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Microsoft eyes Yammer to beef up social tools

Microsoft is in discussions to buy Yammer, an enterprise social collaboration company, according to reports.

Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft may be willing to pay more than $1 billion for Yammer. An agreement could be reached as soon today, the report said.

Acquiring Yammer would significantly boost Microsoft's place in the enterprise social software business, analysts said..

To date, Microsoft has positioned its SharePoint Web application platform as a social collaboration tool, they added.

"Regardless of what Microsoft might do with Yammer, assuming the rumors are true, the company will immediately make up a great deal of lost time relative to its rivals, which have been in the market with much more mature enterprise social networking capabilities," said Brad Shimmin, an analyst at CurrentAnalysis.

Enterprise social collaboration vendors include Jive Software, Novell and Cisco Systems.

Yammer, founded in 2008, is also significant player, claiming that its software is used by some 200,000 companies worldwide, including more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies. Users include Deloitte, Ford and Nationwide, the company said.

While Shimmin said that the addition of Yammer's tools would beef up Microsoft's social networking portfolio, he wouldn't expect such an acquisition to mean the end of SharePoint as an enterprise collaboration tool.

"I don't think the addition of Yammer will necessitate a move away from SharePoint," he added.

"If anything, I think the addition of Yammer to the company's portfolio will allow Microsoft to better position SharePoint according to its historical strength, namely enterprise content management," he added.

The addition of Yammer could dramatically boost Office 365, Microsoft's cloud offering, in its competition with arch rival Google's Google Apps product, Shimmin said.

Both Microsoft and Yammer declined to comment on the report.

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Police: Body is likely doctor linked to NY slaying

In this undated photo provided by the Buffalo, N.Y. Police Department, Dr. Timothy Jorden is shown. Jorden is sought as a ?person of Interest? in a fatal shooting of a woman at a Buffalo, N.Y. hospital. (AP Photo/Buffalo N.Y. Police Department)

In this undated photo provided by the Buffalo, N.Y. Police Department, Dr. Timothy Jorden is shown. Jorden is sought as a ?person of Interest? in a fatal shooting of a woman at a Buffalo, N.Y. hospital. (AP Photo/Buffalo N.Y. Police Department)

Law enforcement officers search the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Law enforcement officers search near the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

A Law enforcement officer takes notes at the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Law enforcement officers search near the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

(AP) ? Police believe a body found in Buffalo, N.Y., is that of a trauma surgeon who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the killing of his ex-girlfriend at a hospital.

Police have been searching for 49-year-old Dr. Timothy Jorden since Wednesday morning, when 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was found shot to death in a stairwell at the Erie County Medical Center.

Jorden is a former special forces soldier.

The body was found Friday not far from Jorden's suburban home near Lake Erie.

Dennis Richards, Buffalo Police Department chief of detectives, says the man apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. An autopsy is being conducted.

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Jacob Anthonisen, Lindsay Lohan Pal, Implicated in Murder Investigation


Jacob Anthonisen, an art dealer and friend of Lindsay Lohan and other stars, is currently being sought in a murder investigation, according to Radar Online.

The 37-year-old, who runs with the likes of Emile Hirsch, Mickey Avalon, Taryn Manning and Lady Victoria Hervey, has been named a person of interest.

On June 9, a decomposing body was found in the back of a Cadillac Escalade registered to Jacob Anthonisen in a parking lot in West Hollywood, Calif.

Jacob Anthonisen Mug Shot

The remains were identified on Thursday as Steven John Simmons - Jacob's stepbrother - and the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the chest.

"He has been involved with some very dangerous people in the past, and we are worried that they have something to do with this," a close pal said.

Anthonisen, who owns The Peanut Gallery in L.A., has been missing since May 31. "At this point, everyone is just hoping he is alive and well," a pal said.

"But it's no secret that he served time in prison for drugs, so it's something to consider here. The circumstances lead us to believe drugs played a role."

Though he has been running in the most exclusive Hollywood circles for more than a decade, Anthonisen served two years in prison from 2003-2005.

He was convinced on drug-related felony charges in Arizona.

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California physicians unprepared for electronic health record regulations: report

(Medical Xpress) -- Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according to a report from UCSF researchers.

While 71 percent of California physicians have an EHR system, only 30 percent have one with the functionalities needed to achieve ?meaningful use? requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS), the team reports. These requirements include, for example, the ability to communicate electronically with other health care providers, such as pharmacies, labs, other clinicians, and hospitals, to whom physicians refer patients.

