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Original Apple iPhone unveiling could have been a disaster
On this date two years ago, the world lost a forward thinking visionary when Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer. In Saturday's New York Times, there are some excerpts from an upcoming book entitled Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution that go inside the first launch of the Apple iPhone. For example, the software in the Wi-Fi radio packed into the unit that Steve Jobs would introduce to the world, was unstable. As a result, wires had to be run off stage and connected to the phone's antennas so that the signal would not have to travel so far.
Even though AT&T had brought in a portable cell tower for the event, Steve Jobs had the iPhone that he would use in the unveiling, programmed to always show 5 bars of signal strength regardless of what the true reading was. Andy Grignon, the senior engineer responsible for the radios in the phone, was so nervous about the event that packed on 50 pounds in the weeks before the launch. "If the radio crashed and restarted, as we suspected it might, we didn?t want people in the audience to see that, so we just hard-coded it to always show five bars," Grignon recalled.
But the biggest worry was that the demo iPhone would crash while Jobs was multitasking on stage. In case the unit he was working with ran out of memory, Apple's CEO had a few other units with him on stage that he could instantly switch to. The phones had just 128MB of memory and were prone to crashing. It seems hard to believe now, but one of the greatest consumer products ever launched was far from complete on that January day in 2007 when it was unveiled. Not one unit ever came off an assembly line, and the 100 or so units built before the introduction of the device had plenty of faults. The software was buggy and the device couldn't even finish playing one song or video without crashing. Send an email and browse the internet and the phone would work. Reverse the order and it would crash. The challenge for Steve Jobs was to show a smooth running phone at the unveiling, make the public drool now, and hammer out the bugs over the 6 months before the phone was actually launched.
Jobs had to be feeling nervous. If you view a video of his introduction of the Motorola E790 iTunes phone (aka ROKR E1), a glitch during the presentation made Jobs look lost and you could see him getting annoyed on stage. Ironically, Apple almost purchased Motorola in 2003, but at the time it was considered a company too big for Apple to swallow. Even more ironically, Google bought out the handset maker eight years after Apple failed to do so.
Things fell into place as Apple worked on the software that became iOS. Multitouch, which by 2003 could be used on a tablet like prototype, was introduced to the public with the new touchscreen phone. Despite this, the first prototype was similar to an iPod with a click wheel for dialing. Another prototype looked more like the device we know as the first-gen iPhone. But constructed of brushed aluminum, the radio signals could not escape the inside of the phone.
Security was tight. Apple didn't even tell the companies whose parts were driving the phone what it was building. Companies like Marvell, which produced the Wi-Fi chip, thought that its part was going into a new iPod. Phony schematics were drawn up to throw people off the scent. Amid some rumors about an Apple manufactured handset, the Apple iPhone was finally introduced on January 9th, 2007 and the world was changed. Not that the engineers who worked on the project realized what they had unleashed on the world. Fortified from a flask smuggled in during the event, they were all feeling no pain.
source: NYTimes
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Original-Apple-iPhone-unveiling-could-have-been-a-disaster_id48005
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Extra Life and Sony partner for 25-hour charity drive
"Extra Life" Online Gaming Event Teams Up with Sony Computer Entertainment America to Drive
Fundraising for Local Children's Hospitals
Join PlayStation and Register at Extra-Life.org,
Raise funds and "Game for Good" on Nov. 2nd
SALT LAKE CITY (Oct. 3, 2013) - Extra Life, an online charitable event embraced by thousands of gamers, is teaming up with Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) to drive awareness and donations for 170 Children's Miracle Network Hospitals across the U.S. and Canada.
Starting today, gaming fans have the opportunity to raise money for needed charitable funds, by signing up for an online fundraiser hosted by Extra Life.
By donating as little as $10, participants will earn a 30-day PlayStation?Plus membership. Donations of $25 or more will qualify individuals/teams to earn a selection of popular PlayStation?3, PlayStation?Vita, and PlayStation?4 titles.
Fundraising efforts all lead up to the "Extra Life" 24-hour gaming marathon, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. As the culminating event, fans and fundraisers can tune in to Extra-Life's homepage livestream and celebrate the community's fundraising efforts. After creating an online profile and establishing a fundraising goal, each participant becomes a fundraisinghero for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital of their choice.
