Moby's Private Location Sharing App Released for Android [Updates]

Moby's Private Location Sharing App Released for AndroidAndroid/iOS/Blackberry: Private location sharing app Moby has been available for Blackberry and iOS for some time, but an Android version was released today.

Moby is a private system, so you only reveal your location to people you trust. It's a simple setup that's easy to turn on and off, and now that it's cross-platform, your friends and loved ones don't need to have the same type of phone for it to be usable. Unlike similar apps, Moby is billed more as a safety app than a social one, so many of the features are geared toward families.

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Bangkok braces but safe so far from floods (Reuters)

BANGKOK (Reuters) ? Relief workers reinforced barriers on Sunday to help defend Thailand's capital, Bangkok, from the country's worst floods in half a century and efforts were stepped up to protect a huge industrial estate to the city's north.

Despite heavy rain in parts of Bangkok late on Saturday, areas inside the defensive system of dikes and canals have so far been spared the flooding that has devastated a third of the country, killing at least 297 people and causing about $3 billion in damage.

The north, northeast and center of Thailand have been worst hit and Bangkok -- much of it only two meters (6.5 ft) above sea level -- is at risk as water overflows from reservoirs in the north, swelling the Chao Phraya river that winds through the densely populated and low-lying city.

The river was reported to be at a record high level of 2.15 meters (seven feet) at one point on Saturday but the embankment wall running along it in inner Bangkok is at least 2.5 meters high and has been raised along vulnerable stretches.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has sought to reassure residents they should be safe but people have still stocked up on bottled water, instant noodles, rice and canned goods, emptying shelves in some major markets.

Many have parked their cars in elevated garages and piled sandbags in front of shop-houses and homes.

Water from the north approached Bangkok over the weekend, coinciding with high estuary tides that hamper the flow of water into the sea.

"We will protect strategic areas and the heart of the economy such as industrial zones, the central part of all provinces and the Thai capital as well as Suvarnabhumi Airport, industrial estates and evacuation centres," Yingluck said on Saturday, referring to Bangkok's main international airport.

On Sunday, the focus was on Nava Nakorn industrial estate in Pathum Thani province north of Bangkok, which is standing in the way of one flow of water toward the capital.

Thai media reported that some 600 soldiers and workers from the estate, Thailand's oldest with more than 200 factories, were working round the clock to strengthen its walls and divert water.

Nation TV reported that water was just 10 cm (four4 inches) below the top of the estate's 4.5 meters high wall.

Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani and Nakhon Sawan provinces north of Bangkok have been devastated. Floods have swallowed up homes and swamped three huge industrial parks, including the Bang Pa-In estate on Saturday in Ayutthaya.

Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd has shut its Ayutthaya plant, which accounts for 4.7 percent of its global output, and says it will stay closed until October 21.

(Additional reporting by Jutarat Skulpichetrat and Pracha Hariraksapitak; Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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US ventures into bloody Africa conflict

(AP) ? The United States is venturing into one of Africa's bloodiest conflicts, sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to support a years-long fight against a guerrilla group accused of horrific atrocities.

The Obama administration said the troops will advise, not engage in combat, unless forced to defend themselves.

In a letter to Congress, President Barack Obama said Friday that the troops will assist local forces in a long-running battle against the Lord's Resistance Army, considered one of Africa's most ruthless rebel groups, and help to hunt down its notorious leader, Joseph Kony.

The first of the troops arrived in Uganda on Wednesday, the White House said, and others will be sent to South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

While the size of the U.S. footprint is small, Obama's announcement represents a highly unusual intervention for the United States. Although some American troops are based in Djibouti and small groups of soldiers have been deployed to Somalia, the U.S. traditionally has been reluctant to commit forces to help African nations put down insurgencies.

It demonstrates the Obama administration's escalating attention to and fears about security risks in Africa, including terror networks, piracy and unstable nations. The move was intended to show some engagement to lessen the impact of one of the worst protracted wars in Africa.

Obama declared his decision to send troops as in keeping with the national security interests of the United States. The White House announced it in a low-key fashion, releasing the Obama notification and justification of the troop deployment that the president sent to congressional leaders.

