NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One year, six months, and seven days after the iPad first went on sale, Facebook has at last released its app for Apple's tablet.
"Many of you have been asking about Facebook for iPad," the company said in an understated blog post Monday. "Today, it's finally here."
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The long-delayed app has the subject of much Silicon Valley chatter. Some rumors suggested that a rift between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) executive team over Apple's Ping social network was to blame for the delay. Others claimed that Facebook preferred a Web-based application that bypassed Apple's strict app store rules.
Former Facebook developer Jeff Verkoeyen, the lead engineer on the the iPad app, wrote on his blog recently that he quit the company after Facebook continually delayed the release of the iPad app. It had been in the works since October 2010 and was essentially completed in May, Verkoeyen said.
"For reasons I won't go into details on the app was repeatedly delayed throughout the summer," Verkoeyen wrote. "Needless to say this was a frustrating experience for me. The experience of working on this app was a large contribution to the reasons why I left Facebook, though that doesn't mean it wasn't a difficult decision."
Verkoeyen, who now works for Google, later updated his blog post to strip out his criticism of Facebook and his comments about the app's delay.
If Verkoeyen's timeline is correct, that means that the Facebook iPad app was stuck in limbo longer than the Apple's notoriously delayed white iPhone 4.
commet: i like the news because i haed the ipad and it was rare to me that there wasnt an ipad facebbok app. i will download it
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Finally! Facebook releases its iPad app
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech October 10, 2011: 6:48 PM ET
Facebook finally releases its iPad app
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One year, six months, and seven days after the iPad first went on sale, Facebook has at last released its app for Apple's tablet.
"Many of you have been asking about Facebook for iPad," the company said in an understated blog post Monday. "Today, it's finally here."
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The long-delayed app has the subject of much Silicon Valley chatter. Some rumors suggested that a rift between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) executive team over Apple's Ping social network was to blame for the delay. Others claimed that Facebook preferred a Web-based application that bypassed Apple's strict app store rules.
Former Facebook developer Jeff Verkoeyen, the lead engineer on the the iPad app, wrote on his blog recently that he quit the company after Facebook continually delayed the release of the iPad app. It had been in the works since October 2010 and was essentially completed in May, Verkoeyen said.
"For reasons I won't go into details on the app was repeatedly delayed throughout the summer," Verkoeyen wrote. "Needless to say this was a frustrating experience for me. The experience of working on this app was a large contribution to the reasons why I left Facebook, though that doesn't mean it wasn't a difficult decision."
Verkoeyen, who now works for Google, later updated his blog post to strip out his criticism of Facebook and his comments about the app's delay.
If Verkoeyen's timeline is correct, that means that the Facebook iPad app was stuck in limbo longer than the Apple's notoriously delayed white iPhone 4.
0:00 / 2:23 The inventors who turned iPads into heads
But like the white iPhone, Facebook's iPad app has finally appeared. The application showcases many of the familiar Facebook features, integrating gestures and swipes to help users navigate the social network.
"With the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips," Leon Dubinsky, a Facebook mobile engineer, said in a blog post that he wrote "from the comfort of his couch."
Games, apps, groups and lists appear in a menu on the left-hand side, giving users quick access to their most-frequently used tasks. Messages and notifications appear at the top of each screen, so Facebook users can chat with friends and view updates without jumping back and forth between screens.
The app also allows lets users play full-screen games, watch and record HD videos and stream them to other devices using Apple's Airplay technology.
The app had been noticeably absent from Apple's iTunes app store, considering that Facebook had been among the first to debut an iPhone application in 2007. The social network also said Monday that it made several improvements to the iPhone app and Facebook's mobile site, giving users simplified navigation, faster search and access to more games and apps.
No Facebook application yet exists for Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) Android tablets, which means the Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) Kindle Fire tablet will not ship with a Facebook app. To top of page
First Published: October 10, 2011: 6:44 PM ET
cooment : this is a very good news because dont exist a app for this for the ipad and this is ilogical
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Finally! Facebook releases its iPad app
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech October 10, 2011: 6:48 PM ET
Facebook finally releases its iPad app
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One year, six months, and seven days after the iPad first went on sale, Facebook has at last released its app for Apple's tablet.
"Many of you have been asking about Facebook for iPad," the company said in an understated blog post Monday. "Today, it's finally here."
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The long-delayed app has the subject of much Silicon Valley chatter. Some rumors suggested that a rift between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's (AAPL, Fortune 500) executive team over Apple's Ping social network was to blame for the delay. Others claimed that Facebook preferred a Web-based application that bypassed Apple's strict app store rules.
