Australian court extends ban on Galaxy tab sales

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, people walk by a Samsung store in Sydney. Samsung Electronics Co. is closer to selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in Australia after a court on Wednesday, Nov. 30, overturned a ruling that favored Apple's allegations Samsung had copied its iPad and iPhone. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, people walk by a Samsung store in Sydney. Samsung Electronics Co. is closer to selling its new Galaxy tablet computer in Australia after a court on Wednesday, Nov. 30, overturned a ruling that favored Apple's allegations Samsung had copied its iPad and iPhone. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

SYDNEY (AP) ? Apple Inc. won a small victory on Friday in its global patent battle with rival Samsung, after Australia's highest court temporarily extended a ban on sales of Samsung's Galaxy tablet computers in the country.

Samsung Electronics Co. is desperate to begin selling the Galaxy in Australia in time for Christmas sales, but the High Court's decision means the device can't go on the market until at least Dec. 9.

Apple took Samsung to court in Australia after accusing the Suwon, South Korea-based company of copying its iPad and iPhone. In October, a Federal Court judge ordered Samsung to halt sales of the device ahead of a trial. Samsung appealed, and on Wednesday, a full bench of the Federal Court threw out the earlier ruling and said Galaxy sales could resume on Friday.

But Apple immediately appealed that decision to the High Court, which on Friday said the temporary injunction against sales would be extended for another week while it considers Apple's latest arguments.

"Samsung believes Apple has no basis for its application for leave to appeal and will vigorously oppose this to the High Court," Samsung said in a statement.

The legal back-and-forth is all part of a larger, international battle over the technology giants' competing tablets. Cupertino, California-based Apple struck first when it sued Samsung in the United States in April, alleging the product design, user interface and packaging of the Galaxy "slavishly copy" the iPhone and iPad. Samsung hit back with lawsuits accusing Apple of patent infringement of its wireless telecommunications technology.

The companies have now filed lawsuits in 10 countries. Courts in several nations, including Germany and the Netherlands, have issued rulings that favor Apple.

Apple spokeswoman Fiona Martin declined to comment on Friday's ruling, instead issuing a general statement blasting Samsung.

"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging," Apple said in the statement. "This kind of blatant copying is wrong and, as we've said many times before, we need to protect Apple's intellectual property when companies steal our ideas."

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NASA sees birth of first Southern Indian Ocean season tropical storm

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2011) ? The Southern Indian Ocean cyclone season is off and running and NASA's Aqua satellite saw the birth of Tropical Cyclone 01S.

Tropical Cyclone 01S (TC01S) formed Dec. 5, 2011. TC01S has maximum sustained winds near 55 knots (63 mph/102 kmh) and is rapidly consolidating and organizing, so strengthening is forecast. At 0900 UTC (4 a.m. EST) on Dec. 5, TC01S was located about 545 nautical miles west of the Cocos Islands near 12.2 South and 87.0 East. It was moving to the west at 7 knots 8 mph/13 kmh).

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Tropical Cyclone 01S on Dec. 5 at 08:18 UTC (3:18 a.m. EST) in the Southern Indian Ocean. Strong thunderstorms are visible around the center as they cast shadows on the lower surrounding clouds.

Microwave satellite instruments showed an eye developing in TC01S. There is also tightly curved banding of thunderstorms around the low-level center. T01S has intensified rapidly over the first 12 hours of its existence. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasters expect TC01S to strengthen to hurricane-force over the next two days and track to the southeast, staying at sea.

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First Person: A Merry Christmas on a Tight Budget (ContributorNetwork)

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This Christmas, my family has a much smaller budget than in previous years. I have a total of $1,000 dollars to work with. This amount includes presents for family, friends, and travel. It's definitely going to be tight but I have a budget worked out that I think will allow me to fit everything in.

Decorations

Instead of buying everything new this year, we are having a Christmas party with my children's friends and making our decorations. I'm using old decorations, ribbon, pine cones, strings of lights, and pretty much anything I can find that's been used or given to me to make something new. I'm spending a grand total of $10 on glue, new hooks, and glitter.

Travel

We always fly to Palm Springs, California for Christmas to spend time with our family, but the prices for plane tickets are ridiculous. Instead of cutting travel from our holiday budget this year, we are just flying with a discount airline and getting a deal for $99 from Missouri to Los Angeles instead of flying into Palm Springs directly. We have to spend some extra time in the car but the savings are worth it. My ex-husband is paying for the children and I am paying for my ticket. That brings my budget down to $700.

Presents for Friends

I normally spend around $500 on my close friends for Christmas. This year I want to spend around $100 for everyone. I'm making an assortment of homemade cookies and candies with recipes I found in Better Homes and Gardens. I found adorable candy dishes at the thrift store and ribbon at a local dollar store. I had enough left over after buying all of the supplies to make Christmas Cocoa for everyone as well. The total for everything was $97. That brings my budget down to $603.

