Instagram says users' photos won't appear in ads

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service now owned by Facebook, said Tuesday that it will remove language from its new terms of service suggesting that users' photos could appear in advertisements.

The language in question had appeared in updated policies announced Monday and scheduled to take effect Jan. 16. After an outcry on social media and privacy rights blogs, the company clarified that it has no plans to put users' photos in ads.

That said, Instagram maintains that it was created to become a business and would like to experiment with various forms of advertisements to make money. Instagram doesn't currently run any ads. As of now, the free service has no way to make money and brings in no revenue to Facebook.

"Our main goal is to avoid things likes advertising banners you see in other apps that would hurt the Instagram user experience," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

What had riled users and privacy advocates was Instagram's new assertion that it may now receive payments from businesses to use its members' photos, user name and other data "in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation" to them.

Instagram didn't offer many details at the time. Its blog post on Monday made no mention of ads or other commercial activities, though it offered links to the new privacy policy and terms of service. Those documents spell out what the service could do, but say little about actual plans.

Instead, Instagram merely said the changes will help its service "function more easily as part of Facebook by being able to share info between the two groups." Facebook Inc. also recently updated its privacy policy to allow for more integration with Instagram.

"This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used," the earlier blog post said, adding that the updates also "help protect you, and prevent spam and abuse as we grow."

Facebook bought Instagram in September for $715.3 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock.

Instagram's new policy, which takes effect Jan. 16, suggests that Facebook wants to integrate Instagram into its ad-serving system.

"These services are publicly advertised as 'free,' but the free label masks costs to privacy, which include the responsibility of monitoring how these companies sell data, and even how they change policies over time," said Chris Hoofnagle, director of Information Privacy Programs at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

The fast-growing service has become a popular way to share photos from cellphones. The Instagram app, available for the iPhone and Android devices, offers a variety of filters to give photos a retro feel or other look. Although many other apps also offer filters for enhancing photos, they don't offer the sharing features and community aspects of Instagram.

Instagram has had a loyal following since before Facebook bought it. The purchase worried some of the earliest fans of the service, who feared Facebook would swallow up their beloved community.

Users must accept the new terms when they go into effect or leave the Instagram.

Twitter users were vowing to cancel their Instagram accounts. They complained that the new terms would essentially let the service sell people's photos for ads ? something Instagram said Tuesday it doesn't plan to do.

Facebook's stock price increased nearly 4 percent on Tuesday amid the Instagram ads chatter, to close at $27.71.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/instagram-says-users-photos-wont-223021262.html

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Nielsen's top programs for Dec. 10-16

(AP) ? Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 10-16. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

1. NFL Football: San Francisco at New England, NBC, 23.23 million.

2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 19.63 million.

3. "NCIS," CBS, 17.65 million.

4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 16.74 million.

5. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 15.12 million.

6. "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 14.62 million.

7. "Person of Interest," CBS, 14.08 million.

8. "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.34 million.

9. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 12.33 million.

10. "Criminal Minds," CBS, 12.01 million.

11. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.52 million.

12. "Survivor: Philippines" (Sunday), CBS, 11.46 million.

13. "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 11.04 million.

14. "Modern Family," ABC, 10.94 million.

15. "2 Broke Girls" (Monday, 9:30 p.m.), CBS, 10.78 million.

16. "Football Night in America," NBC, 10.47 million.

17. "Elementary," CBS, 10.46 million.

18. "Survivor: Philippines," CBS, 10.37 million.

19. "Vegas," CBS, 10.33 million.

20. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 9.84 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is a unit of News Corp.; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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Loans and Finance: Cyprus To Default

According to Cyprus Finance Ministry Secretary Christos Patsalides Cyprus is going to default within days unless it receives Euro300BN.

Oddly enough there are some people who have been taken by surprise by this development.

I don't understand why, in August I wrote the following:

"Cyprus has barely managed to sell Euro23.1M of government bonds.

It achieved a "bid to cover ratio" of 1 (ie there were only just enough "punters" prepared to buy them), at a yield of 7% (the last auction in June achieved a yield of 6.25%).

A yield of 7% is "the point of no return"; it is the level at which Greece, Portugal and Ireland went with their begging bowls to others asking for a bailout.

Why is Cyprus having problems?

Around 40% of its largest banks' exposures are to Greece."

Therefore this should come as no surprise to anyone.

