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Australian Dementia app goes Android
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"We have had enquiries from people and other Alzheimer's associations from around the world, including The Netherlands, South Africa, Mexico and Iceland, wanting to know when the Android version wil l be available," she said in a statement. "It is extremely encouraging to see that so many people want to make active lifestyle changes to reduce their risk of developing dementia." The free mobile app tests your brain-heart health, tells you areas that you should focus on, suggests activities you might do and lets you track how these activities have affected your health. You can also access information about dementia and play challenging 'brain training games'. A Facebook Phone Has 0% Chance of Success By Evan Niu (TMFNewCow), The Motley Fool Surely, you've heard the rumors by now: Facebook (NAS: FB) is building a smartphone. A New York Times report in May has renewed talk of a Facebook Phone, while speculation dates as far back as 2010. All Things D chimed in last November, saying the social networker was tapping HTC for the hardware, although the recent report says Facebook now wants to do its own hardware. The problem for Facebook is that it would have exactly a 0% chance of succeeding. Where do we start? Assuming Facebook is interested in building a smartphone, how would it even accomplish this? What operating system will it run? iOS is only available to companies whose names rhyme with "chapel," and Facebook already loathes Google (NAS: GOOG) , as in let's-hire-a-PR-firm-to-launch-a-smear-campaign-against-it loathing, so standard Android seems far-fetched. It has numerous ties with Microsoft, but Windows Phone has an embarrassingly low market share. Hewlett-Packard's (NYS: HPQ) webOS is about to see an open-source release, but who really wants to be associated with that platform after its tumultuous history? Not even HP, as making webOS open-source is akin to donating it to charity, complete with a tax write-off from all the impairments it ate. I doubt that Facebook wants to go with the equivalent of a "free to a good home" Craigslist post for a major strategic shift. Toshiba Satellite A505 Battery + Toshiba Satellite Pro A200HD Battery + Toshiba Satellite M205 Battery +Toshiba Satellite L500 Battery + Toshiba Satellite M209 Battery + Toshiba PABAS098 Battery + Toshiba Satellite L300 Battery + Toshiba Satellite L350 Battery + Toshiba PA3727U-1BRS Battery + The only real possibility is a heavily forked version of Android that's unrecognizable to the average user, much like what Amazon.com did with the Kindle Fire and is likely doing with its own Kindle Phone. But then at that point, you're talking about three very distinct flavors of Android -- a Google Android, an Amazon Android, and a Facebook Android -- each with their own ecosystems. That just sounds like a nightmare for developers and consumers alike. Why ask why? The big question is why Facebook would want to get into the cutthroat and incredibly complex smartphone business. The carriers themselves also happen to hate a little thing I like to call "innovation," and Facebook wants to get in bed with them? Beyond the fact that mobile is a giant Achilles' heel for Facebook as it is, I find it hard to believe that would be motivation enough to jump into smartphones, especially since the report believes that Facebook is looking at getting into its own hardware, poaching Apple (NAS: AAPL) hardware engineers in the process. No, this is beyond profiting on hardware, which is already incredibly hard to do. This is about becoming a platform company. Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have taken lessons from Apple and Steve Jobs and now don't want to be relegated to being just another social-networking app on a user's home screen. It wants to become its own platform, complete with its own payment system and cut of sales. Facebook doesn't want to rely entirely on advertising forever, growing its desktop payments platform to 16% of trailing-12-month sales. That growth is thanks in large part to Zynga's (NAS: ZNGA) success in casual social gaming, but Zynga also wants to become a platform company. IHS iSuppli also noted earlier this year that users on Facebook's platform have stagnated lately. So just as Facebook was beginning to enjoy some platform dollars, its user engagement begins to decline and its biggest contributor wants to go it alone. It makes sense why Facebook would want to move on to greener mobile-platform pastures, but Zuckerberg should also be smart enough to realize how bad of an idea this is. Burn, baby, burn! Just as Facebook and Apple are now getting awfully cozy with multiple integration partnerships, a smartphone entry would immediately begin burning bridges to Cupertino. Consider Google's decision to compete directly with Apple using Android. Big G and the Mac maker were the best of buds until then, and now Apple tries to cut Google out of the loop wherever possible, most recently by developing its own in-house maps app. Steve Jobs had also made a comment or two on the topic. Even as Android has quickly risen to become the dominant mobile OS in the world, it's hard to see who is actually profiting from that rise. Android OEMs, for the most part, aren't. Google doesn't disclose Android-related revenues explicitly, so it's hard to quantify how much Google itself actually benefits from Android. Google would have dominating mobile advertising anyway, especially if it was still close with Apple, and probably could have scored integration of its services into iOS, so the incremental monetary benefit of Android to Google relative to if it didn't exist is questionable. Yet the costs of Android are significant. It has direct costs for ongoing development and support, potential patent litigation costs, and