?One of the concerns after Steve Jobs died was whether Apple?s institutional values ? as embodied by his hand-picked executive team ? would survive his passing,? Philip Elmer-DeWitt writes for Fortune. ?The team lost a key member when Ron Johnson, who built the Apple Stores, departed in November run J.C. Penney. Because Johnson made his decision to leave public nine months before Jobs died, that didn?t seem to count.?
P.E.D. writes, ?But when Apple announced in a news release Thursday night that senior vice president for hardware engineering Bob Mansfield was retiring, the tech press took notice? Apple?s press release doesn?t provide Mansfield?s age, but he looks pretty young for a retiree. We?ve seen no evidence that he was forced out. Perhaps the burden of supervising so many important products finally took their toll.?
?Mansfield can certainly afford to retire,? P.E.D. writes. ?Between August 2008 and March 2012, according to MarketWatch?s insider trading log, he sold Apple shares worth nearly $98 million (some of them to pay taxes). According to his latest SEC filing, he still holds 120,000 shares worth, as of Thursday?s close, another $68 million. Other members of Apple?s executive team are just as rich ? if not richer. That?s one of the downsides of rewarding employees of a successful company with stock options. Keeping those multimillionaires ? and their institutional memory ? around will be one of Tim Cook?s great challenges.?
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As Steve Jobs said:
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn?t matter to me ? Going to bed at night saying we?ve done something wonderful? that?s what matters to me.
I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn?t that important because I never did it for the money.
Now ? and we?re not talking about Mansfield or Johnson here ? if your goal is to get rich and cash out, Apple doesn?t want you. It?s not a ?great challenge? for Tim Cook, it?s self-selected winnowing. Cook just needs to make sure the wheat is ready as the chaff blows away.
Related articles: Bob Mansfield, Apple?s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, to retire; Dan Riccio to take over ? June 28, 2012 Apple?s retail store chief Johnson off to J.C. Penney; expected to become CEO within months ? June 14, 2011
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In today?s market, most financial services firms have a Chief Risk Officer or even more specifically a Head of Operational Risk. Few would argue that these roles exist as a means to solely satisfy regulators.
These roles are critical to protecting a firm?s earnings and reputation. In addition, many have found that having a solid operational risk strategy can deliver significant additional benefits.
Despite the importance of these roles, the day to day responsibility for operational risk does not lie with the CRO or Head of Operational Risk. These individuals are primarily responsible for promoting proper management of and measurement of the amount of operational risk across the organization. It is a firm?s Business Managers who control the resources that control operational risk.
Unfortunately, not enough Business Managers engage in formal operational risk strategies. As a result many firms face unnecessary threats to the successful achievement of their financial objectives.
This needs to be addressed. Today, global financial institutions face pressure to continuously tackle mounting regulatory change and growing market scrutiny while striving to increase customer confidence, drive competitive advantage, and optimize stakeholder value.
Paramount to their success is their Business Manager?s ability to accurately monitor internal processes and procedures to manage risks and business opportunities.
The Role of a Business Manager for Operational Risk
Business Managers play the most critical role in promoting a controlled risk culture. As a manager, they have an obligation to ensure that you and your staff are conducting business efficiently, honestly and fairly.
If your Business Manager does not keep this obligation, regulators can impose sanctions on the firm and individual staff members who have violated these requirements. Hefty damages, lost jobs and irreparable damage to the firm?s reputation may follow if you do not constantly pursue effective leadership and supervision.
Operational risk needs to be a priority in the management agenda. Business Managers have specific responsibilities that they must carry out in order to meet regulatory and fiduciary requirements.
A good operational risk methodology and management structure will promote appropriate behavior.
It is also important to understand that a management structure will need to complement the firm?s overall operational risk methodology. A good operational risk methodology should be collaboration between Operational Risk Managers and Business Managers to achieve well-considered risk assessments.
These assessments should be based on thorough research into all the risks which exist in each business unit, looking at the potential for a loss on a near term basis as well as a worst case basis.
This will also vary by organization as some may feel a more control based approach works for them, whilst others may believe examining risks and controls along processes is more in keeping with the way they consider things. This methodology will also likely include the usual questionnaires, scorecards, causal factors, etc.
How to Identify And Avoid Management Failure
Identifying and avoiding the potentially negative consequences of management failure or more importantly being a successful Business Manager takes a great deal of effort. One can considerably improve the chance of success by regularly reviewing the current management data and its structure and being knowledgeable about some of the common mistakes business managers make.
On a regular basis, Business Managers should examine and review their current management systems and execution, identify areas for improvement and make the necessary changes.
Critical to this review is the availability of timely, complete and reliable related data. Where in most cases the Risk Management team takes on responsibility for organizing, collecting and maintaining this data, it is the Business Managers who can extract real value from it.
Business Managers should be taking the lead in using this data to reduce losses by strengthening controls where necessary, perhaps stream-lining some processes after examination and consultation with internal audit.
More controls are not always the solution; simplifying processes can improve controls too in certain situations. In this activity, the Operational Risk Manager will prove an invaluable partner by doing nearly all the work leaving the Business Manager to do what they do best and that is make decisions based on recommendations.
