Thursday, May 31, 2012

Leonid Secures its 50th Loki Customer - All VoIP News

Over 50 clients using Loki to enable then and there generation cloud communicationsFalls Church, Virginia May 30, 2012

Until recently, adoption of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and advanced communications lagged expectations, however that?s no longer the case: according to a recently released study by Infonetics, global service provider revenue from business and residential/SOHO VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services totaled near $58 billion in 2011, up 16% from the previous year, during business VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone line revenue over doubled and cloud based hosted PBX and unified communications seats increased 44%. Together, new mobility services, cloud services, and enterprise video are beginning to take off as then. This is requiring service providers to rapidly retool their support systems ? the ?back office?, also as add a new range of end user controls.

Howard Freidman, Leonid CEO notes ?Leonid has quadrupled its customer base in just over two years, a clear validation of the Leonid architecture and the cost effectiveness of the Loki suite. Now with this massive uptick in growth in cloud communications services, the need for improved support systems is acute and Loki is the only solution that addresses this with a modular, extensible architecture that rapidly solves the current problem during paving the way for ongoing integration of new cloud services.?

Scott Hoffpauir, BroadSoft Chief Research Officer, said: ?Enterprises are rapidly shifting to cloud-based Unified Communications services, and we believe BroadSoft is best positioned to enable our telecommunications service provider clients to meet this market demand. In our view, Leonid has bolstered the successful deployment of UC services by dozens of BroadSoft clients, and we believe the Loki suite helps our clients accelerate service adoption and become far more efficient in the delivery of their Unified Communications services.?

Since most service providers have numerous existing support systems, the modular nature of the Loki suite is an enormous benefit. The Loki activation and user interface modules can be implemented in weeks with immediate ROI via more salable and scalable VoIP services and without taxing internal IT resources. Over time, if the service provider chooses to, they can extend the functionality of these modules to cover other cloud services, and ultimately implement the concept of ?extended CRM? ? using additional Loki modules to extend industry leading CRM platforms to serve as the back office for the cloud, in other words than creating but one more stand-alone IT system that needs to be integrated and maintained.

Leonid Systems makes cloud communications more salable and scalable with modular software for provisioning, end-user device and service management, and integrated lead-to-cash customer life cycle management. Over 50 telecom service providers world-wide rely on Leonid for modern, extensible back office and customer support systems that complement Broadsoft, Sonus, Cisco and other VoIP, 4G/LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) and unified communications platforms. Leonids? modular Loki suite is a dramatic departure from traditional monolithic operational support systems, extending industry leading CRM platforms including Salesforce.com and SugarCRM to allow complete order to cash customer life cycle management.

BroadSoft is the leading provider of software and services that enable mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to offer Unified Communications over their Internet Protocol network. The Company's core communications platform enables the delivery of a range of enterprise and consumer calling, messaging and collaboration communication services, including private brand exchanges, video calling, text messaging and converged mobile and fixed-line services.

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Apple CEO Not Interested In Game Consoles ? The Electric ...

Don?t worry, developers, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that you can have your gaming consoles and living room TVs all to yourselves.?Even though many industry veterans have suspected (and feared) that Apple?s huge strides in the gaming market may lead to the tech giant developing their own video game console, they?re doing just fine with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod.

In a sit-down interview at?the ?D: All Things Digital? conference earlier this week, Cook fielded a huge number of questions touching on everything from tablets replacing PCs to how he dealt with his grief after Steve Jobs? death. Unsurprisingly, the conversation eventually turned specifically to gaming, and whether or not Apple had any plans to pull a ?Microsoft? and launch their own entertainment console.

As Cook simply noted, gaming has evolved past simple, ?traditional? concepts like the console box and controller, although he?s not ruling out Apple eventually getting into their gaming content on bigger screens like everyone else:

We?re in gaming now. One of the prime reasons buy an iPod touch is gaming. I realize that?s not the big screen that you?re talking about, but gaming has evolved a bit. You have more people playing games on portable devices than on the big screen TV now, so where we might go in the future, you know, we?ll see. But this is an area where customers love games, we want to do things that customers want us to do. I?m not interested in being in the console business, ?traditional? gaming. But if you view gaming more broadly than that, then I feel we are a pretty big player today and the things we do in the future will only make that bigger.

With all the success that the iPad and iPhone have had, it?s hard to imagine that Apple even needs to go into console development. That is, unless they decided to buy out a company like Nintendo or Valve and have a satellite side of the business, devoted to console gaming, but separate from the Apple umbrella.

As reported by: EGM


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The Genetics Society of America announces DeLill Nasser Travel Award recipients

The Genetics Society of America announces DeLill Nasser Travel Award recipients [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-May-2012
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Genetics Society of America

13 early career genetics researchers receive travel awards to attend a national or international meeting or to enroll in a laboratory course that will enhance their careers

BETHESDA, MD May 30, 2012 The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the selection of six graduate students and seven postdoctoral researchers as recipients of the DeLill Nasser Awards for Professional Development in Genetics. Each of these early-career geneticists receives a $1,000 travel award to attend a national or international meeting or to enroll in a laboratory course of their choice that will enhance their career.

