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8. <span style="color: #999999;">(Courtesy nba.com/hornets)</span><br />
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10. The New Orleans Pelican logo has been released. It is an angry, angry bird.<br />
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12. Here is what it looks like:<br />
13. Color me a little disappointed, and this is from someone that truly likes the new “Pelicans” name. We’ll get to that batch of disappointment later, though, because firstly we should let the soon-to-be former New Orleans Hornets describe why they did what they did with the new Pelicans logo.<br />
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15. The team’s website points out that the lettering in the logo was inspired by street signs that dot the city’s French Quarter. The team will retain the very NOLA-ish Fleur de Lys symbol both in the main logo (up top) and in an alternate logo that replaces the head and beak of the bird inside the flower. The blue in the logo stands for the state of Louisiana, the gold represents the glittery nature of the city of New Orleans, and the team’s summation for choosing the color red bled down to, basically, calling the color very scary.<br />
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17. Pelicans, as Deadspin put it a few weeks ago in their inimitable way, are scary. These are birds of prey that are to be feared, and not mocked. Better yet, the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana has long made the pelican a symbol of their city and state. It was the name of the city’s heralded minor league baseball team for decades, and the bird’s resiliency in popping back from the endangered species list (pelican population dwindled in the latter half of the 20th century due to poisoning from pesticides such as DDT) and the Gulf Coast oil spill of 2010 makes the bird a perfect symbol for a team that is attempting to overcome quite a bit.<br />
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19. We applaud the change in team name. Even if the origin of the Hornets nickname, derived from the words of a frustrated English general fighting the colonists in the Revolutionary War, is just as cool.<br />
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21. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlJE3ozuJBX6ecuzmIrxwO0h-delMitFfHPtheSkxdYvj6elSu-wEUuhcy2e6vDXDjO7VOOFq7p0pmFrQimYmSea2CEGL9F3j5RU-DtdSGwLRd2c2HWlbKaqTMRIuSPG0X-ajMD_ZXQAR/s1600/FingerNOLAP12413.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/orleans-pelicans-unveil-team-logo-214138275--nba.html" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlJE3ozuJBX6ecuzmIrxwO0h-delMitFfHPtheSkxdYvj6elSu-wEUuhcy2e6vDXDjO7VOOFq7p0pmFrQimYmSea2CEGL9F3j5RU-DtdSGwLRd2c2HWlbKaqTMRIuSPG0X-ajMD_ZXQAR/s320/FingerNOLAP12413.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />
22. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlJE3ozuJBX6ecuzmIrxwO0h-delMitFfHPtheSkxdYvj6elSu-wEUuhcy2e6vDXDjO7VOOFq7p0pmFrQimYmSea2CEGL9F3j5RU-DtdSGwLRd2c2HWlbKaqTMRIuSPG0X-ajMD_ZXQAR/s1600/FingerNOLAP12413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>What is less impressive is the actual bird in the logo. It’s pretty peeved, as you can tell; and while we weren’t expecting a cartoonish logo to have fun with (probably in response to what was a less than enthusiastic response to news of the name change from late in 2012, by those who were unaware of the bird’s instincts and relationship to the area), this new logo feels like something the Golden State Warriors would have come out with in 1997.<br />
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24. Nobody in Wild Tchoupitoulas garb had to be dunking a basketball into a pelican gullet in our hopes for the new logo, nothing silly like that, but we were hoping for something that at once represented both New Orleans’ resiliency, and insistence on pulling a tuba out to play at someone’s funeral.<br />
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26. Basically, the designers didn’t need to make the pelican in its New Orleans Pelican logo look angry. The team will take care of all the aggressive parts itself, as will the real life pelicans that will freaking dive out of the air to stab their prey. You don’t need to make it cool, or streamlined, or impressive.      <span style="color: #999999;">(Courtesy nba.com/hornets)</span><br />
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28. Because both the city of New Orleans, and the pelican itself, are impressive enough. They are at once tough enough, potent enough, and triumphant enough. And if you think I’m diving too far down in order to talk about a new basketball team’s logo, well, forget you man – pelicans are cool.<br />
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33. The team's alternate logos       <span style="color: #999999;">(nba.com/hornets)</span><br />
34. We had our own lighthearted fun last spring when it was announced that the team was considering a name change, we hoped the pelican in this Pelican logo would represent as much. Oh well. The name is cool enough, the team is young and fun and best of all staying in New Orleans for the long haul. That’s more than enough good news for now.<br />
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36. And we’ll always have this screenshot of the former New Orleans Hornets’ official website, when their countdown to Pelican launch went hilariously awry:<br />
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41. <span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Courtesy nba.com/hornets/countdown)</span></span><br />
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43. Or Greivis Vasquez in a new fancy Pelican hat:<br />
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55. <a class="entitylink" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/entities/Sterne+Agee">Sterne Agee</a>'s Shaw Wu lowered his price target on Buy-rated <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; text-decoration: none;">Apple</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a> (NASDAQ: <a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/stock_lookup.php?q=AAPL">AAPL</a>) from $840 to $715 following Q1 results.<br />
56. <br />
57. Commenting on the quarter, Wu notes: "AAPL reported the strongest
58. quarter in its 36-yr history adding $16 billion in cash but below
59. expectations of a bigger beat that investors have grown accustomed to.
60. iPhone and iPads were decent but Macs missed materially. Its outlook was
61. vintage conservative but warned may be more realistic than historically
62. been. This is bitter medicine but we see as the right move in resetting
63. consensus. We don't think the AAPL growth story is over but shares will
64. likely languish until confidence is restored."<br />
65. <br />
66. For FY13, the firm is now at $187.4 billion in revenue and $47.05 in EPS
67. (from $192.6 billion and $49.50 in EPS) vs. consensus at $189.7 billion
68. and $48.03 in EPS and for FY14, $213.6 billion in revenue and $55.00 in
69. EPS (from $221.6 billion and $58.50 in EPS) vs. consensus at $218.2
70. billion and $56.59 in EPS.<br />
71. <br />
72. For an <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.streetinsider.com/#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0px none transparent; display: inline; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px ! important; text-decoration: none;">analyst ratings</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin-bottom: 0px!important; margin-left: 0px!important; margin-right: 0px!important; margin-top: 0px!important; padding-bottom: 0px!important; padding-left: 4px!important; padding-right: 0px!important; padding-top: 0px!important; vertical-align: baseline!important;" /></span></a> summary and ratings history on Apple <a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/rating_history.php?q=AAPL">click here</a>. For more ratings news on Apple <a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/stock_lookup_news.php?q=AAPL&type=analyst">click here</a>.<br />
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74. Shares of Apple closed at $514.01 yesterday, with a 52 week range of $419.55-$705.07.<br />
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76. source:- <a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Sterne+Agee+Cuts+PT+on+Apple+%28AAPL%29+Despite+Decent+December+Quarter/8028008.html" target="_blank">read original</a></div>
77. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/8552948886678933870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2013/01/httpwwwstreetinsidercomanalystcommentss.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/8552948886678933870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/8552948886678933870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2013/01/httpwwwstreetinsidercomanalystcommentss.html' title='Sterne Agee Cuts PT on Apple (AAPL) Despite &#39;Decent&#39; December Quarter'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-3045323949760987097</id><published>2012-09-07T22:56:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-09-07T22:56:00.787+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Available"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Begins"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Camera"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cameras"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Compromise"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Connectivity"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="DV300F"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Instant"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Offer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Product"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SAMSUNGs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sharing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Smart"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="WB150F"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="without"/><title type='text'>Product News : The Smart Camera Era Begins - SAMSUNG’s WB150F and DV300F SMART Cameras  Available Now; Offer Connectivity for Instant Sharing Without Compromise</title><content type='html'>on Mar 06, 2012 &lt;b&gt;The WB150F makes long-zoom shooting, sharing and saving pictures easier than ever, while the DV300F makes self-portraiture engaging and entertaining&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
78. <b>RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J., March 6, 2012</b> – Samsung Electronics America Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced that the first two models in its highly anticipated new line of Smart Cameras begins shipping this week. The <b>WB150F</b> long-zoom model and <b>DV300F</b> dual-view model – which both offer Wi- Fi connectivity for photo sharing, backup and a host of other features - are available now at retailers across the country. <br />
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83. The WB150F digital camera enhances the advanced optical zoom and image quality that the WB line of cameras are known for, with wireless capability to facilitate sharing and saving images – wherever users are in the world. Housed in a compact, lightweight and durable body, the new 14.2-megapixel WB150F from Samsung makes the perfect travel companion with an 18x optical zoom. <br />
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88. The DV300F builds on the success of Samsung’s popular DualView line and includes a 1.5-inch LCD on the front of the camera to assist in self-portraiture, or keep children focused while capturing memories, thanks to colorful animations to draw their attention. It’s also the first model in the DualView line to integrate wireless technology for instant storage and sharing on Facebook, Picasa, PhotoBucket and YouTube. <br />
89. “Both the DV300F and WB150F cameras take such impressive pictures that people will want to share them immediately – and with integrated wireless features, they’ll be able to do just that,” said<b> Reid Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Digital Imaging, Samsung Electronics America</b>. “Now, photographers don’t have to compromise. They get the benefits of a great digital camera – including optical zoom, high quality image sensors, true flash and image stabilization – along with the connectivity they expect.” <br />
90. <b>Advanced Wireless Features</b> <br />
91. With the wireless capabilities included in both the new Samsung WB150F and DV300F cameras, sharing is quicker and easier than ever. From any Wi-Fi hotspot, users can email photos, or share them on social networks such as Facebook and Picasa or post videos to YouTube in a few simple steps. <br />
92. The new login browser featured on the WB150F and other SMART camera models, makes it possible for users to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot in hotels, airports, coffee shops or other locations which may require visiting a landing page before gaining access to an internet connection. <br />
93. <b>Connect to the Samsung Ecosystem</b> <br />
94. The new Smart Cameras also interface with Samsung’s line of Smart TVs, Blu-ray players, PCs, tablets and smartphones, creating a truly unique and integrated ecosystem. <br />
95. The WB150F and DV300F cameras support Remote Viewfinder features, allowing users to remotely control the camera’s shutter, zoom and flash from the palm of their hand, using a Samsung Galaxy smartphone or tablet. <br />
96. Samsung TV Link allows the new Smart Cameras to connect to a TV or Blu-ray player without wires – so photos and movies can be shared and enjoyed on the biggest TV on the house. <br />
97. The Samsung Mobile Link application makes it a snap for users to transfer photos from the camera directly to a supported phone or tablet, using a free app available for download in the Android marketplace. Further, the new Smart Cameras support WiFi Direct technology for peer-to-peer transfers with any Samsung Galaxy device – no wireless router required. <br />
98. The Auto Backup function easily manages users’ photo transfers by quickly and securely connecting the camera wirelessly to their PC – no need for clumsy USB cables or fumbling with memory cards. <br />
99. Microsoft® Sky Drive® Cloud services are also integrated into the new models– so photos can be accessible anywhere, and from any connected device. Additionally, the in-camera editing feature allows users to edit images directly on the camera prior to sharing them, eliminating the need for a PC to make adjustments. <br />
100. <b>Exciting Shots Made Easy</b> <br />
101. Samsung’s Smart Auto setting analyzes, identifies and automatically selects the most appropriate of its scene modes to provide users with the best possible result every time. From a brilliant fireworks display to a dimly-lit party environment, scene detection technology identifies the shooting conditions and automatically tailors the settings to help achieve standout results. For users seeking more control over their photo-taking experience, the WB150F allows them to explore their own photographic skills with the Full Manual Control setting, while also taking advantage of the camera’s dual image stabilization (DIS). <br />
102. Whether filming exotic locations and fauna on vacation or capturing sentimental family footage on the football field, Samsung’s latest cameras allow users to capture and share their video in stunning HD quality. The WB150F and DV300F feature fantastic 720p/30fps HD recording, ensuring that once-in-a-lifetime experiences are captured in the same color and vibrancy that existed in real life. <br />
103. <b>Dynamic Live Panoramas Capture the Big Picture</b> <br />
104. The Live Panorama function featured on the WB150F, allows consumers to capture even more of the action, facilitating wide panoramic shots which don’t miss any of the detail, from sprawling mountain peaks through to large groups of friends. By simply holding down the shutter button and sweeping the camera across the subject users want to capture, the camera can seamlessly stitch together a dynamic scene. Users can even preview the whole image they’ve just captured via the ultra-clear AMOLED screen. <br />
105. <b>Fun Features Add Pizazz to Pictures</b> <br />