Pentagon officials said the bulk of the deployment will be of special operations troops, who will provide security and combat training to African units. The move raises the profile of U.S. involvement on the continent ? and represents an apparent victory for administration officials who have argued for more robust intervention in humanitarian crises.

The change in policy could reflect the long-standing concerns of a number of high-ranking Obama advisers left scarred by the U.S. failure in the 1990s to intervene to stop the genocide in Rwanda and the belated action to finally halt the violence in Bosnia. For a current parallel, the Lord's Resistance Army's 24-year campaign of rebellion, rape and murder represents one of the world's worst human rights crises today.

Coming off the administration's successful, if limited, intervention in Libya, the Uganda deployment represents a continued effort by Obama to use military force for humanitarian protection in areas where atrocities are occurring. Sending 100 troops may not be significant in terms of military numbers, but the composition of the force gives the United States a new counterterrorism foothold in a region of the world with terrorist networks, pirates and unstable nations.

A special forces unit can be highly effective beyond what the number of soldiers might suggest. They are highly skilled in disrupting insurgency networks by discovering where rebels are based and how they procure guns, money and other logistical support.

The Lord's Resistance Army has been pushing westward since it began its attacks years go, and the administration and human rights groups say its atrocities have left thousands dead and have put as many as 300,000 Africans to flight. They have charged the group with seizing children to bolster its ranks of soldiers and sometimes forcing them to become sex slaves.

Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court under a 2005 warrant for crimes against humanity in his native Uganda. A self-styled prophet, who mixes Christian mysticism with politics, he is believed hiding along the Sudan-Congo border.

Most of the troops will deploy to regional capitals to work with government officials and military commanders on countering the rebels and protecting civilians, Pentagon officials said.

In recent months, the administration has stepped up its support for Uganda, which has played a key role in battling extremists in Somalia.

In June, the Pentagon moved to send nearly $45 million in military equipment to Uganda and Burundi. The aid included four small drones, body armor and night-vision and communications gear and is being used in the fight against al-Shabab, an al-Qaida-linked group that U.S. officials see as an increasing threat and that African peace-keeping troops in Somalia have been battling to suppress.

At the State Department, officials portrayed the new troop deployment as part of a larger anti-LRA strategy that dates to the Bush administration but also includes legislation passed by Congress this year.

Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda's military spokesman, said of the troops: "We are aware that they are coming. We are happy about it. We look forward to working with them and eliminating Kony and his fighters."

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Associated Press writers Ben Feller, Matthew Lee, Lolita C. Baldor, Erica Werner and Donna Cassata in Washington and Godfrey Olukya in Kampala, Uganda, contributed to this report.

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French left picks presidential runner, Hollande (Reuters)

PARIS (Reuters) ? French left-wingers began voting on Sunday to decide who will lead their challenge to unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy in an election next year, with moderate Socialist Party veteran, Francois Hollande the favorite to win.

In a U.S.-style primary, the first of its kind in France, voters will choose between Hollande, who has never held a national government post, and Martine Aubry, one-time labor minister, architect of France's 35-hour week and daughter of the former European Commission President Jacques Delors.

Opinion polls give Hollande a lead of six percentage points over Aubry in a ballot that decides which of the two will run in a presidential contest that the Socialists have not won since Francois Mitterand was re-elected in 1988.

The polls suggest French voters are ready to put the left back in power after five years of conservative Sarkozy, who is unpopular but widely expected to seek another five-year term.

The left's runaway favorite to become president had been former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn but his IMF career and presidential hopes were halted when he was arrested in New York in May on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. The charges have since been dropped.

The ease with which Hollande and Aubry have filled his shoes suggests that many voters are simply weary of Sarkozy and his economic policies.

Voters living abroad or in some French overseas territories were first to cast their ballots and the bulk of almost 10,000 polling stations opened at 0700 GMT on mainland France. They were set to close at 1700 GMT, with preliminary results are expected a few hours later.

CONCILIATORY NOTE

Hollande and Aubry sparred in the days before the primary but Aubry seized on France's World Cup rugby semi-final win over Wales to sound a conciliatory note ahead of Sunday's vote.

