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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
LMU salutes Lincoln on President's Day
Pictures and statues of President Abraham Lincoln are scattered across Lincoln Memorial University's campus in Harrogate.
The nation's 16th president never visited Claiborne County, Tennessee.? However, Lincoln was very appreciative of East Tennessee's loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.
The president would ask a Civil War general to raise funds to help the people of our region.? That money would help create Lincoln Memorial University.
LMU has an entire library and museum devoted to Lincoln.
Live@Five@Four's Stoney Sharp visited the campus for President's Day.? The video is attached.
Source: http://claiborne.wbir.com/news/news/47164-lmu-salutes-lincoln-presidents-day
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Ding-dong, Hotmail's dead: All accounts switching to Outlook.com by summer
It's official: Outlook.com will fully replace Hotmail as Microsoft's webmail service. The company will begin to auto-update accounts, and hopes they will be fully migrated from Hotmail to Outlook.com by this summer.
The move was spurred by surprise growth in the Outlook.com mail service, which has amassed 60 million active users in just six months. Microsoft will also remove the "customer preview" label on the product, and launch a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign.
Also read: How Microsoft can regain its footing (Hint: Less Windows, more Office)
I know the first thing you're thinking: "Does this mean my Hotmail address will just go away?" No. It just means that when you go to hotmail.com, you will be re-routed to Outlook.com, and when you log in on the Web, you will get the Outlook.com experience. You can keep your @hotmail.com email address forever, but you can also use that account to create multiple new @outlook.com email addresses, too, if you so desire.
And let me tell you, you shouldn't wait for Microsoft to switch your old Hotmail service over to Outlook.com. I am an unabashed Hotmail hater, but who can forgive the original webmail service for being so far behind the times? Even when Microsoft spent millions on a "new Hotmail" ad campaign a scant two years ago, nobody was fooled: You still had to refresh the thing every time you wanted to know if you had mail.
Enter Outlook.com, which really can give Gmail a run for its money. It's a very smart service with a very streamlined design, tasteful social integration and auto organization features such as inbox "sweep" and scheduled cleanup. Because of this last bit, it's ideal for use either as a main email or as a "spam account," the kind you provide to online retailers and other data collectors.
(Switching your account over takes almost no effort: Just log into Hotmail then click Settings at the top right ? you will see the option to convert to Outlook.)
Though Microsoft was pleased at the sudden growth of Outlook.com users, I grilled David Law, director of product management for Outlook.com, about how many of the 60 million users were just converts from Hotmail's existing 350 million or so accounts. My supposition is that this represents almost all of them, but while Law wouldn't tell me the number, he did say I would be surprised how many were totally fresh.
Law was forthcoming about a different statistic, one that demonstrates Microsoft's target: About one third of the current Outlook.com users are ? or, at least, were ? also Gmail users.
Outlook.com is a very welcome email option, and ? when partnered with the company's SkyDrive cloud storage services ? a sign that Microsoft may well regain some traction with consumers looking for reliable Web services.
One of its only obvious problems is that of branding: Because it's called "Outlook," many people (naturally) assume that it is some kind of Web client for managing any email account. It's not. It's a free service, like Gmail or Yahoo mail or, yes, Hotmail, that provides you with an email account. So don't go asking if you can create an Outlook.com account and then add your corporate email to it, because that's like asking if you can take Google Maps and stick Mapquest into it.
Perhaps that's why Microsoft is spending a lot of money on explanatory ads now. Like this one, featuring the irresistable audio stylings of Seattle's own Macklemore & Ryan Lewis:
Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at NBC News Digital. Catch up with him on Twitter at @wjrothman, and join our conversation on Facebook.
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Apple employees attacked by hackers, infected with malware
A statement issued by Apple on Tuesday reveals that "a limited number" of computers within the Cupertino-based company were infected by malware as part of an attack by hackers.
"The malware was employed in an attack against Apple and other companies, and was spread through a website for software developers," the statement explains. "We identified a small number of systems within Apple that were infected and isolated them from our network. There is no evidence that any data left Apple. We are working closely with law enforcement to find the source of the malware."
The malware took advantage of a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers. Ironically enough, since OS X Lion, Macs have been shipping without Java installed (and OS X disables Java if it is unused for 35 days).
"To protect Mac users that have installed Java," read Apple's statement," we are releasing an updated Java malware removal tool that will check Mac systems and remove this malware if found."
Apple's description of the security breach echoes that of Facebook, which revealed on Friday that that several employee computers were infected with malware thanks to a similar-sounding Java exploit.