106. With Split Shot, camera users can divide the screen into three separate shots and create up to three different photographs by simply blending them together to create a whole new view of their travels. Using Magic Frame they can also position their target in the middle of a fun background – either choose from one of the many pre-designed backgrounds like movie billboards or posters or erase part of an existing picture to get even more creative! Or use the Picture-in-Picture feature to insert a photo – whether an eye-catching monument or personal portrait into another image or video so users can combine their favorite shots to make a memorable collage. Finally, users can also bend, stretch, and warp pictures of friends and family for big laughs — with the Funny Face feature. Simply press the 5-direction key to enlarge heads or noses, or create hilarious distortions. When they move the camera, Face Tracking preserves the funny looks just the way they want them. <br />
107. <b>Pricing and Availability</b> <br />
108. The WB150F (MSRP: $229.99) and DV300F (MSRP: $199.99) are now available from authorized Samsung retailers. For more information on the WB150F, DV300F and the full line of Samsung digital cameras, please visit www.samsung.com . <br />
109. <b>About Samsung Electronics America, Inc.</b> <br />
110. Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., markets a broad range of award-winning, digital consumer electronics and home appliance products, including HDTVs, home theater systems, MP3 players, digital imaging products, refrigerators and washing machines. A recognized innovation leader in consumer electronics design and technology, Samsung is the HDTV market leader in the U.S. Please visit www.samsung.com for more information. <br />
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114. Staying connected has never been easier with the affordable and reliable Samsung Gusto™ 2 on the Verizon Wireless network. Today, Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) introduce the Samsung Gusto 2, available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online in the coming weeks. <br />
115. The easy-to-use Samsung Gusto 2 keeps staying in touch with family and friends simple thanks to a smooth and compact design. Customers can easily dial numbers and type text messages with its large contoured keypad. Enhanced social networking capabilities make updating statuses on Facebook® and Twitter™ easier than ever. The Gusto 2 also features DyVE (Dynamic Voice Enhancement) with noise suppression technology to to help reduce background noise levels and enhance speech quality. <br />
116. The Gusto 2 also has a variety of accessibility features including a voice-enabled menu and sub menus that verbalize basic features and functions such as incoming texts, contacts list, battery level, signal strength and more out loud to the user. The large adjustable display font makes it easy for users to read texts messages and view menu options. <br />
117. <b>Additional features:</b> <br /><br />1.3-megapixel camera with timer, brightness control and shooting modes (single and continuous); effects (black and white, antique and negative) <br />One-touch shortcut keys for quick access to emergency contacts, voicemail, speakerphone, camera and messaging<br />Sound Alert Mode – changes the volume automatically to high and reads contact information aloud when a call or message is received<br />Customizable directional keys for quick access to contacts, mobile Web and more<br />2-inch main display<br />Messaging features include text, picture, voice messaging and mobile email<br />Bluetooth® technology for hands-free communication<br />VZ Navigator® – receive audible turn-by-turn directions to millions points of interest and share the directions with others<br />Fake Call – allows users to set up a pseudo call to help them escape unwanted social situations<br />
118. The Samsung Gusto 2 will be available in the coming weeks in Verizon Communications Stores for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted. <br />
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The Galaxy S Blaze 4G is the latest addition to the successful Galaxy S line of products, and T-Mobile’s newest fast 4G smartphone to take advantage of 4G (HSPA+42) technology, providing customers with the ability to browse the Web faster than the average home Internet&lt;B&gt;2&lt;/B&gt; connection while on the go. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Consumers are increasingly demanding more from their smartphones — keeping them entertained, staying connected with loved ones and enabling them to complete more tasks using a single device. A recent T-Mobile survey&lt;B&gt;3&lt;/B&gt; found 79 percent of smartphone users are less likely to carry other technology devices, such as cameras, laptops and GPS devices, when they have their smartphone. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;T-Mobile’s newest 4G smartphone offers a variety of features and applications to help consumers be entertained and have access to the information they need when they need it. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G entertainment offerings make it easy for T-Mobile customers to stream their favorite movies on Netflix®, enjoy live or on-demand TV programs on T-Mobile® TV in mobile HD&lt;B&gt;4&lt;/B&gt; or download a popular movie or TV show using Samsung Media Hub. Additionally, the smartphone features TeleNav GPS Navigator, which provides hands-free, voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions, real-time traffic alerts, full-color 3-D moving maps and local alerts, helping customers get to where they need to go. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G also comes preloaded with a customized version of the Yelp mobile application, featuring the ability to save profiles so users can keep preferences the same with one touch in any city, making it easy to find and read reviews for local places to eat, shop, drink and play. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also pre-loaded on the device, the T-Mobile 4GPro App Pack offers an aggregation of key business applications, such as DropBox, Evernote, Square, TripIt, Camscanner and LinkedIn, helping busy consumers be even more productive while balancing their professional and personal lives. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;“The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is loaded with rich features and services to keep consumers entertained and connected virtually anywhere they want to go,” said &lt;B&gt;Andrew Sherrard, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA&lt;/B&gt;. “Paired with T-Mobile’s fast 4G network and our unlimited data plans, we’re making it easy for consumers to enjoy the benefits of 4G experiences at a price they can afford.” &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Featuring a sleek and stylish form factor, the smartphone comes in a carbon black color and runs on Android™ 2.3 Gingerbread. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G also features a Snapdragon™ S3 processor by Qualcomm® with 1.5 GHz dual-core CPUs and a beautiful 3.97-inch Super AMOLED™ touch screen providing consumers with a rich experience watching their favorite movie or TV show on the device. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Galaxy S Blaze 4G also makes it easy to connect and share photos and video with loved ones. It features a 720p HD video recorder, 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, flash and advanced shooting modes, as well as a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Availability&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR&gt;The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is expected to be available at T-Mobile retail stores, select dealers and retailers nationwide, and online at www.t-mobile.com starting late March. The Galaxy S Blaze 4G is expected to cost $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate card, with a two-year service agreement and qualifying Classic voice and data plan. For more information, visit galaxy-s.t-mobile.com/samsung-galaxy-blaze. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;1&lt;/B&gt; No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S. claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics Q4 2011 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Report. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;2&lt;/B&gt; Based on average download speeds on T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ 42 Mbps network in four major markets versus average home Internet speeds as determined by independent third-party testing. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;3&lt;/B&gt;&lt;B&gt; Survey Methodology&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR&gt;This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of T-Mobile USA from December 20-22, 2011 among 2,573 adults ages 18 and older, among whom 235 will be first time smartphone buyers in 2012, and 988 are current smartphone users who will remain smartphone users in 2012. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact kmcfadzean@waggeneredstrom.com. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;4&lt;/B&gt; Mobile HD TV can deliver a bit rate of 800 kbps and 16:9 resolution; the bit rate and resolution you experience will vary based on many factors (e.g., programming, network connection, and device). Playback on the device limited to 480x800. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;T-Mobile’s HSPA+ 4G network is not available everywhere. See coverage details at www.t-mobile.com. &lt;BR&gt;4G used in connection with the Galaxy S Blaze 4G product name refers to the fact that the Galaxy S Blaze 4G is designed with HSPA+ technology. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;About T-Mobile USA: &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). By the end of the third quarter of 2011, approximately 129 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group — 33.7 million by T-Mobile USA — all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS and additionally HSPA+ 21/HSPA+ 42. T-Mobile USA’s wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile USA among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information on Deutsche Telekom, please visit www.telekom.de/investor-relations. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company operates two separate organizations to coordinate its nine independent business units: Digital Media &amp; Communications, comprising Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, and Digital Imaging; and Device Solutions, consisting of Memory, System LSI and LCD. Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world’s most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;About Samsung Telecommunications America &lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets, wireless infrastructure and other telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Forward-Looking Statements&lt;/B&gt; &lt;BR&gt;This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of Deutsche Telekom management with respect to future events. These forward-looking statements may include statements with regard to the expected development of revenue, earnings, profits from operations, depreciation and amortization, cash flows and personnel-related measures. You should consider them with caution. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond Deutsche Telekom’s control. Among the factors that might influence our ability to achieve our objectives are the progress of our workforce reduction initiative and other cost-saving measures, and the impact of other significant strategic, labour or business initiatives, including acquisitions, dispositions and business combinations, and our network upgrade and expansion initiatives. In addition, stronger than expected competition, technological change, legal proceedings and regulatory developments, among other factors, may have a material adverse effect on our costs and revenue development. Further, the economic downturn in our markets, and changes in interest and currency exchange rates, may also have an impact on our business development and the availability of financing on favourable conditions. Changes to our expectations concerning future cash flows may lead to impairment write downs of assets carried at historical cost, which may materially affect our results at the group and operating segment levels. If these or other risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, our actual performance may materially differ from the performance expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. We can offer no assurance that our estimates or expectations will be achieved. Without prejudice to existing obligations under capital market law, we do not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements to take new information or future events into account or otherwise. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In addition to figures prepared in accordance with IFRS, Deutsche Telekom also presents non-GAAP financial performance measures, including, among others, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted EBIT, adjusted net income, free cash flow, gross debt and net debt. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Non-GAAP financial performance measures are not subject to IFRS or any other generally accepted accounting principles. Other companies may define these terms in different ways.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsRead.do?news_group=productnews=consumerproduct=mobilephone&amp;news_seq=20115&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/5744915041603739078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-news-t-mobile-announces-march.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/5744915041603739078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/5744915041603739078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-news-t-mobile-announces-march.html' title='Product News : T-Mobile Announces March Availability for SAMSUNG Galaxy S Blaze 4G'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-2931632252434903769</id><published>2012-09-07T18:28:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-09-07T18:28:56.415+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blaze"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Galaxy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Product"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Samsung"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TMobile"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="unveils"/><title type='text'>Product News : T-Mobile Unveils the SAMSUNG Galaxy S Blaze 4G</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG id=bigImage border=0 alt=middleImage src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//515x288Blaze.jpg&quot; width=515&gt; &lt;IMG class=small onclick=&quot;bigImageMainOn(&#39;/us/system/news/content/2012/01/10/20089/515x288_Blaze.jpg&#39;)&quot; border=0 alt=&quot;Samsung Blaze&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//84x47Blaze.jpg&quot; width=85 height=48&gt; &lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Jan. 10, 2012&lt;/B&gt; — T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S.1, today announced the upcoming availability of the &lt;B&gt;Samsung Galaxy S® Blaze™ 4G&lt;/B&gt;. Adding to T-Mobile’s lineup of fastest 4G devices, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G will be the third smartphone to take advantage of 4G technology (HSPA+42) running on America’s Largest 4G Network™. Featuring a Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ S3 processor with 1.5 GHz dual CPUs, a brilliant Super AMOLED™ touch screen and a variety of pre-loaded entertainment, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G provides fast access to the things consumers want most. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;“Consumers want the accessibility and entertainment capabilities that smartphones offer, and we’re committed to providing a range of 4G device options,” said &lt;B&gt;Andrew Sherrard, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA&lt;/B&gt;. “The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is the latest smartphone that enables consumers to unlock the full potential of T-Mobile’s faster 4G network. With a compelling set of entertainment features, paired with our Unlimited Value and Monthly4G plans, we’re continuing to make it easy and affordable for consumers to experience the benefits of 4G.” &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Galaxy S Blaze 4G will offer a variety of pre-loaded entertainment features so consumers can enjoy their favorite movies, TV shows, games, music and more while on-the-go. The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is expected to be available later this year; additonal details regarding features will be revealed closer to availability. For more information, visit http://www.t-mobile.com/GalaxySBLAZE4G. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;1 No. 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S claim for Samsung Mobile based upon reported shipment data, according to Strategy Analytics Q3 2011 U.S. Market Share Handset Shipments Report &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;T-Mobile’s HSPA+4G network, including increased speeds, not available everywhere. See coverage details at www.t-mobile.com. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;4G used in connection with the Galaxy S Blaze 4G product name refers to the fact that the Galaxy S Blaze 4G is designed with HSPA+ technology &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG alt=&quot;Samsung Blaze&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//100x57Blaze.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Click the thumbnails above to see a larger image and to download a hi-res version.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG border=0 alt=list src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//btnlist.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samsung.com/us/news/newsRead.do?news_group=productnews=consumerproduct=mobilephone&amp;news_seq=20089&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/2931632252434903769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-news-t-mobile-unveils-samsung.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2931632252434903769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2931632252434903769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/09/product-news-t-mobile-unveils-samsung.html' title='Product News : T-Mobile Unveils the SAMSUNG Galaxy S Blaze 4G'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-3623036953536780471</id><published>2012-08-12T21:57:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T22:03:22.781+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Available"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iCloud"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="October"/><title type='text'>iCloud Available October 12</title><content type='html'> &lt;BODY readability=&quot;3&quot;&gt;iCloud does more than just store your content. It lets you access your music, photos, calendars, contacts, documents, and more, from whatever devices you’re on. And it’s built into every new iOS device and every new Mac. Learn more&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewgallerymusic.jpg&quot; width=532 height=558&gt; &lt;P&gt;iTunes in the Cloud. Your music on all your devices.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/hk/en/icloud/#video-icloud?sr=hotnews.rss&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/3623036953536780471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/icloud-available-october-12.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3623036953536780471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3623036953536780471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/icloud-available-october-12.html' title='iCloud Available October 12'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-8168872255930943913</id><published>2012-08-12T21:20:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T21:20:03.889+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iPhone"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iTunes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="touch"/><title type='text'>New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch</title><content type='html'> &lt;BODY readability=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;IMG class=hero alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewhero.jpg&quot; width=884 height=577&gt; If you’re an educator at a university or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books and other content. And students and lifelong learners can experience your courses for free through a powerful new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=center alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewoneapp.png&quot; width=775 height=564&gt; &lt;P&gt;The free iTunes U app gives students access to all the materials for your course in a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information.1 Learn more about the new iTunes U app&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//itunesuicon.jpg&quot; width=63 height=62&gt; &lt;IMG class=&quot;flushleft flushright&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewworkstogether.jpg&quot; width=980 height=437&gt; &lt;P&gt;The iTunes U app integrates with iBooks, iCloud and other apps to make it easy for students to keep up with your course. For example, books for the course are available right from the app, where students can tap them to start reading the assigned chapter. Notes taken in iBooks are consolidated for easy reviewing in the iTunes U app. If an assignment includes watching part of a video, one tap goes straight to a specific spot in the video. And iTunes U keeps documents, notes, highlights and bookmarks up to date across multiple devices.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=screen alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overvieweasy.jpg&quot; width=883 height=566&gt; &lt;P&gt;To create a course, simply gather all the materials you need and follow the easy step-by-step instructions in the iTunes U Course Manager — a web-based tool accessible from a browser. Courses can include a syllabus, handouts, quizzes and other items. All of the course materials that you upload will be hosted by Apple and available to anyone taking your course. You can pull content and links from the Internet, iBookstore, App Store and iTunes Store. Or you can gather material from among the 500,000-plus resources at iTunes U, including audio and video content from museums, universities, cultural institutions and more. Once the course is ready, it’s a snap to distribute it to anyone who’s interested in the topic — whether in your class or anywhere in the world.&lt;/P&gt;Audio and videoPresentationsDocumentsPDFsePub booksiOS appsWeb links&lt;IMG class=center alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewcatalog.jpg&quot; width=764 height=558&gt; &lt;P&gt;When you create and distribute a course on iTunes U, you’ll join a large and growing community of schools and institutions that are sharing their content with students and lifelong learners all over the world. iTunes U includes National University of Singapore, Yale, Oxford and ANU, along with other distinguished institutions such as MoMA, New York Public Library and more. Students can use iTunes on their computer or the iTunes U app on their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to browse and download over 500,000 free lectures, videos, books and other resources on thousands of subjects.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;ASIDE class=apply&gt;&lt;IMG class=right alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog//overviewapply.png&quot; width=240 height=224&gt; &lt;P&gt;K-12 school districts, universities and colleges in 26 countries can create and distribute courses on iTunes U. To get started, build your team and decide which content you’ll distribute.&lt;BR&gt;Sign up&lt;/P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Questions?&lt;/STRONG&gt; Visit the iTunes U support site and read our guidelines:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/asia/education/itunes-u/?sr=hotnews.rss&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/8168872255930943913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-itunes-u-app-for-ipad-iphone-and_12.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/8168872255930943913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/8168872255930943913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-itunes-u-app-for-ipad-iphone-and_12.html' title='New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4900217300662712535</id><published>2012-08-12T20:41:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T20:41:01.524+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Downloads"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="First"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="million"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Store"/><title type='text'>Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day</title><content type='html'> &lt;BODY readability=&quot;3&quot;&gt;With the Mac App Store built into OS X Mountain Lion, getting the apps you want has never been easier. No more boxes, no more discs, no more time-consuming installation. Click once to download and install any app on your Mac.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=&quot;left flushleft flushright&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoreheroscreen.jpg&quot; width=1120 height=519&gt; &lt;IMG class=right alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoreicon.jpg&quot; width=126 height=145&gt; &lt;P&gt;The Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. So it’s as easy to find and download Mac apps as it is to add your favorite magazine to iPad or a new game to iPod touch. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music, and more. Or do a quick search for something specific. Read developer descriptions and user reviews. Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it. The Mac App Store has apps for just about everything and everyone. Here are a few of our favorites.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Mac App Store revolutionizes the way applications are installed on a computer — it happens in one step. Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy music and apps on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Within seconds, your new app flies to Launchpad, ready to go. So you can spend more time enjoying new apps and less time installing them.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=center alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoreinstallscreen.jpg&quot; width=820 height=490&gt; &lt;P&gt;Since developers are constantly improving their apps, the Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when an update is available — including OS X Software updates. Update one app at a time or all of them at once, and you’ll always have the latest version of every app you own.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=center alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoreuptodate.jpg&quot; width=772 height=357&gt; &lt;IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoreneed.jpg&quot; width=192 height=161&gt; &lt;P&gt;Can’t open a file you’ve downloaded or received in an email? OS X can search the Mac App Store to find the app that can open the file. Buy what you need instantly and get back to business.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/appstoredownload.jpg&quot; width=382 height=138&gt; &lt;P&gt;You can install apps on every Mac authorized for your personal use and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;ASIDE class=top-apps&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/hk/en/mac/app-store/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4900217300662712535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/mac-app-store-downloads-top-one-million_12.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4900217300662712535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4900217300662712535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/mac-app-store-downloads-top-one-million_12.html' title='Mac App Store Downloads Top One Million in First Day'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-2954815844328762796</id><published>2012-08-12T20:21:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T20:21:49.623+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Updates"/><title type='text'>Apple Updates Mac mini</title><content type='html'> &lt;BODY readability=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;IMG class=&quot;right main&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/buystripmacmini.png&quot; width=97 height=41&gt; &lt;P&gt;Now starting at HK$4,688.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=right src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/buystripmacmini.png&quot; width=97 height=41&gt; &lt;P&gt;Mac mini with OS X Server only HK$7,988.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=icon alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/buystrip-icon-retail.png&quot; width=31 height=31&gt; &lt;P&gt;Test-drive a Mac mini and get all your questions answered by our knowledgeable Specialists.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Find a store&lt;/P&gt;*Up to 2x faster compared with previous-generation Mac mini.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/hk/en/macmini/?sr=hotnews.rss&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/2954815844328762796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-updates-mac-mini_12.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2954815844328762796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2954815844328762796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-updates-mac-mini_12.html' title='Apple Updates Mac mini'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4434288668347085283</id><published>2012-08-12T19:44:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T19:44:12.451+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Final"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Updates"/><title type='text'>Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X</title><content type='html'> &lt;BODY readability=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;IMG class=right alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/routingmotion.png&quot; width=117 height=120&gt; &lt;P&gt;Create brilliant titles, transitions, effects, and more with Motion, the motion graphics companion to Final Cut Pro. New Smart Motion Templates let you instantly adjust graphics as you edit. Learn more&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Available from the Mac App Store for HK$398. Buy Now&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=right alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.itechcore.comyr.com/public_html/autoblog/routingcompressor.png&quot; width=108 height=108&gt; &lt;P&gt;The robust encoding companion to Final Cut Pro, Compressor lets you customize Final Cut Pro output settings and distribute encoding tasks across computers to save time during export. Learn more&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Available from the Mac App Store for HK$398. Buy Now&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/hk/en/finalcutpro/?sr=hotnews.rss&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4434288668347085283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-updates-final-cut-pro-x_12.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4434288668347085283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4434288668347085283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-updates-final-cut-pro-x_12.html' title='Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-6876530649958672183</id><published>2012-07-05T08:01:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-05T08:01:00.121+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="difficult"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="innovation"/><title type='text'>Why is innovation difficult?</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-image-full-size imagecache-default imagecache-image-full-size_default&quot; title=&quot;Fail faster&quot; alt=&quot;Why is innovation difficult?&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//LIFEFAILfaster2.png&quot; width=520 height=292&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Image by opensource.com&lt;P&gt;The merits of failing faster are integrated with taking risks. Successful innovations only come after many failed attempts. Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, explores the intersection of open source and innovation in a Technology Academy Finland (TAF) post &quot;What is Innovation?&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Mickos says:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;An innovation creates a new dimension of performance. It&#39;s not enough to improve performance. It’s not enough to create a new thought. A new thing is not an innovation unless it finds a new direction for performance.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;He explains that innovation doesn&#39;t require a PHD, and that open source development is a great example of innovation and a way to bring different opinions together to advance technology.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Open source software is an innovation in that it brings together in a productive way programmers who disagree on many things,&quot; Mickos said. He goes on to list other examples such as Facebook, the touchscreen, and e-learning.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&gt; Read the full post at TAF &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I agree with Mickos. It takes a release often, release early mentality with a fail early, fail often approach to develop innovations that create a new performance dimension. One of the hardest perceptions to break, tied to innovation, is that they happen in a laboratory setting and require a lab coat.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is not the case in the 21st century as we see from the examples above—Facebook was not made in a science lab. Innovations are being created in dorm rooms, home garages, collaboratively on the Internet, and beyond.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG class=mceItem src=&quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\TechCore\linux howto\gif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.com/business/12/6/why-innovation-difficult&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/6876530649958672183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-is-innovation-difficult.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6876530649958672183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6876530649958672183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-is-innovation-difficult.html' title='Why is innovation difficult?'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-2828229227404581154</id><published>2012-07-05T03:09:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-05T03:09:00.293+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chrome"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Products"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Unpolished"/><title type='text'>Apple Products See the Unpolished Side of Chrome</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG class=&quot;story-image&quot; alt=&quot;Apple Products See the Unpolished Side of Chrome&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//chrome.jpg&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; height=&quot;160&quot;&gt;By Richard Adhikari&lt;BR&gt;MacNewsWorld&lt;BR&gt;Part of the ECT News Network&lt;BR&gt;06/29/12 11:56 AM PT&lt;P&gt;The gremlin causing many new MacBook Air notebooks to crash is reportedly none other than Google Chrome. The Web browser causes a kernel panic, shutting down the computer. Meanwhile, Chrome is also moving to iOS with a new third-party app. However, there are questions regarding the mobile browser&#39;s speed, since it&#39;s not permitted to use certain technologies used by iOS&#39; native Safari.&lt;/P&gt;Mac owners have been having more than a few headaches with Google&#39;s (Nasdaq: GOOG) Chrome browser.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Owners of new Macbook Airs have been complaining for several days that their devices have been freezing or crashing when they use the Chrome browser.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Google has confirmed to Gizmodo that the problem is a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser related to the drawing of plugins on Mac OS X and that it&#39;s working to find and fix the root cause.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;This is not good news for Google&#39;s reputation with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) users,&quot; Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC, told MacNewsWorld.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Separately, Google on Thursday unveiled Chrome for the iPhone and iPad at its Google I/O developers&#39; conference in San Francisco.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It&#39;s possible, though, that Chrome could run more slowly on iOS than the default Mobile Safari browser because the latter uses the Nitro JavaScript engine, which other browsers are barred from using.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;This will likely be the same kind of problem folks will complain about when running in the new Metro sandboxed environment from Microsoft,&quot; Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told MacNewsWorld. &quot;These are intentionally closed systems to better assure the customer experience and protect against hostile hacking.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;New Macbook Airs used by staffers at Gizmodo froze and crashed when the Chrome browser was used, according to the tech blog. Switching to Apple&#39;s Safari browser solved the problem, it reported.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A graphics resource leak in Chrome is causing a kernel panic on Macs with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) HD 4000 graphics processing units (GPUs), Google said. That includes new Macbook Airs. Google has filed radar bug number 11762608 with Apple about the kernel panics because it shouldn&#39;t be possible for an application to trigger such behavior.&lt;P&gt;Google sent out an auto update for Chrome on Thursday that temporarily disables some of its GPU acceleration features on new MacBook Airs. It expects to send out further fixes to re-enable many or all of those features.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Many of the new notebooks Apple unveiled earlier this month are susceptible, as several use the Intel HD 4000 GPU.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple&#39;s products &quot;are making significant gains as Web browsing devices,&quot; IDC&#39;s Hilwa said. The issues Chrome is suffering on MacBook Airs &quot;could undermine Google&#39;s ability to reach this growing number of users.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple &quot;is the power player in the consumer space, and right now consumers are driving end points,&quot; Enderle stated. &quot;As they force Google off their platforms, Google is being diminished, showcasing the massive opportunity cost of Google&#39;s betrayal of Apple by creating Android in the first place.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Chrome and other third-party browsers can sometimes run more slowly on iOS than Apple&#39;s Safari browser does because they aren&#39;t allowed to use the faster Nitro JavaScript engine, which Safari uses.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Chrome for iOS provides the same fast, secure and stable Web browsing experience you&#39;ve come to enjoy when using Chrome on your desktop or Android device, while also adapting to platform specific technical specifications,&quot; Google spokesperson Jessica Kositz told MacNewsWorld. &quot;Rendering and the JavaScript engine are provided by iOS through UIWebView, as are all third-party browsers on iOS, so Chrome for iOS does not use Chrome v8 JS engine.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple introduced Nitro into iOS 4.3 in March 2011 and also uses Nitro in Mac OS X.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Nitro evolved from JavaScriptCore, a framework that provides a JavaScript engine for WebKit implementations. The WebKit project rewrote JavaScriptCore as &quot;SquirrelFish,&quot; a bytecode interpreter. SquirrelFish evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, which was marketed as &quot;Nitro&quot; and announced in September of 2008. Nitro compiles JavaScript into native machine mode.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple is blocking access to Nitro for other vendors&#39; browsers on iOS because this is &quot;deemed too risky by Apple,&quot; Enderle suggested. &quot;Whether this is to protect against a competitive threat more than a security exploit isn&#39;t clear.&quot;&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//end-enn.gif&quot; width=&quot;21&quot; height=&quot;10&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Print Version &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsend20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;E-Mail Article &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconreprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Reprints &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsearch20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;More by Richard Adhikari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/20db3f18/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C75520A0Bhtml/story01.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/2828229227404581154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/apple-products-see-unpolished-side-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2828229227404581154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2828229227404581154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/apple-products-see-unpolished-side-of.html' title='Apple Products See the Unpolished Side of Chrome'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-2996713408587918051</id><published>2012-07-04T23:16:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-04T23:16:00.650+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Action"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marches"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Modbook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tablet"/><title type='text'>Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG class=&quot;story-image&quot; alt=&quot;Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//tablet.jpg&quot; width=&quot;172&quot; height=&quot;124&quot;&gt;By Richard Adhikari&lt;BR&gt;MacNewsWorld&lt;BR&gt;Part of the ECT News Network&lt;BR&gt;06/29/12 6:00 AM PT&lt;P&gt;After years of radio silence, Modbook is once again ready to build Mac tablets. To make its new Modbook Pro, the company disassembles 13-inch MacBook Pros and fits the guts inside custom tablet enclosures with stylus interfaces. The modification void&#39;s Apple&#39;s warranty, but Modbook offers a warranty of its own.&lt;/P&gt;The Modbook Pro, a converted MacBook Pro that has been modified by Modbook and is billed as the first Mac tablet, is set to return to the market later in 2012 after an absence of several years.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Its predecessor, the Modbook, which was based on a MacBook, was one of the best-of-show winners at Macworld 2007.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Modbook basically takes a 13-inch MacBook Pro, strips off its enclosure, including the display and the keyboard and trackpad assembly, and slips what&#39;s left into its an enclosure with a screen and stylus interface.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The modification voids Apple&#39;s (Nasdaq: AAPL) one-year warranty, so Modbook offers a limited one-year warranty of its own. However, it reportedly is still in the process of setting up authorized service centers. These will be announced before the device ships in early fall.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Modbook Pro&#39;s configurable base system has a 2.5 GHz dual core Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Core i5 processor or a 2.9 GHz dual core Intel Core i7 processor. It also has up to 16 GB of RAM, a 2.5-inch SATA drive of up to 1 TB capacity, an Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset, an 8x SuperDrive DVD burner, a built-in 64.5 WH lithium-polymer battery, and a 60 W MagSafe power adapter. It supports WiFi and Bluetooth.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A Modbook Pro tablet has a 13.3-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and a ForceGlass screen that provides an etched drawing surface that simulates paper. Its Wacom digitizer delivers 512 levels of pen pressure sensitivity.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The device runs all Mac applications. Users can also run OS X&#39;s Boot Camp app to install 32- or 64-bit Windows 7.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Modbook Pro serves as a standalone tablet.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Modbook enclosure links to a MacBook Pro through one of the latter&#39;s two standard USB 3.0 ports. The enclosure seals the connection and the port within the Modbook Pro. All other ports remain accessible from the outside.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Modbook Pro closely follows Apple&#39;s design guidelines for USB high-performance peripherals, Modbook says. The Mac modifier contends the Modbook Pro is essentially a fully standards-compliant USB device.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Is this [Modbook Pro] cool? Sure,&quot; Jeff Orr, a senior practice director at ABI Research, told MacNewsWorld. &quot;But like anybody who makes custom enclosures for current laptops like jewel-encrusted ones, people will buy it because of that -- and I don&#39;t think it&#39;s going to be a good idea.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Modbook Pro &quot;has a very high cool factor, and Apple&#39;s base is filled with folks that chase stats,&quot; said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. &quot;This product will carry a very high status aspect. Hell, I&#39;m tempted to buy one.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Further, the Modbook Pro &quot;is a device designed for the Mac OS and those who like to work with styluses,&quot; Enderle told TechNewsWorld. &quot;It&#39;s a productivity tablet focused more on creation than consumption.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;However, the Modbook Pro&#39;s extreme specialization might hurt its future.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;People are going to be asked to pay a premium for something that&#39;s going to have a very specialized purpose,&quot; ABI&#39;s Orr pointed out. &quot;That&#39;s where I&#39;m challenged. You could say this is a good OS, has a good application base, a good connection to the Internet, but how many people are there that really want it?&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;On the other hand, the Modbook Pro&#39;s ability to run Windows 7 &quot;also suggests it could run Windows 8,&quot; Enderle told MacNewsWorld. That &quot;might provide a hedge if the user wanted to switch to Windows 8 either because they like it or because support sucked too much on this product.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Modbook did not respond to our request for comment.&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//end-enn.gif&quot; width=&quot;21&quot; height=&quot;10&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Print Version &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsend20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;E-Mail Article &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconreprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Reprints &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsearch20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;More by Richard Adhikari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/20d8925f/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C7550A80Bhtml/story01.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/2996713408587918051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/modbook-mac-tablet-of-yore-marches-back.