These awards are named in honor of DeLill Nasser (1929-2000), a long-time GSA member who was instrumental in promoting genetics research, championing the genome sequencing of Arabidopsis and research in Drosophila during her 22 years with the National Science Foundation. She was particularly supportive of young scientists, those at the beginning of their careers, and those trying to open new areas of genetic inquiry.

GSA Executive Director Adam Fagen, PhD, said "we are honored to support the future of genetics through these awards, especially in recognizing an individual who played such an important role in guiding the discipline and ensuring its continued vitality. There are no more important investments we can make than in the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who will be leaders in genetics in the decades to come."

The six graduate student recipients and the meetings they will attend are:

  • Guangbo Chen (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO), Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology using Yeast Meeting, October 17-21, 2012, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Kathleen J. Dumas (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Keystone Meeting on Aging and Disease of Aging, October 22-27, 2012, in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Michael Eastwood (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 31-August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.
  • Erik Lehnert (Stanford University, CA), International Coral Reef Symposium, July 9-15, 2012, Cairns, Australia.
  • Xin Li (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), 10th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, June 20-24, 2012, Madison, WI.
  • Daniel P. Rice (Harvard University, Boston, MA), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.

The seven postdoctoral researchers and the meetings they will attend are:

  • Rui Chen, PhD (Stanford University, CA), 2nd International Conference on Proteomics & Bioinformatics July 2-4, 2012, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Krista C. Dobi, PhD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY), FASEB Transcriptional Regulation During Cell Growth, Differentiation and Development Meeting, July 15-20, 2012, Snowmass Village, CO.
  • Megan V. Phifer-Rixey, PhD (University of Arizona, Tucson), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2102, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Alison Pischedda, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Zhiyong Shao, PhD (Yale University, New Haven, CT), Glia in Health & Disease Meeting, July 19-23, 2012, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
  • Brett N. Tomson, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, PA), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 31- August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.
  • Yun Wu, PhD (Princeton University, NJ), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting July 31-August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.

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The DeLill Nasser Awards have two rounds of applications per year: one for courses and conferences occurring between January 1 and June 30, and another for courses and conferences occurring between July 1 and December 31. Up to 25 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers receive these awards annually to assist them in acquiring career enrichment. For more information about these awards, visit the GSA website at http://www.genetics-gsa.org/pages/delill.shtml.

ABOUT GSA: Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional membership organization for scientific researchers, educators, bioengineers, bioinformaticians and others interested in the field of genetics. Its nearly 5,000 members work to advance knowledge in the basic mechanisms of inheritance, from the molecular to the population level. The GSA is dedicated to promoting research in genetics and to facilitating communication among geneticists worldwide through its conferences, including the biennial conference on Model Organisms to Human Biology, an interdisciplinary meeting on current and cutting edge topics in genetics research, as well as annual and biennial meetings that focus on the genetics of particular organisms, including C. elegans, Drosophila, fungi, mice, yeast, and zebrafish. GSA publishes GENETICS, a leading journal in the field and an online, open-access journal, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. For more information about GSA, please visit www.genetics-gsa.org. Also follow GSA on Facebook at facebook.com/GeneticsGSA and on Twitter @GeneticsGSA.


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The Genetics Society of America announces DeLill Nasser Travel Award recipients [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-May-2012
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Contact: Phyllis Edelman
pedelman@genetics-gsa.org
Genetics Society of America

13 early career genetics researchers receive travel awards to attend a national or international meeting or to enroll in a laboratory course that will enhance their careers

BETHESDA, MD May 30, 2012 The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the selection of six graduate students and seven postdoctoral researchers as recipients of the DeLill Nasser Awards for Professional Development in Genetics. Each of these early-career geneticists receives a $1,000 travel award to attend a national or international meeting or to enroll in a laboratory course of their choice that will enhance their career.

These awards are named in honor of DeLill Nasser (1929-2000), a long-time GSA member who was instrumental in promoting genetics research, championing the genome sequencing of Arabidopsis and research in Drosophila during her 22 years with the National Science Foundation. She was particularly supportive of young scientists, those at the beginning of their careers, and those trying to open new areas of genetic inquiry.

GSA Executive Director Adam Fagen, PhD, said "we are honored to support the future of genetics through these awards, especially in recognizing an individual who played such an important role in guiding the discipline and ensuring its continued vitality. There are no more important investments we can make than in the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who will be leaders in genetics in the decades to come."

The six graduate student recipients and the meetings they will attend are:

  • Guangbo Chen (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO), Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology using Yeast Meeting, October 17-21, 2012, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Kathleen J. Dumas (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Keystone Meeting on Aging and Disease of Aging, October 22-27, 2012, in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Michael Eastwood (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 31-August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.
  • Erik Lehnert (Stanford University, CA), International Coral Reef Symposium, July 9-15, 2012, Cairns, Australia.
  • Xin Li (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), 10th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics, June 20-24, 2012, Madison, WI.
  • Daniel P. Rice (Harvard University, Boston, MA), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.

