Deal of the Day ? 15.6? Dell Vostro 3550 Core i5 2.4GHz ?Sandy Bridge? Laptop with Mobile Broadband

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Freeallmusic.com offering music downloads via Facebook (Digital Trends)

free all musicA start-up called Free All Media says its offering free music downloads through Facebook?no monetary cost, legal, iPod compatible, high-quality DRM-free MP3s. Artists get paid; you get their music free, and even the Free All Media company supposedly turns a profit.

Free is a nice word but usually its a marketing trapcard, so its only natural for you to be a little skeptical. There is always a catch, and in this case users get their free music downloads in exchange for watching one Online ad through Facebook, or by performing an action such as liking a brand?s Facebook fanpage?basically interacting with a brand somehow. To access the FreeAllMusic.com portal, you also need to be comfortable with allowing basic access to your FB info.

All Things Digital points out that Free All Media?s business model is a combination of two marketing tactics: ?Marketers who buy music and give it away for promotions, and marketers who reward Facebook users for ?Liking? them.?

The company buys songs wholesale?at 70 cents a song?from the EMI and Universal music labels, and is working on a deal with Sony and Warner. Free All Media then partners with brand such as Coca-Cola or Budwiser, charging them per views and grabbing a profit. Recently appointed CEO Habib Khoury said the company is ?en route? to a Series A after $1.7 million raised.

Is FAM ?en route? to taking down streaming services like Spotify and Pandora? Probably not since its music isn?t convenient and is such a limited selection; but its a nice wholesome feeling to know you own a free song and didn?t have to steal it. Free All Music is currently only available on Facebook but will soon be branching out to other social network sites like Google Plus.

This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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Bradley Cooper drops out of "Man From U.N.C.L.E." (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Bradley Cooper isn't going Solo.

The "Hangover" actor, who had been in talks to play the crime fighter Napoleon Solo in Warner Bros'. big-screen version of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," will not play the role, TheWrap has learned.

Steven Soderbergh is directing the movie based on the 1960s television show. Cooper was in talks to play the role that Robert Vaughn made famous.

The studio is still looking for an actor to play Solo's partner in the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. David McCallum originated the role on TV. Like the television series, the movie will be set in the 1960s.

Cooper starred in the studio's "Hangover" movies and is scheduled to star as Lucifer in Legendary Pictures' "Paradise Lost." That project falls under Legendary's overall agreement with Warner Bros.

He now is filming the Weinstein Co.'s "The Silver Linings Playbook."

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G Styled: Samsung Galaxy Players ? High-Class Android PMPs or iPod Knockoffs?

G Style

I must say right off the bat, the Galaxy Player 4.0 definitely looks like a first generation iPhone or maybe the iPhone 3G. The 5.0 not so much. The Galaxy Players are supposed to be the media- only counterparts of the successful Galaxy S Phone models, but the real question is ?are they worth buying??

If you?re going to buy any of the Galaxy Players, I would suggest the 4.0. Though when you use it people won?t know if you are using a Galaxy Player or an iPhone, the 4.0 is the better of the two. It?s small, compact, and the screen is awesome! I used to have the Samsung Captivate, and the one thing I loved most about it was that sexy screen. To me, it was like having a mini HDTV in your pocket; the screen looked that good! The same thing holds true with the Galaxy Player 4.0.

The Galaxy Player 5.0 however is another story. It?s like the 4.0 got all the looks in the family, and the 5.0 was left with what remained at the end. The 5.0 is chunky, and oddly shaped at 5 inches. That extra inch makes it kind of weird. It?s too small to be a tablet it, but too much of a monstrosity to be a regular old MP3 player. To add insult to injury, it doesn?t have as great of a screen like the 4.0. So for all its size, it doesn?t even have that mini HDTV in your pocket feel, which is a real fail on Samsung?s part.

The questions still remains: are these worth buying? I mean if you like Android, you probably already have an Android phone, making the purchase of this pointless. And if you have an iOS device like a iPod Touch, I can?t see why you would switch to this, especially when the 4.0 is going for more than the cheapest iPod Touch. But if you just have to have an Android device to play your music and movies, but don?t want to pay for a data plan, the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 might be for you. You can skip the 5.0 model though.

