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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has joined forces with MasterCard and Citigroup (in addition to POS provider VeriFone) on NFC and mobile payments. This follows up on a Bloomberg story last week about Google and VeriFone launching a limited test of NFC-enabled payments in which Google was paying for the installation of new POS hardware at selected stores:
The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) at merchant locations, said one of the people, who requested anonymity because Google's plans haven't been made public. The registers would accept payments from mobile phones equipped with so-called near-field-communication technology.
According to the WSJ story, the Google effort is about much more than developing mobile wallets. It's equally about consumer analytics and ad targeting:
The Internet giant is aiming to make mobile payments easier in a bid to boost its advertising business. The planned payment system would allow Google to offer retailers more data about their customers and help them target ads and discount offers to mobile-device users near their stores, these people said. Google isn't expected to get a cut of the transaction fees.
The project, which is in its early stages, would allow holders of Citigroup-issued debit and credit cards to pay for purchases by activating a mobile-payment application developed for one current model and many coming models of Android phones. The idea is to turn the phones into a kind of electronic wallet.
These phone users also would be able to get targeted ads or discount offers, which Google hopes to sell to local merchants. They also could manage credit-card accounts and track spending through an application on their smartphone, the people said.
While advertising or couponing based on consumer purchase history is nothing new in the "offline" world, this "closed loop" capability would raise major privacy concerns simply because Google is involved.
The WSJ cites a Federal Reserve report (citing third party data) that estimates an existing infrastructure of 70 million "contactless devices" (cards) and 150,000 readers in the US. The WSJ report also says that Wal-Mart confirmed that it had discussions with Google about NFC payments but didn't say anything beyond that.
There's lots of jockeying for position right now among carriers, credit card issuers and to a lesser degree hardware makers as everyone tries to line up to get a piece of what is expected to be a very substantial mobile payments market.
More stories about mobile payments:
The huge error that the Motorola Xoom made at launch was its $799 price tag. RIM is coming out on April 19 at $499, which matches the iPad 2's entry level WiFI price.
What's not apparent to most non-tech-insiders is that RIM's Playbook is 7". In one way of looking at it the Playbook is more expensive than the iPad. No doubt, if the 7" version succeeds a 10" version will appear later.
Psychologically the $499 entry level price point is critical for iPad competitors, in the same way that smartphones priced above $199 (w/contract) are essentially DOA. Consumers will now be willing to consider the Playbook at $499 and then will discover it's smaller.
Somewhat paradoxically, though it makes the device more expensive in some respects, the 7" size gives the Playbook a fighting chance vs. the iPad because it's more portable. A 10" competitor from RIM out of the gate would likely fail in the same way that Xoom is failing to build momentum.
Many enterprises will probably give the Playbook serious consideration and the smaller form factor will be appealing to many consumers as well. The Galaxy Tab sold on the strength of its smaller size -- not the UI/UX, which was crappy.
Like a Hollywood movie the Playbook will get a wide release on April 19, going on sale at more than 20,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Among them are BestBuy, RadioShack and Staples, in addition to carrier stores.
Battery life has been a rumored issue for the Playbook. But given the strength of RIM's brand and its price point, I would imagine the Playbook will be a modest hit when it comes out.
Millennial Media's "Mobile Mix" report for February is out. It reflects device usage on Millennial's ad network, which the company says (per IDC) is the largest "independent" network, after Google and Apple. Among the stats offered by the company:
Moving on, there are a number of interesting observations to be made from the "Top 30 Mobile Devices" chart below.
The Galaxy Tab is the number 7 device on the list. In January Samsung announced that it had sold two million of the devices. However it was later forced to clarify that those were not sales to consumers but sales to distributors. The actual consumer sales figures are significantly less -- perhaps less than half the announced number. Indeed, while I've seen them in stores, I have not seen one in use in the world by an actual person.
Take a look at the "Google Insights for Search" chart below. This is for the last 30 days but it looks very similar going back. There is effectively no demand, as reflected in search volume, for the "Xoom" or the "Galaxy Tab." Accordingly, given all the available evidence, we can safely assume that almost all consumer sales of the Galaxy Tab have stopped or declined to a trickle.
There are likely relatively few Galaxy Tabs actually in the market. This probably means that to be in the seventh position on Millennial's chart those few devices are getting very heavy usage -- especially in comparison to other Android smartphones.
Alternatively it could mean that sales of those devices below the Tab on the chart were fewer than the Tab itself. That would probaby be an incorrect interpretation however. More likely the data reflect that the Tab is being used much more than other Android devices and all the BlackBerry handsets, for mobile Web access.
This brings to mind InsightExpress' comment in its recent consumer insights report that there's a new "a middle category" of mobile users who technically own smartphones but don't engage with them as fully as, for example, iPhone owners. InsightExpress equally observed that this middle group doesn't act like feature phone owners either.
Extrapolating from the position of the Galaxy Tab vs. other Android devices on Millennial's network it would appear that a large percentage of Android users fall into this new middle category.
According to Pew, based on a new survey (n=2,251) that is part the 2011 State of the News Media Report, "nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer." This is not a surprise and confirms earlier survey data from multiple sources, including earlier Pew data.
News is one of the leading mobile content categories and breaking news in particular is accessed via mobile increasingly. For example, according to a 2010 Handmark survey (n=300,000):
Mobile has pulled ahead of the desktop web as the preferred medium to access breaking news information. More than 30% of respondents surveyed feel mobile is the most important medium to access breaking news, compared to 29% who prefer the desktop web, 21% who prefer television, and a mere 3% who chose newspapers as their the most important medium for breaking news.
