text: Native Escapes A u t h e n t i c T r av e l TRIP DOSSIER ITINERARY | South Africa & Mauritius 1 Safari and Mauritius All images : Ute von Luwiger Overview This trip is an example Safari & Beach itinerary. South Africa's Kruger National Park is perhaps the world's best known safari destination – and a few days here will almost certainly reward Big 5 sightings year round. Safari activities include Game Drives and Bushwalks with experienced Rangers. Evening drinks around the fire and falling asleep to the sounds of the bush is a very special experience. Mauritius offers a range of accommodation – all situated on vast expanses of golden beach, with a range of watersports, golf, spa and other activities available. Trip Highlights • Luxury accommodation in the African bush • Safari activities include game drives, and bush walks with expert rangers to spot Big 5 • Astrology session around the evening campfire • Snorkelling, watersports, golf or lazing on Mauritius' unspoilt beaches Day 1 Overnight flight to Johannesburg from London Days 2 - 5 On arrival at Johannesburg you transfer to your flight to Kruger International Airport. On arrival, you take a road transfer to your Safari Lodge for 4 nights in a standard suite on a full board basis including teas/coffees, two safari activities a day and a guided walk. Set on the Lwakahle River in the renowned Kruger National Park, this Safari Lodge is known as the Jewel of the Kruger National Park. You find yourself face-to-face with the abundant wildlife of the bush and some of the most spectacular sunsets Mother Nature bestows. The lodge has 16 suites with ensuite bathrooms and wonderful river views. 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This hotel is a favourite hotel for wedding and honeymoon couples Day 5 alike. Today, you take a road transfer back to Kruger International Airport, where you connect with your flight to Johannesburg. For connection reasons, you will Facilities include 6 restaurants, cocktail lounge, beach bar, cinema, 4 pools need to overnight in Johannesburg. (1 indoor), tennis, watersports, dive centre, fishing, spa, Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room, gym, salon, kids' club (3-11 years). Days 6 - 17 Today, you take a complimentary road transfer back to Johannesburg airport Day 17 for your flight to Mauritius. Today you return to Mauritius airport for your return flight home. On arrival in Mauritius, you take a private transfer to your Hotel for 11 nights Costs:(Economy) £3,460.00 per person in a superior double room on an all inclusive basis. Costs are based on 2 people sharing and subject to availability. Costs are based on flight fares which are subject to availability. 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You take out comprehensive travel insurance to safeguard against What to bring cancellation and curtailment, medical expenses, repatriation expenses, Binoculars, torch, walking shoes, swimming gear, plenty of high factor damage/theft/loss of personal baggage, money and personal belongings. suncream, sunhat, insect repellent, camera, a day pack. Warm clothing is recommended for evenings, and a waterproof jacket. Lightweight clothing is Visas / Departure Taxes recommended for the day. Avoid brightly coloured clothing for game viewing. Not required for South Africa. Visas are not required for UK or Irish nationals for stays of up to 90 days. An onward or return ticket is required, as well as Tipping sufficient funds and documents needed for further travel. Please note that It is normal to tip for good service in bars and restaurants in South Africa. visitors to South Africa must have a MINIMUM of three blank/empty VISA Guests may also consider tipping their guide at their discretion. pages in their passport each time entry is sought. Visitors to South Africa with foreign passports who do not comply with these requirements will either be stopped from boarding their aircraft at their point of departure or risk deportation on arrival in South Africa. You don't need a visa to enter Mauritius if you are a citizen of the EU, the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand or a number of other countries. You can find more information on the website pmo.gov.mu/dha/ministry/novisa.htm. Initial entry is granted for a maximum of one month. If you change your departure plans, make sure you don't exceed your permitted stay. Note: Passport and visa requirements are liable All images : Ute von Luwiger to change at short notice. Travellers are advised to check their entry requirements with their embassy or consulate. Note: Passport and visa requirements are liable to change at short notice. Travellers are advised to check their entry requirements with their embassy or consulate. Health The World Health Organisation (http://www.who.int/en/) recommends that all travellers are inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and polio as well as for hepatitis B. All travellers should seek advice from their local GP or travel clinic for up-to-date advice on vaccinations. Airlines and Charter Companies The airfare and airport tax quoted are current and are therefore subject to change without prior warning should the airline impose an increase in rate for any reason. The airfare quoted is based on the lowest class fare available at the time of quoting and is subject to seats being available in that class at the time of booking. 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McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Under different circumstances it would sound a little creepy for 42-year-old actress Pamela Adlons to brag over the telephone, "I've always felt a great responsibility to young men all over the world."
