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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Practical Advice For Your Commercial Real Estate Dealings
Many people have made it big investing in commercial property. There is no formula that is magic in providing you a successsful life. What is needed is understanding of the industry, a good amount of hard work and experience. This article has some tips to help you begin your adventure in real estate.
Make sure that you invest some time researching local income levels and other factors, such as unemployment rates or local employers plans for expanding or contracting their businesses before you invest a large amount of funds into real estate. If your house is near a hospital, university or other large employment centers, they will usually sell quicker and also, at a higher value.
Pest control is an important issue to look at when you rent or lease. Especially when you rent in an area known to be infested by bugs or rodents, ask your rental agent about pest control policies.
TIP! Take the time to be certain you are satisfied with a piece of real estate before you purchase it. Do not make impulsive decisions.
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Consider visiting websites that contain a wealth of information beneficial to new and seasoned commercial real estate investors alike. You can never learn too much about commercial real estate, so make it your aim to always keep adding to your store of knowledge about the subject.
The location of the property is the most important factor to consider when investing in commercial real estate. Think about the neighborhood your property is located in. Look at similar neighborhoods to determine the likely growth trends over time for your property?s neighborhood. What you are seeing now in terms of commercial potential might be very different a few years from now.
TIP! An essential fundamental of commercial property is location, location, location. Neighborhood is important, even when you are looking at commercial property.
Compared with buying a home, purchasing commercial real estate requires more time, money and paperwork. The added time and effort are crucial, however, to getting the return that you want on your investment.
At first, you may be required to spend a significant amount of time on a commercial investment. It will take time to find an opportunity that is profitable, and afterwards, you may have to wait for repairs and remodeling before you can start monetizing your investment. Don?t abandon you commercial real estate venture because it currently consumes so much of your time. Once you get the property ready, you will be compensated for years to come.
Think larger when you?re thinking about two commercial properties that are viable. Regardless of which way you choose, coming up with the capital is a common factor, so often times it will be be worth digging a little bit deeper to get the larger property in order to maximize your long-term profits. However, buying several units will cause the price of an individual unit to decrease.
TIP! If you have two commercial properties on your short list, you should buy the larger one, if at all possible. Regardless of whether the property you decide on has twenty units or fifty, the process of obtaining financing will be the same, and in both cases will require substantial effort.
When starting out in commercial real estate, it is important you understand the measurement labeled Net Operating Income, or NOI for short. For the investment to be profitable, it has to produce more income than operating expenses.
Make sure your asking price is realistic. There are a number of variables that can affect the realistic value of your property.
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TIP! When choosing brokers with whom to work, find out the amount of experience they have dealing with commercial properties. Make sure that the agent has the proper expertise with the type of real estate purchase or sale you are looking for.
If your plan is to use your commercial properties as rental properties, you should seek buildings of solid and simple construction. These types of buildings attract tenants more quickly than other buildings, as prospective tenants know that the building is less likely to have maintenance issues. These buildings also provide much easier maintenance for both the tenants and the owner, as they are less likely to require repairs.
Always make sure that utilities can be accessed from the commercial property you are looking into. Your business is sure to have unique utility requirements, but services typically required by most include sewage, water, power, telecommunications and maybe even natural gas.
When you are selling a commercial property, always make sure to include all buyers; this includes local and non-local buyers. Many people only think locals will buy their property, and that?s a mistake. There are many private investors who prefer to purchase reasonably-priced real estate that is not local to where they reside.
TIP! Make sure that you?re not asking for an unrealistic price for your property. There are many things that can impact your value greatly.
Do a walk-through of each property on your short list. Think about asking a contractor to assist you in evaluating each of the properties, since they will likely see things that you may miss. Decide on an initial offer and start negotiations. Judge the counteroffers prior to making a decision either way.
Before you move into your new space, it may need to be improved. This may be simple changes such as painting or rearranging furniture. Other changes may be more significant, such as moving walls or installing new doors. Get an agreement ahead of time about who will be financially responsible for these improvements, or at least try to have the landlord responsible for part of the cost.
