HTC's Peter Chou: 'We are driving changes inside the company' (video)

Is this the One? That's pretty much the question we put to HTC's Peter Chou, whose company has had a tough time battling other mobile giants with its original One series. The CEO was kind enough to have a little chat with us after the One launch -- although his responses were often vague. We covered topics from what went wrong last year, how the new flagship device will bring the company back in the game, and where does HTC see itself from the perspective of consumers. Read on for the highlights as well as the full video clip after the break.

Looking back at the good old days since the original One series launch, Chou once again acknowledged the fact that his company didn't do so well with marketing. "We had a few great devices, a lot of innovation, but we just need to let people know all of these HTC innovations. So today we are introducing the HTC One and that's exactly what we're going to do," said Chou. The CEO is also confident that his new flagship device has what it takes to deter consumers from the competition. "HTC will be offering consumers a great phone with great experience, these quality are non-compromised. We are very confident the consumers will appreciate these innovations, experience and quality."

"We just need to let people know all of these HTC innovations."

Also in the face of the likes of Samsung and many Chinese manufacturers, Chou believes that a close relationship with partners as well key to success. "We are working very closely with partners," said Chou. He also hinted at the changes inside HTC not so long ago. "We are driving changes inside the company, pushing the innovation and pushing the execution."

As any executive would do at a launch event, Chou went on to pimp the highlights of the One: BlinkFeed (live feed of ambient information), BoomSound (dual front-facing loudspeaker) and Zoe (multimedia gallery and editor on steroids). Again, the exec emphasized the importance of great experience, especially with Zoe where the user doesn't need to do much, and yet they still get this "awesome emotion and personality" with the movies they share with people. "We think that this is a great way of providing new experience to smartphone users," Chou added.

"The megapixel myth is the wrong way to go."

We went on to ask how HTC will handle the tricky task of convincing consumers into the 4-megapixel but more efficient UltraPixel camera, to which we were given a familiar response. "The megapixel myth is the wrong way to go, so what really matters is to give you much better image quality with great innovative, exciting experience. So that's where we're focusing on." Hopefully there'll also be plenty of hands-on areas for folks to check out the camera; and we'll certainly be giving it a good test.

Interestingly, the One doesn't come with a microSD slot (as featured on the Japanese and Asian Butterfly variants) and Qi wireless charging (as featured on the Verizon versions of some HTC flagships), but Chou wasn't too keen on addressing these , along with the seemingly smaller battery size when compared to some of the competition. "We are confident that consumers appreciate our innovations and our differentiation is very, very clear," Chou responded vaguely. Well, we shall see about that when we eventually get to review the One.

Sharif Sakr and Mat Smith contributed to this interview.

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San Diego Union-Tribune and Waco Tribune-Herald Launch Next-Generation Job Sites Powered by RealMatch

?Tags:???Internet & business IT?????????????This was published: 19 Feb 2013 - 12:29 am?????????Print article: ????&nbsp ?????????? ????&nbsp NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2013 -- RealMatch, the leader in performance-based online recruitment advertising, announced today the launch of two of its newest affiliate partners including U-T San Diego and Waco Tribune-Herald. Both newspapers have switched to RealMatch's next-generation online recruitment solution in order to grow their recruitment advertising business and provide a better and more efficient experience for employment advertisers and job seekers alike. "Partnering with RealMatch has provided us with a recruitment advertising solution that enables us to deliver increased performance and better value to advertisers in our local market. RealMatch made the transition from Monster.com to be seamless for us and our clients, and we are excited about entering into a new era for digital employment services in San Diego," said Brett Sondrup, Director of Digital Sales, U-T San Diego. In addition to having access to RealMatch's superior white-label job site platform based on Real-Time Job Matching? technology, the newspapers also become members of TheJobNetwork, RealMatch's national recruitment advertising network as part of the partnership. TheJobNetwork is comprised of over one thousand local and niche job sites, job aggregators, job search engines, and social networks reaching over 37 million job seekers monthly. Unlike basic cross-posting arrangements which have no guarantee of results, TheJobNetwork leverages RealMatch's sophisticated ad optimization, ad targeting, and Real-Time Job Matching? technologies to increase ad performance and generate significantly higher qualified applicant response rates compared to traditional destination job sites. This increase in performance and superior results allows publishers to attract more loyal advertisers and generate more revenue. "U-T San Diego and the Waco Tribune-Herald represent a rapidly growing number of publishers searching for a better alternative to their existing online recruitment advertising solution. With RealMatch, they now have the opportunity to outperform even the most recognized job boards in order to grow their revenues and build more strategic relationships with advertisers and job seekers in their communities," said Gal Almog, founder and CEO of RealMatch. Article source - NASDAQ GlobeNewswire, all right reserved. Trademarks, logos, pictures and other items may be copyright of firms / organisations mentioned in this article. Further information: Organisation name:??? RealMatch Latest related articles, tagged Internet & business IT >>>More articles ?>>>