Former Facebook developer Jeff Verkoeyen, the lead engineer on the the iPad app, wrote on his blog recently that he quit the company after Facebook continually delayed the release of the iPad app. It had been in the works since October 2010 and was essentially completed in May, Verkoeyen said.
"For reasons I won't go into details on the app was repeatedly delayed throughout the summer," Verkoeyen wrote. "Needless to say this was a frustrating experience for me. The experience of working on this app was a large contribution to the reasons why I left Facebook, though that doesn't mean it wasn't a difficult decision."
Verkoeyen, who now works for Google, later updated his blog post to strip out his criticism of Facebook and his comments about the app's delay.
If Verkoeyen's timeline is correct, that means that the Facebook iPad app was stuck in limbo longer than the Apple's notoriously delayed white iPhone 4.
0:00 / 2:23 The inventors who turned iPads into heads
But like the white iPhone, Facebook's iPad app has finally appeared. The application showcases many of the familiar Facebook features, integrating gestures and swipes to help users navigate the social network.
"With the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips," Leon Dubinsky, a Facebook mobile engineer, said in a blog post that he wrote "from the comfort of his couch."
Games, apps, groups and lists appear in a menu on the left-hand side, giving users quick access to their most-frequently used tasks. Messages and notifications appear at the top of each screen, so Facebook users can chat with friends and view updates without jumping back and forth between screens.
The app also allows lets users play full-screen games, watch and record HD videos and stream them to other devices using Apple's Airplay technology.
The app had been noticeably absent from Apple's iTunes app store, considering that Facebook had been among the first to debut an iPhone application in 2007. The social network also said Monday that it made several improvements to the iPhone app and Facebook's mobile site, giving users simplified navigation, faster search and access to more games and apps.
No Facebook application yet exists for Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) Android tablets, which means the Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) Kindle Fire tablet will not ship with a Facebook app. To top of page
First Published: October 10, 2011: 6:44 PM ET
cooment : this is a very good news because dont exist a app for this for the ipad and this is ilogical
Where are cell phones most popular?
CNN) -- China's two special administration regions -- Macau and Hong Kong -- have more cell phone subscriptions per capita than anywhere else in the world.
For every 100 people in Macau, there are 206.43 cell phone subscriptions, according to recent statistics from the International Telecommunications Union. Hong Kong is second with 190.21 subscriptions for every 100 people.
China, the world's most populous nation, has the most cell phone subscriptions in the world: just more than 859 million. But there are only 64.04 subscriptions per 100 people, ranking it 150th on the list above.
The United States ranks 114th, with 89.86 subscriptions per 100 people.
At the bottom of the list is Myanmar, where there are only 1.24 subscriptions for every 100 people. North Korea is second from bottom with 1.77. Most of the bottom 25 consists of poor African countries.
Joining Macau and Hong Kong in the top five are Saudi Arabia, Montenegro and Panama.
Oil-rich countries are well-represented in the top 20, with Saudi Arabia joining Libya (9), Russia (11), Oman (12), Kuwait (14) and the United Arab Emirates (20).
Opinion: It´s impressive to see that poor countries like Panama are among the top twenty where cell phones are most used. Sadly, it's a cruel reality. People prefer to use their money in entertainment than in education, inversión, etc.
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Hyundai steels itself for a cleaner future
By Jiyeon Lee, CNN
October 5, 2011 -- Updated 1643 GMT (0043 HKT)
Hyundai's new steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea is curbing it carbon emissions and recyling all of its byproducts.
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Hyundai is reducing emissions at its steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea
Facility which includes 35 kilometers of conveyor belts cost around $5.5 billion to build
Plant has enclosed its storage and transport routes to limit dust entering surrounding area
Company says it recycles all of its byproducts and monitors its emissions 24 hours a day
Dangjin, South Korea (CNN) -- Steelmakers are known to be one of the worst polluters in manufacturing, but South Korea's newest plant claims it is designed to go green.
Hyundai Steel's Dangjin plant, which sits an hour and a half south of Seoul on the west coast, is the youngest steel plant in the world and has adopted new technologies to ensure it stand out from others.
By simply enclosing storage and transport routes for raw material, they are able to prevent dust particles from entering the surrounding areas.
The facility, which includes 35 kilometers (21 miles) of conveyor belts fully enclosed and state-of-the-art storage domes, cost Hyundai Steel roughly $5.5 billion to build. The two blast furnaces produce eight million tons of steel a year.
Steelmaker cleans up its act
It is no small investment, but the steelmaker believes it will earn its way back in no time.
