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Watch now: RIM unveils new Blackberry handsets to take on the iPhone - Daily Mail

Firm expected to unveil two handset this afternoon, one with a touchscreen and one with a physical keyboardExperts have said it will prove popular with businesses and consumersBut others question whether the launch, delayed from last year, is too late

By Mark Prigg

PUBLISHED: 14:55 GMT, 30 January 2013 | UPDATED: 14:56 GMT, 30 January 2013

RIM is about to launch two new Blackberry handsets in an attempt to resurrect the struggling brand.

The firm has suffered in recent years largely due to the popularity of the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3.

But early reports say the new handsets, running new BB10 software, could give the firm a new chance of survival.

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RIM is expected to announce two models:

The Z10

4.2-inch display with a 1280 x 768 pixel resolution

2GB of RAM

16GB or 32GB storage

Dual core 1.5GHz processor

Bluetooth 4.0

microSD card slot for expanding storage

8-megapixel camera

The X10

The X10 is expected to have similar features to the Z10 but with a full QWERTY keyboard 

Source: TechnoBuffalo

One expert who has used the device ahead of the launch said it would appeal to both businesses and consumers because it had ‘high specifications’ that allowed users to do ‘good stuff in a couple of clicks’.

Even Sir Alan Sugar has backed the handset, tweeting 'Getting a new Blackberry 10 on Friday.

'Had a preview,think this time they may have cracked it - very clever features all new operating system.'

Experts say the move could be RIM's last hope.

'Because of the fast-rising adoption of smartphones, 2013 represents the last, best hope for RIM's BlackBerry 10,' said said Ian Fogg, an analyst at IHS.

However, others believe the firm is too late with the delayed handsets.

'There are so many amazing smart phones in the shops running Google's Android or Apple's iPhone software, it's hard to see why anyone would want to buy a phone running BlackBerry 10,' said Jason Jenkins, Editor of CNET UK.

'Perhaps if this had launched a couple of years ago, it might have had a hope.

'The one sliver of hope is that there might be some potential customers that like the new BlackBerry with a proper keyboard, rather than an on-screen version seen in most rival phones.

'But I'm not sure there's enough of them.'

However, Jenkins admits the phones could keep the firm alive.

'The launch keeps BlackBerry in the game - just - but only as a niche player.'

RIM's stock has more than doubled to $15.66 from a nine-year low in September, though it's still nearly 90 percent below its 2008 peak of $147.

'We'll see if they can reclaim their glory,' BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis said.

'My sense is that it will be a phone that everyone says good things about but not as many people buy,'

Comeback bid: A leaked image believe to show the Blackberry Z10, which looks extremely similar to the iPhone, featuring a large touchscreen. It will run a new version of the Blackberry software called BB10.

However the new system will face a key shortcoming: It won't have as many apps written by outside companies and individuals as the iPhone and Android.

RIM has said it plans to launch BlackBerry 10 with more than 70,000 apps, including those developed for RIM's PlayBook tablet, first released in 2011.

That is a tenth of what the iPhone and Android offer, and popular services such as Instagram and Netflix won't have apps on BlackBerry 10.

Despite this, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek called it a 'great device' and said RIM does have some momentum just months after the Canadian company was written off.

Malik Kamal-Saadi, principal analyst with Informa, said the new operating system (OS) on the two expected handsets was a ‘trump card’ that could see it win back customers lost through the poor performance of the previous BlackBerry 7 phones.

He said: ‘The ‘experience’ is very attractive for business users and consumers.'

The new X10 still features the full QWERTY keyboard

Mr Kamal-Saadi used the new models at RIM’s European headquarters in Slough.

He said the system would be appealing to both business and social high-end users in Europe and North America, where BlackBerry lost the most ground over the past two or three years.

But he added that the software was similar to the first generation of iPhones in being so radically different it may take people a little while to get used to it.

He believes investors will ‘leap into the sky’ if BB10 sells more than four million units in the first three months on sale, but sales of between one and two million would be acceptable.

'Anything less than one million would be a ‘big mess,' he said.

He pointed out that the first iPhone, which went on to become extremely popular, did not exceed four million sales in the first quarter year of sales and the less popular Windows phone sold between one-and-a-half and two million.

BlackBerry’s handsets are widely credited with kick-starting the smartphone boom.

BlackBerry plans to launch two handsets, the Z10 and X10 on Wednesday.

Pictures leaked online purporting to be the Z10 show a touchscreen phone along similar lines to the iPhone.

