Android 4.2.2 Update Now Being Deployed to Nexus Devices

The immediate precursor to the upcoming "Key Lime Pie" version of Android, an update to Android 4.2.2, is now being rolled out to GSM models of the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10, according to Liam Spradlin of Android Police. It's as yet unknown if the update brings any new features, but it is expected to fix at least one bug with the devices' Bluetooth connections.

Why Nexus devices?

Google's Nexus series of devices are made in close partnership with hardware manufacturers like Asus and Samsung, the makers of the Nexus 7 tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone respectively. These gadgets eschew most non-uninstallable "crapware" and UI layers like Touchwiz and MotoBLUR, even the ones those manufacturers normally install, in favor of a pure "Made for Google Play" (Google's version of Apple's iTunes and its App Store) experience.

Nexus devices have historically stopped receiving updates faster than Apple's iPhones and iPads have. But relatively frequent operating system updates -- and the accompanying features and bug fixes -- are still one of their major selling points compared to other Android devices, as most seldom if ever receive such upgrades.

Why these particular Nexus devices?

The GSM versions of the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 7, and Nexus 10 are the ones reported so far to have received the update. If the software update is now in the process rolling out to all recent Nexus devices worldwide, it may take some time for each individual Nexus to get it, and for an official changelog to be posted.

Certain carriers' Nexus devices may have to wait months for the upgrade, the way that Galaxy Nexus owners on Verizon had to last time.

Does the Android 4.2.2 update add any new features?

None have been reported so far. But Jerry Hildenbrand of Android Central recently posted a screenshot of something which was spotted on a Google support page: A home screen widget added for the popular Google Now app, which is basically Google's answer to Siri.

The support page Jerry links to now gives visitors an error message, which suggests that Google may not be ready to reveal that yet. It's not clear, however, whether it will be part of Android 4.2.2 or a future update, or whether it will be added to Google Now via a Google Play app update (the same way other apps are individually updated).

Which bugs does the Android 4.2.2 update fix?

Google confirmed last month that "the a2dp streaming stutter problem" would be fixed in the next release of Android. Android Police's Cameron Summerson explains that this was a bug where audio "lag and cuts out constantly" when listened to over Bluetooth headsets. A similar bug affected Bluetooth game controllers, which tended to either not work or lag horribly on devices running Android 4.2.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/android-4-2-2-now-being-deployed-nexus-165900033.html

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Protest forces Iran assembly speaker to cut short speech: media

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani had to cut short a public speech on Sunday after people threw shoes and prayer tablets at him, semi-official media reported, disclosing an unusual act of aggression against a senior official.

Larijani, who is embroiled in a public political feud with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was speaking at a religious site in Qom, the city he represents in parliament, on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Shortly after starting his speech, a group of people began chanting slogans against him, according to the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA).

It said Larijani spoke for two to three minutes more, but then a crowd of about 100 Ahmadinejad supporters began throwing shoes and matchbox-sized clay tablets, used in prayer by some Shi'ites, towards him.

Throwing shoes is a serious insult in Muslim countries.

Larijani tried to quiet the crowd, saying "We shouldn't compromise this great celebration with such actions," according to the Mehr news agency, which did not identify the assailants.

His feud with Ahmadinejad burst into the open last week when the president used a speech in parliament to accuse Larijani's family of corruption - a charge the family denies.

Infighting between Iran's top officials has intensified as June's presidential elections approach, and is happening despite calls by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for elected officials to stop their bickering ahead of the vote.

ILNA said some people at the ceremony tried to defend Larijani from the objects, but the crowd began moving in the direction of the speaker and he was forced to leave.

Parliamentary news agency Icana said "a few" people had tried to "create chaos" by chanting slogans against Larijani.

(Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati, Editing by William Maclean and Richard Meares)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protest-forces-iran-assembly-speaker-cut-short-speech-152420104.html

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Space Race in Asia Heating Up

The United States and the Soviet Union pushed each other to new heights during the Cold War space race, and now something similar appears to be unfolding across Asia.

In the past two months, both North Korea and South Korea successfully launched satellites to orbit for the first time, and Iran claimed it sent a monkey to suborbital space?and retrieved the animal unharmed. Such activities are not isolated incidents, but rather highlight a growing trend, experts say.

"I think there's a significant Asian space race?going on," said Joan Johnson-Freese, professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I.

Rockets and missiles

North Korea's satellite launch came on Dec. 12, while rival and neighbor South Korea celebrated a similar milestone on Jan. 30. Iran announced the success of its monkey mission on Jan. 28, though some observers have voiced doubts about the claim, which has yet to be verified by Western intelligence officials.

The United States and other nations have condemned the North Korean and Iranian launches, viewing them as thinly disguised tests of ballistic missile technology that both countries are supposed to be prohibited from developing. [Images: North Korea's Rocket Program]

There's not much difference, after all, between a satellite-carrying rocket and a warhead-toting intercontinental ballistic missile, which reaches suborbital space on its way toward a distant destination on Earth's surface. Resolutions passed by the United Nations aim to keep such technology out of the hands of North Korea, which possesses nuclear weapons, and Iran, which is thought to be pursuing them.

Asia's two most populous nations have also been flexing their space-technology muscles recently. Since late November, both China and India have conducted major missile-defense tests, which employ technology similar to that required to take out satellites, Johnson-Freese noted.

