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Retail Innovator 2014: Gary Schwartz on "Who drives innovation?" If you focus on technology you lose the retail mission of connecting to your customer. One minute interview at the Retail Touchpoints' Retail Innovator Award. June 18th 2014
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Mobile Black Swans and Turkeys
Part I: Tame Turkeys
On the return flight home for Thanksgiving this week, I read Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan and decided that tis the season to draw profound parallels between innovation and poultry.
And so while busy stuffing the family turkey I thought about how this all applied to my world of consumer engagement, retail sales and payment.
Here are my insights:
- Chickens: Bertrand Russell's wrote an anecdote about the benevolent farmer in 1912. The fat and happy chicken thinks the farmer is a benevolent protector until it is hauled away to the slaughter house.
- Turkeys: Nassim Taleb, in his book The Black Swan, says that the same holds true for the Thanksgiving turkey. However, he adds that the surprise for a turkey is not a surprise to its butcher.
- Swans: So the black-swan question for the marketing community is: How do we play the role of the butcher not the turkey?
Moving your retail business from a step-by-step evolutionary growth to revolutionary, black swan transformation is not easy. In fact, it may be impossible. Corporations find it difficult to reinvent from within. However, to be aware of the nature of outliers and revolutionary innovation is a good first step.
You can rename your CIO: Chief Innovation Office, your CTO: Chief Transformation Officer and your CDO: Chief Disruption Officer. However this is all for nought if they cannot identify swans or at least the turkeys.
Look to social media. There is a succession of ever faster black-swan innovations starting with email and ending in SnapChat's self-destructing messaging. Microsoft did not anticipate Google search, Google did not anticipate Facebook communities; Facebook did not anticipate Twitter micro-blogging; the same holds true for Instagram's social picture publishing or SnapChat's peek-a-boo messaging. The same applies to retail as well as broadcast, payments, health, advertising to name a few rudely disrupted verticals.
Retail payments is a classic chase-the-tail solution mashup. But payment vendors have been more astute. The FIs ran a two-sided business to establish MasterCard and VISA credit services. The FIs have fought to be a part of any POS and prepaid activity in retail. With the emergence of digital payment, payment incumbents have aggressively invested and acquired companies in the mobile POS space (VISA/Square) and as well as in the cloud (VISA/Playspan).
VISA's purchase of PlaySpan was particularly forward thinking. PlaySpan allowed gamers to buy virtual swords and pumpkin seeds for their virtual battle grounds and farms without leaving the game. Frictionless commerce engineering: meet VISA's present day V.me.
But even leviathans like VISA and MasterCard have been sidelined to commodity commerce rails.While they make nice transactional revenue, Amazon, iTunes, PayPal and Playstore and other consumer commerce portals have made the card credentials second fiddle. They discount the interchange and grab the CRM and big data.
Shopper marketing, Shopper engagement all follow similar twists. But not always evolutionary:
SMS was the black swan technology revolutionizing communication for the unsuspecting (but delighted) wireless carriers. We all thought QR codes, mobile apps and NFC would supplant this messaging channel. WhatApp, Skype and Viber all have eaten away at the peer-to-peer traffic; however, for brands, SMS, and for some successful apps, the notification channel, remains the main opt-in and content delivery channel of choice.
Black swan on the horizon? iBeacons, WiFi Direct or LTE Direct? Maybe.
Proximity engagement is essential for a brand or retailer to drive path into purchase. Shopkick and Beacons are valuable but are ultimately broadcast solutions. Future solutions such as LTE Direct promise to extend the retail network and add more intelligence and peer to peer interactivity to this engagement.
However, in all the above cases it is difficult, if not impossible, to identify one strategy, vendor, agency that will bring revolutionary black swan ideas.
When attending events whether speaking or listening, it all seems so easy. Innovate they say. . .
Well so my friends, the innovator's dilemma maybe just to avoid becoming the turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The 2014 Ad Game Changer: Digital Maps
Gary Schwartz (16 September, 2013)
Of all the widgets and long-forgotten apps on your phone the one with most mobile mindshare is your map app. We have become a mobile society, and in the 2010s, map apps personify our wanderlust. When we open our mobile map, we have intent, direction and purpose. It is vitamin "M": the ultimate upper and highly addictive.
And map real estate is hot: Apple buys Locationary, Embark and HopStop; Google buys Waze; Bing is rumored to be in talks with FourSquare; Zillow, the map real estate tycoon, buys EasyStreet, and indoor mapping app company, Aisle411 raises a hefty seed round in the valley. As OEMs beef up their services, we are entering a new phase of map building. Location has always been a data grab. Now, the industry is starting to focus on monetising subway stops, street corners and highways across the world.
The principal challenge is that maps are a new and unique advertising paradigm, and the incumbent search business models, mostly designed for the web's previous era as a stationary, desktop experience may need to be adjusted.
Galileo to Google
Google Maps, the grand daddy of digital mapping, was born in 2004 as a skunk works project by two Danish brothers in Australia.
First designed as a heavy client app, in 2004 the software came full circle as Lars Rasmussen and his brother were acquired by Google after making a web-based pitch. The same year, Google acquired Keyhole, Inc. and proceeded to use Keyhole's mark-up language to launch Google Earth in 2005.
During the next five years, Google started to revolutionize digital maps. It is quite possibly the most exciting innovation effort by the company. Not since map mavericks Ptolomy, Copernicus and Galileo has mapping accelerated so profoundly. Within a few short years Google has redefined the way we see the world around us.
Google Maps rolled out road directions in North America in 2006 and their PC-based maps became the pre-GPS automotive assistant. However convenient and customizable, Google maps for the desktop were a print-on-demand version of London's A-Z pocket maps. In many ways, a Google map printed out before a trip was no different from John Ogilby's 1675 Britannia detailed strip maps that travels bought to find their way from Norfolk to Newmarket with inns, stables and other points-of-interest as well as clear directions and distances clearly marked. They balanced behind the horse on the coach seat as our laser-printed version would sit on our car dashboard.
But the small screen was the true game changer. The capacitive screen touch invented by Andrew Hsu, combined with the pinch-and-zoom mobile interface developed by Apple made complex map navigation simple, user friendly and, most importantly, mobile.
With multiscreen map adoption, Google Maps expanded. The company launched in Latin America and Asia, and started the subterranean mapping of subways in 2007. In 2008, a view from space; in 2009, a POV from the street and 3D rendering. And more. Google mapped canals and bike paths, endangered forests and the ocean floors, the moon and Mars and the ultimate conquest, Macy's in-store experience.
This was phase one: Build a dominant innovative platform with simple APIs, establish market stickiness and trust by the point-A-to-point-B public.
Now add metadata
Google+ Local launched in 2012, allowing users to post reviews and images into pages hosted by third party sites. This year maps are becoming more customized, providing location-specific information on points-of-interest. While Google has maintained a focus on road navigation with its 2013 acquisition of the crowd sourcing road-warrior Waze software, the operative term on the new Google map is "explore." Explore photos, recommendations, and restaurants.
Maps plus Google Glass makes the possibility of on-the-go exploration more immersive. Using the Google Mirror API developers can feed real-time GPS info and pre-rendered map images into the eye window of Glass wearers for "dexterous" driving, cycling or walking to the local mall. Glass becomes "a Segway for your head." And taking maps to the edge of utility: Google Sky (which maps the stars based on your GPS location and vision angle) can be integration with Google Glass to show the outlines of constellations through a transparent filter to view the night sky.
And then at the end of this epic journey, Google announces local advertising. Google Maps now allows short sections of advertisements to be placed directly onto the map itself. Local advertising is one of Google's core business and Google Maps ad purchases are made through the same Google AdWords auction that buyers are already very familiar.
For Google this is simply a terrestrial version of browser-based search. When a consumer enters "Starbucks" in her browser, she finds links to buy "Starbucks Instant Coffee Bundle" on Amazon.com. When a consumer enters Starbucks in Google Maps, she finds local Starbucks to get the real deal (or if Tim Hortons is bidding, an ad for a competitively located Timmy's coffee store.) Both these use cases involve path to purchase. One is virtual, the other is proximal.
Google hopes Map-based ads will follow the same digital success that Google has had with its search-based ads. Instead of auctioning AdWords at point-of-search, Google auctions ads at point-of-navigation.
Ptolemy what? There has to be more than just that. We're just not fully there yet.
Don't forget the Big Apple
Apple recognized the value of maps and knew that they had a Trojan Horse lurking in their mobile operating system in Google Maps. Google's map app had become the dominant phonetop service with the most unique visitors of any app in-market. When Apple launched and preloaded its own proprietary map app in August 2012, Google's traffic dropped making Facebook the winning app for unique impressions as well as time spend.
