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Google has just announced a new feature for Google Play that's sure to please anyone who's sat though an app update that never seemed to end. It now offers what it calls "Smart App Updates," which will let developers provide incremental updates to apps instead of forcing people to download a whole new APK for every minor update. On average, Google says those should be about a third the size of typical updates. What's more, the company has also announced that it's bringing added encryption measures to Android, which will let paid apps be encrypted with a device-specific key that makes them harder to rip and share. Both features will supported on Android devices running Gingerbread or above.
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Canadian services provider Rogers Communications Inc. is preparing to fire several hundred workers as part of the company?s cost-cutting strategy brought about as the firm faces fierce competition in the wireless, cable and internet sectors.
According to the?Financial Post:
?New chief financial officer Tony Staffieri is undertaking a review of the company?s multibillion-dollar capital structure in the hope he can trim from the $5-billion a year Rogers spends on contracts with handset makers like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion, Ltd., wireless-equipment providers such as Ericsson AB, and dozens of smaller partners.?
The need to cut costs was verified by spokeswoman Patricia Trott who stated:
?We?re managing costs in areas where it makes sense and continuing to invest in the future.?
Rogers is leaving no stone uncovered as the company examines 375 directors, vice-presidents and high-level sales associates, all of whom have the chance to lose their jobs.
News of more layoffs at the company comes after the organization fired 300 workers in March.
Rogers is being forced to cut jobs as Bell Canada Inc. continues to make inroads against Rogers? television and internet services. According to the company 27,000 customers were lost last quarter while Bell added 18,000 customers.
Despite shrinking TV and Internet sales Rogers still maintains Canada?s largest mobile presence with 9.3 million subscribers.
It?s still not clear when Rogers Communications will fire 300 more workers or from what sectors of the business those workers will come from.
Are you surprised by the company?s turn in fortunes over the last several years?
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LUMOback wants to show all those DIY posture dilitantes what's what with its Smart Posture Sensor, an app and hardware combo that tracks your carriage and vibrates when you hunch. The thinnish 8.5mm sensor is worn like a belt, and on top of the tactile nagging, it provides detailed iPhone or iPad charting of the sitting, running and even sleeping you did, complete with an xkcd-like stickman video replaying all your crooked moves. So far the team is about a third of the way to its $100K mark, and a minimum $99 pledge will get you a jet-black model if it's built, with a $125 chip-in letting you vote on a a second shipping color, to boot. If some of your activities consist of, say, blogging in front of a computer screen all day, check the video after the break for relief.
Insert Coin: LUMOback Smart Posture Sensor thrums when you slouch, charts your laziness (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ScienceDaily (June 26, 2012) ? When we turn on the A/C in the summer, our first thought is probably one of relief. If it's 100 degrees in the shade, we're probably not thinking about how our decision might influence the environmental legacy we leave for future generations. It's not that we don't care, it's just that we typically don't think about our behavior in terms of long-term, inter-generational tradeoffs. But new research suggests that reminders of our own mortality may encourage us to keep future generations in mind as we make decisions.
In a study published in Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, Kimberly Wade-Benzoni, of Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and her colleagues decided to focus on a kind of problem they call an "intergenerational dilemma," examining whether certain factors might lead the current generation to make sacrifices on behalf of future generations, even when there aren't any material or economic incentives to do so.
When people make decisions, they often focus on rewards in the present at the expense of rewards in the future -- a phenomenon called 'intertemporal discounting.' The hurdle to overcome with intergenerational dilemmas is that they require us to focus on future rewards that will be enjoyed by someone else. These dilemmas are unique because there isn't just a temporal distance between decision-maker and beneficiary, there's a social distance, too.
Wade-Benzoni and her colleagues hypothesized that reminding people of their mortality might be one way to strengthen their connection to future others, activating what the researchers call a 'legacy motivation.' They theorized that thoughts of death might be enough to motivate people to want to leave a positive legacy, even when that legacy spans several generations, effectively overcoming the temporal and social hurdles involved in intergenerational dilemmas. The researchers decided to test their hypothesis in several experiments.
