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Hands-on with the ASUS Padfone Infinity
At the conceptual level, the ASUS Padfone series has always sounded cool, but it's never managed to translate that into mainstream success. Previous Padfones, though technically impressive, have been too expensive to win over consumers and carriers en masse. On top of that, ASUS has yet to present a really compelling use case for combining a phone with tablet dock.
Nevertheless, the Taiwanese manufacturer is back with a third Padfone iteration, the Padfone Infinity. The Infinity boasts superior specs, a redesigned, brushed aluminum chassis an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. But is that enough to justify this class of device? Check out our first impressions from Mobile World Congress after the break.
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Post-Coup Investing
By Chris Mayer | 02/26/13 
?Always buy land after a coup,? said Aren Nunnink, an Aussie expat who moved to Fiji back in 1987 and is now the most knowledgeable real estate agent on the islands.
Aren ought to know about buying land after a coup. He has taken his own advice, and it?s made him a wealthy man.
Aren told a group of us his tale at the Capitalist Exploits private investor conference in Fiji. Chris Tell and Mark Wallace started Capitalist Exploits and write a free e-letter about their global hunt for investing ideas. They focus on private deals and have come to love Fiji, which they call their favorite place on Earth. I met them recently through an introduction from a mutual friend, and we hit it off immediately. They invited me to attend their Fiji conference and, not one to pass up an opportunity to check out a new market, I eagerly agreed.
I found Fiji a fascinating, if sleepy, market. It is a great place to hide out if you worry about Western civilization as a going concern. Way out in the South Pacific, Fiji is far away from just about everybody.
Of course, there are the coups. Fiji has had four in the last 25 years. The latest was in 2006. But these are opportunities, Aren maintains. He has the personal story to prove it.
I will skip over the details, but the bottom line is that Aren was able to buy 120 acres of prime beachfront property for about $88,000 Fijian dollars (about US$50,000) following the first coup in 1987. Since then, he?s sold about $3 million worth of property and still owns a third of it.
?It?s become my model for business success,? he said. ?I became quite successful and wealthy because of this. I came to the conclusion that you should always buy land after a coup. Fiji has blessed me by having four coups. After every coup, I?ve bought more land. I actually own lots and lots of land around the Savusavu area.?
Later, over cocktails, I asked Aren more about his experiences with post-coup investing. People learn, he told me. With each coup, the deals are not quite as good as before, because people have learned the values come back.
But the coup dynamics still work. After a coup, there is, as you can imagine, a tremendous loss of confidence. Lots of people want to sell, and prices fall off the cliff. Confidence, though, comes back very quickly. ?And because the product [in this case beachfront property] is rare, it very quickly shoots up again,? Aren says.
Fiji had its last coup in 2006. But business and life go on. The military promises elections in 2014. That could be a little value-unlocking event in itself.
Aren is a good storyteller. He told us how it was when he came to Fiji. There were no real estate agents. If you wanted to sell a piece of land, you had to tell the taxi drivers. Then when people arrived, the taxi drivers would tell them about the land. If they helped you sell the land, you paid them a commission.
In fact, there is still a legacy from when this was the case. One of Aren?s largest competitors is called Hussein Taxi & Land Tours. ?I trained him,? Aren said. Hussein once worked for Aren, and they sold quite a bit of land together. Hussein, apparently, decided to go into the business himself.
Anyway, Aren?s knowledge of Fijian history was impressive, and he took us through some of the highlights, including the history of freehold land. It?s a long story, but the short of it is that native Fijians own 93% of the land and are the only ones legally entitled to own that land. The remaining land, about 7% of the total land area, is freehold. That?s what foreigners can own.
Many of those foreigners are so-called ?haven buyers.? Aren said he recently sold 800 acres to a guy who ?doesn?t believe in chemicals? and wants to grow organic food and live ?a natural lifestyle.? He wants to get away from the over-industrialized world, as he sees it.
