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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Nokia pins recovery hopes on advanced camera smartphone
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nokia on Thursday introduced a new smartphone, the Lumia 1020, with a powerful 41-megapixel camera in its latest bid to catch up with rivals Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc.
Many tech bloggers applauded the model's camera after Chief Executive Stephen Elop demonstrated features including "floating lens" technology that adjusts for camera shake and six-lens optics that help produce sharper images.
"The hardware's a beauty on this thing," said tech website Endgadget.
Many analysts, however, questioned whether a good camera was enough to help Nokia, suffering a fall in cash reserves after years of poor sales, survive.
The Finnish mobile phone maker is pinning its hopes for a comeback in smartphones on Microsoft Corp's Windows Phone - an operating system that is struggling to compete with Google's popular Android system.
While regular mobile phones still account for the bulk of its shipments, smartphones are viewed as crucial for its long-term survival because of their higher margins and increasing consumer demand.
"The imaging capabilities here are extraordinary," said Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart, noting that the camera sensors on rival high-end phones typically have between 8-12 megapixels.
But he added: "It's still a Windows Phone ... if somebody is looking for applications they're still going to look at iPhone."
The new Lumia, which use Windows software, will be sold through U.S. carrier AT&T Inc starting July 26 for $299.99 with a two-year contract, and will be available later in other markets including China, Nokia said.
Telefonica SA will be its carrier partner in European and Latin American markets, it said.
Earlier Lumia models also won positive reviews from critics and technology blogs but have failed to halt a shift to Android phones. Android and Apple's iOS together account for over 90 percent of smartphone sales, according to research firm IDC.
One major handicap has been a lack of apps. Windows Phone has only 160,000 apps in store, while rivals offer about five times as many because developers prefer to make them for the higher-volume operating systems.
"Despite the quality of the device, I have some serious doubts about whether it will change Nokia's fortunes, and it risks becoming a niche product," said IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo, emphasizing a need for Nokia to step up marketing of its products.
In addition to a lack of apps, analysts have also blamed Nokia's weak sales on poor marketing efforts. Many have said telecom carrier partners, particularly in the United States, have failed to promote Nokia to their customers.
Elop said Nokia was pooling resources with AT&T and Microsoft to market the Lumia 1020.
"This is the first real glimmer of hope for Nokia's resurgence and the viability of the Windows ecosystem in smartphones ? provided Nokia, Microsoft, and their operator partners can convince consumers that this experience is indeed a leap forward," said Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin. "That will be the real hard work."
(For an Interactive look at Nokia, go to: http://link.reuters.com/guz42t)
(Additional reporting by Ritsuko Ando in Helsinki; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Nick Zieminski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nokia-unveils-lumia-smartphone-41-megapixel-camera-152002963.html
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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Kristen Stewart was not amused by the "I (heart) Rob" message she found scrawled on her dirty truck.
Kristen Stewart been seen all over the world in the past few weeks-- Paris Fashion Week, Nashville, Hollywood movie studios--everywhere except a car wash, that is.
As she left a North Hollywood parking lot on Monday, the "Twilight" star noticed a message had been scrawled into the dust of her truck. No, it didn't read "Wash me!" Instead, "I (heart) Rob" had been written on to the filth-mobile and, of course, photographers were there to capture the moment.
Stewart, who didn't appear to be too happy with the messy memo, had previously shared the old Toyota pickup truck with her ex-boyfriend and "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson. It's not surprising that a fan (or was it a paparazzo looking to get a rise out of the sullen starlet?) would recognize the navy blue beater--even under all that dirt--as Stewart's. She and Pattinson were often photographed driving and making out in all over Hollywood earlier this year.
The couple ended their on-and-off-again love affair in May, and custody of the beloved pickup appears to have gone to Stewart. Pattinson may be out of Stewart's life for good (he's rumored to be dating Riley Keough, her co-star in "The Runaways") but, unfortunately, he's not off of her car.
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Syrians say they have given up on U.S. weapons promises
By Oliver Holmes
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Members of the Syrian opposition said on Tuesday that they had given up hope that the United States would deliver promised military aid to rebels as war planes and artillery smashed the central city of Homs.
U.S. congressional committees are holding up the plan to send weapons because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and that arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants, U.S. national security sources said.
Both Democrats and Republicans on the committees worry that weapons could reach factions like the Nusra Front, which is one of the most effective rebel groups but has also been labeled by the United States as a front for al Qaeda in Iraq.