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But it's OK, because Adlon spends most of her professional life giving a voice to one of the best-known young men on television _ 12-year-old Bobby Hill on the long-running Fox animated series "King of the Hill."
The Mike Judge sitcom about a quirky Texas family hits a major milestone Sunday when the 250th episode airs. The story takes place a year after the death of Hank's father, Cotton Hill, and includes a request to have his ashes flushed down a toilet in an old bar once used by General George S. Patton. Cotton's widow also gives Hank (Mike Judge) a box full of his father's possessions.
This is not Adlon's first voice work. Her credits include "Tinker Bell," "Teacher's Pet," "Recess: School's Out," "Princess Mononoke," "Squirrel Boy," "Jakers! The Adventure of Piggley Winks," and "Kid Notorious," just to name a few.
Out of all that animated diversity, Adlon describes Bobby Hill as her favorite character to play.
"I definitely don't think of him as just being a paper-thin cartoon character. He's just got so many levels and so much depth. It's just hilarious the things that he's been through. And it's also very poignant," Adlon says.
She remembers that the audition for "King of the Hill" was not that different than any of the hundreds of calls she had been to before. She landed the role and, 13 seasons later, she can't believe her good fortune.
It's rare for an actor to keep any job for 13 seasons; most television series actors consider themselves lucky to make it to five. The role also has been rare because there are no limitations _ Bobby ages at the speed of a glacier and has been put in a wild array of different situations.
"Bobby went from awkward lothario to player to actor to the next Dalai Lama. It's just kind of endless. It seems like you don't think that you can go beyond maybe three to five years on a show. But there are so many more stories that we can tell. They're so fresh and relatable," Adlon says.
The storylines that have taken the Hills from rodeos to the National Propane Gas Convention have made the series a hit around the globe.
Adlon says the Hills have broad appeal because everybody can relate to stories about families and neighbors. Her favorite episodes are the ones that deal with Bobby's school days.
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She also likes those stories in which Bobby tries to do something, fails miserably but still ends up getting support from his father.
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That appreciation of the father-and-son dichotomy is all part of Adlon's responsibility to young men everywhere.
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Very Rare Guru Nanak Sat Kartar Antique Sikh Token Coin - 1804 (which is 1748 AD) Vikrami Samvant Mint. Sat Kartar (God is Truth) written in Hindi/Devnagri script as shown in the photo. Please find below more information on this religious token coin.It is A North Indian Coin from region of PUNJAB and depicts the Sikh faith. A rare coin probably minted 260 years ago in 1748 by one of the Sikh missals. (Minted 1804 is Hindu calendar called Vikram Smavat which is started 56 years ahead of Gregorian Calendar) The coin made of an alloy resembling bronze/brass, bears picture of the first Guru (Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji) on observe (Date Side) exergues reads Sat Kartar and the tenth Guru (Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji) on the reverse side, a baaz (Hawk) is seen sitting near him. While Guru Nanak Dev is flanked by Bhai Mardana and Bhai Bala, holding rabab (Violin like instrument) and Chaur Sahib (Hand-held Fan) in their hands. Also shown in the picture are the khrawaan (slipper made of wood) and a lota (small water pot).