(After a few geographical faux pas) Apple started to establish its own relationship with the map consumer. But Google Mappers are loyal. When Google launched its new map app for iOS 6 in December there was a 30 per cent rush of Apple folk upgrading to the new operating system (MoPub.com). Affinity to a map app had influenced these consumers' mobile behaviour. Quite remarkable.
However, Apple is committed to build a map following. While the company no longer needed to pay licensing to Google, which was good, the key reason for ousting Google Maps was that maps had become a data pillar. By replacing Google, Apple had direct access to a wealth of consumer data and potential advertising revenue.
Yahoo! Maps, Bing Maps, Nokia Maps, and MapQuest all use the NAVTEQ electronic map feed (best known for its automotive navigation services), and like Apple now, they own their own consumer data layer, which is crucial for generating advertising and marketing revenue on maps.
Bing is the major map contender. In September, the company added 13 million square kilometers (316TB) of aircraft and satellite photography to its service. Microsoft's large investment in Facebook in 2007 ($240 million) led to the 2013 decision adopt Bing as FaceBook's mapping and search provider. To do this effectively, and compete with the market-leader, Google, Bing needs to beef up and differentiate its map offerings. Bing has already rolled out "Local Scout" which helps consumers find food and fun across all its screens. Rumors of a FourSquare acquisition (or possibly financing) may be part of this grand strategy.
(Microsoft acquisition of Nokia did not come with their HERE maps assets. Nokia's HERE maps include road networks, traffic patterns and urban landscapes and as licensed by major properties such as Garmin, Oracle and Amazon.com. Will Nokia take the lead as the premier mapping and location services across different screens? Will they just sell off the asset to Apple after the Microsoft acquisition is complete?)
And the open-source mapping movement is also growing. Washington D.C.-based startup, MapBox, provides more custom navigation and interesting APIs built on top of Open Street Maps. Open is good and allows developers greater flexibility and affordability; Foursquare uses MapBox's services to display its users' check-in histories. However MapBox is not preloaded on your Android or Apple phone and while they have an iOS mapping SDK they have no Android footprint. MapBox will certainly play a roll as an embedded technology in sites all over the web; however, it is unlikely that they will be a standalone consumer utility on top of your phone and tablet.
With the proliferation of WiFi networks in retail, vendors such as Cisco drive mobile mapping solutions for shoppers that join the free network. The maps allows for hyper-local, custom mapping that includes restroom as well as promotional information on retail stores.
All of these digital map offerings are entering the mainstream at a time when advertisers are questioning consumer engagement on mobile, and trying to understand how best to follow their consumer in a contextual and relevant manner. Brands and retailers are re-evaluating the way we sell and, more importantly, engage across multiple screens. Their assumptions on path-to-purchase, built during the era of the desktop web, are no longer fully valid and reliable. The classic consumer narrative of home-to-store has changed and retailers and brand can no longer simply hire a Director of Shopper Insights and hope for the best.
Advertising and marketing is about providing a consistent message at aisle, and checkout, wherever the shopper finds the retailer. If the advertisers wants to get back in the game, possibly the most exciting place to be right now is on the map. When the consumer and shopper opens their map app when they have intent to meet someone, go somewhere or buy something. All this drives commerce. Maps provide unadulterated path-to-purchase.
Narrative: Going beyond advertising
So what is the new advertising paradigm for maps? Maps have layered functionality: terrain, roads, satellite, traffic, public transport and images. Then there is the exploration layer: recommendations and general points-of-interest. And now Google has provided an additional local advertising layer.
However, the adding an advertising layer may not prove to be effective in a map environment. There is more value to the exploration layer. Yes, maps help us move in a utilitarian fashion from Point-A to Point-B and that is why Waze and other transit acquisitions have been so important. But maps also have a very non-utilitarian function.
Maps help the consumer simply "explore" and is what will ultimately connect map users to brands and content owners. Maps tell stories because precisely they have a beginning and an end, and are defined by intent and clear purpose.
Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook already situate the user's photos and comments at a latitude and longitude: a country, a city, a bar. However these social graphs are not map applications and location is an important but secondary metatag.
The opportunity is to build a new bespoke map layer for brands and content owners. Think map first.
Startups such as Findery and CityMaps have map based UGC (user-generated content) engines. Where is the content input engine for brands? How can brands visualize content and actively map this data across all their customers' screens?
One company called Mapiary, based out of Singapore, is developing the tools to allow brands and retailers to layer rich navigation onto the map. How can Unilever's Becel margarine be more relevant to power walkers globally? Or how can Heineken weave narrative into a city pub crawl? Diageo, can map a DJ tour for Smirnoff. The NYTimes can map their 36-Hour travel series in a rich contextual manner. This is new digital cartouche and as important as the underlying map.
Where is the new vision of brand advertising? After all the innovation that Lars Rasmussen (Google Maps) and John Hanke (Google Earth) brought to maps we surely need to go beyond paid search models and allow owned content to become a rich and valuable layer in the 2014 map.
BNN Interview on the "Battle to Monetize Maps" discussing the positioning of Apple, Google & Microsoft. http://t.co/M1Pa0Qcijd
Gary Schwartz is the CEO of Impact Mobile. Having been at the frontlines of the mobile industry for over a decade, Gary is the author of two books, "The Impulse Economy: Understanding Mobile Shoppers" and "Fast Shopper. Slow Store: A Guide to Courting and Capturing the Mobile Consumers," both of which highlight the current state of the mobile commerce space and chronicle the significant impact that mobile is having on consumers, retailers and brands. Gary is also a chair emeritus for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Mobile Entertainment Forum NA and global director of the Location Based Marketing Association.
Mall Busting with Wal-Mart, Facebook & Zappos
Samsung strikes a deal with the beleaguered Best Buy to subsidize their rent with a store-in-a-store initiative. Borders exits the mall and last-man-standing Barnes & Noble seems to becoming a living room chachka vendor with more book browsers than book buyers. Zappos Labs runs field research in malls and Facebook launches a commerce strategy (again).
Is a retail dust bowl about to blow through the mall nationally? Or is this a digital tempest in a tea cup?
We know that online commerce is booming but it still accounts for a small slice of America's mall business. Undeniably, this $200 billion digital business (ComScore) is expanding scope daily.
If there was ever a digital demarcator, it is the soap business. When Unilever and P&G, the markets main consumer package goods companies, begin to sell soap on Amazon, and when Wal-Mart begins to ramp up its online business, leveraging its 4,000 stories and 158 warehouses as an online distribution network, then mall property owners possibly need to rethink their role in bricks and mortar.
Inertia as a strategy
Malls are entertainment destinations. Always have been. We go to the mall for a movie or latte just as we bundled the family into the Buick 60 years ago to go shopping. But if Best Buy and Barnes & Noble leave the mall, what is left to attract the consumer? Hours of gizmo browsing and cook-book thumbing gone.
Browse-verse-buy business has whittled way the margins of many stores making Blockbuster and Gamestop digital road kill. It forced Target Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel and Kathee Tesija, Target's executive vice president of merchandising to cry uncle on "showrooming" in a memo to its suppliers in 2012.
However, muscling your supplier's prices down is a pharic victory. Even with the volume sales of Target and Wal-Mart know that they need to move some of their business into the cloud. During Wal-Mart's August 2013 earnings call it announced that eCommerce sales rose by 30 percent in two trailing quarters. Neil Ashe, Wal-Mart's CEO indicated its total online sales could pass $10 billion in fiscal year 2014. This is only two percent of the stores earning and only 12 percent of Amazon which sales totaled $61 billion in 2012 but it is a marked trend and a harbinger of the exodus of earns from the mall.
What incumbent stores presently have in their favor is inertia. The cloud and the mall are still not fluidly connected. Although each shopper is armed with a mobile computer which has the capability of scanning, sourcing and saving the consumer in every aisle, there are too many hurdles and friction between the idea of digital buying and the products within arms reach.
The mandate of any red blooded digital retailers is to eliminate this inertia.
No-click Cloud Checkout
Apple's iTunes, Amazon and Paypal built their business on simplifying checkout: making sure that the act of buying does not get in the way of intent to buy.
One-click checkout or combining stored customer credentials with a simple password is the sole reason that these companies continue to grow their market share. Their UX team would tell you that every informational and graphic design is based on optimizing clicks to checkout. Each click makes a precipitous drop off and abandoned shopping carts litter the web.
But digital checkout demands trust and mindshare. Even online real estate barons such as Facebook have been unable to enter this market. Although "Social" and "commerce" seems natural allies, Facebook has not been able to delivered on its promise to leverage its millions of customers to shop cross-channel. The company launched Facebook Credits in 2009 and phased them out last year. "F-commerce" experiments abound. Remember Facebook + Amazon + P&G partnering in 2010 to change the world. Unilever followed suit launching a storefront on Facebook for its Dove brand. Retailers including JCPenney and Gamestop have attempted to monetize their Facebook community by opening stores inside the Facebook network. After underwhelming results they shut their virtual doors.
