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Friday, July 6, 2012
Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Challenges of a Disappearing Network Perimeter
It may seem like Houdini is inside the network, because the perimeter as we have known it is disappearing. Conceptually, firewalls used to sit between the public Internet and the internal network with its servers, desktops and applications. There was a clear network perimeter separating internal resources from the outside world.
New Game Computer Offers Free Games For Life
For avid game players, the all new Ouya game computer may be the ultimate solution to an expensive hobby.
Operating on Android, the Ouya will cost less than $US100 and will offer all games for free for ever.
The still a ?concept? gaming computer was spotted at AngelList, an investment site, and is supported by former Microsoft head-man Ed Fries and designer of the ?One Laptop Per Child? company Yves Behar.
There isn?t much known about the new game computer except for its operating system and that the games are installed as downloads, free of charge.
The Ouya game computer, a concept gaming device that offers free games for life. Photo Credit: Photo News
Exactly how the developers of Ouya are planning to make money is equally a mystery. Also unknown is a launch date for the new computer that is said to forever change the way games will be played or become accessible to gamers.
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Twitter sentiment and the stock market: SNTMNT?s API helps traders pick the best time to buy or sell
With the markets in a volatile state, any help that traders can get to pick the best-performing stocks is a bonus. There?s a growing movement around using social media sentiment as a guide, and?SNTMNT is a startup that has today launched an API which can be used to monitor Twitter-based stock sentiment, giving advice on whether to buy or sell stock on an hourly basis.
SNTMNT?s Trading Indicator API gives price predictions based on Twitter sentiment about S&P 500 index stocks. Using machine learning algorithms, the company says that it has an accuracy as high as 60%, averaging at 54%.?The API can produce hourly and daily buy and sell recommendations, with a ?confidence interval? to indicate how accurate the?prediction?is likely to be.
If this sounds familiar, you may recall that we?ve previously covered Derwent Capital Markets? hedge fund which traded based on Twitter sentiment. However, Derwent liquidated the fund shortly after its launch in the face of tough market conditions and is now building an app aimed at day traders.
Like Derwent, SNTMNT?(pronounced ?sentiment?) is inspired by the work of Professor Johan Bollen, an academic who found correlations between the stock market and activity on Twitter. However, SNTMNT?s Vinecent van Leeuwen says that his company has taken a very different approach: ?Where Bollen focuses on a very macro level of Twitter sentiment ? general mood ? we believe that more value can be extracted by focussing on a more micro level. The SNTMNT predictions are based on very specific fund related Twitter sentiment through stock tickers, in the way StockTwits does, and brand related sentiment (name, products, CEO).?
SNTMNT's diagram explaining its API
Van Leeuwen says that when it comes to pricing for the Trading Indicator API, they?re very much in ?customer discovery mode?. ?We?re convinced that we?ve built a great product, but also know that it?s true value yet has to be determined. We?re really looking forward to cooperate with early adopters and/or strategic partners to figure this out.?
So, should traders rely on Twitter sentiment alone for their trades? Van Leeuwen thinks that this would be foolhardy. ?Anybody who claims that social media can be used as a leading trading signal is fundamentally wrong. The signal-to-noise ratio on social media channels like Twitter is (still) way too low to provide standalone trading signals, let alone a hedge fund, but definitely high enough to provide an innovative trading indicator. ?
In addition to the Trading Indicator API, SNTMNT ? founded at Startup Weekend Amsterdam last year ? is also launching two other APIs today. The first measures sentiment around brands (priced between free and $1500 per month depending on how many tweets you want to measure), while the other is a niche financial sentiment API aimed at structuring context from financial jargon in tweets.
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Oil & Gas - Mexico - Pe?a Nieto likely to continue E&P service model, says expert
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Enrique Pe?a Nieto - set to be Mexico's next president - will likely promote the current exploration and production service contractual scheme, Miriam Grunstein of international law firm Chadbourne & Parke told BNamericas.
"Pe?a Nieto no longer speaks about opening Pemex to private equity owners, but rather opening Pemex externally, that is, allowing it to enter into more commercially attractive exploration and production contracts," added the lawyer.
She also highlighted the challenge renewable energy faces in Mexico which still is a hydrocarbon dependent economy with "gigantic commitments to hydrocarbon industry infrastructure."
The first of a two-part interview with Grunstein will be published in this week's Oil & Gas Perspectives, for subscribers.
Grunstein recently joined Chadbourne & Parke's Mexico City office as an international counsel in the project finance and energy group.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
ASLANmedia: #SUDAN #UN report warns that #refugee situation reaching crisis as aid camps run low on water. http://t.co/xDXwvaaR #Africa #SouthSudan
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Jihadists claim Syria attacks
This citizen journalism image released by Shaam News Network taken Sunday, July 1, 2012 purports to show people praying during the funeral of Zahar Radwan Ibrahim Massalmeh who was killed in fighting with Syrian government forces in Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALISM IMAGE
This citizen journalism image released by Shaam News Network taken Sunday, July 1, 2012 purports to show people praying during the funeral of Zahar Radwan Ibrahim Massalmeh who was killed in fighting with Syrian government forces in Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALISM IMAGE
This citizen journalism image released by Shaam News Network taken Sunday, July 1, 2012 purports to show people preparing the hands with henna at the funeral of Zahar Radwan Ibrahim Massalmeh who was killed in fighting with Syrian government forces in Daraa, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALISM IMAGE
BEIRUT (AP) ? An al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks across Syria, the latest evidence that extremists are exploiting the chaos to make inroads in another Middle Eastern country.
