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Update: 50 injured after quake jolts Indonesia; buildings damaged

2011-10-13T12:14:00.001+07:00

Update: 50 injured after quake jolts Indonesia; buildings damaged

Indonesia's Bali rattled by quake; dozens injured

BALI, Indonesia (AP) – A powerful earthquake jolted Indonesia's popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, causing widespread panic and injuring at least 50 people, many with broken bones and head wounds.

The walls of some temples along the coast crumbled, and witnesses told local radio and television stations the roofs of some homes collapsed.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.0-magnitude quake was centered 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of the island. It hit 36 miles (60 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor.
Although not strong enough to trigger a tsunami, the quake was felt on neighboring Java and Lombok islands, hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.
"It knocked me off my motorcycle," said one badly shaken Bali resident, Miftahul Chusna.
Candy Juliani, a public relations officer for the Sanur Beach Hotel, said terrified guests fled the building.
"We have special emergency routes for this type of situation, but everyone was so scared, they just ignored them," Juliani said.
At least 50 people were hurt, many with cuts, broken bones and head wounds, said Wayan Sudanti, a hospital spokesman.
Three were in critical condition.
Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant quake off the country on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, half of them in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh.
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BREAKING: Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis dies, team says -CC

2011-10-08T21:57:00.001+07:00

BREAKING: Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis dies, team says -CC
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Bus crashes into car on China highway; 35 killed

2011-10-08T08:55:00.001+07:00

3 major road accidents in China kill 56 in 1 day

BEIJING — Three major road accidents in China killed 56 people on the last day of a weeklong holiday, including 35 people who died after a bus collided with a car on a northern expressway, state media reported Saturday.

The official Xinhua News Agency said that the bus flipped over after crashing into a car in the port city of Tianjin on Friday afternoon, injuring 18 others.

Xinhua cited a Tianjin traffic official as saying the bus was speeding and that many passengers were thrown out of the vehicle when it hit the car and rolled over.

In eastern Anhui province, at least 10 people died and 19 were injured in a 24-vehicle pileup on an expressway as foggy weather reduced visibility, the Beijing News daily said.

Eleven people in a van were killed after a truck crashed into the vehicle in central Henan province, the newspaper said.

Serious traffic accidents are common in China due to often overloaded vehicles and poorly trained drivers who often ignore traffic laws.

Friday was the end of a weeklong holiday to mark China's National Day.
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Mntan Menteri Sekretaris Negara Moerdiono

2011-10-07T21:07:00.001+07:00

Mntan Menteri Sekretaris Negara Moerdiono dikabarkan meninggal dunia di Singapura.

Salah satu kerabat Moerdiono mengabarkan, mantan orang berpengaruh di era Orde Baru itu menghembuskan nafas akibat sakit yang dideritanya.

"Beliau memang sakit sudah lama di Singapura, saya juga baru dapat kabar wafatnya," ujar Ricky

Kuasa hukum Moerdiono, Henry Yosodiningrat membenarkan kabar duka tersebut. "Iya beliau meninggal maghrib tadi," ujarnya singkat. [mah]
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This is how Twitter mourned for Steve Jobs

2011-10-07T18:52:00.001+07:00

This is how Twitter mourned for Steve Jobs

It's been almost 24 hours since the first news of Steve Jobs' death first rocked the Internet, and still Twitter users are pouring out lamentations 140 characters at a time. By 12 a.m. ET Thursday morning, there had been 1.4 million tweets mentioning Jobs and 11,000 news articles written, according to All Things D.

Here are some of the more notable tweets:

Ashton Kutcher, @aplusk

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs RIP"

Robert Scoble, @Scobleizer

"I was driving on the freeway in Cupertino when I heard the news. Shocking. So much emotion is swirling about."

Gizmodo, @Gizmodo

"Apple has confirmed Steve Jobs is dead. It's now on their front page. This is a very sad day. Godspeed, Steve."

io9, @io9

"RIP Steve Jobs. Thanks, Steve, for making the world more science fictional."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, @Schwarzenegger

"Steve lived the California Dream every day of his life and he changed the world and inspired all of us. #ThankYouSteve"

Darren Rovell, @darrenrovell

"RIP Steve Jobs. You left your mark on our desks, on our ears & in our hands."

Alyssa Milano, @Alyssa_Milano

"Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. You were always a big part of my world with your special inventions. Thank you for your brain."

@Jesus_M_Christ

RIP Steve Jobs. In unrelated news, I am proud to announce we are now in the first stages of development of the iHeaven app.

