Pacific Military Exercise Unifies Disparate Navies

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FAQ: What you need to know about Microsoft's cheapest-ever Windows upgrade

July 05, 2012

On Monday, Microsoft announced a record low price for the upcoming Windows 8, telling customers that they could upgrade their PCs -- even aged machines running Windows XP -- for just $39.99 later this year.

But almost as soon as Microsoft posted the announcement on one of its blogs, the questions started flooding in. Where will I get it? Do I pay just once for all my PCs, like Apple's offering Mac users this summer? Do we get the Start button back?

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Microsoft answered some of those questions in its blog, tackled others in replies to the hundreds of comments there and ignored a few entirely.

We take a stab at them all.

Where do I get it?
From the Windows.com website, as a download. Or if you're willing to shell out 75 percent more, you can pick up a shrink-wrapped box with a DVD inside from a local retail outlet or online seller. That might be the way to go if you use a dial-up connection to the Internet, or your ISP aggressively meters your usage.

What do I get?
Windows 8 Pro, the pricier and more feature-packed of the two editions that Microsoft will be selling later this year at retail. While Windows 8 -- that's the name of the de facto consumer edition -- and Windows 8 Pro share a slew of features, the latter includes several that appeal to small businesses, such as full-disk encryption, or to customers who want to use their home PCs to connect to their company's network.

Why Windows 8 Pro?
We don't know, and Microsoft's not saying. But the upper-end edition is also the one that Microsoft will serve customers through its Windows Upgrade Offer (not to be confused with the new $40 deal rolled out this week). That's the program that gives buyers of new Windows 7 PCs a $14.99 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, a move Microsoft regularly makes as a new version looms to keep people buying hardware.

How do I know if my PC is up for the upgrade?
Microsoft will tell you when you run the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant on the Windows.com website when it goes live later this year. The assistant snoops through the PC, verifying that you have Windows already installed and deciding if the hardware meets the system requirements. It will tell you if you're good to go, point out possible problems you that could prevent an upgrade -- giving you a chance, for instance, to update a particular component -- and spells out omissions that may limit what you can do with Windows 8. All that takes place before you commit your credit card.

How much?
$39.99 through Jan. 31, 2013 for the download, $69.99 for the shrink-wrapped DVD. The download price is the cheapest Windows upgrade ever -- or as far back as our records go -- and is 20 percent less than Microsoft's lowest price for Windows 7's boxed upgrade during a two-week promotion in 2009.

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Brent up on Norway supply woes, some policy easing

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures rose on Thursday, ending at a five-week high on worries about tighter supplies following a lockout of striking oil workers in Norway and hopes that some policy-easing steps by some central banks would improve oil demand.

China made a surprise move to cut interest rates to bolster slowing economic growth in the No. 2 oil consumer, and the Bank of England undertook another round of monetary stimulus.

Brent hit a session high above $102 a barrel. Then the European Central Bank cut its main interest rate to 0.75 percent and the euro slid against the dollar, pulling Brent off that high.

The U.S. government reported that crude oil inventories fell more sharply than expected last week, initially helping extend Brent's gains and pare losses for U.S. crude. But analysts said the decline was not enough to push prices much higher, with U.S. crude supply remaining more than 24 million barrels above last year's level.

Norway's oil companies, including Statoil , called a lockout in a bid to end a strike by offshore oil and gas workers by possibly inducing government intervention.

Norway's labor ministry declined to say whether it would intervene but said a lockout was legal.

In London, August Brent crude closed at $100.70 a barrel, gaining 93 cents, the highest settlement for front-month Brent since the May 31's finish at $100.87.

"You are getting a very strong 'sell the fact' move off these global rate moves this morning," said Mike Guido, managing director of hedge fund sales and energy markets at Macquarie in New York.

"On the Statoil side, many expect the government to step in over the weekend and do not want to be too long if the government intervention is realized," he added.

Front-month Brent prices are up nearly 13 percent from June 21, when Brent closed below $90 a barrel, an 18-month low. But they are still down 21 percent from it's year's high of $128.40 struck March 1.

U.S. August crude closed at $87.22 a barrel, falling 44 cents, after rising early to a session high of $88.98.

Front-month U.S. crude has risen more than 12 percent from the eight-month settlement low of $77.69 on June 28, but is 21 percent below its 2012 closing high of $110.55 hit in March.

U.S. crude oil inventories fell 4.27 million barrels last week, according to the weekly report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. A Reuters poll had forecast a 1.9 million-barrel decline.

"The (EIA) report is bullish, although its effect may be fleeting, due to the fact that a factor in the crude oil decline was much lower imports, which were impacted by Tropical Storm Debby," said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC in New York.

Gasoline inventories rose less than expected while distillate stockpiles, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, dropped 1.05 million barrels, against the forecast for a 600,000-barrel increase, the EIA report also showed.

Brent's premium against U.S. crude rose 46 cents to $13.48 at the close, from Tuesday's $13.02, as the EIA data showed that crude stocks at the U.S. delivery point in Cushing, Oklahoma, rose last week by 225,000 barrels to 47.64 million barrels.

Trading volumes perked up, with Brent rising 35 percent above its 30-day average, while U.S. crude rose 13 percent over its 30-day average, according to Reuters data.

ECONOMIC DATA PRESSURES

U.S. economic data showed that the U.S. service sector, a major component of the economy, slowed to a 2-1/2-year low in June as new orders dropped, pressuring U.S. crude futures in post-Independence Day holiday trading.

Investors shrugged off data showing that private employers added 176,000 jobs in June, according to payrolls processor ADP, more than economists had forecast. Another set of data showed U.S. jobless claims fell last week from a revised higher number in the previous week.

