"It has been designed to make our lives and all our life tasks that much easier," Will Chase, Samsung's strong-voiced emcee, said as he introduced the Galaxy S4 to a packed house at Radio City Music Hall Thursday night.
For the next 50 minutes, Chase narrated a mini-Broadway performance. He explained the Air Gesture feature, which lets you wave your hand over the phone to swipe, as a cast of young women danced and drank presumably-fake wine. He explained the dual-shot camera feature as a dad took a photo of his tap dancing son on stage. Then he explained S Translator as a faux traveler used it to translate Chinese. All this to demonstrate the countless new features of the phone.
Samsung's new phone has gotten more attention than any Android phone, and the focus has been on its many software features. The headliners have, of course, been the tilt control (the mislabeled "eye-scrolling" feature), the wave gesture control and the enhanced camera functions. These features are different, Samsung wants the world to know. The iPhone doesn't have them and neither do the hoards of other Android phones on store shelves.
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But the Galaxy S 3 tried to do the same thing last year. The phone had features like Smart Stay, which worked with the front-facing camera to determine whether you were looking at the phone. It had a number of innovative camera features, like Share Shot, which let you sync your friends' Galaxy S phones together to share photos. And remember Pop Up Play? That was what let you watch an HD video in a small box while you surfed the Web.

The phone quickly became the best-selling Android phone on the market, but not because of those aforementioned features. In fact, most of the people I know who own the Galaxy S 3 don't use those features. It was something I warned about in my review last year.
"I don't know what those are," a friend of mine told me when I asked her about some of those Galaxy S 3 features.
My friend and most of the Galaxy S 3 owners bought the phone because it was the best Android phone at the time, with a very good camera, nice screen and a fast processor. With the S 4, Samsung has improved those core components, but has placed its focus on the software features. I dare you to watch last night's presentation: five minutes on the hardware specs and design and 45 minutes on how the features can make a bachelorette party, trip to Brazil and your child's dance performance better.
Many of those features seem interesting and some actually seem valuable (though I'm not sure about the waving). But they aren't valuable if users don't know how to find them or aren't aware of them in the first place. In the past, Samsung's never been very good at user education or ease of use with its more complex features. Its weakness is one of the biggest strengths of its fiercest competitor -- Apple.

With the Galaxy S 3, features were buried in menus. Samsung spent its marketing dollars hitting Apple with clever attack ads. (According to the latest numbers, Samsung spent $402 million dollars to market the S 3 in the U.S. last year.)
The Galaxy S 4 has the opportunity now to pull in an even greater mainstream user base, especially with all eyes on the new phone. But in order to do that, Samsung has to stop pretending we're all watching a staged show and has to actually start telling, showing and instructing users on how the phone can, in the words of the all-knowing emcee, "make our lives and life tasks that much easier."


Source abcnews

If you want to get ahead in business, one tool that can help you is as close as your front pocket; the iPhone has hundreds of apps that can give you the edge you need to advance your career.
With more than half a million apps available on the iStore, finding the right app for the task can be a bit daunting. Here is a list of some of the best business applications available for your iPhone:

1. Documents to Go: This is a complete Office suite for the iOS. You can create and edit Word and Excel files, view PowerPoint decks, PDFs, and many other types of Office files. The app allows you to get up to speed or do some light office work on the go. Documents To Go costs $9.99, and is worth the price for it’s ease of use and compatibility with all file types.

2. Jump Desktop: This app allows you to connect to and manage your home or office computer anywhere from your iPhone. Instead of being limited to the files you have uploaded to a cloud from your iPhone, Jump Desktop gives you access to all of the files and programs on your desktop computer. Free alternatives often have connectivity issues and can be unbearably slow at times, so the price tag of $14.99 is worth the one time investment.

3. Evernote: If your professional to-do list is constantly growing? Evernote can help you manage this. You can make text notes, create voice recordings, and take pictures all with the same app, and all for free. Evernote also provides utilities to help you organize your items into convenient notebooks. While the cost for basic access to Evernote is free, there are a few premium features available if you choose to upgrade.
4. Expensify: If you hate storing receipts in your wallet, glove compartment, jacket pockets, or wherever else they end up then Expensify is the app for you. Expensify lets you take pictures of your receipts to pull out the important information, and creates a new cash expense or attaches the receipt to the corresponding credit card purchase. This makes it easy to keep track of your business expenses and create an expense report; all you have to do is choose your expenses and then have the app send a PDF of the report to any email address you choose. Best of all is the cost; it is completely free.

5. Pulse: This free application lets you bring all of the blogs, magazines, newspapers, and other news outlets together on your iPhone. Instead of using the web browser to check each site individually Pulse makes it easy to read and share whatever sparks your interest.

6. Hootsuite: This application brings your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare accounts together in one place. Hootsuite allows you to manage your social media quickly and easily when you are on the go with no need for switching between apps or web pages. The basic version of Hootsuite is free, with upgrades available for different pricing and feature tiers.

