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The latest Google Play Developer Console is out of beta, and is now the default version. The new console brings with it:

1. Improvements to the publishing flow: Making it more streamlined and easier to use.
2. Adds more languages to the store listings with new language-specific graphics: Ensures users around the world understand what your app is about.
3. New graphs:  Let you track your ratings over time. You can even break them down by device, country, app version, and more.
4. Enhanced statistics page: Shows when you released each version of your app so you can see how each new version changes your installations and ratings. You can also view crash information specific to an application version.

If you hadn’t thought about upgrading to the latest version, now is the time. The current version will be retired on April 15 to make room for the latest version, and will no longer be supported. More improvements are projected to come down the pipe in the future.

Source:  Android Developers Blog

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UK HTC fans are disappointed by the most recent announcement that the HTC One, scheduled to launch on March 15th, is not coming.  According to one retailer on Clove Technology’s Blog, they have it first-hand from HTC UK that the HTC One won’t be released until March 29th. That’s a two week delay for those that are counting.

It is important to keep in mind that this report comes from one lone retailer and may not hold true for all retailers. So, fingers crossed…. HTC can’t really afford to let their small following down at this point, especially with the big three breathing down their necks. HTC reached a 3 year low this year, shipping only $26.9 Billion of their projected $50-60 Billion worth of smartphones in the first two weeks of Q1.

Rumors from the supply chain are that HTC is facing severe component shortages for the UltraPixel camera. This delay may be confirmation of this rumor. Some might say, “Better late than never”, but with Samsung’s Galaxy S IV getting closer to its launch date, late may just be a little too late for HTC.

Source:  Clove Technology’s Blog

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Not to sound like a broken record, but Microsoft Hotmail and Outlook users are having problems again. In fact since reporting on issues related to the Hotmail-to-Outlook.com changeover in early January, there’s been a fairly steady flow of complaints from users about inaccessible or only partly operative email. Much of that time, the Microsoft status page showed no issue but on Tuesday night it lit up like a Christmas tree.

There was another public flare up of problems at the end of February. At that time, a Microsoft spokeswoman explained that when a small number of users are affected the status page will not show a problem. Issues that impact a significant number of customers, on the other hand, “will be noted and visible on the server status page.”

#hotmail and #outlook have been down since 2:35pm PDT. See status.live.com/detail/outlook.—
  (@edanderson) March 13, 2013

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Whether you are an avid or casual Android Gamer, Humble Bundle with Android 5 has just the thing for you. As previously reported on March 05, Humble Bundle is a highly popular, fairly new power player on the Android gaming scene.  Though the Humble Bundle 5 package has only been on the market for a few days now, they have already managed to raise over $1 Million in donations. In celebration of their success, the video game gurus over at Humble Bundle have just announced the release of an additional 3 awesome game titles to their already impressive lineup.

The additions include:

• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP by Capybara Games
• Splice by Cipher Prime Studios
• Crayon Physics Deluxe by Klooingames

Gamers will now get a total of 9 games with the latest Android 5 bundle, and what’s best, they are all DRM free! Don’t get too excited though, these gaming goodies don’t come completely free. In order to score the 9 DRM free games, subscribers will have to unlock the pack by donating slightly more than the current average donated by other gaming fans.  That means the software increases in price over time depending on when the user makes the donation.  At the time of this post the average was $6.75.  Not a bad price considering the amount of game content you get.

To unlock your content, hit the source below and :

1. Choose an amount to donate (at this time, that’s anywhere from $6.76 on up).
2. Choose how you would like to divide up your contribution (Amongst Developers, Charity, or as a Humble Tip).
3. Enter your E-mail address.
4. Choose whether to make the donation a gift.

That’s it…just 4 easy steps to gaming success!

