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Report: Google files European Commission complaint, claims ...

June 1, 2012 at 7:23 am

Google claimed in a formal complaint with the European Commission recently that Microsoft and Nokia conspired to use their patents against competitors.

?Nokia and Microsoft are colluding to raise the costs of mobile devices for consumers, creating patent trolls that side-step promises both companies have made,? said Google in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, while Microsoft deemed the search engine?s filing as a ?desperate tactic.?

According to the filing, Microsoft and Nokia entered agreements that allow Mosaid Technologies Inc. to legally enforce patents and share the outcome?s revenue. Reuters further specified that the two collaborating companies moved 1,200 patents to Mosaid.

Google called Mosaid a ?patent troll? for holding patents and litigating hawkishly, and then it described its filing as a ?pre-emptive measure against a developing legal hazard for Android partners.? In a nutshell: Google?s ?legal hazard? concerns if smartphone manufacturers begin to view Android as a legal danger, they may decide to do business with Microsoft and Nokia instead.

?Google is complaining about antitrust in the smartphone industry when it controls more than 95 percent of mobile search and advertising,? added Microsoft in an emailed statement to The Wall Street Journal.

Earlier this month, Joaquin Almunia, the European Union?s vice president of the European Commission responsible for competition, sent a letter to Google?s chairperson Eric Schmidt. The letter detailed the findings of an antitrust investigation into Google?s search practices, and it offered the search engine a chance to remedy its ?abuses? by settling. The offer is the first inkling at a possible conclusion to an antitrust investigation that launched in November 2010 to decide whether Google used its search supremacy to control competition in the marketplace.

Microsoft lastly indicated to The Wall Street Journal?yesterday?that it is hypocritical for Google to complain about patents when regulators and officials from around the world are concerned with the Mountain View, Calif.-based Company?s abuse of standard-essential patents.

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UN rights chief warns of full civil war in Syria

FILE--In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Syrian security forces, background, hold their machine guns and surround anti-Syrian regime mourners, foreground, during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by the Syrian security forces on Sunday, in Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria. The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, seeking vengeance on enemies of Bashar Assad. Recruited from the ruling elite's Alawite sect, the militiamen known as "shabiha" carry out some of the most ghastly attacks of Syria's violent conflict, allowing the regime to deny any direct responsibility. Witnesses have blamed shabiha for the Houla massacre over the weekend. (AP Photo, File)

FILE--In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Syrian security forces, background, hold their machine guns and surround anti-Syrian regime mourners, foreground, during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by the Syrian security forces on Sunday, in Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria. The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, seeking vengeance on enemies of Bashar Assad. Recruited from the ruling elite's Alawite sect, the militiamen known as "shabiha" carry out some of the most ghastly attacks of Syria's violent conflict, allowing the regime to deny any direct responsibility. Witnesses have blamed shabiha for the Houla massacre over the weekend. (AP Photo, File)

GENEVA (AP) ? The U.N.'s top human rights official warned Friday that all-out civil war could engulf Syria unless countries back international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan and calls for an independent probe into the killing of more than 100 civilians last week in the Arab country.

As countries lined up at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council to express their horror about the Houla massacre, in which the global body said 49 children were among the dead, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights appealed for support for the six-point plan to halt the violence in Syria.

"Otherwise, the situation in Syria might descend into a full-fledged conflict and the future of the country, as well as the region as a whole could be in grave danger," Navi Pillay told the 47-nation council in a speech read out on her behalf.

It was the fourth time that the Geneva-based council called an urgent meeting on Syria, something the country's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Fayssal al-Hamwi, said was a sign that some countries are trying to divide his country.

Al-Hamwi, too, condemned the massacre in Houla but blamed it on "groups of armed terrorists" seeking to ignite sectarian strife.

U.S. Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe said there was no doubt that the regime of President Bashar Assad was responsible for the killing.

"There needs to be justice and accountability for those that committed these atrocities," she told the council.

A draft resolution proposed by Qatar, Turkey and the United States condemns the killings in Houla and states that "those responsible for serious violations of human rights must be held accountable," but doesn't suggest how.

European diplomats want the resolution to include a call for the U.N. Security Council in New York to consider referring the massacre to the International Criminal Court. This is something the rights council cannot do on its own.

And since Syria isn't a member of the ICC, under international law only the Security Council can refer it to the Hague-based tribunal.

"Mostly we are pressing for some stronger language on accountability," said Maria Ulff Moeller, a Danish diplomat whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. "We can encourage the Security Council to refer the situation to the ICC, and it's something we are pushing for."

Human rights groups backed the EU position. "At this stage what we need is a strong resolution requesting ICC referral," said Juliette de Rivero, a spokeswoman for the group Human Rights Watch.

