The Mobile Podcast had the pleasure of beating us to chatting about the Lumia 1020, but that didn't deter us. Aside from that taking up half of this week's episode, we'll discuss the new plans from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and the HTC One mini. Get to streaming below, because this one's dedicated to Tim Stevens.
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Weekend Highlights: Haydn Shaugnessy at Forbes on mobile OS innovation with Apple and Google the dominant players, but newcomer Firefox hoping to break the mold; Jeff John Roberts at GigaOM says that "Apple's agnostic approach to TV" is a better approach than Google's, but viewers are still the losers; on the heels of Apple's Locationary purchase, the company also purchases HopStop, another step in improving its Maps foray, more in our Apple/Macintosh section; Cult of Mac presents five new tips/tricks for OS X Mavericks beta users; Richard Devine at iMore says he wants Apple to add ability to send an app purchase from your desktop to a specific iOS device; with T-Mobile leading the charge for device upgrades, AT&T, Verizon follow, but Consumer Reports says they're not as good; 9 to 5 Mac's Mark Gurman reports Apple will be issuing an App Store redesign along with more free content; iMore previews Siri in iOS 7; and Charles Moore takes issue with DePaul University professor who asked "Does the iPad deserve to exist?"; and from Friday's highlights, Peter Kafka at AllThingsD has a tip for Apple (and Google), spend billions of dollars on the NFL's Sunday Ticket, thereby securing "the most valuable programming asset in the country, which makes you an instant player ? one that can credibly start acquiring other 'real' TV programming"; meanwhile, at Bloomberg Businessweek, Adam Satariano and Alex Sherman on the wall of resistance Apple faces in TV content negotiations; bolstering their Maps service, Apple acquires Canadian company, Locationary, which specializes in crowdsourced mapping data, more in our Apple/Macintosh section; it looks like international tax breaks (and loopholes) are beginning to close according to a report out of OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; you may be one of the lucky invitees to start testing out iWork for iCloud beta; Mactuts+ shows you five ways to AirPlay from your Mac to TV; Actions is an app that allows you to control your Mac via iPad; BetaNews says Mechanic will help your Mac with security, privacy and even performance; a tip for getting better battery life on your notebook is to close some of those extra browser tabs; Reuters is reporting today that Apple and other tech giants are urging the US to allow disclosure of surveillance requests; Wired's Christina Bonnington notes the latest data from Flurry suggests more iOS apps have gone free than ever before; a 30 year old man in China has been shocked by his charging iPhone, but this one is directly related to a counterfeit charger; iPhone 4 upgrades part of what helped Verizon iPhone activations jump 44%; Zagato and Bertone, know the names? They're alleged codenames for two models of the also-alleged iPhone Lite; Ted Landau found that the only solution to an annoying dust spot in his iPhone camera was to let an Apple Genius take care of it; Mac|Life reviews Duolingo, an app to help you learn languages, giving it a 5 out of 5 rating.
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"Apple's agnostic approach to TV: better than Google's but not a win for viewers" GigaOM
10:04 AM
"Apple's quest for an iWatch on every wrist: The challenge for Apple and others trying to crack the code on wearables is to produce an appealing device for a mass market that doesn't need a watch to tell time and doesn't want to get all wound up by an overly complicated gadget."?CNET News?11:41 AM
"Apple Needs To Re-Evaluate Its Censorship, But We Don't Want The Walls To Come Down Entirely"?Digital Trends?3:17 PM
"Apple's agnostic approach to TV: better than Google's but not a win for viewers"?GigaOM?10:04 AM
"Apple said to be recharting Maps with HopStop buy"?ZDNet?7:34 AM
"Apple buys firms in mapping acquisition: Apple has acquired a pair of mapping and location firms in a bid to improve its mapping applications,"?V3?8:14 AM
"Apple's Buying Spree Continues with HopStop for Transit App"?Patently Apple?8:37 AM
"Apple acquires transit navigation firm HopStop"?TUAW?10:16 AM
"Apple under pressure as figures stall"?Telegraph?12:18 PM
"Who's Who in the Tablet Market Melee: Over the past two years, Apple has lost significant ground in the tablet market, but it still maintains strong brand recognition and a majority share. The remainder is up for grabs. If Apple's share were to dip beneath the 50 percent mark after the 2013 holiday season, the market would still be best characterized as 'Apple versus The Rest,' with Apple maintaining a plurality share."?E-Commerce Times?8:22 AM