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Source:  Humble Bundle

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With only a couple days left before Samsung reveals the Samsung Galaxy S IV, a new detail has been confirmed regarding the hardware. Imagination Technologies revealed today that the Exynos 5410 “Octa” chip incorporates the PowerVR SGX 544 core IP. We still don’t know how many cores are being used or at what speed, though sources suggest three cores running at 533MHz will be present. The use of the PowerVR IP is a change for Exynos chips which have used ARM’s Mali GPU for the last couple years.

source: AnandTech

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Kaspersky Lab has announced the public availability of Technical Previews for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2014 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2014. These are very early releases and some way from being complete, so there’s little information on new features yet – but a few basic details have appeared.

The interface has been updated, for instance. It’s not radically different, just simplified, and even more Windows 8-like than it was before. The new releases now support touch screens, too, and our initial impressions are that the program could work well in a touch environment. Kaspersky’s Safe Money (a feature which helps to secure your online transactions) now supports more banks and web stores, and allows you to choose your preferred browser.

The company claims the new release will use less resources. And apparently it will also provide “connected standby technology support”, although what level of support, and where, isn’t yet clear.

This doesn’t look like a release which is going to win over many new customers, then, but if you’re a Kaspersky fan and want to try it anyway, the process is at least fairly straightforward. There’s no special beta registration, and you don’t have to sign up to anything: just download the installer and you’re ready to go. (Although we would recommend removing any existing Kaspersky installation, first, and running a backup if the system contains anything important.)

And to find out what might happen then, we’ve briefly installed and tried out both programs, with mixed results.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2014 displayed error messages saying our system wasn’t activated, for instance, while the interface said we were, while Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 noticeably cut our test PC’s performance. But scanning and other features worked well, if a little slower. So on balance, not bad for an early beta, and if you’re interested in Kaspersky products then you should find there’s plenty here to explore.

Photo Credit: Andrea Danti/Shutterstock

What do you get when you cross a massive touchscreen, a Kinect, some sort of computing device and a whole lot of data-processing technology? You get Microsoft’s vision of our digital future, both at home and in the office. The company’s struggles to shift from a desktop-and-server-based world to a mobile-and-cloud-based world shed some doubt on whether Microsoft will be the company to actually deliver on its vision, but it definitely gets points for trying.

In an earlier post, I explained how the company is betting on its investment in machine learning and the webscale infrastructure that powers its Bing search engine to fuel its future devices and services. When you consider that any sort of gesture, speech or handwriting-recognition technology incorporates machine learning in order to decipher what human beings are actually doing, saying or writing, it’s easy to see how busy Microsoft has been.

Some of the technology was downright impressive if not occasionally mind-blowing (in theory, at least), while other parts — particularly some of the futuristic tableaus involving hyper-interactivity — seem, frankly, a little annoying. (You can see some examples in the gallery below.)

Showing off: Consumer tech

Microsoft used its TechForum media event to show everything from a speech-recognizing, dual-screen Xbox Live interface (and to hint at forthcoming original, possibly interactive programming from Microsoft) to a research project that allows Kinect to recognize hand gestures in addition to broad movements. The latter would allow for new ways of controlling Kinect-connected devices without controllers or specialized gear (e.g., fake guns) because a gripping (and releasing) motion would replace the press of a button.

Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s chief research officer, said the company used Kinect to teach an elevator in one building when people are planning to board or just standing in front of it conversing. If the elevator senses that someone wants to get on, the door opens automatically without requiring the person to press a button.

And, of course, pretty much all of Bing is the result of machine learning and big data technologies. Qi Lu, president of the Online Services Division, showed off all sorts of Bing capabilities, including one that surfaces reviews or other information from respected voices in the specific fields about which a user is searching. He said that capability requires searching “trillions of pieces of web data” to determine who’s influential and whether their content is of high quality.

The whole event took place in Microsoft’s new Envisioning Center, which tries to simulate what our work and home lives will be like a decade or more out. What’s Microsoft’s vision? Everything — from the LED bulbs to the omnipresent screens to the stove burners — is digital, connected and equipped with sensors, and 3-D printers sit on every desk. It’s everything the 8 million apps we have today are trying to be, only, well, convenient.

