Facebook has more young viewers during prime time than TV networks

Staff Orlando Business Journal

Forget about the growing number of cable stations, major television networks have a new competitor stealing viewers during prime-time viewing hours. It's Facebook.

According to a Bloomberg Business Week report, a Nielsen study found that Facebook now has more 18-to-24-year-olds online during prime-time hours than any of four major television networks.

According to the study, about 50 percent of users in that age group will access Facebook between 8 and 11 p.m. During daytime hours, Facebook generates an even larger audience among young users, the report said.

Facebook is expected to use the new data to promote its new TV-style online advertisements.

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Macworld writes, When I?m at home, I have an Apple device for almost everything. My iPhone is my travel buddy, my iPad mini is my reading and writing companion, and my computer takes on all the other heavy lifting. But for a visit to Italy earlier this year, I knew I had to pare down my collection: An iPhone, Mac, and iPad all seemed a bit unwieldy for a trip that involved a lot of walking and travel; also, you don?t necessarily want to bring every piece of electronics you own to a foreign country. So instead, my companion and I made an electronics game plan. We made a list of what, between us, we should?

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The USB 3.0 Promoter Group?honestly, there is such a thing?has finalized the next iteration of Universal Serial Bus, and it's going to run at a lightning fast 10Gbps.

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Snowden deals blow to ?global electronic prison camp? ? Russian Orthodox Church

Published time: July 30, 2013 11:16

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has praised Russian authorities for not caving in to pressure from abroad, saying granting asylum to US whistleblower Edward Snowden would help prevent the establishment of a ?global electronic prison camp?.

?It is encouraging news that Russia is demonstrating its independence in this case as it has in many others, despite the pressure? said the head of the Holy Synod?s Department for Relations between the Church and Society.

Vsevolod Chaplin added that the Snowden saga has been broadly discussed both on the domestic and international level, with Russia?s position potentially bolstering its image as a country upholding ?the true freedom of ideals.?

The Russian cleric further argued that Snowden?s revelations confirmed the existence of a pernicious problem discussed by Orthodox Christians for many years ? ?the prospective of a global electronic-totalitarian prison camp?.

?First they get people addicted to convenient means of communication with the authorities, businesses and among each other. In a while people become rigidly connected to these services and as a result the economic and political owners of these services get tremendous and terrifying power. They cannot help feeling the temptation to use this power to control the personality and such control might eventually be much stricter that all known totalitarian systems of the twentieth century,? Interfax news agency quoted Chaplin as saying.

The church official added that in his view true democracy remained an unreachable ideal.

?Any political system fixes the domination of a few over many. In the twentieth century the harshest forms of such political power used brute force, but now they are using soft power, through total data collecting and through soft persuasion of people, first through slogans but then through legal acts,? Chaplin explained. He noted that currently the soft power system was promoting such topics as declaring the western political system as the only viable option, making religion a marginal trend, and sidelining both criticism of market fundamentalism and leftist political platforms.

Chaplin urged Russian authorities to defend ?real freedom, the freedom from the global ideological dictate and from the electronic prison camp.?

The cleric also offered a possible solution ? the development of its own electronic communications system that would be independent from foreign-based mediums. ?The nation has the brains for this and I hope we will also have a will,? Chaplin declared.

Russia is currently considering Edward Snowden?s request for temporary asylum and the former NSA contractor still remains in the transit zone of the Moscow?s Sheremetyevo airport.

The Russian Justice Ministry on Tuesday sent a formal response to a letter from US Attorney General, who assured Moscow that Snowden would not face the prospect of death or torture if handed over to the United States.

The Russian ministry did not provide the details of its reply to the press.

Source: http://rt.com/politics/russian-orthodox-church-snowden-787/

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Israeli-Palestinian aim: A peace deal in 9 months

From left, Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat leave the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, after a meeting with President Obama. President Barack Obama on Tuesday delicately waded into the first round of Middle East peace talks in years, meeting privately at the White House with lead negotiators for the Israeli and Palestinian delegations. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

From left, Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat leave the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, after a meeting with President Obama. President Barack Obama on Tuesday delicately waded into the first round of Middle East peace talks in years, meeting privately at the White House with lead negotiators for the Israeli and Palestinian delegations. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secretary of State John Kerry stands between Israel's Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, right, and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, as they shake hands after the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Israel's Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, left, looks towards Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat during statements to reporters after their meeting together with Secretary of State John Kerry on the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Secretary of State John Kerry stands with Israel's Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, right, and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, after the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

A Palestinian woman holds a poster of Ahmed Saadat, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, imprisoned by Israeli during a protest in the town of Nablus in the West Bank on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. PFLP supporters protested against the resumption of of the peace talks with Israel. Arabic on the poster reads, "wherever I am, we will always continue to be against Zionism, prisoner and friend Ahmed Saadat."(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Pressing ahead in a new U.S.-backed push for Middle East peace, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed Tuesday to meet again within two weeks to start substantive talks in hopes of reaching a long-elusive settlement within nine months.

