Japan ruling party sees no change in sales tax hike plan

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Yuko Yoshikawa

TOKYO | Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:59am BST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will likely proceed with raising the national sales tax as planned, despite calls within his government to delay or water down the increase, a senior official in Abe's ruling party told Reuters on Wednesday.

Abe has shown no signs that he would change the tax hike plans to accommodate advisers who are urging him to go slow, as that could wreck confidence in the country and push up long-term interest rates, Takeshi Noda, head of the Liberal Democratic Party's tax commission, told Reuters.

The planned sales tax hike is Tokyo's most significant fiscal reform in decades, but the recent debate over alternatives has raised the possibility that Abe might postpone the tightening or ease the tempo of the two-stage plan to double the tax to 10 percent in two years.

Concerned that the tax hike could derail Japan's nascent economic recovery, Abe has ordered a study of alternatives for implementing the tax increases, including introducing them more gradually, government sources have told Reuters.

But Noda in an interview dismissed the alternatives - championed by academic advisers to the premier - as "armchair theory". Asked if the sales tax will be raised as planned, he said in an interview: "Of course."

Noda, who recently met with the premier, said Abe gave no impression that he was wavering on the tax plan.

"Confidence in Japan would fall, and government bond yields would be affected" if Tokyo gives the impression that it is faltering on the tax issue, Noda said. "That could be fatal."

"The biggest risk to 'Abenomics' is a spike in interest rates," Noda said.

Abe returned to power in December pledging to revive the world's third-largest economy with his policy mix of aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus and promises of pro-growth reforms.

With Japan's public debt topping 240 percent of its GDP, the worst in the industrial world, the prime minister is struggling to balance reviving economic growth against bringing public finances under control.

Under an agreement last year between the LDP, its coalition partner and the previous ruling party, Japan enacted a law calling for the sales tax to be raised to 8 percent next April and to 10 percent in October 2015.

But the law requires the government to confirm that the economy is strong enough to withstand the tax increase. Government officials say Abe will look at economic data, especially GDP figures due on September 9, and decide on the tax by early October.

(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto and Yuko Yoshikawa; Editing by William Mallard and Edmund Klamann)

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Italy Mourns Victims of Coach Disaster

Mourners pack into a sports hall in the southern Italian town of Pozzuoli, to pay their respects to 38 people who died in one of the worst road accidents in Italian history. The crash happened when a coach plunged 25 metres off a motorway viaduct on Sunday night. Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta was among an estimated 4,000 mourners at the service, which was officially designated a day of national mourning.

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Moon Cycles Affect Human Sleep

Participants in a sleep study experienced quantitative decreases in parameters of sound sleep near the full moon, associated with a decrease in sleep quality. Sophie Bushwick reports

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The lunar cycle affects the night sky, the tides and even the fertility of certain marine species. And it turns out, we can add your shuteye to the list. According to a new study, humans sleep poorly on nights near a full moon. The work is published in the journal Current Biology. [Christian Cajochen et al., Evidence that the Lunar Cycle Influences Human Sleep]

To test the moon's effect, 33 adult volunteers of both sexes and various ages spent several nights in a sleep lab. As they dozed, researchers monitored their brain activity, eye movements and hormone levels. On nights closer to a full moon, the subjects took an average of five minutes longer to fall asleep, and slept for 20 minutes less. In addition, brain activity decreased by 30 percent during the sleep stage that the brain normally uses to recover from its daylight work. And levels of melatonin, the hormone that helps regulate sleep cycles, dropped.

On these nights, the sleepers complained of poor sleep quality even though they were unaware of the lunar cycle. On the bright side, not a single participant turned into a werewolf. In this cohort.

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Obama delicately wades into Mideast talks

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Tuesday delicately waded into the first round of Middle East peace talks in years, meeting privately at the White House with lead negotiators for the Israeli and Palestinian delegations.

Even still, the White House strategy remained for Obama to take a mostly hands-off approach to the actual negotiations.

The strategy is in part a vote of confidence in Secretary of State John Kerry, who has embraced the vexing and emotional issue with gusto since joining the administration earlier this year. It also signals a calculation by the White House that direct presidential intervention is best reserved for the final stages of negotiations ? if the process ever reaches that point ? or moments of tension when Obama might be called upon to keep the talks afloat.

Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East peace adviser to Democratic and Republican presidents, backed the White House's approach.

"You don't want to waste presidential capital," said Miller, now vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. "But in the end, Obama is going to have to own this if it's going to succeed."

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators arrived in Washington on Monday to open the talks, the first major effort since negotiations broke down in 2008. An attempt to reopen talks in 2010 collapsed almost immediately. The new round, taking place at the State Department, continued Tuesday, with the goal of working out plans for how the talks should proceed in the coming months.

Officials said the parties have agreed to negotiate for at least nine months.

In a written statement Monday, Obama said the talks marked a "promising step forward," but warned that "hard work and hard choices remain ahead."

Like Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are not directly involved in this first round. But both have been deeply engaged in the process in recent months, meeting frequently with Kerry.

Kerry and other administration officials have repeatedly cast the revived negotiations as a direct result of Obama's trip to Israel and the West Bank earlier this year.

"Without his commitment, without his conversations there and without his engagement in this initiative, we would not be here today," Kerry said Monday before heading to the White House to brief the president on the first round of talks.

Yet Obama, unlike predecessors Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has waited on the sidelines much of his administration and not made negotiations a top priority. He long has expressed doubts about how much leverage the U.S. has in bringing the parties to the negotiating table and has warned that peace cannot be achieved if American officials want it more than the Israelis and Palestinians.

The president's own troubled attempt to jumpstart peace talks in his first term has also colored his views.

Obama came into office eager to put a new face on the U.S. relationship with the Middle East. But he quickly angered Israeli leaders by calling for an end to settlement building and appearing to misunderstand the Jewish people's historic ties to the region during a 2009 speech in Cairo.

Tensions with Israel also deepened when its government announced a new round of settlements in East Jerusalem during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden.

Still, in the fall of 2010, Obama was able to cobble together a new round of negotiations between Netanyahu and Abbas. All three leaders gathered at the White House and announced the talks with great fanfare. But the effort fell apart within days.

Dennis Ross, who served as one of Obama's negotiators at the time, said that failed effort was a good lesson for the White House.

"If you raise expectations too soon, you actually make it less likely that you achieve anything," said Ross, who left the administration in 2011.

Following the collapse of the 2010 talks, Obama expended little effort on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. A series of more urgent concerns in the Middle East quickly intervened, including the Arab Spring democracy protests and the Syrian civil war. The president's 2012 re-election campaign also consumed much of his administration's attention, and his relationship with Netanyahu deteriorated further when the Israeli leader all but endorsed Obama's rival, Mitt Romney.

So it came as a surprise to many when Obama announced earlier this year that he planned to make his first visit to Israel and the West Bank as president. His advisers set low expectations for the highly-anticipated trip and made clear even then that Kerry, not Obama, would be the driving force in getting the two sides back to the negotiating table.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-delicately-wades-mideast-talks-142418963.html

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European Commission proposes framework for unified patent court

Getting a patent in Europe is hard. Making sure it's protected in every European Union member state is even harder. That's why the European Commission announced today that it plans on simplifying this notoriously convoluted process by proposing the legal framework for a unified patent court. Currently, patents must be validated in each member state to gain EU-wide protection, but as you know, patent litigation is everyone's favorite past time. Companies can incur prohibitively high costs simultaneously defending their claims in multiple countries. By cutting the number of patent courts down from 28 to one, a unified system would streamline the process of handling infringement cases, and perhaps even promote growth and innovation. While the measure must be approved by the European Parliament and individual EU states in order to become law, the proposal appears to be a step forward in the right direction.

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Israelis oppose EU labeling of settlement products

New labeling rules from the European Union could endanger the latest attempts at Middle East peace. Israel has reacted angrily to an EU instruction not to put "Made in Israel" on things produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank - because the settlements are illegal.

By Geraint Vincent, NBC News

ARIEL, West Bank ? A new labeling policy for products coming from Israeli settlements has some business owners worried about their livelihood.

