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MicroStrategy Reports Mega-Earnings Earnings of $24.5 million and sales of $71.6 million blow past the predictions made by analysts who follow the BI firm.
Small-Business Approach Leads to E-Government Portal Success Washington County, VA, taps private sector expertise.
ProClarity Makes Foray Into Japanese Market Professional services firm Understanding K.K. will serve as the primary distributor of ProClarity 6 in Japan.
Crime Fighter BI Florida's efforts in law enforcement data-sharing, analytics and reporting can teach all BI practitioners a thing or two.
Oracle-PeopleSoft: A Process Perspective Oracle at long last has control over PeopleSoft after a protracted 18-month fight. But what can PeopleSoft users expect to gain from Oracle?
Army Enlists E-Forms To Speed Processes Just like most businesses, the U.S. Army wants to eliminate paperwork and move to electronic processes, but much more than time and money may be at stake.
SAP Veteran Named QlikTech North American CEO Rick Pitts joins QlikTech from SAP America, where he was Vice President of SMB Channel Sales.
OutlookSoft Puts Predictive Analytics Into BPM Tool The performance management product is designed to predict financial and operational business performance based on analysis of historical and real-time data.
How To Make BI Less of a Gamble To avoid expensive BI debacles, use rules-based audits and proofs of concept to understand potential project pitfalls
EII: Information on Demand Will enterprise information integration really displace traditional data warehousing, or just complement it?
Agile To The Bone Service-oriented architecture lets you respond quickly to demands for new and improved processes
Plug and Play Meets Process Service-oriented approaches have helped Owens & Minor, TransUnion, Pfizer and MasterBrand Cabinets build processes quickly and affordably
Metastorm Teams With NEC NEC will recommend and install Metastorm's e-Work software in conjunction with its own products and services, especially those designed for the banking, brokerage and insurance industries.
Ask Dr. Data The stuff we love to loathe.
Tear Down This Wall E-commerce expert Peter Fingar and CSC Europe CTO Howard Smith are business process management systems (BPMS) evangelists. They envision a world where application design teams don't have to worry about the IT stack and don't have to throw their requirements over the proverbial wall to programmers.
Diverse Priorities For a growing portion of companies, BI is ready to start giving something back to the bottom line.
Short List Composite Information Server 3.0; Edge 2.0; JRockit 5.0; WebLogic Server 9.0; Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) 3.2
Automation and Analysis For the DBA Embarcadero DBArtisan 8.0 helps you manage all the databases across your enterprise from a common console
Process Gets Boost from SOX The work SOX requires is a great start for process improvement, automation and control.
BI and Content Increase Donations; Tsunami Victims Benefit World Vision, an international humanitarian organization, is relying on the convergence of BI and content to help it optimize donations for relief efforts in the tsunami-stricken areas of South Asia.
Open Source DBs Up Enterprise Appeal Highly anticipated releases of the top two open source databases, PostgreSQL 8.0 and MySQL 5.0b, are expected this month. -- Also: Get Smart and Trendspotting
Add Value To Beat 'Googlization' Publishers are adding deeper information to their services.
Oracle Expands Its Performance Management Offerings Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting gives businesspeople control of processes but little Excel integration
Defining Success And Failure, IT Style Take the mystery out of gauging IT project success.
Setting Priorities To Achieve Agility Agility: where do you start?
Letter Drop What Happened to Simplicity?; Intelligent Infrastructure; Lights On
The End of the Beginning Thanks to SOA, web services are evolving into knowledge "products."
Democratized BI The design of Business Objects' latest analytics platform points to the future of how BI will be practiced, no matter what vendor a business uses.
SMB PLM: Innovation Driver? Product lifecycle management for SMBs equals better IPM.
SAP Netweaver: The Process Dimension Potential performance and process improvement hindered by automation and transactional-centric view.
Oracle Opens New World of Opportunity Oracle OpenWorld and PeopleSoft acquisition reveal strengths and weaknesses for Oracle in 2005 and beyond.
Nextance Adds IP Optimization Suite Enterprise contract management includes intellectual property agreements.
Innovation Roadmapping Roadmapping is vital for realizing innovation.
Innovation Management Software: Walking the Talk Do Apple and Microsoft really help you to innovate?
Gaining the Most Business Value from BI Leverage categorization to build quantifications of costs and benefits.
Data Security Across International Borders Are US corporations that embrace offshore IT resources doing enough to protect customer privacy?
Databeacon Lays Out the .NET New Smart Client is first to leverage .NET client deliverability.
Consolidating with Compliance Driving compliance efficiency in the Sarbanes-Oxley environment.
A New Kind of Solution-Sharing Network Leverage solution-sharing networks for innovation.
Cognos Buys Spanish BI Vendor Optima, formerly a unit of Sage Finance, will operate under the name Cognos Espana.
E-Forms Are Almost Ready for Primetime If you developed your impression of electronic forms products three years ago, it's time to look again.
U.S. Army Enlists E-Forms To Speed Processes Just like most businesses, the U.S. Army wants to eliminate paperwork and move to electronic processes, but much more than time and money may be at stake.
The Rumor Of SOX ROI Sarbanes-Oxley-compliant organizations are starting to back up vendor claims that compliance management practices are producing benefits beyond compliance.
Review: Databeacon Has Analytics Down Pat True analytical reporting must be dynamic if users are going to turn to it to help them predict business performance in ever-changing markets.
Actuate Sees Move Back Into Black CEO Pete Cittadini also gives an upbeat outlook on Actuate's push to develop an open-source BI reporting tool.
IBM Acquires Privately Held Analytics Firm SRD's software is designed to assist customer relationship management, regulatory compliance, security against insider threats and similar functions.
Quiet For Now Oracle and Microsoft want to own the business intelligence functionality that most customers now separately integrate into their databases.