Medicare payments to physicians will be reduced in 2015 if they do not meet these requirements.

The report, available online, summarizes findings from a 2011 survey conducted by UCSF, in collaboration with the California Medical Board, for the California HealthCare Foundation and the California Department of Health Care Services.

EHRs capture patients? health information, such as medical history, allergies, laboratory test results, radiology images, and payment, in an electronic form that enables clinicians and other providers to access and share the information across medical specialties or facilities. Exchanging electronic records among physician practices and between physician practices and hospitals can improve coordination of care because all providers can have access to the same information.?

?We found that physicians are more likely to have electronic health records with functions that support individual patient visits rather than functions that support overall quality improvement,? said lead author Janet M. Coffman, PhD, assistant professor at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine.

For example, Coffman said that 61 percent of physicians have EHRs that enable them to record clinical notes electronically but only 45 percent have the capacity to generate routine reports of quality indicators, such as the percentage of patients with diabetes who receive recommended lab tests, foot exams, and eye exams.

The research team also found that the size of a physician?s practice is the strongest predictor of having an EHR. Physicians who practice in Kaiser Permanente, other large medical groups, the Department of Veteran Affairs, or the military are much more likely to have EHRs than physicians in smaller practices.

Federal regulations identify three categories of objectives aimed at achieving meaningful use of the technology: core objectives, such as the collection of basic medical information; menu objectives, such as submitting electronic immunization data to immunization registries; and electronic reporting on the quality of care. In 2011 and 2012, clinicians are required to report three quality measures: blood pressure, tobacco status, and adult weight status, as well as three additional clinical quality measures of the clinician?s choice.

To further increase the adoption and use of electronic health records, the federal government will provide incentive payments to hospitals and providers that achieve meaningful use of the technology.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act incentive payments could total up to $27 billion over 10 years, or as much as $44,000 (through Medicare) and $63,750 (through Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California) per clinician. This funding also will provide the basis for the creation of a nationwide network of EHRs.

?The Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments will provide valuable resources to physician practices that do not yet have EHRs that will meet meaningful use standards,? said Coffman.? ?Medicaid payments especially are important since we found that community health centers, rural health clinics, and other practices that primarily serve Medicaid beneficiaries and uninsured persons are less likely to have EHRs. Many of these practices are struggling to keep their doors open. Medicaid incentive payments give these practices an opportunity to purchase EHRs.?

When fully implemented, EHRs can improve care in a variety of ways, said Coffman. ?Reminder systems can alert physicians and other health professionals when patients are due for screening tests, and electronic prescribing systems can incorporate alerts to warn providers if they attempt to prescribe a non-standard dose of a medication or a medication to which a patient is allergic,? she said.?

For the report, a questionnaire was sent to 10,353 physicians with MD degree license renewals that were due to the California Medical Board between June 1 and July 31, 2011. The questionnaire asked physicians if they had an EHR at their main practice location, and assessed eight of the 15 core objectives and four of the 10 menu objectives that CMS established for meaningful use of EHRs.

The survey was limited to the 7,931 physicians in the sample who reported that they practiced in California and provided at least one hour of patient care per week; 5,384 of these physicians (68 percent) completed the survey.

Co-authors are Kevin Grumbach, MD, chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine; Margaret Fix, MPH, research associate at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; Leon Trainer, programmer/analyst at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies; and Andrew B. Bindman, MD, professor at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and UCSF Department of Medicine.

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Flattering motherhood, still ? Family Inequality

I offered the first draft of this ? for free ? to the major newspapers, to no avail. In the meantime, there have been some great short pieces written on the recent motherhood-is-work kerfuffle. I don?t remember them all, but I liked those by Katha Pollitt,?Nancy Folbre,?Adia Harvey Wingfield, Barbara Risman, Laura Flanders, Feminist Hulk, and Linda Hirshman. The feminist field on this issue has been crowded, which is great.

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Hopefully we can agree that that the true measure of motherhood is somewhere between ?toughest job in the world? and ?nothing.?

On the one hand, both President Obama and pundit Hilary Rosen have now called motherhood the world?s hardest job. And with the Romneys flopping onto the all-mothers-work bandwagon, it appears we?re reaching a rare rhetorical consensus.

