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Wayland. Lasting Advantage: Home. Lasting Advantage: AT&T GLOBAL NETWORK SERVICES Moves To Axiros For TR-069 Managed VoIP Services. Samsung Ends Nokia’s 14-Year Run as Biggest Handset Maker. Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) overtook Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) as the world’s biggest vendor of mobile phones for the first time, ending the Finnish company’s 14-year run as the global leader, according to an industry study.
Samsung shipped 93.5 million handsets in the first quarter, 36 percent more than a year earlier, compared with 82.7 million for second-ranked Nokia, researcher Strategy Analytics said in a statement today. Demand for Galaxy smartphones helped Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung post first-quarter net income today of 5.05 trillion won ($4.5 billion), beating analysts’ estimates. Nokia had been the biggest mobile-phone maker by shipments since 1998, when the Espoo, Finland-based company took over the spot from Motorola Inc. (MMI) Nokia reported a 1.34 billion-euro ($1.8 billion) first-quarter operating loss after handset sales slumped.
Both smartphones and low-end handsets declined as Nokia’s aging portfolio was outpaced by handsets running Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android. Open. Economist Notices That The US Is Getting Buried Under Costly, Useless Over-Regulation. The US is often talked about as a major supporter of the "free market," but as we've seen over and over again what we have is really crony capitalism, with lots of efforts being made to protect certain industries through regulation. This hasn't gone unnoticed. The Economist has an article more or less mocking the US for pretending to be all about small government free markets, while really being buried in pointless, confusing and unnecessary regulations: But red tape in America is no laughing matter. The problem is not the rules that are self-evidently absurd. It is the ones that sound reasonable on their own but impose a huge burden collectively.
America is meant to be the home of laissez-faire. Unlike Europeans, whose lives have long been circumscribed by meddling governments and diktats from Brussels, Americans are supposed to be free to choose, for better or for worse. Two forces make American laws too complex. Complexity costs money. We should take that much, much further. Brainnected. Is Silence Going Extinct? Give Your Employees Unlimited Vacation Days. The 9 a.m. -to-5 p.m. workplace is almost dead. Throw your preconceived notions about vacation out the window and give your employees the no-strings-attached, unlimited vacation days they deserve or you'll soon be a dinosaur. With an unparalleled culture in which our people actually enjoy coming to work (see Your Employees Need a Treehouse and Let Your Employees Choose Their Titles) as the foundation, every last Red Frog employee is unflinchingly focused and devoted to our mission. Producing vast amounts of quality work is the norm, so we reward them with unlimited vacation and they, in return, reward Red Frog with outstanding work that blows me away every single day.
Taking vacation at Red Frog is encouraged (and even celebrated). And it's not abused. Ever. The pessimists and naysayers have said this policy would either be abused or that it's not entirely real—that our employees feel pressured to never take off. It treats employees like the adults they are. I lead by example. Golf News | Golfweek | For Serious Golfers Only.
Electree-fr bonsaï induct. Google Goes After YouTube Domain Typo Squatter. Pro Tip: If your new business plan entails buying a bunch of domains that are clearly just one letter off from that of a major brand, you’re probably doing it wrong. Such is the case for one gent from Illinois, who snatched up not one, not two, but six domains meant to look nearly identical to YouTube.com, filling them dubious surveys. As you’d expect, Google has now moved to seize the domains. First noted by the super domain-sleuths at Fusible, Google has officially filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum (you can find it with case number 1416796). If successful (and it almost certainly will be), Google will be given full control of the domains. The list of domains: Youtbe.comYoutub.comYoutue.comYouube.comYutube.com Given that the three primary criterion are “identical or confusingly similar to a trademark” (check), “owner has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name” (check), and “domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith” (check!
Clear(ly), it’s time to say bye-bye to buttons. With its new iOS app, Clear, Realmac Software has taken the “less is more” axiom to its ultimate conclusion. The Clear app puts a new spin on the common to-do list by enriching it with a playful perception of depth, dynamic transitions and crisp audio feedback, all wrapped under a minimalistic visual language and shallow navigation. Is this “less is more” approach revolutionary? Nope. Evolutionary? As designers, we admire Clear’s UI, and we think it ties into some trends we’re watching here at Fjord (a digital service design agency). 1. The small-screen real estate of mobile devices has forced companies to scale down the bells and whistles and extraneous content afforded by the web, prioritizing features and services that make the most impact for the business and customer experience. This also means that, in order to be successful, these types of applications are focused on a very narrow subset of features.
