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In our part of the world the
story of the telecommunication giant Nokia is well known maybe by few or by
majority but for those of us that don’t know let me bring the story home.<br />
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NOKIA started out with a paper
mill operation in 1865, this organization seems to have tested many waters,
evolving per time and with consumers demand.
Nokia’s sector-by-sector success over the years has mirrored its
geographical rise: from a Finnish-focused company until the 1980s with a
growing Nordic and European presence; to a bona fide European company in the
early 1990s; and onto a truly global company from the mid-1990s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nokia was a key developer of GSM
(2G) (Global System for Mobile Communications), the second-generation mobile
technology that could carry data as well as voice traffic. In 2000 Nokia came
to the lime light of a wider audience with the release of Nokia 3310 which
became one of the most popular device of all time, Costing as high as thirty
thousand Naira in the Nigeria Market at that time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Nokia 1100 handset which
launched in 2003 shipped over 200 million units. This device happened to be the
bestselling mobile phone of all time and the world's top-selling consumer
electronics product, and it contributed immensely to the company's rise in
developing markets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nokia was one of the first to
recognize the market opportunity in combining a game console and a mobile phone
(both of which many gamers were carrying in 2003) into the N-Gage. The N-Gage
was a mobile phone and game console meant to lure gamers away from the Game Boy
Advance, though it cost twice as much.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Symbian was popular among the
smartphone market during the 2000s and it was Nokia’s main smartphone OS until
2011. Meanwhile in 2007 Apple's iPhone originally
launched, the fall of Nokia mobile market began. Although Apple iPhone was initially outsold by
Nokia N95, but with the launch of iPhone 3G in 2008 Apple’s market share
doubled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nokia released the N96 in late
2008 to compete with the iPhone 3G but this proved to be much less successful. Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was although considered
to be the iPhone 3G's main rival in some quarters. The success of the business-oriented
Nokia E71 was not enough to halt the decline of Nokia's smartphone market share.
June 2008, Nokia bought the Symbian operating system and the next year made it
open source.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Symbian's market share however dropped
from 52.4% in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 46.1% a year later. Blackberry
increased its market share during the period from 16.6% to 19.9%, while Apple
increased its share from 8.2% to 14.4%. Android grew to 3.9%. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2010, pressure on Nokia
increased dramatically as Android and iOS continued to make gains. Other
Symbian OEMs including Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson chose to make
Android-based smartphones instead of Symbian by mid-2010 Nokia was its only OEM
outside Japan. Nokia developed Symbian^3 to replace S60, but it never became
popular. By the fourth quarter of 2010, Symbian's market share dipped to 32%,
surpassing Android's at 30%. Despite losing share, the smartphone unit was
profitable and smartphone unit sales increased every quarter during 2010<o:p></o:p></div>
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February 2011, Stephen Elop and
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer jointly announced a major business partnership
between the two companies, which would see Nokia adopt Windows Phone as its
primary platform on future smartphones, replacing both Symbian and MeeGo. As
Nokia was the largest mobile phone and smartphone manufacturer worldwide at the
time, it was suggested the alliance
would help Windows Phone. The deal also included the use of Bing as the search
engine on Nokia devices, and the integration of Nokia Maps into Microsoft's own
mapping services. Nokia announced that it would still release one device
running the MeeGo platform in 2011, but that it would devote fewer resources to
future development of the platform, and that it would phase out Symbian
entirely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On October 26, 2011 at its Nokia
World conference Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone 7-based devices, the
mid-range Lumia 710 and high-end Lumia 800, after this announcement, Nokia's
share price fell about 14%, its biggest drop since July 2009. Nokia's
smartphone sales, which had previously increased, collapsed. From the beginning
of 2011 until 2013, Nokia fell from #1 to #10 in smartphone sales. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Amid falling sales, Nokia posted
a loss of 368 million euros for second quarter of 2011, whereas in second
quarter 2010, it had realized a profit of 227 million euros. On September 2011,
Nokia has announced it would cut another 3,500 jobs worldwide, including the
closure of its Cluj factory in Romania.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nokia was overtaken by Apple as
the world's biggest smartphone maker by volume in June 2011. In August 2011
Chris Weber, head of Nokia's subsidiary in the U.S., stated "<b><i>The
reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn't matter what
we do (elsewhere)</i></b>." He further added "<b><i>North America is a priority for
Nokia (...) because it is a key market for Microsoft.</i>”</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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In December 2012, Nokia announced
that it would be selling its headquarters Nokia House for €170 million, and
leasing it back in the long-term. This decision was taken to slash costs as the
