Proving how much it cares about those people who use its app on Linux, Skype has released version 2.2 for Linux. Don't run towards the champagne though, as this is still a beta version, and, as its minor revision number implies, isn't the much-awaited big new version that achieves feature parity with its Windows and Mac brethren.

It's only been what, almost 15 months since the last Skype beta for Linux? Well, during this time, Skype's main focus has clearly been improving its Linux app, since the new version fixes the amazing number of 49 bugs. It also brings 23 'improvements', and yet somehow still manages to have a fair share of 'known issues'. Exciting, no?

What is perhaps the most important feature addition here is the support for Skype Access. This lets you easily connect to paid Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe while paying for them with Skype credit. Skype for Linux has also received support for call waiting and holding, as well as easy conference hosting. Audio and video quality have been boosted (hopefully in a way that's going to be noticeable in day-to-day use), and some of the languages have been updated.

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Skype for Linux gets an update after almost 15 months originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kindlebility is a bookmarklet that can send any Web page you're viewing to your Kindle. Kindlebility will format the websites so that viewing them on the Kindle isn't a pain. Once you've set it up (more on that in a moment), Kindlebility only requires one click to use -- and the pages arrive on your Kindle in seconds.

Before you use Kindlebility for the first time, you have to quickly set it up. This only needs to be done once, and requires that you go to the Kindlebility site and enter your Kindle email address (something @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com). The bookmarklet is then generated for you, and you can drag it to your bookmarks bar. However, you can't use it just yet. You need to go to Amazon, enter your account page, and find the email whitelist under the Manage My Kindle settings. Then just add kindle@darkhelmetlive.com to the whitelist.

That's it. Whenever you're surfing the Web on your computer and find an interesting page that you want to read on your Kindle, just click the Kindlebility bookmarklet. A quick demo video showing you how to set Kindlebility up is after the break.

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Even as bank lending to small businesses decreased in the last three years, lending by credit unions increased. Now, credit unions want Congress to loosen the limits on how much the nonprofit financial institutions can lend to businesses.

A bill introduced by Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) on March 8 would let credit unions increase their small business lending, now capped at 12 percent of assets, to 27 percent.

Credit unions had about $39 billion in outstanding loans to small businesses last year, up from $24 billion in 2006, says Bill Hampel, chief economist at the trade group Credit Union National Association, citing data credit unions report to regulators. The equivalent lending by commercial banks peaked in 2008 at nearly $700 billion and declined to $626 billion in 2010, according to bank regulatory filings. (Both measure loans under $1 million, which the government uses as a proxy for lending to small businesses.)

About two-thirds of the nation's 7,000 credit unions don't do any business lending at all, Hampel says. Of those that do, about 350 are near the cap, meaning business loans constitute between 7.5 percent and 12.5 percent of their assets, he says. Even at 7.5 percent, a credit union will start "tapping the brakes" on business lending and might reach the cap in three years, he says.

Banks oppose lifting the limit, saying that business lending takes tax-exempt credit unions away from their nonprofit mission of serving members. "Credit unions were granted tax-free status to help them serve individuals of modest means, not to get into business and commercial lending," Camden Fine, head of the Independent Community Bankers of America trade group, wrote in a March 3 letter to congressional leaders.

Hampel says lending goes to businesses owned by credit union members, and the average loan size is about $200,000. The 12 percent limit was created in 1998, and it doesn't apply to about 100 credit unions that were major business lenders before then and were grandfathered in. In addition, loans under $50,000 and loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration don't count toward the cap. Attempts to pass a version of the bill last year in the Small Business Jobs Act failed.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2011/03/credit_unions_seek_lift_small_biz_lending_cap.html

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President Obama spoke with King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain today to discuss the ongoing situation in Bahrain.  The President said that the United States, as a long standing partner of Bahrain, believes that Bahrain’s stability depends upon respect for the universal rights of the people of Bahrain, and a process of meaningful reform that is responsive to the aspirations of all Bahrainis. 

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/30/readout-president-obama-s-call-king-bahrain

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Since yesterday’s operation, the President spoke with numerous world leaders who expressed their congratulations on the successful American action to kill Osama bin Laden, which will make both the United States and the world more secure.

Each of the President’s counterparts, including President Calderon, Prime Minister Cameron, Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Piñera, President Santos, and President Sarkozy, congratulated the President, and conveyed admiration for the courage and capability of the Americans who conducted the operation.  The leaders discussed the ongoing terrorist threat that will require steadfast efforts in the future, and committed to working closely together to defeat al Qaeda.

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/02/readout-presidents-phone-calls-death-osama-bin-laden

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It’s a time for joy ? A time for tears ? A time we’ll treasure ? Through the years ? We’ll remember always Graduation Day (song- JAN-1991)

Congratulations on attaining your degree! A special time and a proud accomplishment - You did it! You’re finished! With school that is ? now it’s time to do some learning about the survival techniques in the “World of Work” in a competitive environment. Are you ready to take the next steps?

Hopefully you have a good resume prepared, if not, that will be your first priority! Need help? Many colleges have career centers that are willing to help you with your resume, but if you don’t have that option try the “resume help” of the top job search engines or find a resume expert on Linkedin/Facebook.” The aim of this resume is to create enough interest to garner you an invite for a job interview.

Start by doing research on job postings and companies that may interest you. There are several good job search websites available to assist you in your search and they may give you ideas on places to connect with people in your field of interest. Once your resume is polished the next challenge of course will be getting that resume out to the right people. This may require some new techniques for you and will become your new “job search homework assignment”. Find the sites that interest you and submit or post your resume there.

Scouting through the want ads is important to create your own “wish list” of the type of job you want and a summary of what’s important to you. While times are tougher than ever for new grads, ideally, you will want to find a match with your goals and values.

