Apple loses another copyright lawsuit in China: Xinhua

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese court has fined Apple Inc 1 million yuan ($160,400) for hosting third-party applications on its App Store that were selling pirated electronic books, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

Apple is to pay compensation to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights, the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People's Court ruled on Thursday, Xinhua said.

Earlier in the year, a group of Chinese authors filed the suit against Apple, saying an unidentified number of apps on its App Store sold unlicensed copies of their books. The group of eight authors was seeking 10 million yuan in damages.

"We are disappointed at the judgment. Some of our best-selling authors only got 7,000 yuan. The judgment is a signal of encouraging piracy," Bei Zhicheng, a spokesman for the group, told Reuters.

Apple said in a statement that it takes copyright infringement complaints "very seriously".

"We're always updating our service to better assist content owners in protecting their rights," Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu said.

China has the world's largest Internet and mobile market by number of users, but piracy costs software companies billions of dollars each year.

Apple, whose products enjoy great popularity in China, has faced a string of legal headaches this year. In July, Apple paid 60 million yuan to a Chinese firm, Proview Technology, to settle a long-running lawsuit over the iPad trademark in China.

($1 = 6.2360 Chinese yuan)

(Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom and Melanie Lee; Editing by Kazunori Takada and Matt Driskill)

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Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran

(Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator in late 2010, documents show.

China's Huawei, the world's second largest telecommunications equipment maker, says neither it nor its partner, a private company registered in Hong Kong, ultimately provided the HP products to the telecom, Mobile Telecommunication Co of Iran, known as MCI. Nevertheless, the incident provides new evidence of how Chinese companies have been willing to help Iran evade trade sanctions.

The proposed deal also raises new questions about Shenzhen-based Huawei, which recently was criticized by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee for failing to "provide evidence to support its claims that it complies with all international sanctions or U.S. export laws."

At least 13 pages of the proposal to MCI, which involved expanding its subscriber billing system, were marked "Huawei confidential" and carried the company's logo, according to documents seen by Reuters. In a statement to Reuters, Huawei called it a "bidding document" and said one of its "major local partners," Skycom Tech Co Ltd, had submitted it to MCI.

The statement went on to say, "Huawei's business in Iran is in full compliance with all applicable lawsand regulations including those of the U.N., U.S. and E.U. This commitment has been carried out and followed strictly by our company. Further, we also require our partners to follow the same commitment and strictly abide by the relevant laws and regulations."

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Fifth-gen iPad reportedly due in March along with Retina iPad mini

Rumors that a second-generation iPad mini with a Retina display is set to launch ahead of Apple’s typical annual schedule next year have been swirling, and now it appears Apple’s (AAPL) full-size iPad may be sticking to its new semiannual release schedule. According to a report from Japanese blog Makotakra that cites an anonymous “inside source,” Apple plans to launch a new thinner, lighter 9.7-inch iPad as soon as March 2013. The fourth iPad model was just released last month alongside the iPad mini, but March was also suggested in recent Retina iPad mini rumors. Makotakra states that the new iPad will adopt styling queues from the current iPad mini model, unifying the look of Apple’s larger tablet with the iPad mini and iPhone 5.

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Apple’s new manufacturing tech opens the door for a curved iPhone

The Samsung (005930) Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S and Dell (DELL) Venue Pro had two things in common: First, they were both terrific smartphones that never really lived up to their potential in terms of sales volume, having been overshadowed by more popular phones. Second, they each sported unique curved glass displays — the Galaxy Nexus’ screen is concave while the Venue Pro’s is convex — that added a unique look and feel to the handsets. Rumors that Apple (AAPL) may be working to launch an iPhone with a curved glass face have swirled in the past, but a new patent recently uncovered by Patently Apple confirms that the company is at least toying with the idea of adding a curved smartphone to its future iPhone lineup.

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The patent describes a manufacturing process that ditches chemicals by combining heat with a molding mechanism that shapes thin glass. The process is simpler and more efficient than current technologies used to curve glass panels, and it is also far safer.

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The fact that Apple is actively working on this technology is hardly a guarantee that we’ll see it implemented in the iPhone 9 or some other future model. Even if the company does put its new patent into practice, it might appear in products other than the iPhone.

Curving glass is a great way to make larger displays more accessible to the user, however, and at the rate the market is shifting, the iPhone 5′s bump to 4 inches likely won’t be the last sizing tweak we see from Apple moving forward.