Source: http://loanbuster.blogspot.com/2012/12/cyprus-to-default.html

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After Florida trip, Winooski mayor talks F-35

WINOOSKI, Vt. ?

Mayor Michael O?Brien, D-Winooski, provided a summary of his trip to Valparaiso, Fla., to hear the F-35 in action, but stopped short of saying whether he supports basing the planes in Chittenden County.

O?Brien joined Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt., and Mayor Miro Weinberger, D-Burlington, on the chartered flight last Wednesday. The trip was paid for by the Greater Burlington Industrial Corp., which has endorsed bringing the jets to the Vermont Air Guard.

According to the draft of the Air Force?s Environmental Impact Statement, nearly 2,000 homes in Winooski could be deemed uninhabitable because of noise produced by the new planes.

According to the dEIS, 1,578 homes already lie within the 65 DNL contour. That number could grow to as high as 2,944 under an Air Force scenario, the document said.

A Winooski resident said the numbers crunched by the military are from 2000 Census data. Horace Shaw said with the 2010 Census, 4,200 housing units would be within the 65 day-night average sound level (DNL) area.

?I'm reluctant to start building and remodeling a house here, because I feel that a designation that's unsuitable for residential use will adversely affect my ability to sell these properties,? said contractor and Winooski resident Brock Richardson.

To try to get a sense of the noise, since the F-35 will not test-fly over Vermont, O?Brien accepted an invitation for a seat on the GBIC flight.

He even brought his iPad and downloaded an application to measure sound. He admits his tests are unscientific, but said the trip provided an opportunity to see the planes in action.

?To my ear, there wasn't a big difference in noise volume,? O?Brien said.

He said he was positioned on the air field similar to where Winooski lies in relation to the air guard base.

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Asian shares inch higher on "fiscal cliff" hopes

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares crept higher on Tuesday, tracking the overnight gains in U.S. stocks on optimism for progress in resolving the U.S. budget crisis before the year-end deadline.

Expectations of more monetary easing kept the yen soft.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.2 percent, after ending an eight-day winning streak on Monday as investors took profits from last week's rally.

Australian shares rose 0.6 percent, lifted by a rise in iron ore prices to a five-month high and by gains on Wall Street. South Korean shares opened up 0.4 percent.

Global shares advanced on Monday, supported by signs of tentative progress on negotiations to avert the U.S. "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and spending cuts due to set in at the start of next year.

While the fiscal cliff remains a major focus for markets, prices may become unlikely to rise with players taking profits to close their books before leaving for the holidays, traders said.

U.S. President Barack Obama and top Republican John Boehner met at the White House on Monday, with simple evidence of ongoing communication keeping alive hopes that Washington will be able to resolve the budget crisis.

"There was no meaningful breakthrough in the negotiations, but the high-level meetings do improve investor sentiment," said Kim Soon-young, an analyst at IBK Securities.

The dollar steadied around 83.91 yen, off a 20-month high of 84.48 yen hit on Monday but well above its late New York levels on Friday.

The yen slumped broadly on Monday after the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's election triumph opened the way for a cabinet headed by LDP leader Shinzo Abe, who is calling for far more aggressive monetary stimulus and huge public works spending to rescue Japan out of decades-long deflation.

Abe, who is due to be confirmed as Japan's next premier on December 26, applied fresh pressure on the Bank of Japan on Monday, saying that the election result reflected strong public support for his views, which he hoped the BOJ would take into account at its two-day policy meeting starting on Wednesday.

"The dollar has more upside against the yen ahead of the BOJ's meeting, with expectations for some additional easing steps being strengthened after Abe's comments yesterday," said Yuji Saito, director of foreign exchange at Credit Agricole in Tokyo.

"The corrective fall in the dollar/yen after the election was small and it's crawling up because the yen weakening trend is still intact. But after the BOJ meeting, there will likely be pre-holiday profit-taking, pushing the dollar/yen down by 1-2 yen," he said.

By putting pressure on the yen, Abe's election win was also seen as supportive for Japanese stocks as a weak yen improves prospects for Japanese corporate export earnings.

After closing Monday at a 8-1/2-month peak on the yen's slide, Japan's Nikkei stock average was likely to pause for now. The Nikkei opened 0.2 percent higher.

"The so-called Abe trade is likely to be over. I think the market will see some sell-off but will be supported by dip buying," said Takashi Hiroki, chief strategist at Monex Inc.

