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Thursday, 5 September 2013
Meet your new Android OS: Version 4.4 'KitKat'
The next version of Android will be called Kit Kat, and will feature a first-of-its-kind promotion with the chocolate bar. Google?s Sundar Pichai let the naming news slip in a coy tweet on Tuesday, and Google has posted an official Kit Kat landing page to confirm. Pichai also said there are now more than one billion activated Android devices in?...?[Read More]
Amazon has officially announced the new Kindle Paperwhite ? just hours after the company accidentally put the page live earlier on Tuesday and then pulled it down immediately. It looks like it has the same physical form factor as last year?s Kindle Paperwhite, but has a higher contrast E Ink display, a faster processor for improved page?...?[Read More]
CBS and Time Warner Cable finally reached a deal on Monday, ending a long, protracted blackout of the broadcast network on TWC?s cable system. While getting the deal done will mean that Time Warner Cable viewers will be able to watch Week One of the NFL season next week ? and no one wanted to miss that ? the deal is also designed?...?[Read More]
Microsoft announced late Monday that it is buying the majority of Nokia?s cellphone unit for 3.79 billion euros ($5 billion), and spending another 1.65 billion euros ($2.18 billion) to license Nokia?s patent portfolio, for a total of 5.44 billion euros ($7.17 billion). Once the deal is done, a number of Nokia executives will join Microsoft, including?...?[Read More]
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Pine River Asia lines up innovative multi-strat China fund
The Asia-based team of Pine River Capital is launching in October a multi-strategy China hedge fund that is seen as offering one of the first fully-fledged multi-strategy products that is focused solely on China.
The strategy ? which invests in A shares, H shares, credit, event-driven situations and convertible bonds ? has been running for several months now under the direction of Dan Li, partner and co-head of Asia trading at Pine River. It is understood to have been seeded internally with assets of around $250 million in assets.
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Microsoft Will Fail Nokia's Handset Business - Former Vice President of Nokia
Steve Ballmer and Lack of Focus
Microsoft started its efforts to create operating systems for mobile devices in the 1990s when Bill Gates was heading the company. By the time Mr. Gates stepped down as the CEO in the year 2000, the company had Windows CE 3.0/Pocket PC platforms for personal digital assistants (later rebranded to Windows Mobile) with the same appearance as Windows 98/ME/2000 operating systems. Until Mr. Gates continued to be chief software architect as well as chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft until 2006 ? 2008, Windows Mobile platform has been developing rather well, commanding 12% of the global smartphone market share in 2006 ? 2007.
But after Steve Ballmer started to head further development of Microsoft?s mobile efforts, everything started to get wrong. Following several releases that had compatibility issues, Microsoft decided to scrap Windows Mobile in favour of all-new Windows Phone platform, aiming primarily customers, not businesses like its predecessors. In addition to new user interface, Windows Mobile is usually blamed for the lack of vision when creating a platform. First of all, Windows Phone lacked backwards compatibility with Windows Mobile 6/6.5 despite the fact that both were based on Windows CE technology. When it was released in 2010, it could only run on rather expensive hardware at the time; it took Microsoft two years to make Windows Phone 7.5 ?Tango?, which could enable low-cost smartphones. Then Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 in late 2012, which is based on Windows NT kernel and is not backwards compatible with previous-gen Windows Phone apps. Needless to say that after three incompatible major OS releases in four years Windows Phone market share declined sharply to around 3.5% in Q2 2013.
?[Bill Gates] believed strongly in smartphones and Microsoft grew to become the second largest smartphone OS behind only Nokia's Symbian. At its peak, Microsoft handset partners owned 12% of the smartphone market using the Windows operating system. That crashed under [Steve] Ballmer's mismanagement and lack of focus. By 2010, Windows [Phone/Mobile] only held 5% market share in smartphones and had fallen from second place behind Blackberry OS and iPhone iOS and Android. From second place to fifth, and with the difficult transition in place from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone, actually the Windows Phone OS would fall one slot further down to sixth, behind Samsung's new bada OS at the time,? said Tomi Ahonen, who once worked as a vice president of Nokia and who is now among the most renowned experts in the field of mobile communications, in a blog post.
