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Starbucks is replacing AT&T as a provider of Wi-Fi.
In a grande-sized deal Google Inc. and Broomfield, Colo.-based Level 3 Communications Inc. will replace AT&T Inc. as providers of faster Wi-Fi service at thousands of U.S. Starbucks locations, Starbucks Corp. announced Wednesday.
The service will be roughly 10 times faster than what AT&T now provides, although speeds will vary by location, Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) said.
The new vendors will provide service at new Starbucks locations starting in August, then eventually expand to 7,000 more company-owned U.S. stores over the next 18 months.
Level 3 (NYSE: LVLT) will upgrade the existing Wi-Fi devices used at Starbucks locations and manage in-store connectivity for point-of-sale transactions and Starbucks' other retail functions. The Wi-Fi service will carry Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) brand.
Financial terms were not announced.
AT&T (NYSE: T) currently provides 1.5 megabit Wi-Fi speeds at Starbucks shops via a T1 line, CBS' CNET reports.
Level 3 has worked on projects that share many of the same technical features, but not one putting together the different elements for such a high-profile customer, said Anthony Christie, Level 3's chief marketing officer.
?This is a watershed deal for us,? he said. ?Not because this is something we?ve never done, but it showcases our ability to develop unique solutions on a scale that?s very different from our competitors.?
CNET analyst Shara Tibken writes that the faster service may draw mobile-device users with limited data plans who want to use fast Wi-Fi for data-gobbling services like downloading big files and streaming.
?Every day, our customers rely on the free Wi-Fi at Starbucks to study, work, connect with friends or just relax,? said Adam Brotman, chief digital officer at Starbucks. "We want to make sure that they can access the web effortlessly and quickly, no matter what they?re doing, or what device they are using."
Mark Harden directs print and digital news content for the Denver Business Journal and writes for the "Broadway & 17th" blog. Email: mharden@bizjournals.com. Phone: 303-803-9227.
Greg Avery covers tech, telecom, aerospace and bioscience for the Denver Business Journal and writes for the "Boosters, Bits & Bioscience" blog. Phone: 303-803-9222.
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By Todd Cunningham
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - BS Films on Thursday won its appeal of the R-rating initially given to the Michael Douglas-Robert De Niro comedy "Last Vegas," which will now be rated PG-13.
The Motion Picture Assn. of America's classification and rating appeals board announced the switch Thursday. The new rating for the film, which is to open on November 1, is for "brief sexual content."
Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline and Mary Steenburgen co-star in "Last Vegas," which is directed by Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure") from an original screenplay by Dan Fogelman. The plot follows four friends who throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one who's remained single.
CBS Films in February shifted the release date from December 20 to November 1, positioning it as counter-programming to Summit's young adult sci-fi film "Ender's Game."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/michael-douglas-robert-niro-comedy-last-vegas-wins-010307793.html
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By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in the second quarter, laying a firmer foundation for the rest of the year that could bring the Federal Reserve a step closer to cutting back its monetary stimulus.
Gross domestic product grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday, stepping up from the first quarter's downwardly revised 1.1 percent expansion pace.
The economic picture was further brightened by the ADP National Employment Report, which showed private employers added 200,000 jobs in July, maintaining June's pace. It offered hope the government's comprehensive employment report on Friday could show a recent run of fairly strong job gains extended to July.
"The economy is improving and the ADP report is emblematic of a pattern of growth that will continue to tilt to the upside," said Eric Green, chief economist at TD Securities in New York. "That is enough for the Fed to taper in September."
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the economy growing at a 1.0 percent pace after a previously reported 1.8 percent advance in the first three months of the year.
The surprisingly better GDP report buoyed U.S. stocks and lifted the dollar against a basket of currencies. Investors sold U.S. Treasury debt, with the price on the 30-year government bond falling a full point at one stage.
Rebounds in business spending and export growth, and a sharp moderation in the pace of decline in government outlays boosted economic growth in the April-June period, offsetting cooler consumer spending and a steady rate of inventory accumulation.
Still, the report marked a third straight quarter of GDP growth below 2 percent, a pace that normally would be too soft to bring down unemployment. But growth was poised to gain even more momentum in the second half of the year as the fiscal burden brought on by belt-tightening in Washington eases.
Federal Reserve officials, wrestling with a decision on the future of their $85 billion per month bond-buying program, will likely draw comfort from the pick-up in output last quarter. They wind up a two-day meeting later on Wednesday.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said last month that the central bank would probably start curtailing the bond purchases later this year with an eye toward bringing them to a complete halt by the middle of 2014, if the economy progressed as expected.
REVISIONS GIVE ECONOMY A GLOW
Revisions to earlier GDP data released along with the report on Wednesday cast the economy in a better light than previously, and contributed to the report's solid tenor.
The government implemented a number of changes in how it calculates GDP. For example, research and development spending will now be treated as investment, and defined benefit pension plans will be measured on an accrual basis, rather than as cash.
The revisions showed the economy grew 2.8 percent last year, 0.6 percentage point faster than previously estimated.
They also yielded a higher rate of savings, a good omen for future consumer spending.