"Apple TV With Gesture Control? iWatch Next Year? This Week In Apple Rumors"?The Huffington Post?11:41 AM
"Apple, Samsung try again to settle patent disputes, but aren't close to a deal"?AppleInsider?7/19
"Will Samsung & Apple Sign a Cross-Licensing Deal this Year?"?Patently Apple?7/19
"Apple TV's future growing less ambitious with new Time Warner app, say reports"?The Verge?7/19
"Apple buys Toronto startup in rare foray into Canada"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?7/19
"With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google"?TechCrunch?7/19
"Apple buys crowdsourced mapping data startup Locationary"?AppleInsider?7/19
"Apple buys Locationary, a startup building a Wikipedia for location"?GigaOM?7/19
"Apple nabs Locationary in maps battle"?USA Today?7/19
"What Apple Maps Gains from Locationary: With Locationary's crowdsourced business listings, Apple hopes to make local data on its maps more accurate and timely."?InformationWeek?7/19
"Apple reportedly buys Locationary, a crowdsourced business data startup"?The Next Web?7/19
"Apple purchases Locationary to make accurate crowd-sourced Maps"?Computerworld?7/19
"Apple Acquires Toronto's Locationary for Apple Maps & More"?Patently Apple?7/19
"Apple purchases Canadian mapping company Locationary, 'a Wikipedia for local business listings'"?9 to 5 Mac?7/19
"Apple Buys A Location Startup To Help With Its Troubled Maps App"?Business Insider?7/19
"Apple Buys 2 Mapping Companies"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?7/19
"Apple reportedly acquires public transit and navigation firm HopStop [update: confirmed]?AppleInsider?7/19
"Apple Said to Buy HopStop, Pushing Deeper Into Maps"?Bloomberg?7/19
"Plan to close international tax loopholes puts Apple, Google, Amazon, and others on notice"?The Verge?7/19
News
"Apple invites users to try out iWork for iCloud beta"?T3?7:26 AM
"Apple sends iWork for iCloud beta invitations to everyday users"?Engadget?7/19
"Quick Note: iWork for iCloud Beta Opening up to Non-Developers"?DailyTech?7/19
"Why have Apple's Dev Center and forums have been down for more than 24 hours? Apple says the center is undergoing maintenance but hasn't shed light on the reason, whether system failure, security breach, or a major platform revision"?InfoWorld?7/19
"Apple Developer Center undergoes extended maintenance"?MacNN?7/19
"Apple says developer memberships and apps will not expire due to unexpected maintenance duration"?9 to 5 Mac?7/19
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Q&A: MacFixIt Answers/Options for installing OS X freshly when purchasing a new version of OS X from the App Store, and more covered in this week's Q&A."?CNET Reviews?7/19
"How to reset an OS X account password with an Apple ID: Among other options, Apple supports resetting a user account password at the login window using a valid Apple ID."?MacFixIt?7/19
"Sync Services: Advanced troubleshooting for contact and calendar syncing"?Apple Support?7/19
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How-to: Change the email address associated with your Apple ID"?9 to 5 Mac?11:41 AM
"Here Are Another Five Great Tips And Tricks For OS X Mavericks Beta [Feature]?Cult of Mac?10:16 AM
"Review: Photo Sense - An Easy-To-Use Batch Photo Editor For Mac"?MacTrast?10:05 AM
"Review: Face2Face makes Apple Mail more personable"?Macworld?7:23 AM
"Share Bucket For Mac Offers Quick Screenshot & File Sharing Via Dropbox, Google Drive & SkyDrive"?AddictiveTips?9:10 AM
"OS X Mavericks Preview: App Nap helps you work longer from your laptop"?iMore?7/19
"Hands-on: Unibox is a 'people-centric' Mac email client"?Macworld?7/19
"5 Ways to AirPlay From Your Mac to Your Television"?Mactuts+?7/19
"Mac Gems: Actions turns your iPad into a Mac control pad"?Macworld?7/19
"MacMost Now 893: Editing Photos In External Editors"?MacMost?7/19
"Mechanic by Bitdefender helps Mac users improve performance, stability and privacy"?BetaNews?7/19
"Want more battery-life from your laptop? Close some tabs"?9 to 5 Google?7/19
"Create unique slideshows with ScatterShow for Mac"?TUAW?7/19
"ScreenFloat makes taking, managing screenshots a breeze"?AppleDailyReport?7/19
"Set Default Font Choices For Messages You Send And Receive In Mavericks Beta [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?7/19
"Where To Find The Ultimate PDF Reader For The Mac"?TeraTalks?7/19
"The Best Mac Writing Tool For Real Mac Writers"?Mac 360?7/19
"Do To Your Mac What You've Always Wanted To Do But Didn't: Pimp Your Screen"?NoodleMac?7/19
"Finally, An Easier, Faster, Better Way To Find Email Messages On Your Mac"?BohemianBoomer?7/19
