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All rights reservedSat, 09 Nov 2013 00:02:23 +00005http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tech/<br>http://l.yimg.com/rz/d/yahoo_news_en-GB_s_f_p_bestfit_news.png<p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-mystery-barge-artistic-high-tech-exhibition-venue-000223217–sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TiS6hpckrlR2oGt74QroGg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-09T000223Z_1_CBRE9A8004200_RTROPTP_2_GOOGLE-MYSTERY.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Mysterious structure built on floating barge is seen in San Francisco Bay" align="left" title="Mysterious structure built on floating barge is seen in San Francisco Bay" border="0″ /></a>By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Able-bodied seamen, decorative sails meant to evoke fish fins and dozens of security cameras will eventually make up the on-board complement of a mysterious four-story barge being built by Internet company Google Inc. The barge is actually a &quot;technology exhibition space,&quot; that Google will move between several piers in the San Francisco Bay area and other West coast locations over the next two years, according to a 36-page information packet submitted in August to the Port of San Francisco. an experience unlike any other that celebrates community, local organizations and the history of San Francisco,&quot; reads the document, which lists the project as being spearheaded by By and Large LLC. The floating structure built of stacked shipping containers, and a twin vessel in Portland, Maine, have stirred intense speculation about their purpose ever since reports of their existence surfaced last month. Google has gone to great lengths to keep the details of the barges secret, requiring at least one U.S. Coast Guard employee to sign a non-disclosure agreement.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-mystery-barge-artistic-high-tech-exhibition-venue-000223217–sector.html  Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:02:23 +0000Reutersgoogle-mystery-barge-artistic-high-tech-exhibition-venue-000223217–sector<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/google-mystery-barge-artistic-high-tech-exhibition-venue-000223217–sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/TiS6hpckrlR2oGt74QroGg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-09T000223Z_1_CBRE9A8004200_RTROPTP_2_GOOGLE-MYSTERY.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Mysterious structure built on floating barge is seen in San Francisco Bay" align="left" title="Mysterious structure built on floating barge is seen in San Francisco Bay" border="0″ /></a>By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Able-bodied seamen, decorative sails meant to evoke fish fins and dozens of security cameras will eventually make up the on-board complement of a mysterious four-story barge being built by Internet company Google Inc. The barge is actually a &quot;technology exhibition space,&quot; that Google will move between several piers in the San Francisco Bay area and other West coast locations over the next two years, according to a 36-page information packet submitted in August to the Port of San Francisco. an experience unlike any other that celebrates community, local organizations and the history of San Francisco,&quot; reads the document, which lists the project as being spearheaded by By and Large LLC. The floating structure built of stacked shipping containers, and a twin vessel in Portland, Maine, have stirred intense speculation about their purpose ever since reports of their existence surfaced last month. Google has gone to great lengths to keep the details of the barges secret, requiring at least one U.S. Coast Guard employee to sign a non-disclosure agreement.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printed-liver-survive-40-days-153900181.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8gm_2_3Dd00xN6y5iBPUWw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpiygqn3.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="3D printed liver is here and it can survive for up to 40 days" align="left" title="3D printed liver is here and it can survive for up to 40 days" border="0″ /></a>This particular liver printing example comes out of a San Diego startup, Organovo, who can generate a slice of functioning, long-lasting liver by printing layers of living cells.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printed-liver-survive-40-days-153900181.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:39:00 +0000Pocket-lint3d-printed-liver-survive-40-days-153900181<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printed-liver-survive-40-days-153900181.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8gm_2_3Dd00xN6y5iBPUWw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpiygqn3.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="3D printed liver is here and it can survive for up to 40 days" align="left" title="3D printed liver is here and it can survive for up to 40 days" border="0″ /></a>This particular liver printing example comes out of a San Diego startup, Organovo, who can generate a slice of functioning, long-lasting liver by printing layers of living cells.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telefonica-profit-drop-overshadows-debt-reduction-125503723–finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pI4_HP050yctI9cplPu3Og–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-08T125503Z_1_CBRE9A70ZVU00_RTROPTP_2_TELEFONICA-SPAIN.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A man speaks by a mobile next to Telefonica&#039;s tower in Barcelona" align="left" title="A man speaks by a mobile next to Telefonica&#039;s tower in Barcelona" border="0″ /></a>By Julien Toyer MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish telecom group Telefonica on Friday posted a sharp drop in nine-months earnings, overshadowing its progress on cutting debt and efforts to revive a loss-making investment in Telecom Italia. Telefonica, which is one of Europe&#039;s most heavily indebted major companies, said it had met its target to cut debt below 47 billion euros ($  62.9 billion) by the end of the year, three months early. Scaled-down operations as a result of the sale of non-core assets in Europe and Latin America to help meet that target were another reason for falling revenue. Telefonica on Thursday backed an overhaul of Telecom Italia&#039;s finances in a bid to reverse years of sliding growth at the Italian group and eventually recoup some of the 1.6 billion euros in writedowns it has taken on its investment.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telefonica-profit-drop-overshadows-debt-reduction-125503723–finance.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:41:45 +0000Reuterstelefonica-profit-drop-overshadows-debt-reduction-125503723–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telefonica-profit-drop-overshadows-debt-reduction-125503723–finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pI4_HP050yctI9cplPu3Og–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-08T125503Z_1_CBRE9A70ZVU00_RTROPTP_2_TELEFONICA-SPAIN.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A man speaks by a mobile next to Telefonica&#039;s tower in Barcelona" align="left" title="A man speaks by a mobile next to Telefonica&#039;s tower in Barcelona" border="0″ /></a>By Julien Toyer MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish telecom group Telefonica on Friday posted a sharp drop in nine-months earnings, overshadowing its progress on cutting debt and efforts to revive a loss-making investment in Telecom Italia. Telefonica, which is one of Europe&#039;s most heavily indebted major companies, said it had met its target to cut debt below 47 billion euros ($  62.9 billion) by the end of the year, three months early. Scaled-down operations as a result of the sale of non-core assets in Europe and Latin America to help meet that target were another reason for falling revenue. Telefonica on Thursday backed an overhaul of Telecom Italia&#039;s finances in a bid to reverse years of sliding growth at the Italian group and eventually recoup some of the 1.6 billion euros in writedowns it has taken on its investment.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/magellan-echo-smart-running-watch-sale-now-bluetooth-131700098.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/exlKnIZy6AsKdzH_6RkEUA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpk1r80g.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Magellan Echo smart running watch on sale now with Bluetooth heart rate monitor" align="left" title="Magellan Echo smart running watch on sale now with Bluetooth heart rate monitor" border="0″ /></a>Outdoor GPS specialist Magellan has created a smart sports watch called Echo which is now on sale. The Echo is designed for runners and intelligently works with your smartphone via Bluetooth. The Echo can be used as a general wristwatch, with a read-out displaying time, day and date, but any fitness data from the compatible apps can also be shown on screen. The Magellan Echo is out now in black, blue or orange and will cost £130, or £170 with the Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Monitor.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/magellan-echo-smart-running-watch-sale-now-bluetooth-131700098.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 13:17:00 +0000Pocket-lintmagellan-echo-smart-running-watch-sale-now-bluetooth-131700098<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/magellan-echo-smart-running-watch-sale-now-bluetooth-131700098.