Thursday, March 29, 2012

fostermarcus - Polycom Sees Video Chance in Network Refresh

Video conferencing is growing in popularity, and Polycom believes it and its partners can accelerate business adoption of the communications and collaboration technology by piggybacking a network refresh cycle. The logic: If businesses are going to step up network capacity, they might as well take the next leap into video communications.

Polycom is working with Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft to offer its RealPresence video conferencing solutions through partners for sale with HP networking gear and Microsoft Lync communications solutions. The blueprints developed for integrating these hardware and software solutions make it easier for solution providers to sell and customers to adopt video conferencing, Polycom says.

?We?re hearing from organizations around the world that video collaboration is a mission-critical part of how they run their businesses. Whether it?s speeding time-to-market for a manufacturing company, consulting with a specialist over telemedicine, or supporting distance learning, our compelling solutions are changing how people collaborate and work,? said Sue Hayden, executive vice president of Polycom?s Strategic Alliances.

The adoption wave Polycom is trying to ride is a bit of a paradox. In a conversation with Channelnomics, Polycom?s John Antanaitis said the increasing use of video ? whether streaming video players, YouTube or video conferencing ? is the chief driver compelling businesses to upgrade their network bandwidth capacity. ?Video is becoming mission-critical,? says the vice president of solutions marketing.

Which technology will lead the sale is a bit more ambiguous. It?s almost a chicken-and-egg, cart-before-horse or other such clich? situation. As more consumer and IP-enable devices attach to corporate networks, demand on traffic throughput and bandwidth requirements becomes greater. Does that automatically lead to the adoption of video conferencing? Perhaps.

Antanaitis describes the RealPresence opportunity as providing flexible, affordable, scalable and functional solutions, especially when all three ? HP gear, Polycom video and Microsoft unified communications ? are tied together.

And the alliance of these three vendors comes at a time when businesses are looking beyond saving money on travel to enable real collaboration and productivity through video conferencing. Market research firm Infonetics projects businesses will spend more than $22 billion on video conferencing solutions over the next five years.

While there?s nothing binding customers to buy all three solutions, the synergies do create an attractive opportunity and will likely produce market demand for solution providers. Networking could lead to video conferencing, video conferencing could lead to networking upgrades, and unified communications could drag both technologies into deals. The alliance is a potential trifecta.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Security World: 20 iPad business apps every CIO should want


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Complications that the influx of Apple iPads and iPhones bring to enterprise Wi-Fi networks and wireless LAN administrators are illustrated vividly at The Ottawa Hospital in Ontario. Read More

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Packing 384 10G Ethernet ports into an 11-rack-unit form factor is only the beginning for Arista Networks' DCS-7508 data center core switch. Read More

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In a recent pilot project, about 30 regular guests at a Clarion Hotel in Stockholm were given smartphones enabled with Near Field Communication technology, enabling them to bypass the check-in counter and access their rooms by tapping their phones on an NFC reader, which replaced the typical card-swipe door lock. Read More


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The federal government last week issued a remarkable complaint against AT&T: In essence, the Department of Justice alleges that the telecom giant has bilked U.S. customers out of millions of dollars by willfully failing to prevent the rampant abuse of a system designed to help the hearing impaired. Read More

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Microsoft, Nokia will spend $24 million on university program to boost app development
Microsoft and Nokia will invest up to a!18 million (US$24 million) in a new mobile application development program at Finland's Aalto University during the next three years, with the goal of helping create applications for Windows Phone, the two companies said on Monday. Read More

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

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For over 40 years, New Directors/New Films has introduced up-and-coming filmmakers to New York audiences each spring. This year, get to know a batch of this year's ND/NF filmmakers by attending a free panel discussion presented by Indiewire.

When: 7:30pm-8:30pm, Monday, March 26
Where: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, 144 W. 65th St.

Guests include: Jason Cortlandt and Julia Halperin ("Now, Forager"); Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi ("5 Broken Cameras"); Adam Leon ("Gimme the Loot"); Kleber Mendonca Filho ("Neighboring Sounds"); Terence Nance ("An Oversimplification of Her Beauty"); Joachim Trier ("Oslo, August 31st"); and Clarissa Knoll ("Street Vendor Cinema").

Go HERE to see Indiewire's 10 picks of the festival.

