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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Leading North Dakota Democratic lawmakers want the state's top oil regulator to quit encouraging oil development and focus solely on oversight.
ND Dems want top regulator to stop promoting oil
North Dakota law says the state's top oil regulator also is charged with promoting oil development. But House and Senate minority leaders say they intend to introduce legislation next year that would permanently separate those roles. In the interim, Democratic lawmakers have asked the North Dakota Industrial Commission "to use its authority" to separate the duties of state Department of Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms.
"Recent, high-profile incidents across the state confirm the public is ill-served by a director who is charged with regulating the development he is duty-bound to promote," Sen. Mac Schneider, D-Grand Forks, and Rep. Kenton Onstad, D-Parshall, said in a letter dated Tuesday to the Industrial Commission, which regulates oil and gas activity in the state. "It is apparent there is no longer any viable policy rationale for having our state's oil regulator also be the lead promoter of oil development, if such a rationale ever existed."
Gov. Jack Dalrymple, Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem — all Republicans — make up the commission.
Helms, a chemical engineer, spent 18 years working with an oil company before being hired by the state in 1998. Some Democrats and environmental groups increasingly have been critical of Helms' stance on oil development, likening it to cheerleading.
Helms said in a statement that "my primary job is that of a regulator" and that his "department's role is defined in statue, and any change would have to be left to state policymakers."
He said his department is making many changes to "toughen and strengthen the protection of North Dakota citizens and the environment."
The Democrats' letter cites Helms' role after a massive oil pipeline rupture last fall near Tioga and a fiery oil train derailment in December near Casselton. The Casselton derailment came just days after Helms told state lawmakers that his agency was considering crafting a report "to dispel this myth that it is somehow an explosive, really dangerous thing to have traveling up and down your rail lines."
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Rackspace Hosting on Friday announced that it is lowering the price for cloud bandwidth and content delivery network (CDN) services by 33 percent. The company also announced that it is implementing tiered pricing for its open cloud product portfolio, starting with Cloud Files, its object storage service. The new pricing changes will take place over the next several weeks, beginning on February 22nd with tiered pricing for Cloud Files.
Rackspace's customers deploying bandwidth-intensive workloads serving large amounts of content (which include video streaming, mobile and applications that require fast content delivery to end users) will benefit from the lower price of bandwidth, including CDN bandwidth. The price will change from $0.18 to $0.12 per GB.
In addition to the price reduction for bandwidth and CDN bandwidth, Rackspace is introducing a tiered pricing structure. The first product to feature tiered pricing is Cloud Files object storage. The volume discounts range from $0.10 per GB per month for the first 1TB, decreasing to $0.075 per GB per month and even lower for storage amounts over 1024 TB. Rackspace will roll out tiered pricing for additional products throughout 2013. For more details on the bandwidth price reduction and the tiered pricing structure, please visit: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lower-open-cloud-pricing/.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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This is a dress I made for my cousin's daughter, Salom. She will be 6 months old during the summer so I made it in size 68 cm.
The pattern is Burda Pleated Baby dress, nº145 07/12. It's very easy to sew and I love the details: small pleats on the front and back, gathers on the sides, cap sleeves, round collar, buttons… It's such a sweet dress!
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bodice: off-white cotton piqu
skirt, collar, sleeves and self-made bias-binding: dots cotton piqu
fusible interfacing on collar and button plackets
dark grey buttons
May 16, 2013, 01.48 AMby ariellrose
So cute! I love the print.
May 14, 2013, 10.10 PMby Debbie Allingham
Gorgeous! It's a really sweet pattern – I made it for a friend's baby last summer and it was just adorable.
May 15, 2013, 11.51 AMby pauline alice
Thanks Debbie!. I've seen your version and it's adorable. And the little boy's outfit is very cute as well.
May 14, 2013, 09.27 PMby Kovu
so cute! what a lucky little girl!
May 14, 2013, 07.53 PMby rita61
May 14, 2013, 07.35 PMby elinorbg
Very sweet!!