Apple and Amazon have proven that community plus one-click checkout works. These digital wallet holders started their business explicitly to sell stuff. And they are poised to remove the inertia from online shopping and with it the last refuge of the mall owner. Online shopping provides advantages with an endless aisle allowing for access to more sizes and categories. According to Nielson the average basket size is much larger for consumer package goods ($80 online to $30 offline) and beauty purchase ($30 online to $10 offline).
The question is that when the households put soap and diapers on their shopping list will they log into Amazon to buy Dove Body Wash 24 Ounce Bottles (Pack of 4) and Pampers Sensitive Wipes 7x Box?
Baked Beans & Apple Pie
The last refuge of the American mall maybe a can of baked beans and fresh produce. If the household shopper wants to grabs a can for dinner tonight or smell the oranges and squeeze the melons before buying, then off to the store they will go. Grocery stores are big box convenience stores.
However, should mall owners that are grocery-anchored feel safe? Their clientele should come from a weekly shopping list.
Well, hold your Kraft peanut butter!
The traditional grocery retailers are faced with increased competition. In March, Wal-Mart opened grocery concept stores about a tenth of the size of their supercenters. With big box and online retailers entering the grocery space, specialty grocers capturing the "foodie culture" consumer and brands creating direct relationship with the consumer, perhaps this is not a safe bet for mall owners.
Google Wallet, ISIS and other phone wallets promise to make in-store shopping more digitally fluid, but what is the digital wallet never makes it to the mall. Online grocery shopping has grown five fold over the past eight years to $25 billion. Tablets devices have made shopping more leisurely and couch commerce has accelerated. With CPGs moving their diaper and detergent business into the mainstream online stores like Amazon, the inertia may soon come from the home.
Poaching People
Since Tesco opened their virtual grocery store on the subway in Seoul, Korea two years ago, scan and shop on-the-go signage has become more common. While it is still a media gimmick, it has the potential of becoming a way of luring the shopper online. In every mall or transit hub America at least one brand has attempted to use the in-mall media to engage with the shopper and move them into their cloud store.
In CNET interviews with Zappos Labs' (an Amazon-owned online retailer) the Director, Will Young, confesses that his team sits around malls stalking shoppers. Their goal is to emulate these shoppers' behavior online. Young is asking "How can you make the digital experience feel like the in-store experience?"
Whether they succeed or not, there is no question that malls need to re-evaluate their passive media deals. When a brand buys signage on an ad impression basis but uses this media to poach customers then this signage perhaps should not be sold as an impression but as a "mini-storefront".
Mall owners nationally are holding strategy sessions to evaluate how technology is affecting their business. These stakeholders need to re-evaluate their real estate assets and start to see media as leasable square footage.
Part Two: Mapping the Mall (to be continued)
SuperBrands and the Unreasonable Screen
I was speaking with David Epstein, the founder of The Unreasonable Institute, the brainchild of Unreasonable at Sea, the Google sponsored innovation ship that is presently sailing from port to port globally.
Mr. Epstein's mission statement is borrowed from George Bernard Shaw who in 1903 wrote in Man and Superman:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
The Unreasonable Institute, based in Boulder, Colorado and is working to bring entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers, and investors together for social change. He now has these same folk on a ship sailing the world with that disruptive mandate.
What Mr. Epstein is championing, and what Mr. Shaw posited over 100 years ago is applicable, if not essential, across all verticals today. In the 2010's, when industry after industry is being rudely disrupted, we may need to be more unreasonable about our search for solutions and our adaptation to the new status quo. We have to become superbrands.
Man and Superman
Music, retail, media buying, broadcast, publishing are all incumbent industries that have, or are, about to pivot in a profound and irreversible way. Many extant business models will dry up. Many old revenue streams will become commodity channels or be circumvented over-the-top by new technologies or new business models.
Telecommunications, more than any other industry, has profoundly impacted businesses. Some bemoan that "mobile" innovation has horizontally cut many companies at the knees.
Telecommunication innovation and disruption is not new. The history of telecommunications is the history of open systems and the invisible hand that attempted to close these systems: From RCA closing down FM Radio and early television. It is the same recent history of Apple disintermediating the wireless carriers with an "internet device" and then turning around and using the same iPhone to shut down the Mobile Web with a closed App Store.
What is new about telecommunications in the 2010s is the pervasive nature of the technology, the democratization of information and access, and the liberation of the consumer.
The new entrepreneurs, innovators, thinkers, and investors that are sailing on Epstein's ship are the crew of innovators that needed to rethink the way we communicate with this new consumer.
And this requires a motley crew.
Chief Unreasonable Officer
Labels, Retailers, brands, publishers, and broadcasters cannot simply open innovation labs in the vain hope that they can reinvent their business from within. Forces are at play in the mall and in the media houses that will require some unreasonable thought. The walls of our store are porous (Mike Duke) and the internet cloud is in our malls to stay.
To paraphrase Mr. Shaw: The reasonable person adapts to the world; the unreasonable person proactively turns the tables.
How do new-age brands become unreasonable?
- Industries need to understand their new world and their new consumer. This world is made up of consumer moments across their connected-screens during the course of the day. Ten years ago, you never needed to follow these consumers; now you need to plot their screen journey in minute detail.
- The value may not lie exclusively on the screen but in connecting these screens. In a world where (according to Google's Multiscreen Report) over 90% of people use more than one screen to accomplish a single task, brands need to focus on the "digital Velcro" to connect these screen experiences. One screen + another screen = a multiple of value: (1+1=3)
- Stop relying exclusively on third parties and social networks to find your consumer. "Dating services" are important . . . but you need to get out more. Forge a direct relationship with this new connected consumer.
- Be unreasonable. Believe that your consumers can love your product and can share a common dialogue with your brand on their private and personal screen.
- This maybe simply the ability to shop for a brand seamlessly across their screens understanding the needs of the consumer at that moment of the day on a particular screen form factor.
- This maybe establishing a common interest (wellness, nightlife, etc.) and become part of their multiscreen narrative.
The new Chief Digital Officer needs to create superbrands, and to do that she needs to be unreasonable across all her consumers' connected screens.
I am content chair of the MultiScreen Summit in NYC, June 11th and 12th.
MultiScreen Summit
June 11-12, 2013
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
New York City
Premature Technology Arousal (PTA) in Barcelona
To sum up Mobile World Congress 2013, I will borrow from Peter Marx, head of business development at Qualcomm Labs. Peter talks about a tendency for PTA or (for those in the know) Premature Technology Arousal in the mobile industry.
Much of the MWC 2013 floor area at the new Fira Gran Via venue exhibited PTA or Premature Technology Arousal. Solutions that are excited about being solutions. Solutions that are too early. Solutions that are missing reach and frequency. Things that are just not simple enough to drive adoption.
Even before 70 thousand executives hit the show floor, there were signs of "PTA". From the Near Field Communications (NFC) show name tags that tried to emulated plastic (but that few used because you still needed to show the plastic) to tapping on Coke dispensers with cloud-base wallets that are many quarters away for mainstream adoption.
Booth after booth in this 1.01 million square feet techno-playground displayed incredible solutions and screens. But the real story to follow was how each solution quietly added value to a given business ecosystem. There was an invisible hand playing connect the dots. Here are a few examples:
The Invisible Google Hand
Google was almost absent – unlike the MWC of 2011 and 2012 where Google groupies ran from partner booth to partner booth in search of cute Android pins. But Google was most definitely on the floor. This year the company is wisely playing "powered by Google". They are the dark silent type. Turn left or right in every hall, Android is the fuel this industry is consuming.
The same holds for Qualcomm. They are the chip manufacture that is quietly taking the lion's share of the revenue on each global handset. (Intel just cannot seem to create a competitive landscape.) Qualcomm Labs is building in consumer identity and credentials onto its "platform" hoping to not only power the connected device but also own the big data behind the user. When Qualcomm demos a vision of a home of the near future, they power many of the moving pieces.
The Samsung Show
While Qualcomm's chip and Google's OS were the main stories in Barcelona, another key and not so silent player is Samsung. (So much so that my hotel concierge asked me if I was attending that "Samsung" show that was in town.) The word that floated above the white new-age Samsung booth was "innovation" but the innovation is not just the 3D camera or the ubiquity of the new S-Pen. The innovation was in their business model connecting their screen across the consumer journey. The 3D camera sells their tablet and television. The S-Pen and its SDK allows for ergonomic continuity across their new tablets and fablets.