Source: http://blog.globalbx.com/2011/04/22/pomp-and-circumstance-and-welcome-to-the-world-of-work/

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At 76, Richard Friedman is still a tiger on the tennis court—despite having arthritis. When his knees started seriously aching 15 years ago, he was not about to give up the game. Instead, he went to a rheumatologist who prescribed regular injections of a synthetic joint lubricant, a treatment that so far has the problem under control.

“I play singles four days a week, usually against guys who are 25 years younger than me,” said Brooklyn-raised Mr. Friedman, a stockbroker and lifelong athlete.

Mr. Friedman represents a surge of arthritis patients that has shifted New York City's rheumatology practices into overdrive and has hospitals adding staff and expanding patient-treatment space to meet the growing demand.

All in all, it's a good time to be a rheumatologist, says Dr. Steven Abramson, director of the division of rheumatology and co-director of the Musculoskeletal Center of Excellence at NYU Langone Medical Center.

“Breakthrough medicine has changed the environment,” he explained. “Doctors and patients are less tolerant of chronic disease than they used to be.”

Most of these new arthritis patients are taking advantage of new treatments (medicine didn't have much to offer them 20 years ago). The majority, like Mr. Friedman, have osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease of the cartilage associated with age and athleticism that already affects between 20% and 30% of the U.S. population and is on the rise. Obesity also plays a role for many osteoarthritis patients, with excess weight making joints wear more quickly. Sports-related joint injuries from a patient's younger days can have the same effect.

Source: http://feeds.crainsnewyork.com/~r/crainsnewyork/latestnews/~3/dNJKUIrKrC4/305019984

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The crew in Oslo keeps plugging away at Opera 11.10, and the latest snapshot build includes a number of improvements to Opera's built-in email client -- as well as HTML5-related additions.

On the IMAP front, Opera now supports special folders like sent items, spam, and trash. It also better handles duplicate items in Gmail -- such as those which appear in all mail and under your custom labels.

Opera 11.10 now partially supports the HTML5 File API as well, which means your favorite Web apps (like Gmail) may soon begin adding Opera to the list of supported browsers.

You can download the latest Opera 11.10 snapshot for Windows, Mac, or Linux from the official release post.

Update: The Opera 11.10 RC is now available, as pointed out by SlashZaku in the comments. Thanks!

Opera 11.10 gets HTML5 File API support, IMAP improvements originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yesterday the White House launched its Startup America Partnership, a private sector campaign that is part of recent initiatives by the Obama Administration to better support--and thus wring more jobs out of--high potential ventures.

The campaign isn't limited to early-stage companies or specific sectors or regions. "Our focus is as much on what we think of as 'speedups,' not just startups, says Startup America's chair, Steve Case, best known as co-founder of AOL and an architect of its ill-fated merger with Time Warner. "Our primary focus will be on accelerating the growth of high-growth companies. They have to be demonstrating that they're pursuing some product or service that really has the potential to scale. With the capital or mentoring or partnerships or what have you, they can break through and go to the next level."

Beyond spurring more of this type of 'growth' entrepreneurship, metrics for the campaign's success are fuzzy. "We're soliciting ideas from everybody," says Case, who calls the campaign a "multiyear effort."

While it seems like business as usual for the venture capital arms of large corporations that have committed to invest millions of dollars in participants, Case says "it's a sign companies are willing to step up and encourage entrepreneurship." He acknowledges the campaign "still has a lot of work to do."

Case, chairman of the Case Foundation and CEO of Revolution, which has invested his own money in 20 or so companies such as LivingSocial and Zipcar, says the effort gives him an opportunity to "give back in a broader way; not just focus on the handful of companies and entrepreneurs I work with directly but try to be supportive of the White House's more broad agenda and the country's need."

For entrepreneurs who want to get involved, Case is looking for ideas that justify making Startup America a priority in the White House. "We recognize there are lot of good ideas out there that we're not aware of. We want to make sure we are aware of them before we set our priorities."

Case is most eager to hear about ways to accelerate ecosystems that support entrepreneurship. For example, "MassChallenge, TechStars, and others that are sort of incubators-accelerators: how do you scale them up in markets where they currently exist and bring them to markets where they don't exist? [As an example,] I'll use my own personal experience in Washington, D.C. 25 years ago when we started AOL, there really wasn't an entrepreneurial ecosystem here--now it's developing quite nicely... Which is great but there are a lot of regions where that has not yet happened and we're hoping to nurture that in the years ahead."

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2011/02/steve_case_looking_for_speedups_not_just_startups.html

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A few moments ago, version 2 of the Banshee music player for Linux was released, bringing with it a whole slew of new features, and the addition of an official -- but alpha-quality -- Windows build. The Mac OS X build of version 2 is due later today.

The most notable new feature is support for the Amazon MP3 store -- you can buy and download music from within Banshee -- but unfortunately it's only available in the Linux build at the moment (OS X and Windows support are planned, however). There have also been some significant improvements to artist, album, and queue interactions -- and yes, you can finally right click a track, album or artist and select 'play after' to insert it into the queue.

Beyond actual playback, the user interface has been tidied up -- it now looks a whole lot smarter -- and the Ubuntu One Music Store and SoundMenu extensions have been made official. For a complete list of changes, additions and bug fixes, check the change log.

When Windows support initially appeared in February, we found it rough around the edges and fraught with stability issues. With version 2, Banshee for Windows is still a bit unstable, but it's shaping up to be a good alternative to Winamp, iTunes, or whatever other music library manager you use. It's almost as attractive as its GNOMEish brother, too!

Download Banshee 2 for Linux and Windows (Mac OS X coming soon)

Banshee music player now works in Windows, supports Amazon MP3 downloads originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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