Technology
Xbox Music Gets Update But Can’t Match iTunes
It’s time for Microsoft to quit with Xbox and deliver a first-rate music player for Windows Phone By Stephen Pate – Microsoft updated Xbox Music ……Read More
Lifestyle
Books
Arabic Translator Barbara Romaine Among 20 to Receive NEA Translation Grants
The US-based National Endowment for the Arts has announced the latest round of literary translation fellowships: The NEA named 20 translators of fiction, creative nonfiction, and ……Read More
Immigration
High-Tech H-1B Employers Take Two Indirect Hits
The big H-1B employers in Silicon Valley took two unrelated and indirect hits recently. The biggest damage came last week from a federal judge’s decision ……Read More
Books
Canongate to Pubish ‘Unclassified’ Version of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Memoir
Bookseller reported yesterday that Canongate had acquired a 466-page memoir written by Mauritanian Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, which Slahi finished in 2006, but which had apparently ……Read More
Community
Supporting Jews, Hindus urge France to rename “Death to Jews” hamlet
Hindus have come out in support of Jews in asking France to change the name of its “Death to Jews” (La Mort aux Juifs) hamlet, ……Read More
Books
Walks and Readings Around Pittsburgh Feature Iraqi, Syrian Poems
“Digital Sanctuaries Pittsburgh” launched last week — Aug. 7-9 — on that city’s north side, in a garden-to-garden walk featuring the work of acclaimed musicians and ……Read More