VH1 GIVING ANOTHER DOSE OF ?TOUGH LOVE? AS SERIES IS RENEWED FOR FOURTH SEASON

VH1?s love guru and?Master Matchmakers??Steve and JoAnn Ward will giveviewers another dose of ?Tough Love? as the series is renewed for a fourth season. An all-new group of single women will learn to shed their bad dating habits to find Mr. Right in 2012. Additionally, VH1 will air the one-hour docu-special??Tough Love: The Wards Get [...]

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Correction: Mississippi abortion amendment story

(AP) ? In a Nov. 8 report on voting in Mississippi on a proposed state constitutional amendment limiting abortion, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the United Methodist General Conference had opposed the proposal. The Mississippi bishop of the United Methodist Church voiced opposition, but the General Conference, which last met in 2008, did not take a position.

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Lookout Mobile Security now available internationally

Lookout Mobile Security

Lookout Mobile Security, the free antivirus app, is now available internationally in the UK, Canada, and Australia. Its first international partner will be Australia's Telstra, who will offer the app through its channel in the Android Market. Lookout says that it will soon be available in "many countries", citing the increase in mobile malware as the catalyst for its expansion. In addition to protecting your device from malware, Lookout also locates your phone and backs up your contacts. The premium version offers remote wipe, safe browsing, and advanced backup. Full presser is at the source link, and you can grab Lookout from the market after the break. 

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Lenovo says 1H profit nearly doubled

(AP) ? Lenovo Group, one of the world's leading personal computer manufacturers, reported Wednesday that its profit in the first half of the year nearly doubled on strong emerging market sales.

The company also announced a management reshuffle, as company chairman and founder Liu Chuanzhi stepped down and CEO Yang Yuanqing took on the chairmanship.

Net profit for the half-year period was $252 million, or 2.52 U.S. cents per share, up 92 percent from $131 million a year earlier.

The results built on Lenovo's expansion into mobile Internet, competing with Apple Inc. and other foreign rivals, and in developed markets with an acquisition this year in Germany and a joint venture in Japan.

Lenovo, which acquired IBM Corp.'s PC unit in 2005, overtook Taiwan's Acer Group this year to become the third-largest PC vendor, according to International Data Corp.

The company said improving commercial demand helped make up for weakness in consumer purchases.

After spending the past two years focusing on expanding sales, Lenovo has adjusted its strategy to give equal emphasis to profits.

A "protect and attack" strategy of sustaining its leading market position in China while expanding into other regions with diverse products helped fuel "balanced, strong growth in all geographic segments and products and customer segments," it said.

Lenovo said it held a worldwide PC market share of 13.5 percent in its second fiscal quarter, July-September, a trend that helped it regain a ranking among the Fortune Global 500 companies for the first time since 2008.

Lenovo entered wireless Internet last year and has launched smartphones and Web-linked tablet computers in competition with Apple, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Corp. and Taiwan's HTC Corp.

Liu, who founded Lenovo in 1984, will remain chairman of Lenovo's parent company, Legend Holdings. He also was named "honorary chairman and senior advisor" of Lenovo, "In order to commend Mr. Liu's valuable contribution to the company ... and to benefit from Mr. Liu's tremendous experience," the company said in its notice to the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Yang held the chairmanship of Lenovo from 2005 to February 2009, when Liu returned to help guide the company through the global crisis.

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Singer Adele has vocal cord surgery in Boston (AP)

BOSTON ? Adele has undergone throat surgery to stop a recurrent condition that caused her to cancel tour dates and promotional appearances for the rest of the year.

A spokesman for Massachusetts General Hospital says the British singer underwent vocal cord microsurgery to stop recurrent bleeding from a benign polyp. The condition is usually the result of unstable blood vessels in the vocal cord that can rupture.

The hospital says the 23-year-old Grammy winner came to Boston to undergo the surgery with Dr. Steven Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center. The hospital says Zeitels expects Adele to make a full recovery from the laser microsurgery.

Columbia Records announced last month that the "Rolling in the Deep" singer would have throat surgery.

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PFT: Colts' Clark has 'significant' leg injury

Stanford University Luck scrambles away from University of Southern California Harris during their NCAA game in Los AngelesReuters

Professional football is coming back to Los Angeles.

Sort of.

The NFLPA will hold a game in Los Angeles on January 21st featuring 100 draft eligible players split into two teams coached by Super Bowl winners Tom Flores and Dick Vermeil. The two men haven?t faced each other in a game since Super Bowl XV, when Flores? Raiders beat Vermeil?s Eagles 27-10 in New Orleans.

?The NFL Players Association wants this to be more than just a game, they want it to be a NFL educational experience,? Vermeil said. ?This will be these players? first introduction to the National Football League without the pressure of making a team in training camp. By the time they are drafted and go to training camp they will have an understanding of what?s expected of them, having worked with NFL coaches and players for a week. There won?t be anything like this.?

Arash Markazi of ESPNLosAngeles.com has all the details on the game, which will feature a week of practices with current and former NFL players who will counsel players on what to expect when they move up to the professional level. That makes the game, which will be called the AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate Bowl, similar to the Senior Bowl but there is one big difference.

