlimited data plans — Sprint's data-hungry customers can breathe a sigh of relief. The carrier's commitment to unlimited data plans remains unwaivering—at least for now. — So said Sprint Chief Technology Officer Stephen Bye when addressing attendees …
Discussion: CNET News, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear and Engadget
DSLreports: Sprint Confirms They're Sticking With Unlimited - Still Believe It Differentiates Them From AT&T, Verizon
Kwame Opam / Gizmodo: Sprint Is Sticking With True Unlimited Data
Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans: Sprint, Once Again, Reiterates Commitment to Unlimited Data (But for How Long?)
Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com: SPRINT CONFIRMS PLANS TO KEEP UNLIMITED DATA
Shane McGlaun / SlashGear: Sprint: OMG! We're keeping unlimited data! Don't leave!


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Hi everyone! I'd like to thank everyone here at Libraries and Transliteracy for inviting me to participate in a valuable discussion. Here's a start…
I've been thinking a lot about Matt Richtel's recent New York Times article, "Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction." This article has generated a lot of buzz and some fruitful conversations. However, in looking at some of the responses to Richtel's piece, I have come to recognize an interesting form of binarism pervading certain attitudes towards the future of education in the digital age. Whether past vs. future, digital vs. analog, book vs. ebook, or focus vs. distraction, the binary standpoint manifests itself in many ways, but the message is usually the same: we are in the midst of a paradigm shift between incommensurable literacies, outmoded pedagogical methods, or technological biases. For my first post here at L&T, I'd like to say something about the role of transliteracy in a world of supposed paradigm shifts.
For some, the incommensurablity of "traditional education" and the digital is symptomatic of the profound effects (real or perceived) of the internet on cognitive development. One group laments the intellectual life that will be lost as concentration is completely supplanted by instant gratification. Call this the traditionalist account. Counter to the traditionalists, another current of thought points to digital ascendancy as the final nail in the coffin of an outmoded Enlightenment or Industrial Age hegemony over education. This approach sees an immanent paradigm shift in which the "old" ways of teaching and learning are phased out to meet the demands of a new generation. Call it the revolutionist approach. In both cases, the "traditional" metrics for understanding and evaluating the educated mind are soon to be completely replaced.
Examples of the traditionalist approach are plentiful: Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, Mark Bauerlein's The Dumbest Generation, or Maggie Jackson's Distracted are just a few of the more recent jeremiads. To their credits, each author ultimately advocates a balance between the digital and analog, albeit with some hesitation and an unfortunate insistence on keeping competing literacies separated. For the traditionalist, the picture of civilization on the brink of an irreversible collapse into a digitally-induced attention-deficit disorder is pervasive.
As to the revolutionist approach, some theorists embrace the demise of traditional models of the intellect. These theorists see the digital age as the chance for a revolution in education. A prime example is the HASTAC project at Duke where the emphasis on incommensurability is clear, for example, in Cathy Davidson's response to Richtel's article:
We're only fifteen years into the Information Age. It took 150 years to build the educational institutions for the Industrial Age. It is a challenge to rethink education from the ground up, but we need to…[f]or the sake of our children, it is time to stop complaining and looking backwards.
Indeed, a quick read through the archives at HASTAC will reveal an organizational commitment to an educational paradigm shift away from the hegemonic Industrial Age model to an interconnected Digital Age model. It is argued that the advent of social media and pervasive contact with information sources is evidence that the old ways are holding us back. Just as the Industrial Revolution demolished the quadrivium as pedagogy, the Digital Revolution will demolish the remnants of 19th Century progressive education, setting the stage for an interconnected, networked pedagogy that plays off of the hyper-focus the traditionalists so lament. So long Sustained Silent Reading and essay assignments, hello collaborative media projects and real-time feedback.
Granted, I am describing each position in somewhat reductionist terms. There is a lot of nuance and even some points of agreement. But, generally speaking, these are two common trends in discussing the digital era, and on both accounts I call shenanigans. I would like to propose transliteracy as a "Third Way" approach to educating the digital millennium..
