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Ahead of the Bell: Apple’s iPhone on T-Mobile?

NEW YORK — The iPhone will be available on other cell phone networks as early as this fall and will likely come first to T-Mobile USA, one analyst who follows Apple Inc. closely said Thursday.

In a note to investors, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu said his checks with Apple suppliers and others suggest AT&T Inc. will lose its exclusive place as the iPhone carrier no later than the first half of next year.

One reason T-Mobile is a likely candidate is because the company’s wireless technology is similar to AT&T’s. Sprint and Verizon Wireless use a different wireless standard, so converting the iPhone to run on their networks would presumably involve more technical hurdles.

Wu said T-Mobile also sees the iPhone as key to winning back lost customers, meaning the company will be more likely to settle for Apple’s terms.

“T-Mobile does not comment on rumor or speculation,” T-Mobile USA spokesman Peter Dobrow said Thursday.

“Would we like to offer the iPhone to T-Mobile customers in the U.S.? You bet. Ultimately though it is Apple’s decision on who carries its product,” Dobrow added.

In any case, Wu said, Apple needs to sign up another U.S. carrier to keep up the pace of iPhone sales and counter the rising competition of phones that run on Google Inc.’s Android software.

Neither Apple nor AT&T have said when their exclusive deal is slated to end.

In midday trading, U.S.-listed shares of T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom rose 40 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $11.33 amid a broader market rally. AT&T shares were up 44 cents at $25.34, while Apple climbed $3.26 to $246.46.

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Summary Box: Google’s mobile ad feud with Apple

CHANGING THE RULES: Google thinks Apple is imposing new restrictions that could hobble its ability to sell and place ads on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

THE POSSIBLE FALLOUT: AdMob, a mobile ad service recently acquired by Google for $750 million, says Apple’s changes will stifle competition and reduce revenue for developers of applications on the iPhone and iPad.

THE TENSION: Apple tried to buy AdMob before getting trumped by Google last fall. That was the latest bit of bad blood between Google and Apple, one-time allies whose relationship has deteriorated as they have increasingly clashed in the mobile device market.

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Correction: Deltek personnel story

HERNDON, Va. — In a story June 9 about Namita Dhallan, a new executive vice president of Deltek Inc., The Associated Press mistakenly reported that Deltek CEO Kevin Parker expects Dhallan will help JDA Software in its product development. Parker expects her to help Deltek with its product development; JDA was her previous employer.

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San Francisco (GaeaTimes.com) - Jeff Koons seems to be one of the hottest searches in Google right now as Google has introduced a new feature to select background images on Google Home page having option to select the images of the art works of Jeff Koons. If you see a giant balloon animal or a huge tin man on your Google homepage, you are probably viewing one of the awesome artworks of the New York artist Jeff Koons. He is known for his giant reproduction of banal objects. A few of his most well known creations are The Hanging Heart or the Puppy. The Hanging Heart is a light magenta colored heart with a golden ribbon weighing over 3500 pounds. The Puppy is made of flowers and is 43 feet tall.

The critics are divided about Koons works. The first group thinks that Koons work is pioneering and has major art historical importance. They are another group who think that his works are simple kitsch which have no hidden meanings in his artworks. Koons himself admitted that there is no hidden meaning of his artwork.

Born in York, Pennsylvania, Koons’ early life was spent through hardship as he went door to door after school for selling gift wrapping paper and candy and earned his pocket money. He studied painting at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art. He worked as a commodities broker while establishing himself as an artist. He is a great fan of Salvador Dali and has visited him at the Saint Regis Hotel in New York City.

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Along with the iPhone 4G and iAd announcements Apple also released version 5 of its Safari web browser. Versions for Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Windows available. Safari 4.1 for OS X 10.4 Tiger also released.......

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Writers: we're a tortured bunch. And with our Macs and our iPhones and iPads in hand, we can do a lot of damage. Heck, there's a whole bunch of great writing apps out there designed specifically to help fuel our creative fires. They say that writing may be a dead trade, but these free apps definitely prove that writing is still alive--especially in our hearts.

All cheesiness aside, here are three great, totally free apps that'll help stimulate your mind, inspire your creative, and help you stay focused on that Sci-Fi novel you're writing in your basement. Remember, every writer needs a toolbox, and we just have ours stocked with Apple products.

Mac

To stick with the theme, we’re writing this column in our Bean word processing application. For writers, the hardest part about the job is sitting down in our seats and pumping out sentences. Sometimes, the inspiration just isn’t there, or our minds are off wandering about the most inane things. We found that the best practice for churning out written content is writing on an empty word processor--kind of like what writing with a type writer used to be like. Microsoft Word’s busy toolbar (and soon to be even busier with the next Office update, which contains the infamous “ribbon”) can be very distracting when you’re trying to write out your next novel--or your dissertation. Bean is most definitely a veritable solution, as it is a very simple word processing application free of distractions, with just  the right amount of options you need to put together a paper.

iPad

If you’re managed to master typing on the iPad (and have somehow, miraculously, designated the device for taking notes in your college-level engineering course), Sundry is a wonderful note taking application that comes chockfull with a variety of features, like an equation solver, the inclusion of a library of commonly used math symbols, voice recording and a whiteboard. This is the perfect app to have on your iPad if it serves a utilitarian purpose in your life. 



iPhone

We all know that it’s kind of impossible to write down ideas while we’re driving. Sure, voice record is great, but transcribing your voice afterward can be a painful and grueling process--we still feel a little funky about hearing our interview voice played back to us. Dragon Dictation takes your spoken word and converts it into text, so you can easily dictate ideas to your iPhone or iPod touch, even if you just can’t find the time to sit down and write your ideas.

