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Good Morning Omss LATEST NEWS Jobs seen at 9-month high in February WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers probably hired more workers in February than in any month since May last year, recovering from extreme winter weather and raising hopes the economic recovery has gathered critical momentum. | Full Article Libya rebels seek air strikes against Gaddafi March 04, 2011 05:58 AM ET AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels calling for air strikes to set up a "no-fly" zone came under attack by a warplane for a third day on Friday as Muammar Gaddafi tried to loosen the opposition's expanding grip on a key coast road. | Full Article Wall Street futures gain ahead of payrolls March 04, 2011 04:49 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open for Wall Street on Friday, adding to hefty gains on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones futures and Nasdaq futures all up around 0.2 percent by 4.20 a.m. EST. | Full Article Microsoft's Bing launches deals feature March 04, 2011 01:44 AM ET (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine said it launched 'Bing deals' for both the desktop and mobile, allowing consumers to find the best deals locally, a service that will pit it against daily deals website Groupon. | Full Article U.S. team makes key memory cells in lab dish March 04, 2011 01:01 AM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have coaxed stem cells into becoming a type of brain cell that dies off early in people with Alzheimer's disease. | Full Article NFL and union extend deal talks by 24 hours March 03, 2011 07:23 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The NFL and the players' union have agreed to a 24-hour extension in their negotiations over how to carve up their $9 billion empire in a last-ditch attempt to save America's most popular and richest sport from a lockout. | Full Article Sheen's legal case against studios not so crazy March 03, 2011 08:47 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlie Sheen might consider himself a "winner," but it's far from clear whether the "Two and a Half Men" star would prevail in what seems like an inevitable legal showdown over who is to blame for the implosion of America's most-watched sitcom. | Full Article Man speeds with wife on hood of minivan? March 03, 2011 11:33 AM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. man high on methamphetamine drove with his wife on the hood of their minivan for more than 40 miles, hitting speeds of 100 mph, according to police. | Full Article RELATED VIDEO Germany: Islamic extremism behind shooting of U.S. airmen Oil backs down Beyonce donates Gaddafi money, Gaga walks catwalk A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend

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ABC NewsMail - afternoon edition

Afternoon Edition. Fri 04 Mar 2011
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Military funeral praises soldier's love for country More than 1,000 people have attended a military funeral service for Australian soldier Jamie Larcombe who was killed in Afghanistan last month. School in shock after teacher's beach death Grief-stricken students and teachers from Melbourne's Shelford Girls' Grammar school are coming to terms with the death of a teacher during an excursion at Bells Beach yesterday. Daily interruptions making Question Time a 'farce' Greens MP Adam Bandt believes Federal Parliament is running the risk of descending into farce due to the Opposition repeatedly cutting short Question Time. Obama steps up pressure as Libya jets strike United States president Barack Obama says the US is examining a "full range" of military and non-military options to stop Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi from continuing the attacks against his own people. Nurse's accused murderer dragged into court A former US Marine accused of killing a Sydney nurse has been physically forced into a courtroom to answer a murder charge.
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Post-Kevinist Julia meets Howard-school expressionists The debate continues, between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, about who is the biggest bull artist on climate change. Like all arguments about art, it is a highly subjective one. And just as all other artists have phases, Gillard and Abbott are no exception. Each artistic period brings with it new ideas, new arguments, new policy. The question is, will the latest movements steal the heart of the average Australian art-lover? Proud to be unAustralian I am out of the closet and I feel a great freedom. No more will I deny the un-ness that dare not speak its name. I'm an unAustralian. Time for some nuance between the gay and the god-fearing There is a failure of ethical imagination, to utilise two mental muscles at the same time: the muscle of strong conviction and of compassion for all. Jesus was the master of this ethical exploit. It's 2am: Letter from Christchurch No running water, no fuel, no power, no showers and precious little help. This is Christchurch a week and a half after the quake. The Big Blur Theory Sheen and his Hollywood harem illuminate to me that as a culture we're quite partial to a spot of bullying when the opportunity arises.
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Canada hunts Perth Mint gold fraudsters Canadian detectives are hunting the masterminds of a sophisticated $1.95 million bank fraud that netted the thieves 75 gold bars from the Perth Mint. Military funeral praises soldier's love for country More than 1,000 people have attended a military funeral service for Australian soldier Jamie Larcombe who was killed in Afghanistan last month. William and Kate get royal wedding coin Britain's Royal Mint has produced an official coin to commemorate next month's wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton.