The seven postdoctoral researchers and the meetings they will attend are:

  • Rui Chen, PhD (Stanford University, CA), 2nd International Conference on Proteomics & Bioinformatics July 2-4, 2012, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Krista C. Dobi, PhD (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY), FASEB Transcriptional Regulation During Cell Growth, Differentiation and Development Meeting, July 15-20, 2012, Snowmass Village, CO.
  • Megan V. Phifer-Rixey, PhD (University of Arizona, Tucson), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2102, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Alison Pischedda, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara), First Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, July 6-10, 2012, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Zhiyong Shao, PhD (Yale University, New Haven, CT), Glia in Health & Disease Meeting, July 19-23, 2012, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
  • Brett N. Tomson, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, PA), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, July 31- August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.
  • Yun Wu, PhD (Princeton University, NJ), GSA Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting July 31-August 5, 2012, Princeton, NJ.

###

The DeLill Nasser Awards have two rounds of applications per year: one for courses and conferences occurring between January 1 and June 30, and another for courses and conferences occurring between July 1 and December 31. Up to 25 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers receive these awards annually to assist them in acquiring career enrichment. For more information about these awards, visit the GSA website at http://www.genetics-gsa.org/pages/delill.shtml.

ABOUT GSA: Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional membership organization for scientific researchers, educators, bioengineers, bioinformaticians and others interested in the field of genetics. Its nearly 5,000 members work to advance knowledge in the basic mechanisms of inheritance, from the molecular to the population level. The GSA is dedicated to promoting research in genetics and to facilitating communication among geneticists worldwide through its conferences, including the biennial conference on Model Organisms to Human Biology, an interdisciplinary meeting on current and cutting edge topics in genetics research, as well as annual and biennial meetings that focus on the genetics of particular organisms, including C. elegans, Drosophila, fungi, mice, yeast, and zebrafish. GSA publishes GENETICS, a leading journal in the field and an online, open-access journal, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. For more information about GSA, please visit www.genetics-gsa.org. Also follow GSA on Facebook at facebook.com/GeneticsGSA and on Twitter @GeneticsGSA.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

1 Trend, 3 Ways: Mini American-Inspired Style

From tween to tot, Hollywood's mini set are stepping out sporting the good ol' red, white and blue.

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Netflix for iOS updated with a new player UI, support for alternate language audio and more

Netflix for iOS updated with a new player UI, support for alternate language audio

There's still no word available on HD video streaming, but Netflix has just released version 2.2 of its app for iPhones and iPads. While the front end got tablet friendly in December and received a Retina Display makeover in March, this version brings a new player UI to all iOS devices. The new scrub bar seems much easier to reach and control now, while the button for subtitles has a received a tweak reminiscent of the new look recently pushed to Netflix's web based player. Also under that button is a new option allowing for alternate language soundtracks (where available), while the changelog goes on to mention "general performance improvements". Not documented but present is the addition of thumbnails in that scrub bar, easier access to "do not share" for Facebook-connected members and the ability to restrict streaming to WiFi-only in the settings. The new version is shown above, check after the break for a grab of the old player to see the difference. As always, the latest update can be found in the app store, we'll let you know if we hear of any extra details or changes on other platforms.

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Will 2012 be the year of the Duck?

What?s really at stake this November? The stark difference between the economic philosophies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? The choice between a headlong plunge into job-killing socialism and an enshrinement of heartless, predatory greed? The makeup of the Supreme Court for the next generation?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for me, that?s not what?s really at stake. For me, this election threatens to invalidate my most enduring?make that my only enduring--contribution to American political discourse. It is highly possible that this is the year that Bugs Bunny loses.

Back in 2008, I presented to an anxiously waiting world a Meta Theory of Recent Presidential Elections, encapsulated by the idea that ?Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck.?

As drawn by the Warner Bros. legend Chuck Jones, ?Bugs and Daffy represent polar opposites in how to deal with the world,? I argued. ?Bugs is at ease, laid back, secure, confident. ... Daffy Duck, by contrast, is ever at war with a hostile world. He fumes, he clenches his fists, his eyes bulge, and his entire body tenses with fury. His response to bad news is a sibilant sneer (?Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin!?). Daffy is constantly frustrated, sometimes by outside forces, sometimes by his own overwrought response to them.?

The Bugs-Daffy frame is another way of saying that ever since the dawn of television put the public personalities of candidates front and center, the one who is more comfortable in his or her own skin always prevails against the more uptight, rigid foe. Think JFK-Nixon, Reagan-Carter, Clinton-Bush I, Bush II-Gore, Bush II-Kerry.

Four years ago, in his primary battle against Hillary Clinton and in the general election contest against John McCain, Barack Obama was clearly Bugs. Clinton and McCain took on the role of Daffy. Who can forget McCain, in the midst of one debate, scornfully pointing a figure at Obama and calling him ?that one??

