Pope's Butler Opened His mouth - Bishops Alerted

Has we all New Pope's Butler Opened His Mouth

Pope's Butler  who is Paolo Gabriele's pledge to cooperate with Vatican City magistrates raises the specter that high modeled ranking prelates may soon be named in the investigation into leaks of confidential Vatican correspondence that have shed a top very light on power struggles and intrigue inside the highest levels of the Catholic Church.

He told on Monday that a cardinal is suspected of playing a major role in the "Vatileaks" scandal. However, the Vatican Lawyer , the Rev. Federico Lombardi, denied the reports. 

He said many Vatican officials were being questioned in the investigation but insisted "there is no cardinal under suspicion."

He also dismissed as "pure white fantasy" a rash of other unsourced reports about the investigation in the Italian media, which have been on a frenzy ever since reports of Gabriele's detention emerged Friday

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Gabriele, the pope's personal butler since 2006, was arrested Wednesday evening after documents he had no business having in his possession were found inside his Vatican City apartment. He remains in custody in a Vatican detention facility, accused of theft, and has met with his wife and lawyers.

Google Can Beat Facebook with Google Plus

How can Google Can Beat Facebook without Google plus 

Its a DIfficult Problem for Google

Google can still win the social war

But only if it  


 A) abandons the operational idea of Google Plus and 


B) empowers the users of its existing products.

As pitched by the town's founder Nat Mendelson, California City would be the home of the American dream, a wonderland for sun and job seekers to go after Los Angeles' population burst across that city's eastern mountains. In 1957, land was purchased; roads were roughly paved; street signs were hammered into place. All Mendelson and his investors needed were the people ...

Who did not arrive as expected

Google, of course, vehemently disputes that the social network is anemic. They say not to trust the methodology of the people who measure public posts. They tell you that more private sharing occurs than public sharing. They say that the service is growing by every metric that matters to Google.
For example, here's what a Google spokesperson told me about one third-party report:
"By only tracking engagement on public posts, this study is flawed and not an accurate representation of all the sharing and activity taking place on Google+. As we've said before, more sharing occurs privately to circles and individuals than publicly on Google+. The beauty of Google+ is that it allows you to share privately - you don't have to publicly share your thoughts, photos or videos with the world."

Yahoo Stops its Own Magazine Site -Livestand Why

Yahoo has Just stopped its Own Magazine Site  Named:  Livestand  Which as just opened shortly before six months

Last month, Yahoo  tells  analysts it would close or combine about 50 services that haven't been performing up to expectations.

That housecleaning plan was drawn up by Yahoo's CEO, Scott Thompson, who lasted at the company for an even shorter period than Livestand. Thompson's four-month stint at Yahoo ended two weeks ago when he stepped down amid a flap over incorrect information on his bio.

Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn hasn't said whether the company still plans to dump as many services as Thompson intended. A Friday post on Yahoo's blog made it clear that more services will be closed, without specifying a precise number.

"When we discontinue products, it will be so that we can focus on opportunities where we lead and where we can create the most meaningful experiences for people using our products, and for our partners, developers and advertisers," the post said.

Yahoo began working on Livestand in 2010 after it became clear Apple iPad was going to be popular. But the tablet magazine didn't hit the market until last November, well after a similar iPad application called "Flipboard" had already attracted a large audience.

Yahoo still had high hopes for Livestand. It was hailed as "sort of a re-imagining of what Yahoo can be," by Blake Irving, the company's chief product officer at the time of the tablet magazine's release. Irving left Yahoo last month after Thompson laid off about 2,000 workers and reshuffled management.

Livestand featured software that could be customized to pull content from Yahoo's own website, and other digital publishers to cater to each user's tastes.

Bulgaria beats Netherlands 2-1 Europe Football

Bulgaria surprised the Netherlands 2-1 on Saturday

A Friendly that showed the World Cup runner-up is struggling to find its trademark fluency ahead of the European Championship.

Substitute Ilian Micanski scored the winning header in injury time. Robin van Persie gave the Netherlands the lead on the stroke of halftime, running onto a pass over the Bulgaria defense by Wesley Sneijder and volleying home with his left foot for his 26th international goal.

