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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

On Social Networks, Mourning and Division After Chávez’s Death

With expressions of mourning and calls for peace and stability, Venezuelans took to the streets and social networks on Tuesday after the announcement of the death of President Hugo Chávez. Messages came from all over the country and around the world, as supporters and critics of Mr. Chávez grappled with the news and tried to figure out what was next for the deeply divided country.

Many tried to strike a conciliatory tone. One message on Twitter, posted below, read, “Political ideology is not important, he’s a person and deserves respect, RIP Chávez.”

But Mr. Chávez’s death quickly highlighted the wide gulf in society after his 14 years in power. Another post on Twitter alluded to the country’s high crime and homicide rates: “RIP Chavez Hypocrites, Why not ‘RIP the thousands of Venezuelans murdered in 14 years’”

As my colleague William Neuman reports, Venezuela’s Constitution says that the! country should “proceed to a new election” within 30 days when a president dies in the first four years of his term, and Foreign Minister Elías Jaua said in an interview on Tuesday night that Vice President Nicolás Maduro would take the helm in the meantime.

Foreign Minister Elías Jaua announcing that Vice President Nicolás Maduro would assume power in the meantime.

The election is likely to pit Mr. Maduro, whom Mr. Chávez picked as his successor before having his final surgery in December, against Henrique Capriles Radonski, a young state governor who lost to Mr. Chávez in a presidential election in October.

Vice President Niolás Maduro, his voice cracking and close to tears, announced the death on Tuesday.

The past few weeks have been marked by a swirl of rumors around the health of Mr. Chávez, so the announcement on Tuesday came as little surprise. Mr. Capriles, the leader of the opposition, sent a message of solidarity to Chavistas and called for unity in a Twitter post.

Reaction came from all over the world, including from President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, two of the many leaders in the region who expressed their condolences.

Lamento el fallecimiento del Presidente Hugo Chávez. Mis más sentidas condolencias a su familia y al pueblo venezolano.

â€" Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) 5 Mar 13

President Dilma Rousseff on the death of Mr. Chávez.

Messages also came from the United States, including a brief statement from the White House that read: “As Venezuela begins a new chapter in its history, the United States remains committed to policies that promote democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.”

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The region will be less colorful without @chavezcandanga, but #Venezuela now has a chance to reemerge as a constructive hemispheric actor.

â€" Philip J. Crowley (@PJCrowley) 5 Mar 13

But the uncertainty was visible on the streets of Caracas. Shortly after the announcement of Mr. Chávez’s death, police officers and soldiers were highly visible. Stores and shopping malls closed as people rushed home.

A video posted on YouTube appeared to show Carmen Rengifo, a correspondent from the Colombian RCN Channel, being attacked by a group outside the Military Hospital in Caracas where Mr. Chávez was being treated. The content of the video has not been independently verified.

A video appears to show a reporter being attacked outside the Military Hospital in Caracas.


Reactions to the Death of Hugo Chávez in Washington and Beyond

Not long after the death of Hugo Chávez was announced in Venezuela, a variety of major figures in American politics in Washington and beyond released statements offering their reactions. While his death was welcomed by some, others praised the Venezuelan leader for his efforts to help the poor.

Representative Ed Royce, the California Republican who is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued one of the strongest statements against Mr. Chávez, condemning his lengthy term in Venezuela:

Hugo Chavez was a tyrant who forced the people of Venezuela to live in fear. His death dents the alliance of anti-U.S. leftist leaders in South America. Good riddance to this dictator.

President Obama’s statement on the death of Mr. Chávez avoided any directly positive or negative remarks, but focused instead on the Venezuelan people and their political futre:

At this challenging time of President Hugo Chavez’s passing, the United States reaffirms its support for the Venezuelan people and its interest in developing a constructive relationship with the Venezuelan government. As Venezuela begins a new chapter in its history, the United States remains committed to policies that promote democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.

A statement from former President Jimmy Carter highlighted what he saw as positive elements of Mr. Chávez’s rule while also reflecting on some of the political conflict that occurred while he led Venezuela:

At the same time, we recognize the divisions created in the drive towards change in Venezuela and the need for national healing. We hope that as Venezuelans mourn the passing of President Chávez and recall his positive legacies â€" especially the gains made for the poo! r and vulnerable â€" the political leaders will move the country forward by building a new consensus that ensures equal opportunities for all Venezuelans to participate in every aspect of national life.