Below find bios for each participant (courtesy of ND/NF):

Jason Cortlandt & Julia Halperin
Jason Cortlund studied film and writing at the University of Oregon and?earned a master?s in screenwriting at the University of Texas. He was a 1998?postgraduate fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers. His films,?made with collaborator Julia Halperin, have been shown at festivals,?museums, and arts institutions around the world. Julia Halperin received her?BA summa cum laude from Hunter College and her MFA from the University of?Texas. Her directing credits include the short films Texas?Pawn and SuperDoll, which received support from the City of Austin Cultural?Contracts and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
Emad Burnat is a Palestinian freelance cameraman and photographer with?experience filming for Al Jazeera and Palestinian television. He has?contributed to several documentaries, including Palestine Kids, Open Close,?and Interrupted Streams. Guy Davidi is a documentary filmmaker and cinema?teacher who has been directing, editing, and shooting films since the age of?16. His first feature film, Interrupted Streams, premiered in 2010 at the?Jerusalem International Film Festival.

Adam Leon
Adam Leon was born and raised in New York City. He has directed several?short films and music videos, and his most recent short,Killer, premiered at?the New Directors/New Films festival in 2009 and went on to play at?festivals around the world. Gimme the Loot is his first feature film.

Kleber Mendon?a Filho
Kleber Mendon?a Filho was born in 1968 in Recife, in northeastern Brazil.?Over the last decade, his short films The Little Cotton Girl (2003), Green?Vinyl (2004), and others have won over 100 awards in Brazil and abroad. His?first feature, the documentary Cr?tico (2008), focused on the troubled?relationship between filmmakers and critics through a series of personal?interviews recorded over eight years. Neighboring Sounds is his first?fiction feature.

Terence Nance
Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He comes from a?family of actors, photographers, and musicians. Nance began drawing, acting,?and writing music as a young child sitting in on his mother?s play?rehearsals and his uncles? studio sessions. He studied visual art at NYU,?and his art-making practice includes mixed-media installations, music, and?film. He currently resides in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Joachim Trier
Born in Copenhagen in 1974, Joachim Trier grew up in a filmmaking family and?began shooting 8mm films at the age of five. He became a national?skateboarding champion in Norway and made skateboarding videos. He made his?feature debut in 2006 with Reprise, which screened at film festivals around?the world and won numerous awards. Oslo, August 31st is his second feature?film.

Clarrisa Knoll
Born in S?o Paulo in 1977, Clarissa Knoll graduated from PUC ? S?o Paulo with a degree in International Relations. In 2004 she founded the production company Saracura Filmes. She previously wrote and directed the documentary short?
Cine Camel??(2011) and produced the short?Botero?s Apple?(2008, directed by Marina Weis and Moira Toledo) and TV movie?The Impassive Muse?(2011, directed by Marcela Lordy).

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IRL: Sony SmartWatch, Otterbox Universal Defender case and a Blendtec blender

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.

At last! A story where it's actually appropriate to write "Will it blend?" in the comments! In this week's IRL, our very own Darren Murph takes a slightly different tack than usual, gushing about his new $400 fruit crusher. On an equally rough-and-tumble note, Brian brings his trusty Otterbox iPhone case into a Nevada sandstorm with 50 mile-per-hour winds, while Sharif tests out Sony's SmartWatch -- from the comfort of his London neighborhood, of course.

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Glassdoor: Google Overtakes Facebook For Employee Satisfaction For The First Time In Four Years

fgGlassdoor has taken a look at how Google and Facebook compare in the eyes of employees and job candidates, and has extracted a number of interesting data points related to CEO approval, benefits, perks and more. For background, Glassdoor is a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs. First, Glassdoor says that so far in 2012, Google has overtaken Facebook in employee satisfaction company ratings. In fact, this is the first time Google has overtaken Facebook in the past four years, says Glassdoor. In 2012, Google?s company rating reached a 3.9, surpassing Facebook?s 3.7 rating. From 2009 through 2011, Facebook received a higher company rating from its employees (2009: 4.4; 2010: 4.7; 2011: 4.2), than Google did from its employees (2009: 3.8; 2010: 3.7; 2011: 4.1).

