Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Afghanistan helicopter crash kills two Americans

KABUL (Reuters) - A helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan killed two American members of the NATO-led force on Tuesday, spokesmen said.

There were no reports of enemy activity in the area, said Captain Dan Einert, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

U.S. military spokesman Colonel Thomas Collins said both the dead were from the United States.

The helicopter went down in Pachir Agam district of Nangarhar province, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the governor's office.

No other details were immediately available.

(Reporting By Katharine Houreld; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghanistan-helicopter-crash-kills-2-members-nato-led-131446273.html

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Wave Debuts Free Receipt Scanning And Management Tool To Add ...

Wave made an impact on the online accounting software space not by doing anything drastically differently from other young companies out there tackling the problem, but by doing it for free with an ad-supported model. Now, the startup is expanding its feature set into an area that many of those looking for accounting services have likely been missing from the original product with the debut of a free receipt scanner and companion apps.

The new Receipts by Wave product, which includes an iPhone app and online entry via the Wave web-based dashboard, is designed to make it possible for?business?owners to file receipts with their accounting software anywhere on the spot, instead of forcing them to lug around paper receipts to manage at a later date. Similar tools are offered by industry incumbents like Concur, but Wave?s (which will be supplemented by an email-based tool and an Android app soon) is unique in that it?s a free addition to an already free product.

Wave?s model is based around offering value to entrepreneurs and small business owners who want the kind of convenience offered by cloud-based accounting and finance tools, but can?t necessarily shoulder the subscription fees that often come along with those types of SaaS products. This receipt scanner, complete with OCR character recognition so that it actually parses the data contained on the piece of paper, rather than just storing an image for later use, helps further that goal according to Wave founder and CEO Kirk Simpson.

?We still love free, and we believe that Receipts by Wave is perfectly suited to our free model,? he said in an interview. ?We are exploring additional functionality for which there may be an additional cost. But the core Receipts by Wave functionality is something we?re excited to make available to our customers at no charge, just like Wave?s accounting and invoicing tools.?

Wave, founded in 2010,?recently?rebranded to highlight its change in focus from just accounting to a wider variety of financial tools, including payroll and invoicing software. With over $19 million in funding and 600,000 users to date, it?s one of the more successful Canadian startups in recent memory. Simpson says this product addition will help not only in keeping those existing users satisfied, but should act as a competitive advantage to help attract new users, too.

?By putting invoicing, accounting, receipt scanning, reporting, payments, payroll and personal finance in a single tool, we expect to see more engagement from our existing users,? he said. ?As well as more adoption by people who want to switch from spreadsheets and shoeboxes and/or other software ? online or off ? that doesn?t truly match their needs.?

The new Receipts by Wave app is available in the App Store for iPhone now, and on the web. It?s a strong addition to a strong product, and should help Wave make an even better case for why free, in this case, might actually be better than expensive when it comes to some SaaS offerings.


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Wave is a great online accounting application for small businesses. There are several features that, taken together, make Wave different from other accounting tools. 1) Accounting is totally free. Not freemium, or free with usage caps. Just plain free. 2) Wave Accounting is a full double-entry accounting app, which is preferred by accountants. It also has financial dashboards, and can track expenses, and can be used in a lightweight manner if business owners don?t need or want full accounting...

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/wave-accounting-free-receipt-scanning/

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Fliple Snags Windows Phone's Style, Brings It To iOS As A Contacts Manager

Flipple GalleryOh, man. If Microsoft thinks Facebook Home is bitin' their style, they're just going to love this. Fliple is a new, free contacts app replacement for iOS. It's largely inspired (cough) by Microsoft's Windows Phone OS... and yet, it's actually pretty darn good.

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Syrian airstrike kills 5 in Aleppo

BEIRUT (AP) ? A Syrian government airstrike on a heavily contested neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least five people Saturday, while several mortar rounds slammed into a residential district in Damascus, leaving at least one person dead, activists and state media said.

Aleppo and Damascus ? Syria's two largest cities ? are key fronts in civil war between President Bashar Assad and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime. Opposition fighters have managed to seize control of several neighborhoods in Aleppo since storming the city last summer, while the regime has largely kept the rebels at bay so far in Damascus, although opposition fighters control several suburbs of the capital and look increasingly capable of threatening the heart of the city ? and Assad's power.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air raid Saturday hit Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, which rebels seized parts of last weekend after days of heavy fighting with regime troops.

Both sides are eager to control the strategic district, which is predominantly inhabited by minority Kurds. The neighborhood is located on a hill on the northern edge of Aleppo and overlooks much of the city, giving those who control it the ability to pound districts held by the opposing side with mortars and artillery.

The rebels control large swaths of northern Syria, and captured their first provincial capital ? the city of Raqqa ? last month. They have also been making gains in recent weeks in the south, seizing military bases and towns in the strategically important region between Damascus and the border with Jordan, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the capital.

In Damascus, mortar rounds hit the residential district of Kafar Souseh on the city's western outskirts, killing one person and wounding at least 13, the state-run SANA news agency said. The attacks also caused material damage to stores in the district and set several parked vehicles on fire, SANA said.

