Hotel Close To FIU - Samsung Just Made A Brilliant Move To Steal Business From Apple

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By - Julie Bort
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Earlier this week, Samsung announced its latest way to win business from Apple: a technology called Samsung Knox.

Knox is a new feature that is part of Samsung's SAFE program (which stands for Samsung For Enterprises). It lets you divide your phone into two halves, one side for work and one side for your personal life.

The work side can be controlled by an employer's IT department. IT can dictate the apps and add all the pesky security features and controls they want. The personal side is controlled by you, and that's where you can load whatever games or other Android apps you want.

Knox is available on any SAFE-certified phone. Right now that's the Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II.

So far, reviewers like it. The Verge's Chris Ziegler say it's easy to tell the work side from personal side and switching between them is quick. CNET's walkthough showed it was simple to use, too.

Samsung isn't the first to come up with this idea. Enterprise software company VMware also has a product like this called Horizon Mobile. LG even won an award last year at CES for its LG Revolution phone which included Horizon software. Plus, BlackBerry offers a similar thing with its new phone, a feature called BlackBerry Balance.

VMware hoped to bring Horizon to the iPhone, too. That would have been big news, because it would have meant Apple was willing to let VMware fiddle with iOS. Not so. VMware does have an iOS app called Horizon Mobile, but the app only allows IT professionals to install apps on an employee's iPhone. It doesn't split the phone into two.

Knox and SAFE are two of Samsung's biggest weapons to win against Apple. Samsung is deliberately loading its smartphones with features to make enterprise IT departments love it. Its hope is that this will encourage IT departments to buy fleets of phones for their employees. Or, if they don't buy the phones, Samsung would like IT professionals to ask their employees to buy Samsung SAFE devices.

Stay tuned for BI Intelligence's in-depth analysis of how Samsung is pursing the enterprise, publishing soon.

Holiday In West Miami - Rezidor To Open Second Hotel At Sheremetyevo, Moscow

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Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, has announced the Radisson Blu Sheremetyevo Airport Hotel, Moscow.

The property, featuring 379 rooms, is scheduled to open in the second quarter of 2014.

It is Rezidor’s second hotel at Sheremetyevo with the group already successfully operating a mid market Park Inn by Radisson hotel at the airport.

The new hotel is owned by the Norwegian company Wenaasgruppen; one of Rezidor’s most important multi unit owners.

In Russia alone, Wenaasgruppen owns nine hotels with a total of 4,000 rooms operated by Rezidor.

“This agreement further strengthens our position as one of the leading airport hotel operators in Europe.

“It also confirms our commitment to the Russian market where we are the leading international hotel operator,” said Wolfgang Neumann, president of Rezidor.

The group currently has 45 hotels with 11,600 rooms in operation in Russia/CIS & Baltics, and 29 hotels with 6,700 rooms under development.

In and around Russia’s Capital City Moscow Rezidor’s portfolio comprises six properties with more than 1,700 rooms.

The Radisson Blu Sheremetyevo Airport Hotel will be the only hotel featuring a direct walkway link to the international terminals.

Besides 379 rooms with Radisson Blu signature services such as free high speed internet access the property will offer two restaurants and two bars including a 600m² bar on the 11th floor with a panoramic view over the airport.

Additional services will comprise more than 43 meeting rooms including a 200m² multifunctional hall, a crew lounge, gym and sauna areas.

Port Of Miami Hotels - Your Phone Will Know You're Sick Before You Do

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By - Mark Curtis
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In the not-too-distant future, you'll receive a full diagnosis and cure from your smartphone before you have even realized you're unwell. While this may seem like science fiction, it's on the cusp of becoming a reality. Digital is set to embark on a path of radical transformation in the health and wellness sector and in doing so it will help us to overcome some of the most significant challenges we face in health care.

We have an aging society and as elderly people account for a larger share of the population, the prevalence of long-term health problems will increase. This will cause a bigger cost burden and pressure health systems to accommodate an aging workforce.

Furthermore, lifestyle-related chronic health problems, including obesity and diabetes, are on the rise with dramatic implications for health service budgets. The cost of supporting these demographic trends is unsustainable but digital services are likely to be part of the solution society is looking for.

One trend that's captured the imagination of many is "body hacking" or understanding the "quantified self." Whether it's an app tracking your dietary intake or a wearable band counting the physical activity you undertake each day, these devices provide you with the tools to understand your health immediately based on the data your body has provided.