IBM Development Platform Gets Reporting Capability Crystal from Business Objects becomes the default reporting tool in the Rational environment, a visual modeling and design product for Java apps.
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With excellent service seemingly being a thing of the past, I was more than pleased with my entire stay this week. In the area for an on-site business meeting, I had to choose a property that was close to the facility without a lack of safety and cleanliness for the other meeting attendees who needed to stay overnight.
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I felt welcomed, taken care of and safe. I wasn't interrupted during my 3 days stay with any noise, and they gave me a welcome call late enough where I could settle in and get unpacked. When I woke up the first morning, I had a wonderful card slid under my door welcoming me. It was great! Drew was a dream, he printed my gym guest pass for L.A. Fitness and was just very attentive the entire time. Staff is excellent.
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FRESH FOOD: The new frontier
At the cutting edge of private label, meat and produce are where a grocer can make or break its name.
When it comes to private label perishables, meat and produce are definitely where the action is. The fresh frontier is still ripe for taming with store-brand programs, and supermarket operators are seizing on premium-quality products as the way to differentiate themselves from competitors. Given meat and produce's dominant positions among fresh departments, it makes sense for operators to put most of their store-brand emphasis there.
They are obviously the signature product categories that are the most important when it comes to getting it right," says Jim Hertel, s.v.p. of Barrington, Ill.-based Willard Bishop Consulting, citing recent consumer research confirming that the two departments are the most important to shoppers and exert the most influence over their choice of which store to shop.
Hertel suggests the industry has only just begun to scratch the surface of this fresh opportunity. "To be really successful long-term, retailers must begin to think and act like brand marketers: identifying unmet consumer needs, developing products, and creating positioning, in addition to merchandising." It requires new skills, new processes, and the willingness to commit to a longer-term horizon. And the industry's success with store branding in the center store will scarcely serve as a model for how to conquer the fresh frontier.
"Many retailers have become quite adept at attracting 'vendor resources' from their CPG manufacturer partners, intellectual capital delivered in the form of category management and special projects," says Hertel. "Yet as retailers move into private branding in perishable categories, they will need to be much more self-sufficient than has been the case in the center store for some time now."
One retailer moving in that direction is Pleasanton, Calif.-based Safeway Stores. Its chief executive, Steve Burd, recently told the investor community about his chain's plans to change its philosophy regarding supplier allowances, in favor of a dead-net pricing approach over the next five years, opening the opportunity to build business organically through differentiation.
Signature meats
At the Prudential Equity Group's "Back-to-School" conference, held in September in Boston, Burd said he believes Safeway could be the first national supermarket chain to offer distinctiveness to its customers through the quality of offerings in its fresh departments -- and above all, in its meat departments.
"When we talk about differentiation, we mean that we intend to become famous, literally famous, for having the best meat, which means to us we must have the most tender product," said Burd, referring to Safeway's Rancher's Reserve line of select Angus aged beef, which the chain unveiled about a year ago and has been aggressively promoting in many markets ever since.
Safeway is hardly alone in promoting a branded signature beef line: The Kroger Co. boasts its own Cattleman's Collection line, and Albertsons touts its Blue Ribbon beef line, marketed as Jewel Blue Ribbon in Chicago-area Jewel/Osco stores and Lancaster Blue Ribbon in its metro Philadelphia Acme Markets unit.
In addition, several regional chains have also upped the ante by expanding their signature meat programs. Among them is Indianapolis-based Marsh Supermarkets, operator of 67 Marsh supermarkets, 39 LoBill Foods, eight O'Malia Food Markets, 164 Village Pantry convenience stores, one Arthur's Fresh Market and two Savin*$ units in Indiana and Western Ohio.
On the heels of a successful June rollout of the Maverick Ranch branded line of all-natural beef at its O'Malia's division, Marsh in late September went private for its latest addition: Premium Gold Ultra all-natural and antibiotic- and hormone-free Black Angus beef.
So far the new line's performance "has been absolutely amazing," reports Dewayne Wulff, Marsh's v.p. of meat merchandising. "Out of the gate, I originally selected only 16 of our [demographically friendly] Marsh stores to carry the product. But with the absolutely fantastic customer response we've had, nearly every store has requested the product."
Wulff says the new line is similar to Marsh's existing Premium Gold Angus beef, "but in this case is segregated at birth and never given any antibiotics, growth hormones, or pesticides. It is USDA source-verified, which will allow us to trace it back all the way to the farm."
Many of Marsh's meat managers report sales of the Premium Gold Ultra store brand have doubled or tripled compared with "the similar prime Laura's Lean items that we had previously only carried," says Wulff.
Marsh's focus on store-brand programs has even helped cushion the blow from the spate of unprecedented spikes in beef prices in recent months, adds Wulff. While the chain had seen "a significant reduction in the movement of steak over the summer months -- luckily for us, earlier this year we introduced Marsh Lean Cuts that offered some value cuts that can be used for steaks, coming out of the round and chuck, which gave customers a nice alternative. But obviously, when you're selling a flatiron steak for $4.99 per pound vs. a T-bone steak at $10.99 pound, it's not quite the same."
The current emphasis on proprietary signature meat programs is an extension of an initiative spurred by chairman Don Marsh, "who challenges us to make sure all of our meat programs are unique and different," notes Wulff. The chain launched a signature pork line four years ago that continues to be successful. The line is sourced from "six Indiana-based pork farmers who have a passion for top quality and work under the National Pork Producers Council's strict quality assurance standards to guarantee quality and taste."
The ascendancy of such signature meat programs at retail has prompted packers to sharpen their own operations. "The onus is now on suppliers to make sure the programs and resources we provide are yielding measurable results that benefit retailers," says Norman Bessac, v.p. of marketing for Wichita, Kan.-based Cargill Meat Solutions. "There's a lot more to it than just selling them a nice product with a fancy label slapped on it -- it's a whole system."