Tim Carmody, @tcarmody

I'm on my way to PHL to see my son, who uses a device Steve Jobs invented to help him talk. He will never know. He will never know.

Michael Arrington, @arrington

Damn. People like steve jobs are supposed to live forever

John Hodgman, @hodgman

Everything good I have done, I have done on a Mac.

Andy Carvin, @acarvin

In elementary school, I used an Apple ll. In college, I had a Mac Plus w/ a 20 meg hard drive. Now my 3-year-old is playing with an iPad.
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Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him

2011-10-07T09:24:00.001+07:00

Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him

CUPERTINO, Calif./SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Steve Jobs, in pain and too weak to climb stairs a few weeks before his death, wanted his children to understand why he wasn't always there for them, according to the author of his highly anticipated biography.

"I wanted my kids to know me," Jobs was quoted as saying by Pulitzer Prize nominee Walter Isaacson, when he asked the Apple Inc co-founder why he authorized a tell-all biography after living a private, almost ascetic life.

"I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did," Jobs told Isaacson in their final interview at Jobs' home in Palo Alto, California.

Isaacson said he visited Jobs for the last time a few weeks ago and found him curled up in some pain in a downstairs bedroom. Jobs had moved there because he was too weak to go up and down stairs, "but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant," Isaacson wrote in an essay on Time.com that will be published in the magazine's October 17 edition.

Jobs died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Outpourings of sympathy swept across the globe as state leaders, business rivals and fans paid respect to the man who touched the daily lives of countless millions through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

Jobs had struggled with health issues but said very little about his battle with cancer since an operation in 2004. When he stepped down in August, handing the CEO reins to long-time operations chief Tim Cook, Jobs said simply that he could no longer fulfill his duties as chief executive.

Apple has been similarly guarded about the circumstances of his death, saying only that their chairman was surrounded by his wife Laurene and immediate family. Jobs had four children from two relationships.

Funeral arrangements have not been disclosed and it is uncertain when the company will hold a planned "celebration" of Jobs' life. Officials in Sacramento said there will be no state or public funeral.

SOMBER MOOD

From Tokyo and Paris to San Francisco and New York, mourners created impromptu memorials outside Apple stores, from flowers and candles to a dozen green and red apples on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.

At corporate headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley on Thursday, employees -- current and former -- gathered with their families under an overcast sky to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial on a driveway leading up to the entrance.

"He was a very private person, but he's everywhere in the products he created," said Glenn Harada, a 22-year-old former Apple employee. "He didn't work alone but none of this could have happened without him."

Employees said they went on with business, but with an undercurrent of sadness. Grief counselors on the payroll had reached out to Apple workers, a spokesman said.

"Deep down there's sadness," said Cory Moll, a part-time Apple employee who had tried to organize a union. "We have lost someone who touched us all."

With his passion for minimalist design and a genius for marketing, Jobs laid the groundwork for Apple to continue to flourish after his death, most analysts and investors say.

But Apple still faces challenges in the absence of the man who was its chief product designer, marketing guru and salesman nonpareil. Phones running Google's Android software are gaining share in the smartphone market, and there are questions about what Apple's next big product will be.

The launch of the iPhone 4S -- at the kind of gala event that became Jobs' trademark -- was a letdown to many fans earlier this week, underscoring how Jobs' showmanship and uncanny instincts will be missed.

But Wall Street analysts said Cook's new team-based approach and operational savvy will keep the company on track -- at least for now.

Apple shares ended down just 0.23 percent at $377.37, though that underperformed the broader U.S. market.

"It didn't come as a shock," said Terry Donoghue, an Apple technical writer, whose department boss called an hour-long meeting to reminisce about Jobs. "It's still hard for a lot of people."

JOBS' ESTATE: CONFIDENTIAL?

Jobs, in his trademark uniform of black mock-turtleneck and blue jeans, was deemed the heart and soul of a company that rivals Exxon Mobil as the most valuable in America.

With an estimated net worth of $7 billion -- including a 7 percent stake in Walt Disney Co -- it was not known how Jobs' estate would be handled.

The entrepreneur had sometimes been criticized for not wielding his enormous influence and wealth for philanthropy like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. His death revived speculation that some of his estate might be donated to cancer research groups or hospitals.

California law requires a will to be filed in probate court within 30 days of death.

Jobs and his wife placed at least three properties into trusts in 2009, which legal experts say is a sign he may have been preparing his assets to remain confidential upon his death.

