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Its a sad world for Nokia. Everywhere one turns their head Android the iPhone or a BlackBerry will pop out. And theres no Nokia smartphone that seems ready to take on a challenge. While the Finnish manufacturer is still holding the cell phone business on a short leash it cant dominate the smartphone niche also. So whats the Nokia Saga you ask Well it could be a totally new and hip phone coming soon from Nokia. And it could be just the N97 Mini wearing a new name although it rea

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Very rare, but fascinating.

A Fiat já tinha afirmado que iria usar a nova família de motores Tritec, mais ainda não tinha marcado a data para a utilização do novo modelo.

Agora a marca já decidiu o em qual modelo e em que mês será o lançamento do novo motor. O modelo que vai levar o novo motor é o Punto que será apresentado em março.

Os motores deveram ter potencia inicial de 128 cavalos de potencia chegando até 148 cavalos de potencia. Mas não é só o Punto que vai receber novidades.

Segundo fontes, o Palio também passará por uma forte mudança, principalmente no seu interior. O novo modelo conhecido como projeto 326 deverá chegar em 2011.

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Just call them The Real Queens of New York City…. LOGO announced that it has ordered eight 60 minute episodes of Kept, a new gay-interest docudrama inspired by Bravo’s smash Real Housewives series, the network revealed at the Television Critics Association Conference in Pasadena on Tuesday.

The unscripted reality soap will center on a group of wealthy Manhattan toy boy lovers and the wealthy saps who finance them. Filming on the project began in November.

“Logo’s much-buzzed-about original docu-series delves into the privileged lives of New York City’s real gay homemakers and socialites,” the network said in Tuesday’s release. “Follow the friendships, rivalries and aspirations of the Big Apple’s elite ‘kept’ men, and some who aspire to be kept, and discover the astonishing realities about all the things money can – and can’t – buy.”

Kept will premiere on LOGO in October.

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to attend CES for the first time this year and was also lucky enough to arrive one day earlier and leave one day later than my colleagues. I thought that would leave me a little Vegas time. I did spin the occasional one-armed bandit before any tech events and I was able to see the BODIES exhibit (for the second time) while waiting for my flight out. What I didn’t realize, when scheduling my time in Las Vegas, was just how much stuff would be packed into our three official work days. CES is huge.

CES is huge not just in terms of the level of participation, number of products, and sheer volume of attendies, but also in how it is arranged physically. Or, should I say geographically? Even if you limit the “real” event to the enourmous collection of booths and anouncements that occur within the walls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the scale is staggering. And while I was there specifically with Android in mind (and therefore kept my eyes and ears open specifially for related products) it seemed to me like Google’s OS had a very strong presense throughout a good chunk of the festivities. It really is everywhere.

Of course we saw the Nexus One and Sony Ericsson’s X10, as well as the anticipated Motorola Backflip, but there were a suprizing number of cool Android products that I was expecting that turned out to be better than I had imagined. I also saw a lot of doohickies that I never even thought to imagine at all. There was LG’s GW620, and GT540, Spring Designs’ Alex e-reader. Android-powered microwave and the Compal Tegra-powered tablet were present as well. All of them cool, but unlikely to be found in my posession. Although Nexus is the most likely next purchase on my list, I’d have to say the most fascinating things I saw at CES occured at a Lenovo press conference.

Lenovo is into the idea of snaping gadgets into shells for the purpose of modular compatability. The IdeaPad – a Linux tablet that pops into a laptop lid to become a Windows computer – is probably the most dramatic example we saw of this concept. But Lenovo’s new OPhone (Android-cased OS) powered LePhone seems more practical an example. This one is ready for a snap-on QWERTY, dashboard cradles, and who knows what else. Oh, and it is sexy. Sadly, this one is slated for China and we may not see an equivalent in the States for some time. I’ll be keeping an out.

I personally enjoyed meeting up with the other PhoneDogs at CES…really for the sake of meeting up with the other PhoneDogs! The tech coverage (and chance to fiddle with electronics) is gravy. I don’t expect to be attending too many more events like it. These things are much easier to cover from my office. Now to catch up on all these notes I have…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In what might be an impressive blow to the competition Apple might launch the next-gen iPhone sooner than expected. Rumored initially for a JuneJuly 2010 launch the handest might be closer than we think. South Korean carrier KT which only brought the iPhone to South Korea last November says that it will have an iPhone 4G version ready for corporate clients as soon as April. Nobody from Cupertino would comment on the matter so in the mean time we can feast on quite a few intere

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What were we talking about (and cooking!) this time last year? Well, there was a crispy banana sandwich with fromage blanc, plus other winter treats like cranberry tart, pig cheek salad, light chicken Parmesan, and warm farro salad. There was a big roundup of bright white kitchens, tips for quick breakfasts on the go, and good storage canisters for flour and sugar. Oh, and the Golden Spurtle too. Read on for these and more from this time last year!