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/exlKnIZy6AsKdzH_6RkEUA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpk1r80g.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Magellan Echo smart running watch on sale now with Bluetooth heart rate monitor" align="left" title="Magellan Echo smart running watch on sale now with Bluetooth heart rate monitor" border="0″ /></a>Outdoor GPS specialist Magellan has created a smart sports watch called Echo which is now on sale. The Echo is designed for runners and intelligently works with your smartphone via Bluetooth. The Echo can be used as a general wristwatch, with a read-out displaying time, day and date, but any fitness data from the compatible apps can also be shown on screen. The Magellan Echo is out now in black, blue or orange and will cost £130, or £170 with the Bluetooth Smart Heart Rate Monitor.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/willing-merge-machinery-120800558.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NgkApooNVB_zHH9QwIaAZw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-11-08/b9d46f03-b0eb-4798-b478-cb4eadffc1f6_Screen-Shot-2013-11-08-at-14-34-42.png" width="130″ height="86″ alt="British Boy Gets First &#039;Robot Leg&#039;" align="left" title="British Boy Gets First &#039;Robot Leg&#039;" border="0″ /></a>The boy in question, Eddy Parry, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at a very young age, and was sadly forced to have his leg amputated. After all, it is human intelligence that will have to build artificial intelligence, no matter how far it develops once this initial process has been completed.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/willing-merge-machinery-120800558.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:08:00 +0000Yahoo Contributor Networkwilling-merge-machinery-120800558<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/willing-merge-machinery-120800558.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NgkApooNVB_zHH9QwIaAZw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-11-08/b9d46f03-b0eb-4798-b478-cb4eadffc1f6_Screen-Shot-2013-11-08-at-14-34-42.png" width="130″ height="86″ alt="British Boy Gets First &#039;Robot Leg&#039;" align="left" title="British Boy Gets First &#039;Robot Leg&#039;" border="0″ /></a>The boy in question, Eddy Parry, was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer at a very young age, and was sadly forced to have his leg amputated. After all, it is human intelligence that will have to build artificial intelligence, no matter how far it develops once this initial process has been completed.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-64-bit-chip-16-megapixel-111600226.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DrE025eyO5QDhFxJL_x24Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpecq960.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Samsung Galaxy S5 to get 64-bit chip and 16-megapixel camera?" align="left" title="Samsung Galaxy S5 to get 64-bit chip and 16-megapixel camera?" border="0″ /></a>Since Apple unleashed its iPhone 5S with 64-bit A7 processor the rumour mill has been spinning out stories of Samsung bringing a 64-bit chip to its next flagship Galaxy S5. The latest evidence to support this comes from Digitimes. Admittedly the track record of Digitimes isn&#039;t great so we&#039;re taking this one with a pinch of salt. It&#039;s reported that Samsung Display and Japan Display will begin making its WQHD displays soon and 64-bit CPUs.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-64-bit-chip-16-megapixel-111600226.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:16:00 +0000Pocket-lintsamsung-galaxy-s5-64-bit-chip-16-megapixel-111600226<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/samsung-galaxy-s5-64-bit-chip-16-megapixel-111600226.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/DrE025eyO5QDhFxJL_x24Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpecq960.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Samsung Galaxy S5 to get 64-bit chip and 16-megapixel camera?" align="left" title="Samsung Galaxy S5 to get 64-bit chip and 16-megapixel camera?" border="0″ /></a>Since Apple unleashed its iPhone 5S with 64-bit A7 processor the rumour mill has been spinning out stories of Samsung bringing a 64-bit chip to its next flagship Galaxy S5. The latest evidence to support this comes from Digitimes. Admittedly the track record of Digitimes isn&#039;t great so we&#039;re taking this one with a pinch of salt. It&#039;s reported that Samsung Display and Japan Display will begin making its WQHD displays soon and 64-bit CPUs.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/five-apps-parental-control-100000474.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FuHiZnWnbpVzDf5SQeETog–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-11-08/11a05d04-e36d-4991-b356-54699aa963ad_rexfeatures_2863464a.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Boy on bed using a tablet" align="left" title="Boy on bed using a tablet" border="0″ /></a>Carphone Warehouse published a report in 2012 stating that 1.2 million school children have accessed inappropriate content on their mobile phone so we have rounded up five apps, available for your phone or tablet, to make sure they only see what you want them to see. You&#039;ll have to make the McGruff browser your default browser, but after that you can block by age or category and there are over 100 categories to allow or block. There is also a YouTube filter that filters YouTube videos based on title, description or key words and safe search, which is compatible with popular search engines.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/five-apps-parental-control-100000474.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:07:44 +0000Pocket-lintfive-apps-parental-control-100000474<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/five-apps-parental-control-100000474.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/FuHiZnWnbpVzDf5SQeETog–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-11-08/11a05d04-e36d-4991-b356-54699aa963ad_rexfeatures_2863464a.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Boy on bed using a tablet" align="left" title="Boy on bed using a tablet" border="0″ /></a>Carphone Warehouse published a report in 2012 stating that 1.2 million school children have accessed inappropriate content on their mobile phone so we have rounded up five apps, available for your phone or tablet, to make sure they only see what you want them to see. You&#039;ll have to make the McGruff browser your default browser, but after that you can block by age or category and there are over 100 categories to allow or block. There is also a YouTube filter that filters YouTube videos based on title, description or key words and safe search, which is compatible with popular search engines.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/worlds-first-4k-tablet-panasonic-toughpad-4k-sale-104500386.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9RcugTri6rijfRUj5_O.qg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/php7xcgft.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="World&#039;s first 4K tablet, Panasonic Toughpad 4K, to go on sale for $  6000″ align="left" title="World&#039;s first 4K tablet, Panasonic Toughpad 4K, to go on sale for $  6000″ border="0″ /></a>We got to play with the world&#039;s first 4K tablet at CES but didn&#039;t think we&#039;d see it on sale after hearing nothing about it for a while. Now Panasonic says it will be selling the 4K Toughpad for $  6,000 (£,3773). …</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/worlds-first-4k-tablet-panasonic-toughpad-4k-sale-104500386.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:45:00 +0000Pocket-lintworlds-first-4k-tablet-panasonic-toughpad-4k-sale-104500386<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/worlds-first-4k-tablet-panasonic-toughpad-4k-sale-104500386.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/9RcugTri6rijfRUj5_O.qg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/php7xcgft.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="World&#039;s first 4K tablet, Panasonic Toughpad 4K, to go on sale for $  6000″ align="left" title="World&#039;s first 4K tablet, Panasonic Toughpad 4K, to go on sale for $  6000″ border="0″ /></a>We got to play with the world&#039;s first 4K tablet at CES but didn&#039;t think we&#039;d see it on sale after hearing nothing about it for a while. Now Panasonic says it will be selling the 4K Toughpad for $  6,000 (£,3773). …</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/asda-unveils-5-pay-phone-103635000.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8UVCQJ6pinJvZFapc4meKQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology081120131046292-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Asda has unveiled a new basic and cheap mobile phone deal" align="left" title="Asda has unveiled a new basic and cheap mobile phone deal" border="0″ /></a>Supermarket giant Asda has launched what it claims is the UK&#039;s cheapest mobile phone – at just £5 on a pay-as-you-go deal from T-Mobile.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/asda-unveils-5-pay-phone-103635000.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 10:36:35 +0000Press Associationasda-unveils-5-pay-phone-103635000<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/asda-unveils-5-pay-phone-103635000.