The X10 is believed to be more of a classic BlackBerry, with a Qwerty keyboard.

Competition: The new Blackberry is tipped to give the Samsung S3 and iPhone 5 a run for their money

Ernest Doku, technology expert with uSwitch.com, said: ‘For RIM and BlackBerry, it is very much the resurrection of the BlackBerry brand.

‘Consumers have been waiting a long time to see what they were coming up with. They have fallen to the wayside but a lot of signs are pointing to this being their return to relevance in the smartphone market.’

He said that people would also be waiting for a likely version with a Qwerty keyboard.

One expert said that the new software on the upcoming Blackberry was akin to the first generation of iPhones in that it would take a while for people to get used to it

Poor performance: Many customers abandoned Blackberry after using The Blackberry 7 (Curve 9360 smartphone pictured)

‘There is a massive USP (unique selling proposition) in the return of the physical keyboard,’ he added.

‘Nine out of 10 consumers we asked related that with the BlackBerry.

‘BlackBerry has been lucky in terms of its (fanbase) loyalty which may not have been the case for people like Nokia.

‘It could well be a success story for them.’

The battle for domination of the mobile and tablet market has become intense in the past 18 months, with Apple’s competitors taking it on with a series of new products.

Nokia and Microsoft joined forces to launch two new phones which run on the Windows operating system.

Apple was dealt a new blow to morale as figures for the Christmas period showed its rocket-like growth had continued to stall, causing a fall in its share price.

But some question whether the launch of the new model, delayed from last year by Canadian firm Research in Motion, was too late.

Russell Feldman, associate director for technology and telecoms consulting at YouGov, said: ‘We know that right now RIM is in a poor situation, and so there is definitely a lot of pressure for the BlackBerry 10 to deliver.

‘According to SMIX UK, our consumer smartphone tracker, two-thirds of RIM’s current customers do not expect to get a BlackBerry again, with most opting to switch to an iPhone.

‘BlackBerry 10 has the opportunity to at least stop the rot... providing it is able to market itself effectively and curry favour with retailers and operators.

‘It also needs to be a decent system to at least get critics on its side, and it then could have the potential to take share away from others. However, RIM may have left it too late.’

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Google Maps North Korea With Help From Users - InformationWeek

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10 Best Business Tools In Google+(click image for larger view and for slideshow)The Google Maps depiction of North Korea now includes details like the location of Labor Camp 22, thanks to the free labor provided by Google's Map Maker community.

Google on Monday said it had expanded the amount of detail available on its map of North Korea with the help of contributed cartography.
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"To build this map, a community of citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker to make their contributions such as adding road names and points of interest," said Jayanth Mysore, senior product manager of Google Map Maker in a blog post. "This effort has been active in Map Maker for a few years and today the new map of North Korea is ready and now available on Google Maps."

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Mysore acknowledged that the map of North Korea is not perfect, but expressed hope that people from around the world will continue helping Google improve the quality of Google Maps. There are limits to what the Map Maker Community can do, however. Frequent users of Google Maps will note the absence of Google Maps Street View imagery of North Korean capital Pyongyang.

Google launched Map Maker in 2008 outside the U.S. as a way to allow locals in various countries to make Google's maps better, following a similar effort, OpenStreetMap, that was founded in 2004. The difference between the two projects is that Google's Map Maker data is as closed as North Korea: You can put data in but you can't get it out for use elsewhere. OpenStreetMap, on the other hand, lives up to its name and allows reuse of contributed geo-data.

Google made Map Maker available to U.S. users in 2011, but its value to the company continues to be as a way to gather geo-data that would otherwise be difficult to obtain.

Even so, Map Maker is not without its challenges. Despite Google's terms of use, content submitted by users may not sit well with local authorities, thereby complicating Google's international business operations. One of the Google+ reviews of Hoeryong Concentration Camp in North Korea, available through Google Maps, for example, dryly observes, "Excellent service, food and rooms. It lives up to the Hotel California's motto ... you can check in anytime but you can never leave."

In other words, don't expect Street View driving permits soon. 

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YouTube to introduce paid-for content this year - Telegraph.co.uk

YouTube has asked several of its contributors to submit applications to create paid-for channels.

The first channels will reportedly be available to users by the spring for between $1 and $5 per month.

YouTube plans to keep around 45 per cent of the subscription revenue themselves, with the rest going to the producers of the content.

The world's No. 1 video website has been moving to add professional-grade videos to the vast archive of amateur videos that made the site popular.