"My Favorite Way To Create Movies From Photos"?Mac 360?7/19
Op/Ed
"iTunes want: Sending apps straight to a specific iOS device from the desktop store"?iMore?9:10 AM
Press Releases
"ZipZapMac Releases Periscope Pro - Motion-Based Mac Video Surveillance"?prMac?8:00 AM
"Defense of the Ancients 2 for Mac, free multiplayer battle game, released on Steam"?iMore?7/19
"Realmac Software Teases Ember, A Digital Scrapbook For Your Mac [Video]?Cult of Mac?7/19
"The iPhone Is Alive and Well (At Least in the United States)"?The Motley Fool?11:27 AM
"Major crackdown planned for tech's biggest alleged tax dodgers"?BGR?8:16 AM
"Clamour for smartphone 'kill switch' as 'Apple-picking' surges"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?7:27 AM
"From Apple to Nest Labs, Always a Designer"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?3:18 PM
"More work ahead in Apple, Samsung antitheft crack attack: The results of attempts to crack the antitheft security on Apple's iOS 7 and Samsung's Galaxy S4 Lojack system are still being compiled."?CNET News?7/19
"Apple, Google, dozens of others urge U.S. surveillance disclosures"?Reuters?7/19
"Microsoft attacks iPad to unload Surface RT inventory: In a new ad, Microsoft compares a Surface RT to an iPad. An Apple Siri-like voice, representing the iPad, says, 'This is not going to end well for me.'"?CNET News?7/19
"Surface RT takes on the iPad and wins!"?BetaNews?7/19
"Google to take Apple's iPhone head on: August 1 Moto X media event is a go"?iDownload Blog?7/19
"More iOS Apps Are Free Than Ever Before"?Wired?7/19
"Recharging iPhone blamed for another serious shock in China: iPhone 4 connected to a counterfeit or third-party charger leaves 30-year-old man in a coma for the past 10 days, according to reports from Asia."?CNET News?7/19
"Beijing fanboi in coma after iPhone 4 shock treatment" ["The handset and charger in question didn't show any signs of damage, however the latter was not an 'official' Apple peripheral."]?The Register?7/19
"Another iPhone shock case in China leaves man in coma"?ZDNet?7/19
"State, federal governments testing Apple's antitheft tech"?TUAW?7/19
"Verizon's iPhone Activations Could Have Been Helped By iPhone 4 Upgrades"?Forbes?7/19
"Top-3 mobile telecom carriers in Russia to give up iPhone, say Taiwan makers"?DigiTimes?7/19
"Take a nostalgia trip with minimalist renders of old Macs"?TUAW?7/19
Non-Apple News
"Consumer Reports weighs in on device upgrade plans"?iDownload Blog?7:24 AM
"U.S. Music Sales Down As Streaming Up 24% To 51B Tracks In 6 Months; Harlem Shake Bumps Its Way To The Top"?TechCrunch?7/19
"Scientists power mobile phone with urine" [Video Report]?BBC?7/19
Publications/Podcasts
"Gillmor Gang: iBeacon & Eggs"?TechCrunch?1:12 PM
"Coming July 20: Gene Steinberg meets Dan Frakes, of Macworld, Daniel Eran Dilger, of AppleInsider, and John Martellaro, of The Mac Observer, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?7/19
"9to5Mac Happy Hour Podcast: iWatch rumors, special discounts, more"?9 to 5 Mac?7/19
"Jeff Carlson Takes Control of Your Digital Photos, One Step At A Time"?MacVoices?7/19
"iMore show 355: An episode of hoarders"?iMore?7/19
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Reviews
"Review: Bluelounge Milo Micro-Suction Aluminum Stand for iPhone, iPod, Smartphones from CaseMotions.com"?Run Around Tech?7:22 AM
"Review: Velodyne vPulse In-Ear Headphones Bring Well-Balanced Sound to the Table"?Run Around Tech?10:17 AM
"New products: Wireless speaker streams from iPhone"?USA Today?7:27 AM
"Apple TV in Thailand: At Last; Again"?eXtensions?7/19
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"iOS 7 preview: Siri gets a new look, access to settings, more services, still no predictive results"?iMore?8:17 AM
"Review: Magic 2014 for the iPad is like poker for nerds"?Macworld?8:14 AM
"Drive As Fast As You Can Without Crashing In Dolmus Driver HD For iPad"?AppAdvice?4:07 PM
"Review: VLC returns to iOS after long hiatus, yet still needs refinement"?GigaOM?7/19
"Best email apps for iPhone: Mailbox, Triage, Boxer, and more!"?iMore?7/19
"RadarScope for iOS: Beautiful, Visual Access to Weather Radar"?The Mac Observer?7/19
"Pacific Rim for iOS: Battle giant monsters with a giant robot and go poor in the process"?iMore?7/19
"Daily iPhone App: Grid is an idea organizer for the visually oriented"?TUAW?7/19
"iPad App Video Review: Ravenmark: Mercenaries"?Appolicious?7/19
"XCOM: Enemy Unknown for iPad and iPhone review - Acclaimed alien invasion strategy game"?Macworld UK?7/19
"Leisure Suit Larry sleazes his way onto iOS"?CNET Reviews?7/19
"Baseball Slam Review: A fun and exciting take on the baseball genre, combining addictive single player with competitive multiplayer to make a thoroughly enjoyable game!"?148Apps?7/19