Mozilla is other important story in Barcelona. Using the Firefox browser on lower-end ZTE devices to run the camera, map and . . . oh ya the browser was a definite tech-turn on. Moving the developer and more importantly the consumer out of the (Apple-invented and dominated) app store into the real world super-app is an inevitable step and fundamental to our mobile evolution. The quicker the industry can move away for relying exclusively on industrial design and the app storefront as the sales tool, the faster we will grow.
2014 Screen Wars
The most important leitmotif was the screen. Not only the proliferation of devices with new form factor and appliance, but the realization that it is in the connecting of these screen that the we can accelerate business models. Samsung, ZTE, Motorola, Nokia all address the consumer journey across all screens and throughout their day. Nearly all marketing VPs had spent their last few months and budget trying to tell this consumer story.
Again while many products had indecent "PTA", the most important insight was not what was happening on the screen but what companies were doing to connect them seamlessly. The new battle ground this year moving into MWC 2014 will be centered around who can best manage big data, wallet credentials and identity between the screens.
The End of Pennies & Amazon Coins from the Cloud
With the Canadian Mint abandoning the mighty penny and Amazon creating its own digital currency system called Amazon Coins (to be used to purchase apps in its Kindle Fire Tablet), where is cash heading?
In May, Amazon Coins will flood the market with "tens of millions of dollars" of virtual coins. The Canadian mint will remove the equivalent in copper. This value transfer from cash coins to promotional coins is not connected but illustrative of the value of currency to drive engagement and what is often referred to as "big data."
The penny and the dollar have not lost their value in our digital economy (*) but the ability for the data behind our purchase behavior may yield more value.
How we buy has changed so profoundly over the past few decades. Money and path to purchase has become more fluid. Days waiting for cash to clear is now instantaneous. Digital credentials such as Paypal and Paypass allow for seamless payments inconceivable few years ago.
We know that financial institutions and the new mobile wallets snub their nose at cash and hope that all transactions move through their gateway and pay a service toll. But more importantly for the Google's and Apple's wallets to tether a digital relationship that allows for incremental advertising and engagement opportunities.
As we move into digital wallets in the cloud and the store, look for more "Amazon" pennies from heaven. Or in this case, from the cloud.
* (Cash is a clumsy system and removing pennies can upset the countries cash register. In 1971 the penny was axed in the UK. Cash confusion and many retail that were accused of rounding up rather than down allowed price increases that pundits attributed to increased inflation in the country for a quarter of a century. By the 70s, inflation was upward of 25%.)
What Store Closings Mean to Mall & Mobile?
Today Blockbuster announced that it was shutting the doors on 300 big boxes in U.S. That's a further 35% of its footprint.
This is the inevitable and slippery slope of incumbent retail stores that cannot support business-as-usual.
The opportunity is tremendous for a company that can enter the mall with a pure showrooming business model. A company that can curate purchase into the cloud and capitalize on co-opt budgets.
Blockbuster, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy and other mall staples find it hard to innovate-from-within for two fundamental reasons:
- It has to continue to support its existing infrastructure to the bitter end and this is a costly distraction.
- It cannot effectively connect and curate its legacy cloud store and bricks store and make the two a seamless experience for the shopper.
Showrooming is shutting these leviathans down.
The new mall is going to be a challenging space for mall owners. Stores like Blockbuster, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble represent a mall entertainment experience. Now that shoppers browse but do not buy, these stores can not support their weight. The stores exiting will leave the mall a lonelier place.
Mall owners need to be a proactive. They need to innovate with their retail footprint. They need to look to partners that have a vested interest in the future of the mall and can provide new technology (such as Samsung). They need to innovate and fundamentally remodel the way consumers shop and more importantly "engage" in the mall.
Read full article at: Mobile Commerce Daily
Mobile Retail Focus for 2013? (60min Business World interview)
In the following interview I discuss with Wayne Hurlbert, the preeminent business blogger (Blog Business World), that retailers need to embrace new strategies to reconnect with their customers. We discuss:
- Strategies to win back customers who have left the malls, big box, and other retail outlets for their mobile devices.
- How the behavior of mobile shoppers is different from both tethered online customers and from the traditional in store consumer.
- Techniques for winning back those customers, reconnecting with them, and regaining their long term loyalty.
- How to embrace mobile technology as a competitive advantage for your business, and place yourself in the forefront of the mobile shopping revolution.
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1. Substitute "Mobile" for more inclusive term "CONNECTED SCREENS"
2. Geo-LOCATION crucial to social strategy
3. NFC continues to be far field
4. For RETAIL: space between bricks and clicks most valuable
5. For everyone: space CONNECTING screens most valuable
6. Mobile viruses push SECURITY agenda
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New K-12 Funding for Education Transformation
Do you offer products or services that could help students identify and pursue careers aligned with their personal passions? If so, then there is a recently announced source of funds that could open up new district sales opportunities for you. In May, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new $400 million Race to the Top grant that school districts can apply for to receive between $5 and 40M for education transformation. This is timely because applications are available as of August 13, 2012. Read this article and get more free tips on the companion talk show on STS radio.
Unique District-Focused Sales Opportunity
This new round of grants requires district – not state - applicants to focus on personalized learning. This does not mean individualized learning as we have known in products in the past like integrated learning systems (ILS). This definition of personalization means "creating opportunities for students to identify and pursue areas of personal passion in the context of ensuring that each student demonstrates mastery in critical areas identified in college- and career ready standards." The issue of personalization includes not only the classroom program but also in its competitive priorities - parent engagement and after school programs. The announcement for this grant reads:
"Race to the Top District will reward those LEAs that have the leadership and vision to implement the strategies, structures and systems of support to move beyond one-size–fits-all models of schooling, which have struggled to produce excellence and equity for all children, to personalized, student-focused approaches to teaching and learning that will use collaborative, data-based strategies and 21st century tools to deliver instruction and supports tailored to the needs and goals of each student, with the goal of enabling all students to graduate college-and career-ready."
New Provisions Link Students, Teachers and K-12 Leaders
Applicants can include a single district of 2,000 students. Groups of 10 districts may apply regardless of the number of students. They can also focus on specific grade levels like K-3 or subject areas like STEM. All of these aspects really establish a unique environment to drive education transformation. At least 40% of students must come from low-income families.
As with previous Race to the Top programs, they must find a way to link student performance to teacher evaluation but the interesting part is they also must link student performance to the evaluation of principals and superintendents. How this will be executed will be interesting to track.
An interesting requirement is that applicants must submit their applications to the states and mayors for feedback during a final 10-business day period before submission. But, there is no requirement to make changes based on that feedback!
Targeting New RTT Funds With Your Education Sales Plan
Where should you be focusing your sales resources in light of this new federal funding program? Districts that educational pundits have identified as potential candidates include:
- Los Angeles Unified - California
- Hillsborough County Schools – Florida
- Austin – Texas
- Boston
- Charlotte-Mecklenberg, NC
- Denver
- Houston
- Nashville, TN
- New York City
The DOE is looking for innovation. Some of these districts are not known for this attribute, so new types of applicants will truly be considered. Districts will be considered in categories, one based on previous Race to the Top award and the other based on rural district classification (or not).
This is a Quality, not Quantity K-12 Sales Opportunity
Here are the district enrollments and corresponding budget ranges for the $400M worth of grants that applicants may pursue:
2000-5000 students: $15-20 million; 5001-9999 students: $17-22 million; 10,000+students: $20-40 million. Since these are three to five year grants, the size makes them worth your time to work with district leaders who wish to pursue them. The goal is to award 15-25 grants. If your company's products or services are included in any one, you would have great revenue potential.
Four Step K-12 Action Plan for New RTT Grant
Here is the timing and a four-step action plan for this grant opportunity:
- May 2012: The announcement about the grant
- May 22 – June 8: Public comments solicited about the grant
- August 13, 2012: Application released
- August 30, 2012: Intent to apply letters submission deadline
- October 30, 2012: Applications due
- October: November: Review of applications
- December 31, 2012: awards announced
- January-May 2013: money will be available for planning and infrastructure
Before you jump on this grant opportunity, review the tenets of the grant to confirm that your product(s) can help improve student achievement and educator quality consistent with the parameters of this grant. Also be sure that you have company information and efficacy research that can be cited as part of the application. If so, then take these four steps:
- Find out if any of your innovative districts are going to pursue the grant. If they are, figure out how to position your product as part of their plan.
- If you can't find any districts applying, send the link about the grant to district you think would have a great chance to pursue and be awarded.
- Put together a vendor-matching plan. The exact percentage for each level for vendor matching has yet to be released. However, you know what they will need: Discounts?; In-kind services?; Extra professional development?; Equipment?; Special license, bundle, etc?
- If none of your districts are applying, you need to track the awards that come out in December and market to them in January.