Valeri Bojinov went close to giving Bulgaria a shock lead five minutes from the break when he beat goalkeeper Tim Krul with a curling left-foot free kick only to see the ball slam into the bar. The close call appeared to shake the Netherlands into life and Van Persie's clinical finish put the Netherlands ahead seconds later.

But a contentious handball call after the break against Van der Vaart let Popov level the score from the penalty spot. Coach Bert van Marwijk began with English Premier League top scorer Van Persie on the right flank and Bundesliga top scorer Klaas-Jan Huntelaar at center forward but the potentially lethal pairing failed to threaten the packed Bulgaria defense early on.

Van Marwijk also gave a starting spot to 18-year-old debutant Jetro Willems at left back, making him the second-youngest Dutch international after Gerald Vanenburg in 1982. Willems was replaced by Stijn Schaars after just over an hour, as Van Marwijk continued to hunt for his best option on the left of his defense.

Dragon Space Shuttle makes history with space station docking

Dragon Space Shuttle makes history with space station docking

 The private company SpaceX made history with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the commercial sector.

"Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail," Pettit announced once he locked onto Dragon's docking mechanism. NASA's dressed-up controllers applauded. In contrast, their SpaceX counterparts — including Musk — lifted their arms in triumph and jumped out of their seats to exchange high fives.

The company's youthful-looking employees — the average age is 30 — were still in a frenzy when Musk took part in a televised news conference a couple hours later. They screamed with excitement as if it were a pep rally and chanted, "E-lon, E-lon, E-lon," as the 40-year-old Musk, wearing a black athletic jacket with the SpaceX logo, described the day's events.

The docking Friday marked the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station. "There's so much that could have gone wrong and it went right," said an elated Elon Musk, the young, driven billionaire behind Space

After a three-day flight from Cape Canaveral, the Dragon closed in on the space station as two control centers — NASA in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California — worked in tandem. A problem with the capsule laser-tracking system prompted SpaceX controllers to order a temporary retreat, but the problem quickly was resolved.

"This really is, I think, going to be recognized as a significantly historical step forward in space travel — and hopefully the first of many to come." SpaceX still has to get its Dragon back next week with a load of science gear; the retro bell-shaped capsule is designed to splash down into the ocean, in the style of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. But Friday was the crucial step, Musk noted, and NASA agreed the next SpaceX mission could come as early as September.

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit used the space station's 58-foot (17.6-meter) robot arm to snare the gleaming white Dragon as the two craft soared 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Australia, a day after a practice fly-by.

"Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail," Pettit announced once he locked onto Dragon's docking mechanism. NASA's dressed-up controllers applauded. In contrast, their SpaceX counterparts — including Musk — lifted their arms in triumph and jumped out of their seats to exchange high fives.

The company's youthful-looking employees — the average age is 30 — were still in a frenzy when Musk took part in a televised news conference a couple hours later. They screamed with excitement as if it were a pep rally and chanted, "E-lon, E-lon, E-lon," as the 40-year-old Musk, wearing a black athletic jacket with the SpaceX logo, described the day's events.

Alcohol was banned from the premises during the crucial flight operation, Musk noted, "but now that things are good, I think we'll probably have a bit of champagne and have some fun." The crowd roared in approval.

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Facebook IPO Sales Will Increase How

Shares of Facebook were recently off 6.35% to $31.84 and tumbled as low as $30.98 -- 18.5% below the company’s $38-a-share IPO price. Even during the Friday trading debut, Facebook's underwriters had to step in to prevent the shares from breaking issue. 

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Facebook’s highly-anticipated IPO valued the company at a whopping $104 billion -- roughly the same size as Internet veteran Amazon.com (AMZN: 214.29, -2.99, -1.38%) -- despite serious questions about the its ability to lure advertisers and monetize its mobile offerings.

While the social network undoubtedly has characteristics that point to lofty financial metrics down the line, it is also still developing and posted a sequential decline in revenue last quarter.

The Morgan Stanley revenue revision came on the heels of Facebook filing an amended prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission that expressed caution about revenue growth due to a shift to mobile by users,  reported.