There is usually a lot of data to be collected and kept up to date. In addition, this data needs to be analyzed and regularly reviewed. To maximize the benefits of this analysis, most mature financial firms should endeavor to rely on a unified computer system that gives flexibility to a manager to manipulate and analyze varied selections of related information.
This is very difficult to do when risk managers keep different Governance, Risk and Compliance information in spreadsheets or in different systems that were designed at different times with different architectures. This fragmented approach often produces data barriers across business units and leads to inefficient and costly maintenance and operations.
Firms that are able to readily access and use critical data across traditionally disparate business unit silos, will be able to increase their data integrity while more effectively quantifying, analyzing and measuring the effectiveness of their Governance, Risk and Compliance initiatives.
Having all this information in one, unified system that allows busy Business Managers to quickly see all the different types of risks and the state of controls in that part of the organization for which they are responsible enables them to make good decisions about whether changes are required.
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Friday Highlights: Five years ago today, the iPhone was introduced and since then it has changed the world, reinvented Apple, and so much more?reports in our Apple/Macintosh, General Interest, and Op/Ed sections; iTunes revamp coming, rumored to have more social content, music sharing, and more; Bob Mansfield, Apple's hardware engineering boss announces his retirement, shoes being filled by key lieutenant, Dan Riccio; and former Mac OS man, Bertrand Serlet, is working with ex-Apple employees on a "mystery startup"; staying on theme, yet another Apple employee is retiring, Betsy Rafael, Corporate Controller; Google says they're working on a fix for Chrome crashing new MacBooks; Piper Jaffray grades Siri a "D" but gives Google's voice control a "B+" in a 1600 question "Minneapolis street test"; from the grave, Steve Jobs can etch another victory mark on his chalkboard, as Adobe ditches Flash on the mobile platform; almost 28,000 people in Madrid sign petition for Apple to return "much-loved" landmark for Tio Pepe sherry; here we go again, rumor that Apple to release upgraded iPad this summer; Foxconn investing in Sharp, likely to prepare for the Apple television; Google Chrome for iOS, released Thursday, is number 1 on the App Store Chart, browser put through the paces at ExtremeTech, iMore; Amsys offers pros and cons of the new Retina Display MacBook; T3 compares Google's Nexus 7 with iPad 3; TechCrunch reports that Apple may have, yet again, changed App Store algorithms; InformationWeek's Jonathan Feldman responds to Apple "fanboys" over his Apple's planned obsolescence article; Google's Nexus Q is made in the US, Jason O'Grady asks if this is a killer feature?; but Patrick Moorhead calls it "a confused product".
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"Apple's SVP of Hardware Engineering, Bob Mansfield, is to retire."?Digital Trends?8:33 AM
"Brain drain: Apple's senior hardware chief retires rich/Bob Mansfield is the second key executive to leave since Steve Jobs died"?Fortune?7:55 AM
"Apple's Bob Mansfield retires; hardware engineering"?ZDNet?8:21 AM
"Apple's Longtime Mac Hardware Chief Retiring"?CRN?10:46 AM
"The Man Behind The Mac OS Is Working On A Mystery Startup With Other Ex-Apple Employees"?Business Insider?12:14 PM
"Former Mac OS X Chief Quietly Building Cloud Startup"?PC Magazine?4:00 PM
"Apple Gets Injunction Against Samsung as Tablet Market Heats Up"?The Motley Fool?8:33 AM
"Jobs destroys another rival ? from the grave: You can officially add Research In Motion to the list of companies that Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO, has dispatched from the technology marketplace. This time Jobs has done it posthumously."?MarketWatch?7:42 AM
iPhone Impact
"Touched by greatness: The iPhone years"?GigaOM?8:16 AM
"Five years later: How the iPhone reinvented Apple"?GigaOM?8:24 AM
"Because of the iPhone, there is an app for that ? Tech News and Analysis"?GigaOM?8:17 AM
"Apple's September iPhone 5: 'Biggest product launch in CE history'?"?Computerworld?8:29 AM
"News has been changed forever by the iPhone"?GigaOM?8:24 AM
"The Apple iPhone at 5: a potted history/Happy 5th birthday, iPhone! This is your life"?Macworld UK?8:09 AM
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News
"Google: Yes, Chrome is crashing MacBooks"?CNET Reviews?9:01 AM
"Google: Chrome Is 'Causing A Kernel Panic' On Some Macs, We're Fixing It ..."?RazorianFly?8:31 AM
"Google confirms Chrome bug is causing crashes on latest MacBook Air"?Ars Technica?10:50 AM
"MobileMe, a rare Apple screwup, finally bites the dust"?CNET News?1:32 PM