In the first experiment, participants were entered into a lottery, in which they had the chance to win $1000. Some participants were asked to read a newspaper article about an airplane passenger's death in a freak accident -- priming their thoughts of death and mortality -- while others read an emotionally neutral story. All the participants were told that they could designate a portion of their lottery winnings to a charity that serves impoverished communities. Some were told that the donations would serve the needy now, while others were told that their donations would go to the needy at a future date.
The researchers found that those participants who had been primed with thoughts of mortality gave more money to the future-oriented charity than to the present-oriented charity. The findings suggest, in line with the original hypothesis, that thinking about death motivated participants to behave in ways that ensured their personal legacy, leaving their mark by channeling their lottery donations toward needy others in the future.
"Creating a positive legacy offers people a means of symbolic immortality," says Wade-Benzoni. "This psychosocial benefit is powerful enough to overcome very basic human tendencies to discount the value of benefits that will be enjoyed by others in the future."
Wade-Benzoni and her colleagues wanted to know more about the specific factors that drive the relationship between mortality and legacy motivation, so they decided to conduct a second experiment in which they created a hypothetical scenario related to energy and the environment.
Participants were asked to play the role of VP for a large energy company. The company had supposedly discovered a new source of efficient, inexpensive energy, and the participant's task as VP was to decide how much of the energy should be used by the company today versus how much should be allocated to another recipient. Some participants were given the option of donating to another organization that would benefit immediately; some were given the option of donating to another group that would benefit in the future; and some were given the option of donating to their own organization in the future. The participants were told that all of the other beneficiaries would make better use of the new energy supply than thier own company would in the present.
As in the first experiment, some participants were primed with thoughts of mortality, and then all the participants were asked to make their energy allocation. To get at the possible connection to future others, the researchers asked participants whether they felt an affinity with the other group.
Just as they expected, the researchers found that participants who were primed with thoughts of mortality were more likely to allocate the energy toward future beneficiaries. Furthermore, this desire to help future others was related to their sense of connection to the beneficiary.
In light of findings from the well-established literature on intertemporal choice, the behavior demonstrated in these studies under conditions of mortality salience is strikingly counter-intuitive. And that is exactly why this research is important, says Wade-Benzoni -- these new studies examine how people make decisions across both temporal and social distances.
"Acting on the behalf of future generations can paradoxically represent a dramatic form of self-interest -- immortality striving," she explains. "Believing that we have made a difference by leaving a group, an organization, a professional field, or the world a better place helps us to gain a sense of purpose in our lives and buffer the threat of meaninglessness posed by death."
The key to effective environmental policies, then, may be to help citizens see their day-to-day decisions as trade-offs between current and future generations and remind them, subtly, that none of us will live forever. We will all, as Shakespeare put it, shuffle off this mortal coil; the question is what legacy will we leave?
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APThe Bills announced that individual game tickets will be available online on July 9.
Miami needs to take things slowly with the development of QB Ryan Tannehill.
If there?s a spot for a fullback on the Patriots? roster, Spencer Larsen appears to have the inside track.
Said Jets QB Tim Tebow of getting cheers from kids at a football camp, ?It?s very humbling. I just take my role and my platform as a professional athlete very seriously.?
The Ravens are promoting a soccer game at their home stadium.
Former Bengals DE Pollack has become a college football announcer even though, he says, as a player, ?I didn?t care for broadcasters, to be honest. When you?re playing, it?s almost like you?re vs. the media. Coaches always say you should just give vanilla answers.?
The Browns will have an Ohio University Day this season. (And unlike the Dolphins? University of Florida Day last season, they?re not doing it to cash in on the popularity of an opposing player.)
The Steelers expect more than 100,000 fans to attend this year?s training camp.
Texans backup QB Case Keenum thinks questions about his height are silly.
Colts DT Josh Chapman says his recovery from knee surgery is right on schedule.
Jaguars players, coaches and staff members have volunteered to build a house for a Jacksonville family.
