Google Launches Android Studio And New Features For Developer Console, Including Beta Releases And Staged Rollout

Today, during Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a group of tools for app developers, including a new developer suite called Android Studio. It’s an IDE based on IntelliJ. This was a popular announcement, as the crowd “ooh’d” and “ahh’d” as screenshots were shown on stage. This tool has more options for Android Development, making the process faster and more productive. A “live layout” was shown that renders your app as you’re editing in realtime. Additionally, you can switch over to different layouts and screen sizes, such as 3.7 inch phone and 10-inch tablet. The team noted that this might be useful for internationalization, allowing you to quickly see what things look like without having to package up your app and install it on a device. The company says that it has “big plans” for Android Studio. Developer Console Updates and Beta/Staged Rollouts After the Studio announcement, new features to help developers get their apps in the hands of beta testers were announced. This is something that hasn’t been easy before, but the console now lets you manage both beta users and a staged rollout process. Ellie Powers, Product Manager at Google, shared these new features, including ways to make money. The console will now have optimization tips, such as assistance for translation. The app translation service allows you to get professional translations directly in developer consoles; just select russian – it will show a list of different translation vendors, then Google will play middle man. Your results will be delivered within the console. You can invest in a campaign to promote your app with new referral tracking. It will tell you where installs are coming from, let you track effectiveness of each referral channel and then what happens in the app from the first time it’s opened on a device by a user. Those usage metrics will also be show in the console.

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Benetton agrees to sign Bangladesh safety pact

NEW YORK (AP) ? Benetton has become the latest global retailer to agree to sign a one-of-a-kind pact to improve safety at Bangladesh factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month.

The move, confirmed by a spokesman at the Italian fashion brand, comes after H&M, a trendy Swedish fashion chain that is the largest clothing buyer in Bangladesh, said Monday that it would sign the same five-year legally binding factory safety contract.

Within hours, C&A of the Netherlands, British retailers Tesco and Primark, and Spain's Inditex, owner of Zara, followed.

The announcements come ahead of a Wednesday deadline imposed by worker rights groups that said they would increase pressure on brands that did not sign the agreement.

The spokesman at Benetton Group said the company would be making a formal announcement later Tuesday.

The agreement requires that the companies conduct independent safety inspections, make their reports on factory conditions public and cover the costs for needed repairs. It also calls for them to pay up to $500,000 annually toward the effort, to stop doing business with any factory that refuses to make safety upgrades and to allow workers and their unions to have a voice in factory safety.

The six companies join two other retailers that signed the contract last year: PVH, which makes clothes under the Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Izod labels, and German retailer Tchibo. The agreement has since been expanded to five years from two.

Among the holdouts, Wal-Mart, the second-largest clothing buyer in Bangladesh, said through spokesman Kevin Gardner on Monday that it had nothing to announce. And Gap, which had been close to signing the agreement last year, said late Monday that the pact is "within reach," but the company is concerned about the possible legal liability involved.

Labor groups applauded the retailers that agreed to the pact. They say the agreement goes a long way toward improving working conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry, which long has been known to be dangerous.

The agreement comes as the working conditions of Bangladesh's garment industry have come under increased scrutiny. Since 2005, at least 1,800 workers have been killed in the Bangladeshi garment industry in factory fires and building collapses, according to research by the advocacy group International Labor Rights Forum.

The two latest tragedies in the country's garment industry have raised alarm. The building collapse at Rana Plaza on April 24 was the industry's worst disaster in history. And it came months after a fire in another garment factory in Bangladesh in November killed 112 workers.

Following the latest tragedy, Walt Disney Co. announced that it is stopping production of its branded goods in Bangladesh. But most retailers have vowed to stay and promised to work for change. H&M and Wal-Mart both have said they have no plans to leave. Other big chains such as The Children's Place, Mango, J.C. Penney, Gap, Benetton and Sears have said the same.

But the pressure has increased for those that stay. Since April's building collapse, Avaaz, a human rights group with 21 million members worldwide, has gotten more than 900,000 signatures on a petition pushing Gap and H&M to commit to the proposal. And in the U.S., university chapters of United Students Against Sweatshops are helping to stage demonstrations against Gap in more than a dozen cities including Seattle, Los Angeles and New York.