Transliteracy as an alternative
Transliteracy, by definition, is no party to the either/or approach to the digital future. In fact, incommensurability is anathema to the transliteracy project because transliteracy is predicated on the ability to maneuver between competing "paradigms" of literacy. From books to tweets, transliteracy as pedagogical practice seeks to encourage a literacy that crosses through several domains; rather than treat digital literacy as the successor to the analog, transliteracy sees digital literacy as a complement.
This is important for several reasons…not least of which is the fact that transliteracy qua theory allows practitioners to embrace multiple pedagogical practices: there is no need to reinvent the wheel as the revolutionists assert, neither is there a need to abandon the current methods, as the traditionalists fear. With respect to literacy as a cornerstone of education, transliteracy neither seeks nor accepts paradigm shifts; it rises above by acknowledging that humans have the remarkable ability to learn and create in multiple literacies simultaneously. This is what attracts me to transliteracy, namely, its answer to the question "How should we address the future of literacy in a digital age?" The traditionalist answer is to view digital literacies as bastardized versions of "real" literacy. The revolutionist approach is to move past quaint and homely literacies of the past. The transliterate approach, analogous to Andy Woodworth's recent post about Big Tent librarianship, is a "big tent" approach embracing all literacies past, present, and future as integral parts of the human experience.
In coming months, I intend to explore the traditionalist and revolutionist attitudes towards literacy. I intend to discuss the philosophical underpinnings of transliteracy. I intend to examine the epistemic implications of transliteracy. But, above all, I hope to bring out some lively discussion.


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If you read this blog with any regularity you know about my struggle with my weight, and how recently (the end of April) I started my family on a mission to change our eating habits from a regular diet to eating real, organic foods.
In August we made some really yummy strawberry honey jam. A few days later we decided to be even more adventurous and made some Blackberry honey jam! It is so good. I did leave the seeds in the jam. Some people like to remove the seeds, but I am okay with leaving them in.
Now in order to can, you will need certain tools. The "must have" tools are:
- Jars (of course) – I prefer the jars without shoulders. I buy them at the local grocery store. For jelly I use the small jelly jars, and for tomatoes I use pint sized jars, or wide mouth pint size jars.
- Ball Utensil set. This set has a funnel, jar lifter, lid lifter, and bubble remover tool. I don't really use the bubble remover tool, but everything else is essential. This set can be easily purchased online for about $10.00, if you can't find it locally.
- A Large pot. I actually purchased a canning pot online because was able to purchase the pot with a rack and all the above pictured tools for about $40.00. I didn't want to mess with a pressure canner, and this does the job quite well.
- A ladle or big spoon to spoon your ingredients into the jars.
- An analog or digital scale. Many ingredients need to be measured. Mine is not an expensive one. I bought it from my lovely Pampered Chef consultant for about $30.00
- A potato masher. You will want your fruits to be mashed so your jam is "jammy" and not just cooked fruit. (I received a kitchen "power tool" for Christmas last year and used that to smash my fruit, but a good old potato masher is perfectly good as well)
Blackberry-Honey Jam recipe
- 3 pounds of organic blackberries
- 1 cup raw honey
- 1 apple, grated
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Rinse the blackberries. Place them in a large pot on the stove over medium high heat. (I used my caldero, but any nice large pot will do). Add the honey to the pot. Grate the apple (including the skin) down to the core and add to the berry honey mixture. Add the lemon juice. Stir it together and heat to boiling.
Once it is boiling, turn the heat down a bit so it is a light boil, and cook for 30 to 60 minutes. The time variation really depends on how thick you want your jam. The longer you boil, the thicker it will become. However, this recipe will not be as thick as store bought jams, or jams with pectin. Scrape down the sides of the pot as the fruit cooks. It will burst while cooking, so don't worry if that happens.
Mash the berries with a potato masher. Some foam will form on top of the berries as they are cooking. Some people skim it off and discard it. I just stirred it in, and didn't worry about it. The taste of the jam is the same either way.
Meanwhile fill the canning pot ¾ full with water, cover, and bring to a boil over high heat. Be sure to wash all jar pieces in hot soapy water first.
Once the water is boiling turn off the heat. Test the temperature with your thermometer and when it reaches 180 degrees F put the jars, bands and lids into the pot. Leave everything in the hot water until ready for use, removing one at a time as needed.