Every individual can benefit from better access to information about their bodies and greater awareness leads to better understanding of the consequences. Little by little this starts to change behaviors.

The growth in availability of portable and highly connected health devices will drive an expectation in society to be aware of our own health and more pro-active in the lifestyle choices we make. People will use technology to prevent and diagnose disease, and in some cases, bypass the doctor's clinic by taking health care into their own hands, or at the least go armed to the doctor with helpful diagnostic information.

Our informed insight will mean that the doctor's role will change. They will become coaches, rather than a source of initial diagnosis. Self-diagnostic tools will empower doctors to monitor, prevent and treat medical conditions. One early example of this is the ECG attachment for the iPhone, which is already capable of producing medical-grade data.

Read: How your smartphone will soon get a whole lot smarter

Private health care organizations will tap into health applications and their capacity for diagnosis as a result, and will offer these widely to consumers. Your smartphone will come to know your body better than you know yourself and doctors will provide a health care service based on your measured behavior and key health indicators.

Imagine taking a picture of a rash or ailment with your mobile, uploading it to a diagnostic app and receiving a tailored diagnosis based on the information from the picture, coupled with your personal data that the mobile device has already collected. This is the private data driven future we are seriously looking at, both in developed countries with unsustainable health care costs, but also in countries where people do not have affordable access to health care.

Budget Miami Hotels - China Mobile Unveils 4G LTE TDD Phones

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China Mobile has unveiled four smartphones built to run on its upcoming 4G LTE TDD network, with the handsets coming from foreign brands including HTC and LG, and Chinese handset makers Huawei and ZTE.

On Tuesday, China Mobile unveiled the handsets at a LTE summit during the Mobile World Congress, according to the company website. The carrier, has over 700 million customers in China, and has been preparing for the eventual launch of the country's 4G services, which is expected at the end of this year.

China Mobile has in the meantime been building up industry support for LTE TDD (Long-Term Evolution Time-Division Duplex ), a 4G LTE technology that can offer peak speeds of up to 100Mbps. Currently, most carriers across the world are using another LTE variant, known as LTE-FDD (Frequency-Division Duplex), to build their 4G networks.

The four phones unveiled on Tuesday can not only use LTE TDD networks, but also LTE FDD, besides China Mobile's 3G and GSM networks. The handsets were described as high-end models, built with 4.7-inch HD screens, and also ran on processors featuring multiple cores.

China's 4G networks are still undergoing trials across the country, and authorities have suggested the 4G commercial licenses for LTE TDD networks will be granted at the end of this year.

South Korean handset maker LG is gearing up for the launch and said in a statement it will roll out its LTE TDD phones for China in the second half of 2013.

For China Mobile, the arrival of 4G marks an important opportunity to regain an equal footing with its rivals in the nation, given the carrier's past struggles with launching its 3G network in 2009, said Teck Zhung Wong, an analyst with IDC.

Initially, the company struggled to introduce strong smartphone offerings for its 3G networks, because they used a homegrown technology called TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous CDMA), which is not widely adopted outside the country. Although the country's government backed the TD-SCDMA technology, China Mobile was slow to get handset makers to build smartphones for the standard, according to analysts.

"This is a big opportunity for them, to kind of shed a little bit the TD-SCDMA shackles," Wong said. "This time they are making sure that the entire supply chain, from chip vendors to handset makers, are all on board. So that the lack of handset terminals won't hold back the progress."

Family Hotels In Miami - Intel Takes Big Step In Chip Foundry Business

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Sharing its manufacturing plants, or fabs, to strategic customers could help the world's top chipmaker offset the growing costs of developing new technology and help keep the plants running near capacity as Intel's traditional PC business loses steam.

Intel will make Altera's programmable chips using its upcoming 14 nanometer trigate transistor technology, the most notable agreement of its kind announced so far by the chipmaker.

"It's a step in terms of building into a business level we wish to achieve," Sunit Rikhi, Vice President and General Manager of Intel custom foundry, told Reuters on Monday. "There's no doubt in my mind the foundry will be a significant player in the future."

Building new generations of chip manufacturing plants is becoming more and more expensive, and Intel has said in the past it was willing to open its facilities to carefully selected customers - as long as doing so does not its help competitors.

