Why Apple Gave Up On Genius For Apps, And What's Next For The App Store's Long Tail

Apple is no longer offering the "Genius" feature as a way to surface and discover new mobile applications in the iOS App Store in the latest version of Apple's mobile?operating?system, iOS 7. Instead, the spot that used to belong to "Genius" now goes to "Near Me," a new feature demoed during yesterday's keynote at WWDC, which recommends apps based on your location.

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Miami gets its day in NCAA court

CORAL GABLES, Fla. ? And now, the trial.

After more than two years of investigation, mudslinging and another investigation, one of the most talked-about NCAA compliance cases will head to its version of court.

The University of Miami will meet with the NCAA's Committee on Infractions starting Thursday in Indianapolis. The hearings are expected to span three days - considerably longer than the typical one to two.

And as the Miami administrators, lawyers and involved parties head to Indianapolis, another published report involving the key figure in the case comes out. Former Hurricane booster turned whistleblower Nevin Shapiro made new allegations against the program in the pages of Sports Illustrated published Wednesday.

His claims involve coaches feeding him insider information to help his gambling habit won't be part of this week's hearings, though. That's because Shapiro said he refused to meet with NCAA investigators after they declined to pay his lawyer, Maria Elena Perez, to attend the interview. He also grew frustrated with the investigators' handling of the case.

"I thought I was dealing with the FBI," Shapiro told SI. "Instead, I was dealing with a bunch of clowns. I gave the NCAA the body, the weapon and the DNA evidence on a platter, and they found a way to screw this up."

The NCAA could reportedly charge Miami with $170,000 of the millions Shapiro claims he paid Hurricane athletes from 2002-10.

Despite the difficulty dealing with Shapiro, the NCAA still hit Miami with the dreaded "lack of institutional control" tag. The charges stem from years of alleged recruiting and extra benefit violations involving Shapiro. The actual notice of allegations, delivered in late February, has not been released since the private school and the NCAA are not bound by public record laws.

Any evidence presented during the hearing was to have been submitted two weeks ago for inspection by both sides. The enforcement staff will effectively be the prosecutor in the case, while Miami and its legal team will defend itself against the allegations.

Britton Banowsky, commissioner of Conference USA and current Committee on Infractions chairman, will run the hearing.

"Similar to a court proceeding, all involved parties, including the institution and the enforcement staff, give opening statements," the NCAA's website reads. "Both the enforcement staff and the institution and other involved parties make presentations on each individual allegation. Committee members ask questions. After all allegations are discussed, each party offers closing statements."

The hearings are not bound to any time frame and can last as long as necessary.

"The committee deliberates in private to determine its findings and what penalties should be assessed," the NCAA website states. "The committee's report, prepared with the assistance of NCAA staff separate from enforcement, is released eight to 12 weeks after a hearing."

Miami would have the right to appeal any further sanctions at that point. School president Donna Shalala has on multiple occasions insisted no further penalties were necessary. Miami already took itself out of postseason play in each of the past two football seasons and multiple players served suspensions.

A separate appeals committee would hear the case if Miami protested any additional penalties.

The hearings are closed to the public and Miami officials have already stated they will not be speaking publicly about the case this week.

That would be a departure from the very public statements Shalala made in recent months. She was outspoken and critical of the probe that the NCAA admits had serious flaws after doing an internal investigation.

Miami in March filed a motion to dismiss the charges based mostly on the ethical red flags raised in the lengthy investigation. The school slammed the NCAA for its interview and evidence methods, while claiming the investigation was "corrupted from the start."

The NCAA responded a few week later by saying Miami's motion was "largely based on assumptions, false accusations, misleading statements and meritless claims."

The motion was ultimately denied, which leaves both sides primed for a battle behind closed doors this week in Indianapolis.

Source: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/06/12/2542170/miami-gets-its-day-in-ncaa-court.html

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Iran: Bushehr nuclear plant has generator problem

MOSCOW (AP) ? Iran's Russian-built nuclear power plant has had an electric generator malfunction, an Iranian official said Monday.

The flaw at the Bushehr plant wasn't caused by recent earthquakes in Iran, Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi, Iran's ambassador to Russia, was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying.

Sajjadi said Russian and Iranian experts are trying to fix the problem, without saying when it occurred or whether it led to the plant's shutdown.

Russia's state-controlled Rosatom nuclear agency, which built the plant, had no comment on Sajjadi's statement.

Iran has defied Western demands that it halt nuclear programs that could be used for making atomic weapons, though it insists its uranium enrichment program has peaceful goals.

The plant in the southern port of Bushehr isn't considered a proliferation threat, but some nations have voiced concern about its safety.

Last week, diplomats from several countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program told The Associated Press that recent restricted information gathered from the site indicated that long cracks appeared in at least one section of the structure.

Persistent technical problems have halted the plant's operation for long periods since it started up in September 2011.

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The New Safari: Your Power-Saving Google Reader Replacement

Apple updates Safari every year, but now with the help of Intel's Haswell processor, they might actually have made something that people will actually want to use. Running at about a third the energy usage of Firefox, way less memory, and 1.44 times faster than Chrome, this might just do it.