The safety agreement comes two years after a fire and safety proposal drawn up by labor unions was first rejected by many clothing companies as too costly and legally binding. The latest agreement is a revised version of that proposed pact.

Forty companies, including Wal-Mart, H&M, and J.C. Penney, met in Germany with labor rights groups days after the building collapse. They discussed how the industry could improve safety conditions in Bangladesh.

Only a few companies, including Britain's Primark and Canada's Loblaw Inc., which owns the Joe Fresh clothing line, have acknowledged that suppliers were making clothes for them at the Rana Plaza site and have promised to compensate workers and their families. Loblaw's CEO said suppliers were making clothes for as many as 30 brands and retailers at the site.

Benetton labels were found at the site, and the Italian fashion brand acknowledged that one of its suppliers had used one of the factories. The company said that before the collapse, the factory had been removed from its list of approved factories.

Associated Press

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When Religion is Deadly - Randy Gage

Sorry to have been absent for a few days, but I?ve been reflecting on this post, and wanted to make sure I could write it without emotional distractions, and bring up some of the serious issues we face.? The events of the recent Boston Marathon bombings drive home yet again how harmful and dangerous religious beliefs can be.? This applies both to those that hold them, and unfortunately ? also and especially to those who don?t.

And because those beliefs are created by mind viruses ? highly charged with emotion and often indoctrinated at a young age ? most of the people with these dangerous beliefs have no clue of the danger they pose to themselves and others.? And have no idea that they are not acting rationally.

Some commenters on the earlier posts on this subject have chastised me for being judgmental or as dogmatic as the brainwashed religious cult members I am warning against.? But this criticism does not stand the test of reason.

The goal of those posts was not to attack or ridicule people?s beliefs or their right to hold them, but to point out the lack of rational thought it takes to believe such things.? They also serve to illuminate the subliminal programming which many of them have that leads to low self-esteem, worthiness issues and self-sabotage ? and in extreme cases physical attacks or murder of others? (as the Boston events just demonstrated).?? These beliefs are anti-humanity and thus, anti-prosperity.

The Greeks thought Artemis was the virgin goddess of the hunt, although she later was promoted to the moon goddess.? The Romans had a counterpart in Diana.? Likewise the Greeks had Poseidon as the god of the seas, and the Romans worshiped Neptune for all things maritime.? ?When it comes to the supreme, supreme deities, the Greeks went with Zeus, while the Romans genuflected to his counterpart Jupiter.

As people became wiser and science helped unfold some of the mysteries of the universe, these beliefs faded away, becoming the grist of folklore, superstition and metaphors for superhero movie plots.?? (Although don?t think for a minute that there are still not people who believe in them.? There are.)

For most people today, however, we look back on these myths, thinking they are quaint, and wondering how people could hold such illogical, irrational and outlandish beliefs.? ?Yet if we look at the beliefs held by at least four or five billion of the world?s population today, they are just as bizarre and no less implausible.

You may think that these are just harmless personal beliefs, and if they console people and help them process traumatic events like the death of a loved one, or a bad medical diagnosis, they serve a beneficial purpose to society.? But now we have to seriously question that assumption.

Because religion is killing people.? Again.

Unreason, which is a polite way to say craziness, is running rampant in the world today.? The fact that such a large percentage of the world?s population still believe in Sky-God superstitions ? and these people are air traffic controllers, engineers, and even presidents and Prime Ministers ? is certainly cause for trepidation.? ?Even worse, none of them think there is anything irrational and absurd about the certainty they have in their superstitions.

Shit and Stuff?

The really ironic dynamic in all this is that everyone thinks their own beliefs are historical facts, and everyone else?s beliefs are crazy delusions.? It reminds me of George Carlin?s brilliant bit on stuff and shit.? If it?s yours, it?s stuff.? If it belongs to someone else, then it?s shit.? As in, ?Who left this shit here?? This is where I keep my stuff.?

