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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/28/posted-toronto-political-panel-what-will-it-take-for-transit-users-to-get-any-respect/&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAAOABA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFxQCT6W4FFxktER3noIVsCwM91Dw"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Posted Toronto Political Panel: What will it take for   transit users to get any &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            The front of the new Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Toronto Rocket subway   train is seen at Downsview Station in Toronto. So, it looks like TTC fares   will be going up and service will be going down. Respect for commuters! Chris   Selley, Matt Gurney, &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thestar.com/article/1091881--is-home-ownership-really-a-smart-investment&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATABOAFA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF8p_TxhT0IcGC-OU7NHlPvERETHA"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Is home ownership really a smart investment?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Toronto Star&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            This home at 56 Simpson Ave. in Toronto's Riverdale neighbourhood first sold   for $1200 in 1906. It went for $825000 in Nov, 2011. By Susan Pigg Business   Reporter If Toronto fireman Alexander Gunn was alive today, he might well   feel like the Warren &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.ca/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.thestar.com/article/1091881--is-home-ownership-really-a-smart-investment%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dca&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoBjABOAFA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGYOEHCW6zINLP7UZ7YoQOjBCfU_A" title="http://news.google.ca/news/story?ncl=http://www.thestar.com/article/1091881--is-home-ownership-really-a-smart-investment&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geo=ca"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#228822"&gt;See all stories on this topic &amp;raquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE7AR0XN20111128&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATACOAJA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHJRdjD5ZasQj-tN-bGuaFCEES3OQ"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;TSX jumps more than 2 pct on euro zone hopes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Reuters Canada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index was up more than 2 percent on   Monday morning as resource issues jumped on hopes that Europe will unveil new   measures to tackle the euro-zone debt crisis. Rising oil, gold and copper   prices helped Canadian &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-eurozone-deadline-idUSTRE7AR1ND20111128&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATADOANA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGOu24z3s2RdspV-Es_P64GQXKfEA"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;New Year debt pile-up puts new pressure on euro zone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Reuters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            By Robin Emmott and John O'Donnell BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France and Germany   are aiming to lay out plans for deeper euro zone integration by mid-December   and have a formal framework in place for achieving it by the end of January,   aware that intense &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1093563--former-cnn-host-larry-king-is-canadian-company-s-iron-ore-man&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAEOARA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFDWJkgNoNVVyd85mtVAid9as2Aag"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Former CNN host Larry King is Canadian company's iron   (ore) man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Toronto Star&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            By John Terauds Staff Reporter Rusty-grayish rocks may not have the sensual   allure of Beyonc&amp;eacute;'s liquid Heat, but King has a finger on a potential $1.6   billion Canadian investment in Ukraine. On Monday morning, Matt Simpson,   president and CEO of junior &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.ca/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.thestar.com/business/article/1093563--former-cnn-host-larry-king-is-canadian-company-s-iron-ore-man%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dca&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoBjAEOARA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH9ZtmDUw4983vBQpDDYpBsAeVjgA" title="http://news.google.ca/news/story?ncl=http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1093563--former-cnn-host-larry-king-is-canadian-company-s-iron-ore-man&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geo=ca"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#228822"&gt;See all stories on this topic &amp;raquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/David%2BJohnston%2Bcalls%2Boilsands%2Bimprove%2Boperations/5778541/story.html&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAFOAVA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEZzjvI9w7X076A8sItvs8vUKq7Jg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Gov. Gen. David Johnston calls on oilsands to improve   operations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Montreal   Gazette&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            By Derek Abma, Postmedia News November 28, 2011 1:12 PM Governor General   David Johnston on Monday praised the oilsands, but added the industry can do   better at improving its operations and public image. OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. David   Johnston on Monday &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.ca/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/David%252BJohnston%252Bcalls%252Boilsands%252Bimprove%252Boperations/5778541/story.html%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dca&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoBjAFOAVA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHV4oyHAj4nGs94-FtxS8BZgT4gcg" title="http://news.google.ca/news/story?ncl=http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/David%2BJohnston%2Bcalls%2Boilsands%2Bimprove%2Boperations/5778541/story.html&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geo=ca"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#228822"&gt;See all stories on this topic &amp;raquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1093705--canadian-children-want-to-be-famous-kids-in-developing-nations-want-to-help-others%3Fbn%3D1&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAGOAZA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEzR8SGqJK0eX4yr_OITT2BU-aEPw"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Canadian children want to be famous; kids in developing   nations want to help &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Toronto Star&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            Almost half of children in the developing world want to be teachers or   doctors according to a new survey, but in developed countries like Canada,   they want to be professional athletes, actors, singers or fashion designers.   The survey included 4600 &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-rim-research-idUSTRE7AR1LO20111128&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAHOAdA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEbdHLTmoHkKjIQ2rvu0EZHwSmc8A"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;Analysts split on BlackBerry's fate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Reuters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            A person uses the new Blackberry Bold 9900 at a release party to promote the   BlackBerry OS 7 devices in Toronto August 3, 2011. (Reuters) - A pair of   Monday morning notes on Research In Motion paint sharply contrasting views of   the company that makes &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.ca/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-rim-research-idUSTRE7AR1LO20111128%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dca&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoBjAHOAdA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGuZ5ScSQ26pNUr74DXdi1gveokWg" title="http://news.google.ca/news/story?ncl=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/28/us-rim-research-idUSTRE7AR1LO20111128&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geo=ca"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#228822"&gt;See all stories on this topic &amp;raquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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            &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE7AR1B020111128&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoATAIOAhA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNExWfdrdg9BioCJhZcOLpjGc26zZw"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#1111CC"&gt;CNOOC wraps up Opti deal to expand in oil sands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;span class="MsoHyperlink"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#777777;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"&gt;Reuters Canada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            (Reuters) - CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK: Quote) closed its C$2.1 billion ($2.04   billion) acquisition of Opti Canada Ltd (OPC.V: Quote) on Monday, giving   China's top offshore oil company its second stake in a Canadian oil sands   property. &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

            &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&amp;amp;q=http://news.google.ca/news/story%3Fncl%3Dhttp://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE7AR1B020111128%26hl%3Den%26geo%3Dca&amp;amp;ct=ga&amp;amp;cad=CAcQAxgBIAAoBjAIOAhA7KTP9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLUNB&amp;amp;cd=xZg2h-fF6xk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG2C3P_gB4kEME2zV3Oud2jqun6WQ" title="http://news.google.ca/news/story?ncl=http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE7AR1B020111128&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geo=ca"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#228822"&gt;See all stories on this topic &amp;raquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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                        Prime Restaurants Inc. EAT-T says it has reached a settlement agreement to     terminate an acquisition deal with suitor Cara Operations Ltd. and has     signed a takeover deal with Fairfax Financial Holdings FFH-T. Prime, the     company that owns East Side &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            MONTREAL - Quebec City's Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust Monday came up   with a surprise $15.30-a-share cash offer for Montreal's Canmarc REIT &amp;ndash; a big   real-estate investment trust formed in 2010 to hold most of the Canadian   assets of Halifax's &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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            By Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald November 28, 2011 8:22 AM Albertans bet   away less cash last year, chipping away at funds doled out to charities and   other community programs for the second year in a row. But the province still   cashed in on $2.1 &lt;b&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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      <title>Business News for November 21 2011</title>

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      <description>&lt;div class="field field-type-text field-field-deck" style="color: rgb(73, 68, 64); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "&gt;