Showing off: Enterprise tech

For the business users, Microsoft demonstrated the machine-learning-based Flash Fill feature in Excel 2013, as well as a research project for indexing structured data sets available on Bing and then having Excel automatically recommend them based on the data someone is already working with. PowerPivot, a BI extension for Excel, can now handle 100 million rows of data in-memory versus its old limit of 1 million rows — allowing users to prove models before deploying on a larger scale using SQL Server and new performance-boosting in-memory, columnar store and compression capabilities.

Microsoft is also working on a workspace environment called DataLab that lets users share data, models, experiments and workflows. Technical Fellow Dave Campbell said the goal is to reduce the need for armies of skilled data experts by letting them publish their work for broader consumption — just like what happened with applications years ago. Some of these — such as Microsoft’s own Synonyms Search tool for figuring out what search terms are often associated with each other — will eventually make their way into the Windows Azure Data Marketplace.

We also saw research projects focused on using machine learning to identify in real time faulty microchip wafers (or, in theory, anything) as they traverse the production line and an application that analyzes petabytes of web data in order to determine how viral content spreads across the web. At Microsoft TechFest event the following day (which I didn’t attend), the company apparently showed off even more research projects in this same vein of fancy visualization and interfaces belying some serious data processing.

On the collaboration front, Microsoft trotted out its Lync video-conferencing platform that also lets users collaborate on documents use virtual ink to write messages. The latter appears particularly useful for creating virtual whiteboards, especially when Perceptive Pixel screens are involved. When the meeting is done, Office Division President Kurt DelBene said, everything saves to the cloud and can be shared with whoever needs it.

If I had one takeaway from TechForum, it’s that I wouldn’t want to be any legacy technology company right now — be it HP, IBM, Sony, Dell or even Apple — trying to ride a skyrocketing innovation curve while also having to maintain a multibillion-dollar collection of legacy businesses. Gun to my head, though, Microsoft wouldn’t be a bad choice.

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One measure of any brand’s success is how much people talk about it. By that reckoning, Apple’s star is fallen, while Samsung’s rises. Consider the amount of rumors the past month or so about Galaxy S IV, which launches this week, and contrast that against near silence about anything Apple. Turn back the clock a year and you’ll see modest buzz about the S3 but ongoing Apple rumors that stole the thunder from the Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile World Congress and just about every single new mobile product launch. (Yet this year, Apple efforts to overshadow CES failed.)

Then there was the noise, noise, noise from Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung, which hundreds of bloggers and journalists used to repeatedly label the South Korean company the world’s worst worrisome copycat. In the end Samsung’s image is no worse for wear, while Apple rumors wear thin. The most prominent recent one is about a watch. For the wrist? What Citigroup analyst Oliver Chen calls a $6 billion business for Apple. Let me make that clear, because shorthand lacks the impact: $6,000,000,000! That’s more than iPod generated in fiscal 2012 ($5.6 billion). Yeah, right.

Big Brand Bust-out

Suddenly Samsung is the cool kid in town, and that’s no small turnaround. Because Apple enjoyed a long rumor run, going back to the mid-Noughties and increasing after iPhone launched in 2007 and intensifying from late 2009. But since shares started shallowing late last year, Apple talk turned from innovations to lack of them. Meanwhile, Samsung benefited from some smart marketing supporting Galaxy S III’s launch, such that brand perception rose as high as Apple’s in early October, according to YouGov BrandIndex.

For all 2012, while Apple ranks higher (number 3) in the U.S. Telecoms & Technology “Top Buzz” category, Samsung is first among the “Top Buzz Improvers”. In the United Kingdom, Samsung moved into the top 10 for both segments across all brand categories.

According to YouGov BrandIndex: “Samsung’s Buzz score took a serious tumble in August when a US court ordered it to pay Apple $1bn in damages for infringing intellectual property, but it made an impressive recovery and by November had surpassed pre-verdict levels”.