The broad takeaway from the Pew findings is that news distribution and consumption is increasingly digital and it's never going back. Indeed, when respondents were asked, "If your local newspaper no longer existed, would that have a major impact, minor impact, or no impact on your ability to keep up with information and news about their community?" they said the following:
In other words, 69% said there would be little or no impact from the loss of the print newspaper in their lives. This is because they've replaced print with digital and mobile access to news.
On the issue of paying for digital news, a sizable minority are willing to do it but they're still in the minority:
Over the weekend Apple reportedly sold nearly 1 million iPad 2 units. Tablet penetration will only fuel and accelerate the trends identified above.
There's quite a bit more data about usage and the demographics of local-mobile news readers. You can read the full report here.
Today Apple announced what it was pretty much expected to announce: a lighter, faster and thinner device with front and rear-facing cameras. Pricing remains largely the same (except that the original iPad is now $399). There are other performance improvements and some new apps (iMovie, Garage Band, Photo Booth and of course Face Time).
The device doesn't leapfrog other tablets (most of which aren't yet out) but it eliminates any feature gaps and it reasserts Apple's position as the "brand," while Android and others are "clones" or "followers."
Credit: AllThingsD
The metaphor for all of this is the simple yet brilliant Smart Cover:
The innovative new iPad 2 Smart Cover provides protection for the iPad screen while maintaining its thin and lightweight profile. Designed with a unique self-aligning magnetic hinge that makes it easy to attach and remove, the new iPad 2 Smart Cover automatically wakes iPad 2 when it's opened and puts it to sleep when it's closed, and has a soft microfiber lining to help keep the screen clean. The Smart Cover also folds into a stand for typing or viewing videos and is available in vibrant polyurethane for $39 or rich leather for $69 in a range of colors, including a (PRODUCT) RED one which helps support the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.
This clever, multifunction accessory offers personalization and a differentiated look to the Apple tablet vs. others in the market, which now resemble "gray boxes" (like Windows machines). It's another stroke of marketing and product design genius.
Steve Jobs, who appeared at the event, confirmed that 15 million iPads had been sold in the 9 months since launch (April to December), for a total of $9.5 billion in revenue. Reportedly iPad 3 will be announced later this year.
Unless you're just getting back from your trip to the outer reaches of the galaxy, you know that Apple is set to reveal its highly anticipated iPad 2 today around 1pm Eastern. Thinner, faster and with a better speaker and cameras, the new device is an interim upgrade for the highly popular tablet.
Those improvements bring it to feature parity with some of the newest Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom, which at present appears to be the "flagship." LG, RIM, Samsung, HTC, HP, and others all announced and are soon releasing competitive tablets, most based on Android; however WebOS in the case of HP-Palm and QNX in the case of RIM. (RIM will run Android apps as a way to stay relevant given the limitations of its own "App World.")
The Xoom has been reasonably well reviewed but, despite many of its superior features, (vs. "iPad Classic") has not been pronounced superior overall. Part of the problem with Xoom is its $799 price (lower with carrier subsidy). Most of the tablets now coming out are trying to match similarly equipped iPad pricing. But Xoom has made a serious pricing error and will see lost sales as a result.
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said that Xoom sales have gone "relatively well" (read: disappointing). However if iPad 2 matches its features, as expected, you can expect that any sales momentum that Xoom has to abruptly end -- unless Motorola cuts prices.
Only a small number of "high-end" Android tablets will exist by the end of this year. The market will support several winners but not a dozen. The iPad will likely capture much of the high end of the market as Apple has historically with Macs. There may be several viable tablets at the sub-$300 price range that can survive on price competition alone. It will be interesting to see if "good enough" Android tablets at the low end put pressure on the higher end Android tablets to cut prices themselves.
We'll see what Apple shows up with later today and how it's priced.
Apple surprised everyone when the original iPad was introduced with a WiFi-only "entry level" version for $499. That pricing helped propel interest in the iPad and generate over 15 million unit sales to date (we'll hear an update on those numbers today I'm sure).
Several of the eReaders have already "gone down." Most prominently the Plastic Logic's Que eReader was killed last year following the success of the iPad. (Kindle will probably be the lone, surviving eReader when the dust clears.) Now the highly funded and much-hyped dual-screen student tablet the Kno appears to be headed in the same direction. According to a report in AllThingsD:
Kno–the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students–is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks with two major consumer electronics manufacturers to do so, according to sources close to the situation.
The company behind Kno is now going to focus instead on software for the iPad and presumably Android tablets -- if they catch on. The enterprise is a bit of a greener field than the consumer market. An article in the NY Times Sunday discusses how many of the iPad's rivals will try to win the enterprise as a differentiation strategy:
Companies as diverse as General Electric, Wells Fargo, Mercedes-Benz and Medtronic are putting Apple's iPad to work in their offices. And as a string of devices tailored for the office enters the market — from the likes of Motorola, Research In Motion, Samsung and Hewlett-Packard — tablets are all but certain to flood America's workplaces . . .
The new tablets are also expected to give the iPad, which has had the market largely to itself, a run for its money. R.I.M., which makes BlackBerry phones, and H.P. have long relationships with corporate technology buyers. For its part, Apple is hoping to stay ahead of competitors with a new version of the iPad, which may be unveiled as soon as next month . . .
The company, which sold nearly 15 million iPads in the nine months after the release of the device, won't say how many were bought by businesses. But during a conference call with investors and analysts in January, the company said more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies were using or testing the iPad, an increase from 65 percent three months earlier. Among those companies, said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, are JPMorgan Chase, Sears Holdings and DuPont.
It's very difficult to know at this point which of the iPad rivals will succeed. But at the end of the year we'll have a much better sense of the viable non-iPad tablets. HP-Palm has produced a very iPad-like device (pictured). It's targeted to the enterprise. The RIM PlayBook will also get a look from enterprises (though probably not consumers) and Samsung and Motorola's (and maybe LG's) Android tablets will be taken seriously in the enterprise if not by consumers.