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&lt;div class="field-item odd"&gt;MPMN 25th Anniversary Coverage&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(73, 68, 64); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.qmed.com/files/ck_images/MPMN25.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; width: 164px; height: 104px; float: right; " /&gt;MPMN&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;surveyed suppliers to the medical device industry as to what they thought was the most significant breakthrough of the past 25 years within their area of expertise. Read&lt;em&gt;MPMN&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;editors' picks at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.qmed.com/mpmn/25years" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;qmed.com/mpmn/25years&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(73, 68, 64); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;The most influential thing in laser technology is happening right now: laser bonding of dissimilar materials. This provides better functionality with fewer parts. You can join polymers to metals and silicone to glass without adhesives or extra materials. This is still in the research stage.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Henrikki Pantsar, senior engineer, micromachining,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.clt.fraunhofer.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Fraunhofer USA Center for Laser Technology&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Plymouth, MI).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Stent crimping using a radiocompression mechanism made crimping even and repeatable. Previous approaches were manual and labor intensive, as well as subject to operator error.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Ed Goff, founder of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.blockwise.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Blockwise Engineering&lt;/a&gt;(Phoenix).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Miniaturization has had a tremendous impact over the past 25 years, enabling smaller features. Also, the emergence and rise of shape-memory alloys has been significant.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Herb Bellucci, president and CEO,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.pulsesystems.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Pulse Systems&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Concord, CA).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;The release of QSR led the industry down the path to safer and more-effective devices. It was FDA&amp;rsquo;s first attempt at design controls.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Michael Guzzo, site engineering manager,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ethoxint.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Ethox International Inc.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Buffalo, NY).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;The ability to laser-cut nitinol tubing was a pretty big deal. This allowed design flexibility and facilitated a better fit in the anatomy.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Alan Pelton, chief technical officer,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.nitinol.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;NDC&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Fremont, CA).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Higher-end magnets allow for smaller and more-efficient motors to be used.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Paul McGrath, regional sales manager,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.maxonmotorusa.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Maxon Precision Motors&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Fall River, MA).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;ISO 13485 quality management system certification for suppliers opened the door for the transfer of OEM manufacturing/outsourcing.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Vincent R. Pope, CEO and president,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.taurusengineering.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Taurus Engineering &amp;amp; Manufacturing Inc.&lt;/a&gt;(Faribault, MN).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Polymeric synthetic fibers and the structures made with textile processing capabilities have been&amp;mdash;and prove to be&amp;mdash;an incredible advancement within the life sciences arena.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Todd Blair, national sales manager,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bmsri.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Biomedical Structures&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;(Warwick, RI).&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;The power of rapid prototyping and how it can reduce major development costs and improve design flaws. The 3-D laser scanning technologies help with the modifications of ergonomic medical device efforts.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;John Frangella, business manager,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.proto3000.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Proto3000-3D Engineering&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Vaughan, ON, Canada).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(73, 68, 64); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;Radiofrequency technology in combination with closed-loop temperature control was a breakthrough for catheter manufacturing by providing control, higher accuracy, precision, truly validated products, and the ability to quantify all inputs.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;David Joyce, sales engineer,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.vante.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Vante&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Tucson, AZ)&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Micromolding had an immense impact on the medical device industry.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Cindy Dupay, marketing specialist,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.donatellemedical.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Donatelle&lt;/a&gt;(New Brighton, MN)&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;Miniaturization allowed for breakthroughs in power supplies in terms of more wattage per cubic inch and allowing for smaller products.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Peter Hines, sales representative,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.globtek.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;GlobTek Inc.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;(Northvale, NJ)&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;The most significant advance in the medical product manufacturing industry of the past 25 years has been the availability of affordable but powerful computers. Computers have revolutionized part design and complex mold machining, increased productivity through manufacturing automation, and improved quality with finished part testing and SPC analysis.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Dean Langadas marketing director,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.qualityamerica.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Quality America Inc.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Tucson, AZ)&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;We have made a giant leap in the design and manufacture of energy-efficient power supplies. Twenty years ago, we didn't think much about efficiency. A system could be running at 30% to 70%, and today 85% is average and more than 90% is becoming the standard.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Don Nasca, business development manager,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.deltaenergysystems.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Delta Products Corp.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;(Beaverton, OR)&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;ldquo;The most significant shift in focus was to disposable devices in the early 1990s and ironically now the shift back to reprocessing reusable instruments in 2010. The dichotomy between the manufacturing and design of these two types of devices is remarkable. Infection prevention and general convenience fuel the disposable device market, which tends to have a smaller profit margin, while the reusable market tends to have a higher profit margin. The differences in the manufacture and design of a low versus high profit margin item are consequently dramatic as they are at opposites of the manufacturing and design strategy spectrum.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Cheryl L. Box, president,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.marktwo.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(35, 77, 161); text-decoration: none; "&gt;Mark Two Engineering Inc.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Medley, FL)&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=63090</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6586Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>25 Years of Medtech Breakthroughs</title>

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      <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Montreal&lt;/strong&gt;: Manufacturing has been in recovery mode since 2009, but continued growth is hampered by over-regulation and trade barriers, according to Jayson Myers, president and CEO of Ottawa-based Canadian Manufacturers &amp;amp; Exporters (CME).

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;US companies face the same hurdles, so earlier this week, CME organized the first annual Canada-US Manufacturing Summit in Montreal. It brought manufacturing executives, policy makers, politicians and academics from both sides of the border together to give bilateral cooperation a nudge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;The competitiveness of Canadian manufacturing depends on the competitiveness of manufacturing in the United States; and the competitivness of US manufacturing depends as well on the competitiveness of Canadian suppliers,&amp;rdquo; said Myers. &amp;ldquo;So we have a common cause here.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;The numbers tell the tale, he added. Since the recovery began, US and Canadian manufacturing have been growing at the same rate. Every day, Canada does $1.5 billion in trade with the US, and 30,000 trucks cross the border. Vehicles in assembly go back and forth between the US and Canada up to six times before they&amp;rsquo;re complete. Policy should better reflect that intertwining, through reduction of barriers to North American supply chains, he said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Myer&amp;rsquo;s counterpart in the US agreed. Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (Washington) spoke about the need to build a stronger North American manufacturing industry to bring production back to the US and Canada, and compete on a global scale.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;Regulation has added $1.7 trillion to the cost of manufacturing in the United States,&amp;rdquo; said Timmons. &amp;ldquo;We&amp;rsquo;re not saying all regulation is bad. We understand the importance of stewardship. Manufacturers lead the way on stewardship. We care about clean air and clean water and safe and strong communities. But at the same time we know that has to be balanced with our ability to create jobs and create quality of life in those communities.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;Federal Industry Minister Christian Paradis referred to the government&amp;rsquo;s red tap reduction commission, and the US-Canadian cooperative working group,&amp;nbsp;Beyond the Border, which aims to speed the movement of trusted shipments and people through Customs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ldquo;Prime Minister Harper committed earlier this week to take action to keep access to the American market as open and secure as possible,&amp;rdquo; Paradis said during a presentation at the summit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;The audience also heard from senior policy makers in the US and Canada involved with the&amp;nbsp;Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC), a team mandated by Prime Minister Harper and US President Obama in February to simplify and align disparate regulations. The RCC held its first meeting in June and will be collecting more input from manufacturers and other stakeholders. The next step will be an &amp;ldquo;action plan&amp;rdquo; though a date hasn&amp;rsquo;t been set for its release.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;To bring the event to a close, Myers and Timmons presented common manufacturing priorities to Gary Doer, Canadian Ambassador to the US, and David Jacobson, US envoy to Canada. The document&amp;ndash;which includes expedited border crossings and cost competitive access to energy&amp;ndash;will be sent to CME members and industry associations in the coming weeks.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=62455</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6586Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Manufacturing and Regulation News</title>

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      <description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;Residential property sales in Canada are generally taxable on the first sale by the builder and exempt from the Goods and Services Tax (GST)&amp;nbsp;on subsequent sales. This applies to new property and substantially renovated housing.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;However, if someone other than the builder sells the residential complex, there is no GST applied unless:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;The seller claimed an input tax credit on the complex,      or&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;The property was used for commercial purposes and tax      credits were claimed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;As this demonstrates, the rules are complex and professional advice is recommended to ensure you follow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;

font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;the requirements. Other examples of GST-exempt sales found in the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;

mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Excise Tax Act&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;include:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Residential trailer parks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;provided the seller didn't claim an Input Tax Credit      when acquiring the property.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Personal use property&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:

    10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;by individuals and trusts except land used primarily      (50 per cent&amp;nbsp;or more) in a business with a reasonable expectation of      profit; land supplied in the course of a business; land supplied in the      course of an adventure in the nature of trade with an election to treat it      as taxable; land that has been subdivided or severed into more than two      parts; land deemed to be sold under change of use provisions, and land      sold back to the vendor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Farmland that a farmer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;sells&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;

    mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;

    font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;to      children and grandchildren for personal use and enjoyment, as long as the      farmer used the land in the business of farming, immediately before the      sale, the farmer did not use&amp;nbsp;the land&amp;nbsp;in any other commercial      venture, and the farmer is selling the land strictly for personal use and      enjoyment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;A parking space for a residential complex,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;but only when the space is within the complex; the sale      of the parking space is part of (or takes place at the same time as) the      sale of the complex, and the seller doesn't claim an Input Tax Credit on      the space, the space is specifically identified as separate. (If the      parking space is not broken out on the sale, it is treated the same as any      other residential housing unit, taxable on the first sale by the builder,      and exempt thereafter.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;When a GST-registered buyer acquires land and buildings, the seller doesn't collect the GST unless the sale involves a new or substantially renovated residential property.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;Instead, the buyer reports the acquisition on a GST return and claims an Input Tax Credit on the same return. This helps the purchaser's cash flow, because there is no need to come up with cash for the excise tax at the time of the purchase and then wait for the refund after the GST return is filed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black"&gt;If neither party is registered for GST, the buyer files&amp;nbsp;a special form and remits the GST to Canada Revenue Agency. Your accountant can provide additional details. It is important to know the reporting requirement before the sale closes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=62351</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6586Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Avoid the Pitfalls of a Labyrinthine Tax Issue</title>

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      <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;5 Networking Tips For The Nervous Networker&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;Are you a nervous networker? Do you know that you need to network but would really rather avoid it? Perhaps you are looking for a career change, a new job or just know that you need to make new connections in order to keep things fresh.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;Here are a few networking tips to help you along the way and to help you 'in the moment' when you're at that crucial networking event.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Focus on being a good listener&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Listen hard. Rather than talking at people about yourself, spend quality time really listening to what others have to say and what they are looking for. The more you listen, the more you will learn and the more helpful you can be to the person you are networking with.&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Ask questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ask questions and be curious. Find out as much as you can about the person you are networking with. Aim to get them talking for at least 60% of the time so they have the opportunity to speak and to tell you their story.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The more information you gather from them, the more you can gear your answers and what you say to really connect with them.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Find small groups to join&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Look for people in smaller groups or standing alone. Often these people will be happy to talk as they may also be finding it hard and awkward to network effectively and break into larger group formations.&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Check out the room layout&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Observe the layout of the room and group formations before choosing who to approach. Look for people who are most likely to respond positively to you approaching them to talk. These would be individuals standing alone who are waiting for someone to talk to, open groups of 2s and 3s.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Groups of 2s and 3s where people's bodies are facing outwards, suggest that they are having a casual conversation and would be happy for others to join in.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Stay away from bigger groups&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Avoid closed groups. Try to notice larger groups or groups of 2s and 3s where people appear to be facing inwards and where their bodies are close together or turned towards each other.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These are known as closed groups where people are probably comfortable as they are, are enjoying deep conversations and where another addition to the group could be unwelcomed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bonus Tip&lt;/b&gt;: Remember to have fun!&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=62350</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6586Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Don't be Nervous when Networking</title>