In France, Samsung is #3 in the Top Buzz segment, while Apple ranks fifth. The branding firm doesn’t release data for South Korea, where presumably Samsung is highly-regarded.

Elsewhere, Brand Finance’s 2013 list of the top-500 global brands puts Apple as leader, but Samsung rose four spots to take second place from Google.

Soaring Sales Share

Meanwhile, Samsung commands global sales lead over Apple. Samsung sold more than twice as many cell phones in fourth quarter than Apple — 107 million to 43.5 million, respectively, according to Gartner. For all 2012, the South Korean company sold nearly three times as many handsets as its American rival (385 million to 130 million). In the crucial market for smartphones, which accounted for about 45 percent of all mobile sales during Q4, Apple’s market share fell to 20.9 percent from 23.6 percent year over year. Samsung soared from 51.3 percent to 69.7 percent. Sales success says much about a brand’s popularity and growth — the latter because of increased exposure from the logo and advertising.

On the latter, Samsung marketing is aggressive and creative, particularly anchored by “The Next Big Thing” campaign — famous for ridiculing people who wait outside Apple Stores for new iPhones. More recently, leaks and teasers for Galaxy S IV generate heaps of blogs, stories and social shares across the web. Samsung viral efforts aren’t new, they’re just now succeeding, which again says much about brand perception.

Something else: In a break from form, Samsung will launch Galaxy S IV here in the United States. Rather than typical kick-off on home turf and roll out to many other countries first, Samsung’s mobile unveils on Apple’s home turf. Even a year ago, the electronics giant wouldn’t have been so bold, and for good reason: Until recently American analysts, bloggers and journalists wagged their keyboards for Apple.

Samsung Switchers Sing

But sentiments have changed. They say March can come in like a lamb or lion (good weather or storm). Mac journalist Andy Ihnatko started the month off with a storm by explaining why he switched from iPhone to Galaxy S III — in three parts. Days earlier, Guy Kawasaki, another Android convert and man responsible for building Apple’s guerrilla marketing contingent, started working for Motorola as chief evangelist.

All in all there is a key undercurrent: Samsung gets the kind of rumor attention and buzz that not long ago Apple almost exclusively commanded — and if you read tech anything anywhere, gadget geeks have heart palpitations anticipating Samsung innovations. All while high-profile techies flip iPhone for Android and lead others to follow. To recap:

• Rumors about Galaxy S IV are everywhere; Apple’s camp is silent.
• Samsung brand awareness rises, despite damage done by Apple patent suite.
• Samsung smartphones sales rise — 18 points year over year — while iPhone fall.
• Samsung marketing is super aggressive and successful, which once described Apple adverts.
• Galaxy S III proved to be a hugely-innovative handset and geeks clamor in anticipation for the S4.

What a difference a year makes.

With the Samsung Galaxy S IV being announced in just a couple days, that’s not all Samsung will be talking about. The Galaxy S III is said to get a refresh and will feature a better display, wireless charging, and 2,400 mAh battery. This news comes from Russian journalist Eldar Murtazin who more recently was reliable with providing the day Samsung would unveil the Galaxy S IV. As far as a better screen, there are no details on what resolution and the bigger battery is just 300 mAh more than what’s in the current Galaxy S III.

Source: Eldar Murtazin’s Twitter

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The role that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology played in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz was front and center at a memorial service for Swartz Tuesday afternoon at the MIT Media Lab. Swartz, the 26-year old co-owner of Reddit and founder of DemandProgress, committed suicide in January. He was facing trial on charges that he illegally downloaded too many documents from MIT’s JSTOR library.

Swartz’s partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman and his father Robert Swartz both called on MIT to open up its investigation into its own actions and to do it soon. Much of the coverage after Swartz’s death focused on the role of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who was slammed by critics for pursuing an overzealous prosecution for a minor offense. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and others have defended the prosecution.  But there was little mention of Ortiz or the U.S. prosecutors today. At MIT, it was MIT being scrutinized.