Other than the RIM PlayBook, most of the iPad's competitors are priced higher -- putting them at a disadvantage as new market entrants. I'm guessing there will also be some very inexpensive, $300 Chinese-made Android tablets that catch on mainly because of their price. The market probably has room for three to five successful full-featured tablets (both consumer and enterprise markets) and probably a couple of really cheap ones. There will be two form factors: 10" and 7".
I also believe that at some point this year we'll see a tablet based on the Windows Phone OS. I'm guessing here but stubborn insistence that tablets can equally run Windows 7 is likely to mean that Microsoft will be completely shut out of this new computing platform. The company will probably recognize that in Q3 this year.
Previously it appeared that Motorola's Xoom tablet would cost $800, arguably too expensive vs. the iPad and others such as the HP-Palm tablet. But now Engadget seems to have found a BestBuy ad that indicates the Xoom may retail for $1,199. What?
If that pricing is acurrate it's a major strategic blunder for Motorola. No matter how fast/cool/sexy Xoom is, it won't move many units when iPad 2 is available. iPad remains "the brand;" Android tablets are insurgents that have to establish superior value and utility before they win customers.
With pricing at over $1K, Motorola won't be winning too many consumers over -- regardless of how interesting their advertising may be.
Next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is a gargantuan event that will feature a kind of soup-to-nuts inventory of what's happening in mobile: advertising platforms, developers, carriers and handset OEMs will all convene to promote themselves. The press releases are already flying fast and furious.
Even though it's not a hardware show exactly, most of the focus will be on handsets and tablets. There will likley be little genuine news of interest and mostly PR about mobile. Probably the biggest news of the event happened today with the announcement of the Nokia-Microsoft deal.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer will keynote but there will be little new information. He will likely re-iterate the new world that Nokia's adoption of Windows opens up for Microsoft. Yahoo's Carol Bartz will speak. Twitter will be represented in a keynote. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie will be there. All the chipmakers and carrier CEOs are there.
Everything to say will already have been said in various forums: mobile is huge, disruptive and so on.
I was actually seeking to go this but the absence of available hotel space thwarted my effort. Nonetheless I'm on the press list and will be receiving all the news. I will be blogging about the things I find most interesting but certainly not providing anything like comprehensive coverage.
Apple will apparently have no official presence (just like CES) but will cast its long shadow over the event as Europe's most popular smartphone.
MWC is like a mashup of CTIA (carriers) and CES (devices).
Today is Palm's new device coming out day. Palm just announced its 9.7" TouchPad, the Pre3 and the Veer, a tiny credit-card sized phone with a slide-out keyboard. The TouchPad looks really nice but the Veer is probably the thing that will grab the most buzz.
The Veer looks slike a cross between the Pixi and the Pre. The Veer has a browser, runs Flash, has a 5 megapixel camera. It can also operate as a WiFi hotspot. (This will be a standard smartphone feature going forward.)
There's more discussion of the new products and their specs on Techmeme. These devices look really cool, especially the Veer. The TouchPad is nearly identical in appearance to the iPad.
Pricing will be critical to the success of these new devices. Earlier today I argued that HP should open-source Palm. The success or failure of these products will prove me right or wrong on that call.
Update: The Veer turns out to be a mini-Pre for people with tiny hands and fingers.
Fresh off its $3 million Super Bowl ad that parodies Apple's famous 1984 ad and ridicules Apple's legions of buyers as anonymous drones, the Motorola Xoom tablet is set to go on sale at Best Buy on February 24 for $799. The device has two cameras and "can be upgraded to 4G." Data plans are extra.
The $800 pricetag is a strategic blunder by Motorola. The cheapest WiFi version of the iPad (with iPad 2 coming in March or April) is $499. The high price is likely to dampen sales, especially when the iPad is "the brand" and Motorola is the upstart/insurgent.
The Galaxy Tab was priced initially at $600, which was also too high. A better out-of-the-gate price for Xoom would have been $599 or maybe $699. At $799 people are going to think twice and with an iPad right there . . . opt for the iPad.
Aside from the few features Xoom has that iPad doesn't have (except Flash, to be equaled or bested by iPad 2), people are generally going to buy an iPad over a Xoom.
The Android OS that Xoom is based on, Honeycomb, is a dramatic improvement over Gingerbread, which the Galaxy Tab uses. However Honeycomb's features mostly play catch up with the iPad from what I can tell vicariously. Flash, however, matters more on a tablet than on a smartphone; that may be a selling point for Xoom.
Again, we'll see what the initial demand and sales are after February 24 when the device finally hits the market.
Over the past few days there have been a flurry of articles and speculation about changes that may be coming to Nokia, as soon as the Mobile World Congress in a week:
Last year Microsoft and Nokia announced an alliance and now, with both companies struggling in mobile, it appears that alliance will become deeper and more strategic, with the world's largest handset maker adopting Windows for some or all of its new high-end smartphones.
I had anticipated that Nokia would build some Android phones for the US market and possibly Europe. But the Microsoft move is more logical given that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is a former Microsoft executive himself and given the fact of their existing alliance.
Microsoft's new OS is nicely designed (except for the home screen in my view) but lacks visbility and momentum. Being on Nokia handsets could bring both almost immediately or very quickly. There's also the risk that such a move would fail to halt Nokia's slide or sufficiently boost Windows.
Right now the iPhone and Android are absolutely sucking all the consumer attention out of the room for everyone else. It's still possible that Nokia would put out an Android phone or two beside Windows Phones; however Microsoft might try and prevent that as part of any strategic deal between the two. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
One widely discussed scenario is the outright purchase of Nokia by Microsoft. The former is now worth just over $41 billion -- a costly pill to swallow. However the acquisition of Yahoo would have been worth $44 billion. So Microsoft is not above using its balance sheet when absolutely necessary.