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/8UVCQJ6pinJvZFapc4meKQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology081120131046292-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Asda has unveiled a new basic and cheap mobile phone deal" align="left" title="Asda has unveiled a new basic and cheap mobile phone deal" border="0″ /></a>Supermarket giant Asda has launched what it claims is the UK&#039;s cheapest mobile phone – at just £5 on a pay-as-you-go deal from T-Mobile.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pioneer-announces-range-lightning-dock-speaker-systems-december-095100270.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vLlEkolcGq5SB89Sytpcbg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phptbtuhl.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Pioneer announces range of Lightning dock speaker systems for December release" align="left" title="Pioneer announces range of Lightning dock speaker systems for December release" border="0″ /></a>Just in time for Christmas Pioneer will be releasing its first range of speaker docks with Lightning connections for new iPhones and iPads. There will be the X-SMC 11DAB and a more expensive X-SMC55DAB models announced.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pioneer-announces-range-lightning-dock-speaker-systems-december-095100270.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:51:00 +0000Pocket-lintpioneer-announces-range-lightning-dock-speaker-systems-december-095100270<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pioneer-announces-range-lightning-dock-speaker-systems-december-095100270.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vLlEkolcGq5SB89Sytpcbg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phptbtuhl.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Pioneer announces range of Lightning dock speaker systems for December release" align="left" title="Pioneer announces range of Lightning dock speaker systems for December release" border="0″ /></a>Just in time for Christmas Pioneer will be releasing its first range of speaker docks with Lightning connections for new iPhones and iPads. There will be the X-SMC 11DAB and a more expensive X-SMC55DAB models announced.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/buy-very-own-google-glass-now-ebay-091200652.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/U5iK6DTRawDfHaD4_CnMww–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phppo7mma.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Buy your very own Google Glass right now, on ebay" align="left" title="Buy your very own Google Glass right now, on ebay" border="0″ /></a>We learned, just last night, that Google had relaxed its rules on Glass Explorers by, sort of, allowing them to sell their headsets – something that would have had them deactivated in the past. The Google Glass Explorer Edition (XE) is the charcoal model but the white pair claims to be model 2.0, hence the higher price. Don&#039;t confuse that with Google Glass 2 – that hasn&#039;t even been released officially yet. When asked if it is OK for Explorers to try to sell their devices online and whether Google would disable the device if sold, Google says it is still against its terms of service to sell the device.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/buy-very-own-google-glass-now-ebay-091200652.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:12:00 +0000Pocket-lintbuy-very-own-google-glass-now-ebay-091200652<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/buy-very-own-google-glass-now-ebay-091200652.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/U5iK6DTRawDfHaD4_CnMww–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phppo7mma.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Buy your very own Google Glass right now, on ebay" align="left" title="Buy your very own Google Glass right now, on ebay" border="0″ /></a>We learned, just last night, that Google had relaxed its rules on Glass Explorers by, sort of, allowing them to sell their headsets – something that would have had them deactivated in the past. The Google Glass Explorer Edition (XE) is the charcoal model but the white pair claims to be model 2.0, hence the higher price. Don&#039;t confuse that with Google Glass 2 – that hasn&#039;t even been released officially yet. When asked if it is OK for Explorers to try to sell their devices online and whether Google would disable the device if sold, Google says it is still against its terms of service to sell the device.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/motorola-moto-g-handset-leaks-official-photo-ahead-085600020.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HaeJ4G8ZX8VUSos4ftOrRg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpjmwqif.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Motorola Moto G handset leaks in official photo ahead of 13 November launch" align="left" title="Motorola Moto G handset leaks in official photo ahead of 13 November launch" border="0″ /></a>The latest Motorola handset, the Moto G, will be unveiled at an event on 13 November where it&#039;s rumoured to sell for a meagre £135 off-contract. Now we&#039;ve been granted a look at the multi-coloured mid-range smartphone options.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/motorola-moto-g-handset-leaks-official-photo-ahead-085600020.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:56:00 +0000Pocket-lintmotorola-moto-g-handset-leaks-official-photo-ahead-085600020<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/motorola-moto-g-handset-leaks-official-photo-ahead-085600020.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HaeJ4G8ZX8VUSos4ftOrRg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpjmwqif.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Motorola Moto G handset leaks in official photo ahead of 13 November launch" align="left" title="Motorola Moto G handset leaks in official photo ahead of 13 November launch" border="0″ /></a>The latest Motorola handset, the Moto G, will be unveiled at an event on 13 November where it&#039;s rumoured to sell for a meagre £135 off-contract. Now we&#039;ve been granted a look at the multi-coloured mid-range smartphone options.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-sell-argentina-unit-towers-strategy-021659081–finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aNwrBCVntM7Sag1ne0UC6w–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T221808Z_2_CBRE9A61PVO00_RTROPTP_2_TELECOMITALIA-TELEFONICA-GOVERNMENT.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Telecom Italia phone booth is pictured in downtown Rome" align="left" title="Telecom Italia phone booth is pictured in downtown Rome" border="0″ /></a>By Danilo Masoni and Leila Abboud MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) – Telecom Italia will sell its Argentina unit and other assets while issuing a convertible bond, aiming to raise around 4 billion euros ($  5.3 billion) to stave off a credit rating downgrade and strengthen operations in Italy and Brazil. Italy&#039;s biggest telecoms operator, which is in the middle of a strategy shift under new Chief Executive Marco Patuano, said it had received an unsolicited offer for its 22.7 percent stake in Telecom Argentina and planned to sell. Argentine newspapers Clarin and La Nacion said late on Thursday that the buyer would be investment fund Fintech, which already holds shares in Telecom Italia&#039;s Argentine unit. Telecom Italia also plans to sell and lease back more than 17,000 mobile towers it owns in Italy and Brazil, and unload an Italian digital broadcasting unit, aiming to reap more than 2 billion euros from these deals.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-sell-argentina-unit-towers-strategy-021659081–finance.html  Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:16:59 +0000Reuterstelecom-italia-sell-argentina-unit-towers-strategy-021659081–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-sell-argentina-unit-towers-strategy-021659081–finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/aNwrBCVntM7Sag1ne0UC6w–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T221808Z_2_CBRE9A61PVO00_RTROPTP_2_TELECOMITALIA-TELEFONICA-GOVERNMENT.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Telecom Italia phone booth is pictured in downtown Rome" align="left" title="Telecom Italia phone booth is pictured in downtown Rome" border="0″ /></a>By Danilo Masoni and Leila Abboud MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) – Telecom Italia will sell its Argentina unit and other assets while issuing a convertible bond, aiming to raise around 4 billion euros ($  5.3 billion) to stave off a credit rating downgrade and strengthen operations in Italy and Brazil. Italy&#039;s biggest telecoms operator, which is in the middle of a strategy shift under new Chief Executive Marco Patuano, said it had received an unsolicited offer for its 22.7 percent stake in Telecom Argentina and planned to sell. Argentine newspapers Clarin and La Nacion said late on Thursday that the buyer would be investment fund Fintech, which already holds shares in Telecom Italia&#039;s Argentine unit. Telecom Italia also plans to sell and lease back more than 17,000 mobile towers it owns in Italy and Brazil, and unload an Italian digital broadcasting unit, aiming to reap more than 2 billion euros from these deals.