About the Author
Jenny House, Ph.D.is President and Founder of RedRock Reports. She provides strategic vision on funding from both business and education perspectives. Her work is informed by years of experience in school administration as well as industry management and includes positions at H/P and Apple, as well as executive positions at Classroom Connect and Tenth Planet.

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More Kansas City Customers Gain Video Choice, Innovative Features with AT&T U-verse TV
U-verse TV and Suite of New Interactive Features Now Available to More Than 130,000 Living Units
Kansas City, Missouri, February 4, 2008
More Kansas City residents and their televisions can break free from cable. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that AT&T U-verseSM TV and Internet services are now available to more than 130,000 living units in the Kansas City area.
Since introducing U-verse TV services in the Kansas City area in March 2007, AT&T has made the service available to more customers on an ongoing basis, and plans to continue expanding on both sides of the state line.
In addition, Kansas City area-customers can now enjoy a suite of new U-verse TV features — currently available for all local U-verse TV customers at no extra charge — that further differentiate the service from cable, including:
- AT&T U-bar, which brings customizable weather, stock, sports and traffic information to the U-verse TV screen, without interrupting the current program. Customers who also subscribe to AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet can personalize the U-bar from their AT&T Yahoo! home page to display weather at specific locations, their personal stock portfolio and scores for their favorite sports teams.
- YELLOWPAGES.COM TV, which lets U-verse TV customers easily search for local businesses and other information via their TV screen.
- AT&T Yahoo! Games, so U-verse TV customers can now play their favorite online games — including Sudoku, Solitaire, JT's Blocks, Mah-jongg Tiles and Chess — on the TV screen.
"More Kansas City customers can pick up the phone or go online and order U-verse TV today, and why wouldn't they?" said Mark Thompson, AT&T vice president and general manager for Kansas. "With innovative features and access to more HD channels than cable — all for a great value — we're sure that Kansas City customers will agree that U-verse TV is cooler than cable."
AT&T is the only national provider to offer a 100 percent Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) service, making AT&T U-verse TV one of the most advanced television offerings available anywhere. AT&T is deploying next-generation video services, including AT&T U-verse TV, to connect people with their world, everywhere they live and work, and do it better than anyone else.
Kansas City customers who want additional information — or to find out if AT&T U-verse is available in their area — can visit http://uverse.att.com, visit any local AT&T retail store, or send their address to firstname.lastname@example.com to receive information from a local representative on AT&T Advanced TV services.
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One or more positions as associate professor are available at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University (www.cs.au.dk) starting January 1, 2014.
The department has research groups within "Algorithms and Data Structures", "Data-Intensive Systems", "Cryptography and Security", "Mathematical Computer Science", "Logics and Semantics", "Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction", "Computer-Mediated Activity", "Use, Design and Innovation", "Programming Languages", "Computer Graphics and Image Processing" and "Bioinformatics". In addition, we want to build competences within "Software Engineering / Multicore/ Systems", "Machine Learning / Data Mining" and "Quantum Informatics".
Applicants are expected to have several years of experience at the assistant professor level. They must document a strong record of original research and have teaching experience at undergraduate/graduate level.
The department has a staff of 140 people including 28 full and associate professors, 5 assistant professors, 25 PostDocs and 65 PhD students. The number of students is approximately 1,000.
Please apply online at http://www.au.dk/en/job/nat/academicpositions/ before August 15, 2013.


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Sabres' Omark will face Bruins
The newest addition to the Buffalo Sabres' roster will take the ice tonight when the team faces the Boston Bruins in the second half of a home-and-home series.
Linus Omark, 26, acquired from the Edmonton Oilers for a conditional sixth-round draft pick, met the team in Boston and interim coach Ted Nolan said he would be in the lineup for tonight's 7 p.m. faceoff.
"I'm not 100 percent sure where we'll put him yet but he'll play tomorrow night," Nolan said after the team practiced Friday morning at First Niagara Center.
Omark spent all but one game this season with the American Hockey League team in Oklahoma City. He ranks fourth in the AHL with 14 goals and 29 points in 29 games. In 66 NHL games with Edmonton over three seasons he had eight goals and 22 assists.
"Edmonton had a lot of players similar to Linus' skill set and ability," his agent, Kevin Epp, said Friday afternoon. "Others were drafted higher or came in with more credentials or more clout. There were a lot of players similar to him in that organization. I'd say early on it started as a good opportunity but other young players came into their own and there wasn't that opportunity for a future there."
But Epp sees a future for Omark with the Sabres.
"Buffalo is in a new stage of their franchise rebuilding," Epp said. "They have a lot of draft picks and lot of young guys and Linus fits into that really well. He's a young player and offensive player with real good potential to play."
While Nolan wasn't sure where Omark would slide into the lineup, there certainly is room.
Cody Hodgson is out with an upper body injury after a blocked shot went off his wrist late in the first period Thursday. Nolan was unsure how long Hodgson would be out.
"I'm not too sure, maybe a week or two or three," Nolan said.
Add to that Cody McCormick, who is out for four to six weeks with a lower body injury, and there's room for another forward.
Brian Flynn's short-handed goal may have been a random act of beauty, but the Sabres' penalty-killing unit has been steady and solid for the last five games.
The Sabres have killed off opponents' last 14 power plays. The last time the unit gave up a power-play goal was Dec. 5 to the New York Rangers.
"We realize that we were struggling to score goals so we had to be better on the penalty kill," Flynn said. "We can't give up a power play goal. We were starting a goal behind every night and scoring one or two goals – you can't win games like that. We knew we had to pick it up a little bit and we've been doing a good job and our goalies obviously have been making some big saves too."
And then there's the gritty play that defenses are built on, which unfortunately may also contribute to injuries in the lineup.
"We're getting in front," Nolan said. "Maybe that's why we have a couple guys hurt. They're starting to get in front of shots and it hurts a little bit. They're starting to pay the price and getting in those shot lanes, using their sticks much better and competing harder."
Sabres prospect J.T. Compher was cut from the United States National Junior team roster and will not participate in the IIHF World Juniors Championship in Sweden.
Compher, a forward at the University of Michigan, suffered a left foot injury in practice on Monday while blocking a shot. He was in a walking boot on Tuesday.
U.S. coach Don Lucia said the injury is what kept Compher off the team but with his birth year as 1995 he will have another opportunity.
"The disappointment is in Compher getting hurt; he could have played a lot of different roles on this team," Lucia said. "It would have been a good bet that he probably would have made this team, but now it gives someone else an opportunity."
Fans have three chances to take part in The Good Neighbor Skate Drop Off that collects unwanted ice skates, regardless of condition or size, to be refurbished for use at the Martin Luther King Jr. Park ice skating program.
Dropoffs will be:
Dec. 27 from 7:30-10:30 a.m. at the BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York Headquarters (corner of West Genesee and 7th Street).
Dec. 28 from 1-5 p.m. at Pure Hockey (3265 Sheridan Drive in Amherst).
Dec. 29 from 3-5 p.m. at First Niagara Center.
Fans will be able to meet Sabres forward Zemgus Girgensons at Pure Hockey from 4-5 p.m. on Dec. 28.
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SEDGWICK – Holly Louise Meade, 56, passed away Friday, June 28, 2013 at Blue Hill Memorial Hospital with her two children by her side. She was born Sept. 14, 1956, in Winchester, Mass., the daughter of Russell and Joanne Meade.
Holly lived in Sedgwick, where she worked as an artist and children's book illustrator. She loved coastal Maine where she drew much of her inspiration from the natural world. In 1978, Holly completed a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. After illustrating her first children's book in 1992, she began a flourishing career that followed with nearly 30 books, a number of which received recognition through awards, including a Caldecott Honor and the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Creative Writing. A deeply creative soul, Holly surrounded herself with art and was forever seeking an intellectual, emotional, and spiritual education through the aesthetic world. While she explored many artistic mediums throughout her life, including drawing, painting, basket making, and fabric design, she developed an interest in woodblock printmaking after taking a workshop at the Haystack Mountain School in 2002. During the past decade, she carved and printed diligently, receiving much recognition and applause for her work, which was shown in her own gallery, Reach Road Gallery, as well as in numerous art galleries throughout New England and beyond.
Holly is survived by her father, Russell Meade; brother, Jeffrey Meade; sister, Andrea Lawson; daughter, Jenny Smick; son, Noah Smick and his wife, Micki; and beloved grandson, Nathan Smick. An instinctively nurturing woman, Holly spoke of mothering her young children as the happiest time of her life.
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What are the types of alpha thalassemia?
Two types of alpha thalassemia can cause health problems. The more severe type is known as hemoglobin Bart hydrops fetalis syndrome or Hb Bart syndrome. The milder form is called HbH disease.