Placing stock and real estate into trusts can both minimize estate taxes upon a person's death, and keep them from being publicly disclosed in probate court, said John O'Grady, a trusts and estates attorney in San Francisco.

Jobs was given up for adoption soon after his birth in San Francisco to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian-born father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali.

A college dropout, Jobs started Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak in his parents' garage in 1976.

"I do feel like I did when John Lennon was killed. Also JFK and Martin Luther King. Like Steve Jobs, they gave us hope," Wozniak said on his Facebook page.

Jobs changed the technology world in the late 1970s, when the Apple II became the first personal computer to gain a wide following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which built on breakthrough technologies developed at Xerox Parc and elsewhere to create the personal computing experience as we know it today.

The rebel streak that was central to his persona got him tossed out of Apple in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a few years began the roll-out of a troika of products -- the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad -- that again upended the established order in major industries.

(Additional reporting by Michael Miller, Jennifer Saba, Sinead Carew and Liana Baker in New York; Scott Malone in Columbus, Ohio; Sarah McBride in Cupertino; Poornima Gupta and Dan Levine in San Francisco; Edwin Chan in Los Angeles; Matt Cowan in London; and Amy Pyett in Sydney; editing by John Wallace, Tiffany Wu and Matthew Lewis)
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Stocks jump for a third day after European Central Bank offers new support to banks; retail sales gain

2011-10-07T05:25:00.001+07:00

Stocks jump for a third day after European Central Bank offers new support to banks; retail sales gain

EW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 183 points Thursday after the European Central Bank moved to support that region's lenders and U.S. retailers reported stronger September sales.

It was the third straight day of gains. The Dow has soared 468 points since Tuesday, or 4.4 percent.

The European Central Bank promised to provide unlimited one-year loans to the region's lenders through 2013. The goal is to shield banks from poorly functioning short-term credit markets, in which banks are becoming too worried about each other's financial stability to lend money to one another. Germany's DAX jumped 3.2 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 3.4 percent.

The loans are also meant to help protect the banks in the event Greece's government defaults on its debt. If that happens the value of Greek bonds held by those banks would be likely to drop sharply, weakening the banks' balance sheets and making it harder for them to lend.

The European Central Bank disappointed some investors by announcing that it would keep interest rates unchanged. Analysts were hoping the bank would cut rates to encourage lending and give a boost to Europe's sagging economy.

Target Corp., Nordstrom Inc., Macy's Inc. and other U.S. retailers reported sales that beat Wall Street's expectations. While some of the sales were driven by deep discounts, analysts said the higher sales suggested the U.S. economy was not in another recession.

"The market has been pricing in an out-and-out recession, but the fact that consumer spending is holding up shows that we're more likely to continue muddling through at a 1 to 2 percent growth rate," said Brian Gendreau, market strategist at Cetera Financial Group.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 183.38 points, or 1.7 percent, to 11,123.33. It was the first time the Dow rose by more than 100 points for three straight days since a three-day rally that began Aug. 11 and ended with a 763-point gain.

It was the 9th straight day the Dow closed up or down more than 100 points, the longest such streak since November 2008, in the middle of the financial crisis. Markets have been extraordinarily volatile as investors react to the latest headlines out of Europe.

The S&P 500 rose 20.94, or 1.8 percent, to 1,164.97. The Nasdaq composite rose 46.31, or 1.9 percent, to 2,506.82.

Banks in Europe and the U.S. rallied. U.S. bank stocks rose sharply after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told a Congressional panel that U.S. financial firms had a "very modest" exposure to Europe's debt problems. Bank of America Corp. jumped 8.9 percent to $6.28, the biggest gain among the 30 stocks in the Dow. Morgan Stanley rose 4.8 percent to $15.18.

The Labor Department said the number of applications for unemployment benefits rose slightly last month to 401,000. While that is a signal that the job market continues to be weak, the increase was slightly less than what Wall Street economists had predicted, a signs that layoffs are easing. Unemployment benefits typically need to fall below 375,000 to signal job growth.

The hopeful signs on the U.S. economy led investors to pull money out of lower-risk assets. That pushed yields higher on U.S. government debt as investors sold Treasurys. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.99 percent from 1.90 percent late Wednesday.

Corning Inc. rose 7.1 percent to $13.50 after it said it would increase its dividend and buy back shares. Apple Inc. lost 0.2 percent to $377.37 in choppy trading after company co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died Wednesday. Several analysts and large investors said they believe the company would continue to grow under new CEO Tim Cook.