[Related: Obama's economic record a 'twig to hang onto']

And it?s apparent this year that Obama is clearly more Bugs, and Mitt Romney more Daffy. Romney may be the only person in human existence who laughs by emitting an unsettling ?HA HA HA.? His efforts to ingratiate himself with his audiences?"I love cars?, ?the trees are the right height??reek of performance anxiety, a fear of spontaneity.

[Related: Obama campaign hits Romney with Trump's 'birther' claims]

The Bugs-Daffy approach?I?d call it a ?meme? if I knew what the hell a ?meme? was?suggests that Obama should be gliding toward a comfortable re-election. That is distinctly not the case. The polls are even, and they are close enough in enough key states to make the race a tossup. Democratic voices from James Carville to Bill Galston say the same thing.

And that has forced me to take another look at my theory, with some unsettling results.

History suggests that Daffy Duck can sometimes win. The most obvious, in-your-face example is Richard Nixon in 1968. There was no more uptight, how-can-I-pretend-I?m enjoying-this, sweat-flop-coated public figure than Nixon. Yet he prevailed. How? First, Hubert Humphrey was no Bugs Bunny. Second, Nixon did blow a 15-point lead, and might well have lost had his campaign allies not persuaded South Vietnam to sabotage peace negotiations. And third, Nixon?s demeanor suggested a return to a time before turmoil roiled the land.

That last point has a broader echo. There are times when a candidate?s lack of personality can turn into an asset. For most of his first term, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg languished in public approval ratings. He was distant, aloof, just what you might expect from a multi-billionaire with more homes than most of us have shoes. But somewhere into his third year, things changed. His liabilities became assets. See? He?s not pandering; he says what he thinks; he?s not running for something, he?s governing. That change in perception made Bloomberg a highly popular mayor?at least until he bought and bullied his way to a third term.

During this fourth straight year of economic anxiety, Romney?s stolid, Type A personality may not be the campaign liability many of us assumed it would be. If the economic atmosphere continues to be cloudy with a chance of rain, voters (or at least enough of them) may decide, No, I don?t want to have a beer with him, but maybe he can do a better job of getting the economy right than the guy we have now.

There?s no way President Obama can lose the Bugs-Daffy battle. Mitt Romney is not going to be slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon or crooning a few bars from ?Let?s Stay Together.? But I?m less convinced than I once was that once you?ve figured out who Bugs is, the only thing left to say is ?Th-th-th-that?s all, folks.?

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Obama?s ?secret kill list? is final word

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The Bucket List

Throwing a dart at the map ? and just GOING! It?s hard to think of anything more ill-advised than blindly heading off to a travel destination selected in this manner. You could end up in strife-torn Aleppo, lawless Somalia or, worse still, Reading, England, the town I grew up in. It was dubbed ?a cemetery with lights? by Oscar Wilde when he was imprisoned there.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Roundup: for the week ending 27 May 2012 | ICT Pulse

A roundup of the ICT/technology news from across the Caribbean region during the period Monday 21 May to Sunday 27 May 2012.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyth123/Monday, 21 May 2012

BTC improving customer service by constructing contact center

Bahamas ? Improving customer service is a top priority for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), which has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to establish a contact center, Guardian Business can confirm? more

BTC launches 4G in Abaco

Bahamas ? Thousands of Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) customers can now experience improved cellular service, as the company launched its 4G network in Abaco over the weekend? more

BTC opens Treasure Cay retail store

Bahamas ? The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has opened its seventh retail store? more

Vehicle Tracking

Grenada ? Digicel, the fastest-growing mobile operator in the Caribbean has launched in Grenada the ?Digicel Vehicle Tracking? system, an easy to install EDGE electronic device for fleet management companies across the spice isle that tracks the location of vehicles? more

Credit-Card Alarm

Jamaica ? Criminals lurking in legitimate business places are swindling huge chunks of money from unsuspecting Jamaicans and Jamaican companies by way of wire fraud, according to information coming from the police?s Cybercrime Unit? more

IT company launches cash recycler machine

Jamaica ? Information Technology Company Management Control Systems (MC Systems) has introduced cash-notes accepting and recycling Automated Teller Machines (ATM) to the Caribbean? more

Lottery scam ?crumbling? with arrests including alleged mastermind

Jamaica ? The police here are reporting that a lottery scam worth billions of Jamaican dollars (one Jamaica dollar=0.011 US cents) is crumbling after the weekend arrest of several people including an alleged mastermind? more

Monday Talk With Michelle English ? Going With The Jamaican Flow

Jamaica ? A blonde bundle of energy all but whizzed into the office as we settled down at Flow?s New Kingston head offices. A firm handshake and a bright musical ?hello? later, Michele English was whirling into her seat while flashing her tresses into place? more

St Lucia to become ?WiFi country with free islandwide access?