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Nemours researchers uncover new evidence of cancer-causing agent present in gaseous phase of cigarette smoke

Nemours researchers uncover new evidence of cancer-causing agent present in gaseous phase of cigarette smoke [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 21-Mar-2012
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Wilmington, DE A team of researchers led by A. K. Rajasekaran, PhD, Director of the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, has shown that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped by a substance present in cigarette smoke. Their work is published online in the American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology.

Cigarette smoke is well recognized as a cause of lung cancer and is associated with many other forms of cancer in adults. Cigarette smoke has more than 4,000 components, many of which are linked to the development and progression of lung cancer. Evidence has shown secondhand smoke to be as dangerous as primary smoke due to its impact on the cells of the body.

In the study, the authors found a cancer-causing agent called reactive oxygen species (ROS) present in the gaseous phase of cigarette smoke that has the ability to inhibit normal cell function. Exposure to the secondhand smoke produced by as little as two cigarettes was found to almost completely stop the function of a cell's sodium pump within a few hours. In normal cells, the sodium pump plays a critical role transporting potassium into the cell and sodium out of the cell. The competence of the cell's sodium pump, i.e., its inability to regulate sodium, is predictive of cell damage, disease progression and ultimately, survival.

"This is critical information with regard to secondhand smoke," said Dr. Rajasekaran. "We now know that one need not inhale the particulate matter present in secondhand smoke to suffer the consequence of smoking. Exposure to the gaseous substance alone, which you breathe while standing near a smoker, is sufficient to cause harm." Dr. Lee Goodglick, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, and co-senior author of the study, noted, "Few reliable lung cancer biomarkers that could predict survival, treatment options or response to therapy exist today. Even fewer have been recognized where the function of the biomarker is known, yielding important information about the mechanism of action. This study really accomplishes both."

This research is the latest finding in the compendium of evidence that supports protecting children from exposure to cigarette smoke. Excessive exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood can facilitate lung cancer development as children grow into adults. While more research is needed to understand the consequences of sodium pump inhibition by cigarette smoke, this study reveals that secondhand smoke is even more dangerous than previously thought.

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About the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research

The Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, part of Nemours Biomedical Research at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, is located in a fully renovated laboratory space on Rockland Road in Wilmington, DE. The goal of the center is to evolve into a leader in research focusing on the discovery of new drugs and biomarkers for childhood cancers and reduced side effects arising due to cancer treatment in children. The NCCCR works closely with the University of Delaware, Christiana Care - Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and Thomas Jefferson University. For more information, visit www.nemours.org/link/ncccr.


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Wilmington, DE A team of researchers led by A. K. Rajasekaran, PhD, Director of the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, has shown that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped by a substance present in cigarette smoke. Their work is published online in the American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology.

Cigarette smoke is well recognized as a cause of lung cancer and is associated with many other forms of cancer in adults. Cigarette smoke has more than 4,000 components, many of which are linked to the development and progression of lung cancer. Evidence has shown secondhand smoke to be as dangerous as primary smoke due to its impact on the cells of the body.

In the study, the authors found a cancer-causing agent called reactive oxygen species (ROS) present in the gaseous phase of cigarette smoke that has the ability to inhibit normal cell function. Exposure to the secondhand smoke produced by as little as two cigarettes was found to almost completely stop the function of a cell's sodium pump within a few hours. In normal cells, the sodium pump plays a critical role transporting potassium into the cell and sodium out of the cell. The competence of the cell's sodium pump, i.e., its inability to regulate sodium, is predictive of cell damage, disease progression and ultimately, survival.

"This is critical information with regard to secondhand smoke," said Dr. Rajasekaran. "We now know that one need not inhale the particulate matter present in secondhand smoke to suffer the consequence of smoking. Exposure to the gaseous substance alone, which you breathe while standing near a smoker, is sufficient to cause harm." Dr. Lee Goodglick, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, and co-senior author of the study, noted, "Few reliable lung cancer biomarkers that could predict survival, treatment options or response to therapy exist today. Even fewer have been recognized where the function of the biomarker is known, yielding important information about the mechanism of action. This study really accomplishes both."

This research is the latest finding in the compendium of evidence that supports protecting children from exposure to cigarette smoke. Excessive exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood can facilitate lung cancer development as children grow into adults. While more research is needed to understand the consequences of sodium pump inhibition by cigarette smoke, this study reveals that secondhand smoke is even more dangerous than previously thought.

