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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The Apple versus Samsung patent showdown explained | TPE Post
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(Wired) ? Did Apple rip off Samsung?s intellectual property to create the iPhone, or did Samsung pilfer Apple?s patents when it took on the iPad and iPhone with a slew of mobile devices and tablets?
Those are the burning questions at issue in the biggest trial so far in the ongoing worldwide mobile phone patent war that?s broken out between Apple, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, HTC, Motorola and others.
Apple and Samsung, both competitors and business partners, have been jousting over the issue for more than a year, in what?s really a proxy war between Apple and Google. But after 1,400 court docket entries, on Monday, in a San Jose, California, federal court, a nine-member jury is expected to be chosen to resolve the dispute in a highly anticipated patent and anti-trust trial.
At stake is billions of dollars in penalties, possible bans on imports of flagship consumer gadgets, and even whether Samsung will remain the world?s foremost electronics producer of smartphones. Apple intends to push for more injunctions blocking the U.S. sale of the South Korea-based company?s phones and tablets that are powered by Google?s Android operating system.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has already blocked the Galaxy Nexus, the flagship Google phone, from being sold in the United States, but the decision has been stayed on appeal. Apple claims the Galaxy Nexus infringes its patents via ?the core voice and search functionality within Android.? Koh also blocked the U.S. sale of Samsung?s initial iPad rivals, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ? as has Germany, on the grounds it resembles the iPad too closely. (However, a British judge disagreed, saying the Tab was ?not as cool? as the iPad.)
The two technology powerhouses, armed with an army of lawyers charging an average of more than $500 an hour, might reach a deal before or even after jury selection begins.
But for the moment, it?s a war of words between Samsung and the Cupertino-based Apple, each accusing the other of outright theft of intellectual property ranging from Apple?s designs and scrolling technology to Samsung?s 3G transmission functionality. The litigation theater is playing itself out on stages in at least eight countries, including Britain, Germany and Australia.
Mobile patent war breaks out between Apple and Samsung
Apple, in seeking as much as $2.5 billion in damages, said Samsung ?chose to compete by copying Apple.? Samsung countered that without Samsung?s patented technology, Apple ?could not have become a successful participant in the mobile telecommunications industry.? Samsung says that Apple?s innovations come from its uncanny ability to commercialize technology, not from revolutionary engineering or design. Samsung, which has been making mobile phones for more than two decades, also says it has phone-design documents for a slab-like touchscreen phone that predates the iPhone.
Some legal experts suggest the legal flap might involve intellectual property that should never have been patented.
?Regardless of the outcome of the trial, we might want to step back and consider whether society should be granting such powerful rights so easily. Are the features at issue here really deserving of so much protection?? asked Robin Feldman, a legal scholar at UC Hastings College of the Law and author of Rethinking Patent Law. ?On the whole, the trial is one more indication of a patent system that has lost its bearings, with litigation rather than innovation leading the way.?
Samsung is likely to have a tough time securing injunctions against Apple products. The main claims Samsung asserts against Apple involve patents related to 3G data connections that use the GSM standard under the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). There?s disagreement whether infringing on Samsung?s so-called ?essential? patents can be the subject of an injunction under a legal theory called FRAND, knowns as ?fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.? The idea is that any patent that?s key to a standard must be licensed to all-comers at a reasonable price.
The jury verdict form, which lays out the questions to be answered in the trial, has not been finalized. But a recent version (PDF) asks jurors whether Samsung ?failed to timely disclose its intellectual property rights during the creation of the UMTS standard or by failing to license its declared essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminary terms.? That verdict form also asks jurors to decide whether Samsung breached antitrust rules ?by monopolizing one or more technology markets related to the UMTS standard.?
In all, Apple claims breaches of seven patents and other so-called trade-dress violations, which are about visual appearances. Samsung alleges Apple?s iPhones and iPads breach five patents. Each side, over the course of 17 months of pre-trial litigation, has dramatically reduced the number of alleged infringements in a bid to simplify the dispute for jurors.
Both claim the other?s patents were either wrongly granted and should be voided or, in the alternative, the patents are not being infringed.