Yet an acquisition would probably be unnecessary if a strategic alliance that put Windows on Nokia smartphones advanced penetration for the operating system.
For its part RIM will also be compelled to do some radical things to reassert itself.
Its new QNX operating system on the Playbook tablet and later BlackBerry handsets will apparently be able to run Android applications helping RIM play catch-up on the apps front. However embracing Android apps will likely mean the end of the company's own BlackBerry App World; why would developers focus on it when Android apps could reach BlackBerry users?
Does the move to embrace Android apps also suggest that RIM will put out an Android handset? Probably not; RIM will likely maintain its proprietary OS in the wake of the QNX and TAT acquisitions. Regardless, RIM may continue to struggle and will probably see tablet sales disappoint vs. the iPad, Samsung, Xoom and several others as the tablet market becomes increasingly "noisy."
Very little; it says more about the popular size of the Galaxy Tab (7") than anything else. I have now used the Samsung Galaxy Tab multiple times. The device is clearly inferior to the iPad. But Samsung has sold over 2 million units, despite this inferiority and pricing that put the device about $100 above what it should cost.
New data from Strategy Analytics now asserts that Android tablets have 22% of the overall tablet market; most of this is the Galaxy Tab:
Android devices captured 22 percent of global tablet shipments in the three months to Dec. 31, up from 2.3 percent in the preceding quarter, the Boston-based researcher said in a statement today. The iPad accounted for 75 percent of shipments in the period, down from about 95 percent, it said.
Apple's iPad, which has sold more than 14.8 million units worldwide since its introduction in April, faces intensifying competition from Android tablets made by Samsung Electronics Co., Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and Acer Inc. Google gives away Android for free to boost revenue from services such as mobile advertising and expand the market for its search engine.
I've argued that the success of the Galaxy Tab is about its size and that Apple is leaving a hole for competitors in the 7" tablet category. Cupetino has criticized the 7" tablet as offering a poor user experience because of the smaller screen. But people want more portable tablets and 10" is too large to "walk around with." Data show that most iPads are used at home.
Motorola's Xoom tablet is set to direclty take on the iPad with a 10" screen and Android 3.0 (optimized for tablets). Like Android phones, there may be technical capabilities that improve upon the iPad (more RAM, dual-cameras) but it's hard to image the holistic experience being better -- especially given how inferior the Galaxy Tab is. One concession on my part: the absence of flash on the larger screen device is more of an issue than on smartphones with their smaller form factor.
As with Android smartphones there will be scores of Android tablets in the market by Q4 of this year. Most of them will be poor imitations of the iPad but one or two of them may be bona fide competitors. In the "nano" category the field is more wide open as I mentioned.
Price and size will be the drivers of Android tablet success (or failure). Cheap tablets will succeed and really sophisticated competitors to the iPad may also sell well if priced well. My belief, however, is that Apple is leaving money on the table without a smaller iPad -- unless it builds a larger screen iPod Touch or iPhone. I suspect we'll see one from the company next year, especially if Android sales continue to gain strength.
Update: the Samsung Galaxy Tab sales figures are bogus. Plus: Galaxy Tab has high returns rate.
Last Thursday was Google's earnings call. The remarkable $8.4 billion dollar quarter was totally overshadowed by the news that CEO Eric Schmidt was being replaced by co-founder Larry Page. I was immediately consumed by that news and its implications for the company.
I'm "circling back" now to revisit the earnings call. There were interesting details revealed in the Q&A about the state of things on the local and mobile fronts for Google. Here are some selected excerpts (emphasis mine).
Product SVP Jonathan Rosenberg:
In Local, over 5 million businesses have claimed their Google place pages. And we recently started testing a new ad product, which we called Boost, and that gives businesses a really easy and fast way to promote themselves online and to connect with the people who are searching for them . . .
I think it's probably easier to talk about initially how tablets and smartphones are similar, right? Both of them are growing at a terrific pace. As is the case of Mobile, what we see on these devices is that search usage on the tablets tends to peak on the weekend and it dips on the weekdays, so it's generally complementary to desktop, which we've talked about before. What does that suggest? Maybe, the people are using them more for personal usage as opposed to business. We do see on tablets the weekend peak is a little bit more pronounced than it is on phones. I think that's probably the case because people pretty much always carry their smartphone during the week. Some of the bigger differences, the tablet users tend to search more for things like news and they tend to do more shopping-related topics when you compare them to smartphone users.
Sales SVP Nikesh Arora:
The other thing we've done in Local is the way I think local is sometimes synonymous with smaller advertisers and smaller territories. And towards that end, we have created the most simplistic set of products around Tags and Boost, which is more amenable to the advertisers. They don't have to do a lot of work. Sometimes they don't even have their own websites.
Product SVP Jonathan Rosenberg:
[The] Click-to-Call ads are generating millions of calls every month. A lot of advertisers are running these campaigns. I think one you can see if you tried is DirectTV. We did launch a call-only option where the only clickable link in the ad is actually a phone number, which not surprisingly substantially increases the click through rates on mobile devices. And we've extended some of the desktop formats pretty successfully to Mobile. Sitelinks is one. If you try a query on Oakley, you'll see one, if you seller ratings on something like running shoes . . . At the moment, I don't have any specific comments on NFC other than to go back to the statements that I've made in previous calls, which is when people are completing transactions with these devices, it becomes much more trackable and obviously significantly more valuable.
In 2010 Apple sold 14.79 million iPads around the world. The iPad is now available in 46 countries. It started the year as a US-only product. According to IDC estimates Apple controls almost 90% of the tablet market at the moment, while the stand-alone eReader market is somewhat more competitive with Amazon controlling just over 40%.
