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Do the answers provided relate well to the category and convey a truly innovative approach?
Many of those nominated choose not go forward with their nomination and the extensive evaluation process. This says nothing about the store of innovation accumulated in their product. But it does speak to execution and opportunity. If nominated next year, I recommend expending the effort to fill out all of those questions. These answers speak to the quality of your company, vision and products. These are answers you need to succeed at business. It also provides extensive visibility through ongoing editorial coverage of innovative technical advancements, and to the judges who ultimately review and frequently buy products from the contestants.
There is a small fee for submitting an entry form to subsidize the cost of the program. And, as a result of their investment, contestants have won millions of dollars in new business opportunities through the exposure and validation the program provides. But this is not a lottery. The fees help cover the extensive effort made by Pipeline associates in reviewing these extensive entries, ensuring their quality for the award judges, and hosting a red-carpet awards reception in Nice, France, where the industry's innovators come together each year.
Awards are given for ten areas of innovation each year. Award winners receive a one of a kind, art-glass trophy and each category is backed up by an runner up who takes home a trophy of their own. Categories include established and emerging technology fields. Established fields include Operational Support Systems, Business Support Systems, Network Technology, Managed Services, and Customer Experience Management. Emerging technology fields include Big Data and Analytics and Security & Assurance. New categories are established as new technologies become important to operators. As innovation comes, not just from small single product new entrants, but from established purveyors of many integrated solutions who have created a culture of innovation, there is also a category for Most Innovative Technology Provider.
Each year, Pipeline also recognizes the Most Innovative Operator and a runner up in this category as well. The pillar around which our value chain wraps is the service provider's customers. Innovation is only a potential until it is integrated into the operation and services provided to a provider's business customers and consumers of telecommunication and entertainment. Realizing the value of innovation is a significant effort. Often the service provider is a partner with the product supplier in refining the implementation and value of the product. Sometimes even the initial idea and the development are home grown. Service Providers pull everyone in the innovation flow forward.
Selection of Semi-Finalists
Companies respond by submitting questionnaires in the relevant categories they select. Often a company enters several categories with different products. A team of Pipeline editors moderate various categories and divide up the responses from those companies. Then the working team reviews the entries. Many entries are evaluated by multiple reviewers. This is a huge task taking many weeks of work. Each entry contains dozens of detailed pages and takes several hours to review. Companies are invited to submit additional information which is also considered.
I specifically say review because the Pipeline team does not evaluate the company or products. What the staff evaluates is the completeness and quality of the application. Was the question answered? Did the nominated respondent understand the question? Would the judges be annoyed with vacuous marketing speak? Were significant answers supplied? By significant, specifically, would a judge reading this answer understand what the company was communicating? Would they learn something? Is there enough information for the judge to evaluate the product using the Judge's own specific criteria? Do the answers provided relate well to the category and convey a truly innovative approach?
The moderators analytically score the completeness and quality of the response. Then the data is normalized to amplify both category-specific information and areas of innovation, while dampening other areas to ensure an even playing field for all competitors. Only the top two Semi-finalists with the highest scores are selected to move on to the Finalist level. This is an important filtering process because the time and thoughts of our judges are quite valuable. Judges consist of technical executives from influential companies, including companies like BT, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Vodafone this year. And reading 20 to 60 documents is a steep task. Only 10 percent of the nominated companies made it to the finalist level. Notably, many of the largest technologies faced off against nimble, new market entrants. And some of those fresh new competitors won.
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Operational Support Systems: Virtualization was a theme. Ericsson entered its Ericsson Cloud Manager 15.2. In the providers transition to SDN and NFV, services will need to become cloud resident. Cloud manager uses SDN and virtualization technologies to "provides orchestration, management and monitoring of services running on geographically distributed" systems. NEC entered Netcracker 10 Operations Management. It leverages virtualization in the product. For providers, it supplies top to bottom management of hybrid infrastructure and services across physical and virtual platforms. Along the way it uses provides and uses analytics. Analytics were big this year in many categories. Subex's Network Analytics provides "network intelligence and actionable insights for managing and optimizing network capex." It employs "predictive and descriptive analytics across the entire network asset lifecycle combined with complex process management…". Capex is better leveraged by decision makers that are provided with network intelligence, capacity analytics, and lifecycle analytics.

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Is NAFTA Over?
The presidents of Mexico and the United States are negotiating their new economic relationship in an oddly public way.
Mexican President Enrique Peña NietoEdgard Garrido / Reuters
It only took a matter of days for the economic ties between the United States and Mexico to begin to unravel. Both presidents had been laying out their cards in the days leading up to their meeting, which was scheduled for Tuesday, when they were expected to start renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
On Tuesday, Enrique Peña Nieto told the Mexican press that he was prepared for Mexico to leave NAFTA all together if he didn't like Trump's proposals. On Wednesday, Peña Nieto's top ministers traveled to Washington, D.C., and met with Trump's staff. That afternoon, Trump signed an executive order to start building a wall on the southern border, insisting that Mexico would pay. That night, Peña Nieto said he wouldn't pay for the wall. On Thursday, everything seemed to fall apart over Twitter. Trump tweeted that Peña Nieto shouldn't come to Washington if Mexico won't pay for the wall. Minutes later, Peña Nieto sent out his own tweet, announcing that he was canceling his trip to Washington, then followed up with another tweet saying he was still willing to work with the United States "to reach an agreement that is favorable to both countries." By the end of the day, Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer said a border tax on Mexican imports would pay for the wall, though he later clarified to Peter Alexander of NBC News that this was not a specific proposal but an "example of options," as Alexander phrased it, for how to fund the wall. (Mexico is America's third-biggest goods trading partner.)
This aggressive back-and-forth indicates how Trump plans to renegotiate NAFTA: in the public sphere. And it puts Peña Nieto in a tough situation. The Mexican president is under intense pressure to stand up to Trump's insults, while acknowledging that millions of jobs in Mexico depend on trade with the United States. Yet as I've noted before, nearly 5 million U.S. jobs also depend on trade with Mexico.
To understand the significance of both presidents' actions on the future of NAFTA and commerce between both countries, I spoke to Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. (This interview took place mid-day on Thursday, before some the back-and-forth over taxes had transpired.) The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Alexia Fernández Campbell: What's does all this mean for the relationship between Mexico and the United States?