Some experts believe the issue is still too complex for jurors ? but all patent trials inevitably are. Earlier this year, a federal jury in Texas was asked to decide whether the fundamentals of the web, such as displaying dynamic media in a Web page, had been patented by a medical researcher. A favorable verdict could have led to multimillion-dollar judgments against every large internet company. Jurors didn?t bite, however, and found that claims to owning technology key to the interactive Web were invalid.
Richard Posner, one of the country?s most respected U.S. federal appeals court judges, said earlier this month that patent trials shouldn?t even be heard in federal court and instead should be resolved in the Patent and Trademark Office without a jury.
That?s because patent issues are too nuanced, and the stakes too high, said Brian Love, a Santa Clara University School of Law scholar.
?A lot of the evidence that?s presented will be over the head of the jury pool. They?ll tend to make more of a decision based on emotion and storytelling,? Love said in a telephone interview. ?Both sides will try to tell a story where they are in the right and the other side is in the wrong. Frequently, jury trials boil down to who tells the better story.?
The FAQ:
What Samsung devices does Apple think rips off the iPhone and iPad?
Apple is unhappy about the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets. And it also doesn?t much care for these Samsung phones: Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4g, Exhibit 4g, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S (i9000), Galaxy S II, Galaxy s 4g, Gem, Gravity, Indulge, Infuse 4g, Intercept, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4g, Replenish, Transform and Vibrant.
Which Apple devices does Samsung argue infringes its patents?
The iPod touch, iPad 2, the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.
What patents does Apple say Samsung pilfered?
(Note: Not all Samsung devices named in the suit are alleged to breach every patent listed below.)
The 381 patent (PDF) covers touchscreen interactions, including dragging documents, multi-touch, pinch-to-zoom, twist-to-rotate and that nifty little scroll bounce when you?ve reached the end of a list of items.
The 915 patent (PDF) covers technology for how to use an API to let users scroll through documents on touch-sensitive devices.
The 163 patent (PDF) covers touchscreen tap-to-zoom and navigation features.
The 677 patent (PDF) covers the general outline and ?ornamental design? of an ?electronic device? that appears to be an older-model iPhone.
The 087 patent (PDF) covers general outline, or ?ornamental design? of an ?electronic device? that appears to be an older-model iPhone.
The 889 patent (PDF) covers the general ?ornamental design? of an iPad.
The 305 patent (PDF) covers the ?graphical user interface for a display screen.?
What patents does Samsung say Apple infringed?
(Note: Not all Apple devices named in the suit are alleged to breach every patent listed below.)
The 941 patent (PDF) covers mobile phone 3G capabilities.
The 516 patent (PDF) also covers mobile phone 3G capabilities.
The 711 patent (PDF) covers MP3 playback technology on a mobile device.
The 460 patent (PDF) covers a ?communication terminal? that functions as both a portable phone and a camera, and which can send, receive and display images.
The 893 patent (PDF) covers a method for remembering a user?s place in a gallery of images.
How long will the trial last?
Well, in patent suits, there?s always a large chance that the two sides will settle before they go gambling important intellectual property in front of a jury that might be composed mostly of people who still use Microsoft?s IE6 browser and who don?t know how to text. But if the case goes to trial, each side was given 25 hours of testimony to make their case. They may lodge no more than 125 exhibits each. In real-world time, and without a settlement, the case will likely last a month.
Who are the witnesses?
Each side has 20 witnesses. Apple executives scheduled to testify (PDF) include Phil Schiller, Cupertino?s senior vice president of worldwide marketing and Scott Forstall, senior vice president for iOS software. Dale Sohn, Samsung?s American president, is expected to take the stand on behalf of his company. Samsung controller Timothy Sheppard is also slated to testify.
How is the winner determined?
Jurors theoretically could decide against both Apple and Samsung, although that?s unlikely. If the jury believes a patent was infringed, it will be asked to assess monetary damages, which would likely be based on how much money each infringement is worth per device, multiplied by the number of devices sold. Other considerations include lost profits and royalties.
Can jurors invalidate patents?
Jurors can decide that a patent is invalid for the purposes of this lawsuit. Generally, only the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can officially invalidate a patent, although a jury?s finding of invalidity likely would de-weaponize the patent for other litigation purposes. Patent law is among the most complex issues in the U.S. legal system. Patents are supposed to be granted only to new and non-obvious inventions, and can be invalidated for breaching that standard.