Asset returns in 2012: http://link.reuters.com/nyw85s

Japan economic snapshot: http://link.reuters.com/jyc64t

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U.S. crude rose 0.3 percent to $87.44 a barrel.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Lau in Tokyo and Somang Yang in Seoul; Editing by Eric Meijer)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-shares-inch-higher-fiscal-cliff-hopes-005448351--finance.html

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Does Wii have a problem with U? - Business - Macleans.ca

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Does Wii have a problem with U?

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Nintendo?s 2006 launch of the Wii console marked a new era for video games. With its innovative motion-sensing controllers, used to mimic the swing of a tennis racquet or golf club, the $250 Wii immediately struck a chord with gamers and non-gamers alike. Amazon sold out of its initial stock of sleek, white Wii consoles in just seven minutes.

The Wii?s unexpected success catapulted third-ranked Nintendo to the top of the video game industry, ahead of Microsoft?s Xbox 360 and Sony?s PlayStation 3?both of which are more powerful (and more expensive) machines. More importantly, it suggested a much wider potential market for game consoles beyond basement-dwelling teenagers.

But the renaissance has proved short-lived. Console sales have declined dramatically in recent years as existing systems grow long in the tooth. Nintendo posted a loss of $530 million this year, its first since 1981. And competition from tablets and smartphones, with their cheap, downloadable games, threatens to steal away millions of casual gamers. ?Tablets and smartphones are the black hole of the consumer electronics industry right now, sucking the growth out of everything else,? says Kaan Yigit, the president of Toronto?s Solutions Research Group, a consumer research firm. ?The growth rates we saw after Wii first came out are but a distant memory.?

It?s into this maw of uncertainty that Nintendo recently launched its Wii successor: the Wii U. With its tablet-like GamePad controller, Wii U promises to once again rethink the video game experience by adding a second screen to the action. Yet, despite strong initial sales, few expect a repeat performance. Critics say the Wii U?s attempt to mix tablets and television is actually more confusing than engaging, and is not nearly as innovative as the original Wii. Nor is there any reason to believe Sony and Microsoft will fare any better when they roll out their own next-generation systems over the next few years.

Video game consoles, for a brief time, seemed like the future of household electronics. They married video games with online services like Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, as well as Netflix. But these days everyone from Apple and Google to local cable and satellite providers are racing to bridge the Internet-TV divide. Mario, in other words, may have finally met his match.

Nintendo?s immediate challenge is convincing consumers the Wii U actually represents a step up from its predecessor?one that?s worth the $300 sticker price ($350 if you buy the ?deluxe? set, which includes the game Nintendo Land). ?What was great about Wii is that someone else could watch you playing and understand exactly what you were doing,? says Matt Ryan, a spokesperson for Nintendo Canada. ?They knew the Wii remote controller was your tennis racquet, golf club or sword.?

Not so with the Wii U. Although the GamePad also acts as a motion controller, a big bulky one that?s festooned with buttons and joysticks, the real innovation comes from the tablet?s six-inch touchscreen. ?The core essence of what the Wii U GamePad offers is a second window, or perspective, into the gaming world on the TV screen,? Ryan says. For example, sometimes the GamePad?s screen will display information that might normally be available only by pushing a button?say, an overhead map of the world being explored by Mario and his brother, Luigi. Other times, it might be used to keep certain information secret from other players, or to give one player the ability to influence the game through the touchscreen. It?s called asymmetrical gaming, and while it sounds complex, it?s not new. Most card games are based on the concept that some information?like a poker player?s hand? is kept secret from other players.

The reviews have so far been mixed. ?I?ve played Nintendo Land, I?ve played ZombiU, and they?re good,? Peter Molyneux, a game designer and former Microsoft executive, told the website Games Industry, referring to two of the Wii U?s hottest titles. ?But I find holding the device in my hand?looking up at the screen and looking down at the device?slightly confusing.?

Nintendo says it has sold about 400,000 Wii U units in North America since they went on sale Nov. 18. But what happens once all of the game enthusiasts get their hands on the first brand-new console in six years? One recent report by media research firm IHS predicted the Wii U would sell on par with its predecessor initially, but that sales would soon slow. IHS estimated 56.7 million units sold during the first four years, compared with 76 million for the original Wii.

Not surprisingly, game consoles in general are losing their top-of-mind status among young buyers. A recent survey by media research firm Neilsen found that the iPad was the must-have gadget on the holiday wish lists of children aged 6 to 12. Wii U was second, followed by three more Apple products: the iPod Touch, iPad Mini and iPhone. The Xbox 360 and PS3 were even further down the list.