company was during a financial crisis of falling revenues. In total, Nokia laid off 24,500 employees by
the end of 2013.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On September 2, 2013, Microsoft
announced that it would acquire Nokia's mobile device business in a deal worth
€3.79bn ($4.25bn), along with another €1.65bn ($1.85bn) to license Nokia's
portfolio of patents for 10 years; a deal totaling at over €5.4bn ($6.05bn).<o:p></o:p></div>
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During the press conference to
announce NOKIA being acquired by Microsoft, Nokia CEO ended his speech saying
this <b><i>“we
didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost”</i></b>. Upon saying that, all
his management team, himself included, teared sadly. They didn’t do anything wrong in their
business, however, the world changed too fast. Their opponents were too
powerful. They missed out on learning, they missed out on changing, and thus
they lost the opportunity at hand to make it big. Not only did they miss the
opportunity to earn big money, they lost their chance of survival.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The BBC is seeking a future star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, now in its second year.</div>
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The winner will work with teams across BBC News in London for three months.</div>
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Last year's winner, Nancy Kacungira, said: "I felt supported as a journalist from the continent, to tell the story I wanted to tell in the way that I felt it should be told."</div>
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Applications close on 23 March 2016 at 23:59 GMT.</div>
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The award was established to honour <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/33YvjpS1y2pL3sQPrdDW9mD/komla-dumor" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Komla Dumor</a>, a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014.</div>
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Ms Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya's KTN television channel, was selected from nearly 200 applicants.</div>
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"It felt really good to be able to tell a story from Africa on such a big platform - my stories were seen and heard on BBC TV, radio and online," she said of her experience.</div>
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"My own values on reporting about the continent - nuance, balance, and authenticity - were a good match for the BBC's commitment to getting the story right from wherever they report from in the world."</div>
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The BBC's World Service Group and deputy director of News and Current Affairs Fran Unsworth said: "Komla was a much-loved and respected journalist - not only with his colleagues but also with aspiring journalists and audiences across the world.</div>
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"His storytelling was compelling and his enthusiasm was infectious, making him one of Africa's leading journalists.</div>
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"At the BBC, we are committed to continuing Komla's dedication to this continent by launching this award for the second year running. We are searching for a rising star who displays exceptional talent, someone who embodies the spirit of Komla."</div>
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Komla Dumor was an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaster who in his short life made an extraordinary impact - in Ghana, in Africa and around the world.</div>
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He represented a confident, savvy and entrepreneurial side of Africa.</div>
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Through his tenacious journalism and compelling storytelling, Komla worked tirelessly to bring a more nuanced African narrative to the world.</div>
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The BBC is committed to continuing Komla's legacy.</div>
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If yes to these questions-Then you can benefit from this scholarship program.</div>
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The Social Sector Management (SSM) is a scholarship program by the Africa-America Institute designed to upscale the capacity of social entrepreneurs and overall sustainability of social enterprises to enable them add more value to the society and achieve their overall mission.</div>
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The Africa – America institute is offering scholarships to selected applicants.</div>
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This 13 modular 20day program will be done:</div>
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In-class - <b>10days</b></div>
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Online - <b>10days</b></div>
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Visit <a href="http://onlineregportal.com/SSM/Home" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://onlineregportal.com/SSM/Home</a> to apply.</div>
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Shortlisted applicants will receive an invitation for interview.</div>
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Application closes 11:59pm on March 6, 2016</div>
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Google paid tech rival Apple $1bn in 2014 to keep its search function the default option on iOS devices, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1-billion-to-keep-search-bar-on-iphone" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bloomberg reports</a>.</div>
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A transcript of court proceedings from a copyright lawsuit against Google allegedly contains reference to a deal between the Silicon Valley firms.</div>
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The alleged agreement involves Google paying Apple a percentage of revenue - as much as 34% - gained through iOS devices.</div>