"Breach & Clear Review: Elements from several of the most popular (and beloved) modern tactical franchises come together to create something no strategy fan should be without."?148Apps?7/19
"Zumba Dance Review"?148Apps?7/19
"Kamikaze Pigs Review: Kamikaze Pigs is a game about chain reactions to destroy pigs. Sure, it sounds fun, but randomness only goes so far."?148Apps?7/19
"Argus Review: Argus makes it possible to reach health goals thanks to its many features and impressive honeycomb interface."?148Apps?7/19
"Iesabel Review: Iesabel scratches that action RPG itch, but just barely."?148Apps?7/19
How-To/Tutorial
"Disable Gmail's inbox sorting"?PCWorld?8:05 AM
"How to automatically post Instagram photos directly to a Facebook page"?iMore?7/19
Tips
"Instagram Crashing For You On iOS 7 (B3)? ? Here's The Fix."?RazorianFly?7/19
"Craigslist horror stories: What not to do when buying, selling, or trading used iPhones"?iMore?3:21 PM
"Microsoft's Surface tablets: A trip down memory lane, via Apple"?Fortune?11:28 AM
"iPhone 5S comfort leaks by Apple theory"?Phones Review?8:22 AM
"'Does the iPad Deserve To Exist?' Not really the question to be asking at this point"?TechnologyTell?8:20 AM
"The Macalope Weekly: Loss of perspective"?Macworld?7:29 AM
"Nokia's struggles suggest consumers are 'content' with iOS and Android duopoly"?AppleInsider?7/19
"Next stop: Public transportation directions in Apple Maps?"?GigaOM?7/19
"Apple and Samsung Still in Settlement Talks, 'No Indication' of Imminent Agreement"?MacRumors?7/19
"Apple and Samsung back at the bargaining table, deal came close in February"?9 to 5 Mac?7/19
"How willing are you to re-purchase apps for iOS 7?"?TUAW?7/19
"Why Apple Should Not Create a Low-End iPhone"?Tech.pinions [Paid Membership Required]?7/19
"A new trend? 'Posegram' developer shows off iOS 7 UI elements in older iOS versions [Video]?9 to 5 Mac?7/19
"Why the Surface RT Failed and the iPad Did Not"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?7/19
"Why Apple needs iTunes Radio"?GigaOM?7/19
"Smartwatch makers: You need apps to beat Apple/So be nice to developers and give them good tools"?The Register?7/19
"Microsoft, Google Join Apple's Walking Dead Line"?Mac 360?7/19
"Apple TV: The Best New Way To Watch Television"?Mac 360?7/19
Non-Apple
"After Mobile: Smarter TVs"?Forbes?4:16 PM
"Will technology ever deliver a perfect speaker or headphone?"?CNET News?10:24 AM
"Smartphone Plans: 5 Ways To Avoid Trouble/AT&T and Verizon rolled out ugly smartphone plans this week. Before you choose any new plan, consider this advice."?InformationWeek?10:23 AM
"Editorial: The mysterious failure of Microsoft's Surface RT"?AppleInsider?8:10 AM
"Latest iPad-bashing Microsoft ad focuses on peripherals, new Surface RT price point"?AppleInsider?7/19
"Consumer Reports: AT&T Next is almost $300 more expensive than T-Mobile JUMP [updated]?BGR?7/19
"Why I hate read receipts: Read receipts come to Facebook, Snapchat, and more?and make our lives miserable."?Ars Technica?7/19
"Did You Ever See Geordi La Forge With a Keyboard on His Tablet?"?The Mac Observer?7/19
"What Should Microsoft Do With its Surface Surplus? Around six million Surface tablets are wasting away in a warehouse somewhere and I have a few ideas on how Microsoft should move them."?PC Magazine?7/19
"Google Just Proved That Those Price-Fixing Conspiracy Theorists ? Like Adobe ? Were All Wrong"?Business Insider?7/19
"Relax, Everyone, Google's 'Bad Quarter' Actually Wasn't All That Bad..."?Business Insider?7/19
"What's an Android user worth? Excluding Motorola, Google's gross margins have dropped for seven out of the last nine quarters."?asymco?7/19
"Windows 8.1 preview final verdict: Did Microsoft fix Windows 8?"?Digital Trends?7/19
"Why Microsoft's Surface RT Failed"?Mashable?7/19
"When will consumers make use of their 4K TVs?"?DigiTimes?7/19
Humor/Cartoons
"Who's the Boss? Your Cellphone."?Mashable [comic]?7/19
"Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off since 2000"?Reuters?8:24 AM
"Microsoft loses $34 billion market value"?Reuters?8:24 AM
"Microsoft's Bad Quarter: Sign of Worse to Come?"?Barron's?8:18 AM
"Google appeals Motorola's loss to Microsoft in ITC patent case, still seeking Xbox import ban"?Foss Patents?8:13 AM
"Microsoft strategy should take hint from Apple, analyst says"?Computerworld?1:12 PM
"If the iPad was late, ran Windows 8, it would fail too: To say that the $900 million write-down on the Surface RT tablet is a red flag may be putting it too charitably. No product that ran the RT version of Windows 8 and came out about three years after the first tablets appeared would succeed."?CNET News?3:21 PM
"Exclusive: Microsoft in talks with ValueAct over board seat"?Reuters?8:26 AM