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About the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research

The Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research, part of Nemours Biomedical Research at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, is located in a fully renovated laboratory space on Rockland Road in Wilmington, DE. The goal of the center is to evolve into a leader in research focusing on the discovery of new drugs and biomarkers for childhood cancers and reduced side effects arising due to cancer treatment in children. The NCCCR works closely with the University of Delaware, Christiana Care - Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and Thomas Jefferson University. For more information, visit www.nemours.org/link/ncccr.


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

NRL tests robotic fueling of unmanned surface vessels

NRL tests robotic fueling of unmanned surface vessels [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 20-Mar-2012
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WASHINGTON--Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights greater than three feet. The Rapid Autonomous Fuel Transfer (RAFT) project exhibits the ability to track the motion of a Sea Fox naval vessel, safely emplace a magnetic refueling fitting to an on-board refueling receptacle and successfully complete fluids transfer.

Under current circumstance, USV refueling demands that a grappled connection, usually by hand, be made between the USV and the refueling vessel.

"Refueling a USV at sea, particularly in adverse weather or in high sea states, can prove difficult and often dangerous," said Dr. Glen Henshaw, Attitude Control Section, SED Control Systems Branch. "Transferring our extensive knowledge and proven success of robotic spacecraft servicing can prove equally successful in reducing risks at sea."

Providing the host ship the capability to refuel USVs without the need to bring them aboard ship enhances mission efficiency and reduces host ship exposure. This works to improve the effectiveness of naval USV missions and decrease risks to personnel and potential damage to vessels and equipment.

Experimenting with both fully autonomous and human-controlled operations at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center wave simulator facility, NRL engineers completed approximately 60 trial refueling attempts at sea states ranging from zero, or calm seas, to 3.25, or maximum wave heights in excess of three feet, with a demonstrated high rate of success.

Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Rapid Autonomous Fuel Transfer (RAFT) project teamed NRL with Clemson University, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). NRL was the lead robotics integrator and designed the robotics system.

Further robotic transfer tests will possibly include land-based autonomous HMMV (High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) applications without the need to stop driving and on-air Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) refueling.

The USV Sea Fox was developed for Navy missions to provide force protection with more flexibility in Enhanced Maritime Interdiction Operations and safer Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) gathering to aid in threat assessment, decision-making, and situational awareness, prior to escalation to lethal actions.

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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) serves as the focal point for the Navy's in-house spacecraft bus capability. Research and development activities range from concept and feasibility studies through initial on orbit space systems operation. SED's Robotics Engineering and Control Laboratory serves as a national test bed to support research in the emerging field of space robotics including autonomous rendezvous and capture, remote assembly operations, and machine learning.


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WASHINGTON--Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights greater than three feet. The Rapid Autonomous Fuel Transfer (RAFT) project exhibits the ability to track the motion of a Sea Fox naval vessel, safely emplace a magnetic refueling fitting to an on-board refueling receptacle and successfully complete fluids transfer.

Under current circumstance, USV refueling demands that a grappled connection, usually by hand, be made between the USV and the refueling vessel.

"Refueling a USV at sea, particularly in adverse weather or in high sea states, can prove difficult and often dangerous," said Dr. Glen Henshaw, Attitude Control Section, SED Control Systems Branch. "Transferring our extensive knowledge and proven success of robotic spacecraft servicing can prove equally successful in reducing risks at sea."

Providing the host ship the capability to refuel USVs without the need to bring them aboard ship enhances mission efficiency and reduces host ship exposure. This works to improve the effectiveness of naval USV missions and decrease risks to personnel and potential damage to vessels and equipment.

Experimenting with both fully autonomous and human-controlled operations at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center wave simulator facility, NRL engineers completed approximately 60 trial refueling attempts at sea states ranging from zero, or calm seas, to 3.25, or maximum wave heights in excess of three feet, with a demonstrated high rate of success.

Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Rapid Autonomous Fuel Transfer (RAFT) project teamed NRL with Clemson University, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). NRL was the lead robotics integrator and designed the robotics system.

Further robotic transfer tests will possibly include land-based autonomous HMMV (High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) applications without the need to stop driving and on-air Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) refueling.