7. CamCard Lite: This app lets you scan and save business cards so you don’t have to. CamCard Lite saves all of the contact information in your address book, making it easy to find whoever you are looking for. CamCard Lite is free, with additional save capacity and features available in the premium version.
These are just a few essential business apps for your iPhone; countless more are being added each day. Use your phone for more than just talking and texting and get a leg up in your career.

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Email is a pain. There are simply too many messages to handle—and I'm not even talking about spam from marketers (I use a separate address to collect those emails). The headache is the increasing number of legitimate business messages—it's a humongous time-suck that only seems to be getting worse.
Two years ago I answered nearly every message. A year ago I downgraded to at least trying to read them all. Last winter I started scanning the sender subject fields concentrating on the ones coming from people I knew or looked like they might contain information I needed. And lately, I've been considering closing my account and starting over with a private address reserved for only work colleagues and select sources.
Until, that is, I tried SaneBox.
It's like Gmail's Priority Inbox feature in that it looks at your messages and prior history engaging with those senders and decides which emails you're likely to deem most important.
When you turn on the Priority Inbox feature in Gmail, Google separates your email into three categories: Important and unread, Starred, and Everything Else; all the mail is still in your inbox, but the important messages are up top.
SaneBox is a bit different in that it removes less important messages from your inbox completely, moving them to an @SaneLater folder that you can peruse whenever you want. If SaneBox puts an important message into that folder you can move it to your inbox and it remembers the action so the next time you receive a message from that person, it will go to your inbox.
Priority Inbox is trainable in this way, as well; the more you move stuff around, the better it gets at categorization. But I prefer SaneBox.

SaneBox vs. Gmail's Priority Inbox

SaneBox gives you a custom dashboard including a timeline that graphs how many important and less important emails you get every day. My current average, according to SaneBox, is 81 a day. If I took a minute to read, digest, and respond to each one of them, that's nearly an hour and a half a day going through email. If you figure there's at least 250 work days in a year, I'm spending 375 hours annually on email. That's not acceptable.
In addition to the @SaneLater folder that stores non-essential messages, you can also enable folders such as @SaneNews for newsletters and @SaneBlackHole for those messages you want to send straight to your Trash. (Ha! Finally I'm getting revenge on a certain five-letter-titled fitness magazine that has not let me unsubscribe to its newsletters for two full years!)

Automated nagging!

And it also has a nifty feature that lets you CC or BCC a message to @SaneBox.com to remind you if someone doesn't respond.
So let's say you need an answer from your boss about a project and you need it no later than two days from now. In the CC field just include the address 2days@SaneBox.com and in two days SaneBox will put the message back in the top of your inbox if she never replied to it. This way you remember to bug her again.
SaneBox also creates an @SaneRemindMe folder that lets you keep track of all the messages to which you still need replies. Use oneweek@SaneBox.com, June5@SaneBox.com or 5minutes@SaneBox.com; it doesn't matter, SaneBox will figure out the time frame you need.
The service is $5 a month and works with email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, iPhone, and Android and as well most email services like Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, AOL, and Gmail.  The only service it doesn't currently support is Hotmail.

But the wait for the new phone will be over soon. Today Samsung announced that the handset will be available at seven U.S. carriers starting this month. Below are the details. Before you buy, check out our first look at the phone. Our full review will be out soon.
AT&T
You can now preorder an AT&T Galaxy S4 at att.com. The 16GB version costs $199.99 with a two-year contract. The 32GB version will cost $249.99. It will ship on April 30. If you don't want to sign a two-year contract, the phone is $639.99.


Sprint
Sprint's Galaxy S4 launch day is April 27, though you will be able to pre-order yours , Thursday, April 18. And Sprint's charging slightly more upfront for the phone than the previous two carriers. The 16GB version of the phone will start at $249.99 with a two-year contract. New Sprint customers can get the phone for $149.99 with a two year contract.
Verizon
Verizon will have the phone, but it hasn't released launch or pricing information. We will update this article when the carrier announces more information.
Other retailers
But carriers aren't the only places that will sell the new phone. Walmart will sell the AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile versions of the phone. The AT&T version will cost $168 with a two-year contract at Walmart. Walmart will also drop the price of the Verizon and AT&T Galaxy S3 to $39.88 with a two-year contract.
Staples will have the phone. You can pre-order now through Staples.com and it will have some carrier versions of it at 500 of its select mobile phone stores on April 26. The AT&T version will be available for $199.99 with a two-year contract at Staples on April 26. The T-Mobile version will be out on May 1 at the store.
The phone will be available at other retailers too, including Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, Costco, Radio Shack, Sam's Club and Target.

There used to be just one way for getting shows on TV. Networks would spend tens of millions of dollars ordering scripts and shooting pilots and then show the fruits of their labor to focus groups. A small group of executives would cherry-pick a few promising shows to put on TV, hoping they'd be a hit with bigger audiences.
The process was unscientific, expensive, and often didn't work. It's still how most of the industry operates today.

