British police make new phone hacking arrest

LONDON (AP) ? British police investigating tabloid phone hacking on Friday arrested a long-serving former assistant to ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and other executives at Rupert Murdoch's News International group.

Police said the 47-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice and later released on police bail to return for more questioning later this month.

Officers said the woman was detained at her home and taken to a police station in Essex, east of London, but did not confirm her name.

A person briefed on the arrest, who demanded anonymity to discuss details of the sensitive police investigation, said the woman was Cheryl Carter, the longtime personal assistant of Brooks ? also an ex-News International chief executive ? and other senior staff.

News International declined to comment.

The person said Carter's arrest was linked to the recovery of incriminating company emails from a data center in India last year. The content of tens of thousands of archived News International emails are being examined by investigators.

Detectives have so far arrested 23 people as part of new investigations into alleged phone hacking, computer hacking and police bribery at the Murdoch-owned News of the World and other British tabloids. No one has been charged with any offense.

Murdoch shut down the News of the World in July after evidence emerged that its employees had routinely eavesdropped on the cell phone voice mail messages of celebrities, sports figures, politicians and even crime victims.

The scandal has spawned a huge police investigation and a public inquiry into media ethics and seen top police officers, media executives and Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman ? an ex-News of The World editor ? all resign their posts.

Associated Press

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Sony Ericsson's Nozomi gets handled, something awfully similar gets an official tease

Hello, New York! Oh, and a Sony Ericsson handset, too. SE may be on its way out officially, but there's still a product or two in the pipeline worth pushing out. We've heard whispers of a so-called Arc HD and Nozomi for months on end, and while it's unclear which of the two (if it's either) is shown above, there's no question that this is something that'll see the market. One shot is currently posted over at Sony Ericsson's German Facebook page (shown after the break), where a teaser line promises that "the new Xperia" to be officially unveiled "next week." Next week, as you may have guessed, is CES, and coincidentally, the fine folks over at ITProPortal have wrapped their paws around an SE handset (above) that they're confident is the aforementioned Nozomi. Weirdly, the camera location on the phone they procured is different than the official SE shot above, leaving us to wonder if two new superphones are on tap. Whatever the case, you can bet we'll be bringing the dirt as soon as it's hauled in.

[Thanks, Shubham]

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[Comment] Treatment of prostate cancer metastases: more than semantics

Prostate cancer is a unique disease that is characterised at advanced stages by a dominance of bone-forming metastases. Our understanding of bone metastasis with support from experimental findings has led investigators to target these metastases therapeutically, and the report by Matthew Smith and colleagues 1 in The Lancet is a result of these efforts.

Denosumab is an inhibitor of RANK ligand (RANKL), which is mechanistically implicated in, and clinically associated with, prostate cancer progression ...

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Soon we'll know if Nokia can 'Ace' U.S. smartphone market with Windows phone

January 06, 2012, 7:11 PM ? Next Monday, if this Bloomberg article is correct, Nokia will unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show the first Windows smartphone designed to help it gain U.S. market share lost to Apple's iPhone and devices powered by Google's Android mobile OS.

It won't be the first Nokia Windows phone on the U.S. market. That honor belongs to the low-end Lumia 710, which will be sold by T-Mobile USA beginning next Wednesday and will cost $49.99 with a 24-month contract.

But the Nokia Ace, according to sources, will be sold by AT&T, one of the two largest U.S. wireless carriers (along with Verizon). And it won't be a cheapie like the Lumia 710: It will cost $249 with a two-year contract, will run the latest version of Microsoft's mobile OS, and will be the first Windows phone to use LTE, or Long Term Evolution, the emerging standard for high-speed wireless communications.

Clearly this is a phone designed to challenge the iPhone and high-end Androids, a phone designed to say "Nokia and Microsoft are back!" The sources cited by Bloomberg weren't specific about a timetable, other than saying Nokia will unveil its plans for the Ace "in coming months."

Nokia announced its stunning partnership with Microsoft last February, almost a year ago. Since then its loss of market share has accelerated as Nokia essentially went dark on the market (with the exception of some token releases) and retooled. Late last year it released some Lumia Windows phones in a number of European and Asian countries.

So now the game moves to the U.S. smartphone market, where Nokia has a 1.5% share and Microsoft 5.2%. Once the products are on the shelves and available for comparison to the Droids and iPhones, there won't be any room for Ballmeresque boasting -- or excuses. Nokia essentially is gambling everything on the Windows phones.

Last year Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told employees that the company was standing on a burning platform in the North Sea, and that the only sensible option in such a situation is to leap into the unknown.

Soon we'll find out where Nokia landed.

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Is Best Buy Really Finished?