The USV Sea Fox was developed for Navy missions to provide force protection with more flexibility in Enhanced Maritime Interdiction Operations and safer Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) gathering to aid in threat assessment, decision-making, and situational awareness, prior to escalation to lethal actions.

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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) serves as the focal point for the Navy's in-house spacecraft bus capability. Research and development activities range from concept and feasibility studies through initial on orbit space systems operation. SED's Robotics Engineering and Control Laboratory serves as a national test bed to support research in the emerging field of space robotics including autonomous rendezvous and capture, remote assembly operations, and machine learning.


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Enjoy Extraordinary Petra Tours For Any Size ... - Travel - EzineMark

If you are looking for a new and exciting vacation destination, check out the ancient city of Petra, also known as the Treasure of Jordan. On your Petra tour, you can discover why it is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Petra was left by the Nabataens as an inheritance. The Nabataens were extremely brave warriors and industrious people, who settled in southern Jordan over 2000 years ago. On your Petra tour, you will discover its peculiarities, and its incredibly beautiful location, deep in the heart of the desert. Petra is situated in the mountains, which dependent on time of day, takes on a rainbow of colors, from light pink, plunging into dark red, purple and orange. From the entrance into Petra, you will pass between the extraordinary cliffs through the awe inspiring Siq, an extraordinary crack in the sandstone that his nearly one mile long.

You will also be able to view the Treasury on your Petra tour, as the Treasury is Petra's most renowned monument, which is also the completion of the Siq.

In addition, tours to Petra will also take you through hundreds of extraordinary cultural phenomena, including crypts, fa?ades, mourning halls, baths, temples and the most popular site, the 3000 seat Roman Theater. Built in the first century BC, these are extraordinary points of interest on all tours to Petra. Depending on the amount of time you want to spend, you will be able to take a Petra tour to discover a variety of Jordanian wonders. You can take full advantage of visiting the seven pillars of wisdom, Wadi Ram. Wadi Ram has also been noted in the book Lawrence of Arabia, as he saw the seven pillars of wisdom during his stay in the area during the Arab revolt.

You'll also be able to take patrol jeeps through the desert for a couple of hours, and just enjoy extensive free time to walk throughout the region. This Petra tour is truly an unforgettable experience, as you will also arrive in time for lunch at a Bedouin encampment in Wadi Ram. You will be able to visit the village of Mansoura, which is an extraordinary view of the Wadi Ram area.

You'll also be able to see Weir and Arava, as well as looking over an ancient oak forest that grows at over 1600 meters tall. You will then take your Petra tour to the Crusader fortress Absubak, after which you will take a short walk down the canyon of the Wadi in the Mount, which has been created from sandstone rocks. You'll then finish your day by taking your Petra tour back to little Petra, by its name suggests that it is truly a magical experience. Regardless of the Petra tours that you would like to take, there are many different tours to Petra available, for any size group as well as any budget. You will be able to take full advantage of English language guides, meals, hotel accommodations, board passes and more, all for one low price. So, check out the Internet today and find the best Petra tour for you and your loved ones, as it will be a trip you will never forget.

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Apple's dividend heralds 'changing of the guard'

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? What would Steve have done?

It's a question that Apple CEO Tim Cook can't escape. From the naming of the new iPad to his choice of clothing at public events, company-watchers parse Cook's every move, looking for differences between him and the company's revered founder Steve Jobs.

But Cook seems determined to stamp his own legacy on the world's most valuable company. In the biggest break from Jobs' philosophy since Cook succeeded him as CEO seven months ago, Apple is dipping into its nearly $100 billion cash stash to start paying a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share to its stockholders.

The commitment announced Monday draws a clear line of demarcation between Cook and Jobs.

"This is indicative of the changing of the guard at Apple," says ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall. "I don't think this would have happened under Steve Jobs. This clearly shows Tim Cook is his own man."

Jobs hoarded cash like a man afraid of running out of it. Plagued by memories of Apple's flirtation with bankruptcy in the late 1990s, he steadfastly resisted calls for the company to pay a dividend. Jobs never wanted Apple to be so destitute that it would need financial help, as it did in 1997 when he negotiated a $150 million infusion from rival Microsoft Corp.

With Cook in charge, Apple is now ready to herald a new era and dole out about $10 billion in dividends each year. It's an amount that Apple can easily afford, given the size of its current bank account and the billions more pouring in amid feverish demand for its iPhones, iPads and iPods.