But one American politician offered praise for the Venezuelan leader outright. Representative José E. Serrano, a Democrat who represents the Bronx in New York City, initially offered this statement on Twitter:

Mr. Serrano added in a statement that the Venezulan leader “used his unique talents and gifts to try to lift up the people and the communities that reflected his impoverished roots,” including his district in the Bronx, which had received discounted fuel oil from Venezuela.

And at least one institution in Washington was ready to note the Venezuelan leader’s passing in a more traditional manner. The Organization of American States, headquartered just across the street from the White House, announced that it would fly its flags at half staff for Mr. Chávez.



Missing German Reporter Released by Syrian Government

The Syrian government released a German journalist who went missing more then two months ago on Tuesday, saying the man had entered the country illegally but would be turned over to the Russian ambassador and sent home.

A German reporter missing in Syria since December was released by the Syrian government during a press conference on Tuesday.Website of the Syrian Arab News Agency A German reporter missing in Syria since December was released by the Syrian government during a press conference on Tuesday.

Mr. Six, 26, is a freelance journalist who was working for the German magazine Junge Freiheit when he went missing after Christmas. Looking unkempt and out of place, he stood behind a bank of microphones beside Syria’s Deputy Foreign Miniter Fayssal Mikdad as he read a statement announcing his release and chastising him and other reporters for entering the country without official permission.

Syria has barred most journalists from entering since the start of a popular uprising two years ago and 28 were killed while working there in 2012, making it the single deadliest country on Earth in which to be a journalist, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Nevertheless, Mr. Mikdad used the occasion of Mr. Six’s release to announce that “Our border crossings are open to journalists who are objective and interested in truth. We respect the role of journalism and press in this regard,” according to remarks published by Syrian state media. Referring to Mr. Six, it added that Mr. Mikdad, “wished the journalist ! well.”

The Syrian Arab News Network posted an update on Twitter to announce Mr. Six’s release and to reiterate the government’s position that by entering the country, Mr. Six broke the law.

Although Mr. Six was working as a reporter at the time of his disappearance, he first came to media attention in April 2011 as “an intrepid backpacker from Germany,” when Eric Westervelt, a reporter for National Public Radio, did a five-minute long profile on him entitled “Backpacking through the revolutions of North Africa.”

Mr. Six was “walking and hitch-hiking across North Africa” in a traditional white robe and skullcap, said Mr. Westervelt, who met him both in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, where he asked for a picture next to a tank, and again in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where he was seeking passage aboard a ferry to the besieged town of Misurata.

In the profile, Mr. Six, who said his travels helped him to “find God,” said he was drawn to strife-ridden countries like Libya because, “I want to go to the places where I don’t meet all those tourist people who do the normal stuff.”

Mr. Six said he was also arrested at least twice before during his travels: Once by Egyptian state security and once by Libyan rebels in Benghazi.

There is trouble nearly everywhere in Africa so it’s not a new thing here. I didn’t see anything bad until now. They arrested me sometimes, talking and asking a lot of q! uestions.! Very funny - people who are very, very important - but they let me out and everything was ok. Hakuna matata.

When Mr. Westervelt asked Mr. Six if people thought he was “crazy,” Mr. Six responded:

Maybe I am crazy. But I really know now what is going on. I also know these are not dangerous people, these are very, very nice, friendly people. They tried to help me with everything they could do.

Mr. Six is far from the first young man to head into an unstable country of conflict zone seeking adventure, nor is he the first to take up work as a journalist along the way. Matthias Gebauer, a correspondent for the online edition of German magazine Der Spiegel, posted an update on Twitter describing Mr. Six as a “wanna-be journalist,” drawing a quick rebuke from Dieter Stein, the editor of Junge Freiheit.

There are still at least seven journalists missing in Syria, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, including American freelancers James Foley and Austin Tice. Liz Sly, Beirut bu! reau chie! f for the Washington Post, drew attention to the continued disappearance of Mr. Tice even as she celebrated Mr. Six’s release.