The Syrian regime has long blamed terrorists for the 16-month-old revolt, and the presence of al-Qaida groups creates new difficulties for Arab and Western countries trying to help force President Bashar Assad from power.
The opposition and the rebel Free Syrian Army deny having any links to terrorism, and say they do not have the desire or the capabilities to carry out massive suicide bombings and other al-Qaida-style attacks.
On Tuesday, the SITE monitoring group, which tracks jihadist chatter on the Internet, said the Al-Nusra Front released statements on extremist websites in late June claiming the attacks were to avenge the killings of Syrians by the government.
One of the attacks targeted a pro-regime television station in the town of Drousha, south of the capital, Damascus, on June 27. Seven people were killed in the attack on Al-Ikhbariya TV.
Al-Nusra said the station is an arm of the regime and the attack sought to make the station "taste from the cup of torture" and force every member of the regime to wonder: "When will my turn come?" The statement included photos of 11 men it said were kidnapped in the attack.
Al-Ikhbariya is privately owned but often acts as a regime mouthpiece.
Other attacks in the latest claim of responsibility include dozens of armed raids and bombings ? including suicide bombings ? in Syrian cities.
Little is known about Al-Nusra, although Western intelligence officials say it could be a front for a branch of al-Qaida militants from Iraq operating in Syria. The group has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks in Syria, including suicide bombings, in the past.
In February, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to support Syrian rebels.
"Wounded Syria is still bleeding day after day, and the butcher (Bashar Assad) isn't deterred and doesn't stop," al-Zawahri said at the time. He took over al-Qaida after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces last May.
Although the Syrian opposition disavows links to terror, the presence of al-Qaida among the forces fighting to oust Assad is a serious complicating factor for the international powers that say they want to help the opposition without empowering extremists along the way.
The Syrian regime is dominated by members of the Alawite sect, which is an offshoot of Shiite Islam. Sunnis make up most of the population of 22 million and are the backbone of the opposition.
Assad has been able to count on backing from powerful allies like Russia and Iran. On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Syrians should decide their own fate. According to his Internet website, Ahmadinejad told the visiting speaker of the Syrian parliament that others must not impose their will on Syria.
More than 14,000 people have been killed since the Syrian uprising began, according to activists. Despite global outrage over the crackdown by the Assad regime, the international response has been focused entirely on diplomacy and sanctions as the violence escalates.
Military intervention has been all but ruled out in Syria for now, in part because the conflict has so much potential for escalation. Damascus has strong allegiances to powerful forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran.
There already are signs of a looming, regional conflict.
Syrian forces shot down a Turkish military plan on June 22. Syria says the plane violated its airspace, but Turkey said the plane was hit over international waters.
On Wednesday, Turkey's state-run TRT television said a U.S. deep-sea exploration vessel, E/V Nautilus, discovered the bodies of the two pilots.
The violence in Syria has grown increasingly chaotic over the course of the uprising, which began in March 2011 with mostly peaceful protests. Government forces launched a ferocious crackdown on the demonstrations, leading many people to take up arms.
The violence has become widespread and chaotic. Besides the government crackdown, rebel fighters are launching increasingly deadly attacks on regime targets, and several massive suicide attacks this year suggest al-Qaida or other extremists are joining the fray.
Syria severely restricts the media in the country, making it difficult to gain a credible account of events on the ground.
There is virtually no way to perform an independent investigation in Syria, one of the most authoritarian states in the Middle East. Assad has largely sealed off the country and prevented reporters from moving freely. A team of around 300 U.N. monitors was sent to Syria to provide an unbiased look at the violence, but they have been confined to their hotels since June 15 because of the worsening violence.
On Wednesday, the head of the U.N. observer mission called on all sides to stop fighting ? even as activists reported government shelling in five provinces across Syria.
"There is this feeling that there is too much talk in nice hotels, in nice meetings, and too little action to move forward and stop the violence," Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood told reporters in Damascus.
In Geneva on Saturday, an international conference of world powers accepted a U.N.-brokered peace plan for Syria. But the group left open the key question of whether Assad could be part of a transitional government.
The U.S. backed away from insisting that the plan explicitly exclude Assad from any role in a new Syrian government, hoping the concession would encourage Russia to put greater pressure on its longtime ally to end the violent crackdown.
But the possibility that Assad could stay made the plan a nonstarter for those fighting to topple his regime.
The opposition, too, is in disarray. A key meeting of different opposition groups in Cairo concluded Tuesday with only general agreements on a transitional period and the character of the post-Assad state.
They failed to create a unified leadership and papered over many other key differences.
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Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi contributed from Tehran, Iran.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Moonbootica: RT @jkbloodtreasure: 'El Cine' Raul Castro's in China, playing copycat: http://t.co/C04IGBAP
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