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Speculation about the Apple Tablet mostly focuses on what the device is, not how it works. Text input, more than anything else, is the problem Apple needs to solve to make this work. So how will they do it?

CES was rotten with new tablets, some Android, some not, some with fascinating screens, and again, some not. But one thing they all had in common was that they hadn’t quite figured out the text input problem: How do you create text without a keyboard?

The Problem

We’ve been comfortably typing without physical keyboards for years now, and this is largely Apple’s doing. One of the great triumphs of the iPhone was to make onscreen keyboards bearable—something that, even if you hate the concept of virtual keys on principle, you have to admit they accomplished. This works:

Extending this to the tablet, though, would be a mistake. I had a chance to play with a few different sizes of tablets at CES, nearly all of which had traditional onscreen keyboards—in particular, the Android 2.0 keyboard, which is aesthetically different but functionally almost identical to iPhone OSes. None of them worked, at least in the way that I wanted them to, for one reason: they were too big. Seven-inch tablets were too large to comfortably thumb-type on, while 10-inch tablets made text input all but impossible. The onscreen keyboard as we know it doesn’t scale gracefully, and unless Apple wants their tablet to be completely useless (our sources say they don’t) they’re going to have to figure this out. So what are Apple’s options?

Solution 1: A Giant iPhone

Apple has made mistakes before, but to only have a simple onscreen keyboard would qualify as an outright screw-up. QWERTY-style, thumb-actuated onscreen keyboards work on screens up to about five inches, with the 4.3-inch-screened HTC Touch HD2‘s keyboard straining even the most unsettlingly long thumbs. But to assume that this won’t work is to assume that the tablet is to be held a certain way, with hands at four and eight o-clock, more or less like a touchscreen phone in landscape mode. This may not be the case.
What if the tablet is meant to be held with one hand, and controlled with the other? What if it has some kind of kickstand or mount, so you can actually type with both hands, a la a regular keyboard. What if it’s intended to only work in portrait mode, where it would be just about narrow enough to be usable?

Apple’s filed extensive patents about how a large, multitouch onscreen keyboard might work, pictured above, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything: Apple’s got more patents than the tablet’s got rumors, and most of them never materialized into anything meaningful. The keyboard patent, for example, also includes drawings of an onscreen clickwheel, and a description of how small interface elements, like the minimize/close/zoom buttons in OS X proper, could be handled on a touchscreen—all of which are terrible awkward, and dissonant with Apple’s touchscreen philosophy so far.

Either way, a single, iPhone-esque keyboard really shouldn’t be the primary input method. It could be a supplementary input method, but to have two separate text input mechanisms seems messy, and distinctly un-Apple-y. Lame, half-baked input seems like the kind of thing Steve Jobs might fitfully shitcan a tablet for, actually, but that’s getting awfully speculative, even for a piece about a product that doesn’t officially exist at all.

Solution 2: Voice Control

Apple’s been on covert voice input crusade since it introduced Spoken Interface for OS X which, if you care to look (System Preferences>Speech>Speakable Items “On) is still there. As it stands, it’s rudimentary—the iPhone’s Voice Control speech recognition is much more accurate—and though there are quite a few customization options, it’s really just a command system, not a full text input system.

Even more developed technologies like Dragon Dictation are still niche products, and honestly, the concept of controlling a computer entirely by voice is kind of absurd. “Open Browser! Open Gizmodo! Post withering comment about Apple tablet story, with these words!” No. Not now, and really, not ever—the computer as a stenographer is an obnoxious concept, held back by practical concerns, not technological ones.

That said, Apple is very proud of Voice Control on the iPhone, and they haven’t removed voice commands from OS X in over five years. It’s likely that there will be some kind of voice input for the tablet, but that it’ll be relegated to the same job it’s held in the past, taking care of the odd command and initiating the occasional script, and not much else.

Solution 3: The Dreaded Stylus

Styli! The very thing the iPhone was so dedicated to murdering could be the savior of the Apple tablet! Just ask Microsoft.