So we have Mormons who think their magic underwear protects them from evil, Christians who trust Noah brought dinosaurs on the ark, Hindus who believe Indra was born fully grown from his mother?s side, Scientologists who imagine they are extraterrestrials from a previous lifetime and Jewish Rabbis who fly on airplanes sealed in a hefty bag because they?re flying over a cemetery.? Certainly no rational person not indoctrinated at birth or infected with mind viruses would exhibit any of these thought processes.

Probably you defend the rights of people to practice their faith and believe any of these things, as I do.? ?Just as these people have no real proof their deities actually exist, I have no proof that they don?t.?? Most of these beliefs are quaint superstitions like Zeus, Poseidon and Neptune, and if they make people feel better, good for them.

The issue arises when the beliefs that these people are brainwashed with cause misery and suffering for them, and prevent them from reaching the prosperity and happiness that is their birthright. ?Or worse yet, cause them to attack and kill others.

Most of your core foundational beliefs about all the important things:? relationships, health, happiness, prosperity, religion, sex, etc. ? are set before you are ten years old.? ?Sadly, only one person in 20 or 30 million actually does any critical thinking on this when they grow up.?? To live an enlightened life, you must be willing to analyze the beliefs you live by.

You have to ask:

• What are my core beliefs on these subjects?
• How did I come to get them?
• Are they actually true?

These are questions most people simply don?t ask.? They operate their whole lives on the programming they received with they were six, seven or eight years old.? And if that programming teaches you that you are a sorry sinner, are not worthy, are meant to suffer in this lifetime, won?t reach enlightenment until another 44 lifetimes, or you?re reincarnated this lifetime to pay penance for a past lifetime ? you?re pretty much screwed.

Unless you question your beliefs with a rational mind, and eviscerate the ones that are not serving you.?

Otherwise, you will grow into adulthood with low self-esteem and worthiness issues, which prevents you from being happy and leads to a lifetime of fear.? ?This can lead to self-sabotage behavior in your health, relationships and career.? In extreme cases it can lead to suicide, as when young gay teens take their life because they?ve been programmed to think there is something wrong with them.

For the most part, the beliefs of these individual sects and cults only impact the cult members themselves.? But there is an even greater danger today, and that is when religious zealots attack and kill people outside of their faith.

And that is where Islam comes into the picture.?

The Qur?an is very specific in its instruction for believers regarding non-believers:? Non-believers are infidels who must be converted or killed.? And Muslims who read and believe the Qur?an is the verbatim word of Allah are not only dangerous to themselves, but society as a whole.

It apparently was those beliefs that led Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to detonate the explosives that would kill and maim dozens of innocent spectators at a sporting event.? ?Like the 9/11 attacks, the victims were of many faiths, even Muslim.? How can you quantify the mind viruses that cause people to blow up an 8-year-old boy, cause his 7-year old sister to lose her leg, and even injure believers of your own faith, and believe you are conducting a holy war?

Muslims who take the Qur?an literally believe that by committing such cowardly and heinous acts, they will receive 72 virgin maidens in paradise as a reward.? ?And this is where Islam jumps the shark?

Some dismissed my earlier posts as ?Islamophobia,? (a charge I see being leveled against Sam Harris recently as well).? That accusation does not pass the logic test.? Islamophobia would suggest an irrational fear of Islam.

But the events of the last 15 years have demonstrated that non-believers have many very rational reasons to fear Islam??

Islam certainly isn?t the only religious cult to operate on folklore, myths and superstitions. I think most if not all do.? And Islam is not alone being based upon premises no rational person could believe if they were not infected with memes.?? What makes Islam the most dangerous religion in the world today is its teachings on martyrdom, jihad, and killing non-believers.

To be fair, the way Islam discriminates and ostracizes women, non-heterosexuals and non-believers is not unique.? Mormons banish non-heterosexuals, the Bible says they should be stoned, and the Torah prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality. ?But truth is, you won?t find a lot of Mormon deacons, Jewish rabbis, or Catholic ministers actually preaching to kill homosexuals today.?? But in the Islamic world, homosexuality equals a death sentence, and there are many Imams preaching this.