How can Apple trademark what an iPhone or iPad looks like?
This is better known as ?ornamental design.? But, indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants intellectual-property rights to designs. Just like we know obscenity when we see it, jurors will be tasked with deciding whether Samsung?s products ? largely the Galaxy phone series and early versions of the Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Tab 10.1 ? visually rip off Apple?s designs.
Aren?t Samsung and Apple business partners?
Samsung supplies iPad and iPhone flash memory, main memory and the iPhone?s application processor. Whatever the outcome of the patent flap, business is business and this arrangement is not expected to be affected.
Who is the judge presiding over the trial?
She?s Harvard Law-educated U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, a former patent attorney, federal prosecutor and California local judge. President Barack Obama appointed her to the federal bench in 2010.
What is the dispute?s case number?
11-cv-01846-LHK.
Where can the court documents be found for free?
The court documents are being made available by Justia.
Where can I get updates on the case?
Wired?s Gadget Lab is covering the trial gavel to gavel.
Source: http://tpepost.com/tech/the-apple-versus-samsung-patent-showdown-explained/
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Monday, July 30, 2012
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Superman roller coaster strands riders at highest point
A dozen riders were rescued from a roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California after the ride stalled. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
By NBC News staff
A new roller coaster stalled 150 feet above the ground Sunday afternoon, stranding a dozen riders for almost two hours at a Northern California amusement park, according to local reports.
Twelve passengers on the Superman Ultimate Flight roller coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., became stranded atop the park?s newest ride when it stopped at its crest around 2:30 p.m., Six Flags spokeswoman Nancy Chan told the Vallejo Times-Herald.
Vallejo fire rescue crews were dispatched to the scene at about 3 p.m. after receiving an emergency call.
Park engineers prepared a large crane equipped with a big personnel bucket to reach the riders, and firefighters took up water and sunblock.
Park officials said crews had trained for this type of mission.
?We arrived; we put the crane that?s on site into place,? Vallejo Fire Department Batt. Chief Raymond Jackson said. ?We?ve actually done some training in this in case this situation arose.?
Jackson said firefighters were prepared to take riders down individually in the crane if the coaster couldn?t be restarted, however, a mechanic managed to get the ride going again and riders were?lowered safely to the ground.
Craig Cannon / NBC Bay Area
A dozen riders were stuck on top of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's Superman Ultimate Flight roller coaster this afternoon in Vallejo, Calif., for about two hours after it stalled near the top.
Vallejo fire crews said no one needed medical attention and all 12 passengers walked away safely.
It was unclear what caused the two-car train to stop, the Vallejo Times-Herald reported. Chan said the ride will be closed for a ?thorough safety inspection.? She added that the ride will reopen when the inspection is completed at a time to be determined.
?If (a ride) stops, it usually detects something and it stops for safety reasons,? Chan said.
The ride, which opened at the park on June 30,?holds two cars with six riders each and reaches a maximum speed of 62 miles per hour. According to the park's website, it?features a launch coaster using electromagnetic propulsion, two upside-down twists and two vertical rolls. At 15 stories high, the coaster is ranked alongside rides with the tallest inversions in the world.?
The Associated Press contributed to this report.?
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Sinai Jihadi group says responsible for Israel attack in June
Ismailia (Reuters) - An Islamic Jihadi group based in Egypt's Sinai has posted a video showing it carried out a cross-border attack in June, killing one Israeli at a border barrier construction site and raising doubts over Egypt's security control over the desert peninsula.
Since the overthrow of U.S.-aligned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, the security grip has loosened over Sinai and groups of militant Islamists have spread across its northern part, attacking police stations and a pipeline exporting gas to Israel and Jordan.
An online video posted on Friday featured members of a new group named "Magles Shoura al-Mujahddin" wearing military outfits and choosing as their target an Israeli security patrol and a border town.
The men who according to the video carried out the attack, identified as Egyptian Abu Salah and a Saudi, Abu Hozaifa, said they sought revenge for "Muslims' blood" and dedicated the attack to Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda's leader.