On the wall of his office, in one corner of his noisy factory floor, Yehuda Cohen looks at photographs from the last staff away day. He took his employees white-water rafting, on the River Jordan. There are smiling faces, eating and drinking, striking poses with life jackets and paddles.

?That?s Yossi,? says Cohen. ?And that?s his good friend Ahmed who works next to him on the line. It?s wonderful here. We work together, and we enjoy ourselves together.?

Yehuda has a workforce of 90 people, which is split down the middle -- half Israeli, half Palestinian. The factory produces plastic bathroom accessories ? everything from toilet seats to laundry baskets. Last year, he exported goods to Europe worth around $4 million. It?s a good business, but one that he now fears is under threat from the European Union and its requirement that he put labels on his exports, so that his customers will know exactly where they are produced.

Yehuda?s factory is part of an industrial area built in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.

To address that issue, the European Union - one of Israel's biggest markets - has issued new guidelines on labeling what it calls ?settlement products.?

But many Israeli factory owners, like Cohen, take issue with that designation and say it will essentially kill their business.

?Labeling will send a message: ?Don?t buy this product,?? Yehuda said. ?It will lead to a boycott of my products. That will just do damage. It will destroy my company, destroy jobs and all of the hope that we have created here. The politicians in Europe think they are helping the peace process ? well, they should come to my factory and see the reality. We are building peace from the bottom up.?

The EU announcement came in the same week that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that, after months of painstaking diplomacy, he had finally persuaded the Israelis and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table, in search of a political settlement.

The EU move is intended to force the issue that has always confounded peace talks in the past: the issue of land. If the Kerry initiative is going to achieve a genuine breakthrough, then Israel is going to have to agree to give some land up.

Kerry has been careful not to criticize the Europeans? decision and some commentators inside Israel believe Brussels and Washington are in-step. The plan seems to be for the Americans to get the Israelis back to the table, and for the Europeans to make it clear that if they don?t make some concessions, then it?s going to hurt.

Not surprisingly, Israel?s statesmen have reacted angrily to the move, and not just because it might hurt the bottom line for Israeli companies operating inside the West Bank. They say the settlement product guidelines demonstrate the Europeans? shocking double standards.

"This is a mistake, it is counterproductive, it does not serve the cause of peace and it is not fair to single Israel out while the EU does not do this in any other place on the planet," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Ultimately, the issue of settlements will be resolved in peace talks with the Palestinians that we hope will start soon." ?

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian leadership, hailed the guidelines as a ?good and important decision.?

For him, each laundry basket that comes off the end of Cohen?s production line represents a violation of international law.

?At last,? he said. ?European consumers are going to have the chance to choose between legal and illegal goods.?

The international community has been condemning Israel?s occupation of the West Bank for nearly half a century. In Ramallah, labeling settlement products feels like at least some action, after decades of words.

Back at the factory though, Yehuda introduced me to his assembly manager, a Palestinian named Rasheed Morrar.

?If the Europeans end up boycotting settlement products, then it will hurt us, as well as the Israelis,? Morrar said. ?The factories will have less work and so will we.?

Morrar added, "Only the Palestinian workers will get hurt [by product labeling], not the Israeli workers. The Israeli workers will stay at home and the government will pay their salaries ? but we will be out of a job."

Walking out of the factory, through its busy delivery yard and out into the industrial park, it was strange to think that all of the structures were in contravention of international law. It might be an illegal development, but 3,000 Palestinians make their living there. ?

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Twitter CEO and Michigan Booster Dick Costolo Commits NCAA Violation on Twitter

Dick Costolo is the CEO of Twitter, a spearhead of the platform's success, and a major reason why social media has become so popular. Popular enough, in fact, that the NCAA has made certain conduct on its airwaves impermissible for boosters of college programs.

Regarding that last part, it appears Costolo didn't get the memo.

Class of 2015 wide receiver George Campbell, a 5-star prospect, committed to Michigan on Saturday, prompting Class of 2014 commit Wilton Speight to congratulate him on Twitter.

