| Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. | |
| Nokia takes on Apple in online software "arms race"
March 9, 2009 at 9:47 am
|
| HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj is betting a wider and more tailored offering of media and software for its phones will prove attractive when its Ovi online store opens in May and goes head-to-head with Apple Inc's App Store. |
| China Mobile in talks with Taiwan firms on roaming services
March 9, 2009 at 2:25 am
|
| BEIJING (Reuters) - China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier, is in talks with Taiwan's three major mobile phone network operators to cooperate on roaming services, chairman Wang Jianzhou said on Monday. | | | 
|
| Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. | |
| DIRTY COP A 'KILLER'
March 9, 2009 at 5:56 am
|
|  
A scandal-scarred former narcotics cop who had agreed to testify against another indicted officer fatally shot his girlfriend in Brooklyn yesterday, police sources said. Jerry Bowens, 43, shot 28-year-old Catherine Donofrio in the head in a... |
| VANCE EARLY TO THE DANCE
March 9, 2009 at 3:23 am
|
| 
Cyrus Vance Jr. didn't wait for Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau's endorsement to lay the groundwork to replace the veteran prosecutor. He started more than a year ago - and that drive likely secured Morgenthau's backing of him over the longtime... |
| COKE STASHED IN DOCTORED PEPPER
March 9, 2009 at 3:04 am
|
| 
Three people bought peppers at a Queens store last night and found them even hotter than they expected - all of them had bags of cocaine inside, police sources said. The peppers were sold at a store on Liberty Avenue in Ozone Park to three... |
| NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 9, 2009 at 3:01 am
|
|
Manhattan A knife-wielding robber swiped $70 from two young women as they stepped out of a cab Midtown - but turned his nose up at their cellphones, police sources said yesterday. The suspect confronted the women, 23 and 24, on East 59th Street... |
| RIHANNA'S 'RECORD' RECOVERY
March 9, 2009 at 2:59 am
|
|
Bruised songbird Rihanna - rarely seen in public since a savage Feb. 8 attack, allegedly at the hands of boyfriend Chris Brown - is easing her way back into work, her producer said. "She's definitely trying to move forward," the "Umbrella"... |
| 'BOLD' FOGY'S BATTLE
March 9, 2009 at 2:58 am
|
|
He's got a name, attitude and history that make him a natural fighter. Nobody messes with Joshua Hope, 89, who spent six years in a Chinese labor camp for standing up against communism - and who's now battling a Manhattan senior-citizen residence... |
| BEYONCE SPARKLES
March 9, 2009 at 2:58 am
|
| 
Oh, man, if A-Rod had hips like these, he'd never get hurt! Beyoncé glitters in TriBeCa yesterday as she shoots a promotional video for her concert tour... |
| RAPE RAP FOR FORMER ISRAEL PREZ
March 9, 2009 at 2:48 am
|
|
JERUSALEM - Israel plans to charge former President Moshe Katsav with rape and other sexual offenses against female employees while he was president and tourism minister, the Justice Ministry said yesterday. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said... |
| SUDAN PREZ: I'LL KICK OUT EVERYBODY
March 9, 2009 at 2:48 am
|
|
EL FASHER, Sudan - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir yesterday threatened to expel more aid groups, diplomats and peacekeepers, while visiting Darfur for the first time since an international court indicted him on war-crime charges. Sudan has... |
| N. KOREA RATTLES SABER AHEAD OF LAUNCH
March 9, 2009 at 2:47 am
|
|
North Korea ordered its armed forces on standby and warned today it will retaliate against anyone seeking to block its planned satellite launch, which many fear will disguise a missile test. The threat was the North's latest attempt to escalate... |
| WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 9, 2009 at 2:46 am
|
|
A penny-pinching senior citizen left the ultimate tip. Bruce Lindsay, 79, known as "the campus grandpa" at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, Calif., died last month and left an estate worth millions to the school, where he dined daily at the... |