May 14, 2013, 07.55 PMby pauline alice
May 14, 2013, 07.06 PMby liliv-1
It' s so cute!!!!! I love this pattern!! And you used so lovely fabrics! You did a very nice job!
May 14, 2013, 07.56 PMby pauline alice
Thank you! It's the second time I sew this pattern and it's such an easy and pretty one I am sure I will sew it again and again.
May 14, 2013, 08.06 PMby liliv-1
I would like to see your other version, have you posted it? I'll check at your studio….I have used this pattern too, I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it!
I made it twice last summer. I'll post it some time.
May 14, 2013, 08.09 PMby liliv-1
Well, no you haven't posted it! Pleeeease do it! I would love to see the other version!!
May 14, 2013, 05.51 PMby Mary Athey
oh wow, i must give this pattern a try. you have done a fabulous job on this and the dress is gorgeous. love it x
May 14, 2013, 07.57 PMby pauline alice
Thanks! Yes, you should try it, it's very nice and easy and great to personalize.
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This year's Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Championships series will feature 30 races worth $3.125 million, and offer $550,000 in bonus money for owners and trainers.The MATCH series will be conducted at five tracks -- Delaware Park; Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course in Maryland; and Meadowlands and Monmouth Park in New Jersey. Colonial Downs in Virginia is scheduled to hold a race pending resolution of a dates issue in Maryland and Virginia.The MATCH Series will begin April 28 and conclude Sept. 28-29. There are five divisions: 3-year-old sprint, 3-year-olds and up sprint; 3-year-olds and up long on the turf; 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, long on the turf; and 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, sprint. The division for 3-year-olds and up long on the turf replaces the division for 3-year-olds long on the dirt."The racing directors at our MATCH series tracks have worked hard to develop an exciting schedule that provides a compelling roadmap of stakes for participating owners and trainers from April through September," said Alan Foreman, creator of MATCH and chief executive officer of the Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.The minimum purse for a stakes in the series is $75,000, and the highest purse $200,000 for the Maryland Breeders' Cup Handicap, a grade III event at Pimlico. Of the 30 stakes, nine are grade III.Bonuses will be awarded to the top three finishers by points in each division. The owners of those horses will get $25,000, $15,000, and $10,000, respectively, and the trainers $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000 respectively. The grand championship is worth $100,000 to the owner, and $50,000 to the trainer.
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If there's one thing that the England cricket system is capable of producing it is fast-medium swing bowlers who know how to make the most of conditions that suit them - and Yorkshireman Matthew Hoggard added himself to the list today.
New Zealand-England contests are full of bowlers who have left their marks in such fashion like: Brian Statham, Geoff Arnold, Mike Hendrick, Chris Old, John Lever and more recently Darren Gough to name a few.
Hoggard's haul of seven for 63 to help skittle New Zealand for 147 in the first National Bank Test at Jade Stadium in Christchurch was the fifth best effort by England against New Zealand.
Ahead of him were: Derek Underwood (7-32 in 1969), Tony Lock (7-35 in 1958), Phil Tufnell (7-47 in 1991/92) and Lock (7-51 in 1958).
His was an impressive demonstration of stamina as he bowled unchanged for 20 overs, broken by stumps last night and lunch after an abbreviated first session in the morning. In that time he had five for 59.
Having had Mark Richardson last evening, he added Matt Horne, Daniel Vettori, Lou Vincent and Nathan Astle before he was rested.
Then after Andy Caddick took three wickets in five balls, Nasser Hussain hurried Hoggard back into the attack and he responded by taking Craig McMillan and Ian Butler to wrap up the innings and complete 21.1 overs.
Hoggard said it was nice to bowl in helpful conditions, especially after toiling so hard in India.
"It swings a little more and seems to seam a little more here," he said.
His first hour today was largely fruitless until he picked up Vettori's wicket.
"Daniel Vettori played really well, but we knew when we got the breakthrough we always had a chance of getting the next batsman quickly," he said.
And despite the long spell he had, he said, "It is surprising how tired you don't get when you are taking wickets."