But other nations who favor sharp language critical of Syria are questioning whether the rights body should invoke the war crimes tribunal.

"Obviously we want to hold the violators accountable," said David Kennedy, a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva. "Ultimately, though, it's not the role of the Human Rights Council to make recommendations to the Security Council."

The draft resolution also calls on Syria to allow the rights council's panel of experts to visit the country, something it has previously rejected.

The head of the panel, Brazilian professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told Brazil's O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper on Thursday that "Houla is a warning of how a civil war would be."

He plans to present a report on the killings at a regular meeting of the council on June 27.

"The Syrians think that by impeding our access we won't be able to make it, but we have proven that we can do it," he was quoted as saying.

Associated Press

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IK Multimedia's iRig MIC Cast is now shipping for iOS devices, we go hands-on

Back at CES, IK Multimedia unveiled a trio of music / recording accessories for iDevices. One of which was the diminutive iRig MIC Cast to handle those on-the-go podcasting and voice recording duties. The outfit has announced that the ultra-compact microphone that plays nice with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is now shipping. Let's have a quick refresher, shall we? The kit plugs into your Apple device's 3.5mm audio jack and sports a headphone output of its own for monitoring purposes. Inside the kit, a unidirectional condenser capsule goes to work to isolate the audio you want recorded instead that pesky background chatter. If you're looking to snag one, it'll set you back $40 (€29.99) and includes a stand for your handheld inside the box. But before you take the leap, head on past the break for some of our hands-on impressions of the device.

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What is the process to get an advance for a structured settlement?

Getting an advance for a structured settlement can be a life saver. A person who wins the settlement from an injury or wrongful death suit may be awarded a large sum of money; however, people who are awarded this large sum of money may never have managed this much money before; therefore, laws have been passed so that people who are not used to this large amount of money is structured to be dispersed over a period of time. This prevents people from going on a spending spree if the money is awarded in a lump sum. The funds that were structured were meant to pay a person?s medical bills over a lifetime but sometimes people have a financial emergency and need the money to pay off debt.

Structured settlements are guaranteed payments of funds paid to the claimant or his/her family on a tax-free basis. Structured settlements usually are set up in monthly, annual, bi monthly, bi annual or in lump sum payments over a period of time. Sometimes there is a need for more of the funds to be available much sooner than the process takes to get a lump sum of money. If you are going through a factoring company to get a lump sum of money and need money right away there are some benefits when selling. Some companies are willing to advance at least $100.00- $1,000.00 once a contract is signed. Most factoring companies will also send a secured promissory note to be signed. This entitles the holder to pay back the advance out of the lump sum from the settlement once the case is settled. The drawback to getting an advance is, if the case is not approved then the money will need to be paid back out of pocket.

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Libyan women plunge into politics

Showing that women in Libya can be much more than just sexy bodyguards or accessories to murder, women are dipping into politics in the hope of drafting a constitution which protects their rights.

"Women gave a lot of hard work to support the revolution, so why not enter the government now?" asked Samira Karmusi, who is running with the Justice and Construction Party.

The party brings together members of the Muslim Brotherhood with other Islamists and independents. Like most emerging parties, it wants to legislate in accordance with Sharia, or Islamic law.

Karmusi said the men in her party, most of them professionals and some like her husband former political prisoners, welcome women on board.

"We feel that we can do it, that we can make it," she told AFP.

Najia Gajem, a university lecturer who is running as an independent candidate in the district of Ein Zara, says not all men are so open-minded.

"Many of them think that women and their opinions have to stay at home. When you want to change this concept, you have to struggle," she said.

The two women are best friends and hope to become ministers or ambassadors.

But they are split on whether women have a chance of playing a major role in politics after decades of dictatorship under Moamer Kadhafi.

In June, Libyans are due to vote for a constituent assembly which will replace the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC).

The upcoming vote offers a good gauge on whether women's gains in the revolt that toppled Kadhafi last year were fleeting or the start of a tidal change.

The Forum for Democratic Libya and the Beirut-based Beyond Reform and Development have been taking the temperature through a series of workshops.

Most, the groups found, agree on "equality" as a constitutional principle.

But what equality means when it comes to women sparks heated debates between liberals promoting full-political participation and religious conservatives demanding women's exclusion, they reported.

Moderates seem to concur that women should be "equal" in rights as long as this does not come into conflict with Islamic law, especially on matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance and custody.

Alaa Murabit, founder of the Voice of Libyan Women, said she is disappointed to see men and women slip back into their culturally accepted roles.

"What we need to do is reinterpret our religion," Murabit said, stressing that a major obstacle was the "misuse and misinterpretation of Islam."

Gender was an afterthought in the first anti-Kadhafi protests in the eastern city of Benghazi which were mixed until conservatives pushed the two sexes into separate camps again, she said.