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      <description>Lawyers Alert - Spring 2011

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;Collins Barrow Lawyers Alert is also published in &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bhc4zsdab&amp;amp;et=1105299243844&amp;amp;s=443&amp;amp;e=001Ct3txT290Y5_8PIf2pQw0tEiHfJSwA1k0_1WZjsuokGB3Lkoac35EBci4Ob_JmUdia_ys1JwZ8UXiMMQRz0iKmXToofCcvzm_C4GsuyiBdeQifinl103rLp-W0j3ay9fRqNyfFB5UNvyNyUvRhwJ2WLRChGacTva"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PDF format&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Creating a Fast-Track Strategy Toward Your Preferred Future&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;Urgent and Important&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: your firm's future is not waiting for you! It is marching on, and you need to choose a sensible strategy to guide it. But you can't wait until it is convenient or comfortable - or worse, until the conditions are perfect - or it will simply never happen. In this context, procrastination can be lethal.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Strategy is all about focus and direction. Often, it's about what your firm does not want to do as much as what it would love to do. Without a strategy, even good law firm leaders find themselves steering around the icebergs without a clear destination, while more strategic competitors are striking out into the deep.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bhc4zsdab&amp;amp;et=1105299243844&amp;amp;s=443&amp;amp;e=001Ct3txT290Y4HfNCHrVmgq_NXcZXynuac7X-KOYy_bs743rt8yD2KFCLk9ZdUdwbEmaICEsMlsif40R270B4tDKIx8z9GpSI9FP9cSdtUwsls2bIccP1iyGS-z3AKT2i1g6W6KXZZgXXyqR2_brZM9tBzKoogM49ZW1Nfwnnj1mFWvG-H1xbuUQrs2pOFZNn3_dRPS3fPkeiZ76tI83a88JcEHLSbDtbH7-l8xdLB_jHjWMxCiNJo1pHlon3PCLEc"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Read the full article&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Law Firm Media Relations: Getting the Most Out of Your PR Firm Relationship&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have been a public relations and marketing consultant for the majority of my career, and I have learned that every client is different - which is one of the many things I like about being a consultant. However, one of the main differences often lies in the extent to which my clients take advantage of and make the most of my services and expertise.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While I can do some things that will benefit my clients with minimal involvement from them, for the most part, how much my clients gain from our relationship depends heavily on how much they put into the relationship. I must have their input, ideas and involvement to achieve the best results. This is especially true in law firm media relations - I am tasked with &amp;quot;selling&amp;quot; attorneys' expertise to the media and other audiences. Regular, consistent access to that expertise is critical to achieving the best results.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are a few ways lawyers can work with PR agencies to get the most from their relationships.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=bhc4zsdab&amp;amp;et=1105299243844&amp;amp;s=443&amp;amp;e=001Ct3txT290Y67UdD_2KFlbaVp0Lf-xtoziTaekkR8yfCoBJlqgehTfoHeE0lR0gsDsjoaJi35GpU0jIOVr2h7gjpdJR3gw2X1si978g1QkJ3F38SW1ugiqcGbdTbl8f8MFx4nAHsnvq9mSMngXG-CUjCANqIvA-eidLEgrtBSWZ99gTuTxgh0nC6e8koxRtC4Noj94Qe2Cbyhd3WcwlzLy9K7d3KLpxOiB2cemMTRGyfbDKFS82qr-CTNEO5fAGJc"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Read the full article&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Life Insurance policies are often assigned to creditors to provide for the discharge of a loan on the death of a shareholder or key employee of a private company. Upon the death of the individual, the life insurance proceeds are used to pay off the loan, with the proceeds in excess of the adjusted cost base added to the corporation's capital dividend account. The balance of the capital dividend account is then available for a tax-free distribution to the shareholders.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;A recent ground-breaking decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal comes hot off the presses just in time for this issue of &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:

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&lt;p&gt;The Court released its decision in &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;"&gt;R. v. Cole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2011 CarswellOnt 1766) on March 22, and already it has raised many eyebrows in the legal community, as lawyers, prosecutors and police contemplate the effect it will have on computer search and seizure practices in the province and across Canada.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;What makes for a quality training program? It's not the talent or experience of the trainer, it's not the comprehensiveness of the training, nor even the innate talent of the people participating in the training. The key to having a quality training program of any kind is the desire within everyone concerned that the training be a success. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It's really that simple. Unfortunately, &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; can be rare.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Getting everyone committed to successful, quality training can be like herding cats. This is especially true if the organization's mission, vision, and goals are not aligned and well-known, and/or if people don't see how a training program helps support those goals.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Did you know that only seven percent of employees understand how their jobs contribute to the bigger picture of their organization? That's a horrific indictment of our lack of communication skills. I believe those survey results, yet time and again when I talk with senior managers, the overwhelming majority of them tell me their teams know the company's direction.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Isn't that sort of like Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'm not pointing fingers, but because senior managers tend to believe they're communicating better than they are, I'm making a strong suggestion to double up your efforts. Increase the time you spend talking about your vision, mission, and goals, and how everyone's work factors into that big picture. I'm not saying have more company meetings where these things are preached from a pulpit. I'm saying include these topics in your informal conversations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These factors are fundamental to strategic alignment, and if they're missing or weak, people have a tough time seeing how their work contributes. That keeps them from getting engaged at a passionate level. And, it means any training effort you fund won't have the impact you want, no matter how good everything else is.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Speaking of the training effort, let's consider what else contributes to good training.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A quality facilitator &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;In our multi-media lives, a trainer needs more than just speaking skills. A trainer should have expert knowledge, be confident, be able to inspire, comfort, entertain, counsel, and even push back. A quality trainer makes people think. No longer can a trainer rest solely on his or her technical know-how.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Appropriate Training&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;Way too often training is the &amp;quot;go to&amp;quot; solution for performance problems when the root causes of the problems will not be solved with training. So first, if you're conducting training to resolve a performance problem, make sure it's an appropriate solution for the problem.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;/font&gt;Training should be designed and developed after asking several key questions: What are the expected results of the training? What behaviors are needed to achieve those results? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes are needed to effect the desired behaviors? From there, dozens of questions should be asked and learning objectives should be solidified. Then training can be developed into an engaging curriculum that enables learners to internalize, or &amp;quot;own,&amp;quot; their learning.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;An apt training location &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;Each training scenario is different. Some training requires one-on-one, on-the-job efforts. Other training requires lectures in large auditoriums. But most training falls somewhere in between those two. The best location for your training will be the most cost-effective location in which students can learn what is needed, without interruption.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;People know why they're in training&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;I can't believe the number of times I arrive at a location to conduct training only to discover people in the audience who have not been told what the training is about or how it applies to them. This ties directly back to the main topic for this column: The key to having a quality training program is a desire within everyone concerned that the training be a success. For the record:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everyone includes the entire executive / senior management team. Assuming the vision, mission, and goals are clear and training has been selected to support those efforts, the executive team must support training not only with their lips but also with their calendars. Training is a &amp;quot;production capability&amp;quot; effort, and therefore part of the effort to achieve vision, mission, and goals.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everyone includes the support staff. They must be shown the reasons for training and how it will help the organization reach its vision, mission, and goals.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everyone includes middle managers and supervisors. They must also be shown the reason for the training and be a support to the people selected to attend.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everyone also includes the front line employees. They must also be shown how the training will help the organization meet its vision, mission, and goals. All of this is part of being strategically aligned. And yes, for training to be truly effective in your organization, all of the above is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Because according to a study of telephone customer service representatives, employees' moods when they start their work day has a profound effect on their perceptions of customers and to how they react to customers' moods.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What's more, mood has a clear impact on individual performance - both how much work employees do and how well they do it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We saw that employees could get into these negative spirals where they started the day in a bad mood and just got worse over the course of the day,&amp;quot; said Steffanie Wilk, associate professor of management and human resources at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;That's why it is so important for companies to find ways to help their workers start off the day on the right foot.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wilk, and co-author Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, studied the behaviour and performance of 29 customer service representatives working for a large insurance company over a three-week period.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;They compared their subjects' mood at various points during the day to their attitude towards customers and assessed how well the representative handled calls. In addition, the researchers measured how many calls the representatives took each day, number of calls transferred, and the percentage of time that representatives were available to customers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The results showed that when employees started the day in a good mood, they tended to rate customers more positively throughout the day. They also tended to feel more positively themselves as the day progressed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Starting off at work wearing rose-colored glasses &amp;ndash; or gray glasses &amp;ndash; shapes the way we perceive events the rest of the day,&amp;quot; Wilk said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;However, while the start-of-the-day mood sets a tone, the results showed that employees' moods could and did change, with employees more likely to see an improvement in a bad mood than the loss of a good mood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In 17 per cent of the cases studied, employees who started the day with a higher positive mood than normal would later move to a below-average mood after one of their calls.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But in 40 per cent of the cases the opposite occurred: an employee who was in a below-average mood moved into an above-average mood after handling a call successfully.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Positive customers were related to workers' positive moods,&amp;quot; Wilk said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But, perhaps surprisingly, negative customers didn't hurt employees who were already in a bad mood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We call it the 'misery loves company' effect,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;If you're in a bad mood, it seems to help to talk to someone else who is feeling as bad as you. Maybe the employees were able to blow off some steam by reacting to rude customers.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wilk and Rothbard found that a better-than-normal positive mood was reflected in greater verbal fluency on the phone and less verbal fumbling. On the other hand, negative moods tended to result in employees answering fewer calls and needed more breaks between calls.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Employees knew that they were being monitored and that their supervisors knew when they weren't taking calls. Still, when they were in a bad mood they tended to be less available, which suggested they needed time away,&amp;quot; Wilk said. &amp;quot;They just couldn't sit there, take the calls and pretend.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The obvious implication of the research is that employers should do everything they can to help their staff start the day in a good mood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We've all heard of companies that start the day with calisthenics or some team-building exercise. Many of us laugh at that, but there may be something to it,&amp;quot; Wilk said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Wilk said she has worked with companies that will dock pay or give a demerit to an employee who is even one minute late &amp;ndash; something that the research suggests is completely counter-productive. .&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So if you've had a rough commute and you have to rush to your desk, and you know you're going to be in trouble, that's not a good way to start your workday. Once an employee starts that way, it could have negative consequences for the company the whole day.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="deck"&gt;If you're new to negotiating or find it difficult, here are some missteps to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speak Softly:&lt;/strong&gt; Whenever you negotiate, remember that it pays to stay calm.&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;Every entrepreneur spends&lt;/b&gt; some time haggling, whether it is with customers, suppliers, investors, or would-be employees. Most business owners are street smart, and seem to naturally perform well in negotiations. You probably have a trick or two&amp;mdash;some magic phrases to say, perhaps&amp;mdash;that can help you gain the upperhand. But, often, the moment you get into trouble in a negotiation is when something careless just slips out. If you are new to negotiation, or feel it is an area where you can improve, check out these tips on precisely what &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to say.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. The word &amp;quot;between.&amp;quot; &lt;/b&gt;It often feels reasonable&amp;mdash;and therefore like progress&amp;mdash;to throw out a range. With a customer, that may mean saying &amp;quot;I can do this for between $10,000 and $15,000.&amp;quot; With a potential hire, you could be tempted to say, &amp;quot;You can start between April 1 and April 15.&amp;quot; But that word &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; tends to be tantamount to a concession, and any shrewd negotiator with whom you deal will swiftly zero-in on the cheaper price or the later deadline. In other words, you will find that by saying the word &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; you will automatically have conceded ground without extracting anything in return.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dig Deeper: &lt;a target="_blank" href="/articles/2000/10/20856.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;The Art of Effective Negotiation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. &amp;quot;I think we're close.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;We've all experienced deal fatigue: The moment when you want so badly to complete a deal that you signal to the other side that you are ready to settle on the details and move forward. The problem with arriving at this crossroads, and announcing you're there, is that you have just indicated that you value simply reaching an agreement over getting what you actually want. And a skilled negotiator on the other side may well use this moment as an opportunity to stall, and thus to negotiate further concessions. Unless you actually face extreme time pressure, you shouldn't be the party to point out that the clock is loudly ticking in the background. Create a situation in which your counterpart is as eager to finalize the negotiation (or, better yet: more eager!) than you are.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dig Deeper: &lt;a target="_blank" href="/articles/1999/01/14527.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;Creating Win/Win Negotiations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. &amp;quot;Why don't you throw out a number?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;There are differing schools of thought on this, and many people believe you should never be &lt;a target="_blank" href="/magazine/20090601/norm-brodsky-when-negotiating-listen-before-you-speak.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;the first person&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in a negotiation to quote a price. Let the other side start the bidding, the thinking goes, and they will be forced to show their hands, which will provide you with an advantage. But some research has indicated that the result of a negotiation is often closer to what the first mover proposed than to the number the other party had in mind; the first number uttered in a negotiation (so long as it is not ridiculous) has the effect of &amp;quot;anchoring the conversation.&amp;quot; And one's role in the negotiation can matter, too. In the book &lt;em&gt;Negotiation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a class="informlink" title="Adam Galinsky" href="/topic/Adam+Galinsky"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Adam D. Galinsky&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="informlink" title="Kellogg School of Management" href="/topic/Kellogg+School+of+Management"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a class="informlink" title="Roderick Swaab" href="/topic/Roderick+Swaab"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Roderick I. Swaab&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a class="informlink" title="INSEAD" href="/topic/INSEAD"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;INSEAD&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a class="informlink" title="France" href="/topic/France"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;France&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4302.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;write&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &amp;quot;In our studies, we found that the final outcome of a negotiation is affected by whether the buyer or the seller makes the first offer. Specifically, when a seller makes the first offer, the final settlement price tends to be higher than when the buyer makes the first offer.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dig Deeper: &lt;a target="_blank" href="/articles/1999/10/14888.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;Bargaining for Advantage&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I'm&lt;/em&gt; the final decision maker.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;At the beginning of many negotiations, someone will typically ask, &amp;quot;Who are the key stakeholders on your side, and is everyone needed to make the decision in the room?&amp;quot; For most entrepreneurs, the answer, of course, is yes. Who besides you is &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; needed to make a decision? Isn't one of the joys of being an entrepreneur that you get to call the shots? Yet in negotiations, particularly with larger organizations, this can be a trap. You almost always want to establish at the beginning of a negotiation that there is some higher authority with whom you must speak prior to saying yes. In a business owner's case, that mysterious overlord could be a key investor, a partner, or the members of your advisory board. The point is, while you will almost certainly be making the decision yourself, you do not want the opposing negotiators to know that you are the final decision maker, just in case you get cornered as the conversation develops. Particularly in a high-stakes deal, you will almost certainly benefit from taking an extra 24 hours to think through the terms. For once, be (falsely) humble: pretend like you aren't the person who makes all of the decisions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dig Deeper: &lt;a target="_blank" href="/guides/2010/04/tips-for-great-negotiating.html"&gt;&lt;font color="#003399"&gt;7 Tips for Masterful Negotiating&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. &amp;quot;Fuck you.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;The savviest negotiators take nothing personally; they are impervious to criticism and impossible to fluster. And because they seem unmoved by the whole situation and unimpressed with the stakes involved, they have a way of unnerving less-experienced counterparts. This can be an effective weapon when used against entrepreneurs, because entrepreneurs tend to take every aspect of their businesses very personally. Entrepreneurs often style themselves as frank, no-nonsense individuals, and they can at times have thin skin. But whenever you negotiate, remember that it pays to stay calm, to never show that a absurdly low counter-offer or an annoying stalling tactic has upset you. Use your equanimity to unnerve the person who is negotiating with you. And if he or she becomes angry or peeved, don't take the bait to strike back. Just take heart: You've grabbed the emotional advantage in the situation. Now go close that deal&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Equity markets closed higher this week, the TSX up 2.59%, the Dow up 1.01%. Canadian government 10 year bonds closed essentially unchanged while the USD fell 1.01% against a basket of foreign currencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Please find&amp;nbsp;below&amp;nbsp;our views on US developments in context of this week&amp;rsquo;s FOMC Minutes and economic data, courtesy of our Senior Macro Strategist, Milan Mulraine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The aggressive market pricing for a December rate hike by the Fed was always vulnerable to the reality check of a Fed that is bent on ensuring that a self-sustaining economic recovery takes root before contemplating an explicit tightening of policy. The current accommodative monetary policy stance is aimed at underwriting the ongoing economic recovery, and by virtue of this fact it was always unlikely the Fed will acquiesce to what we perceive as an unrealistic timetable of a year-end rate hike being priced in by the markets. To the contrary, we continue to believe that the Fed may still be many months away from a shift in its monetary policy stance to a tightening bias. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Not surprisingly, this week's dovish FOMC Minutes was a moment of truth for the markets as investors disregarded the string of strong economic reports, stemming the tide of what has otherwise been a one-way trip to higher yields over the past few months. The key message from the Minutes was simply that even though the Fed has become slightly more optimistic about the sustainability of the economic recovery, it regards the pace of the rebound in activity as insufficient to make a meaningful dent in the significant amount of economic slack in the economy. And with the risks to the inflation and economic outlook perceived to be roughly balanced, the Committee appears now to be comfortably on hold and has every intention to complete the full allocation of the $600B large-scale asset purchase program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Along with the FOMC Minutes, the dovish BoE Inflation Report and rising tension in the Middle East dictated the tone of market activity this week as investors looked beyond the slew of strong economic reports. This discernible shift in the market&amp;rsquo;s sentiments was most pronounced following the stronger than expected CPI. In particular, the 0.2% m/m gain in core inflation which was the biggest gain in this indicator since October 2009 was dismissed as an aberration by the markets and the rally in Treasuries during the trading session continued. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;As we have argued many times before, the significant amount of economic slack in the economy will remain a constraining force for core inflation, and the Fed will continue to look beyond the commodity-driven resurgence in headline inflation and sporadic spikes in core prices. In the end, with the unemployment rate still at historically high levels and the pace of slack absorption continuing to be quite slow, we expect the Fed to remain on hold until mid-2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Ben Kizemchuk, CIM, DMS&lt;br /&gt;

Investment Advisor&lt;br /&gt;

AspenRock Wealth Management Group&lt;br /&gt;

T: (416) 308 8831 F: (416) 308 8475&lt;br /&gt;

