Boston gets first taste of Comcast’s long-delayed TiVo-powered DVR
The News Review:
- Boston gets first taste of Comcast’s long-delayed TiVo-powered DVR
- Rwanda: Arrest Genocidaires in Congo, Say Belgian MPs
- Home and Away’s Indiana Evans growing up fast
- South Africa: Mpumalanga Health Recruits Tunisian Doctors
- What’s Cooking With Kim O’Donnel
- Mother didn’t know Suffolk murders victim was a prostitute
- Jagr has 3 points, Lundqvist makes 14 saves in 4-0 win over Thrashers
Boston gets first taste of Comcast’s long-delayed TiVo-powered DVR
USA Today - Jan 22, 2008
Meanwhile, TiVo wants the partnership with Comcast, which runs at least until 2014, to be a model for other cable deals that offer access to millions of new customers. 1 million DVRs and has lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers since 2005, when DirecTV stopped marketing TiVo in favor of a home-grown DVR. “Being able to port (TiVo) software into somebody else’s box opens up a way to begin total integration of cable services into TiVo,” CEO Tom Rogers says. “A lot of elements make it quite important. “The companies say they initially didn’t appreciate how complicated it would be to develop software to offer TiVo’s features on Comcast’s DVRs and operating system. “It ended up to be rocket science,” Rogers says… TiVo recently began work on software for other areas that use boxes from Scientific Atlanta. Also dropped is the original promise for Comcast to “showcase TiVo’s home networking, multimedia and broadband capabilities. “Unlike stand-alone TiVos, Comcast’s version doesn’t allow TV watchers to access music and photos on the home PC, watch Web videos or transfer recorded shows to other rooms, PCs or mobile players. But Comcast’s service has some unique features. Users can continue watching a show when they check the programming schedule or plan other recordings. The sound stays and the video appears in a window in a corner of the screen. In addition, program searches in Comcast’s TiVo include the cable company’s growing array of video-on-demand movies and shows.
Rwanda: Arrest Genocidaires in Congo, Say Belgian MPs
AllAfrica.com - Jan 22, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); "Many Rwandans who participated in the 1994 Genocide are roaming about in the mountains. The international community must collaborate in arresting them to answer charges of crimes against humanity," MP Francois Roelants du Viver said at the residence of the Belgian Ambassador in Nyarugenge district. He said that a political solution sought by Congolese themselves would end the Congo crisis by engaging in home-grown solutions like the Kivu conference in eastern Congo. Estimated at over 10,000 fighters, the genocidal forces are grouped in what is known as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) that has been at the heart of bloody conflicts in the region. Another MP, Alain Hutchinson called for reinforcement of the UN Mission in Congo (Monuc) to wipe out the negative forces. "They have the mandate; they should be able have enough troops to deal with that problem appropriately because it is affecting the whole region," he said. The vice spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs in Belgium, Francois Delhaye promised that Belgium will increase on its funding for the DRC if the Kivu conference talks succeed.
Home and Away’s Indiana Evans growing up fast
NEWS.com.au - Jan 22, 2008
But Evans says it didn’t take long to figure out how to deal with the speculation surrounding her love life. "It’s really odd, it’s bizarre when people you haven’t met say things about you, but I don’t go looking for it," she says. "Being on Home and Away I have grown up a lot quicker than I would have if I wasn’t on the show. But, then again, I don’t have a life to compare it to because when I was starting out I was so much younger. "
Evans’ character Matilda Hunter also had some big issues to deal with last year when she broke up with on-screen boyfriend Ric Dalby, played by Mark Furze, after he had an affair with a married woman. "Ric and Matilda have just broken up and they have found out that Viv is pregnant," she says, recalling where the series ended last year. "The storylines have been really interesting, and they have been very different to the other stuff I have done on the show.
South Africa: Mpumalanga Health Recruits Tunisian Doctors
AllAfrica.com - Jan 22, 2008
It will be able to reach any point in our province within a very short time," said the department. The province is working on a recruiting and retaining strategy to lure health professionals. "This will ensure that in the medium to long term we are able to have home grown skills that are likely to be in the province for longer periods to service our people. "Further the department has engaged health professional agencies to provide locum doctors and private doctors render services during weekends. Meanwhile about 2 000 nurses have been deployed to under-served areas across the country since the start of the year, the national Department of Health said on Saturday. Relevant Links North AfricaSouthern AfricaEconomy, Business and FinanceHealth and MedicineLabourSouth AfricaTunisia The department is also expected to open additional nursing colleges to increase the supply of nursing staff. It also plans to reopen nursing schools and colleges, following an audit of all nursing colleges that identified specific needs in different nursing colleges and the challenges they faced.
What’s Cooking With Kim O’Donnel
Washington Post - Jan 22, 2008
I assumed that "farmed" was roughly equivalent to "domestic"), and that he could point me in the direction of some rainbow trout: more expensive, but home-grown in my state, no less. Kim O’Donnel: Thank you for sharing your tale. It is so important to ask questions when you shop. Stay informed — I know it’s hard — and daunting, but information is definitely power.
Mother didn’t know Suffolk murders victim was a prostitute
Guardian Unlimited - Jan 22, 2008
The naked bodies of the five women, who all worked as prostitutes in Ipswich, were found at remote locations near the town in December 2006. Tania Nicol was the first to go missing on October 30. Her mother told the court her daughter had grown up in Ipswich and done well at a local school. But she had moved out of home at the age of 16 and lived at a hostel elsewhere in Ipswich, where she started using drugs. “She used heroin a couple of times in the hostel,” said Nicol. Tania had asked for help to get off the drugs, she told the court, adding: “I sent her away for a while. “In 2004, her daughter moved to a flat in Ipswich.
Jagr has 3 points, Lundqvist makes 14 saves in 4-0 win over Thrashers
USA Today - Jan 22, 2008
Now trying to snap out a slump that is threatening New York’s return to the postseason, the Rangers responded to their angry coach’s message and took their frustration out on Atlanta. Jaromir Jagr scored and had two assists on a newly created line, and defenseman Fedor Tyutin had a career-high three assists in a 4-0 win Tuesday night. Clicking as they did in wrecking the Thrashers’ first trip to the playoffs, the Rangers put together the complete game coach Tom Renney had grown weary waiting to see. Sean Avery and Brandon Dubinsky scored first-period goals, Martin Straka added one in the second, and Jagr finished the surge in the third to provide plenty of offense for Henrik Lundqvist. I think that was the key and we jumped on them right away,” Jagr said. “We scored a quick two goals and that was the difference… “We looked like a junior team. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be,” Lehtonen said. New York had a decided edge in shots early in Sunday’s 3-1 loss at home to the Bruins, but that hardly impressed Renney because the Rangers had very few scoring chances. That changed against the Thrashers. “You’re not going to score unless you shoot the puck,” Renney said. “We didn’t give them a whole lot to work with. We are still trying to get ourselves corrected here.