"We will head shortly to execute a double suicide operation targeting the Jewish enemy forces on the Egyptian borders," Abu Salah said, reading out from a piece of paper before the attack with a black flag in the background covered with religious slogans.
Israeli officials said soldiers killed both attackers.
Another Jihadi group named "Ansar Bayt al-Maqdes" claimed in an online video last week its responsibility for gas pipeline blasts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in April that Sinai was becoming a lawless "Wild West" but his government has since signaled more confidence in the new Egyptian government's ability to restore order.
Egyptian security sources said they were investigating information in the videos and were aware of the existence of some Jihadi elements but had no information on these two groups.
"These groups might be very small Jihadi cells in Sinai," a security source told Reuters.
In the video, Jihadis were seen monitoring the border spotting Egyptian and Israeli army sites before identifying a weakness point along the border and choosing two Israeli Jeeps and a border town on the Israeli side as their targets.
The attackers were then instructed on the plan using a model of the area and were trained on making bombs and using live ammunition in a desert.
Egyptian security officials said it was unclear where the training took place.
Experts say that militant groups in Sinai aren't directly affiliated to Al Qaeda but are seeking to be so.
The open desert border between Israel and Egypt was relatively quiet for three decades after the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1979. But Israel says that since the fall of Mubarak, Cairo has lost its grip on the Sinai.
In April, Israel said a rocket fired from the Sinai hit the resort of Eilat, causing no injuries, while last August cross-border infiltrators shot dead eight Israelis. Israeli soldiers repelling the attack accidentally killed five Egyptian guards.
Mubarak was succeeded by Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is ideologically hostile to the Jewish state and linked to the Hamas Islamists who run the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that also abuts Sinai.
(Reporting By Yousri Mohamed; Writing by Tamim Elyan)
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Samsung Galaxy S Lightray 4G hides out in the open, heads to MetroPCS
What's old is apparently new again for MetroPCS subscribers. Thanks to some leaked training materials over on Howard Forums, we have a pretty clear idea of the next Galaxy S device to bow on that budget carrier's lineup -- the Lightray 4G. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, we've seen this exact phone before at CES 2012 where it was part of Dyle's Mobile TV showcase. And that chassis you see above? It's a mostly unaltered version of Verizon's Droid Charge, although that formerly pointed chin seems to have gotten the Ashlee Simpson treatment. Spec-wise, the 4.3-inch device reportedly packs a Super AMOLED Plus display, 1.3-megapixel front-facing / 8-megapixel rear cameras, 16GB of included microSD storage (what it'll ship with onboard is unknown), HDMI-out and, bizarrely, that aforementioned TV tuner, replete with antenna. No word on when this unofficial fella's set to go legit nor which Google OS treat it'll run, but with a recently surfaced FCC doc and company slides to go off, we're sure to find out sooner rather than later.
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Danes set sights on claim to North Pole
COPENHAGEN ?? Denmark will dispatch a scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean at the end of the month to gather data before it submits a formal claim to a vast tract north of Greenland that includes the North Pole.
Such a claim would be made under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), setting up a possible clash of interests with fellow Arctic coastal states Russia and Canada that are making their own claims.
"We need the data that we plan to acquire on this cruise," said Christian Marcussen, the expedition's chief scientist from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. "But ... we are quite confident that we will be able to make a submission."
Denmark admits it is interested in staking a claim to a part of the planet believed to be rich in untapped oil and gas, but rules out a unilateral "land grab" or being drawn into confrontation over competing claims.
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"I reject the confrontation scenarios that have been presented in the media and academic circles," Klaus Holm, Denmark's Arctic ambassador, said.
"If there is any area where every party has an interest in cooperating, it is the Arctic. The challenge is so huge and the areas are so vast."
The expedition will sail from Svalbard off northern Norway on July 31 aboard the Swedish icebreaker "Oden" and will gather seismic and depth data to substantiate a future possible claim, for which the deadline for Denmark is November 2014.
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Denmark has identified five potential claim areas off the Faroe Islands and Greenland ? both parts of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Copenhagen has already submitted claims for areas north and south of the Faroes and for two areas south of Greenland to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) which assesses the scientific validity of such claims.
Any dispute would, however, need to be resolved through negotiations between states, and not by the CLCS.