| PIONEER IN WINE BIZ IS A GLASS ACT
March 9, 2009 at 2:45 am
|
| 
Many New Yorkers think they know how to hail a Cabernet. But in a city teeming with wine aficionados, there are only a few true masters - and of those, just one woman, 29-year-old Laura Maniec, the youngest ever to become a master sommelier... |
| INTRUDER STABS LI HOUSEGUEST
March 9, 2009 at 2:44 am
|
|
A knife-wielding intruder fatally stabbed a woman who was visiting a friend in her ritzy Long Island home, cops said. Nancy McKinley, 61, died at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital after suffering multiple stab wounds during the early-morning attack on... |
| CONN. MAN IN RARE APE RAP
March 9, 2009 at 2:44 am
|
|
A Connecticut man is scheduled to appear in court today after being cited for illegally owning an endangered ape. Pierce Onthank, 49, of Fairfield, is charged with illegal possession of a pet siamang. A siamang can grow to three feet tall. The... |
| TEEN DIES IN BRAWL
March 9, 2009 at 2:42 am
|
| 
A fight over an insult to a girl ended in tragedy yesterday when a promising high-school student collapsed and died during an early-morning brawl outside Brooklyn's Prospect Park. An 18-year-old was taken into custody. The victim, Sharif... |
| UNHOLY THIEVES HIT ART JACKPOT
March 9, 2009 at 2:42 am
|
|
OSLO - Thieves broke into a church in Norway yesterday and stole a valuable 16th-century painting by the German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder, police said. The culprits climbed a ladder and broke a window to enter the church in... |
| REV. SLAIN IN CHURCH
March 9, 2009 at 2:41 am
|
|
MARYVILLE, Ill. - A gunman walked down the aisle of a church during a Sunday service and killed the pastor, then stabbed himself and two others as parishioners wrestled him to the ground, authorities said. The man walked into First Baptist Church... |
| MONEY TO BERN? TRY THIS BANK
March 9, 2009 at 2:39 am
|
| 
A New York sculptor has paid homage to megaswindler Bernie Madoff by turning the swine into a piggy bank. You can drop a coin in the slot atop the faux-bronze "Ponz," but don't expect to see it again, artist Palmer Murphy said. "The plug at the... |
| BLOWTORCH BUNGLE
March 9, 2009 at 2:38 am
|
|
It was a fast, cheap - and ultimately deadly - decision, federal probers say of a shoddy repair that led to an Upper East Side crane collapse last year. An "inadequate weld" by repair workers in China factored in the May 30 tower-crane collapse... |
| BELFAST PEACE AMID MURDERS
March 9, 2009 at 2:38 am
|
|
BELFAST - The shooting deaths of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland will not throw the province into a new cycle of violence, political leaders vowed yesterday. Gunmen shot the soldiers as they picked up pizzas at the gates of an army base... |
| STATE GOP GIVES RUDY A GOV-RACE DEADLINE
March 9, 2009 at 2:29 am
|
|
State GOP Chairman Joe Mondello has told Rudy Giuliani that he needs an answer by early fall on whether New York City's former mayor is running for governor next year, The Post has learned. Mondello and top aide Tony Santino conveyed the message... |
| BRIDGE TOLLS HIT TROUBLED WATER
March 9, 2009 at 2:28 am
|
| 
ALBANY - Unless five Democratic state senators can be convinced to change their minds, the plan to bail out the MTA by imposing tolls on East and Harlem river bridges is dead in the water, a Post survey has revealed. The holdouts say the $2 toll... |
| 'PIT BULL' LIU IN COMPTROLLER RUN
March 9, 2009 at 2:27 am
|
|
Councilman John Liu yesterday officially joined an already crowded Democratic primary field for city comptroller. The Taiwan-born, Flushing-raised Liu, a former business consultant, promised at a boisterous rally at City Hall that he'd "be a pit... |
| EARNINGS PITCH FOR TRAGIC YANKEE
March 9, 2009 at 2:26 am
|
|
The late Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle would have made more than $50 million from baseball had he lived, his ex-agent Jordan Feagan claims in court papers. About $45 million would have come from Lidle's Major League contracts, and the rest from... |