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/trove-adobe-user-data-found-breach-security-firm-215451284–sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nMR_PXQxnUrsdLyX.ehxRw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T232322Z_1_CBRE9A61SYZ00_RTROPTP_2_US-ADOBE-CYBERATTACK.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Picture illustration shows Adobe company logos, in Vienna" align="left" title="Picture illustration shows Adobe company logos, in Vienna" border="0″ /></a>A computer security firm has uncovered data it says belongs to some 152 million Adobe Systems Inc user accounts, suggesting that a breach reported a month ago is far bigger than Adobe has so far disclosed and is one of the largest on record. LastPass, a password security firm, said on Thursday that it has found email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from Adobe user accounts on an underground website frequented by cyber criminals. Adobe said last week that attackers had stolen data on more than 38 million customer accounts, on top of the theft of information on nearly 3 million accounts that it disclosed nearly a month earlier. The maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software confirmed that LastPass had found records stolen from its data centre, but downplayed the significance of the security firm&#039;s findings.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/trove-adobe-user-data-found-breach-security-firm-215451284–sector.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:23:22 +0000Reuterstrove-adobe-user-data-found-breach-security-firm-215451284–sector<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/trove-adobe-user-data-found-breach-security-firm-215451284–sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nMR_PXQxnUrsdLyX.ehxRw–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T232322Z_1_CBRE9A61SYZ00_RTROPTP_2_US-ADOBE-CYBERATTACK.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Picture illustration shows Adobe company logos, in Vienna" align="left" title="Picture illustration shows Adobe company logos, in Vienna" border="0″ /></a>A computer security firm has uncovered data it says belongs to some 152 million Adobe Systems Inc user accounts, suggesting that a breach reported a month ago is far bigger than Adobe has so far disclosed and is one of the largest on record. LastPass, a password security firm, said on Thursday that it has found email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from Adobe user accounts on an underground website frequented by cyber criminals. Adobe said last week that attackers had stolen data on more than 38 million customer accounts, on top of the theft of information on nearly 3 million accounts that it disclosed nearly a month earlier. The maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software confirmed that LastPass had found records stolen from its data centre, but downplayed the significance of the security firm&#039;s findings.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ibms-cfo-loughridge-retire-end-213022183–finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7mwAWCLrf7iaULFvhqPHRA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T213022Z_1_CBRE9A61NQT00_RTROPTP_2_TECH-SUMMIT.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Mark Loughridge, IBM Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York" align="left" title="Mark Loughridge, IBM Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York" border="0″ /></a>(Reuters) – IBM&#039;s Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge is retiring at the end of the year after almost a decade on the job as the technology services provider struggles with declining revenue and weakness in emerging markets. Loughridge, who joined International Business Machines in 1977 as a development engineer, will be succeeded by Martin Schroeter, who was previously IBM&#039;s head of global finance, the company said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. In December, Loughridge will turn 60, IBM&#039;s traditional retirement age, a spokesman said.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ibms-cfo-loughridge-retire-end-213022183–finance.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:40:25 +0000Reutersibms-cfo-loughridge-retire-end-213022183–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ibms-cfo-loughridge-retire-end-213022183–finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/7mwAWCLrf7iaULFvhqPHRA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T213022Z_1_CBRE9A61NQT00_RTROPTP_2_TECH-SUMMIT.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Mark Loughridge, IBM Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York" align="left" title="Mark Loughridge, IBM Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, speaks at the Reuters Global Technology Summit New York" border="0″ /></a>(Reuters) – IBM&#039;s Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge is retiring at the end of the year after almost a decade on the job as the technology services provider struggles with declining revenue and weakness in emerging markets. Loughridge, who joined International Business Machines in 1977 as a development engineer, will be succeeded by Martin Schroeter, who was previously IBM&#039;s head of global finance, the company said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday. In December, Loughridge will turn 60, IBM&#039;s traditional retirement age, a spokesman said.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-reviews-strategy-telefonica-tightens-grip-175010340–finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zHlqlxUsJxW7JbGSAGIEbA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T175010Z_1_CBRE9A61DJQ00_RTROPTP_2_TELECOMITALIA.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A man uses a Telecom Italia phone booth at a bus stop in Rome" align="left" title="A man uses a Telecom Italia phone booth at a bus stop in Rome" border="0″ /></a>Telecom Italia announced on Thursday a string of assets sales and other extraordinary measures aimed at boosting its finances by around 4 billion euros ($  5.35 billion) to concentrate on its operations in Italy and Brazil. Italy&#039;s biggest telecoms operator, which is in the middle of a strategy shift after the departure of former chairman Franco Bernabe, said it was planning to sell Telecom Argentina, adding it had received an unsolicited offer for the unit. The group also said it was planning to lease more than 17,000 towers it owns in Italy and Brazil and sell Italian multiplex platforms, aiming to reap more than 2 billion euros from these deals.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-reviews-strategy-telefonica-tightens-grip-175010340–finance.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:48:20 +0000Reuterstelecom-italia-reviews-strategy-telefonica-tightens-grip-175010340–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/telecom-italia-reviews-strategy-telefonica-tightens-grip-175010340–finance.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zHlqlxUsJxW7JbGSAGIEbA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T175010Z_1_CBRE9A61DJQ00_RTROPTP_2_TELECOMITALIA.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A man uses a Telecom Italia phone booth at a bus stop in Rome" align="left" title="A man uses a Telecom Italia phone booth at a bus stop in Rome" border="0″ /></a>Telecom Italia announced on Thursday a string of assets sales and other extraordinary measures aimed at boosting its finances by around 4 billion euros ($  5.35 billion) to concentrate on its operations in Italy and Brazil. Italy&#039;s biggest telecoms operator, which is in the middle of a strategy shift after the departure of former chairman Franco Bernabe, said it was planning to sell Telecom Argentina, adding it had received an unsolicited offer for the unit. The group also said it was planning to lease more than 17,000 towers it owns in Italy and Brazil and sell Italian multiplex platforms, aiming to reap more than 2 billion euros from these deals.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ie-11-available-windows-7-200620682.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XLK84C3JK07wIkoo3aSSBQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120132006312-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 11 available for users of Windows 7″ align="left" title="Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 11 available for users of Windows 7″ border="0″ /></a>Microsoft has made its latest browser, Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ie-11-available-windows-7-200620682.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:06:20 +0000Press Associationie-11-available-windows-7-200620682<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ie-11-available-windows-7-200620682.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XLK84C3JK07wIkoo3aSSBQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120132006312-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 11 available for users of Windows 7″ align="left" title="Microsoft has made Internet Explorer 11 available for users of Windows 7″ border="0″ /></a>Microsoft has made its latest browser, Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16-twitter-shares-sale-054621288.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/goMKzZP2qbIHmpsyZRNkCg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120131703481-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Twitter shares opened at 45.10 US dollars (£28.05) on the New York stock exchange (AP)" align="left" title="Twitter shares opened at 45.10 US dollars (£28.05) on the New York stock exchange (AP)" border="0″ /></a>A Twitter storm on Wall Street saw the micro-blogging site add billions of dollars to its value as the company made its market debut.