The other area Denmark has identified ? likely to be the most sensitive part of any future claim ? is roughly 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles) extending north from Greenland and including the North Pole.
For that claim to be credible, much depends on whether the expedition is able to gather data to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater formation spanning 1,800 kilometers (1,118 miles) across the pole, is an extension of Greenland's land mass.
Russian scientists claim that the ridge is an extension of Russia's land mass, but that does not exclude that it could also be an extension of Greenland and Canada, Marcussen said.
Under the U.N. convention, a country can extend its 200-nautical-mile economic zone if it can prove that the continental shelf is a natural extension of its land mass.
Russia caused controversy in 2007 when a mini-submarine took the Russian flag to the seabed at the North Pole, sparking accusations of imperialism.
Marcussen said he didn't rule out stopping at the pole to plant a Danish flag on the ice, as his team did in 2009, if it happened to be on the icebreaker's route.
But he said that was not the goal of the 45-day expedition and that any flag would be removed after such a ceremony.
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Johnson, Palin and more join 'DWTS: All-Stars'
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Bristol Palin, Shawn Johnson and Joey Fatone are all competing again on "DWTS."
By Ree Hines
It?s only been two months since wide-receiver-turned-hoofer Donald Driver claimed the coveted mirror ball trophy on ?Dancing With the Stars,? bringing a glittering end to the last season of the ballroom bash. But even though it hasn?t been a big wait, the anticipation for the upcoming season has been huge.
That?s because season 15 isn?t just another round of the same old show. It?s ?Dancing?s? long-awaited all-star season -- the one fans have hoping for and speculating about for ages.
Now that speculation is over. On Friday the returning competitors were revealed.
The ballroom alums soon set to take the dance floor again are:
- Shawn Johnson
- Bristol Palin
- Pamela Anderson
- Apolo Anton Ohno
- Joey Fatone
- Kelly Monaco
- Gilles Marini
- Emmitt Smith
- Drew Lachey
- Kirstie Alley
- Helio Castroneves
- Melissa Rycroft
But that?s not all! While those 12 celebs make up most of the official all-star cast, there?s one more returning soft shoe set to join them. Who?ll take spot No. 13? That?s up to ballroom fans. In a first-of-its-type twist for the show, ?Dancing? viewers are being asked to vote for the past participate of their choosing to fill the final spot. The choices include Sabrina Bryan, Carson Kressley or Kyle Massey.
Details on that twist are still to come on the official ?Dancing With the Stars? website.
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The all-star season premiere airs Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. on ABC. And for those of you who can't wait to see at least one these returning hopefuls on your small screen, keep your eye out for Shawn at the Olympics, where she's acting as TODAY.com's special correspondent.?
What do you think of the all-star picks? Did your favorites make the cut? Take our poll below and then go to our Facebook page and tell us who you?ll vote for to fill the last spot in the cast??
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24.9M Tablets Sold In Q2, With Apple?s Share Of That Now Over 68%, Says Strategy Analytics
One of the strong points in Apple's quarterly earnings report yesterday was sales of the iPad. Globally, they were up 52% by revenue and 84% by unit sales, respectively to $9 billion and 17 million.?In some new figures out today, Strategy Analytics notes that this translates to an increase in overall tablet market share for the company: Apple now controls 68.3% of the market, compared to 62% in Q2 a year ago, in an overall tablet market that saw shipments of 24.9 million units. So much for analyst predictions: here's one (of several) that had forecast a decline in Apple's market share. So why the reversal? It looks like the competition that many had been expecting to give Apple a run for its money has failed to materialize. But while Apple's market share is the best it's been in years, Strategy Analytics also cautions that overall the market has also witnessed its?slowest growth rate since the first iPad launched in Q2 2010, a result of a slowdown in the global economy, it says.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2YnYYMCwVIg/
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MMA Marketplace: The latest in handmade MMA items, including a sparkly bow and a really odd Fedor painting
MMA inspires arts, crafts, and several other handmade goods that don't fit in any easily discernible category. If there's something MMA-related you desire, there's a good chance you can find it somewhere on the internet. For example, look at the vast array of stuff available on Etsy, the online marketplace devoted to handmade stuff.
You know what MMA needs more of? Sparkly bows. This one can be yours for $9.25.