While the product is certainly an important part of that system, Bessac says the most successful meat retailers "understand the way consumers look at the category, and in turn build a value position around those insights by focusing on key benefits and clear reasons that make it meaningful to the consumer."
Cargill has built its corporate strategy around that same focus, says Bessac, rather than just concentrating on having a national brand. "We firmly believe the best way for our company and our customers to succeed is to look at the category's performance and align ourselves to focus on appropriate growth opportunities." And these days, growth opportunities apparently look stronger than ever in private label.
"Even though most of the items in the meat category have not been labeled with a name or brand, it has always been the first thing customers associate with a store they frequently patronize. So I think as we move forward with branding, we have to build off that foundation and strengthen that value proposition. To expect a different dynamic to occur requires far more than expanding your offering with a fancy label."
The trend hasn't been ignored on the poultry side of the meat case, either. "We estimate that private label chicken has about a 25 percent share of refrigerated chicken sales and has been growing rapidly," observes Chris E. Jones, director of retail sales for Atlanta-based Gold Kist Inc., the nation's third-largest integrated chicken company.
The house-brand poultry programs that will take a leadership position at many chains are of a quality that is equal to or better than the advertised brands, says Jones. "That's one of the reasons that Gold Kist has been so successful in this category. We see this trend continuing as so many retailers are using their private label products to be their strategic point of difference from their competitors.
"Private label poultry programs have really progressed over the last 10 years, when there were very few branded private label programs," Jones adds. "Since then, many retailers have started to follow the European model of branding and building their own private label. For the near term, we see private label continuing to increase share. We also expect more retailers will start to build premium brands that are better than the major advertised brands, with their own strong marketing programs."
But a lot is riding on store-brand fresh meat, and retailers trying to have an impact on the category have to make sure food safety, customer service, and package integrity are top priorities. "The retailers must be concerned about the ability of their private label processor to provide a safe, consistently high-quality product," stresses Jones. "It's their name and reputation that's on the package."
Produce going private
Meat isn't the only perimeter category reaping rewards from proprietary branding. The trend is transforming the produce department at some operators, especially in the value-added category.
"Private label salads are a tremendous growth category for retailers," says Leslie Tripp, director of marketing at River Ranch Fresh Foods, LLC in Salinas, Calif.
Because the produce department is always at or near the top of consumers' lists of reasons they shop a particular store, Tripp flags "retailer's own brand" produce programs as highly effective in building store equity and consumer loyalty. "Packaged salad programs, in particular, allow stores to offer quality and great value with uniquely available items."
Although the packaged salads market has become fairly crowded with national brand players and line extensions, Tripp says, "There are still opportunities to fine-tune selections by making the offerings more customized to the local shoppers' needs and by offering unique blends and kits not available from the national brands."
Like Jones at Gold Kist, Tripp also urges retailers to stay on top of cold chain management regarding packaged salads, given that store-branded fresh labels signify a more "personalized promise" of freshness and quality on the part of retailers. "Once packaged, keeping the product properly chilled throughout the entire supply chain, from processing to dock to distribution center to retail back room to store shelf to home refrigerator, is critical to overall customer satisfaction and repeat purchase."
For packaged salads, he continues, "Every five minutes out of refrigeration reduces shelf life by two hours, while an hour out of refrigeration takes a day off potential shelf-life. Most cold chain breaks today happen at the back and front of the store, or on the way home."
Establishing and maintaining brand integrity are more vital than cutting costs in the service of margins, he adds. While it's essential to be competitive with store brands, "Retailers risk undermining their programs if their primary focus is on buying at the lowest price," Tripp says. Instead their due diligence should be directed at finding suppliers that can deliver top-quality, consistent supply; audited food safety programs; and high service levels.
After all, there's little that's more costly than trying to rehabilitate a store brand that's been tainted.


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Turkey's state of emergency is set to be extended by another three months, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated Thursday, and could be in place for a year, if required.
Erdogan said the state of emergency was required to combat threats against the government, following a failed coup attempt in July.
His remarks come after the National Security Council recommended extending the country's state of emergency, imposed for three months just after the putsch attempt, which gives Erdogan and the government sweeping powers.
The country's main opposition bloc and the Kurds have increasingly expressed concern, calling for the measures to end and demanding a return to parliamentary governance. Erdogan says the legislative house is ill-prepared to handle the country's current situation.
The centre-left People's Republican Party (CHP) insists innocent people have been caught up in the purges since the coup and accuses the government of overreach.
Erdogan has used the emergency laws to issue decrees to close down institutions, including dozens of media outlets, and fire more than 50,000 civil servants and suspend tens of thousands more.
The government blames the coup on Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric who denies the charges. Ankara is demanding his extradition from the United States. Turkey has arrested 32,000 people since the failed coup.
Besides Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), an Islamic bloc, only the far-right Nationalist Movement PartY (MHP), the smallest party in parliament, supports the emergency laws.
Measures taken since July have targeted alleged supporters of Gulen but have also affected Kurdish media outlets and leaders, ostensibly on terror-related charges.
Last year, a peace process and ceasefire with the armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), broke down, adding to the country's woes and violence, especially in the mostly-Kurdish south-east.
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Last updated: July 23, 2017
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It's super-fast, simple, secure and free. Telegram seamlessly syncs across all of your devices and can be used on desktops, tablets and phones alike. You can send an unlimited amount of messages, photos, videos and files of any type (.doc, .zip, .pdf, etc.). Telegram groups have up to 200 people and you can send broadcasts to up to 100 contacts at a time. Be sure to check our website for a list of Telegram apps for all platforms. Telegram alternatives for business are Slack, Hipchat, Microsoft Teams
Viber is a mobile app that provides free international calls and text messages to other Viber users using 3G or Wi-Fi. Uses your existing contact list - check out which of your phone contacts and friends is already on Viber so that you can call and text them for free.