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Mark Cuban: Nokia Lumia 920 ‘crushes’ the iPhone 5

In the eyes of outspoken entrepreneur Mark Cuban, the battle for smartphone supremacy has been fought and won… by Nokia (NOK). While hosting an AMA session on Reddit — a series of posts where the original poster instructs Reddit users to “Ask Me Anything” — Cuban, who famously sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo (YHOO) for around $5 billion at the height of the dot-com boom, was asked what kind of laptop he uses. “I have a MacBook Air, but am trying the new Acer with Windows 8 [laptop],” wrote Cuban. “I really, really like Windows 8 on my phone. I have [two] phones. First isSamsung (005930) the [second] was an iPhone 5. The new Nokia with windows replaced my iPhone 5.” When asked to elaborate, Cuban said that the Lumia 920 “crushes the iPhone 5. Not even close.”

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How Massage Therapy Can Relieve Work Stress

How Massage Therapy Can Relieve Work Stress

Introduction Anyone who has ever had a job in any industry knows a little something about work-related stress. Some types of jobs are more prone to stress than others, but all will experience it from time to time.

Introduction Whether you’re the vice president of a big company, a cashier in that same company or the person who cleans the floors once everyone goes home, stress is a factor. Sometimes the stress is mental and sometimes it is physical, but you must find a way to ease it or you may find yourself in a serious predicament.

Introduction One solution that more and more people seem to turn to for work stress is massage therapy. When you get into the details, it almost seems as if massage therapy was made for work stress.

Common Work Stress Symptoms According to the Mayo Clinic, stress can have serious effects on your body, your mood and your behaviour. The stresses that you experience in the workplace may result in: Muscle tension and pain Headaches Chest pains Upset stomach Loss of libido Fatigue Sleep disruptions Anxiety Depression Restlessness Anger Inability to focus

What Is Massage Therapy? According to the Registered Massage Therapist’s Association of Ontario, “massage therapy is a comprehensive intervention involving a range of techniques to manipulate the soft tissues and joints of the body.”

What Is Massage Therapy? The purpose of massage therapy is to relieve pain, rehabilitate, augment and maintain physical function. The different techniques provide relief for many different ailments, stemming from stress, overuse of muscles and several chronic pain syndromes. The website states that between 17 and 23 percent of Canadians have used massage therapy at some point, and it is a generally accepted form of treatment.

How Stress Affects Health The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety website list several health issues that can result from too much stress in your life. One of the things that make work stress so serious is that we typically spend 40 or more hours per week on the job. This prolonged exposure to a stressful environment can make the health effects even worse, because your body doesn’t get a chance to switch it off like in an immediate danger “fight or flight” type of situation.

How Stress Affects Health Your body has a pre-programmed response to stress that is often referred to as the “Generalized Stress Response”. The effects on your body include: Increased blood pressure Increased fatty acids and cholesterol in the blood Faster heartbeat and respiration Faster blood clotting Increased stomach acids Increased blood sugar production Inflammation

How Stress Affects Health When you add these kinds of effects to the symptoms listed earlier, it’s easy to see how prolonged exposure can result in serious health problems.

Massage Therapy Treatment If the effects of work-related are getting to you physically or emotionally, ask your doctor to refer you to a registered massage therapist. The Chiro Med Rehab Centre lists the following conditions as some of the ones that are treatable by massage therapy. Headache Neck pain Postnatal pain Low back pain Lymphatic drainage Repetitive stress injuries Shoulder pain Stress

Massage Therapy Treatment As you can see, several of the symptoms and effects produced by stress in the workplace are the exact same ones that massage therapy can treat effectively. Some work benefits even allow for a certain amount for massage therapy on a yearly basis. Check with your benefits, check with your doctor, and go see a massage therapist to help relieve the effects of your work stress sooner rather than later.

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Diet Solution – Tips to Find the Right Program for Yourself

Diet Solution - Tips to Find the Right Program for Yourself With the world moving fast around us, most of us are looking for diet solutions which provide instant weight loss. If you are among one of those, then you shouldn’t feel embarrassed. There are millions of people like you who have done the same at some point of time. However, most of them have not found such a magic formula that can actually do that. There are a number of diet solution program available in the market which promises you that you will lose weight in a few days. While most of these are just scams, there are a few really good diet solutions programs which have shown exceptional results if followed religiously. So, if you want to lose weight, here are a few tips so that you can find the best diet solution for you that will really work. Tip 1# When adapting diet solution for yourself,make sure that your goals are realistic. There are a number of diet solutions which promises you that you will lose your weight in 2 days. Beware of such false claims. One should make sure that whatever diet solution they adapt should be in a healthy manner. Tip 2# Before joining any diet solution programs read the reviews about the program on the internet or ask people who had previously joined the program. This will allow you to find out if the program has been effective or not and this will ensure that you join a program which will help you to lose weight properly. Also, by getting feedback from the people, you will be able to get confidence that you can lose weight by joining the program. 