"Microsoft getting ready to slash price of Surface RT tablets"?TechnoBloom?8:26 AM
"Why Michael Dell's Buyout Deserves to Die: Dell bought time with a vote postponement, but the deal still faces some difficult shareholder math. And, unless Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer can come up with a clear turnaround plan and execute it, upside is limited from here."?Barron's?8:30 AM
"IBM layoffs a sign of flux: Job cuts don't dampen rumors that firm may sell some factories"?Albany Times Union?8:28 AM
"Microsoft Shares Drop in Down Day for Tech: Investors Unload Big Names as Industry Shifts to Mobile"?WSJ.com?7/19
"Microsoft shares hit by biggest sell-off since 2000"?Reuters?7/19
"Microsoft plunges 11%, worst day since 2009"?CNNMoney?7/19
"Microsoft Down 11%: Welcome to the Post-PC Era"?WSJ Blogs?7/19
"Funky Friday: More than $32 billion in Microsoft stock value wiped out"?CNET News?7/19
"Microsoft hits skids as Windows questions grow: Software giant's shares fall nearly 10% in wake of weak results"?MarketWatch?7/19
"Microsoft Is Down 8% As The World Realizes The Windows Business Has Collapsed (And Probably Isn't Coming Back)"?Business Insider?7/19
"Microsoft financial results take a beating"?TG Daily?7/19
"Microsoft lost a staggering $900m on the Surface RT"?Crave @ CNET?7/19
"The Surface lost Microsoft $900 million"?VR-Zone?7/19
"Microsoft badly misses profit expectations on huge Surface write-down"?CNNMoney?7/19
"Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets"?Slashdot?7/19
"Microsoft Surface sales slump"?T3?7/19
"Microsoft Surface Charge Erodes Profit Hit by Weak PC Demand"?Bloomberg?7/19
"Dell Billionaire Battle in Hands of 99% Investors"?TheStreet?7/19
"Michael Dell and the battle to reclaim the company he founded"?ZDNet?7/19
"Dell Races to Sway Voters, Save Deal"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?7/19
"Choices: Closer Look at Two Plans for Dell's Future"?Techland?7/19
"Dell postpones meeting on buyout"?Post?7/19
"Dell delays vote on buyout"?USA Today?7/19
"Dell shareholders face a week of heated lobbying"?USA Today?7/19
"Dell Delays Ballot on CEO's Takeover Amid Vote Search"?Bloomberg?7/19
"Dell Gets More Time to Sway Shareholders"?WSJ Blogs?7/19
"Trouble in Texas: Dell postpones go-private vote"?GigaOM?7/19
"Pension Funds Split In Battle Over Dell Buyouy"?Barron's?7/19
"Dell ran out of companies to buy, so it wants to buy itself"?Pando Daily?7/19
"IBM Q2 Indicates Hard Time for Hardware"?Barron's?7/19
"IBM: 10-Year, Multi-Billion Dollar Deal Offers Glimpse of Future"?eWeek?7/19
"Hewlett-Packard Is Today's Pre-Market Laggard Stock"?TheStreet?7/19
"Oracle Weekly Roundup: Tom & Lucas's Great Database Adventure"?Forbes?7/19
"4G didn't pan out for Intel, so now it's looking ahead to 5G"?GigaOM?7/19
"New Intel CEO Pledges Faster Product Rollouts After Tough Q2"?PC Magazine?7/19
"Intel chief predicts new chips will bring cheaper computers"?iStockAnalyst?7/19
"Intel Plans to 'Reimagine the Datacenter'"?Forbes?7/19
"Intel is facing hardware and software challenges"?The Inquirer?7/19
"Is the Cost of Intel's Entry Into Mobile Too High
Posted by Mandy Nagy ?? Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
This is turning out to be a case of one TV station that just seems determined to perpetuate the Streisand Effect.
KTVU, which was recently duped into reading off the very obviously fake names of several purported pilots from Asiana Flight 214, has apparently been trying to scrub its embarrassing blunder from the internet.
Matthew Keys (yeah, that Matthew Keys) has the scoop:
The station has started filing copyright infringement notices with YouTube ordering the removal of several videos depicting KTVU?s embarrassing misidentification of four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco International Airport earlier in the month.
Two videos uploaded by the account MatthewKeysLive for use on The Desk and elsewhere were removed by YouTube after copyright infringement notices were submitted by KTVU in an apparent attempt to scrub the internet of the gaffe. Several videos that also showed KTVU?s error and subsequent apology were removed on other YouTube accounts.
Indeed, when I checked the posts that I?ve done on this story, the videos have been disabled.
But as Keys points out, they?re still available through other YouTube accounts.? He also says his blog has submitted counter-notifications with YouTube citing copyright law?s fair use provision.? Given that the videos were used by numerous blogs and news outlets for the purpose of reporting it as news (as well as comment and criticism), I agree, I would think there?s an argument to be made for fair use.? I?ll let the lawyers in the peanut gallery weigh in on that one.