It?s critical to have emergency maintenance contact information very accessible. Inquire with your landlord about who handles the emergency repairs in the space you rent. Be sure to have emergency numbers on hand, and remember to check about a quoted response time for maintenance emergencies. Use the information from your landlord to prepare an emergency plan to protect your reputation and customer service for the times when your normal business flow is disrupted.
TIP! Check out where the utility hook-ups are on any commercial property. You are going to need to sign up for utility services on your commercial property, along with the ones you have at your business.
Commercial real estate agents come in different types. You have a full service broker who works on behalf of both the tenant and landlord, then you have brokers who only work with tenants. You may be helped much more with a broker who just works with the tenant, as that person most likely has more experience in handling tenants successfully.
As long as you are willing to put forth the effort, it is possible to become very successful in the industry. Keep this information in mind and apply it to your business. Continue educating yourself about commercial real estate, and find any way you can to up your game. As you gain more experience, you increase your chances for success.
Source: http://www.maynaseric.com/practical-advice-for-your-commercial-real-estate-dealings-7
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Danny Green Talks NBA Finals Loss
Danny Green visited The Breakfast Club to talk about playing in the NBA Finals with the San Antonio Spurs, being drafted to Cleveland and getting cut after ?The Decision,? playing in the D-league and getting back in the league last year, running into the Miami Heat players at the club after the loss, and more.
Source: http://teamyee.tv/2013/08/03/danny-green-talks-nba-finals-loss/
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
China nixes patent for Gilead HIV, hepatitis drug Viread
Gilead Chairman and CEO John Martin.
The patent protecting Gilead Sciences Inc.'s HIV and hepatitis B drug Viread has been revoked by China officials.
The move, explained BioWorld, gives China greater leverage in ongoing negotiations with drug companies around pricing. For Gilead, it is another strike against Viread, which also has had its patent protection reversed in India and Brazil.
"It is a fairly groundbreaking decision," China health analyst Robert McTiernan of IHS Healthcare told BioWorld. "The big trend is that (China wants) pharma companies to be more flexible on pricing. They will likely be able to use this decision to negotiate lower prices on more drugs."
Viread, which is Foster City-based Gilead's (NASDAQ: GILD) third best-selling drug, costs 1,470 yuan, or about $240, a hefty price for most Chinese.
Gilead is led by Chairman and CEO John Martin.
Taking away Viread's patent would open the door for its active ingredient, tenofovir, to be made generically at a time when international aid organizations are cutting grants to China for fighting the AIDS virus.
Aunisco, a major Chinese manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients in China, had challenged Gilead's patent, BioWorld reported. It wants to sell the drug in China and export it to countries where it is not patented.
Viread registered first-half sales of $460.5 million, 57 percent of that coming from outside the United States. GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE: GSK) markets and sells Viread in Asia.
Ron Leuty covers biotech, higher education and China for the San Francisco Business Times.
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CIOs can drive business innovation, says IBM chief | The African World
The pace of change in the world of IT is phenomenal. Every three months, new trends and technologies emerge that change the way people live and work. Keeping up with ongoing technological revolutions and further applying them to solve business problems has become a daunting task. This according to Hamilton Ratshefola, Sales Director for IBM South Africa.
Technological innovation, followed by application innovation, is what has the capacity to set one business apart from their competitors, allowing them to bring better products to market faster, and meet consumer needs before consumers are aware they have those needs. Innovative thinking also solves complex business problems with solutions that streamline operations and improve efficiencies.
?Ultimately, the ability to innovate will determine who operates most effectively and holds the greatest market share.? says Ratshefola
For every innovation that begins with the question: ?What can we do with this??, there are numerous possible applications. Determining which new solutions can be employed to deliver what business innovations requires supremely innovative thinking. This is where a partnership with professional innovators is called for.
IBM has the world?s biggest ?war chest? of patents and is a veteran innovator of 100 years? standing.