The all-important U.S. nonfarm payrolls and unemployment data for June will be released on Friday.

U.S. employers likely added 90,000 new workers to their payrolls last month, according to a Reuters survey of economists, but analysts say this is not enough to dispel concerns that the economy is losing steam -- a bad sign for oil demand prospects.

SUPPLY WORRIES

Norway's oil industry moved to lock out all offshore workers on the Norwegian continental shelf. The aim was to get the government to intervene to put an end to a near two-week strike that has hit crude exports and helped push up prices.

While a lockout would mean a complete shutdown of oil and gas production in Norway, the world's No. 8 crude exporter, analysts expected the government to intervene, end the strike and prevent a full closure.

Some 6,515 workers will be locked out from their workplaces with effect from July 10. The strike began on June 24 and has slowed Norway's crude exports, cut its oil production by around 13 percent and its gas output by around 4 percent.

State-controlled Statoil said the lockout would cause a production shortfall for the company of around 1.2 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day.

(Additional reporting by Robert Gibbons in New York, Julia Payne in London, Ramya Venugopal and Jessica Jaganathan in Singapore; Editing by Marguerita Choy and David Gregorio)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-crude-drops-below-87-economic-woes-firm-011134373--finance.html

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Samsung denied: Judge Koh declines to lift injunction against Galaxy Nexus, but Google's got a workaround

Happy Independence Day, Apple. Reuters reports that Samsung's request to have the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus lifted has officially been denied. This follows a similar ruling yesterday, when the Korean firm's plea to have a similar ban on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 also fell on deaf ears. This means that there will be no more Samsung Nexi on store shelves until either a workaround can be implemented or the case is resolved. And, according to All Things D, Google and Sammy have already got a workaround ready to go and the software patch implementing it will be pushed out "imminently." So, in actuality, the news isn't that bad for Android lovers, but it does put another feather in Apple's legal cap.

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Google Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean"

Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" is a solid refinement of what is now the world's most popular OS on new smartphones. While calling it 5.0 would have been a stretch, it's more significant than you'd expect for a point upgrade. For now, you can only get Android 4.1 on a few devices, including the?Samsung Galaxy Nexus ($199.99, 4 stars) and Samsung Nexus S (3.5 stars) phones, and the Google Nexus 7 ($199, 4.5 stars) and?Motorola Xoom (3.5 stars) tablets. The upgrades will roll out sometime in the middle of July as over-the-air updates. There's nothing revolutionary about Android 4.1?the new Google Now feature comes close, but it doesn't work well enough just yet. Still, there are so many minor updates and overall performance improvements that Jelly Bean adds up to our new Editors' Choice for mobile smartphone OSes.

User Interface Improvements
For this review, I tested Android 4.1 on an unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Right from the beginning, the setup process was smooth, and faster than it is with earlier Android phones. Most of the default options were already checked, for example, and I had no problem adding my existing Google account. Once you're in, the OS walks you along with a series of translucent tip screens that appear over the home screen and main menu. This hand-holding is definitely helpful if you're new to the OS, though experienced users will already know many of the tips.

There's more going on here than just minor UI refinements, though. At Google I/O, Google engineering director David Burke talked about Project Butter, which was the company's effort to improve Android performance enough that it feels "buttery" smooth in use. This effort affected many aspects of the OS, such as improved vsync timing for faster frame rates on the display itself, triple graphics buffering for preventing dropped frames in video games, and improved overall touch-screen response.

On the Galaxy Nexus, there's definitely a noticeable improvement. You can now easily resize and move around icons and widgets on each home screen panel or delete apps by swiping the icon up, which causes it to disappear. The system font ("Roboto") already looked sharp and smooth before, and still does. But menu animations, finger swipes, and scrolling now feel at least as solid as they do on iOS, and possibly even a bit better in spots. The Galaxy Nexus is no longer one of the fastest Android phones on the market, but you wouldn't know that from how nicely the unit responds with Jelly Bean loaded.

Keyboard, Web Browser, and Messaging
The new predictive keyboard is another solid upgrade. I spent quite some time typing on it, and it seemed to do a much better job than before at guessing the word I meant, even whenever I typed several letters incorrectly. The prediction function works just as it does on Apple iOS 5.1.1 (Free, 4.5 stars), in that it can figure out your left finger was slightly to the left each time, for example, and then figure out what word you meant based on that and the grammar of the sentence you're typing.

The new predictive text engine also one-ups the that of iOS on the iPhone, in that it still shows the bar beneath the text window with possible alternatives?rather than just one the way the iPhone does?and then pops it in with a little animated fade as you continue typing. These are small details, but they're beautiful in action. This is exactly the kind of polish Android needed.

The Web browser offers smooth handling of multiple tabs, which you can swipe among on a separate screen. One issue; while auto-rotate was turned off by default, when I turned it on, I noticed some pages had trouble formatting columns of text when flipping between landscape and portrait mode. In other words, the screen would be formatted correctly in one orientation, but then end up with a thin column and tons of white space in the other.

Adobe has officially dropped support for Flash, starting with Jelly Bean. This doesn't bother me as much as it bothers some other people. Even when it works on mobile devices, it doesn't really work all that well. The end of Flash for Android is hardly a surprise, at any rate, as Adobe said months ago it was discontinuing all mobile Flash development.

In the messaging app, tap the new message icon, and it pops up names and photos from your contact list as you type letters, including alternate phone numbers indented slightly as compared with the main one. I tested this function with a book of about 1,500 contacts and it was super-fast.

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