Who knows, though ? Asiana Airlines did ultimately reverse an earlier decision to sue the TV station over the report.? Maybe that factors into why KTVU is now trying to have the videos memory-holed.
Regardless of KTVU?s reasons, it seems to me this will only draw more attention to the matter, since everyone knows, you never really delete something from every corner of the interwebz.
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KTVU Claims Copyright to Try and Scrub Fake Pilot Names Blunder From Internet
THE G20 has agreed to make boosting growth and jobs, rather than deficit reduction, the short-term priority for the global economy as it battles to consolidate a "fragile and uneven" recovery.
Finance chiefs from the G20 group of advanced and emerging nations, after meeting in Moscow, also on Saturday backed an action plan drawn up by the OECD to crack down on tax avoidance by multinationals to help replenish budgets diminished by the slowdown.
The finance ministers and central bank governors agreed that the Saint Petersburg summit in September of G20 heads of state -- the culmination of Russia's presidency of the group -- should produce an action plan to improve productivity and employment.
"We agreed that our near-term priority is to boost jobs and growth," said their final communique.
"The global economy remains too weak and its recovery is still fragile and uneven," the statement said.
"We are fully committed to taking decisive actions to return to a robust, job-rich growth path."
The G20 said that while the United States and Japan showed signs of strengthening activity, the recession in the euro area was continuing and growth in many emerging markets was slowing.
The statement said jobs could be boosted by reducing financial market fragmentation, rebalancing global demand, and taking measures to support growth.
All G20 governments are acutely aware of the fragility of their recoveries from the global slowdown, with some eurozone countries now battling youth unemployment of 60 per cent.
The IMF earlier this month cut its forecast for global growth to 3.1 per cent in 2013, down from its April estimate of 3.3 per cent, and warned that emerging markets like China face new risks.
The US has emerged in better shape than other key economies, and the US Federal Reserve is already considering cutting its quantitative easing program -- which injects some $US85 billion a month into the economy via bond purchases -- later this year and end the program by mid-2014.
However this has concerned several big economies, including Russia and Brazil, which fear their own fragile recoveries could be hit by any sudden about-turn in US policy.
In response to these concerns, the statement vowed that any changes to monetary stimulus packages would be "carefully calibrated and clearly communicated".
The US made clear that the fight against unemployment should be at the top of the agenda although other states, like Germany, are known for wanting to keep a strict eye on fiscal discipline.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said: "It's clearly on the mind of everybody to restore confidence and to create the conditions for growth and for employment."
The economic fragility appears to have also helped unite the G20 in a fight against tax avoidance -- technically legal schemes which allow multinationals to pay very low tax -- as well as illegal tax evasion.
Companies like Amazon and Starbucks have been in the spotlight in recent months over tax avoidance.
The G20 said they had "fully endorsed" the action plan delivered earlier in the two-day meeting by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to clamp down on tax avoidance.
"We encourage all interested countries to participate," it said.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His wingman crash-landed to try to save him, and even burned his hands trying to put out the flames.
A chopper hovered nearby. Lt. j.g. Thomas Hudner could save himself, but not his friend. With the light fading, the threat of enemy fire all around him and Brown losing consciousness, the white son of a New England grocery-store magnate made a promise to the black son of a sharecropper.
"We'll come back for you."
More than 60 years have passed. Hudner is now 88. But he did not forget. He is coming back.
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Hudner, now a retired Navy captain, heads to Pyongyang on Saturday with hopes of traveling in the coming week to the region known in North Korea as the Jangjin Reservoir, accompanied by soldiers from the Korean People's Army, to the spot where Brown died in December 1950.
The reservoir was the site of one of the Korean War's deadliest battles for Americans, who knew the place by its Japanese name, Chosin. The snowy mountain region was nicknamed the "Frozen Chosin," and survivors are known in U.S. history books as the "Chosin Few."
The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir lasted for 17 brutal days. Some 6,000 Americans were killed in combat, and thousands more succumbed to the cold. Brown and many others who died there are among more than 7,910 Americans still missing in action from the war.
Though the fighting ended with an armistice signed 60 years ago July 27, North Korea and the U.S. remain technically at war. Efforts to recover remains have come in fits and starts, with little recent progress.
Next week's mission is to pick up where search teams have left off by locating the exact spot of Brown's crash. Armed with maps and coordinates, they hope to work with North Korean soldiers to excavate the remote area, a sealed site controlled by the North Korean military.
Approval for the unusual journey comes as North Korea prepares for festivities marking the upcoming armistice anniversary. Pyongyang is expected to use the milestone to draw international attention to the division of the Korean Peninsula as well as to build unity among North Koreans for new leader Kim Jong Un.
Hudner does not plan to stay for a massive military parade expected on July 27. But he said he hopes his visit will help to foster peace and reconciliation on the tense Korean Peninsula.