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Steve Jobs: Remembering the dissatisfied man

2011-10-06T23:40:00.001+07:00

Steve Jobs: Remembering the dissatisfied man

Many famous Steve Jobs moments involve him speaking before enraptured audiences. One of my most vivid Jobs memories is of the time I saw him standing quietly at the back of one.

I was attending the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Boston in 1989, and was trapped in a throng on the show floor watching one of Pixar's short cartoons. (The company hadn't started making feature-length ones, and wasn't yet a cherished icon of American entertainment.) The person next to me happened to be Jobs, who had bought George Lucas's graphics division in 1985 and bootstrapped it into independent existence as Pixar.

I'm not sure if anyone else noticed him watching the movie and observing the crowd — they were too busy being entertained. He beamed with quiet satisfaction, wearing the same cat-like grin he did at the launch of the original Macintosh in 1984. In recent years, as I attended Apple product launches where Jobs was the center of attention, I saw it repeatedly.

And yet,'satisfaction' is nowhere on the list of words that leaps to mind as I think about Jobs' life and career. He was famously dissatisfied — with products under development, with the people who reported to him, with Apple's competitors and partners, with the way the technology industry worked, with life in general.

I found that smile of contentment more compelling than the praise ("insanely great!") that Jobs routinely bestowed on Apple products. It looked utterly sincere. But it was also fleeting. A Jobs who had kept on being pleased with Pixar as it existed in 1989 would never have instigated the changes that made Toy Story possible, just as a Jobs who was happy with the Apple's lot in life in 2001 would never have presided over a decade's worth of ambitious expansion.

To me, the most remarkable thing about his career wasn't the Apple II, the Mac, Pixar, the Apple Store, the iPod, iTunes, the iPad or any of the other blockbusters he guided into existence — even though any one of them would have been enough to assure a place in the history of business and technology. (Steve Wozniak contributed to only one of these hits, the Apple II, and will be rightly revered for it forever.) Rather, it's the durability and consistency of his vision that is astonishing.

When Jobs cofounded Apple with Woz in 1976, he was 21 and the personal computer industry barely extended beyond the meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club, the Silicon Valley institution that counted Jobs and Woz among its regulars. By 1977, the Apple II was on the market and Jobs was arguably the most influential figure in the business. What were the chances that he would still dominate it thirty-four years later — not by riding out his successes but by restlessly moving on to the next big thing, again and again?
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the death of Steve Jobs: " "We've lost something we won't get back."

2011-10-06T13:07:00.000+07:00

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the death of Steve Jobs: " "We've lost something we won't get back."

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Steve Wozniak, who started Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with Steve Jobs in 1976, said he'll miss his fellow co-founder "as much as everyone."

"We've lost something we won't get back," he said in an interview with The Associated Press following Jobs' death on Wednesday.

"The way I see it, though, the way people love products he put so much into creating means he brought a lot of life to the world."

Wozniak, a high school friend of Jobs', last saw him about three months ago, shortly after Jobs emerged from a medical leave to unveil Apple Inc.'s iCloud content syncing service and the latest version of its iOS mobile software. At the time, Wozniak said, Jobs looked ill and sounded weak.

Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January - his third since his health problems began - and officially resigned as CEO in August. Jobs became Apple's chairman and handed the helm to his hand-picked successor, Tim Cook.

Apple announced Jobs' death Wednesday afternoon. The company did not specify a cause. Jobs was 56.

Wozniak, 61, said Jobs was a good husband and father and a great businessman who had an eye for details. He said Jobs was a good marketer and understood the benefits of technology. His string of hits includes the Apple II and Macintosh computers, iPod music players, the iPhone and the iPad tablet computer.

When it came to Apple's products, "while everyone else was fumbling around trying to find the formula, he had the better instincts," he said.

After dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Ore., Jobs returned to California in 1974, where he attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club - a group of computer hobbyists - with Wozniak.

Wozniak's homemade computer drew attention from other enthusiasts, but Jobs saw its potential far beyond the geeky hobbyists of the time. The pair started Apple Computer Inc. in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. According to Wozniak, Jobs suggested the name after visiting an "apple orchard" that Wozniak said was actually a commune.

Wozniak and Jobs both left Apple in 1985. In Jobs' case, it followed a clash with then-CEO John Sculley. Jobs resigned his post as chairman of the board and left Apple after being pushed out of his role leading the Macintosh team.

Jobs returned in 1997 as interim CEO after Apple, then in dire financial dire straits, bought Next, a computer company he started.