Christopher Wilson: Well, it's not good. Both countries have built a cooperative relationship over the last several decades that provided tangible benefits to both the U.S. and Mexico in terms of security of prosperity. Some of those benefits are on the line.
Campbell: What are some of those benefits?
Wilson: Mexico, since 9/11, has cooperated very closely with U.S. authorities to provide information and ensure that no terrorist ever enters the United States through Mexico. And Mexico sends 80 percent of its exports to the U.S., so trade is a top order of national interest and they are willing to do whatever they can do ensure they have access to the U.S. market. The commercial relationship has helped the Mexican economy develop and bring many Mexicans into the middle class. It's also an issue of migration. Mexico has been slowing the flow of Central American migrants from its southern border. They are deporting more Central Americans than the United States. So the benefits of the relationship go in both direction.
Campbell: What does the deteriorating relationship say about the future of NAFTA and free trade between the countries? Is it the end?
Wilson: No, I think both sides still have leverage. Donald Trump for months has tried to stake a strong negotiating stance with a 35 percent tariff on imports and having Mexico pay for the wall. Mexico in recent days has started to suggest that it is willing to walk away from NAFTA. Now that he has canceled this meeting, both sides have done a certain degree of posturing and no doubt that puts a certain degree of cooperation on the line, but at the end of the day they will be neighbors and there is no way to undo that. I think the negotiations will continue. They might be starting at a worse point than what was possible a couple of days ago, and they might get worse.
Campbell: What happens if NAFTA falls apart?
Wilson: You can get rid of NAFTA, but it will come at an economic cost for both sides. Even without NAFTA there will be huge amounts of trade. American companies have invested billions and billions of dollars and they are not just going to walk away from those investments just because NAFTA is gone. If things got way worse, then you might have to see investments be reconsidered. Based on the United States' commitment to the World Trade Organization, there will be higher tariffs, so it will slow business down but it's not going to put a halt to it.
Campbell: It seems like the negotiations have gotten quite personal, and that the Mexican people are insulted by the border wall more than anything else. Do you think that plays a role?
Wilson: I think that it has become more than just a negotiating position for Mexico, it's a matter of national pride. Peña Nieto has limited political space within which he can maneuver. He has low public approval there and there is a presidential election in 2018 and Mexicans feel insulted by statements made by [Trump's] campaign and some of the statements that continue to be made. It's also an issue of domestic politics. If the public is clamoring for someone to stand up in the face of someone who they see as being a bully, then the next president is going to reflect that. If people want a relationship that is based on cooperation, then the next president or party is going to represent that cooperation. The pressure has been building on the president and his team to not take perceived insult without responding.


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Security researchers from Check Point Research have uncovered a new strain of adware called SimBad that has infected about 206 apps in the Google Play Store.
Though the apps have been removed from the Play Store by Google, the apps are said to have collectively been installed over 150 million times by unsuspecting Android users.
According to the report (via ArsTechnica), once the any of the apps were installed, they would bombard the user's phone with ads that would play in the background even if the app wasn't open at all
Apart from the annoying constant display of unsolicited ads in the background, the SimBad adware can also be remotely commanded to open a specific URL in the web browser. Since the adware can take users to any desired web page in the web browser, the malware creators can as well easily generate phishing pages.
The adware can also hide an infected app's icon from the launcher so as to make it difficult for the phone user to uninstall the infected app(s).
Check Point researchers noted that the SimBad malware is part of the 'RXDrioder' SDK that is provided to developers as an add-on SDK for ad-related services.
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Immunohistochemical markers of neural progenitor cells in the early embryonic human cerebral cortex
The development of the human central nervous system represents a delicate moment of embryogenesis. The purpose of this study was to analyze the expression of multiple immunohistochemical markers in the stem/progenitor cells in the human cerebral cortex during the early phases of development.  To this end, samples from cerebral cortex were obtained from 4 human embryos of 11 weeks of gestation. Each sample was formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded and immunostained with several markers including GFAP, WT1, Nestin, Vimentin, CD117, S100B, Sox2, PAX2, PAX5, Tβ4, Neurofilament, CD44, CD133, Synaptophysin and Cyclin D1. Our study shows the ability of the different immunohistochemical markers to evidence different zones of the developing human cerebral cortex, allowing the identification of the multiple stages of differentiation of neuronal and glial precursors. Three important markers of radial glial cells are evidenced in this early gestational age: Vimentin, Nestin and WT1. Sox2 was expressed by the stem/progenitor cells of the ventricular zone, whereas the postmitotic neurons of the cortical plate were immunostained by PAX2 and NSE. Future studies are needed to test other important stem/progenitor cells markers and to better analyze differences in the immunohistochemical expression of these markers during gestation
Titolo: Immunohistochemical markers of neural progenitor cells in the early embryonic human cerebral cortex
VINCI, LAURA
Ravarino, A
FANOS, VASSILIOS
Naccarato, AG
SENES, GIANCARLO
GEROSA, CLARA
Bevilacqua, G
FAA, GAVINO
AMBU, ROSSANO
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY
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There is additional legal protection for such people under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 - For further information please refer to the Useful Links section.
Cases of abuse can result in criminal prosecution and action being taken by the courts.
Who are 'Adults at Risk of harm'?
is experiencing, or at risk of harm of, abuse or neglect and as a result of those care and support needs is unable to protect themselves from either the risk of harm of, or experience of abuse or neglect.
Whilst neither the Care Act of 2015 nor its statutory guidance specifically defines abuse, it does state that professionals should not limit their view of what constitutes abuse or neglect as it can take many forms and the circumstances of the individual case should always be considered.
The Care Act statutory guidance goes on to provide a detailed definition of each of the ten types of abuse which is listed below. Further to this, the guidance highlights that incidents of abuse may be one-off or multiple, and affect one person or more. Therefore professional should look beyond single incidents or individuals to identify patterns of harm.
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People might also think that the standard of care they are receiving is all they can expect.
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Abuse of Adults at Risk does not have to be deliberate, malicious or planned. It sometimes happens when people are trying to do their best but do not know the right thing to do. Sometimes the person who causes harm does so because of frustration even in the caring context.
However, irrespective of why the abuse might happen, any abuse of a Adult at Risk is harmful. This makes it vitally important to ensure that those involved with the care and wellbeing of Adults at Risk have a clear sense of what signifies abuse and what must happen should abuse be suspected or discovered.