On Monday, Mr. Foley’s family released a statement asking for information about his whereabouts and condition. “Someone in Syria knows what happened to Jim and we hope they will contact us,” said John Foley, his father, in the statement. Mr. Foley has been missing for more than 100 days.

Austin Tice, a freelance journalist working for The Washington Post and McClatchy Nwspapers disappeared on his way from Syria to Lebanon in August 2012. In October, a video appeared on YouTube that claimed to show him in the custody of a jihadist rebel group, although many raised questions about its authenticity. He is believed to be in the custody of the Syrian government. He was part of a team at McClatchy Newspapers that won a George Polk Award for its coverage of Syria in February.

In addition to Mr. Tice and Mr. Foley, there are at least two Arab and one Turkish journalist missing in Syria as well, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian national of Palestinian origin employed by al-Hurra, a U.S.-funded Arab satellite network, was reported missing along with his Turkish cameraman, Cüneyt Ünal, in August. Mohamed al-Saeed, a ! talk show! host on Syrian state TV, was kidnapped in Damascus in July. Jabhat al-Nusra, a rebel group linked to Al Qaeda, claimed to have beheaded him in August but that claims has never been independently confirmed.



Facebook News Feed Draws More Criticism

In my column this week, I wrote about how content I shared on Facebook saw a paltry amount of interaction unless I paid Facebook to highlight it on the company’s signature news feed. Other reporters and bloggers said they had seen a similar drop in connection.

On Monday, Facebook put up a blog post saying “engagement has gone up 34 percent on posts from people who have more than 10,000 followers.” But Facebook did not share real numbers or metrics, leaving people guessing what 34 percent actually equals.

Meanwhile, over the weekend my Inbox filled up with dozens of e-mails from people who owned small businesses and said they had also been affected by Facebook’s news feed changes.

BikersPost. The company said it had built most of its business around Facebook, but was now unable to reach its fans. Although Facebook is asking public figures to pay $7 per post to reach their subscribers, BikersPost says it is sometimes being told to pay as much $7,500 to reach the core of its subscribers and their friends.

Kris Olivera, who co-runs BikersPost, said that when his fan page had 200,000 fans, it was getting much more traffic than it doid today with more than 600,000 fans. “After Facebook introduced promoted tweets, we see much less traffic than a year ago,” he said.

In a statement to The New York Times, Facebook said it was not suppressing content to highlight paid posts.

“We want to be really clear that the News Feed algorithm does not artificially suppress free distribution in order to get people to purchase promot! ed posts or ads,” the statement said.

“News Feed should show you the most interesting stories from your friends, people you follow and Pages you are connected to,” the statement added. “As with other filtering algorithms, we look at numerous factors to decide which will be the most interesting story for each person. Over years of carefully monitoring how people engage with News Feed, we have found that algorithmically showing the most relevant content is a better user experience and leads to more engagement over all.”

Mr. Olivera said he paid Facebook to acquire a large percentage of BikersPost’s 615,000 fans.

“I have spent well over $50,000 with Facebook acquiring those fans, and now I’m being told I have to pay Facebook again to reach them,” Mr. Olivera said. “I don’t even make $7,000 a month, how do they expect me to pay that for one single post.” He noted that because he could not reach his fans anymore on Facebook, he recently had to lay off BikersPost’s ony employee.

“We’ve seen dramatic traffic drops over the past year, and the rug just got pulled out from under us,” Mr. Olivera said. “Had I known that we were going to be charged to reach those fans as well, we would of not spent a dime with Facebook.”



Study: Facebook Users More Protective Even as They Reveal More About Themselves

Facebook users became much more protective about who sees sensitive information about them, even as they were urged to share more about themselves on the social network, according to an unusual seven-year study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.

The study followed the privacy settings of roughly 5,000 Facebook users who were part of the university network on Facebook between 2005 and 2011. It is among the first longitudinal efforts aimed at gauging how Facebook users try to protect their information.