?IBM is in the business of revolutionising technologies for the purpose of problem-solving. Of the 450,000 global staff, more than 150,000 are in research, software development and business consulting to deliver smart solutions to business problems. In addition, in order to remain at the cutting edge of innovation, IBM has constantly reengineered itself for over a century, pioneering strategies and solutions it now passes on to business. ?
?We believe that wherever there is a system of operation in society, government or business, technological innovation has the power to improve it. This is why IBM has long moved beyond its role as a hardware giant. It is now also the world?s third-largest software company and a global consulting powerhouse. IBM?s consultants around the world are delivering advanced solutions to the most complex problems, spanning departments and capabilities, both in the public and private sector, ? adds Ratshefola.
Innovation has a knock-on effect. By innovating in one area, we are able to apply the innovation to multiple other areas.? For example, the chips developed by IBM for gaming consoles. Due to the demands of gaming, these chips are capable of running multiple processes simultaneously, in nanoseconds. Now, they are also in use in banking mainframe computers for fraud detection. Because they are capable of complex processing, they support advanced analysis to detect transaction anomalies instantly, which the actual transaction is taking place. There are numerous commercials applications for them too.
But it is beyond the scope of the average enterprise to track hundreds of thousands of new patents, assess their capabilities, and determine which of them could be applied to solving business challenges. It?s more necessary in today?s economic climate to seek the advice of expert consultants who not only understand the potential for the new technologies, but who actually invented them.
Source: http://www.theafricanworld.tv/2013/08/02/cios-can-drive-business-innovation-says-ibm-chief/
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Friday, August 2, 2013
Why can't the snakes cross the road, secret lives of baby snakes and other questions
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers are conducting some of the first ever scientific studies of neonate pine snakes, performing snake surgery for radio tracking and helping snakes survive road crossings through the busy New Jersey shore traffic.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/0gPenz8bv7c/130802132209.htm
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'Glee' cast to film PSAs for Cory Monteith tribute
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"Glee" star Cory Monteith arrives at the "Do Something Awards" in Santa Monica.
"Glee" star Cory Monteith's castmates will film PSAs about drug abuse to air during a tribute to the late actor, Kevin Reilly, Fox's chairman of entertainment, said on Thursday.
The show and network said goodbye to the 31-year-old actor in a private memorial service last week that was "beautiful and touching," Reilly said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Monteith died on July 13 in a Vancouver hotel from a heroin and alcohol overdose.?
Producers now face the sad challenge of dealing with the exit of Monteith's beloved character, Finn Hudson, and how his loss will impact the last two seasons of Fox's hit musical comedy.
"This show truly was a family," Reilly said. "They went through an extraordinary experience together, young kids for the first time and (executive producer Ryan Murphy) being their sort of surrogate dad. He's been dealing with all of that, and only now are we getting down to the work."
When the show returns on Sept. 26, plans will move forward for the two-part Beatles tribute that has been in the works for several years. The exit of Finn, the quarterback-turned-glee-club leader, will be the focus of the third episode, Reilly said. It is possible producers will weave unused footage of Monteith throughout the episode, he added. But it has not been decided if the character will die of a drug overdose, Reilly said.
"Ryan will be shooting the PSAs ... the cast as cast members, as friends of his, they are going to speak directly with the audience," he said. "I think they?re going to be very, very impactful. ... What we all said (at the memorial service), what everybody knows, you see some people struggling with addiction ? it?s clear. They?re very easily put in a category: 'Oh he?s dark, oh she was always a partier.' Cory was a big open, life force. He was not a problem. Everybody loved him. He didn?t look like that. He looked straight as an arrow. He was very open about it in his past, not as open about it in the present.
"Nobody was shocked but everybody was ultimately shocked," Reilly continued. "Because it was an accident that happened to somebody struggling with an addiction. And I think hopefully that?s what can come of this ? of illuminating that particular kind of addiction. That?s what Ryan?s gonna be doing on the show. I have to give them a few weeks to get their hands around how they?re going to do it creatively on the show."