Says Titans TE Jared Cook of teammate Craig Stevens, ?Craig?s a beast of a blocker. He?s good at keeping his balance and staying low, and he has good leg drive and upper-body strength to finish a guy. He?s really good at finishing a play and staying on his feet, so that?s what I?ve learned from him.?
The Broncos? website offers some facts and figures about the season opener.
Former Chiefs S Jon McGraw still hasn?t caught on with another team in free agency.
The Raiders hope a change in the team?s culture can result in a better defense.
The Chargers hope they have more speed on offense.
Cowboys G David Arkin says he wasn?t strong enough last season, and he?s getting in the weight room to change that.
Asked about Giants owner John Mara talking about eliminating kickoffs, Giants K Lawrence Tynes said, ?Well, obviously, I don?t like it. But I don?t think it?ll ever happen.?
Here?s the Eagles? full training camp schedule.
The man arrested for extorting Redskins QB Robert Griffin III once appeared on Judge Judy, suing a woman for veterinary bills he claimed he incurred when he took in her dog. (Judge Judy ruled against him.)
Bears Chairman George McCaskey says his team wasn?t ?properly prepared? for injuries last season.
The Lions will owe some money to the league office if any more players are suspended this year.
Said Packers WR Donald Driver, ?We?ve got to continue to improve. Going 15-1 is nice, but to lose in the playoffs was very tough. It sits in your stomach for a long time. Our goal right now is to make sure that we bounce back and we get to the postseason. If you get to the postseason, it starts all over again. If we get back to the Super Bowl, that would be great. It took 13 years to win my first one, I don?t want it to take another 13 years before I win another one.?
The attitude toward Vikings WR Percy Harvin in Minnesota is that he has baggage, but not enough baggage to send him packing.
Falcons TE Michael Palmer is trying to export American football to Serbia.
Panthers LB Thomas Davis is trying to make history by becoming the first player to return to the field after three ACL tears.
The Saints still haven?t said who will coach the team while interim head coach Joe Vitt is suspended in Weeks 1-6.
Eric LeGrand, the paralyzed former Rutgers player who?s now with the Buccaneers, will write two books (one for adults and one for children) about his life.
The widow of former Cardinal Pat Tillman has published a letter he wrote her, to be read in the event of his death.
Do the Rams have a chance of going worst-to-first in the NFC West?
Issues continue to arise over the funding of the 49ers? new stadium.
Seahawks rookie Bruce Irvin predicts he?ll have double-digit sacks.
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Ugliest Dog contest:?Eight-year-old rescue dog 'Mugly' was declared the World?s Ugliest Dog at an annual competition in Petaluma, Calif., making him the latest Chinese crested to get the top prize.?
Mugly, a Chinese crested dog owned by Bev Nicholson of Peterborough, England, won the title of 'World's Ugliest Dog' at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif., Friday.
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EnlargeMugly, a Chinese crested dog, bested 28 other contestants at the annual competition for the World?s Ugliest Dog in Petaluma, Calif., making him the latest Chinese crested to win the top prize. ?
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Judged for their ?natural ugliness in both pedigree and mutt classes,? Princess Abby, Handsome Hector, and Creature were not able to top the sheer unattractiveness of Mugly, with his short snout, beady eyes, and white whiskers.
Bev Nicholson, Mugly's owner who rescued him in the streets in the United Kingdom after the dog was abandoned by his family, told the Associated Press, "I couldn't speak when they announced Mugly's name."?
"I didn't know which way to look," she said. "I was shaking as much as the dog."
Mugly?s ugliness has long been recognized. In 2005, he was awarded the title of Britain?s ugliest dog. His looks do not, however, prevent him from holding down a job as a therapy dog for children.?
In addition to competing for international recognition, the British dog won a $1,000 prize and a year?s worth of dog cookies. He will also be invited for a photo shoot and a VIP stay at the local Sheraton.?
Last year?s winner at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, Yoda, was a Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix. Since the contest began in 2000, most of the winning dogs have been Chinese crested or Chinese crested and?Chihuahua mixes.?
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