Intel has announced agreements to manufacture on behalf of Achronix Semiconductor Corp and other small chipmakers but Monday's announcement with Altera, one of two leading programmable chipmakers, is potentially much larger.

"They've crossed over the line from it just being a questionable experiment to - we're going to do this for tier-1 customers," said RBC analyst Doug Freedman.

With Intel struggling to find its footing in smarpthones and tablets with its own processor designs, some investors believe Intel may eventually agree to make Apple's processors for the iPhone andiPad.

"If and when we are called upon to serve large mobile customers who can drive a lot more volume, we could serve them today in terms of capability," Rikhi said. "I'm confident we have a very strong platform of offering upon which we can scale."

He declined to discuss Apple specifically.

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Most chipmakers in recent decades have given up running their own capital-intensive fabs, turning instead to contract manufacturing "foundries" like Taiwan's TSMC.

Intel has kept its own fabs and invested heavily in them over decades, resulting in a lead in manufacturing know-how that allows it to make chips that in some respects are more advanced than products from rivals like Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics.

Altera Chief Executive John Daane told Reuters in a phone interview that Altera, which depends on communications infrastructure for about half of its business, is the only major programmable chipmaker that will have access to Intel's plants.

"We are essentially getting access like an extra division of Intel. As soon as they're making the technology available to their various groups to do design work, we're getting the same," he said.

Daane said Intel's manufacturing technology will give Altera's chips a several-year advantage against Xilinx, its main competitor in programmable chips. He said Altera would continue to make other chips with TSMC, its long-time foundry.

Shares of Altera were unchanged in extended trading after closing down 0.96 percent at $35.01. Xilinx was down about 0.9 percent at $37, versus a close of $37.30 on the Nasdaq.

Hotel Near Miami Beach - Mars May Be Habitable Today, Scientists Say

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LOS ANGELES — While Mars was likely a more hospitable place in its wetter, warmer past, the Red Planet may still be capable of supporting microbial life today, some scientists say.

Ongoing research in Mars-like places such as Antarctica and Chile's Atacama Desert shows that microbes can eke out a living in extremely cold and dry environments, several researchers stressed at "The Present-Day Habitability of Mars" conference held here at the University of California Los Angeles this month.

And not all parts of the Red Planet's surface may be arid currently — at least not all the time. Evidence is building that liquid water might flow seasonally at some Martian sites, potentially providing a haven for life as we know it.

"We certainly can't rule out the possibility that it's habitable today," said Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, principal investigator for the HiRise camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. [The Search for Life on Mars: A Photo Timeline]

Surface water on Mars?

McEwen discussed some intriguing observations by HiRise, which suggest that briny water may flow down steep Martian slopes during the local spring and summer.

Sixteen such sites have been identified to date, mostly on the slopes of the huge Valles Marineris canyon complex, McEwen said. The tracks seem to repeat seasonally as the syrupy fluids descend along weather-worn pathways.

While the brines may originate underground, Caltech's Edwin Kite noted, there is an increasing suspicion that a process known as deliquescence — in which moisture present in the atmosphere is gathered by compounds on the ground, allowing it to become a liquid — may be responsible.

Astrobiologists are keen to learn more about these brines, for not much is known about them at the moment.

"Briny water on Mars may or may not be habitable to microbes, either from Earth or from Mars," McEwen said.

Hardy microbes

Martian life may be able to survive even in places where water doesn't seep and flow, some scientists stressed.

For example, microbes here on Earth make a living in the Atacama and the dry valleys of Antarctica, both of which are extremely cold and arid, said Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

Antarctic sites also receive seasonally high ultraviolet radiation doses thanks to a hole in the ozone layer that tends to develop every August through November. This provides yet another parallel to Mars, whose thin atmosphere and lack of a protective magnetic field make the planet more radiation-bombarded than Earth.

In the Antarctic dry valleys, McKay said, organisms dwell within rocks, just deep enough to be shielded from the worst of the UV but close enough to the surface to receive the benefits of photosynthesis. Something similar might be happening on Mars today, if life ever evolved there.

McKay also discussed deliquescence, which in the Atacama allows salts to gather enough water to support the existence of life.

McKay offered some advice to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which landed in August to determine whether Mars could ever have supported microbial life: "Watch for salt along the road!"

A possible energy source

A number of presenters spent some time talking about perchlorate, a chlorine-containing chemical that NASA's Phoenix lander spotted near the Martian north pole in 2008.