Obviously, no one knows what Jobs would have thought about Apple paying a dividend. He died Oct. 5 after a long battle with cancer. It's unclear whether he had softened his stance on the dividend by the time he resigned as CEO last August.

The dividend decision didn't fall entirely to Cook. It required the approval of Apple's eight-member board of directors, which hasn't changed in the past year except for the addition of Cook and the loss of Jobs. Cook joined the board when he became CEO.

Apple's board had been discussing a possible dividend since at least January, based on what Cook has publicly told analysts and Apple shareholders.

Analysts and investors viewed the dividend as a sign of Cook's willingness to listen to shareholders.

"The new management is very shareholder friendly, and it has been very nice to see," says Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu.

Longtime Apple shareholder Asif Khan believes the dividend suggests that Cook is serious about honoring one of Jobs' final bits of advice. Based on published accounts, Cook told Apple employees at an Oct. 19 memorial that Jobs wanted management to "just do what's right" instead of trying to figure out what the company's late leader would have done.

"It's an intriguing moment in Apple's history because this is a departure from Steve's philosophy," says Khan, whose family has accumulated 20,000 Apple shares since 1997 when Jobs returned to the company. Cook "is changing the culture of the company just a little bit, but in a good way. Everything I have seen him do so far seems to be making Apple into a kinder and gentler company."

Before Apple's dividend announcement, Cook's most significant change from the Jobs' regime had been to introduce a company program that matched employee donations to charities of up to $10,000.

Cook, who worked closely with Jobs since joining Apple in 1998, has made it clear he still intends to hew to the vision of his predecessor and mentor. Just last month, Cook told Apple shareholders that he still thinks of Jobs every day he goes to work.

Forgetting Jobs would be nearly impossible for Cook to do anyway, given the comparisons that are regularly made between the two. Some Apple fans even comment on how Cook's fashion tastes deem to differ from Jobs, who adopted a pair of jeans and a mock black turtleneck as his daily uniform. Cook seems to favor button-up shirts in his public appearances.

Cook hasn't come close to matching Jobs' panache. The missing pizazz stood out earlier this month at Apple's unveiling of its latest iPad. Cook spent relatively little amount of time on stage, leaving most of the presentation to several of his top lieutenants. "Steve was a vibrant and charismatic figurehead, so it's really not fair to compare Tim's persona to that," says Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin, who has been following Apple for 32 years.

Apple didn't even bother anointing the third-generation iPad with a distinctive name, prompting some Apple pundits to wonder whether the company might have tried to come up with something more creative if Jobs were still running things.

Not that it mattered. The latest iPad set a new sales record during its first weekend in stores, Cook said during a Monday conference call to discuss the dividend.

That's just the latest example of Apple's growing prosperity under Cook's leadership.

The company's stock price has soared 60 percent since Cook became CEO to propel Apple's market value to $560 billion ? the most in the world. The shares hit a new high Monday before closing at $601.10, up $15.53. In Apple's first quarter following Jobs' death, the company generated more revenue than any other three-month period in its 36-year history.

Apple is doing so well now that analyst Wu expects Apple to add another $70 billion to $85 billion to its cash hoard this year. That works out to an average of $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion in cash per week.

"You would have to give Tim an 'A plus' as CEO so far," Bajarin says. "This is probably the best transition in corporate leadership that we have ever seen. And you really have to give Steve credit for that. He really spent the last four years of his life making sure the company would be prepared to carry on without him."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apples-dividend-heralds-changing-guard-214625040.html

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Monday, March 19, 2012

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Execs: At $2.65 Per Share, Apple To Become One Of Largest Dividend Payers In The U.S.

Apple-MoneyLast night, the news broke that Apple would be holding an "impromptu" conference call to talk about just what it plans to do with that nearly $100 billion in cash reserves it has in Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. Of course, Slate told us that Apple's decision would be "a really big deal." And, albeit without pyrotechnics, it was a big deal. For existing and new shareholders alike. The conference call this morning was designed to discuss Apple's decision, which it then announced via press release this morning that it will be initiating a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share, along with a $10 billion share repurchase program commencing in September 2012. At $2.5 billion per quarter and $10 billion over the year, Apple will become one of the largest dividend payers of all companies, according to Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no.