It is claimed and maintained that the ambiguity about the pictorial and mohar coins was due to lack of concern shown by successive governments about the Sikh history. It was certainly after October 14, 1745, that the chief of missals started minting coins in the names of the ten Gurus. The very fact the coin bears pictures of the first and the tenth Guru shows that it was not minted during the regime of any sovereign ruler . Referring to the pages of history, each chief tried to strengthen his hold over the areas under his control and even started minting coins. A number of mints in Amritsar and one at Anandgarh came into existence. But a special feature of these mints was that coins were minted by all in the name of the Sikh Gurus as had been the traditional practice and no chief put his name on these coins or even changed the legend.
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This time of year, many companies are now in the process of conducting web load testing in advance of the holidays. In this article, you'll learn details on how a large online retailer conducted web load testing in advance of the holiday spike in traffic - and they're moving into the holiday season more confidently than ever.
Why This 'Retailer' Came to Compuware
As a leading retailer of personalized gifts, it needed to ensure that its website would be ready for the 2012 holidays. Despite load testing its site last year with a different vendor, The Retailer experienced several outages during peak traffic, costing them significant revenue. Great customer experiences and relationships are very important to this Retailer - both in-store and online. However, as a result of the site outages, customer relationships were impacted both online and in its brick and mortar locations.
In order to provide its customers with great experiences, and protect its reputation, the Retailer's online store has to not only provide a great shopping experience, but also withstand the traffic spikes caused by seasonal upswings, events and promotions. Since performance directly impacts the business, much is riding on the performance of its website during the critical holiday season.
Understandably, leery of promises about ensuring scalability after last years' experience, the Retailer contacted Compuware to engage services to deploy its Gomez 360o Web Load Testing solution which was selected based on three key factors:
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- The diagnostic capabilities of dynaTrace's PurePath technology would show the root cause of any problem
The Retailer utilized Compuware Professional services in order to have an independent third-party that would help them design a test plan to re-create issues, not just prove that the system worked.
With Gomez 360o Web Load Testing, each transaction performed during load testing was traced. In addition, all of the diagnostic information correlated into load test reports so there was complete visibility into how applications behaved under load. Armed with this information, the Retailer identified any problems in both proprietary code as well as third-party code.
Retailer's Plan of Attack
- Test from the end-user perspective using last mile, real browsers and less than ideal Internet speeds.
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- Calculate load volume based on highest hourly historical activity - then multiply the test window by 2.5 to obtain a 10 hour peak.
The Retailer's site could handle the peak load but not for the allotted four hours. The analysis revealed multiple root causes of instability including:
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Reconfiguring the load balancer solved the site crashes while code changes optimized certain queries. JVM optimization was taken care of by forcing garbage collection more frequently.
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The Retailer is confident it will not have a repeat of last year's outages and its site will perform optimally during peak traffic periods throughout the holiday season.
To learn how performance testing in advance of trigger points can save your customer relations, attend our live webcast with Forrester's Peter Wannemacher on Thursday, Nov. 15.
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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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of 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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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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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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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Sony To Slash Mobile Phone, TV Product Lines
November 26, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Consumer Electronics
Japan's hemorrhaging technology giant Sony Corp plans to slice its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image sensor businesses over the next three years.
Having lost ground to nimbler rivals like Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in consumer electronics, Sony said on Tuesday its goal for TV and smartphones is to turn a profit, even if sales slide as much as 30 percent.
"We're not aiming for size or market share but better profits," Hiroki Totoki, Sony's newly appointed chief of its mobile division told an investors' conference. A poor showing by its Xperia smartphones has weighed heavily on recent earnings and Sony said more detail on plans for the unit will be unveiled before end-March.
Under its new three-year electronics business plan, Sony said it was aiming to boost sales for its videogame division by a quarter to as much as 1.6 trillion yen ($13.6 billion). It said that will be helped by personalized TV, video and music distribution services that should lift revenue per paying user.
At its devices division, which houses its image sensor business, Sony said sales could increase 70 percent to as much as 1.5 trillion yen. Sony's sensor sales are already robust, with Apple using them in its iPhones while Chinese handset manufacturers are increasingly adopting them.
