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Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley says Downtown-based Catholic Health Partners (CHP) is seriously considering a site in Bond Hill for 2,000 of its corporate employees, reports The Cincinnati Enquirer’s city hall reporter Cindi Andrews. CHP is Ohio’s largest health system, with more than 33,000 employees. Locally, it owns Mercy Health – the largest hospital operator in […]
It has been a long time coming, but details around the new .London domain have surfaced today – yes, April 29 is the day you can procure your very own localized city-branded Web address.
This actually makes the UK capital one of the first cities in the world to officially unveil its new domain. The domain was secured by key city representatives in a deal with ICANN back in 2013, and the Internet body is launching around a thousand new generic top-level domains in total.
A YouGov survey found that more than 200,000 firms will stake their claim to the new .London addresses, and April 29 will herald the start of a three-month phase that gives Londoners priority in terms of reserving their desired .London address – trademark-owners will also be given priority. You can garner more details on the new .london domain here.
➤ New Dot London Domain Launches April 29 | Press Release
While there’s no shortage of mobile apps for discovering new music, that doesn’t stop a steady stream of new incarnations hitting app stores around the world.
The latest one to hit our radar goes by the name of Musx, an iPhone app that taps YouTube’s gargantuan arsenal of music to create a social network of sorts around good tunes. While that may not sound overly innovative on its own, Musx does actually bring a nicely designed app to the table.
The problem, as Musx sees it, is this. While there are many services that cater for individual listening – Spotify, Rdio, YouTube and many, many more – when it comes to sharing a song, they all rely on social platforms such as Facebook. But people typically don’t visit social networks to listen to music, and these networks don’t save or record music that is shared, thus they tend to get lost in the foggy ruins of time. This is where Musx wants to help.
You can view a ‘what’s popular’ stream from strangers, or manually search for songs, adding to playlists or queuing them up to play automatically. While this is something that YouTube itself is becoming more proficient at, Musx also lets you connect with friends directly.
Via the gift of Facebook, Twitter and your phone’s contacts, you can search for buddies already using the service – which, given Musx is still a fledgling platform, may not be many. It certainly wasn’t many in my case.
This could become a great music bookmarking and playlisting service for groups of friends. For now, it’s a good alternative to searching for and saving music you like on YouTube, while also getting a glimpse into trending tunes. However, you probably wouldn’t use this for discovering the latest, greatest new band. There are better apps for that.
Musx shows promise though. You can network with strangers, reshare music, add comments and give a thumbs-up. It’s like Facebook-meets-Instagram-meets-YouTube-meets… you get the picture.
Overall, Musx has been very well designed and thought-out and it’s certainly worth checking out. It’s optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, and is available to download from the App Store now.
Bitstamp, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world, plans to enable withdrawals again later today. The Slovenia-based firm suspended this transaction type earlier in the week because of a denial-of-service (DOS) attack.
The Bitcoin exchange says it’s been working with “core” Bitcoin developers on a fix, which has now passed its internal tests and audits. Withdrawals were suspended until further notice last Tuesday (February 14) after it detected a number of “inconsistent results” in its Bitcoind wallet.
Bitstamp has cited “misunderstandings” related to its Bitcoin wallet implementation as the reason why it was vulnerable to a DOS attack. “No funds have been lost and no funds are at risk,” Bitstamp said in a statement.
Mt. Gox, another popular Bitcoin exchange, halted withdrawals indefinitely seven days ago after spotting “unusual activity” on its own Bitcoin wallets. It described the problem as a “bug” which allowed users to claim that a Bitcoin transfer didn’t take place, when in fact it did. This could create a loophole where the payment was sent a second time, incorrectly.
“Since the transaction appears as if it has not proceeded correctly, the bitcoins may be resent,” Mt. Gox explained.
We have reached out to Mt. Gox to find out whether it’s readying a similar fix for its own Bitcoin exchange and if so, when it hoped to begin processing withdrawals again.
➤ Bitstamp (Statement)
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Way back in October, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 1320, a six-inch, 720p phablet with a 5-megapixel camera and a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor. And today, Nokia confirmed it’s arriving in the UK from February 24 with EE, Virgin Mobile and Carphone Warehouse, as well as a slew of other online retailers.
The Carphone Warehouse is now listing the device starting from £21 a month with an expected delivery of February 27, and pre-orders are open now. Pricing and actual availability for EE and Virgin Mobile has yet to be confirmed.
