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		<title>Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes (Matt Cutts/Gadgets, Google, and SEO)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Real-Time News: Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes&#160; &#8212;&#160; I&#8217;m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect.&#160; See the details below.&#160; &#8212;&#160; Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners-basically any neat or unusual sensing device.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/101111/p45#a101111p45" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" /></a> Matt Cutts / <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog">Gadgets, Google, and SEO</a>:<br /><span><b><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/open-kinect-contest/">Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; I&#8217;m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect.&nbsp; See the details below.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners-basically any neat or unusual sensing device.
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		<title>And So The Exodus Begins &#8211; 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org (Ricky/Digitizor)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Real-Time News: Ricky / Digitizor:And So The Exodus Begins &#8211; 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org&#160; &#8212;&#160; We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened &#8211; 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days.&#160; &#8212;&#160; The History]]></description>
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		<title>Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity (Joey Sneddon /OMG!)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Real-Time News: Joey Sneddon / OMG!:Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity &#8230; If you thought multi-touch merriment was the sole preserve of those with vowel-prefixed devices then think again.&#160; &#8212;&#160; Canonical&#8217;s Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10&#8242;s new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity interface.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/101015/p27#a101015p27" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" /></a> Joey Sneddon  / <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/">OMG!</a>:<br /><span><b><a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/short-video-shows-off-utouch-on-ubuntu-unity/">Short video shows off uTouch on Ubuntu Unity</a></b></span> &hellip; If you thought multi-touch merriment was the sole preserve of those with vowel-prefixed devices then think again.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Canonical&#8217;s Gerry Carr has posted a neat video demonstration of Ubuntu 10.10&prime;s new multi-touch features in action with the Ubuntu Unity interface.
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		<title>Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense (Cade Metz/The Register)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Real-Time News: The H Open Source:Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.10 &#8220;Maverick Meerkat&#8221;&#160; &#8212;&#160; Canonical and the Ubuntu developers have announced the arrival of version 10.10 of their popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, code named &#8220;Maverick Meerkat&#8221;.&#160; Ubuntu 10.10 is the first standard release to be issued following the latest Long Term Support &#8230;]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/101010/p10#a101010p10" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" /></a> <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/">The H Open Source</a>:<br /><span><b><a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-releases-Ubuntu-10-10-Maverick-Meerkat-1104475.html">Canonical releases Ubuntu 10.10 &ldquo;Maverick Meerkat&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Canonical and the Ubuntu developers have announced the arrival of version 10.10 of their popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, code named &ldquo;Maverick Meerkat&rdquo;.&nbsp; Ubuntu 10.10 is the first standard release to be issued following the latest Long Term Support &hellip;
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		<title>Ubuntu Extends Cloud Service to Smartphones (Ryan Kim/GigaOM)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubuntu Real-Time News: Ryan Kim / GigaOM:Ubuntu Extends Cloud Service to Smartphones&#160; &#8212;&#160; The latest release of the free Ubuntu Linux operating system scheduled for this Sunday includes an expansion of its personal cloud service to iPhone and Android devices, as well as a new netbook edition made for smaller screens.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/101007/p38#a101007p38" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" /></a> Ryan Kim / <a href="http://gigaom.com/">GigaOM</a>:<br /><span><b><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/10/07/ubuntu-extends-cloud-service-to-smartphones/">Ubuntu Extends Cloud Service to Smartphones</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The latest release of the free Ubuntu Linux operating system scheduled for this Sunday includes an expansion of its personal cloud service to iPhone and Android devices, as well as a new netbook edition made for smaller screens.
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		<category><![CDATA[Improving mothers' literacy skills may be best way to boost children's achievement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement of children from low income neighborhoods might be more successful if they also provided adult literacy education to parents. The analysis, performed by Narayan Sastry, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, and Anne R. Pebley, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, examined data on more than 3,000 families. The study, appearing in Demography, was supported by NIH&#8217;s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The researchers based this conclusion on their finding that a mother&#8217;s reading skill is the greatest determinant of her children’s future academic success, outweighing other factors, such as neighborhood and family income. After mother&#8217;s reading level, neighborhood income level was the largest determinant of children&#8217;s academic achievement. &#8220;The findings indicate that programs to improve maternal literacy skills may provide an effective means to overcome the disparity in academic achievement between children in poor and affluent neighborhoods,&#8221; said Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH institute that funded the study. The researchers undertook the study [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement of children from low income neighborhoods might be more successful if they also provided adult literacy education to parents.</p>
<p>The analysis, performed by Narayan Sastry, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, and Anne R. Pebley, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, examined data on more than 3,000 families.</p>
<p>The study, appearing in Demography, was supported by NIH&#8217;s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.</p>
<p>The researchers based this conclusion on their finding that a mother&#8217;s reading skill is the greatest determinant of her children’s future academic success, outweighing other factors, such as neighborhood and family income.</p>
<p>After mother&#8217;s reading level, neighborhood income level was the largest determinant of children&#8217;s academic achievement.</p>
<p>&#8220;The findings indicate that programs to improve maternal literacy skills may provide an effective means to overcome the disparity in academic achievement between children in poor and affluent neighborhoods,&#8221; said Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the NIH institute that funded the study.<in-context-comment:auto:0></p>
<p>The researchers undertook the study to isolate factors contributing to the disparity in academic achievement that other studies have found between children in low income and affluent neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Sastry and Pebley noted that neighborhood income had the largest impact on achievement for children ages 8 to 17, who are at the middle and higher end of the age range. This is consistent with the idea that the environment outside the home becomes more important as children grow older, they said.</p>
<p>Sastry and Pebley&#8217;s analysis was based on data collected between April 2000 and December 2001 as part of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, an ongoing examination of families in 65 LA county communities. The information included the results of reading and math assessments of 2,350 children ages 3 to 17, their mothers&#8217; education level, census records of neighborhood income, and family income and assets. The participants in the study were representative of the larger Los Angeles community.<in-context-comment:auto:1></p>
<p>&#8220;This analysis gives us a chance to isolate the different factors that affect children’s achievement,&#8221; Dr. Sastry said. &#8220;Policy measures to encourage mixed-income neighborhoods, improve early childhood education, and build mothers’ reading skills each could have positive effects on children’s achievement scores.&#8221;<icc-first-publish><in-context-comment:auto-on></p>
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		<title>FTC Testifies on Data Security Legislation</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach.<br />
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		<title>Per Congress, FTC Rescinds Regulations on Smokeless Tobacco, Authority to Move to HHS</title>
		<link>http://techcombo.com/2010/09/26/per-congress-ftc-rescinds-regulations-on-smokeless-tobacco-authority-to-move-to-hhs-2-123/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of legislation passed by Congress last year, the Federal Trade Commission will rescind its regulations governing the format and display of health warnings on smokeless tobacco packages and advertising.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the wake of legislation passed by Congress last year, the Federal Trade Commission will rescind its regulations governing the format and display of health warnings on smokeless tobacco packages and advertising.<br />
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