In a similar event last week for its entertainment units, the conglomerate said it was aiming to lift its movie and TV programming revenues by a third over the next three years.
Will The EU Push To Break Up Google?
November 24, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
Members of the European Parliament are preparing a motion calling for the break-up of Google, by separating its search engine functionality from other commercial services, according to news reports.
A draft resolution calling for the break-up should be finalized early next week, with a vote potentially on Thursday, according to a report from The Financial Times. While the European Parliament has no formal power to break up the company, a vote to split Google could put pressure on the European Commission, the EU's executive body.
The motion is backed by several German politicians and by the Parliament's two largest political blocs, the European People's Party and the Socialists, according to the newspaper. The Reuters news agency also reported on the plan.
A Google spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comments about the proposed break-up motion.
Google currently faces a long-running antitrust investigation in the EU. Google and the EU's previous antitrust commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, agreed to a set of terms back in February, but after complaints from online publishers and other groups, the commission demanded more concessions from Google.
Consumer Watchdog, a consumer rights group and long-time Google critic, applauded the move. "This is exactly what needs to happen," John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director, said by email. "Search should be separated from Google's other businesses. We called for this back in 2010 and the need to do this has become even clearer as Google's power has increased."
In 2010, the group called on the U.S. Department of Justice to split Google's search service from other lines of business.
Microsoft Announces Office 365 Video, Streaming Service For The Enterprise
November 21, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
Microsoft unveiled Office 365 Video, a YouTube-like streaming service where enterprises and large organizations can post in-house video content for communication and training.
"Office 365 Video provides organizations with a secure, company-wide destination for posting, sharing and discovering video content," said Mark Kashman, a senior product manager with the Office 365 team, in a blog posting.
Kashman touted Video as a tool for internal communications, citing the examples of new-employee orientation, management messaging and worker training. Employees will also be able to contribute to a "Community" section, though most companies will probably frown on cat antic clips.
The service rolls out over the next few days to companies that have registered for Office 365′s First Release early distribution program, then through early 2015 to others.
Video will be available only to subscribers of Office 365′s plans for enterprises — E1 through E4 — and universities (A2 through A4). It will not be offered to consumer subscribers or firms with small business-oriented plans like Business Essentials, Business and Business Premium.
Kashman also said Office 365 plans for government agencies will get Video at some point, but he did not proffer a timeline.
The other requirement is SharePoint Online, an off-premises component of the enterprise and academic plans, but missing from the increasingly popular Office 365 ProPlus, the rent-not-buy plan used by organizations that have decided to retain their back-end services, like SharePoint and Exchange, on premises.
Although Office 365 Video has elements of consumer streaming services like Google's YouTube, it's strictly an in-house affair: It will be available only to employees, and then only those whom IT administrators have assigned access rights.
eBay Re-vamping Its Local Delivery Program
November 21, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
EBay Inc is making over its local delivery program and extending more logistics options to smaller merchants that make up the bulk of the e-commerce giant's sprawling base of marketplace sellers, according to one of its executives.
More of eBay's smaller sellers, including some with annual sales under $100,000, will allow shoppers to buy items online that can be picked up in stores, an option now used by big companies such as Best Buy Co Inc and Toys 'R' Us.
EBay also plans to dismantle its standalone mobile app for its $5 same-day delivery service "eBay Now" as soon as this week. The service will instead be folded into eBay's mobile app and website.
"The big play in the U.S. has been around buy online, pick-up in store," Tom Allason, head of eBay Local, said Wednesday.
The shift reflects how eBay and other technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc, still struggle with the high cost of same-day delivery. Only a fraction of a small retailer's sales come from customers who also opt for same-day delivery, making it difficult to make a profit.
"That's a part of why delivery is only one piece of the equation," Allason said in an interview.
Earlier, the e-commerce giant intensified efforts to court retailers as it prepares to split its marketplaces division next year from PayPal, the payments unit that has been the fastest-growing part of its business.