not to mention that $12.5 billion it just spent on a bleeding business. The cost/benefit trade-off doesn't add up to me. Toshiba Satellite A500 Battery + Toshiba Satellite A305 Battery + Toshiba Satellite Pro L450D Battery +Toshiba Satellite Pro A200 Battery + Toshiba Equium A210 Battery + Toshiba Satellite L555D Battery +Toshiba Satellite Pro A200GE Battery + Toshiba Satellite Pro L550 Battery + Toshiba Satellite L455D Battery + Does Facebook want to spurn the largest tech company in the world for dubious benefits, as Google did before it? Google is already on Facebook's enemy list, and having both Google and Apple gunning against you isn't an enviable position. What were we saying? To get into the smartphone business, Facebook will need to deploy extensive engineering efforts that it doesn't have, enter the consumer electronics space where it literally has no experience, find manufacturing partners, forge relationships with wireless carriers that are notoriously difficult and controlling, and burn bridges with one of its most important and powerful partners, all for a minuscule chance that it finds but a modicum of success. What we were saying about cost/benefit tradeoffs, again? Competing directly with Apple usually doesn't go well for rivals. The iPhone now has nearly unstoppable momentum that will drive growth for years. Sign up for The Motley Fool's brand-new premium Apple research service to read more. Facebook is under pressure to find new revenue sources beyond advertising, but this social networking company already has one. Grab a free copy of this special report on the tech stock you should be buying instead of Facebook. For HTC, Beats partnership was missing a beat By Om Malik Beats Electronics, which sold half the company to Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp., for $300 million in August 2011, says it is buying back 25 percent of itself for roughly $150 million, and thus taking majority control of the company. Beats is a headphone and accessory company started by hip-hop impresario Jimmy Iovine and rap legend Dr. Dre. HTC is expected to lose about $5 million on this investment. In a press release HTC noted: Under the terms of the agreement, the founding members of Beats will buy back 25% of its total shares for a total of approximately 75% ownership, with HTC remaining the largest outside shareholder with approximately 25%. Over the last year, HTC and Beats have made great progress in sound innovation, product integration and brand awareness with successes like the HTC One. HTC and Beats will continue to work closely, including a joint global marketing campaign later this year. Frankly, I am not surprised that this partnership is heading south. Last year when the two companies announced their arrangement, I pointed out that this was indeed a bandaid being applied to a gaping wound. While Beats might bring a coolness factor, it was clear that HTC, was going to get pummeled in the market by the surging Samsung and other Chinese handset makers such as Huawei, I argued. Earlier this month when Samsung and HTC announced their sales, it was clear that two companies were headed in opposite directions. The economic troubles in Europe haven't helped matters either for HTC. By selling back half its stake in Beats, is actually a good thing as it allows the company to focus sharply on its next generation of handsets and tablets. 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The app for Android smart devices is a free download and can be found by searching MOJacksonSO on Google Play. "It lets us get important information right to people's fingertips," Sheriff Mike Sharp said in a news release. The sheriff's office said the app will allow the agency to channel news directly to users' smartphones about things like missing persons, weather alerts, prisoner escapes and bank robberies. The app is also integrated with VINELink, a national victim notification service that provides information about the custody status of those charged with crimes. "We know that more and more people are getting the information they need from their smartphones," Sharp said in his statement. "We want to make sure we're using the latest communication technology to keep the public informed, and this app lets us do that." According to the sheriff's office, the app also offers real-time access to detention center information as well as lists of wanted criminals or non-custodial parents with the app. "The app greatly improves our ability to serve the public," Sharp said, "and that's what we're here for." While the app is currently only available for Google Inc.'s Android devices, Sgt. Ronda Montgomery said efforts are under way to also make it available for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Insert Coin: Radian lets you use your camera, iPhone and Android device for time lapse projects By Jason Hidalgo In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. We've seen our fair share of time lapse tools at Insert Coin, ranging from last year's Triggertrap to the more recent Timelapse+ and Genie rig. Now we're throwing in another Kickstarter project into the mix, a motion time-lapse gadget called the Radian. Shaped like an oversized hockey puck, the Radian works with any camera that has a trigger-release input and can be used with or without a tripod. The device can be programmed through either an Android or iPhone app and lets you disconnect your smartphone once you've got your settings dialed in. Otherwise, you can use the Radian to take time-lapse photography with your iPhone or Android smartphone as well. A pledge of $150 gets you the standard Radian, while ponying up extra moolah nabs you a charcoal-colored variant as well as other goodies. If successful, delivery is slated for January. For more details, check out the video and source link after the break. 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