Microsoft Office comes to Android, but not tablets

NEW YORK (AP) ? Microsoft is bringing a pared-down version of its Office software to Android phones, but it is keeping the app off Android tablets just as it isn't making a version for iPads.

The company made the software available Wednesday through Google's online Play store. It requires a $100-a-year subscription to Office and won't be sold separately.

The new offering follows the release of an iPhone version in June and brings an Office app to phones running the most widely used operating system on new smartphones.

Like the other mobile versions, the new Android software is designed for lightweight use. For example, you can use it to view and edit an attachment sent by email. But it's not meant to create a complex spreadsheet from scratch.

Microsoft Corp. is trying to make its Office 365 subscription more compelling, without removing an advantage that tablet computers running Microsoft's Windows system have ? the ability to run popular Office programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

"The release of this app shows that we're committed to keep providing additional value for Office 365 subscribers," the company wrote in a blog post. "Office 365 subscribers will now be able to access, view, and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with Windows Phone, iPhone and Android phones."

Microsoft is pushing subscriptions as a way to get customers to keep paying for a product that was historically sold in a single purchase. The company touts such benefits as the ability to run the package on multiple computers and get updates for free on a regular basis. However, a subscription can be more expensive than buying the package outright for just one or two computers.

Microsoft said it designed Office Mobile for Android phones specifically for the phone's smaller screen, even though many people will prefer editing documents on a tablet's larger screen. The company has a version for iPads and Android tablets, called Office Web Apps, but that runs on a Web browser and requires a constant online connection. The new Android software is an app that gets installed on the phone and can work offline.

With a subscription, customers typically get to use Office on up to 10 devices. Five of them can be Windows or Mac computers or Windows tablets. The other five can be iPhones or Android phones. Windows phones come with Office installed and do not count toward the limit.

In failing to make a version for the iPad, the top-selling tablet computer, Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder has estimated that Microsoft is potentially ceding $1.4 billion a year in revenue, based on 10 percent of the 140 million iPad owners paying for a $100 subscription. Gownder said failure to provide it on the iPad or Android tablets gives incentives for users to explore competing offerings such as QuickOffice from Google and iWork from Apple.

Technically, iPad users can download the iPhone version, but it doesn't take advantage of the larger screen, so images and text are fuzzy when blown up. Android tablet owners won't be able to download it at all through the Play store.

The new software requires Android 4.0 or later ? the Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean flavors of Google's operating system. At first, it's available only in the U.S., though Microsoft plans to expand to 117 markets with versions in more than 30 languages.

Microsoft did not announce any plans for BlackBerry phones.

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Government of Canada Promotes Canadian Manufacturing Expertise in London, Ontario

LONDON, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 29, 2013) -

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The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade, and members of Parliament Susan Truppe (London North Centre) and Ed Holder (London West) meet with workers and other representatives of General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLS) while visiting the company's cutting-edge manufacturing facilities.

During his remarks in London, Minister Fast provided an overview of the Harper Government's pro-trade plan and outlined efforts to open new markets, noting that the government is pursuing trade talks with some of the largest, most dynamic and fastest-growing economies in the world, including India, Japan, the European Union and the countries that make up the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

GDLS is a world leader in light armoured vehicle platforms and subsystem integration in the defence industry.

According to a 2011 KPMG LLP study, the Canadian defence and security industrial base consists of more than 2,000 firms, with the industry generating a total of $12.6 billion of economic activity annually.

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Opera Mediaworks releases Q2 State of Mobile Advertising report: iOS keeps bringing more money than Android

IntoMobile writes, Opera Mediaworks released its Q2 State of Mobile Advertising report, briefing the industry on mobile monetization and advertising trends that unfolded during the period. Here are the highlights: iPhone is still a clear revenue winner, generating 36.4% of revenue compared to Android?s 27.8%. Additionally, iOS also accounts for 43.8% of impressions though Samsung?s dominance of the Android market (58.5%) makes it a strong contender. Baseball season kickoff makes Sports the No. 1 revenue generator for the quarter. Though Sports only commands a 6.5% share of the revenue generated across all?

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Sprint reports 'highest-ever' revenue of $7.2 billion for Q2 2013, loses $1.6 billion on Nextel shutdown

Sprint has just announced its second quarter 2013 financial results, and while it's pay as you go plans are paying off in terms of income, shutdowns and charges caused a huge loss. The company posted $7.2 billion in earnings, its "highest ever" total and an eight percent increase over last year, but also took a net loss of $1.6 billion for the quarter. It's chalking that up to a huge depreciation charge of $430 million and another non-cash hit of $623 million due to the Nextel platform shutdown, which is finally complete. However, the company added that over 4 million Nextel subscribers were "recaptured" to the Sprint platform since the transition commenced in early 2011. The shutdown and loss were anticipated, though and apart from that, Sprint said it's in good place, having achieved "record levels of... postpaid subscribers, service revenue and postpaid ARPU." It also completed its acquisition of Clearwire (at last) and US Cellular's spectrum and customers, while itself being captured into Japanese carrier Softbank's orbit. (For its part, Softbank managed a whopping 238 billion yen ($2.4 billion) in net income during the quarter.)