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New material interface improves functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices

Feb. 17, 2013 ? For the first time, researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices, such as those used in certain kinds of random access memory (RAM). According to Qi Li, a professor of physics at Penn State University and the leader of the research team, the new method could be used to design improved, more-efficient, multilevel and multifunctional devices, as well as enhanced nanoelectronic components -- such as non-volatile information storage and processing; and spintronic components -- an emerging technology that uses the natural spin of the electron to power devices.

The research has been accepted for publication in the journal Nature Materials.

Li explained that most modern-day electronic chips -- integrated circuits that serve as the building blocks for semiconductor electronic devices such as solar cells, personal computers, and cell phones -- use silicon transistors to process "logical states," or the binary system of ones and zeros used by computers. This binary information is stored for fast access in RAM and also permanently in a magnetic form on hard disks. In this system, the numeral 1 can be understood as "on" -- with a current of electrons flowing freely -- and the numeral 0 as "off" -- with a current blocked. However, in recent years, Li said, researchers in laboratories across the world have been experimenting with different, non-silicon materials that "can toggle between a multilevel state system and can bring the memory into logic operation," and also function with greater speed and less power consumption than are possible with current technology.

Now, in a new research study, Li and her colleagues have designed and tested an alternative way of creating a device that is compatible with non-silicon technology and that combines into one device both an electronic and a magnetic junction. "Magnetic tunnel junctions -- which include two magnetic metallic layers with a very thin insulator barrier in between -- have been used for binary-state devices, such as magnetic random-access memories (MRAM). Tunneling itself is a quantum-mechanical effect," Li said. "Our goal was to create a multifunctional device with improved function by adding what we call a ferroelectric-magnetic interface -- a ferroelectric layer replacing the insulator barrier and a special interface layer, less than one nanometer thick, built into the device that acts to change from metal to insulator as well as from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic in response to the negative or positive charge polarization of the barrier." Thanks to this interface and through a phenomenon called the tunneling electroresistance effect, Li said, "we have found that the binary-state resistance difference, or the 1/0 system, is enhanced by up to 10,000 percent. This device is considered a quaternary-state device because we have integrated ferroelectric tunneling -- which can be used as a switch or memory -- into magnetic tunnel junctions, a type of magnetic memory."

Li added that her team's newly designed interface is special because the oxide materials used to build it are "multiferroic" -- one side magnetic and the other ferroelectric, with the magnetic layer changing with the ferroelectric switching. Ferroelectric materials, which are used in the capacitors built into medical ultrasound machines, as well as in other memory devices such as hotel key cards, have a spontaneous electric polarization of negative and positive charges that can be reversed. On the other hand, ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, form permanent magnets with magnetization direction also reversible. "Because our new interface combines both magnetic and ferroelectric properties and because we utilize the coupling effect between the two, we can reproduce a similar binary system with a much larger resistance difference between the two charge-polarization directions. With future modifications, faster switching and storage, or toggling, between 1 and 0 with the information also stored in the same device (or between the states of 1, 2, 3, and 4) may be possible," Li said. "With a 10,000-percent enhancement, the 1 is a stronger 1 and the 0 is a stronger 0, thanks to the physical properties of the materials used to build the interface structures. Stronger 1s and 0s mean sharper switching or fewer memory errors and better and faster information processing and storage power."