Toll free: 1 800 563 5095&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Lost Art of Reflection &amp;hellip;or How to Live Purposefully&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The world of work is filled with pressures. There are commitments to clients and customers, to co-workers and to supervisors. Leaders are focused on utilizing their teams in moving business ahead and engaging themselves and their teams in an ever-increasing amount of responsibility. With deadlines looming for the week, month, and quarter, pressures can conspire to keep our thinking rooted mainly in the here-and-now, making perspective-taking and context an all but lost art. It is clear that the way we work does not leave time for reflection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Seven Good Reasons to Take Time for Reflection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Develop greater self-insight. Uncovering a clearer picture of yourself creates a healthy personal objectivity and self-honesty which can create more positive relationships with co-workers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Create a renewed sense of purpose. By inserting time and space for reflection into a hectic schedule, you will rediscover the meaning and motivation behind the work you do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Increase alignment between your actions and intentions. We all have great intentions, but may not pay enough attention to the impact of our actions on those around us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Turn day-to-day experiences into real learning. By digging below the surface of daily life, you can examine your feelings and intuition as legitimate aspects of human experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Enhance the accuracy of gut-level decisions. Taking time to reflect on past, current and future decisions allow you to spot trends and make more powerful decisions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Build a personal moral leadership compass. Practiced regularly, reflection builds a stronger internal sense of right and wrong&amp;hellip;.what to do in any situation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;7.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Say good-bye to automatic pilot. By asking yourself tough questions, you will think more creatively and expansively, leaving behind rigidity, routines and bureaucracy, which can cause you to act on &amp;ldquo;automatic pilot&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Why is Reflection so Important?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Long term studies with leaders and effective work teams have demonstrated that one of the key, distinguishing characteristics between those who continue to learn, grow and progress in their careers and those who plateau or derail, is the learned art of reflection. It is also noted that those who are most satisfied with their careers and personal lives take time out from the endless string of daily tasks and deadlines to engage in self-enquiry and perspective-taking. They not only find time for reflection, but make it a habit and practice it over time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;How do you learn to reflect?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If you are not naturally reflective, you may be asking how you can cultivate a more reflective nature. Here are some suggestions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Write it in a journal. Journaling is a powerful practice that helps to cultivate the habit of reflecting on past events. It also clarifies your feelings about current and future issues. Some people keep a decision-making journal, others an integrity or gratitude journal, yet others, just keep a general, all-purpose journal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Meditate. Practiced regularly, meditation introduces mental discipline and creates a space where you can resist work pressures and allow your mind to become clearer and more focused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Debrief experiences with others. While many leaders and team members participate in debriefing major projects with their co-workers, they may not debrief some of their own significant experiences. Talking to a mentor or coach about events, feelings, and actions, helps to ensure new lessons are extracted and reinforces your sense of corporate ethics. Seek out people who are good &amp;ldquo;sounding boards&amp;rdquo; and are willing to tell it straight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;At times we are all driven by immediate pressures, however, it this becomes our only mode of operation we will not see our careers and personal lives as a long journey, but instead, a series of unconnected events. This can lead to undermining of personal integrity and will certainly make day-to-day events and interactions less meaningful. There is no doubt that the demands of the work world and our personal lives present a difficult, daily quest for integrity, wholeness and authenticity. Reflection may be the key to unlocking the best in you. Try it, you&amp;rsquo;ll be amazed with the results!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Paul Jones - FocusedHR&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusedhr.ca" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;www.focusedhr.ca&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Financial markets whipsawed this week, the TSX ending down 1.53%, the Dow ending up 0.75%. Canadian government 10 year bonds settled down 0.57% to retest recent support levels while the USD fell 0.93% against a basket of foreign currencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Please find&amp;nbsp;below&amp;nbsp;our views on the Bank of Canada&amp;rsquo;s recent Monetary Policy Report, plus some brief thoughts on our 2011 Canadian dollar outlook, courtesy of our research analyst, David Tulk. Full report attached.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Bank of Canada and the Case of the Fat-Tailed Risk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Bank of Canada has perfected the act of the much maligned two-handed economist, enumerating the multitude of offsetting risks facing the economy before ultimately deciding that no policy response is required. As a result, both the communiqu&amp;eacute; accompanying the Bank&amp;rsquo;s decision and the January Monetary Policy Report (MPR) struck a fairly cautious tone. While the OIS market did respond appropriately by scaling back expectations of hikes over the first half the year, the likelihood of a move in May still stands at 85%. We continue to believe that this pricing is too aggressive, and instead anticipate that the Bank will wait until July to embark on the next stage of the tightening cycle. This view is consistent with how the balance of risks to the Bank&amp;rsquo;s outlook is expected to unfold over time. While we feel that there is currently a downside tilt, the risks are expected to come into balance, and could end up moving into positive territory, over the course of the year. This dynamic will compel the Bank to remain cautious for the time being, but to hike in 25 basis point increments at every Fixed Announcement Date (FAD) in the second half of the year, bringing the overnight rate to an even 2.00%. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Though the Bank still sees the risks to the outlook as elevated, they cut the number of risks explicitly identified in the MPR from three in October to two in January. The Bank dropped the upside risk that stronger growth in the United States economy would underpin a larger-than expected revival in Canadian exports. Instead, this risk was directly incorporated into the forecast through an upwards revision to US growth. However, this revision was not strong enough to accelerate the absorption of spare capacity in the Canadian economy, which is still expected to occur at the end of 2012. With respect to the downside risks, the Bank dropped the risk that the global rotation from the public to private sector would fail to materialize. This suggests that the Bank expects that the healing in the US private sector that will occur over the course of the year will significantly improve the likelihood of a successful handoff in 2012. Taken together, we are left with a softer near-term growth outlook that will give way to a stronger and ultimately more sustainable profile in 2012, which is consistent with the Bank concentrating its hikes in 2011H2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Turning to the four risks that the Bank presented in the January MPR, three were a variant of those described in October. The first upside risk associated with higher commodity prices was rephrased slightly to be a product of stronger-than expected global growth and an insufficient effort by policymakers in emerging market economies to withdraw stimulus. We do not expect this risk to fade, but are comforted that the accumulated excess capacity in the Canadian economy will afford the Bank some time to respond. The wildcard, however, is inflation expectations, though we will need to wait until April for the next release of the Business Outlook Survey to gauge their evolution. Given the importance that the Bank places on inflation expectations, we would expect that they would respond aggressively in the event that expectations appear to become unanchored. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The second upside risk is focused on the prospect of a stronger-than expected expansion in household expenditures. But as an innovation relative to the October MPR, a larger-than expected decline household expenditures was also identified as a new downside risk. In trying to assess the relative importance of these offsetting risks, we give the benefit of the doubt to the impact that tighter residential mortgage regulations (also announced this week) would have on slowing the pace of household debt accumulation. Slower credit growth would then keep the upside risk of greater consumer spending from materializing. The likelihood of a collapse in credit growth that would cause the downside version of this risk to materialize is largely offset by financial conditions which still remain quite simulative, the soft landing we are observing in the housing market, and the continued, albeit slower pace, of job creation. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;We are now left with the final downside risk, described broadly as the risk that a lack of competitiveness in the Canadian economy would impair the recovery in exports. While mediocre labour productivity certainly has a role to play, this risk appears to target the currency. Indeed, the persistent strength in the Canadian dollar has cast a long shadow across the forecast, helping to limit the positive impact that a more constructive global outlook will have on the Canadian economy. This is a risk that cannot be easily dismissed. But paradoxically, we could find ourselves in a situation where further turmoil in Europe (which was not explicitly identified as a downside risk in the MPR) could compel the Bank to hike. Indeed, our forecast for the USDCAD to rise to 1.031 by the end of the year is largely based on a sharp depreciation in the euro. If this were to occur, the downside risk posed by the persistent strength in the Canadian dollar would fade, and as long as economic growth in the US was not adversely impacted by events in Europe, Canadian exports could experience a more rapid rebound than is currently expected. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Ben Kizemchuk, CIM, DMS&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WHY MANAGERS DON&amp;rsquo;T COACH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By Paul Jones - &lt;a href="http://www.focusedhr.ca" target="_blank"&gt;www.focusedhr.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;For many years, I've heard the same lament from human resource leaders: &amp;quot;We spent a fortune training our managers to coach their staff, and they know how important it is. Yet, staff tell us their managers don't give them helpful feedback or advice on how to develop themselves.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Most managers are comfortable providing guidance on how to perform the technical aspects of a job better, or talking about the company vision.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It's when they get into the soft stuff -- giving staff feedback on how realistic their career goals are, or making suggestions on how to improve interpersonal impact -- that they have difficulty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But coaching is one of the most important roles of a manager, especially for Generation X and Y workers, who place such support at the top of their career wish lists. And they need more than previous generations because they are not receiving the kind of development their predecessors enjoyed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;There are many obvious reasons why managers don't do this kind of &amp;quot;soft&amp;quot; work. They don't have the time, have too many people reporting to them to know them intimately enough, may have received inadequate training and get no direct rewards for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But lately, I've begun to think that all this is secondary. The real reason managers avoid coaching has nothing to do with skills or time: It's because they are uncomfortable with the role. Here is some of the reasoning managers use to justify their discomfort with coaching -- and what's wrong with it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;People should know they're doing something good. They don't need my praise.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Managers who say this often never received good coaching themselves. They may also feel that a desire for positive feedback equates to neediness. While some people have stronger needs for positive feedback, everyone is motivated by a compliment. It also provides reinforcement for what people ought to do more of.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;If I tell them anything negative about themselves, they'll get angry.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Managers who say this want people to like them. They don't like conflict and avoid it wherever possible. In my experience, managers greatly overestimate how thin-skinned their staff are. Most people can take reasonable criticism, as long as it is presented in a helpful way that offers the possibility of fixing the problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Couch negative feedback in positive terms. For example, rather than saying, &amp;quot;Here's what you did wrong . . .&amp;quot; say, &amp;quot;Next time, you may want to try . . .&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Rather than invoking a personality flaw --&amp;quot;you're too impatient&amp;quot; -- show awareness that this is behaviour that can be changed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;I'm not a therapist.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Male managers are more likely to worry to about this, feeling uncomfortable, as one said, &amp;quot;mucking about in someone's head&amp;quot; to try to unearth information about desires and interests. This is one of the most common objections they have to discussing career aspirations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The key here is to provide structure to your discussion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ask staff to do their homework before they talk with you. Give them tools to enable them to identify their interests, skills and values. Put the onus on them to identify what they want and need from you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It is far easier and more productive to respond to a comment like &amp;quot;I'm interested in improving my communication skills. I'd like to take a course in . . .&amp;quot; than &amp;quot;I'm not really sure what I want to do or what I'm good at. What do you think?&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In this way, you can build on what they know about themselves, provide input on how realistic their desires are, and how they can get the development they want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;It's frustrating when they don't agree with my assessment.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Some managers confuse their point of view with a fact, and become angry when they give staff feedback that is rejected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If there is a performance issue under discussion, you have the right to expect staff to change their behaviour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But if you and your employees don't see eye to eye on their career aspirations, you have to accept that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Staff should listen to you, but they don't always have to agree with you. You are offering an informed point of view, not the absolute truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;I'm just not that interested in others' development.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Some managers find developing their people very rewarding, while others are completely uninterested.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It is difficult to cultivate an interest in something that doesn't engage you. But supporting staff in their development is the cornerstone of coaching.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ask yourself: &amp;quot;Do I really want to be in this role?&amp;quot; If the answer is &amp;quot;yes,&amp;quot; keep on reminding yourself that it is part of your job and you need to act like you care.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;You may discover that you actually do care when you have reaped the emotional rewards of contributing to someone else's development.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;If I set myself up as an authority figure, I'll no longer be part of the group.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Team-loving, extroverted managers often feel uncomfortable putting themselves in a position of authority over employees they consider friends, thinking it puts them outside the group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Managing the boundary between personal and professional lives is one of the toughest parts of a manager's job, especially if there are warm collegial relationships. It is the manager's role, however, to provide feedback -- and your employees expect it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Would you rather be seen as a great guy or as someone staff respect and trust? Be matter-of-fact. Avoid judgmental language. Provide examples to demonstrate your point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;My staff will become too dependent on me. I'll be sucked dry emotionally.&amp;quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Managers who believe this are often more introverted, reserved and shy. They worry about creating overwhelming and never-ending demands for their time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Just because you provide guidance doesn't mean staff will be living out of your pocket from now on. It is up to you to set boundaries about reasonable expectations or subjects for discussion. You may also want to consider whether the core of your discomfort is a fear of intimacy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="DefaultText" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The rewards of supporting another person's development are enormous. Giving someone a leg up not only contributes to your bottom line but also to their future success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Paul Jones&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.focusedhr.ca"&gt;www.focusedhr.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=58460</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6742Z</pubDateParsed>

