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BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit released in beta, adds Native and WebWorks SDKs for app-building flexibility
Will BlackBerry 10 be the hallowed OS that heals Waterloo's recent wounds or yet another RIM-shot to highlight its foibles? Only the fickle tide of consumer interest will certainly tell. But while the success and awareness of that new platform undoubtedly rests on the company's shoulders, a great deal of it also hinges upon crucial developer support. To spur things along in that latter department, RIM's released its developer toolkit in beta today. The tools, launched ahead of forthcoming BB 10 devices and the nascent ecosystem that they'll depend upon, are designed for flexibility, allowing third parties to choose between the Native SDK with its OS-specific APIs or the WebWorks SDK for HTML5 and CSS. The company's even gotten a head-start and partnered with the likes of Gameloft, which has already committed to optimizing 11 of its software titles for use on the platform. There's still a long road to US recovery ahead for the ailing BlackBerry brand, so let's hope this latest call-to-arms isn't lost on the dev community. Click on past the break for the official PR.
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Scandal-hit Northern League fears setback at Italy polls
COMO, Italy (Reuters) - Tarnished by a widening corruption scandal, Italy's Northern League is fighting to contain damage at local elections next week, but even its usually feisty founder Umberto Bossi is not holding out much hope.
"With all the problems we've had, these polls will be difficult for us," a subdued and tired-looking Bossi said at a sparsely attended rally near Como, a lakeside city in the rich Lombardy region that is one of the party's strongholds.
The first round of local elections on May 6 to 7, in which around 800 cities and towns are voting, are the first polls held since technocrat Mario Monti took office last November with the objective of pulling debt-laden Italy back from the brink of financial disaster through painful austerity measures.
The elections are an important gauge of voter discontent at a time when Monti government's approval ratings are falling, but are also a crucial test for the country's discredited parties a year ahead of national elections.
The League, a fierce critic of Monti and the largest party opposing his unelected government in parliament, might normally expect to benefit from a rising mood of public anger at the bitter austerity medicine the cabinet has prescribed.
Instead, the party, which rose to prominence after the "Clean Hands" bribery scandals of the 1990s, is looking vulnerable after a corruption affair that has led to Bossi being driven from power in a welter of graft allegations.
"I'm nauseated, they're just thieves like all the others," said Como pensioner Giorgio Balzaretti, a long-time League supporter who said he now votes for the Italy of Values, a leftist party led by anti-graft magistrate Antonio Di Pietro.
In Como, a city of 85,000 people and a textile hub whose famous silk industry is feeling the heat from Chinese competition, a record 16 candidates are vying for the job of mayor.
Opinion polls show the centre left has a serious chance of winning here for the first time since 1994, snatching the local government from the League and its former long-time ally, Silvio Berlusconi's PDL party.
CORRUPTION
For the anti-European Union, pro-devolution League, a party which built its image on attacking the corruption of the old party system and which has ditched the alliance with the PDL to run alone at the polls, it was not meant to be this way.
Until the funding scandal broke a few weeks ago it had hoped to capitalize on widespread anger at Monti's "blood-and-tears" reforms, echoing the success of other anti-establishment, populist movements in capturing protest votes across Europe.
That in turn would have cemented its role as a vital king-maker on the right for next year's national elections.
Instead it has seen its leaders embroiled in scandal and its position as the main alternative to the traditional parties of the left and right usurped by the 5-Star Movement led by the comedian Beppe Grillo.
Bossi has been expelled from leadership of the party but has clung on as chairman, denying any wrongdoing and blaming a plot which he says was orchestrated to eliminate the main political force opposing the Monti government.
Italian newspapers have piled on details of under-the-counter cash payments to members of his family, underlining the irony of a party which rose to power on an anti-bribery ticket apparently now wallowing in corruption.
Former party treasurer Francesco Belsito is being investigated over a web of fraud allegations featuring offshore companies in Tanzania and Cyprus, gold bars and diamonds as well as accusations taxpayers' money was used to renovate Bossi's villa and pay for his childrens' holiday.
Another ex-party member has described how he acted as a "cash machine" for Bossi's son Renzo, for whom he was a driver.
The League scandal is the most spectacular of a wave of corruption affairs that has hit all sides of the spectrum and pushed the credibility of the system to new lows, with confidence in parties sinking to two percent in one recent poll.
Pollsters expect a surge in abstention rates and a further splintering of Italy's already-fragmented political system, which could help Monti push through further unpopular measures but may make it harder for whoever succeeds him to govern.
At the national level, most surveys see the League - which once wanted to cut Italy's prosperous north off from what it sees as the profligate, corrupt south - falling below 7 percent of the vote, against over 12 percent in 2010 regional polls.
However, further ahead, few are willing to dismiss a party which has secured a deep hold on its core constituency of small business voters, who fear being dragged down by what they see as a wasteful and corrupt central government in Rome.
Bossi says all is not lost and, seeking to regain the initiative in the runup to the polls, the League has launched a high-profile campaign against an unpopular property tax that has been reintroduced by Monti's government.
"We might be taking a hit now but further down the road, we'll be fine," he said. "Our political project is too powerful, we are the only strong voice in the north."