Never Forgotten Design will make you pretty cool invitations. They'll turn a UFC poster -- in this instance, UFC 107's poster with B.J. Penn and Diego Sanchez -- into an invitation. Tell me you wouldn't love opening up that kind of invite. For $15, Never Forgotten will do the design for you to get printed.
Dan Hardy fans can show their love to the British fighter with a feather replica of his mohawk. Buy it for $55, then wear it when reading how Matthew Riddle has been calling him out. Put it on again when heading to Hardy's bout with Amir Sadollah at UFC on Fuel 5. Pair it with a bandana, and you've got a ready-made Halloween costume. When headed to the grocery store and bank, wear it to fancy up your day. Really, there's no end to its uses.
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Dirk Dashing Is Too Classy For Present Day Violent Gaming
Dirk Dashing Is Too Classy For Present Day Violent Gaming
Well, heck. With all those indie platformers coming out (such as Pid), we almost forgot where the whole thing originated from. The recent release of one-man venture Dirk Dashing 2: E.V.I.L. Eye takes a step back and shows the lighter side of the genre.
This PC exclusive features a whopping 40 levels of good old fashioned platforming fun with no gratuitous violence whatsoever. Our dashing hero uses non-lethal means to get by his opponents and save the day. Dirk Dashing is made entirely in a cartoony fashion, even adding recognizable effects to falling noises or sneaking notes. The man can even be seen tippy toeing around hunched over, just like in any Looney Tunes cartoon. The soundtrack follows this up nicely with tracks befitting of a master spy gentleman.
Each level, players can also earn 4 bonuses that commend their skill in being undetected or unharmed, for instance. ?This game also features joystick or gamepad support.
Dirk Dashing 2: E.V.I.L. Eye is available from its site for $19.99, but also features a sizable demo containing 8 levels; one of which is a secret stage.
Source: http://www.gamesta.com/dirk-dashing-is-too-classy-for-present-day-violent-gaming/
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Kuwait reappoints recently resigned prime minister
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Integrated VoIP and FoIP Software Enabling Telecom Devices ...
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) February 5, 2011
Floreat, Inc. announces the immediate availability of FloVFoIP, an integrated software suite of host and embedded Voice over IP (VoIP) and Fax over Internet Protocol (FoIP) solutions, as well as product-engineering services for global markets. This will effectively meet the growing demand for Multimedia products that support more than just Voice. The main applications are IP enabled SOHO and other gateways, Media consoles, next generation Internet-enabled Fax and Voice machines, Green Fax, Smart Phones, Tablets, VoIP Fax, T.38 VoIP and other specialized applications. In addition to feature enhancements and reduced time-to-market, this suite of FloVFoIP software and associated services lower manufacturers? costs by more than 50% relative to other solutions.
With increasing e-communications and declining PSTN deployment, it was assumed that Fax would disappear; to everyone?s surprise, its presence has grown steadily to meet the requirements of corporations, lawyers, hospitals and even home-users. With VoIP now widely-deployed and accepted, many VoIP users need reliable Fax communication over their VoIP lines. This is made possible by products such as our FloFoIP and FloVFoIP that enable Voice and Fax communication over the Internet.
With the goal of meeting any application or communication requirement, Floreat has integrated its VoIP and FoIP software products, using 20 man-years worth of proven legacy voice and fax technology, deployed by more than a dozen industry leaders. In addition to making the integrated VFoIP work seamlessly, Floreat?s engineering team has taken care of quality related issues at the code level and thus enhanced the user-experience. FloVFoIP, our integrated VoIP and FoIP software solution, include an integrated VoIP and FoIP Framework; G.711, G.72x, iLBC codecs; VAD/CNG; G.168 Echo Canceller; Jitter Buffer management; PLC, DTMF; CP tones; G.167 AEC; Voice-Fax discrimination; T.38 FoIP relay with V.17, V.29, V.27ter, V.21ch.2 Group3 fax modems; Terminating T.38, T.30 Fax Application Software with Tiff support; QoE and performance enhancements; support of call control stacks ? SIP, H.323, and others. FloVFax also supports Fax and Voice over RF links, and enables Green Fax that eliminates ink, paper and thermal transfers on mobile and portable communication devices.