A simple interface requires paring down interactivity to its barest essence. 2. Apple's First iPhone Was Made in 1983 [PICS] The first iPhone was actually dreamed up in 1983. Forget that silly old touchscreen, this iPhone was a landline with full, all-white handset and a built-in screen controlled with a stylus. The phone was designed for Apple by Hartmut Esslinger, an influential designer who helped make the Apple IIc computer (Apple's first "portable" computer) and later founded Frogdesign. The 1983 iPhone certainly fits in with Esslinger's other designs for Apple. It also foreshadows the touchscreens of both the iPhone and iPad. Images of the 1983 iPhone have been circling the web for a while but there has been renewed interest in Apple's early designs and history thanks to a peek inside Stanford University's massive trove of Apple documents.
SEE ALSO: Apple’s Museum That Never Was: Why Does Stanford Keep it Secret? The 1983 iPhone is just one of many prototypes buried in Apple's past. Mashable has reached out to Stanford to get a private look into the material. News - ZX Spectrum's chief designers reunited 30 years on. 22 April 2012Last updated at 19:26 ET By Leo Kelion Technology reporter More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. Click here to see how the computer's design evolved The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX81 - at the time the world's best selling consumer computer - it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound.
It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with which hundreds of thousands of users were already familiar. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than anything else on the market, but what was more impressive was its price: £125 for the basic model with 16 kilobytes of RAM, or £175 for the 48k model. That allowed adverts at the time to boast: "Less than half the price of its nearest competitor- and more powerful". Sir Clive believed hitting the low price points was crucial. Flexible memory. Flexible memory wrapped on quartz rod (credit: KAIST) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) researchers have developed fully functional flexible non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM), a new technology that allows a memory cell to be randomly accessed, written, and erased on a plastic substrate.
The demand for flexible electronic systems such as wearable computers, E-paper, and flexible displays has recently increased due to their advantages over present rigid electronic systems. Although several flexible memory materials have been reported, these devices could not overcome cell-to-cell interference due to their structural and material limitations. RRAM (credit: KAIST) To solve this problem, switching elements such as transistors must be integrated with the memory elements. Unfortunately, most transistors built on plastic substrates (e.g., organic/oxide transistors) are not capable of driving conventional memory.
Inclusion ds image. The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile. Pitching to Google’s Fresh New Algorithm via News, Blogs, Events & Google+ SEO, meet your “news” best friend: public relations. It looks like public relations pros who are “in the know” when it comes to optimizing just got a raise from Google. Last week the search engine giant announced the freshest news possible would show up in search results thanks to its new and improved algorithm. The so-called freshness update will impact somewhere between 6 and 35 percent of web searches and deliver more up-to-date and relevant search results. This includes searches for recent events, hot topics, current reviews and news items. That Was Then in PR The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Oprah. Those names seem so yesterday when it comes to the wish list of clients’ online PR and Social Media goals.
This is Now in SEO Enter the search and social era, the digital domain decade carrying a new public relations strategy wrapped with SEO that’s more about getting news and content to organically bubble to the top of Google. Online Newsrooms News Blogs Events Google+ Brand Pages. Africa Mobile Market Now Second Only to Asia | Share on LinkedIn. Digital Agenda: Commission presses 16 Member States to implement new EU telecoms rules. European Commission - Press release Digital Agenda: Commission presses 16 Member States to implement new EU telecoms rules Brussels, 24 November 2011 - The European Commission has written to sixteen Member States which have failed to fully implement new EU telecoms rules into national law, six months after the deadline to do so (25 May 2011).
Partial implementation of the EU Telecoms rules limit consumers' rights in these 16 Member States. The new rules give EU customers new rights regarding fixed telephony, mobile services and Internet access. For instance, the right to switch telecoms operators in one day without changing their phone number and the right to clarity about data traffic management practices employed by Internet Service Providers. The Commission's requests today take the form of "reasoned opinions. " Background Therefore, in July 2011, the Commission wrote to 20 Member States requesting further information on implementation (see IP/11/905 ).
Useful Links. 14 More Of The Coolest Résumés Ever. Ten Buzzwords To Take Off Your LinkedIn Profile Now. Jobs Was Right: Adobe Abandons Mobile Flash Development, Report Says | Gadget Lab. Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps. Apple's interest in making iOS development simpler than ever was revealed in a new patent application published this week and discovered by AppleInsider.
Entitled "Content Configuration for Device Platforms," it describes a new authoring tool that would allow users to create content without needing to understand or access computer code. The application notes that computer programming languages are a "hinderance to content creation," as many content creators and designers simply lack the skill and knowledge to work on the technical side of computer programming. This problem can be addressed with "WYSIWYG" software using a graphical user interface to build software, such as a webpage development tool.