"With the encapsulated storage system, we minimize loss of raw material so that may be $20 million a year (that we are saving)," said Hyundai Steel's senior executive vice president Cho Won-suk.
Other steelmakers lose roughly 0.5% in raw materials annually by keeping them in the open, subjecting the material to rain and wind, according to Hyundai.
The idea is simple but conventional players elsewhere see it as a large investment that would require a new layout for the steel plant.
With the encapsulated storage system, we minimize loss of raw material so that may be $20 million a year (that we are saving)
Cho Won-suk, Hyundai Steel
Hyundai's Dangjin plant, which blew in its blast furnace at the beginning of last year, was designed to accommodate the green system from the beginning.
Dangjin also boasts its recycling byproducts emitted during the process of burning and melting raw materials. The company says it recycles 100% of its byproducts which supplies 80% of the operation energy at the plant.
"The byproduct gas contains energy and has some value. For example, it contains carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane, so the byproduct gas can be utilized for heating up furnaces in the plant," vice president Cho said.
To make sure Hyundai is meeting its standards as a green steelmaker, it monitors its emission output around the clock which is not only reported to the government but is also open to the public.
The steelmaker keeps its pollution levels below half of the government's regulations, according to Hyundai's technical research center manager, Park Eung-yeul.
Its tight relationship with its sister companies, Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Construction, is also enhancing its efforts to become more green.
Not only does Hyundai Steel supply car parts to Hyundai Motor, the old cars at the end of their cycle come back to the steelmaker as scrap metal to be melted down and used once again. The rougher steel produced from scrap metal can then be used at construction sites.
Despite these efforts, tackling CO2 emissions remains an ongoing challenge.
But the company's dedicated task force team continue the drive towards producing environmentally-friendly energy and removing the obstacles in the way of even cleaner steel production.
COMMENT. This is good, with this new plants that recycle harmful materials, the earth will get a good deep breath of relief. Now only the other plants need to copy this one and the earth will get a well needed rest of pollutants
By Jiyeon Lee, CNN
October 5, 2011 -- Updated 1643 GMT (0043 HKT)
Hyundai's new steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea is curbing it carbon emissions and recyling all of its byproducts.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Hyundai is reducing emissions at its steel plant in Dangjin, South Korea
Facility which includes 35 kilometers of conveyor belts cost around $5.5 billion to build
Plant has enclosed its storage and transport routes to limit dust entering surrounding area
Company says it recycles all of its byproducts and monitors its emissions 24 hours a day
Dangjin, South Korea (CNN) -- Steelmakers are known to be one of the worst polluters in manufacturing, but South Korea's newest plant claims it is designed to go green.
Hyundai Steel's Dangjin plant, which sits an hour and a half south of Seoul on the west coast, is the youngest steel plant in the world and has adopted new technologies to ensure it stand out from others.
By simply enclosing storage and transport routes for raw material, they are able to prevent dust particles from entering the surrounding areas.
The facility, which includes 35 kilometers (21 miles) of conveyor belts fully enclosed and state-of-the-art storage domes, cost Hyundai Steel roughly $5.5 billion to build. The two blast furnaces produce eight million tons of steel a year.
Steelmaker cleans up its act
It is no small investment, but the steelmaker believes it will earn its way back in no time.
"With the encapsulated storage system, we minimize loss of raw material so that may be $20 million a year (that we are saving)," said Hyundai Steel's senior executive vice president Cho Won-suk.
Other steelmakers lose roughly 0.5% in raw materials annually by keeping them in the open, subjecting the material to rain and wind, according to Hyundai.
The idea is simple but conventional players elsewhere see it as a large investment that would require a new layout for the steel plant.
With the encapsulated storage system, we minimize loss of raw material so that may be $20 million a year (that we are saving)
Cho Won-suk, Hyundai Steel
Hyundai's Dangjin plant, which blew in its blast furnace at the beginning of last year, was designed to accommodate the green system from the beginning.
Dangjin also boasts its recycling byproducts emitted during the process of burning and melting raw materials. The company says it recycles 100% of its byproducts which supplies 80% of the operation energy at the plant.
"The byproduct gas contains energy and has some value. For example, it contains carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane, so the byproduct gas can be utilized for heating up furnaces in the plant," vice president Cho said.
To make sure Hyundai is meeting its standards as a green steelmaker, it monitors its emission output around the clock which is not only reported to the government but is also open to the public.
The steelmaker keeps its pollution levels below half of the government's regulations, according to Hyundai's technical research center manager, Park Eung-yeul.
Its tight relationship with its sister companies, Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Construction, is also enhancing its efforts to become more green.