Li said that non-silicon materials that use enhanced tunneling-electroresistance-effect technology may be many years away from being available in personal computers and cell phones. However, her research is a next step toward demonstrating the feasibility of this technology. "A few of the exciting outcomes of a multiferroic interface built into tunnel junctions would be doubling the memory states from two to four, a switch and a memory in one chip, and electrical control of the magnetic devices. For example, a new generation of non-volatile multilevel data processing and storage would be possible with the combined memory of MRAM and ferroelectric RAM (fRAM) or logic operation." Li said.

Li explained that memory is considered non-volatile if it is stored even when it is not powered. "Most computers use dynamic random-access memory (dRAM) -- a form of computer data storage in which stored information fades from the capacitor unless it is refreshed periodically," Li said. "But with both MRAM and fRAM, if you shut down your computer while you are watching a video, then the video would pop back up on the screen immediately as soon as you powered the computer back on again. No restart of the window in your personal computer would be necessary."

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Pressure mounts on Israel over Palestinian prisoner fast

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger strike has fuelled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank.

Samer al-Issawi, one of the four Palestinians who have been on hunger strike, has been refusing food, intermittently, for more than 200 days. His lawyer says his health has deteriorated.

Gaunt and using a wheelchair, Issawi appeared on Tuesday before a Jerusalem civil court, which deferred releasing him for at least another month.

The prisoners' campaign for better conditions and against detention without trial has touched off violent protests over the past several weeks outside an Israeli military prison and in West Bank towns.

In the Gaza Strip, the Islamic Jihad group said a truce with Israel that ended eight days of fighting in November could unravel if any hunger striker died.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club, which looks after the welfare of inmates and their families, said 800 prisoners were taking part in the daylong fast.

Issawi was among 1,027 jailed Palestinians freed by Israel in 2011 in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier who was abducted on the Gaza border by Hamas, the Islamist militant group that now rules the enclave.

Issawi and Ayman Sharawneh, who has also been on hunger strike, are among 14 Palestinians who have been re-arrested by Israel since being released in the Shalit trade.

Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote on Twitter that Issawi and Sharawneh were detained "because they violated the terms of the Shalit deal by returning to illegal activities which pose a threat."

INTERNATIONAL CONCERN

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said he had been in contact with Israel and urged it to release the men. He said Egypt, which helped mediate the Shalit prisoner swap and also negotiated an end to a Palestinian mass hunger strike in Israeli jails last year, was trying to end the new protest.

Israel has defused previous long-term hunger strikes among the some 4,700 Palestinians in its jails by agreeing to release individuals or deporting them to Gaza - a prospect rejected by the four prisoners, who come from Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The Quartet of Middle East negotiators - the United States, Russia, the United Nations and European Union - and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have expressed concern at the hunger strike.

Ban said on Tuesday that he had raised his concerns in a recent phone call with Netanyahu and that "those detained should be charged and face trial with judicial guarantees in accordance with international standards, or be promptly released."

In a statement on Monday, France's Foreign Ministry urged Israel "to be sensitive to the risk of a tragic outcome and to take appropriate measures as a matter of urgency."

The statement said "administrative detention must remain an exceptional measure of limited duration and be carried out with due regard for fundamental safeguards."

Israel holds some Palestinians in "administrative detention" based on evidence presented in a closed military court. It says the practice pre-empts militant attacks against it while keeping its counter-intelligence sources and tactics secret.

There were 178 administrative detainees in Israeli jails in January, down from just over 300 around the time of another Palestinian hunger strike campaign last spring, according to Palestinian rights group Addameer.

"The battle waged by me and by my heroic colleagues ... is everyone's battle, the battle of the Palestinian people against the occupation and its prisons," Issawi said in a message conveyed to the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners last week.