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16-twitter-shares-sale-054621288.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:02:54 +0000Press Association16-twitter-shares-sale-054621288<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16-twitter-shares-sale-054621288.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/goMKzZP2qbIHmpsyZRNkCg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120131703481-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Twitter shares opened at 45.10 US dollars (£28.05) on the New York stock exchange (AP)" align="left" title="Twitter shares opened at 45.10 US dollars (£28.05) on the New York stock exchange (AP)" border="0″ /></a>A Twitter storm on Wall Street saw the micro-blogging site add billions of dollars to its value as the company made its market debut.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/netflix-scores-shows-disneys-marvel-151237998–finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/L.fZcfuvU4eElqqSqKHPDg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T151237Z_1_CBRE9A6169500_RTROPTP_2_NETFLIX-RESULTS.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="The Netflix logo is is shown on an ipad in Encinitas, California" align="left" title="The Netflix logo is is shown on an ipad in Encinitas, California" border="0″ /></a>Netflix is ramping up its original programming lineup with four new television series and one miniseries from Disney&#039;s Marvel unit, known for its success with &quot;The Avengers&quot; franchise based on super hero comic books. The deal with Marvel will start in 2015, the companies said in a press release and last &quot;multiple years.&quot; Each of the four series will focus on Marvel characters, &quot;Daredevil,&quot; &quot;Jessica Jones&quot;, &quot;Iron Fist&quot; and &quot;Luke Cage.&quot; Netflix and Marvel were unavailable for comment on financial details on Thursday. Marvel has committed to a minimum of four 13-episode series and has also agreed to make a mini-series called &quot;The Defenders.&quot; The series will be produced by Marvel Television and ABC Television Studios.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/netflix-scores-shows-disneys-marvel-151237998–finance.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:12:37 +0000Reutersnetflix-scores-shows-disneys-marvel-151237998–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/netflix-scores-shows-disneys-marvel-151237998–finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/L.fZcfuvU4eElqqSqKHPDg–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T151237Z_1_CBRE9A6169500_RTROPTP_2_NETFLIX-RESULTS.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="The Netflix logo is is shown on an ipad in Encinitas, California" align="left" title="The Netflix logo is is shown on an ipad in Encinitas, California" border="0″ /></a>Netflix is ramping up its original programming lineup with four new television series and one miniseries from Disney&#039;s Marvel unit, known for its success with &quot;The Avengers&quot; franchise based on super hero comic books. The deal with Marvel will start in 2015, the companies said in a press release and last &quot;multiple years.&quot; Each of the four series will focus on Marvel characters, &quot;Daredevil,&quot; &quot;Jessica Jones&quot;, &quot;Iron Fist&quot; and &quot;Luke Cage.&quot; Netflix and Marvel were unavailable for comment on financial details on Thursday. Marvel has committed to a minimum of four 13-episode series and has also agreed to make a mini-series called &quot;The Defenders.&quot; The series will be produced by Marvel Television and ABC Television Studios.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/htc-m8-pops-casing-photos-slimmer-sleeker-htc-145200107.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ibaEoYVxYOH534MpVfcI0Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/php1sxk0g.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="HTC M8 pops up in casing photos, slimmer and sleeker than the HTC One?" align="left" title="HTC M8 pops up in casing photos, slimmer and sleeker than the HTC One?" border="0″ /></a>The yet-to-be officially announced and named HTC M8 has allegedly appeared in some hastily taken photos emerging from China. Tech site chinese.vr-zone.com has posted a couple of pics of what it claims to be the rear casing of the new HTC flagship phone and although they don&#039;t reveal much, they do show that the next device could be slimmer and more rounded at the sides than the HTC One, its current top-of-the-range handset. If genuine, it seems the HTC M8 – or HTC One 2 as it could be called (would be a hit with roadies for sure) – will be encased in aluminium, not just the rear section.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/htc-m8-pops-casing-photos-slimmer-sleeker-htc-145200107.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:52:00 +0000Pocket-linthtc-m8-pops-casing-photos-slimmer-sleeker-htc-145200107<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/htc-m8-pops-casing-photos-slimmer-sleeker-htc-145200107.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ibaEoYVxYOH534MpVfcI0Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/php1sxk0g.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="HTC M8 pops up in casing photos, slimmer and sleeker than the HTC One?" align="left" title="HTC M8 pops up in casing photos, slimmer and sleeker than the HTC One?" border="0″ /></a>The yet-to-be officially announced and named HTC M8 has allegedly appeared in some hastily taken photos emerging from China. Tech site chinese.vr-zone.com has posted a couple of pics of what it claims to be the rear casing of the new HTC flagship phone and although they don&#039;t reveal much, they do show that the next device could be slimmer and more rounded at the sides than the HTC One, its current top-of-the-range handset. If genuine, it seems the HTC M8 – or HTC One 2 as it could be called (would be a hit with roadies for sure) – will be encased in aluminium, not just the rear section.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/driverless-cars-hit-towns-roads-134312350.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0CHKwdiBtabIkUTGbZ7uag–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120131343532-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A new driverless car scheme is to be launched" align="left" title="A new driverless car scheme is to be launched" border="0″ /></a>Driverless cars will transport people through the streets of a British town in a £1.5 million project aimed at boosting green technology.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/driverless-cars-hit-towns-roads-134312350.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:43:12 +0000Press Associationdriverless-cars-hit-towns-roads-134312350<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/driverless-cars-hit-towns-roads-134312350.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0CHKwdiBtabIkUTGbZ7uag–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/pressass/Technology071120131343532-1.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="A new driverless car scheme is to be launched" align="left" title="A new driverless car scheme is to be launched" border="0″ /></a>Driverless cars will transport people through the streets of a British town in a £1.5 million project aimed at boosting green technology.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/six-phones-under-70-132807047.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZPPihXYSg70L9itYMacW7g–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phprw3f8m.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Six phones under £70″ align="left" title="Six phones under £70″ border="0″ /></a>Asda has just announced the Alcatel 1010 for £5, so skip lunch for the day and you can afford yourself an emergency phone. The Alcatel 1010 comes with a 400mAh battery, which promises 2 hours of talk time and up to 333 hours of standby time. Running on a single core processor with 4MB RAM under the hood, the Alcatel 1010 has a music player and built-in radio so you won&#039;t miss out on the latest news and tunes. Samsung&#039;s E1200 comes with a 800MHz battery giving you up to 720 hours on standby and up to 7 hours talk time.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/six-phones-under-70-132807047.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:28:07 +0000Pocket-lintsix-phones-under-70-132807047<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/six-phones-under-70-132807047.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ZPPihXYSg70L9itYMacW7g–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phprw3f8m.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Six phones under £70″ align="left" title="Six phones under £70″ border="0″ /></a>Asda has just announced the Alcatel 1010 for £5, so skip lunch for the day and you can afford yourself an emergency phone. The Alcatel 1010 comes with a 400mAh battery, which promises 2 hours of talk time and up to 333 hours of standby time. Running on a single core processor with 4MB RAM under the hood, the Alcatel 1010 has a music player and built-in radio so you won&#039;t miss out on the latest news and tunes. Samsung&#039;s E1200 comes with a 800MHz battery giving you up to 720 hours on standby and up to 7 hours talk time.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printing-coming-mcdonalds-happy-meal-toy-fresh-125000471.