See, the only other tablet booklet device that’s garnering remotely comparable hype is the Courier, Microsoft’s dual-screen concept device leaked to us back in September. The Courier concept is very different from the blurry image we’ve assembled of the Apple tablet—it doesn’t have a keyboard. Unlike the Apple tablet, though, we know how the Courier is supposed to work:
Handwriting. Apple staked an entire device line on handwriting recognition—the Newton—over 15 years ago, so isn’t it conceivable that they’ve, you know, figured it out by now? Before taking another detour back to the patent office, let’s take a moment to recall Steve Jobs’ original iPhone keynote:

Oh, a stylus, right? We’re going to use a stylus. No. Who wants a stylus? You have to get ‘em and put ‘em away, and you lose ‘em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus. We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world. We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with – born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers. We’re going to touch this with our fingers.

This wasn’t a dismissal of styli. This was a dickish, public obsoleting of styli. If I were a stylus, I would refuse to work with Steve Jobs, on the basis of him being a jerk.

And yet, in November of 2009, an Apple patent, this time describing stylus input and clearly showing a tablet-like device, went public. If you have the will and patience to parse a little techno-legalese, go for it:

Upon the occurrence of an ink phrase termination event, the ink manager notifies the handwriting recognition engine and organizes the preceding ink strokes into an ink phrase data structure…The present invention, in large part, relates to the observation that client applications and handwriting recognition software in pen-based computer systems can make far more accurate ink-related decisions based on entire ink phrases, rather than individual ink strokes.

If not, you’ll have to take my word for it: This is basically the Newton’s Rosetta, updated for 2009.

Stylus input would be a stunning break from Apple’s iPod/iPhone finger-only strategy, and to a lot of people it would seem regressive. Then again, if the tablet is a perfectly predictable extension of the iPhone concept, it won’t revolutionize anything at all. I’m still filing this under “unlikely,” but looking at the evidence, I honestly—and surprisingly—can’t rule it out.

Solution 4: A New Style of Keyboard

The safest bet for how Apple will handle the text input problem is not coincidentally the broadest. Any onscreen keyboard would have to be different than the iPhone’s somehow, but to say that Apple’s tablet will have a new style of keyboard is to say that it will have pretty much any kind of onscreen keyboard that is unlike the iPhone’s. This is not very useful! Luckily, we have guidance, from other companies, and even from Apple.

Split onscreen keyboards are neither new nor common, which makes them kind of perfect: the map has been charted, so Apple needs only to explore it.

The most public of the alternatives is an actual, available product called DialKeys. Coopted by Microsoft a few years ago, this tech, which splits the keyboard into two crescent-shaped virtual keyboards, shipped with a handful of touchscreen UMPCs, a category of devices that died off before it had the time to truly solve the onscreen keyboard problem. It wasn’t very good. But the concept had potential, maybe. Apple is definitely aware of DialKeys, even if they can’t use it—not that we’d want them to, or that they need to, having acquired a company with a similar concept about five years ago.

FingerWorks, a company specializing in touch interfaces and gesture concepts, was forcefully drawn into the Apple family about five years ago. A lot of their touch gestures actually made their way to the iPhone, albeit adapted from touchpad to screen use, according to FingerWorks employees:

The one difference that’s actually quite significant is the iPhone is a display with the multi-touch, and the FingerWorks was just an opaque surface. That’s all I’m going to say there. There’s definite similarities, but Apple’s definitely taken it another step by having it on a display

Interestingly, FingerWorks had a physical product with a split keyboard, which sat over Apple laptops’ regular keyboards, and which promptly disappeared after their acquisition. From the press release, which, mind you, hit the wires in 2003:

The MacNTouch Gesture Keyboard is a complete user interface that serves as mouse, standard keyboard, and powerful multi-finger gesture interpreter. Mouse operations like point, click, drag, scroll, and zoom are combined seamlessly with touch-typing and multi-finger gesture everywhere on the MacNTouch’s surface. Proprietary hardware and software allows pointing right over the keys, thus eliminating the frequent movement of the hand between the keyboard and the touchpad. The MacNTouch has been designed to minimize stress and it gives users unprecedented control of their computer using hand gestures.

Obviously such a product relates to a lot of aspects of tablet input, so let’s zero in on text: it’s exactly what the tablet needs, basically, except it’s not software. They keyboard is split for possible thumb use, it’s capable of gestures, and most importantly, it’s already owned by Apple.

Best of all, the FingerWorks domain, which proudly displays all of these concepts, was pulled from the internet this week. If this feels like a strange coincidence, that’s because, well, it is.

Making Bets

For all the evidence about the tablet’s possible input methods, there’s no standout answer. Apple’s got a thing for voice input, a history with onscreen keyboards, a patent trail and strong lineage of stylus input, and a pattern of suspicious behavior with and towards new keyboard types. We’ve got a handful of cases here, all compelling, and all conflicting. And the takeaway, if you haven’t picked it up yet, is that nobody really knows.

