Murkowski Wins Alaska Senate Race

By Wednesday afternoon, 15 days after the midterm elections, it was clear from a count of write-in ballots in Juneau, the state capital, that Ms. Murkowski had enough of a lead over her opponent, Joe Miller, that Mr. Miller would not be able to catch up. The Democrat, Scott T. McAdams, trailed far behind.

Ms. Murkowski flew to Alaska from Washington to declare victory, taking the stage at a union hall here to chants of ?We made history! We made history!?

?We did,? she said. ?We made history. And doesn?t it just feel, wow, still a little bit mind-boggling??

Mr. Miller, a Tea Party favorite, was backed by former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, and, after Mr. Miller upset Ms. Murkowski in the Republican primary, the national Republican establishment. His support for states? rights and tax and spending cuts resonated in this conservative state, but he committed a series of mistakes during the general election campaign.

At the same time, Ms. Murkowski showed new vigor after she announced her return to the race as a write-in on Sept. 17. She also showed a sharp sense of the state?s distinct relationship with the federal government. About a third of the Alaska economy depends on federal spending.

?Alaskans have chosen the path of unity, the deliberative path, the common-sense path,? Ms. Murkowski told her supporters on Wednesday.

She invited Lily Stevens, daughter of her mentor, the late Senator Ted Stevens, to come onto the stage. ?His motto was: ?To hell with politics. Let?s just do what?s right for Alaska,? ? Ms. Murkowski said. ?And that?s what we did.?

Mr. Miller did not immediately concede. In an interview with Fox News, he said he was feeling less optimistic than he had been, but also declared, ?It?s never over until the count is done.?

His campaign suggested this week it would pursue a recount of all the ballots cast.

But on Wednesday, Randy Ruedrich, the chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, which had been supporting Mr. Miller, called on him to concede. ?This was a free and fair election,? Mr. Ruedrich said in a statement. ?It is now time to look forward.?

Ms. Murkowski is the first write-in candidate elected to the Senate since Strom Thurmond of South Carolina in 1954.

Election workers counted more than 100,000 write-in votes in Juneau over the last week, and it became clear early that Ms. Murkowski was likely to win. More than 97 percent of the votes were for her, officials said. On Wednesday, she led Mr. Miller by more than 10,000 votes with less than a thousand ballots left to count.

Throughout the write-in count, the Miller campaign aggressively challenged ballots, questioning any that seemed to have a misspelling, a smudge or extra words written on them. The campaign filed a federal lawsuit arguing that write-in votes that are not spelled correctly should be excluded; that case is pending.

So far, only 8,153 ballots have been challenged, meaning Ms. Murkowski would still lead by more than 2,000 votes even in the unlikely event that all the challenged ballots were set aside by the courts.

The Miller campaign had said it would not contest the results if there were not enough challenged ballots to change the outcome, but it has continued to raise money for a legal fund. Ms. Palin, a longtime rival of Ms. Murkowski, contributed to the fund through her political action committee; so has Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina.

A memento of Ms. Murkowski?s bid for re-election ? which depended on her ability to cultivate support among groups that included labor unions and libertarians, and on a novel voter education campaign about how to fill in a write-in ballot and how to spell her name ? remains in the freshly repaired sidewalks outside her town house in Washington. Before the concrete set, someone etched into it her write-in campaign slogan: ?Fill it in. Write it in. Lisa Murkowski.?

Juliet Macur contributed reporting from Washington.

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5 Tablets To Look Out For In 2011 [TNW Gadgets]

So you?re waging a battle in your head. Do you buy a tablet this year? Or do you wait to see what 2011 holds? Well, we already gave you a guide on what tablets to consider if you?re going to buy this year, but how about next year?

While some of these are merely whispers in the wind, there is no doubt that 2011is going to spawn some pretty beautiful tablet devices. So, without further ado, here are 5 to keep in mind before you pull the trigger on a first generation iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab.

5. LG (Optimus) Pad

LG hasn?t announced their tablet device yet but if the specs hold up, this is going to be a very, very solid device. Right now, the device is known as the LG Pad or the LG Optimus Pad and according to a senior official from LG Electronics, who probably lost his job, it will be coming in Q1 with Android Honeycomb.

You know, Google?s Android OS that actually works well on a tablet device.

In its defense, the Galaxy Tab will be getting Honeycomb at some point but don?t count on it being any time soon after its launch. Why? Just have a look at the whole Galaxy S/Froyo debacle.

It?s also supposed to have a 8.9 inch display with a Tegra 2 chip from Nvidia inside.

Sound good?

We thought so.