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Both companies declined to comment.</div>
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The BBC has not been able to verify the claims independently.</div>
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Bloomberg added that the referenced document has since been removed from the web.</div>
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"The transcript vanished without a trace from electronic court records at about 15:00," the report noted.</div>
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The court proceedings in question regard a lawsuit by Oracle Corp. in which the firm claims that Google used its Java software to develop Android but failed to pay for it.</div>
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'Lucrative business'</h2>
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Analyst firms, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.cultofmac.com/215255/google-pays-apple-1-billion-a-year-to-be-default-search-provider-on-ios-report/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">such as Morgan Stanley</a>, have quoted the $1bn figure in the past, but this appears to be the first time that a reference has been found in court documents.</div>
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"It's a very lucrative business to be the browser of choice on a device or the search engine on a device," Chris Green, a technology analyst at consultancy firm Lewis, told the BBC.</div>
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"It really does, I think, highlight the importance that's being put on being able to own real estate and the conduits through which people access information."</div>
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However, Mr Green also noted that it was generally quite common for companies to pay hardware vendors fees for the placement of software and services on devices and that sometimes that may indeed be a percentage of revenue gained as a result.</div>
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Bad ads</h2>
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Other details about how Google manages its services emerged this week - including the fact that the firm removed 780 million "bad" advertisements from its sites last year.</div>
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By bad, Google said it was referring to ads which linked to malware, promoted fake goods or covered up website content.</div>
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<a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/better-ads-report.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a blog post</a>, the company said it had more than 1,000 people within its organisation responsible for weeding out these ads and that the number that had to be removed was increasing.</div>
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Some figures published by Google on advertisements include:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><b>SOURCE: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35380696" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">BBC NEWS</span></a></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09818396601634979923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978225901926193151.post-85868332073982405812016-01-25T05:47:00.003-08:002016-01-25T05:47:45.894-08:00Nigeria-based Online Entertainment Platform iROKO Will Finance “Nollywood” Films After Raising $19M<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_1267285" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #f9f9f9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #868686; font-family: alright_sansmediumitalic, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; max-width: 45.75em; padding: 0px 1em; width: 748px;">
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<a href="http://irokotv.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iROKO</a>, an online entertainment platform that targets audiences in Sub-Saharan African countries, plans to strike more deals in Nigeria’s booming movie industry after securing $19 million in funding from French premium cable company Canal+ and Kinnevik, a returning investor.</div>
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That amount is divided into $12 million of capital funding, which will be used to develop iROKO’s business and technology; and $7 million that is not from equity or debt financing and earmarked solely for several years of content development deals with studios. iROKO has now raised $34 million since it launched in September 2011.</div>
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Founder Jason Njoku tells TechCrunch that this is likely iROKO’s final fundraise. The company doesn’t make its subscriber numbers public, but it expects to generate positive cash flow by the end of this year.</div>
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“We want to stay disciplined in this current funding environment to achieve that, but at the same time not limit how we grow our product engineering teams in New York and Lagos,” says Njoku. The platform, which is accessible through a website or Android app, currently has about 2,500 to 3,000 titles and plans to increase its catalog rapidly over the next month.</div>
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Njoku was inspired to create the platform after he moved into his mother’s London home and saw that she had switched from watching British soap operas to Nollywood movies. Nollywood is a nickname for the hundreds of small studios in Nigeria that create thousands of movies a year. According to <a href="http://fortune.com/2015/06/24/nollywood-movie-industry/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fortune</a>, Nollywood was a $3 billion industry in 2014, putting it ahead of Hollywood in terms of volume, and just behind India’s Bollywood.</div>
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Despite its massive output and popularity, Nollywood movies and shows were hard to find—in London, Njoku had to hunt down VCDs for his mother in small stores.</div>