For my money, though, an adapted, possibly split onscreen keyboard is the best bet, and assuming the learning curve isn’t too steep, the most appealing option. But of the options laid out here, it’s by far the most vague—its FingerWorks ancestor is nearly a decade old, conceived in a time before multitouch screens—so the only truly safe bet is that whatever Apple comes up with, it’s going to surprise us.

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It looks like we were right about that BlackBerry Curve 8910 which we showed you yesterday. The smartphone does exist and it will arrive in various Asian and European markets soon. In fact we even have the picture to prove it although you wont be able to see that many details about the 8900 successor. The smartphone is going to offer you a touchpad instead of the regular trackball 256MB of RAM a 624MHz processor Bluetooth 2.1EDR WiFi support and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Unfortun

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The highly innovative TTXGP organization, which has already created several national and international electric motorcycle racing series, continues to show the way forward for the future of motorsport management. In yet another groundbreaking move, TTXGP has acknowledged the limitations of committee-based systems for framing rules, and created a wiki that allows global input to be filtered through technical expertise to frame a better set of rules for everyone. “Rules are core to keeping a championship alive with innovation and competition,” said TTXGP’s Azhar Hussain on the TTXGP web site. “It’s crucial that for TTXGP to thrive, we have a rules framework that is inclusive and sensitive to the needs of all the stakeholders.”
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Conan O’Brien just released a statement saying he will not host The Tonight Show if it’s pushed away from the local news. He also says the show’s historic timeslot is essential to its integrity, despite DVRs and streaming video.

The story to date: The Tonight Show has aired for an incredible 55 years on NBC. It’s one of a child’s handful of truly legendary American shows, one that both kids and their parents grew up watching every night. Historically, it airs at 11:35, just following the late local news, and ever since Johnny Carson took over from Jack Paar in 1962, the show has been a ratings juggernaut, through Carson’s 30 years and Jay Leno’s 17. In 2004, NBC announced that Conan O’Brien, then hosting Late Night (following The Tonight Show), would be taking over the show five years hence. And then everything went to hell.

After 17 years of hosting The Tonight Show, Leno wasn’t just about to retire with his airplane hangar of cars and his reputation as the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese of comedy: NBC gave him a daily hour-long show at 10PM. Shoehorning Leno in at 10PM, every day, was a ballsy move—and it bombed. At the same time, while critically acclaimed (check out comedian Patton Oswalt’s description of Conan’s Tonight Show here), the new Tonight Show was failing to achieve the ratings it had under Leno (2.8 million to Leno’s 5 million). Despite past evidence that Conan just needs a little time to grow, NBC decided last week to shake up their new late-night schedule. The network proposed cutting The Jay Leno Show to a half-hour, moving it just after the local news to the 11:35 slot historically claimed by The Tonight Show, and shoving Conan’s fledgling Tonight Show back a half-hour, to 12:05. Conan fans, both in the media and in the public, reacted angrily—how dare NBC push the venerable Tonight Show after midnight, just to make room for a show nobody likes? Conan himself responded on his show—check out the clips from his monologue (and from Letterman and Craig Ferguson) over here.

Today, Conan released a statement saying he will not host The Tonight Show if it’s pushed back to 12:05. It’s a painful read; Conan is obviously in pain that he may have to give up his fantasy-island, dream-of-all-dreams job, but he’s been fucked over through no fault of his own and NBC’s left him with little choice. Our interest (as techies) is the line in his statement (copied in full, below) that despite all the new video-on-demand advances, from Hulu to BitTorrent, The Tonight Show isn’t The Tonight Show if it’s moved away from its 11:35 slot. I’m not so sure about that—but how do you guys feel?

Either way, we hope NBC honors its commitment to O’Brien and lets him take the reins of The Tonight Show and guide it to a new chapter, the way he was supposed to. If you feel the same way, you can use the contact info Consumerist posted to bug the hell out of NBC.

Scheduling is an important question, and one I know us tech geeks think about as we torrent, stream and rip. But, now that I think about it, there’s an even more important question to be asked:

[NYTimes]

Here’s that statement, in full:

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Conan O’Brien released the following statement.

People of Earth:

In the last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.

Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over The Tonight Show in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.

But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my Tonight Show in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.

Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move the Tonight Show to 12:05 to accommodate the Jay Leno Show at 11:35. For 60 years the Tonight Show has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. The Tonight Show at 12:05 simply isn’t the Tonight Show. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the Late Night show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.

So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of The Tonight Show. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the Internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with the Tonight Show, I believe nothing could matter more.

There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.

Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s always been that way.