I was just reading over the excellent (and long) story about Best Buy at Forbes and wondered, in light of today's B&N announcement to pull the Nook financials out of their sinking brick-and-mortar business, whether stores like Best Buy and media giants like B&N need to exist at all. First, before we begin, let's talk about the Forbes' article's money shot:

But the numbers only scratch the surface. To discover the real reasons behind the company?s decline, just take this simple test. Walk into one of the company?s retail locations or shop online. And try, really try, not to lose your temper.

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AIDS group rejects allegations against France's Bruni (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) ? The Global Fund, a wealthy medical charity, on Friday dismissed as "inexact and misleading" a magazine report of alleged financial misconduct implicating French first lady Carla Bruni, who is one of its ambassadors.

The Geneva-based fund issued the statement after the French magazine Marianne said in an article the fund had awarded $3.5 million of contracts to companies controlled by a musician friend of Bruni, the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, at her request.

The multi-billion-dollar fund, set up 10 years ago to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, issued the money without a public tender, Marianne said.

"The article makes several allegations that are groundless regarding a campaign that the Fund launched in 2010 with the backing of Mme Bruni-Sarkozy," its statement said.

Sarkozy's office declined to comment, saying it had nothing to add to the statement from the Global Fund.

The focus of the story is an AIDS awareness campaign called Born HIV Free which the fund said cost a total of $2.8 million and which allowed it to leverage further support worth $20.4 million in the form of free advertising and creative work by media partners.

A Global Fund official said Bruni had asked a friend, Julien Civange, to represent her and develop a concept of how entertainment could be used to publicise the AIDS fight.

Based on Civange's idea, the Fund agreed to pay him and four employees 580,000 euros over 18 months to develop a campaign, in accordance with the fund's rules which allow non-competitive contracting when an individual has a proprietary idea.

"As part of this process, Mr Civange brought in pro-bono contributions worth $20.4 million through free media placements, advertising and creative work," said the official.

Bruni, a singer and former supermodel who married Sarkozy in early 2008, was appointed "first ambassador" in the same year of the Global Fund. Her husband was elected in 2007 and is widely expected to run for a second term in an election less than four months from now.

The Global Fund, a public-private partnership, was set up in 2002 and says it has saved 7.7 million lives with funding for AIDS treatment and programmes worldwide to fight malaria and tuberculosis.

(Reporting By Brian Love and Patrick Vignal; Editing by Jon Boyle)

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Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown turn Richard Cordray appointment into election fodder in Massachusetts (The Ticket)

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President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to nominate former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sparked anger from Republicans who oppose the president's decision to sidestep the Senate with a recess appointment.

But in Massachusetts' Senate race, the decision has turned into bipartisan election fodder that both candidates hope to use to their advantage.

Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren, the president's first choice to lead the bureau, by Thursday had already purchased Google advertising connected to the appointment. "Obama Appoints Cordray/ElizabethWarren.com" is one of the advertised Google search results for a combination of "Cordray" and "Appointment." Warren also issued a fundraising email related to the president's decision.

On the Republican side, Sen. Scott Brown bucked his party by expressing support for the appointment. Brown said in a statement:

I support President Obama's appointment today of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB. I believe he is the right person to lead the agency and help protect consumers from fraud and scams. While I would have strongly preferred that it go through the normal confirmation process, unfortunately the system is completely broken. If we're going to make progress as a nation, both parties in Washington need to work together to end the procedural gridlock and hyper-partisanship.

Human Events' John Hayward cried foul over Brown's reaction, writing Thursday that the senator's stance makes him a "coward."

"Shouldn't we expect even the most liberal Republican to offer?at least a minimal defense of the Republic?," Hayward wrote. "Once again, we are reminded that the Constitution will receive no defense from cowards."

Hayward conceded that Brown is running in a competitive re-election race and suggests that situation prompted Brown's party-bucking decision in this instance and others.

Brown's stance on Cordray coupled with his public flogging of Newt Gingrich this week in an opinion column in the Boston Globe (in which he called Gingrich's stance on the federal judiciary "dangerous") paints a very moderate picture of the Senator--which happens to be just the type of candidate who could run strongly in a Massachusetts Senate general election.

Conservatives have been dismayed by Brown's independence, including his support for the repeal of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy and for the nuclear START treaty in Dec. 2010. The conservative National Republican Trust PAC has switched allegiances from Brown to whomever challenges him in a primary.

But Brown's staff rejects the suggestion Brown's independence is about politics.

"Scott Brown promised to be an independent voice when he ran in 2010, and he is keeping that promise," Colin Reed, a Brown spokesman, wrote in an email to Yahoo News. "He looks at every issue on the merits and does what he thinks is best for Massachusetts and America regardless of partisan politics."

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