When the jam is done cooking do a taste test to make sure the thickness and flavor is to your liking.
Remove the first jar from the hot water using your jar lifter tool and shake out excess water. Don't touch inside of the jar in order to keep it sterilized. Insert clean canning funnel and ladle the jam into the jar leaving ¼ inch headspace at the top (this is where the headspace tool can come in handy – leaving more space at the top might not give as good of a seal). If there are any air bubbles you can slide a clean knife along the inside of the jar to remove them. Using a clean rag wipe excess off the outside of the jar and rim.
Using a magnetic lid lifter pull the first lid out of the hot water and set on top of the jar without touching the bottom of it. Then while only touching the outside of the band screw it onto the jar just firmly enough so it doesn't feel wobbly on the grooves. Repeat until all jars are filled.
Process the Jars: Bring large pot of water back to a boil. Using your jar lifter (or canning rack) carefully lower as many jars that will fit without overcrowding into the boiling water so they are covered by at least 1 – 2 inches of water. I use a rack inside the canner, so the jars do not directly touch the bottom of the pot (so hot water can flow beneath them). From the moment the water is boiling and the entire first batch of jars are submerged set the timer and process them for 10 minutes.
When 10 minutes is over use the jar lifter to carefully remove the jars from the water. Put them on the counter and don't move them right away. You will hear your jar lids "popping" which means they have been sealed properly. If jars aren't sealed within 12 hours then move them to the fridge and eat within 3 – 4 weeks.
Remove bands from sealed jars and with a clean, wet cloth wipe off any jam that has congealed on the outside rim of the jar. This prevents mold from forming on the band. The band can be reapplied, but don't screw them on too tightly.
Label jars and store in a cool, dry, dark place for up to 1 year.
There are so many great things about this jam. It is made from organic ingredients, it has no refined sugar or artificial sweeteners, it is only about 25 calories per tablespoon compared to 56 for commercial jam, and it is so good!
When I told people I was making homemade jam they were like, "You must have lots of free time!". To be honest this was so much easier than I expected and SO yummy!! I am already planning blueberry, raspberry, and any other combination I can think of! Homemade jam all winter long!! YUM!


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I was talking with my neighbor yesterday and he used the phrase "pitch and toss". I asked him if it was a Kipling reference and it turns out that "If" is one of his favorite poems. It's one of mine as well – I used to have it on my ceiling when I was growing up so that it was the first thing I saw in the morning, the last thing I saw and night, and the thing I saw if I let life overwhelm me and ended up laying in my bed feeling helpless and hopeless staring at the ceiling.
I've copied the poem in it's entirety at the end of the post, but the first stanza makes an excellent framework for what was rattling around in my head today about this year – what I've learned, what I've confirmed and what I want to do and be moving forward.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
We live in a world where people are running around like Chicken Little screaming that "omigoddeathfat is coming for us and our children WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!" Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, we get blamed for everything from health care cost increases to Global warming. We live in a world where someone who purports to be a health care professional tells us that eating junk food will make us healthier as long as we eat few enough calories that we become thinner. If we are to pursue health- mental and physical- we have to see all of these for the hype, lies, and marketing tactics that they are and rise above them. Not easy, but possible and worth it for sure from where I'm standing.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
Sometimes it seems like the whole world is against those of us who are committed to a healthy lifestyle instead of a food-restricting weight-obsessed lifestyle: The Vague Future Health Threat (VFHT) – custom created to make us believe that even though we're fat and healthy, there's no such thing as being fat and healthy; Food Police asking us inappropriate questions at the dinner table; "news" sources lying to and about us for a headline, doctors committing malpractice because they can't see beyond our size; health insurance companies charging outrageous amounts (or denying us coverage) based only on the ratio of our weight and height with no actual knowledge about our health.
I recently made the mistake of making too much allowance for other people's doubting and I've proven to myself (hopefully for the last time!) that if I'm going to err, I want to err on the side of trusting myself too much. I agree that we must take other ideas into consideration, but I suggest that we always consider the source of those ideas and give them their DUE respect and consideration.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
I believe that there will come a time when we stop allowing the diet industry to lie to us and put us in a state of guilt, shame and fear that induces us to buy their products to the tune of $60,000,000,000.00 per year. I believe that we will take that money out of the pockets of snake oils salesmen and start putting it toward actual health. Until then, all we can do is keep telling our truth and letting people know that there is an option that will allow them to have their health, their self-esteem, and their hard earned money.
