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Hi David, These are the top stories from The Next Web over the last 24 hours. That was quick: Google pulls "Official" Siri for Android app Ambitious unlimited music startup Beyond Oblivion closes down before launch Swedish brown bear cubs' birth to be live-streamed to the world Silent camera apps blamed for increased voyeurism in Japan Developers finally bring iOS apps to Apple TV, but it's a work in progress Stop whining and start 2012 off with zero unread emails By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers! The Next Web  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

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Hi David, Hope you're having a great weekend :) As requested, these are this week's top stories from The Next Web: This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956 (note: required a forklift). The 10 Best Productivity Apps of 2011 Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile after just 6 months Not a fan of Timeline on Facebook? Use IE7, Facebook stopped supporting it Forget Dropbox, Insync is your Google Docs-loving alternative and it's free "Official" Siri app hits the Android Market, highlights Google's marketplace issues Go Daddy CEO admits 'spike in domain name transfers' over SOPA Google announces 3.7m Android activations over the Christmas weekend By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers! The Next Web  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

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Iran Backs Off Threat to Close Strait of Hormuz

Saturday, December 31, 2011 TOP STORIES 1 Iran Backs Off Threat to Close Strait of Hormuz Talk of blocking the strategic oil route through the Strait of Hormuz is a discussion of the past, a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday in comments that seemed to back away from an earlier threat. But he said Iran had other, unspecified strategies for reacting to any Western aggression. 2 Katy Perry Reportedly Asked Russell Brand to File Divorce Papers to Not Upset Parents 3 No Sale: Million-Dollar Bill Gets North Carolina Man Arrested at Walmart 4 Virginia AG Intervenes in GOP Ballot Dispute as Blocked Candidates Join Suit 5 TV Camera Crashes to Field, Nearly Clobbering Player During Insight Bowl TOP VIDEOS 1 Authorities Search for Arsonist in Los Angeles Fires erupted in Hollywood area 2 Tragic End to Search for Missing Girl in Indiana 3 Nude Tourists Wanted in Florida 4 14-Year-Old Puts Gingrich on the Hot Seat 5 Alien Spaceship Caught on NASA Tape? FOX News Newsletters Just one click to sign up. FoxNews Breaking News Alerts Get alerted the moment major business or economic news breaks! View All Newsletters » This e-mail is never sent unsolicited; you received it because you subscribed to receive updates from foxnews.com Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe | Unsubscribe from all Newsletters Advertise with foxnews.com | Download the Fox News Community Toolbar Copyright ©2010. All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy Fox News Network, LLC 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY.

ANALYSIS: Narratives & Precedents: How PR Strategists Frame the Oscar Race

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December 31, 2011   ANALYSIS: Narratives & Precedents: How PR Strategists Frame the Oscar Race THR's awards expert Scott Feinberg journeys back through Oscar history to identify the four perfs most similar to each of this year's top acting contenders.     Top stories | Movies | TV | Music | Personal Tech | Style | The Business Subscribe to: Newsletters | RSS feeds

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Box Office Report: Troubled Year Ends on Up Note; Tom Cruise's 'M:I 4' Still Leads

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December 31, 2011 Box Office Report: Troubled Year Ends on Up Note; Tom Cruise's 'M:I 4' Still Leads Friday sees solid traffic for many holiday films; "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" is poised to jump the $100 million mark. More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | The Business | Awards

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The Browser daily newsletter [31 Dec 2011]

Daily Newsletter       31 December 2011  Best of the Moment Delayed Gratification James Surowiecki | New Yorker | 26 December 2011 On the return of "layaway", or saving in instalments for big-ticket items and buying when you've saved enough. Antithesis of, and antidote to credit card binge. Not rational perhaps, but works because money to hand is money spent Comments A History Of Disappointment Jackson Lears | London Review Of Books | 29 December 2011 "How did Obama develop his paradoxical combination of fierce ambition and persistent timidity?" Hostile assessment of US president says part of the answer may lie in his family background and a "genealogy of disappointment" Comments Modernisation, Not Morality, Is The Dirty Word Of Politics Peter Oborne | Telegraph | 28 December 2011 "Modernisation" is little more than set of techniques for securing, keeping power. Practitioners included Blair, Mandelson, Cameron. Worked in electoral terms; useless at tackling national problems. Looks intellectually bankrupt now Comments How Much Dam Energy Can We Get? Tim Murphy | Do The Math | 20 December 2011 Physicist investigating how we can replace fossil fuels turns attention to hydroelectric power. Steady, self-storing, efficient, low-carbon. Better than tidal. But a few calculations show it'll never be a big player Comments George Steiner: A Certain Idea Of Knowledge Juliette Cerf | Telerama/Presseurop | 30 December 2011 High-flying interview with literary scholar and polymath. Interesting throughout. "Our world is shrinking. Science is becoming inaccessible to us. Is it possible to be literate if you do not understand non-linear equations?" Comments Revolutionary Chaos Sergei Karaganov | Foreign Affairs | 28 December 2011 Harsh, perceptive global view from dean of Russian foreign policy analysts. Western democracy follows communism into oblivion. Authoritarianism emerges as best form of government. History returns to "customary state of chaos" Comments  FiveBooks Interview Best of FiveBooks on Sport Does the new year prompt thoughts of spending more time at the gym or on the sports field? Concluding our best of FiveBooks series, here are five books to inspire sporting (and gambling) endeavour  Featured Special Report Cooking If cooking is your thing, or you want it to be, this is for you. From interviews with top chefs to articles that range from the perfect appliance, to food for athletes, to what's in your cappuccino, it's all here. Enjoy  Reader Recommendations @polit2k In Indian Slum, Misery, Work, Politics and Hope | JIM YARDLEY | NYT t.co/SpRhprqS #browsings  Book of the Day All the Days and Nights by William Maxwell Mona Simpson says: “I absolutely love him. He’s one of our great short story writers. He’s very delicate, very mid-Western”  Video of the Day Chemical Reactions Four minutes of flashing, banging, bubbling and burning. How many can you identify?  Quote of the Day Gertrude Stein, on repetition "There is no such thing as repetition. There is always a slight variation" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF

Cheat Sheet - Michele Bachmann’s Death Rattle

Today: U.S. Sells Arms to Iran Neighbors, Hackers Dump Credit Card Info, Ron Paul Wouldn't Back His Rivals December 31, 2011 END OF DAYS 1. The Bachmann Death Rattle Rocked by key staff defections and behind in the polls, the Minnesota congresswoman heads into Tuesday’s vote in serious trouble. The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reports from Iowa on the happy warrior’s smiling determination—and why she thinks she can still pull off an upset win. Read it at The Daily Beast POWER PLAY 2. U.S. Sells Arms to Iran Neighbors Iran's recent military bluster has certainly been good for any of its neighbors seeking massive weapons deals from the United States. The U.S. will sell the United Arab Emirates $3.48 billion in missiles and other technologies, part of a military buildup in allies surrounding Iran. The deal, which the Pentagon says will promote a “secure and stable” Persian Gulf, includes 96 sophisticated missiles and a contract for a missile defense system. Thursday the Obama administration announced a deal to sell Saudi Arabia $30 billion in F-15SA fighter jets. Read it at The Washington Post ANONYMOUS 3. Hackers Dump Credit Card Info Hacker collective Anonymous is continuing its campaign to embarrass the security think tank Stratfor, dumping the names, email addresses, and passwords of around 860,000 customers, as well as credit card information for 75,000 clients. “The time for talk is over,” said an Anonymous member before dumping the data. “Did you notice 50,000 of these email addresses are .mil and .gov?” Stratford, a private intelligence-analysis firm, gathers non-classified data on world events. Anonymous then threatened a new campaign for New Year's Eve—protests outside jails and attacks law enforcement targets. Read it at The Washington Post HARSH 4. Ron Paul Wouldn't Back His Rivals Ron Paul is currently just behind Mitt Romney in the days leading up to the Iowa caucuses, but the congressman is already saying that he may not support any of his rivals for the nomination. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Paul says that he could not back them unless they adopted some of his priorities as their own. He added that the other candidates represent the “status quo.” However, Paul did say that Romney’s business experience would make him a better choice than Newt Gingrich. Meanwhile, Herman Cain is trying to grip tightly to his last bit of relevancy before he drifts off into the land of forgotten candidates by holding out on his endorsement until after the Iowa caucuses start Tuesday. In fact, Cain's campaign manager suggested to the AP that the former hopeful doesn't think any of the GOP candidates have proven themselves worthy of his endorsement. Read it at The Associated Press DEJA VU 5. Stocks Have Smallest Annual Change Ever The stock market may have dipped and soared this year but in the end it landed less than a point away from where it did in 2010. This is the smallest annual change ever. With economic volatility across the globe—from the Middle East to Japan and, of course, Europe, investors are relieved to be done with 2011—and grateful for the uneventful finish, which had the potential to be much worse. Read it at CNN Money VIRUS Man Dies of Bird Flu in China First case in more than a year. DIPLOMACY Taliban in Secret Talks in Qatar On release of Gitmo prisoners. RAMPAGE Arsonist Suspected in 21 L.A. Fires Set cars, buildings aflame. HONORS Apple Designer Gets Knighted Jonathan Ive helped craft iPad. 'HOT N COLD' Katy Perry & Russell Brand Split After 14 months of marriage. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET The Yes List Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Rick Perry’s Last-Ditch Iowa Strategy by Patricia Murphy Did Iraqis Snooker NY Times? by Howard Kurtz Charlie Sheen Rants, Beyoncé’s Baby Bombshell: The Year in Viral Videos by The Daily Beast Video

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