The study showed how over those years, Facebook made changes that  elicited increasing amounts of data. For example, the social network tripled the data fields its users could fill out. It introduced Timeline in 2011, encouraging users to fill in much more personal history, including whether they were expecting a baby or had acquired a new car. Its diverse applications offered uers the opportunity to share what news articles and books they read. And it let them “tag” one another, effectively allowing one user to post information about a Facebook “friend.”

But even as Facebook encouraged more sharing, users became less likely to reveal to strangers certain pieces of sensitive, fine-grained personal information like dates of birth and what high school they attended, the survey found. There was a similar decline in users revealing their phone numbers and instant-messaging addresses to others in the university network who were not their Facebook “friends.”

Then, between late 2009 and late 2010, the data found a swift, marked turnaround, as if users had suddenly decided to become more public about what they shared. The more likely explanation, the researchers said, was that the company tweaked its privacy interface in December 2009. The changes proved confusing to many users, who made public some information they may have intended to keep private.

E! ventually, Facebook’s changes to its privacy settings attracted the attention of government regulators. In 2011, the company agreed to let the Federal Trade Commission carry out annual audits of its privacy policies for 20 years.

The research paper, written by Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman, is unusual in that it followed the privacy practices of a set of users over an extended period. It did not receive any financing from Facebook or its business rivals.

It is consistent with other studies, including by the Pew Internet Center, which has found that Facebook users increasingly calibrated whom they were sharing with on the social network. Between 2009 and 2011, a growing number of those surveyed by Pew said they had deleted comments and removed someone from among their Facebook “friends.” (http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Privacy_management_on_social_media_sites_022412.pdf)) Pew documented anxiety among parents of teenagers in particular: About athird of parents surveyed said they had helped their children adjust their privacy settings. (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/parents-of-teenagers-say-they-worry-that-online-activities-might-hurt-children-in-the-future/)

And earlier this year, Pew reported that 61 percent of Facebook users surveyed said they had taken a break from the social network. Among the main reasons, they said, was a lack of time to prune their privacy settings. (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/most-facebookers-have-taken-a-break-from-the-site-study-finds/)

The company does not share information about its users’ privacy practices. Responding to a request for comment about the research paper, a Facebook spokesman, Andrew Noyes, said in an e-mailed statement: “Independent research has verified that the vast majority of the people on Facebook are engaging with and using our straightforward and powerful privacy tools â€" allowing them to control what they’re sharing, and with whom they’re shar! ing.”

The Carnegie Mellon academics noted that their study focused on a subset of Facebook users, mostly undergraduates who had signed up for Facebook as early as 2005 when it was restricted to college students.

They concluded that “over time, the amount and scope of personal information that Facebook users have revealed to friends’ profiles seems to have markedly increased â€" and thus, so have disclosures to Facebook itself, third-party
apps, and (indirectly) advertisers.”

Hence, the paper is entitled “Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosures on Facebook.”



Blame It on Big Data

Amazon.com can’t seem to stay out of trouble these days. First it hired a shadowy group accused of having neo-Nazi sympathies â€" not exactly the sort of people you want to be called out for using in Germany, no matter how much trouble you have keeping your warehouse workers in line. Now the giant retailer is under fire in Britain for selling T-shirts that say things like, “Keep Calm and Rape Me” and “Keep Calm and Hit Her a Lot.”

“First Amazon avoids paying U.K. tax. Now they’re making money from domestic violence,” the former Labour deputy leader, John Prescott, said on Twitter, accrding to The Independent newspaper.

The T-shirts, which sold for about $25, were produced by Solid Gold Bomb, an Australian start-up. In a lengthy and profuse apology on Solid Gold Bomb’s Web site, Michael Fowler, the founder, said it was all a case of Big Data run amok. “This was a computer error,” he wrote.

Solid Gold Bomb was apparently trying to generate parodies of the iconic expression “Stay Calm,” and many of them turned out to be offensive, although no one at the company noticed. “These items sat online and on nonindexed servers for the last year and myself and our company had no idea of the issue,” he said.

In other words, a T-shirt company did not know what its T-shirts said, even when it was selling them on the world’s largest virtual store. “Had these items ever sold, we would have imm! ediately pulled the series,” Mr. Fowler wrote.