4. HTC?s Tablet

The tablet that doesn?t even have a name.

According to a report by Digitimes, HTC is at work on a tablet device that is, surprise, scheduled to be headed to market in Q1 of next year.  And it looks like it?s going to be an absolute beast.

It apparently has a 1280 x 720 resolution screen which is mind blowing to say the least.  The Samsung Galaxy Tab, whose screen blew me away, has a 1024 x 600 resolution display.

Supposedly, other specs include an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, 2GB of internal memory, W-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and a 32GB memory card.

No word on the screen size, although with a resolution like that, expect it to be big.

3. Motorola MOTOPAD/Motorola Stingray

According to Elder Murtazin, the Motorola MOTOPAD, which may or may not be the same device as the Motorola Stingray, has apparently been selected to bring in the era of Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb.

The MOTOPAD will apparently rock a 7 inch screen which is different than what a leaked Verizon roadmap had for the Stingray. That device supposedly had a 10 inch screen, 16GB of on-board storage, and an Nvidia Tegra 2, and had LTE capabilities. Might these be the same thing or does Motorola have two tablets on the way?

We?ll know in due time since the Stingray was rumored to be out in Q1.

2. BlackBerry PlayBook

This is the only official, living and breathing, tablet on this list and it might turn out to be one of the best.

You might have heard. RIM is bringing their own tablet to the market, sometime in the early part of 2011 and it?s called the BlackBerry PlayBook. In case you missed it, take a look at this quick little video demo of the device that popped up a few days ago.

Watch it and tell us it doesn?t look sweet.

As far as specs are concerned, the PlayBook rocks a 7 inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution, Cortex A9-based, dual-core 1GHz CPU which RIM says is faster than the iPad?s processor, 1GB of RAM, two cameras (one front facing that is 3MP and a rear facing at 5MP), 1080p HD video, HDMI port, 16GB/32GB/64GB versions as well as the ability to run Flash and Adobe Air apps.

RIM is hoping to sell a lot of these and we wouldn?t be surprised if they do.

1. Apple iPad 2/Second Generation iPad

Last and certainly not least, Apple?s rumored update to the original iPad. Will it be called the iPad 2? Will it simply be the iPad once again? Little is known about Apple?s plans but there is a lot of speculation out there.

We recently reported that the iPad 2 could possibly be ready for production in Q1 of next year meaning it has a chance to be out sometime in Q1.

How about features?

Well, it?s said to have two cameras (yes!), retina display, USB ports, and an upgraded ?smart? bezel.

So there they are guys. Unfortunately, this might have spoiled some plans to pick up a Galaxy Tab or an iPad but hey, with something as expensive as a tablet, it?s always smart to weigh your options before you make a decision.

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Fractured Democrats Keep Pelosi as Leader

Ms. Pelosi, who will hand over the speaker?s gavel at the beginning of the new Congress in January when Republicans assume control, defeated Representative Heath Shuler, a conservative from North Carolina, by a vote of 150 to 43. On an earlier vote that some Democrats framed as a proxy on Ms. Pelosi, her supporters beat back an effort to delay the leadership showdown to allow more review of the election by 129 to 68.

Her ability to prevail after a severe midterm drubbing showed deep loyalty among elements of her caucus for the work Ms. Pelosi did to first win and then hold the majority for four years. But the votes for Mr. Shuler and, more tellingly, the substantial support for delaying the election were evidence that Ms. Pelosi is now the leader of a fractured caucus and could have difficulty retaining the tight control she has had on House Democrats in recent years.

After the vote, Ms. Pelosi spelled out why she thought her colleagues were willing to keep her at the top even after Republicans won at least 61 Democratic seats on Nov. 2

?Because I?m an effective leader, because we got the job done on health care and Wall Street reform and consumer protection ? the list goes on,? she said. ?Because they know that I?m the person that can attract the resources, both intellectual and otherwise, to take us to victory because I have done it before.?

On the Republican side, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio was, as expected, picked as the new majority?s candidate for speaker, virtually assuring him of the highest office in the House when the 112th Congress convenes on Jan. 5. He won the right to be the nation?s 61st speaker on his 61st birthday and, adding to the numerological coincidence, the day House Republicans picked up their 61st seat in the election. Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia will serve as majority leader for the Republican Party.

But the chief focus was on the elections in the Democratic ranks, given the steep losses that occurred on Ms. Pelosi?s watch and the public sentiment expressed by more than two dozen Democrats that she should step aside.