The Care and Support Statutory Guidance issued under the Care Act 2014, The Department of Health chapter 14.16 considers the different types and patterns of abuse and neglect and the different circumstances in which they may take place. The list below is not intended to be exhaustive but an illustrative guide as to the sort of behaviour which could give rise to a safeguarding concern.
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I'm really happy with how the new chair turned out.
I'm busy making chairs for the rest of the band to recreate their famous tuxedo photo.


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What a time to head to Los Cabos.
It seemed like a good idea at the time…The G20, the group of a-bit-more-than-20 leaders from both developed and developing states, is scheduled to meet in Mexico on 18-19 June. So the EU sensibly scheduled a summit meeting with Mexico for 16 June in the same resort, Los Cabos.
Both Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, who were recently cabin-mates at Camp David, are scheduled to attend. But now that the eurozone's troubles are so severe and the preparations for the European Council of 28-29 June are so important, being away that long does not look so clever.
Would it help to be reminded that Mexico's decision to default on its debt, in August 1982, in what is sometimes referred to as "the Mexican weekend", sounded the starting gun for the Latin American debt crisis and Latin America's lost decade?
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Germany's strategic timidity
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Herman Van Rompuy José Manuel Barroso


Cute layout! Love the bunny and carrot cuts. TFS!
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You can bet I'll send a card to your friend's son. The men and women in the military don't get anywhere near the respect and honor they deserve. God Bless Them! As for the opportunity to win something from your blog...count me in.
I've used Wild Card cart myself, so I appreciate your cards. They cut out small but lovely. Maybe I should try "fit to page" next time. Great job!
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Cute flowers on this LO!!!
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Who wouldn't love this in their Easter basket? Fun!
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beautiful work as always krista :) ill say it again..i love your bunnies :) .
Very springy layout! Love your Easter colors. TFS!
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So springy and fun. Darling bunnies. Love the hydrangae.
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Very springy layout. Love all the Easter colors. TFS!
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The Russians have their Avangard missiles and the Chinese have a railgun, but the Americans have developed maneuverable hypersonic shells for their existing artillery.
The United States, Russia, and China all tested new super-fast "hypersonic" munitions in 2018, escalating a global competition for weaponry that can strike farther and harder than ever before and potentially defeat existing defenses.
The Russian and Chinese hypersonics tests were the most dramatic. But the much quieter American trial pointed toward a much more immediate and widespread transformation of military capabilities than the Russians or Chinese are likely to achieve.
The world's armies have long eyed faster munitions, especially faster munitions that also are maneuverable. Swifter, nimbler rockets could strike with less warning and evade missile-defense systems. Speedier, more streamlined artillery shells could travel farther and impact with greater destructive force.
Most experts agree: If a weapon can travel at least five times the speed of sound, it's hypersonic—although some say the munition must be maneuverable, too, to be effective.
In late December, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Kremlin had tested the new Avangard hypersonic rocket. "The test was completely successful," Putin said. "All technical parameters were verified."
Avangard is a hypersonic glide vehicle. It boosts into the upper atmosphere atop a rocket then detaches and glides toward its target, performing small maneuvers en route. The Kremlin announced it would fit Avangard with an atomic warhead and, starting in 2019, deploy it alongside old-style intercontinental ballistic missiles.
But as a delivery system for nuclear warheads, Avangard doesn't actually enhance Russia's military arsenal. That's because Russia's ICBMs already possess the range to strike targets all over the world and the speed to evade all but the luckiest shot by American missile defenses.
Indeed, ICBMs in the terminal phase of their flight already are hypersonic. Avangard flies lower in the atmosphere than an ICBM does and might be faster than an ICBM is in early phases of flight. The practical differences end there.
"I don't think this system brings any new capability that the existing weapons like ICBMs don't have," Pavel Podvig, an independent expert on the Russian military, told The Daily Beast.
America's own nukes deter Russia from using its nukes, and vice versa. Labeling a new weapon "hypersonic" doesn't alter that balance of power.
For that reason, the nuclear-armed Avangard mostly is for show. It looks fearsome and sounds cool. "There is a lot of political theater there," Podvig said.
James Acton, a weapons expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., said a nuclear-armed hypersonic weapon is no more threatening than an older ICBM is. "What does concern me is a very long-range conventionally-armed system," he added.
Unlike a nuke, a conventional weapon might actually get used in scenarios short of a world-ending apocalypse. "That would pose a real new threat to the United States," Acton said.
It's China, not Russia, that's making what seem the biggest strides toward fielding a non-nuclear hypersonic weapon. But even China's new weapon is less fearsome than it might appear to be. Ironically, its own sophistication holds it back.
Around the same time Putin announced the results of the Avangard test, a photo appeared online that showed a Chinese warship sailing the open ocean while armed with an electromagnetic railgun that could be capable of firing shells at hypersonic velocity.
A railgun propels its projectiles by way of magnetic force, as opposed to explosive-powder charges that conventional guns use.
China's railgun first appeared in January 2018 in a photo of the Chinese navy landing vessel Haiyang Shan while the ship reportedly was at a facility in Wuhan on the Yangtze River. A large cannon was visible on Haiyang Shan's forward deck.
In March, Chinese state media confirmed the cannon was an experimental railgun. The December photo seemed to confirm that the gun had undergone at-sea tests, making it the first such weapon to do so.
The U.S. Navy since 2012 has been developing its own railgun, but as of early 2019 the weapon had yet to go to sea. That doesn't mean the Americans weren't working on super-fast weapons, however.
Pentagon officials in early January leaked news of the U.S. Navy's own hypersonics test, this one involving a Navy warship firing hypersonic shells during a summer 2018 war game near Hawaii. The Pentagon's secretive Strategic Capabilities Office helped to oversee the trial.
In the test, the destroyer USS Dewey fired 20 of the hypervelocity projectiles from its standard, five-inch-diameter gunpowder cannon, officials told the website of the U.S. Naval Institute.
The new projectile is more aerodynamic than old-style shells and features tiny fins and a radar guidance system that helps it to hone in on a target at speeds as fast as seven times the speed of sound. That's roughly three times the velocity a normal naval shell can achieve.
Far-flying and accurate, the shells in theory can target ships, ground targets, aircraft and even incoming missiles.