Saint Lucia ? St Lucia is taking steps to increase wireless broadband (WiFi) Internet penetration with an ultimate plan to make it free across the country, Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has announced? more

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

The Transition to Digital Television

Barbados ? Telecommunications providers across the region need to present a unified approach in the move to Digital Television Broadcasting? more

In Cuba, mystery shrouds fate of Internet cable

Cuba ? It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba?s Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island? more

Ex-Haiti official gets US prison for telecom bribery

Haiti ? A former senior telecommunications official in Haiti was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday for accepting about $500,000 in bribes from two US companies that secured lucrative long-distance phone contracts in the Caribbean nation? more

Put more youth online, urges World Bank

Jamaica ? Jamaica is being urged to steer its youth toward online commercial innovation if it is serious about fast-tracking national development? more

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

C&W Monopoly About to End

Antigua & Barbuda ? Cable & Wireless? monopoly on international calls will expire on June 23? more

Cheaper Overseas Calls

Antigua & Barbuda ? Overseas telephone rates could be reduced by as much as 50 percent with the end of the Cable and Wireless monopoly? more

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Antigua & Barbuda ? OECS High Court judges met here for a one-day workshop on Tuesday aimed at enhancing efficiency, consistency, and fairness in the adjudication of intellectual property cases? more

BTC Warns: Cellular Service Disruptions Coming

Bahamas ? Cellular customers will experience disruptions in services Telecommunications Company (BTC) carries out upgrades in the coming weeks, according to a BTC official? more

Atlantic Bank and Smart team up to Go-Mobile

Belize ? Banking in your hands, it?s the slogan for the new mobile banking services being provided by Smart in collaboration with Atlantic Bank? more

Smart P.R. says service restored in southern communities

Belize ? While the new service will be convenient, Smart customers in the south experienced difficulties connecting on Saturday and this past Tuesday? more

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Jobs extended for call center workers

Antigua & Barbuda ? The 156 call centre workers to be sent home next month have been given a three-week reprieve? more

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Antigua & Barbuda ? Government has announced a major training programme that will involve up to one thousand youth? more

BTC Undergoes Massive Cellular Upgrades

Bahamas ? BTC customers will experience a leap in the quality, speed and consistency of cellular service when the company completes critical milestones of an ongoing 18-month, $42 million upgrade this June officials said today, a transformation that when completed by late summer will make wireless device service in The Bahamas among the best and fastest in the world? more

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Bahamas ? The CEO of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is allaying concerns over supposed ?blackouts? and setting the record straight over the provider?s $42 million upgrade? more

New cable provider rolls out service in Barbados

Barbados ? Backed by a $65 million initial injection, and the hope of creating more than 200 new jobs in Barbados, Karib Cable is promising to deliver business at the speed of light? more

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Regional ? The British telecoms business, formed in 2010 following the demerger of Cable & Wireless, operates in the Caribbean islands, Macau, Monaco and Panama? more

World Bank approves US$25M for Caribbean ICT infrastructure

Regional ? The World Bank yesterday approved a US$25 million financial package for the first phase of a Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme that will provide 27 million people with access to better and affordable broadband services? more

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Friday, 25 May 2012

BTC appoints Major to executive team

Bahamas ? Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) announced yesterday the company has named leading Bahamian business executive Gershan Major to its expanded management team, as vice president of channels and marketing? more

BTC Delivers Strong Financial Performance

Bahamas ? BTC?s parent company, Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), announced its annual results for the 2011/12 year today, the first time the company?s performance included a contribution from BTC, the local telecom which CWC formally acquired a majority share in April 2011, at the start of CWC?s financial year? more

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Bahamas ? THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company?s (BTC) $91 million operating income (EBITDA) performance generated ?pretty much all of the uplift? for Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) during the 12 months to end-March 2012, it was revealed yesterday, accounting for almost one-third of its Caribbean regional earnings? more

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Bahamas ? Cable Bahamas Limited (CAB) experienced a 37.3 percent increase in its net income for the first quarter of the fiscal year, with its profits rising to $6.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2012? more

CWC: ?No Major Problems? With Gov?t Over BTC

Bahamas ? The Bahamas Telecommunications Company?s (BTC) majority owner yesterday said it did not ?anticipate significant problems? with the newly-elected Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government, and its top executive plans to meet Prime Minister Perry Christie in three weeks? time to further build their relationship? more

St Lucia, Grenada and St Vincent to Receive Broadband Improvements

OECS ? St Lucia, Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines will be part of the first phase of a 10-year Information and Communication Technology programme funded by the World Bank? more

Saturday, 26 May 2012

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Barbados ? The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) conducted its annual Region Rap Exercise on Friday? more

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Regional ? Delegates to the 10th Ministerial Strategic Seminar of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), which opens in Miami on May 29, will receive an update by Fortinet Inc, a world leader in high performance network security, on network threat landscape trends, vulnerability and the best ways to mitigate them? more

Sunday, 27 May 2012

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Colombia ? Research In Motion (RIM) made no bones about it. It is coming back for leadership of the lucrative world market for smartphones with its sleek and more advanced BlackBerry Curves, officially unveiled in this ancient Colombian city on Wednesday? more

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Adjusting to China: A Challenge to the U.S. Manufacturing Sector

Policy Brief #179

During an "exit interview" with the

Wall Street Journal

, departing National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers argued that history would judge the United States based on how well we adjust to China?s emergence as a great power, economically and politically. In the face of China?s progress, America?s manufacturing sector faces major challenges in becoming and remaining competitive and our choice of national economic policies will affect how well we meet those challenges. It is essential that the U.S. trade deficit not balloon as the economy recovers. There is scope to expand our exports in services and agriculture, but improving the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing is vital.

