Archive for February, 2011
Random House agrees to e-sale model Apple requires
NEW YORK (AP) — Stieg Larsson’s novels may finally be headed to the iBookstore. Random House Inc., which publishes Larsson, Dan Brown and John Grisham, among others, announced Monday that it had agreed to use the “agency model” required to sell books through Apple’s store. Users of iPads and other Apple devices can only purchase Random House books through an app for Amazon.com’s Kindle or for other e-devices.
Trial begins for man who thwarted oil-gas auction
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of activists marched to the federal courthouse Monday to support a man who became an environmental folk hero by faking the purchase of $1.7 million of federal oil-and-gas drilling leases in an act of civil disobedience. Tim DeChristopher, 29, has pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to felony counts of interfering with and making false representations at a government auction.
Suspect in iPad data theft released on bail in NJ
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An Arkansas man accused of stealing more than 100,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad users last year was released on bail Monday and will be prohibited from using the Internet except for work – which in his case means a job as a computer consultant. Andrew Auernheimer of Fayetteville left the Martin Luther King Jr.
Jane Russell, star of ’40s and ’50s films, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — She was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts to pounding during World War II, the favorite movie star of a generation of young men long before she’d made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen. Such was the stunning beauty of Jane Russell, and the marketing skills of the man who discovered her, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Russell, surrounded by family members, died Monday at her home in the central coast city of Santa Maria
Car runs down bicycling demonstrators in Brazil
SAO PAULO (AP) — A motorist sped his car through a pack of more than 100 cycling activists in southern Brazil, sending bikes and screaming riders flying through the air and landing hard on the asphalt in a scene captured on amateur video and posted online. At least 40 cyclists were injured, with most suffering cuts and broken bones, but nobody was killed, authorities said.
US approves first deep-water well in Gulf
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. has approved the first deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since BP’s massive oil spill. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement announced Monday that it issued a permit to Noble Energy Inc.