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Japan occupied Korea for decades, until the end of World War II. Then the Soviets and the Americans moved in, backing rival fledgling governments and dividing the country halfway at the 38th parallel.
War broke out in June 1950, with the communist North Koreans marching into Seoul. They were countered by U.S.-led U.N. forces that charged north, taking Pyongyang and continuing up the peninsula.
By November, U.S. Marines had dug in around the Chosin reservoir and in Unsan County to the west. The plan was to push north as far as the Yalu River dividing Korea from China.
What they didn't know was more than 100,000 Chinese ground troops had slipped across the Yalu to fight for the North Koreans. They boxed in 20,000 U.N. forces, mostly U.S. Marines.
Hudner and Brown were members of Fighter Squadron 32, dispatched to the region deep in North Korea's forbiddingly mountainous interior to support the trapped ground troops and carry out search-and-destroy missions.
Theirs was a close-knit squadron. But the two men, both in their 20s, came from completely different worlds.
Hudner, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was a privileged New Englander who was educated at prep school and had been invited to attend Harvard. Brown, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, broke the Navy's color barrier for pilots in 1948, months after President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces.
It wasn't an easy role for Brown to take on, Hudner recalled. "People who didn't know him gave him a hard time just because he was black."
But those who got to know Brown grew to respect the serious, unfailingly considerate young man who impressed his peers with his dedication to flying ? and his gentle sense of humor.
"The squadron, almost to a man, protected him any way they could," Hudner told The Associated Press before his departure, his pale blue eyes sparkling. "He was a friend who, I'd say, was beloved by almost everybody who knew him. A very special person."
Late the afternoon of Dec. 4, 1950, Brown and Hudner were part of a six-plane formation over the Jangjin Reservoir, one like dozens of missions in the months previous.
This time, ground fire struck Brown's plane, forcing him to land behind enemy lines. When Brown waved for help from his crumpled, smoking cockpit after slamming into the mountainside, Hudner acted quickly.
"I thought: 'My God, I've got to make a decision,'" he said. "I couldn't bear the thought of seeing his plane burst into flames."
Hudner crash-landed his plane in high winds and snowy rocks about 100 yards from the downed fighter. As flames engulfed Brown's plane, and still under the threat of attack, Hudner scrambled to pack the fuselage with snow, burning his hands in the process. He took his cap off and pulled it over Browns' ears, then radioed for help as Brown remained trapped in the cockpit, bleeding heavily, his leg crushed and his body temperature dropping in the subzero conditions.
A Marine helicopter arrived, but the pilot and Hudner could not extract Brown from the wreckage.
Before losing consciousness, his thoughts turned to his wife, whose name he whispered in his last command to Hudner: "If I don't make it, please tell Daisy I love her."
Hudner reluctantly got into the rescue helicopter. Brown is believed to have died soon after. The next day, U.S. military planes dropped napalm on the wreckage to keep the enemy from getting his body.
Hudner was awarded the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award, for trying to save Brown. Brown posthumously received the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
"He was a leader," Hudner said. "He had great promise had he not been so tragically killed."
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Hudner went onto a distinguished naval career and later served as Massachusetts' commissioner of veterans' services, eventually settling in the revolutionary town of Concord, Massachusetts.
A few years ago, he was contacted by author Adam Makos about doing a book on his wartime heroics. It was Makos, Hudner said, who suggested returning to the crash site. Hudner hadn't thought it possible, given the abysmal state of U.S.-North Korean relations.
They enlisted Chayon Kim, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen who had been involved in the campaign to build a Korean War Memorial in Washington, and who took the Harlem Globetrotters and former NBA star Dennis Rodman to North Korea earlier this year.
She agreed to take Hudner, fellow Korean War veteran Dick Bonelli, and their group to North Korea. Kim, who says she has built ties over the years with the North Korean military, asked the army to supply soldiers to help with the search.
Hudner hopes to bring Brown's remains home to the aviator's 86-year-old widow, Daisy, and their daughter, Pam Knight, who was a toddler when her father died.
"I think it would add some peace and maybe some closure," Brown's widow said Thursday. "But if they do find the remains, and they can convince me that it is his remains, we would want a full military funeral at Arlington Cemetery.
"He deserves that," she said, speaking to AP at her home in Hattiesburg, where a picture of Brown's plane sits on the mantle over the fireplace. "That would give him a final resting place."
Hudner, who turns 89 next month and is in frail health, is bracing himself for what he knows will be difficult journey. There are few paved roads outside Pyongyang, and the route to the region where Brown died is a steep mountain path, treacherous even in good weather.
"I won't be at the bar boozing it up for very long when I get there," he joked.
The political complications may be greater still. The Koreas remain divided by the world's most militarized border, and Washington and Pyongyang lack diplomatic relations.
Diplomatic forays have sputtered over the years, stalled by a standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Earlier this year, Pyongyang threatened to launch a nuclear war if provoked; Washington sent bombers into the region in what defense officials acknowledged was meant as a warning.
