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According to a report by Cens.com, Japan based FOSTER is out as the exclusive maker of Apple?s iPhone headphones with Cupertino offering the contract to two Tawainese companies, Hon Hai and Cheng Uei.
FOSTER has been the exclusive manufacturer of the headphones for quite some time but that is going to end once 2011 rolls around. Specifically, Hon Hai is going to be responsible for constructing the wires and assembling the devices while Cheng Uei will be making the producing cords, loudspeakers and control switch modules.
The contract is said to be worth $5-10 billion in Taiwanese currency which translates into around $300 million in American dollars. Business for both companies is said to start booming after this acquisition, especially for Cheng Uei, who also produce the OEM iPad chargers as well as the flexible substrates used in the iPhone volume control switch.
And how much of an increase, you might ask?
Oh, just a 50% surge in business for Cheng Uei to Apple. That makes sense considering sales estimates indicate Apple has sold 48 to 50 million iPhones already this year which may increase to 100 million in 2011.
That?s 100 million new sets of headphones that need to be made which explains that 50% increase.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/11/27/apple-selects-two-new-iphone-headphone-manufacturers/
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Source: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/11/27/folders-printing-and-email-coming-to-ibooks-soon/
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WASHINGTON ? The White House might as well install a red-telephone hot line in Senator Jon Kyl?s house.
President Obama called last week. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. phoned this week. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates have been on the line. Other officials dispensed with the phone to fly to Arizona to talk in person.
Suffice it to say, Mr. Kyl has the attention of the Oval Office these days. More than any other Republican in Congress, Mr. Kyl has become the target of administration energy as it seeks to persuade him to support a new arms control treaty with Russia ? or figure out how to circumvent him if he does not. ?They are much more focused now,? Mr. Kyl said in an interview.
Rarely has a single member of the minority party become so crucial to a president?s top foreign policy priority. By most accounts, Mr. Kyl, a burly, sober-minded lawyer and frustrated would-be scientist who has made himself into a nuclear expert, holds the key to whether the so-called New Start treaty will be approved this year as the president has demanded.
Mr. Kyl has played close to the vest since a statement last week declaring there was not enough time to consider the treaty in the lame-duck session of Congress. In his first interview since then, Mr. Kyl credited the administration with meeting many of his concerns, but said he was still not sure he could trust it to follow through.
He did not rule out a vote this year, but set conditions that might be hard for the administration to meet, including a long floor debate. ?If they try to jam us, if they try to bring this up the week before Christmas, it?ll be defeated,? he said. ?If they allow plenty of time for it, and I think it will take two weeks, then it?s a different matter.?
The attention represents a turnabout of sorts for Mr. Kyl, who has been overshadowed for years by his Arizona colleague, John McCain. A Nebraska native who moved to Arizona for college and law school, Mr. Kyl first won a House seat in 1986 and was elected to the Senate in 1994.
He has been a Senate workhorse and earned his way up to Republican whip, while compiling a more conservative voting record than all but four other senators, according to the American Conservative Union. By dint of his interest in nuclear issues, his caucus has deferred to his judgment on the New Start treaty and the nuclear modernization program he wants as a trade-off.
?He?s made it a passion of his, so when he talks, we listen,? said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee. ?That doesn?t mean he persuades everybody. But he certainly has the attention of his Republican colleagues.?
The White House has been careful to treat him with respect. When some treaty advocates at a Nixon Center forum accused Mr. Kyl of playing politics, Gary Samore, the top White House arms control official, defended him, saying the senator was a ?great American? who genuinely cared about the issue. At a news conference where he warned against partisanship, Mr. Obama exempted Mr. Kyl. ?I believe that Senator Kyl wants a safe and secure America, just like I do, and is well motivated,? Mr. Obama said.
Privately, administration officials expressed anger and bewilderment at Mr. Kyl, contending that they had given him virtually everything he had sought. Arms control advocates have been more vocal. ?My conclusion is he?s acting in bad faith,? said Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. ?He asked for more earlier in the fall and they have delivered.?
Mr. Kyl became interested in nuclear issues decades ago when one of his best college friends became a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. ?It was always just fascinating to me,? Mr. Kyl said. ?I?m an amateur scientist ? I?m no good at it, but I?ve always been very interested.?