"6 Ways Apple Is Polishing Mac Security: Apple no longer markets Macs as malware-free, but rather 'built for security,' and refines protection in Mountain Lion."?InformationWeek?11:21 AM
"Mac-based Trojan targets Uyghur activists: Security researchers have intercepted a Mac-based Trojan attack targeting Uyghur human rights activists."?The Register?12:10 PM
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Hard Disk Failure on the Office iMac: Part 2 -Data Recovery"?eXtensions?7:48 AM
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"iBook Lessons: The absolute beginner"?TUAW?12:48 PM
"MailTags 3 is an excellent add-on for Apple's Mail app"?Macworld?10:15 AM
"Merge separate App and Media libraries Article"?iLounge?10:52 AM
"Ask the iTunes Guy: Questions about video"?Macworld?8:51 AM
"Strophes is an indispensable complement to iTunes"?MacNews?9:42 AM
"Sound Bunny Review" ["This light application from Prosoft lets you set the volume level for each application running on your Mac."]?Mac|Life?9:24 AM
"MacMost Now 728: Creating Animated Video Charts With Keynote"?MacMost?3:32 PM
"Using Munki to Manage Apple Software Updates"?Amsys?9:03 AM
"3 Ways to Turn Off The Screen of Your MacBook Without Closing The Lid [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?8:50 AM
"Be Afraid. Macs Get Malware. Scan, Find, Delete Malware With These Free Apps"?PixoBebo?7:51 AM
"How To Stop Hackers, Malware, And Big Brother From Breaking 'Out' Of Your Mac"?BohemianBoomer?7:51 AM
"The Easy Way To Turn Your Skype Calls Into QuickTime Movies On A Mac"?Mac 360?7:52 AM
"How Is Your Mac Working? Check On The Mac's Internals With A System Monitor App"?Mac 360?7:52 AM
"The Best Way Yet To Clean Up And Manage A Mac's Crowded, Cluttered Menubar"?TeraTalks?7:52 AM
"How To Add Flare To Your Mac And Your Photos With Just A Click"?McSolo?7:52 AM
"Free: All The Keyboard Shortcuts Revealed With This Mac Cheat Sheet App"?NoodleMac?7:51 AM
Op/Ed
"Always On Scroll Bars in Lion, 'New' Mac Pro Same as the Old Mac Pro, and More"?Low End Mac?4:00 PM
"A Big Day For Google Chrome With Release On iOS, Crashing On OS X"?AppleBitch?9:29 AM
Press Releases
"Hero Academy Is Coming To Mac And Adding Valve's Team Fortess 2 As A Playable Team"?Cult of Mac?3:15 PM
"All Call of Duty games 50% off on Mac App Store"?FairerPlatform?12:49 PM
"Characters For Mac, A Designers' and Developers' Best Friend"?Cult of Mac?8:50 AM
"The Desktop Web Browser for Smartphone Users 'Sleipnir 3 for Windows / Mac (3.5) 'released. ? Drastically change your smartphone life!"?Sleipnir?7:53 AM
"Logoist 1.0 for Mac OS X - Create Stunning Artwork"?prMac?7:46 AM
"Zevrix Updates Output Factory for InDesign: Improves Book Processing"?prMac?7:46 AM
"Sprightly Software Releases Attendance Taking App, Participants for Mac"?prMac?7:45 AM
"Introducing Armadillo - the world's best Audio Notes"?prMac?7:45 AM
"Apple's Siri Gets Below-Average Grade From Piper Jaffray"?Bloomberg?10:46 AM
"Siri Shows Increasing Promise, But Accuracy Falls Short of Google Text Searches"?MacRumors?10:50 AM
"Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones"?GigaOM?12:48 PM
"On the Big Screen: Surface Beats Retina"?AllThingsD?2:18 PM
"21% of iOS users say they wouldn't leave Apple at any price"?AppleInsider?3:15 PM
"Happy Birthday, iPhone! What's It Feel Like Being 5?"?Wired?9:22 AM
"Apple's iPhone Marks 5 Years as Iconic Smartphone"?ABCNews?9:25 AM
"iPhone: The 5-Year-Old That Changed the World [Infographic]?Mashable?8:36 AM
"Will Apple say 'uncle' in Madrid? Nearly 28,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple Inc. to return a much-loved but unofficial Madrid landmark, a massive Tio Pepe sherry advertisement, to its perch atop a historic hotel in the bustling central square Puerta del Sol upon completion of the edifice's renovation."?MarketWatch?9:48 AM
"New Apple Stores Opening in US, Australia on Saturday"?The Mac Observer?9:42 AM
"Virgin Mobile to carry iPhone from today, Sir Richard does his best Fonz impression"?Engadget?9:07 AM
"The Phoenix Rises: Modbook Pro ? Worlds Most Powerful and Largest-Screen Tablet Computer"?MacPrices?12:47 PM
"Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action"?MacNewsWorld?8:33 AM
"The Mac Modbook is back, watch out iPad: A pro version of the Modbook, a modified MacBook-Wacom tablet combo will hit the shops this autumn"?Macworld UK?8:09 AM
Non-Apple News
"Microsoft Bringing Fingerprint Detection to 'Surface' Tablets"?Patent Bolt?12:47 PM
"Facebook Insider Tells All In 'The Boy Kings'"?Daily Ticker?1:26 PM
"Gateway refreshes budget-priced SX, DX desktops for back-to-school shopping"?ZDNet?1:11 PM
"How One Hacker Quit the Programming Life for Bluer Skies"?Wired Magazine?1:07 PM
"Red Hat details next Linux and storage platforms for cloud, big data era"?ZDNet?1:10 PM
"Nintendo hires digital content expert"?TG Daily?12:51 PM
"French bid 'adieu' to Minitel, the France-Wide Web"?Reuters?11:40 AM
"So what will you do with your extra second tomorrow night? Rare leap second to be added to atomic clocks on Saturday night"?The Independent?11:26 AM
"Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15"?IDG News Service?10:46 AM
"AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo]?TechCrunch?12:22 PM
"AOL reorganizes, creates three new groups"?CNET News?10:00 AM
"AOL Promotes CFO Minson To COO To Reorganize Company"?Bloomberg?10:30 AM
"RIM Explores Microsoft Alliance, Other Radical Moves"?InformationWeek?1:35 PM
"RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone"?Forbes?9:52 AM
"No shortage of requests from Android devs at Google team's 'fireside chat"?Network World?11:53 AM
"Google Glasses Link Virtual, Real Worlds"?Computerworld?11:49 AM
"GameStop pre-selling Nexus 7, offers discounts with trade-ins"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?11:36 AM
"Google makes small changes to Google+ but shows social skills elsewhere: The company rolled out incremental improvements to its social network platform while adding social elements to its other offerings"?IDG News Service?11:51 AM
"Google+ minus Linus Torvalds: New Google+ Events feature sends the father of Linux packing"?InfoWorld?11:23 AM
"Google Is Rolling Out Changes To Crack Down On Google+ Event Spam"?TechCrunch?12:22 PM
"Google scrambles to fix Events after celebs yelp"?GigaOM?9:32 AM
"Adobe Flash Is Dead -- on mobile!"?BetaNews?10:15 AM
"Most Americans doubt safety of cloud storage"?MacNews?9:42 AM
"Google's new Nexus 7 tablet apparently infringes Nokia's patents and faces other IP risks"?Foss Patents?8:51 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"In-Depth: Graphisoft talks to Architosh about ArchiCAD 16"?Architosh?12:47 PM
"Interview: Artist Growth for iOS helps manage your musical career"?TUAW?8:45 AM
"Apple Could Sell $10B Of iPad Minis In FY '13, Analyst Says"?Forbes?3:32 PM
"Rumor: New 'Thin' iPad Set To Arrive This Summer"?Apple Bitch?3:45 PM
"Foxconn aims to land iTV orders by investing in Sharp, says CMI former executive"?DigiTimes?10:53 AM
"Foxconn, Sharp eying Apple big-screen TV, says parts maker: Need more reassurance that an Apple big-screen TV is on the way? A screen component manufacturer in Asia muses on the potential of the Foxconn-Sharp alliance."?CNET News?7:47 AM
"iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 29"?Network World?11:53 AM
"Want a terabyte iPad? Then you'll want to read this"?GigaOM?9:48 AM
"Chrome for iOS hits No.1 in Apple's App Store"?BGR?7:56 AM
"Chrome hits iPhone and iPad, storms to top of download chart"?The Register?8:17 AM
"Google Chrome already No. 1 among free iOS apps"?CNET News?7:57 AM
"Google Chrome races onto iOS, slowed by Apple-implemented speed issues"?AFP Relax News?8:02 AM
"Chrome for iOS Tops App Store Charts"?PC Magazine?10:58 AM
"Google Chrome for iOS: Number one with a bullet"?FairerPlatform?10:53 AM
"Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's"?The Register?7:47 AM
Price Trackers/Deals
"MEGA MAN X For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For $0.99 (Normally $4.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:52 AM
"Clock Blocks For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:52 AM
"Photo Slice For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:52 AM
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7:48 AM
"MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?7:48 AM
"Refurbished Mac Pros -Prices Range From $1,730 to $5,259"?MacReviewZone?9:19 AM
"iPad Closeout & Refurbished & Used Buyer's Guide -Prices Start At $248"?MacReviewZone?7:48 AM
"PadGadget Daily App Deal ? 20 iPad Apps on Sale"?PadGadget?8:51 AM
"Best Selling iPhone Headsets -From $2 To $300 -Prices, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?7:51 AM
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
Reviews
"The MacBook Retina Display ? Pros and Cons"?Amsys?7:50 AM
"Google Nexus 7 vs new iPad 3"?T3?9:48 AM
"GPU acceleration in After Effects CS6: Which Mac does it better?"?Bare Feats?1:25 PM
"Wacom Intuos5 Wireless Accessory Kit Review"?The PC Weenies?11:48 AM
"GeekDad Review: Hitachi G-Connect"?Wired?1:26 PM
"MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Converter for 2012 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display (Video)"?Insanely Great Mac?8:12 AM
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Face Off: Chrome vs. Safari for iOS" ["But the only true assessment of a browser's usefulness, of course, is how fast it loads the sites we visit every day, and in our much-less-scientific matchups, Chrome performed admirably. Safari won most battles (the content-rich New York Times website loaded about a second quicker, but this site actually loaded a couple of ticks faster with Chrome), but none of the contests were decided by more than a few seconds. And once cached, the difference was mostly imperceptible."]?Mac|Life?2:21 PM
"At last! Chrome for iPhone and iPad is here, and it (mostly) rocks"?Houston Chronicle?11:21 AM
"Chrome on iOS is sluggish, but at least it syncs"?ExtremeTech?8:12 AM
"Google Chrome vs Apple Safari: iOS Browser shootout!"?iMore?8:33 AM
