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One in 5 U.S. adults surveyed said they would planned to own a tablet by 2014, giving Apple, Android and the latecomers plenty of time to duke it out over market share. |
The market carved out by Apple's iPad has a bright future, as 1 in 5 American Adults plan to own a tablet computer by 2014, according to a survey of 2,288 participants from Fuze Box and Harris Interactive. |
Market researcher Harris conducted the survey online Nov. 10 through Nov. 12 on behalf of sponsor Fuze Box, which makes Web conferencing applications for computers, tablets and smartphones. |
Application use on tablets, including the iPad and machines based on Google's Android platform, RIM's PlayBook, HP's PalmBook and Microsoft Windows 7 tablets, will see quite a range. |
Some 78 percent of respondents said they planned to use their tablets to surf the Web. Three-quarters of people said they would use their machines for e-mail. |
Electronic reading of books and newspapers, (53 percent), social networking (50 percent), consuming TV via Netflix, Hulu and other apps (43 percent) were also popular draws. |
Tablet use bodes well for enterprises as well, with 37 percent of respondents pledging to use their machines for business concerns. |
Some 58 percent of those polled said they expected to engage in business correspondence with their tablets, with 37 percent looking to participate in online meetings and Web conferences. |
Fuze, which has tailored its Web conferencing app for iPads and Samsung's Galaxy Tab, expects corporate sales workers to use its applications for participating in virtual meetings while traveling. |
"With 2 in 5 tablet owners using their device for business by 2014, we have officially entered the post-PC era and the potential is there to reinvent the business environment for collaboration with portable and tactile computing devices, complete with cameras, document sharing, cloud computing, and storage," Fuze Box C... |
Marketing (34 percent), training (33 percent), finance, (32 percent), and other areas rounded out the business use case for tablets in the Fuze poll. |
One other interesting note: the researchers found that men are more likely than women to say they own and/or plan to buy a tablet computer in the next three years. That's by a count of 26 percent to 18 percent. |
The launch of Apple's iPad in April ushered in a deluge of tablet products based on Google's Android operating system this fall. HP, Microsoft and RIM promised to have tablets in 2011. |
Expect the Consumer Electronics Show in January to play host to a hotbed of tablet announcements, including Motorola's Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. |
Despite the coming glut of tablets, Piper Jaffray analysts claim the iPad will command 44 percent of the total tablet market by 2012, with Android tablets commanding 39 percent. That leaves 17 percent for Microsoft, HP's Palm and RIM to fight over. |
Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon lashed into Naftali Bennett. "The blood of the Duma attack is on our hands." |
Former Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon lashed into Education Minister Naftali Bennett, blaming him for the 2015 'price tag' arson attack in Duma that killed the Dawabshe family. Yaalon also ripped Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, and compared her to Turkish President Racep Erdogan. |
Yaalon condemned Bennett's behavior at the demolition of Bet El's Draynoff Homes in 2015, which the High Court had ordered to be destroyed. "When soldiers came to evacuate the houses (the homes of Darinoff in Beit El) and young people threw stones and bags of urine at them, the Education Minister stood there and blamed... |
"We should not be surprised later when they cut Arab olive trees or burn mosques and churches or even family in Duma," Ya'alon continued. "The blood of the Dawabsha family in Duma and of the Henkin family who was murdered in a revenge attack is on our hands." |
Yaalon was referring to the arson attack in the Arab village of Duma that killed three members of the Dawabshe in July 2015. |
Yaalon also attacked Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, contending that the ruling Likud party mimics Turkish President Racep Erdogan. "When I hear her say that the government should control the media, I shudder." Yaalon said. "Even the coalition chairman MK David Bitan says that Likud needs to control the media. E... |
“The prime minister must resign today, immediately” Yaalon said at a cultural event. "There is a lack of confidence in the leadership. If the considerations from above are not clean, I am not positive that there is not also an effect on IDF enlistment." |
Yaalon and Naftali Bennett have been at loggerheads ever since they sharply disagreed over how to handle Hamas in 2014's Operation Protective Edge. Bennett lobbied for the IDF to destroy the Hamas terror tunnels, despite the heavy opposition from Yaalon, who favored conducting the war through air strikes. |