Latest news about Telegram and Viber:
23.07.17. Viber acquired shopping keyboard startup Chatter Commerce. Messaging app Viber earlier this year made its first foray into shopping services with Instant Shopping, a feature that lets you search for items for sale via a keyboard when you have the messaging app open. Today, the company has acquired Chatter Commerce, the startup that helped build that feature. That's how Viber wants to catch up with alternatives. According to rumors, Amazon is building a consumer-focused messaging app. With Facebook also adding in more transactional features into Messenger — part of a huge expansion that has taken it beyond basic chat and into bots and other services — there is a clear trend among messaging apps to leverage engagement they already have with their users to drive their business in other ways.
16.03.17. Viber introduced secret chats with self-destructing messages. Viber for iOS and Android got an update today that brings "Secret Chats" to the service for the first time. Like Snapchat, Facebook, Telegram and many others before it, Viber now enables its users to set a timer for their messages, after which they will self-destruct. The new feature also alerts a user if the person to whom they are talking takes a screenshot — that's another feature that Snapchat pioneered. Viber appears to be pushing its security credentials in a bit to differentiate itself from the rest. It added end-to-end encryption and hidden chats last year.
23.02.17. Viber adds e-commerce feature. Messaging app Viber (owned by e-commerce company Rakuten) wants to monetize on e-commerce without turning to stupid advertising. Viber will start to present users with items for sale, inspired by your current chat, when you press a small shopping bag icon at the bottom of the screen and search for items. The feature is due to go live in the U.S. first, on March 6, before Viber looks to roll it out to other markets. Initially the shopping feature will not be letting users make purchases directly on Viber itself — they will either be redirected to the relevant page in a brand's app via a deeplink.
05.01.17. Telegram adds unsend feature. Messaging app Telegram adds "unsend" feature which lets users retrieve (i.e. delete) messages within two days of sending them. Secure messenger Signal also recently added an ephemeral messaging feature, back in October — albeit for 'tidiness', not privacy. Telegram's unsend feature works within one-to-one and group messaging scenarios, and has to be enacted within the 48 hour window. It says the idea is to serve users with 'morning after messaging regret' by letting them scrub stuff they wish they'd never said.
10.11.16. Viber launched Public Accounts for businesses. Messaging app Viber is launching Public Accounts for businesses and brands who want to communicate with Viber users for marketing, customer service - or a bit of both, without a user needing to add that account as a contact first. Instead they can justsubscribe to them. Besides, by the end of November, Viber's API will be integrated with between 10 and 15 popular CRM packages for customer service integration. Businesses can then send and read their Viber messages alongside all of their other social media, email and messaging interactions. Public Accounts puts Viber among several other consumer-focused messaging apps that already have similar feature: WeChat, Line and Facebook Messenger.
19.04.16. Viber adds end-to-end encryption and hidden chats. Following WhatsApp, another popular messaging app Viber is introducing end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls on its platform, including group chats (you can chat with up to 200 people), and a way to 'hide' chats on your account alongside its existing expanded deleting function. The new privacy features will work across Android, iOS, PCs and Mac desktops, with the encryption coming with the latest app update (6.0) and a reauthentication of the app (via QR Code) to turn the feature on. Viber's encryption will come with varying levels of security, which will show up in the form of a color-coded lock on the right side of the screen.
13.04.16. Telegram released Bot Platform 2.0. Messaging platform Telegram announced a 2.0 update to its bot platform - the biggest update since launch last year. The update brings the ability for devs to build bots that can send any type of content supported on Telegram, such as documents, MP3s, videos, stickers, animations and contacts; support for location-based services; and the ability to deeply integrate with other services based on users' phone numbers. It's also adding inline keyboards that can be structured to mesh with a particular bot's messages — so users can tap on pre-determined buttons to respond to the bot, rather than needing to type out specific instructions. Telegram has built four sample bots to show off the new features: @music, a bot for searching for and sharing classical music; @youtube, a bot for searching and sharing YouTube videos; @foursquare, a bot for finding nearby restaurants and places to share addresses with friends; and @sticker, a bot for finding stickers using — you guessed it — emoji as the start point for a sticker search.
24.09.15. Telegram launched public chats - Channels. Secure messenger Telegram added new feature, that will be usefull for business - Channels. It's a new tool for broadcasting your messages to large audiences. Channels replace the old Broadcast lists and are better in every way. They can have an unlimited number of members, they can be public with a permanent URL and each post in a channel has its own view counter. Views from forwarded copies of your messages will be included in the total count. Last but not least, new members can see the entire message history in a channel once they join — all the way to day one. Channels are available in Telegram's iOS and Android apps.
25.06.15. Telegram now lets developers create smart chat-bots . Popular messenger Telegram has launched a new Bot platform that allows third-party developers to create Bots which are simply Telegram accounts operated by software sporting AI-like features. Examples of this might be an image bot integrated with the Bing Image search API or support bot that can resolve your issue step-by-step. Bots can even provide custom keyboards, so users will not have to type anything. New Bot developers only needed a few hours to build these bots. They just generate a key with @BotFather and use a simple https API to control the bot. Telegram Bots can also go viral. Any forwarded message contains a link to its original sender. This means any message from your bot forwarded to a person or group is a messaging equivalent of a retweet – thus making bots inherently viral. All bots have an Add To Group and a Share button as well.
12.12.14. Telegram messenger is attracting business teams. Messaging app Telegram, that makes a great play of its secure, encrypted platform, is going after a more business-focused, demanding niche than its competitor WhatsApp. Creator, Pavel Durov, says that there are more and more small teams switching their collaboration from e-mail to Telegram. Telegram can basically solve some of the same tasks but is more secure and several times faster. Durov says a potential key to Telegram's rising popularity is that users like the ability to sync their Telegram mobile messages with Telegram's desktop and tablet apps. This is something they can't do on Whatsapp, which has a largely consumer base in emerging markets. Thus more key tasks, such as for business like sharing documents and files, are easier on Telegram. Telegram now claims to have over 50 million monthly active users, sending 1 billion messages daily.