McKay and other researchers think perchlorate may be the reason that NASA's twin Viking landers didn't detect any organic compounds — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on the Red Planet back in the 1970s.

The Vikings vaporized Martian soil and looked for any organics boiling off. They found nothing but a few chlorine compounds that were attributed to contamination. But after Phoenix's perchlorate find, McKay and some other researchers performed an experiment.

They added perchlorate to some desert dirt from Chile known to contain organics. They heated the soil up and found the same chlorine compounds the Vikings did, suggesting that organics may have been present in the Vikings' samples but were broken down by the combination of heat and perchlorate.

While this backstory is interesting in its own right, perchlorate is also relevant to the possible habitability of present-day Mars.

Attractions In West Miami - What’s Hot And What’s Not For Today’s Hotel Guests

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By - Shwe Gu Thitsar
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In order to entice travellers to stay at their properties, hotel companies are introducing services that range from the necessary to the pointless, so as to please every taste and potential wild request.

Carrying out a survey in January 2013 of over 8,600 travellers from all over the world, Hotels.com revealed what the average Singaporean guest is looking for when choosing where to stay.

In the Study

Unsurprisingly, 81 percent of respondents wanted free Wi-Fi to become a standard at all hotels, with 69 percent saying that it was a top factor in choosing a hotel when on holidays and a must-have when on a business trip. 21 percent of the Singaporean respondents said that they would be willing to pay for use of the hotel’s Wi-Fi.

In the Bedroom

To satisfy a guest in the bedroom, hoteliers need to go all out with 22 percent wanting massage chairs or foot massagers as well as having access to an all-in-one remote that controls the lighting, TV, shades, temperature, room service, etc (13 percent were after this nifty gadget).

31 percent of the Singaporean respondents were interested in a hotel provided tablet with free Wi-Fi and guest information, room service and local guides installed on it. Turn down service was however not deemed necessary with only 22 percent requiring the service.

In the Bathroom

Hotels with designer toiletries are onto a winner with 41 percent of respondents naming the freebies as their favourite amenity. Bath menus/ butlers were however not of interest to guests.

In the Kitchen

The words ‘free’ and ‘food’ seem to be synonymous for the respondents of this survey with 39 percent being interested in happy hours, wine tastings and any other occasion that involved free food and drinks and 26 percent said that complimentary water was their most appreciated simple amenity. 34 percent wanted free breakfast to become a standard at hotels in 2013 whilst 19 percent stated that international breakfast options were a favourite.

Respondents were not interested in having access to a tea sommelier or an in-room mixologist, with only 6 percent indicating that they would potentially use either of the services.

In their Dreams

Whilst only 9 percent of respondents wanted to have access to a fragrance butler, a massive 53 percent said that use of a Rolls Royce Phantom was an amenity that they would most like to experience. Luckily, this request was under the outrageous luxury hotel service category.

Hotels In West Miami - Hong Kong Disneyland Expansion Plan Includes Third Hotel

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Hong Kong Disneyland and the government are in talks over the theme park’s expansion plans, a tourism official said on Monday.

Philip Yung Wai-hung, the tourism commission chief, said planning was under way to expand the park on seven hectares of land unused during the park’s first phase of development.Speaking a Legislative Council economic development panel session, Yung said the expansion plans included adding a third hotel to the park. The two current hotels have about 1,000 rooms between them.

“We are now doing the design, and we aim to report to the legislature within the year on the design and financial arrangements,” he said.

Andrew Kam Min-ho, managing director of the theme park, said his team had been mulling over a dozen proposals, trying to shortlist one or two for the final decision.

“Some are feasible, but some are not,” he said.

Lawmaker Michael Tien Puk-sun was concerned about whether Hong Kong’s 27-hectare theme park – among the smallest in the world – could rise to the challenge of Shanghai’s Disneyland, which is now under construction.

“What expansion plans do we have? Are we going to have a theme park the same size as an American one? Or will we stay a second-class theme park, rather than first-class?” he said.

Hong Kong Disneyland made a profit of HK$109 million – its first profit since opening in 2005 – in the fiscal year to last September.

Kam said the new attractions that opened last year gave a big boost to admissions and revenue.

About 6.7 million tourists, up by 13 per cent, visited the park last year, with 45 per cent from mainland China. It registered revenue of HK$4.2 billion.