Seeing this activity, Costolo,?a Michigan booster who spoke at the school's Spring 2013 Commencement, couldn't contain himself and sent this innocuous-looking tweet:

The problem? Doing so was actually a minor NCAA violation. As CBS Sports' Tom Fornelli explains:

According to?one of the roughly billion rules the NCAA has, a booster is not allowed to contact a recruit until after the recruit has signed his letter of intent with the school. Not in person, not on the phone and not on social media.

The irony is too poetic not to acknowledge. It's like a far-less-tragic version of Jimi Heselden, the owner of Segway Inc. who died after driving his Segway off a cliff; or perhaps more like a personal friend of mine, David, who never accepted his job offer with Google because Gmail spammed his acceptance email.

As far as?repercussions?are concerned?well, there shouldn't be any big ones. Boosters have done bigger, badder, drastically more wicked things to attract recruits. Dick Costolo isn't Nevin Shaprio or Ed Martin; he isn't (as far as anyone knows) paying or bribing high schoolers to come play for Michigan.

He's just a guy who runs Twitter that missed a memo on how to use his product.

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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1720264-twitter-ceo-and-michigan-booster-dick-costolo-commits-ncaa-violation-on-twitter

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iPhone 4 vs Galaxy S4 mini vs S2 Plus reboot speed debate

The iOS 7 Beta 4 release date has not yet been announced but we did say earlier it is more than likely going to be on Monday 29th around 10am PDT. Anyway, iOS 7 Beta 3 is already on the iPhone and below we have two videos testing the speeds of the iPhone 4, Galaxy S4 Mini and S2 Plus.

The first video contains Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini vs. iPhone 4 iOS 7, and the second tests the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini vs. Galaxy S2 Plus, which one will be the fastest?

Reviewer adrianisen shuts down the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and the iPhone 4 running iOS 7 Beta 3, but when the smartphones are turned back on we noticed the Apple logo showed up quicker than Samsungs but the S4 mini boots up quicker than the iPhone 4 showing the homescreen. We here at Phones Review would like to point out that the S4 mini is a new smartphone released in July 2013 and the iPhone 4 came out way back on June 2010, is it really fair to do speeds tests on these two handsets?

It is a little strange how someone would pit two smartphones together when they were released 3 years apart, the S4 mini has a faster CPU at 1.7 GHz and the iPhone only has a 1 GHz. Overall outcome: Yes the Galaxy S4 mini is a lot faster but it is a smartphone that is 3 years newer than the iPhone 4, the mini has a faster processor and iOS beta 3 is not as stable as Android 4.2.2, its called beta for a reason.

Next up is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini vs Galaxy S2 Plus speed test, S4 mini was released in July and the S2 Plus came out in February. The S2 Plus has a 1.2 GHz processer running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. This was rather interesting when the two devices were rebooted, the S2 Plus started up quicker than the S4 mini. It was only a few seconds but to see an older phone and we know there?s only a few months between release dates was very interesting.

Do you think these phones should have been pitted against each other in the reboot speed tests? Please watch the two videos below and then pass your own judgements in the comments, thanks and have a good weekend.

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Coeur d'Alene woman suing President Barack Obama

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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A woman in Coeur d'Alene said she is suing President Obama because the NSA's surveillance program that is tracking phone calls of Americans violates her right to privacy.

The attorneys for this case said that their client represents the average American and they believe that there are many people like her who are losing their right to privacy.

"She's busy as a mom, she's got two kids, she's working nights at the neo-natal intensive care unit, she shares a lot of sensitive information over her phone,"?said attorney Luke Malek.

Malek works in Coeur d'Alene and is an Idaho State Representative. He and his friend Peter Smith wanted to sue the government and chose Smith's wife to be the plaintiff in the case.

"This is going to be a really long drawn out process and Anna needs someone who can explain that to her,"?said Malek, explaining why it was important to represent somebody that they both knew well.

Lawmakers debated a bill to stop the program in late July. Defenders of the program said it is needed to prevent terrorist attacks. But Malek and his friends said the government needs to identify suspects and go through the courts before they can spy on people.

They added that they are not asking for money, but want the program changed or stopped.

"I think it's going to be an extremely complicated and difficult case,"?he said.