20.11.14. Viber adds public chats. Messaging app Viber is launching a new social feature - Public Chats, giving users a way of using its direct messaging and voice services to broadcast to the world at large. Public Chats will see the introduction of live conversation streams — from celebrities, or other interesting people, that will be open for any follower to see, but not necessarily participate in. Users will only be able to jump in and talk in Public Chats if the account in question is in their contacts. Right now, there is no option for everyone to enable their streams to become part of the public mix but those who feel their chats are Public Chat-worthy can email firstname.lastname@example.com
17.02.14. Japanese internet giant acquires Viber. Japanese company Rakuten acquires perhaps, the main Skype's rival right now - Viber for $900 million. And of course it remind of the recent fring acquisition by American company Genband, after which fring was transformed to white-label communnication platform for telecom providers. However, in this case don't worry about Viber. Rakuten isn't going to close it or trandform for it's specific business. They will just invest money in Viber hoping to win Skype and somehow return their investments (for example, by selling ViberOut voice call minutes). Ratuken is running diversified business by investing into internet startups. For example, they own the ebook platform Kobo, co-own Pinterest, Play.com and some other online projects. Recall, Viber - is a cross-platform instant messenger that supports free voice and video calling. At the moment, this service is used by about 300 million people.
2013. Viber now can call landline and mobile phones. Until now Microsoft wasn't touching Skype and most people continue to use it. But if MS take just one mistake step - there is a crowd of services that want to replace Skype as a defacto-standard of Internet communications. And the first in this crowd is Viber. This service gained considerable popularity (over 200 million users) thanks to mobile-first strategy and simple authorization via mobile number. And at the moment Viber and Skype are virtually identical in their features. Recently Viber eliminated, perhaps, the last gap - added the ability to call landline and mobile phones at cheap rates. Rates (as expected) - are slightly lower than Skype. For example, 2.5 cents to Indian landlines (4.5 cents to mobile phones), 2.3 cents to Mexico (9.9 cents to mobile), 2.3 cents to all China numbers and 1.9 cents to the U.K. (5.9 cents to mobile). This new feature works on Android, iPhone and Viber dektop (PC and Mac).
2013. Viber launched desktop version. Mobile video chat Viber managed to gain popularity while Skype was very slow in its moving to mobile platforms. And now it already has 200 million users and it seems to be the first in line of those services who wants to replace Skype as an independent communications app. Yesterday Viber released the desktop versions for PC and Mac. However, to start using them, you still have to install the mobile app first, because in Viber the accounts are linked to phone numbers. The most interesting feature in Viber's desktop version is that you can move seamlessly from desktop to smartphone and back without terminating the call. In addition, all messages (and contacts, of course) are automatically synced between the mobile and desktop versions and incoming call comes only to the device (computer) on which you are working right now.
2011. Viber takes on Skype with free HD VoIP calls. When VoIP-telephony lived mostly on desktops, it is difficult to imagine that someone could become a serious competitor for Skype. Even Google failed to solve this task. But now when the VoIP market is rapidly expanding to mobile devices, Skype can't feel so confident any more. Unlike the world of computers (where it was possible to develop single Windows-client), the world of mobile platforms is much more complicated. First, there are many of them, and second - it needs to develop the other VoIP technology. Therefore, the old rivals and even new startups are trying to take on Skype in the mobile VoIP sphere. Viber - is one of the newcomers. This service launched at the end of last year and has already attracted several millions of users. So by means of what Viber is going to beat Skype?


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In Lebanon, there are at least 250,000 refugees aged between three and eighteen who are not attending school. This is half the 500,000 young people registered with the United Nations. The numbers are even more shocking if other countries hosting Syrians in the region are taken into consideration: there are 800,000 school-age refugees in Turkey, 500,000 of whom are not in the schooling system, and 80,000 young Syrians without an education in Jordan
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Jennifer Connelly may reunite with her A Beautiful Mind co-star Russell Crowe and director Darren Aronofsky, whom she worked with on Requiem For A Dream. Aronofsky has been name dropping her for awhile, but Variety reports that she is now officially in talks to join his film based on the Biblical tale of Noah.
Connelly would once again have Crowe as a husband with visions, only this time not of government conspiracies, but of building an ark as ordered by God to save two of every animal before the Almighty floods the Earth and wipes the place clear to start again. Hopefully she won't be doing any rehashing of the shenanigans Aronofsky had her do in Requiem. Hopefully it's just gathering animals two-by-two like the picture above.
Noah himself is being portrayed as a man who loves the planet and his animals, but who is disillusioned about the way humanity has treated them.
Also cast is Emma Watson as Ila, described as "a young woman who develops a close relationship with Noah's son, Shem." Shem is being played by Douglas Booth, and Logan Lerman will be taking on the role of his brother Ham. Ray Winstone was recently cast as the villain. Details about his character have yet to surface.