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The ability of China?s economy to pull millions of its citizens out of poverty in a short time is amazing; no advanced economy should want to stand in the way of this progress. At the same time, our policies should strengthen our own manufacturing sector?and its reservoir of jobs?and prevent misappropriation of our technology in service to the rapid growth of China.

Specifically, the United States should:

  • Make the U.S. economy a more attractive environment for creating and manufacturing new products, principally by balancing the budget and reducing the marginal tax rate on corporations.
  • Engage the private sector in identifying and reducing barriers to U.S. export growth.
  • Work with the European Union, Japan and multinational companies to develop a uniform code of conduct that protects technology and patents when emerging market companies work with multinationals.
  • Carefully assess sectors for growth potential.
  • Focus on technology skills transfer with changes to our H-1B visa policy, support for U.S. companies that resist pressure to partner with Chinese firms and improvements to math and science education.

Meanwhile, U.S. companies should focus on innovation and cost reduction and avoid dragging policymakers and themselves along tangents that waste time and other resources.

Components of the Trade Deficit. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services was just under $700 billion in 2008?4.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, the deficit in goods trade was nearly $835 billion, which was partially offset by a $136 billion surplus in services trade. The latter surplus has grown consistently over a range of service types and has important potential to expand. Going forward, we can assume this surplus will remain around one percent of GDP. But services trade surpluses alone cannot solve the U.S. trade deficit problem, because of persistent large deficits in goods trade.

Very important are deficits in the energy sector. In 2008, petroleum products accounted for $386 billion of the total trade deficit (2.7 percent of GDP). reducing energy imports (and consumption) is a significant challenge for the U.S. economy, and with global energy demand continuing to rise and supply constrained, oil prices are more likely to rise than fall. The U.S. bill for imported oil is unlikely to fall below 2.7 percent of GDP for years to come.

In future, for overall U.S. trade in goods and services to be balanced, non-energy products (that is, manufactured and agricultural products) would have to achieve a surplus of around 1.7 percent of GDP. Added to the one percent services surplus, the two would balance out the almost unavoidable petroleum deficit.

Obviously, elements in this rough calculation could shift, for better or worse, but if the U.S. economy is to achieve a more balanced growth path, the competitive position of U.S. manufacturing must improve sharply.

Growth of the U.S. Trade Deficit. In 1999, the U.S. economy was experiencing strong growth and low inflation, but the trade deficit in manufactured and agricultural products was high?$262.5 billion?and concentrated in four broad industry categories. The largest deficit was in plastic, wood and paper products ($62 billion). Transportation equipment?from autos to aerospace?was close behind ($61 billion), followed by textiles and apparel ($52 billion) and computers and electronics ($44 billion). Only two categories had trade surpluses: chemicals at more than $9 billion and agriculture at $4 billion.

By 2008, the trade deficit had risen to $400 billion, an increase of $138 billion or nearly 52 percent in nominal terms. The deficit in computers and electronics accounted for nearly half of the overall increase in the trade deficit (48 percent, a $66 billion increase). Two other industries had large deficit increases: plastic, wood and paper products; and textiles and apparel. By contrast, agricultural products contributed an additional $27 billion to a small 1999 surplus. And transportation equipment reduced its trade deficit by nearly $12 billion. Chart 1 illustrates how the increase in the U.S. goods trade deficit (excluding oil) was distributed by segment between 1999 and 2008.

Simply put, the United States runs chronic trade deficits and China runs trade surpluses because we spend more than we produce, and they do the opposite. The U.S. trade deficit with China in manufactured and agricultural products was already large in 1999?$68.6 billion or 26 percent of the nation?s total trade deficit. By 2008, it had increased to nearly $268 billion. The story of the increasing U.S. trade deficit from 1999-2008?apart from oil?is the explosion in the deficit with China.

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Computers and electronic products account for much of the increase in U.S. imports from China. In 2008, China exported $108 billion in these products to the United States, up from less than $19 billion in 1999. Beyond this sector, Chinese exports to the United States have grown strongly pretty much across the board. Although the United States exports agricultural products to China, there is a large return flow of processed and labor-intensive food products. And, while Chinese textile and apparel imports have risen, U.S. demand for Chinese goods in this category has grown only modestly as other emerging economies have become major clothing exporters.