The current crop of such channels is available to consumers for free and supported by advertising that appears alongside the videos.

A spokesman for YouTube said: “We have long maintained that different content requires different types of payment models. There are a lot of our content creators that think they would benefit from subscriptions, so we’re looking at that.”

YouTube has hinted in the past that it was considering offering subscription-based content. Last year YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said there was strong demand among certain video producers, such as video game networks, to offer paid-for channels programs.

"They have such a big audiences that they can start to segment their audiences into those that are willing to pay a higher amount”, Mr Kamangar said.

He also said that cable channels with small audiences could potentially be offered to consumers through YouTube on an "à la carte" basis.

YouTube will face competition in the paid-for video sector by existing sites such as Hulu and Netflix.

Google began investing heavily in original video content in late 2011, providing funds to film makers in the form of an advance against future advertising revenues.

According to eMarketer, a research firm, advertising spending on digital video in the US grew by 47 per cent to $2.9bn (£1.84bn) last year but is dwarfed by the $65bn spent on television advertisements.

Television made up about 40 per cent of total media spending in the US in 2012, according to eMarketer, compared with less than 2 per cent from online video.

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YouTube blockade is bar on civil liberties: Pakistani daily - Vancouver Desi

Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS) The blockade on YouTube is a bar on “civil liberties”, said a Pakistani daily that sought restoration of full access to the internet.

“What began as an outrageous situation and was expected to be resolved promptly is starting to feel uncomfortably as though it might become a permanent bar on citizens’ rights to access the internet – and that too because of governmental apathy,” said an editorial in the Dawn Wednesday.

In September last year, the government cut off total access to the site as it was “cowed by the havoc wreaked in Islamabad by rioters protesting against the availability on YouTube of an offensive film trailer”.

“The indignant citizenry required an answer, so we were told that Google, the giant that owns and operates YouTube, had been approached with a request that the offensive content be taken down, but had refused. Since Pakistan was not in a position to manually restrict access to offensive sites, the government explained it had no choice other than to entirely restrict access to YouTube. It was meanwhile generally known that some other countries, including Egypt and India, had managed to have access to the offensive content selectively curtailed, leaving the rest of YouTube open,” it said.

Four months later, it has become clear that at fault is not the other party but the government of Pakistan.

“…what this country does not have in place is a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the US under which, amongst other matters, an internet company could be directed to comply with the laws of another country. Had this paperwork been in order, for Pakistanis, too, access to only the objectionable content could have been restricted,” said the daily.

It went on to say that the film and the offence it caused have long since faded from public consciousness but the lack of access to a popular site used for dozens of different purposes is a daily inconvenience.

“More importantly, it is a bar on our civil liberties. The government needs to immediately do what is required to restore Pakistanis’ full access to the internet,” the editorial added.

IANS 2013-01-30 11:08:01

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Airbag recall for 907 000 Toyotas - Independent Online

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Toyota Corolla-Matrix.

The recall saga continues for Toyota, the company having announced another global recall that affects 1.3 million vehicles. It relates to airbag and windscreen wiper problems.

Toyota will replace airbag parts in some 907 000 hatchbacks in Canada, Japan, Mexico and the United States, a company spokesman said. The models are branded Voltz in Japan and Corolla and Corolla Matrix overseas.

The vehicles in question were produced between 2001 and 2004 in Canada, Japan and the United States. At this stage it doesn’t appear as if any South African Corolla or RunX models are affected, but - to be safe - we have requested final confirmation from Toyota SA.

In the faulty vehicles, the control unit of the airbags could be damaged by minor electrical noise, and the airbag could open wrongly in a worst-case scenario, the spokesman said.

At least 47 cases of the malfunction had been reported, mainly in the United States.

“Two of them may be linked to accidents but there has been no death-related report,” the spokesman said, adding that Toyota would exchange the troubled parts under each country's recall guidelines.

LEXUS WIPER RECALL

Toyota separately said it would recall some 385 000 Lexus IS cars globally to change windscreen wiper parts, following problems in snow.

Once lauded for its safety standards, Toyota has been forced into damage control mode in recent years after recalling millions of vehicles due to a series of serious defects.

Last month the company said it had agreed to pay about $1.1 billion (R9.9 billion) to settle a class action lawsuit launched by US vehicle owners affected by a series of mass recalls.

BUT STILL ON TOP

But on the upside, the carmaker did recapture the title of world's biggest car company from General Motors in 2012. On Monday it said its global sales last year soared 22.6 percent to 9.75 million vehicles. -AFP and IOL

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