Speaking after the two sides wrapped up an initial two days of talks at the State Department and visited President Barack Obama at the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel and the Palestinians were committed to sustained and serious negotiations on the "core issues" that divide them. The next round will take place in either Israel or the Palestinian territories before mid-August, he said.

Kerry said he was aware of the deep doubts surrounding the new peace effort and acknowledged that the road would be difficult. Yet, he said, "While I understand the skepticism, I don't share it. And I don't think we have time for it."

All issues, including contentious disputes over the status of the territories and Jerusalem, are "on the table for negotiation, and they are on the table with one simple goal: a view to ending the conflict," Kerry said.

The U.S. had already said the negotiations would continue for at least nine months ? roughly until the end of April 2014 ? but that had not been set as a timeframe for reaching a deal. Kerry and both sides agreed that neither would walk away from the talks or take actions that could disrupt them for that period, two senior U.S. officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss diplomatic talks.

However, the officials also said they expect that the Israelis, over U.S. objections, will continue constructing housing for Jewish settlers on land claimed by the Palestinians over the course of the negotiations, an indication the Palestinians are serious about dropping their longstanding demand for a settlement freeze before returning to talks. The officials said the U.S. believes the Palestinians also will not attempt to win further international recognition as a state until a peace deal is completed, an effort that one official likened to a potential "train wreck."

Kerry said that Israel, which agreed on Sunday to release more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture, would also take unspecified steps in the coming days to ease harsh living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza. The two senior officials said those measures complement a $4 billion private sector economic program that Kerry is trying put in place to assist the Palestinians.

After Tuesday's conclusion of preliminary talks, Kerry said, "I firmly believe the leaders, the negotiators and citizens invested in this effort can make peace for one simple reason: because they must." He said, "A viable two-state solution is the only way this conflict can end. And there is not much time to achieve it."

Kerry said the negotiations, to be mediated on a day-to-day basis by his new Mideast peace envoy, Martin Indyk, would be cloaked in secrecy and that the parties had agreed that he would be the only person to comment on them. He quickly added that he would not comment on them now, leaving unclear the framework for the talks that he struggled for six months to get back on track.

Despite the secrecy, the broad outlines of an agreement are well known: The Palestinians want a state based on the borders, with agreed land swaps, that existed before the 1967 war in which Israel seized east Jerusalem and occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Israel wants security assurances and a recognition that it is and will remain a Jewish state.

Obama laid out those parameters as U.S. policy for any negotiations in a May 2011 speech, but neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have publicly signed off on them. The two senior U.S. officials would not say if either side had even tacitly agreed to proceed on that basis.

The main issues on the table for negotiation include security, borders, the status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and water, all of which have been responsible for cratering multiple U.S.-brokered peace efforts over the past two decades.

Earlier Tuesday, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with the lead negotiators ? Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat ? for about 30 minutes. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama called the meeting to "directly express his personal support for final status negotiations." Obama pledged full U.S. support to the process, Carney said.

At the State Department ceremony later, Kerry was flanked by Livni and Erekat ? who each spoke briefly about the need to resolve the longstanding conflict.

"It's time for the Palestinian people to have an independent sovereign state of their own," said Erekat. "It's time for the Palestinians to live in peace, freedom and dignity within their own independent, sovereign state."

Livni allowed that she and Erekat had been involved in failed negotiations before, notably the Annapolis Process that President George W. Bush initiated in 2008, but she said this time could be different.

"You know, Saeb," she said to Erekat, "we all spent some time in the negotiations room ... but we didn't complete our mission. And this is something that we need to do now, in these negotiations that we will launch today. And the opportunity has been created for us, for all of us, and we cannot afford to waste it."

"I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream," Livni added. "Let us be these people."

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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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