Hb Bart syndrome is characterized by hydrops fetalis, a condition in which excess fluid builds up in the body before birth. Additional signs and symptoms can include severe anemia, an enlarged liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly), heart defects, and abnormalities of the urinary system or genitalia. As a result of these serious health problems, most babies with this condition are stillborn or die soon after birth. Hb Bart syndrome can also cause serious complications for women during pregnancy, including dangerously high blood pressure with swelling (preeclampsia), premature delivery, and abnormal bleeding.
HbH disease causes mild to moderate anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, and yellowing of the eyes and skin (jaundice). Some affected individuals also have bone changes such as overgrowth of the upper jaw and an unusually prominent forehead. The features of HbH disease usually appear in early childhood, but affected individuals typically live into adulthood.
How Common Is Alpha Thalassemia?
Alpha thalassemia is a fairly common blood disorder worldwide. Thousands of infants with Hb Bart syndrome and HbH disease are born each year, particularly in Southeast Asia. Alpha thalassemia also occurs frequently in people from Mediterranean countries, North Africa, the Middle East, India, and Central Asia.


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One by one, each of the four men jailed last week in connection with a probe of a controversial $102 million settlement put one leg up on a wooden chair and showed Judge Brian McCarville the wide, black GPS bracelets on their ankles.
McCarville, as a condition of reducing their bails from a total of $16 million to $1.1 million, had ordered the four to return to San Bernardino Superior Court on Tuesday and show proof that their whereabouts were being electronically monitored.
The GPS monitoring had been ordered Thursday for Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum, former county Supervisor Paul Biane, former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk, the county's director of intergovernmental relations for the county, who has been placed on administrative leave.
The four defendants were named in a 29-count Grand Jury indictment on May 10 for their roles in an alleged conspiracy to defraud the county of $102 million in the Colonies Partners LP lawsuit settlement.
"They're all complying with the court order," said Erwin's attorney, Rajan Maline, as he left the courtroom Tuesday. "And we will continue to comply with all the court's orders."
The electronic monitoring service is being provided by San Francisco-based Leaders in Community Alternatives, which has an office on Tenth Street in Riverside.
Daniel Greenberg, who represents Burum, said he appreciated the judge's decision to allow the monitoring and reduce his client's bail.
"A wise decision by a wise judge," Greenberg said.
Asked whether the ankle bracelet would restrict Burum's ability to conduct business, Greenberg answered: "It's an inconvenience, but it's something he can certainly handle."
Deputy District Attorney Lewis Cope, who heads the district attorney's Public Integrity Unit, said it was inappropriate for him to comment on the judge's decision to reduce the bails because he wasn't present.
Bail for Burum, initially set at $10 million, was reduced to $500,000. Bails for Erwin, Biane and Kirk initially were $2 million each but reduced to $250,000 each for Erwin and Biane and $100,000 for Kirk.
Each of the defendants spent two nights in Central Detention Center in San Bernardino.
Erwin, before Tuesday's court proceedings began, criticized District Attorney Michael A. Ramos' handling of the case.
Ramos on May 10 held a news conference to announce the arrest of three of the defendants and put out a wanted poster for Biane, who was on a business trip to Arizona.
"It was another orchestrated media circus," Erwin said, adding that Ramos could have simply issued a news release.
Bail was also set extraordinarily high for the defendants, and they had to appear in court in shackles and jail jumpsuits for a bail hearing.
"He didn't have to do that," Erwin said, calling it a dog-and-pony show.
As for the charges against him, Erwin said the truth will come out eventually. The indictment is the third time Erwin has been charged on what is essentially the same set of evidence, his lawyer has said.
"I just think they're digging themselves a hole and they're digging it deeper," said Erwin, 48.
Burum, 48, Biane, 47, and Kirk, 36, declined to comment at Tuesday's court appearance.
All four defendants are scheduled for arraignment June 10 in San Bernardino Superior Court.
But the lawyers first want to review transcripts from Grand Jury hearings that preceded the indictments. Cope said the transcripts are not yet ready and that the court will be informed when it's available for defense attorneys.
Once defense attorneys receive the transcripts, they generally become public after 10 days. However, the county's presiding judge, Douglas Elwell, has signed a request to keep the transcripts sealed for an additional 10 days, McCarville said.
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The court's order
San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Brian McCarville's conditions for reducing the bails of Jeff Burum, Paul Biane, Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk:
Wear GPS monitoring device at all times until further notice.
Do not leave Southern California (San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego counties). Biane can travel to Kern County.
Defendants must pay all costs for GPS monitoring. Proof of payment must be shown to the court.
Any attempt to tamper with or disable the GPS device is a violation.
A GPS device failure or cessation of the signal will be considered a violation, subject to a later hearing to determine the cause.
If a violation occurs, the GPS provider must immediately inform district attorney's and state attorney general's investigators and not the defendants or their attorneys.
If a violation is reported, the court will immediately issue an arrest warrant and reinstate the previous bail.
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Gas prices falling
Average retail gasoline prices in Texas have fallen 5.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.15/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 13,114 gas outlets in Texas.
This compares with the national average that has fallen 5.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.43/g, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
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To make a long story short I bought a used iPhone 4 that only had 3G & no wifi, Bluetooth or baseband. It was on Bell network so I used my 3G to install jailbreak tweaks, also the screen was black from water damage but I was using "Displayout" & mirroring to my tv.
I updated to iOS 5.1.1 a long time ago but I'm no longer on Bell SIM card, I need to upgrade Displayout in Cydia but I have no Internet connection on my iPhone.
How do I use iFunbox or anything to upgrade Displayout &/or all of my Cydia tweaks?
The iPhone is jailbroken with all the essentials like iFile, OpenSSH, Mobile Terminal. I have Internet, can I upgrade Cydia packages using just the USB cable, iFunbox & my laptop?
Again the only thing that works on the iPhone to connect to the Internet is 3G, theres no wifi or bluetooth but I'm no longer with Bell & I don't want to pay for SIM card just to upgrade Cydia packages if there's another way.
Anyone who knows how to SSH to update Cydia packages via USB, let me know please!


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Scooter Tuning and Performance Measurement
What's your scooter's 0-30, 0-40 or 0-50mph time? What's your scooter's top speed? When you are tuning your scooter it's very useful to know if you've actually improved the performance or not and so you need to measure it. Scooter tuning is usually done by one or more of the following - using a free flowing air filter, using a performance exhaust, rejetting or replacing the carburetor or changing the ignition timing. More serious scooter tuning can include modifying the cylinders and changing the cylinder head and camshaft. However how do you measure what difference all your time, effort and money have made?
When you're actually riding it's tough to steer, brake, accelerate, watch the road and keep an eye out for other traffic and pedestrians while simultaneously looking at a stop watch and writing down numbers! It's not just dangerous, it's pretty much impossible. So how can you tell if your scooter tuning is actually making the scooter faster or slower, and how much difference is it really making.
You can probably easily measure top speed, though you'll need a stretch of flat, open road with a high enough speed limit, which probably means the Interstate if your scooter is faster than 55mph. You can't trust your speedometer either. Mine reads about 15% fast, plus I'd rather watch the road at 55mpg than the speedometer. If you see someone reporting their 150cc scooter can do 70mph, make sure you know how they know that. My speedometer goes up to 70mph too, but when it does my actual speed in closer to 58mph! What I use to measure true speed is a small pocket GPS receiver. It measures your position on earth very accurately up to several times each second, and from how far you have moved and how long it took you to move that distance, it calculates your speed - and it's very accurate! It will read out your instantaneous speed, but better, it will record your maximum speed. So all I need to do is concentrate on riding safely, and the GPS unit records my maximum speed for me. I use a Garmin eTrex handheld GPS. It's reliable and one of the least expensive. Though maximum speed is an interesting performance parameter, it doesn't tell you everything. If you use tall enough gearing (by modify the CVT springs and weights), you can increase top speed, but your acceleration may be poor. What you really need is something to measure acceleration and top speed and that's where a "vehicle performance computer" comes into play.