Like the New Zealand bowlers on the first day he did feel the slowness, and heaviness, of the outfield and he got some cramp towards the end of his spell.
Captain Hussain had to take the ball off him to get him to have a break because as Hoggard said, he wasn't going to give it up.
"I have bowled as well before but not taken as many wickets. It is just one performance, I have a few more to put together on this tour.
"I just want to step up and keep performing," he said.
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It is impossible to imagine how Sean Abbott must feel after sending down that bouncer to Phillip Hughes. While the cricket world hopes for Hughes' recovery, it should also ensure Abbott is supported
November games need November prices
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People across the world paid tribute to Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died on November 27, by putting out their bats
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Title: Chile pequin from Spring Plant Sale in Austin
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QUESTION:Re: chile pequin purchased at your Spring 2011 sale: it grows, seems to thrive, but sets no flowers and so bears no fruit. It's in terracotta in Ladybug potting soil, on a shady apartment patio. How can I encourage blooms, please?
Once again, we share an experience with a plant from the Wildflower Center Plant Sale. I bought my Capsicum annuum (Chile pequin) in the Spring Sale of 2010, and grew it in my concrete garden in terra cotta pots. I had 3 or 4, and all but one dwindled down, and the last one, with one tiny fruit on it, finally died, because I got irritated with it and didn't cover it in our cold spells last Winter.
Also again, I think we have both been guilty of over-care for our plants. I grew these in Brenham in a sunny bed, and they put on so many fruits I was giving them away. Here are the growing conditions for these plants. :
Water Use: Low
Light Requirement: Sun , Part Shade , Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist
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Heat Tolerant: yes
Soil Description: clay, heavy clay, sandy loam
Obviously, the very nice potting soil we both gave our chile pequins was not what they wanted, and I would doubt you could buy a potting soil that was clay, heavy clay, or sandy loam. I don't think I put mine in the sunniest part of my porch, because they were supposed to be shade tolerant and that was probably Mistake No. 1. I'm sure the enriched potting soils that we both used were too rich in nitrogen. Too much nitrogen encourages lots of green leaf growth and the plant uses all its energy making those leaves and doesn't have any left over to make blooms. No blooms, no fruit, no seeds.
Possibly this plant is just too tough for container growing by tender, loving gardeners. Unfortunately, even looking something like this up in our Native Plant Database (which surely I, who practically lives in the Database, should have done) might not have helped. We have a How-To article on Container Gardening with Native Plants that you might be interested in reading, but sometimes only experience helps. We are sorry your plants from our Plant Sale did not work out; they are grown with great care and considered healthy when they are sold.
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My fiance and I are going to be flying through Miami on our way home from Belize for our Honeymoon. We will only be in Miami for a total of about 14 hours, and need some help on where we should stay. Would it even be worth our time to venture in to Coral Gables? I am not interested in doing South Beach mainly just because of our timing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Your 14 hours - is that after you've cleared Customs and Immigration and left the airport, and before you need to be back at the airport? Or is that the total time of your layover?
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Good thought, we will really only have about 10 hours. If I choose to stay at the Airport, what would my best hotel option be?
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Sorry, I'm not that familiar with the MIA hotel options, but I was just hoping to keep this topic going for you, and I thought that one key point would be whether you REALLY have 14 hours, which might affect people's suggestions. And with only 10 hours, yeah, I'd stay near the airport.
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Be very, very careful where you stay near the airport. Read TripAdvisor carefully. The worst night, well, maybe second worst night, we have ever spent in a hotel was at the Holiday Inn near the airport.
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The only time I've overnighted at MIA was a similar trip returning from Central America. We stayed at the Sofitel and had a very good night, but it was several years ago, don't know what the current reviews are. Good luck - and congrats!!
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due to the room dimension, it was very cold even if there was a small heater. There isn't heater in the bathroom, and in winter make a shower it might be a big challenge.
