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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - The British Broadcasting Corporation sought to overcome its worst crisis in years on Thursday by appointing a former BBC news executive who heads the Royal Opera House as its new director general, urging him to rebuild public trust shredded by a scandal over botched reporting of sexual abuse. The appointee, Tony Hall, 61, will start in March. He replaces George Entwistle, the most prominent casualty of the scandal, who resigned earlier this month. The appointment won…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - BBC Research & Development has announced a strategic partnership with University College London (UCL), aimed at bringing together researchers from both sides to work on the challenges faced by digital media. “By bringing together two world-leading research institutions, this partnership will inspire new ideas, help position the UK as a leader in media technologies, and act as a gateway to further innovation,” said Matthew Postgate, Controller of BBC R&D. The partnership agreement is signed…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - Jihadist social media postings helped lead to the arrest and charging of four Los Angeles area men, who were allegedly on their way to Afghanistan to train with the Taliban and join al Qaeda, federal officials said. They were also plotting to kill American soldiers and bomb government installations, according to a joint statement Monday by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles. One of the men, a U.S. citizen born in…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) - As the violence in the Gaza strip entered its sixth day, the Israeli government counted no fewer than 44 million hacking attempts over the weekend, the most successful of which have come from the leaderless cyber outfit. Known for their distinctive use of imagery including the Guy Fawkes mask and a logo of a headless, suited man, Anonymous began updating a list of Israeli sites it had defaced or brought offline on Friday. It is…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) –On the occasion of Ghadir holiday, the Canadian House of Wisdom held a dinner party in downtown Montreal on Sunday November 11th 2012. This was a great occasion to bring together members from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim community to celebrate this great holiday. Amongst those present were Dr. Mohsen Fatemi , psychology professor at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, Iraqi ambassador to Canada Dr. Abdul Rahman Hosseini and also Seyyed Nabil Abbas,…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Nokia has announced that it will make its HERE mapping SDK available to Android handset manufacturers who want to integrate Nokia’s mapping service into their upcoming devices. Nokia’s demo of HERE in San Francisco was impressive and did a good job at highlighting the company’s proficiency at mapping. Nokia has reminded the audience that it is one of the few companies in the world to be so proficient at it. On Android the low-hanging…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Americans are text messaging less on their cellphones, according to a new report (although you may not find that to be the case with your family at the dinner table or in the car). Chetan Sharma, a technology and strategy consulting firm, notes that for the first time, there was a drop in both the "total number of messages as well as the total messaging revenue" in the U.S. market, in the third quarter…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – The relationship between Samsung and Apple has gone from bad to worse. Now you probably know it already that Apple is also one of Samsung’s biggest customers on the semiconductor side. Apple gets its own iPhone and iPad processors manufactured by Samsung, with around 130 million processors estimated to have been shipped to Cupertino last year. This year, the number of processor shipments grew to more than 200 million. According to MarketWatch, Samsung has…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -  World leaders sought comfort from the familiar on Wednesday after President Obama’s re-election but, with the global political landscape substantially unchanged and crises on hold while the vote unfolded, many vied with new vigor for his attention and favor as he embarks on a second term. Multimedia In marked contrast to a euphoric surge four years ago when many hailed Mr. Obama’s victory as a herald of renewal, the mood was subdued, reflecting not only…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -  How many apps have you allowed access to your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts? The answer is probably more than you think. It took a security message from Twitter last week to spur me to investigate the situation, and what I found wasn't pretty. Granted, I test a lot of apps as part of my work as a technology journalist, but I was shocked to discover that I had more than 100 apps that could…