(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Ali Sawafta in Ramallah and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Editing by Alison Williams and Doina Chiacu)

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Matt Riddle sorry for positive test at UFC 149, but wants to push for change on pot ban

Matt Riddle scored a decision win over Che Mills at UFC on Fuel 7 this past weekend. It's his second straight win after a win over Chris Clements at UFC 149 was overturned because Riddle tested positive for marijuana metabolites. He was angry after the positive test because Riddle has a medical marijuana card from Nevada, where he lives.

Riddle mended fences with the UFC brass while in England for his fight, as well.

"I actually talked to [UFC VP of regulatory affairs] Marc Ratner this past weekend in London," Riddle said to MMA Junkie Radio. "I kind of apologized because you know, I can't use medical marijuana. They can use TRT, and I've kind of been like ? I've been on the phone with Marc, and he's been like, 'There's nothing we can really do about it. You can't do it. The commissions don't respect your license.' I was kind of like, 'That sucks, bro,' and I was kind of mad at him, but it's not up to him. It's up to the other athletic commissions, and the UFC is doing the best they can to make them happy and to abide by their rules when they go over to Brazil and Europe when those places don't have athletic commissions."

I don't have much sympathy for fighters testing positive for a substance they know is banned, no matter what it is. Though Riddle's medical marijuana card allowed him to use it in Nevada, he should have asked well in advance what it meant for his fight in Canada. Marijuana shouldn't be banned, but it is. Fighters don't have to like the rules, but they do have to follow them.

But this is an issue the state commissions will need to address soon. Marijuana was recently legalized for recreational use in Washington and Colorado. 18 other states, including California and Nevada, allow medical marijuana or have decriminalized the drug. Cities are moving towards changing laws, as well. Chicago now gives tickets for pot possession instead of arrests.

Riddle says he will continue to push for changes in the rules. With marijuana becoming increasingly legal, and little proof that marijuana is a performance enhancer, there's no good reason for commissions to test for it.

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Tablets will Shine in 2013 by Outselling Personal Computers ...

Last week we reported that Google?s ad revenue from tablets would surpass that of personal computers by the end of Q4 2013. Well, it seem that tablets will go above and beyond this year and surpass the sales of the personal computer altogether.

As of now, shipments of the personal computer are still ahead of the shipments of tablets by a fair mark, but analysts predict that by the end of 2013 tablets will not only have caught up with the personal computer, but will have surpassed it. This is a result of the personal computer market being very saturated in this day and age and the replacement cycle of the PC either shrinking drastically as one to 2-year old personal computers remain relevant longer than in the past and/or PC users move altogether to a tablet as their main source of computing.

Currently, the sales of personal computers are at around the 80 million range, while tablets are hanging at around 55-60 million per quarter. Analyst Sameer Singh of tech-thoughts.net, ?who uses the rate at which tablets and personal computers are replaced and not the current usage of the device to determine the future rate of shipment of the particular device in question, predicts that the shipment of tablets will reach 75-80 million units per quarter in Q4 of 2013.

?Unlike in the early days of the smartphone market, the PC market is fairly saturated. As a result, the average growth in combined shipments of tablets and PCs is likely to remain in the low-single digits ? of course, cyclicality in demand is likely to have an impact. As per these estimates, quarterly?shipments of tablets are likely to overtake those of PCs by Q1 2014.? -Sameer Singh

Shipments of the personal computer have stagnated over the past 5-years, while the shipments of tablets have risen over the same period from basically non-existent?five-years ago to 60 million shipments per quarter. This data alone makes it easy to infer that tablets will continue to pull in sales for a time to come before falling off into a replacement cycle that just hasn?t come to exist yet in the same sense as the PC.

?Over the last couple of years, it has become more and more apparent that PCs are seen as appliances, in that owning a PC is a necessity, but upgrading one is not. This has been driven by a shift in development activity from the traditional PC platform to mobile devices and the web/mobile web.? -Sameer Singh

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PC sales and shipments have fallen off over the past years due to consumers focusing more on the purchase of mobile devices and Windows 8 is doing nothing to solve this problem. Microsoft has a long hard road ahead to solve this one; do you think they can/will be able to pull off a resurgence for the personal computer or have we jumped head-first into the post-PC era? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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