The Observatory said mortar rounds also struck the Damascus suburb of Jaramana. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

It was not immediately clear who fired the shells, but mortar rounds have fallen with increasingly regularity in the center of the capital, puncturing the aura of normalcy that the regime has tried to cultivate in the city.

The Observatory also reported clashes between government troops and rebels Saturday in the town of Otaybah east of Damascus.

Also Saturday, the newly elected prime minister of the Western-backed opposition umbrella group, Ghassan Hitto, started reviewing candidates for a planned rebel interim government that will consist of 11 ministries and will be based inside Syria, according to a statement by the Syrian National Coalition.

It said Hitto, who has lived in the United States for many years, aims to "attract the qualified talent and competencies required to manage the upcoming phase of the revolution."

The candidates for ministerial and deputy positions must be Syrian citizens older than 35 years of age, the statement said. It added that high-ranking regime officials or "those who have committed crimes against the Syrian people or have unlawfully seized Syrian property or wealth" will be excluded from consideration.

"The nominee must be an advocate or supporter of the Syrian revolution," the statement said.

The Western-backed opposition alliance has been marred by severe divisions in its ranks since its formation late last year in Qatar, and its leaders are mostly seen as disconnected from the myriad rebel forces fighting inside Syria.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-airstrike-kills-least-5-aleppo-123326047.html

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

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Friday, April 05, 2013

1:00 PM: Texas Tech's Kliff Kingsbury on one of the differences of being a head coach: "You've got to tone the trash talking down during practice, as opposed to being the offensive coordinator when you can yell at the defense."

12:45 PM: The Minnesota Vikings share video of a TMZ cameraman asking Adrian Peterson who will be the first NFL player to "come out of the closet", as the cameraman takes a spill after tripping over a traffic cone.

12:30 PM: Former Baltimore Ravens LB Brendon Ayanbadejo says there are up to four NFL players who might reveal that they are gay: "I think it will happen sooner than you think. We're in talks with a handful of players who are considering it."

12:15 PM: Jeff Goodman of CBS Sports reports former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian has been selected for the Basketball Hall of Fame.

12:00 PM: Sacramento Kings player Jimmer Fredette is suing a Utah clothing company over $50,000 in unpaid royalties.

11:45 AM: A 12-year-old basketball player hit a half-court buzzer beater while playing in a halftime intermission game during a Toronto Raptors game.

11:30 AM: Recently resigned Pac-12 basketball officiating head Ed Rush said his comments about giving Arizona coach Sean Miller a technical foul was an "attempt to lighten the atmosphere".

11:15 AM: New York Jets QB Tim Tebow is scheduled to speak at an event for a pro-life pregnancy center in Dallas on April 26.

11:00 AM: AEK Athens soccer player Giorgos Katidis has been given a five-match ban & fined $1,300 by the Greek Football Association for giving a Nazi salute during a game last month.

10:45 AM: The Newark Star Ledger reports that Tim Pernetti is out as Rutgers athletic director. The move comes after basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for abusing players during practice.

10:30 AM: A Frisco, Texas cheer & dance coach wanted on child sexual abuse charges was arrested at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport on Tuesday. Kyle Austin Ware was about to leave on a flight for Paris when his name appeared on a passenger security manifest.

10:15 AM: The Indianapolis Star reports that Ohio State & Kentucky have used money from the NCAA Student Assistance Fund to help pay travel costs for the families of basketball players so they can attend the NCAA tournament.

10:00 AM: Baylor defeated Iowa 74-54 Thursday night to clinch the Bears' first NIT title.

Thursday, April 04, 2013

9:00 PM: Video of Manny Ramirez hitting his first home run for the EDA Rhinos of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League. The Chinese TV announcers say on a replay of Manny's homer: "See you later!"

8:45 PM: Brendon Ayanbadejo believes the Baltimore Ravens may have released him due to his support of same-sex marriage: "I make a lot of noise and garner a lot of attention for various things off the football field .... I don't necessarily think that teams want this type of attention."

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Visualized: AT&T's network-boosting Small Cell

Visualized AT&T Small Cell

WiFi used to be the only somewhat reliable way for a carrier to plug up holes in its network coverage. It's a tactic AT&T's used to great effect in many metropolitan areas where it offers wireless service. But short of acquiring more spectrum -- a costly and time-consuming process littered with legal roadblocks -- the operator's been exploring an alternative solution: small cells. Testing for these stopgap signal boosters (pictured above) has already been underway since late 2012, with a trial case study in Crystal Lake Park, MO that proved outdoor reception could improve by almost 100-percent. And that test site is just the start of a greater small cell rollout that should place over 40,000 of these units throughout AT&T's nationwide footprint by 2015. So if you're tethered to the operator's network and sick of spotty coverage, help is most definitely on the way.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/04/att-network-boosting-small-cell/

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Listen to All 45 Now That's What I Call Music Albums in One Glorious Playlist

Believe it or not, we're on the 45th album of the Now That's What I Call Music canon. Allow us to inject some nostalgia into your day—here's a Spotify playlist of every song in the Now library in order. That's 856 tracks, starting with Janet Jackson, ending with Florida Georgia Line, with a smattering of boy bands, pop princesses, and early 2000s R&B in between. Feel old. But mostly, just enjoy. [Spotify] More »


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