Galaxy Player 4.0 G Style Rating: Fashion Forward
Galaxy Player 5.0 G Style Rating: Fashion Fail

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Leonardo da Vinci gets celebrity billing with UK show (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Move over George Clooney. Lady Gaga? So yesterday. The new celebrity in town is Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, subject of a major exhibition at London's National Gallery that has generated the hype of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Critics have fallen over themselves to find superlatives to describe "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan," which gathers nine of only 15 or 16 paintings of the master's paintings known to exist.

Missing are arguably the most famous of all -- the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre in Paris and "The Last Supper" mural in Milan which cannot be moved anyway.

But the National Gallery is still confident that the collection, including loans from around the world, represents "the most complete display of Leonardo's rare surviving paintings ever held."

Curator Luke Syson, who worked for five years on the exhibition, was close to tears describing it to the first of two press previews on Tuesday to cope with huge media demand.

"People have talked about this as an unprecedented opportunity," he said.

"It is an unprecedented opportunity. It probably won't happen like this again and so it's very moving, the thought that we actually might be able to understand Leonardo better collectively."

He said the show, which runs from November 9-February 5, 2012 and is sponsored by Credit Suisse, was designed to focus on Leonardo the painter, as opposed to scientist, inventor, engineer, mathematician or all-round polymath.

"First and foremost Leonardo was trained as a painter and he thought as a painter even when he was doing other things. For him, sight was the prime sense."

The show was originally inspired by the gallery's restoration of "The Virgin of the Rocks," and, for the first time, the two versions of the same subject belonging to the National and the Louvre hang together.

ATTRIBUTION PUZZLE

Also included is a mystery worthy of Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code" -- "Christ as Salvator Mundi" which was only recently attributed to Leonardo and its authenticity is still questioned by some.

Listed by the National Gallery as an original, the painting was sold at Sotheby's in 1958 for 45 pounds, although at the time it was believed to be by one of Leonardo's pupils.

According to ARTnews, the work is now owned by a consortium of dealers, including Robert Simon, a specialist in Old Masters in New York.

Now valued by experts at up to $200 million, Simon told the publication the work "is not on the market."

The National Gallery has collected virtually all of the known Leonardo paintings from Milan, where he was court artist to the city's ruler Ludovico Sforza from around 1482-1499.

Sforza gave Leonardo the time to properly research his craft, helping to turn him into a painter-philosopher who believed art could reveal something higher even than nature.

The only missing work from that period is "The Last Supper" mural, but the National has set aside a large room in its main space to hang an almost contemporary copy by Giampietrino.

The paintings are accompanied by drawings, dozens of which have been loaned by Queen Elizabeth who owns the world's largest collection, and comparable works by Leonardo's contemporaries and students.

The paintings include "Portrait of a Musician" from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, "Saint Jerome" from the Vatican, "The Lady With an Ermine" from Krakow, Poland, both "The Belle Ferronniere" and "The Virgin of the Rocks" from the Louvre and "The Madonna Litta" from Russia's Hermitage.

Early reviews of the exhibition have been glowing.

"You should probably be reading this review to the sound of a drum roll," wrote Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph in a four-star rating.

"The National Gallery's Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan is the most eagerly awaited exhibition in living memory."

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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AUTOMOTIVE - VINTAGE: Ferrari's Final GT Race Cars

Since coming to the fore in the mid-1950s, Ferrari was one of the key players in the Gran Turismo (GT) class with a succession of 3-liter 250 GT models that eventually culminated with the all-conquering 250 GTO in the early 1960s.

To answer the ever-growing opposition from the Shelby Cobras, Ferrari developed three distinct competition versions of the new 275 GTB road car. With all-round independent suspension, it was a superior machine to the 250 GT range it replaced.

The penultimate 275 GTB/C, chassis 09079 placed first in class at the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, its competition debut. (Photo: Wouter Melissen) The third and final competition model was the 275 GTB/C prepared for the 1966 season. Due to homologation difficulties encountered with an earlier, more extreme 275 GTB Competizione, the new racer remained relatively close to the road cars. At least, at first glance. One of the biggest changes was the use of a wafer-thin aluminum skin that would dent by simply leaning on it.

Twelve examples were built and most were raced extensively around the world with considerable success. Among them was a class victory in the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans. After the 275 GTB/C, Ferrari focused on Formula 1 and sports cars. All subsequent GT racers to wear the prancing-horse badge were developed and built by third-party specialists, making the 275 GTB/C the last in a legendary lineage.

Over the years, we have captured several of these lovely machines in action, including the Le Mans winner, at a wide variety of events. This has allowed us to present a beautiful 36-shot gallery.