The way the Muslim world treats women is simply unconscionable and barbaric.?? Even ?Game of Thrones? wouldn?t fantasize something as preposterous as killing girls simply because they wanted to get an education.?? It wouldn?t pass for a credible plot in an epic fantasy like ?Thrones?, but this is the actual reality in many Muslim countries today.

And it doesn?t stop with the non-heterosexuals and women?

Many Muslim clerics advocate attacking or even killing anyone who ridicules their religion.? These ?spiritual leaders? issue death fatwas on authors and incite riots in response to comics.? And there is a strong and growing faction in the Islamic world committed to a jihad to convert or kill all ?infidels.?? The Boston bombings and the plot to derail a Canadian passenger train are just the most recent examples of attempted mass murder done in the name of Islam.

Islam is certainly not the only religion to kill people in the name of God.? There are many examples throughout history, notably the Catholic church during the Inquisition.? And while this was as vengeful and barbaric as the fundamentalist Muslims are today, there?s a very big difference in the potential impact:? While the Inquisition was at its peak of violent extremism, there were no tools of worldwide manipulation like the Internet and satellite TV.? Nor did weapons of mass destruction exist.

This all leads us to three very important issues, in terms of prosperity:

First, be mindful of what beliefs you?ve been indoctrinated with, and then being able to rationally analyze them.?? Do they pass the rationality test of someone who isn?t infected with memes?? Do those beliefs serve you or enslave you?

Second, recognize that ?religious tolerance? and respecting the beliefs of people who want to kill you doesn?t end well.? A central tenet of prosperity is knowing your own value, setting boundaries, and protecting your interests.

Finally, we need to really think about the role organized religion plays in the world today.? Instead of leading to self-awakening and enlightenment, it seems to be leading people to be satisfied with not knowing answers, instead of searching for them.

Fundamentalism now often serves as a code word for hate and intolerance.? When religions become catalysts for killing, it?s time for some serious re-evaluation.

-RG

P.S.? Based on some of the questions and comments below, let me add some additional thoughts.? I have read the Qur?an.? I have spent time in Dubai, Malaysia, and Indonesia numerous times and found the people there to be delightful.? I was always treated gracious and welcoming, and am happy to have many Muslim friends from those countries, Egypt, and here in the U.S.

I think some of the Muslim beliefs are preposterous, but no more so than many of the beliefs held by devout Jews, Christians, Hindus and many other religions.? Personally I find the Qur?an to be filled with savagery and barbarism, but we can certainly say that about other sacred texts, including the Bible.

The difference is you don?t see religious leaders in those other faiths directing their followers to continue the iron and stone age savagery, but many Muslim clerics and heads of state still do.? ?The other issue is when Muslims practice such behaviors, people suggest that they are extremists who don?t follow the Qur?an, when in actually, they are devout Muslims who are following the Qur?an quite literally.? Lets at least be honest and acknowledge the real nature of this sacred text.

I?m not on a crusade to rid the world of Islam, or any other religion.? (Although the question of whether the world would be better off without them is a fair one at this point in time.)? The purpose of this post is to point out the danger that arises when people blindly follow dogma and doctrines without practicing critical thinking.?? Everything goes back to the three questions I pose above, and whether you have the courage and rationality to ask and answer them.

Posted in Critical Thinking, Prosperity, Success by Randy Gage.

Tags: abundance, Critical Thinking, manifesting prosperity, memes, mind viruses, organized religion, Prosperity, prosperity consciousness, self-development, self-esteem, self-sabotage, Subliminal Programming

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Must we accommodate a bike courier who can no longer ride a bike ...

Q. We run a courier service delivering time-sensitive documents around the Twin Cities by bicycle. Recently, an employee broke her leg while skiing. Now she is unable to perform her job as bicycle courier. Do we have to put her in a different job while her leg is in a cast?