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“I went to Lagos and realized that this was a cottage industry and saw a big opportunity,” he says. “Our first distribution platform was YouTube and once we were funded it made sense for us to build our own platform.”</div>
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Netflix recently <a href="http://mg.co.za/article/2016-01-08-netflix-in-sa-whats-the-big-fuss" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">launched in South Africa</a>, so the obvious question is how iROKO will compete against the streaming giant if it continues expanding throughout the continent. Its key difference is focusing on Nollywood movies, but iROKO is also focusing on tailoring its tech platform for the needs of mobile users in Africa.</div>
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While the most popular online entertainment platforms in the U.S. and Europe stream digital content, iROKO offers downloads. In fact, iROKO’s Android app—its primary product—got rid of streaming last year and replaced it with subscriptions that allow users to download unlimited films and keep them for up to a year. The company’s decision was<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/the-potential-problems-and-profits-for-netflix-in-africa/#.4pnr9h:7LC0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> based on how slow and expensive data is in many African countries</a>.</div>
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“It didn’t work. It was a massive challenge. We don’t have the same engineering capability as Netflix, but the cost of streaming data was unimaginable to our customers, so we are in the process of re-encoding all our files to be between 50 to 100 megabytes,” says Njoku.</div>
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Though most movie downloads now take between two to three minutes, iROKO wants to compress them even further because many Android smartphones sold in Nigeria only have about three to four gigabytes of storage.</div>
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Furthermore, Nigeria suffers from an unreliable power grid, with blackouts a part of daily life (Njoku claims he’s never had 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity). This makes smartphone owners careful about their battery usage, another problem for iROKO to tackle.</div>
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“We are thinking about how to encode files in a way that reduces the amount of battery power used,” says Njoku. “It’s still very much a work in progress and we’re still figuring out the best approach. Dealing with significant Android fragmentation—there are phones from all sorts of Chinese and Southeast Asian OEMs, as well as a big secondary market and jailbroken phones—creates its own degree of complexity, which we are also trying to solve.”</div>
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Just as crucial as iROKO’s technology platform is the quality of entertainment. Last year, the company financed and produced about 100 hours of content with Nollywood studios and with its new funding for content deals, plans to collaborate with up to 20 studios, using data from its platform to decide what types of movies and shows (romantic comedies, high drama, and shows with Christian themes tend to do well) to produce.</div>
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Njoku wants to give Nollywood movies an organized channel for financing and distribution, since its often difficult for studios to secure loans from banks and <a href="http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/30159/52/federal-government-finally-grants-millions-to-nota.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">government initiatives</a> to support the industry haven’t taken off yet.</div>
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“Nollywood is incredibly fragmented, with hundreds of mini-studios, some of which have just two to three men working for them,” says Njoku. “We have dealt with a huge array of them over the past few years and our view is to bring some sort of structure to that fragmentation.”</div>
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Another of iROKO’s goals is to make Nollywood content accessible to viewers throughout Africa, even if they don’t speak English (the official language of Nigeria is used in most Nollywood films). iROKO was named after a type of tree with many branches that grew next to Njoku’s grandparents’ house in Nigeria.</div>
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As it turns out, the tree wasn’t actually an iroko, but it’s called by the same word in many Nigerian languages and symbolic of iROKO’s goal to grow throughout Africa by offering the same content in multiple languages. Njoku notes that dubbing helped Nollywood gain an audience in French-speaking African countries, so iROKO will use voiceovers in addition to subtitles to expand in West Africa. It will take the same approach for Swahili and Zulu.</div>
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“Language is the largest barrier to bringing content to people, so we are doing everything we can to localize,” says Njoku.</div>
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While some brands might be struggling to meet up with the one-year warranty norm, some others seem to be going ten steps further.</div>
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LG electronics for example, says that the core technologies in some of its home appliances are now backed up with 10-year warranty. First of its kind in home appliance category in Nigeria, the products with 10 years warranty include the refrigerators with inverter linear and smart inverter compressors, chest freezer, washing machines with inverter direct drive motor, charcoal lighting heater in charcoal microwave and cordless vacuum cleaner with smart inverter motor.</div>
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General Manager, Home Appliances Division, LG Electronics, West Africa operations Mr. Hyunwoo Jung commenting on this feat said: “At LG, we understand that durability is just as important as strong performance.</div>
