Canon’s PowerShot N100 Puts the Photographer in the Picture
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That seems to be what Canon is saying with its announcement Monday of a new PowerShot camera model, the N100, which includes several features popular on smartphones. For example, the shooter has front and rear cameras. A picture-in-picture effect can be created with the image from the rear-facing camera being incorporated automatically into the main image.
Read More →LG Bets on WebOS for New Smart TV Line
LG Electronics has revived the webOS operating system for its latest line of smart TVs, the company announced on Monday. In fact, LG will use webOS on more than 70 percent of its smart TV lineup this year, the company said. "The beauty of webOS is that it provides so much freedom and is so simple to use," said In-kyu Lee, senior vice president and head of the company’s TV division.
Read More →Malicious Ads Infect Thousands of European Yahoo Users
Certain advertisements on Yahoo’s European website may have helped infect thousands of computers with malware. A Dutch computer security firm, Fox-IT, outed Yahoo last Friday, penning a blog post claiming that attackers had used ads.yahoo.com to insert malicious ads. Fox-IT was apparently on to something, because on Sunday, Yahoo admitted to hosting ads that didn’t "meet our editorial guidelines."
Read More →Outline Sings Dandy OneNote Duet
Note-taking applications are very popular with many users, and that’s probably why developers have flooded Apple’s Mac App Store with those kinds of programs. A notable exception, though, has been Microsoft. That’s not to say it has ignored the thirst of note-takers — it makes a robust outline-notepad hybrid called OneNote. The thing is, it doesn’t make it for the Mac.
Read More →Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid: Dreaming of Privacy in 2014
Well another year has come and gone here in the Linux blogosphere, and what a different world it is as we enter 2014. Certainly most notably, our friends at the NSA have made it clear that any notions of privacy have pretty much gone out the window. Go Tor! Speaking of Windows, XP’s final days are now finally being counted down. Cheers to that!
Read More →Retiring in Sanctuary Belize: Tarnished Dreams
I’ve been executing on a long-term dream of retiring in Belize. I’ve been putting some rigor into the effort to make sure the perception of the dream doesn’t outpace reality. I’ve often been brought in on projects that should have been shut down early, largely because executive staff had lost track of reality. I don’t want to make the same mistake with this important project.
Read More →International Child adoptions becoming a new export industry and trade in Ethiopia
 Meron Admasu/from Norway  The international Adoption law – is a type of adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parent(s) of a child who is a national of a different country.  How adoption agencies work in Ethiopia According to Ethiopian child adoption law – adoptive parents must submit post […]
Read More →Portugal football legend Eusebio dies By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Isa Soares,
(CNN)Â — Portugal football legend Eusebio, who was top scorer at the 1966 World Cup, died at the age of 71, his former club Benfica said Sunday. He died from a heart attack, the Lisbon side said on its website. The striker, affectionately known as the “Black Panther,” was idolized throughout the Portuguese-speaking world and considered […]
Read More →South Sudan’s Warring Factions Start Direct Peace Talks
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Two warring factions from South Sudan held direct peace talks on Sunday for the first time since conflict began roiling the country last month, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for safety. The direct talks, focused on a cease-fire and the release of political prisoners, put representatives of President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar together in Ethiopia. South Sudan has experienced three…
Read More →Bombings kill 20 in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of bombings hit Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, killing at least 20 people Sunday, officials said, the latest assault by militants who have been fighting Iraqi security forces and allied tribes in country’s west. The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad’s Shiite northern Shaab neighborhood, when two parked car bombs exploded simultaneously near a restaurant and a tea house. Officials say those blasts killed 10 people and wounded 26. Authorities said that a parked car bomb ripped through in capital’s Shiite eastern district of Sadr City, killing five and wounding 10. Another bombing killed three civilians and wounded six in a commercial area in the central Bab…
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