Now, women are barely visible in the interim power structures.

The NTC is a sea of men, with just two women holding seats in the interim body. Likewise, Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib gave only two ministries, health and social affairs, to women.

Since the start of the Arab Spring, elections in the region have largely benefited Islamists and similar results are expected in Libya, which has a strong Sunni Muslim identity.

This is why Mubarit enlisted the help of Majida Fallah, one of the top figures in Libya's Muslim Brotherhood, and the kind of woman no one can argue with because she knows her religion.

"We thought that being a politician was a man's role. This is culture, not religion. As Muslims, we know that women have to play a part in running the country," Fallah said.

While Kadhafi had his own brand of feminism, restricting polygamy and pushing female participation in the workforce, society frowned on the high profile women around him.

Examples such as Kadhafi's bombshell bodyguards and figures such as Huda Ben Amr -- known locally as Huda al-Shannaga, the executioner -- cast women in a negative light.

"These negative examples made women withdraw from public life," Fallah said.

"There is a stigma," agrees Murabit, adding that most women stayed out of politics because they didn't want to be seen as sexually loose or corrupt.

Mawada Bushnaf, a TV presenter in Libya's Hurra Channel, said it is critical for women to break with the past and run in the elections -- even if men still reject the idea of a woman becoming president or prime minister.

"Men do not accept to be led by women," she said.

"But if women participate in the national election, they will (help) write the constitution and save their rights," she said.

Her mother, Bushnaf noted, ran in Benghazi's local elections only to come under attack because she doesn't wear the hijab, or Islamic headscarf.

But in a sign that women do stand a chance, also in Benghazi, Najat al-Kikhia became on May 21 the first woman elected to public office.

The NTC has pledged to hold elections for a 200-member constituent assembly by June 19, with two-thirds of the General National Congress seat to be made up of independents and the rest going to candidates from political groups.

In January, the interim authorities dropped a 10 percent quota for women in its electoral law. Instead, parties are required to put an equal number of male and female candidates on their lists.

Critics like Mubarit call the measure a "cop-out".

Only 80 seats of the 200-member assembly are reserved for party candidates, with the remainder set aside for independents.

The consensus is that women who are working within political parties have a better shot because parties boast larger networks and deep pockets.

The real wildcard is whether women independent candidates -- who represent just 90 out of 4,000 candidates overall -- can succeed.

Most female candidates running as independents plan to campaign by word of mouth leaning on the contacts they have made as as educators, doctors or directors of charity organisations.

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Must Have Tools For Projects Around The Home May 31, 2012, 10:23 pm
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When doing any kind of home improvement project, the tools you have can make a big difference in your outcome. So you don?t have to buy any new tools, do the jobs that require the tools that you already have. Keeping your tools organized is also important, so that you know where they are when you need them. There are some important tools, which we will be discussing in this article, that you will need to make your home improvements turn out right.

One decision you have to make when buying any type of power tools is whether to get corded or cordless tools. Most cordless tools are branded with the inability to produce as much power as the same tool with a cord, but they are a lot more fitting for most jobs. Cordless also offers a safer work place due to the fact that there is not a cord cluttering the workplace and creating a hazard. When you do choose cordless equipment, you will save in the long run by using lithium ion batteries. The lithium batteries are rechargeable and will maintain a charge longer that the other rechargeable kind; these batteries will also work better in cold situations. When you have a home project or repair, cordless equipment is a safer and more effective way to proceed.

There are many projects that need a certain tool and it is a drill. It can be more efficient sometimes, using a hand drill, even though it is assumed by most people these days, that a power tool must be used. These can be used safely without worrying about cords or batteries. Of course, in many situations a power drill will make things easier, and it?s good to have one for such cases. When you are doing large holes, you will probably need a plug-in drill, because the cordless drill, while being more convenient, won?t always have enough power. You should have a drill that is reversible, and has more than one speed. Drills are essential for many home improvement jobs, so make sure you have the right kind before you start your work.

Tools for your home improvement projects can be bought in many different places. A hardware store or home improvement store in your town would be the logical choice.

Going online to buy tools has become more popular, because of the prices and how easy it is free love horoscope. Don?t look for the cheapest tool, because you should be more interested in a high quality tool. Usually nothing advertised on TV is as good as it says, which is too bad, because there are things that look useful. You might find a tool with many functions, but realize you will never use most of them. It?s often better to get a high quality tool with a single function than a confusing one that can do a dozen different things. Doing a home improvement project on your own will definitely require the purchase of tools that you probably don?t have. We wrote this article to help you understand what you may need for your particular "do it yourself" project, items that will probably be essential for what you are doing. Finishing your home improvement project begins with getting the right tools ? before you start your project, get your tools today!

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