According to Wozniak, Jobs told him around the time he left Apple in 1985 that he had a feeling he would die before the age of 40. Because of that, "a lot of his life was focused on trying to get things done quickly," Wozniak said.

"I think what made Apple products special was very much one person, but he left a legacy," he said. Because of this, Wozniak hopes the company can continue to be successful despite Jobs' death.
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Steve Wozniak: "It's like there's a big hole left in you... He made a lot of people happy"

2011-10-06T11:30:00.000+07:00

Steve Wozniak: "It's like there's a big hole left in you... He made a lot of people happy"
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AP: Doctors say cancer likely killed Steve Jobs; Apple, Jobs' family have not said what caused his death

2011-10-06T11:27:00.001+07:00

AP: Doctors say cancer likely killed Steve Jobs; Apple, Jobs' family have not said what caused his death

Apple and the family of Steve Jobs are not saying what caused the death of the company's founder. However, medical experts not involved in his care say that the liver transplant he had two years ago was probably a sign that his cancer had returned.

Jobs declared he was cured in 2004 after surgery for a rare type of pancreatic cancer that grows more slowly and is more treatable than the more common type. Yet this type of cancer often returns or spreads, usually to the liver.

Jobs has been on a medical leave since early this year for medical problems he wouldn't discuss in detail. He resigned as Apple's chief in August.

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Agnes Monica multi-platinum singer and highly acclaimed actress

2011-10-06T11:07:00.001+07:00

Agnes Monica multi-platinum singer and highly acclaimed actress

After rising to stardom at the age of 6, Indonesian singer Agnes Monica has made a name for herself as an award-winning, multi-platinum singer and highly acclaimed actress.

With eight albums under her belt, Agnes has gained commercial success in many countries, including her homeland Indonesia, as well as Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, and even the Netherlands.

After performing at the 2008 & 2009 Asia Song Festival in Seoul, Agnes also attained fame in Taiwan, Korea, China, and the rest of the Asia Pacific region. She even snagged the award for Best Asian Artist in the two years she participated. Agnes has numerous awards to her name, including 10 Anugerah Musik Indonesia awards, seven Panasonic Awards, four MTV Indonesia Awards, three Indonesia Kid's Choice Awards, and seven JpopAsia International Music Awards.

She is the face of Olay for Southeast Asia, and the spokesperson for Honda in the region. Her branded slogan, "Dream, Believe, and Make it Happen" became the campaign for the US Embassy's 2011 cultural conference, hosted by Agnes. Agnes is also an ambassador of MTV EXIT to combat human trafficking. Agnes broke into the international music scene through collaborations ranging from American R&B Singer Keith Martin, to Latin heartthrob Christian Chavez.

Agnes recently has recorded a duet with Grammy-Award winning legend Michael Bolton. Agnes is now in the process of working on an English studio album, with exciting collaborators such as Timbaland.

Vote to Agnes Monica for EUROPE MUSIC AWARD 2011

2011-10-06T10:45:00.005+07:00

Vote to Agnes Monica for EUROPE MUSIC AWARD 2011

Penyanyi kita Agnes Monica dinominasikan di EUROPE MUSIC AWARD 2011, seharusnya kita semua beri VOTE, agar masyarakat dunia bisa lihat sisi baik Indonesia melalui Penyanyinya..

Caranya..

Click ⇨ http://bit.ly/rniqQe

Muncul nama "Agnes Monica".. Lalu klik "Vote".. Selesai..!
Sesimple itu.. Gampang bgt..

Ini bukan masalah suka atau tidak suka dg Agnes. Tapi lebih kepada mendukung Bangkitlah Indonesia dimata Dunia...

Mhn teruskan broadcast ini, Semangat Indonesia, semangat kebaikan Indonesia

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Same old iPhone design not doing it for you? Samsung's got "something BIG" up its sleeve

2011-10-06T02:23:00.001+07:00

Same old iPhone design not doing it for you? Samsung's got "something BIG" up its sleeve

Nexus Prime Teaser and Leak Spark

Has the all-too-familiar shape of Apple's iPhone 4S left you hot and bothered? You might want to pay attention next week, when Google and Samsung are expected to announce their Nexus Prime smartphone.

Samsung's "Mobile Unpacked" event is scheduled for October 11, but the company is already dropping hints on what to expect. A new teaser video shows what looks like an aluminum-clad smartphone with a curved design. The video's tagline is "Something BIG is coming," backing up rumors that the Nexus Prime will have a huge display—possibly 4.5 inches or larger.

