Wednesday, December 7, 2011

More Android App Downloads Doesn't Mean That More Money for Developers (The Atlantic Wire)

The?announcement?of?Android's 10 billionth app download should be great news for?developers. After all, more downloads means more money, right? Actually, it might not. High download rates are actually one of the reasons Android app developers may make less money than their Apple counterparts.

Related: iPhones Track You Even When You Tell Them to Stop

A September study?found?that Apple's developers make more money than Android developers because of Android's piracy problems.?Apple has strict guidelines that require developers to go through a?rigorous?approval process and rely only on Apple tools, while Android is a much more of an open market for developers. That can also make it a playground for pirates.?About a third of Android developers said piracy had cost them around $10,000 in revenue. Another 32 percent said it increased their support costs. And another quarter reported increased server costs due to heavy loads imposed by pirated copies

Related: Steve Jobs's 10-Word Defense of the iPhone's Location Tracking

Even with the promising new Android figures, there are many more?iPhone app downloads.?The latest Apple figures from October 2011 (released before the mega-success of the iPhone 4S) reported?18 billion downloads, nearly double what Android reported today. Sure, Android is catching up with Apple, as?AllThingsD's?John Paczkowski?points out, but?Android?has?more free apps than Apple, according to a March 2011 report. That means Android users are more accustomed to freebies, making it harder for those trying to make money off of fee-based apps.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/personaltech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20111206/tc_atlantic/moreandroidappdownloadsdoesntmeanmoremoneydevelopers45837

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

'Hunger Games' Composer Leaves Film

Danny Elfman reportedly has scheduling issues as he's currently also working on 'Dark Shadows' and 'Men in Black 3.'
By Kevin P. Sullivan


Danny Elfman
Photo: Barry King/ FilmMagic

Danny Elfman, the man behind the iconic scores for most of Tim Burton's films, may not be heading to Panem.

The Academy Award-nominated composer has reportedly dropped out of "The Hunger Games," according to Variety. Elfman is said to have left the production for scheduling reasons, as he is currently working on the music for "Dark Shadows," and "Men in Black 3."

Lionsgate did not immediately respond to MTV News' request for comment. James Newton Howard, the composer responsible for dozens of famous scores, including "Batman Begins," has reportedly taken the reins from Elfman in what was described as a smooth transition. The change will have no effect on the post-production and release schedules for the film. Newton Howard has scored an impressive eight Academy Award nominations over the years for films that include "Defiance, "Michael Clayton" and "The Village."

Elfman was set to collaborate on the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' young-adult novel with T-Bone Burnett, the songwriter who won an Oscar for his work on 2009's "Crazy Heart." Burnett will reportedly remain on the production as the film's executive music producer. Burnett had previously raved to MTV News about working with Elfman on the project, telling us in August of his collaborator, "He's got an incredible space he's put together. It's the most incredible studio I've ever seen and he's got drums and marimbas and a cimbalom — just crazy instruments everywhere. We're just going to go over there and rock out. I think we're just going to play together. We're going to do it together."

Howard, meanwhile, has more than a full plate of upcoming projects. Among his future musical endeavors are two of next year's biggest films: "Snow White and the Huntsman" and "The Bourne Legacy."

"The Hunger Games" is set for release on March 23, 2012, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, with Gary Ross directing.

Check out everything we've got on "The Hunger Games."

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1675451/hunger-games-composer-danny-elfman-leaves.jhtml

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Wreaths headed to Arlington National Cemetery

Robert F. Bukaty / AP

Traffic moves by a parked convoy of tractor-trailers carrying wreaths on Sunday in Portland, Maine.

By Clarke Canfield, Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine -- Twenty years ago, wreath company owner Morrill Worcester and a dozen other people laid 5,000 wreaths on headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. It was Worcester's way of giving thanks to the nation's veterans with leftover unsold wreaths.

This year, Worcester has arranged for up to 100,000 wreaths to be placed on gravesites at the military cemetery Dec. 10 in his biggest wreath-laying undertaking yet.

A convoy of more than 20 trucks left Worcester Wreath Co. in the eastern Maine town of Harrington on Sunday to begin the six-day journey to the cemetery in Arlington, Va., outside Washington, the final resting place for hundreds of thousands of veterans and a tourist site that draws 4 million visitors a year. Along the way, there'll be ceremonies at schools, veterans' homes and in communities in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

Worcester never expected the wreath-laying effort to grow from a single tractor-trailer carrying a few thousand wreaths to 84 big rigs delivering wreaths to Arlington and hundreds of locations. Besides the Arlington ceremony, his Wreaths Across America organization has also organized more than 700 other ceremonies at veterans' cemeteries and monuments across the country and overseas involving 225,000 wreaths.