Definitely the most notable change, at least design-wise, is a brand new sidebar that comes bearing both bookmarks and a "Reading List" that lets you scroll through subscribed and saved articles. There's alos a "Shared Links" feature that lists all the goodies that your friends have shared over Twitter and, uh, LinkedIN. Facebook friends need not apply,?at least not yet. You can also bookmark links with one click as well as re-share on Twitter (again, Facebook is conspicuously absent).

In addition to all these more social goodies, Safari should be better at keeping people out, too, with its new iCloud Keychain. Should you find yourself needing a bit of help, it will auto-suggest a super secure password for you. And while it will remember your credit card number for you, the security code will remain safely with you.

Plus, the entire iWork for iCloud suite will be optimized for the new Safari (though it does also run in other browsers). You can fully edit everything from Keynotes slides to Numbers spreadsheets in your browser and go back to them on any one of your iCloud-supporting devices. You can even view your work in Presentation Mode from right within Safari. Right now, iWork for iCloud is only available as a developer beta but should expand to include all users "later this year."

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Kelly Ayotte To Back Immigration Bill In Senate

BY PHILIP ELLIOT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Sunday said she would support the bipartisan immigration overhaul under debate in the Senate and criticized "the broken immigration system we have now" as "unworthy of a great nation."

In a television interview and in a longer statement on her website, the New Hampshire senator became one of the first Republicans who didn't write the bill to line up behind the proposal that would offer a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally. Ayotte's support helps the bill's advocates move closer to the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster.

"The status quo isn't working. It's de facto amnesty. We need immigration reform that serves the best interests of our country," Ayotte wrote on her website.

A bipartisan group of eight senators -- four Republicans and four Democrats -- drafted the bill.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure last month with support from two of the Republican authors, along with Sen. Orrin Hatch. However, the Utah Republican says he will vote for the measure in the full Senate only if it includes higher penalties and delayed Social Security benefits for immigrants living illegally in the country.

Separately, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said he will vote for the bill he helped write only with stronger border security than the bill already includes.

As drafted, the legislation also creates a low-skilled guest-worker program, expands the number of visas available for high-tech workers and de-emphasizes family ties in the system for legal immigration that has been in place for decades.

The legislation creates a 13-year route to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

The bill is a "tough but fair way" for the estimated 11 million to come "out of the shadows" and "earn citizenship -- go to the back of the line, pay taxes, pass a criminal background check, learn English," Ayotte told CBS' "Face the Nation."

It also sets border security goals that the government must meet before immigrants living in the U.S. illegally are granted any change in status.

"As a nation of immigrants, we must remember that we're all descended from people who came here from somewhere else in search of a better life," she said.

"But the broken immigration system we have now is unworthy of a great nation," she added. "It's time for Washington to tackle this problem head on."

Despite support from the White House, the AFL-CIO labor unions and the pro-business Chamber of Commerce, the bill's passage is by no means assured. Sixty votes are usually required to end Senate debate and consider adoption. There are currently 54 senators, including two independents, in the Democratic caucus, and 45 Republicans.

Leaders in the Democratic-led Senate want a final vote on the legislation by July 4.

The Republican-led House, meanwhile, is taking a smaller, piecemeal approach to the issue. Many of the components of the Senate bill are likely to find strong opposition there, giving House Republicans greater sway even before the Senate votes.

"What they have in the Senate has zero chance of passing in the House," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. "So, why not come to a conservative like myself and say, he's willing to work with you, why not work with me to make the bill closer to what would be acceptable in the House?"

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said he remained hopeful a bill could be passed but said the bill would have to see changes if it stood any chance in the House.

"It doesn't do anybody any good just to pass in the Senate," Johnson said.

Immigration also has deep political implications.

In 2012, President Barack Obama won re-election with the backing of 71 percent of Hispanic voters and 73 percent of Asian voters. A thwarted immigration overhaul could send those voting blocs more solidly to Democrats' side in future elections. That has led some Republican lawmakers to support immigration reform, but the party's conservative base still opposes any legislation that would create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living here illegally.

Paul and Johnson were on "Fox News Sunday."

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Jordan hosts U.S. jets and missiles in drills in Syria's shadow

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. troops equipped with Patriot missiles and fighter jets began military exercises in Jordan that have drawn condemnation from Russia, which accuses the West of fanning the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Washington confirmed last week it was sending the F-16 jets and missiles - which can be used against planes and other missiles - to its ally Jordan, and said it may consider keeping them there after the drills.

Both Washington and Amman said on Sunday the Eager Lion exercises were not related to the war in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad's air power has given him an edge over lighter-armed rebels.

But the Damascus government, and its most powerful ally Moscow, have been sensitive about any transfer of Western arms closer to the conflict, particularly any gear that could be used to enforce a no-fly zone.

More than 4,500 American troops, around 3,000 Jordanians, and 500 soldiers from Britain, Saudi Arabia and other countries were taking part in the exercises, less than 75 miles from the Syrian border, said military officials.