Stephen Elop and the Lack of Creativity
When Mr. Elop came to Nokia in 2010, he took the reins of the world?s largest maker of smartphones, who had competitive Symbian-based products covering almost every single niche that was out there back then, but only finding it hard to create a viable competitor for a single device, Apple iPhone.
In a bid to fight for the top segment of the smartphone market, Mr. Elop decided to scrap Meego platform that Nokia was developing as the ?next big thing? along with Meltemi operating system for affordable smartphones in addition to Qt set of tools for software development for all three Nokia OSes (Symbian, Meego, Meltemi). Instead, in early 2011 Mr. Elop chose nothing other, but the Windows Phone 7 operating system which lacked a lot of things the main one being vision behind its development.
When Nokia controlled its smartphone operating system, it could address certain market niches and create products that would appeal business or consumer users. For example, the former needed QWERTY keyboards and extremely good battery, whereas the former would like to have rich multimedia capabilities, excellent camera and so on. Nowadays Nokia offers Lumia 1020 as the premium consumer smartphone, but now it cannot address business users, the market share has been stolen by Apple and Samsung. Moreover, first generations of Lumia only tried to fight Apple?s iPhone, but with the same feature-set and Windows Phone operating system it did not have much chances.
?Compare Symbian-based smartphone portfolio to Lumia running Windows Phone. The early Lumia were all total iPhone-a-clones. No QWERTY variants. No better cameras (even Nokia's own N8 had a better camera than the iPhone and all Lumias up to the current flagship 1020). The early Lumias did not support full Bluetooth, did not have microSD slots, did not have removable batteries, no TV-out, no HDMI-out, etc. All feature sets taken from Apple's iPhone and differing from Nokia past. Nokia had previously made bigger screens than (then) iPhone, Lumia did none of that (on early models). So we can see what was 'Nokia thinking' i.e. a wide product portfolio that caters to many Nokia customer types and regional international differences, vs. the Apple envy view from Redmond, epitomized by Elop and the early Lumia line. Make them clones of the iPhone. [?] Now look at Samsung. They have taken every niche that Nokia abandoned, and produced devices for it. Both in smartphones and in dumbphones. And they dominate the handset space and keep growing and generating ever bigger profits. The strategy was not wrong, Samsung is proving it can be done. But Elop's vision ruined Nokia (handsets),? said Mr. Ahonen.
Will Microsoft Turn Nokia Around?
Can a?team of sub-par players win the world?s cup? Generally no. Just like in sports, in business it is all the same. While Microsoft will indisputably be able to produce new smartphones at a faster pace than Nokia did, its lack of a unified mobile operating system that spans from low-cost handsets to high-end smartphones to advanced media tablets will hardly allow it to win a significant market share.
Moreover, since Stephen Elop will continue to rule the ?Nokia devices division at Microsoft?, it is hard to expect the company to cover all the niche markets that are out there, which is something that once made Windows the dominating operating system on the planet. Even Microsoft itself does not believe that its own Windows Phone-based handsets will be able to command more than 15% of the smartphone market in five years, even despite of the fact that it will obtain Nokia?s sales teams, device distribution and sales as well as Nokia?s cheap Asha line of smartphone-like devices.
?So, if you think that Nokia could 'come back' now with Microsoft money, the opposite is likely. The issue before for Nokia was an 'Elop Effect' inside Nokia, trying to turn the dominating global powerhouse into an Apple iPhone-clone, and abandoning profitable market segments (to Samsung). [?] The next generation of Lumia under full Microsoft ownership, will be no closer to what we all loved about Nokia, but will be ever more distant from it. They will be, however, all the bad things you hated about Windows or Office or Zune or Kin or Surface. The best people of Nokia's true talent have long since departed. The last remaining good skill people know and can see the writing on the wall, they will quietly depart too. The Microsoft purchase of Nokia handsets is a dead end. It cannot ever succeed, so as a career move, its bad news for those who were employed by Nokia handsets,? concluded Mr. Ahonen.
