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Police Shoot and Kill Man Outside Hotel in Times Square New York Times
A plainclothes police sergeant fatally shot a 25-year-old man Thursday morning outside the parking garage of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square following a crackdown on street vendors who were using counterfeit CDs to intimidate tourists, the authorities said. A major police response followed the shooting, which occurred around 11:15 a.m. at 46th Street and Broadway, a tourist-packed intersection, during a weekday morning when the streets were filled with shoppers. Emergency medical workers took the man to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he was first listed in serious condition. Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman, later said that the man had died. The man was not identified, but the authorities said he lived in the Bronx. According to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because an investigation had just begun, the officer was assigned to a detail charged with enforcing regulations governing street vendors and peddlers. The official said the police officers were looking into reports of peddlers who had intimidated tourists with a ruse: They would approach the tourists, ask them their names, write their names on the CDs and then demand payment of $10.

Police end SF State Univ sit-in; 33 arrested Associated Press
Police have arrested several San Francisco State University students who barricaded themselves inside a campus building to protest budget cuts and fee hikes. University spokeswoman Ellen Griffin says university and San Francisco city police entered the Business Building at about 3:15 a.m. and arrested 23 people for misdemeanor trespassing. Ten protesters outside the building were arrested for misdemeanor unlawful assembly and resisting arrests.

BBC iPlayer will be available on new TV set BBC
In total there will be 14 internet channels available on iViewer. A new TV set which offers people the chance to view the BBC iPlayer directly, has launched. The iViewer, from British firm Cello, has built-in internet access, and requires a broadband or wifi connection in order to view net channels. t will be sold exclusively in Marks and Spencer stores until March 1 2010.

LeWeb: ‘Google to buy Twitter’ rumour re-surfaces Telegraph
Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and chairman, has re-ignited rumours that Google could buy the microblogging service. During a panel session entitled: ‘European Gang Live’ at LeWeb 09 in Paris, Mr Dorsey was asked if Google was planning on acquiring Twitter. Instead of denying the possibility as expected, he replied: ‘There have been no announcements.’ Mr Dorsey was then repeatedly questioned as to why he had not flat-out denied the possibility of a deal happening between the two companies. He said, ‘It [the answer] just came to me.’

Whopper of a Lawsuit: Woman Wants Burger King to Pay for Text Messages Miami New Times
Who says teenage stalkers and demanding bosses send the most irksome text messages? Not Elizabeth Espinal. The New Yorker recently sued Miami-Dade’s mammoth supplier of most things fast and greasy, Burger King, claiming the company acted like an ex-boyfriend who couldn’t take a hint: It repeatedly text-messaged her — with spam ads — although she told it to get lost. Espinal’s contention: Burger King “caused actual harm” by harassing her with the “cryptic” messages, according the lawsuit. Espinal was “subjected to aggravation” and made to pay for receiving them. Now she is seeking — get this — $5 million in relief.

Black South Africans Attack ‘Invictus’ IMDb
The upcoming arrival of the critically praised Clint Eastwood movie Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, has touched off a national debate in South Africa over the consequences of racial reconciliation, the London Independent reported today (Wednesday). Sowetan columnist Andile Mngxitama told the newspaper that the movie is likely to please only whites. “The rebellion against apartheid should not have been about rainbows – accommodating the 10 per cent of the population who were white – but about freedom for the majority of South Africans. They live in abject poverty today.”

First implementations of Web Sockets Heise Online
Ajax has enabled developers to make several improvements to their web applications, but it is not the last word on the matter. Under Ajax all communication is still initiated by the browser. Web Sockets, a proposal by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is intended to offer a true bi-directional connection. Interested users can now experiment with the first implementation of the technology.

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