At first glance, the American test might appear to be the least remarkable of the three countries' 2018 hypersonics trials. It didn't involve a new gun or missile, just a new, super-aerodynamic shell. The shell is non-nuclear. The Pentagon didn't formally announce the test or circulate any photos.
But the U.S. test arguably is the most likely to result in the widespread deployment of a truly transformational new weapon. And it underlines the Pentagon's advantage over the Russian and Chinese militaries in the hypersonics race.
While Russia, China and the United States all are developing a wide array of new hypersonic weapons, it's telling which systems each country has prioritized.
Russia has focused on seemingly impressive but marginally useful hypersonic weapons that make for good PR but don't actually shift the balance of power. China for its part has chosen to tinker with very advanced high technology that might prove impractical. America meanwhile has focused on less sophisticated weapons it's reasonably certain it can deploy quickly and widely, while deferring development of more ambitious munitions designs until the technology is more mature.
"Experts often argue the United States is behind in this technology because Russia and China appear to be testing more frequently," Acton wrote in an explainer on the Carnegie Endowment website. "This is true, but in many ways, the United States is running a different race from Russia and China."
Usefulness and scalability are the American weapon's major advantages over the Russian and Chinese weapons. In opting to develop a unique, electromagnetic cannon to fire super-fast projectiles, China has limited how fast it can deploy its new hypersonic weapon.
To re-equip with hypersonic munitions, Beijing will need to build expensive new guns for its ships and artillery units. Washington's forces, by contrast, simply can arm thousands of existing sea- and land-based powder guns with the new hypersonic shell.
That was a deliberate choice on the Americans' part. In 2016, Robert Work, the Obama administration's deputy secretary of defense, advised the incoming Trump administration to consider investing in hypervelocity projectiles rather than in railguns.
"We thought railguns were something we were really going to go after, but it turns out that powder guns firing the same hypervelocity projectiles gets you almost as much as you would get out of the electromagnetic rail gun, but it's something we can do much faster," Work said.
"We now think that we can do pretty revolutionary things with existing powder guns—think howitzers, [U.S. Army] Paladin [artillery systems], the Navy's five-inch guns," William Roper, then the head of the Strategic Capabilities Office, said in 2016. "We've shifted emphasis to that."
"We have a thousand powder guns," Roper added. "We have very few railguns."
Russia and China with their showy demonstrations and bespoke technology might appear to have pulled ahead in the early laps of the race for hypersonic weapons. But the United States, with its emphasis on a weapon that it can deploy quickly and actually use in a non-nuclear war, ultimately could gain the military advantage.


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Supplement to the South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (July 21, 1767).
"A great Variety of new Articles, just arrived in Capt. Gordon."
Like several other merchants and shopkeepers in colonial Charleston, John Davies advertised in more than one of the city's newspapers. A variation of today's advertisement from the South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal, for instance, previously appeared in both that newspaper and the South-Carolina and American General Gazette a month earlier. This version added a nota bene informing potential customers that Davies had augmented his stock with "A very great Variety of new Articles, just arrived in Capt. Gordon." On their own, these updates deceptively suggested that consumers could acquire merchandise fresh off a ship that had just arrived in port.
Those who consulted the shipping news, however, discovered a rather different story. No ship under the command of a Captain Gordon had arrived in port during the past week, so the nota bene did not deliver the absolutely "freshest Advices" promised in the newspaper's masthead. Indeed, the June 30 issue indicated that the "Ship Mary, James Gordon" from London had arrived on June 26, nearly a month before today's advertisement promoted the "very great Variety of new Articles, just arrived in Capt. Gordon." In that issue, Davies' advertisement appeared immediately to the left of the shipping news. Readers could verify the information communicated in the larger font used for the nota bene with a quick glance. Davies and the compositor had speedily updated the advertisement.
The revised notice appeared in the next three issues, the verity of the nota bene reduced with each passing week. Careful readers of the July 21 issue would have noticed that Captain Gordon and the Mary had been cleared for departure and a return trip to London by the Customs House on July 18. Careful readers would have also recognized Davies' advertisement from previous issues, realizing that the information in the nota bene needed to be tempered by acknowledging that the notice had been reprinted several times over the past month. Such careful attention to the shipping news likely would not have been necessary for potential customers to approach this advertisement with some skepticism. Readers were accustomed to advertisements being reprinted for weeks and sometimes months. They would have learned to adjust their expectations when advertisers made claims about goods that had "just arrived" or had been "just imported."
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27 ~ 28 Sept. 2014 Location shoot for political candidate
The weekend of 27 / 28 September saw the Media Photos crew in Adelaide shooting a series of portraits and location shots for an upcoming political campaign.
The candidtae from Keswick in Sth Australia was very happy with the work undertaken and praised the crew for their professionalism throughout the weekend.
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Home » Topics » Data Analytics & Data Science » Crunch time for WiMax
Crunch time for WiMax
by Henry Catchpole 19 February 2008
Few subjects today polarise opinions in communications technology circles as much as WiMax – the emerging option for long-range, wireless broadband.
Even for a sector famed for its hyperbole, the superlatives lavished on WiMax by its supporters seem excessive. To them it's "the emerging hyper-connectivity megatrend"; it is supposedly going to initiate a "total transformation in wireless broadband communications".
Not everyone, however, is so enamoured – or convinced the technology is practical. "Overall, the problem for the WiMax market is caused by near-term inflated expectations by its backers," notes Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney. The reality behind the technology is very different: WiMax is at a turning point that will determine whether it will struggle forward as a niche proposition with little commercial impact or set in motion a comms revolution.
One of its biggest backers, Intel, remains confident that its huge investment in WiMax will be vindicated. Intel is willing to turn down the cheerleading and provide a little more perspective about the technology's prospects.
A couple of years ago, there were legitimate questions over whether WiMax would ever be a commercial proposition, admits Chris Beardsmore, WiMax market development manager at Intel. Indeed, there are any number of high-speed connectivity standards competing to become the dominant wireless technology of tomorrow (see box).
But, as Beardsmore says: "Now the discussions around WiMax are about when [it will happen]."
Overcoming problems
Strictly speaking, fixed WiMax refers to long-range, high-bandwidth wireless technology based on the IEEE 802.16 family of standards for wireless metropolitan area networks. In many ways, it is a closer relation to mobile networking than WiFi in terms of operational range. A typical mast transmission radius might run from four to five miles if there are no buildings, trees or other non-line of sight obstacles in the way, to 10 miles for line of sight applications and up to a theoretical maximum of 30 miles.
