Android 4.2.1 update hitting Nexus 4 and Nexus 10

'December birthday' bug in People app fixed in latest OTA

According to reports from the Android Central forums and XDA, Google's new Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 devices are currently being upgraded over-the-air to a new version of Android, ver. 4.2.1. We've not yet been able to confirm whether 4.2.1 is also hitting the Nexus 7 or Galaxy Nexus, but we're sure these devices will get this latest update soon if it's not already going out.

The update fixes the notorious "December birthday" bug, which prevented any date in the month of December from being selected as a birthday or anniversary in the People app. So far we haven't noticed any other differences in the new software, which carries the build number JOP40D.

On the Nexus 4, the radio firmware version is unchanged from 4.2, and the hidden option that enabled some to use LTE on band 4 still seems to be present in the latest software. We can't verify first-hand that this unadvertised feature still works, but it doesn't look like this update has done anything to disable it.

As is always the case with these over-the-air updates, not all devices will get the update immediately, and we'd expect it to take a few days before everyone is up-to-date on 4.2.1. Nevertheless, we'll keep this post updated with direct links to the OTA packages for advanced users who want to flash them directly.

Google OTA links:

• Android 4.2 to 4.2.1 - Nexus 4

Source: XDA (1, 2), Android Central forums (1, 2)

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Can Restoration Hardware Legally Knock Off the Navy Chair?

Emeco's 1006 Navy chair (left) and Restoration Hardware's naval chair

Product images by Emeco and Restoration Hardware.

The Emeco 1006, also called the ?Navy chair,? is an aluminum side chair produced by the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco) in Hanover, Pa. The chair was commissioned by the U.S. Navy in World War II for use on warships: The procurement contract specified that the chair had to be able to withstand torpedo blasts to the side of a destroyer.

After the war, Emeco began selling its Navy chair to the public.?The original design never sold particularly well, but over the years Emeco?s chair carved out a small niche as a piece of high-end (that is, expensive) design of the sort you?ll see featured in Dwell magazine.

That is until Restoration Hardware got into the act. Recently the big furniture retailer began selling a look-alike Navy chair, which it refers to as the ?standard aluminum side chair.? (It previously referred to it as the ?naval chair.?) The Emeco original is $455. The Restoration knockoff is $129. At that lower price?and given Restoration Hardware?s ubiquity and marketing muscle?the Navy chair was poised to go mainstream.

That was something Emeco was not going to take sitting down. The company has now filed suit, accusing Restoration Hardware of violating its trademarks. Restoration Hardware has apparently responded by taking the chair off its website. They shouldn?t have. The lawsuit is very likely meritless. And it points to the problem in granting overly broad rights in names and designs via the trademark system?especially since trademarks, unlike copyrights or patents, can last forever.

Let?s turn to the dispute itself. First, Emeco?s claim to a trademark on the term ?Navy chair? is weak. Why? Because over the years that has become a generic label for this type of all-metal, 1940s-style chair, rather than a name that immediately conjures up a Pennsylvania company named Emeco. And in American law, if a product?s name becomes generic?such as aspirin, linoleum, thermos, or zipper?it can no longer be trademarked. Lawyers call this ?genericide,? and the fear of becoming generic is one reason Kleenex is always reminding you that they sell ?Kleenex-brand tissues.? The makers of Kleenex are trying to save their brand from genericide by reminding you that Kleenex is a particular brand of tissues, not a generic name for tissues.

In any event, Restoration Hardware isn?t using the name ?Navy chair? anymore, so even if Emeco wins on this claim, it?s a pyrrhic victory?Restoration Hardware will be entitled to go on selling the chair under the unexciting but perfectly serviceable ?standard aluminum side chair? label.

But Emeco has a second claim. It argues that it has a trademark on the chair?s design as well as its name. This claim is also a stretch. The Supreme Court has been very skeptical of such ?trade dress? claims in which a firm asserts ownership over how a product looks. The court has said that firms can claim trademark rights on the design of products only if they have achieved what lawyers refer to as ?secondary meaning??that is, if the design is recognized by a substantial number of consumers as synonymous with the product itself.?

This is possible but very rare. The sinuous design of a Coca-Cola bottle is protected, for example, because people widely recognize a bottle of that shape as synonymous with Coke. Is Emeco?s Navy chair the home furnishing equivalent of a Coke bottle? No. It may be that a small number of industrial-design fans believe that chairs that look like the Navy chair come from a single source (such as Emeco). But actually they don?t?the Navy chair has been knocked off for years by a number of firms. Here?s a knockoff version by Advanced Interior Designs. Here?s another by Interiortrade. And here are knockoff Navy chairs in various colors by Globe West. Matt Blatt has done Navy chair knockoffs as well. Heck, at one point, even mega-retailer Target was doing a knockoff.?