Ms. Pelosi, 70, a San Francisco liberal who was first elected minority leader in 2002, became a favorite foil in Republican advertising as the party sought to tie Democratic candidates to her ideology. Moderate lawmakers joined others in the caucus in arguing that Democrats need a new leader if they are to win back the majority in 2012, pointing particularly to difficulties they could have in recruiting candidates in the more conservative districts they will need to take back.

?It?s time for new leadership after the worst electoral defeat since 1948,? said Representative Jim Cooper, Democrat of Tennessee.

Some of the Democrats defeated this month counseled strongly against keeping Ms. Pelosi, and one did not mince words. ?Have they lost their minds?? asked Representative Allen Boyd, a defeated Democrat, as he passed by the Cannon Caucus Room, where the election was occurring.

But her allies said Ms. Pelosi was the party?s best fund-raiser, had been unfairly maligned by Republicans who saw her as too effective and merited the loyalty of House Democrats whom she had led to the promised land of the majority in 2006 after 14 years out of power .

?How can we fold on this woman when she is not folding on us?? Representative Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania asked his colleagues in the closed-door meeting, according to officials present.

Representative Xavier Becerra, a Pelosi ally from California, said, ?She has led us, and she has led us to historic heights.?

Mr. Shuler said that he never expected to win but that he wanted to give his colleagues an opportunity to express their opposition. He said his support exceeded his expectations.

?There was a lot of unrest in the room,? said Mr. Shuler, who said he did not intend to vote for Ms. Pelosi as speaker during a formal roll-call vote at the start of the new Congress. Other conservative Democrats said they would vote for Mr. Shuler instead of Ms. Pelosi even though members of the minority party traditionally vote for their leader in what is a formality.

Supporters of Ms. Pelosi acknowledged the division among House Democrats but said she had the strong backing of most of them. They predicted the issue would fade in the coming weeks.

?When you lose like that, there is no clear answer,? Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, said of the midterms. ?But I don?t think this will be on anyone?s radar screen very long.?

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Reflections on Loss and Acceptance From Those Swept Out of Congress

But as giddy freshmen lawmakers arrived at the Capitol this week ? some of them walking along the elaborately tiled floors for the first time ? some senior lawmakers talked openly of feeling swept away by a tidal wave of voter sentiment.

?I?ve been doing this a long time, and then all of the sudden you?ve been cast aside,? said Representative Michael N. Castle, 71, the Delaware Republican who was defeated in his Senate primary bid by Christine O?Donnell this fall.

He ponders daily, he said, which is preferable: to falter in a tight race with a Democratic opponent, or to have lost in the primary, as he did, to the inexperienced Tea Party candidate who never had a shot in the general election.

?My wife argues it?s almost better to lose the way we did because it all seems so irrational,? he said. ?But you lose, you lose. I wish I could say one way was fun. They?re both pretty bad.?

Over the next weeks, about 70 members ? most Democrats ? will cast their last votes, pack up their offices and head for the door. Some of the biggest names ? Senators Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, and Arlen Specter, Democrat of Pennsylvania ? will join old timers, one-termers and others in their last walks up the stairs of the Capitol, now bathed in the silver light of fall, as elected officials.

The sweep of senior lawmakers from office in one of the largest electoral upheavals of Congress in decades, returning the House to Republican control, is among the most striking of changes in postmidterm Washington. Along with some retirements, ?the cumulative seniority lost is pretty great,? said Burdett Loomis, a political science professor at the University of Kansas.

Denial and bargaining are behind them, and some members who lost seem to have arrived at a shaky acceptance, shaped by their sense that the election was not about them.

?I don?t think the election had very much to do with me, and I don?t think it had much to do with my opponent,? said Representative Rick Boucher, a Democrat who had served Virginia?s Ninth Congressional District since 1983. ?That frustration and anger and desire to send a message transcended the knowledge my constituents had of my work in the district.?

Representative Earl Pomeroy, a Democrat who lost his Congressional seat in North Dakota, concurred: ?I don?t have a feeling of searing personal repudiation.?

Mr. Boucher, 64, says he is even feeling a sense of adventure. ?I?m pretty philosophical about it,? said Mr. Boucher, a part of the Blue Dog routing. ?There is almost a liberating quality looking for a new path in life.?

Perhaps not everyone has reached their postelection state of Zen. Mr. Specter and Mr. Feingold have kept relatively low profiles since their respective losses in the primary and the general elections.

When a reporter asked Mr. Specter in September about the Democrat who defeated him in his primary, he declined to be interviewed, citing a squash engagement. Likewise, Ike Skelton, the powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, chose not to be interviewed about the end of his 34-year career, his spokesman said.