But unlike mobile networks, WiMax proffers the advantage that it has been designed specifically for data transmission – unlike the mobile networks, which are merely 'capable' of handling data along with voice.
This data issue is particularly relevant. The most common mobile device today remains the cell phone, and voice still accounts for a huge chunk of the traffic sent over mobile networks. However, the creeping enthusiasm for data cards is indicative of business users' desires for ubiquitous connectivity. Furthermore, as more voice traffic migrates to the Internet Protocol – including mobile voice traffic – the sophistication of the data-bearing network becomes more pertinent.
As Kerl Haslam, chairman of the Mobile WiMax Acceleration Group, points out, mobile connectivity is already vital to most businesses today: "WiMax enables firms to have this mobility faster, more securely and more cost-effectively than any currently available mobile technology." He suggests that WiMax traffic works out "as little as one-tenth the costs per bit" of competing technologies.
Despite its long-range capabilities, fixed WiMax has one notable downside – namely its fixed nature. The handoff between multiple WiMax base stations is a problem: once a user moves out of range of one, their session gets dropped. To solve that problem, WiMax advocates have been working on the 802.16e-2005 standards, or so-called Mobile WiMax. While it is still some way off, proof-of-concept demonstrations for Mobile WiMax were staged at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Initial deployments of WiMax are of the fixed variety, notes Intel's Beardsmore, but "we're starting to see real movement in Mobile [WiMax]".
To date, there are a smattering of WiMax sites in Europe, but the real work is under way in countries where third-generation (3G) mobile networks are immature or where the copper infrastructure for a fixed broadband network is not already in place. In early 2008, Indian state-owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam and broadband wireless company Soma Networks unveiled plans for a massive Mobile WiMax network covering 400 cities and 200 million people.
But what about developed countries? Is there still a role for WiMax, when there are already sophisticated, capable alternatives in place?
Howard Wilcox, an analyst with telecoms advisory group Juniper Research, certainly thinks so – even though there are a number of hurdles that WiMax has to overcome before it gets anywhere close to fulfilling a portion of its advocates' wild claims.
Firstly, the companies wanting to offer WiMax services must get their hands on sufficient spectrum licences to make deployment feasible. Secondly, there will be no use without the manufacture and availability of WiMax-enabled devices – laptops, PDAs and so on.
Up for auction
The prospects for WiMax picked up significantly in 2007, when the United Nations-backed International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agreed that WiMax could be included in its IMT-2000 set of standards. Effectively, WiMax had become part of the 3G family, even if it remains something of a black sheep.
This helped diffuse some of mobile operators' biggest concerns over WiMax – some that had paid billions for 3G licences had been staunchly opposed to WiMax. But, as Wilcox notes: "Most people [now] see WiMax as complementing, not competing with, 3G services." For example, mobile operator Vodafone, once a seemingly implacable opponent of WiMax, has launched its own WiMax service on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
Whether the ITU decision now paves the way for the development of commercial WiMax services in the UK remains to be seen. The first big test is likely to take place in the spring. In May 2008, the UK's communications regulator Ofcom will kick off its auctions for 192 MHz of spectrum around the 2.6 GHz frequency.
That auction is likely to attract companies whether they are looking to build WiMax networks or expand existing 3G networks – moving towards so-called '4G services', whatever they may be. It could also reopen old rivalries, suggests Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis. (Fundamentally, WiMax is just one of a number of technologies that promise to provide high-speed wireless connectivity, along with WiFi, and 3G and 4G mobile networks – although it is fair to say that the distinctions between 3G, 4G and WiMax have become increasingly blurred.)
The ITU endorsement ensured that, for forthcoming auctions around the 2.5 GHz frequency, time division duplex (TDD) technologies such as WiMax would be designated the middle of the band, while two paired frequencies would be allocated for frequency division duplex (FDD) technologies – such as traditional UMTS 3G mobile networks.
There was a widespread expectation that mobile operators would be able to cherry-pick the prime bits of available spectrum, while WiMax operators would be limited to bidding for parts reserved for TDD technologies.
However, some members of the WiMax Forum now claim that an FDD profile for Mobile WiMax will be ready imminently. This appears to pitch Mobile WiMax "head-on against HSPA, EVDO, LTE, etc in the 2.5 GHz band," says Bubley (see box).
Thus far, it is not yet clear whether an FDD flavour of WiMax represents a breakthrough, or whether it will simply force regulators such as Ofcom to rethink their auction rules.
The other stumbling block for WiMax is devices. The situation is somewhat confused by the different approaches being taken in different locations. For example, electronics giant Samsung is already going to market with a range of WiMax-enabled smartphones, laptops and tablet PCs – but thus far these are aimed solely at the South Korean market. Elsewhere, there is a great deal more uncertainty about what devices will be available and when.
For the most part, WiMax enthusiasts predict that devices will become widely available in the second half of the year. For Motorola, those devices are mobile handsets and smartphones. Andy McKinnon, WiMax principal at Motorola, talks of WiMax solely in terms of telephony. He envisages WiMax as being "a backbone for businesses to manage call flows" – a sort of souped-up version of fixed-mobile convergence that will allow users to switch seamlessly from an office call to one routed over a WiMax network.
Elsewhere, Intel's Beardsmore talks of integrated WiFi and WiMax chipsets being on target for production by the middle of 2008. Meanwhile, Juniper Research's Wilcox suggests that WiMax-enabled data cards or USB dongles are likely to make an impact first.
All this seems to be coming together simultaneously, but the timeline is tight, and the fact that there is still disagreement over the killer apps or devices among its strongest supporters, raises some doubts.
Gartner's Dulaney suggests that CIOs and IT directors should continue to approach WiMax with caution. WiMax-enabled laptops are nice to have, but if there is a premium to pay, they can only be justified for select users, where mobile connectivity is essential, he says. Similarly, WiMax phones should be evaluated on what other technologies are bundled in, he adds; essentially WiMax will be a nice – but not necessary – added extra.
That is exacerbated by further uncertainties surrounding WiMax and other high-speed wireless technologies. The variety of handsets and connection methods across the mobile estate is already outpacing the maturity of mobile management software, says Benjamin Gray, an analyst with Forrester Research. It is now necessary for ICT decision-makers to "standardise mobile infrastructure before it gets out of hand", he adds.