"The drills having nothing to do with any objective related to what is happening in Syria," the top army commander in charge of Jordanian troops, Major General Awni al-Adwan, told reporters during the launch of the exercises on Sunday.

U.S. Major General Robert G. Catalanotti told a joint news conference the Eager Lion events would increase "our ability to operate together in any upcoming contingency".

The exercises also involved a number of F-18 jets from bases in the Gulf and drills on handling chemical strikes, which Syria's government and rebels have accused each other of carrying out.

PRIVATE REQUESTS

Jordan is one of a number of Arab countries that have lent support to the Syrian opposition, caught up in the two-year-old civil war.

Jordan, like Syria's other neighbors, is increasingly nervous that the fighting will spill over and ignite a regional conflict.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been reluctant to become involved despite having called for Assad to resign and hinting at military action if the Syrian government crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapon. He has shown some willingness to protect friends in the region.

Jordanian officials privately say they requested that at least two Patriots are kept after the end of the exercises to guard against any missile attack from Syria.

Western diplomats say Washington has favorably responded to the request to bolster its ally's security.

Moscow complained vociferously last year when the United States, Germany and the Netherlands deployed Patriots on Syria's northern border in Turkey, a NATO ally.

Russia complained again after Washington confirmed its deployment of missiles and jets to Jordan last week.

"We have more than once stated our opinion on this - foreign weapons are being pumped into an explosive region," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement on June 4.

"This is happening very close to Syria, where for more than two years the flames are burning of a devastating conflict that Russia and its American partners are trying to stop by proposing to hold an international peace conference as soon as possible."

(Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Spain PM sees hope for unemployment on day of protests

By Clare Kane

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish unemployment figures next week may strike a more encouraging note, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy told an economic conference on Saturday, holding out some hope for an economy deep in its second year of recession.

Anger is high in Spain over the budget cuts and labor market changes that have left more than six million out of work, and a protest in Madrid on Saturday drew up to several thousand protestors, although that was fewer than similar events in the recent past.

Unemployment in Spain, the euro zone's fourth-biggest economy, jumped to a record 27.2 percent in April, adding to the European debate over whether to ditch policies focused on austerity in favor of efforts to spur economic growth.

"I'm not counting chickens here, however I recommend that you pay attention to unemployment and social security numbers on Tuesday the 4th ... If the patterns we've seen are confirmed they will be clearly encouraging," Rajoy said.

Tackling joblessness is a major challenge for the euro zone's leaders. Germany's Finance Minister warned this week that failure to solve youth unemployment - around a quarter of young people in the bloc cannot find work - could tear Europe apart.

While Spain and twice-bailed-out Greece have fared worst, unemployment hit new highs in both France and Italy in April and 12.2 percent of the currency bloc's workforce is jobless.

Protests against the "troika" of international lenders that has rescued struggling states but demanded painful spending cuts and tax rises were planned in several countries on Saturday but drew muted turnouts compared to previous rallies.

Austerity imposed by the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank (ECB) and European Union is blamed at least in part for the pain felt by families who are deep in debt or have lost their homes after property bubbles burst.

Reuters witnesses said up to several thousand Spaniards gathered at the peak of Saturday's protest in central Madrid. 1,000 or fewer took to the streets in Lisbon, while only a few dozen rallied in austerity-weary Athens, where attendance at protests has dwindled in the absence of much impact on policy.

A march in the southern French city of Toulouse attracted 3,000 people, according to police. Former leftist presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Melenchon told French television the protests across Europe proved people had "a European consciousness, a political consciousness".

Anti-capitalist demonstrators clashed with police for a second day in Germany's financial capital Frankfurt, where they had cut off access to the ECB on Friday.

After cutting interest rates to record lows, the ECB is under pressure to do more to revive the euro zone's sickly economy, with the OECD calling this week for the bank to consider printing money for asset purchases to revive growth.

NO APOCALYPSE

In Spain, joblessness has grown for seven quarters in a row, leaving 6 million people out of work - more than the population of Denmark and including over half of under 25-year-olds.

Economists say unemployment will rise further this year due to the prolonged contraction, which has depressed consumption and frozen hiring.

Almost one-third of unemployed people have been out of work for more than two years, and two million Spanish households have no one earning a wage.

Rajoy said Spain had left the worst of its crisis behind and unemployment was slowing. He added the centre-right government hoped to lower taxes as soon as possible and would cut income tax by 2015.

"It's not right to feed people's fears and be swept along by irrational thinking. We aren't on the edge of a cliff, this isn't the eve of the apocalypse. There's some turbulence but we can bear it and overcome it successfully," he said.

Rajoy also repeated a call for Europe to do more to move quickly towards the fiscal and political union needed to calm financial markets and guarantee the future of the euro. "We aren't growing because Europe isn't growing," Rajoy said.

(Reporting by Andrei Khalip in Lisbon, Renee Maltezou in Athens and Jean Decotte in Paris; Editing by Catherine Evans and Patrick Graham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spain-pm-sees-hope-unemployment-day-protests-193603168.html

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