Want more tech news or interesting links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on Twitter, subscribing to her Facebook posts, or circling her on Google+.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Android app spotlight: LMT Launcher
I often use my phone one-handed; however, with larger screens like like the 4.8? screen on my Samsung Galaxy S3, my thumbs are just not long enough to be able to reach some Jelly Bean navigation keys on the other side of screen. 
Lightly touching on the left, right or bottom of the screen (it?s configurable) brings up a circular launcher (PIE). Each of the wedges is configurable, and additionally, each wedge can be configured to do a secondary action when long pressed. You can add a second level of wedges, as well. Actions include opening an app, turning off or on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and other assorted functions.
A long wipe to the top left of the wedge opens your notification bar (much easier than dragging down your notifications bar from the top one-handed) and a long swipe to the right brings up settings. The PIE disk also displays information on things like battery power, date and time, and memory and processor information.
There?s much more you can do with the launcher, including screen gestures (e.g., draw a square on the screen to launch a video player) that can be customised to perform actions, but for me the PIE navigation is the most useful and now indispensable feature.
No more ?Texting Thumb? for me.
Root required: Yes
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/02/13/android-app-spotlight-lmt-launcher/
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February 8, 2013 -- IN THE NEWS: An oil tax could be one of the least painful ways to trim the deficit
Friday, February 8, 2013
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By Brad Plumer
February 6, 2013
Like it or hate it, policymakers in Washington are still obsessed with the deficit. That?s why think tanks keep churning out clever plans to cut spending and raise taxes.
And here?s a new paper from the Council on Foreign Relations offering an interesting twist on the theme. Using economic modeling, Michael Levi and Citgroup?s Daniel Ahn suggest that a tax on oil consumption could be one of the least harmful ways to trim the budget deficit.
How do they figure? Levi and Ahn first assume that Congress will enact a big deficit-reduction package over the next 10 years that cuts spending by 3 percent of GDP by 2020 and raises corporate and income taxes by 1 percent of GDP by 2020. That may be unlikely in the real world, but it?s fairly similar to the much-discussed Simpson-Bowles proposal.
Next, the authors look at what would happen if Congress scrapped some of those tax hikes and spending cuts and instead replaced them with a tax on oil consumption. This would could involve simply raising existing taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. They assume the oil tax would be phased in over time and come to about $50 per barrel of crude oil in 2020, or an extra $1.20 per gallon of gasoline.
After running their economic model, Levi and Ahn found that using the oil tax to fend off some of the spending cuts and income tax hikes could be beneficial to the U.S. economy. In other words, a deficit package with an oil tax could be less harmful than a deficit package without one. Here?s the key chart:
In Variation 1, the gold line, the oil tax is used to restore part of the government spending cuts in the big deficit-reduction deal. In Variation 2, the blue line, the oil tax is used to restore part of the spending cuts and keep taxes lower. In Variation 3, the red line, the oil tax revenue is used to keep income and corporate tax rates at their current levels.
The end result: The U.S. economy performs better when there?s oil tax revenue to fend off spending cuts and tax hikes. GDP rises faster and unemployment falls further.
Why might this be? For one, Levi explained in a phone interview, a portion of the oil tax would fall on foreign countries, since the United States still imports about 40 percent of its crude. What?s more, oil in the United States is relatively lightly taxed. ?Raising taxes on something that?s under-taxed, like oil, rather than something that?s already heavily taxed, like income, can yield good results,? Levi said.
Of course, this is a rather simplistic scenario, and Levi and Ahn model a few other possibilities in their full paper (pdf). For instance, it?s quite possible that an oil tax would curb U.S. fuel consumption, which might in turn lower global oil prices. (Though that?s hardly certain; a lot would depend on how OPEC responded.) In that case, the U.S. economy could see a slightly bigger boost.
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Meanwhile, there are distributional consequences to consider. An oil tax is likely to be quite regressive ? many poorer Americans spend a greater fraction of their income on gasoline. So Levi and Ahn looked at what would happen if half of the oil tax revenue was kicked back to consumers as lump-sum rebates, while the other half was used to reduce taxes and maintain spending levels. Even in that case, the economy performs better than it does under a standard deficit-reduction plan.
In theory, a tax on oil could have other benefits as well ? if it reduces domestic fuel consumption, that would make the U.S. economy less vulnerable to large swings in global oil prices. But those benefits aren?t factored in here.
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Last year, a similar study from MIT looked at the effects of using a broader carbon tax to trim the deficit. That study found that carbon taxes only offered a slight advantage over other budget-cutting measures. But there?s an important difference here ? unlike the MIT study, Levi and Ahn?s paper doesn?t assume that the U.S. economy will be running at full employment anytime soon. And in that case, finding ways to blunt the impact of deficit reduction over the next 10 years could have a big effect on the course of the economy.
Source: http://globalchange.mit.edu/news/news-item.php?id=244
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