Given such pressures, WiMax will need to prove its compelling characteristics soon – or find its clear potential left unexploited and its name more associated with hype than substance.
WiMax factors: The competition
WIFI This popular short-range wireless broadband technology may not have the range of WiMax, but it already has a huge number of users. While several local government-backed attempts to build metropolitan WiFi clouds have floundered, other innovations are taking place. In December, pilgrims at Mecca for the annual Hajj were given free WiFi access via a mesh network. Such mesh networks are ideal for temporary deployments because they require fewer fixed-line connections than traditional WiFi clouds and are well suited to the type of isolated far-reaching locations that WiMax is aimed at.
HSPA High-speed packet access is a collection of mobile telephony protocols that upgrade 3G networks (often termed 3.5G), improving the utilisation of bandwidth and providing faster upload and download speeds. It is already widely deployed. An upgrade to HSPA – sometimes called HSPA Evolution or HSPA+ provides an easy upgrade path for current HSPA operators, with download speeds of up to 28Mbps.
LONG-TERM EVOLUTION (LTE) Refers to a project within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to deliver next-generation mobile networks. It has been seen as the natural choice for today's mobile operators, and assumes a full IP network architecture, where voice traffic would be carried via data packets.
The key benefit of LTE is that it promises to be the most cost-effective way for today's mobile operators to move beyond 3G systems, with download speeds potentially in the 100Mbps range. The first deployments of LTE technologies could be seen as early as 2009.
IEEE 802.20 A mobile broadband specification being developed by the IEEE that potentially provides peak data rates of over 100Mbps. However, with many of today's vendors focused on WiMax, LTE, etc, it is not yet clear whether this is sufficient support to make the technology viable.
Cisco buys into WiMax
WiMax gets US-wide boost
Crosstown traffic Three competing technologies promise to bring metropolitan wireless broadband services to all.
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Henry Catchpole
Henry Catchpole runs Inform Direct, a company records management software company which simplifies the process of dealing with Companies House. The business was set up in 2013. More by Henry Catchpole
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The newest sets of weapon skins for Valorant have arrived, just in time for players with some money after celebrating the Holidays to grab some flashy new gear to take into the game. However, some players have noticed an interesting new feature with one of the latest sets of skins released by Riot Games that may give players who purchase the cosmetics a disadvantage in the game.
Originally found by Reddit user zhoost, the problem with the new cosmetic seems to be most prominent with the Wasteland version of the Vandal weapon and its new, makeshift muzzle. Other Valorant players have also begun to gather some information about the new model for the Wasteland Vandal, suggesting that this initial theory may be correct.
In the case of this new skin, the Wasteland variant gives Valorant's Vandal a new muzzle that looks like it's been picked out of a scrap pile and shoved onto the weapon, somewhat haphazardly. The result of this visual design is that the muzzle is longer than the base model for the Vandal, which can now be seen at a farther distance around corners than the original. It's a very slight change, but it can mean the difference between being seen or remaining hidden when sneaking around corners, which is a large part of how most players approach storming and defending objectives.
The difference in size and added opportunity for player positions to be given away has led zhoost and others on the Reddit post to claim that the Wasteland skin is "pay to lose," due to the disadvantage. Some players have additionally confirmed that the length of the muzzle is longer on the Wasteland skin, and interestingly found that the previous Dragon Vandal actually has a shorter barrel than the original design. So, it's likely that highly competitive players may avoid the Wasteland skin, especially for Valorant tournament play, where this small detail could be too much of a risk to take into combat.
This might not exactly be the kind of difference that will have a huge impact on general players, considering how small the difference is and the fact that the muzzle length difference can be offset by simply stepping back from corners a bit. However, it might make competitive play somewhat more difficult, as hyper-focused players are constantly keeping an eye out for every tiny detail going on in the background. For now, this latest issue in Valorant can at least be minimized by not equipping the skin, though that may be disappointing for those who paid for the Wasteland set.
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Deadly Yellow Fever Mosquito In Menlo Park, San Francisco, USA
A deadly mosquito that hasn't been widely seen in the Bay Area since the 70s has been detected in San Mateo County.
It's called aedes aegypti and it was found in January at the Holy Cross cemetery in Menlo Park.
It's the mosquito that spreads yellow fever, chicken fever, the dengue fever and other diseases. Officials call it "one of the worst most effective vectors of disease around the world."
The mosquito is tiny and its bite is hardly noticeable. Unlike other mosquitos, it bites during the day.
Another yellow fever mosquito was also discovered in Menlo Park last August.
Officials are asking homeowners in the area to check their yards for containers of standing water, including birth baths, so it can be eradicated quickly.
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Officials say two people have been killed in a plane crash near Riverside in eastern Kanawha County.
The Charleston Gazette reports that the small plane was on its way from Akron, Ohio, to Spartanburg, S.C., when it crashed.
The pilot of the Piper PA-32 had reportedly asked for help navigating around bad weather.
The newspaper said that West Virginia State Police responding to the crash needed about two hours to find the site with a helicopter.
A man who answered the telephone at the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the plane's two occupants were dead but did not immediately have any additional information.