EBay had planned to expand same-day delivery to 25 markets by the end of 2014, but it is only available in New York, San Francisco, the broader Bay Area, Dallas and Chicago.
EBay is exploring other delivery options for the United States, Germany and other markets, including the "click-and-collect" model used by Shutl in the United Kingdom, in which shoppers pick up certain eBay purchases from British retailer Argos.
Apple To Bundle Beats Music Into iOS
Apple Inc will bundle the subscription music service it acquired from Beats into its iOS operating system early next year, according to an article by the Financial Times.
The inclusion of the paid-for Beats service in an iOS software update, which would instantly make it available on millions of iPhones and iPads, could happen as early as March, the daily reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
The move will mark the company's first big push into subscription music, at a time when downloads from its iTunes are in decline, the paper said.
The service, which is likely to be rebranded under the iTunes label, will compete with music streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, and Soundcloud.
Google Inc said last week that YouTube is rolling out a long-awaited paid monthly music subscription service called YouTube Music Key.
Apple, which bought music streaming and audio equipment company Beats in May for $3 billion, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Nokia Launches N1 Tablet
November 20, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Consumer Electronics
Finland's Nokia unveiled a new brand-licensed tablet computer which is designed to rival Apple's iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its underperforming phones and devices business to Microsoft for over $7 billion.
Nokia, a name which was once synonymous with mobile phones until first Apple and then Samsung Electronics eclipsed the Finnish company with the advent of smart phones, said the manufacturing, distribution and sales of the new N1 tablet, will be handled under license by Taiwan's Foxconn.
The aluminum-cased N1, which runs on Google's Android Lollipop operating software but features Nokia's new Z Launcher intelligent home screen interface, is due to be in stores in China in the first quarter of next year for an estimated price of $249 before taxes, with sales to other markets to follow.
Sebastian Nystrom, the head of products at Nokia's Technologies unit, said the company was looking to follow up with more devices and will also look into eventually returning to the smartphones business by brand-licensing.
"With the agreement with Microsoft, as is customary, we have this transition and we can't do smartphones … We have a time limit. In 2016 we can again enter that business," Nystrom told Reuters.
"It would be crazy not to look at that opportunity. Of course we will look at it."
Microsoft last week dropped the Nokia name on its latest Lumia 535 smartphone, which runs on its Windows Phone 8 operating system, but still uses the brand for more basic phones.
After the Microsoft sale Nokia was left with its core network equipment and services business plus its smaller HERE mapping and navigation unit and Nokia Technologies, which manages the licensing of its portfolio of patents and develops new products such as the N1 and the Z Launcher.
WhatsApp Adds End-to-End Encryption
November 20, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
Stepping up efforts to keep its users messages safe from prying eyes, WhatsApp announced that it now supports end-to-end encryption for messages sent between users.
The end-to-end encryption comes thanks to a collaboration between WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems, an open-source development company focused on secure communications.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has more than 600 million users who log in monthly, making Open Whisper's encryption deployment the largest ever in the area of end-to-end encrypted communication, Open Whisper said.
The encryption is on by default. It's only available for Android right now, though the companies are working to roll out support for other platforms.
End-to-end encryption has gained attention following the disclosures about government surveillance last year by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Meanwhile, the flood of cyber attacks targeting retailers and Internet companies alike have highlighted the need for better data security.
Edward Snowden himself has called end-to-end encryption the best possible form of encryption, because it keeps people's data encrypted even while it's on company servers. The data, in theory, can only be decrypted on people's personal devices. That means outside groups must target individuals' machines if they want to access the data.
Some other mainstream services like Google have released products to facilitate end-to-end encryption. And along with Apple, Google's also working to make encryption the default on smartphones.
But end-to-end encryption still is primarily offered by lesser known companies that don't rely on people's data for advertising.
WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption uses Whisper's TextSecure protocol, which encrypts text messages over the air and on people's phones.
WhatsApp declined to comment further on the encryption deployment.
IBM Unveils Verse, New Enterprise Email Product
November 20, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
IBM is going up against cloud-app juggernauts Google and Microsoft with its next generation e-mail client, called Verse, designed to enrich email with social media and analysis.