"11 mobile apps to enhance your travel experience"?Computerworld?10:52 AM
"Yelp for iOS review: With iOS 6 you'll be able to read Yelp reviews in Maps. But you can read them right now with the Yelp app itself"?Macworld UK?8:12 AM
"SnapDot app makes stipple portraits on the iPhone a snap"?GigaOM?12:49 PM
"Project Now iOS app generates a soundtrack for your life -- Kind of"?BetaNews?8:50 AM
"Magical Weather for iPad review"?iMore?8:37 AM
"App Spotlight: MaxEmail Fax Turns Your iPhone into a Fax Machine"?PCWorld?11:53 AM
"5 good iPad apps worth checking out"?ZDNet?8:21 AM
"LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 for iOS review/Immerse yourself in a lego-based world featuring the boy who lived"?Macworld UK?8:39 AM
"Adventure Time - Legends of Ooo: Big Hollow Princess Review"?Mac|Life?8:51 AM
"Oregano Recipe Manager Review: Is Oregano the recipe manager to end all recipe managers? Not quite."?148Apps?3:31 PM
"Boom Brigade 2 Review: This particular infestation is going to require a bit more than a rolled up newspaper and some glue traps."?148Apps?2:28 PM
"The Mordis Review: The Mordis is a brain teasing puzzler that is both challenging and addicting."?148Apps?12:13 PM
"Magic 2013 Review/Forget the free option. Plunk down $9.99 and buy a great translation of Magic: The Gathering to the iPad."?148Apps?12:13 PM
"Spell Dash Review: Owing much to other word games, Spell Dash still has a certain fun quality about it."?148Apps?9:23 AM
"Cthulhu Saves The World Review: Cthulhu Saves The World is an RPG inspired by the 16-bit era that has players taking Cthulhu on an adventure to become a true hero so that he can destroy the world."?148Apps?8:44 AM
Tips
"A Great Fix For A Broken iPhone Power/Lock Button"?Apple Bitch?10:46 AM
"Make Chrome your default browser in iOS with BrowserChooser"?iDownload Blog?8:30 AM
"iMac 2012 Retina: iMac 2012, New iMac or iMac Retina ? whatever it will be called, here are our predictions for Apple's next all in one PC, and check back for 2012 iMac news, rumours and details as we get them."?TrustedReviews?2:19 PM
"Another Management Exit Suggests Apple's Ride Without Jobs Could Be A Rocky One"?App Advice?1:34 PM
"An Apple-lover's take on the Nexus 7"?VentureBeat?1:34 PM
"Looks Like Apple Has Changed Its App Store Algorithm Again"?TechCrunch?12:10 PM
"The Macalope Daily: Cry me a river"?Macworld [Insider Content]?10:15 AM
"I run my business from iPhone 3G"?BetaNews?9:23 AM
"5 years later: 8 iPhone-bashing pundits repent/Pundits who got it wrong about the iPhone when it debuted explain why ? or deny that they did" [Slideshow]?InfoWorld?11:34 AM
"Five Years Later: Where Were You When The iPhone Was Born? [Feature]?Cult of Mac?10:52 AM
"The iPhone at five: Was it really five years ahead?"?Electricpig?10:52 AM
"It's iPhone's 5th Birthday: Here Are Its 5 Most Viral Videos Ever"?Business Insider?10:49 AM
"iPhone fifth anniversary: Apple's meteoric rise to the top"?BGR?9:47 AM
"The iPhone That Started A Revolution"?App Advice?8:52 AM
"Happy 5th birthday, original iPhone!"?iMore?8:37 AM
"Here's What Steve Ballmer Thought About The iPhone Five Years Ago"?Business Insider?8:36 AM
"How the iPhone shaped the wireless industry ? for better or worse"?GigaOM?8:24 AM
"The iPhone at 5: a GigaOM retrospective"?GigaOM?8:16 AM
"Apple posts multi-million dollar bond to start Galaxy Tab injunction"?IntoMobile?8:09 AM
"It's Mac vs. PC. iPad vs. Everything Else. Beware: The Specification Wars Are Back"?Mac 360?7:51 AM
Non-Apple
"Google Nexus Q Hands-On: The buggy streaming story"?PCWorld?2:21 PM
"How To Maximize Your SSD Investment: Some servers benefit from solid state drives more than others. An SSD deployment strategy will help you get the biggest bang for your buck."?InformationWeek?1:35 PM
"Parsing the New Cellphone Plans"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?1:03 PM
"The week in tech: 5 must-know things"?USA Today?12:59 PM
"10 essentials for nerds hitting the beach"?MSNBC?11:41 AM
"Could Facebook be testing a 'Want' button?"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?11:37 AM
"Is the 'home of the future' ideal passe?"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?11:34 AM
"Gouged by cloud - but it's so convenient"?The Register?12:55 PM
"Red Hat, the hidden cloud company"?InfoWorld?11:22 AM
"Anthony Wood: How Roku Prospers In An Apple-Google TV Invasion"?Forbes?11:07 AM
"Sandberg faces many tests at Facebook"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?11:04 AM
"Survey: 59% would grab smartphone out of toilet"?CBS News?10:39 AM
"LinkedIn Breach: Leading CISOs Share 9 Protection Tips"?InformationWeek?10:05 AM
"8 Android devices you can mod to run 'Ice Cream Sandwich'" [Slideshow]?Network World?11:21 AM
"Hello, Nexus Q. Goodbye, Google TV?"?Techland?12:58 PM
"At first birthday, has Google+ found its niche? Social network might be becoming hub for all things Google"?Computerworld?10:46 AM
"Is Google prepping a 10-inch tablet?"?CNET News?10:00 AM
"Google Nexus 7 Review Round-Up: Best $200 Tablet Available"?PCWorld?11:48 AM