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MAGNITUDE 5.0 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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Distances: 100km (62mi) S of Ierapetra, Greece
120km (75mi) S of Agios Nikolaos, Greece
149km (93mi) SSE of Nea Alikarnassos, Greece
150km (93mi) SSE of Irakleion, Greece
470km (292mi) SSE of Athens, Greece
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***URGENT***QUAKE SWARM EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
QUAKE SWARM
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
MAGNITUDE 4.6 SOUTHERN IDAHO
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Distances: 23km (14mi) N of Challis, Idaho
194km (121mi) SW of Butte, Montana
200km (124mi) NE of Boise, Idaho
201km (125mi) NE of Garden City, Idaho
204km (127mi) NE of Eagle, Idaho
MAGNITUDE 3.1 FRANCE
Distances: 98 km NW of Monaco, Monaco / pop: 32,965 / local time: 16:08:50.0 2014-04-14
50 km E of Gap, France / pop: 42,715 / local time: 16:08:50.0 2014-04-14
4 km NW of Jausiers, France / pop: 1,026 / local time: 16:08:50.0 2014-04-14
MAGNITUDE 5.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS
Distances: 229 km SE of Honiara, Solomon Islands / pop: 56,298 / local time: 21:47:17.0 2014-04-14
53 km SW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands / pop: 1,122 / local time: 21:47:17.0 2014-04-14
MAGNITUDE 5.2 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
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Distances: 844km (524mi) N of Fernando de Noronha (Distrito Estadual), Brazil
1111km (690mi) NNE of Sao Miguel, Brazil
1131km (703mi) NNE of Ceara Mirim, Brazil
1133km (704mi) NNE of Extremoz, Brazil
1505km (935mi) SW of Praia, Cape Verde
92 km S of Kirakira, Solomon Islands / pop: 1,122 / local time: 18:40:47.0 2014-04-14


Mumbai, July 27, 2018: In an effort to further strengthen its pioneering program 'Saheli', Amazon India today announced that it has signed a MoU with Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM), Women's Development Corporation, Government of Maharashtra. Through this partnership, in collaboration with Sahabhag, the Social Responsibility Cell of the Chief Minister's Office, Government of Maharashtra, Amazon India will support and empower women associated with the organization and provide a marketplace for them to showcase their products to Amazon customers across the country.
Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal (MAVIM), established in 1975 has been declared as a nodal agency by the Government of Maharashtra to implement various women empowerment program through Self Help Groups (SHGs). Amazon India will, as part of the partnership, empower and encourage women entrepreneurs associated with MAVIM and provide them a slew of benefits to enable them to start selling online at zero initial cost. This includes seamless onboarding assistance, imaging and cataloging, product listing, subsidized referral fee and free account management for the first 3 months.
"Providing women in Maharashtra an opportunity to become financially secure and live a dignified life is one of the biggest priorities of the Government. The Government of Maharashtra's Sahabhag program is designed to build sustainable public-private partnerships that positively impact every section of society including rural women. Moreover, when skills of the private partners and scale of the Government meet, transformation happens at a faster pace and makes maximum lives better. We are delighted to announce our association with Amazon.in under their program Saheli to widen the impact of Sahabhag. By supporting women weavers and handicraft experts, this association gives them an opportunity to promote the rich traditional arts and crafts of Maharashtra such as Paithani sarees, Warli Art, Bidri Art, Eco-friendly bags, bamboo crafts, Khadi clothing, etc." – said Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
"Government of Maharashtra, through Sahabhag has been a pioneer in identifying opportunities of collaboration to empower women in the state. Through our partnership with MAVIM, we believe that we will be able to enable thousands of women from the state to embrace online selling. Our partnership will involve providing women with training, marketing and selling support. Through Amazon India's Saheli program we seek to further drive disruptive change and transform the lives of women entrepreneurs from Maharashtra," he added.
Launched in November 2017, with SEWA and Impulse Social Enterprise, Amazon Saheli currently has a diverse range of products listed by women entrepreneurs. The program offers extensive training and skill development workshops for its partners to help women entrepreneurs understand the nuances of online selling and, develop skills & capabilities necessary to grow their business on Amazon.in. The training workshops comprise of sessions on listing of products, imaging & cataloging, packaging & shipping, inventory & account management and customer servicing. The workshops are free of cost and offer exclusive benefits including assisted onboarding and mentorship programs.
Till today, Amazon Saheli has impacted over 80000 women entrepreneurs across the country selling products across categories like clothing, office products, handbags, grocery, home & kitchen accessories and jewelry.


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Sonim XP3 Review
By Sascha Segan
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/sonim-xp3
The Sonim XP3 is a terrific rugged flip phone for anyone who doesn't want a smartphone.
$135.00 at Amazon
$189.99 at AT&T Wireless
Sonim XP3 Sonim XP3
Design and Durability
The Best Phone for Calling
Old-School Apps
Talk, Don't Take Pictures
A Fantastic Flip Phone
Ultra-rugged build.
Excellent call quality.
Three-year warranty.
Weak vibration feature.
Lackluster camera.
People still want flip phones—I know because those people email me. There are some businesses with extreme work environments that smartphones can't stand up to, parents who want to be able to call their kids but don't want them surfing YouTube, and older folks who simply want to be able to make calls. Sonim's XP3 is the best basic phone on the market. It's a rugged, traditional flip phone that supports 4G calling on AT&T and Sprint. And at $240, it's our Editors' Choice for anyone who wants a phone that's simple, loud, and reliable.
Sonim has made rugged phones for more than a decade, but most of its phones have had brick-like form factors that weren't appealing to everyday phone users. The XP3 is handsome—and more importantly, it fits in a pocket. That expands Sonim's market beyond its usual clientele of building contractors, hotel employees, and forest rangers, and into anyone who wants a good voice phone that won't break.
The XP3 is made from matte gray plastic, with a casually industrial look. It measures 4.4 by 2.3 by 1.1 inches (HWD) and weighs 6.88 ounces. It's in the ballpark of classic flip phones from 10 years ago, like the Motorola E815.
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It's also wonderfully tough. The XP3 is IP68 waterproof and MIL-STD-810G ruggedized. Its physical buttons mean it's fully usable when wet, even underwater. I dunked it for half an hour, and the speaker was a little quiet until it dried out and then it was fine. I then kicked it around like a hacky sack, leaned my full weight on it when the flip was open, and dropped it onto hard surfaces numerous times. If your work or life involves a lot of potential phone damage, this device will pay for itself quickly. Sonim backs all of this up with a three-year warranty. More than anything else, I think this justifies the $240 price.
On the front, there's a monochrome display showing time, date, signal, battery life, and caller ID. Inside, there's a perfectly adequate 2.6-inch, 320-by-240 LCD and big, backlit keys with nice separation. There are volume buttons on the side, along with a big, programmable yellow button that in theory is for push-to-talk, but can be set to quickly launch any application.
Under the screw-on back cover, there's a removable battery and, surprisingly, two SIM card slots, but they don't both work. If you put two SIMs in, it disables one of them. That's disappointing, but US carriers don't like dual-SIM phones.
The XP3 runs a gutted version of Android 8.1 on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 chipset. It isn't fast, but you mostly don't notice, except for one odd thing: Many screens start out blurry, and then quickly resolve into sharpness. It's irritating, but it isn't a deal breaker.
