CAIRO — It was a bloody ordeal with tick-tock drama and a watching world.The hostages at a gas refinery in the Sahara desert...
Google CEO Page on Apple’s ‘thermonuclear’ Android war: ‘How well is that working?’
Label: TechnologyGoogle (GOOG) CEO Larry Page seems unimpressed by Apple’s (AAPL) “thermonuclear war” against his company’s operating system. In an interview with Wired posted Thursday, Page was asked to respond to reports about the late Steve Jobs being “competitive enough to claim that he was willing to ‘go to thermonuclear war’ on Android.” Page responded with one sentence: “How well is that working?” Wired...
AP Source: Lady Gaga to perform at inaugural ball
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (AP) — Watch out Beyonce (bee-AHN'-say) and Katy Perry. There's another diva set to perform during the inauguration festivities — Lady Gaga.A person familiar with the inauguration tells The Associated Press that the pop star will perform at Tuesday's ball for White House staffers. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because that person wasn't authorized to publicly reveal the information.The...
Personal Health: That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work
Label: HealthWhen people fall in love and decide to marry, the expectation is nearly always that love and marriage and the happiness they bring will last; as the vows say, till death do us part. Only the most cynical among us would think, walking down the aisle, that if things don’t work out, “We can always split.”But the divorce rate in the United States is half the marriage rate, and that does not bode well...
Downtown L.A.'s edgy arts district is neighborhood in transition
Label: Business When Gideon Kotzer set out to open a discount electronics store in the mid-1990s, he deliberately chose an old warehouse in...
Jan
18
At least one American dead in Algeria chaos
Label: World CAIRO — One American was dead and dozens of foreign hostages were unaccounted for Friday after a military raid in the Sahara...
RIM offers Android developers up to $2,000 to port apps to BlackBerry 10 this weekend
Label: TechnologyRIM (RIMM) really wants Android developers to bring their apps over to BlackBerry 10, and it’s got the cash to prove it. Via AndroidGuys, it seems that RIM will hold a “BlackBerry 10 Last Chance Port-A-Thon” that will pay Android developers $ 100 for every approved app they port over to BlackBerry 10, with a limite of 20 different paid apps per developer. RIM says that the “port-a-thon” will start...
'Ripper Street' stars Macfadyen, 1880s London
Label: LifestylePASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Matthew Macfadyen is perfectly presentable in jeans and a crewneck sweater that coordinates nicely with the blue of his eyes.But the look is far from the elegant attire he wore as Mr. Darcy opposite Keira Knightley's Elizabeth in the 2005 film "Pride & Prejudice." And his posture is just as casual, which he acknowledges might offend the aristocratic character's diehard...
Well: A Great Grain Adventure
Label: HealthThis week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman asks readers to go beyond wild rice and get adventurous with their grains. She offers new recipes with some unusual grains you may not have ever cooked or eaten. Her recipes this week include:Millet: Millet can be used in bird seed and animal feed, but the grain is enjoying a renaissance in the United States right now as a great source...
Wall Street clocks third straight week of gains
Label: Business Better earnings from General Electric and Morgan Stanley helped...
The aggressively priced Lumia 620 is Nokia’s make or break model
Label: TechnologyNokia (NOK) has started pricing the Lumia 620 in Asia nearly 20% below the rival Windows mid-market model, the HTC (2498) 8S. This is remarkably aggressive considering the 620 has a higher pixel density and twice as much internal memory. The 620 is the keystone phone for Nokia. It is launching before RIM (RIMM) gets its new budget BlackBerry phones out and before Samsung (005930) or LG (066570) enter...
John Mayer organizes, sings at benefit concert
Label: LifestyleBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — John Mayer performed at his first concert in nearly two years, a fundraiser he helped organize to benefit firefighters that helped save his home and others from a Montana wildfire.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/SajIra ) that Mayer started with his first live performance of "If I Ever Get Around to Living," at a concert in Bozeman on Wednesday that included...
Life, Interrupted: Brotherly Love
Label: HealthLife, InterruptedSuleika Jaouad writes about her experiences as a young adult with cancer.There are a lot of things about having cancer in your 20s that feel absurd. One of those instances was when I found myself calling my brother Adam on Skype while he was studying abroad in Argentina to tell him that I had just been diagnosed with leukemia and that — no pressure — he was my only hope for a cure.Today,...
Van Nuys debt collectors pay $1.1 million to settle federal case
Label: Business WASHINGTON — A Van Nuys debt collection operation and the people who ran it agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle federal allegations...
Jan
16
Kaspersky Lab reports major malware discovery
Label: World MOSCOW — In what is being called a new hunt for Red October, a Russian cyber-security company says it has discovered a major...
NVIDIA’s ‘Project SHIELD’ Console Faces Three Challenges
Label: TechnologyDespite being announced at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, NVIDIA’s Project SHIELD isn’t the first game-console-in-a-controller to be announced this year. That honor goes to the GameStick, an indie project being funded on Kickstarter. As relative newcomers to the gaming scene, GameStick‘s creators face an uphill battle for acceptance, from both potential buyers and game developers.But despite...
Obama calls for research on media in gun violence
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood and the video game industry received scant attention Wednesday when President Barack Obama unveiled sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.The White House pressed most forcefully for a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines...
Study Confirms Benefits of Flu Vaccine for Pregnant Women
Label: HealthWhile everyone is being urged to get the flu vaccine as soon as possible, some pregnant women avoid it in the belief that it may harm their babies. A large new study confirms that they should be much more afraid of the flu than the vaccine. Norwegian researchers studied fetal death among 113,331 women pregnant during the H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009-2010. Some 54,065 women were unvaccinated,...
Container traffic at L.A., Long Beach ports up slightly in 2012
Label: Business The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together make up one of Southern California's most important job engines, held...
Jan
15
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf ordered arrested
Label: World ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Tahirul Qadri, the fiery Islamic cleric leading a large antigovernment protest in the heart of the capital,...
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