Anna Smith and her attorneys have six months to make changes to their lawsuit before the next step in the process. That give them to the end of 2013.

Source: http://www.krem.com/news/local/Coeur-dAlene-woman-suing-President-Obama-217178221.html

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'Conjuring' home residents can't conjure privacy

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"The Conjuring," which topped last week's box office, was called "too scary" by some critics, who noted that the haunted-house film was given its R rating by the MPAA not for gore or language, but for pure fear potential. Now it's become a real-life horror for the family who lives in the Harrisville, R.I., home that inspired the movie.

Norma Sutcliffe, who said she is in her 60s, told Jim Baron of the Rhode Island newspaper The Woonsocket Call that fans of the film have been making pilgrimages to her home. The visits are disturbing her and her 70-year-old husband, who isn't in good health, she said.

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?We haven?t slept in days,? Sutcliffe told the newspaper. ?Because we wake up at 2 in the morning (and) there are people with flashlights in our yard.? People call on the phone and ask, 'Is this ?The Conjuring? house?' "

The Sutcliffes bought the house 25 years ago from the Perrons, the family depicted in the film, The Call reported. Andrea Perron wrote a trilogy of books about the supposed haunting of the house.

Sutcliffe said she received no money from the moviemakers and is angry they distributed photos of her house, making it easy for fans to find her address. A lawyer has told her she probably has no case to sue, and she said she doesn't want money, just to be left alone.

Sutcliffe told The Call she has seen the movie and doesn't think much of it. ?I just laughed at the whole thing," she told the paper. "I thought it was so ironically ridiculous. I thought it was an insult to the Perrons.?

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The age of the connected car will bring new safety, comfort ? and threats

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How do you reduce the number of highway accidents? Just tell all the cars to look out for each other.

As far out as that may sound, that's exactly what the National Transportation Safety Board recommended this week, following a fatal bus crash, and it's part of a fundamental shift in the automotive world.

Cars are already equipped with cutting-edge innovations such as accident-avoidance lasers and smart parking. Soon, they'll get wireless car-to-car communications, and even city-wide traffic control. And while most of these innovations will steer us to safer roads, they also raise some concerns over privacy and security the likes of which the century-old auto industry has never seen.

"It's clear the next few years will see greater expansion of in-car infotainment and navigation offerings, and technologies requiring communication between cars," Ray Wert, former editor-in-chief of the Jalopnik car blog, told NBC News.

"Some of that push will come from governmental regulation, while some will come from consumer demand. Either way, it's coming. And fast."

Built-in high-tech tools are nothing new, of course. Cruise control in some vehicles has for years been able to track other cars on the road ? using radar, lasers or something more exotic ? and adjust their speed or stop entirely if a collision is likely. Similar tech is sometimes used to warn drivers when they're drifting out of their lanes, perhaps when nodding off or trying to mop up spilled coffee.

More impressive are the automated parking systems already available from cars made by Ford, Toyota and others. Using a button or smartphone app to tell your car to park itself sounds very sci-fi ? but for those with a fundamental inability to parallel park (you know who you are), it's a welcome reality.

The real next step in this surge of semi-automated, semi-aware cars is vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

"Effective countermeasures are needed to assist in preventing intersection crashes," notes the NTSB's official report on the crash. "For example, systems such as connected vehicle technology could have provided an active warning to the school bus driver of the approaching truck as he began to cross the intersection."

But how would such a system work?

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A group of connected cars navigates an intersection without stopping for one another.

The picture above (from the EO connected car project, covered in the video at top), illustrates how wirelessly connected vehicles can share the same space. They wouldn't just be beaming their plans directly to oncoming cars as they approach an intersection. Instead, they could also connect to a larger network that plans the cars' paths like an air traffic control system.

Bad visibility, blind spots, fatigue ? these could be compensated for with a system that can tell you exactly how far away the next car is, and whether it's safe to go. The benefits of such a system, with every car aware of and communicating with every other car, are difficult to overstate. Any number of things might have prevented the crash in New Jersey, but such an inter-vehicle connection, preventing collisions in low-visibility areas, might have been a lifesaver.