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The Nature of Chinese Exports. On a visit to China early in 2010, I heard a memorable speech declaring that the United States is exploiting China. The Chinese perception is based on where profits land. For example, a 2009 survey by Greg Linden, Kenneth Kraemer and Jason Dedrick of the University of California suggests that Apple, Inc. sells iPhones or iPods for several hundred dollars, most of them ?made in China,? but the Chinese producer and Chinese workers receive just under four dollars apiece. The retail price of the 2005 video iPod was $299, the wholesale price $224 and the factory price $144.56. The largest part of the factory price ($101.40) came from Japanese components, with U.S. companies other than Apple supplying $14.14 in components and many different suppliers providing other small components. The final assembly and checking is done in China for $3.86, while Apple?s estimated gross margin is $80 per unit sold at wholesale, plus a portion of the retail margin through its Apple online and retail stores.

These same researchers deconstructed the value of a 2005 Hewlett-Packard Notebook PC, which sold at retail for $1,399 and had a factory cost of $856.33. Intel and Microsoft received a total of $305.43 for each computer sold, while the assembly and checking done in China netted $23.76? only 1.7 percent of the retail price. China?s massive export boom in computers and electronics derives from the fact that it is a very good place to assemble electronic products that clearly benefit U.S. companies? profits. However, China?s policymakers want change; they are determined to attempt to obtain more of the value added of the goods their citizens assemble.

The place of China as a supplier to the United States is further illuminated in the forthcoming book Rising Tide: Is Growth in Emerging Economies Good for the United States? by Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence, who have taken a detailed look at the ?unit values? of traded products, particularly U.S. exports and imports. Detailed trade data identify specific classes of products and provide total dollar value and number of physical items sold in each class. For example, the data report the value of electric motors exported by China to the United States, along with the number of motors, which allows a calculation of the price per motor. If a country is selling motors for electric shavers or toys, the unit value will be small; if the motors are for large capital goods, the unit value will be high.

Edwards and Lawrence find a striking result for China, one that also applies to other emerging economies. It turns out that unit values in the same product categories are hugely different. China sells low unit value products to the United States, and the United States sells high unit value products around the world. These price differentials are so great, in fact, they suggest the United States and China are not really competing. They are making completely different things. Perhaps even more surprising, over the past several years, there appears to be no tendency for the unit values to converge. This contradicts the hypothesis that China is successfully moving up the technology or ?value ladder.? Instead, U.S. competitors are Europe and Japan.

Although the volume of Chinese exports to the United States has soared, in high-tech, as we saw, it is assembling components originating elsewhere and, in other industries, it is making primarily low value products, such as toys and children?s clothing? market niches where the U.S. would not be expected to be competitive.

When China emerged from the Cultural Revolution and started on a path to become a productive and market-oriented economy, it faced massive educational, technological and business hurdles. Competent scientists, engineers and managers had been exiled and ?re-educated.? Heroic efforts were needed to catch up to developed nations? economies. Asian precursors such as Japan and Korea had faced their own catch-up challenges, taking advantage of the global market in capital goods to help them, and China followed their lead. Unlike the others, China encouraged direct foreign investments and required partnerships with domestic businesses. These relationships provided not only financing, but also the business and technology skills of global corporations and sped development of Chinese companies.

Germany provides a fascinating case study of the benefits and perils of a strong relationship with China. Spiegel Online notes that the most important driving force behind the current German economic upswing is its exports of sophisticated capital goods to China. German companies find, however, that the Chinese demand access to their industrial know-how. German businesses are reluctant to offend their Chinese customers, but deeply concerned about the loss of intellectual property. Beijing does not want merely to catch up to German companies?its goal is to surpass them. It has already done so in the manufacture of solar panels, by subsidizing research into solar technology. China exports perhaps 70 percent of its output of solar panels, about half of which goes to Germany, where demand is heavily subsidized by the German government. In electricity generation, Beijing invited Western companies to build power plants jointly with domestic Chinese partners. Now the Chinese are upgrading the plants with their own technology, based on what they learned through the German company Siemens and the French company Alstom.

A 2010 study by James McGregor of APCO sharply criticizing Chinese industrial and technology policies provides additional examples of China?s determination to leverage Western technology. Notably, China is expected to spend $730 billion on its rail network by 2020, with about half being used to expand high-speed passenger lines. This level of capital spending is irresistible for European producers. The China National Railway Corporation (CNR) invited Siemens to bid on a $919 million contract to build 60 passenger trains for service between Beijing and Tianjin. Siemens built the first three, but the remaining 57 were built in China by CNR, using 1,000 Chinese technicians Siemens had trained. In March 2009, Siemens announced an agreement for it to build 100 additional high-speed trains to serve Beijing-Shanghai, but China denied such an agreement ever existed. Siemens ultimately received a contract for $1 billion in components, but $5.7 billion went to CNR, which built the trains.

In the long run, China favors its own producers. It brings in foreign companies at the launching of an industry, then uses government procurement to advance the market share of Chinese companies and, eventually, to shut out competition. This strategy has allowed it to build on foreign companies? expertise, develop domestic champions and raise the technological level of its economy and exports. Because of its large and rapidly growing market, China can pressure foreign companies to partner with Chinese companies, allowing their employees to learn managerial and technical skills. Over time, China has somewhat loosened formal requirements for foreign companies to accept partners, but the strategy of technology and skills transfer remains very much in force.