There are lots of estimates out there, some very large, about how many tablets will sell in 2011. Also entering the market this year are Android 3.0 tablets (e.g., Xoom), a WebOS tablet and the RIM Playbook, among others. So the market will be full of choices. Price will be a driving factor of purchase decisions, so will size in a number of cases. I've argued that the smaller 7" segment is up for grabs because Apple has declined to offer an "iPad nano."
IDC is projecting 44.6 million tablets will be shipped/sold in 2011. On a global basis that number could turn out to be low. It's very likely that Apple will sell between 25 million (on the low end) and 35 million (on the high end) iPads by the end of 2011. If the IDC global tablet projection is correct and I'm not wildly off then Apple would have between 60% and 80% of the tablet market at the end of this year.
I can't comment on the viability of the WebOS tablet or the RIM Playbook, neither of which I've used. However, unless relatively less inexpensive (sub-$500), it's unlikely that Android tablets will make significant inroads (beyond 15%-20%) in the 9-10" tablet category. Where they're likely to sell well is the 7" category. Running Flash is not going to be a significant competitive advantage for Android tablets.
It's worth mentioning that the Playbook is a 7" device, which gives it an opening it might not have had as a 10" device. The iPad2 is rumored to be on the way in April.
Although many will disagree, one of the great weakness of the BlackBery universe is the UI and overall user experience. I'm sure no one could successfully argue that on other than the keyboard front RIM beats the iPhone or even Android at this point.
To remedy that RIM has acquired interface design and usability experts The Astonishing Tribe. The purchase price wasn't disclosed.
It's an important -- even urgent -- move for RIM in the company's bid to remain one of the top smartphone purveyors and grow their business internationally. There are mixed signals about RIM's sales performance and outlook.
Generally speaking the company is on the defensive and not expected to maintain its leadership position in North America -- although one report found that RIM devices had overtaken iPhone on the mobile Web in the US. I remain quite skeptical of that however.
Regardless this is a good move for RIM. Now Waterloo needs to give TAT maximum flexibility to design next-gen user experiences for the venerable platform.
The Galaxy Tab, the first viable Android tablet, is to the iPad as the first Android handset was to the iPhone: clunky and awkward in most respects. If the iPad didn't exist it would be pretty impressive. However the iPad does exist and the Galaxy Tab is inferior in almost every respect. What's compelling about it is its 7" size.
On a global basis, it has apparently sold 600,000 units, which is pretty good -- and enough for Samsung to trumpet initial sales as a success. Subsequent versions will be better.
Another "problem" with the Galaxy Tab is its price; it's at least $100 too expensive. At $600 for an unlocked version it just doesn't make sense when a larger and more functional iPad is $100 cheaper.
For the holidays it will be the Galaxy Tab vs. the iPad; it doesn't appear that there will be many more tablets out in time. But next year, just as with Android handsets, there will be dozens and dozens of new tablets of different sizes. Once Android becomes "tablet-ready" they should become more competitive with the iPad.
One interesting question to consider -- because there's clearly demand for a smaller tablet -- is whether Apple will build one. It has publicly said that the smaller form factor compromises the user experience too much. But if these smaller tablets take off there may be pressure to compete at that level.
The RIM Playbook is due out in Q1 next year. My sense, despite its capabilities, is that it will have limited consumer appeal.
I was eager for the arrival of Galaxy Tab and was suprised and a bit confused by the opposing, even polarized, reviews of the device. Some really liked it (NYT's Pogue) and others didn't (Gizmodo). This morning I spent about 20 minutes in a Carphone Warehouse with one. After the admittedly brief experience I lean toward the Gizmodo view: the device is generally a disappointment compared to the iPad.
The chief virtue of the Galaxy Tab (putting aside its two cameras) is that it's more portable than the iPad. However that's also a weakness as Steve Jobs himself pointed out during the last Apple earnings call:
One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45% as large as iPad's 10-inch screen. You heard me right; just 45% as large If you take an iPad and hold it upright in portrait view and draw an imaginary horizontal line halfway down the screen, the screens on the seven-inch tablets are a bit smaller than the bottom half of the iPad display.
After seeing the smaller screen I agree. Many of the sites I normally visit were rendered in mobile mode rather than in full Web mode. Undoubtedly this will be remedied with a later software update, but it's a flaw right now. Indeed the device seems like a giant Android handset, which would be fine if it could also be used as a phone. However other than with VoIP apps it cannot.
Overall I found the screen resolution and apps to be dull unlike the much crisper iPad screen. And as has been pointed out several times, Android isn't ready for the larger form factor of tablets; they're aren't any tablet-friendly apps yet.
The price of the Galaxy Tab is also way too expensive for what it delivers, at $600 unlocked and $399 for a two year contract. The iPad offers pay as you go data plans, which are more desirable for a second mobile device like this. It is a "second" device because it can't be used as a phone. In my view the Galaxy Tab pricing should be sub-$500 (sub-$400 even better) for the unlocked version. You'd probably see a great many more sales that way.
I'm going to predict that the device will only be a modest success. There are much better 7" Android tablets to come I suspect. And one may be the forthcoming "Motopad," which will run Android 3.0. Also very promising is the Dell Inspiron Duo (a Windows device), which offers a touch-screen tablet and then flips to reveal a built-in keyboard (see video below). In addition, the Windows-based HP Slate has apparently seen strong demand.
The iPad still doesn't have a peer in the market, notwithstanding the hype surrounding the Galaxy Tab. It was quite a disappointment to me; I'd recommend waiting a bit longer for the next one.
We all know now that the iPhone is coming next year to Verizon. But the US carrier already is selling the iPad (commercial below).