An alternate theory, via SlashGear: Samsung will announce both a tablet and a smartphone at the event, judging by the slightly larger figure at the end of the video that sits flush with the smaller smartphone-shaped image.

Shapes and sizes aside, the launch will likely include lots of details on Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Google's Android operating system. So far, all we know is that Ice Cream Sandwich is supposed to merge the smartphone version of Android (Gingerbread) and the tablet version of Android (Honeycomb) into a single piece of software.

But rumors suggest that future Android phones will incorporate home, back, search and menu buttons directly into the display. GSM Arena recently posted a leaked image, supposedly of the Nexus Prime, with navigation buttons as part of the software. The leak also shows a display resolution of 1280-by-720, rivaling only LG's Optimus LTE.

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Ayu Ting Ting Dilarang Ortu Pacaran

2011-10-05T12:27:00.003+07:00

Ayu Ting Ting Dilarang Ortu Pacaran

Jakarta, Sampai saat ini, pedangdut Ayu Ting Ting masih menyandang status jomblo. Dara 19 tahun itu mengaku dilarang pacaran oleh kedua orangtuanya.

"Mau bagaimanapun ikutin kata ayah dan ibu," tutur pelantun 'Alamat Palsu' itu saat ditemui di Studio Hanggar, Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, Selasa (4/10/2011) malam.

Ayu pun lebih memilih untuk fokus membangun kariernya di dunia hiburan ketimbang pacaran. Ayu juga tidak memiliki impian untuk menikah muda.

"Sekarang saya lagi fokus di karir, teman banyak, berteman saja," ucapnya.

Lalu, apakah Ayu memiliki kriteria calon pacarnya nanti?

"Kalau tipe pasti seiman, sayang sama ibu dan ayah baru sama aku," jawabnya

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MotoGP paddock girls set the pulses racing

2011-10-05T06:12:00.000+07:00

MotoGP paddock girls set the pulses racing.

THESE girls certainly know how to tackle a hairpin!
While the world's best MotoGP riders are charging their 800cc beasts round the famous circuits, there's some pretty racy models to be found round the garages too.

You certainly wouldn't call them the pits. In fact the MotoGP paddock girls aren't just wheelie good, they are guaranteed to leave you in a spin.
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Yahoo! Screen: Your new TV on the internet

2011-10-05T00:02:00.002+07:00

Yahoo! Screen: Your new TV on the internet

Not content with simply partnering with ABC News yesterday for a revamped news service that includes multiple new web series, Yahoo continues to recreate itself with the launch of Yahoo! Screen, a new video hub that turns the internet into something closer to television, with multiple channels filled with thousands of videos and television shows.

With an interface that happens to look very similar to Hulu, the hub offers channels based around Lifestyle, Sports, Movies, Comedy, News, Finance, TV Shows and "Yahoo Originals," a slate of original programming including ABC News content, existing brand extensions like OMG! Now and The Thread alongside all-new shows.

Yahoo's VP of media properties, David Rice, told Fast Company that "the objective [behind the revamp] is to make it easy for me to watch and be entertained,” explaining that while Yahoo has a large library of premium video content, historically "if you go out and ask consumers and advertisers who's the leader in video, rarely would they say Yahoo."

The channels are being compiled by a combination of human editors and personalized algorithms based on your viewing habits, and Yahoo plans to use the latter to target advertising towards specific demographics, making the site more attractive to companies looking to reach an eager audience.
Currently, Yahoo! Screen is only available on desktops and laptops, but the company hopes to bring it to mobile devices soon.

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Watch: David Beckham, coach clash after game

2011-10-04T22:25:00.003+07:00

Watch: David Beckham, coach clash after game

After falling to David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy Saturday night, Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis said: "I think we stretched L.A. to their wits end."

Judging from the video above, Kreis was right.

As the game ended, the coach and Galaxy superstar got into a heated exchange with Beckham putting his finger inches from Kreis' face and pushing an opposing player out of the way.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune's Martin Renzhofer, Beckham was apparently irked that Kreis had scolded the referee for issuing six yellow cards during the match.

"Apparently [Beckham] thinks he's the only one who can yell at referees," said Kreis, who added that the thought Beckham was being disrespectful.

Indeed, it was an unusual sight seeing any MLS player, let alone Beckham, confront an opposing coach after a win. But the 36-year-old midfielder admitted recently that he is a changed man since the birth of his daughter in July - even getting a few gray hairs.

"I definitely feel different than I did 10 years ago," he recently told the Wall Street Journal Magazine. "It takes a while for the Achilles to warm up. Once I've had my coffee, I'm good."