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lJukRcEguhTX.Oi8ZN.W5Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpztkgeg.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="3D printing coming to McDonald&#039;s? Get your Happy Meal toy fresh off the press" align="left" title="3D printing coming to McDonald&#039;s? Get your Happy Meal toy fresh off the press" border="0″ /></a>McDonald&#039;s could consider offering 3D printing in store some time in the future, according to Mark Fabes, UK director of IT for the fast food chain.  In a recent interview, Fabes said  the idea of 3D printing a toy for your Happy Meal is something he could see happening, in an attempt to bring technology to customers in store. &quot;As we know, you don&#039;t always get every toy in a set. McDonald&#039;s is currently focused on testing tablets in stores.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printing-coming-mcdonalds-happy-meal-toy-fresh-125000471.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:50:00 +0000Pocket-lint3d-printing-coming-mcdonalds-happy-meal-toy-fresh-125000471<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/3d-printing-coming-mcdonalds-happy-meal-toy-fresh-125000471.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lJukRcEguhTX.Oi8ZN.W5Q–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpztkgeg.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="3D printing coming to McDonald&#039;s? Get your Happy Meal toy fresh off the press" align="left" title="3D printing coming to McDonald&#039;s? Get your Happy Meal toy fresh off the press" border="0″ /></a>McDonald&#039;s could consider offering 3D printing in store some time in the future, according to Mark Fabes, UK director of IT for the fast food chain.  In a recent interview, Fabes said  the idea of 3D printing a toy for your Happy Meal is something he could see happening, in an attempt to bring technology to customers in store. &quot;As we know, you don&#039;t always get every toy in a set. McDonald&#039;s is currently focused on testing tablets in stores.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lenovo-profit-leaps-extends-shift-smartphones-servers-071455538–finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0gS1ltxNkS1hP.PXRWSjxQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T071455Z_1_CBRE9A60K4X00_RTROPTP_2_BLACKBERRY-LENOVO.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="People walk past a Lenovo shop in Hefei, Anhui province" align="left" title="People walk past a Lenovo shop in Hefei, Anhui province" border="0″ /></a>By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China&#039;s Lenovo Group Ltd, the world&#039;s biggest personal computer maker, is reinventing itself as a growing force in mobile devices and data storage servers to beat the slump in the PC market that is crippling less agile rivals. Lenovo said on Thursday net profit beat estimates, jumping over a third in July-September to a quarterly record of $  219.7 million (136.7 million pounds). Now the world&#039;s fourth-biggest smartphone maker, the company also said it&#039;s looking for new businesses to buy as it remoulds itself. The progress at Lenovo, with a 17.7 percent share of worldwide PC shipments according to research firm IDC, is in sharp contrast with that of other PC makers like Acer Incorporated.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lenovo-profit-leaps-extends-shift-smartphones-servers-071455538–finance.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 12:35:16 +0000Reuterslenovo-profit-leaps-extends-shift-smartphones-servers-071455538–finance<text type="html"><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lenovo-profit-leaps-extends-shift-smartphones-servers-071455538–finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/0gS1ltxNkS1hP.PXRWSjxQ–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-07T071455Z_1_CBRE9A60K4X00_RTROPTP_2_BLACKBERRY-LENOVO.JPG" width="130″ height="86″ alt="People walk past a Lenovo shop in Hefei, Anhui province" align="left" title="People walk past a Lenovo shop in Hefei, Anhui province" border="0″ /></a>By Paul Carsten BEIJING (Reuters) – China&#039;s Lenovo Group Ltd, the world&#039;s biggest personal computer maker, is reinventing itself as a growing force in mobile devices and data storage servers to beat the slump in the PC market that is crippling less agile rivals. Lenovo said on Thursday net profit beat estimates, jumping over a third in July-September to a quarterly record of $  219.7 million (136.7 million pounds). Now the world&#039;s fourth-biggest smartphone maker, the company also said it&#039;s looking for new businesses to buy as it remoulds itself. The progress at Lenovo, with a 17.7 percent share of worldwide PC shipments according to research firm IDC, is in sharp contrast with that of other PC makers like Acer Incorporated.</p><br clear="all"/></text><p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/radio-times-discovertv-ipad-hits-uk-listings-recommedations-114500662.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4rBZvLRphlYUvtkxFI4qIA–/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_uk/News/PocketLint/phpibxqve.jpg" width="130″ height="86″ alt="Radio Times DiscoverTV for iPad hits UK: Listings, recommedations and on demand access" align="left" title="Radio Times DiscoverTV for iPad hits UK: Listings, recommedations and on demand access" border="0″ /></a>The Radio Times is still the biggest selling quality magazine in the UK, with an average of 812,500 copies sold every week. But publisher Immediate Media realises that the rise in digital platforms will more than likely eat away at those figures in time, so has released an iPad TV listings guide that it hopes will sate the needs of the more tech-centric generation. Radio Times DiscoverTV offers 14-day customised TV and radio listings, but it also does much more than that. The brand dabbled with an iPad version of its Christmas TV guide last year, but the new app is cut from a different cloth.</p><br clear="all"/>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/radio-times-discovertv-ipad-hits-uk-listings-recommedations-114500662.html  Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:45:00 +0000Pocket-lintradio-times-discovertv-ipad-hits-uk-listings-reco</p>   jQuery(".gmframe").load(function (){jQuery(this).remove();});<br><br>

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<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffN8KMbOk3IXH8Q7L2ItzhX_eWTm5UVQYkeX1UjdzsKo0AqTwJEEDFtk5UW-UcXG8wfkQ9myVcJhC4OhEK58wwoyFX-wOklO_CS9HNjXba1Vu7E-SWjxT9heWmmu5gF0RthXbdc6kAP3D/s1600/Uighurs+Protest+Front+Chinese+Embassy+CY-7Bnp3Zlml.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffN8KMbOk3IXH8Q7L2ItzhX_eWTm5UVQYkeX1UjdzsKo0AqTwJEEDFtk5UW-UcXG8wfkQ9myVcJhC4OhEK58wwoyFX-wOklO_CS9HNjXba1Vu7E-SWjxT9heWmmu5gF0RthXbdc6kAP3D/s400/Uighurs+Protest+Front+Chinese+Embassy+CY-7Bnp3Zlml.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SECURITY DILEMMA AND SECURITIZATION IN CHINA'S UYGHUR ISSUE IN XINJIANG PROVINCE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Charlotte Langridge</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> via </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">securityobserver</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The North Western Xinjiang <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang</a> province of CHINA has had a turbulent past. First occupied by the Western Han Dynasty in 104BC and ruled by a series of dynasties and empires in the years after the Han fell. Xinjiang declared independence in the form of the EASTERN TURKISTAN REPUBLIC in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, but was brought back under CHINESE rule in 1949 by the Communist Party and on October 1, 1955 the Xinjiang UYGHUR Autonomous Region (XUAR) was born. (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people</a>) <span style="color: black;">Troubles in the region are similar to those in TIBET with all the strategic importance for the CHINESE state but without, until recently, the publicity.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rEX0p8eBJbPUQ6HmThKA-c76XmkcI8LOc4eXZfAsxXy_iiQiWXrn5al-YT7dviHG85m0fXEmSCcZ1RCFirU5ZuUXAfEkVg_Jj39B7lKYiC6JsVViSzf1LkOar3hA_6Hkunv8CLESpxhp/s1600/invasion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rEX0p8eBJbPUQ6HmThKA-c76XmkcI8LOc4eXZfAsxXy_iiQiWXrn5al-YT7dviHG85m0fXEmSCcZ1RCFirU5ZuUXAfEkVg_Jj39B7lKYiC6JsVViSzf1LkOar3hA_6Hkunv8CLESpxhp/s400/invasion.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Related topic:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">TURKEY AND CHINA AT ODDS OVER 10 MILLION TURKISH UYGHUR MINORITIES LIVING IN CHINA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/is-turkey-swerving-eastward.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/is-turkey-swerving-eastward.html</a>)</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">UYGHURS IN XUAR ARE PREDOMINATELY SUNNI MUSLIM</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Xinjiang is inhabited by all of CHINA’S 56 ethnic groups, with the UYGHUR population of 9.832 million and the HAN population of 8.363 million comprising the two largest. The UYGHURS in XUAR are predominately Sunni Muslim, following the binding ideologies of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pan-Islamism</b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pan-Turkism</b> that make them culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslch4yTee-jnrrkjKzEoZ47cmIyhz616poo23hiORo2XG4EowvLfdC92juVddtkaJbE4tf2FiVHjxYPT93ffBh2YJnS2aHwWzaWkTElWN5yZIFTZjoBSb58OHzzkQW657d9goowklFnsa/s1600/turkish_uyghur_brothership_by_aydeezy-d2yx75u.