What's interesting to me is how that fact (and the coming iPhone) will affect "Droid" advertising. The aggressively anti-iPhone commercials that characterized the iPhone as "feminine" around the introduction of Droid will probably give way to something more conventional and even bland. Verizon won't call the iPhone names if it's trying to sell the device.
We'll have to wait for the first quarter of iPhone sales at Verizon (probably April 2011) to find out whether a) it affected Android handset sales in any way and b) had an impact on AT&T.
On a somewhat related note, as a Sprint customer I'm pretty excited about the ZTE Peel coming to Sprint next week. It offers a case that turns an iPod Touch into an always-connected device for $30 per month. If it also works as a wireless hotspot for laptops I'm in.
It's unlikely that people will give up a conventional mobile phone for this option but I suspect it will be relatively successful. It apparently provides 1 GB of data per month with no roaming but there are millions of iPod Touch devices out that that are eager for an on-the-go connection I'm sure.
You can also buy a MiFi and get unlimited data for $40 per month from Sprint subsidiary VirginMobile USA.
ChangeWave's latest consumer survey (n=3,108) this month shows some interesting things and confirms that the iPad has had an significant impact on the market and consumer expectations. Demand for laptops is stable according to the survey but consumer interest in netbooks, probably because of tablets, has waned:
[O]ne area that's come down drastically from a year ago is consumer interest in Netbooks. Just 14% of those who plan on buying a laptop in the next 90 days say it will be a Netbook – 10-pts below our peak reading for Netbooks back in June 2009.
Nearly 3/4 of respondent-owners of the iPad say they're very satisfied:
[T]hree-quarters of current iPad owners (72%) say they're Very Satisfied with their device and another 23% say they're Somewhat Satisfied – world class satisfaction ratings for the Apple Tablet.
Finally, and very interestingly, demand for the RIM tablet appears to be greater than for the Galaxy Tab. This is probably based on the brand strength of BlackBerry rather than any substantive knowledge about the device on the part of consumers.
In addition, the massive interest/demand gap between the iPad and other tablets will be hard to surmount for most of the companies that seek to compete in the segment.


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Space is limited and accommodations in Writer's Renaissance will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. We encourage early registration in order to confirm your reservation. Participation in Writer's Renaissance is restricted to women ages 20+.
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Further, I acknowledge that I have read the "Special Considerations for Travel in Florence" section of the Writer's Renaissance website thoroughly, and attest that I am ambulatory and able to walk several miles, negotiate minor hills, and climb stairs unassisted. I understand that if I am not able to walk unassisted upon my arrival in Florence, I may, at the sole and absolute discretion of Writer's Renaissance, be excluded from some or all activities without any liability to Writer's Renaissance and that I will not receive a refund for these activities.
Florence is a walking city, and the historic city centre is entirely pedestrian. Translation: We'll be doing a lot of walking on this retreat. The good news is that the city is small and our hotel is right smack in the center, so the walking distances will not be great. The terrain is mostly flat, especially in the areas where we will hold our group activities. You should expect to walk anywhere from 5-30 minutes one-way in order to participate in the activities included on the itinerary. You should be able to negotiate some stairs and walk several miles unassisted in order to comfortably participate. Some of the restaurants we visit may be outside of the pedestrian area, and therefore accessible by taxi, but traffic in Florence is often heavy, and sometimes a taxi will take longer than walking. Luckily, the city is a pure spectacle of beauty, history and brilliance. I guarantee you'll want to be on foot so you can explore the nooks and crannies and take it all in – not to mention take photos.
Florentine streets are mostly cobblestone and flagstone and often in need of repair. I have tried, and failed miserably and with great embarrassment, to mimic the elegant heel-wearing Italian women and ultimately given up. Translation: You'll need comfortable shoes. More on that in the FAQs.
Our hotel is elegant, beautiful, and in impeccable shape, but keep in mind that the building has been in existence since the twelfth century. The bathrooms may not be as large as we are accustomed to in American hotels and the water pressure may sometimes seem like gentle rain rather than a downpour. Each double room will be furnished with two twin beds, but the room configurations are such that they will not be on opposite sides of the room. Translation: You can stay in a Hyatt anywhere, but staying in a medieval tower with terraces overlooking the entire city of Florence may require a few minor compromises.
Breakfast at the hotel will be plentiful and varied, but don't expect a menu or gourmet flavor. A typical Italian breakfast consists of a coffee and a pastry, so the fact that the hotel will provide eggs, cold cuts, cheeses and other sundries is already a step up. Translation: You will not go hungry in the morning, but the delicious Italian food you've always dreamed of eating will come your way at lunch and dinner. If you want a taste of what we ate last year, check out this short video.
Italian clocks seem to run a few ticks behind American ones. Sometimes there are delays, unexpected changes of plans, or just plain slowness. Translation: Be prepared to be flexible and go with the flow. I've found that often the things that initially seemed to go wrong while traveling in Italy turned out to be some of the best and most memorable parts of the trip. The secret to living la dolce vita is to slow down, savor and sometimes, press your patience button. Here is a video montage of photos taken during one of our slow, evening strolls at Writer's Renaissance 2013. Perfetto!


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Today... well... I woke up at 12:30 (eep) and dragged my ass into college (somthing that I am gonna have to do more often) only to be greeted by an empty afternoon...yay.
My friend Ben Yates has left because him and his Girlfriend;who also went to our college;broke up... he is an idiot.
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Fall Product Sale Training by conference call will be offered on Monday, September 23 at 6:00 p.m. for those who did not attend in person trainings. This training is suggested for Troop Product Sales Managers, Troop Leaders, and Community Product Sales Managers. The training will be approximately one hour in length. To sign up and receive call in information, please contact Maureen Graham by email firstname.lastname@example.com or phone 320-247-4571 by noon on September 23. Please join us!