"The U.S. will not supply the weapons," said Mohammed Fizo, a rebel fighter. "They come up with excuses for why they are not with the Syrian revolution; because it's not unified, or that there are terrorists. But what is important is that they are not helping us."
Yasser, a 42-year-old nutritionist and opposition member who lives in Damascus, said indecision from Washington showed the United States' true aim was to keep both President Bashar al-Assad and Islamist rebels busy inside Syria.
"It to the benefit of the U.S. that both sides here in Syria continue in a slow war of attrition," he said. "Both sides are preoccupied with each other and can't make mayhem elsewhere."
He said the United States was especially worried by the prospect of an all-out victory for rebel groups, which might allow members of the Nusra Front, a hard-line Islamist group, to attack neighboring Israel once they toppled Assad.
Omar al-Hariri, an activist from Deraa where the uprising began during the Arab Spring two years ago, saw the further delay as tantamount to support for Assad, who has kept the Syrian-Israel border relatively quiet for decades.
"Israel is very concerned about who will replace Assad and whether or not they will be friendly to Israel's interests ... I am sure you are fully aware of how Israel is able to put pressure on the USA to hold onto Assad."
HOMS SMASHED
Rebels have pleaded with their international backers for weapons to battle Assad's forces. They say they have received shipments from Gulf countries and individual donors, but not enough to tackle Assad's national army and fighters from the powerful Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah, who are supporting him.
Many weapons used by the rebels appear to be made in China and Croatia.
The opposition Syrian National Coalition President, Ahmad Jarba, said he expected a weapons shipment from Saudi Arabia soon but that the rebels' military position was still weak.
This month Syrian forces have been targeting the central city of Homs, seen as crucial to the government's attempts to link the capital to Assad's coastal strongholds and divide rebel units in the north and south.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad Britain-based monitoring group, said central areas of Homs city were hit by air strikes, mortar bombs and tank rounds on Tuesday.
Al-Khalidiya, a northern district that links the outskirts of the city with the centre, was the focus of the violence and the 13th-century Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque, a prominent central landmark, had been hit. It also said the Krak de Chevaliers crusader castle, once a popular tourist site in Homs province, was the scene of clashes on Tuesday.
One hundred and forty km (90 miles) north of Damascus, Homs lies at a strategic crossing linking the capital with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria since the 1960s.
The United Nations has expressed alarm at conditions in Homs, Syria's third largest city, saying last week that between 2,500 and 4,000 civilians were trapped there amid shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and fuel.
TACIT RULES
The White House announced in June that it would arm vetted groups of Syrian rebels, after two years of avoiding involvement in the civil war which has killed more than 100,000 people.
Although the White House does not need specific congressional approval for the weapons plan, tacit rules observed by the executive branch on intelligence matters means President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliver weapons without the consent of congressional intelligence committees.
Committee members want to hear more about the administration's overall Syria policy, national security sources say, and about how arms deliveries will affect the battlefield.
Funding that the administration advised the congressional committees it wanted to use to pay for arms deliveries to Assad's opponents has been temporarily frozen, the sources said.
(Editing by Giles Elgood)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrians-given-u-weapons-promises-151417508.html
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SF probe brings questions over auto speed controls
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) ? Investigators are trying to understand whether automated cockpit equipment Asiana flight 214's pilots say they were relying on to control the airliner's speed may have contributed to the plane's dangerously low and slow approach just before it crashed.
New details in the accident investigation that were revealed Tuesday by National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman were not conclusive about the cause of Saturday's crash, but they raised potential areas of focus: Was there a mistake made in setting the automatic speed control, did it malfunction or were the pilots not fully aware of what the plane was doing?
One of the most puzzling aspects of the crash has been why the wide-body Boeing 777 jet came in far too low and slow, clipping its landing gear and then its tail on a rocky seawall just short the runway. The crash killed two of the 307 people and injured scores of others, most not seriously.
Among those injured were two flight attendants in the back of the plane, who survived despite being thrown onto the runway when the plane slammed into the seawall and the tail broke off.
The autothrottle was set for 157 mph and the pilots assumed it was controlling the plane's airspeed, Hersman said. However, the autothrottle was only "armed" or ready for activation, she said.