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Markets closed mixed this week, the TSX down 0.19% and the Dow up 0.77%. Canadian government ten year bonds rose 0.75% while the USD rose 0.39% against a basket of foreign currencies. In an environment of elevated investor sentiment, a wave of caution seemed to roll over the markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;In economic data, Canadian manufacturing sales rebounded strongly in October, rising by an above consensus 1.7%. Though we have just a small slice of the data that will make up the final quarter of the year, our forecast is for real GDP to expand by an annualized 2.3%.&amp;nbsp;Although this forecast trails the 2.6% expected by the Bank of Canada, they acknowledged as recently as last week that the pace of activity over the second half of the year is likely to be weaker than what they had presented in the October Monetary Policy Report (MPR).&amp;nbsp;As such, there is nothing in this report that will alter the timing of their next rate hike, which we expect will occur in July 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The international love affair with Canadian securities continued, as foreigners purchased $9.5Bn worth in October.&amp;nbsp; Of this, $3.0Bn was directed towards equities, slightly down from $3.4Bn the prior month. The bulk was once again directed towards the bond market, making up $7.8Bn of the total. Digging into the bond market numbers, foreign investors were actually rather chilly towards federal government bonds, selling $755Mn worth &amp;ndash; only the second divestment in 18 months. Most of the selling was concentrated at the short end of the curve, a curious outcome given the Bank of Canada&amp;rsquo;s decision to return to a neutral stance that month. But broader factors may have interfered, including an uptick in global risk appetite. Taking a broader stance, foreigners have now purchased a total of $108Bn in Canadian bonds over the past year &amp;ndash; yet another in a string of records. The Canadian allure remains obvious &amp;ndash; fiscal health, attractive rate spreads, reasonable economic conditions, and a credible central bank.&amp;nbsp;While the pace of buying seems to be abating slightly, the trend is unlikely to disappear altogether.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Looking forward to 2011, please find attached TD Economics&amp;rsquo; most recent Quarterly Economic Forecast. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Highlights include:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Real GDP growth should pick up from the anemic Q3 pace of 1%&amp;nbsp;and average 2.6% in 2011 &amp;ndash; more than a half percentage point higher than the previous forecast in September. For 2012, our projection has been downgraded slightly to 2.5%, from 2.8%.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The upward revision in 2011 reflects an improved U.S. outlook.&amp;nbsp; In addition, the policy interest rate in Canada is expected to stay low for longer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Despite these revisions, the general story remains the same.&amp;nbsp; After having rebounded strongly, the recovery in Canada has transitioned down to a more moderate but sustainable pace.&amp;nbsp; Modest income gains, high indebtedness, flat housing markets, and waning fiscal stimulus are expected to keep economic growth moderate. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Regionally, a rotation in growth leaders from Central  provinces, parts of the Atlantic, and British Columbia towards the Prairies and Newfoundland &amp;amp; Labrador is materializing as expected, helped by the recent strength in world commodity markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/span&gt;Ben Kizemchuk, CIM, DMS&lt;br /&gt;

Investment Advisor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;              AspenRock Wealth Management Group&lt;br /&gt;

T: (416) 308 8831&lt;/span&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=57485</link>

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="drop_cap"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;here are times when we make decisions  at work that are more personal in nature. To us, they may seem harmless  because they are not intended to interfere with our day-to-day  activities on the job. Although sometimes done with the best of  intentions, these decisions can also hamper our efforts to deliver great  customer service. The following tips will help you stay focused on your  customers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t invite friends to work&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It might seem innocent enough, but most supervisors frown on socializing  at work. There are several things at play here that could damage your  reputation. For starters, it is simply not within your authority to  grant permission or to invite people to visit your place of work. You  would be hard-pressed to find an employer who would encourage this sort  of invitation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The presence of a friend can contribute to a social atmosphere in the  workplace. Most employers expect you to concentrate on work and not on  conversations with friends. This, in turn, would give your superiors  cause to question your priorities and dedication.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Liability issues also come up when friends assist you or travel in work  areas not designed for untrained and uninvited people. If your friend  gets injured as a result of his extended stay on the premises, your  employer might have to deal with legal complications, insurance  problems, and worker&amp;rsquo;s compensation insurance investigations. Any of  these consequences can jeopardize your job security.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Unless it is authorized or encouraged, don&amp;rsquo;t invite friends to work.  Your job requires your undivided attention. Any distraction, regardless  of how innocent it may be, can seriously affect your reputation and  tenure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t give out personal information&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Personal information is personal. When you begin to feel comfortable  with a returning customer, it&amp;rsquo;s easy to assume she has your best  interests in mind. Most people prefer to stay positive and not consider  the way some people can complicate personal lives with unnecessary  drama. Sadly, many workers have placed themselves in compromising and  embarrassing situations simply by being nice and sharing personal  information.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Be selective and careful when you give out personal information. Your  last name, contact information, online social media screen names, and  the coffeehouses you frequent reveal the kind of information a customer  can use to contact you away from work. Protect valuable information such  as your marital status, children, and type of vehicle you drive.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Even when you want a relationship you have formed at work to be  long-lasting, be extremely selective in how forthcoming you are with  this personal information. There are too many people in this world with  bad intentions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t assume that everyone you come in contact with is harmless. Even if  most of them are, they could inadvertently damage your reputation  without knowing it. &amp;nbsp;Don&amp;rsquo;t give out personal information that might  compromise you and the many things you have worked so hard to achieve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom line:&lt;/strong&gt; Have the clarity to make personal  decisions that will have minimal risk of affecting your job, employer,  performance, or self. When you&amp;rsquo;re at work, be the best employee you can  be. When you are off the clock, be the best friend you can be.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=57481</link>