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
Jillian Michaels, authors of Skinny Bitch, everyone who is out there trying to feel superior by putting fat people down, or who thinks that we need and deserve abuse: I can say in the same breath that I forgive you, and that I will not allow your abuse to go unchecked. I will do everything in my power to create a world where no fat person will ever pay somebody to abuse them because they think it's the treatment they deserve.
Speaking of talking too wise – I've also really learned a lesson about walking away quietly this year. I used to think it was always better to speak your mind – always say what you think, confront the issue, talk things through – and that not doing so was sheer cowardice. I've realized that, for me, some people just aren't worth that kind of time and energy. For those situations I'm learning to be more comfortable just letting go of all of it, choosing to make things easy on myself, smile and nod a little bit, and disconnect with class.
As I look back on this year, I'm really proud of what I and my fat activists friends have done this year, and I'm really excited about what's ahead. As The Doctor would say: Allons y! (If you're not a Dr. Who fan don't worry about that last sentence at all!)
Here's the full poem:
by: Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man my son!


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(CNN) -- Here's a fun exercise: Compare the DNA profiles of random individuals who reside in different regions of the world, have little in common and don't much resemble one another.
If you could do this, you'd find close DNA matches once in a while.
About three months ago Kevin Shepherdson, a Eurasian in Singapore, discovered that his DNA matches strongly with Thomas Kurowski, a man of Polish descent living in Rhode Island.
The men have never met, and they were unaware of each other.
Both of them research their family history as a hobby, but finding each other through traditional methods (such as sifting through census, marriage or property records) would have been unlikely if not impossible.
And yet their DNA profiles match so closely that they can be certain of sharing a common ancestor within the past six generations. It took scientific sleuthing for the two men to make a connection.
The fact that they discovered each other at all speaks to the increasingly sophisticated tools available to genealogy researchers. These tools are being made available at a time when the hobby's popularity is expanding around the world.
As a genealogical tool, DNA testing started coming into its own about seven years ago, with more family researchers using it to confirm (or rule out) the results of their traditional research.
To test one's DNA, a kit can be ordered online that includes a few forms and a swab, which is scraped along the inside of the mouth to collect a sample of cells. These are sent to a laboratory, which creates a DNA profile that can be compared against others.
Such services are offered at sites such as Ancestry.com, Oxford Ancestors, Family Tree DNA and many others. Prices vary, but a test can be conducted for about US$100.
Shepherdson has been investigating his roots for about 15 years (see http://www.shepherdson.com). As a result of his efforts, he's now linked with a large group of previously unknown relatives scattered around Southeast Asia, all descended from a pair of English brothers who served as captains in the British East India Company in the late 1700s.
Though Shepherdson's traditional and online research led to the discovery of these relatives, it was the DNA testing -- of himself and a few key individuals -- that confirmed the clan's genetic ties about four years ago.
With all doubts erased, the group meets up for occasional family gatherings. Onlookers at these events might be puzzled sometimes, as many of the relatives look racially different from one another.
But DNA testing can also be used in another way, one less well known but set to increase in frequency and significance.
With many of these DNA testing services, for little or no extra cost, customers can have their DNA profile included in a searchable database that other participants -- from around the world -- can match their own profiles against.
Shepherdson had to wait about four years, but in mid-August he was contacted through a DNA database Internet site by Kurowski, who had discovered the DNA match through his own search.
In such a case, the genetic verification comes first and traditional research follows, which is the opposite order of Shepherdson's previous research.
Now the unlikely cousins will try to figure out how they are related, not whether they truly are. It's a different sort of challenge.
"One of the captains may have laid the family seeds while trading in one of the ports," Shepherdson speculated.
Discoveries like this are set to increase as more people around the world pursue roots research and add their DNA profiles to such databases.
"As the genetic genealogical databases continue to grow in size we should expect to see more and more matches on a local, regional and international basis," noted Lars Mouritsen, chief scientific officer at Sorenson Genomics, a DNA testing firm in the U.S. state of Utah.