A GPS measures position, time and speed based on signals from an array of orbital satellites, while a "Vehicle Performance Computer" measures acceleration using solid state accelerometers. From acceleration and time it can calculate how fast the vehicle it's attached to is moving, how long it takes to get to a certain speed and how long it takes to cover a certain distance, so it can, for example, give you a 0-30mph or 0-50mph time, plus the time taken to cover 1/8 mile or 1/4 mile and what the speed is after that distance. Though intended for use in a car, there's no reason why it can't be used with a scooter too as long as you can power it up from 12v. I added a "cigarette lighter" or "accessory 12v" outlet to my scooter. An easy job and it makes using a radar detector, auto GPS or "vehicle performance computer" much easier. See Adding a 12v power outlet
The Vehicle Performance Computer I used was an Escort GT-1, though that unit now seems hard to find. However from everything I can gather, the Vector FX-1 Performance Timer Accelerometer by Beltronics is exactly the same, except it's in a different case and has a different name on it. The user manuals seem to be identical. It's trivial to use. You hit the "start" button, the display tells you it's calibrating itself, then tells you it's "READY". It then waits for you to start. As soon as it senses any forward acceleration the timer starts and you just accelerate as hard as possible (wide open throttle) until you reach the speed you want or your maximum speed. It will then give you your times for 0-10mph, 0-20mph, 0-30mph, 0-40mph, 0-50mph, 0-60mph (and faster if you can go any faster!), plus your maximum speed, time over 60ft, 330ft, 1000ft and 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile times and speeds. If you input the total weight of the scooter + rider, it can calculate the power output between two speeds you program in (though that's really designed for a car or motorcycle in a fixed gear, I don't know if the CVT auto transmission throws it off). With a car it can also measure lateral G-force (cornering Gs), but on a motorcycle or scooter that won't work because of the effect of leaning into turns. It can also measure acceleration and deceleration G forces, as well as braking distance from a given speed.
Here's a set of data I measured on my Chinese scooter (150cc GY6, carburetor modified with with #115 main jet). Of course with a scooter the weight of the rider can be a significant factor, considering that in some cases the rider may be half the weight of the scooter itself, in in other cases the rider might weigh as much as (or more than) the scooter itself. My scooter weighs around 105kg (230lbs) and I weigh around 80kg (175lbs). Note that these are real speeds. At 50mph, the actual scooter speedometer reads closer to 60mph.
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|0-20 mph
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|0-40 mph
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|22.3 seconds @ 52.7mph
It's hard to find acceleration times for scooters, so it's hard to compare these numbers with anything else. I did find some times for 0-30mph for a few 50cc scooters and they were typically in the 10-20 second range, so you can see how much quicker a 150cc scooter is.
With the ability to measure acceleration times, now when you do any engine tuning you can see what the real effect is. I tried a couple of runs with the air filter removed (OK for a short test run, not OK for long term use). This was to see if just adding a high flow, low restriction, air filter would help performance. It didn't. In fact acceleration was quite a bit slower, taking around 10 seconds to reach 40mph, instead of the 8.25 seconds with the filter in place. This suggests that running without the filter probably provided too much air and the mixture became too lean. So if a high flow air filter was added, the carburetor would probably have to be rejetted with a larger jet, maybe up to a #130. See Carburetor Rejetting.


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I downloaded the free mine craft app (because it was free). It went well for a couple of days until nothing would save in mine craft or any of my other games for that matter. Then my tablet crashed and had to be reset, twice, so I lost all my apps and any levels I had reached. Tried it again, same result. Do yourself a favour and stick to Playstore or App Store… Read Full Review
Written on: 02/12/2013 by noWorries123 (1 review written)
Every time I try to download an App, I get something else. Today, two different games downloaded as some web browser. I've tried to download Minecraft (three different apps), two were just pics of what some guy created and the other was a totally unrelated game… Read Full Review
Written on: 30/07/2013 by Foxchild (1 review written)
I have had no luck with this app what-so-ever, everytime I try to download something I get something else in return. For example, I downloaded what was suppose to be Candy Crush Saga and instead received a game called Candy Jewels. And I'm not saying that I installed the wrong game, I mean up until the game opened it was Candy Crush Saga, it even had the screenshots from the game before I downloaded it and then it was another game all together. This has happened with EVERY game or app I have… Read Full Review
Written on: 01/11/2011 by iosgeek (1 review written)
I am a IOS developer. I ordered the service and tried to promote my IOS apps. after few days, there is no single impression or download to one of my top 20 apps on Apple app store. emailed them several times, no response. called them after a week, one of their guys told me to wait about a week for their decision. I contacted them 3 weeks later, got response said they could refund my money but want to sell me something else instead. this is a ridiculous. I filed an online fraud this morning. I… Read Full Review
Written on: 16/09/2011 by silviu0o (1 review written)
This site was very useful because I managed to download a application for my phone for free. It was a bit complicated to download it because I needed to access it on my phone in order to download the app but it was worth it!… Read Full Review
Written on: 06/01/2011
GetJar is great in concept and has many good features. However, on IE, when you go to the site with the exact URL of the app you want to download, http://getjar.com/angry-birds for example, you cannot enter the phone number in order for an SMS message to be sent to your phone to get the app. It's very frustrating for my clients who send their customers to GetJar to get their apps. Because of this, we will most likely have to terminate our relationship with GetJar. Their tech support… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/11/2010
wow this is amazing.
all under one roof.
Any 1 who has a blackbeery definately needs to hook into this to explore a lot without even a BBM plan… Read Full Review
Written on: 09/08/2009
getjar product look very important and helpful in anyway, b cos u can engaged ur self and less stressed whatever… Read Full Review
Written on: 22/04/2009 by demonhide (3 reviews written)
applications are easy to find in the GetJar site you can know if a application u are planning 2 use for ur mobile is compatible with the mobile ur using....there is a quick download number system where every app is given a number 2 be downloaded directly from internet 2 the phone,most of the apps opt for a internet connection for ads… Read Full Review
Written on: 13/01/2009
Its a good site. The site has a lot to offer mobile users. The site is too complicated and too difficult to navigate and find your choice… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/11/2008 by ES82 (1 review written)
Overall, I think I use another site because this makes me lost and annoyed when I don't find something. It is good that people review so you can read what is good or not… Read Full Review
Written on: 28/02/2008
I can always find what I need.
Sometimes applications are asking for registration code. I don't know were to find that
Keep the good work going and the other points working on it
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Written on: 02/05/2007 by happydan (21 reviews written)
The GetJar site is daunting at first, but navigating is simple and done by phone model. There are also plenty of other applications as well as games to choose from, including instant messaging and Bluetooth communication tools. Sections are broken down by genre and most areas are well populated and regularly updated.
I downloaded games straight from the site to my PC and copied them across to my phone when I had my K750i which was totally free but had to use WAP with my D800 which isn't the… Read Full Review
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Are you having problems finding a temporary car insurance policy because you are under 25? You are not alone, in the world of car insurance anyone under the age of 25 is considered a higher risk and so insurers have to bump up the premiums on these policies.
If you want a temp car insurance under 25 policy then you will have the same problem. Temporary car insurers expose themselves to even greater risk when providing policies to those under 25 years of age. This is because with a temporary policy you are only getting cover for a very short period of time and therefore paying a lot less for your insurance, sometimes as little as a pound for a single days cover. Imagine how much this costs the insurer when most of the accidents are caused by the under 25's.
It does seem unfair to be bundled in a high risk group when you may to all intents and purposes be a very careful driver. Unfortunately insurers only take the measurable facts into account and so if you happen to be in one of these high risk groups then you will find it more difficult to get cover or if you do the premiums will be much higher to reflect the potential risk to the insurer.
There is however an alternative, it is a cross between a temporary policy and a normal full years car insurance cover. This is no deposit pay as you go car insurance where you pay for your insurance a month at a time with a minimum of one months policy. This means that you only have to pay for one month rather than the alternative of having to get a full years policy.


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The first woman. According to Genesis 1:27, both male and female were created in the image of God. In Genesis 2:22, Eve was formed from the rib of Adam. In the Garden of Eden she was seduced by the serpent to be disobedient to God and persuaded Adam to follow her example. Because of this, they were expelled from the Garden and Eve was condemned to labour in child-birth and to be subservient to her husband.
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Here are the details and link for the on-line application for the 2013 Summer Research Program for Teachers sponsored by the STARS Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The purpose of this program is to provide teachers the opportunity to perform biomedical research as a way to help bring new ideas to the classroom and to rekindle their interest in science. Teachers will be matched with a faculty mentor with similar interests and will work on a laboratory research project during the course of the summer. The program is a full time commitment that runs for eight weeks from Monday, June 10 through Friday, August 2, 2013. Teachers will be paid a stipend of $4500, plus $250 for classroom supplies for their participation in the program. As part of the program, participants will develop a classroom activity related to their research experience, create a poster, and give a poster presentation at the conclusion of the summer session.
The program is open to any secondary science teacher (grades 7-12) currently employed in the state of Texas. Participants will be selected based upon classroom performance, enthusiasm, and a willingness to develop and incorporate new ideas into the science curriculum. Each applicant will be required to submit an on-line application detailing the expected benefits of the program and a letter of recommendation from their principal. Teachers will also be interviewed as part of the selection process.
We hope that you will consider submitting an on-line application to this highly beneficial program, and we ask that you also encourage your fellow science teachers to apply to this worthwhile program. Please go and fill out the application on-line at https://ais.swmed.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=YoubI7 . Completed applications and all documents must be postmarked by 4pm, Friday, February 1, 2013 to be considered.