In Congress, he delved into arms control and made himself a resource for fellow Republicans. In 1997, he voted against the Chemical Weapons Convention. Two years later, President Bill Clinton wanted the Senate to approve the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Senator Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, vowed to ?plant myself on the floor like a potted plant? until the Republican majority allowed a vote.
Mr. Clinton and Mr. Dorgan underestimated Mr. Kyl, who had quietly rounded up votes against the treaty. Republicans called Mr. Dorgan?s bluff, brought the treaty to a vote and defeated it decisively, with just 48 senators supporting it, far from the 67 required. It was the first time since the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 that the Senate had formally rejected a major international security treaty.
?They played on people?s insecurities and they were able to get a pretty big vote,? Mr. Dorgan said in an interview. Mr. Dorgan said that he liked Mr. Kyl personally and that he must be taken seriously. ?He?s very smart and very relentless and determined,? Mr. Dorgan said.
Underlying Mr. Kyl?s views is a deep skepticism of Mr. Obama?s goal of eventually ridding the world of nuclear weapons, which he termed ?not realistic, not achievable and not wise.? He expressed concern that the New Start treaty would constrain missile defense and long-range conventional missiles, concerns the White House and Pentagon call unfounded.
Mr. Kyl finds unpersuasive Mr. Obama?s warnings that defeating the treaty would undercut the warming relationship with Russia while preventing nuclear inspections, calling it a conflicting argument since it presumes Russia is a partner and untrustworthy at the same time. Passing a nuclear treaty to secure cooperation on other issues is ?wrongheaded and foolish,? he said.
His priority, though, has been modernizing nuclear facilities at Los Alamos and elsewhere. The administration committed $80 billion over 10 years, but Mr. Kyl said most was not new money. After feeling ?essentially stonewalled? for months, the senator said the administration became more serious after Labor Day. This month, it increased the plan to at least $85 billion.
Mr. Kyl expressed satisfaction. ?We?ve probably got all we?re going to get out of them in terms of dollar commitments,? he said.
But he listed other concerns, including timing of construction and the composition of forces. ?I?ve come to the conclusion that the administration is intellectually committed to modernization now. No sane person could not reach that conclusion,? he said. ?Whether they?re committed in the heart is another matter. Suppose Start is ratified, and they no longer have to worry about that? Will they continue to press for the money??
The White House says yes, and will keep calling in hopes of convincing him.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=7d6fae1af6a521068950d020d403299d
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Crytek is currently working on Crysis 2 for all three platforms. The original Crysis was an exclusive for the PC. That being said, Crytek has already stated that Crysis 2 will be graphically superior on the PC.
"As long as the current console generation exists and as long as we keep pushing the PC as well, the more difficult it will be to really get the benefit of both," Cevat Yerli, founder, CEO, and President of Crytek, told the latest issue of Edge, according to CVG. "PC is easily a generation ahead right now. With 360 and PS3, we believe the quality of the games beyond Crysis 2 and other CryEngine developments will be pretty much limited to what their creative expressions is, what the content is. You won't be able to squeeze more juice from these rocks."
Developers have very low sales expectations for the PC, compared to consoles. It's a vicious cycle: the PC market doesn't give the same revenue as the console market, so companies don't spend much on the PC version of a game. This is certainly true for games like Unreal Tournament 3: it would have been much better had it been released as a PC exclusive.
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Source: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/11/27/folders-printing-and-email-coming-to-ibooks-soon/
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The State Capitol here will undergo one of the most marked shifts in the nation after this month?s election, from Democratic dominance to Republican control. But another remarkable change is coming: Representative Jeff Fitzgerald was picked to be the next speaker of Wisconsin?s State Assembly, and Senator Scott Fitzgerald was chosen as majority leader of the State Senate, creating a rare fraternal alignment, experts say, for any state in recent memory.
While all sorts of relatives have served at various times in state legislatures (including husband-and-wife teams, siblings and, after this election, a mother-and-son duo among New Hampshire?s lawmakers), the Fitzgeralds? particular circumstances as simultaneous leaders of both chambers are extremely unusual.