"We felt we could leverage analytics to build an experience that understands your priorities," said Jeff Schick, general manager of IBM social solutions, of the app that launched as a private beta on Tuesday. "We had the opportunity to reduce clutter and create priority, and to help people be more efficient in how they master their inbox."
The company plans to offer Verse in the first quarter of 2015 as a hosted service though the IBM Cloud Marketplace. IBM will also issue apps for both iOS and Android that can access all the same features as the desktop browser version.
"They are addressing known problems, inbox clutter, prioritization and the ability to access different modes of communication, from an integrated user experience," Rob Koplowitz, research analyst at Forrester who covers collaboration software, wrote in an e-mail.
IBM first announced the new e-mail software in January, under the working name of Mail Next.
Like IBM's Notes e-mail client, Verse relies on the IBM Domino e-mail server. Unlike Notes, which was built on a client-server architecture, Verse is entirely Web-based. Going forward, IBM will encourage customers to use Verse as an enterprise email client, except for those organizations that have built their own applications on Notes' Eclipse-based development platform, Schick said.
The company did not reveal pricing of Verse, other than state it will offer a no-cost "freemium" version that would be available for individual users. A version of the software that can be run on-premise will be released later in 2015.
Intel Goes Upscale With New MICA Bracelets
November 19, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Consumer Electronics
Soon to be released bracelets with technology from Intel Corp and design cues from fashion brand Opening Ceremony will connect the wearer with Facebook, Google and Yelp via an AT&Tdata plan,no smartphone necessary.
Called My Intelligent Communication Accessory, or MICA, the snakeskin bracelets are aimed at fashion-conscious women and are an attempt by the two companies to stand out in a growing field of often-clunky smartwatches and fitness brands that have yet to catch on widely with consumers.
"We really approached this first and foremost about why would a woman want to wear this everyday, and how can it be incorporated into her wardrobe," Humberto Leon, creative director at Opening Ceremony, said in a phone interview last week.
As well as lapis stones, obsidian and an 18k gold coating, the devices include a sapphire curved screen on the inside of the wrist that displays text messages, calendar items and events from Google and Facebook, and recommendations of nearby restaurants and stores from Yelp.
After Intel was late to smartphones and tablets in recent years, Chief Executive Brian Krzanich has been determined to make sure the top chipmaker is at the forefront of future trends in mobile computing.
Krzanich gave the green light for the chipmaker to develop the bracelet with Opening Ceremony after his wife wore a prototype for several days and liked it, he recently said.
Incoming alerts discreetly vibrate the bracelet instead of making a noise. Its $495 price tag includes a two-year data plan with AT&T, which means it does not rely on a smartphone for connectivity, as do most smartwatches, the companies said in a press release.
As well as working with Opening Ceremony, Intel in March bought fitness bracelet maker Basis Science and it has teamed up with watch retailer Fossil Group to develop other wearable computing devices.
Has Google Glass Reached The End Of The Line?
November 18, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Consumer Electronics
After two years of showing up at high-profile events wearing Google Glass, the gadget that transforms eyeglasses into spy-movie worthy technology, Google co-founder Sergey Brin arrived recently to a Silicon Valley event noticeably bare-faced. He'd left his pair in the car, Brin told a reporter. The Googler, who heads up the top-secret lab which developed Glass, has hardly given up on the product — he recently wore his pair to the beach.
But Brin's timing is not propitious, coming as many developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much-hyped, $1,500 test version of the product: a camera, processor and stamp-sized computer screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass frames. Google Inc itself has pushed back the Glass roll out to the mass market.
While Glass may find some specialized, even lucrative, uses in the workplace, its prospects of becoming a consumer hit in the near future are slim, many developers say.
Of 16 Glass app makers contacted by Reuters, nine said that they had stopped work on their projects or abandoned them, mostly because of the lack of customers or limitations of the device. Three more have switched to developing for business, leaving behind consumer projects.