"When it's time for the post-match session, everyone parties together," she told reporters. "That's how it'll be on Monday."

She dismissed polls that show Hollande scoring 53 percent of the vote to her 47 percent, preferring to highlight declarations of support from several prominent environmentalist politicians.

In a primary inspired by the momentum that carried Barack Obama to the White House, the Socialist Party has organized a two-round contest where anyone who pays a euro and declares allegiance to left-wing values can vote.

More than 2.6 million people voted in the first-round last Sunday, when anti-globalization hard-liner Arnaud Montebourg scored a surprise 17 percent.

Hollande, who promised in the ensuing days to crack down on banks and financial market excess, has consolidated his position versus Aubry by securing the support of the four contenders knocked out in round one, including Montebourg.

Hollande, seen by many as more center-left, won 39 percent of the first-round vote, versus 30 percent for Aubry, often labeled as a more old-school Socialist. The four candidates knocked out -- including Segolene Royal, Hollande's former companion and mother of his four children -- got close to 30 percent.

But both Hollande and Aubry share the main tenets of a Socialist Party manifesto that promises to scrap 50 billion euros of tax breaks that mostly went to the wealthy under Sarkozy, using half of this money to fund state jobs and promote growth, with the rest to cut the deficit.

Sarkozy, who took power in 2007 after 12 years of Jacques Chirac, has yet to declare a re-election bid.

Opinion polls show him trailing either Hollande or Aubry in the election which takes place in two rounds on April 22 and May 6, followed weeks later by a parliamentary election.

(Reporting By Brian Love; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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Romney hits China on trade practices with US

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Microsoft headquarters Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Microsoft headquarters Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Microsoft headquarters Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Microsoft headquarters Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Protesters chant in front of a downtown Seattle hotel to protest the appearance of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. About 50 Occupy Seattle protesters made the walk of a few blocks from Westlake Park to the downtown hotel where the former Massachusetts governor was holding a private fundraiser. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, smiles as he is handed Alexandria McDonald, 6-months-old, by her father Orville McDonald following a talk at Microsoft headquarters Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Wash. McDonald is a product manager, on paternity leave, at Microsoft. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(AP) ? Mitt Romney accused China of stealing American inventions and assailed the nation's currency policies Thursday, playing to voters' economic fears amid worries about another recession.

In a speech at Microsoft's headquarters, Romney repeated calls for a new free-trade zone among countries that agree to respect those intellectual property rights and called for broader punishments for China if they don't allow their currency, the yuan, to appreciate in value.

Romney didn't offer any new proposals, instead using the speech to hit China's trade practices. He said China's currency manipulation has cost "millions of jobs" in the U.S.

"I want to make sure that people we trade with follow the rules and if someone consistently cheats, I want to make sure they understand that can't go on," he said.

China's government controls the value of its currency against the dollar, a practice that makes Chinese products cheaper in U.S. markets and U.S. goods more expensive in China. U.S. manufacturers say the currency manipulation hikes the price of American imports by as much as 40 percent.

Romney also harshly criticized China for ignoring U.S. copyright laws, accusing it of counterfeiting American designs, technology and pirating software.

The Chinese are "stealing . . . intellectual property, appropriating it at no cost, duplicating and selling it around the world," he said. "There's also hacking going on, where Chinese companies or even the government itself, perhaps, hacks into computers to steal technology."

U.S. officials have long pointed to China as one of the leading safe havens for cybercriminals, or government-sponsored or tolerated hacking.

China has said that allegations of cyberespionage against U.S. companies were groundless, and the sources of Internet attacks are notoriously difficult to pin down.

Amid stubbornly high unemployment and a persistent economic recession, the GOP presidential candidates have often attacked China as they seek to convince voters they can create jobs and turn the economy around.

China's monetary policy has come under fire in Congress, too. The Senate this week passed a bill to impose higher tariffs on China if they don't allow their currency to gain value more quickly. That bill is unlikely to pass the House, where Republican leaders have opposed it.

Romney said if elected president he would immediately label China as a currency manipulator. He also wants American trade authorities to consider China's currency policies as a subsidy on Chinese goods, which would allow the U.S. to put a countervailing subsidy on Chinese imports.