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2996713408587918051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/2996713408587918051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/modbook-mac-tablet-of-yore-marches-back.html' title='Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-6877828295637998508</id><published>2012-07-04T18:52:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-04T18:52:00.215+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="online"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shape"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="source"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Takes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>An open source city takes shape: Open, online tools and data</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-image-full-size imagecache-default imagecache-image-full-size_default&quot; title=&quot;Open source city&quot; alt=&quot;An open source city takes shape: Open, online tools and data&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//OSDC-govopensourcecity.png&quot; width=520 height=292&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Image by opensource.com&lt;P&gt;Open government scored another victory when the City of Raleigh announced the Open Raleigh initiative—an online repository with open data, web and mobile applications, and links to participatory tools and organizations. It’s all part of Raleigh’s open source strategy focusing on transparency, collaboration, and improved access to information. It’s proof of the ongoing work of the public-facing, open source resolution Raleigh unanimously passed earlier this year. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As part of the Open Raleigh announcement, the city included an online feedback system: My Raleigh Ideas! It’s a new service the city will use to collaborate with the public to solicit ideas on future projects and topics. Currently, the city is using it to prioritize the data citizens might want in the open data portal and to solicit input for the open data policy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;You can’t get much more open source than collaboratively creating your open data policy with citizens and other stakeholders. City staff “engage with citizen groups, youth development programs, entrepreneurs, and businesses to create an open data policy,” according to the Open Raleigh home page.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The city’s open source strategy is an ongoing partnership with citizens. We have seen, through the actions of elected officials, city staff, and citizen groups like the Citizens Advisory Council (CAC), that gathering citizen input is part of Raleigh’s open source culture.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The open data portal brings different software solutions together to solve multiple problems. It’s a great strategy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;City governments shouldn’t work to write code or solve problems that are already solved—it’s redundant. Why reinvent the wheel when you can subscribe to a constant stream of updates or deploy a solution that has already solved the technological challenge at-hand?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Government IT departments are deploying solutions that already fix these problems. In this specific example, Raleigh is successfully piecing together different technologies to create a comprehensive open data portal. Let’s take a look at the technical components of Open Raleigh.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The grand vision for the open data portal has two components, ESRI and a to-be determined solution similar to Socrata. They both play a critical role housing the available data and making it easier-to-consume by end users.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The ESRI geoportal server is an open source product that enables discovery, use, and publishing of metadata for geospatial resources. It allows custom downloads of data using a map-based interface. ESRI is also used at the county and state level, which allows for seamless searching. Citizens, developers, and businesses can already use almost 100 geospatial layers available through the geoportal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The city is also looking to deploy a solution similar to Socrata to house other data resources for the open data portal. This type of solution would use an open data platform to transform information assets such as geospatial data and unstructured content into consumable data.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The MyRaleigh Ideas! crowdsouring platform uses the Granicus CivicIdeas product. The city is using the open data project as a test case for the tool. They are currently using MyRaleigh Ideas! to solicit feedback and determine which open data sets are a priority for the community. Pending the outcome of the pilot, the platform may be available for other city departments to use for their citizen engagement needs.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;GovDelivery helps government agencies create effective digital communications. Raleigh has deployed an effective email subscription solution called My Raleigh Subscriptions that allows citizens to opt-in to email updates of their choosing. From my own personal experience, it’s saved me a ton of duplicate emails. Citizens can choose from a variety of topics ranging from alerts to newsletters, meeting agendas to news releases, event information to crime alerts, and much more.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SeeClickFix is a way for citizens to report non-emergency problems to the city such as potholes, graffiti, or broken sidewalks. Behind the scenes, SeeClickFix uses the Open311 standard which is an effort to coordinate a standardized, open-access, read/write model for citizens to report non-emergency issues.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Citizens no longer need to hunt down a phone number or get bounced around from department to department. Once they see a problem, the can click to report it through a website or a mobile application, and the city will acknowledge the issue and channel it to the right department to get it fixed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Open Raleigh is making a big difference for the citizen experience. We’ve talked about just a few of the open tools that are changing how citizens can affect their surroundings. However, the successful use of open technology in North Carolina is no longer a simple one-way street. In part two of this series, we’ll explore the impact Open Raleigh is having on open source.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.com/government/12/6/open-source-city-takes-shape-open-online-tools-and-data&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/6877828295637998508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/open-source-city-takes-shape-open.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6877828295637998508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6877828295637998508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/open-source-city-takes-shape-open.html' title='An open source city takes shape: Open, online tools and data'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4770762726719085485</id><published>2012-07-04T14:05:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-04T14:05:00.214+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Amazon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Brazils"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ecommerce"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Exclusive"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jungle"/><title type='text'>Exclusive: Amazon to take on Brazil&amp;#39;s ecommerce jungle</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;Graphics of the new Amazon Kindle tablets are seen at a news conference during the launch of Amazon&#39;s new tablets in New York, September 28, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120629&amp;t=2&amp;i=624769109&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85S1KYK00&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;Graphics of the new Amazon Kindle tablets are seen at a news conference during the launch of Amazon&#39;s new tablets in New York, September 28, 2011. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton&lt;/P&gt;By Esteban Israel&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SAO PAULO | Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:30pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is expected to set up a digital bookstore in Brazil in the fourth quarter, as it seeks to get a piece of the fast-growing online retail market in the country that inspired its name.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The e-commerce powerhouse, named after Brazil&#39;s longest river, wants to elbow its way into Latin America&#39;s largest economy with the popular Kindle e-reader and a Portuguese-language catalogue of digital books, according to Brazilian publishers and an industry source familiar with Amazon&#39;s plans.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The all-digital approach will allow Amazon to minimize the risks that a bigger retail launch would imply in a country with notorious infrastructure shortcomings and a complex, costly tax system. The company would also have to ride out a downturn in Brazil&#39;s economy that threatens to cool consumer demand.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Brazil would be the first country Amazon enters only with digital (products) and that is because of the logistic and tax difficulties,&quot; said the industry source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Having a full retail operation? That&#39;s the goal,&quot; the source added.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A Brazil-based operation would save the country&#39;s 200 million consumers from paying high import taxes on online orders shipped from overseas.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Two local book publishers told Reuters they have had meetings and video conferences in recent months to negotiate contracts with Amazon&#39;s head of Kindle content, Pedro Huerta.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;They told us the plan is to start between October and November,&quot; said one of the publishers, who asked not to be identified.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Amazon spokesman Craig Berman declined to comment.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The world&#39;s largest online retailer, Amazon is the latest U.S. company looking to tap Brazil&#39;s $10.5 billion online retail market, which is expected to grow 25 percent this year fueled by a swelling middle class. Others include online movie service Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and home-rental service AirBnB.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It would be Amazon&#39;s latest foray into emerging markets after breaking into China in 2004 and India earlier this year.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But the move comes as Brazil&#39;s decade-long expansion in consumer growth hits the brakes. In 2012, Brazil&#39;s economy is expected to grow less than last year&#39;s 2.7 percent expansion, raising questions about the timing of Amazon&#39;s entrance.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Pedro Guasti, director of the Sao Paulo-based research firm eBit, says Brazil&#39;s online business has become big enough to pop up on Amazon&#39;s radar.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;This year we should reach $12 billion in sales online, a level that justifies their entry. If they wait much longer it would become very expensive,&quot; he said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;KINDLE AIMS FOR SUPREMACY&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Amazon thinks it could quickly dominate Brazil&#39;s ebook market with the Kindle, boosting sales of electronic books to 15 percent of the publishing market in the first year of operations from 0.5 percent currently, the industry source said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Amazon hopes to grab 90 percent of Brazil&#39;s ebook market, the source added, in part because many Brazilians already download content from its site using readers they bought abroad.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Brazilians account for 1 percent of the global traffic to Amazon&#39;s websites, according to the company&#39;s information firm Alexa. That compares to 2.3 percent in Britain or 1.3 in Germany, where Amazon already has operations.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;To gain market share quickly in Brazil, Amazon will likely sell its most basic Kindle model at a subsidized price of under 500 reais ($239), three times more expensive than in the U.S. but still bellow rival products, the source said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;That strategy - prioritizing market share over profit - is one that Amazon has used elsewhere, prompting critics to question the company&#39;s ability to make money in the long run.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Amazon has already signed contracts with around 30 Brazilian publishers and is rushing to build a portfolio of some 10,000 electronic books ahead of the end-year shopping season, the source familiar with the company´s plan said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A publisher involved in the negotiations said Amazon is planning to price the ebooks at about 70 percent of their cover price and earn a profit margin of to 40 to 50 percent.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Revenues for us will be insignificant, but we see it as an important channel to promote our products and sell more physical books,&quot; the publisher said, who also asked not to be identified because negotiations with Amazon are ongoing.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Amazon&#39;s move could end up prompting other U.S. competitors to expand their digital operations into on Brazil. One distributor said Barnes &amp; Noble Inc (BKS.N) has already approached some Brazilian publishers with its reader Nook. A spokeswoman with the U.S. bookseller said they have plans to expand internationally but had no specific comments on Brazil.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Local companies will need to acquire foreign technology in order to survive,&quot; said the source close to the negotiations.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NOT AN EASY MARKET&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Rumors of Amazon&#39;s arrival are swirling in Brazil&#39;s online retail market, with many players already preparing marketplace platforms to compete with the U.S. giant.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Despite relatively low Internet penetration, Brazil has recently overtaken India as Facebook&#39;s (FB.O) second-biggest user base and is one of the world&#39;s fastest growing markets for smartphones.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But publishers and online retailers warn that when Amazon expands its retail offerings, it will struggle to replicate its efficient business model in Brazil, where labor costs are high, taxes complex and less than 20 percent of roads are paved.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Online retailers in Brazil complain about inter-state taxes and logistical bottlenecks in this vast country, which is roughly the size of the United States and where mail is sometimes delivered by canoe. Steep customs taxes and an endless chain of intermediaries make imported goods expensive.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ludovino Lopes, head of Brazil&#39;s ecommerce association camara-e.net, says Amazon will have to adapt. &quot;They will have to tropicalize their business model to take on those challenges.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One likely strategy is a long-term approach.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;I think Amazon will take small steps at first, to learn the market, but then invest in growth. Amazon is a large company, and could subsidize its operations in Brazil for years before making a profit there,&quot; said Colin Sebastian, an equity research analyst with R.W. Baird in San Francisco.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Local competitors say Amazon would first have to prove it can compete in the challenging environment.