?A lot of people think we turn it off at home,? Representative Fitzgerald said the other day of the brothers? propensity to talk politics and policy during daily cellphone calls, at family birthday gatherings and pretty much everywhere else they happen upon each other. ?But no,? he said. ?It only gets worse.?
The brothers, both conservative Republicans and veteran legislators, acknowledge that they battled as boys over the ?things boys fight about,? Senator Fitzgerald said. More recently, they have cast only a few opposite votes here and there, on the state budget, for instance, and on ethanol standards.
But in a Capitol in which some Assembly leaders have barely been on speaking terms with their counterparts in the Senate, the Fitzgerald brothers are predicting particular cooperation between the chambers (even if Senator Fitzgerald persists in portraying the Assembly as ?big, loud and raucous? and Representative Fitzgerald mocks the Senate for regularly heading home, so he asserts, by 2 in the afternoon).
At 47, Senator Fitzgerald is older, shorter and, even he acknowledges, more stubborn than his only brother. Representative Fitzgerald is 44, the jock of the family, and more laid back. Senator Fitzgerald followed their father, Stephen (a former sheriff of Dodge County) into politics in 1994, then Representative Fitzgerald ran a few years later ? blessed with built-in name recognition that most politicians could only dream of, but mildly worried, too, that there might be ?fatigue? over seeing yet another Fitzgerald on the ballot.
Representative Fitzgerald lives in Horicon, a small city 50 miles northwest of Milwaukee ? and five miles from Senator Fitzgerald?s Juneau home. Senator Fitzgerald represents his brother in the Senate, while Representative Fitzgerald?s district narrowly misses his brother?s home. They tease each other during the political season (?I?ve noticed a lot of your opponent?s signs in yards!?). They also have shared a political opponent, Vittorio Spadaro, who challenged one brother in one cycle, then the other.
Come January, the Fitzgeralds, who had grown used to leading the minorities in their chambers, will lead an Assembly of 60 Republicans, 38 Democrats and an independent and a Senate with 19 Republicans and 14 Democrats. Many legislators are new. Among the Democrats who lost jobs: the current Assembly speaker and senate majority leader.
Had one chamber flipped but not the other, the Fitzgeralds would not be nearly as optimistic about what comes next. The outcome of a divided Capitol, Senator Fitzgerald said, is ?horse trading instead of compromise, and you end up voting for some really bad garbage.? As it is, Representative Fitzgerald said he was preparing to reintroduce a series of jobs bills that went nowhere when Madison was run by Democrats.
Yet these will hardly be simple times. Wisconsin faces a budget gap ? more than $2 billion by some estimates ? and a majority of voters who were clearly searching for something other than what they had. ?I?m ready for it,? Senator Fitzgerald said. ?If we don?t ruffle feathers this time, I think people are going to say we?re not doing what we said we would do.?
Before their caucuses selected them this month, the Fitzgeralds worried that some might object to granting so much power to one family. ?Do you think they?ll let us?? Senator Fitzgerald remembered thinking. This is a nation that hates ? but also adores ? its political dynasties, and the Fitzgeralds easily won.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8874f6148062676054b34ef20b51e756
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Getting your photo taken with Santa Claus at an airport makes a lot of sense. First of all, what else are you going to do while you?re waiting for your delayed flight? Shop at duty free? Unlikely.
Secondly, an airport would seem a perfect place for Santa to use for photo ops, since he can easily land and take off his sleigh on the runway (makes much more sense than a mall, doesn?t it?).
So with this in mind, Microsoft and Southwest Airlines reached out to the North Pole to get Santa to swing by 26 airports nationwide during weekends leading up to Christmas so that Santa can take advantage the convenience offered by airports (he must be really busy during the week with official Christmas stuff).
Travelers will get a free picture of themselves with Santa at kiosks at those airports and then can pick them up (and create customized greetings cards) online on Microsoft?s website.
Also, while you?re waiting in line to sit on Santa?s lap, you can of course learn all about Windows 7 and Windows Live, as well as register for daily giveaways, including flights from Southwest, a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and a $500 cash.
No please excuse us ? we aren?t done writing our letters to Santa yet?
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