Of course, family research has long been popular in places like North America and the United Kingdom. But now it's gaining steam elsewhere, including in Asia.
"The interest is growing, especially in mainland China," said Danny Chin, who manages the Genealogical Society of Utah's Asia operations from a Hong Kong office.
Members of the Chinese diaspora, whether from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, or San Francisco, are increasingly visiting the mainland to trace their roots, seeking information from clan associations and visiting ancestral shrines and homes.
A similar trend is emerging with the Indian diaspora, said Mr. Chin, though not yet as strongly.
His organization hosts millions of Chinese genealogical records and makes other resources available in its research branches, which can be found throughout Asia and around the world. It's funded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- also known as the Mormon church -- which has a religious mandate to keep genealogical records.
Researchers also turn to the Shanghai Library's vast Chinese genealogical collection, which attracts thousands of visitors every year.
About four years ago in Singapore, the Singapore Family Tree portal was set up by the government to help family researchers. It was one of the first such efforts prompted by a national government.
And in December, Shepherdson plans to publish "The Great Genealogical Search," a how-to book for family researchers in the region that draws lessons from his own experiences.
In it he describes how he tapped a wide array of resources, among them census data, wills, and probate records; DNA testing; Google Books; genealogy-related sites like Rootsweb.com, MyTrees.com, and FamilySearch.org; and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogging.
Travel has also played a large role in his research. Aside from visiting the homes of new-found relatives in Malaysia, he has traveled to England to visit the house and seaside town where his ancestors once lived.
That was a thrill, of course, and he has made a number of surprising discoveries on such trips. But after 15 years of research, nothing surprised him more than to be found by Kurowski, a completely unexpected relative living on the east coast of the United States.
In the coming years, more people are likely to encounter similar surprises about their family histories.
"It was hard for us to reconcile the fact that we could be related," Shepherdson said. "I could not believe it."


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Dix, John Adams, 1798–1879, American statesman, b. Boscawen, N.H. He served in the War of 1812, was later admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Cooperstown, N.Y. He held high state offices and served (1845–49) as Democratic U.S. senator from New York. In 1848 he ran for governor of New York on the Free-Soil ticket. President Buchanan appointed him secretary of the treasury in 1861, and in his two-month tenure of office, despite secession, he was able to secure loans. He was a major general in the Civil War and later (1866–69) minister to France. Dix was prominent in railroad affairs and became (1863) president of the Union Pacific, with T. C. Durant as vice president, and he was the long-time president of the Erie RR. Dix served as Republican governor of New York in 1873–74.
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Team designs world's smallest transistor
Nano switch A team of Australian physicists has created the world's first functioning single-atom transistor, which could prove a critical building block toward the development of super-fast computers.
The tiny electronic device, described today in a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, uses as its active component an individual phosphorus atom patterned between atomic-scale electrodes and electrostatic control gates.
While single-atom devices have been developed before, these had an error of about 10 nanometres in positioning of the atoms, which is large enough to affect functionality.
Professor Michelle Simmons, group leader and director of the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), says it is the first time "anyone has shown control of a single atom in a substrate with this level of precise accuracy".
"Several groups have tried this, but if you want to make a practical computer in the long-term you need to be able to put lots of individual atoms in," she says.
"Then you find the separation between the atoms is quite critical so you need to have atomic precision to do that, so then you can also bring electrodes in to address each of those individual atoms."
Precise placement
The UNSW team used a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) to see and manipulate atoms at the surface of the crystal inside an ultra-high vacuum chamber.
Using a lithographic process, they patterned phosphorus atoms into functional devices on the crystal, then covered them with a non-reactive layer of hydrogen.
Hydrogen atoms were removed selectively in precisely defined regions with the super-fine metal tip of the STM.
A controlled chemical reaction then incorporated phosphorus atoms into the silicon surface.
Finally, the structure was encapsulated with a silicon layer and the device contacted electrically using an intricate system of alignment markers on the silicon chip to align metallic connects.
The electronic properties of the device were in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions for a single phosphorus atom transistor.