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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="drop_cap"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;t&amp;rsquo;s that special season again: the  season of crowded stores, whiny kids, irritable customers, and  stressed-out employees. If you&amp;rsquo;re a business owner&amp;mdash;in any industry but  especially in retail&amp;mdash;the holidays are a precarious time. When fuses are  short and wallets are shrinking, customers expect great service. Fail to  provide it, or fail to instantly implement a recovery plan on those  occasions when you &lt;i&gt;do &lt;/i&gt;drop the ball, and you may find yourself experiencing a not-so-merry 2011.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every business owner knows things will go wrong from time to time; it&amp;rsquo;s  how you handle these episodes that counts. And during the holidays, the  stakes are higher. People have higher expectations and a lower tolerance  for mistakes. Combine that with distracted employees and  larger-than-usual crowds, and you have the makings for the perfect  winter storm, so to speak. Without a good service-recovery plan, you can  easily lose the disgruntled customer, everyone she knows, and possibly a  lot of people she doesn&amp;rsquo;t know if she takes her tale to cyberspace.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Many companies spend tons of money and time on big customer-service  initiatives to woo new customers, and yet they are losing their regular  customers over little things. When you consider the 80/20 rule&amp;mdash;a maxim  that most businesses get 80 percent of their revenue from 20 percent of  their existing client base&amp;mdash;it&amp;rsquo;s clear that you can&amp;rsquo;t afford to let that  happen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The solution is:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;bull; Stave off disasters by taking some common-sense preventive measures&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;bull; Develop some service-recovery techniques, and make sure everyone who interacts with your customers knows them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Learn to recognize (and truly understand) your customers&amp;rsquo; situations&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Provide an individual care approach for your customers. Someone shopping  with children will have very different needs from, say, an elderly  couple shopping for gifts for their grandkids. Therefore, you must train  your customer-service people to recognize these key differences and  adjust their responses accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Teach service employees to understand the context of a situation and to  sympathize with customers. For example, they might give the kids  something to keep them occupied so Mom can focus on shopping. Or  employees might keep a close eye on the elderly couple in case they need  any extra help with a product on a high shelf. When your customer  service people are attentive and proactive, often they can solve a  problem before it becomes one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Make sure you always follow through&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t tell someone you will be with him in a moment if you know you will  be helping another customer for 10 minutes. He&amp;rsquo;ll just stand around for  awhile, start to feel annoyed, then leave and probably head straight to  a competitor&amp;rsquo;s store. Instead, go find a co-worker to help him out, or  call for assistance. If you know that he&amp;rsquo;s going to be waiting for  awhile, be honest about this. (It wouldn&amp;rsquo;t hurt to offer him a magazine  to read while he waits.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Great customer service isn&amp;rsquo;t necessarily about getting it right every  single time. I think most people understand that occasionally even the  best companies are going to fall short. But what your customers  absolutely do have to see from you is that you are doing your level best  to deliver on everything they have been promised.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Be specific with customers&amp;mdash;vagueness is a sure path to lost business&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When handling a service issue, let the customer know what is going to happen and &lt;i&gt;when &lt;/i&gt;it is going to happen. The more information a customer has, the less anxious she feels.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While hearing that someone is going to address a problem is nice,  hearing exactly how it will be solved is more comforting. Let&amp;rsquo;s say you  have an online store that sells handmade candles, and you accidentally  ship the wrong order to a woman who plans to give them out at her annual  holiday party. Yes, you should assure her that you&amp;rsquo;ll correct the  mistake right away&amp;mdash;but you should also let her know exactly when her  candles will arrive and assure her that you&amp;rsquo;ll pay for the rush  delivery. When people know the specifics, they feel more in control of  the problem and are more willing to partner with you on solutions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you&amp;rsquo;re vague about timelines, it can make her  worry needlessly; and if her holiday plans are disrupted, well, do you  think she will ever order from you again?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Extend a peace offering&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it is all too easy to get  caught up in your own stress, the million things you have to do for your  business, and the other million things you have to do for your family.  If this stress gets the best of you and you don&amp;rsquo;t handle a client  properly, immediately reach out and make it right. Even the simplest of  gestures can be effective: Offer an apology when you&amp;rsquo;ve made a mistake.  Then, make things right by extending a peace offering. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t need  to be anything extravagant. It can be as simple as a handwritten note, a  refund, or a coupon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Have ready a standard service protocol, and some key &amp;ldquo;recovery phrases&amp;rdquo;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Make sure all employees (including temporary holiday help, if you&amp;rsquo;re in  retail) understand the customer service plan and that everyone knows how  to work together to solve customer problems. Creating standards,  procedures, and methods of dealing with clients and servicing their  needs can really help when it comes to resolving conflicts or handling a  dissatisfied customer. You might even consider giving employees key  words to use in tricky situations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people have good intentions but just don&amp;rsquo;t know what to say.  It&amp;rsquo;s not unusual for a well-meaning employee to get flustered and say  the wrong thing, which only exacerbates the situation. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to  provide a rigid script&amp;mdash;just a few phrases like, &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m so sorry this  happened to you,&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;I would feel the same way if I were in your  shoes,&amp;rdquo; can calm a customer down and salvage the relationship.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Give front-line employees more power&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s important to empower your employees to become connectors. Often,  they might think offering a discount or a coupon is the right way to  handle a situation, but they may be worried that you, their leader,  won&amp;rsquo;t approve. Make sure employees know they can and should do exactly  what it takes to keep the customer coming back&amp;mdash;even if it costs the  company a little in the short run.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Business-News.page?ArticleID=57480</link>

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      <description>&lt;p style="line-height: 1.9em; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; "&gt;Kids these days. &amp;nbsp;All of them tote around cell phones, if not smartphones and probably spend their free time tapping a screen if not just watching one. So the chances of getting them outside this winter, you know, when the temperature drops to a bone chilling 20 degrees, is slim at best. &amp;nbsp;Unless of course you bribe them with one of these: the Crossbow Snow Launcher.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="line-height: 1.9em; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; "&gt;This bad boy can propel snow balls up to 60 feet. &amp;nbsp;However, unlike a smartphone, there is some manual labor involved. &amp;nbsp;By that we mean kids will have to generate their own ammo by collecting and compacting snow into the included snow ball maker &amp;ndash; ya it includes one of those too. &amp;nbsp;Next, and much like a bow and arrow, it&amp;rsquo;s as simple as dumping a snowball into the front, drawing back the bands and pulling the trigger. &amp;nbsp;Before you know it, your kid will be the king of the igloo with children lining up, eager to give up their lunch money with the hopes of avoiding an ice ball to the dome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="line-height: 1.9em; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; "&gt;Sharper Image is tossing in a vinyl target for those who have a penchant for head shots. &amp;nbsp;They sell it for $39.99.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;div&gt;New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android&amp;rsquo;s security features, &amp;nbsp;making them more vulnerable to attack. Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the U.S.&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;Some of these pre-loaded applications, or features, are designed to make the smartphones more user-friendly, such as features that notify you of missed calls or text messages,&amp;rdquo; says Dr. Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the research. &amp;ldquo;The problem is that these pre-loaded apps are built on top of the existing Android architecture in such a way as to create potential &amp;lsquo;backdoors&amp;rsquo; that can be used to give third-parties direct access to personal information or other phone features.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;In essence, these pre-loaded apps can be easily tricked by hackers. For example, these &amp;ldquo;backdoors&amp;rdquo; can be used to record your phone calls, send text messages to premium numbers that will charge your account or even completely wipe out all of your settings.&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;The researchers have tested eight different smartphone models, including two &amp;ldquo;reference implementations&amp;rdquo; that were loaded only with Google&amp;rsquo;s baseline Android software. &amp;ldquo;Google&amp;rsquo;s reference implementations and the Motorola Droid were basically clean,&amp;rdquo; Jiang says. &amp;ldquo;No real problems there.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;However, five other models did not fare as well. HTC&amp;rsquo;s Legend, EVO 4G and Wildfire S, Motorola&amp;rsquo;s Droid X and Samsung&amp;rsquo;s Epic 4G all had significant vulnerabilities &amp;ndash; with the EVO 4G displaying the most vulnerabilities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;The researchers notified manufacturers of the vulnerabilities as soon as they were discovered, earlier this year.&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;If you have one of these phones, your best bet to protect yourself moving forward is to make sure you accept security updates from your vendor,&amp;rdquo; Jiang says. &amp;ldquo;And avoid installing any apps that you don&amp;rsquo;t trust completely.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;Researchers now plan to test these vulnerabilities in other smartphone models and determine whether third-party firmware has similar vulnerabilities.&lt;/div&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=63239</link>

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      <description>&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. &amp;quot;My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me,&amp;quot; he says, &amp;quot;and Steve Jobs inspired me&amp;quot;. Thomas points out that it's hard to learn how to make an app. &amp;quot;For soccer you could go to a soccer team ... but what if you want to make an app?&amp;quot; He's started a club for fellow students at school, where he shares his knowledge of programming. Thomas articulates his vision that students are a valuable new technology resource to teachers, and should be empowered to offer assistance in developing the technology curriculum and also assist in delivering the lessons.&lt;br /&gt;

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Thomas has been fascinated by computers and technology since before kindergarten. Recently, he's been focused on the development of applications for the iPhone, and has established his own company, CarrotCorp&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.carrotcorp.com/" target="_blank" title="http://www.carrotcorp.com/" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;http://www.carrotcorp.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;. His most successful application is one he terms &amp;quot;an anti-Justin-Bieber game&amp;quot; called &amp;quot;Bustin Jieber&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;It's is a variation on the Whac-a-Mole theme,&amp;quot; he explains.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bustin-jieber/id404956571?mt=8" target="_blank" title="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bustin-jieber/id404956571?mt=8" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bustin-jieber/id404956571?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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      <description>&amp;nbsp;Managing Your Online Passwords