Participants who meet established fundraising levels receive the following:
? Extra-Life.org registration ? Exclusive Extra Life PS3? theme (Unlimited)
? $10 - 30-day membership to PlayStation?Plus (first 50,000 participants)
The first 20,000 participants to reach these fundraising levels receive:
? $25 - When Vikings Attack!? For the PS3 and PS Vita systems
? $50 - WipEout? HD for the PS3 system
? $75 - LittleBigPlanet? for the PS Vita system
? Grand prize: One participant who raises the most funds today through Nov. 3 at 8 a.m. PST will win a lineup of PS4? games, including Knack?, Killzone? Shadowfall, and DRIVECLUB? as well as a one year PS Plus membership and one year of Music Unlimited.
Funds raised during the Extra Life gaming event will directly benefit one Children's Miracle Network Hospital of each registered group/individual's choice. There are 170 Children's Miracle Network Hospitals to choose from that each rely on donor support to provide medical equipment, therapy programs, research and uncompensated care.
"During the past five years, PlayStation fans have made up a significant portion of our fundraising force, and in effect have changed sick and injured kids' lives in their own communities," said Jeromy Adams, Founder, Extra Life. "We are beyond thrilled to have SCEA's support this year, and look forward to welcoming a whole new group of 'Extra Lifers' over the next month. No matter how you play, 'Extra Life' proves that gaming and doing good can be one and the same."
"We're always finding ways to give back to the community, and 'Extra Life' is one of the best ways to engage PlayStation fans to join us in helping those in need," said Matthew Harper, Sr. Manager, PlayStation Digital Platforms. "PlayStation is for gamers, and we are thrilled at the opportunity to call on the PlayStation Nation to help us game for good."
Visit http://www.extra-life.org/SonyPlaystationRegistration to register, raise funds and have a chance to earn free PlayStation games.
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/05/extra-life-and-sony-partner-for-25-hour-charity-drive/
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
UN: Destruction of Syrian chemical program begins
A convoy of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons prepares cross into Syria at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. An advance group of 20 inspectors from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin their complex mission of finding, dismantling and ultimately destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A convoy of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons prepares cross into Syria at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. An advance group of 20 inspectors from a Netherlands-based chemical weapons watchdog arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin their complex mission of finding, dismantling and ultimately destroying an estimated 1,000-ton chemical arsenal. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
U.N. experts arrive to the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. A team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors returned to Damascus on Wednesday to complete their investigation into what the UN calls "pending credible allegations" of chemical weapons use in Syria's civil war. The six-member team is led by Swedish expert Ake Sellstrom. (AP Photo)
BEIRUT (AP) ? International inspectors began the enormous task Sunday of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said, racing to meet a tight deadline to eliminate President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons program.
The disarmament experts arrived in Damascus on Tuesday to carry out their mission under a U.N. Security Council resolution to dismantle and ultimately eliminate Syria's estimated 1,000-ton arsenal. Their first goal in the undertaking is to scrap the Assad regime's capacity to manufacture chemical weapons by Nov. 1.
By the end of the day Sunday, a combination of both weapons and some production equipment would be put out of order, a U.N. official who works alongside the inspectors said.
"Today is the first day of the phase of destruction and disabling. Verification will also continue," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "The plan was that two types categories of materials would be destroyed: one is equipment for making (weapons) ? filling and mixing equipment, some of it mobile, and some it static. The other is actual munitions."
He could not provide further details, nor say where the destruction took place.
It is just the first step in a mission that has the ambitious task of eliminating Syria's entire chemical arms production capability and stockpile by mid-2014. That's the tightest deadline that experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have ever faced, and this mission marks the first time they have operated in a country at war.
Developed during the 1980s and 1990s, Syria's chemical arsenal is believed to contain mustard gas and the nerve agents sarin, VX and tabun.
An advance team of 19 OPCW experts arrived in the country last week to lay the foundations for a broader operation with nearly 100 inspectors. Those already in the country have been double-checking Syria's initial disclosure of what weapons and chemical precursors it has and where they are located, while others have been planning logistics for visits to every location where chemicals or weapons are stored ? from trucks loaded with weapons up to full-on production sites.
Inspectors can use any means to destroy equipment, including crude techniques like taking sledgehammers to control panels or driving tanks over empty vats. But the second phase ? destroying battle-ready weapons, is more difficult, time-consuming and expensive. It can be done by incinerating materials in sealed furnaces at ultra-high temperatures, or by transforming precursor chemicals or diluting them with water.
Questions remain over how inspectors will achieve those goals while working in the midst of Syria's civil war. Underscoring the perils they face, four mortar shells landed in the once-touristic Christian quarter of Bab Touma and al-Qasaa, killing at least eight people, said Syria's state news agency. It was unclear whether any inspectors were close to the explosions.
