Motorola. Untitled. 5 Must-have Squeezebox Plugins | Jon Stahl's Journal. Apple, News Corp. unveil The Daily for iPad. Heralds in-app subscriptions Media conglomerate News Corp. has formally launched The Daily, an iPad-only news publication. The app is described as an "all-media" offering, combining text, photo, video and interactive elements. The latter includes things such as a special weather and sports trackers, integrated Twitter feeds, and 360-degree panoramas. Articles can be shared via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. New issues will typically come once a day, although updates can be delivered midday if necessary. It will cost 99 cents a week, or $40 a year.
The first two weeks are being offered for free through a Verizon sponsorship. To support the publication, Apple is introducing a new subscription model. The Daily app should go live in the App Store at 12PM Eastern time. By Electronista Staff. Samsung Galaxy Tab return rates at 16 percent? The Samsung Galaxy Tab might be the first Android tablet to seriously take on the Apple iPad juggernaut—but there are signs that some consumers are throwing the devices under the wheels. According to a point-of-sale survey conducted by ITG Investment Research, as many as 16 percent of U.S. consumers who purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab device have returned it.
According to ITG’s estimates, the return rate for Galaxy Tabs was around 13 percent through December, and that number has increased as end-of-year holiday purchases are returned, reaching 16 percent for the first two weeks of January. Although a return rate of 16 percent is not unprecedented in the mobile or consumer electronics industry—the BlackBerry Storm had a much higher return rate, and failure rates on early versions of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 fell into about the same range—it doesn’t compare very favorably with the iPad, which has return rates around 2 percent.
The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 “Froyo.” Blues Radio. Jazz/New Age Radio. Visual Thinking. Egypt, Democracy and Islam. By Richard C. Auxier, Researcher/Editorial Assistant, Pew Research Center With massive protests threatening to upend the three-decades-long reign of President Hosni Mubarak, the world has been captivated by the events in Egypt. In a survey conducted April 12 to May 7, 2010, the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project examined the views of Egypt and six other Muslim publics about politics and the role Islam should play in it. A 59%-majority of Muslims in Egypt believed that democracy was preferable to any other kind of government. Support for democracy was much higher among Muslims in Lebanon, where 81% preferred it to any other kind of government, and in Turkey, where 76% of Muslims supported it. Egyptians were split on how big a role Islam played in the political life of their country.
In contrast, Muslims in Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey overwhelmingly agreed that Islam played a large role in their politics. This stands in sharp contrast with four other Muslim publics surveyed. Pew Research Center. The Future of the Global Muslim Population. The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030, according to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades – an average annual growth rate of 1.5% for Muslims, compared with 0.7% for non-Muslims.
If current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion. While the global Muslim population is expected to grow at a faster rate than the non-Muslim population, the Muslim population nevertheless is expected to grow at a slower pace in the next two decades than it did in the previous two decades. Several factors account for the faster projected growth among Muslims than non-Muslims worldwide. Europe. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine.
The ‘Italian Job’ and Other Highlights From U.S.’s Rendition Program With Egypt. Abu Zaabal prison, 25 kms north of Cairo, after a mass breakout during the nationwide protest. (AFP/Getty Images file photo) Among the many aspects of the U.S. -Egypt relationship, few have been as controversial as the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, where the agency frequently handed over suspected terrorists to foreign governments with histories of torture and illegal detention. According to Human Rights Watch, Egypt welcomed more CIA detainees than any other country from the 1990s through 2005.
And while renditions happen only with the assurance that a foreign partner will not torture the prisoner, as one CIA officer once told Congress, the assurances “weren’t worth a bucket of warm spit.” In the case of Egypt, the assurances were given by Omar Suleiman, former head of the country’s intelligence service, and the man President Hosni Mubarak picked as his vice president a few days ago.