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Plane hits passenger bridge at Hopkins
(Cleveland) - A Frontier Airlines plane approaching the terminal at Cleveland's main airport struck the bridge that passengers use to board and exit aircraft.
Around 1 a.m. Thursday,the flight from Denver approached the terminal however no injuries were reported. Passengers on the A319 Airbus were directed to use a stairway at the back of the plane.
A spokeswoman for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport says she does not know many people were on the flight. She says an A319 can carry 124 passengers.
She says the plane had slight damage, but unaware of how much damage was inflicted on the jet bridge.
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"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (1 John 4:8)
"Mom, Nate doesn't love me! What am I gonna do?" Davey was fighting to keep back his tears. His little brother had been in such a good mood yesterday, but today little Nate did not seem to want to have anything to do with Davey.
"Oh, honey. Little Nate is teething. His gums hurt, and he gets really grouchy – really quickly."
"But yesterday, he acted like I was his best friend!" wailed Davey. "He let me hold him, and he made all those vroom-vroom sounds he likes to make with my cars. Yesterday, we played all day together, and all I had to do to make him smile was just look at him! But today, he won't even let me get near him! What'd I do wrong?"
"Davey, it wasn't something you did wrong. Nate's just a baby, and he has mood swings. But he doesn't feel good. He loves you, and he'll learn to love you even more. He just doesn't like anyone right now."
That is one hard thing about baby brothers and sisters. You never know from one day to the next whether or not they will treat you nicely. They are usually thinking about themselves, so their love for you is dependent upon how they feel that day. One day you might be on their "good side," but the next day, you might be in big trouble with them.
Here's some good news: God does not put conditions (rules) on His love. He does not stop loving His people for no good reason. In fact, even if we were to give God good reasons to change His mind, He would not. If you are God's child, you can count on Him to keep loving you, no matter what.
Why is it that God can keep loving, no matter what, but human beings are not very good at that? Well, it has to do with God's character. God IS love, according to the Bible. God's love is never-changing, and God's love is "unconditional." "Unconditional" means it is not based upon what we can do to earn favor, and it is not based upon whether or not we mess up and lose favor with God."
Davey's little brother seemed to keep changing his mind about Davey. But if Davey is a believer, he can trust that God will never change his mind about loving him.
God's love is not based upon whether or not we deserve it.
My Response: » Do I deserve God's love? » Why is God's love called "unconditional"? » What is my love like toward my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ?
"I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven."
Aiden Wilson Tozer – better known as A.W. Tozer – was born on April 21, 1897, in western Pennsylvania. Born on a farm, he was well-liked, and preferred to be called simply "Tozer" by his family and friends.
At a young age, Tozer demonstrated that he was good with words. He enjoyed reading, and he loved writing. And he was good at both!
When he was 15 years old, he moved with his family to Akron, Ohio. One afternoon, while walking on the sidewalk, Tozer overheard a street preacher say, "If you don't know how to be saved, just call on God." Tozer went straight home, went to the attic, called on God, and gave his life to Him.
Very few names in history are linked as closely to the subject of prayer as the name "A.W. Tozer." As an adult, Tozer wrote some of the most powerful books that still exist today on this topic of prayer. He was a prolific and avid writer – meaning he wrote all the time – yet it has been said that "he spent more time on his knees than at his desk." Why was he on his knees? Because he believed prayer was the most important job in life.
For almost 50 years, A.W. Tozer gave his life to ministry. He pointed countless souls to Christ by first pointing them to the importance of prayer. He wrote over 40 books, including his two most famous: The Pursuit of God, and The Knowledge of the Holy.
His gravestone reads simply, "A.W. Tozer – A Man of God."
A.W. Tozer once said, "The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." Does it bore you to think of what it will be like to worship God in heaven forever? Do you truly enjoy God?
Revelation 4:11 – You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.
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Psalm 31:2 "Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me."
Yes. We can be completely confident that God can and will complete all His plans. Isaiah 46:11b – Yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
The tribulation will be a time when God's anger will be upon the earth. The word comes from a passage in Matthew 24:21 where Jesus says, "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." Jesus then continues to explain in Matthew 24:29-30 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
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- James Franco is getting a Comedy Central Roast. Oh, goddammit… [Lainey Gossip]
- Halle Berry's getting married this weekend and apparently birthing the baby right on the alter. [Dlisted]
- Nothing beats a woman's point of view. [theCHIVE]
- Miley Cyrus is literally begging for attention now. [Fishwrapper]
- Goddamn, Cher Lloyd in Inked magazine… [tooFab]
- Have I mentioned my state's new attorney general is fucking awesome? She's fucking awesome. [BuzzFeed]
- I have no idea who Gio Ott is, but she oughto Gia Ott out of that bikini I'll go shoot myself now. [Popoholic]
- They're still making trailers for The Canyons? I don't get it. [IDLYITW]
- Just a reminder: Leonardo DiCaprio got tired of banged this. [Hollywood Tuna]
- Bella Thorne bikini photos, anyone? [Celebslam]
- Don't pretend you don't want a copy of the Man of Steel porn parody. I hear Farrah Abraham's nose plays the Fortress of Bangitude. [DrunkenStepfather: Site is NSFW]
- Kris Jenner apparently pretends she's not a grandmother. Of course. [Amy Grindhouse]
- Turns out Sam Mendes really does have the time to make another Bond movie. But who will direct British theater in his stead? WHO?! [FilmDrunk]
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Bra Called "Milkshake" To Make A Splash At Lingerie Show
The Paris lingerie show is later this month and organizers are expecting some extremely high-tech underwear this year. Some of the interesting innovations will include the Decollete anti-wrinkle bra, which we've talked about before, "that can iron out crinkly cleavages as a woman sleeps," as well as " a smart Slovenian brassiere whose foam cups expand with body heat when the wearer works out or flirts." A bra that expands cup-size when the wearer flirts? Eh, wake me when there's a bra that'll do my dishes for me! Oh, and there's also a French bra called Milkshake that will make an appearance at the show. Its fabric is made of milk proteins that contain 10 amino acids to hydrate the skin. With a name like "Milkshake," I'd think it might do well in the "nursing mom" category. So, big question: would you wear any of these kinds of bras, and if so, how much would you be willing to spend? [via Yahoo]


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Colleen Berry (Modern and Classical Languages). Colleen received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Before she arrived at UND, she taught Chinese and Japanese language, as well as Chinese literature and Chinese civilization classes at the University of Manitoba. Her areas of interest are Modern and Classical Chinese literature, Second Language Acquisition, Gender Studies, and various aspects of Chinese history and culture.
Colleen worked as a tour director in China over a twelve year span, leading a total of forty-three tours. She has spent more than ten years living, working, and studying in China, Taiwan and Japan. As a graduate student at Indiana (Bloomington), she was selected as a recipient of the Leiber Award for Outstanding Teaching for her work as a Assistant Instructor in Chinese language classes. Her current research interests focus on the work of the modern Hong Kong writer, Lilian Lee (Li Bihua) and on the intersection of classical and modern Chinese literature in Lee's works.


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Taylor Canfield and Scott Dickson already had their Congressional Cup berths locked up when they raced into the championship match of Long Beach Yacht Club's Ficker Cup Sunday, but, win or lose, that was important.
Dickson said, "I just enjoy going head to head with the best guys in the world."
They'll certainly be in that company in this week's 49th Congressional, Tuesday through Saturday, when they step up from Grade 2 to Grade 1 level on the global match racing circuit. That will be on the same outer harbor waters where Canfield, ranked No. 8 in the world, won his last 12 races to claim the prize named for Bill Ficker, who was skipper of the 12-Meter Intrepid that successfully defended the America's Cup against Australia's Gretel II in 1970.
Canfield already had an invitation to the Congressional. But Dickson, representing the host club with a local crew, had to win his way in.
They started out Friday by winning their first race against the heavy favorite, Canfield, which turned out to be his only loss in a 12-1 charge, including a 2-0 sweep of Dickson in the title match Sunday.


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Clé de Cartier
Cartier, master of shaped watches, presents the Clé de Cartier. The design is a testament to accuracy, balance and proportion; with soft curves, clean lines and a rounded profile Clé owes its name to its crown. Considerable mastery was required to create fluid lines and a harmonious ensemble. The 35 mm and 40 mm Clé de Cartier models house the calibre 1847 MC, the new Cartier Manufacture Movement.
Clé de Cartier watch, 40 mm, Manufacture mechanical movement with automatic winding, calibre 1847 MC. 18K pink gold case. 18K pink gold key set with a sapphire. Silvered flinqué sunray effect dial, Roman numerals. Blued-steel sword-shaped hands. Sapphire crystal and case back. 18K pink gold bracelet. Case thickness: 11.76 mm. Water-resistant to 3 bar (approx. 30 metres/100 feet).
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