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A large range of our products are backed by 10-year warranty, ensuring worry-free operation year after year. LG Electronics is the first electronic brand in Nigeria to offer a decade-long warranty of reliability on a large gamut of its product offerings. The 10 year warranty offering covers only specific parts of the selected products from the date of purchase”.</div>
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LG’s revolutionary Inverter Linear Compressor which enables the refrigerator to consume 32 percent less energy and produce 25 percent less noise. Employing a linear piston drive instead of a conventional reciprocating drive, LG’s advanced Inverter Linear Compressor generates less internal friction than other compressor systems.</div>
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The LG game changing Smart Inverter Compressor technology has set a new standard in the industry helping to make lives smarter and better. It has taken a revolutionary leap in compressor technology. The smart inverter compressor is one of the most advanced and energy efficient compressor. The LG Chest Freezer is the only brand in the market with 10 year warranty on its compressor; one of its unique features is the 3D cooling; these features enables even and fast circulation of cool air inside the freezer due to the in-built fan. The LG Inverter Direct Drive Motor washing machine allows precise movement control insides the washing machine due to direct rotation of the blushless motor inserted into the drum directly unlike the conventional type that has belt connection between the motor and drum, this new innovation offers consumer’s energy saving, less noise and vibration and a durability of 10 year.</div>
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LG Cordzero vacuum cleaner is a powerfully designed cleaner employing smart inverter motor to guarantee maximum performance with high efficiency and durability in compact size. LG’s Lightwave Technology equate cooking with an art giving a natural deep even cooking within a shorter time and saves up to 55% time and 30% energy while pre-heating all this and preserving the nutrition to ensure it gives healthy food. Charcoal Lighting heater Microwave with Lightwave technology offers a multi-heating system designed to cook healthier, tastier, gourmet-standard food with the minimum of fuss. By letting food retain its natural flavors, Lightwave oven makes dishes that are crispy on the outside and irresistibly juicy on the inside.</div>
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The <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZP0Tg5" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">Dropbox app for Windows 10</a> will begin rolling out in the Windows Store this week as a free download for Windows 10 customers.</div>
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Dropbox makes it easy to view or edit your files on any device, anytime and anywhere; to privately share files of any size with anyone; and to back up your work automatically. With this new app built on the Universal Windows Platform, users will be able to take advantage of the convenience of Dropbox with great Windows 10 features such as Windows Hello, Live Tiles and Notifications.</div>
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Here are some of the new features in the Dropbox app for Windows 10:</h2>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Updated for Windows 10:</span> Performance improvements and faster launching for our Universal Windows Platform app.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Enable Windows Hello:</span> Add an extra layer of protection with Windows Hello, which uses either your face, fingerprint, or iris instead of your password to unlock your Dropbox*.</li>
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<a href="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/5-Windows-Hello.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><img alt="Enable Windows Hello with the Dropbox app for Windows 10" class="alignnone wp-image-104653 size-large" src="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/5-Windows-Hello-837x1024.png" height="1024" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" width="837" /></a></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Quick Access to Recent Files:</span> Using Jump List, all you have to do is right-click on the Dropbox app icon in your taskbar.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Interactive Device Notifications:</span> Accept a shared folder invitation without opening the app with Notifications.</li>
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<a href="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/3-Interactive-toast-notifs.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><img alt="Using Jump List in Dropbox for Windows 10, all you have to do is right-click on the Dropbox app icon in your taskbar." class="alignnone wp-image-104633 size-large" src="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/3-Interactive-toast-notifs-1024x512.png" height="512" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" width="1024" /></a></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Quick Search:</span> You don’t need to click on the search icon; just type what you want to search.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Drag and Drop:</span> To move or copy a file into Dropbox, just drag and drop it from Windows File Explorer. Within the app, you can also move or copy files into other folders by dragging and dropping them between folders (hold Ctrl to copy).</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Commenting:</span> Add comments directly on your files, and bring others into the discussion with @mentions.</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.8125rem; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Coming Soon:</span> the Dropbox app for Windows 10 Mobile. Stay Tuned!</li>