(Editing by David Holmes)
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Dana White catches Urijah Faber admiring himself in the mirror in latest video blog
UFC president Dana White loves busting on his fighters, so he had some fun when he caught "The Ultimate Fighter" coach and bantamweight contender Urijah Faber flexing without a shirt in a two-way mirror at the TUF gym. As always, White drops some f-bombs here and there, so beware if your workplace frowns on such a thing.
Faber tweeted that White was so tickled by the blog that, "Wow @danawhite just called me laughing hysterically abt to pee his pants." Let this be a lesson to anyone about to flex in a mirror. Dana White may just be on the other side with a video camera.
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MPs to give verdict on Murdochs
LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch and his son James will be in the firing line on Tuesday when a parliamentary committee issues its verdict on a phone-hacking scandal that has convulsed the family media empire and undermined the British government.
Committee members have said they were obstructed and put under surveillance by Murdoch's News Corp during their five-year investigation into the illegal hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers for salacious newspaper stories.
Their report could force James Murdoch to sever his last ties with Britain's biggest satellite TV firm BSkyB, which News Corp had sought to take over before the scandal broke.
It will also embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron, who has acknowledged that politicians had been in thrall to the Murdochs and whose Conservative Party faces local elections across much of Britain on Thursday.
The committee is likely to criticise James Murdoch for failing to get to the bottom of the scandal, and Rupert Murdoch for the wider culture at the company, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, adding that Conservative members on the committee were reluctant to criticise James Murdoch any further.
Media regulator Ofcom will take the report's findings into consideration in its assessment of whether BSkyB's owners and directors are "fit and proper" persons to hold a broadcast licence.
James Murdoch recently stepped down as chairman but remains on the board of BSkyB, which is 39 percent owned by News Corp.
"We'll all be looking at the wording in terms of the fit and proper test," said Charlie Beckett, founding director of the Polis journalism and society think-tank at the London School of Economics.
"If it says there was a systematic lack of due diligence at News International or News Corp, that might impinge on future fit and proper tests for Ofcom."
Cameron was summoned to parliament on Monday to explain why he would not investigate emails revealing that a ministerial aide had assured News Corp its bid for BSkyB would be approved.
He insisted there was no need to refer the case to his independent adviser on ministerial conduct, noting the emails had been handed to a separate judicial inquiry into press ethics, but did concede that politicians had been too keen to please the media.
"I am perfectly prepared to admit that the relationship between politicians and media proprietors got too close," he said during a rowdy debate, blaming politicians of both main parties for the failing.
The scandal over phone hacking has laid bare collusion between ministers, police and News Corp, strengthening long-held concerns that the ties between big money, the media and power are too close in Britain.
PARLIAMENT MISLED
Committee Chairman John Whittingdale opened the hearing with James and Rupert Murdoch last year by saying his committee had found it inconceivable that only one reporter at their News of the World Sunday tabloid had been involved in the hacking scandal.
"In the last few weeks, not only has evidence emerged that I think has vindicated the Committee's conclusion, but abuses have been revealed that have angered and shocked the entire country," he said. "It is also clear that Parliament has been misled."
Audiences around the world witnessed the 81-year-old Rupert Murdoch - whose newspapers claimed the power to make or break British politicians - saying it was the most humble day of his life and saw him hit with a foam pie at the height of the scandal last July.
He answered many of the questions in monosyllables, sometimes flummoxing the committee members, while James Murdoch infuriated them at times with lengthy management-speak.
The committee is expected to say James Murdoch was incompetent at best for asking few questions about a payoff he approved of more than half a million pounds to a hacking victim who had evidence the practice was widespread.
Its report, which may run to 100 pages, is also expected to criticise Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News Corp, for allowing a culture of illegality to flourish. Murdoch shut the News of the World last year.
Les Hinton, former head of News Corp's British newspaper arm, Tom Crone, a legal executive at the News of the World, and the paper's former editor, Colin Myler, will also come under the spotlight, the source said.
James Murdoch resigned last month as chairman of BSkyB, saying he did not want to be a "lightning rod" for damage from the phone-hacking scandal.
He admitted last week he had raised the issue of the takeover with Cameron at a Christmas dinner in 2010.
The committee will present its report to parliament, which is likely to hold a debate on its findings, and the government then has 60 days to respond.
A previous critical report by the committee came before last July's revelation that people working for the News of the World had hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, which fuelled public anger and led to more revelations.
Relations between News Corp and Cameron, who once employed an ex-News of the World editor as his spokesman, will face more scrutiny in the coming months when Rebekah Brooks, a former Murdoch confidante and News Corp executive, reveals her text messages and emails with Cameron, a neighbour and former friend, as part of a separate judicial press inquiry.
As the committee has to be careful not to prejudice any criminal trials of figures involved in the scandal, it has focused more on the Murdochs and others who have not been arrested.
(Additional reporting by Avril Ormsby, Mohammed Abbas and Adrian Croft; Editing by Philippa Fletcher and David Holmes)
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Chloe Moretz Making Her Own Dress For 'Carrie' Remake
Between her roles in "Let Me In," "The Eye" and the upcoming "Carrie" remake, Chloe Moretz could become our new little mistress of horror. MTV News caught up with the young actress at CinemaCon recently where she said that this is going to be the most method role she's ever delved into. Moretz said that [...]
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Video: Harper handling the hype like a pro
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