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Hi Wes, We have three kids:Hi Michael, How high is the house above the ground? If the house is more than 3-4 feet above the ground, we could just do a simple loop of the backyard, passing under the house. We would connect the loop to the transmitter with the twisted wire. The height of the hose above the ground level wire passing under the house would stop the dogs getting the correction when in the house. If the house is not high enough, run a complete loop around the backyard passing in front of the back-side of the house, but when you get near the back door run the wire up and over the back door you want the dogs to be able to use. FYI - I would not use the Innotek for those three dogs. The correction level on the Innotek collars cannot be set separately, so all the collars on the system have the same correction level. The Correction level will need to be set differently for the Pitbull and the Chihuahua. Also the Innotek collar is too big for the Chihuahua. Instead, a PetSafe Stubborn system would work well. Add a second Stubborn collar (for the Pitbull and Lab - keep it on low for the Lab). Then add a PetSafe Little Dog Collar for the Chihuahua. Best Regards, Wes Riojas General Manager Dog Fence DIY .com 1-888-936-4349
We decided to go with the innotek icu 4100, I think. (she hasn't really decided for me yet). The situation ... the kids are ONLY allowed in the back yard when outside. The front yard is to close to a 70mph rural road and they tend to chase things and will not tolerate other animals on "their" property, therefore we give them no access to it unless were going to the vet, or petsmart. (the latter of which i should probably take out stock in.) The problem ... our house is lifted/built off the ground which is common in this area. they are not allowed in this unenclosed open area under the house. They can only gain access to the back yard thru the back door. we are subject to heavy rains during the winter months, and frequently have a river run diagonally thru our property. The idea ... put transmitter in the laundry room, (which happens to be where the back door is). run wire thru buried pvc pipe along house to prevent them from going under house, (we had a rattlesnake under there once before), and thru the rough square that encompasses their area. We allow them about 3/4 of an acre to play/do their business, i would prefer to only wire the back yard. The solution ... (im open for ideas.)
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HTC Customer Care number: The High Tech Corporation computer is one of the largest manufacturers of smart phones and tablets in the world. It is having its head quarters in Taiwan. It also manufactures smart phones based on the Android and windows mobile operating system. It released the first Android phone in the market ever. The company manufacturers Personal Digital Assistants, Android phones, Smart phones, Windows phones. The HTC phone has attained growth due to its great user interface and sleek design.
HTC is a founding member of open handset alliance. It is a group of handset manufacturers and mobile network operators dedicated to the development of the Android mobile device platform. The HTC began as an original design manufacturer and the original equipment manufacturer. It designs and manufactures devices such as mobile phones, touch screen phone and other kind of products. It also provides safe and secure products to its customers. It has also provided the customer care and toll free numbers for its customers to clear their doubts and queries.
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Optimal Pricing of Water: Optimal Departures from the Inverse Elasticity Rule
I consider the problem of water usage, developing a model to analyze the optimal pricing of water within a second-best economy. Consumers are assumed to have two main needs for water|drinking and non-drinking. Water is also used to produce food: The agricultural sector has a derived demand for water. As a water supplier, the local government may price discriminate across consumers and farmers. I introduce the second-best pricing scheme, derive conditions for the marginal-cost pricing and inverse-elasticity rules to apply, and analyze when it is optimal for the government to optimally deviate from these two pricing schemes.
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- Sylvestre Gaudin & Ronald C. Griffin & Robin C. Sickles, 2001. "Demand Specification for Municipal Water Management: Evaluation of the Stone-Geary Form," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 77(3), pages 399-422.
- Baumol, William J & Bradford, David F, 1970. "Optimal Departures from Marginal Cost Pricing," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 60(3), pages 265-283, June.
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This Longgrill by Möbel Liebschaften convinces through its symbiosis of the fire bowl and barbecue
Because until now the decision obtains: Blazing flame or blaze – now both is possible. While barbecuing the fire can still burn, and caters for enough blaze. To control the heat you can slide the bonnet on the side.
At the same time the Longgrill can change into a fireplace and is available for the preparation of food.
The design of the bowl is reduced on the most necessary. The basic body is made of scaling steel, the removable barbecue grid is made of stainless steel and easy to clean. The fire bowl lays on three points on basalt stone.
In 2009 the Longgrill by Möbel Liebschaften was awarded with the "red dot: best of the best" Award. There it was said: "Known and archaic shapes interpreted, defines the Longgrill with this minimalistic and functional design of its product category – and with that also the modern use of the fundamental fire."
Moreover the Longgrill was honoured the Good Design Award of the Athenaeum in Chicago in 2011. Moreover it won the Interior Innovation Award in the same year, by the "Rat für Formgebung" (shaping council) and the IMM Cologne.
The corten steel version rusts outsides as addition to the patina, but won't grid through. So the Longgrill develops an always nice surface and is nearly predestined as heirloom. The feet consist of basalt. This high quality and noble stone cuboid out of Italy male the grill stand safely on nearby every ground, creating comfortable fireplace evenings therewith.
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2017 is looking like a good year for energy efficiency as investments grow
As the new year begins, we expect 2017 will bring increased investments in energy efficiency and other efforts to save energy.
Want to increase your community's resilience? ACEEE can help
How is energy efficiency connected to community resilience? We answered that question in a report last year, Enhancing Community Resilience through Energy Efficiency. The report found that energy efficiency should be a core resilience strategy because it strengthens energy systems and the communities they serve by providing more reliable and affordable energy.
Oakland is living up to California's high bar on energy efficiency, and then some
Local governments of all sizes can invest days, months, and years into advancing energy efficiency programs and policies. Yet many go unrecognized for their efforts. Because the City Energy Efficiency Scorecard only covers 51 large cities, ACEEE created the Local Energy Efficiency Self-Scoring Tool so that any community can evaluate itself.
Want to improve your multifamily energy efficiency program? Our new report shows you the way
Multifamily buildings are home to millions of people across the US. In fact, multifamily buildings make up one quarter of the housing stock. These buildings range from duplexes with five or six units to high-rises with more than 50. Most properties are leased to residents, while others are owned by their occupants. Rental buildings can be owned by mom-and-pop landlords or companies that own and operate hundreds of buildings nationwide.
Untangling the energy-use knot in cities
"How much energy do cities use?" We get that question a lot. The answer is, excepting a few cities, we generally don't know. Only a handful of cities publish their energy use, and while the Energy Information Administration collects and reports a lot of great data on state- and utility-level energy consumption, they do not report city-level data.
2015 was a good year for energy efficiency. 2016 could be even better.