Still, higher taxes, as Washington tries to shrink the government's budget deficit, constrained consumer spending in the second quarter. Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, slowed to a 1.8 percent growth pace after rising at a 2.3 percent rate in the first quarter.
The slow pace of consumption kept a lid on inflation pressures, with a price index in the report holding steady in the second quarter. Excluding food and energy, prices rose at a subdued 0.8 percent pace. Both measures were the weakest since the first quarter of 2009.
Tepid domestic demand also led businesses to keep close watch on their inventories. Inventory accumulation added 0.41 percentage point to growth, less than half its contribution in the prior quarter.
But higher savings and a firming labor market should help to spur consumer spending and encourage businesses to continue a steady pace of restocking.
"We remain confident that the economy will expand much faster in the second half of the year as the drag from fiscal tightening continues to fade," said Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Research in New York.
"The most important support factor will remain the improving labor market, which already in the past has allowed consumer spending to weather most of the fiscal drag."
Private employers added 200,000 jobs in July after hiring 198,000 in June, the ADP report showed. The figure was in line with the pace of job growth seen since the start of the year.
Exports rebounded in the second quarter, showing the largest percentage gain since the third quarter of 2011, even as demand weakened in Europe and China.
But the increase was insufficient to offset strong import growth, leaving a trade deficit that weighed on GDP.
There was good news from the housing sector, with spending on residential construction rising at a double-digit rate. Housing, which triggered the 2007-09 recession, is growing strongly, helping to keep the economic recovery anchored.
However, a rise in mortgage rates on the back of growing expectations of a reduction in the Fed's bond purchases has cooled the appetite of some potential buyers.
Business spending reversed the prior quarter's decline, and while government spending contracted for a third straight quarter, the pace of the decline slowed sharply as state and local government spending rebounded.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani,; Additional reporting by Leah Schnurr in New York; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-economy-likely-lost-step-second-expected-regain-050834234.html
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Sometimes I need to check information on my phone that the notifications bar doesn?t show ? such as GPS signal strength and CPU temperature. For example, when traveling, knowing whether your mobile is on the verge of an overheated shutdown or if your GPS signal might soon conk out, helps a lot. I spent a lot of time puttering around with different ways of visualizing this data and discovered two apps that stand out: Power Line and Cool Tool.
Power Line and Cool Tool allow you to monitor a huge amount of information, regardless of what you?re doing on the phone. They use a feature of the Android operating system called ?screen overlay? which allows apps to display images over other apps. While sounding similar to the Android notifications bar, which displays at the top of the screen, screen overlay appears anywhere you want on the screen.
Also, for those of you using Paranoid Android or Pacman custom ROMs, you may not even have a notifications bar to show the clock or cellular signal quality ? installing an improved form of notification bar could help. For those of you with questions on how to root and install a custom ROM, check out Danny?s article on the subject.
Power Line shows all its information without text ? using extremely minimal lines. Although Power Line can display fewer kinds of readouts than Cool Tool, its colorful bars look extremely good and are much easier to setup. To get started with Power Line, you only need to fire the app up. If you need to add additional lines, navigate to ?settings? and hit the ?+? button in the upper right corner.
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Out of the two apps, Cool Tool possesses the most functionality, with less emphasis on aesthetics. It features a huge number of readout options, including GPS signal, cellular network signal strength, free RAM, battery temperature and more. One of the more interesting features of Cool Tool is that it can function as a task killer ? though I don?t recommend using this feature on any Android versions newer than 2.2, Froyo. Additionally, it has several custom themes that you can download for free.
Core Features
The Good
The Bad
Comparing Cool Tool to Power Line for me is very difficult; over the past few months I?ve alternated use between the two. Are they worth purchasing? Yes, although Cool Tool?s Pro version only exists in the Amazon app store and Power Line doesn?t include ads. It comes down to this: If you prefer raw minimalism, go with Power Line. If you want a more feature rich application, give Cool Tool a try.
For those of you looking for all kinds of hardware info on your phone, check out Erez?s breakdown of Elixer 2. I can personally vouch for Elixer 2?s thoroughness. It will tell you all kinds of things about your phone.
Does anyone else use overlay tools? Let us know in the comments.
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Published on 07-31-2013 02:24 PM
Here's a newsflash. Apple and Samsung are still - overwhelmingly - the two biggest players on the smartphone scene today, with each claiming a nearly identical dominant share of total smartphone revenue.
According to Cannacord analyst Michael Walkley, Apple claimed 53 percent of smartphone profits in Q2 of 2013, which is down 4% from Q1. Nonetheless, Apple's share remains a handsome one in the face of stiff competition from Samsung. The South Korean tech titan saw its share of smartphone industry profits climb from 43 percent in Q1 to 50 percent in Q2.
Sales of Samsung?s Galaxy S4 and Apple?s iPhone 5 have been especially strong during the summer months... so much so that the two companies now account for 103% of industry profits combined. The Financial Post reports that the only excitement in this race pertains to third place, where Nokia, BlackBerry and other Android-centered manufacturers like HTC Corp., ZTE Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. are fighting to determine who is going to be next in line to Apple and Samsung.To be fair, of course, the distance between third and second place isn't really a "gap." It's the Grand Canyon.
Source: The Financial Post
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