Tags: Nokia, Lumia, Microsoft, Business, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8
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Electronics advance moves closer to a world beyond silicon
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption that the speed of electrons moving through silicon is simply too slow. For the extraordinary speed envisioned in some future electronics applications, these innovative diodes solve problems that would not be possible with silicon-based materials as a limiting factor.
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Labs to begin chemical weapons tests
3 September 2013
Last updated at 10:45 ET
Samples from the sites of alleged chemical attacks in Syria are arriving at laboratories for analysis.
The assessments should indicate whether chemical weapons were used and if so the agent involved.
The work could also reveal whether the weapons systems were improvised or designed for military use.
The analysis being carried out by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons under the auspices of the United Nations.
Neither the UN nor the OPCW will comment on details of the investigation. But BBC News has spoken to a former senior employee of the OPCW, who has given his assessment of the likely details and timetable of the testing process.
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End Quote Dr Ralf Trapp Former OPCW ScientistThere may be details of the concentrations of the agent used and whether these weapons were improvised or designed for a military context?
Dr Ralf Trapp said that samples from Syria gathered by inspectors had arrived at the OPCW central laboratory on Saturday and would be arriving at "designated laboratories" across the world around now for analysis. The results will form part of a report by the OPCW due to be published by the UN on the alleged attack. He told BBC News that the report would take between seven to 10 days to complete at the earliest.
Scientific evidenceThe report should contain strong scientific evidence to help establish whether chemical weapons were involved in the alleged attack last in the agricultural belt Ghouta around the Syrian capital Damascus. It could also possibly indicate the type of delivery systems to have been used, according to Dr Trapp.
"There may be details of the concentrations of the agent used and whether these weapons were improvised or designed for a military context," he said.
The purpose of the UN/OPCW report is to establish the facts of what happened rather than find the culprit. However, according to Dr Trapp, these facts should give an indication of the source. It will also help answer why, in his opinion, many of the victims did not display the typical symptoms of sarin exposure, such as the narrowing of pupils (known as pinball eyes) and shaking, in video clips uploaded shortly after the alleged attack.
"I'm pretty sure it was a chemical attack, but I'm not 100% sure it was sarin, or sarin of bad quality, another agent, or a mixture of things. All these things make sense in the context of what we have seen (in the videos)," he explained.
Last week OPCW and UN investigators were gathering soil, blood, urine and hair from the alleged victims of the attack and tissue samples from corpses. They have also been wiping possible chemical residues from the inside of shell fragments.
There had been concern that few, if any, traces of nerve agent would be detected following the two days it took for UN inspectors to arrive at the site of the alleged attack. But according to Dr Trapp, evidence of these agents would remain for many weeks.
Checks and cross-checksThe samples have been tagged, photographed and transported to OPCW's central laboratory in sealed containers. The testing procedures involve numerous checks and cross checks to ensure that there is no mix up in the samples and the results are accurate.
Each sample is sent to three separate laboratories that the organisation has inspected and deemed competent to carry out the testing on its behalf. If there are many samples to analyse, they are sent to other laboratories. Individual labs conduct their own independent tests of the material.
For each sample from the site of the alleged attack, a given laboratory receives two dummy samples; one containing no nerve agent and another containing a specified amount of a nerve agent or its breakdown product. The lab is not told which sample is which, enabling the OPCW to ensure that each lab does its job properly.
In addition, a lab has to test each sample using two completely different methods - and then, as a triple check to verify the accuracy of the instruments they are using, manufacture the agent it thinks it has detected and run the test again to see if they obtain the same result.
This painstaking process will take the scientists several days to complete, after which the lead investigator will have to write up a report which is then sent back to the OPCW.
These results are combined with interviews, assessments of medical reports by inspectors.
The time all this will take depends on the number of samples that have to be analysed and the number of labs involved in the testing.
Dr Trapp believes that mid to late next week will be the very earliest that the UN could receive the completed report although Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be receiving regular updates in the interim.
One of the testing sites on the OPCW's list of "designated laboratories" is the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down in Wiltshire, which is internationally respected for its research capability in this area. The network of more than 20 laboratories also includes facilities in China, the US and France.
The laboratories undertaking the work will have been selected by the OPCW's director-general Mr Ahmet Uzumcu, no doubt in consultation with Mr Ban. The list of institutions has not been revealed but there is speculation that laboratories in countries on the UN's Security Council are not involved.