The past year included many successes, including quite a few that we can build on in the new year. Among the notable developments in 2015:
New Orleans is on the move
This holiday season, New Orleans residents have cause for celebration as they receive an unexpected holiday gift: a new focus on energy efficiency savings.
Cities are responsible for the majority of energy consumption, and local governments can play a critical role in addressing energy and environmental challenges. So, cities have a real opportunity to lead by pushing for ambitious policies to reduce energy waste in their own backyard. New Orleans' city council did just that with some recent legislation.
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Air regulators, state energy officials, and the affordable housing community are working together. Here's why.
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Presents 100-Day Plan To Make America Great Again – For Everyone
Gettysburg, PA: Today, in historic Gettysburg, PA, Donald J. Trump presented a game-changing plan for his first 100 days in office. This revolutionary "Contract with the American Voter" will ensure that America's economy is revitalized and citizens are protected.
"I'm not a politician, and have never wanted to be one. But when I saw the trouble our country was in, I knew I couldn't stand by and watch any longer. Our country has been so good to me, I love our country, I felt I had to act," said Mr. Trump in his address.
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The concept is not new, with other sites like Ask.com and Yahoo! Answers, but Mr. D'Angelo says earlier attempts are decentralized or poorly executed. Just as there were search engines before Google and social networks before Facebook, Quora can do it better, he says.
While Quora is about connecting people to information, it uses key social elements to do so. People must sign up using their real names, so their identity is attached to the questions they ask and answer.
Networks begin to form as people find others who share interests. They can choose to follow particular topics, or particular people who demonstrate creativity in their questions or authority in their answers.
People use Quora to ask specific questions about current events, or cultural questions, such as: "How did orange juice become a standard breakfast drink in the West?" The most popular answer comes from an Indian-born computer engineer, rather than an official economist or anthropologist.
In this sense, Quora is democratic, a quality the former Facebookers say is important.
"If you don't have a reputation, you can build one up by answering questions on Quora," Mr. Cheever adds.
Some users – including Silicon Valley engineers and a Dallas-based chef – have found jobs through their activity on Quora, he says.
Quora is counting on such positive user experiences to attract new ones to the site, before worrying about how to make money. As of January, 2012, the site had 1.2 million unique visitors, according to ComScore, a digital analytics and marketing group, up from 147,000 the year before, when Quora launched.
"We're still in the growth phase," Mr. D'Angelo says.
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The Asana team of about 20 stands in a circle, most in jeans and trainers, a few shuffling in their socks, discussing the latest updates to the work-collaboration tool they are building.
Unlike typical staff meetings elsewhere, this one is quick and painless. The report from team heads is over in a few sentences and the gathering concludes after 15 minutes with group applause, and a "Yay!" from Asana's co-founder Justin Rosenstein.
Similar to yoga, he says mindfulness and balance are central to the company's philosophy of work. Asana, which means "pose" in Sanskrit, also holds yoga classes for staff.
"[Yoga]is about finding comfort and ease in the face of stretching yourself to your limits, which is what work is about," Mr. Rosenstein says.
He and Dustin Moskovitz, Asana's other co-founder, expect the technology and design of their task-management system to create simplicity – and painless staff meetings – for clients. It aims to streamline workflow, allowing colleagues to manage projects, assign tasks, and track progress according to what is most important, instead of having to track chronological e-mail conversations.
Mr. Moskovitz recruited Mr. Rosenstein from Google to Facebook in 2007. Mr. Moskovitz had been at the social network since its conception in 2004, sharing a dorm room with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University.
"We want people to stop referring to their organization as dysfunctional," says Mr. Moskovitz.
In 2008, Mr. Moskovitz and Mr. Rosenstein left Facebook. They launched Asana in 2009. "We have a very yin-yang relationship," Mr. Moskovitz says. "I track the detailed things, making sure [things]get done. Justin is good at ideating and staying passionate." The software is free for companies with 30 employees or fewer. It will soon offer a product for larger companies, charging a monthly fee. Asana is not profitable yet. The market is also competitive.
Though Asana puts tasks at the centre of its tool rather than people, the Web application takes several cues from Facebook, including a newsfeed-type activity feed, the ability to follow certain tasks and, importantly, a shared philosophy of streamlining communication.
"Before Asana, managers would have one-on-one meetings and spend the entire time getting up to speed on things. Then there's no time for the fun stuff – the mentoring and the strategizing," Mr. Rosenstein said. "Asana ends up being this collective memory."
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Almost at the end of the closed valley, 2km from the centre of the village, this 100-year old restaurant is right next to a lovely waterfall, a short stroll to the entrance of the grottes (caves). It has a Victorian starkness about it both outside and in the dining room, reminiscent of a Scottish hunting lodge, complete with fish pictures on the wall. There is also a large terrace. A bar, also open all day in summer has been lovingly restored by the current owners with a traditional zinc-topped bar, and lots of memorabilia. Simple menus, with good local ingredients served correctly, including trout, morels and home-made tarts. Small selection of local wines.
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Before there was any such thing as an "Indy car," before there was an Indianapolis 500, stock cars were the star attraction at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Most racing enthusiasts' perception of Indy history begins with the image of a purpose-built race car, a "special," driven by Ray Harroun, winning the first Indy 500 in 1911.
But that type of car was the second choice.
In 1909, when industrialist Carl Fisher opened his then-revolutionary track, his interest and his vision lay mainly in stock car racing. For races in the pre-500 years, "the original intent was showing the public, 'Here's what you can buy,'" IMS historian Donald Davidson says.
As a sideshow, an afterthought, "they also had a couple of what they called free-for-all races that were 'run what you brung,'" Davidson says.
Production cars, tightly regulated -- except that headlights and mud guards could be removed, and the rear seat removed and replaced by a big, cylindrical fuel tank -- were what competed in the first auto racing program conducted before Indy's 15,000-seat grandstands during Aug. 19-21, 1909.