Democrats say Obama has repeatedly pressured China to stop manipulating its currency.

"A year ago, Romney hit Obama in (Romney's) book for being too tough on China. Now Mitt's a trade warrior? Should he have called his book No Shame!" top Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Romney rival Jon Huntsman, a former ambassador to China, has also criticized Romney's trade proposals. "I don't subscribe to the Don Trump school or the Mitt Romney school of international trade. I don't want to find ourselves in a trade war," Huntsman said during Tuesday's debate in New Hampshire.

Economists largely agree with Huntsman; the policy debate among Republicans ? Democrats, too ? is whether that risk is worth it. Opponents of confronting China worry about a trade war that the fragile global economy cannot afford.

China may have more to lose than the U.S. if trade in goods were curtailed. But Washington depends heavily on China to buy U.S. Treasury securities to help finance its budget deficits.

As part of his Thursday trip, Romney also held a fundraiser at a downtown Seattle hotel ? and was confronted by demonstrators from the Occupy Seattle protest, one of the demonstrations across the country that have grown out of New York's Occupy Wall Street protests.

Before his trade speech, Romney met privately with Microsoft executives, including chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Romney also on Thursday announced that Carlos Gutierrez, who served as commerce secretary under President George W. Bush, will become his top trade adviser.

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Kasie Hunt can be reached on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kasie.

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Sleepy Jack arrives exclusively on Xperia Play for a limited time

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Another day, another Xperia Play exclusive. This time it's the popular iOS game Sleepy Jack that's coming to Sony Ericsson's PlayStation-certified device before any other Androids. Sleepy Jack is a 3D flying game where players must guide Jack through a series of dream worlds, collecting Zs as they go. We had a chance to try out a pre-release version of the game on Xperia Play last month and were really impressed with the level of polish and overall smoothness of the game.

Xperia Play owners can also get Sleepy Jack at a reduced price -- just £0.99 (~$1.55) -- for a "very limited" time. There's no word on how long it'll be before other Android devices are able to play Sleepy Jack, but in the meantime Xperia Play owners can find the Market link and QR code after the jump.

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Human Rights Working Group Meets under New Terms of Reference

(Geneva) ? The United Nations Global Compact?s Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) met on 28-29 September in Geneva to discuss how to promote respect and support for human rights among the Global Compact?s participant base and in business more generally. The multi-stakeholder group, which is co-chaired by Global Compact Board members Sir Mark Moody-Stuart and Pierre Sane, comprises representatives of business, civil society, trade unions, the UN, and academia. The HRWG was recently relaunched under revised Terms of Reference (TOR) that articulate clearer rules of engagement and accountability measures for the group?s members.

Following UN Human Rights Council?s endorsement of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights implementing the UN Protect, Respect, Remedy Framework, promotion of the Guiding Principles, which elaborate the respect dimension of Global Compact Principle 1 has been included in the revised TOR.

At the Geneva meeting, the HRWG addressed a range of topics across its four work streams on tools and guidance, good practices, special initiatives, and Local Networks, with many working group members volunteering for tasks under one or more of these work streams. Currently under development is guidance on the human rights dimensions of communications on progress (the UN Global Compact?s annual reporting requirement for participants), and good practice notes and case studies covering responses to a wide variety of business and human rights challenges and opportunities. Initiatives with UN Women on women?s empowerment and with UNICEF and Save the Children on children?s rights were also covered and attracted new interest from business representatives. The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro (RIO+20) was also discussed as an important opportunity to promote business and human rights as an essential component of social sustainability and thus sustainable development.

The diversity of the UN Global Compact?s large number of participants and stakeholders across the globe as well as its country networks ? which now number nearly 100 ? were recognized as important vehicles to promote better understanding and implementation of human rights among businesses around the world. The HRWG includes a number of Local Networks representatives and focal points who expressed strong interest in further collaboration. The meeting participants also noted the importance of integrating human rights into curricula for business education, and a new social network for professors of business and human rights was highlighted.

The report of the meeting will be available later in October.

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