"All of this technology is very symbiotic between civilian and military aspiration," she told SPACE.com.

China leads the way

Iran claims its monkey launch will help pave the way for a human spaceflight mission, which the nation hopes to accomplish by 2020 or so. India has also voiced a desire to blast an astronaut into space.

Such ambitions are in large part a response to the achievements of China, Johnson-Freese said.

In 2003, China became the third country (after the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia) to launch a person into space. And last year, China pulled off a manned docking in Earth orbit, executing a demonstration mission that could lay the foundation for a crewed space station down the line.

"They think they cannot allow China to be seen as that far ahead of them technologically," Johnson-Freese said of Indian officials. "And the connotation of human spaceflight is technological sophistication."

China's human spaceflight successes have garnered the nation and its leaders a great deal of prestige both regionally and around the globe ? a fact not lost on India and Iran, Johnson-Freese said. Such nations likely view the articulation of bold aims as important, even if success is a long shot or a long way down the road.

"They know they can't catch up [to China], but they have to be seen as active players," Johnson-Freese said.

Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall?or SPACE.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook?and?Google+.?

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/space-race-asia-heating-124237669.html

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Protests and sand, but no steel: POSCO's fading India dream

GOBINDPUR, India (Reuters) - A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip of India's east coast.

Last week, the project took a step forward as land was taken over from farmers for the first time since 2011, and yet Posco is still a long way from its goal of forging steel there.

Despite the years of protests and battles over environmental clearances, Posco insists it is not about to throw in the towel. However, if a court ruling on access to local iron ore goes against it, that could push it over the edge.

The fiasco over what was billed as India's single largest planned foreign investment epitomizes the slow pace of industrialization in a densely populated country where almost every major project involves moving farmers off their land.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has repeatedly vowed to change the snail-like progress of India's biggest industrial developments and end delays to road building and power stations, blamed for dragging economic growth and fuelling inflation.

But the issues refuse to go away.

"Police out! Death to Posco!" a hundred or so villagers and Communist Party activists shouted at a group of policemen who set up camp in the village of Gobindpur last week, the first police presence there since protesters rose up against the project in 2006.

A few kilometers away, POSCO has built a site office in nine shipping containers. Along with a generator, a flimsy barbed-wire fence and a couple of signs, this is all the work that has been done on the 2,000 acres set aside. They need another 700 acres before work can begin.

POSCO India reiterated its "strong resolve and commitment" to the project in a statement on Friday. But analysts say the company may think again if a pending Supreme Court decision on preferential access to a local iron ore mine goes against it.

"They didn't come here because of their love of India," said Rakesh Arora, a metals expert and head of research at Macquarie Capital Securities (India). "Without the iron ore it would be cheaper to set up in China, where the capital costs are lower."

A court in the state of Odisha has already ruled against Posco on guaranteed supplies from the Kandahar iron ore reserve. Last month, the Supreme Court asked the central government for its opinion and it is expected to rule on the case this year.

Two senior sources at the POSCO project said the company would for now wait out the problems and it did not want to upset India, which it sees as an important long-term market.

The company has already scaled down the project because of the protests. Private farms and the village of Dhinkia, where the most fierce opposition has come from, are now excluded from the project's first 4 million metric tonnes per year phase. The final goal is to produce three times that.

POSCO has also pushed its earliest start date back to 2017 after a tribunal suspended environmental clearance for the mill.

VINES OR JOBS

The project has split coastal communities in Odisha. One group of 52 families, for instance, says they were driven from their village by protesters after they criticized the movement's Communist leaders. They now live in one-room houses on a small stipend paid by POSCO.

"The plant will bring jobs. Right now people migrate from here because there is no work," said Kabindra Sahoo, 33, who has not worked since leaving his village six years ago.

At the protest site people see things differently. Jhulia Das is an elderly grower of betel - a vine leaf used to wrap a heady mix known as 'paan' that is chewed by millions of Indians.

Cultivating betel, along with coconuts, rice and cashews, provides a small but steady income for thousands of families living near the proposed mill site. Das fears losing that.

"They will take our land, our mother earth, destroy our vines. How will we survive?" said the tattooed Das, one of a group of barefoot women in bright saris who had joined the protest.

The state of Odisha owns the sandy land for the steel plant by the Bay of Bengal, but farmers like Das have cultivated betel there for years. Posco is paying $21,500 per acre for the land and a small monthly allowance to farmers until the plant opens, when they are promised jobs.

Odisha straddles India's mining belt and holds a third of the country's iron ore reserves, a quarter of its coal, half its bauxite and more than 90 percent of its nickel and chromite. The state accounted for about a fifth of all industrial investment proposals in India in the last four years.

Since January 2008, Odisha has attracted investment proposals worth $210 billion from Tata, Jindal and POSCO, along with global heavyweights such as ArcelorMittal and Vedanta Resources. All have faced protests and delays.

Last week, officials were able to make some progress at the POSCO site, reclaiming some cultivated land. The protests are smaller than they were two years ago, and more farmers are taking the cash and letting police pull down their vines.

But the protesters won this round - after four days the state government suspended the operation until after a session of the state's parliament that ends in March.

(Additional reporting by Jatindra Dash in GOBINDPUR, India and by Meeyoung Cho in SEOUL; Editing by John Chalmers and Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protests-sand-no-steel-poscos-fading-india-dream-160615643--finance.html

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