The disarmament mission stems from a deadly Aug. 21 attack on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus in which the U.N. has determined the nerve agent sarin was used. Hundreds of people, including children were killed. The U.S. and Western allies accuse the Syrian government of being responsible, while Damascus blames the rebels.
The Obama administration threatened to launch punitive missile strikes against Syria, prompting frantic diplomatic efforts to forestall an attack. Those efforts concluded with September's unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons.
In an interview in a state-run newspaper Sunday, Assad said the Syrian regime began producing chemical weapons in the 1980s to "fill the technical gap in the traditional weapons between Syria and Israel." He said production of chemical weapons was halted in the late 1990s, but provided no further information.
Syria's conflict evolved from largely peaceful protests in March 2011. In the two years since, it has since has laid waste to the countries' cities, shattered its economy, killed around 100,000 people and driven more than 2 million people to seek shelter abroad. The violence affects nearly every corner of Syria, which has become a patchwork of rebel-held and regime-held territory.
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With additional reporting by Albert Aji in Damascus.
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Associated PressObama says he expects Congress will raise debt cap
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says he doesn't expect Congress to breach the deadline to increase the nation's borrowing limit.
He says he's willing to negotiate changes to his signature health care law and to find ways to reduce spending, but stresses he will not bargain until after Congress reopens the government and passed a new debt ceiling.
Obama says there's a majority of lawmakers in the House who would vote to end the partial government shutdown and raise the credit limit without conditions.
Obama spoke during an interview with The Associated Press.
The government is expected to hits its $16.7 trillion debt ceiling in mid-October. Failure to raise it could lead to a first-ever default. Republicans want cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits in exchange for their votes.
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No. 11 Oklahoma holds off TCU 20-17
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) ? Brennan Clay broke a 76-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter and No. 11 Oklahoma held off TCU 20-17 on Saturday night.
Trey Millard had a touchdown run for the Sooners (5-0, 2-0 Big 12) and Michael Hunnicutt hit field goals of 39 and 32 yards. Oklahoma and Texas will meet next Saturday in the annual Red River Rivalry in Dallas with first place in the conference on the line.
Oklahoma opened with seven straight defensive 3-and-outs, after finishing a 35-21 win at Notre Dame last Saturday with three. The 10 straight 3-and-outs was the longest such streak recorded by the Sooners since at least the 2003 season.
Oklahoma has won 10 straight Big 12 games, its third-longest streak in conference play since the league formed in 1996. The Sooners have won their last three against TCU (2-3, 0-2) since the Horned Frogs won in Norman in 2005.
TCU was expected to be a contender in the Big 12 this year but the Horned Frogs have struggled offensively in losses to Texas Tech and Oklahoma. Against the Sooners, TCU managed only 210 yards of offense, including only 44 yards rushing.
TCU had entered the game having won 16 of its last 18 conference road contests.
The Horned Frogs didn't cross midfield in the first half and didn't record a first down until the 8:34 mark of the third quarter. They managed a 25-yard field goal by Jaden Oberkrom on that series, which lasted for 12 plays and 7:17.
That seemed to energize TCU, which recovered a subsequent onside kick and drove 35 yards for a touchdown, with Trevone Boykin scoring on a 2-yard run to pull the Horned Frogs within 13-10.
The Sooners ran only eight plays for 4 yards in the third quarter and didn't record a first down in the second half until the 10:54 mark of the fourth quarter, after their defense had stopped TCU in Oklahoma territory.
That proved to be TCU's last, best chance. After the teams traded punts, Oklahoma took over at its own 18. Clay carried for a 6-yard gain, then broke into the open and outran everyone for his career-long 76-yard touchdown run with 4:37 left. Clay finished with 111 yards on nine carries.
TCU quickly answered, as a 45-yard pass from Boykin to David Porter and a 21-yard screen pass from Boykin to B.J. Catalon led to an 8-yard touchdown scramble by Boykin with 2:26 left. But the Horned Frogs' deep kickoff went out of bounds and Oklahoma quarterback Blake Bell ran out the clock, running for a pair of first downs.
After strong showings in his first two starts - wins over Tulsa and Notre Dame - Bell completed 20 of 31 passes for 152 yards. He didn't throw an interception (for the third straight game) but also didn't throw a touchdown pass. Bell finished with 61 yards rushing on 14 carries.
The Sooners, who had averaged 256.8 yards rushing per game during a 4-0 start, had 203 yards against TCU.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/no-11-oklahoma-holds-off-tcu-20-17-022644388--spt.html
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