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Rare wallabies set for outback release Five black-footed rock wallabies born in captivity are to be released in the outback soon, to give the endangered species a boost in the wild. Research probes south-west's geological make-up The Department of Mines and Petroleum is conducting geological research in south-west Western Australia to be used by the resources sector. Volunteers to count endangered corellas Residents are being called on to help monitor the endangered Muir's corella.
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Conservation group denies split over mill The Director of Environment Tasmania has denied there is a split between his organisation and other green groups over the Gunns pulp mill. Rare wallabies set for outback release Five black-footed rock wallabies born in captivity are to be released in the outback soon, to give the endangered species a boost in the wild. $600m NSW coal mine proposal scuttled The New South Wales Government has refused permission for a $600 million coal mine in a key central coast electorate.
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By Matt Buchanan Specs Still Matter (Or: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom) Apps are the most important part of any tablet right now. But great apps need great hardware to run, no matter what Apple says. "A lot of folks in the tablet market are rushing in and they're looking at this as the next PC…and they're talking about speeds and feeds just like they did with PCs." That's what Steve Jobs says about specs in this new "post-PC" world of tablets and smartphones. Ironically, where speeds and feeds don't matter as much anymore for the average user is in the PC world, because hardware there is, in most cases, "good enough." But in the mobile world—where smartphones and tablets are evolving very quickly—they still matter more than they do in PCs. Even if they're not an end to themselves. They are, after all, what enable the software magic to happen. They're what make games like Infinity Blade look and feel incredible. Produce astoundingly good photos. Sear our eyeballs with intensely beautiful colors and thousands and thousand of pixels on a screen. They're what allow software to have the shimmer of verisimilitude, responding to every touch and intention instantly, so it feels like we're actually manipulating something real, not a bundle of code and graphics. So how do the iPad 2 and Android's best tablet to date, the Motorola Xoom, compare in specs? And when does it matter? They're both using customized chips based around 1GHz dual-core processors, wrapped up with hardy graphics chips. The Motorola Xoom's Nvidia Tegra 2 has a dual-core heart of ARM's Cortex A9, which is very probably the soul of the iPad 2's A5 chip too. The GeForce graphics bundled in the PowerVR SGX543 graphics, as has been reported. In processing and graphics power, it stands to reason—at least until a proper teardown—that the iPad 2 and Xoom are about equally capable. The Xoom is verrrry fast, and that seems to be what people thought about the iPad 2 yesterday. Speed and its proper application matters as much as, if not more than, anything else. The iPad 2's memory situation is still officially a mystery, which is deeply unfortunate. RAM isn't an idle spec: It's deeply indicative of how well it'll multitask, and—this is a huge deal—how well things like Safari will work. If it's got 512MB, it should be okay. The Xoom's got 1GB. The Xoom multitasks, flipping between apps and running tons of tabs in the browser, like a champ. And the multitasking interface for Android 3.0 makes it feel faster still. A lot of the Xoom's other numbers are bigger than the iPad 2's. The screen is larger, with more pixels. It's 10.1 inches, with the 1280x800 resolution delivering 150ppi, to the iPad 2's 1024x768 screen, which offers 136ppi. So text on the Xoom can be slightly crisper. The Xoom's cameras are better too, at least on paper. The rear camera shoots 5-megapixel photos, while the front is 2MP. (Neither are particularly impressive in practice, though.) The iPad 2's rear camera shoots 720p video like the Xoom, but the stills are lower resolution. The front camera is only VGA (640x480). (Does that mean they'll be less impressive? The iPod touch's very similar-sounding camera was no showstopper, but the iPhone 4's 5-megapixel camera outshot 8-megapixel cameras in other phones.) The Xoom will have more Gees too, when it's upgraded to 4G on Verizon. The iPad 2 is theoretically faster for now on AT&T with 3G. Does all that make the Xoom automatically better than the iPad 2? To a certain set of people, yes. What's key, though, is that the Xoom—along with any other tablet—doesn't outclass the iPad on any of the specs that Apple clearly thinks are most important. Processing power is (probably just about) even. The screen resolution is smaller, but the iPad display's proportions make it more flexible than the Xoom—it's truly designed to be used in portrait or landscape orientation, while the Xoom is almost 100 percent a landscape-oriented device. Battery life is better. Most important of all to Apple (and it's betting, to consumers), the iPad is cheaper. Everything else, beyond the screen and speed—like the cameras—are just good enough. Not amazing. Oddly, part of the reason specs still matter to the extent that they do is