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Early this morning in Kazakhstan, Milton, Ont.-native Chris Hadfield blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket and is currently orbiting the Earth, en route to the International Space Station.

Not only will Hadfield be traveling to the ISS for the second time, and returning to space for a third time, but he’ll be staying aboard the orbital outpost for five months and taking over its command in March. He’ll be the first Canadian to command the best foothold humanity has ever had in space, and the largest international construction collaboration ever completed. It’s a serious job.

As a veteran astronaut, there’s no doubt Hadfield is serious about his work and set for the mission at hand. In addition to that, he’s got a sense of humour. It’s one that’s come through in my encounters with him over the years as I’ve written about Canada’s space program.

Space coffee comes in Hazelnut

I first met Hadfield when working at Discovery Channel Interactive in 2007, where I was writing space and science news briefs for the Web site. Hadfield was coming in to be interviewed on Daily Planet, and also answer a few questions on camera that we’d use as extra video online. We got the chance to chat with Hadfield in the minutes before he went into the studio. He graciously answered our nerdy questions about his line of work (What does space smell like? Apparently, a strong metallic odor lingers in the airlock after it’s sealed following a spacewalk).

When someone asked him if he wanted a beverage, he asked if there was somewhere he could get a decent cup of coffee. “The stuff they’re serving in the cafeteria is terrible,” he said. Which is true, but the comment caught me by surprise. “It must be better than the coffee on the International Space Station,” I inquired. Turns out that’s not true.

Leave it to NASA, they’ve got a system that shoots a pressurized stream of water through special space-ready coffee crystals. It works in anti-gravity and the coffee grinds never go bad. It keeps the astronauts happily caffeinated as they go about their busy routines and is better than the instant coffee you made this morning. “They even have different flavours,” Hadfield said. “Like hazelnut.”



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Strong startup community ‘gives before it gets’

We asked Nathan Monk, to provide a guest post about MaRS Lean Startup Day hosted earlier this week. Nathan is a go-to-market mentor with MaRS’ Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment (ICE) practice.

What an exceptional week for Toronto’s technology startup community. Monday we held Lean Startup Day at MaRS and yesterday we heard the news that Toronto’s Startup Weekend winner, Groupnotes, won the Global Startup Battle.

For me, Lean Startup Day is a day I will look back on as the elixir moment, where a diverse group of over 500 Toronto entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, educators and large and small enterprises all came together to produce magic via lean methodology.

Nathan Monk

The inspiration for the day came from Brad Feld’s book, Startup Communities, in which he uses the Boulder Thesis to describe a startup community that “gives before they get” and creates an inclusive, not exclusive, ecosystem for startups. In order for this community to sustain itself, Feld states that four things must happen:

• Entrepreneurs must lead the startup community
• The leaders must have a long-term commitment (20+ years)
• The startup community must be inclusive of anyone who wants to participate
• The startup community must have continual activities that engage the entire entrepreneurial stack (like Lean Startup Day)

Here are some of the highlights from Lean Startup Day:

• Over 1.7 million impressions (“eyeballs”) were generated, reaching over 300,000 user accounts from Twitter alone
• There were over 800 registrants for both the morning and afternoon streams, with 60 per cent coming to see the MaRS morning programming specifically
• Over 40 per cent of the audience was female, a statistic not typically seen at this type of event and noted by our participants
• 32 co-founders from 16 startups demoed, including Startup Weekend winner Groupnotes, HealthAware, Cogniciti, ShelfLife and Papyrus among others
• 30 lean startup business canvases were created, including a landing page
• 12 partners contributed their time for the day, including BDC, Ryerson Digital Media Zone, Microsoft BizSpark and Usability Matters among others
• Eight startup community leaders selflessly gave their time to be there for the Lean Panel
•  Our incredible host, David Crow, whose provocative nature and quick wit spoke directly to this audience
• The incredible sketch notes by Brad Feld-endorsed Sacha Chua

Please take some time to check out Sacha Chua’s sketch notes, as well as the photos and conversations on Storify, Epilogger, and Twitter. We also announced the winner of our Lean Video Challenge, Motion and Still. To watch their video, click here.

As Marc Andreessen (from Andreessen Horowitz) mentions: Lean methodology is a lot like the theory of relativity. There are a lot of answers today for startups that we didn’t have 12 years ago during the tech bubble.

Building a startup makes a lot more sense today then it ever did. At the MaRS Commons, we couldn’t agree more. The entrepreneur and lean methodology are at the heart of everything we do. From market sizing through our market intelligence to business strategy and model validation through Ostwerwalder on up to investor pitch coaching and ecosystem integration through events like Lean Startup Day, this is what we do. And, we love what we do. Our motto in the MaRS ICE practice is: “You can do hard things.”

So as we move into 2013, think about how you can contribute to the startup community. Every one of you has something you can give: whether it’s a talent, a skill or simply some support for our entrepreneurs as they search for a repeatable and scaleable business model under extreme uncertainty. We are here at MaRS to support you if you so choose.

For more information on the Lean Startup movement, visit Eric Ries’s website, theleanstartup.com, and follow him on Twitter via @theleanstartup or the hashtag #theleanstartup. Also check out this great blog post by Lily Liu on the MaRS website, as well as the following two resources:

 

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Operationalizing privacy by design: From rhetoric to reality

Privacy brea

ches can have profound and long-term adverse consequences, including significant financial impact and damage to the reputation and brand of the organizations involved. The international standard of Privacy by Design is an actionable framework which has been put into practice by a growing number of organizations worldwide to make privacy the default setting.



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