The May 9 SEC filing also triggered revenue estimate revisions by fellow underwriters Goldman Sachs (GS: 96.61, -1.43, -1.46%) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 34.07, -0.19, -0.55%).

Yahoo launches New Axis browser

Yahoo launches Axis browser

Yahoo has launched a new browser for Apple’s mobile devices called Axis. The browser, which is also available on desktops through plug-ins for the four major browsers, is designed to let you move between your devices and look at the same searches

Search results show up as thumbnails on users’ home screens, to which you can pin favorites or pages to read later. The home screens also feature what searches you conducted on other devices through Axis, though it takes a couple of minutes to sync. Users will have to sign in to Yahoo accounts to use syncing


On the desktop, Yahoo Axis’ search bar appears in the lower left-hand corner of Web pages to give users easy access to the service.
According to the company’s news release, Axis is supposed to help users find “answers, not links.”
“With Axis, we have redefined and re-architected the search and browse experience from the ground up,” said Shashi Seth, senior vice president of connections for the company, in a release.

The program, which went live at midnight Thursday, did ship with a couple of problems, however. For one, the plug-in went live without its terms of service, CNET reported, an embarrassing goof for the company. In a much more serious issue, the firm was forced to disable its extension for Google Chrome — now the world’s most popular browser — due to security concerns, the Next Web reported.

Blogger Nik Cubrilovic, who also raised the alarm about cookies in Facebook, posted soon after the product’s launch that he’d found a serious flaw in the Axis plug-in for Chrome.

According to Cubrilovic’s post, Yahoo’s extension for Chrome shipped with a security key that allowed anyone to fake a copy of the plug-in, which could be used to collect Web searches and even private information such as passwords. He immediately reported the flaw to Yahoo, and then wrote his blog post.

Yahoo did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the security issue, but the Chrome extension has been replaced, according to the Next Web report.

The technology giant has had its share of troubles in the past month, but has worked hard to overcome the setback of losing chief executive Scott Thompson after questions about a fake degree that he’d claimed on his biography.

With interim Chief Executive Ross Levinsohn in place, Yahoo is trying to move ahead. The firm sealed a deal for its assets in the Chinese company Alibaba on Monday

Back the Old Facebook User Interface A Working Trick

Get Back the Old Facebook User Interface
A Working Trick


Facebook made major changes to its user interface earlier this week, and most of the users found it annoying. They are not just annoyed, but also confused on how the new features function. Users were pretty happy and adapted to the previous UI, which was user friendly and easy to use. However, the new changes to the UI has drawn confusions and put things upside down.

Along with the UI changes, came the real-time updates feature called Ticker. The Ticker basically updates every second with new comments, likesand tags made by friends. It is annoying because users don’t really want to know what exactly is happening over Facebook. For instance, I have 700+ friends on Facebook, and I’m not concerned about who my friend adds or whose comment he/she likes.

According to Facebook, the Ticker, on the right-hand side of your account, lets you see all your friends’ activity in real-time. When you hover over an item on ticker, you can see the full story and join the conversation as it happens. Ticker updates itself as stories happen. This gives you a more complete picture of what your friends are doing, right now.

Real-time updates work great with Twitter, but not with Facebook, and I think Facebook should probably stop copyingfeatures from other social networking sites. Although the new features are annoying, there are ways to revert back to the old Facebook UI, and disable the Ticker as well.

You might have come across blogs indicating the trick to get back the old Facebook UI by changing the preferred language to English (UK), and indeed the trick stopped working as Facebook fixed the issue. However, there is still a way to get back the old UI, and interestingly it works in a similar fashion by changing the preferred language.



How to Back Old Facebook Interface

Change the preferred language to a foreign language other than English (US and UK). For instance, I have changed the language to German. If you’re a Google Chrome user, you will immediately be prompted to translatethe page into English.

Before you click on the translate button, click on the Optionsbutton and select Always translate German to English. Now refresh or open Facebook in a new tab, and you will notice that every time you open Facebook, the page will be automatically translated to English. That way you will see the old Facebook interface and the Ticker disabled.

If you’re a Firefox user, try using the Facebook Translate add-on. However, I’ll definitely update this post if I find an alternate solution for Firefox users.