The proceeds from the music in Monteith's tribute episode will go to a fund that is being set up for the late actor, Reilly said. After the tribute episode airs, the show will be on a three-week hiatus to accommodate the World Series, Reilly said.
"He was a beautiful guy and I?ve just been saddened over the whole thing," Reilly said.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Union Boss Makes Case Against Arming Teachers: ?If I Make My Teacher Angry, Is My Teacher Going to Shoot Me??
New Jersey American Federation of Teachers president Donna Chiera, when asked Thursday on NBC's "Today" about how arming teachers in the classroom might impact students, had this to say:
"I would hate for students to say, 'Oh, my goodness, if I answer the wrong question, is my teacher going to shoot me? If I make my teacher angry, is my teacher going to shoot me?'"
will my teacher shoot meNJAFT President Donna Chiera (Credit: Newsbusters)
Newsbusters reports that guest host Carson Daly followed up thusly: "Do you think they would they make that connection?" (And check out news reader Natalie Morales' facial expression directed toward Chiera at this point):
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Chiera didn't back down; she went further:
"Because of the media and everything they've been exposed to, where people on a regular basis they see on TV, someone got mad and pulled out a gun. I also think it impacts parents. Parents many times come into classrooms to have uncomfortable conversations with teachers. And I wouldn't want parents to come in and be hesitant to say something to me with, 'Is this the teacher who's packing the gun, and what do I have to be fearful?' I think it would make an environment of fear."
Check out the clip:
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/union-boss-makes-case-against-arming-teachers-teacher-021059940.html
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Argus (for iPhone)
If you've considered buying a hundred-dollar (or more) fitness tracker but aren't entirely sold on the concept, the Argus iPhone app (free) lets you play around with reaching the same end without spending any money upfront. Argus can count your steps all day long, map your runs, track your sleep, and help you keep an eye on what you're eating, too. It includes features for charting your weight over time, as well as keeping tabs on how much water and coffee you consume?all similar to what you'll find in the apps that go with Fitbit One, Jawbone UP, or any other popular activity tracker. And heck, if you like Argus, you can continue using it with a couple of supported devices.
Argus is nowhere near as convenient as one of those more expensive fitness trackers, primarily because Argus runs your iPhone's GPS in the background all day long, which obliterates the battery, but it offers a totally commitment-free way to dabble in self quantification.
Argus in Action
If you download the Argus app and set up a free account, you're nearly ready to roll with it. The app will ask for some basic information about your body, such as your date of birth (to calculate age), sex, and height. Metric and Imperial units of measure are both supported. Note that you do have to enable Location Services for the app to work, which the app will prompt you to do during setup.
Once properly installed, the app will automatically count how many steps you take in a day and measure the total in miles (or kilometers if you prefer). If you run, the app detects the faster movement and will provide additional details about your run, such as a map of the route you took, similar to MapMyRun and Runtastic PRO. Those more specific runners' apps provide a lot more detail and insight into your workout, but Argus covers the basics.
A honeycomb display is one of the signature features in the app's look and feel. As you use Argus to measure different aspects of your health, it populates a new section of a honeycomb with that data (see the slideshow). For example, one honeycomb cell displays the number of steps you've taken since this morning, while another shows total miles traveled. Yet another cell shows the weather report for that day (helpful so you can see in your history if you were less active than usual due to bad weather). The design reminds me a little of the app that comes included with the Larklife, which is by far the most interesting aspect of that mediocre gadget.
When you tap once on a cell, the app gives you more details about that cell's information, such as a chart or graph of your activity. Tap and hold any cell, and all similar cells cobble together so you can easily compare the data from previous days, too.
Logging your weight in Argus can be manual or automatic, if you connect the app to a supported smart scale, such as Withings Smart Body Analyzer(WS-50). Argus is also compatible with two wrist-worn fitness trackers, LifeTrak and New Balance Life TRNr+, so you can continue to use the app even if you decide to buy a full-on activity-tracking device.