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;They are going to face the same kind of problems we always had,&quot; said Sergio Herz, director of Livraria Cultura, one of Brazil&#39;s top bookstores with a dozen locations.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Until now they were in heaven and we were in hell. Come to hell with us, Amazon.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;($1 = 2.03 reais)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Editing by Todd Benson and Richard Chang)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/Nty2OfoL79Y/us-amazon-brazil-idUSBRE85S1FU20120629&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4770762726719085485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/exclusive-amazon-to-take-on-brazil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4770762726719085485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4770762726719085485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/exclusive-amazon-to-take-on-brazil.html' title='Exclusive: Amazon to take on Brazil&amp;#39;s ecommerce jungle'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-7620880205655947105</id><published>2012-07-04T10:56:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-04T10:56:00.457+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chief"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hardware"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Industry"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Names"/><title type='text'>Microsoft names new industry hardware chief</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft&#39;s corporate Vice-President for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), introduces new tablet PCs with the Windows operating system at the Microsoft booth during the Computex 2010 computer fair at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky Loh&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120630&amp;t=2&amp;i=624846344&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85T02PI00&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft&#39;s corporate Vice-President for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), introduces new tablet PCs with the Windows operating system at the Microsoft booth during the Computex 2010 computer fair at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 1, 2010. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Nicky Loh&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE | Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:58pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) executive in charge of relations with PC makers is moving to a new job just two weeks after the software company broke with tradition by announcing it would manufacture a tablet computer, ruffling feathers of some hardware partners.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Steven Guggenheimer will move from his position of corporate vice president of Microsoft&#39;s original equipment manufacturer unit July 1, the company said, to take up an unspecified new senior leadership job within the company.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The move was the result of long-term planning, Microsoft said. Guggenheimer will be replaced by another Microsoft executive from the unit, Nick Parker.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft broke with more than 30 years of focusing on software last Monday when it announced it would make two new devices called Surface to run its new Windows 8 operating system, in an attempt to directly counter Apple Inc&#39;s (AAPL.O) iPad and lightweight laptops.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some hardware makers complained they were kept in the dark about the move, which potentially puts Microsoft in direct competition with PC manufacturers .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Reporting By Bill Rigby; Editing by David Gregorio)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/Z1Lbjeo8y-Y/us-microsoft-executive-idUSBRE85S1KM20120630&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/7620880205655947105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-names-new-industry-hardware_04.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/7620880205655947105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/7620880205655947105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-names-new-industry-hardware_04.html' title='Microsoft names new industry hardware chief'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-6774668491670568464</id><published>2012-07-04T05:38:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-08-12T21:39:26.209+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="crowdsource"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="should"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="strategy"/><title type='text'>Should you crowdsource your strategy?</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt=&quot;Should you crowdsource your strategy?&quot; class=&quot;imagecache imagecache-image-full-size imagecache-default imagecache-image-full-size_default&quot; height=&quot;292&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//BUSINESScommunity2.png&quot; title=&quot;Crowdsource&quot; width=&quot;520&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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122. All too often, direction setting happens in an ivory tower—cut off from valuable in-the-trenches insight and expertise and out of tune with shifts in the broader environment. What’s more, when strategy is cooked up in an elite enclave, the process of "selling" it to the very people expected to implement it becomes an arduous and uncertain chore.<br />
123. In their excellent new piece in the McKinsey Quarterly, MIX co-founder Michele Zanini and Arne Gast, a principal in McKinsey’s Amsterdam office, explore a set of compelling alternatives (many of which emerged as stories on the MIX)—and make a case for cultivating the social side of strategy.<br />
124. Here’s a taste of the piece:<br />
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126. In 2009, Wikimedia launched a special wiki—one dedicated to the organization’s own strategy. Over the next two years, more than 1,000 volunteers generated some 900 proposals for the company’s future direction and then categorized, rationalized, and formed task forces to elaborate on them. The result was a coherent strategic plan detailing a set of beliefs, priorities, and related commitments that together engendered among participants a deep sense of dedication to Wikimedia’s future. Through the launch of several special projects and the continued work of self-organizing teams dedicated to specific proposals, the vision laid out in the strategic plan is now unfolding.<br />
127. Wikimedia’s effort to crowdsource its strategy probably sounds like an outlier—after all, the company’s very existence rests on collaborative content creation. Yet over the past few years, a growing number of organizations have begun experimenting with opening up their strategy processes to constituents who were previously frozen out of strategic direction setting. Examples include 3M, Dutch insurer AEGON, global IT services provider HCL Technologies, Red Hat (the leading provider? of Linux software), and defense contractor Rite-Solutions.<br />
128. While such efforts are at different stages, executives at organizations that are experimenting with more participatory modes of strategy development cite two major benefits. One is improving the quality of strategy by pulling in diverse and detailed frontline perspectives that are typically overlooked but can make the resulting plans more insightful and actionable. The second is building enthusiasm and alignment behind a company’s strategic direction—a critical component of long- term organizational health, effective execution, and strong financial performance that is all too rare.</blockquote>
129. Read the entire piece on the McKinsey Quarterly site (registration required) or download the pdf here.<br />
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131. &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.com/business/12/6/should-you-crowdsource-your-strategy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/6774668491670568464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/should-you-crowdsource-your-strategy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6774668491670568464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6774668491670568464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/should-you-crowdsource-your-strategy.html' title='Should you crowdsource your strategy?'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-3897294922605265871</id><published>2012-07-04T01:03:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-04T01:03:00.587+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bellowing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="iTunes"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Place"/><title type='text'>Bellowing Ads Have No Place in iTunes</title><content type='html'>Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation &#39;Translate&#39;. The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas object used when creating the XML reader. Line 1, position 8676.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;IMG class=story-image alt=&quot;Bellowing Ads Have No Place in iTunes&quot; align=left src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//apple-tv.jpg&quot; width=172 height=124&gt; By Chris Maxcer&lt;BR&gt;MacNewsWorld &lt;BR&gt;Part of the ECT News Network &lt;BR&gt;06/28/12 5:00 AM PT &lt;/P&gt;Apple users expect a premium experience when paying for and viewing iTunes video content. Usually Apple delivers. But there&#39;s one exception: When streaming episodes of certain TV shows, users sometimes see ads that iTunes has slapped onto the show&#39;s end credits. That wouldn&#39;t be a problem if the ads weren&#39;t so incredibly, absurdly loud. This is the kind of detail users expect Apple to pay attention to.&lt;/P&gt;As an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) product-lovin&#39; enthusiast, my default gut reaction is to defend Apple, just like my gut reaction to defend my family and friends. When Apple does something silly, or more likely doesn&#39;t do something it ought to do -- or consumers wish it would do -- I tend to think about it from the perspective of Apple&#39;s business interests. And I rationalize it. Often enough, it makes reasonable sense. After all, you don&#39;t get to be the most successful consumer tech company in the world for being dumb.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And yet, Apple has done something so inane, so painful to my loyalty, that I&#39;ve found myself not only avoiding Apple&#39;s product, but also raging against it with very real anger. I&#39;m seriously pissed, and many of you are going to laugh at the reason why: Apple is inserting iTunes commercials into the ends of &quot;Dora the Explorer&quot; cartoon television episodes that I bought. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope you&#39;re cracking up right now. Me, a grown man, watching &quot;Dora the Explorer.&quot; Sure, she&#39;s got a big weird head and sure, she has a talking backpack, but she&#39;s not all that bad. OK, she&#39;s tough to take. I am not a fan of Dora. But plenty of small children love her, and when small children need to get their Dora fix, I know how to deliver it. I cue up my Apple TV, select an episode, an boom, I can start streaming Dora from Apple&#39;s cloud servers in the sky. Or North Carolina. Wherever they are. Works pretty well, usually.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I used to always just stream them from my MacBook, but if it was asleep, I found it easier to not share the Mac and instead just stream from Apple. Seemed like a nice cloud-friendly feature, right? Until I noticed the commercials. Here&#39;s what happens:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you watch a &quot;Dora&quot; episode on your Mac, directly from the file you purchased and downloaded, you get the episode. No commercials. Perfect. If you stream from your Mac, same deal. No commercial. If you move the episode to your iPad or iPod or iPhone ... same deal. No commercial. If you stream an episode via your Apple TV from Apple&#39;s servers in the sky&lt;/EM&gt;, at the end of the credits, a very loud commercial will suddenly blast out of your TV speakers -- VERY loud&lt;/EM&gt; -- shouting about how you can get more &quot;Dora&quot; adventures from iTunes. It&#39;s obviously a pitch to go buy more &quot;Dora&quot; episodes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;At least it&#39;s a commercial that is context-consistent -- Apple isn&#39;t trying to sell you or your kids on some other&lt;/EM&gt; cartoon character you might not approve of. Like that Diego character. His rescue pack is so not real. So that&#39;s tolerable, at least. And the commercial comes at the end of the episode, interrupting the credits. No big deal. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;It&#39;s the crass increase of volume when the commercial airs. I mean seriously, there I am minding my own business, when boom, some Apple narrator commercial voice is blasting through the household.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;No one likes this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I find it very disappointing.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I thought Apple was better than this. I thought Apple was smarter than this. I have a hard time imagining anyone sitting down deep inside of the secret bowels of Apple&#39;s headquarters in Cupertino and thinking, &quot;You know what, let&#39;s self-promote more iTunes content by creating commercials to show at the end of TV episodes. And better yet, let&#39;s amp up the sound waves so that it blasts out extra-loud, maybe even loud enough to startle the neighbor&#39;s dog. Yeah. That&#39;s the project I want to work on.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And I have a harder time imagining that someone with a brain approved it.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Steve Jobs sure as heck would not have enjoyed an iTunes commercial blasting out at the end of one of his shows. It would have damaged his calm, I&#39;m telling you. It damages mine, that&#39;s for sure.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Meanwhile, several weeks ago CEO Tim Cook mentioned something about watching Apple TV and Apple employees watching their own devices and liking that experience. I&#39;m not sure which episodes Apple is attaching commercials to -- is it just &quot;Dora?&quot; -- but I&#39;m hard-pressed to believe that Cook knows anything about the real American TV-watching experience based on what he gets out of Apple TV options. If he did, there&#39;s no way this crappy commercial system would have seen the light of day, even with &quot;Dora the Explorer.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I actually buy TV episodes so I can have them and watch them whenever I want (I mean, so the kids can watch them) so they can be portable on road trips. I have the Apple TV because it&#39;s a great set-top box product. Hard to beat. I did not buy into any Apple ecosystem or Apple universe to listen to commercials, particularly loud and annoying commercials. Heck, this is exactly the reason I buy episodes of shows. If I miss an episode of &quot;Castle,&quot; for example, because someone deleted the recording on my DVR, sometimes I&#39;ll buy the episode instead of watching it with commercials online, just to get the superior experience.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So Apple, I&#39;m sure, has some terms-of-use line item that lets them insert commercials into so-called episodes that I bought and now have access to through their service. I&#39;m sure they have every right to do this. I&#39;m sure they want to be super-profitable with their service. What I&#39;m saying, as a consumer, is that I do not like it at all, and moreover, I&#39;m actively choosing alternatives because of it. This. Yes. I buy Apple and spend a lot of money doing it for a higher-quality experience. Not this experience.