The home screen can have a custom wallpaper. It also gives you quick access to the camera, messaging, calendar, and settings, with other options hidden behind the main menu; you can change those quick access options in settings if you like.
Android and LTE take a bit of a toll on the removable 1,500mAh battery. We estimate seven hours of talk time within two days of use, so maybe a charge every two or three days on average. The phone charges over USB-C or in an industrial cradle using some pop-port connectors on the back. Additional batteries cost $44.95.
Call reception and quality are everything here, and they're terrific. The XP3 has all of the frequency bands it needs for coverage: LTE bands 1/2/3/4/5/8/12/13/14/25/26/38/41/66, and HPUE (high powered user equipment) on Sprint. I'd like to call out a few of these: band 14 is AT&T's FirstNet band, which gives priority access to government employees but can be used by consumers at other times. Bands 12 and 13 let AT&T and Sprint subscribers roam on US Cellular and other rural carriers. And a bunch of the other ones are for global roaming.
The phone supports voice-over-LTE on both AT&T and Sprint, and Wi-Fi calling on Sprint. It has HD calling, but not EVS. (EVS, which offers even better call quality than HD calling, requires a much higher-end modem.)
The earpiece is loud and crisp, transmissions through the mic have good noise cancellation, and the single speaker, on the chin below the flip, booms. If you flip the phone closed mid-call, you can set it to hang up or switch to speakerphone. The phone supports both Bluetooth and 3.5mm headsets, and it has a basic set of voice commands.
You can assign ringtones by contact, and there are a lot of good call-screening options: You can whitelist or blacklist by individual number, or by whether or not a number is in your phone book. You can also hide those whitelist and blacklist options behind a PIN for parental or employee control reasons.
The only downside is the vibration motor. While ringtones are customizable and loud, vibration is weak; if you throw the phone in a bag, make sure to have the ringer turned up.
There are non-calling apps, but very few. There are no games, and you can't download anything. For an even more restrictive experience, you can disable any apps behind a PIN-protected menu, if you want to kill the camera or music player, for example.
The messaging app is derivative of Google's SMS app. It supports sending and receiving pictures and videos via MMS, and receiving, but not sending, emojis and stickers. You can type with triple-tap or T9.
The XP3 will play MP3 or AAC files from its 4.98GB of free storage or off a microSD card. You can build playlists on the phone, and you will see album art. There's no streaming music, but audio quality via the 3.5mm headphone jack sounds great. There's also an FM radio.
While the phone has a nearly unusable web browser, with a jerky cursor and a very difficult typing experience (and no email or over-the-top messaging apps), you can get other devices on the internet by using the XP3 as a Wi-Fi hotspot. It supports dual-band 802.11n, but not ac, Wi-Fi.
There's also a clock with alarms and timers, a flashlight, a calendar, and a calculator. If I were to have all my dreams realized, there would be a little more cloud connectivity here. The phone is running Android, after all. It would be nice to import or sync contacts with Google, so you don't have to upload VCF files. It would also be nice to run Spotify and to be able to upload pictures to Google Photos.
The phone has a single 5-megapixel camera on the outside face. If you want to take a selfie, you have to turn it around and pray; there's no viewfinder for those situations. It has very slow HDR and records 720p video.
Photo quality is blurry and smeary most of the time, and gets worse in low light. There's also an audio recorder that gives you highly compressed, 8,000Hz mono AMR files.
The idea behind both of these functions is that they're the absolute minimum quality needed to get the job done. The camera isn't for Instagram, it's for, "Hey, should I tighten this bolt or that one?" The audio recorder is for pinch-hit recording in conference rooms. At least it's relatively easy to get the photos off the phone: Just plug in a USB-C cable and you can transfer files to/from your PC.
If you want a phone without a camera, good news. There's a no-camera variant of the XP3, but you can also use the included management software to block the camera app under a PIN. That's perfect for parents, for instance.
Most of the flip phones on the market right now are bad. All of the carriers are transitioning to 4G calling, leaving older flips that only support 2G and 3G networks behind. Those networks now have poorer call quality, and will have decaying coverage with time. The carriers leaned for a while on variants of the Alcatel Go Flip series, which aren't good devices. Consumer Cellular's Doro 7050 isn't bad, and neither is Verizon's Kyocera Cadence LTE, but neither stand out. In the higher-end voice phone market, the Punkt MP02 hasn't been certified by US carriers and so doesn't yet work on our 4G networks.
That leaves the Sonim XP3, and I really have one complaint about it: It isn't available on T-Mobile. AT&T and Sprint have a killer voice phone here, and Verizon has a couple of decent options. T-Mobile has nothing. If your family or your business is on AT&T or Sprint, though, the solution's clear: The Sonim XP3 is a flip phone to flip out over, with a rock-solid build, loud and clear voice calls, and a long warranty, earning it our Editors' Choice.
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PCMag.com's lead mobile analyst, Sascha Segan, has reviewed more than 1,100 smartphones, tablets and other gadgets in more than 15 years with PCMag. He's the head of our Fastest Mobile Networks projects in the US and Canada, runs our Race to 5G tracker, and writes opinions on tech and society. Segan is also a multiple award-winning travel writer. Other than his home town of New York, his favorite cities are Barcelona and Hong Kong. While he's a fourth-generation Manhattanite, he now lives in Queens with his wife and daughter.
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A new trend abroad; an insider's tip in Germany: flavoured Matcha represents sheer pleasure for beginners as well as fans of green tea who enjoy experimenting with flavour – it's well worth a try! With our multi-coloured Crazy Matcha Collection we hope to take away some of the trepidation of approaching this exquisite tea and make it easier to slip into the world of Matcha. At the same time, old hands and experienced Matcha drinkers alike can enjoy a whole new taste experience in organic quality.
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Galería • 31 diciembre, 2020 1 enero, 2021 • nicolasisasi
By Nicolás Isasi
A prelude that makes us breathe through the pipes of brass and wood is the beginning of the first studio album of the Belgian band Tiswatis, which has just been released. The melody of a melancholic saxophone introduces us to Morgen (in English, Tomorrow), recorded at North Garden Studios in Kortrijk (Belgium) between October and December 2019.
Morgen is the title track. If we think of a live performance, this would be the song that the fans applaud from the beginning and then chant that very rhythmic chorus that repeats "morgen, morgen, morgen" because it has a rock-pop quality with a particular participation of the sax and strings.
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