Calorie-counting in the app fell far short of my expectations. You can snap photos of meals, which save to your account and appear among the honeycomb display, but you can't actually log the specific foods you eat to add up the calories in an entire meal or over the course of the day. On the other hand, the app does estimate calories expended based on your activity, which makes the lack of calorie intake feature even more perplexing. If this app can't offer full calorie-counting, I wish it at least could connect to a better app for the job, such as MyFitnessPal, our Editors' Choice, or Lose It!
You can use the app to track a whole lot more personal metrics, including sleep, water consumption, heart rate, and fitness goals?and that's all well and good except for the one big drag for the app overall. The GPS necessarily runs in the background all day long, which totally kills the iPhone's battery. The first day I used Argus, my phone warned me of dwindling battery life before sunset. The app's a lot of fun to use, but you'd better keep an iPhone charger with you if you plan to really use it.
Argus Fitness Aggregator
Except for the fact that Argus takes a serious toll on your iPhone's battery, it offers a wonderful entry-level experience into the world of fitness tracking and general health self-quantification. I do recommend it to anyone who is not yet sure whether they want to spend $100 or more on a fitness-tracking device. Argus lets you get the feel for the process and gives decent insight into your patterns, but a full-fledged gadget definitely improves the process ten-fold.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/9ZA6Too0PqM/0,2817,2422413,00.asp
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San Diego Mayor Bob Filner wants city to pay for his legal fees ...
Mayor Bob Filner of San Diego speaks at a press conference announcing his intention to seek professional help for sexual harassent issues July 26, 2013 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Bill Wechter/Getty Images)
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is asking the city to pay his legal expenses for a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former communications director. Filner?s lawyer sent a letter to the city, imploring it to cover the mayor?s legal bills in a lawsuit that accuses him of asking his former female aide ?to work without panties? and other alleged acts of sexual harassment.
City council members?who overwhelmingly want Filner to resign?are scheduled to convene Tuesday night for a special closed session to consider the mayor?s request.
Under California law, Filner is allowed to set up his own legal defense fund in the case the city rejects his request. Filner?s lawyer,?Harvey Berger, argues that his client should be defended under the city?s expense. The letter states that Filner should have the city pay for representation under California government codes?825?and?995?? which deal with compensation and defense of public employees.
Since the claim was first filed by Filner?s former employee Irene Jackson,?seven women have publicly come forward and detailed other alleged acts of sexual harassment, including touching and kissing. Jackson, who is represented by high-profile attorney Gloria Allred, was the first woman to publicly accuse?Filner of harassment. In her 11-page lawsuit, Jackson claimed Filner demanded kisses and told her he wanted to see her naked.
The mayor, who is 70 and divorced, has since apologized for ?offending? women. On Friday, Filner announced that he would enter two weeks of ?intensive? therapy starting Aug. 5 to ?begin the process of addressing [his] behavior.?
Filner?s own party leaders, including California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and?House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,?have urged him to resign.??The conduct of some of these people that we?re talking about here is reprehensible,? said Pelosi last week about both the Filner and Anthony Weiner scandals. ?It is so disrespectful of women, and what?s really stunning about it is they don?t even realize. They don?t have a clue.?
Feinstein directly called for the mayor?s resignation and predicted a recall election for the mayor?s seat. ?It?s a very tough job, and I don?t think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model or really will provide the kind of leadership that San Diegans want.??Feinstein said on Sunday.
Source: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/30/san-diego-mayor-bob-filner-wants-city-to-pay-for-his-legal-fees/
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Two new Samsung Galaxy S4 ads, one may or may not be bobbing for Apple
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has, to date, sold more than 20 million handsets; and it?s still going strong. That?s a huge number since the phones release on 26th April. It?s also been a while since any blatant Apple V Samsung news has hit the web. But that doesn?t mean that practice isn?t still going on, even if it is very subtle when it does happen.
Two new Samsung Galaxy S4 adverts have hit YouTube, and in them, Samsung are doing their damnedest to show off the more useful, and one (sort of) cool, features of their now three months matured flagship smartphone.