This is an ideal place for visitors to Cape Town. It is a lovely, large Edwardian building with stylish decorations and comfy beds. It's located in the chic suburb of Sea Point and if you don't have a car that's no problem: the brand new MyCiti bus service runs right outside!
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The room facing the main road gets a lot of noise from the non stop traffic, internet signal was not v strong
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Lack of a table to put tea and coffee on. a bit of a guddle on top of the fridge. Cigarette area outside our room and we had windows open, and we are not smokers.
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million.
A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million.
Facebook only risks a fine of €20,000 (US$26,000) if it loses a dispute over its real name policy in Germany, but will be hurt more by bad publicity generated by the litigation, a German privacy regulator said on Tuesday.
Microsoft told the U.S. International Trade Commission that it expects Motorola Mobility to withdraw claims relating to two patents it says are essential to the H.264 standard in its complaint against the Xbox, in view of a settlement last week betwe...
A 27-year-old Romanian man was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after admitting he was part of a group that stole payment card data from hundreds of computers belonging to merchants in the U.S.
Salesforce.com is being sued by a customer who claims the CRM (customer relationship management) software vendor's misrepresentations made their relationship go sour.
Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network.
The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major threat Google has used again...
The leader of a U.S. online piracy group that covertly recorded movies showing in theaters and offered them online has been sentenced to five years in prison.
China has punished six companies, including Samsung and LG, for manipulating LCD panel prices in the country, and ordered them to pay a total of US$56 million in fines.
The U.S. International Trade Commission is investigating Samsung for possible trade violations in response to a complaint filed by Swedish network equipment vendor Ericsson.
A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for point-of-sale and RFID products distributor ScanSource, according to a lawsuit it has filed against Avanade, the joint ven...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference Thursday afternoon to discussion its investigation of Google for antitrust violations.
Samsung Electronics should keep its commitment to consumers and withdraw its demands for bans on imports of Apple products in the U.S. as it did in Europe, Apple said in documents filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Wednesday.
The U.S. government misrepresented facts when it approached a court for search warrants against Megaupload, according to a filing Wednesday by counsels of the file-sharing site.
A U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that Amazon.com did not mislead consumers by calling its own applications marketplace the "Appstore," a name that Apple alleged is too similar to its own "App Store."
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Following China-based application processor (AP) supplier Rockchip's entry into the Chromebook industry, China-based end device makers are also expected to join the Chromebook supply chain, according to information Digitimes Research has collected from the Greater China supply chain. China-based Bitland and BYD will start producing Chromebooks for brand vendors in 2015 and they will be among only a handful of makers capable of making the device.
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Foxconn to build airborne logistic hub in Zhengzhou #cloud #cloudcomputing
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will sign agreements with Administration Commission of Zhengzhou Airport Economic Comprehensive Experimental Area in China by the end of 2014 to establish an airborne logistic hub 2km east of the airport. The hub is set to be fully completed in six years and after the completion, Foxconn's e-commerce business headquarters will also be set up there.
China aims to streamline its mobile game censorship process
Mobile gaming is huge in China, and thousands of new games come out each year. That's good news for the tech industry, but it also means a lot of work for China's government, and long delays for developers because every game released has to be formally approved by China's censorship board. And until recently, the group that was reviewing mobile games included just ten people. (It has since been upped to twenty).
Amazon Hints at Getting Exclusive Indian Selling Rights of OnePlus One Smartphones
The OnePlus One smartphone has started an invite distribution for buying their smartphones in India through an exclusive contest. In the contest, participants need to post a quote along with their #neversettle hash tag and take a selfie. OnePlus will choose 100 lucky winners from among the posted picture to get the right to buy a phone in India. The entire contest strongly hints that the smartphone manufacturer is about to start selling devices in India through a local seller. According to sources, Amazon India is about to get the unique selling right for this smartphone.
NSA chief admits Chinese cyber attacks could shut down US infrastructure
China may have the ability to remotely shut down computer systems of US power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies, according to director of the US National Security Agency Mike Rogers. Testifying to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on cyber threats, Rogers said digital attackers have been able to penetrate such systems and perform "reconnaissance" missions to determine how the networks are put together.