Not only does Hyundai Steel supply car parts to Hyundai Motor, the old cars at the end of their cycle come back to the steelmaker as scrap metal to be melted down and used once again. The rougher steel produced from scrap metal can then be used at construction sites.
Despite these efforts, tackling CO2 emissions remains an ongoing challenge.
But the company's dedicated task force team continue the drive towards producing environmentally-friendly energy and removing the obstacles in the way of even cleaner steel production.
COMMENT. This is good, with this new plants that recycle harmful materials, the earth will get a good deep breath of relief. Now only the other plants need to copy this one and the earth will get a well needed rest of pollutants
American economists win Nobel
Two American economists won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for their work studying how changes in government policies or economic shocks affect a nation's economy.
Thomas Sargent, a professor at New York University, and Christopher Sims, a professor at Princeton University, both 68, will share the award and the $1.49 million prize money for their work.
"We're basically statistical historians," Sargent said Monday. "We comb past economic events to give us clues what will happen in the future.
The global economy has been shaken by a series of shocks and market reactions that resulted in the worst global economic downturn since the end of World War II.
Sims dismissed the arguments some have made that the failings of economics were responsible for the financial meltdown in 2008. He said he is confident that the kind of strict analysis recognized by the Nobel committee will be central to finding solutions to the current problems.
Still, he added at a press conference at Princeton, "the answers are not likely to be simple. Asking for an opinion off the top of our heads, you shouldn't expect much."
Asked how he would invest his share of the winnings, Sims said he would keep it in cash while he considers what to do with it.
Sims and Sargent have known each other for decades, both receiving their doctorates from Harvard in 1968. While their research was carried out independently, the work of each is considered to be complementary.
The Nobel committee's announcement said Sims and Sargent's work studies the two-way relationship between policy and the economy -- how policy affects the economy and vice versa.
"The laureates' seminal work during the 1970s and 1980s has been adopted by both researchers and policymakers throughout the world," said the committee's statement. "Today, the methods developed by Sargent and Sims are essential tools in macroeconomic analysis."
Among the issues the two studied were the effects of interest rate and inflation target changes by central banks and the impact of economic shocks such as oil price spikes.
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An Australian stunt actor is suing Warner Bros. studio claiming he suffered permanent brain damage while working as Ed Helms' stunt double for the filming of "Hangover 2," court documents said.
Scott McLean, a veteran of dozens of movies and TV shows, was in a medically induced coma for two months after a high-speed, head-on collision on the set in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 17, 2010.
McLean, who now lives in a Sydney rehabilitation facility, "suffers ongoing seizures, speech impediments, physical impediments, and brain trauma," according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in Los Angeles.
Along with the studio and the film's second unit director, Brian Smerz, the lawsuit names stunt coordinator Russell Solberg as a defendant.
It alleges that Solberg, who was in charge of the shoot, changed the timing of the sequence while the stunt was in progress.
He "commanded the driver" of the car in which McLean was a passenger to speed up, which "resulted in a serious and unplanned head-on collision with an oncoming vehicle."
Warner Bros. spokesman Paul McGuire sent a studio statement to CNN Wednesday.
"We were shocked and saddened by this accident and have been working closely with Scott and his family throughout his treatment and recovery," McGuire said. "We have offered continual support since the accident occurred and we are working together to try and resolve any outstanding issues
Comment: i think that this a very goof movie but it looks like it have many problems on its developing, it would be batter if the become concentrate on the problems that they have to see
Scott McLean, a veteran of dozens of movies and TV shows, was in a medically induced coma for two months after a high-speed, head-on collision on the set in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 17, 2010.
McLean, who now lives in a Sydney rehabilitation facility, "suffers ongoing seizures, speech impediments, physical impediments, and brain trauma," according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a federal court in Los Angeles.
Along with the studio and the film's second unit director, Brian Smerz, the lawsuit names stunt coordinator Russell Solberg as a defendant.
It alleges that Solberg, who was in charge of the shoot, changed the timing of the sequence while the stunt was in progress.
He "commanded the driver" of the car in which McLean was a passenger to speed up, which "resulted in a serious and unplanned head-on collision with an oncoming vehicle."
Warner Bros. spokesman Paul McGuire sent a studio statement to CNN Wednesday.
"We were shocked and saddened by this accident and have been working closely with Scott and his family throughout his treatment and recovery," McGuire said. "We have offered continual support since the accident occurred and we are working together to try and resolve any outstanding issues
Comment: i think that this a very goof movie but it looks like it have many problems on its developing, it would be batter if the become concentrate on the problems that they have to see
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