America is still Enemy No. 1 to North Koreans, who consider the posting of 28,500 U.S. troops across the border in South Korea to be an "occupation" of the Korean Peninsula.
Hudner is due to arrive at a time known in North Korea as the "anti-American period," a month devoted to recounting the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War and leading up to July 27. Since this is the 60th anniversary of the armistice, it is all the more prominent.
Posters show North Koreans with eyes blazing as they attack American soldiers with bayonets. "Sweep away the imperialist American aggressors," they read. Students file through exhibition halls that lay out the alleged toll: More than 1.2 million soldiers and civilians killed.
More than 36,000 American military personnel died in Korea fighting as part of the U.S.-led U.N. forces, including the nearly 8,000 never accounted for, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
For decades, the families of missing U.S. soldiers have pressed the government to search for their remains.
The first joint U.S.-North Korea searches began in 1996. Teams uncovered 229 sets of remains, but in 2005, with Washington and Pyongyang locked in a nuclear standoff, the U.S. government suspended the searches, citing security concerns.
Last year, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command prepared to resume the search. But those plans were scrapped following North Korea's decision to launch a long-range rocket ? widely seen as a test of missile technology. Additionally, the search program itself has been criticized as "inept" and "dysfunctional" in an internal Pentagon study recently obtained by the AP.
Hudner and the team don't know if they'll find Brown's remains or the wreckage of the two planes.
But Makos, who intends to make the trip the last chapter of his book about the two men, said Brown's place in history makes it especially important to make the attempt.
"He's a Jackie Robinson in many ways. He's a Joe Louis," he said. "He's a historic figure, yet he's lying on a Korean mountainside."
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Associated Press reporters Chris Carola in Albany, New York, and Stacey Plaisance in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, contributed to this report. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at http://www.twitter.com/newsjean.
Investigators look inside a recently opened container holding military equipment aboard the North Korean-flagged freighter Chong Chon Gang in Colon City, Panama, Wednesday.
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News
Leading Republican and Democrat senators called on President Barack Obama to act over a Cuban shipment of weapons and equipment to North Korea, as talks got under way about migration between the U.S. and Cuba.
A North Korean ship was stopped by Panama as it headed home with a cargo of rockets, missile parts and two Cold War-era fighter jets hidden among sacks of brown sugar.
United Nations sanctions ban the export of most military equipment to North Korea, though Havana said it was sending ?obsolete? hardware to be repaired and then returned to Cuba.
Sen. Robert Menendez, the Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that the shipment was ?a grave violation of international treaties.?
?Weapons transfers from one communist regime to another hidden under sacks of sugar are not accidental occurrences, and reinforces the necessity that Cuba remain on the State Department?s list of countries that sponsor state terrorism,? he said.
A ship stocked with weapons and missiles was intercepted near the Panama Canal traveling from Cuba to North Korea.
?In addition to possible violations of Panamanian law, the shipment almost certainly violated United Nations Security Council sanctions on shipments of weapons to North Korea and as such, I call on the Obama administration to submit this case to the U.N. Security Council for review,? he added.
Sen. Marco Rubio, who gave the Republican response to Obama?s State of the Union address this year and is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry that the discovery of the shipment should ?finally prompt the administration to re-calibrate its misguided and na?ve Cuba policy.?
He said the U.S. should ?immediately reverse its January 2011 decision easing restrictions on people-to-people travel and remittances sent to Cuba; as well as immediately halt granting visas to Cuban government officials.?
Rubio said Cuba?s actions were a ?flagrant violation? of U.N. sanctions and ?the latest reminder of the true nature of the Cuban regime.?
?I urge the Administration to take meaningful action to send a clear message that Cuban collusion with North Korea to undermine the international nonproliferation system carries heavy consequences,? he said.
Like Menendez, he also said the U.S. should raise the matter at the U.N. Security Council.
Both Rubio and Menendez are Cuban-Americans known as tough critics of Cuba's communist government.
Their comments, on Wednesday, came as Cuba?s delegation to Washington issued a statement saying talks with their U.S. counterparts took place in a ?climate of respect.?
?A review was made of the evolution of the migration accords in force between the two countries and the main results of the individual and joint actions undertaken by the Parties to cope with illegal migration and alien smuggling,? the Cuban statement said.
It said also Cuba had ratified protocols to prevent people trafficking and smuggling of migrants.
U.S. officials said that they had used the meeting to again press Cuba to release jailed American contractor Alan Gross.
Gross is serving a 15-year sentence for installing Internet networks for Cuban Jews as part of a U.S. program that Cuba considers subversive.
Gross' arrest in late 2009 and sentencing in March 2011 halted a brief thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations after Obama took office in January 2009.
U.S. officials have said they plan to raise the issue of the weapons shipment to Cuba soon.
Meanwhile, international vessel tracking monitor IHS Fairplay said that it had established that five North Korean cargo ships had made similar journeys since 2010, including the O Un Chong Nyon Ho, which docked in Havana, Cuba, in May last year.
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This story was originally published on Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:21 AM EDT