On the other hand, the majority in both major political parties agrees that poor single mothers and their children need one thing above all ? a (real) job, one that provides the ?dignity of an honest day?s work.?* For welfare purposes, taking care of children is not only not the toughest job in the world, it is more akin to nothing at all. When Bill Clinton?s endorsed welfare-to-work he famously declared: ?The days of something for nothing are over.? President Obama and Mitt Romney both support that welfare reform.

Of course parenthood is work. But it?s really many jobs, not one. And now that more and more of them are also available for a fee ? as real jobs ? we can see how much the ?market? thinks they?re really worth. Answer: not much. When sold as services, the many tasks of parenthood are disproportionately done by women. Some of its core tasks ? such as cooking, cleaning, diaper-changing and laundry ? are among the lowest-paid, most demeaning, female-dominated occupations.

Source: My calculations from 2010 American Community Survey.

As I wrote before, when it comes to reproductive labor, there?s work and there?s work:

Katha Pollitt made this point more eloquently in her column:

But the brouhaha over Hilary Rosen?s injudicious remarks is not really about whether what stay-home mothers do is work. Because we know the answer to that: it depends. When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work?difficult, sacred, noble work. ? When performed for pay, however, this supremely important, difficult job becomes low-wage labor that almost anyone can do?teenagers, elderly women, even despised illegal immigrants. But here?s the real magic: when performed by low-income single mothers in their own homes, those same exact tasks?changing diapers, going to the playground and the store, making dinner, washing the dishes, giving a bath?are not only not work; they are idleness itself.

Instead of the money men get for their labors, mothers are asked to settle for less money and a rhetorical pat on the head (if they are middle class ?moms? instead of merely poor mothers ? I think that?s known in economics as a ?compensating differential?). As Barbara Ehrenreich put it, nobody ever put motherhood on a pedestal until feminists pointed out that ?the pay is lousy and the career ladder is nonexistent.?

Still, the universal agreement that motherhood is ?work? marks a genuine moment. Among other possible interpretations, it is a victory of ?choice? feminism ? which would have us ?respect women in all the choices they make,? in the words of the newfound feminist Mrs. Romney. (Work = respect, nowadays in America, though it wasn?t always that way.) But celebrating the choice to do something most women can?t choose is the dangerous outcome of putting motherhood on a pedestal. It divides women according to the value of their motherhood.

Accepting pedestal status instead of equality is a bargain some feminists have refused for a century or more. One of those was Harriet Stanton Blatch (Elizabeth Cady Stanton?s daughter), who wrote in 1908: ?Of all the people who block the progress of woman suffrage, the worst are the women of wealth and leisure who never knew a day?s work and never felt a day?s want, but who selfishly stand in the way of those women who know what it means to earn the bread they eat by the sternest toil? (emphasis added).

Parenthood won?t get the respect it deserves ? including men embracing it in more equal numbers ? until the monetary reward it draws matches the rhetoric of its symbolic value. That means recognizing the real value of parents? sternest toils ? even if they?re not married ? from which we all benefit.

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*California Gov. Pete Wilson, Washington Times, 12/7/1995, p. A21.

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Alesis Q25

Many MIDI controllers these days come with plenty of knobs and sliders. But the Alesis Q25 ($179.99 list) harkens back to a different era, one of simplicity of design?except updated for today's laptop and iPad-driven music studios. The Q25 ?is a 25-note, velocity-sensitive MIDI keyboard with a built-in USB interface. It promises accurate MIDI control, portability, and not much else. As long as your needs are modest, it's a solid controller at a bargain price.

Design, Controls, and Connections
The Q25 measures 19 by 7.25 by 2.38 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.6 pounds. It's made entirely of black matte plastic, with non-weighted synthesizer keys in white and black, and slightly tapered, rounded edges that lend the Q25 a feeling of solidity and comfort when transporting it. The controls really are simple: To the left of the 25-key key bed are old-style, plastic pitch bend and modulation wheels. The pitch bend has a center detent and returns to the center as soon as you lift your finger, while the modulation wheel has no detent and no spring-loaded return; it stays in position wherever you leave it.

Above the two wheels are Octave Down, MIDI/Select, and Octave Up buttons. Finally, there's a data entry slider that feels a little cheap and scratchy when moved in its recessed vertical slot. There are no other programmable knobs, sliders, pads, or transport controls?this should be obvious at a glance, but controllers like the M-Audio Oxygen 25 ($149.95 list) trade a little extra depth and a higher street price (more on that later) for much more in the way of MIDI control.