Ferrari 275 GTB/C, chassis 09051, was built in June 1966 and privately raced with much success for three seasons. In 2007, the restored car won a second in class at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. (Photo: Wouter Melissen) For the 1964 season, a replacement of the 250 GTO was planned to race in the GT class. Ferrari's first bid was the mid-engine 250 LM, but due to the limited numbers built, the FIA refused to homologate it for GT racing. The limited time available forced Ferrari to continue racing with a slightly revised version of the GTO.

A new body with cues inspired by the 250 LM were fitted to four old chassis, and three new chassis were constructed and fitted with the ?64-style? body. The 250 GT showed its age and was beaten on several occasions by Carroll Shelby's Cobra Daytonas.

When Ferrari launched a replacement for the 250 GT, the 275 GTB, it was only logical that the new GT racer would be derived from this model. But GT racing's popularity was fading when the world's focus turned to the prototype class in which Ferrari was faced with stiff competition from Ford, so the 275 GTB racer was not a priority.

A batch of four special lightweight racers was constructed, but they faced homologation difficulties; its low weight compared with the road cars was the biggest problem. After the weight was increased considerably, the four were homologated late in 1965.

The 275 GTB/C, chassis 09073,was originally sold as a road car but has more recently been prepared for racing and can be seen here in the 250 GTO 50th Anniversary race during the 2011 Monterey Motorsports Reunion. (Photo: Wouter Melissen) The problems with the four specials convinced Ferrari to construct a competition version that was only slightly modified and weighed as much as the regular short-nose 275 GTBA batch of 11 cars was built, easily identifiable by extra vents in their rear fenders.

Now we come to the third series of competition 275 GTBs and the only ones known as the 275 GTB/C. Twelve were constructed in between the end of the 275 GTB production run and the start of the 275 GTB/4 run. Even though it closely resembled the road-going 275 GTB, not one body panel was the same, and under the lightweight body, very little reminded of the road car.

Mauro Forghieri designed a special lightweight version of the 275 GTB chassis. Regular suspension was fitted, but it was made slightly stiffer by the addition of extra springs. Scaglietti created an ultra-thin aluminum body; the panels were about half as thick as the ones used on the GTO and the Cobra.

Even leaning on the 275 GTB/C would dent the body, and the entire rear section was reinforced by fiberglass to prevent it from flexing at the slightest impact. This focus on saving weight made a difference of more than 330 pounds compared with the alloy-bodied road cars.

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Australian Senate OKs carbon tax on big polluters

(AP) ? The Australian Senate on Tuesday passed bills that will make the nation's 500 largest polluters pay a tax on the carbon they release into the atmosphere.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard had promised not to push for a carbon tax during elections last year, but has since said it is Australia's best option. Australia is one of the world's worst greenhouse gas emitters per capita becuase of its heavy reliance on abundant reserves of coal to generate electricity.

"This reform is right for our country's future, it's the right thing to do," Gillard told reporters Tuesday.

Beginning July 1, Australia's largest polluters will pay 23 Australian dollars ($24) for every metric ton of carbon gases they produce.

Members of the public applauded when the bills were passed with support from Gillard's Labor Party minority government and the minor Greens party, but opinion polls show the tax is unpopular.

Critics argue that Australian businesses will become uncompetitive because the carbon tax is too high. The Australian Financial Review newspaper reported Tuesday that in Europe, where a system of trading carbon credits is in place, businesses will pay between AU$8.70 and AU$12.60 a metric ton because carbon prices have crashed to four-year lows.

Gillard, whose government faces elections in two years, is hoping that the tax does not prove as unpopular as the polls suggest. The government is also hoping that many people will even consider themselves better off under the tax because many will get assistance to offset higher utility bills.

"I understand this has been a bitter debate and there are Australians who still view carbon pricing with a great deal of anxiety," she said.

The tax will be the government's main tool to achieve its target of reducing Australia's carbon emissions by 5 percent below 2000 levels by 2020.

Associated Press

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Spotify app on Windows Phone hands-on (video)

We just got our first hands-on with Spotify on Windows Phone, running on a Jil Sander device from LG, of all things. This instantly gives Spotify users a new reason to step up and subscribe to the premium plan, and it gives Windows Phone users a new reason to get excited about, well, music. The interface is predictably slick, as you'd expect from a Mango app and, after signing on, we were easily able to browse our playlists, browse our friends' playlists and of course search for some tunes. We're working to get confirmation of just when you'll be able to download it yourself, and we have a video of it in action coming soon. But, until then, enjoy the gallery below!