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslch4yTee-jnrrkjKzEoZ47cmIyhz616poo23hiORo2XG4EowvLfdC92juVddtkaJbE4tf2FiVHjxYPT93ffBh2YJnS2aHwWzaWkTElWN5yZIFTZjoBSb58OHzzkQW657d9goowklFnsa/s320/turkish_uyghur_brothership_by_aydeezy-d2yx75u.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The region is of strategic importance for many reasons. It comprises one sixth of China’s land mass, comparable to the size of IRAN, it shares its borders with five Muslim countries: KAZAKHSTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, and PAKISTAN. As such it is a gatekeeper to the countries along the Silk Route and the Islamic Circle. XUAR has vast natural resources: it holds 250 million cubic meters of timber reserves, 38 percent of the nation’s coal reserves, and is CHINA’S second highest oil producing region and highest natural gas producing region. Moreover, it is set to become CHINA’S largest oil and gas production and storage base by 2015, and is therefore of high importance for CHINA’S energy security.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Related Topic: </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CHINA’S LAND BRIDGE TO TURKEY CREATES NEW EURASIAN GEOPOLITICAL POTENTIALS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">CHINESE - TURKISH geopolitical and economic ambitions coincide</span> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/05/china-and-turkey.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/05/china-and-turkey.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The CHINESE state has been accused of intensifying its crackdown on the UYGHURS after street protests and an attack on a local border police headquarters that killed 16 police officials in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in 2008. On July 5, 2009, the tensions between the majority and minority groups reached a breaking point, erupting into several riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. It is estimated, by the CHINESE media, that 197 people were killed, and, according to the BBC, 25 people were sentenced to death.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This article assesses ethnic tensions in the province with reference to two theories: security dilemmas and securitization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">SECURITY DILEMMAS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A security dilemma typically occurs between two states, disposing them to a cyclical condition “in which the self-help attempts of states to look after their security needs tend, regardless of intention, to lead to rising insecurity for others as each interprets its own measures as defensive and measures of others as potentially threatening”. Although the theory was developed to explain state security, it can also be adapted to analyze human security within a state or region. In this situation, we have an “intra-state security dilemma”, referring to the climate of insecurity brooding between the CHINESE state and the UYGHUR population in XUAR rather than between two states with formal armies and defense budgets. Any move towards independence by the UYGHUR decreases the security of the CHINESE state as it risks losing a region of strategic importance. In contrast, any restrictive policy on religion and increased Han immigration decreases the security of the UYGHUR.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If the UYGHUR’S right to practice religion is threatened, their identity is consequently threatened. In terms of religious restrictions there has been progress from the CHINESE government allowing the building of Mosques, and the stipulation of “freedom of religious belief” in state law. Yet, this development is in contradiction with the six prohibitions and three restrictions placed on the door of a Mosque in Keriya, including prohibiting access for government officials, students or youths under 18 of any activity within the Mosque and the restriction of <i>Salaat-ul-Jumma</i> (“Friday prayer”) to only 30 mins. Furthermore, Muslim men may not grow breads and women may not wear veils. This is seen as a direct insult on the culture and identity of the UYGHUR people, resulting in their increased insecurity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related Topics: </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEYS’ COSMOPOLITAN TRAIL</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ERDOGAN: THE WITTY TACTICIAN?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/growing-turkish-influence-in-balkans.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/growing-turkish-influence-in-balkans.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TURKEY: EVERYONE’S ENEMY?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/05/turkey-everyones-enemy.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/05/turkey-everyones-enemy.html</a></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The policies which threaten UYGHUR identity are serving to increase Beijing’s security. The CHINESE government sees PAN-TURKISM and PAN-ISLAMISM as the basis for separatism in Xinjiang, viewing it as the vehicle for disintegration of the CHINESE state and a source of insecurity. As highlighted above, XUAR is of great strategic importance to CHINA; therefore losing XUAR would severely compromise CHINA’S energy security and economy, as it is highly dependent on energy-intensive industries. Not only is Xinjiang a source of oil and gas, it is also a critical passage route for oil and gas pipelines from RUSSIA and KAZAKHSTAN into CHINA that flow to Central and Eastern CHINA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">RELIGION AS THE MEANS FOR EXPRESSING ECONOMIC DISCONTENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the extractive industry in XUAR grows, so does the economic disparity between the HAN and UYGHUR populations, and large-scale immigration of HAN raises another factor increasing UYGHUR insecurity. Economic disparity and HAN immigration are said to be the true root of UYGHUR insecurity, and religion the means for expressing economic discontent. In addition, Beijing has actively encouraged HAN immigration to XUAR in order to increase stability in the region. Living standards have gradually improved in XUAR, yet most UYGHUR’S feel they have not benefited from the government <i>Reform and Open-up Policy</i>or <i>West Development Campaign</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFXKXo0KyceaXaaLqIB9DGMFXOj5EdRNAD6XWyyH47GGo-X_AB20LlO4elQvHwqkFHMRfjciirZ1pq7iCKwCwNo3t4WRrkJqHO2FiOKp2RYu-uenXkYL_mocVsUWz-8piPObt-RkPbRR3/s1600/uighurs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFXKXo0KyceaXaaLqIB9DGMFXOj5EdRNAD6XWyyH47GGo-X_AB20LlO4elQvHwqkFHMRfjciirZ1pq7iCKwCwNo3t4WRrkJqHO2FiOKp2RYu-uenXkYL_mocVsUWz-8piPObt-RkPbRR3/s320/uighurs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They feel these were aimed at a transfer of natural gas and oil from the UYGHUR to the HAN.  Indeed, increased HAn immigration is a result of the expanding extractive industry in XUAR, and which has increased job availability. For example, the CHINA National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has increased its presence in the area since 2010 with the inception and completion of the Tarim Large Chemical Fertilizer Project in Korla, the CNPC – Urumqi Petrochemical Company xylene aromatics joint device and the South Xinjiang Gasification Project. Investment in the area, by CNPC, has been over 300 billion Yuan. This has resulted in predominantly HAN populated cites, Karamay, Urumqi and Shihezi, seeing their GDP per capita rise at a higher rate than many predominately UYGHUR-populated cities within XINJIANG. The situation will only intensify as power-intensive industries seek to relocate to XINJIANG. In addition to Han immigration, the growing economic disparity is also linked to minority<b> </b>language policy. The amount of jobs available to the UYGHUR population is limited – a direct result of the fact that most <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">UYGHUR do not speak Mandarin</b>, a requirement for a skilled position. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_language</a><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The CHINESE state has reacted to its sense of insecurity by limiting the UYGHUR identity via religious expression and increased HAN immigration to Xinjiang resulting from increasing jobs in an expanding energy production and storage industry. The Uyghur people have reacted to the Chinese state reforms in the form of protest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">UYGHUR ACTIVISTS ALLEGEDLY LINKED TO AL-QAEDA AND EASTERN TURKISTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ethnic conflict and UYGHUR protest in XUAR have been securitized by the CHINESE state as terrorism. Securitization symbolizes “<i>the staging of existential issues in politics to lift them above politics. In security discourse, an issue is dramatized and presented as an issue of supreme priority; thus by labeling it as </i>security<i> an agent claims a need for a right to treat it by extraordinary means”.