And industry observers say this kind of technology is almost here. "We're in the final stages of testing, and it's up to us to say 'Yes, we are going to do this,'" said Egil Juliussen, IHS automotive technology analyst, in an interview with NBC News. Juliussen cautions that automakers have to be willing ? or required ? to take on such a system en masse.

"I think the decision should be that it is mandatory on all cars," he said. "If it's on just one car, it's useless."

The benefits are easy to imagine. A 2012 study found that cars working together on the road could increase efficiency by as much as 273 percent. This could be done both by careful routing at the city or even state level, but also by "platooning" vehicles closely together if they're headed to the same destination, increasing fuel efficiency.

But it's not just about getting to the game on time or shaving 10 minutes off your commute. Beyond preventing collisions while narrowing gaps between cars, this level of organization could route drivers around points of congestion, notify them of hazardous road conditions, and in case of accidents or car trouble, alert AAA or emergency responders instantly.

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One of Google's self-driving cars receives the first autonomous vehicle license plates in Nevada.

As this sort of system ramps up, accompanied by creature comfort features such as car-to-car messaging, performance-tweaking apps, and free parking space notifications, we will edge closer to the holy grail of intelligent vehicles: the totally autonomous car.

Though the real thing is still a bit far off, it's not for lack of investment. Google is likely the farthest along: Its self-driving cars have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles on their own through country and city with nary an accident.

The complex array of cameras and sensors on board may be too big and expensive to include on an entry-level Honda today ? but you could have said the same thing about touchscreens and keyless entry a few years ago as well, and now these once-futuristic options are standard on budget cars. As for upsells, it only costs $395 to equip a Ford Focus Titanium with automatic parking, and a $1,750 technology package on a new Toyota Avalon will get you radar-assisted cruise control and smart "pre-collision" braking. It's only a matter of time before wireless car-to-car options become as prevalent ? and affordable.

With all this increased connectivity, however, comes new risks. Stories of high-end cars being stolen with nothing more than a tweaked wireless key fob are common enough. And if your car is connected to the Internet (which many already are), the data is vulnerable to hacking. An upcoming presentation at this year's Defcon hacking conference is widely expected to lay bare many automotive vulnerabilities.

Yet even if you manage to secure the vehicle against hackers, who's to say your data is safe from, say, the NSA? Juliussen thinks we're not quite prepared for this.

"I really think that the U.S. needs to have much better privacy laws. The black box [which records crash data in newer cars] is bringing that up in a major way," he said. "It's up to Congress to do that ... you can't do it without."

Luckily, there's time. As Juliussen notes, even if wireless car-to-car networking were mandated on all new vehicles, it would take 10 years or more before it would really work well. Hopefully a decade is enough time to work out all of the kinks.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Twitter Predicted to Become A Big TV Screen

NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ --?New research from scholars at?Columbia Business Schooland the?University of Pittsburgh?question the sustainability of Twitter, the social network that has more than 500 million registered users.? The research was recently published in the journal?Marketing Science.

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Columbia Business School Professor?Olivier Toubia?has a thought-provoking, 140-character-limit comment about the research he co-authored with?University of Pittsburgh's?Assistant Professor?Andrew T. Stephen.

"Get ready for a TV-like Twitter," said Toubia.

The research examined the motivations behind why everyday people, with no financial incentive, contribute to Twitter.

The study examined roughly 2500 non-commercial Twitter users. In a field experiment, Toubia and Stephens randomly selected some of those users and, through the use of other synthetic accounts, increased the selected group's followers. At first, Toubia and Stephen noticed that as the selected group's followers increased, so did the posting rate. However, when that group reached a level of stature ? a moderately large amount of followers ? the posting rate declined significantly.

"Users began to realize it was harder to continue to attract more followers with their current strategy, so they slowed down," Toubia added, "When posting activity no longer leads to additional followers, people will view Twitter as a non-evolving, static structure, like TV." ?

Based on the analyses, Toubia and Stephen predict Twitter posts by everyday people will slow down, yet celebrities and commercial users will continue to post for financial gain.?