Haven buyers ?want to get away from something,? Aren says. ?They know Fiji is sustainable. There is plenty of food and water. You can survive here. Life will continue even in times of stress or apocalypse.?
Haven-buyers, take note.
Regards,
Chris Mayer
for The Daily Reckoning
Source: http://dailyreckoning.com/post-coup-investing/
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Synaptics launches a pair of mobile touchscreens at MWC 2013
If Synaptics has a favorite song, we'd assume it'd be Touch Me, after all, the touchscreen maker does want customers to get handsy with its products. The company is launching a pair of mobile touchscreens here at MWC that we can expect to see laminated to some Gorilla Glass on a bunch of handsets at next year's Spanish smartphone shindig. The ClearPad 3400 is a capacitive touchscreen designed for flagships that offers a greatly improved signal-to-noise ratio for devices of up to six inches.
It's also announcing ClearPad Single-Layer On-Cell (SLOC) Multitouch solution, an interface for budget devices that eliminates the touchscreen sensor and border while still offering five-finger touch. Thanks to its simplified manufacturing process, it's much cheaper than competing inputs, and is currently being toted 'round Chinese OEMs. Interested in the finer detail of this human interface system? The release is after the break.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/25/synaptics-launches-a-pair-of-mobile-touchscreens-at-mwc-2013/
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Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux Oscars 2013: Engaged Stars Look Ravishing On The Red Carpet (PHOTO)
Megastar Jennifer Aniston arrived at the Oscars tonight (Feb. 24) and looked absolutely glowing in a strapless red gown. Fiance Justin Theroux walked hand in hand with his leading lady, who is also a presenter at tonight's awards ceremony.
Aniston's "Wanderlust" co-star Paul Rudd is also a presenter, as are Salma Hayek, Melissa McCarthy, Liam Neeson, John Travolta, Ben Affleck, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg and Ted, and most of the cast of "The Avengers."
Though neither Jen nor Justin is nominated for an award tonight, they have their hands full with their own big day. The couple has been prepping quite vigorously for their wedding and have recently enrolled in "marriage bootcamp," an intense three-day therapy session where they talk about potential problems and share massages.
Aniston has also been busy filming her movie "Untitled Elmore Leonard Project" in Connecticut, where she's been spotted with a platinum blond wig.
Check out Jen and Justin's red carpet Oscars appearance below:
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White House will soon revive cybersecurity legislation push
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A senior adviser to President Barack Obama said the White House will soon renew efforts to push cybersecurity legislation through Congress, though he foresaw an uphill battle given the failure of the last attempt.
Daniel said the White House has begun drafting "key legislative principles" for a new bill that it believes can pass both the House and Senate this time.
"We very much want a bill," White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel told Reuters while in San Francisco to meet industry experts and business leaders at a security conference. But he added: "I don't want to leave anybody with an impression that we underestimate the challenges."
"We will do our best to work with Congress," he added. "You will see that develop over the next couple of weeks to months," he said.
Cybersecurity legislation backed by the Obama administration died in the Senate in November amid fierce opposition from businesses that complained about over-regulation.
That bill would have increased information-sharing between intelligence agencies and private companies, with some privacy protections. It also would have set voluntary standards for businesses that control electric grids, water treatment plants and other essential facilities.
In the absence of overarching legislation, the Obama administration will pursue other means to improve cybersecurity, he said. Those included implementing an executive order the president signed this month that seeks to better protect critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks.
The order directs federal authorities to improve information-sharing on cyber-threats - including some that may be classified - with companies that provide or support critical infrastructure.
"It would be a mistake to assume you can't make any progress in the absence of legislation," he said.
The principles that the White House will support in new legislation include requiring that a civilian agency must be in charge of information-sharing, Daniel said.
Last year's Senate plan likewise would have put the Department of Homeland Security squarely in charge, though it could turn to the military's National Security Agency for assistance.
(Additional reporting by Joseph Menn and Deborah Charles; Editing by Eric Walsh)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-soon-revive-cybersecurity-legislation-push-011024890.html
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