</i> </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3NBIl2lnqce3JrJGL-IasYCjRXTBgXGy50aM1aEcn2Dft6opT-DJJkQwttbYugUWcTAWPCFAAXjVaye_xzTyQrYdp_LQh4ZxvGWA8qefP3pmlMF5uofrdXfmY0TYx-BbqBnyqcTuTb4Y/s1600/large_China_Uighur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3NBIl2lnqce3JrJGL-IasYCjRXTBgXGy50aM1aEcn2Dft6opT-DJJkQwttbYugUWcTAWPCFAAXjVaye_xzTyQrYdp_LQh4ZxvGWA8qefP3pmlMF5uofrdXfmY0TYx-BbqBnyqcTuTb4Y/s400/large_China_Uighur.jpg" width="338" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The nature of securitization legitimizes the use of extraordinary measures. Beijing has picked-up on the motifs and language of the global “war on terror”, and has been seduced by the ‘legislative wildfire’, denoting the proliferation in legislation to better detect, prevent, prosecute and eradicate terrorism, sweeping the globe. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The UYGHUR activists have, as a result, been tarred with the same brush as Al-Qaeda, as the CHINESE regime alleges the EASTERN TURKISTAN Islamic Movement has become an arm of Al-Qaeda, receiving funding and training from them. Along these lines CHINA has attempted to ally with the UNITED STATES in the fight against terrorism, yet Washington has made it clear that non-violent separatist activities cannot be classified as terrorism. Furthermore, a conflation of UYGHUR activists and Al-Qaeda does not seem plausible as most UYGHURS lack interest in Salafist Islam, a prerequisite for involvement with the terrorist organization. In addition, the incidences that have taken place have been the actions of a few unorganized separatists within the large UYGHUR community; most groups do not advocate violence at all. The separatists that have formed are too small, dispersed and faceless, to be a threat to the CHINESE state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Within the CHINESE media, the UYGHUR people have been framed as a criminal “other”. Projection of the criminal other onto the UYGHUR people creates an instant dividing notion. Violent illegitimate UYGHUR protestors are juxtaposed to peaceful law-abiding HAN citizens and the legitimate CHINESE state in an “us-versus-them” rhetoric. Moreover, by linking UYGHUR protestors to Al-Qaeda, CHINA locates the cause of unrest and projects responsibility for the riots outside the state, diverting attention from its internal social policies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">SECURITIZATION</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By securitizing ethnic conflict in XUAR as terrorism the CHINESE state has sought to legitimize its use of “strike hard” campaigns and anti-terror legislation against the UYGHUR minority. For example, XUAR officials pledge to accelerate trails, increase criminal investigations, and conduct 24-hour police patrols, identity checks and street searches following the deployment of an elite counter-terrorism unit in Kashgar and Hotan. As a result of the legitimization of such discourse, the presence of human rights action and legislation has become increasingly scarce. Amnesty International throws doubt onto the legitimacy of many trials conducted in the wake of the July 2009 protests, and they claim many UYGHUR’S were given harsh sentences for “endangering state security” when they did nothing more than grant an interview to the media. Since July 2009 the CHINESE state has not allowed independent investigation into the events that occurred including the excessive use of force against peaceful protesters. The situation of decreasing human rights and increasing “strike hard” policies only contributes to the atmosphere of insecurity felt by the UYGHUR people.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">UYGHUR – XUAR REGION OF GEO-STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE FOR CHINA</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr3olKFdyvLnVl7lbhk-g5KzBJ2nnvtctIC9ZiNcaA64uIFoeq6lSCik2s9OTVDvkNgzbxsuUYhax10GCMKC5L-naIo9D4nerlR-dbz2AbM2xh9pR77S0JxsyRL-KOwfvB-ptvL5PxJtv_/s1600/uygur-map-1400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="457" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr3olKFdyvLnVl7lbhk-g5KzBJ2nnvtctIC9ZiNcaA64uIFoeq6lSCik2s9OTVDvkNgzbxsuUYhax10GCMKC5L-naIo9D4nerlR-dbz2AbM2xh9pR77S0JxsyRL-KOwfvB-ptvL5PxJtv_/s640/uygur-map-1400.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ethnic conflict in XUAR is a contentious issue; there are causes for conflict on both sides. The region is of geostrategic importance to the Chinese state, with its access routes and vast natural resources. Furthermore, the secession of XINJIANG may lead TIBET and Inner MONGOLIA to follow as they too have histories of ethnic conflict; therefore the possibility of an independent XINJIANG greatly heightens the insecurity and threatens the integrity of the CHINESE state. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having said this, the UYGHUR people also have great cause for their sense of insecurity. Integral parts of their identity are being attacked by the CHINESE government, namely their right to religious freedom. The minority language polices are also effecting the UYGHUR’S ability to obtain and retain skilled jobs, and as a result they are not experiencing the same rise in GDP per capita as their HAN counterparts. Furthermore, the CHINESE state has sought to frame the UYGHUR as foreign terrorists in order to legitimize their “strike hard” policies, bringing its legitimacy and its respect for human rights severely into question.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCs56ou6Xnbsn0uWvvru-tN9-ODEK-Ljg6Nk8P85q7TgZs5cK9QionR5xEc8NUEYT4Zjs_9WSGjNOuS0tgedNtetndyd5ODbq8UIakRjTmwU0Y5bDYE8Lv59Ts5HKrjLt85lBtW9KVzcWn/s1600/turkmen-flag_1441288i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCs56ou6Xnbsn0uWvvru-tN9-ODEK-Ljg6Nk8P85q7TgZs5cK9QionR5xEc8NUEYT4Zjs_9WSGjNOuS0tgedNtetndyd5ODbq8UIakRjTmwU0Y5bDYE8Lv59Ts5HKrjLt85lBtW9KVzcWn/s320/turkmen-flag_1441288i.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">THE UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT LAUNCHES NEW CHINESE LANGUAGE WEBSITE</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By The Uyghur American Association</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The UYGHUR Human Rights Project (UHRP) is proud to unveil its<a href="http://chinese.uhrp.org/" target="_blank"> new website in the Chinese language</a>, which it hopes will build bridges between the UYGHUR and CHINESE communities as they strive to bring democratic reform to CHINA. UHRP believes a CHINESE language website will help to draw connections between the struggle for UYGHUR human rights and broader CHINESE democracy activism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 7.5pt 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"The UHRP-CHINESE website is an important development in the UYGHUR movement for freedom, democracy and human rights," said UHRP director Alim Seytoff in a statement from Washington, DC. "It is a first-of-its-kind initiative to bring together research, original writing and news on the human rights issues that directly affect the UYGHUR and CHINESE people. UHRP hopes that through educating the CHINESE public on the plight of the UYGHUR, we will be able to counteract the demonizing effects of CHINESE government propaganda and seek meaningful solutions to the EAST TURKESTAN issue."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Regarding<a href="http://chinese.uhrp.org/" target="_blank"> UHRP's new Chinese language website</a>, Chang Chiu, Program Officer for ASIA</span><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">at the National Endowment for Democracy said:"The National Endowment for Democracy is pleased to congratulate and support the launch of the UYGHUR Human Rights Project's new CHINESE language website. The UYGHUR Human Rights Project is making an important effort to make its materials available to a CHINESE language audience. This website will help to promote greater understanding in CHINA of the unacceptable human rights conditions faced by the UYGHUR people."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CHINESE democracy and human rights activists also extended their support to UHRP's initiative to engage the Mandarin speaking community.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yu Dahai, publisher of Beijing Spring magazine, commented:"Congratulations to the UYGHUR Human Rights Project on the launch of your CHINESE website! I believe this website will not only improve the human rights situation of the UYGHUR’S, but will also make an outstanding contribution to promote understanding and friendship between UYGHUR’S and HAN CHINESE."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hu Ping, prominent writer and democracy activist, added:"Congratulations to the UYGHUR Human Rights Project on your new CHINESE language website—it will enable more CHINESE to hear your voice."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The new CHINESE language website focuses on the human rights research produced by UHRP, and will provide readers with the latest<a href="http://chinese.uhrp.org/news" target="_blank"> news</a> affecting UYGHUR’S in EAST TURKESTAN. The site not only features UHRP's<a href="http://chinese.uhrp.org/taxonomy/term/41" target="_blank"> press releases</a>on recent developments in EAST TURKESTAN, but also its comprehensive<a href="http://chinese.uhrp.org/reports" target="_blank"> reports</a> on UYGHUR political, economic, social and cultural rights. In addition, the site links to UHRP's<a href="http://weblog.uhrp.org/" target="_blank"> blog</a>, through which UHRP plans to present commentary on UYGHUR-related issues from CHINESE, UYGHUR and Western contributors, in addition to staff members. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

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