Maybe the 36-year-old midfielder wasn't really upset at Kreis; perhaps he was simply caffeine-deprived.

Three win 2011 physics Nobel for universe expansion work

2011-10-04T20:31:00.003+07:00

Three win 2011 physics Nobel for universe expansion work

(Reuters) - Three scientists shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, the prize committee said on Tuesday.

One half of the 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.45 million) went to U.S. citizen Saul Perlmutter and the other half to U.S.-Australian citizen Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess.

"They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, and discovered that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate," prize awarder, the Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said.

"The discovery came as a complete surprise, even to the laureates themselves," the committee added in a statement.

($1 = 6.879 Swedish Crowns)

Pil "ajaib" Anti Uban untuk mencegah tumbuhnya uban

2011-10-04T18:14:00.006+07:00

Pil "ajaib" Anti Uban untuk mencegah tumbuhnya uban

Paris: Rambut putih atau uban menjadi momok mengerikan bagi sebagian orang. Perusahan kosmetik dan kecantikan terbesar di dunia, L'oreal, tengah mengembangkan pil yang kabarnya berkhasiat untuk mencegah tumbuhnya uban.

Pil "ajaib" itu terbuat dari buah yang belum dapat diidentifikasi jenisnya. Buah itu dapat meniru tirosinase-related protein 2, enzim yang melindungi produksi pigmentasi. Enzim itu akan mencegah proses stres oksidatif, yang akan berujung pada pencegahan memudarnya warna rambut.

Pil yang telah diujicobakan itu siap diluncurkan dan diproduksi massal dalam empat tahun mendatang. Formula rahasia dari produk itu pun akan siap dipresentasikan pada konferensi ilmu pengetahuan pada Mei 2013 nanti. Dengan produk barunya itu, L'oreal berharap dapat kembali menguasai pasar perawatan rambut dunia.

"Produk ini akan merangkul konsumen dari semua jenis kelamin. Kami menyarankan pelanggan untuk mengonsumsinya seperti pil diet. Untuk urusan harga, kami akan memastikan akan sangat terjangkau," kata pimpinan Hair Biology L'oreal Bruno Bernard.(Zeenews/SHA)

Many killed in Somalia bomb attack, African Union spokesman says.

2011-10-04T17:58:00.001+07:00

Many killed in Somalia bomb attack, African Union spokesman says.

Many were killed Tuesday after a bomb attack outside the Ministry of Education in Mogadishu in Somalia's capital, Lt. Col. Paddy Nkunda, an African Union forces spokesman said.

Blast in Somali Capital Kills at Least 65-Official

2011-10-04T17:54:00.002+07:00

Blast in Somali Capital Kills at Least 65-Official

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A truck bomb killed at least 65 people at government buildings in the heart of Somalia's capital on Tuesday, an ambulance worker said, and al Shabaab insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack.

Witnesses said there was a loud blast at a compound housing four government ministries in the K4 (Kilometer 4) area of the capital Mogadishu, where students had gathered on Tuesday to take exams.

"We have carried 65 dead bodies and 50 injured people," ambulance coordinator Ali Muse told Reuters. "Some are still lying there. Most of the people have burns."

A Reuters reporter said he had seen nine bodies at the compound, which is in an area of the capital under the control of government forces and African Union peacekeeping troops.

He said scores of people with burns were walking to a nearby hospital and police were trying to evacuate more students trapped inside the damaged buildings.

Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels had threatened to carry out attacks on government installations after pulling most of their fighters out of Mogadishu in early August.

"Al Shabaab carried out that attack," a spokesman for the insurgents told Reuters. "Our target was the ministries."

Police said a truck had exploded at the gate.

A second Reuters reporter nearby saw a government pick-up truck leaving the scene with two bodies covered in the back and another five people with bloodied faces. He said police were shooting into the air to disperse crowds.

Muse said it looked as though the truck had been packed with petrol and explosives. He said students, soldiers and civilians were among the dead.

(Additional reporting by Mohamed Ahmed; Editing by David Clarke)

Jakarta sees drop of 28.58 percent in foreign tourists

2011-10-04T17:37:00.001+07:00

Jakarta sees drop of 28.58 percent in foreign tourists

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has announced that the number of foreign tourist visiting the capital dropped dramatically to around 150,000 people in August from 205,861 registered in July.
"It decreased by 28.58 percent," BPS head Agus Suherman said Monday as quoted by Tempointeraktif.com.