India to have second largest online user-base after China by 2016
NEW DELHI: Availability of low-cost smartphones and increasing penetration of mobile broadband will help India overtake the US as the world's second largest Internet user-base by 2016, research firm eMarketer said. According to the US-based firm, India's online population will touch 283.8 million by 2016, leaving behind the US at 264.9 million in the same period.
Alipay Expands Internet Payment Services To Australia
Chinese third-party Internet payment service provider Alipay.com announced that the company has established a new subsidiary in Sydney, Australia. Alipay will reportedly continue with a local joint venture with Paybang to meet the shopping demands of Australian and Chinese consumers. Alipay will also work together with Australia Post to promote Alipay shopping cards in 4,400 local retailing sites. With those cards, Australian consumers will be able to directly purchase products from Tmall.com and Taobao.com.
China Premier calls for greater role in shaping Web
HANGZHOU, China: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang demanded a greater role for Beijing in shaping the global Internet, calling for "order" online as he failed to address his government's censorship of content it deems politically sensitive. "We believe in an open, transparent and above all safe Internet," Li said on the sidelines of a Chinese-created Internet conference. "That requires an Internet shared and governed by all — all stakeholders equal," he added, in comments made to representatives from US chip maker Qualcomm and professional networking site LinkedIn.
Xiaomi, Youku, and more get virtual telecom operator licenses, but can they right the ship?
According to Techweb, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued its fourth round of virtual telecom operator licenses. The licenses grant companies the right to operate a "virtual" telecom company, charging their own fees and offering their own plans but leasing their network from one of China's three state-owned telecom companies (China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom). The latest list of companies issued licenses includes Xiaomi, Youku-Tudou, and Haier.
Qualcomm to tap server market with the help of China
Qualcomm wants to enter the server market, but it won't do it alone, and will tap expertise in China to build the low-power chips. "We're going to work with Chinese companies to bring that technology and in fact co-develop that technology with Chinese companies," said Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs on Thursday. Jacobs made the comment while speaking at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. Qualcomm is best known as a maker of smartphone processors based on chip architecture from ARM Holdings, but the company wants to take a crack at the server market, which rival Intel has long dominated.
Apple strikes deal with China's UnionPay for App Store payments
Apple today announced it had struck a deal with UnionPay, China's most popular credit and debit card system, to accept payments for digital goods on its App Store. "The ability to buy apps and make purchases using UnionPay cards has been one of the most requested features from our customers in China," Eddy Cue, Apple's executive in charge of its Internet software and services division, said in a statement Monday.
Alibaba will launch an international version of Taobao: Ma
Taobao, China's smash-hit ecommerce marketplace run by Alibaba, will get an international version in English and other languages, said company founder and chairman Jack Ma today. Ma's remarks came during a speech at the World Internet Conference and were reported by Reuters. Taobao is a little like Ebay in that it involves person-to-person selling, but many of its merchants are small businesses selling new goods, in contrast for the tendency of Ebay to be full of random people selling secondhand stuff.
Apple allows China App Store to price apps as low as 16 cents
Some apps in China's iOS App Store are now available for a mere RMB 1 – that's US$0.16. It's the cheapest rate for a paid app anywhere in the world. The lowest paid tier in the China App Store used to be a more conventional RMB 6 (US$0.98), which equates to the US$0.99 level in the US App Store. Apps and games such as Plague Inc, Limbo, Doodle Jump, and GoodReader are now available in the China App Store for a mere 16 cents.
Commentary: Xiaomi facing challenge to sustain growth
China-based Xiaomi Technology, a smartphone startup of a little over four years, has risen as a technology company with a full range of product lines that has expanded vertically to include tablets, smart TVs, smart routers, smart wearable devices and even parts and components. Its recent tie-up with China-based IC design house Leadcore Technology to develop 4G handset solutions, and investments in video content providers Youku Tudou and IQiyi, however, show that the company now intends to also integrate its business horizontally.