A former national security adviser under President Obama said there's "no way" President Trump Donald John TrumpButtigieg on Mueller report: 'Politically, I'm not sure it will change much' Sarah Sanders addresses false statements detailed in Mueller report: 'A slip of the tongue' Trump to visit Japan in May to meet wit... |
"There is no way that President Trump can be ready, by May, to have a high stakes negotiation on denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, it's just impossible," said Samantha Vinograd, a former senior adviser on the National Security Council under Obama. |
South Korea's national security adviser announced at the White House on Thursday that Trump accepted Kim Jong Un's offer for a summit, and would meet the reclusive leader by May "to achieve permanent denuclearization." |
Vinograd told CNN's Erin Burnett that while the situation feels different than past negotiations, "that doesn't mean we should rush into a nuclear summit." |
Obama, Vinograd said, would spend months preparing with a team of advisers before any kind of meeting with a foreign head of state. A meeting held by Trump, a political novice, on such short notice is likely due to desperation, she said. |
She also added that Trump only agreed to the meeting "perhaps because he wants a PR opportunity, perhaps because he's desperate to do a deal." |
The president, who has long been critical of Obama's tactic of "strategic patience" with the aggressive nuclear power, agreed to the deal after Kim informed South Korean delegates sent to the Winter Olympics that he would be open to meeting Trump. |
"And guess what? you can't wing it. Kim Jong Un is going to be fully prepared. I think that he's playing to the president's ego and the president's weaknesses by flattering him," Vinograd stated. |
1) Which quarterback stands out the best with the first team? |
This is the obvious one. Thus far, Richt has maintained that each quarterback has received an equal amount of reps with the first team. The evaluation process, to this point, has been guarded at Fort Knox standards. No one knows what Richt is thinking and he's not letting anyone on the outside know. |
What we do know is that Brice Ramsey has the best arm strength and release of the quarterbacks. Greyson Lambert might have the best football IQ of the bunch, which combines with his 16 games of experience as Virginia's signal caller. Faton Bauta is the steadiest, but more in the lines of Hutson Mason. He may not have t... |
Any of the quarterbacks could have looked better than the other up to this point. But this will be the first true test for the quarterbacks in a game situation. |
2) Will Trenton Thompson impress to the point he's assured a starting spot? |
Thompson, Georgia's most ballyhooed recruit in this year's class, has done his part to stay even keeled through the process. He looks great in individual drills, has a quickness you can't teach for his size and looks the part of someone that can play college football right away. But like any true freshman, Thompson wil... |
Thompson showed a shy and reserved persona when he met with the media. I'm sure the coaches love the fact they got a star player that doesn't seem too interested in answering many questions about himself. It's a cliche, but Thompson does come across as a team-first guy. And if he can prove Friday that he'll help his te... |
3) Which receivers are game-ready? |
Malcolm Mitchell is Georgia's No. 1 receiver. From there, it's a crapshoot. Isaiah McKenzie was working as the No. 2 receiver before a hamstring pull. Freshman Terry Godwin was working as a top five receiver before his shoulder injury. You'd have to assume, out of caution, that neither receiver will participate in Frid... |
Reggie Davis could work his way as a first-teamer if he can show he's more than a nine-route receiver with speed. True freshmen Michael Chigbu and Jayson Stanely could show why that they are deserving of playing time. Kenneth Towns, a fundamentally sound junior walk-on, has a chance to show why he can be counted on for... |
Four-star freshman Pat Allen waits his turn on a loaded Georgia offensive line. Included is a funny anecdote Allen gave about beating Juwuan Briscoe's team in the Maryland state semifinals last year. |
Georgia's freshman defensive backs are embracing competition early on. |
Freshman Rodrigo Blankesnship is competing for both the punter and kickoff specialist roles this preseason. |
Freshman defensive back Rico McGraw eyes an early-season trip to Nashville when Georgia takes on Vanderbilt, writes the Athens Banner-Herald's Marc Weiszer. |
Connor Riley writes for The Red & Black that two-a-day practices are beginning to come to an end. |
22-year-old freshman Nick Moore transitions from professional baseball to being a first-year college football athlete, posts Bulldawg Illustrated's Greg Poole. |