| DOT-MOMS
March 9, 2009 at 2:26 am
|
| 
I'LL take a hit of scotch in my juice box. Just don't take away my kid. Philippa Smith and Melissa Lawrence are women you'd love to maim: size-zero Upper West Side mothers. These glamorous gals have found the perfect career for overachievers in... |
| CONEY ISLAND PLAN MIGHT NEED TO SEIZE LAND
March 9, 2009 at 2:22 am
|
|
The Bloomberg administration's $2.5 billion plan for revitalizing Coney Island might require seizing beachfront land through eminent domain after all - especially now that negotiations to purchase property needed to build a new boardwalk amusement... |
| POLS: BOOT STAY-LIENS
March 9, 2009 at 2:16 am
|
|
Federal lawmakers are threatening to retaliate against several countries - including Iran, China, India, Jamaica and Vietnam - for refusing to take back some 140,000 of their citizens, including criminals ordered deported after serving their time... |
| IT'S A MOB SCENE
March 9, 2009 at 2:15 am
|
| 
Prison doors will swing open this year for some of the city's toughest mobsters. By an odd coincidence, some of the heaviest hitters from New York's fabled Five Families all have release dates in 2009. "You have proven earners, people who have... |
| HEROES' WELCOME FOR 'WATCHMEN'
March 9, 2009 at 2:14 am
|
| 
"Watchmen" clocked in with $55.7 million in ticket sales to claim the top spot at the box office over the weekend, making director Zack Snyder's movie adaptation of the graphic novel about a team of twisted superheroes the biggest opening of 2009... |
| BIKER KILLED BY 'DRUNK'
March 9, 2009 at 2:13 am
|
|
A 21-year-old Brooklyn construction worker was killed "doing something he loved" early yesterday when a drunken driver in an SUV mowed down his motorcycle, police said. "He loved his bike," said Brian Sitarevich's brother, Dennis. "It makes it... |
| VOUCHING FOR VOUCHERS
March 9, 2009 at 2:12 am
|
| 
WASHINGTON - Last week, 12-year-old Washington, DC, student Fransoir William was appearing with lawmakers in Congress to talk about his excellent private school, which he attends with the help of a government voucher. But soon, if Congress votes... |
| 12,000 IN IRAQ HOMEBOUND
March 9, 2009 at 2:09 am
|
|
BAGHDAD - The United States will cut the number of troops in Iraq by 12,000 in the next six months, military officials said yesterday - a step in President Obama's plan to end combat operations in August 2010. "Two brigade combat teams who were... |
| TOXIC-VAPOR SITES
March 9, 2009 at 2:09 am
|
|
ALBANY - State environmental officials have reopened hundreds of pollution-cleanup sites, finding chemical vapors at 19 that pose possible health threats and require ventilation. Since 2005, the Department of Environmental Conservation has been... |
| PERV GROUP PUTS 10G 'HIT' ON ANDY
March 9, 2009 at 2:08 am
|
| 
ALBANY - A $10,000 In ternet bounty was placed on Attorney General An drew Cuomo's head by a suspected agent of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, The Post has learned. The shocking death threat by the infamous organization of... |
| SEñOR BLOOMY TALKS THE TALK
March 9, 2009 at 2:08 am
|
|
For a long time, it was hard to get Mayor Bloomberg to say more than a few words in Spanish. But as his campaign for a third term gets off the ground, he can't seem to stop speaking it. Bloomberg, 67, has been studying the language since his... |
| KELLY CURBS 'GAY' STINGS
March 9, 2009 at 2:07 am
|
|
Following accusations that vice cops were making dubious arrests of gay men at pornography shops, the NYPD has decided that similar investigations will now have to be approved by the department's higher-ups, sources told The Post. Police... |
| HOME CHEAP HOME FOR BIDDER
March 9, 2009 at 2:06 am
|
| 
In a deal that gives a whole new meaning to "home free," a tidy, three-bedroom brick home got snapped off a city auction block yesterday for a mere $12,500. That's less than $6 a square foot for the roomy 2,092-square-foot house in Weedsport, in... |
| RENTER DEPOSIT-IVE SHE GOT RIPPED OFF