A. Although your employee is impaired in her ability to deliver documents by bicycle, she is not likely to be disabled under the ADA. To qualify as a disability, an impairment must be more than a minor or transitory impairment (i.e., lasting more than six months). Here, your employee is not likely to be disabled if her broken leg will heal in less than six months.

Because she is not disabled, you do not need to accommodate her injury. Even if you were obligated to provide reasonable accommodations, disregarding the essential functions of her job and putting her in a new job is not likely to be considered a reasonable accommodation that you would be obligated to provide.

Although she may not have protections under disability discrimination laws, if you are an FMLA employer and she is a qualified employee, she may be entitled to up 12 weeks of leave from work to recover from her injury. If she is able to return to her job after her FMLA leave entitlement expires, you would be obligated to reinstate her to her previous position following the leave.

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Samsung Galaxy Mega hits FCC (again), this time with LTE

Better start working on those powerball exercises. At least if Samsung's Galaxy Mega was the thing you thought your life was missing, as it's just landed at the FCC. Yeah, we know this isn't the first time, but on second time around it's the LTE-sporting GT-i9205 model. The usual lab tests show little that we didn't know already -- unless you didn't know it had LTE Band 5, dual band WiFi, NFC or GSM 850 / 1900. As the 5.8-inch isn't 4G-enabled, this means we're looking at the bigger 6.3-inch version, but still no word on if, when or how a version might land on US shores. Still no harm in limbering up though, is there?

Update: Upon further inspection, this variant only uses LTE band 5 (850mhz), which no us carrier currently uses. It's very unlikely this I9205 will hit the US.

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Apple's cash plan takes heat off Cook, buys him time

By Poornima Gupta and Ben Berkowitz

(Reuters) - Tim Cook wants investors to "think different" about Apple: less as a hyper-growth startup-like company and more as a mature but robust technology corporation with the world's biggest dividend.

If Wall Street follows Apple Inc's famous advertising slogan of old, it may relieve some of the pressure on Apple's chief executive, quiet investors' grumbling about its recent share price slide, and buy the company time to do what it says it does best: come up with and market new products.

On Tuesday, Apple said it would return $100 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015, in part by raising its dividend 15 percent and in part by increasing its share buyback program six-fold to $60 billion.

To some extent, the expanded capital return program helped mask its first quarterly profit decline in a decade, though analysts say the more important issue now is what Apple has in store on the gadget front.

Apple shares were up 0.2 percent to $406.96 in afternoon trading on Wednesday, reversing direction after falling about 1 percent in early trading. The stock has seen a 43 percent slide since mid-September.

With Apple planning to borrow money to reward shareholders - one way to circumvent repatriating its vast overseas cash for that purpose - it could go from having zero debt to a company that rivals major global banks such as Citigroup in issuing bonds.

The company received an AA+ rating from Standard & Poor's, missing the top rating due to earnings growth uncertainty.

Following the earnings, at least 17 brokerages lowered their price targets on the stock, including JPMorgan, which cut its target by 25 percent.

Apple's earnings growth trajectory has come to earth in the last year. After posting average annual earnings per share growth of 62 percent over the past five years, its profit is now forecast to grow at just 4.5 percent a year for the next decade. For this year, earnings per share are expected to fall 4.4 percent, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.

ADMITTING A CHANGE

Cook is trying to reset heightened expectations around a company once universally feted for its ability to captivate both consumers and Wall Street.

In the years following the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010, the company established a pattern of consistently blowing past even the most bullish Wall Street earnings expectations, much to everyone's delight.

But on Tuesday, Cook made the rare admission to analysts on a conference call that Apple's growth has slowed and margins have decreased.

Apple is a mature company that's now trying to get everyone to see it as one, analysts say.

"They are modulating into a state where the highs are not as high and lows are not so low," Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps said.

Apple shares moved 5 percent higher Tuesday on the back of the capital program, though the gains evaporated later.

Any gains would have come as little consolation to investors who have watched Apple shed more than $280 billion in market value in the last few months as investors adjusted to a new, slower-growth reality.

Roger Kay, president of researcher and consultant Endpoint Technologies Associates said the expanded share repurchase and dividend scheme would keep investors satisfied for a while.