Floreat also offers product-engineering services for software, firmware and hardware development. Floreat?s team has developed this expertise while enabling and supporting customers? products with its software. The product-engineering services include software porting on embedded processors and DSPs, software optimization for footprints and CPU load, customization such as integration within any specified OS environment, development of device drivers, prototype hardware-design, and support of various AFEs. Our well-equipped test-lab facilitates testing and accommodates other development requests.
These unique, robust FloVFoIP offerings provide our customers a single source for their Voice and Fax requirements and overcome the challenges inherent in other solutions, such as incomplete vendor-offerings that do not permit a combined VoIP-FoIP product, lack of inter-operability with the numerous gateways and 100+ fax machine models available on the market, and inflexible incumbent (and obsolescing) hardware chipsets.
?Our team thrives on innovative and creative solutions to our customers? specialized requirements in these transitional times; we thus provide an essential ingredient for their success in the market-place. With an integrated VoIP and FoIP soft-solution, we can quickly provide essential communications functionality in devices- at a fraction of current recurring expenses. Seamless migration is facilitated by our structured APIs and our engineering expertise?, said Raj Gupta, Floreat?s Vice President of Sales and Applications.
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Breast Cancer Risk Might Be Tied To Breast Size, Study Says
Researchers at a commercial DNA testing service say they have found a handful of genes that help determine whether a woman spends her life as an A cup or a D.
Those genes might also be tied, they say, to a woman's risk of breast cancer.
"There are surprising connections between some of the genes involved in determining breast size and the genes involved in breast cancer," lead author Nick Eriksson, a researcher with the California-based personal genomics company 23andMe, told The Huffington Post.
In a study published in the journal BMC Medical Genetics, Eriksson and his colleagues analyzed data from more than 16,000 female customers who had previously had their genetic makeup examined. The researchers were looking for single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, which are variations in DNA that occur when a single nucleotide in a sequence is altered. Some SNPs have no impact on cell function; others can predispose people to certain traits or illnesses.
After comparing the women's genetic data with information they provided about their bra size, researchers identified seven SNPs as "significantly associated" with breast size, three of which have been previously linked to breast cancer risk.
The findings suggest that a woman's cup size and her risk for developing breast cancer could be connected. However, even the researchers are quick to admit that the connection should be regarded as preliminary at best.
"It's fair to say that the link is a bit uncertain, and based on current knowledge, it's not a strong risk factor," said Eriksson. He suggested that one possible, albeit oversimplified, explanation for the findings could be that larger breast size means more cells that could become cancerous.
But, he added, "part of the complication is that obesity also plays a complicated part in breast cancer risk."
Indeed, breast cancer specialist Dr. Edith Perez, deputy director at large at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (who was not involved in the 23andMe research), said that a major limitation of the new study is that researchers did not have complete information about the participants' weight, which in many cases can directly influence a woman's breast size. Obesity has also been shown to increase breast cancer risk, particularly after menopause.
In addition, Perez said, the researchers did not control for other factors that can increase risk, such as alcohol use and breast density. The latter trait is largely inherited and has been much more definitively linked to cancer risk than breast size has. Studies have suggested that women with dense breasts are up to five times more likely to develop breast cancer, for reasons that are not yet fully understood.
"The way I look at it is that it's an interesting finding, but I do not think it will have a big impact on the way we stratify for risk for breast cancer," said Perez, adding that the fact this is a commercial company's study (as opposed to an independent data analysis) should be taken into consideration. She said she hoped future research would look at factors that women might be able to change or influence in order to cut their risk for breast cancer, which is currently the second-most common cancer among women in the United States. (Skin cancer is the first.)
Eriksson echoed that the new findings may have more implications for researchers interested in the possible connection between breast size and cancer risk than for women directly. For now, breast size is not a "major factor," he explained, and certainly nowhere near as significant as obesity or breast density.
The biggest takeaway from the new study may be that when it comes to cup size, a lot depends on the genes.
"Breast size is definitely heritable," Eriksson said. "But unlike height, where you can look at both parents and get some idea how tall you will be, you have much less data for breast size. A young woman can look at her mom. However, she won?t get the same insights by looking at her dad for his genetic contribution."
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