Others, however, say it may be too soon to declare ?game over? for the industry. Lewis Ward, a Boston-based analyst with research firm IDC, blames slowing sales on the sluggish U.S. economy and the fact that all three platforms had reached the end of their life cycle. ?There are a lot of dour predictions about where consoles are going,? says Ward, who predicts a successor to the Xbox 360 will be unveiled by the end of 2013 with an all-new PlayStation coming shortly after. ?But I do expect a rebound over the next several years, assuming that we don?t have another massive macro-economic downturn.? Buoyed by the new hardware, Ward forecasts North American sales of game consoles hitting 20 million units by 2014, compared to just under 16 million this year. That?s up nearly 25 per cent, although still off the peak of 25 million units sold in 2008. As for the threat from tablets, Ward says hand-held game devices like Nintendo?s 3DS and Sony?s PS Vita are most at risk. ?The console experience is different for a number of reasons?particularly among the hard-core crowd who play shooters,? he says, using the video game slang for trigger-happy first-person games like Halo and Call of Duty. ?It?s the graphics and surround sound. If you?re going to be playing for hours, you don?t want to be playing on a touchscreen.?

Console makers may have another ace up their sleeve as they attempt to build their market beyond teens and other hard-core gamers. Though it?s not currently their main focus, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are all well positioned to capitalize on the growing trend toward streamed television. All three consoles already offer families an easy way to get Netflix on their TV sets (Sony claims the PS3 is the most-used Netflix device) while some Xbox and PS3 users have access to live sports content through ESPN and MLB TV apps. Nintendo will be offering a TVii app on the Wii U that allows users to combine television content from multiple sources, ranging from Netflix to traditional cable, and access it through a single interface: the GamePad. ?The game consoles are trying to co-opt all the TV stuff,? Ward says, adding that the future of TV watching will be highly interactive, with tablets and other ?smart? devices all thrown into the mix. (Microsoft already has an application called Xbox SmartGlass that allows users to use their smartphones and tablets as a second screen for some games, as well as remote controls.)

Ironically, it?s in the midst of this jumble of technology that the Wii U, as muddled as it initially seems, actually makes the most sense. ?The Wii U GamePad forces players to confront one of the strangest features of the contemporary media ecosystem: the tension between the television and the hand-held computer,? Ian Bogost, a video game designer and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote in an essay published on the website Gamasutra. Playing the Wii U feels awkward, he says, because having our attention divided between the TV and the Internet is awkward. But given this is where the living room is headed?most TV viewers already surf the web and check Facebook while watching their favourite sitcoms?Nintendo appears to be wholeheartedly embracing the shift, rather than fighting it.

Ultimately, that could prove far more innovative than a game controller you waggle over your head.

Source: http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/12/16/does-wii-have-a-problem/

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Plant sniffs out danger to prepare defenses against pesky insect

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A plant may start to prime its defenses as soon as it gets a whiff of a male fly searching for a mate, according to Penn State entomologists. Once tall goldenrod plants smell a sex attractant emitted by true fruit fly males, they appear to prepare chemical defenses that make them less appealing to female flies that could damage the plants by depositing eggs on them, the researchers said.

"It's become increasingly clear in recent years that plants are responsive to odors," said Mark Mescher, assistant professor of entomology. "But previous examples of this are all plant-to-plant. For example, some plants have been shown to respond to the odor of insect-damaged neighbors by priming their own defenses. What's new about this is that it seems that plants may sometimes be able to smell the insects themselves."

A tall goldenrod plant's reaction to these odors also appears to make it less attractive to other insects that might feed on it, according to the researchers, who reported their findings in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In a field study, the researchers exposed some plants to the odor of the male fly and then counted the number of exposed and unexposed plants on which female flies laid eggs by noting the distinctive scarring that occurs when females puncture the stem to lay their eggs inside, Mescher said.

The researchers found that females were significantly less likely to lay eggs on plants exposed to the male emission and about four times more likely to lay eggs on plants in a control group that were not exposed to this odor cue.

Compared to the control group, other herbivores, such as beetles, also caused significantly less damage to of the tall goldenrod plants exposed to the fly emissions, both in the field and in laboratory experiments. "It would seem that the plant senses the odor of the fly," Mescher said. "Then, it primes its defenses so that it can respond faster to the threat."