People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but they are nearly united against its requirement that everybody have insurance. The mandate is intensely unpopular even though more than 8 in 10 people in the United States already are covered by workplace plans or government programs such as Medicare. When the insurance obligation kicks in, not even two years from now, most people won't need to worry or buy anything new.

Nonetheless, Americans don't like being told how to spend their money, not even if it would help solve the problem of the nation's more than 50 million uninsured.

Can the government really tell us what to buy?

Federal judges have come down on both sides of the question, leaving it to the Supreme Court to sort out. The justices are allotting an unusually long period, six hours over three days, beginning March 26, to hear arguments challenging the law's constitutionality.

Their ruling, expected in June, is shaping up as a historic moment in the century-long quest by reformers to provide affordable health care for all.

Many critics and supporters alike see the insurance requirement as the linchpin of Obama's health care law: Take away the mandate and the wheels fall off.

Politically it was a wobbly construction from the start. It seems half of Washington has flip-flopped over mandating insurance.

One critic dismissed the idea this way: "If things were that easy, I could mandate everybody to buy a house and that would solve the problem of homelessness." That was Obama as a presidential candidate, who was against health insurance mandates before he was for them.

Once elected, Obama decided a mandate could work as part of a plan that helps keep premiums down and assists those who can't afford them.

To hear Republicans rail against this attack on personal freedom, you'd never know the idea came from them.

Its model was a Massachusetts law signed in 2006 by Mitt Romney, now the front-runner of the Republican presidential race, when he was governor. Another GOP hopeful, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, supported a mandate on individuals as an alternative to President Bill Clinton's health care proposal, which put the burden on employers.

All four GOP presidential candidates now promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which they call "Obamacare." Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum calls it "the death knell for freedom."

So much for compromise.

Obama and congressional Democrats pushed the mandate through in 2010, without Republican support, in hopes of creating a fair system that ensures everyone, rich or poor, young or old, can get the health care they need. Other economically advanced countries have done it.

Doing nothing is more expensive than most people realize.

Congress found that when the uninsured go to clinics and emergency rooms, the care they can't pay for costs nearly $75 billion a year. Much of that cost is passed along and ends up adding $1,000 a year to the average family's insurance premium.

The overhaul is neither the liberal dream of a single government program supported by taxes and covering everyone nor the conservative vision of stripping away federal rules and putting free enterprise in charge.

The Obama plan relies on private companies plus lots of regulation to make sure they provide basic benefits, keep premiums reasonable, and cover the sick as well as the healthy. That's where the mandate comes in. If insurers must cover everyone, even those with existing medical conditions, healthy people have little incentive to sign up before they get sick.

Insurance companies argue that if only the sick sign up, insurers will go broke. So the law says everybody must have insurance for themselves and their children, or pay a penalty.

Also, because everyone needs health care sometime, if everyone purchases insurance, the price per person can be lower, with the cost of care spread out over many people.

After all, the government requires workers to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, whether they want the benefits or not.

One argument for the insurance mandate is that the fines are just federal taxes by another name. Another is that it falls under the government's constitutional power to regulate commerce that crosses state borders.

State governments, of course, tell people to buy lots of things, including auto insurance or motorcycle helmets.

"You can always move to another state," said Tom O'Connor, a consultant in Fairfax, Va., who thinks the health care law overreaches. "It's a little more difficult to move to another country."

Many agree.

In an Associated Press-GfK poll, 85 percent said the U.S. government should not have the power to require people to buy health insurance. When the question is worded without the specific reference to federal power, acceptance of the mandate grows a bit, but 6 in 10 are still against it.

Even among those who generally support the health care overhaul, one-third said they are against the insurance mandate.

There's also a significant minority who sees mandates as a cop-out and prefer a government program that covers everyone, Medicare for all.

It's clear that many people do not understand what the law would do or how it would affect them.

Jan Gonzales, an out-of-work bookkeeper in Pablo, Mont., calls fining people for going without insurance "the most ridiculous, asinine thing you ever heard of."

"If I can't put food on the table for my children, how can I pay for health care coverage?" asks Gonzales, who's been without insurance for seven years. "What moron came up with that idea?"

Of course, she might qualify for the law's exemptions for those too poor to pay and for assistance for low-income people, as well as many in the middle class.

There also are some religious exemptions. .