SOURCE Conan O’Brien

During CES 2010, Monster announced the Diddy Beats, an addition to the Beats by Dr. Dre headphone line. The Diddy Beats are leather-wrapped in-ears that sport a high-polished enamel end cap with the letters “db” on them. They should be available in March or April for $179, but for now, we’ve got a look at the packaging to hold you over.

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Ohio Department of Development awards research grant to Ferro Electronic Materials to support the development of advanced sealing systems for solar cells that exhibit greater durability in the field. Ferro will explore adaptation of its glass frit sealant material to sealing thin-film solar at lower manufacturing temperatures. …

… “In this project, Ferro will engineer a vitreous frit system to provide reliable air-tight and water-tight seals for second- and third-generation thin-film solar cells. Ferro will collaborate with the Edison Welding Institute, StrateNexus Technologies, and The Ohio State University, all of Columbus, Ohio, in developing, testing and commercializing this new technology. If successful, the new sealing materials will enable Ferro to solve a significant problem with second- and third-generation thin-film solar cells. As with all solar cells, thin-film cells require a hermetic seal to operate reliably for their expected lifetimes of 20-plus years. This can be a problem because most current thin-film solar cell modules are designed to be sealed with organic sealants that typically lose their hermeticity in time, especially if exposed to sunlight containing UV radiation. ” …

Via Ferro Electronic Materials: Low-Temperature Sealing Methods for Thin-Film Solar Cells

Ohio focuses investment on its nascent solar industry. …

Third Frontier of Ohio’s Photovoltaic Investment Program: “The goal of the Ohio Third Frontier Photovoltaic Program (PVP) is to accelerate the development and growth of the photovoltaics industry in Ohio by direct financial support to organizations seeking to: investigate near-term specific commercial objectives with respect to products, processes, or services; ”

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• Unibody 13″ 2.53Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
• 15″ 400Mhz G4 Titanium PowerBook
• 15″ 1.25Ghz G4 Aluminum PowerBook
• 15″ 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro

Amazing stuff — think of the engineering, manufacturing work, and design arguments that went into those little bands of metal, and all of the good work and art that has since been created with them. Beautiful.

TUAWFlickr Find: MacBook Generations originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In an unusual display of concern, the president of Google Enterprise has made a public statement saying there should be no cause for alarm about Google Apps and its cloud computing infrastructure following a major data breach by a China-based attack on Google and 20 other large enterprise companies.

David Girouard, Google’s president of Google Enterprise, said in a personally written blog post that Google suffered a massive cyber attack last month. According to the corporate Google blog, the attackers came away from Google with stolen intellectual property.

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Girouard downplayed the impact of the attack. He said Google “believes” the breach did not affect Google Apps customers.

Girouard, obviously concerned about the backlash, said the incident may raise some questions about Google security. He said that Google is introducing additional security measures to help ensure the safety of customer’s data.

There are consistent questions about cloud computing’s potential security flaws. Girouard is well aware of this. He tries to make it clear that this incident was not an assault on cloud computing.

“It was an attack on the technology infrastructure of major corporations in sectors as diverse as finance, technology, media, and chemical. The route the attackers used was malicious software used to infect personal computers. Any computer connected to the Internet can fall victim to such attacks. While some intellectual property on our corporate network was compromised, we believe our customer cloud-based data remains secure.”

Girouard comes close to making a sales pitch in his statement, saying, in fact, that Google customers benefit from the Internet giant’s investment in data security.

“While any company can be subject to such an attack, those who use our cloud services benefit from our data security capabilities. At Google, we invest massive amounts of time and money in security. Nothing is more important to us. Our response to this attack shows that we are dedicated to protecting the businesses and users who have entrusted us with their sensitive email and document information. We are telling you this because we are committed to transparency, accountability, and maintaining your trust.”

This is an incredible incident that will lead to some major issues for Google Enterprise over the next several months. As the battle heats up for cloud computing supremacy, competitors will pick at this incident as an example of why a company that’s more security conscious should be trusted with customer data, not a search engine giant.

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Saline breast implants have been used in the majority of breast augmentation procedures over the last fifteen years. One advantage of saline breast implants is that, if they rupture, the saline will be absorbed by the body without fear of any complications. Additional benefits include the ability for a plastic surgeon to subtly change the volume of the implant within the operating room to accommodate any small differences in the volume of the two breasts. The disadvantages of saline implants are that they have a higher risk of rippling in breast reconstructive or small-breasted patients. For patients with little breast tissue to cover the implants, rippling or wrinkling of the implant may become visible. However, the majority of mammoplasty procedures that are performed today with saline breast implants lead to youthful, beautiful, natural breasts.