Amazon removed the shirts from sale, declining to say much to the British media â€" no surprise there. But it sells so much from so many vendors that it generally relies on complaints to monitor its virtual racks rather than vetting each item.

All of this sounds like a parody of a 1960s sci-fi movie where the computers take over and they decide, based on bad data, that the world must end. Luckily, this time it was only T-shirts, not nuclear weapons.



Daily Report: TV Pilots Turn to Internet, Not Networks

Internet-delivered TV, which until recently was unready for prime time, is the new front in the war for Americans’ attention spans, Brian Stelter reports in Tuesday’s New York Times.

Netflix is following up on the $100 million drama “House of Cards” with four more series this year. Microsoft is producing programming for the Xbox video game console with the help of a former CBS president. Other companies, from AOL to Sony to Twitter, are likely to follow.
The companies are, in effect, creating new networks for television through broadband pipes and also giving rise to new rivalries â€" among one another, as between Amazon.com and Netflix, and with the big but vulnerable broadcast networks as well.

The competition has only just begun. Amazon is making pilot episodes for six comedies and five children’s shows. Sometime this spring it will put the episodes on ts Amazon Prime Instant Video service and ask its customers which ones they like and dislike, then order full seasons of some of them.
Netflix has been ordering entire seasons of its shows without seeing pilots first. Reed Hastings, Netflix’s chief executive, said last week that “House of Cards,” the political thriller starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, had been a “great success” for the company. Its next program, a horror series called “Hemlock Grove” from the film director Eli Roth, premieres in April.

The two companies are commissioning TV shows because they have millions of subscribers on monthly or yearly subscription plans. Though the shows may be loss leaders, executives like Mr. Hastings say that having exclusive content â€" something that cannot be seen anywhere else â€" increases the likelihood that existing subscribers will keep paying and that new subscribers will sign up.

The proliferation of shows is generally seen as a good thing for viewers, who have! more choices about what to watch and when, and for producers and actors, who have more places to be seen and heard. But the trend may inflame cable companies’ concerns about cord-cutting by subscribers who decide there’s enough to watch online. At the same time, the rise of Internet-only shows may make viewers more dependent on the broadband cord. (In many cases, both connections are supplied by the same company.)



Warming Up for South by Southwest Interactive 2013

Friday will be the start of the annual South by Southwest festival, a week of presentations, meet-ups, parties, barbecues and hallway talks about the ever-evolving start-up industry and the technology world.

The New York Times will be filing dispatches from Austin, Tex., where the conference takes place. We’ll be on the ground, keeping an eye out for hot new services and applications, ducking in and out of panels and various shindigs and generally reporting on the scene from our usual headquarters, the Bits blog.

In addition, we’ll also be resurrecting our New York Times SXSW Tumblr, where we will funnel a sampling of impressions, reactions and spot observations from the ground. I’ll also be posting quick-hit reactions and photos on Twitter, Instgram and Vine.

In years past, certain apps and services have bubbled up as clear crowd favorites, including GroupMe, a group messaging app; Foursquare, a location-based social network; and even Twitter, in its early days.

Hugh Forrest, the director of the interactive portion of the festival, said the breakout theme might be a bit more abstract this year.

“Space is hot again,” he said.

There are roughly 15 panels on space exploration, he said, including a keynote talk from Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, on Saturday. In addition, Bobak Ferdowsi, the Mohawk-hairstyled NASA engineer who became a viral hit after photographs of him celebrating the safe landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover gained fans around the Web, will also be there.

Mr. Forrest also anticipates that hardware, especially ! 3-D printers, will be a big-ticket theme and topic of discussion around the weekend. And he highlighted a talk featuring Cody R. Wilson, a law student and the head of Defense Distributed, a collective that is dedicated to open-source blueprints and schematics for 3-D weapons.

Julie Uhrman, the founder and chief executive behind Ouya, an Android-based gaming console, will also be a keynote speaker. Mr. Forrest also expects that data, particularly issues dealing with privacy and security of personal information, will be a much-discussed topic.