Plenty of larger developers remain with Glass. The nearly 100 apps on the official web site include Facebook and OpenTable, although one major player recently defected: Twitter.
"If there was 200 million Google Glasses sold, it would be a different perspective. There's no market at this point," said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put development of a Glass game on hold this year and is looking at other platforms, including the Facebook Inc-owned virtual-reality goggles Oculus Rift.
Several key Google employees instrumental to developing Glass have left the company in the last six months, including lead developer Babak Parviz, electrical engineering chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, director of developer relations.
Microsoft Rolls Out Skype For Web
November 17, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
Microsoft announced that it is launching a beta of Skype for the Web, allowing browser-based video chats that don't require a separate app.
"We've made Skype available on computers, mobile phones, TVs and even games consoles," wrote Jonathan Watson, Skype product marketing manager for Microsoft, in a blog post. "Expanding to different platforms has helped us grow to over 2 billion daily minutes (that's over 33 million hours) of voice and video calls…. Now, not only can Skype be used on just about any screen you lay your hands on, but you can also enjoy Skype on a browser."
Skype for Web, which is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, will be available via Internet Explorer, Chrome on Windows, Firefox or Safari.
"If you already use Skype, go to Skype.com and sign in to see all your contacts and latest conversation history," wrote Watson. "We're making Skype for Web available to small number of existing and new users to begin with, and gradually rolling out worldwide in the coming months — look out for an invite when you sign in to your Skype account on Skype.com."
Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, said this is a good move for Microsoft because it opens Skype up to more users in more places.
"The requirement to have a client means one might not always be able to use Skype," he said. "For example, if I'm on a shared computer, say in an airport, I can't use Skype…. Maybe I can't get on the airport Wi-Fi, but there's a public Internet terminal or I might want to use a friend's computer. But with Skype Web, now I can. So now Skype can be pervasive across all devices, not just ones that I happen to own."
Apple Finally Offers A Way Out From iMessage
Apple has finally published a tool that lets iPhone owners sever the link to iMessage, iOS's texting service, when they leave the company's circle of devices for Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone.
The tool, which allows former owners to disable iMessage even after they've disposed of their iPhones, was the first self-service option Apple has offered.
Because iMessage is enabled by default — and is the standard texting service for iOS-to-iOS communication — iPhone owners who had changed smartphones and kept their numbers were not getting texts from other iPhone owners. Apple, unaware that the user had deserted iOS for a rival smartphone ecosystem, was still routing iOS-originating texts to the recipient's now-unused Message app.
Some called it "iMessage purgatory," while others referred to it as the "iMessage black hole."
The problem had existed since 2011, when Apple introduced iMessage and the companion Message app, and was partly technical: Texts sent between iOS devices via iMessage don't transit a carrier's SMS (short message service) network, but instead are sent over the Internet.
iMessage's inability to reroute texts from iOS users — and since 2012′s OS X Mountain Lion, from Mac owners as well — prompted at least one federal lawsuit.
The new tool aims to solve the purgatory problem by letting former iPhone owners, even if they have disposed of the device, route texts to non-Apple smartphones. After entering the phone number for the Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone device, the user must enter the confirmation code sent to the smartphone into the Web form.
Yahoo Adds Another Purchase, Acquires BrightRoll
November 13, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Around The Net
Yahoo has agreed to purchase the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business.
The deal was announced on Tuesday and is one of Yahoo's largest acquisitions since it bought Tumblr last year for just over $1 billion.
Yahoo already runs video ads on properties like Yahoo Screen, but BrightRoll's system gives marketers a way to buy ads in real time across thousands of websites and mobile apps.
"Online video advertising is increasingly fragmented across thousands, if not millions, of sites and mobile apps," the companies said. Advertisers want ways to buy video ads at scale and across many sites in fewer, simpler transactions.
The deal is expected to close by March and will make Yahoo's video advertising platform the largest in the U.S., they said.
