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After releasing a revised financial forecast for FY 2011 that predicts an annual .3 billion loss, its third in the last four years, NEC announced it will cut around 10,000 jobs. Bloomberg Businessweek reports President Nobuhiro Endo announced the cuts, revealing most of the cuts will come from the company’s mobile-phone handset business, with 7,000 of them expected to be in Japan. The company reportedly had 115,840 employees as of March so there should be a few folks left around to keep the lights on and maintain ventures like its new JV with NTT Docomo, Panasonic, Samsung and Fujitsu, the NEC Lenovo PC alliance, and its recently announced work on the Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer. Still, we’ll have to wait and see how the cuts affect upcoming cellphones, like any potential successors to its super-slim MEDIAS N-04C seen above.

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There are various alternative ways you can go about preserving notes and reminders for important things. You possibly can use post it notes, or maybe a small notebook. You possibly can even use your mobile phone for some issues, and there are after all many different paid options accessible on the Internet. Right here I will probably be showing you how one can preserve a “To Do” listing at no cost utilizing nothing greater than what came along with your computer. This works for all variations of Windows.

The first thing you will need to do is open Notepad. Do that by clicking on START and then going to Applications (Or All Packages, nevertheless it is worded). Inside go to ACCESSORIES, you should find NOTEPAD listed here, click on it to open it.

With Notepad open click on on FILE within the upper proper hand nook, then go down to SAVE AS and left click.

On the subsequent window you should see a small listing of icons on the left, click on DESKTOP, and set the identify to “mynotes” then click on SAVE.

Go forward and add a pair entries to your “mynotes.txt” file and then reserve it by clicking on FILE and going to SAVE.

Subsequent, click on START again, and return to PROGRAMS, right here it is best to see a folder named STARTUP, proper click on on this folder and go to EXPLORE and left click. This may open a window pointing at the Startup folder. Subsequent reduce and paste your “mynotes.txt” file into this folder. (Right click on on the “mynotes.txt” file and select CUT, then go back to the window and click on on EDIT and choose PASTE)

Now every time Home windows begins up your “mynotes.txt” file will load automatically. When it does go forward and make any changes you should, save it after which close it. Should it’s worthwhile to open it, merely click on START, go back to PROGRAMS, then STARTUP, the “mynotes.txt” file will probably be located there simply left click on it and it will open.

If you want you may create a shortcut to your “mynotes.txt” file on the Desktop by right clicking on “mynotes.txt” in the start menu, go to SEND TO and left click “DESKTOP (Create Shortcut)”

I wish to keep a operating notice for updates and scans. For example the final time I ran home windows update, the final time I let my Spyware scanner replace and run. Writing down the dates I run these applications permits me to keep observe of how long it has been since the last run.

So if I start up my laptop computer and spot it has been nearly a month since I ran Home windows Update I can go forward and run it. Works nicely for any kind of security or upkeep you use. While you’re free to run updates and scans at your selecting, here are the instances I believe are greatest for every type of software.

Spy ware Scanners – These programs do not usually update and scan on their own so make certain to do a handbook one at the very least each other week.

Anti virus Software program – Most of the software program accessible right now mechanically runs updates and scans. Nevertheless I like to make sure everything is working correctly so I manually update as soon as per week, and run a guide full system scan as soon as a month.

Home windows Replace – Whereas home windows is able to handling updates without your consideration, similar to with the Anti Virus software,I prefer to run a guide one at the very least as soon as a month. Additionally preserve an eye fixed out for virus news, at any time when there’s a nasty one Windows normally will get an update shortly there after.

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Updated. So now we know why Ustream has been busy raising new funding from Korea Telecom and existing investors DCM and Softbank, and possibly why former CEO John Ham recently stepped down: The company collected less than half of the million funding round it announced in early 2010, according to an SEC filing released Friday. [Hat tip to Business Insider.]

A quick recap: Last February, Ustream raised a strategic funding round led by Japanese mobile phone and Internet operator Softbank that altogether was worth up to million. Softbank put in million in an initial investment, taking a 13.7 percent stake in Ustream that valued the company at around 0 million. Softbank had 18 months to invest up to million more, which would have given it a majority stake in the live streaming company.

But those funds never came.

The SEC filing indicates Ustream brought in about million of the million that it hoped to raise from Softbank, and Softbank never took a controlling stake in the firm. Instead, the startup announced a million investment from Korea Telecom and an agreement to launch Ustream Korea as part of its Ustream Asia joint venture. Later, DCM and Softbank put another million into Ustream and former CEO Ham stepped down.