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Our partnership with Dropbox has helped more than 17 million people get more work done on the go. With Windows 10 running on over 200 million devices worldwide, we’re excited to continue to offer our fans easy and convenient access to photos, documents, and files anytime, anywhere.</div>
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You can also <a href="http://bit.ly/1T94OiB" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">head over to the Dropbox Blog</a> where Michael Shaffer, Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships at Dropbox talks more about the app and our work together.</div>
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The <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZP0Tg5" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">Dropbox app for Windows 10</a> is optimized for tablets and will begin rolling out in the Windows Store in the coming days. If you’re using a Windows 10 PC, you can try out these features** with the new app or use the <a href="http://bit.ly/1nAEqlZ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">Dropbox desktop client.</a></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">*Hardware dependent. </i><br />
<i style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">**Windows 10 features are available in the Dropbox for Windows 10 app via the Windows Store.</i></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><b><i>SOURCE: <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/21/dropbox-for-windows-10-is-here/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">WINDOWS BLOG</span></a></i></b></span></div>
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Critical Security Tips</span></b></div>
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Auto-lock your phone</span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
They’re small, we carry them everywhere, and unfortunately mobile phones are
lost or stolen all too often. If your phone falls into the wrong hands, a
password is the first line of defense for your personal data. To keep your
information private, create a strong password for your phone and set your
screen to auto-lock within five minutes.</span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">2. Keep
your apps and device software up to date</span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Hackers work diligently to discover
new vulnerabilities in our apps or the software that operates our phones.
Device manufacturers and app developers frequently update their software to fix
newly exploited security gaps, but if you don’t download and install these
updates your information is still at risk.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6978225901926193151" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #373737; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">3. Use
discretion when downloading apps</span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. One of the most exciting things about
getting a new smartphone is downloading all the great apps that are available.
Unfortunately, even the most innocent-looking app can contain software designed
to steal personal data, make fraudulent charges or even hijack your phone. Only
download apps from sites you trust, check the app’s rating and read reviews to
make sure they’re widely used and respected before you download.</span></div>
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Stick to window-shopping on public WiFi</span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Public WiFi networks have become
ubiquitous, but security for these networks is scarce. Be careful what you do
on public WiFi networks as there may be others watching network traffic. In
particular stay away from making purchases and banking transactions—any
communication that conveys a password, account number or credit card
number—unless you are certain that you are on a secure connection.</span></div>
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Protect your phone like you protect your PC</span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Most people already use software to
shield their PC from viruses and spyware. With so much personal data on our
phones and mobile malware on the rise, our mobile devices now need the same
attention. Protect yourself and your private data from malware, spyware and
malicious apps by <a href="https://www.lookout.com/download"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #26ab36; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">downloading a security app</span></a> like Lookout Mobile Security.
It’ll be installed and working in less time than it took you to read this page!</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SOURCE: <a href="https://www.lookout.com/resources/know-your-mobile/five-tips"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">LOOKOUT.COM</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today unveiled the newest SMART Signage and monitor line up, highlighting world’s thinnest bezel to bezel video wall and its new curved gaming monitors. Samsung is showcasing how visual displays will transform the entertainment, business and retail arenas of the future at its CES 2016 display product booths (11906, 11929 and 12429 in the LVCC Central Hall).</div>
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“Today’s display customers want a wealth of clear, engaging and readily-accessible information at their fingertips, whether they are mastering video games or evaluating products at their favorite stores,” said Seog-gi Kim, Senior Vice President of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. “Our cutting-edge monitors and signage technologies are designed with these consumers in mind, delivering compelling visual content and unlocking new interactive possibilities across a range of business and at-home usage scenarios.”</div>