Over years of evolution, the true fruit fly has established a close relationship with tall goldenrod, according to Mescher, who worked with Anjel Helms, doctoral student in ecology; Consuelo De Moraes, professor of entomology; and John Tooker, assistant professor of entomology.

The male fly, which in the Northeast usually emerges in mid-May, perches on the upper leaves of the tall goldenrod plants and emits a chemical blend that may act as an attractant to the female flies, which emerge later, according to Tooker. Once a female mates with the male, it deposits its eggs in the stem of the plant. Tooker said that the female flies lay their eggs only in tall goldenrod plants, so there is a close association between the two species.

A few weeks after the fly's eggs hatch a bulbous growth, called a gall, appears on the stem of the tall goldenrod plant. The gall does not kill the tall goldenrod, but Tooker said the galled plant does not produce as many seeds as ones without galls. Its seeds also tend to be smaller and less likely to germinate.

"It seems that plants that are able to anticipate an attach by the fly and defend themselves against this damage will be more successful, producing higher quality seeds for the next generation," Tooker said. "So there must be a strong advantage for plants that can perceive the fly odor."

The researchers are not sure how tall goldenrod plants are able to detect the odor of the fly. "Our understanding of plant olfaction in general remains quite limited," said Mescher.

But, the researchers said they believe that other plants may use insect odors to detect danger and prepare defenses. "I suspect that this may be happening in many plants," said Tooker. "But we don't yet know how widespread it is."

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A plant may start to prime its defenses as soon as it gets a whiff of a male fly searching for a mate, according to Penn State entomologists. Once tall goldenrod plants smell a sex attractant emitted by true fruit fly males, they appear to prepare chemical defenses that make them less appealing to female flies that could damage the plants by depositing eggs on them, the researchers said.

"It's become increasingly clear in recent years that plants are responsive to odors," said Mark Mescher, assistant professor of entomology. "But previous examples of this are all plant-to-plant. For example, some plants have been shown to respond to the odor of insect-damaged neighbors by priming their own defenses. What's new about this is that it seems that plants may sometimes be able to smell the insects themselves."

A tall goldenrod plant's reaction to these odors also appears to make it less attractive to other insects that might feed on it, according to the researchers, who reported their findings in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In a field study, the researchers exposed some plants to the odor of the male fly and then counted the number of exposed and unexposed plants on which female flies laid eggs by noting the distinctive scarring that occurs when females puncture the stem to lay their eggs inside, Mescher said.

The researchers found that females were significantly less likely to lay eggs on plants exposed to the male emission and about four times more likely to lay eggs on plants in a control group that were not exposed to this odor cue.

Compared to the control group, other herbivores, such as beetles, also caused significantly less damage to of the tall goldenrod plants exposed to the fly emissions, both in the field and in laboratory experiments. "It would seem that the plant senses the odor of the fly," Mescher said. "Then, it primes its defenses so that it can respond faster to the threat."

Over years of evolution, the true fruit fly has established a close relationship with tall goldenrod, according to Mescher, who worked with Anjel Helms, doctoral student in ecology; Consuelo De Moraes, professor of entomology; and John Tooker, assistant professor of entomology.

The male fly, which in the Northeast usually emerges in mid-May, perches on the upper leaves of the tall goldenrod plants and emits a chemical blend that may act as an attractant to the female flies, which emerge later, according to Tooker. Once a female mates with the male, it deposits its eggs in the stem of the plant. Tooker said that the female flies lay their eggs only in tall goldenrod plants, so there is a close association between the two species.

A few weeks after the fly's eggs hatch a bulbous growth, called a gall, appears on the stem of the tall goldenrod plant. The gall does not kill the tall goldenrod, but Tooker said the galled plant does not produce as many seeds as ones without galls. Its seeds also tend to be smaller and less likely to germinate.

"It seems that plants that are able to anticipate an attach by the fly and defend themselves against this damage will be more successful, producing higher quality seeds for the next generation," Tooker said. "So there must be a strong advantage for plants that can perceive the fly odor."

The researchers are not sure how tall goldenrod plants are able to detect the odor of the fly. "Our understanding of plant olfaction in general remains quite limited," said Mescher.

But, the researchers said they believe that other plants may use insect odors to detect danger and prepare defenses. "I suspect that this may be happening in many plants," said Tooker. "But we don't yet know how widespread it is."

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