"RIM's Most Excellent Decision: Delaying BlackBerry 10"?Techland?12:59 PM
"Is RIM, a Canadian national icon, at its breaking point?"?The Globe and Mail [Free Registration Required]?11:17 AM
"Google Nexus Q: A Confused Product"?Tech.pinions?10:52 AM
"Made in the U.S.A. - Google's killer new feature?"?ZDNet?8:19 AM
Humor/Cartoons
"Microsoft and OEMs: New game, new rules"?ZDNet?1:10 PM
"Microsoft Offends OEMs With Surface, HP Refusing To Build Windows ARM Devices"?TechCrunch?12:22 PM
"HP Won't Build Tablet For Debut Of Microsoft Windows RT"?Forbes?1:23 PM
"Hewlett-Packard To Shun ARM At Debut Of Microsoft Windows 8"?Bloomberg?1:21 PM
"Microsoft tie-up, network sale among RIM options: sources"?Reuters [Free Registration Required]?11:16 AM
"Report: Full upgrades to Windows 8 only from Windows 7/Microsoft tells partners essentially what it's already told customers who tried the Windows 8 previews"?Computerworld?10:46 AM
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? Danell Leyva likes being right as much as he enjoys winning.
The world parallel bars champion has been saying for months there is not just one guy pushing him on the way to the London Olympics. And every competition, someone else comes along to back him up.
Leyva moved into the overall lead in the race for London on Thursday, but it was Sam Mikulak who won the first day of the Olympic trials. The 19-year-old who oozes California cool finished with 91.8 points, edging Leyva by a mere 0.1 points. John Orozco, who beat Leyva for the U.S. title earlier this month, was third.
"That's huge because I did a pretty good meet myself," Leyva said. "To know he had the highest all-around score today, that's awesome."
While individual prizes are nice, the Americans want that big shiny gold medal that goes to the best team. And for the first time since 1984, they just might have the goods to do it.
Leyva and Orozco remained in position to earn automatic spots on the five-man London squad, reserved for the top two all-arounders ? so long as they also rank among the top three in at least three of the six disciplines. At the moment, Orozco and Leyva both meet those criteria, with Mikulak closing fast.
Leyva has a total score of 276.500 going into Saturday's finals, followed by Orozco (275.550) and Mikulak (274.650). Jonathan Horton, a double Olympic medalist, is fourth, and Jake Dalton is fifth.
Chris Brooks, a former world team member, lost ground in his quest to get off the London bubble, falling on both vault and parallel bars. He is in sixth place, and is in the top five in only one event.
"I don't think anybody's out of it," Brooks said. "You've got to get your head back into the game and continue to fight."
Or, if you're Mikulak, keep doing what you're doing.
Mikulak has been one to watch since claiming the NCAA title as a freshman at Michigan. But he never had a shot at last year's world championships team after breaking both his ankles at a meet in Puerto Rico. His rehab set him back several months, and the legs remained so tender it wasn't until recently that coach Kurt Golder let his precocious star bust loose.
But look at him now. Cheered on by a raucous bunch of friends wearing "Team Sam" T-shirts ? complete with Mikulak's picture ? and moving around the arena with every event, Mikulak let everyone know from the start that he cannot be overlooked. His parallel bars routine was exquisite, filled with difficult skills and combinations but done with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker.
His handstands were so still he could have been a model for an art class, and when he hit the mat with an emphatic thump, the low-key Golder pumped his fists. His score of 15.7 included a 9.5 execution mark that would be matched by only one other person the rest of the day.
He had the crowd oohing and aahing with his acrobatic high bar routine, and he displayed cat-like reflexes on floor exercise. Looking as if he was about to go out of bounds on one of his tumbling passes, his toes almost seemed to pull back into his feet to keep him safely in bounds.
His only real "flaw" was on pommel horse, where he stalled before his dismount. But he managed to hang on, and walked off the podium with a grin.
"I was just able to zone everything out, breathe and keep control over all my skills," Mikulak said.
He was so in the zone he didn't even realize he'd finished ahead of Leyva and Orozco, the last two U.S. champions.
"What?" Mikulak said when Horton told him. "Seriously?"
"Kid's a gamer," Horton said. "He just knows how to perform. That's all there is to it. He just knows how to go out there and do his job."
Indeed, Mikulak was able to keep his cool while the high stakes seemed to get the best of his more seasoned competitors.
The dynamic Leyva was perhaps a little too amped up. Leading off on floor, he zipped through a sloppy set that included a step out of bounds, moving so quickly it appeared he'd chugged a fistful of Red Bulls during warmups.