Robert F. Bukaty / AP

Morrill Worcester applauds veterans at a ceremony at Chevrus High School Sunday in Portland, Maine.

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"We haven't really tried to push it; it's really just grown on its own," Worcester said. "We have a hard time keeping up with it."

Worcester, who has never served in the military, came up with the idea of a wreath-laying ceremony 20 years ago when he found himself with an extra 5,000 wreaths in December, too late to bring to market. He decided upon Arlington National Cemetery, which he had visited as a child.

After that first year, Worcester continued donating wreaths and holding ceremonies at the cemetery. The event remained relatively small with little fanfare until a photo, showing thousands of green wreaths with red ribbons nestled against headstone on a snow-covered ground, made its way around the Internet about five years ago.

After that, Worcester got thousands of emails and letters from people wanting to donate, and inquiries from others asking how they could hold wreath-laying ceremonies of their own to pay tribute to those who have served in the military. So he and his wife founded the nonprofit Wreaths Across America to take in donations and organize hundreds of wreath-laying ceremonies at veterans' cemeteries.

Wreaths Across America put 24,000 wreaths on Arlington headstones last year, and initially hoped to put them on virtually all 220,000 headstones this year. That initiative fell short, but Worcester said he's still pleased that they'll be able to put out 100,000 of the laurels.

Of the 325,000 wreaths in all of this year's ceremonies, Worcester is donating 25,000. His company makes the rest, but they are paid for through donations from groups and individuals and through corporate sponsorships.

Source: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/04/9205390-thousands-of-wreaths-headed-to-arlington-national-cemetery

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Suh's 2-game suspension upheld by NFL

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2011 file photo, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (90) sits on the bench during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers, in Detroit. Suh is suspended for two games by the NFL for stomping on the arm of Green Bay's Evan Dietrich-Smith during a Thanksgiving game. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2011 file photo, Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh (90) sits on the bench during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers, in Detroit. Suh is suspended for two games by the NFL for stomping on the arm of Green Bay's Evan Dietrich-Smith during a Thanksgiving game. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

(AP) ? The suspension stands, and that means Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh will sit out the next two games for stomping an opponent during a loss to the Green Bay Packers.

Suh's appeal of the suspension handed out earlier this week was denied Friday by Art Shell, jointly appointed by the NFL and the players' association to hear such cases. Suh will miss Sunday's game at New Orleans and a Dec. 11 home game against Minnesota. He can return for practice on Dec. 12.

The 2010 Defensive Rookie of the Year was penalized and ejected from the Thanksgiving Day loss to the Packers for stomping on the arm of guard Evan Dietrich-Smith. On Tuesday, the league suspended Suh and the player appealed.

Shell, however, saw no merits to the appeal during a conference call with Suh on Thursday.

Lions president Tom Lewand issued a statement saying the club respects the disciplinary process and added "obviously, today's ruling does not impact our preparations for this week's game. We remain exclusively focused on the New Orleans Saints."

Usually, a hearing is held within 10 days of an appeal, but the league expedited Suh's high-profile case so a decision could be made before Sunday's game.

Suh is barred from practice and the team's facility while suspended.

Early last month, Suh requested and was granted a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss his play after he drew several penalties and fines. Suh said he had a better understanding of the rules after that meeting.

On Sunday, with it becoming apparent he would be disciplined again, Suh called Goodell to apologize.

In the game against the Packers, Suh lifted up his right knee and forcibly stepped on Dietrich-Smith's right arm during the third quarter of the Lions' 27-15 loss. Before the stomp, Suh shoved Dietrich-Smith's helmet toward the turf while separating himself from the Packers player on the ground.

He was penalized and ejected.

Asked about the incident after the game, Suh sounded defiant, insisting he didn't intentionally step on Dietrich-Smith. A day later, following criticism from the Lions, Suh apologized to his teammates, organization and fans ? not to Dietrich-Smith.

His actions prompted more criticism around the league, with some calling Suh the NFL's dirtiest player.

Suh can afford any fines ? he is making $40 million guaranteed with a chance to get paid as much as $68 million in a five-year contract he signed after Detroit drafted him No. 2 overall in 2010.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/347875155d53465d95cec892aeb06419/Article_2011-12-02-FBN-Suh-Appeal/id-567f290db0de4801bcbf6223afed1ce0

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Pepper Spray, the Scent of Liberalism! (Powerlineblog)

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Jonah Hill presents exclusive clips of "The Sitter" to the WWE Universe

An avid fan of WWE, actor/producer Jonah Hill has given the WWE Universe an early holiday gift, presenting WWE.com with two exclusive clips from his upcoming film, The Sitter, in theaters everywhere Dec. 9.