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Samsung has amplified large-scale message presentation capabilities for business and retail customers with its new UHF-E (Extreme Narrow Bezel) video wall. Featuring a thin bezel-to-bezel design (0.9mm on the upper and left sides and 0.5mm the lower and right sides), the UHF-E is the world’s slimmest bezel video wall available. With minimal bezel interference, business customers can keep audiences focused on rich visual content rather than on the display itself.</div>
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Optimized for indoor applications, Samsung’s UHF-E video wall combines visual quality with the power of professional-grade digital signage. Each UHF-E display undergoes advanced factory tuning to maintain picture integrity and enhance resonance for viewers. An additional embedded ACM chipset adjusts picture content to meet specific color settings and maintains a uniform presentation. The durable UHF-E video wall is designed to perform 24/7, allowing uninterrupted content delivery in various conditions.</div>
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Samsung is showcasing its newest curved gaming monitors (CF591, CF391, CF390 and CF398). These 1800R curvature monitors are designed to match the natural shape of the human eye, and with Samsung’s flicker-free and Eye Saver technologies, the products minimize eye strain and fatigue. Samsung’s gaming monitors are supported by AMD FreeSync<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">™</sup> Technology Over HDMI<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">®</sup>, which synchronizes the screen refresh rate with users’ AMD graphics card frame rate to reduce input latency, stutter and lag during gaming. In particular, the CF591 monitor recently earned a verification certificate from UL, evaluating color and uniformity.</div>
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In light of growing demand from corporate, retail, sports, entertainment and transportation clients, Samsung has enhanced its LED Signage to offer even greater visual detail. Samsung’s LED Signage is designed with top-tier diodes across a range of fine pixel pitch configurations. Through this construction, large-screen LED Signage viewers can experience the same deep contrast, realistic picture quality and high brightness that they would expect from Samsung’s latest TVs.</div>
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As customers enter the store, retailers can use mirror displays to interact and further drive point-of-purchase shopping. The displays’ reflectance (65 percent), high transmittance (90 percent) and frameless design offer retailer new avenues to immediately refine and deliver content from welcome messages to special limited-time offers.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09818396601634979923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978225901926193151.post-39272454783127883172016-01-10T20:15:00.003-08:002016-01-13T17:14:04.068-08:00Samsung unveils new Windows 10 device: the Galaxy TabPro S<br />
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Today, at CES Samsung introduced the world to the Galaxy TabPro S, a 2-in-1 tablet built for Windows 10. The premium tablet offers the most popular features of laptops and tablets giving people access to full notebook PC functionality in a lightweight tablet. The sleek device is 6.3mm thin and weighs only 693g with a 12” display. The Galaxy TabPro S is designed to be easily carried around all day and comes with a full size keyboard at purchase.</div>
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“Galaxy TabPro S balances the best of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab with the wealth of features on the Windows 10 operating system for the most advanced tablet experience on the market,” said Dongjin Ko, President and Head of Mobile Communication Business at Samsung Electronics. “We’re thrilled to be working with Microsoft Corp. to deliver a 2-in-1 tablet that truly allows people to enjoy productivity and connections that matter most, through a seamless mobile station designed for all purposes.”</div>
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<a href="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/Samsung-41.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><img alt="Samsung Galaxy TabPro S for Windows 10" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103433" src="http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2016/01/Samsung-41-1024x683.jpg" height="683" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" width="1024" /></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The sleek device is 6.3mm thin and weighs only 693g with a 12” display</em></div>
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The Galaxy TabPro S delivers full PC functionality with both Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro for business. The keyboard’s flexible hinge enables optimal, dual-angle viewing for the clearest display in any circumstance. Moreover, the Pogo pin on the Galaxy TabPro S keyboard eliminates the need for pairing or charging separately. The keyboard’s touchpad emulates that of a PC to provide easy control, even when used in Stand Mode.</div>
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Delivering a leading edge AMOLED display for Windows, the Galaxy TabPro S features a multi-touch screen that presents deeper color contrast with 94% of natural tones to show true-to-life colors and more precise details for a best-in-class viewing experience. The lightweight, power-efficient 12-inch AMOLED display enables users to enjoy gaming, movies and entertainment with unprecedented clarity and color accuracy.</div>
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The Galaxy TabPro S delivers Samsung’s advanced technology to maximize performance and power efficiency. It is the first tablet, powered by Windows, to support LTE Cat 6 for the fastest and most advanced connected experience. With enhanced Fast Charging features, Galaxy TabPro S’s battery can fully charge in just 2.5 hours, and offers up to 10 hours of battery life* for all day use. For power-driven performance, the Galaxy TabPro S is equipped with the latest generation Intel Core M processor, designed for a fanless 2-in-1 tablet, featuring only 4.5W of power consumption to eliminate noise disruption and maximize efficiency.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">The Galaxy TabPro S delivers Samsung’s advanced technology to maximize performance and power efficiency</em></div>