Lead author Dr Martin Fueschle says this individual position is very important if you want to use the transistor as a future quantum bit (or qbit).
"If you want to have precise control at this level you need to position the individual atoms with atomic precision with respect to control gates and electrodes," he says.
The device is also remarkable, says Dr Fuechsle, because its electronic characteristics exactly match theoretical predictions undertaken with Professor Gerhard Klimeck's group at Purdue University in the United Stastes and Professor Hollenberg's group at the University of Melbourne, the joint authors on the paper.
Limits of Moore's Law
The team also believes the use of silicon to encase the transistor increases its potential for future manufacturing.
It is predicted that transistors will reach the single-atom level by about 2020 to keep pace with Moore's Law, which describes an ongoing trend in computer hardware that sees the number of chip components double every 18 months.
"We really decided 10 years ago to start his program to try and beat that law," says Simmons.
"So here we are in 2012 and we've made a single-atom transistor about 8-10 years ahead of where industry is going to be."


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Hawks edge Celtics behind Millsap's 34
BOSTON (AP) -- When shots weren't falling for Atlanta during a woeful start to the second quarter, the Hawks started going inside to Paul Millsap and never stopped.
BOSTON (AP) -- When shots weren't falling for Atlanta during a woeful start to the second quarter, the Hawks started going inside to Paul Millsap and never stopped.
Millsap had season highs with 34 points and 15 rebounds as the Hawks rallied from an 18-point deficit for a 92-91 win over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday afternoon.
Jeff Teague scored 16 points and Kyle Korver added 14 for Atlanta.
"At the beginning of the game it wasn't really what they were doing. It's what we didn't do. We didn't execute well. We didn't share the basketball like we normally do," said Millsap, who had his best game for the Hawks since signing as a free agent in the offseason. "When we settled down, got stops and moved the basketball around, everybody got in a groove."
The Hawks barely made one third of their shots, going 33 for 91, but Millsap was nearly unstoppable inside. He was 12 for 14 from the field and forced his way to the foul line, where he made 10 of 14 free throws.
"We were able to find a way to win a game where we weren't able to shoot well from the perimeter, from the basket, really from anywhere except for Paul Millsap," Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer said.
Boston pulled away on a 19-4 run to start the second quarter, but Atlanta closed the period on a 15-0 run and set up a back-and-forth finish.
"We started off the game so terribly. We just couldn't find any kind of rhythm and they had us totally out of synch," said Korver, who extended his NBA record streak of games with a 3-pointer to 101. "We were dead in the water there for a little while. We just felt like we couldn't get anything going. We got a little momentum and were able to carry that over to the second half."
Boston had two shots to win after Shelvin Mack missed a layup in the final minute, but couldn't convert. Jordan Crawford missed with about eight seconds remaining and Boston ended up with the rebound and called time out. Crawford tried again at the buzzer but his shot bounced off the backboard.
"I felt like it was a good opportunity. Jordan lives for that," Boston coach Brad Stevens said. "I think he'll probably beat himself up over it, but that's OK. We play again on Thursday."
Kelly Olynyk scored a career-high 21 points and Kris Humphries had 18 points and 10 rebounds as Boston's reserves scored 56 -- more than half of the team's total. None of Boston's starters scored in double figures.
Brandon Bass was closest with nine points and Jared Sullinger pulled down 10 rebounds.
The lead went back-and-forth down the stretch until Atlanta clinched it in the final minutes. After Millsap put the Hawks up 90-89, Crawford answered with a long jumper that beat the shot clock and put Boston back up 91-90 with 1:36 left. It was the last field goal of the game.
Teague drew a foul with 1:30 left and made both shots and the Hawks held on for the win.
The Celtics led 23-20 after the first and opened second on a 19-4 run for a 42-24 lead. Atlanta responded by scoring the last 15 points of the period and then opened the third quarter with a 10-4 run and took a 54-48 lead on a layup by Teague. Olynyk started Boston on a 9-0 run with a 3-pointer, then Crawford converted a three-point play and added a 3-pointer to put the Celtics up 57-54.
Korver's streak appeared to be in jeopardy through the third period after he missed his first five attempts from beyond-the-arc. His sixth was good, though, and he drew a foul for a four-point play that pulled the Hawks within 83-76 with 6:10 remaining.