Assuming the Korea Telecom and following DCM/Softbank investments are separate from Ustream’s million Series B round, the company has raised a total of about million. That’s not too shabby, but it’s far from the “more than 0 million” that continues to be quoted as Ustream’s total funding raised to date. It also answers the question of why Ustream needed to raise more cash just a year after the Softbank funding was announced: It didn’t burn through million; it just never received the bulk of those funds.

The SEC filing also indicates a softening of Softbank’s strategic interest in Ustream. After all, rather than invest another million of its own cash to take control of the live streaming startup, Softbank pursued a strategy of bringing in an additional shareholder to fund expansion instead. So what does Softbank know that we don’t?

Ustream did not respond to a request for comment by the time of this writing. We’ll update if we hear back from the company.

Update: Ustream CEO Brad Hunstable confirmed that its total funding to date is about million, and gave some more background on the funding plans. He said that the primary reason for bringing on Korea Telecom was to have a strategic local partner on board, in the same way that Softbank is providing local support in Japan.

“We have the capital we need,” Hunstable said. As for its relationship with Softbank and the joint venture around Ustream Japan: “We continue to have big plans for Ustream Japan… It’s taking off and continues to grow month-over-month.”

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The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.

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There are companies trying to build better sensors, and those trying to make new ways of programming such sensor networks, but Axeda is trying to create the intelligence in the cloud to monitor and manage the sensors in real time. Axeda, a Foxboro, Mass.-based company that’s been around since 2000 and which has raised million from JMI Equity and MMV Financial, has built a software platform for sensor networks.

Today, the platform handles more transactions per day than Twitter handles tweets, according to Joseph Biron, a senior director, product innovation at Axeda. When pressed, he said it was about 10,000 per second, although he expects that number to quadruple in the next year as more and more devices are connected. In March, Twitter said it saw almost 7,000 tweets per second at its highest point so far.

To handle this, Brion says Axeda has built its own NoSQL data store that he doesn’t want to disclose too much about. But he did say the Axeda engineering team follows Twitter, Facebook and other webscale businesses carefully to understand how they are handling their large amounts of data. With Ericsson predicting there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020, he’s pretty sure the Axeda cloud will end up processing far more transactions that some of these household names.

And this assumes that not every sensor will be connected to a monitoring cloud. “Think about a building” Brion said. “There will be sensors on the fire panels and doors and windows. That’s thousands of them and they will likely connect and centralize through a gateway.” However, that’s still a lot of data coming in from one building, so Axeda hopes it is building a system that will be able to scale exponentially with the number of new devices added to its service as opposed to linearly.

He explains that in addition to monitoring, a dashboard, and the ability to send out updates or actions to the sensors, the Axeda software service will soon add more automated reactions. So, for example, if a building’s sensors determine the building is too hot, the information from myriad sources can be analyzed in the Axeda cloud and then the Axeda software can tell the building’s air conditioner to lower the temperature.

That can happen today, but the cloud component becomes more compelling when you bring in a third-party such as a utility, that can send the Axeda cloud a signal asking for power conservation, which can then push out that information to the building so it lowers the temperature in response. Because most sensor networks run on proprietary software, as opposed to something standardized or open source, Axeda has created an overlay in its service to translate the proprietary signals from devices manufactured by Honeywell, Emerson, Johnson Controls or others, into something that different systems can understand.

We’re not there yet, but this is the future that Axeda has decided to bank on. That’s why it has moved from tracking wireless assets to creating a cloud-based platform for managing all connected network devices. In addition to energy management, Brion thinks connected advertising, coordinated traffic management and other areas will be improved by a sensor network that’s controlled in the clouds.

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The internet was ablaze upon the release of the Steve Jobs’ biography about a particularly interesting quote that seemed to reveal that Apple would release a TV. This is just as exciting a proposition as it was four years ago to smartphone users who dreamed that Apple would fix the mobile phone. But the fact is that Apple, and many others, have been trying to “fix” TV for years, and to date we are still stuck with hundreds of channels that have nothing on, a dozen remotes and a textbook example of how not to make a user interface. It seems, though, that people are ignoring another Jobs quote, from just over a year ago at All Things D, that seems to explain very plainly why Apple has yet to release anything more than a hobby. When asked about Apple and the TV market, Jobs’ reply showed how well-versed he was in the TV industry, but the choice quote was “it’s not a problem with technology, it’s not a problem with vision, it’s a fundamental go-to-market problem.” Jobs also explains that Apple made an iPhone and the iPad instead of a TV because there wasn’t a choice, “there was no way to get it to market.” So as much as we’d like to shed the chains that are channels and grid guides, as long as the monopolies that own the wires that run into our homes control the bits that travel over them, there just isn’t a way to change TV.

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