Alesis throws in a USB cable and a Quick Start guide, and also bundles a DVD copy of Ableton Live Lite Alesis edition, which gets you started recording and sequencing music. The Q25 is class-compliant, so you don't need to install a driver on the PC or Mac; just plug it in and start playing. There's no aftertouch, though. The Q25 works fine with an iPad as long as you buy the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit , which comes with two adapters, one of which mates a dock connector to a USB port. Unfortunately, the Q25 doesn't work with the IK Multimedia iRig MIDI , since that interface works with a MIDI cable only, and therefore requires some kind of external power for the controller; the Q25 doesn't come with a power adapter in the box.

Alesis Q25

Testing and Conclusions
I had no problem playing and recording MIDI data in Apple Logic Pro 9, Steinberg Cubase 6.5, and Cakewalk SONAR X1 using the Q25. The Octave Down and Octave Up buttons made it easy to jump around in the keyboard range, depending on the sound I wanted, and the velocity sensitivity was well tuned and felt natural to my fingers. Playing the keys resulted in no untoward vibrations or rattles, and the Q25 stayed put on my desk, thanks to its well-positioned rubber feet. One glitch: I noticed that after several weeks of testing, the lower B key began to rattle a tiny bit internally, although the rest of the key bed remained rattle-free.

You probably wouldn't want to knock the Q25 around in the back of a van on an extended live tour, at least without a (very) well-padded case of some kind. But as a small desktop controller, or as one you could throw in a bag and bring to a hotel or a friend's house, the Q25 does the job with aplomb. And at a street price hovering in the $70 range, it's tough to find something like it that's this inexpensive. The M-Audio Oxygen 25, now on its third generation, tends to cost $90 to $100 on the street, despite its lower list price. The Oxygen 25 offers much more in the way of real-time controls, thanks to its array of knobs, sliders, and transport buttons. The Oxygen 25 is also slightly thinner than the Q25, although it's deeper, and requires more of that crucial space between your desktop PC keyboard and monitor.

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 high-ISO shots go under the loupe in mirrorless standoff with OM-D E-5 and NEX-7

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We'll soon be putting Fujifilm's new interchange able shooter through our own wringer, but in the meantime we found an apt low-light comparison with two of its non-reflex brethren. Although blogging photog Steve Huff admits the tests are "crazy" and depend on the camera's own auto-exposure choices, the results do give some food for thought. How would the pricier rangefinder-bodied X-Pro1 stack up against the Sony NEX-7 and Olympus OM-D E-M5? If we had to guess -- and we really do, given his methodology -- the noise levels on the Fuji at ISO 3200 and 6400 look to be slightly better than the Sony and smaller-sensored Olympus. If you'd like to take a stab at judging for yourself, follow the link below.

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Motorola Motoluxe now available in the UAE

Motorola MotoluxeMotorola this morning announced that the Motoluxe is now available in the UAE. It's the latest in a European/MEA launch for the 4-inch, Android 2.3 device. As you'll remember from our hands-on at CES, the Motoluxe features a widget-heavy display and also has an 8MP rear-facing camera.

“With every aspect of the UAE’s breathtaking evolution informed by cutting-edge style and design, it is no surprise that its citizens are extremely demanding when it comes to their smartphones,” Raed Hafez, general manager, Middle East & Africa, Motorola Mobility, said in a new release. “Boasting a winning combination of sleek looks and Android brains, MOTOLUXE has all the ingredients needed to succeed in country where style goes hand in hand with substance.”

Specific pricing and carriers were not announced. 

Source: Motorola

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MSI GT70 gaming laptop review

MSI GT70 gaming laptop review

Now that Intel's let the cat out of the bag (and into the Ivy), it's high time we took a look at what manufactures are going to do with those fancy new processors. Behold: The MSI GT70 gaming laptop, one of the first gaming beasts out of the door with Intel's next generation architecture. Living up to its next-gen CES promises, this 17.3-inch behemoth falls squarely in the desktop replacement category, at 8.6 pounds, and packs a new 2.3GHz Core i7-3610QM processor, NVIDIA's latest GeForce GTX 670M chip with 3GB of video memory, 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a fancy RAID 0 dual SSD setup -- all wrapped in one hefty, formidable package. So how powerful a combination do Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA make? Let's find out.

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