A career in Congress can be long, but the exit from glory is swift. Defeated and retiring members must vacate their offices at the end of the month, so that all freshmen and their staffs can have offices by opening day.

?There?s not much time for a losing candidate to mope,? said Mr. Pomeroy, who will soon head to the Capitol?s basement, where a cubicle with a single phone and computer await him to finish out the lame-duck session.

Over at the office of Representative James L. Oberstar, an 18-term Democrat who lost to a political novice in Minnesota, the maps, certificates and photographs with presidents are still hanging, but some are festooned with yellow Post-it notes indicating where they will end up. His children want copies of bills, and the Minnesota Historical Society will take other items.

Mr. Oberstar, who was tossed out with several state legislators from his area, said he was no match for the ?upfeed? from the powerful Republican ground game that moved against him. ?I expected to leave at some point, that I?d make that decision in due course,? he said. ?I?m not angry; I?m disappointed.?

Perspective has come in many forms. ?It?s fascinating,? said Representative Chet Edwards, Democrat of Texas. ?I received more votes in 2010 than I received in the last nonpresidential year, when I won by 58 percent. More people in my district voted this year than in 2008. It?s just a reflection of what an exception to the rule this election was.?

At the end of his campaign, he said, he was visiting a hospital in his district and ran into a couple who said they were supporters. Inquiring about their visit, he said, they told him: ?We lost our daughter earlier this year as the result of a drunk driver. And now our son has been in the I.C.U. for 30 days because a text-messaging driver ran into his car and amputated his leg.?

Mr. Edwards said: ?I tell you, it took my breath away. After a few tears and hugs, I called my wife and said if our biggest concern is that we have to look for a new job, we?re doing all right.?

For those Democrats who served ony one term, their entire tenure was a mad rush of seemingly politically toxic votes, ending in nearly instant repudiation. Still, who would trade it?

?I wouldn?t take anything for it,? said Representative Dina Titus, Democrat of Nevada, her eyes rimmed red, as she left the House floor the other night. Clutching a pair of high heels, Ms. Titus walked in her stocking feet into the members-only elevator, and the door slid quietly behind her.

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Rumor: Nvidia delays dual-GPU GTX 590 to beat Antilles

With AMD's flagship single-GPU Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 cards due arrive sometime this quarter, one has to expect that Nvidia is preparing a new premium offering -- and one would be right, says Fudzilla. The GeForce-maker is readying a graphics card (possibly branded the GTX 590) with two GF110 GPUs strapped onboard, and it could appear "very soon."

According to unnamed sources, Nvidia partners are practically ready to roll, and the company could launch its dual-GPU product before the end of 2010. Unfortunately, that's unlikely to happen. Word has it that Nvidia is waiting for AMD to ship its dual-chip solution, the Radeon HD 6990 (codenamed Antilles), which is on track for the first quarter of next year.


Nvidia currently holds the crown for single-GPU performance with its GeForce GTX 580, and it seems the company wants to ensure a dominate position in the dual-GPU market as well. By delaying the GTX 590 until after the Radeon HD 6990 arrives, it's suggested that Nvidia will have an opportunity tweak its contender before shoving it into the ring.

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How Brain Imaging Could Help Predict Alzheimer's

Developing drugs that effectively slow the course of Alzheimer's disease has been notoriously difficult. Scientists and drug developers believe that a large part of the problem is that they are testing these drugs too late in the progression of the disease, when significant damage to the brain makes intervention much more difficult.

"Drugs like Lilly's gamma secretase inhibitor failed because they were tested in the wrong group of patients," says Sangram Sisodia, director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago. People in the mid or late stages of the disease "are too far gone, there is nothing you can do."

New brain imaging research may help solve that problem. Two studies presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego this week identified changes in the brains of people who would go on to develop the disease. Researchers ultimately hope to use these changes to select patients for clinical tests of new drugs before they have developed signs of dementia.

"Brain changes that predict progression will hopefully allow us to detect the disease early, before it has caused irreversible damage," said Sarah Madsen, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, at a press briefing at the conference.

Recent research has focused on people with a condition known as mild cognitive impairment, which involves memory loss and other cognitive problems and can be a precursor to Alzheimer's. However, not everyone with this disorder will go on to develop the disease. A reliable method of predicting who will develop Alzheimer's would enable drug developers to focus their clinical testing. By testing drugs only in this carefully selected group, drug makers could more easily see the potential benefit of an experimental drug. It would also help them to avoid unnecessarily subjecting people to health risks.