China market: Online advertising value over CNY43 billion in 3Q14, says Analysys
Providers of online advertising services in the China market generated total revenues of CNY43.55 billion (US$7.06 billion) in third-quarter 2014, growing 16.7% sequentially and 51.4% on year, according to Analysys International. Among different types of online advertising, keyword search accounted for 38.9% of the total revenues, followed by brand images/text (advertising space) with 25.2%, video with 23.2% and e-mail with 0.8%, Analysys indicated.
Chinese Netizens Can Now Buy And Ship Amazon.com Goods Into China
While Chinese shoppers have always been able to buy many goods from Amazon.com and ship them into China, a new program by the company will handle tariffs and localization of product descriptions to smooth the user experience. Amazon.cn announced that its Chinese-language international shopping store started trial operation on November 11, 2014. That day was important as being the Alibaba-inspired Singles' Day online shopping experience. Amazon's move to begin its service on that day is a weak way of challenging Alibaba's monopoly of the Chinese-language e-commerce ecosystem.
China's Huawei Promises USD6.3 Million Investment For UK 5G Research
Chinese telecom device maker Huawei promised that they will provide EUR5 million, which is about USD6.3 million, to the 5G innovation center of University of Surrey, aiming to promote research and testing of next-generation data transmission standards. The goal of the 5G innovation center of University of Surrey is to implement 5G technology application testing in the real world.
Apple and Xiaomi trade smartphone barbs in China
WUZHEN, CHINA: Top executives from US technology giant Apple and Chinese smartphone upstart Xiaomi traded light-hearted barbs on Thursday at a Chinese Internet conference, acknowledging the fierce competition between the rivals. Apple's iPhones and iPads are wildly popular in China, encouraging smuggling and crowds at the company's stores as consumers try to lay their hands on the latest products.
Google Expands Play Store Support to Chinese Developers
Google's Play Store is still banned in mainland China, along with most of the U.S. company's services. Even with the ban, Google is allowing Chinese developers to upload apps to Google Play, which can be sold in other countries. It is not clear how developers will get past China's firewall barrier – Google's back-end is not banned – it just means the developer will have a hard time tracking the progress of their app and reaping the rewards.


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Lebron James Answers Questions from Fans Through Twitter, The Reigning MVP Champ Dreams of Playing in One NFL Game Before Retiring
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By Rachelle Corpuz | October 21, 2013 1:44 PM EST
Lebron James spent some time chatting with his fans on Twitter on Saturday. The reigning MVP Champ Lebron was more than happy to answer the questions of his million Twitter followers.
"It has been a while since I have done this," Lebron tweeted. "So, let's go, Q & A for 15 minutes, starting now, go," he added.
Lebron was first asked what his favourite video game was. As expected, Lebron told the fan that his favourite video game is NBA 2K14. Everyone probably knows by now that Lebron James is the latest cover of the said basketball video game.
He was also asked about his thoughts on Kobe Bryant's number 25 rank among NBA players. "He is top 5, for sure," James answered. A fan also tweeted a question asking King James who his bestfriend is, to which he answered, Savannah, his wife.
The NBA superstar even extended for another fifteen minutes just to accommodate all the questions of his fans.
One fan asked Lebron if he would ever consider playing in one professional football game in any league. "I want to play one NFL game before it is over," Lebron answered. He played football during his high school years at St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, Ohio. He was a four-time MVP when he played football so Lebron can surely pursue another career in sports when he retires from playing basketball. We know he will definitely be good at it.
Lebron has always been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Can you imagine him playing for them? How about playing for his hometown, the Cleveland Browns? It will be exhilarating to watch him play football instead of basketball. What do you think? He will probably be the tallest player, who stands at 6 foot e 8 inches, alongside the Denver Bronco's Bruck Osweiler.
You can head on to Twitter and read the thread yourself if you want to find out more about the exciting questions that his fans had asked him. Lebron and his Miami Heat team will face Chicago Bulls on Oct 29 in the forthcoming NBA season.
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