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It's almost Back to Troop Time. Grab your best party gear and join us for our funnest Fall Kickoff event ever. Yes, there will be prizes!
Fall Product Sale Training
The 2013 Fall Product Sale is a great and easy way for troops to earn start-up funds for activities the girls would like to participate in during the Girl Scout year. Learn all of the latest information to get your troop ready to sell. We encourage at least one adult volunteer from each troop to attend either a council training or a training offered by your Community Product Sales Manager. If you have not been to a training before or if it has been a while, come and check it out!
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"I can't wait to...be a Girl Scout!" is our recruitment call. Girl Scouts is fun - so let's havefun! Prizes and materials will be available for all. We will walk through your plans for fall and infuse Girl Scout fun throughout. We want every girl to say, "I can't wait to be a Girl Scout!"
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3. If online registering, you receive an e-mail confirmation within 15 minutes of completing your online registration.
4. Your girl will receive the free 2013-14 Jumpstart patch shown.
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every girl registering online if 80% of the whole troop online registers by June 15.
a. Your troop will know your girl will be returning.
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Please place your planned orders in Snap by 10 p.m. on Saturday evenings to have delivery to your cupboard by the following Friday. What you need to know: as a council we rely on troops placing planned orders to determine how many cookies to order each week and to send these cookies where they need to go. Please help us help you by placing planned orders whenever possible. Please refer to page 26 of the pink Answer Book for Troop Product Sales Managers for complete instructions. Remember to order in package quantities.
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Please continue to put your booth requests each week in Snap. For instructions see the previous blog article on this topic. Cookie Booths continue through March 10.
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To add to the success of your troop's Cookie Sale, all troops should enter their booth sale information in Snap as they are scheduled. Information provided thru Snap will be uploaded to the Cookie Booth Locator so that those searching online for a nearby cookie sale will be able to find your troop's booth sale. Boost your troop's business by providing accurate, complete information for all of your Cookie Booths in a timely manner.
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Atlantic City Boardwalk at Michigan Ave. to Steel Pier, Virginia Ave. General public beware: zombies are set to invade Atlantic City. There will also be a flash mob with the radio stations 95.1 WAYV and 99.3 The Buzz at 4pm, with the official walk to Steel Pier beginning at 5pm. Tickets include discounts at participating businesses for the entire weekend.
Diane Mitchell, co-host of the "Mike and Diane Morning Show" on WAYV is the emcee the event and play music to get zombies pumped up for the walk. Prizes will be awarded in various categories and a portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Humane Society of Atlantic City. $20 for adults; $10 for children. Registration begins 2pm at the Harry's Oyster Bar courtyard between Park Place and Michigan Ave. ACZombieWalk.com.
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Whoa, time has gone quick and it will be summer in no time!
But that's just an intro. Maybe you know, and if not: you do now, that I work for an adolescent radio programme every Wednesday called 'JUS' on the student radio Urgent.fm.
I could encourage you guys to listen, but it's in Dutch and regional you probably wouldn't...
Anyhow one of the columns (my is blog is one too!) is "The Veggie Blog" which is basically the two vegetarians of our group (Amadeo and me) telling about our life as a veggie. Now, a week ago we decided to look for the Best Vegetarian Restaurant of Ghent!
We have already visited one place and loved it! The boss of this restaurant (called 'Komkommertijd') has worked for Urgent a few years ago so we gave him a bonus point, haha.
The big thing for me was that I didn't have to stop and stare at the food to see if there was meat in it or not, because it was all vegetarian and maybe even vegan.
I'm a vegetarian for 4 years now (in April it's exactly 4 years!) and because it's almost summer I'm going to search for some healthy but so delicious recipes. Because Winter will be over soon and bikini bodies need to be ready and steady girls!
(lol I'm saying that now and please remind me of it in 2 weeks or so while I'm eating pizza hahaha)
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LaxAllSharks finally reached our 100 fan mark on facebook, so it's time to release our finalized unis for Beach Lacrosse 2012 at Morey's Pier in New Jersey! This year we've reached a sponsorship with ZimaGear, who has been taking the lacrosse world by storm with their gear.
ZG outfitted the American Revolution with some incredible uniforms for this summer, so we decided to see what they could do for the LaxAllSharks.
Here is what we wore last year:
Here is what we didn't go with:
Not bad, but we had something different in mind…
What do you guys think of that?!?!?! Did we also mention that we have a helmet wrap? Not going to release that until we get 150 fans on Facebook. At 200 fans we'll give away one of our uniforms from last year!
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-Re: Why they recommend this (CPU) ?
Be sure you are comparing apples to apples. The E5-2650 has a larger cache than the E5-2640, faster system bus and can support faster (1600Ghz vs 1333Ghz) DRAM resulting in greater potential memory bandwidth.
From: Patrick Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
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Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Why they recommend this (CPU) ?
If you look at comparable Intel parts:
Intel E5-2640
6 cores @ 2.5 Ghz
Intel E5-2650
8 cores @ 2.0 Ghz
So, for $400 more on a dual proc system -- which really isn't much -- you get 2 more cores for a 20% drop in speed. I can believe that for some scenarios, the faster cores would fare better. Gzip compression is one that comes to mind, where you are aggressively trading CPU for lower storage volume and IO. An HBase cluster is another example.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Russell Jurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
My own clusters are too temporary and virtual for me to notice. I haven't thought of clock speed as having mattered in a long time, so I'm curious what kind of use cases might benefit from faster cores. Is there a category in some way where this sweet spot for faster cores occurs?
Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com
On Oct 11, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
You should measure your workload. Your experience will vary dramatically with different computations.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Russell Jurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Anyone got data on this? This is interesting, and somewhat counter-intuitive.
