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Submission + - Al-Shabaab breaks new ground with complex Nairobi attack

Submitted by Snirt
Snirt writes: The Al-Shabaab assault on a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, is alarming for its audacity, its scale and the sophisticated planning that went into it. Both the choice of target and method of attack exactly fit the new al Qaeda playbook. Few counterterrorism experts
are surprised that the Somali group launched another attack in the Kenyan capital.

Submission + - Doubts about Israel's iron dome success rate. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "A leading US expert on missile
defence has raised doubts
about the efficacy of Israel's
  Iron Dome defence system. Israeli officials say it hit some
84% of the targets engaged in
  last year's conflict with Hamas
in Gaza. But Professor Theodore Postol
of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology suggests the
  defence system's success rate
may have been "drastically
lower"."

Submission + - Give horsemeat-tainted food to poor - German minister (bbc.co.uk)

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Snirt
Snirt writes: "The BBC reports that Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor. Dirk Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party, and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food." The opposition dismissed the idea, but a priest said it should be considered."

Submission + - Symbian officially dead. (techcrunch.com) 1

Submitted by Snirt
Snirt writes: Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company’s earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform: “During our transition to Windows
Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian,” the company wrote. “The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the
last Symbian device from
Nokia."
IT

Submission + - Is Nokia outsourcing its IT staff lay-offs? (wsj.com)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "Is Nokia asking Indian contractors to do its dirty work? That’s the question on the minds of some Nokia employees and labor representatives following the Finnish handset maker’s
announcement that it is laying off as many as 300 IT
employees and sending as many as 800 more to Indian IT firms Tata and HCL — both of which have operations in Finland."

Submission + - Nokia head of cameras and imaging Damien Dinning has left the company (theverge.com)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "Damien Dinning, a Nokia executive who headed up the
company's imaging
department, has left the
  company. Dinning previously
worked with Nikon and then
oversaw the release of the Nokia N8, the 808 PureView, and the Lumia 920 — three phones with category-leading
  cameras at the time of their
  launch."
Linux

Submission + - Ex-Nokia staff to build MeeGo-based smartphones. (theverge.com)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "A group of ex-Nokia staff and MeeGo enthusiasts has formed Jolla (Finnish for "dinghy"), a mobile startup with the aim of bringing new MeeGo devices to the market. According to its LinkedIn page, Jolla consists of directors and core professionals from Nokia’s
MeeGo N9 organization,
together with some of the
best minds working on MeeGo in the communities."
The 2000 Beanies

Submission + - Committee lowers Nobel Prize. (thelocal.se)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "The Nobel Committee has chosen to lower this year's Nobel prize winnings by two million kronor ($283,030) due to turbulence in the current economic climate.

The prize now stands at 8 million kronor, down from the 10 million of 2011. “The reason behind this decision is that the financial markets are really unstable and there are reasons to suspect that this turbulence will continue for a while still,” said Lars Heikensten, head of the Nobel Committee, to the TT news agency. “Long term, we aim to raise the figure, even though we think that the Nobel Prize’s value should lie in the prize itself and not the prize money,” he said. While Heikensten admits that it was a “tough decision” to cut the prize money, he told the news agency that it’s not the first time the prize sum has been altered, adding that it has been lowered and raised several times over the past few years."

Submission + - Nokia Posts $1.2 Billion Loss as Phone Sales Tumble

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "Finnish phone maker Nokia has suffered a loss of $1.2 billion loss for the first quarter of 2012. This contrasts with a €344 million profit a year earlier. Sales fell to €7.4 billion in the quarter from €10.4 billion a year ago. The Nokia president and chief executive, Stephen Elop, said Nokia would accelerate its cost-cutting efforts amid what he described as a mixed response to its new Lumia smartphones with Microsoft."

Submission + - A black background: Would it help conserve energy? 3

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "I have often wondered if webpages and applications built with a black background consumed lesser energy when compared with bright colored pages. Naturally, I am always inclined to use black background mode when presented with the choice just as in the case of the terminal, cmd prompt and autodesk autocad in order to reduce glare. Webpages are rare to find in black though, except for a few 'hacker community sites', which I find quite readable. Since black implies absence of light (I assume black pixels don't need energy), would this help reduce the carbon foot print of the pc monitors?"
Technology

Submission + - MWC 2012: Nokia 808 Pureview launches with 41-megapixel camera (engadget.com)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "Nokia has announced a new smartphone, the 808 Pureview, which has an unprecedented 41-megapixel camera and is expected to launch in Europe in May. The €450 device, however, which was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, runs on software that Nokia is phasing out in favour of Windows Phone."
News

Submission + - Costa Concordia captain drank alcohol with 'beauti (guardian.co.uk)

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Snirt
Snirt writes: "Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest accused of manslaughter and abandoning ship (recent discussion) after he grounded the Costa Concordia on the island of Giglio following the collision, has told investigators that he had not drunk alcohol that night. But a passenger, Angelo Fabbri, has revealed that he and his wife watched Schettino –who is married with a child – enjoy a gourmet meal with red wine at the ship's most exclusive restaurant.

"Schettino, in a dark uniform, was sat in front of a young woman," Fabbri told newspaper Il Secolo XIX. "She appeared young, initially we thought she could even be his daughter. A beautiful woman, slim, shoulder-length blonde hair, a black dress with bare arms. They were laughing, they were informal, it was very merry," he said. "The wine?" he added. "There is no doubt they drank, at least a whole decanter, the last drops were poured into the commander's glass.""
Businesses

Submission + - Eastman Kodak files for bankruptcy protection (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by
Snirt
Snirt writes: "Following up on this story previously posted on Slashdot, it now appears that Eastman Kodak, the company that invented the hand-held camera, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The move, according to this Kodak news release , gives the company time to reorganize itself without facing its creditors, and Kodak said that it would mean business as normal for customers. The company has recently moved away from cameras to refocus on making printers to stem falling profits."

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