After Swartz’s death, the school announced an internal investigation into its actions. “I was hopeful that it could learn from mistakes made and make sure this injustice and tragedy is not repeated,” Stinebrickner-Kauffman told a couple hundred people at the event. “I have since become less hopeful,” she said.

“I fear a PR exercise, a whitewash. The [MIT] general counsel is running this. Aaron’s lawyers and father have not been interviewed and there is no sign that the report will be released,” she said.

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

She said that while MIT’s stated mission of generating and disseminating knowledge is perfectly aligned with Swartz’s ethic, the school has diverged from that mission, as evidenced by the fact that it could have stopped the prosecution several times.

“MIT called in the Secret Service when it could have handled the issue internally. When people called on them to drop the case, MIT refused. MIT helped the prosecution while it refused to provide [information] access to the defense,” she said.

It’s been two months since Swartz’s death and there is no sign of that report she said.

Other speakers, including some employed at the school, also worried about MIT’s standing here.

MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, who hosted the event, acknowledged his conflicted role as a member of the institution and a friend and colleague of Swartz. Introducing the proceedings, Ito noted: “I have an official voice and a personal voice. If it wasn’t for the official voice, I would have spoken out more on this,” he noted.

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As we gear up for our Structure:Data conference next week in New York, we wanted to create a home for our four-part special report published over the course of last week on Hadoop, the big data engine that could. Links to the series follow below, and you can find more information on Structure:Data here.

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Spiral Genetics, a Seattle-based bioinformatics company, has raised $3 million led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

PRESS RELEASE:

Spiral Genetics, a cloud-based big data bioinformatics company, announced today that it closed its Series A financing, led by venture capital firm DFJ. The new capital will help further Spiral Genetics’ mission to create revolutionary tools that empower the bioinformatics community to solve the large-scale genomic data challenges of tomorrow. The company intends to use the funds to expand its bioinformatics engineering team, scale its sales and marketing efforts and accelerate product development.

In addition to its funding, Spiral announced its partnership with Omicia, a developer of scalable and fully integrated informatics systems specifically designed to interpret human genome sequences for research and clinical applications. The partnership leverages Omicia’s Opal solution which is a variant analysis tool that empowers researchers and clinicians to analyze genomes and prioritize disease-causing variants.

“Our partnership with Spiral Genetics allows faster and more accurate interpretation of human genomes for clinical relevance; a critical bottleneck for adoption of genome into clinical care and laboratory testing. In combination with Omicia’s Opal system, our partnership will move us closer to a seamless solution from raw sequence data to clinically relevant genomic variants. Speed and user friendliness are critical for adoption of human genome sequencing” stated Martin G. Reese, Ph.D, Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer Omicia. The Opal tool is used by CLIA labs and clinical researchers and in combination with Spiral’s platform is providing same day analysis from raw reads to produce clinically relevant findings.

“Innovations in DNA sequencing have led to an explosion of data, which presents an enormous market opportunity,” said Rachel Pike of DFJ. “These developments are only accelerating and will have real and lasting implications on drug development, R&D in agriculture, and biological production of chemicals and fuels. Spiral Genetics is a solution that will both manage and draw insight from these data, enabling the industry to keep up with constantly-accelerating technological progress.”

The Spiral Platform offers the fastest cloud-based bioinformatics analysis available today. Their breakthrough approach accelerates the data processing time from days to hours, shrinking the analysis time for a whole human genome at 40x coverage to 3 hours.

“We are thrilled to be backed by DFJ,” stated Adina Mangubat, CEO of Spiral Genetics. “DFJ has consistently invested in industry leaders whose technologies are changing critical industry sectors. As more academic researchers, agro-genomic and pharmaceutical companies increase their use of genomic data, there’s no doubt that a large-scale focused bioinformatics toolkit to process and analyze genomic data will be vital and we are excited to be at the forefront of developing new solutions to these challenges.”