Hersman said the pilot at the controls, identified by Korean authorities as Lee Gang-guk, was only about halfway through his training on the Boeing 777 and it was his first time landing that type of aircraft at the San Francisco airport. And the co-pilot, identified as Lee Jeong-Min, was on his first trip as a flight instructor.
In the 777, turning the autothrottle on is a two-step process ? first it is armed, then it is engaged, Boeing pilots said. Hersman didn't say whether the Asiana's autothrottle was engaged.
Bob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s, said the only way he could think of for Asiana plane to slow as quickly at the NTSB has described would be if somehow the autothrottle has shifted into the idle mode.
"There is no way to get from a normal airspeed and normal position at 500 feet to an abnormally slow airspeed at 300 feet unless there wasn't enough thrust either deliberately or inadvertently," he said.
Only moments before the crash did the training captain realize the autothrottle wasn't controlling the plane's speed, Hersman said.
"This is one of the two hallmarks of complexity and challenge in the industry right now," said Doug Moss, an Airbus A320 a pilot for a major U.S. airline and an aviation safety consultant in Torrance, Calif. "It's automation confusion because from what Deborah Hersman said, it appears very likely the pilots were confused as to what autothrottle and pitch mode the airplane was in. It's very likely they believed the autothrottles were on when in fact they were only armed."
Their last second efforts to rev the plane back up and abort the landing failed, although numerous survivors report hearing the engines roar just before impact.
"We just seemed to be flying in way too low. Last couple seconds before it happened the engines really revved into high gear. Just waaah! Like the captain was saying 'oh no, we gotta get out of here.' And then, boom! The back end just lifted up, just really jolted everybody in their seats," said crash survivor Elliot Stone, who owns a martial arts studio in Scotts Valley.
While in the U.S., drug and alcohol tests are standard procedure after air accidents, this is not required for foreign pilots and Hersman said the Asiana pilots had not undergone any testing.
A final determination on the cause of the crash is months away, and Hersman cautioned against drawing any conclusions based on the information revealed so far:
Seven seconds before impact, someone in the cockpit asked for more speed after apparently noticing that the jet was flying far slower than its recommended landing speed. A few seconds later, the yoke began to vibrate violently, an automatic warning telling the pilot the plane is losing lift and in imminent danger of an aerodynamic stall. One and a half seconds before impact came a command to abort the landing.
There's been no indication, from verbal calls or mechanical issues, that an emergency was ever declared by pilots. Most airlines would require all four pilots to be present for the landing, the time when something is most likely to go wrong, experienced pilots said. In addition to the two pilots, a third was "monitoring" the landing from a jumpseat, while a fourth was in the rear of the cabin.
"If there are four pilots there, even if you are sitting on a jump seat, that's something you watch ? the airspeed and the descent profile," said John Cox, a former US Airways pilot and former Air Line Pilots Association accident investigator.
The Air Line Pilots Association, the world's largest pilots union, criticized Hersman for fueling speculation that the crash is the result of pilot error before all the facts have been determined.
"The NTSB's release of incomplete, out-of-context information has fueled rampant speculation about the cause of the accident," the union said in a statement Tuesday. "The field phase of the investigation is barely three days old, and the pilots on the flight deck, at the controls of the aircraft, had little opportunity to provide vital information as to what exactly happened during the event before disclosing data recorded during the last moments of the flight. "
Hersman said the board was following its usual pattern of trying to be transparent by releasing information as it is known.
By Tuesday afternoon, NTSB interviews with three pilots were complete and the fourth was underway.
In addition, authorities were reviewing the initial rescue efforts after fire officials acknowledged that one of their trucks might have run over one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the crash. The students, Wang Linjia and Ye Mengyuan, were part of a larger group headed for a Christian summer camp with dozens of classmates.
Asiana President Yoon Young-doo arrived in San Francisco from South Korea on Tuesday morning, fighting his way through a pack of journalists outside customs.
He met with and apologized to injured passengers, family members and survivors. But Yoon said he can't meet with the Asiana pilots because no outside contact with them is allowed until the investigation is completed.
More than 180 people aboard the plane went to hospitals with injuries. But remarkably, more than a third didn't even require hospitalization.
The passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Canadians, three Indians, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one person from France.
South Korea officials said 39 people remained hospitalized in seven different hospitals in San Francisco.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco.
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Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Terry Collins, Paul Elias, Lisa Leff and Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul also contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sf-probe-brings-questions-over-auto-speed-controls-084646467.html
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