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What&#39;s even crazy is that in 2010, Congress passed the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation), and in late 2011 the FCC was supposedly starting to enforce it. Apparently no one at Apple has heard of this law. Or it doesn&#39;t apply to them. My point, though, is that nearly everybody hates loud commercials. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;And here&#39;s what&#39;s dangerous to Apple: The Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Xbox 360. I&#39;ve started reaching for the Xbox 360 controller first went I want to stream an episode of &quot;Dora the Explorer&quot; -- or watch Shark Week or whatever. Microsoft isn&#39;t inserting commercials into the programming I get via Xbox Live and my Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) Prime Membership. I actually told a pre-schooler this weekend that the mermaid episode was not available ... simply because I have latent irritation issues with Apple and their &quot;Dora&quot; iTunes commercials.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What&#39;s worse: I&#39;m inadvertently training small children to use the Xbox 360 for cartoon episodes instead of iTunes. Instead of Apple. And you know what? The experience is better.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I just expect higher quality out of Apple, and I&#39;m still surprised at my level of irritation over it. &lt;IMG border=0 src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//end-enn.gif&quot; width=21 height=10&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG align=left src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//Chris20Maxcer.jpg&quot;&gt; MacNewsWorld columnist &lt;STRONG&gt;Chris Maxcer&lt;/STRONG&gt; has been writing about the tech industry since the birth of the email newsletter, and he still remembers the clacking Mac keyboards from high school -- Apple&#39;s seed-planting strategy at work. While he enjoys elegant gear and sublime tech, there&#39;s something to be said for turning it all off -- or most of it -- to go outside. To catch him, take a &quot;firstnamelastname&quot; guess at Gmail.com.&lt;BR clear=all&gt;&lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconprint20x14.gif&quot; width=20 height=14&gt;Print Version &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsend20x14.gif&quot; width=20 height=14&gt;E-Mail Article &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconreprint20x14.gif&quot; width=20 height=14&gt;Reprints &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsearch20x14.gif&quot; width=20 height=14&gt;More by Chris Maxcer &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/20ce552b/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C7550A0A0Bhtml/story01.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/3897294922605265871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/bellowing-ads-have-no-place-in-itunes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3897294922605265871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3897294922605265871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/bellowing-ads-have-no-place-in-itunes.html' title='Bellowing Ads Have No Place in iTunes'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4199452614247406355</id><published>2012-07-03T20:58:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-03T20:58:00.128+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="business"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="considers"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="paper"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="splitting"/><title type='text'>RIM considers splitting business in two: paper</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;A sign of Research in Motion (RIM) is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, January 22, 2012. REUTERS/Geoff Robins&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120624&amp;t=2&amp;i=622547849&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85N145A00&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;A sign of Research in Motion (RIM) is seen at its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, January 22, 2012. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Geoff Robins&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;LONDON | Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:27am EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;LONDON (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering splitting its business in two, separating its struggling handset manufacturing division from its messaging network, The Sunday Times reported.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;RIM, which last month said it had hired JP Morgan and RBC Capital to look at its strategic options, could break off its handset division into a separate listed company or sell it, the British newspaper reported without citing sources.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Potential buyers would include Amazon and Facebook, it reported, adding that RIM&#39;s messaging network could also be sold, or opened up to rivals such as Apple and Google to generate income.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;An alternative option would be to keep the company together but sell a stake to a larger technology firm such as Microsoft, the newspaper said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Catherine Evans)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/LMfOfC4PWJY/us-rim-split-idUSBRE85N0D320120624&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4199452614247406355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/rim-considers-splitting-business-in-two.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4199452614247406355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4199452614247406355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/rim-considers-splitting-business-in-two.html' title='RIM considers splitting business in two: paper'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4356369874464540684</id><published>2012-07-03T15:07:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-03T15:07:00.131+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chief"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hardware"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Industry"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Names"/><title type='text'>Microsoft names new industry hardware chief</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft&#39;s corporate Vice-President for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), introduces new tablet PCs with the Windows operating system at the Microsoft booth during the Computex 2010 computer fair at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Nicky Loh&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120630&amp;t=2&amp;i=624846344&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85T02PI00&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft&#39;s corporate Vice-President for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), introduces new tablet PCs with the Windows operating system at the Microsoft booth during the Computex 2010 computer fair at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 1, 2010. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Nicky Loh&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE | Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:58pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) executive in charge of relations with PC makers is moving to a new job just two weeks after the software company broke with tradition by announcing it would manufacture a tablet computer, ruffling feathers of some hardware partners.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Steven Guggenheimer will move from his position of corporate vice president of Microsoft&#39;s original equipment manufacturer unit July 1, the company said, to take up an unspecified new senior leadership job within the company.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The move was the result of long-term planning, Microsoft said. Guggenheimer will be replaced by another Microsoft executive from the unit, Nick Parker.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft broke with more than 30 years of focusing on software last Monday when it announced it would make two new devices called Surface to run its new Windows 8 operating system, in an attempt to directly counter Apple Inc&#39;s (AAPL.O) iPad and lightweight laptops.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Some hardware makers complained they were kept in the dark about the move, which potentially puts Microsoft in direct competition with PC manufacturers .&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Reporting By Bill Rigby; Editing by David Gregorio)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/Z1Lbjeo8y-Y/us-microsoft-executive-idUSBRE85S1KM20120630&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4356369874464540684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-names-new-industry-hardware.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4356369874464540684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4356369874464540684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-names-new-industry-hardware.html' title='Microsoft names new industry hardware chief'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-3105948396872934352</id><published>2012-07-03T11:57:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-03T11:57:00.447+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Battery"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Could"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="power"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spaces"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SprayOn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tighter"/><title type='text'>Spray-On Battery Could Slip Power Into Tighter Spaces</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG class=&quot;story-image&quot; alt=&quot;Spray-On Battery Could Slip Power Into Tighter Spaces&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//battery.jpg&quot; width=&quot;172&quot; height=&quot;124&quot;&gt;By Rachelle Dragani&lt;BR&gt;TechNewsWorld&lt;BR&gt;06/29/12 5:00 AM PT&lt;P&gt;Designers of mobile devices often have to work around bulky lithium-ion batteries, some of which take up the lion&#39;s share of space inside a given gadget. Researchers at Rice University, though, have developed a battery that can be painted onto a surface. The technology still requires more development before it&#39;s commercially viable, but if it&#39;s sufficiently improved it could also be used in applications like solar cells.&lt;/P&gt;Researchers at Rice University have developed a paint that works as a battery, and it could change the way batteries are produced and reduce energy storage restrictions.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The paint-on battery is similar in material balance to traditional lithium-ion batteries. It has five layers -- a positive and a negative current collector, a cathode, an anode and an ion-conducting separator in the middle.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But unlike typical lithium batteries, a perfected paint-on version wouldn&#39;t carry the same restrictions in design that traditional batteries do. Each layer is sprayed on rather than pieced together.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As consumer electronic products such as smartphones and tablets get smaller and thinner, engineers struggle to fit a long-lasting, traditional battery into tighter spaces. A painted battery could alleviate those design restrictions.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Additionally, as scientists explore alternative forms of energy and look to add batteries to new technologies such as solar panels or textiles, a versatile, spray-on battery has the potential to eliminate further design frustrations.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Paintable batteries have the capability of direct and seamless integration with objects,&quot; Neelam Singh, lead author on the study, told TechNewsWorld.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Researchers tested the paint layers on ceramics, glass and stainless steel on a variety of shaped surfaces to see how they would react to the different structures.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The results of the study were published Thursday in Nature Scientific Reports.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The research is a step forward for scientists and engineers working to consolidate batteries and explore ways to cut down on storage restrictions, said Yan Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He called the work a &quot;significant development&quot; in battery manufacturing but added the team still has work ahead of it before it can revolutionize the industry.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;The drawbacks include the cycle life and rate performance,&quot; he told TechNewsWorld. &quot;The performance needs to be as good as the state-of-the-art of lithium-ion batteries. The paper has only about 60 cycles, which is still too short for real applications.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The current product is also limited in scope because it cannot be handled by non-professionals and still can&#39;t stand all outside elements.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;To be able to make batteries at home we need to develop materials that are safer, non-toxic and do not degrade in the presence of air or moisture,&quot; said Singh.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The team has acknowledged those drawbacks and is already working on the next step to making the spray-on battery a viable product, said Singh.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;We have demonstrated the concept of paintable batteries, and the next step is to develop new materials for the battery that are not air- or moisture-sensitive, [and are] non-toxic and safe to handle by non-experts,&quot; said Singh. &quot;We are also working on developing paints for packaging the battery and making every layer, including packaging, by spray-painting technique.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If the researchers can improve the life of the spray-on battery, Wang said, it could still be several years before a product hits the market. But if it does, the practical applications could be widespread across industries that are experimenting with battery power, the biggest possibility being with solar power, said Singh. Since solar panels require large surface areas, the design could be ideal.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Our current work is the demonstration of the paintable battery concept, but it opens up immense possibilities of integration with energy capture devices such as solar cells, as well as objects of daily use,&quot; she said. &quot;We think that it can be used with printed electronics, RFID or other smart objects.&quot;&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//end-enn.gif&quot; width=&quot;21&quot; height=&quot;10&quot;&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Print Version &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsend20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;E-Mail Article &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconreprint20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;Reprints &lt;IMG border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://itechcore.comyr.com/autoblog//iconsearch20x14.gif&quot; width=&quot;20&quot; height=&quot;14&quot;&gt;More by Rachelle Dragani&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ectnews.com.feedsportal.com/c/34520/f/632000/s/20d81a96/l/0L0Stechnewsworld0N0Crsstory0C755140Bhtml/story01.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/3105948396872934352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/spray-on-battery-could-slip-power-into.