because we're at a point where we can still feel their limitations. Like, the reason it was painful that the first iPad only had 256MB of RAM is that Safari would constantly dump the content in your open tabs because it was always running out of memory. The number doesn't matter, except that it does have a very real consequence on the way people browse the web on the iPad. More powerful hardware allows more powerful software, with more features and better performance that translate into things that make people happier. When we get to a point hardware isn't a limit on software, then it'll cease to matter completely. That doesn't seem likely anytime soon: Software and features somehow always manage to keep up with the hardware. Hardware without software is meaningless. But software can't exist without hardware. Illustration by Contributing Illustrator Sam Spratt. Become a fan of his Facebook Artist's Page and follow Sam on Twitter Share this:

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Gaddafi hits back as war crimes probe launched United States president Barack Obama says the US is examining a "full range" of military and non-military options to stop Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi from continuing the attacks against his own people. MySchool 2.0 to lift lid on school funding Parents will be able to compare funding levels for individual schools on the Federal Government's MySchool website from today. Police release more footage in NRL betting probe New South Wales police are releasing footage of another four people they want to speak to over the NRL betting scandal, after two high-profile arrests yesterday. Claims aviation pioneer Earhart's plane found in PNG There are claims that one of the world's great aviation mysteries - the disappearance of 1930s airwoman Amelia Earhart - has been solved in Papua New Guinea. Teacher drowns trying to save students A Melbourne schoolteacher has died after suffering a heart attack when he and a group of students were swept out to sea at Bells Beach.
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MySchool 2.0 shows us the money but not the balance Education, as they say, is a real BBQ stopper and with today's launch of MySchool 2.0 the debate, especially about school funding, is only going to get hotter. For the first time the website gives details about how much money each school spends per student. Expect much of the public debate to argue that the data proves non-government schools are better resourced and have more money than government schools. Pornify this Christian sexual conservatives seem to have embarked on a mission to pathologise the entire world. Why our sports heroes are really nothing special We need to take a critical look at how we damage our young football stars and turn them into preening wayward narcissists. Hypocrisy the new policy in West's dance with Gaddafi It's remarkable to watch how quickly Western leaders and commentators, many of whom have celebrated the increasing ties between them and Gaddafi, are suddenly calling for his departure. In the last years the West embraced Gaddafi and his children because he was the kind of dictator we could deal with. But not anymore. There is a hypocrisy at the heart of Western political and media elites; language is abused and selectively applied to the "good" and "evil". Politicians asleep at the deal? At LaborÂ's Caucus meeting on Tuesday MPs and Senators gave their support to a Greens bill, before claiming they hadn't understood the implications of the bill a day later.
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Japan apologises to former Australian POWs Japan has apologised to a group of Australian former prisoners of war for the pain and suffering they endured as captives during World War II. Spiders force Mazda recall More than 50,000 Mazda cars are being recalled across the United States because of possible problems with their fuel tanks, caused by spiders. Gaddafi hits back as war crimes probe launched United States president Barack Obama says the US is examining a "full range" of military and non-military options to stop Libyan dictator Moamar Gaddafi from continuing the attacks against his own people.
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Students Face the Book on cyber-bullying A school principal on the New South Wales far south coast says he is concerned students are not aware of the potential impacts of cyber-bullying. Concern floodwaters may have spread invasive weed Authorities are concerned flooding in north western New South Wales could have spread the invasive weed, Hudson Pear, throughout the Murray Darling Basin. CSIRO staff threaten to strike Leading Australian scientists at the CSIRO have threatened to strike as early as next week after failing to win a pay rise.
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Green MP threatens Tas Government over mill Tasmanian Greens MP Kim Booth is threatening to bring down the state's Labor-Green Government over the Gunns pulp mill. Oakeshott calls for Commonwealth money for coastal erosion The Independent Lyne MP says the Federal Government needs to do more to help coastal communities deal with erosion issues. Pumps to be used to help move flood waters Large pumps are being brought in to help remove water from areas still flooded between Kerang and Swan Hill.
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