"The whole section up there was reminding me I hadn't hit one," Korver said. "I was trying to make shots to make shots, not just to keep the streak going."
Notes: The Hawks' streak of nine straight games scoring more than 100 points ended. ... Atlanta center Al Horford was scheduled for surgery Tuesday to repair his torn right pectoral muscle. The Hawks announced Monday that Horford, the Hawks' leading scorer and rebounder, was out for the season. ... The Celtics closed December at 6-6.


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Obama Enlists Jewish Lawmakers in Outreach
About 150 Jewish voters gathered in June at a private home in Los Angeles for what marked a new phase in Senator Barack Obama's outreach effort to the Jewish community.
Some were longtime Obama supporters who came to hear what kind of help they can offer as the campaign moves to the general election from the primary. Some were backers of Senator Hillary Clinton hoping to learn more about the candidate and get some answers to questions about his views on Israel, the Middle East and domestic issues of concern for Jewish voters.
The event itself, led by Rep. Howard Berman and former congressman Mel Levine, resembled any other meeting with Jewish voters in which the candidate's foreign policy is praised and a call is voiced to bring out the Jewish vote come November elections.
But it was nonetheless a first for the Obama outreach effort — a launch of what the Democratic presumptive nominee's campaign is calling Jewish Community Leadership Committees.
These teams are part of a larger attempt by the Obama campaign to enhance its Jewish-outreach operation and focus on introducing the Illinois senator to the Jewish community. This effort also includes a drive to bring in all available Jewish members of Congress to speak on behalf of the candidate and secure votes from their home districts.
The Los Angeles gathering was private and not open to the media, and is meant to be the first of many such events. The Obama campaign is generally selecting co-chairs of the local JCLCs from the ranks of congressional delegations and leading Jewish figures. In Los Angeles, Berman, Levine and Reps. Henry Waxman and Adam Schiff chair the committee.
"These committees will be our grass-roots base," a campaign official said. "They will serve as a local address where Jewish supporters can come and help the campaign or raise questions and concerns."
Coordinating all this outreach nationwide is Eric Lynn, the Obama campaign's Middle East policy adviser and Jewish community liaison. Lynn is part of a team helping to shape Obama's policy on Israel and the region and to market it to Jewish voters, who, according to campaign officials, are still somewhat unaware of the Illinois senator's record and of his views on these issues.
Several members of Congress are already on board; most active among them is Florida's Robert Wexler, who is working with the more conservative Jewish voters in his congressional district. Other Jewish lawmakers already working with the campaign include Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, New Jersey Rep. Steve Rothman and New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg. Levine is also reportedly playing an important role in shaping foreign policy and making the appeal to Jewish voters.
While what campaign officials call a "robust outreach effort" to the Jewish community is being planned, the next major step is a possible visit by Obama to Israel before November. The campaign would not confirm any overseas travel plans, but according to press reports, the candidate plans to stop in Israel as part of a pre-election visit to Iraq and Afghanistan. "We can only say that the Senator enjoyed his previous trip to Israel and is looking forward to visiting again," a campaign official said.


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"SimCity is a game about endless choices," says lead designer Stone Librande. "Ultimately, you can do whatever you want."
While that isn't entirely true -- you can't play offline -- at least we can get a sense of how the fifth iteration of the city management game works in a nine-minute clip released today by Maxis and EA.
The video shows how the game plays essentially from the beginning as Librande creates a casino-themed city from scratch. Seasoned SimCity 4 players may notice vast differences in the user interface, which seems easier to navigate while simultaneously adding a slew of new options.
The upcoming fifth iteration of SimCity, due for February 2013, does share similarities with versions past, but you truly get a sense of just how different the game appears with this game play preview. Maxis basically vastly touched up every single aspect of the game, ranging from construction and Sim animations to resource management.
For example, pipe networks no longer exist (and instead go through roads); players can tap natural underground aquifers; and ground pollution can make your town sick. Placing a wind power plant results in the usual options, but aspiring architects can improve the installation's output by adding modules (such as extra wind turbines). You may notice further enhancements in the video. Which stand out to you the most?