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Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Supernatural, super-famous lay claim to fall TV
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TV fans, it?s almost time to head back to the couch. Twenty-seven new series are premiering across the broadcast television dial this fall, spanning virtually every genre of drama and type of comedy. While there?s something for everyone (at least, that?s what the networks hope), we?ve observed some common threads in the line-ups.
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ABC's "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" was co-created by Joss Whedon and is Marvel's first television series.
SUPER POWERS
Why should superheroes live exclusively on the big screen? This TV season, the networks seem to agree that they shouldn't. ABC, which recently tried and failed at the genre with ?The Incredibles," is trying again with the highly anticipated ?Marvel?s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" which begins where the ?The Avengers? movie ended. Co-created by Joss Whedon, who directed the film, Marvel's first TV show brings back to life Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), who died in ?The Avengers.? The show premieres Sept. 24, at 8 p.m.
On the CW, fans of ?X-Men? movies will probably take to ?The Tomorrow People? about a generation of humans born with paranormal abilities. It debuts on Oct. 9 at 9 p.m.
Fox?s ?Almost Human? pairs up cops with human-like androids ? not exactly supernatural territory but it does take place 35 years in the future and the robots kick butt. It premieres on Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. And that's not all. More characters with otherworldly abilities will show up on the tube later in the season.
On ?Intelligence? Josh Holloway (?Lost?) will play a super agent whose brain has been implanted with a microchip, making him the ?first super computer with a beating heart.? That drama premieres on CBS on Feb. 24 at 10 p.m.
On ABC, a boy will come back to life several decades after he drowned on ?Resurrection,? which premieres on March 9 at 10 p.m.
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After 31 years, Robin Williams returns to series television in the CBS sitcom, "The Crazy Ones" playing Sarah Michelle Gellar's father and business partner.
SENIORS ARE IN
For whatever reason, maybe because we're all getting older, the troubles of adults and their senior parents are popular this year. Fox kicks off the senior craze on Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. with Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi playing best friends who have the worst ?Dads? in the world.
Competing with the world?s worst fathers is ?Mom,? Chuck Lorre?s new CBS sitcom (Sept. 23, 8:30 p.m.), starring Anna Faris as a newly sober single mother of two whose estranged mother (Allison Janney) comes back into her life.
James Caan returns to television on ABC?s ?Back in the Game? as a father helping his daughter coach her son?s Little League team. It premieres Sept. 25 at 8:30 p.m.
As if having him as a father wasn?t harrowing enough, Sarah Michelle Gellar?s Sydney Roberts must put up with her dad (Robin Williams) at work, too, because he?s her business partner on CBS? "The Crazy Ones" which premieres on Sept. 26 at 9 p.m.
CBS? ?The Millers? features Will Arnett playing a newly divorced TV reporter whose father (Beau Bridges) shocks the family and leaves his mother. Adding insult to injury, the mom (Margo Martindale) decides to move in with her son. It premieres on Oct. 3 at 8:30 p.m.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Victoria Smurfit star in NBC's new iteration of "Dracula."
CLASSIC/CHILDHOOD TALES
It is also a season of re-imaginings. Fox?s ?Sleepy Hollow? (Sept. 16 at 8 p.m.) follows Washington Irving?s classic character, Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison), after he wakes up two-and-a-half centuries later to fight the Headless Horseman (he?s back too!) and unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.
ABC?s ?Once Upon a Time in Wonderland? follows the lead of its predecessor, ?Once Upon a Time,? and puts a new spin on a familiar fairy tale, ?Alice in Wonderland.? In this iteration, which premieres on Oct. 10 at 8 p.m., Alice (Sophie Lowe) escapes an insane asylum to make her way back to Wonderland.
NBC is bringing ?Dracula? (Jonathan Rhys Myers), who arrives in London in the 19th century posing as an entrepreneur and seeking revenge. The Bram Stoker characters you know are all here, but there are some modern twists. It premieres on Oct. 25 at 10 p.m.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/supernatural-super-famous-lay-claim-fall-tv-8C11015235
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