The AJC's Seth Emerson writes that Georgia's receivers will need to come up big this season. |
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$119 was the average price of a prescription from this provider, compared to $87 among peers. |
This provider's address and specialty information was last updated on Jan. 29, 2018. |
Ransomware has increasingly become the de facto cybercrime, with WannaCry recently infecting over 300,000 computers around the globe. But ones that take on nasty new personalities may be the future. |
Dubbed Popcorn Time, this version of ransomware was discovered last year late last year. It's one of the nastiest forms of ransomware to date, as noted by the New York Times. Like most ransomware, it attempts to hijack your computer and lock you out of your data. |
Once that is accomplished, it demands money to get access to that data back. But Popcorn Time (no relation to the streaming movie app) added a twist. It also gave you the option to pass the malware onto more people. |
If one of those people clicked on the malware bait, you got control of your computer back, in lieu of paying the one bitcoin ransom, or about $2,365. |
The New York Times likened it to a Ponzi scheme, noting "one person entraps another, with malware that holds a computer hostage for payment." |
Today Popcorn Time is not a threat, but this type of ransomware is likely to continue, with its inherent maliciousness. |
Ransomware is growing in number of incidents, variety, and sophistication, according to an April report published by software security firm Symantec. |
The report noted that ransomware “attackers have honed and perfected the ransomware business model, using strong encryption, anonymous Bitcoin payments, and vast spam campaigns to create dangerous and wider-ranging malware." Symantec added that more attackers are likely to follow suit, with more attacks to come. |
And ransomware typically targets the least technically-knowledgeable segment of the computer-using population: consumers, who are the target of almost 70 percent of the infections, the report said. |
Here's a simple fact that could be contributing to both shortages and diversity gaps in school districts: Teachers are often hired by word of mouth. |
It makes sense, the study authors say: School leaders are hiring people who they think will be a good fit, and personal referrals make a candidate seem likeable. (Previous research shows that hiring managers are more likely to hire candidates they personally like.) But this approach might actually contribute to shortag... |
The Frontline authors looked at three years of data from over 800 school districts and charter schools, studying nearly 1.1 million job applications. They found that 68 percent of educators are hired from "known" sources—referrals and district or school websites—even though only 41 percent of applications are from thos... |
But these teachers may not be sticking around, the study found: According to the data, nearly one-third of teachers leave within their first three years to go to another school, and another 20 percent leave within the three years after that. |
"We can reduce turnover by maximizing fit," the study authors wrote. "Fit should incorporate attention to best practices in hiring, which require applicants to demonstrate competency in content knowledge and pedagogy, while also considering the school demographics and specific needs." |
In other words: "Hiring should be focused more on credentials and experience, and less on word of mouth," they wrote. |
The court order was largely ignored until 2010, when the court reaffirmed the decree and added that whenever a qualified black applicant is not chosen for a teaching position, the district had to explain why. Since then, the number of black teachers who were hired increased significantly. |
Still, the authors of the paper note that for this type of policy to be effective, there must be qualified black teachers in the applicant pool. The authors were not able to find data on the number or race of applicants to see if that was the case in the district—but according to a survey the authors conducted in an at... |
The paper's authors wrote that this could pose a problem for increasing diversity: In rural Louisiana, black applicants could be less likely than white applicants to hear about job openings through word of mouth because they could have different social and professional networks. (For instance, white applicants might he... |
A nationally representative Education Week Research Center survey of more than 500 K-12 teachers asked what districts should do differently to find and hire high-quality teachers. Twenty-two percent said districts should improve their job interview, screening, and selection processes. That was the third most common ans... |
Tostitos has already been slammed for its fake “artisanal” labeling. Now it’s being sued for allegedly fake “all natural” labeling. |