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3105948396872934352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/3105948396872934352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/spray-on-battery-could-slip-power-into.html' title='Spray-On Battery Could Slip Power Into Tighter Spaces'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-6905036724745521191</id><published>2012-07-03T06:20:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-03T06:20:00.245+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="billion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Yammer"/><title type='text'>Microsoft to buy Yammer for $1.2 billion</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;Yammer CEO David Sacks (L) and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shake hands after announcing Microsoft will acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion cash in San Francisco, June 25, 2012. REUTERS/Lou Dematteis/Microsoft/Handout&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120626&amp;t=2&amp;i=623095490&amp;w=&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=460&amp;pl=300&amp;r=CBRE85O1H5500&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;1 of 2. Yammer CEO David Sacks (L) and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shake hands after announcing Microsoft will acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion cash in San Francisco, June 25, 2012. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Lou Dematteis/Microsoft/Handout&lt;/P&gt;By Bill Rigby&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE | Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:39pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp agreed to buy online social network firm Yammer Inc for $1.2 billion in cash, which will allow the software company to offer a service like Facebook Inc&#39;s to corporate customers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Talk of a deal had circulated earlier this month, but the two companies only confirmed an agreement on Monday.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Four-year-old Yammer, which has 5 million users of its private, in-company social networks, helps companies&#39; internal communications and collaboration by allowing employees to form groups and interact with each other freely. Companies such as Ford Motor Co, Supervalu and Deloitte are customers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The 400-employee firm will keep its headquarters in San Francisco but will become part of Microsoft&#39;s Office unit under Kurt DelBene in Seattle. Yammer will still be led by current CEO David Sacks, a former PayPal executive.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The service should fill a growing gap that Microsoft was struggling to fill with its SharePoint application for creating private websites for intra-company projects.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;This acquisition will immediately make Microsoft a strong competitor in the enterprise social market,&quot; said Larry Cannell, an analyst at tech research firm Gartner. &quot;It was a stretch to call the capabilities in SharePoint&#39;s MySite feature a social network site.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With Yammer, employees can use a private, online company directory to contact co-workers, form networks, chat, share links and post news. A basic version of Yammer is free, but a subscription buys more security and integration with other company-wide software. Yammer&#39;s subscription-based business model makes it different from ad-driven network companies like Facebook or LinkedIn Corp.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The deal, which values Yammer&#39;s users at about $240 each, may ignite interest in companies offering similar services, such as Salesforce.com Inc, Jive Software Inc and Telligent.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The area of internal networking for companies has attracted other big tech companies such as Cisco Systems Inc, which has a similar offering to Yammer called WebEx Social, and International Business Machine Corp with a rival product called Connections.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft, which owns a small fraction of Facebook shares, has been looking for ways to make its desktop-bound products more interactive and attractive to its core corporate users and home consumers, and has even been experimenting with its own social network called So.cl (pronounced &#39;social&#39;).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Last year it paid $8.5 billion to buy online chat company Skype, which it is integrating into its offerings, including the next version of Office.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft&#39;s Office suite of applications - including Outlook email, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentation program - is the bedrock of most companies&#39; day-to-day working software.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Office unit is Microsoft&#39;s most profitable, contributing 60 percent of its profit last year, and amassing more sales than its flagship Windows operating system.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft closed down 2.7 percent at $29.86 on Nasdaq.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Additional reporting by Sayantani Ghosh. Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Tim Dobbyn and Bernard Orr)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/agfGWm0nYPI/us-microsoft-acquisition-idUSBRE85O14720120626&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/6905036724745521191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-to-buy-yammer-for-12-billion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6905036724745521191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6905036724745521191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/microsoft-to-buy-yammer-for-12-billion.html' title='Microsoft to buy Yammer for $1.2 billion'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-4607564528721957957</id><published>2012-07-03T00:26:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-03T00:26:00.562+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Legal"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Samsung"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Scores"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Second"/><title type='text'>Apple scores second legal win vs Samsung in a week</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;Hugo Barra, director of product management of Google, holds a Samsung Galaxy Nexus mobile phone during Google I/O 2012 Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 27, 2012. REUTERS/Stephen Lam&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120629&amp;t=2&amp;i=624820058&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85S1S2600&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;Hugo Barra, director of product management of Google, holds a Samsung Galaxy Nexus mobile phone during Google I/O 2012 Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California June 27, 2012. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Stephen Lam&lt;/P&gt;By Dan Levine&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SAN JOSE, California | Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:00pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday granted Apple Inc&#39;s (AAPL.O) request for a pre-trial injunction against the sale of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd&#39;s (005930.KS) Galaxy Nexus phone, handing the iPhone maker its second legal victory against Samsung in a week.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple and Samsung, the world&#39;s largest consumer electronics corporations, are waging legal war in several countries, accusing each other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Friday&#39;s decision, by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, comes days after she also slapped a pre-trial ban on sales of Samsung&#39;s Galaxy Tab 10.1, a tablet computer that runs on Google Inc&#39;s (GOOG.O) Android and goes toe-to-toe with the iPad.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The back-to-back triumphs - significant because pre-trial injunctions are rarely granted - meant Apple had a better week in court than last week, when Chicago federal court judge Richard Posner ruled the iPhone maker could not pursue an injunction against Google&#39;s Motorola Mobility, effectively ending that case.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;Apple has made a clear showing that, in the absence of a preliminary injunction, it is likely to lose substantial market share in the smartphone market and to lose substantial downstream sales of future smartphone purchases and tag-along products,&quot; Judge Koh said in Friday&#39;s ruling.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Koh scheduled a hearing on Monday to consider whether to put the Galaxy Nexus injunction on hold pending appeal. And she said in court that she might rule on Sunday whether or to similarly put on hold the earlier injunction on the Galaxy Tab.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Apple has waged an international patent war since 2010 as it seeks to limit the growth of Google&#39;s Android system, the world&#39;s most-used mobile operating platform. Opponents of Apple say it is using patents too aggressively in a bid to stamp out competition.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Spokeswoman Kristin Huguet reiterated her previous statement, accusing Samsung of copying the look and feel of its products.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Samsung said in a statement that it is &quot;disappointed&quot; in the decision. &quot;We will take all available measures, including legal action, to ensure the Galaxy Nexus remains available to consumers,&quot; the statement added&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;As a condition of the injunction, Apple was ordered to post a bond of more than $95 million, to secure payment of damages sustained by Samsung should the injunction be deemed a wrongful decision later. The order shall become effective upon posting of the bond.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Apple Inc v. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd et al, 12-00630.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Reporting By Dan Levine and Poornima Gupta; Editing by Edwin Chan, Carol Bishopric and Richard Chang)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/vlsJLq7Daqc/us-apple-samsung-idUSBRE85S1J320120630&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/4607564528721957957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/apple-scores-second-legal-win-vs_03.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4607564528721957957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/4607564528721957957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/apple-scores-second-legal-win-vs_03.html' title='Apple scores second legal win vs Samsung in a week'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4224595277770061647.post-6875243308506623852</id><published>2012-07-02T20:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2012-07-02T20:19:00.359+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="accused"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="insider"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="judge"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="single"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Three"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="trial"/><title type='text'>Single trial for three accused in Dell insider case: Judge</title><content type='html'> &lt;IMG border=0 alt=&quot;A Dell computer logo is seen on a laptop at Best Buy in Phoenix, Arizona, February 18, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua Lott&quot; src=&quot;http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20120629&amp;t=2&amp;i=624721800&amp;w=460&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;r=CBRE85S1EDA00&quot;&gt; &lt;P&gt;A Dell computer logo is seen on a laptop at Best Buy in Phoenix, Arizona, February 18, 2010. &lt;/P&gt;Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott&lt;/P&gt;By Basil Katz&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NEW YORK | Fri Jun 29, 2012 2:07pm EDT &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former hedge fund portfolio managers and an analyst charged in a $62 million insider trading scheme will go to trial together in October, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Lawyers for each of the defendants had sought to convince U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan that they were entitled to separate trials.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Prosecutors in Manhattan announced the charges against the three in January in a sweep dubbed &quot;Operation Perfect Hedge&quot; by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Their arrest was part of the government&#39;s campaign to root out illicit trading on Wall Street, in which a total of 70 people have so far been charged.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A lawyer for Todd Newman, who worked at hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, told the judge that a jury would be prejudiced against his client if it was allowed to hear the size of the illicit gains one of the other defendants, Anthony Chiasson, is accused of reaping.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;We have all seen the protests, the 99 percent...&quot; attorney Stephen Fishbein said. Given the ongoing &quot;financial crisis,&quot; Fishbein said, &quot;I can&#39;t think of a more emotional issue in this day and age.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The judge, however, was not sympathetic.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;I tried a murder trial with the shooter and the look-out at the same time. How do you think they felt?&quot; Sullivan said.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Chiasson and Newman are accused of illegally trading ahead of computer maker Dell Inc&#39;s earnings announcements for the first and second quarters of 2008, netting them profits, respectively, of $57 million and $3.8 million.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;An attorney for analyst Jon Horvath, of Sigma Capital management, a unit of Steven Cohen&#39;s hedge fund SAC Capital, had also argued for a separate trial.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Horvath was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud. Chiasson and Newman both face one count each of conspiracy to commit securities fraud as well as several counts of securities fraud.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;All three men have pleaded not guilty and are contesting the charges.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The government&#39;s case is based in part on testimony by three former analysts turned government cooperators: Sandeep &quot;Sandy&quot; Goyal, Jesse Tortora and Spyridon Adondakis. All three previously pleaded guilty to related insider trading charges.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The trial is scheduled for October 29.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The case is US v. Todd Newman et al, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 12-mj-0124 and 12-cr-00121.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;(Reporting By Basil Katz; editing by Carol Bishopric)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~3/cG2dSsIDpso/us-insidertrading-trial-idUSBRE85S18Y20120629&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View the original article here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/feeds/6875243308506623852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/single-trial-for-three-accused-in-dell.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6875243308506623852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4224595277770061647/posts/default/6875243308506623852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://itechcore.blogspot.com/2012/07/single-trial-for-three-accused-in-dell.html' title='Single trial for three accused in Dell insider case: Judge'/><author><name>Charitha</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15791999796626527553</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHyrz0y8HfArbYeZI7UM4t7iJmqORScS-Pkm4Fi6W35d24wuyxZY1HFE0B--ZZPfmRUn9zpoTDBAvT99_xJ2CN14jom0_skPfGpfQ5rD7NsV-MYOQjvH9n95CC0Yx_e2c/s220/%5BC.D%5Dvideo+studio+%2812%29.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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