He then suggested that the Ramadan fasting month might be a`factor that contributed to the decline, especially for tourists from fellow Muslim countries like Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.

Agus added, however, that the loss of foreign tourists had been balanced by the high number of domestic tourists during the holiday season.

He said BPS had calculated that hotel occupancy rates only dropped by 9 percent this year thanks to the growing trend of families moving temporarily to hotels because their house maids went home during the Eid Mubarak holidays.

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Mogadishu blast update: Somalia 'suicide' car bomb kills dozens in Mogadishu

2011-10-04T17:30:00.000+07:00

Mogadishu blast update: Al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claims responsibility for deadly truck bomb - BBC

At least 55 people have been killed by a huge suspected suicide blast near a government compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, say officials.

Eyewitnesses said a truck carrying explosives was driven into a gate near a government ministry and detonated.

Sheikh Ali Mohamed Rage, a spokesman for the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, told the BBC it had carried out the attack.

Dozens of people were also injured in the attack.

BBC Somali's Mohammed Dore, at the scene, said vehicles were on fire, bodies were lying in the street and shocked soldiers were randomly firing into the air.

Our correspondent said it was the worst incident he had ever experienced.

Soldiers were among those killed and injured, as well as students who had been queuing at the main gate to take an exam at the education ministry in order to gain a scholarship to study in Turkey.

'Checkpoint blast'
Members of the UN-backed transitional government were meeting in the building at the time, but it is not yet clear if they were among the casualties.

An official from the African Union, which has peacekeeping troops in Somalia, said the incident was "very serious".

The blast struck outside a compound housing government buildings in the Kilometre Four district.

Police officer Ali Hussein told the Associated Press news agency that the vehicle had exploded after pulling up at a checkpoint on the way into the official compound.

An official with Mogadishu's ambulance service, Ali Ruse, said 65 bodies had been recovered and at least 50 other people had been injured.

"Some are still lying there. Most of the people have burns," he told Reuters news agency.

Somalia has been without an effective central government since 1991 - the weak transitional government and Islamist militias are competing for control of the country.

Al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaeda, controls large swathes of south and central Somalia.

It retreated from Mogadishu two months ago, but analysts said that without a front line it was likely to begin carrying out more bombings, including suicide attacks.

Last week, al-Shabab tried but failed to seize two towns from pro-government forces near Somalia's border with Kenya.

Somalia's political instability has been compounded in the past year by the worst drought in six decades, which has forced tens of thousands of people to flee to Mogadishu in search of food.

The UN has declared a famine in six regions of Somalia.

The BBC's East Africa correspondent, Will Ross, said the latest attack will not only worry the government but also the aid agencies, who have been taking great risks to get food to the drought victims.

BPS ranks Jakarta 39th for inflation

2011-10-04T13:52:00.002+07:00

BPS ranks Jakarta 39th for inflation

Jakarta inflation drops significantlyBPS ranks Jakarta 39th for inflationA recent study by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has ranked Jakarta 39th in terms of inflation rates in 66 Indonesian municipalities and regencies in September.Forty-five of the 66 municipalities/regencies surveyed experienced inflation in September, with the West Kalimantan town of Singkawang showing the highest inflation rate, and the West Java town of Bogor with the lowest, BPS Jakarta office chief Agus Suherman said Tuesday in Jakarta."Jakarta's inflation rate in September dropped significantly to 0.13 percent from a fairly high rate of 1.15 percent in August," Agus said."We hope Jakarta's inflation rate will continue to drop over the next three months so that by the end of the year the [cumulative 2011] rate will be under the targeted 6.5 percent."Agus added that the declining inflation rate in Jakarta in September had been prompted by increases to university tuition fees and pay for domestic workers.

A recent study by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has ranked Jakarta 39th in terms of inflation rates in 66 Indonesian municipalities and regencies in September.

Forty-five of the 66 municipalities/regencies surveyed experienced inflation in September, with the West Kalimantan town of Singkawang showing the highest inflation rate, and the West Java town of Bogor with the lowest, BPS Jakarta office chief Agus Suherman said Tuesday in Jakarta.

"Jakarta's inflation rate in September dropped significantly to 0.13 percent from a fairly high rate of 1.15 percent in August," Agus said.

"We hope Jakarta's inflation rate will continue to drop over the next three months so that by the end of the year the [cumulative 2011] rate will be under the targeted 6.5 percent."

Agus added that the declining inflation rate in Jakarta in September had been prompted by increases to university tuition fees and pay for domestic workers.

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