The NFLPA game will also be open to underclassmen who make themselves available to the draft. That could mean players like Andrew Luck, Landry Jones and Justin Blackmon could play in the game, although it is far too early to start speculating on just which players will declare and whether they would put themselves into the game.

The other big thing about the game is the location. It will take place at the Home Depot Center, home of the MLS? Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA, but it is impossible to take any forays into Los Angeles as mere coincidence given how much chatter there is about putting a team back into the city. The fact that the Home Depot Center is owned by AEG, the group trying to build a new NFL stadium in the city, is another sign that there?s something more afoot here. NFLPA executive director Clark Gaines admitted there was some ulterior motive in an interview with Markazi.

?L.A. has not had a professional football presence for many years and we thought it would be a perfect opportunity now that they are trying to bring football back to L.A.,? Gaines said. ?This might be a boost in that effort. Having a team in L.A. is very important and if we can help in any way we will.?

Whether or not this game helps that cause remains to be seen, but there will be an NFL vibe in L.A. next January for the first time in a long time.

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Dish Network 3Q earnings climb 30 percent (AP)

NEW YORK ? Dish Network Corp. posted another loss of subscribers from its slowly dwindling satellite-TV business, even as larger competitor DirecTV adds to its base.

Investors, however, were cheered by the announcement of a $2 per share special dividend.

Dish shares rose $1.18, or 5 percent, to close at $24.66 Monday after rising as high as $25.15 earlier. The stock price reflects a calculation by investors that the dividend didn't quite make up for the results, which missed analyst expectations.

Dish declared a similar $2 per share special dividend in 2009. It doesn't pay a regular dividend.

Driving the decision to pay out a dividend, said chairman Charles Ergen, was speculation that taxes on dividends will increase.

"We'd looked at some other investments and acquisitions and weren't able to do those, so you put all those things together and a non-recurring dividend made some sense," Ergen said.

Dish's subscriber losses translated into higher net income for the quarter, as it avoided the short-term cost of getting new subscribers set up with dishes and set-top boxes.

The Englewood, Colo., company said its net income climbed 30 percent to $319.1 million, or 71 cents per share, in the three months that ended Sept. 30. That's up from $244.9 million, or 55 cents per share, a year ago.

Analysts polled by FactSet were on average expecting earnings of 74 cents per share.

Revenue rose 12 percent to $3.6 billion from $3.2 billion a year ago, chiefly because of the acquisition of the Blockbuster video-store chain in April. Analysts were on average expecting revenue of $3.64 billion.

The period was the first full quarter of results for Blockbuster after the acquisition. The division essentially broke even on $347 million in revenue. Chief Financial Officer Robert Olson said its profitability was inflated because Dish bought the stores and their DVD inventory for less than book value. As the company buys new DVDs, that effect will diminish, and the stores will start posting losses again unless Dish figures out a way to improve profitability.

Olson said the company's goal is to have the stores at least break even while it tests new marketing ideas, some of which include the satellite-service. Dish has already launched a Blockbuster-branded Internet TV service for its satellite subscribers.

Dish lost a net 111,000 satellite subscribers in the quarter. That was mainly because fewer new subscribers signed up, rather than accelerated losses. But the loss rate is still high, something the company blames on competitor's aggressive promotions.

Analyst Mike McCormack at Nomura Securities also noted that the average monthly fee per subscriber was just $76.99, well below his estimate of $78.84, saying that was "of particular concern."

DirecTV Group Inc. last week reported adding a record 327,000 subscribers in the third quarter, greatly helped by its exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket.

Dish ended the quarter with 13.9 million subscribers, the same number it had two years ago. That makes it the third-largest provider of paid TV signals to U.S. households. DirecTV had 19.8 million, making it second only to Comcast Corp. as a pay-TV provider.

The dividend will be paid Dec. 1 to shareholders of record on Nov. 17.

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HIV study identifies key cellular defence mechanism

ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2011) ? Scientists have moved a step closer to understanding how one of our body's own proteins helps stop the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) in its tracks.

The study, carried out by researchers at The University of Manchester and the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research and published in Nature, provides a blueprint for the design of new drugs to treat HIV infection, say the researchers.

Scientists in the United States and France recently discovered that a protein named SAMHD1 was able to prevent HIV replicating in a group of white blood cells called myeloid cells.

Now, crucially, the teams from Manchester and the MRC have shown how SAMHD1 prevents the virus from replicating itself within these cells, opening up the possibility of creating drugs that imitate this biological process to prevent HIV replicating in the sentinel cells of the immune system.

"HIV is one of the most common chronic infectious diseases on the planet, so understanding its biology is critical to the development of novel antiviral compounds," said Dr Michelle Webb, who led the study in Manchester's School of Biomedicine.

"SAMHD1 has been shown to prevent the HIV virus replicating in certain cells but precisely how it does this wasn't known. Our research has found that SAMHD1 is able to degrade deoxynucleotides, which are the building blocks required for replication of the virus.

"If we can stop the virus from replicating within these cells we can prevent it from spreading to other cells and halt the progress of the infection."

Co-author Dr Ian Taylor, from the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research, added: "We now wish to define more precisely, at a molecular level, how SAMHD1 functions. This will pave the way for new therapeutic approaches to HIV-1 and even vaccine development."

The study was funded by the Medical Research Council, the European Union Seventh Framework Programme and the European Leukodystrophy Association.

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