Developing countries naturally learn from best practices world-wide; indeed the 19th century economic history of the United States includes considerable technology transfer from Britain and the rest of Europe. Nevertheless, companies that have invested heavily to develop new technologies and efficient processes cannot afford to simply allow China to free-ride on their efforts. Yet many Chinese leaders make it clear they are on a mission to acquire the best technology, using their size and growth as a way to obtain it.

A December 23, 2010 New York Times editorial noted this strategy, saying, ?[I]ntellectual property misappropriation cannot be a government policy goal, especially in a country the size of China, which can flood world markets with ill-begotten high tech products.? The editorial acknowledged some U.S. progress at the World Trade Organization, but urged our government to be ?more vigilant and aggressive? against intellectual property losses.

U.S. exports of manufactured goods reached $952 billion in 2009 and grew strongly in 2010. The goal of increasing exports substantially is feasible, given favorable economic conditions and policies. It may even be possible to bring some off-shored production back to the United States, a possibility some manufacturers have been exploring, in order to remediate cost, quality and delivery problems. But first, policymakers must recognize that:
  1. Today?s trade deficit is not a technology problem. The U.S. economy simply must become a more attractive place to develop and manufacture new products. The best ways to do this are to balance the budget and lower the marginal tax rate on corporations. Our trade problem is that U.S. companies develop innovative products but choose not to manufacture much of their value here. One chronic reason is that the value of a dollar has been too high, making U.S. production too expensive. If the U.S. saved more and balanced the federal budget, that problem would take care of itself. This would require global exchange rate adjustments including an increase in the real exchange rate of the renminbi, although economic forces will force this to happen without the need for U.S. political action. In addition, the U.S. corporate tax rate is higher than that of other countries, encouraging overseas investments. Both of the recently announced deficit reduction plans provide blueprints for balancing the budget and lowering corporate tax rates.
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  2. Technology may become a problem in the future. The United States should work with the European Union, Japan and multinational companies to develop a uniform code of conduct to protect technology and patents when emerging market companies work with multinationals. Government sanctions that would draw the United States into direct conflict with China are inadvisable, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) has limited effectiveness. Thus, multinational corporations should take the lead and refuse to work with foreign entities that demand access to and misuse proprietary technology. They should be fully informed of past unacceptable practices and the policies and behavior they should expect before entering new markets. If companies nevertheless reveal their technology as the price of market access, that is their choice.
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  3. Policymakers must work with the private sector to identify and reduce barriers to U.S. exports. The expansion of U.S. exports will be in industries such as advanced manufacturing, electronics, aerospace and medical devices. These industries will require new technologies, capital, R&D and skilled labor. There is a strong case for support of technology development through direct funding, improved tax treatment of R&D, increased access to capital and a reduced marginal corporate tax rate. Skill shortages appear to be another important barrier to expansion. Improving the U.S. education and training system in science, math, engineering and technology is a long-term national priority. Furthermore, as recommended by Brookings vice president Darrell West, easing restrictions on H-1B visas to prioritize high-value immigrants with technology expertise is an obvious policy fix with immediate benefits.
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  4. The policy debate must focus on the right issue, and not be drawn down blind alleys. Indicators that the U.S. economy is falling behind must be evaluated carefully. For example, A 2007 National Academy of Sciences study, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, reviewed a range of such indicators. It noted that China is building 50 chemical plants, whereas the United States is building one; and computer chip fabrication plants are being built in China (and elsewhere in Asia), but not in the United States. However, the lack of U.S. investment in these sectors may not be a reason for concern. It can be difficult to operate either bulk petrochemical or chip fabrication plants profitably over the long run, and they create few jobs.
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  5. Companies should focus on innovation and cost reduction and avoid dragging policymakers and themselves along time-wasting tangents. Endless discussions took place during the Clinton administration about how Fuji was competing unfairly with Kodak, whereas the real challenge to Kodak was not Fuji but digital technology. Currently, the World Trade Organization is assessing appeals from the European Union (EU) and the United States regarding its decision that the EU unfairly subsidized Airbus to the detriment of Boeing. Whatever the merits of the arguments in the parties? six years of legal wrangling over this issue, Boeing?s future success may depend more on how well it solves problems with the new 787, now several years behind schedule, and whether it can make its factories leaner and more productive.
Expanding manufactured exports is a key to our nation?s global competitiveness and reduced trade deficits. Recovery in manufacturing will help employment and the revival of local economies. Competition from emerging economies, especially China, means that innovation in products and processes will be essential to maintaining U.S. leadership. While emerging economies are important markets for U.S. manufacturers, these exchanges should not become opportunities to misappropriate U.S. companies? intellectual property. U.S. policymakers must create a climate that fosters growth in manufacturing while protecting U.S. innovation and technology.

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