But stock car racing exasperated Fisher with -- and here, a century later, you'll get a laugh out of this -- crushing penalties for rules violations.
This July, this week of the 16th Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, is part of the 99th anniversary of stock car racing's downfall as the premier form of racing at Indy.
In the July meet of 1910, "Buick entered cars as 'Marquette Buicks,'" Davidson says. "They entered them as production cars, and they weren't strictly, because only a few had been manufactured, and I think they were basically prototypes."
The sanctioning body of the time, the American Automobile Association, "stripped the team of everything they'd accomplished in this one meet," Davidson continues.
Davidson reads from an AAA bulletin issued later that month: "The Marquette Buicks were not stock cars as defined by the 1910 contest rules. They were not on sale or offered for sale to the public at regular selling agencies in the Buick Motor Co. or the Marquette Motor Co.
"The privilege of competing in the July races at Indianapolis under the name Marquette Buick was granted upon the condition that in the event of successful performances, there would be no advertisement under any other name than Marquette Buick.
"The New York Herald on July 10 referred to them as Buicks," Davidson continues. And so, on or about July 24, the AAA "threw out everything they'd done that weekend."
Disgusted when informed of the disqualification, "Fisher said, 'The public deserves to know that what they've seen on the racetrack was the result,'" Davidson says, and then paraphrases Fisher: "And if the sanctioning body is going to throw them out two or three weeks later, then maybe we should just go to specials, where the specs are freer."
And there it was: the death knell of stock car racing at Indy, and the signal of the rise of the second choice, the specials, the sideshow free-for-all class, the run-what-you-brung cars later to be known as "Indy cars."
Production cars held on, to an extent, for a little while. Even in the first 500, "32 of the 40 starters were pretty much as the original intent -- production cars and maybe modified slightly," Davidson says.
But the onslaught of specials, such as Harroun's Marmon Wasp of 1911, eventually made fielding production cars futile in the 500.
So stock car racing at Indy died out, forever.
No, I don't mean until 1994, when NASCAR went to the Brickyard for the first time.
I mean forever.
NASCAR hasn't been "stock car racing" for decades. We just call it that, mainly because the more accurate term, "full-bodied car racing," is clumsy.
None of the cars that have raced in the Allstate 400 would be considered remotely stock under the old rules of both the AAA and the short-lived Manufacturers' Contest Association.
The MCA required factory production, for sale to the public, of "25 [units] of the car that is being raced, and 50 automobiles in total," Davidson says.
If that sounds like very few, "remember that nobody had assembly lines except Henry Ford at the time," Davidson says.
Consider the cars entered in Sunday's 16th running of the 400. They all would be ousted by the AAA for exactly the same reason the Marquette Buicks were -- misleading advertising.
Touted as the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, the Ford Fusion, the Dodge Charger and the Toyota Camry, Sunday's cars are in fact none of those production models. They all are NASCAR's standard, uniform chassis and body design, aka the "Car of Tomorrow," carrying advertising decals for the Monte Carlo, Fusion, Charger and Camry.
They are not "what you can buy" by any stretch of the imagination -- except perhaps the imaginations of the manufacturers' marketing and advertising people.
The stock car brands, except for Buick, that made Indy's earliest history are long forgotten, the manufacturers long defunct.
It was in a Stoddard Dayton that Louis Schwitzer won the first automobile race at the Speedway, a five-miler. That's right -- two laps around the 2.5-mile track.
It was from a Knox that driver Billy Bourque and his riding mechanic, Harry Holcomb, were flung and killed on that first Indy race day in 1909.
It was from a National that riding mechanic Claude Kellum was hurled and fatally injured, on the third day of that first meet. That same accident killed two spectators, James West and Homer Jolliff.
Most of the blame for the five fatalities was placed on Fisher's misbegotten track surface, tar and crushed stone over layers of gravel.
The surface came apart -- one newspaper account likened driving in those early races to "riding through a meteor shower." Ruts and potholes quickly developed, flinging cars every which way and causing tires to blow.
Maybe the reason the AAA didn't disqualify any cars that first year was that the organization was too busy threatening to remove its sanction from the new track entirely if Fisher didn't do something about the surface.
Paving? There was little knowledge of the process -- there wasn't so much as a mile of asphalt road in all of Indiana -- at the time. Fisher and his partners considered concrete, the surface of the faraway Brooklands track near London. Too expensive, they decided.
They settled on bricks, and Fisher ordered 3.2 million of them installed as fast as possible. In December 1909, racing resumed on what would be known thereafter as the Brickyard.
As Fisher's pavers worked, a child was born on Sept. 26, 1909, in Washington, D.C., and named William Henry Getty France. The third name, Getty, was placed as a sort of talisman on the infant, the rich American Getty dynasty's name intended to bring him great fortune and fame.
He would grow up to be Big Bill France, founder and czar of NASCAR, and careless history would give him credit for the concept of "strictly stock" car racing.
By the time he introduced his form, in 1949, the concept was long forgotten at Indianapolis.
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Trump's campaign statements and broader foreign policy vision offer a window into his approach on India, and what it could mean for the region.
"Pakistan has not been able to get the Indian part of Kashmir in four wars. A fifth war is not going to change that," said former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Husain Haqqani in a discussion on the legacy of India's partition.
A Kashmiri shopkeeper reacts as he sits alongside a flood-damaged garment shop at the Lal Chowk area in Srinagar on September 17, 2014. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Kashmiri farmer walks in a paddy field on the outskirts of Srinagar on May 29, 2013. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)
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Authors Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra appeared at Asia Society in New York to discuss their new book Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. Roy stated: "The word has gotten out … many more Indians are now aware and uncomfortable about participating in this occupation." But has the word truly "gotten out"? And do all sides view this as an "occupation"?
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