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Statement From Scoop Media Limited Publisher Alastair Thompson

Scoop Media Ltd. regrets that an investment from Sublime Group in Scoop Media Limited will not proceed at this time.

On Monday 24 February operational control of Scoop Independent News returned to the Scoop Media Limited shareholders.

The team running Scoop has now returned to normal, Scoop Co-Founder Alastair Thompson has returned to Scoop as Publisher and Editor, Gordon Campbell continues on as Political Editor & Werewolf Editor and Lyndon Hood remains News Editor.

Scoop co-founder Alastair Thompson said today:

"Scoop Media Limited's shareholders regret that the investment proposition which we had been working on for the past year has been unable to proceed at this time.

"In 2014, Scoop Independent News will report on its 6th election. It is fast shaping up to be the most interesting and important election Scoop has been around to report on.

"In this election year Scoop's mission to report without fear or favour on New Zealand news and provide an open public platform for all voices ( excepting those who engage in defamation and hate speech ) remains as important as it has ever been.

"Looking towards the 2014 Election Scoop has recently enhanced products and services which enable businesses and civil society to participate in the National Debate.

"Scoop has a highly experienced political & digital communication team which can help provide effective marketing and communication solutions which reach New Zealand's influencers."

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In March 2012, Rupert Murdoch flew to Ankara and spent an hour chatting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan about investing in Turkey.

It wasnt his first foray into the country. Murdochs News Corp., which at the time owned film, television and newspaper companies from North America to Europe and Australia, had bought a stake in one television channel in Turkey in 2006. In 2008, News Corp. had been interested in two other media assets: a national newspaper and its television partner.

By the time of the meeting with Erdogan, those companies had lost as much as $200 million, their financial reports showed. The owner, Calik Holding AS, had hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to seek buyers. The bank had done its job. News Corp. was among the potential bidders, in addition to Time Warner Inc. and private-equity firms such as TPG Capital, KKR & Co. and Dubais Abraaj Group.

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Their quest proved futile. By October, Calik had asked Goldman Sachs to abandon its sales efforts, even as negotiations were underway with Time Warner, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Two months later, Calik sold the media properties to a Turkish company.

The matchmaker: Erdogan, according to a 252-page police account of mobile-phone intercepts, stakeouts and video surveillance, part of a 15-month investigation into government corruption. The newspaper, Sabah, and the channel, ATV, had been allies of Erdogans AK Party since 2008, when Calik bought them.

Sabah is seen as a traditional, respectable broadsheet and the prime minister seems to want to keep it in friendly hands, said Fadi Hakura, a London-based associate fellow at Chatham House who specializes in Turkey. Since 80 percent of his voters get their news from the print media, rather than the Internet, controlling the newspapers message is critical.

For Erdogan, battling a barrage of leaks about corruption, the coming weeks are key to a public relations offensive before local elections March 30 and a presidential election in August in which he may run. Already, television channels allied with him cut off opposition speakers in parliament, newspapers supporting him reject suggestions of impropriety and Erdogan himself calls the probe an attempted coup.

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The battle for media control stepped up last year, when Sabah and ATV were for sale. While Time Warner and the others worked with Goldman Sachs to hammer out a deal, Erdogan asked his son-in-law, chief executive officer of the company that owned the media properties, to come to his Istanbul home.

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Project Information About this project:

This is the Media Control project ("mediacontrolmce")

This project was registered on SourceForge.net on Jul 5, 2009, and is described by the project team as follows:

Media Control is a Windows Media Center plugin that enhances the features offered to the end user. It is interfaced with FFDShow Tryout, a DirectShow filter that is able to decode most audio & video formats.

SourceForge.net is the world's largest provider of hosting for Open Source software development projects. SourceForge.net provides a variety of services to projects, including a download mirror network, collaborative development tools (like CVS and Subversion), and tools to support discussion and support. These services are provided to projects and their end-users free-of-charge.

Of benefit to users, Open Source software is licensed so you can download and use the software free-of-charge. The source code for this software is made available free-of-charge, you (or a programmer you hire) can make changes to this software to better meet your needs, and you can release your changed code back to the community passing the benefit on to other users.

The exact license terms used by this project on their project summary page and in the licensing documents included in their downloads.

To join this project, please contact the project administrators of this project, as shown on the project summary page.

Source code for this project may be available as downloads or through one of the SCM repositories used by the project, as accessible from the project develop page.

This page is the default project web page supplied by SourceForge.net. If you are a member of this project, you can deploy your own project web pages as per our site documentation.

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Logitech has announced a new member of the Harmony universal remote family. This isn't a normal remote control like the other offerings Logitech has had in the Harmony line for so long. This is a keyboard aimed at making it easier to type on various game consoles and set top boxes.

The product is called the Harmony Smart Keyboard. Logitech says that it will work with the Apple TV, Roku, Xbox One, and PS3 consoles. The device has an integrated touchpad to control the on screen cursor.

The keyboard also has integrated keys for commands on devices like Guide, Pause, Play, and channel up and down. There are also navigation buttons built-in for game consoles. The keyboard ships with the Harmony Hub allowing the user to use a smartphone app to control their devices as well.

The Harmony App is available for Android and iOS devices. The keyboard lacks the LCD touchscreen that many of the Harmony devices offer, but it does have three buttons for one-touch activity controls like Watch a movie and others. The smartphone app offers several more one touch controls for TV macros. The Hub will translate signals from the smartphone app and keyboard into signals your devices can understand using IR, WiFi, and Bluetooth. This is how the device can work with the PS3. The Harmony Smart Keyboard can be pre-ordered now for $149.99.

SOURCE: Logitech

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Logitech Harmony Smart Keyboard makes streaming-media device control easier