The first ad shows a pretty ignorant business type man bothering some poor chap who just wants to watch a movie on his phone, which happens to be a Galaxy S4. Although the two do manage to spark up a conversation around how easy it is to transfer data from other handsets to the S4. Even text messages. The eye tracking feature also gets a mention here too. Kudos to Samsung for wedging that in there as well!
The second ad takes us on a magical journey with a girlfriend and boyfriend, the latter of which is incredibly nervous about meeting the girl?s parents, who don?t appear to speak a word of English. The girl however is pretty fluent, but it?s actually the S4 that helps the guy through the situation, telling him what to say to the girls mum in her native Spanish. The dad mind you, he?s unimpressed.
While it?s easy to say that Samsung are taking a pop at Apple in the first advert, without actually mentioning Apple or the iPhone at all, it?s still a nice way to inform people that they can transfer their data to the S4 relatively painlessly. Or at least that the idea anyway. But you just know Samsung would have loved to have mentioned a certain fruity iDevice, just because they could. I mean, who else?s customer base, that might see the advert, would they really want to go after? Nokia?s?!
Source: YouTube?via: Redmond Pie
Source: http://feeds.neowin.net/~r/neowin-main/~3/SSKUs-o_a1s/story01.htm
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Even Nokia thinks there?s a Windows Phone app gap of sorts
Microsoft?s Windows Phone platform may boast 165,000 mobile apps but Nokia thinks there?s more work to be done in order to grow sales. Some key quotes from Nokia Vice President Bryan Biniak in an interview with International Business Times last Friday?highlight the ?app gap? challenge while also setting the bar higher for mobile app experiences. Here are a few key quotes from Biniak:
?To give you a reason to switch, I need to make sure the apps that you care about on your device are not only on our phones, but are better. I also need to provide you unique experiences that you can?t get on your other devices.?
This is the same point I?ve made in the past when discussing the challenge facing BlackBerry. And it?s why that company and Microsoft are currently fighting to be the third smartphone platform that?s well behind iOS and Android: The incumbents have not only the apps that people want today but they have the developer support for apps people will want tomorrow.
?People rely on applications for their day-to-day life and if you don?t have something which I use in my day-to-day life I?m not going to switch [operating systems] because I don?t want to compromise the way I live my life just to switch to a phone.?
There are plenty of happy Windows Phone customers that have every app they need, but I?m not one of them ? even though I like the interface and many of the new handsets. However, I fit directly in the example that Biniak provides: There are a few key apps I use daily that simply aren?t on Windows Phone yet. So why would I, or anyone in the same situation, switch?
That?s a challenge that Microsoft continues to face because current smartphone owners are used to having the apps they want and need. Those on feature phones may better fit the Windows Phone target customer since they?re not yet app addicts. And that could be why Nokia has released a number of relatively low-cost Windows Phone handsets over the past two years: Its best bet to grow hardware sales may be in the low- to mid-range handset markets.
Biniak continues to suggest that the challenge for Windows Phone isn?t hardware, nor the platform itself. It?s about the apps. Nokia seems to be doing its part when it comes to hardware but Biniak almost sounds frustrated by the software side of things:
?We are releasing new devices frequently and for every new device, if there is an app that somebody cares about that?s not there that?s a missed opportunity of a sale.?
He?s right: If a potential customer finds that a shiny new Lumia can?t run an app they want, why would the experience turn into a sale? It likely won?t.
Much of this situation has to do with timing. Had Microsoft been quicker to migrate away from Windows Mobile sooner, the platform would have arrived prior to iOS and Android becoming the smartphone behemoths they are today. Now that these two account for more than 90 percent of smartphone sales, getting consumers ? and developers, for that matter ? to make a switch is much more difficult.