Orozco, dubbed the "Silent Ninja" because of the way he sneaks up on the competition, stumbled a bit on pommel horse, stalling just before his dismount. Two events later he took a step back, literally on vault. He failed to get the proper height off the table and crouched while landing. His rear never hit the floor, but his hands did, and the 14.8 he received blunted his momentum.
"The only thing I would like to do is my best and show the committee I'm ready and ready to compete and represent the USA," Orozco said. "I think I didn't show enough of that tonight."
It was all the opening Leyva needed despite a somewhat ho-hum afternoon that lacked the "wow" factor that's made him perhaps the most charismatic gymnast of his generation.
But as Leyva has been telling everyone, there's plenty more where he came from.
"This is such a deep team and everybody is so good," Mikulak said. "This is such a deep USA team ... but if I keep hitting routines, and they see that I'm consistent and reliable, I think that's a good quality."
Many California consumers were thrilled with the U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday to uphold the national health reform law, but a doctor's group cautioned that at least one problem lies ahead.
"This is a victory for consumers and especially for California," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide consumer group. "No state in the nation had more at stake.
"This removes the cloud," he added. "There will be no more political speeches in the Legislature saying we should hold off on bills until the Supreme Court rules."
Also pleased were people who worried about losing consumer protections provided under the law, including Newark resident Shavon Walker. At age 37, she has diabetes, high blood pressure and other health problems. She has coverage through her husband's job but had feared that if she lost that, no insurers would accept her because of her medical condition.
Now beginning in 2014, she will no longer have to worry about that. The law will prohibit insurers from rejecting people because of pre-existing health conditions.
"My husband and I both are grateful for this," Walker said. "We'd rather pay a tax than an astronomically high bill in the emergency room."
Others took a more cautious approach, however. The California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians, described its reaction as "mixed."
CMA has vigorously supported the mandate that most
Americans have health insurance and other reforms, including requiring insurers to accept people regardless of pre-existing health problems.
But it noted that with as many as 3 million uninsured people expected to enter the Medi-Cal program when it is expanded in 2014, getting access to doctors will continue to be a problem. Because of low reimbursement rates, many doctors do not accept Medi-Cal patients.
Recent reports have found that 50 percent of Medi-Cal patients have difficulty finding a physician.
The Affordable Care Act "builds reform on the broken foundations of Medicare and Medicaid without addressing the underlying problems and inadequate funding," said CMA President James Hay. "CMA will continue to work to fix those ills."
Access to doctors may also be an issue for the thousands of children who will be moved into Medi-Cal with this week's decision by state lawmakers to cancel the Healthy Families program in a budget-cutting move.
Others said the Supreme Court's decision will benefit California financially by easing the burden of caring for the uninsured. They note that beginning in 2014, the state is expected to receive nearly $9 billion a year in federal funds to expand Medi-Cal.
"For our state, today's decision is both a fiscal blessing and a clear signal that there should be no more excuses," said Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of The California Endowment, a statewide health foundation. "Covering the uninsured currently costs our state nearly $10 billion per year and we need to continue to move full speed ahead to ensure that millions of Californians take advantage of the new options and consumer protections provided by the law."
The Supreme Court decision will enable California to continue moving aggressively to implement the law, including setting up a new insurance marketplace for consumers and expanding Medi-Cal in 2014.
The ruling saves programs and consumer protections affecting millions of Californians and will bring billions of dollars in additional federal revenue to the state.
California, with 7 million uninsured residents, has been at the forefront of states seeking to put the reforms in place.
California programs that will survive, to the relief of participants, include:
Low-Income Health Program: More than 400,000 low-income, mostly childless adults are receiving coverage through interim programs in 47 counties. These programs were set up in antieople are to be transferred to Medi-Cal when it expands in 2014.
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: Nearly 11,000 people are covered under this plan set up for those whose health problems make it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain insurance. This program, funded through the national health reform law, will last until 2014 when insurers can no longer reject people based on their medical condition.
California Health Benefit Exchange: The state plans to open a marketplace in 2014 where many consumers can choose a health plan and determine whether they qualify for subsidies. The state has hired staff and is making policy decisions to begin pre-enrolling people in October 2013.
Many consumers, meanwhile, were closely following what would happen with benefits they are receiving under the law.
These will now continue, including:
Help for seniors who hit a Medicare prescription drug coverage gap known as "the doughnut hole."
The elimination of lifetime caps on health insurance benefits.
Free annual wellness visits for Medicare recipients and free preventive services such as mammograms and colonoscopies.
Insurance company rebates. These are required when insurers fail to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care and quality improvement, rather than salaries and other administrative costs. Nearly 1.9 million Californians will receive $73.9 million in rebates this summer, averaging $65 per family.
A requirement that beginning in 2014, insurers accept all people, regardless of pre-existing health problems.
Young adults will be able to remain on their parents' health insurance policies up to age 26.
Insurers can no longer reject children under 18 because of their health problems.
New health insurance policies must cover maternity services beginning Sunday.
Insurers can no longer cancel people's coverage when they become ill because of unintentional misrepresentations on their applications.
Sandy Kleffman covers health. Contact her at 510-293-2478. Follow her at Twitter.com/skleffman.
Tampa, Florida-- The?University Area Community Development Corporation (UACDC) announces its receipt of top honors for the second year in a row after winning?the "Nonprofit of the Year" award in the Public and Societal category at the 2012 Tampa Bay Business Journal Nonprofit of the Year Awards.?