The operator now has 4G-LTE coverage in 151 markets, including 41 that are new as of today, including Philadelphia, the Bronx , Brooklyn, Jacksonville, Nashville and Oakland. As for subscribers, post post-paid customers are up from last year, but pre-paid clients are down due to "planned deactivations related to regulatory changes." All of that resulted in an increase in churn (turnover) year-over-year to 1.83 percent. Eighty-six percent of its postpaid handset sales were smartphones, including about 1.4 million iPhones sold during the quarter. Going forward, the company just launched a raft of new data plans, including an Unlimited offering that guarantees customers who sign up will get to keep it for life. We'll have to wait and see whether that and all the other machinations this quarter will finally push the company into the black.

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Israel agrees to free 104 Palestinian prisoners

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israel's Cabinet approved the release of 104 long-held Palestinian prisoners Sunday, clearing a hurdle toward a possible resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after five years of paralysis.

The prisoner release is part of a push by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to bring the two sides back to the table. Sunday's 13-7 vote, with two abstentions, marks his first visible achievement after six months of shuttle diplomacy.

As a next step, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are set to hold preliminary talks in Washington on Tuesday, to be followed by up to nine months of negotiations on a peace deal.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, welcomed the Cabinet vote as "a step toward peace."

The fate of Palestinian prisoners is emotionally charged for both sides. Palestinians tend to view prisoners as heroes who made sacrifices in the struggle for independence. Most Israelis view them as cold-blooded terrorists.

The Cabinet approved the release in principle of the 104 prisoners, said a government official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with briefing regulations. Under the deal brokered by Kerry, the prisoners would be freed in four stages over several months. Each step would be linked to progress in negotiations.

According to a list provided by the Palestinians, the prisoners have served between 19 and 30 years for involvement in deadly attacks on Israelis. Their release would go a long way toward giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a popular mandate to resume negotiations with Israel, despite widespread skepticism on both sides after 20 years of intermittent talks that produced no results.

On the Israeli side, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced stiff opposition from within his governing coalition, including his own Likud Party. Two Likud ministers and those from the pro-settler Jewish Home Party voted against a prisoner release.

Outside the government complex, hundreds of Israelis who lost loved ones in Palestinian attacks demonstrated against the release.

Netanyahu told the Cabinet releasing prisoners involved in deadly attacks was difficult for him.

"This is not an easy moment for me, and is not easy for the ministers in the government and is especially difficult for the bereaved families," Netanyahu said. "But there are moments where I need to make tough decisions for the good of the country and this is one of those moments."

"I believe that resuming the political process at this time is important for Israel," he said, noting that any peace deal would have to be approved in a national referendum.

Along with the prisoner release, ministers also authorized the resumption of talks with the Palestinians and agreed that a team led by the prime minister would oversee negotiations.

They approved the draft of an amended bill that would require a referendum on any partition deal with the Palestinians.

A resumption of peace talks is not yet assured, though.

Abbas has said he won't go back to talks unless Netanyahu accepts the pre-1967 war lines as a starting line for border talks. That refers to all of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians want to establish their state those territories, captured by Israel in 1967, though they have said they are ready for minor adjustments.

Abbas told reporters Friday that the invitation to talks to be issued by Kerry will state that the basis for negotiations is the 1967 line. It's not clear whether Netanyahu has dropped his long-standing objection to the idea.

In his comments Sunday, Erekat referred to the touchy issue.

"I hope that we can use this opportunity that the U.S. has provided for us to resume negotiations, in order to achieve peace with a state of Palestine that can live in peace and security next to the state of Israeli on the 1967 lines," he said.

Before the Cabinet vote, hundreds of relatives of those killed by the prisoners protested the release outside parliament. Families held pictures of slain loved ones and chanted, "Terrorists must not be freed."

One of Netanyahu's major coalition partners, Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home Party, took part in the rally. "Whoever demands the killers of women and children to be freed are not worthy to be called a partner," he said, referring to Abbas. "We have nothing to negotiate with he who praises the killers of women and children," Bennett said.

Bennett has threatened to pull his party out of the government if the prime minister agrees to other Palestinian demands, such as recognizing the 1967 line as a base for talks.

Other Israeli leaders said freeing the prisoners is a necessary move in order to promote peace talks.

"This is a painful decision ... but it's a step that will strengthen Israel strategically," opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich of the centrist Labor party said. She called on Netanyahu to listen to an Israeli majority in favor of a peace deal and "not to be led by extremists in his government."

Israel has a history of releasing Palestinian prisoners, including those involved in attacks. In 2011, it exchanged some 1,000 Palestinians for a single Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-agrees-free-104-palestinian-prisoners-141443948.html

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St. Philip?s impacted by Historically Black College funding cuts

St. Philip?s College is eliminating about 20 staff members as a result of a reduction in Title III funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

Alamo Colleges was recently notified that St. Philip?s funding is being reduced from its current level of $5.4 million to $4.3 million for the upcoming fiscal year.

Title III funding is a federal grant program that provides financial support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

As a result, out of 74 staff positions funded by the grant program at St. Philip?s, 20 will be funded directly by Alamo Colleges, 34 will be retained and 20 will no longer be needed.

?We are disappointed to learn that the Title III funding to St. Philip?s College is being reduced,? says Alamo Colleges? Chancellor Dr. Bruce Leslie. ?We value every member of the Alamo Colleges? family, and regret that this significant funding cut reduces the number of staff we can employ for this important program. We are making a significant investment to retain 20 of these positions.?

Affected employees are encouraged to apply for other positions at Alamo Colleges.

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