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In GOP campaign cooperative tone arises amid risks (AP)

CONCORD, N.H. ? Republican presidential contenders courting an intensely partisan GOP primary electorate are promoting their experience in working with home-state Democrats to tackle big problems.

With most voters craving an end to intense polarization in Washington, the message of bipartisan collaboration is seeping into debates, interviews and other campaign appearances. The candidates, particularly former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, are trying to broaden their appeal to independents, whose support will be critical in the general election next fall against President Barack Obama.

The president ran as an across-the-aisle dealmaker, but he hasn't lived up to that image in his first term. His top Republican rivals seem to sense an opening, even though they, too, have mixed records when it comes to working with the opposition party.

"This is not the Democrats' country or the Republicans' country. This is our country," Perry said during a recent campaign stop in Iowa, arguing that the country's troubles are ideologically blind and not Democratic vs. Republican.

Romney often tells supporters that compromise was necessary in Massachusetts, where Democrats dominated. At a recent debate, he jabbed at Obama and said: "The real course for America is to have someone who is a leader, who can identify people in both parties who care more about the country than they care about getting re-elected."

Such talk of compromise isn't usually popular in the Republican primary campaign, where the usual emphasis is on bashing government regulation, illegal immigrants and anything Obama.

Conservatives who make up the party's base don't like the two signature issues in which Romney and Perry have demonstrated an ability to work with Democrats and Republicans: Massachusetts' health care overhaul and the Texas law giving in-state college tuition to some illegal immigrants.

But public polling suggests that strong majorities of Republicans and Democrats favor political leaders who work together. A recent CBS/New York Times poll found that 85 percent of Americans say they want to see both parties compromise some positions to get things done.

All that explains why Romney and Perry, seen as the candidates most likely to win the nomination, are trying to courting ideologically diverse general election voters without angering the passionate partisans who dominate the primary season.

Critics say the Republicans are trying to have it both ways, sometimes in the same speech. The GOP candidates hammer Obama and congressional Democrats while also promising to bring the nation together.

Calls for bipartisanship do invite more scrutiny on claims of cooperation. History suggests that the candidates often collaborated only when politically convenient.

Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, a 20-year veteran of the Legislature and the Senate Democratic leader, said Perry is ready to work with Democrats on popular issues such as veterans' benefits and human trafficking, but won't hesitate to ignore their opposition in many cases.

Van de Putte, author of the law allowing illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to pay in-state tuition, said Perry worked with her because of the economic argument behind the policy.

But in other debates, Perry used the power of his office to ignore Democrats and even Republicans in the Legislature. During his first legislative session, for example, Perry vetoed more than 80 bills without warning, and that infuriated lawmakers. He also ordered mandatory vaccines for girls without legislative approval, a decision he later said was a mistake.

"He kind of listens to you, and he works with you when he agrees, and we come to a common goal," Van de Putte said. "If it's a disagreement, it's going to continue to be a disagreement."

Romney gets similarly mixed reviews.

Phil Johnson, the Democratic Party chairman in Massachusetts during Romney's only term, tells a tale of two governors.

"During the first two years of his administration, he was relatively moderate, even in some cases a progressive governor, who understood that that was the profile that fit Massachusetts," Johnston said. "But about halfway through the administration, he clearly made a decision to go national, and he made a very sharp break with his previous moderate self."

Romney worked with the Democratic Legislature, for example, to pass the state's landmark health care package about midway through his four-year term. He signed the bill into law to great fanfare in a public ceremony, but later returned to his office and vetoed several provisions.

"It was sort of a cheap political act," Johnston said. "He was not held in high esteem by Democrats in the Legislature."

As a presidential candidate, Romney often says he collaborated with Massachusetts Democrats to establish a $2 billion rainy day fund by the time he left the governor's office. Building the fund was a particular priority of Democratic leaders, however, even before Romney took office. While Romney had veto power, legislative Democrats ultimately controlled the budget process.

Despite holes in their records of bipartisanship, expect to hear more from Romney and Perry about compromise in the coming months.

"It is part of the culture and it'd be naive to think it would change overnight," said Tom Rath, a New Hampshire-based Romney adviser. "But the fact is, (Romney) is acknowledging it and saying, `I've got to create an atmosphere in which results can occur.' That's something that is very appealing to voters."

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Associated Press writer Chris Tomlinson in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.

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