Debuting shows online also helps avoid problems caused with the age-old TV model, where everything from a weak lead-in show to the Major League Baseball playoffs can draw viewers away unexpectedly.
"We're not just playing that time-slot game," says Alan Cohen, a producer of the Amazon comedy pilot, "Betas."
"Here, you have the opportunity to put it out, and it doesn't matter exactly what time it airs. People can find the show and it'll be out there."
As it makes big bets on online video, Amazon is competing with companies such as Netflix Inc. and Hulu. Netflix debuted its original series "House of Cards" in February to critical acclaim. Netflix hopes that the monthly fees it takes in from its growing subscriber base more than cover its increased spending on TV shows and movies. Its coming quarterly earnings results, due Monday, will be the first indication of whether "House of Cards" — which had a reported budget of around $5 million per episode — helped attract more subscribers.
Amazon doesn't divulge how many Prime members it has, other than to say there are "millions." Kurnos estimates there are between 6 million and 10 million.
"Amazon has always been trying to drive more customers to Prime. Not because Prime itself is profitable, but because it gives you golden handcuffs," Kurnos says.
The company gets a second benefit from Prime because third-party sellers like camera dealers pay fees to be included in the Prime free shipping program, which requires that they send their goods to Amazon warehouses for handling. That keeps the company's facilities humming at fuller capacity, making its deliveries more efficient.
In a sign that the focus on Prime is working, shipping revenue — where Prime membership fees are recorded — has been growing, up 57 percent in the quarter through December to $832 million compared with a year ago. That has pushed net shipping costs as a percentage of total revenue down, from 5.4 percent to 4.5 percent, helping boost profitability. Revenue grew 22 percent to $21.3 billion in the most recent quarter, a number that underscores the outsized benefits of a seemingly small improvement.
Amazon has been investing heavily to convince more people to sign up for Prime, and recently paid for the exclusive online rights to a number of shows including the second season of "Downton Abbey" and the CBS show "Under the Dome," which will debut this summer.
The company is taking a creative stab in the TV space, not just a financial one. One of the original pilots, "Betas," is about a high-tech startup that is trying to create the world's greatest social media app, called BRB. The "Betas" shoot took place in a real-life shared workspace for app developers in Santa Monica, Calif., last month. The show treads on familiar ground for the Internet pioneer company Jeff Bezos founded in a Seattle garage two decades ago.
Script memos from Amazon higher-ups tended to focus on how to portray startup culture, rather than on character or plot. Amazon put producers on the phone with real-life venture capitalists, helping writers craft one of the main characters, a financier played by Ed Begley Jr.
"It's little things from that world," said Alan Freedland, another veteran producer overseeing the show. "Guys were saying, 'They wouldn't say they'd email each other.' They said, 'They'd ping each other.' "
And actors are warming to the new reality that Internet companies are wading into what was once exclusive Hollywood territory.
Karan Soni, who plays the straight-laced software programmer in "Betas," said he likes that his work will be seen, something that the traditional TV system doesn't guarantee. That not only helps the 24-year-old's career, it suits the younger generation he's part of.
"What Amazon is doing which I think is really cool is the pilots are actually going to be seen by everyone," Soni says. "They encourage you to watch on your computer and tablet and things, whereas networks don't. So we're not fighting with the people we're sending the content to. That is so cool."

Blogger has enabled you to change the owner or Administrator for your blog. You can also use this method to transfer a blog to another Gmail Account.

STEPS TO TRANSFER BLOG

1. Login to Blogger Dashboard.



2. Click on Settings on Dahboard for the blog you wish to transfer. Under Settings tab click on Permissions.



3. Under Blog Authors click the 'ADD AUTHOR' button. Copy and paste or type in the email address of the person you wish to invite or that of your second email account and click on Invite.



4. Email is sent to the invited account. Open your Gmail for that account and open that Email. You will see the following message :

The Blogger user XXXXX has invited you to contribute to the private blog: BLOG TO BE TRANSFERRED

To contribute to this blog, visit:
http://www.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=XXXXXXXXX

You'll need to sign in with a Google Account to confirm the invitation and start posting to this blog. If you don't have a Google Account yet, we'll show you how to get one in minutes.

If you are already a Blogger user, please note that this blog uses the new version of Blogger. To post to XXXXX's blog, you will access this new version with a Google account, instead of your Blogger account.

To learn more about Blogger and starting your own free blog visit http://www.blogger.com.

Click the Invite Link.



5. Clicking link opens a new window with :

XXXXX has invited you to contribute to the blog
BLOG TO TRANSFER
http://BLOGTOTRANSFER.blogspot.com/
To join this blog as an author, accept the invitation by signing in with your Account below.

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6. Sign up for Blogger
Once you complete this process, you'll be able to log in to Blogger using your Google account email and password.
Email address INVITED@gmail.com Use a different account
Your name INVITED
Display name The name used to sign your blog posts.
Acceptance of Terms I accept the Terms of Service Indicate that you have read and understand Blogger's Terms of Service

Continue
Click Continue. Blogger.com/home will open with the new blog on your Dashboard. As you are only having a Guest Account you can only post.



7. Then repeat Steps 1 and 2. You will now see your second account as Guest under the Permissions subtab of Settings tab. Click on 'Guest' link and it will change to 'Administrator'.



8. Go to your second (invited) account and under Settings---->Permissions click Remove link for the first account. See the entire process for two bloggers summarized in the picture below :


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