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When Simi Hamilton got a chance to make skiing a career he pushed full steam ahead, landing on the 2010 Olympic team in Vancouver and then following it up with a berth in the 2014 Sochi Games. (Getty Images/Harry How)
Crashes took their toll in the Davis freestyle sprint World Cup as Kikkan Randall finished ninth and Sophie Caldwell 11th.
Olympian Ida Sargent skied to a career best fifth as the FIS Cross Country World Cup opened in Ruka, FInland with a classic sprint.
The U.S. Cross Country Ski Team will take a strong summer and fall preparation period into this weekend's FIS World Cup opener in Ruka.
Two-time World Cup champion Kikkan Randall made a statement Saturday with rookie teammate Sophie Caldwell as the two took first and third at the Lahti World Cup sprints, the first-ever double podium for U.S. women.
Erik Bjornsen (right) anchored Team USA with Simi Hamilton to ski into sixth place Wednesday during the men's team sprint classic of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games.
Andy Newell (right) kicks off the men's relay, where Team USA came up from the back of the pack Sunday to finish 11th.
World Cup sprint champion Kikkan Randall powered to fifth in the Toblach freestyle sprints, the final World Cup before the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
14 athletes, led by World Champion Kikkan Randall, were nominated to the U.S. Olympic team in cross country skiing today. (Photo: Reese Brown)
Andy Newell chases Emil Joensson of team Sweden 2. Newell and Simi Hamilton went on to finish fifth in the team sprints Sunday in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic.
World Cup champion Kikkan Randall sealed her 10th career FIS World Cup victory Saturday, winning the freestyle sprint at Nove Mesto.
Liz Stephen led the USA finishing 26th in the 10k classic mass start as the Tour de Ski now leaves the Swiss Alps and heads to Italy.
Simi Hamilton powered to his first World Cup win, taking the stage three freestyle sprint in the Tour de Ski in Lenzerheide.
Workers prepare the course for cross country ski racing's most grueling nine days beginning Saturday in Oberhof with the opening of the eighth running of the Tour de Ski.
Kikkan Randall and Sadie Bjornsen combined to finish fifth in the Asiago World Cup team sprint.
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Some of the legendary Aspen ski lore must have rubbed off on Simi Hamilton. Born and raised in the Colorado ski town, Hamilton was a force in the amateur ski ranks and finished a stellar collegiate career at Vermont's Middlebury College as a three-time All-American. His early success was enough for him to jump him into World Cup competition (where he scored in his first race) and onto the 2010 Olympic squad.
In 2014 Hamilton continued to impress the nordic world, making his second Olympic Team in as many tries. Hamilton's real highlight came at the Oberhof Stage World Cup, where he finished on top of the podium in the freestyle sprint final.
Known for his sprinting, Hamilton has a U.S. title to his name and over a dozen scoring efforts on the World Cup circuit. The Team athlete also has nine Junior National Championships under his belt and three 2012 SuperTour podiums.
Nowadays, Hamilton splits his time between Sun Valley, where he skis with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Program, and Park City, home of the U.S. Ski Team. Training this summer for a potential World Championships bid next winter, Hamilton will be working hard to increase power and speed heading into the new season.
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A man who left his former girlfriend for dead along the Pullman-Albion Road last November has been sentenced to nine months in jail after entering an Alford plea earlier this month.
Richard Pasma, apologized to the family of Kristen Grindley before being sentenced, turning to face them and saying, "I know you don't think I'm sorry, but I am really sorry."
His mother testified that Pasma and his family have prayed daily for Kristen's health since she was found on the road on Nov. 11, 2009. She suffered multiple skull fractures, broken bones, bruises and cuts. She left a rehabilitation center in Spokane after months of therapy.


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The secret of course is that the paymasters of the Syrian National Council don't want a peaceful solution, that's not what they're getting paid for. The goal is to have a pretext to attack; to have a pretext to intervene."
But you now have opposition forces: you've got 170 from the Baath Party and its allies, which are Communists, nationalists, all kinds of different people; you have about 70 or 80 people who are non-Partisan they're not representing any party; and then there are a few that are actually in an opposition front - 5 or 6 in that group. So it is politically open.
And if you have a peaceful solution that would be good for the people of Syria, but not good for the imperialists who insist on destroying Syria because it would weaken Iran, it would weaken Hezbollah, it would shift the strategic situation in the Middle East. So there it is.
The outside opposition I think is hopeless and it's not just me - Remember, Ghalioun was the head of the Syrian National Council then they ousted him. Their meetings generally generate into brawls. They just had Basma Kodmani who represented the Syrian National Council at the Bilderburger Group here near Washington at the beginning of June - She's quit her post as the spokes person for the Syrian National Council. So they are constantly falling apart.


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The PlayBook QNX OS looks pretty sweet. The device's multitasking looks really powerful and we're excited to see more demos of this device before it hits the market. Just as we saw BlackBerry 6 themes before the launch of the OS, we're starting to see QNX OS themes hit the market now. One of these themes is BeAmplified and it comes with the BlackBerry 6 icons and a PlayBook style carousel with tiled app icons. This theme also comes with hotkeys that let you access features such as the browser, pictures, music, clock, SMS and more with a single key.
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While driving on a ridge I was watching the sun set along with the landscape. When the sun started to dip and the location looked right, I yelled stop to the ranger and took this shot.
Sunset shot taken at Phinda Private Reserve, South Africa
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K12 Inc. First Quarter Fiscal 2013 Earnings Conference Call Details – Revised Date
K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN) announced today it plans to host a conference call to discuss first quarter fiscal 2013 financial results at 8:00 a.m. eastern time (ET) on Friday, November 9, 2012.
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