But Apple notes that while these tools can assist in the creation of content, they have limited capabilities and often require users to make hands-on edits to code like CSS. Apple proposes to resolve this myriad of issues with a new graphical software creation tool. Adobe to cut 750 jobs as Flash Player future in doubt. 9 November 2011Last updated at 16:06 The Flash mobile plug-in offered Android tablets a feature missing from Apple's iPad Software developer Adobe Systems is halting development of its Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices.
The multimedia software is used to run movies, games and other applications. Adobe says it now believes the alternative HTML 5 technology offers the "best solution" because it is "universally supported". The Flash plug-in works on Android devices and Blackberry's Playbook tablet, but Apple barred it from iPhones and iPads. "We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and Blackberry Playbook," a statement published on Adobe's blog says. "We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. " Criticised Job cuts. Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices.
How Exactly Does HP Invest in the Future? Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) decision to merge its PC and printing businesses into a single entity does not stand out as a terribly novel idea. The company was for this structure (under Carly Fiorina) before it was against it (under Mark Hurd). And Hurd had contemplated merging the units near the end of his tenure to chase the same proposed gains from unifying the supply chain, branding, and support that Meg Whitman now hopes to realize. What must keep Whitman awake at night are the far more daring moves that HP will need to take to reawaken its business.
Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank (DB), issued a research note this week that framed HP’s competitive position in the starkest of terms. Whitmore notes that HP spends less on research and development per year than IBM (IBM), Oracle (ORCL), or Cisco Systems (CSCO). Keep in mind that HP is a larger company than any of those rivals, and competes in a wider range of businesses—PCs, printers, servers, storage, software, and networking. Gary Morgenthaler Explains Exactly How Siri Will Eat Google’s Lunch. The iPhone 4S is on the streets, and accompanying it is a helpful young virtual assistant named Siri.
You’ve probably heard something about Siri by this point, as tech blogs and the media writ large, have been yammering about Siri’s technology at full blast. Since the beginning, and even more so since Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010, there’s been a lot of excitement about voice recognition technology. This hit fever pitch with Siri’s native launch on the 4S. Of course, Siri isn’t perfect. She’s been down and out and has experienced a backlash due to limitations in voice recognition, inability to open apps, etc. But many people (among them, one Eric Schmidt) take another stance: Siri is game-changing, and not only that, she poses a significant threat to Google (and beyond). Gary Morgenthaler, a partner at the eponymous VC firm, Morgenthaler Ventures, was the first investor in Siri in 2008 and served on the company’s board of directors until it was acquired by Apple.
Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet. World IPv6 launch day set to aid net address switchover. 17 January 2012Last updated at 14:14 ET Internet firms carried out a successful trial of the new net address system last June Leading internet firms have set 6 June as the World IPv6 launch day. IPv6 is the new net address system that replaces the current protocol IPv4, which is about to run out of spaces to allocate. Web companies participating in the event have pledged to enable IPv6 on their main websites from that date. The Internet Society, which made the announcement, said the day represented "a major milestone" in the deployment of the standard.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo are the inaugural web firms involved. Future-proof Every device connected to the internet is assigned an internet protocol (IP) address, which is a string of numbers that allows other devices to recognise where data comes from or should be sent to. The IPv4 system has approximately four billion IP addresses. Experts say the new system should ensure there are enough addresses for the foreseeable future. Paco_mobile_internet_tv_usage. Encyclopedia Britannica to stop printing books - Mar. 13. The Credit Card Is The New App Platform. Guy Kawasaki Explains How Entrepreneurs Are Getting Social Media All Wrong.
Cisco Agrees To Buy Cable Gear Maker NDS For $5 Billion. Bye Bye BlackBerry. How Long Will Apple Last? Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cents Coins. Infographic: A History of Facebook Failures | Share on LinkedIn. A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter. The Top QR Code Fails of 2011. Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — Cloud Computing News.
Infographic: How, When & Where People Share Content. How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto. Why Atlassian is to Software as Apple is to Design. LinkedIn is Disrupting the Corporate Recruiting Market. Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events. Guess Which Country Has Debt Of Nearly 1000% Of GDP... I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta. Mark Zuckerberg's Staggering Profit From Facebook's IPO. Social media marketing landscape complicated. Scientists Reconstruct Video Clips From Brain Activity In Historic Experiment. CrossConnects Asia Pacific: Telecom & Telephony Sales Professionals Group group.
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