Accordinf to a recent release, the Tampa Bay Business Journal created these awards to promote transparency and accountability among area nonprofits.
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FILE - In this April 16, 2012 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks about the Texas Budget Compact during an event to announce key budget principles for the upcoming and future budgets, in Houston. Perry has spent much of the past three years publicly, loudly and defiantly fighting against what he views as Washington meddling in state affairs, often refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and becoming a leader in the battle against President Barack?s Obama?s health care plan. His hard-fought battle, however, has led to more of what he most staunchly opposes: federal oversight. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
FILE - In this April 16, 2012 file photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks about the Texas Budget Compact during an event to announce key budget principles for the upcoming and future budgets, in Houston. Perry has spent much of the past three years publicly, loudly and defiantly fighting against what he views as Washington meddling in state affairs, often refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and becoming a leader in the battle against President Barack?s Obama?s health care plan. His hard-fought battle, however, has led to more of what he most staunchly opposes: federal oversight. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
FILE - In this June 7, 2012 photo, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. Perry has spent much of the past three years publicly, loudly and defiantly fighting against what he views as Washington meddling in state affairs, often refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and becoming a leader in the battle against President Barack Obama?s health care plan. His hard-fought battle, however, has led to more of what he most staunchly opposes: federal oversight. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
HOUSTON (AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry has spent much of the past three years loudly and defiantly fighting against what he views as Washington meddling in state affairs, often refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and becoming a leader in the battle against President Barack Obama's health care plan.
Other Republican governors pursuing a similar tactic may want to take note of what's happened in Texas amid Perry's hard-fought battle: An obstinate refusal to cooperate has resulted in more, not less, federal oversight.
"We're very conservative and we're very stubborn," said Bill Miller, a lobbyist in Austin for HillCo who has represented both Republicans and Democrats. He described the Texas mindset this way: "We're not going to be smart. We're going to be pure. It's a point of pride and if there's something else we're proud of, it's our pride."
One area where Texas has fought ferociously with the feds has been on environmental regulations. Yet as the state challenged EPA rules in court over the past three years, the federal agency simply side-stepped the state to work directly with industry.
A similar scenario is playing out with Obama's health care overhaul in Texas, where nearly a quarter of the population, or 6.2 million people, are uninsured. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has given the law the green light, it's highly likely that Texas won't have time to build a key program, forcing the federal government to design and manage it until the Lone Star State steps up.
"When Texas maintains programs ... they're able to allow Texas values to predominate," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
And when the federal government steps in, it actually strengthens the anti-Washington sentiment in Texas.
"Typically, federal involvement in Texas drives the argument that it's no damn good for Texas," Miller said.
Richard Hyde, deputy executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, has been dealing with such issues for several years. First, the EPA overturned a long-standing air-permitting program, forcing more than 120 plants to get new operating papers. As Texas pursued court challenges, the EPA worked with the companies, ensuring that some of the nation's largest refineries could operate.
Then, when Texas refused to participate in a new requirement that companies that emit greenhouse gases get special permits, saying it does not have the authority to issue such paperwork, the EPA began directly administering the program, Hyde said. The agencies do communicate "about process" because the EPA is not usually in the business of issuing permits, he said, but the situation is not ideal.
"With greenhouse gas permitting and flexible permits, certainly they felt like we should fit in a box just like all the other 50 states. And if you want to ... think out of the box and it doesn't fit in the mold, it doesn't work for them," Hyde said. "We want to show that the Texas way works for Texas."
When it comes to Obama's health care plan, Texas has focused on challenging the law in court. That means it's unlikely to have a health insurance marketplace up and running by 2014. The insurance exchange is designed to allow individuals and small businesses to shop for coverage from a range of competing insurers.
As a result, Texas and other GOP-led states that counted on the law being overturned could see Washington running their exchanges instead.
Mark Jones, the head of the political science department at Rice University in Houston, points out that when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality oversees a permitting program, it considers industry needs and the economy first, while the EPA emphasizes the environment ? two conflicting philosophies. With the health care exchange, Jones believes that because the government acts as a clearinghouse, federal involvement will not have as much impact.
Still, he said, if Washington puts together Texas' exchange it will almost certainly be "more progressive and liberal."
Faced with that possibility, some Republican governors hedged their bets. In Michigan, for example, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder indicated before Thursday's ruling that he would consider moving forward with his state's exchange so it could control its design. He said he was "just trying to be a pragmatist."
Perry declined Thursday to say whether he would ask lawmakers to create an exchange or move forward with implementation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is already running a federally mandated insurance plan that has about 5,700 Texans with pre-existing conditions participating, a transitional program that will be available until the exchange is in place. Other states have asked to run this program themselves.
Arlene Wohlgemuth, executive director of Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank in Austin that includes health care as a focus, said there doesn't appear to be much of an advantage to Texas running its own exchange program because the law doesn't give states much room to tailor the programs.
"There was so precious little flexibility allowed that it really doesn't matter," she said. "We never saw any advantage in having a state do their own health care exchange."
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Associated Press writers Jamie Stengle and Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report from Dallas.
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