March 9, 2009 at 2:04 am
|
| 
The forecast calls for a summer bummer for a Florida woman who claims her dream Hamptons vacation plans have become a nightmare. Carole Via says a rich developer took her $56,000 deposit for a Bridgehampton mansion although it was to be auctioned... |
| HAMPTONS UNDER THE HAMMER
March 9, 2009 at 2:02 am
|
| 
Desperate times call for desperate auctions. Spurred by tanking East End real-estate prices, a veteran Hamptons broker is putting 15 tony properties on the block - some for as low as half-price. Enzo Morabito of Prudential Douglas Elliman will... |
| THOMPSON RIPS 'TRICKLE DOWN' MIKE
March 9, 2009 at 1:59 am
|
|
Mayor Bloomberg is an out-of-touch billionaire with a "trickle-down Reagan-Bush philosophy" that ignores the middle class, Comptroller William Thompson charged yesterday in his strongest criticism to date. Thompson, a Democrat seeking to derail... |
| DAVE DITHERS ON MTA
March 9, 2009 at 1:58 am
|
|
Gov. Paterson is pushing to restructure the MTA's management, but isn't sure about who should lead the cash-strapped agency. He declined to endorse current boss Elliot "Lee" Sander to become the new chairman and CEO if the Legislature approves... |
| NOTE TO CITY: YULE BE $ORRY AT BONUS TIME
March 9, 2009 at 1:58 am
|
| 
So-called "Christmas bonuses" given to NYPD and FDNY retirees as pension "sweeteners" topped $450 million last year and are poised to be an extra-sour burden on recession-shocked city coffers. Deft bargaining by union officials 40 years ago won... |
| DEAD LI GIRL WANTED TO BE MD
March 8, 2009 at 6:59 pm
|
| 
The family of a Long Island college student killed by a drunk driver as she was headed towards an airport for a mission to Africa to deliver medical supplies yesterday remembered the aspiring doctor as a "special" person. Elizabeth Durante, 20... |
| ILL. PASTOR DEFLECTED GUNSHOT WITH BIBLE
March 8, 2009 at 5:36 pm
|
| 
Illinois State Police say the pastor gunned down at a church in a St. Louis suburb used a Bible to deflect the first of four rounds fired during his Sunday sermon. State Police Director Larry Trent says the Bible exploded, producing what appeared... |
| GUNMAN SHOOTS AT BARBER SHOP, WOUNDS LI TEENAGER
March 8, 2009 at 2:23 pm
|
|
HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) -- Police on Long Island are investigating a shooting at a barber shop that wounded a 15-year-old boy. Police say a the boy was inside the Mi Gente Barber Shop in Huntington Station Saturday night when an unknown... |
| MEGA-AUCTION TO HAMMER IT 'HOME'
March 8, 2009 at 12:05 pm
|
| 
It's New York City's own version of a mortgage bailout - a massive auction today at the Javits Center where banks hope to unload scores of foreclosed homes, some for 60 percent discounts or more. The bidding for one five-bedroom, $550,000 Queens... |
| T.G.I. FRIED DAYS
March 8, 2009 at 6:56 am
|
| 
Give me a cheeseburger, some jalapeno poppers and a bag of cocaine, please. Police padlocked a T.G.I. Friday's in the Financial District after the eatery's workers allegedly turned a blind eye to drug dealing at their bar for at least seven... |
| NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 8, 2009 at 5:49 am
|
| 
Manhattan * Police are asking for help in tracking down a bank robber who was seen on tape after a heist at an Upper West Side bank. The crook marched into the Sovereign Bank on Broadway near West 82nd Street shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday and... |
| IT'S A MOB FAMILY CIRCUS
March 8, 2009 at 5:01 am
|
| 
Charles Carneglia isn't in the Mafia anymore. His hairdresser said so. The accused Gambino hit man, known for his crazy eyes and a penchant for dousing enemies in acid, is using the so-called "withdrawal" defense at his ongoing murder trial in... |
| WELL-HEELED 'THIEF'
March 8, 2009 at 5:00 am
|
|
VISTA, Calif. - A former bookkeeper embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her cabinetry company to make layoffs as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet, authorities claim. Annette Yeomans, 51, surrendered on Friday and was... | | | 
| | |