Estimates vary widely of how many uninsured people will get insurance once it's required in January 2014.

About 4 million people would pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for being uninsured in 2016, the Congressional Budget Office estimates.

By 2016, the fine reaches $695 per uninsured adult or 2.5 percent of family income, up to $12,500 per year. The IRS is in charge of the penalties but can't prosecute violators or place liens against them. Its only enforcement option may be withholding money from refunds.

That leaves insurance companies, who stand to gain lots of new customers, worried that people instead will shrug off the weak mandate.

Meanwhile, the state-federal Medicaid program will expand to cover more low-income people, and that's another issue before the Supreme Court, because many states say they cannot afford the extra cost.

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Online:

Health care law: http://www.healthcare.gov

Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/PPAACA.aspx

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Associated Press writer Stacy A. Anderson contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-weighs-making-health-coverage-fact-life-133951595.html

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Can Radical Efficiency Revive U.S. Manufacturing?

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Editor's note: The following is adapted from the Rocky Mountain Institute's Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era.

Industry has long formed the foundation of America's economy, from before the first Ford Model T factory to the military-industrial complex that grew out of two world wars to the robust economic growth and high-tech innovation that followed. And whereas U.S. manufacturing is experiencing a resurgence, its old foundation?built on cheap fossil fuels and plentiful electricity?is showing cracks. Rising and volatile fuel prices, supply-security concerns and pressures on the environment are wrecking balls thumping away at many of the underpinnings of our country's key industries?and thus our prosperity.

Fortunately, we can render these wrecking balls harmless through a systematic drive to upgrade industrial energy efficiency. Even with no technology breakthroughs such an effort can, in just over a generation, transform U.S. industry and provide 84 percent more output in 2050 consuming 9 to 13 percent less energy and 41 percent less fossil fuel than it uses today. This scenario, outlined in Reinventing Fire, a book and strategic initiative by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), can help U.S. industry build durable competitive advantage and keep jobs from going overseas.

These seem like incredible numbers: Twice today's efficiency? Output nearly doubled with reduced energy use? The opportunity is so significant because, in spite of efficiency gains over the past decade, plentiful opportunities for energy efficiency remain for industry. The U.S. Department of Energy's 24 industrial assessment centers, which have offered energy audits for more than 30 years, report that energy savings per recommendation increased by 9 percent between 1985 and 2005. Turning our wastefulness into profit is our biggest opportunity to reinvent fire.

Dramatic efficiency gains in industry can be enabled by transformations occurring in tandem in other key sectors of our economy. For example, the hugely energy-intensive petroleum refining industry will shrink or eventually disappear as vehicles electrify. But efficiency can be doubled in two main ways: applying new technologies to old sectors, and applying old technologies to new sectors.

Adding new technologies to old sectors
A well-known success story is the steel industry. Since it recovered from the capacity overhang and devastating mill closures of the 1970s, it has quietly expanded with state-of-the-art facilities. The energy intensity to produce a ton of steel fell 40 percent from 1978 to 2008. This was driven by a new technology well suited to our scrap-rich economy: the share of steel production from electric arc furnaces (EAFs) grew from 25 percent to nearly 60 percent. EAFs recycle steel scrap in an electric furnace to produce new steel, bypassing the energy-intensive, coking coal?powered step of converting iron ore to metallic iron, and then to steel in a conventional blast furnace. Adding EAFs close to scrap sources has also pulled steel recycling rates up to the mid-80 percent range in recent years.

Even the conventional route has a more efficient alternative that is starting to make inroads. Steel industry bellwether Nucor recently broke ground on a new direct reduced iron plant in Louisiana. This innovation replaces coal with natural gas in the iron ore conversion step. If the steel industry continues to adopt new technology, it can help lead the transition outlined in Reinventing Fire.

Some old industries have less positive stories. Pulp and paper is still struggling with declining demand for its core product, a dynamic that stymies investment in new and existing facilities. Paper mills are often net-zero or even net energy producers, so many would ask: Why bother? But pulping typically produces a potentially valuable by-product?black liquor. Gasifying it has the potential to transform the industry, unlocking the opportunity for the pulp and paper producer of the past to become the biorefinery of the future?producing a portfolio of products alongside paper, from renewable electricity to boutique chemicals and bulk biofuels.

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