Milberg LLP has filed a class-action lawsuit against Frito-Lay claiming that the company’s packaging on Sun Chips and Tostitos chips is misleading. The claim is based on the use of genetically modified seeds corn and vegetable oil used in the product. The Huffington Post points out that the FDA definition of natural is... |
Milburg has previously sued ConAgra for the same reason. While things are slow next week, tell your clients to fact check their packaging. |
On Thursday, news broke that Apple had bought Emotient, a San Diego-based startup that builds technology that can recognize emotions based on people's facial expressions. |
Emotient's technology can use video from regular cameras, scan it to find faces, and then analyze the facial expressions on the people in the video to determine, instantaneously, how people are feeling. |
It's unclear what Apple plans to do with Emotient's technology — Apple said in a statement to Tech Insider that it "buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans." |
Jan Dawson, chief analyst at the technology research firm Jackdaw Research, speculated that Apple could use the technology to help Siri suggest better apps for you at any given moment. For example, iOS 9, the latest update to Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system, includes Siri App suggestions: Swipe down on your ho... |
In a video about Emotient, Marian Bartlett, a founder of Emotient and the company's lead scientist, calls healthcare "a major area" for the company. |
"Emotion is like the missing vital sign," Bartlett says. "Facial expression conveys information about depression or PTSD, and we can also measure information about things like levels of pain." |
Apple is making a major play into health. Its Health app is a dashboard for data like heart rate, steps walked, calories burned, blood sugar, cholesterol, and more. It could incorporate Emotient's technology so you can easily and accurately keep track of your emotional health, too. |
Maybe one day you'll be able to search Apple's Photos app for "happy photos." |
Apple can currently use information like where you live, what you've downloaded (apps, movies, books, music, etc.), what music you listen to in Apple Music, and what you read and subscribe to in Apple News, in order to target advertising to you. And, of course, it could do an even better job targeting ads to you if it ... |
Apple could use the technology in its retail stores to gauge consumers' shopping experiences and improve or alter certain aspects of the store experience. |
One of Emotient's promo videos plays up its benefit to advertisers and marketers, showing a focus group while they watch a Superbowl ad. |
This, the narrator says in the video, can "help advertisers judge the impact of their ads." |
Variety reported over the summer that Apple was exploring getting into original content. The company could use Emotient's technology for screen-testing, another use outlined in Emotient's promotional video. |
Sometimes, it's clear what Apple will do with an acquisition. For example, when the company bought AuthenTec, the Florida-based company that made fingerprint sensors, a few years ago, many people correctly assumed that the sensor would find its way to iPhones and help enable mobile payments. |
With Emotient, it's not so clear. Maybe the technology will never find its way to a consumer product. |
Till the bitter end, Mike D’Antoni refused to make excuses. |
Even as Lakers losses pile up at a record pace and fans constantly point an angry finger at him, D’Antoni still won’t throw his aging, injury-riddled roster under the bus or criticize the front office for handing him one of the most talent-deficient teams in franchise history. |
But an unyielding loyalty to a team comprised of backups isn’t enough to save his job as head coach. |
It’s time for the Lakers to move on from the awkward, ill-fated relationship they forged with D’Antoni upon hiring him over fan favorite Phil Jackson. |
Fair or not, it’s time to fire Mike D’Antoni. |
And soon after, convince Los Angeles native Kevin Ollie to leave national champion Connecticut to return home and coach his hometown Lakers. |
Or talk Derek Fisher out of playing one more season so he can accelerate the next chapter of his career. |
But more on that in a bit. |
There is something admirable about D’Antoni, who has remained outwardly upbeat, surprisingly self-deprecating and steadfastly faithful to his players and franchise even while absorbing an inordinate amount of blame for the Lakers’ mess. |
The class D’Antoni is showing should count for something, not that fuming Lakers fans are in any mood to concede as much. They turned on the poor guy the minute he was hired and were furious he wasn’t Jackson, who the Lakers unfortunately led them to believe was next in line upon firing Mike Brown last season. |
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