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Target conquers the globe with new iPhone app

The Target Gift Globe uses mobile technology to turn a shopper’s iPhone into a snow globe. After a shopper opens the colorful app, he selects age, gender and other attributes to focus a gift search. He then literally shakes his phone, just as he would a snow globe, and the screen is filled with falling snow that eventually dissipates to reveal a gift recommendation. He then can shake it again to receive another recommendation, and so on.

Golden Globe TV Nominations: Reaction

The Golden Globe nominations were announced Thursday, and although the TV side wasn’t as shocking as the film side (the Tom Cruise/Tropic Thunder nomination is funnier than his performance!), it wasn’t exactly snub-free. Here’s a breakdown of the big categories.

Golden Globe Nominees Fake Their Reactions

The Golden Globe noms were announced this morning, and it looks like the Hollywood Foreign Press is making up for last year's nonceremony by inviting tabloid-friendly stars to the show to spice it up a notch: nominees include Brangelina, Tom Cruise, David Duchovny (wonder if he'll bring Téa or some random tennis instructor as his escort? Gillian, maybe?)

Bank of Canada?s Carney to banks: Lend, don't hoard (Globe and Mail)

TORONTO — The Globe and Mail reported this morning that Mark Carney is pointing a finger at the country's big banks for hoarding capital against a rainy day instead of doling out more loans. The public admonishment is an unusual move for a central bank governor. For more information, read the story at business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081218.wrcarneybanks18/BNStory/Business/home

The Globe and Mail blows it: Reports iTunes Store music DRM falsehoods

"Apple Inc. is dropping the digital copyright locks from most of the songs it sells through iTunes, a move that could prove to be a death blow for the music industry's attempts to control how consumers buy and listen to music," Matt Hartley reports for The Globe and Mail.

Hubble Sees a Celestial 'Snow Globe'

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, many hundreds of thousands of stars move about in the globular cluster M13, as Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules, and can even be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Hubble Spies a Celestial Snow Globe of Stars

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky.

Hubble Captures Snow M13 Globe Photography

Scouring through the northern skies, the Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture a picture of a celestial body that resembles a snow globe. In fact, it is a globular cluster, a celestial formation that comprises over a hundred thousand stars swirling around in a small region of space. This object provides more insight on the structure and features of this type of cosmic item, as well as some hints on the formation of our own galaxy.

Hubble detects a cosmic snow globe of stars

Washington, Dec 5 : The Hubble Space Telescope has detected hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13, just like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe.

Elizabeth Banks, Terrence Howard and Rainn Wilson to Announce Golden Globe Nominations on December 11

Elizabeth Banks, Terrence Howard and Rainn Wilson to Announce Golden Globe Nominations on December 11

GateHouse sues N.Y. Times; Dispute is over local news content on Globe Web sites

BOSTON - GateHouse Media New England has filed a lawsuit claiming The Boston Globe's new community Web sites violate copyright and trademark laws by lifting content from GateHouse sites without permission.

Hubble's Early Festivities: Imaging the M13 Globular Cluster "Snow Globe"

This image is one of the latest views from the Hubble Space Telescope, closely resembling a toy snow globe. In this case, over a hundred thousand glittering stars are the little faux snow flakes and the cluster's globular structure is the glass sides. The cluster of interest is M13, located over 25,000 light years away, measuring 150 light years across (that's 0.15% the diameter of our galaxy). Although very pretty (and very festive), there are some interesting things going on inside this little cluster of stars…

9 Money Blogs Worth Reading

Over the weekend, the Boston Globe published a nice piece, "A Field Guide to Economics and Finance Blogs." Here are nine worth subscribing to, according to the Globe:

Innovation And Invention In Virtual Rock Band Video Games

Reader David Kopp writes in to point us to a story in the Boston Globe that yet again highlights the difference between innovation and invention -- this time in the virtual musician video game space. While we've already seen that Konami has sued over the video game Rock Band, claiming that it had patented the concept of virtual musician games, the Globe story highlights a Massachusetts startup that appears to have come up with a similar idea much earlier. The game was slightly different, but had many of the same elements -- including a virtual guitar (that had actual strings in this case) and involved playing along with music on the screen. The band Aerosmith played a big part in the game, predating all the bands suddenly jumping on the Guitar Hero and Rock Band bandwagons of today.

Aggregation Aggravation: NYTCo Hit With Copyright Suit Over Hyperlocal Content

The New York York Times Company is being suited for copyright infringement over its Boston Globe local sites linking with headlines and ledes to another publisher’s articles. GateHouse Media, which publishes 125 community papers in Massachusetts, filed suit in U.S. District Court there Monday. The company claims that the Globe sites lifted headlines and ledes word-for-word and therefore infringed its copyright, even though the items were credited to and linked back to the Gatehouse pubs, according to Boston.com, which is owned by NYTCo (NYSE: NYT).

Bank Freezes Funds of Struggling Ballet Troupe

The woes of the Canadian dance company Ballet BC grew deeper when a bank froze about $13,750 of its funds, The Globe and Mail reported. At a news conference Friday, Graeme Barrit, the board chairman of the Vancouver-based troupe, said that Scotiabank froze the money to pay off about $13,500 in debt on the company’s credit cards. “It really is a very dramatic hit to our ability to function,� Mr. Barrit said, according to The Globe and Mail. In November, the ballet laid off 38 employees, including its dancers and creative director. Its production of “The Nutcracker,� featuring the Moscow City Ballet, was able to proceed after the company received a grant from the Vancouver City Council and an anonymous donor bought 1,000 tickets to the shows.

The New JVC Times Square Billboard Specifications and Fun Facts

WAYNE, N.J., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- JVC will today unveil a new LED billboard that is the first true 720p high definition display in New York's Times Square. JVC has maintained a continuous presence in Times Square since 1979 and its iconic JVC globe has been a fixture at the northeast corner of Broadway and 43rd Street since 1999. The new billboard features three LED displays -- the main screen and two "tickers", including one that encircles the globe.

Globe eyes more user-centric mobile apps

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Globe says ING, rivals are lending, but playing it safe

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Ice melting faster across globe, NASA says

(CNN) -- Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003, according to NASA scientists, in the latest signs of what they say is global warming.

Hubble Sees a Celestial 'Snow Globe'

Hubble catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Hubble Image: A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars

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VIP collectors from around the globe preview Art Basel

Art Basel held it's VIP preview on Wednesday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. This is typically the day that the biggest purchases are made.

Science academy heads from around the globe to meet in Taipei

Taipei, Dec. 1 (CNA) Heads of prominent science institutes from around the world will meet for a three-day forum beginning Saturday at Taiwan's Academia Sinica in celebration of its 80th anniversary, Chi-Huey Wong, the institute's president, said at a news conference Monday.

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