1305135631001|01:09In the Twentieth Century Fox comedy, Hill plays a suspended college student-turned-unlikely babysitter who attempts to watch the kids next door. As these clips can attest, it doesn't go well.

Directed by David Gordon Green and executive produced by Hill, The Sitter co-stars Ari Gaynor, Method Man and Sam Rockwell, and is rated R.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2011-11-28/jonah-hill-sitter-clips

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Friday, December 2, 2011

France's Sarkozy to outline euro crisis stance (Reuters)

TOULON, France (Reuters) ? President Nicolas Sarkozy will endeavor to warm the nation to giving Brussels more control over national budgets on Thursday as the euro zone crisis pushes France towards recession, squeezes its banks and threatens its AAA credit rating.

Sarkozy -- who already faces a bruising fight to stay in power in an April election -- needs to paint himself as best-placed to lead France through economic turmoil while laying the groundwork for Franco-German plans for tougher euro zone governance ahead of an EU summit on December 9.

The centre-right leader is squeezed between needing to appease financial markets by agreeing a plan to tighten fiscal responsibility while wanting to avoid appearing to voters to be giving the European Commission too much say in public finances.

"The president will tonight present the French proposals to prepare the ground for the European Council to modify the way governance is organized," Finance Minister Francois Baroin told a business event in Paris.

"A consensus has already emerged on budgetary and fiscal convergence as well as harmonization. There is also consensus about euro zone countries' commitments to deficit-reduction targets," he said.

Sarkozy, who has narrowed his gap behind Socialist election challenger Francois Hollande in recent polls, will address some 5,000 supporters in the Mediterranean port of Toulon at 6.30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) in a speech that will be broadcast live on TV.

The location is symbolic as it was in Toulon that Sarkozy railed, days after the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, against the dangers of unfettered capitalism.

The daily Le Figaro quoted a source close to Sarkozy as saying he will strive to ward off fears that France's autonomy would be eroded by giving the European Commission coercive powers to veto national budgets.

SELLING OUT?

Ratings agencies have warned that a looming recession and the risk of having to aid banks exposed to debt-laden euro zone peripheral states is putting France's AAA status under pressure.

A downgrade would be a huge blow to Sarkozy and could ramp up France's interest costs by some 3 billion euros a year.

Sarkozy recently called a truce with Merkel over his push for the European Central Bank to come to the aid of troubled euro states and has acquiesced to Germany's desire for more central governance, though proposals are not yet final.

Any appearance of undermining sovereignty would be highly risky for Sarkozy, however. It would anger the conservative wing of his centre-right UMP party as much as opposition Socialists who have already accused him of selling out to the markets.

"What we want is more budgetary discipline, but a budgetary discipline met by states, with a real participation by national parliaments," government spokeswoman and budget minister Valerie Pecresse insisted on Wednesday.

Sarkozy may also promise to make a fresh push after the 2012 election to get a budget-balancing "golden rule" enshrined in the constitution, a move the left says it would block for now.

Pecresse told parliament on Wednesday it remained key for France, and other euro zone countries, to put fiscal rules into the law. "It's with full sovereignty that we will decide that balance, a zero deficit, is our joint objective," she said.

Sarkozy hopes his Toulon speech, painstakingly prepared by two of his closest advisors, will convince voters fed up with economic gloom that they should keep him in power, rather than elect Hollande, who has never served in a government post.

"Nicolas Sarkozy has understood that the euro zone crisis will be the chief issue for the election," said Jerome Sainte-Marie, head of the Isana polling institute. "He is trying to fix the terms of the debate."

Merkel is expected to outline her ideas on euro governance at the Bundestag on Friday, the same day Sarkozy will discuss the matter in Paris with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

(Writing and additional reporting by Catherine Bremer; Editing by Mark Heinrich/Anna Willard)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/eurobiz/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111201/bs_nm/us_eurozone_france

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Government: Blagojevich should get 15 to 20 years (AP)

CHICAGO ? Federal prosecutors say ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison.

The 54-year-old Blagojevich was convicted of 18 corruption-related counts, including allegations that he tried to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. A federal judge will sentence him next week.

In advance of sentencing, both prosecutors and Blagojevich's attorneys were expected to make recommendations on what his sentence should be.

Prosecutors say Blagojevich's public office and background made him aware of the damage of public corruption. They say he deserves longer sentences than the 6 1/2 years given to former Gov. George Ryan and the more than 10 years given to Tony Rezko, a former Blagojevich fundraiser.

Blagojevich's attorneys are expected to respond with their recommendation.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111130/ap_on_re_us/us_blagojevich_trial_sentencing

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