Source: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/29/even-nokia-thinks-theres-a-windows-phone-app-gap-of-sorts/
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BlackBerry Launches Q5 Smartphone In Canada
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(click image for larger view) BlackBerry said Tuesday that its entry-level smartphone, the Q5, will be available to consumers in Canada beginning August 13. The Q5 is a replacement for BlackBerry's Curve line, which was highly popular with first-time smartphone buyers several years ago.The Q5 is a step down from the Q10, BlackBerry's high-end QWERTY device, though it shares a number of features. For example, the Q5 has a 3.1-inch touch screen with 720 by 720 pixels and it is powered by a 1.2-GHz dual-core processor with 2 GB of RAM. It has the same basic shape as the Q10, though the keyboard is smaller and not quite as sturdy, and the materials that form the outer shell aren't as classy. BlackBerry calls the Q5's design "youthful." It is a smaller, lighter smartphone than the Q10.
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More >>The Q5 boasts a 5-megapixel main camera that can also shoot 1080p HD video, and a 2-megapixel user-facing camera for selfies and BlackBerry Messenger video chats. The phone has 8 GB of storage built in, and it supports microSD cards up to 64 GB for added storage. The smartphone supports various LTE 4G networks in Canada and includes NFC for tap-and-go pairing with other NFC devices.
The Q5 ships with BlackBerry OS 10.1 on board. This version of BBOS carries over the features from BBOS 10.0, but adds a few extras, such as support for Skype. Other features remain the same, such as BlackBerry Hub for controlling messages, Time Shift and Story Maker for creative photography projects, and of course BlackBerry Messenger.
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The Q5 has already launched in several other markets around the world, including India, and will be available from wireless network operators Bell, Fido, Koodo, Sasktel, Telus and Virgin Mobile. It will also be sold at retail stores, such as Best Buy Canada and Target. The cost of the device will vary based on which carrier sells it.
The Q5 is the third BB10 device to reach the market this year, after the Q10 and Z10. BlackBerry sorely needs the Q5 to pick up the slack and recapture the few first-time smartphone buyers still left. The Q10 and Z10 did not win back many former BlackBerry loyalists, who have stuck with their iPhones and Galaxy S smartphones. BlackBerry sold just 2.7 million Z10s and Q10s during its most recent quarter, which puts it well below sales of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform for the same period.
BlackBerry has not yet announced plans to sell the Q5 in the U.S., but it is expected to be available from AT&T (and possibly others) in the coming months.
Our survey finds that most companies will launch mobile commerce within a year. What's your holdup? Also in the new, all-digital Mobile Commerce Takes Off special issue of InformationWeek: Companies that take PCI responsibilities seriously will find that using a cloud provider and staying compliant can be a major project. (Free registration required.)
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Monday, July 29, 2013
The taller a postmenopausal woman, the greater risk of cancer
For every 4 inches of height, 13 percent increase in cancer risk.
Over 40 thousand people line the streets of St. Louis walking in the Koman Race for the Cure on June 15, 2013. UPI/Bill Greenblatt?
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NEW YORK, July 28 (UPI) -- The taller a postmenopausal woman, the greater her risk for developing cancers of the breast, colon, kidney, ovary, rectum and thyroid, U.S. researchers say.
Geoffrey Kabat, senior epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York, said the study involved 20,928 postmenopausal women, identified from a larger group of 144,701 women recruited to the Women's Health Initiative.
"We were surprised at the number of cancer sites that were positively associated with height. In this data set, more cancers are associated with height than were associated with body mass index," Kabat said in a statement.
"Ultimately, cancer is a result of processes having to do with growth, so it makes sense that hormones or other growth factors that influence height may also influence cancer risk."
Some genetic variations associated with height are also linked to cancer risk, and more studies are needed to better understand how these height-related genetic variations predispose some men and women to cancer, Kabat said.
The study found for every 10-centimeter -- 3.94 inches -- increase in height, there was a 13 percent increase in risk of developing any cancer. Among specific cancers, there was a 13 percent to 17 percent increase in the risk of getting melanoma and cancers of the breast, ovary, endometrium, and colon, while there was a 23 percent to 29 percent increase in the risk of developing cancers of the kidney, rectum, thyroid and blood.
The study was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
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