"Twitter will become less of a communications vehicle and more of a content-delivery vehicle, much like TV.? Peer-to-peer contact is likely to evolve to the next great thing, but with 500 million followers, Twitter isn't just going to disappear. ?It's just going to become a new way to follow celebrities, corporations, and the like," said Toubia. ?

The paper,?Intrinsic versus Image-Related Motivations in Social Media: Why do People Contribute to Twitter?,?was authored by?Olivier Toubia, the Glaubinger Professor of Business at?Columbia Business School?and?Andrew T. Stephen, Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Katz Fellow in Marketing at the?University of Pittsburgh's?Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration.?Download the full report.? For additional insight on how this research connects theory to the practice of business, visit?Columbia Ideas at Work.

To learn more about cutting-edge research being performed by?Columbia Business School?faculty members, please visit?www.gsb.columbia.edu.

About?Columbia Business School?
Led by?Dean Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics,?Columbia Business School?is at the forefront of management education. The School's cutting-edge curriculum bridges academic theory and practice, equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize, capture, and create opportunity in a competitive business environment. Beyond academic rigor and teaching excellence, the School offers programs that are designed to give students practical experience making decisions in real-world environments. The school offers MBA, Masters, and PhD degrees, as well as non-degree Executive Education programs. For more information, visit?www.gsb.columbia.edu. ?

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Apple tells Chinese customers to only use official chargers

Apple has a warning for Chinese customers: don't use the fake stuff.

Apple has posted the warning on its Chinese Web site, urging customers to only use its official chargers with any of its products. To help its customers with that, Apple showed them how to identify a real charger from the company, as opposed to a fake alternative.

The posting comes after a Chinese woman was allegedly electrocuted while answering her iPhone as it was charging. Apple expressed sadness over her death and promised to fully investigate the matter. Although the company has yet to issue a specific follow-up statement, Apple's warning that customers should use only legitimate chargers might be telling.

Last week, reports surfaced in China that suggested the woman, Ma Ailun, might have been using a third-party charger designed to look like the real thing. Although third-party chargers are not uncommon, they vary widely in terms of safety and quality.

Earlier this year, safety consulting and certification company UL issued a warning that counterfeit Apple USB chargers were making the rounds and that consumers should be on the lookout for them due to their lower quality and possibly dangerous defects.

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Google announces Chromecast, $35 HDMI dongle to stream supported services to TV

Google has just finished their big breakfast event and one of the highlights for Apple users is Chromecast, a $35 HDMI dongle that turns any TV into a receiver for YouTube, Netflix, and potentially other services that adopt the API. It seems like Apple's AirPlay, but has some benefits and drawbacks all its own. Here's what Phil Nickinson from Android Central had to say:

YouTube, Google Play Music ? all available through Chromecast and accessed through your phone. You can set up a queue of videos to play while still use your phone for other tasks. Browse, take phonecalls, check e-mail ? whatever you need to do. Streaming is handled from the Chromecast ? not from your phone. And Netflix? No problem.

As for those drawbacks, first, it's "cross-platform" as in "works with iOS and Android, and the [in this case Chrome] browser". Other desktop browsers, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone, so far, need not apply. That's increasingly the case with Google, which makes me kinda wish they'd find a new, more honest word for it like "select-platforms". Apple and AirPlay only work with iOS and OS X, of course, which is worse from a supported platform perspective, but you absolutely know that going in.

Second, whenever someone talks about device independence, it means they're selling service dependence. It's the same old yarn from Flash, where it can run everywhere, but you become locked into Adobe's ecosystem. Likewise, Chromecast looks like it'll support a wide range of devices, but you'll be locked into Google API for doing so. No such thing as a free-as-in-speech or free-as-in-beer lunch.

All that aside, the price is killer, and you use iOS or Chrome on OS X, and the services you care most about are YouTube, Netflix, and other Google and partner offerings, Chromecast might be a great option for you.

If you're Apple-only, AirPlay, especially with AirPlay mirroring, and an Apple TV look like they're still a far better option (especially considering Apple TV has built-in, native YouTube and Netflix channels.)

I'll be getting one, though. Anyone else?

Source: Google Play via Android Central

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/xYa6W4ou3E4/story01.htm

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