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To enhance productivity, a multi-port adapter (HDMI, USB Type A & C) and Bluetooth Pen are available for purchase separately. The Samsung Galaxy TabPro S will be available globally beginning in February and will be available for purchase at <a href="http://microsoftstore.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">microsoftstore.com</a> and select <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations/all-locations?view=allstores" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">Microsoft stores</a> across the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada.</div>
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For additional details on the new Samsung Galaxy TabPro S 2-in-1 tablet visit, <a href="http://samsungmobilepress.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d7; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;" target="_blank">samsungmobilepress.com</a>.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">* Battery life is based on internal testing conducted by Samsung. Results may differ by usage pattern.</em></div>
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As CES gets underway, it’s even more apparent that 2016 is projected to be the year of the “reluctant sharer”. The overwhelming common denominator of the conference seems to be cybersecurity, whether regarding drones, autonomous sport cars, or wearables; practically every device announced at CES has some type of Internet connection, adding to the already-reluctant sharer’s worries.</div>
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The latest <a href="http://www.mobileecosystemforum.com/solutions/consumer-trust/global-consumer-trust-report-2016/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3399ff; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s;" target="_blank">MEF Global Consumer Trust Report 2016</a>, in partnership with AVG, addresses digital citizenship – consumers’ responsibility to secure their online data and privacy. As an industry, are we sufficiently holding up our end of the deal, our responsibility to the consumers? One of the most striking findings in this year’s report, is the rise of the “reluctant sharer,” a growing 41% who don’t want to give up their personal information but know they need to in order to use an app. While consumers recognize more than ever how vital it is to protect themselves online, they feel caught. In just a single year, 20% more consumers shared personal information they would rather not have, just to be able to use apps and services.</div>
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With innovation in the connected world happening at an incredible pace, is resignation really the feeling we want customers to have at the beginning of our relationship with them? Year over year, this report has revealed a decrease in consumer trust, and in 2015, more people than ever (36%) said that lack of trust is the number one reason they decided against using software or apps. As an industry we can do better.</div>
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We needn’t look far to see how this might play out. Consumer distrust, leading to complete intolerance, has irrevocably disrupted the business model of digital publishing, in regards to ad blockers. While controversy surrounding the phenomenon is nothing new, Apple’s recent decision to allow ad-blocking apps has tipped the issue into mainstream consciousness and forced an entire industry to re-evaluate how it operates; and, perhaps most important, the value it offers to the people who make it all possible: their readers (consumers).</div>
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I predict that as high-profile hacks, like those on Talk Talk, Ashley Madison, the US Office of Personnel Management, and even the FBI, continue to dominate mainstream media conversations, fewer and fewer consumers will be willing to take this ‘devil’s bargain’ of privacy in exchange for services. And who can blame them? In fact, nearly half (47%) of everyone surveyed for this year’s report said they’d be willing to pay for an app that guaranteed not to share any collected data. That number is surely on the rise as consumers at large become more aware of the risks.</div>
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Given all this, I think the real question is not whether 2016 will signal a tipping point for consumers, but whether it will be the tipping point for us, the industry.</div>
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We, in mobile, have to decide if we want more than simply to avoid digital publishing’s troubles. We must put our customers first, and go beyond being only “good enough” at protecting them. Transparency and education need to go hand-in-hand with an industry-wide commitment to set, adhere to, and hold each other accountable for honorable, human-centered behavior principles. It is no longer enough to show consumers the “what” of data collection and sharing—we need to explain the purpose and consumer benefit of doing so, without spin, in real-life terms.</div>
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Who will step up to the challenge?</div>
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Ultimately, people should not have to trade privacy and security to benefit from the wealth of data-enabled services that are available now and on the horizon. Our customers are speaking loud and clear. Will we listen?</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Harvey Anderson</strong><br />
January 6, 2016</div>
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SOURCE: <a href="http://now.avg.com/when-will-our-data-be-secure/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">AVG BLOG</span></a></div>
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