Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson skipped the first day of the team’s voluntary offseason workouts, unhappy with a contract that was renegotiated three years ago. That contract — which has five years remaining on it — is scheduled to pay him $5.8 million this season. Deion Branch is scheduled to earn $5.47 million this upcoming season
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The elections that took place last week in the UK recently created some conflict between media mogul Robert Murdoch and Alexander Lebedev , the Russian billionaire who purchased the Independent along with two other UK newspapers earlier this year. Luke Harding , writing for The Guardian , recently interviewed Lebedev about the apparent spat.
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Lebedev discusses with The Guardian his present and future plans
The Sunday Times editor, John Witherow , told his staff at a meeting last Thursday that print-based business is unlikely to be viable in the future. Witherow said the future of news is “digital” and announced the launch of a Sunday Times iPhone app soon, according to Guardian .
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Sunday Times confirms staff cuts and plans for iPhone app
Guardian reports that in preparation for its June paywall, the Times , will be reducing its editorial budget by 10% and implementing a number of voluntary redundancies that could leave up to 50 journalists out of work. In a lunchtime meeting at the Times last week, editor James Harding revealed that sister publication, the Sunday Times , would also be cutting its editorial budget by 10%, which could lead to the elimination of 30 jobs.
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The Times expected to cut up to 50 jobs
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Ruston Webster, Seattle’s vice president of player personnel the previous four years, has left the Seahawks to accept a similar position with the Tennessee Titans. Webster came to Seattle in 2006, hired by former president Tim Ruskell
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Seahawks announce Ruston Webster’s departure
The Seattle Seahawks announced they promoted Scott Fitterer and Eric Stokes within their college-scouting department. Fitterer, the team’s west region college scouting director the past five years, is now the director of college scouting
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Seahawks promote two within college scouting department
Adobe’s co-founder and co-chairman says concerns about security in Flash Player are “old news.” Adobe even cites a Symantec study as evidence of their security record. But when you read that study, as I did, you get a completely different, and quite alarming story.
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How secure is Flash? Here’s what Adobe won’t tell you
Canon iPF750 series and HP Designjet T770 series were introduced to the market at in early 2010.
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HP Designjet T770 vs Canon iPF750 and iPF755 (Print Speed Comparison Video)
I’m not proud of the vote — or more accurately the revote. As a matter of fact, I still feel very conflicted about the fact I voted for Brian Cushing again in the Associated Press’ re-balloting for the Defensive Rookie of the Year even after last week’s disclosure he failed a drug test
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An explanation of the vote for Brian Cushing
IPEX 2010 will be in full swing from May 18th to 25th in Birmingham UK – but the trucks have already been rolling in for weeks. Over 50,000 people already registered for the week long event and IPEX has expanded the show floor to accomodate additional exhibitors.
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50,000+ people have registered for IPEX – Have you?
Hi my name is Howie and I am a recovering digital junky. Actually it may be optimistic to say that I am in recovery. More likely I am still addicted to all things digital, especially my Blackberry, iPod, GPS, and Macintosh computers.
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When is it worth having 2 or more technologies in one tool?
Facebook is under a spotlight for new privacy settings that could lead users to unwittingly expose a lot more information about themselves. But in a keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Facebook executive Paul Buchheit laid out the argument for why he sets his privacy settings to the most open level — ‘everyone.’
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Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy To ‘Everyone’
Tweets are finally embeddable ! Had Twitter announced this yesterday, it might’ve helped this Boston Globe reporter cover the effects of Twitter on the Boston water mane break. [ReadWriteWeb, Boston.com] High-level hires at the Independent include Simon Kelner in his second stint as editor. [Press Gazette] Warren Buffett , once a newspaper man himself, offers bleak words for the industry
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Media Links of the day
A 60 Minutes / Vanity Fair survey reveals that a majority of people in the U.S. find CNN and Fox News to be “more trustworthy” than many major newspapers. Although the poll’s 1,026 respondents were given a very limited number of choices, broadcast networks like CNN and Fox News received the title of “most trustworthy” news sources, followed by major newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal
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Survey: Americans find CNN ‘more trustworthy’ than NYT
For paratroopers in Afghanistan, making a video parody of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” has proved to have greater reach than using an actual telephone — generating more than 3 million views.
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Soldiers’ Commanders Happy With ‘Sense of Humor’ in Parody Video
If you thought Apple ‘s iPad was ahead in the battle of the tablets, think again: Google is not only said to be building an edgy tablet but also just purchased BumpTop , a Toronto-based startup that specializes in 3-D multitouch technology. BumpTop’s technology would represent an innovative addition to Google’s tablet’s repertoire: the ability for users to to toss files and programs around, stack them, and even hang them on tiny digital walls
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Is Google working on an edgier tablet than Apple’s?
The Canon iPF650 and iPF655 has significantly increase its printing speed as compared to the Canon iPF610.Under draft mode A1 size plotting, there is approximately 10% increased in printing speed.iPF650 at 28 seconds (A1 )iPF610 at 31 seconds (A1)Please view the Canon iPF655 vs HP DJ510 speed comparison video for details.
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HP Designjet 510 vs Canon iPF655 (Print Speed Comparison Video)
Red Bryant was a fourth-round draft choice in 2008 out of Texas A&M, a powerful defensive tackle who is also tall at 6 feet 4. In fact, some teams did not consider him a draftable prospect because of what they considered poor leverage inside. For two years, Bryant has been a situational tackle, and there were times he was a healthy scratch last year as the team opted to use Craig Terrill .
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Red Bryant moving toward the edge?
British Journalist Paul Martin shared his story of imprisonment by Hamas in Gaza and later freedom at the request of British parliamentarians in today’s Guardian, marking the 19th annual World Press Freedom Day , a day dedicated by UNESCO to promoting and publicizing the struggles of journalists worldwide.
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Incarcerated journalist’s account commemorates World Press Freedom Day