The diet solution that you are about to adopt should have long term effects and should be permanent. There are a number of programs which will give you short term effects and you will start to gain weight as soon as you leave the program. Slow and the healthy diet solution programis the best way to lose weight. Tip 4# When joining the diet solution program, you need to ensure that you can afford the lifestyle change. There will a lot of changes in your diet plan as well as many requirements that you will need to follow. So, before joining the program, be prepared for that otherwise you will end up joining the program but will not be able to follow the diet plans properly. Tip 5# Every person is different. So, if a diet solution worked for others, it doesn’t mean that it will work for you too. Each body will need a different type of diet in order to lose weight. So, the diet program that you join should be designed according to your body type and weight. If a program gives the same type of diet solution for everyone, then it won't be effective for everyone. Use these tips in order to find the most effective diet solution program for yourself in no time at all. For More information visit: - PrenatalNutrition.org

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Body Fat – Causes and Solutions

Body Fat - Causes and Solutions Many people are desperately trying to lose fat from their body. Millions log onto the internet to find a permanent fat solution for their fat which will do wonders to their body. However, most have been disappointed and have not found a solution to their problems. Before we start finding practical fat solution, it is important to address the major issues associated with fat gain. There are a number of different reasons why a person may gain fat in their body which is hard to burn. Here are a few reasons -  Genetic reasons  Stress  HormonalMisbalance  Lack of regular exercise  Retention of too much water in the body  Unhealthy lifestyle These are just a few reasons for fat gain in the body. There are a number of other factors and sometimes a combination of these factors also causes fat gain in people. Whether you want to lose fat for a party or to attend a wedding next month, you will need to make an extra effort. You will find thousands of fat solution programs on the internet, so you will need to do your research and ensure that the program is the right fit for you and you can comfortably lose the extra fat from your body. If you want to lose the extra fat, you will need to adopt two important things in your life. First is regular exercise and the second is proper diet. Regular exercise - In order to lose the fat in your body, you will need to exercise regularly so that your body can burn the calories. If you do not exercise, the fat will keep accumulating in your body and you will not be able to lose the fat. You can join a gym or workout at home, whatever you are comfortable in.

Proper diet -  When you start exercising, you need to make sure that you eat properly so that you do not end up gaining more fat then you burn everyday.  You should make sure that you drink lots of water. You should make it a habit of drinking around 3-4 liters of water every day.  One should always have your breakfast, no matter in how much hurry they are to reach their office. If you do not have your breakfast, you will end up overeating when you sit down to have lunch and you will feel hungry throughout the day.  Avoid overeating when you sit down to eat and eat slowly. When you eat slowly, you will know for yourself when you are full. Avoid eating in front of the television as people tend to eat more when they are doing something else other than eating.  Never sit with all the utensils with food in it. Serve yourself food on a plate and eat it from that. Avoid second serves.  Try to have a light dinner as the body tends to store fat during the night time and burn calories in the morning. Also, try to have your dinner early. For More Information visit: - IntuitiveDietitian.com

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How to Deal with Dental Anxiety

Introduction Many people who don’t suffer from dental anxiety can’t understand why those who do don’t just “suck it up” and push their way through the appointment. After all, you only have to go twice a year. Of course, people who do have anxiety about the dentist know that it isn’t even remotely that simple. If you are one of the thousands who feel terrified at the thought of the dentist chair, here are some proven tips for dealing with your anxiety, that others use everyday.

Open Communication According to Everyday Health, maintaining an open dialogue with your dentist about treatment options helps to give you a sense of power and control over the situation. If it makes you feel better to know everything that’s going to happen, let the dentist know. If you’d rather be kept in the dark, let her know that, too.

Open Communication You may even want to come up with a signal to use with your dentist and hygienist to let them know when you’re feeling antsy

Effective Pain Medication The website WebMD says that one of the primary reasons people avoid seeing the dentist is due to fear of pain. Luckily, there are a number of effective pain medications available to dentists so they can numb just about any degree of pain before it really has a chance to take effect.

Effective Pain Medication The most common pain medications available at the dentist’s office include: Topical Anesthetic – these are applied with a cotton swab and are used to numb a spot in your mouth on your gums before minor work is done. Electronically Delivered Anesthesia – this is also known as TENS, and it is designed as an alternative to a local anesthetic injection. Nitrous Oxide – this is also called ‘laughing gas’ and it is inhaled through a facemask to help patients feel relaxed and remove anxiety. This is one of the more common forms of sedation, according to WebMD.