This year is a draw for big names in the tech world, who are joining the pilgrimage to Texas to mingle with the everynerd, including the Russian investor Yuri Milner, Esther Dyson, Tim Berners-Lee and Shaquille O’Neal, the retired basketball player turned social media maven./p>

There are several applications vying for the eyes and taps of those in attendance, including Albumatic, a group photo-sharing app; Highlight, a people discovery service that made its debut last year but that hopes to woo more users this year; Tinder, the location-based dating service; and Sidecar, a ride-sharing app that is offering free rides to and from parties for attendees of the interactive festival.

Although it’s not yet clear which app â€" if any â€" will be a breakout hit of the weekend, one thing is certain about this year’s conference: It will be much leaner than previous years.

Mr. Forrest said the growth of the interactive part of South by Southwest was slowing. The number of people roaming the grounds of the event leapt more than 25 percent in 2012 from 2011, swelling to 24,569 from 19,364. This year, Mr Forrest ! expects a! round 27,000 attendees, about a 10 percent bump.

In addition, organizers trimmed the numbers of panels and the amount of programming to make the schedule of the week’s events more manageable for conferencegoers.

“The object each year is to be better, not necessarily bigger,” he said.



Warming Up for South by Southwest Interactive 2013

Friday will be the start of the annual South by Southwest festival, a week of presentations, meet-ups, parties, barbecues and hallway talks about the ever-evolving start-up industry and the technology world.

The New York Times will be filing dispatches from Austin, Tex., where the conference takes place. We’ll be on the ground, keeping an eye out for hot new services and applications, ducking in and out of panels and various shindigs and generally reporting on the scene from our usual headquarters, the Bits blog.

In addition, we’ll also be resurrecting our New York Times SXSW Tumblr, where we will funnel a sampling of impressions, reactions and spot observations from the ground. I’ll also be posting quick-hit reactions and photos on Twitter, Instgram and Vine.

In years past, certain apps and services have bubbled up as clear crowd favorites, including GroupMe, a group messaging app; Foursquare, a location-based social network; and even Twitter, in its early days.

Hugh Forrest, the director of the interactive portion of the festival, said the breakout theme might be a bit more abstract this year.

“Space is hot again,” he said.

There are roughly 15 panels on space exploration, he said, including a keynote talk from Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, on Saturday. In addition, Bobak Ferdowsi, the Mohawk-hairstyled NASA engineer who became a viral hit after photographs of him celebrating the safe landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover gained fans around the Web, will also be there.

Mr. Forrest also anticipates that hardware, especially ! 3-D printers, will be a big-ticket theme and topic of discussion around the weekend. And he highlighted a talk featuring Cody R. Wilson, a law student and the head of Defense Distributed, a collective that is dedicated to open-source blueprints and schematics for 3-D weapons.

Julie Uhrman, the founder and chief executive behind Ouya, an Android-based gaming console, will also be a keynote speaker. Mr. Forrest also expects that data, particularly issues dealing with privacy and security of personal information, will be a much-discussed topic.

This year is a draw for big names in the tech world, who are joining the pilgrimage to Texas to mingle with the everynerd, including the Russian investor Yuri Milner, Esther Dyson, Tim Berners-Lee and Shaquille O’Neal, the retired basketball player turned social media maven./p>

There are several applications vying for the eyes and taps of those in attendance, including Albumatic, a group photo-sharing app; Highlight, a people discovery service that made its debut last year but that hopes to woo more users this year; Tinder, the location-based dating service; and Sidecar, a ride-sharing app that is offering free rides to and from parties for attendees of the interactive festival.

Although it’s not yet clear which app â€" if any â€" will be a breakout hit of the weekend, one thing is certain about this year’s conference: It will be much leaner than previous years.

Mr. Forrest said the growth of the interactive part of South by Southwest was slowing. The number of people roaming the grounds of the event leapt more than 25 percent in 2012 from 2011, swelling to 24,569 from 19,364. This year, Mr Forrest ! expects a! round 27,000 attendees, about a 10 percent bump.

In addition, organizers trimmed the numbers of panels and the amount of programming to make the schedule of the week’s events more manageable for conferencegoers.

“The object each year is to be better, not necessarily bigger,” he said.



F.C.C. Backs Consumers in Unlocking of Cellphones

The White House and the Federal Communications Commission say consumers should be free to unlock their phones once contracts are satisfied.

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