Yahoo has struggled to grow its ad business and compete better against Google and Facebook. It may have made some progress lately, reporting in its earnings call last month that its native ads are doing well on mobile.
It's been struggling in the area of traditional display ads on the desktop, however. But it contended Tuesday that video ads are the new display advertising.
"Video is display 2.0," CEO Marissa Mayer said in a post on Tumblr.
"Its what brand advertisers love. Its a format that elegantly and easily transitions from broadcast television to PC to mobile and even to wearables," she said. "This is why video is a key part of our strategy."
It can also replace the branded banner ad, according to Mayer.
Digital video advertising is increasing at "an eye-popping rate," eMarketer said recently, although spending on TV ads still outpaces it.
BrightRoll's revenues are expected to exceed $100 million this year, Yahoo said. The company expects to retain its team of roughly 400 employees.
Apple Ramping Up Enterprise Its Enterprise Strategy
Apple Inc is embarking on its most aggressive push yet onto enterprise IT turf, hiring a dedicated sales force to talk with potential clients like Citigroup Inc and working in concert with a dozen or so developers, two sources familiar with its plans say.
Experts say the company hopes to offset a gradual deceleration in growth – highlighted by iPad sales that have declined three straight quarters – by expanding its footprint in the workplace.
Three months after unveiling a partnership with IBM to develop apps for corporate clients and sell them on devices, the iPhone maker's plans to challenge sector leaders Hewlett-Packard, Dell Inc , Oracle and SAP are starting to take shape.
Details remain scant, but some industry experts say that the tie-up with Big Blue gives Apple an opportunity to begin to challenge Hewlett Packard's and Dell's dominance of office IT, and Oracle and SAP's command of work applications. Depending on its progress, it may hamper Microsoft, Samsung's or Google's own efforts in the nascent market for mobile work applications.
Apps developers and other sources familiar with Apple's plans who could not speak publicly provided additional details on how the iPhone maker is working behind the scenes.
The iPhone maker has worked closely with a group of startups, including ServiceMax and PlanGrid, that already specialize in selling apps to corporate America. The two people familiar with the plans, but who could not speak publicly about them, say Apple is already in talks with other mobile enterprise developers to bring them into a more formal partnership.
The iPhone maker may be trying to replicate the model that served the iPhone well: hook the client on the software and content, then keep them coming back for the hardware, which is what drives the lions' share of Apple's bottom line.
Office For iPad Tops Downloaded Apps List
November 11, 2014 by mphillips
Filed under Consumer Electronics
Microsoft's Office for iPad apps surged in download popularity last week, topping the App Store's U.S. chart the day after the Redmond, Wash. firm handed consumers more functionality free of charge.
On Friday, Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for the iPad were ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively, on the App Store free download list.
Two days earlier, those same apps were ranked Nos. 14, 39 and 44 in the U.S., according to AppAnnie, a company that tracks app store market data for developers. Distimo, which AppAnnie acquired in May but still maintains its own listings, pegged Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the iPad at Nos. 12, 39 and 48 on the same day, Wednesday, Nov. 5.
The rankings surge was triggered by announcements by Microsoft that it was moving the boundary line between free and paid on the Office for iPad apps. Previously, consumers without an Office 365 subscription could use the Office for iPad apps only to view documents. Under the new rules, consumers may now also create and edit documents, although features Microsoft labeled "advanced editing," as well as the unlimited OneDrive storage space, remained available only to Office 365 customers.
Businesses must still pay if their employees want to use Office for iPad, Office on iPhones and Android smartphones, and almost certainly Office on Android tablets when that ships early next year.
Office apps on the iPhone also pushed to near the top of the App Store chart on Friday: Word was No. 1, Excel No. 4 and PowerPoint No. 8. Those apps were new, so no direct comparisons were possible.
The iPhone trio had been spun off Microsoft's earlier app, Office Mobile, which debuted in mid-2013. Initially tied to Office 365 — as was the iPad – the link was broken in March when Microsoft allowed consumers to download and use all Office Mobile features free of charge on their iPhones.