The Children

My children want expensive gifts every year. This year my son wants Vanilla Speed Skates which are around $300 per pair. My daughter wants an iPad which is even more expensive. Neither of these will fit into my budget for Christmas. I can't just buy them one gift. After travel and friends I have approximately $300 to spend on each child. I found my son's speed skates on eBay for under $100 new, my daughter is getting a knock off version of an iPad from Wal-Mart for $179 and I still have $300 left to buy all of the cute little things they love.

It's been hard to fit a gift for everyone into my budget and still visit family, but I accomplished it by thinking outside of the box. I hope that everyone appreciates the love and hardwork I put into this Christmas.

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Kobo offers one free book a month, brings peashooter to the e-reader gunfight

In a slightly underwhelming attempt to match Amazon's Lending Library proposition, Kobo will start to offer a free download each month to new Touch eReader owners. Starting in January, customers will be able to pick from the decidedly broad selection of Pride and Prejudice, HBR's 10 Must Reads: On Managing People and Star Wars Vs. Star Trek. Unfortunately, the offer is limited to devices purchased between November 24 and March 31 2012, but Kobo is hoping that the ability to hold on to the titles indefinitely will cancel out Amazon's legion of free rentals. Users can sign up to the ebook's offers mailing list for the full details. Remember: A book is for life, not just for Christmas.

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Video: Inside the drug tunnels

>>> now to a remarkable discovery and a record pot bust along the nation's border with mexico . federal agents have found a massive secret passage , an elaborate tunnel equipped with a rail system and an elevator used to smuggle drugs into the u.s. tonight nbc 's mark potter takes us inside.

>> reporter: federal agents say it's the most elaborate smuggling tunnel they've seen in years. more than 600 yards long with wooden walls and floors.

>> this tunnel has lighting. it does have good air flow indicating there's some type of ventilation system forcing air in from mexico .

>> reporter: the tunnel begins on the mexican side of the border in a warehouse in the tijuana airport . to lure drugs into the tunnel there's a hydraulic elevator which leads to a rail system where an electric cart waits to carry marijuana to the u.s. side. on steps leading upward the tunnel emerges inside another warehouse in otaymesa, california. this enhanced aerial photograph shows the tunnel going beneath a runway, roads, a big park lot and the border fence . all considered, a highly-efficient mechanism to move narcotics in an underground environment.

>> reporter: police say they seized 32 tons of marijuana, a record for a single tunnel . much of it was hidden in pumpkin boxes. federal agents suspect it's the work of mexico 's powerful cinaloa drug cartel , harvesting its ever increasing fall marijuana crop. authorities say especially this time of year, traffickers need tunnels to smuggle huge drug loads to the u.s.

>> if they can't cross the border above ground, they attempt to tunnel underneath it.

>> reporter: the cartel is headed by joaquin guzman , known as el choppo or shorty since his daring escape from prison 10 years ago, mexican authorities have been unable to touch him.

>> he has the police under his thumb. he controls much of the judicial system in his state and neighboring states. and he's virtually an untouch untouchab untouchable.

>> reporter: in the last four years, american agents have found 75 tunnels from mexico to the u.s. but say this one is the most sophisticated. mark potter , nbc news, miami.

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Theater Subscriptions Falling, Report Finds

NEW YORK -- A new national survey shows that the way people pay for theater tickets has changed over the past few years, with subscription sales down but single-ticket purchases up.

The Theatre Communications Group issued a report this week that showed average subscription income dropped by 15.1 percent for about 1,800 not-for-profit theaters between 2006 and 2010. But the number of single-ticket buyers rose by 3 percent over the same five-year period.

"I would speculate that the reason is because there's ever increasing kinds of opportunities that people have for leisure time," said Teresa Eyring, executive director of the group, the national association for American theaters.

"People are just busier and there's more stuff to do so people's desire to commit to four or five plays at one theater ahead of time is less," she said. "It may also be because new generations of theatergoers are less inclined to have that particular kind of relationship with theaters."

Sixty-two percent of the theater companies participating in the survey said that they ended the year in the black ? a larger number than the 43 percent in 2008 and the 41 percent in 2009 ? even though contributions fell.

"Overall, it was a better year for the theater field," said Eyring, who added that theaters seem to be getting better about managing their resources and financial health.

The economy has a significant impact on the fiscal health of theaters, just as it does on other nonprofits, Eyring said.

National theater attendance also fell last year, but only by 3.6 percent, and the report found that while attendance at main stage productions declined, there was a 28.5 percent jump in attendance at less structured events like workshops and readings over the five-year period.

"Theaters are getting better about realizing that there's value to their communities to make different kinds of opportunities available besides just buy-a-ticket-and-come-see-a-show," Eyring said.

One worrying sign for Eyring is a steady decline in the resources theaters have to meet their financial obligations and day-to-day cash needs, which may inhibit risk and experimentation. "It's not devastating right now, but if it keeps going more and more negative I think it could mean more problems for more theaters."

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