In the longer term, Apple needs another blockbuster gadget to accelerate its momentum and win investors back for the longer term. Cook tried on Tuesday to drum up enthusiasm around the product pipeline by teasing that "some really great stuff," potentially in new product categories, was coming in the fall and in 2014.

"They need something that breaks into new verticals, whether it's TV or something that's wearable, that opens up a new revenue stream," Epps said.

RESETTING THE SCALE

That remains among the most pertinent concerns for Apple-watchers. Since Cook took over in 2011 from late co-founder Steve Jobs, some investors have questioned whether Apple can continue to up-end technology markets with new revolutionary products that appeal to consumers in the absence of the tech icon.

Cook has in the past year presided over three straight quarters of missed revenue expectations before the January-to-March period. The key product introduced during his tenure is the smaller iPad mini, a response to tablets such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle that were making inroads on its home turf.

The public takes as a given that a new iPhone and new iPads will come this year, along with refreshed Mac computers and iPod music players. But the speculation is that Apple is also working on a watch, a television and a radio service, among other products in the pipeline.

Cook would not provide any more details on new products, no surprise given the company's penchant for secrecy.

Some investors remain confident the Apple magic remains.

"The bar has been reset in terms of expectations and guidance. They have done the right thing by issuing debt and doing a large buyback," said Jason Jones, who runs tech hedge fund firm HighStep Capital and confessed to being an Apple bull.

"The company will go through this quiet period for product release and then, starting in the summer and for the remainder of the year, product announcements will pick up and likely the stock will react favorably to that."

While Apple is still growing - no small achievement for a company with sales well over $100 billion - its pace of growth has slowed as high-end smartphone adoption approaches saturation and rivals flood the market with cheaper devices, which are popular in high-growth developing countries like China and India.

Cook on Tuesday acknowledged that Samsung, which has smartphones in all price categories, is its top competitor. Apple also said it does sacrifice margin in the short-term, as it did with the iPad mini, if executives believe a product has long-term potential.

"Apple is in the transition phase from growth to a value company," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Asset Management. "Growth companies tend to put every penny back in, but that is not the case with Apple here."

(Additional reporting by Alistair Barr in San Francisco and Dan Burns in New York; Editing by Edwin Chan and Ken Wills)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/apples-cash-plan-takes-heat-off-cook-buys-031827140--finance.html

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ARM reports 28% rise in Q1 revenue - Computer Business Review

CBR Staff Writer Published 24 April 2013

Driven by the increasing demand for microchip designs

UK based semiconductor and software design company ARM Holdings has reported 28% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2013 to ?170.3m from ?132.5m it reported during the same period prior year.

The company recorded 25% rise in mobile chip shipments while the embedded shipments increased by 50% compared to the same period last year.

In the first quarter of 2013, company's pretax profit grew 44% to ?89.4m from ?61.9m in 2012. .

The adjusted EPS for the quarter increased 58% to 5.31pence from 3.36 pence in the same period last year.

For the quarter, the total IFRS operating expenses of the company were ?95.2m that increased from the ?76.2m recorded during first quarter of 2012.

During the period, the company signed 22 processor licenses in different markets including smartphones, mobile computing, digital television and other technology.

The company has reported 35% increase in shipments of ARM-based chips to 2.6 billion units compared to corresponding period last year.

ARM Holdings chief executive officer Warren East said the company has reported strong revenue and earnings growth, driven by robust licensing and royalty revenue.

"In particular, this quarter ARM saw strong uptake of its next generation, higher royalty bearing ARMv8, Mali and big.LITTLE technology for smartphones and mobile computers," East said.

"ARM's royalty revenues again outpaced the wider semiconductor industry. This outperformance has been driven by market share gains in key end markets including digital TVs and microcontrollers.

"In addition, the growth in smartphones and tablets continues to benefit ARM. Even low cost smart devices can contain multiple ARM-based chips and be based on ARM's advanced Cortex-A series technology and Mali graphics processors."

Source: http://www.cbronline.com/news/arm-reports-28-rise-in-q1-revenue-240413

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