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IMS Health, a Parsippany, N.J.-based healthcare industry data firm, has acquired Appature, a Seattle-based software company that had raised roughly $10 million, including from Madrona Venture Group and Ignition Partners. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PARSIPPANY, NJ, March 12, 2013 – IMS Health has acquired Appature, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company based in Seattle, to further expand its commercial services capabilities for life sciences and healthcare organizations. Appature offers clients an innovative and patented cloud-based relationship marketing platform to address the complexities of today’s multi-stakeholder healthcare environment, and enable the measurement and optimization of relationship marketing programs across channels.

IMS will bring together its market-leading healthcare information, analytics and managed services with Appature’s platform for customer data integration, campaign management and marketing analytics. This combination will give healthcare clients the ability to deliver integrated customer experiences and assess end-to-end marketing campaign performance, enabling them to optimize their marketing strategies and promotional spend to drive more effective engagements.

“Today, life sciences companies are shifting their sales and marketing approaches to focus on an expanding set of decision makers and the explosion of new media, digital device and channel choices,” says Seyed Mortazavi, president, U.S., IMS. “They are looking for partners that can pull together the right market and technology expertise, information assets and analysis to help them implement effective commercial strategies and yield better ROI. Through this acquisition, we’ll drive the development of next-generation, data-driven marketing effectiveness solutions, transforming the way clients plan and execute their programs. Appature also brings a strong culture of innovation to IMS, reinforcing our commitment to agility and the development of breakthrough solutions.”

Appature’s SaaS model extends the capabilities of IMS One, the company’s commercial platform that brings IMS and third-party data together for commercial planning, execution, and analytical activities. Flexible and scalable, this platform provides information and services through the cloud, enabling clients to benefit from lower costs, faster implementation, and increased speed to insight. Appature provides best-in-breed capabilities in “big data” integration and cleansing, customer segmentation, multi-channel marketing campaign execution, and real-time marketing reports and dashboards.

“We’re very excited about the opportunity to join IMS at such a crucial time, when the commercial model for life sciences is fundamentally transforming to meet new marketplace demands,” says Kabir Shahani, co-founder and CEO, Appature. “The combination of Appature and IMS is powerful and will enable clients to more easily achieve strategic and financial goals through a data-driven, customer-centric marketing platform. We look forward to bringing truly game-changing offerings to the marketplace.”

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Late last month, Netflix announced the first ever Flixie awards, which asked users to vote on their favorite TV shows and movies available on the Netflix Instant catalog. The awards featured some untraditional categories like “Best Bromance” and “Best Hangover Cure.”

Now, your votes are in and Netflix has released the results of the contest.

Without further ado, here are your gold, silver, and bronze finishers in each category:

Best TV Marathon: 1) Breaking Bad 2) Battlestar Galactica 3) House of Cards

Best PMS Drama: 1) Grey’s Anatomy 2) Glee 3) Friday Night Lights

Best Guilty Pleasure: 1) The Vampire Diaries 2) Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3) Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Best Bromance: 1) Blue Mountain State 2) The League 3) Top Gear

Best Hangover Cure: 1) How I Met Your Mother 2) Arrested Development 3) Family Guy

Best Commute Shrtner: 1) Mythbusters 2) Louis C.K.: Chewed Up 3) Portlandia

Best Tantrum Tamer: 1) The Muppet Movie 2) Phineas and Ferb 3) Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

Well, there are some pretty solid choices here – especially that Best TV Marathon category. If you started from the top and streamed Breaking Bad, followed by Battlestar Galactica and House of Cards, you’d have yourself a very entertaining two weeks or so, depending on your real-life obligations.

WASHINGTON D.C. — IER Distinguished Senior Fellow and former acting EIA administrator Mary Hutzler will testify on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 3:00PM before the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) The …