Effective Pain Medication Intravenous Sedation – this is an injection of a sedative into the arm or hand to control pain and anxiety. This may be used for more involved dental procedures, or for extremely anxious patients. General Anesthesia – general anesthesia means the patient is put to sleep for the entirety of the dental procedure. Most patients who get general anesthesia have their procedure in a hospital rather than a dentist office. General anesthesia has risks, so it is usually reserved for more complex procedures.

Distraction If medications aren’t your thing or they don’t agree with you, an alternative-type treatment may work. Sometimes, simple distraction techniques are effective at reducing anxiety when you visit the dentist. Some dentists will give you headphones to watch television, or you could bring your own and listen to music instead. Taking a little vacation in your own head by imagining that you are on a beach or playing sports or anywhere else can also be an effective technique, if your imagination skills are strong enough.

Acupuncture Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese treatment for scores of different ailments, and anxiety is on the list. Explain your situation to the acupuncturist and see if he or she can help.

Counseling In some cases, traditional psychological therapy or counseling can help you overcome your fears and visit the dentist without incident. Counseling will teach you coping strategies and techniques you can use in real life situations. Whatever you learn, practice before you get into the dentist’s chair, so you are well equipped to calm yourself when the time comes.

Counseling If you’re interested, ask your therapist or counselor if group sessions are available to let you meet and associate with other dental anxiety sufferers. Sometimes, meeting people who have similar issues will help you deal with your own more effectively.

Hypnosis Hypnosis is a technique often associated with magicians, but many therapists are qualified to do it, and use it regularly with patients. Basically, hypnosis puts you into a relaxed state and opens your mind to the power of suggestion. Sometimes, hypnosis sessions will result in an anxious patient being able to relax himself enough in the chair to make it through a dental appointment.

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Basic Information About Cell Disruption

In many different industries and for many different reasons, the concept of cell disruption is an important process. Here is some basic information about cell disruption so you are equipped with all the general knowledge you need.

Introduction

First, it makes sense to describe the structure of a cell so you can visualize exactly what is being disrupted. The Structure of a Cell All cells have a plasma membrane, and that membrane is the only barrier between the contents of the cell and the environment, when you’re talking about animal cells.

When it comes to plant cells or bacteria, there is an extra cell wall that surrounds the plasma membrane, and this wall is rigid. Cell disruption occurs easier in animal cells than it does in plant cells, because the plant cells have several cellulose layers that the animal cells don’t have. This makes the plant cells quite a bit stronger and more difficult to disrupt. The Structure of a  Cell disruption, which is also known as ‘bacteria cell lysis’ refers to an external force or condition breaking down the contents of a cell. Cell disruption can occur by natural or artificial means, but when it happens artificially, it’s usually because someone or some organization is conducting research. What Is Cell Disruption?

After cell disruption has occurred, the leftover material that contains all of the contents of the destroyed cell is called the ‘lysate’. A substance that encourages cell disruption to happen is called a ‘lysin’. General osmosis that happens inside the cells of plants and animals is one of the more common cell disruption methods in the natural world. What Is Cell Disruption?

In a laboratory setting, there are several call disruption methods that may be used to get the job done. According to Bio Rad, here are some of the most common: Osmotic Lysis – the cells swell up and burst after being suspended in a hypotonic solution. Detergent Lysis – the cells are suspended in a solution containing a detergent to make the cell membrane soluble. Freeze / Thaw – the cells are frozen in liquid nitrogen and then thawed out. Methods

Enzymatic – the cells are suspended in a solution that contains enzymes, designed to digest the cell wall. Another cell disruption method usually follows this one for the best effect. Sonication – this is a harsher cell disruption method where the cells are subject to short bursts of ultrasonic waves. French Press – the cells are subject to shear force when they are forced through a small opening at high pressure. Methods

Cell disruption is used in several different industries on a regular basis, and as part of the regular process. For many products, controlling the particle size and cell disruption is a crucial element in order to produce products that are safe and of high quality. Industries

Here are some of the primary industries where cell disruption equipment is required, according to high shear processor maker, Microfluidics: Pharmaceutical Cosmetics Biotechnology Energy Nutraceuticals & Food Chemical Industries

Cell disruption methods might be used in any of these industries in the lab as part of research, or as part of the manufacturing process to produce a finished product perfectly to spec. Industries

Considering some of the industries that use cell disruption to create their products, the process is very important. Sending out food products or nutritional supplements or pharmaceutical drugs that have flaws is a sure way to lose customers and possibly a whole lot more. In certain industries and with some products, there really is no room for error. Poor cell disruption methods can even affect criminal investigations, as it is a necessary part of the DNA extraction process. Importance

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