Sarah George, a graduate student at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, analyzed brain scans of 47 people with mild cognitive impairment, 22 of whom went on to develop Alzheimer's over the next six years. She focused on a part of the brain called the substantia innominata, which is known to be severely affected in Alzheimer's. Existing drugs for treating the disorder target a chemical messenger, acetylcholine, made by neurons in this part of the brain.

While George didn't find differences in the volume of the substantia innominata between the two groups, she did find differences in the parts of the brain that those neurons connect to. People who went on to develop the disease had significant thinning in three connected areas of the cortex involved in memory, attention, and integration of sensor and motor information.

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Coming Soon: Murdoch?s (and Steve Jobs?!) iPad Newspaper, ?The Daily? [TNW Apple]

The name and existence were confirmed during an interview with Fox Business Network where Murdoch claimed The Daily to be one of the company?s most ?exciting projects? (along with the relaunch of MySpace we assume).

Unfortunately the Australian mogul wouldn?t go into specifics but a piece recently published in US elite fashion industry journal Women?s Wear Daily, described The Daily as ?tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence.?

What may come as a bigger surprise is that The Guardian is claiming the project is a collaboration between Murdoch and Apple?s Steve Jobs. That?s the first we?ve heard of Jobs? involvement and so until we hear confirmation from Apple itself, we?re not convinced. We?re sceptical because you would assume Jobs would be aware of the flood of ?conflict of interest? complaints from competing iPad publications if Apple were to invest in a publication for a platform it entirely controls.

A staff of over 100 have reportedly been lined up for the project with three managing editors: Mike Nizza, a veteran of The New York Times, AOL News and The Atlantic; Steve Alperin, a producer at ABC News, and Pete Picton, an online editor at UK Newspaper, The Sun. While the focus will be on old-school reporting, there?ll be a sizeable video and design team as well.

The Daily is expected to cost 99 cents a week, or about $4.25 a month and will reportedly launch in beta mode sometime around Christmas. No print or web edition of Daily will be available, only iPad and tablet versions ? potentially one of these.

Murdoch began his career with a single newspaper and is Chief Executive of News Corp., the third largest media conglomerate in the world, generating revenues in excess of US$30 million per year. While the company operated hundreds of publications, television channels, and websites around the world, Murdoch has made no secret of newspapers being his one true obsession. Lets hope he doesn?t die trying to save them.

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Happy Birthday: Windows turns 25 today

Today, on November 20, 2010, Microsoft Windows turns 25 years old. On November, 20 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0, a 16-bit graphic user environment that was considered to be state-of-the-art at the time. In the two and a half decades that followed, Microsoft became one of the wealthiest companies in the world as Windows turned into the de facto operating system installed on over 90 percent of computers worldwide.

Windows 1.0 fit on just two double-sided floppy disks and needed 256K of RAM (512K if you wanted to run more than one program at a time). It wasn't until Windows 3.0 that the operating system really started to take off, but this is where it all began:

Here's a timeline for the releases of Microsoft Windows operating systems:

  • Windows 1.0: November 20, 1985
  • Windows 2.0: December 9, 1987
  • Windows 2.10: May 27, 1988
  • Windows 2.11: March 13, 1989
  • Windows 3.0: May 22, 1990
  • Windows 3.1: April 6, 1992
  • Windows for Workgroups 3.1: October 27, 1992
  • Windows NT 3.1: July 27, 1993
  • Windows for Workgroups 3.11: November 8, 1993
  • Windows NT 3.5: September 21, 1994
  • Windows NT 3.51: May 30, 1995
  • Windows 95: August 24, 1995
  • Windows NT 4.0: August 24, 1996
  • Windows 98: June 25, 1998
  • Windows 98 SE: May 5, 1999
  • Windows 2000: February 17, 2000
  • Windows Me: September 14, 2000
  • Windows 2000 Advanced/Datacenter Server Limited Edition: August 29, 2001
  • Windows XP: October 25, 2001
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition: October 31, 2002
  • Windows Server 2003: April 24, 2003
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004: September 30, 2003
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: October 12, 2004
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition: April 25, 2005
  • Windows Fundamentals (for Legacy PCs): July 8, 2006
  • Windows Vista (for Business use): November 30, 2006
  • Windows Vista (for Home use): January 30, 2007
  • Windows Home Server: November 7, 2007
  • Windows Server 2008: February 27, 2008
  • Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: October 22, 2009

The software giant has managed to sell 240 million copies of the latest version of its client operating system, Windows 7. The company is just starting to push its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, but the sales are nowhere near the same level.

Let us end by saying a "Happy Birthday!" to Microsoft. May the next 25 years of computing be just as exciting as the world goes mobile.

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