For the same reason that the Navy chair name is probably generic (a lot of firms have produced very similar chairs under that name), the design almost certainly doesn?t indicate any single source of the product (because consumers have been getting their Navy chairs from a variety of sources for years). The bottom line is that Emeco can?t stop Restoration Hardware from knocking off the Navy chair.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=fb62ec796859d9ba30cf2f6adadfd72b

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Video: Will re-election momentum help Obama in second term?

Facebook policy change results in hysteria ? and a hoax

A recent announcement sparked a hysteria which divided the Facebooking world into two factions: users who suspected the email was yet another scam; and users who believed that Facebook is rolling back copyright and privacy rights, and protested this by cutting-and-pasting a viral status update.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49971575#49971575

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Location-Based Tour Guide App Stray Boots Raises $2M As It Looks To Expand Mobile Reach

Stray Boots, a New York-based startup that got its start delivering guided tour scavenger hunt games to tourists and city dwellers around the world via SMS, and which recently made the move to mobile apps, today announced a new $2 million Series A funding round, led by Milestone Venture Partners and including Correlation Ventures, Great Oaks and a number of angel investors.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Lztj5oAHmS4/

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China's party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim

FILE - In this July 25, 2012 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, North Korea. The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming Kim as the "Sexiest Man Alive" - not realizing it is satire. The People's Daily on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012." (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File)

FILE - In this July 25, 2012 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju, waves to the crowd as they inspect the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, North Korea. The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming Kim as the "Sexiest Man Alive" - not realizing it is satire. The People's Daily on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012." (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File)

BEIJING (AP) ? The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" ? not realizing it is satire.

The People's Daily on Tuesday ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea's top leader named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012."

Quoting The Onion's spoof report, the Chinese newspaper wrote, "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true."

"Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side, Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile," the People's Daily cited The Onion as saying.

The photos the People's Daily selected include Kim on horseback squinting into the light and Kim waving toward a military parade. In other photos, he is wearing sunglasses and smiling, or touring a facility with his wife.

People's Daily could not immediately be reached for comment. A man who answered the phone at the newspaper's duty office said he did not know anything about the report and requested queries be directed to their newsroom on Wednesday morning.

It is not the first time a state-run Chinese newspaper has fallen for a fictional report by the just-for-laughs The Onion.

In 2002, the Beijing Evening News, one of the capital city's biggest tabloids at the time, published as news the fictional account that the U.S. Congress wanted a new building and that it might leave Washington. The Onion article was a spoof of the way sports teams threaten to leave cities in order to get new stadiums.

Two months ago, Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency reprinted a story from The Onion about a supposed survey showing that most rural white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama. It included a quote from a fictional West Virginia resident saying he'd rather go to a baseball game with Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defense seriously."

Associated Press

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Home prices rise again as housing recovery continues

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Reuters

NEW YORK - Single-family home prices rose in September in a further sign that the housing market is on the mend, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday.

The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas gained 0.4 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, in line with economists' forecasts.

"In September's report all three headline composites and 17 of the 20 cities gained over their levels of a year ago," David Blitzer, chairman of the index committee at Standard & Poor's, said in a statement.

Prices in the 20 cities rose 3.0 percent year over year, just topping expectations for a rise of 2.9 percent

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/home-prices-rise-again-housing-recovery-continues-1C7276579

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About 2,000 Koi Pulled From Thunderbird Lake In East Boulder ...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) ? It?s a fish that can brighten a backyard garden, but when koi take over a lake, it can be trouble.

On Monday Colorado Parks and Wildlife removed close to 2,000 of the invasive fish from Thunderbird Lake in East Boulder. Where the koi came from is a mystery.

?It wasn?t something we released; we had no knowledge of it, so it?s a big question mark,? Joy Master with Boulder Parks and Recreation said.

It was earlier this year when officials with Boulder Parks and Recreation began to notice changes in the pond?s ecosystem. That?s when the non-native fish were spotted.

?Unfortunately we think someone may have dumped them here,? Jennifer Churchill with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.

What may have been just a few fish dumped in the lake a few years ago has now turned into a big problem.

?They?ve pretty much taken over the fishery,? Churchill said.

(credit: CBS)

So workers with Colorado Parks and Wildlife have been fishing them out.

?What we do is we shock the fish, they rise to the surface,? Churchill said. ?They?re still alive, they?re just stunned and so we?re able to scoop them out with a net.?

Churchill says without their removal it could harm the lake by killing off native fish species and spreading diseases.

?It really just throws the ecosystem out of balance,? she said.

All of the fish taken out of the lake will be given to the Birds of Prey Sanctuary, which is a raptor rehabilitation program in Broomfield.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it?s never a good idea to release non-native species into the wild. Contact the Humane Society if you can no longer keep your pet.

Source: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/11/19/about-2000-koi-pulled-from-thunderbird-lake-in-east-boulder/

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