&lt;div class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "&gt;September 22nd, 2011&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;img class="alignleft" src="http://www.techadvisory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/online-password-A.jpg" alt="login-page-with-padlock" width="170" height="170" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: left; display: inline; " /&gt;Having difficulty keeping track of all your online passwords? Here are some tools that may help you manage and make sense of the different passwords you have for your favorite social networking sites, blogs, phones, photos, games, documents, news, bank account, expenses, stores, books, and dozens of other services where a secure password is critical.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;A few months ago, news and social networking sites warned users of the website&amp;nbsp;RockYou&amp;nbsp;that their account and password may have been compromised. Security firm&amp;nbsp;Imperva warned users&amp;nbsp;that a hacker may have made off with an alarming 32 million accounts from the social gaming website. While this is nothing new, what's interesting is the results of the security firm's&amp;nbsp;analysis of the accounts and passwords stolen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;From the data that they were able to gather, it seems that a great number of users still tend to use insecure passwords&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;for instance, passwords with lengths equal to or below six characters (30% of users), words confined to alpha-numeric characters (60%), passwords that include names, slang words, or dictionary words, and trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on--50%). These types of passwords can easily fold in the face of automated brute force attacks designed to guess users&amp;rsquo; passwords.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;The reason these sorts of insecure passwords continue to be used may be simple. It's just too hard to track all of the online accounts we have, especially as more and more specialized services are introduced and become popular. While in the past users may have only needed to memorize their email and possibly their bank's password, today they must contend with passwords to access each of their favorite social networking sites, blogs, phones, photos, games, documents, news sites, bank accounts, expense tracking services, stores, books, and dozens of other online services.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;The question for many is how can we possibly remember all of these passwords, especially if we&amp;rsquo;re using different highly secures ones (that are therefore not easily remembered) at each site as recommended? Here are some quick tips to help you be able to recall and easily manage them:&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Fast Company blogger Chris Stevens warns app developers may be gambling with their time and money as they build programs to sell in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Apple App Store&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;. For every Appillionaire, Stevens explains, there are thousands who lose money.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Success, like in any creative endeavor, is hard to come by. App developers should think of scripts written compared to movies made, or novels written that turn a profit, Stevens warns in an&amp;nbsp;article&amp;nbsp;adapted from his book, &amp;quot;Appillionaires: Secrets from Developers Who Struck It Rich on the App Store&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;A vital component in understanding the performance of any digital marketing campaign is having proper campaign tracking in place. Without it, it's very difficult &amp;ndash; if not impossible &amp;ndash; to collect accurate campaign data that will allow for analysis and optimization to occur.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;What is Campaign Tracking?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;img alt="measuring-campaign-effectiveness" border="0" src="http://cms.searchenginewatch.com/IMG/278/201278/measuring-campaign-effectiveness.jpg?1320758838" class="right" title="measuring-campaign-effectiveness" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: right; display: block; " /&gt;Campaign tracking are a series of parameters that are appended to a link that points to a given website. The parameters are then associated with each visitor who clicks the link. This allows the website to track the user behavior related to any combination of the parameters.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Unless the parameters are utilized correctly, the data that is collected by the web analytics tool may not provide the insights that were expected due to an inability to accurately analyze the data. For the purpose of understanding how parameters are applied, we'll use Google Analytics as an example.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Google Analytics has five parameters that can be used to form a campaign tracked URL. They are:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The website or other referrer where the click is coming from.&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Medium:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The type of link that was clicked. (e.g. ppc, social, email, organic, etc.).&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Term:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The keyword that the user searched for.&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Content:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The version of the ad that was clicked on.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Campaign:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The name of the campaign that is associated with the click.&lt;/li&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Each of these parameters gives a bit of information about how the visitor got to the website. When the parameters are put together, a clear picture emerges. When the data is then aggregated across many visits, great insights can be gathered about how any combination of parameters impacts business objectives.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;A full campaign URL would look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;http://www.example.com/?utm_source=myfavoritesite&amp;amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;amp;utm_term=widget&amp;amp;utm_content=ad1&amp;amp;utm_campaign=buymyproduct&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Why is Campaign Tracking Important?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Without campaign tracking, it&amp;rsquo;s nearly impossible to accurately track campaigns. If campaigns aren&amp;rsquo;t being accurately tracked, there is no way to know if a campaign is successful or if it is wasting money.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;For example, if a company runs a Facebook ad campaign that drives visitors to their website, they would want to know the impact that the campaign had on their defined business objectives. To do this, the company needs to be able to segment the paid Facebook traffic that comes to their site via the campaign from all other Facebook referred traffic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Similarly, the company may want to segment visitors from Facebook who were referred through links that they themselves posted on the wall of their companies Facebook page or even visitors who came to the site via a Facebook app that the company created.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Without campaign tracking, all visitors who are referred from Facebook get lumped into the same bucket. Only through the use of campaign tracking can the company truly understand the impact that each Facebook initiative has on the business.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Issues with Non Standardized Campaign Parameters&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Beginning to use campaign tracking across the entire organization will provide significantly better data, but there is often a major problem with how campaign parameters are used throughout an organization.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;The problem arises when different people use different variations of the same parameter. This can be illustrated using the same Facebook example. The person who is in charge of the Facebook ad campaign may use &amp;ldquo;Facebook&amp;rdquo; as the Source in the campaign tracking. The person who engages with fans on the company&amp;rsquo;s wall may use &amp;ldquo;facebook&amp;rdquo; as the Source and the person who added the links in the company&amp;rsquo;s Facebook app may have used &amp;ldquo;Facebook.com&amp;rdquo; as the Source.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;The result is that each of the sources that were defined in the campaign tracking will now show up separately in the referral source report in Google Analytics. This makes for messy tracking and an inability to easily aggregate across all the Facebook initiatives.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;How to Get Clean Campaign Data?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;The solution is to standardize the parameters that are available for use in campaign tracked URLs. This, however, can be difficult unless you have a tool to manage the parameters that can be used in a campaign tracked URL.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;You could attempt to create one using Excel or even through Google Docs, but that may not be a viable solution to use across an organization. There&amp;rsquo;s also a new free&amp;nbsp;campaign URL tracking tool&amp;nbsp;from Social Snap that allows companies to standardize URL parameters along with a number of other features to help improve the management of campaigns and the accuracy of the resulting data.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;If you know of other tools that take the next step from just creating campaign URLs to storing them and managing the use of the campaign parameters, let me know in the comments section.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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&lt;h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25px; "&gt;Google Ready to Battle Comcast with Own Cable TV Service?&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;span class="ukn-author" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;Miranda Miller&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;time style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "&gt;November 8, 2011&lt;/time&gt;&lt;span class="sew-echoCommentCount" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; display: block; width: 300px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2123634/Google-Ready-to-Battle-Comcast-with-Own-Cable-TV-Service#comment" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span id="echo-counter" class="echo-counter echo-ui" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; "&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;img alt="google-tv-white-logo" border="0" src="http://cms.searchenginewatch.com/IMG/378/201378/google-tv-white-logo.jpg?1320782874" class="right" title="google-tv-white-logo" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: right; display: block; " /&gt;Google just released a software update to improve user experience for Google TV users, amid speculation they are planning to take on cable giants such as Comcast by offering paid cable TV services. This latest update features a simplified interface, improved search, better YouTube/Google TV integration, and a limited number of apps for TV.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Google TV software can be installed on cable TV boxes or directly on the television to bring online shows and channels from the Web to the living room. This poses an obvious threat to traditional cable companies; if Google can bring the same high quality programming to consumers, possibly for a lower price, competition will increase exponentially.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Of course, entertainment companies could refuse them a license. This doesn&amp;rsquo;t seem likely, as channel owners stand to benefit from multiple licensees in the market, especially if they&amp;rsquo;re willing to pay more.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;The Wall Street Journal reported last week that&amp;nbsp;Google plans to pilot a video and phone service&amp;nbsp;offering in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. The pilot, slated to launch in early 2012, would pit them directly against current cable, satellite, and telecom giants Time Warner Cable Inc. and DirecTV, among others. They are rumored to have brought former cable TV executive Jeremy Stern onboard to facilitate negotiations with media companies.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Back in September, speculation over a possible Hulu acquisition by Google ran rampant. Business Insider reported that&amp;nbsp;Google CEO Larry Page&amp;nbsp;had some &amp;ldquo;big ass ideas&amp;rdquo; for Hulu, though they didn&amp;rsquo;t elaborate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;This would be a particularly painful move for Comcast, part-owners of Netflix-rival Hulu. It appears now that they needn&amp;rsquo;t worry about Google scooping up the online video service; Hulu partners&amp;nbsp;released a statement&amp;nbsp;in October declaring they&amp;rsquo;ve opted to build out the service and won&amp;rsquo;t be selling anytime soon, despite a Google bid&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;in the range of&amp;quot; $4 billion.&amp;nbsp;Don&amp;rsquo;t expect being shot down to deter Google.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Page doesn't take kindly to those who spurn his advances.&amp;nbsp;Consider Groupon&amp;rsquo;s refusal to sell to Google and their launch of rival service Google Offers just a few short months later.&amp;nbsp;Google Offers continues today&amp;nbsp;to make life difficult for the company that wouldn&amp;rsquo;t sell to them for $6 billion.&amp;nbsp;Facebook and Twitter both refused to play ball and share data with Google - cue Google+ launch. They have a long and storied history of buying what they can, and reinventing what they cannot.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;As Google continues to move into new areas, they may even be gaining an edge on Facebook when it comes to social integration. Google&amp;rsquo;s +1 buttons and sharing to Google+ are already widely integrated on websites and even into Google&amp;rsquo;s PPC ads. They just might be successfully moving into&amp;nbsp;Facebook&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;seamless sharing&amp;rdquo; territory, without the pesky third-party privacy concerns inherent to the Open Graph system. If they own the properties consumers use to listen to music, read the news, and watch TV, sharing becomes simplified and could make user-approved apps seem cumbersome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Comcast and other cable/satellite companies aren&amp;rsquo;t sitting idly by as Google continues to move into their space. They&amp;rsquo;ve been developing apps and securing programming rights for online shows to complement their offline offerings. The U.S. television industry is valued at over $150 billion a year in user subscription fees and advertising; incumbents will fight as hard to keep their market share as Google will to steal some of it away.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Google TV wasn&amp;rsquo;t an instant smash hit&amp;nbsp;by any stretch of the imagination and this latest update is meant to attract more users to their service. The interface is classic Google and reminiscent of the Android phone or tablet screen.&amp;nbsp;A new &amp;ldquo;TV &amp;amp; Movies&amp;rdquo; app makes searchable over 80,000 shows and movies from cable, satellite, Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Last week, Google announced the addition of&amp;nbsp;dozens of new YouTube channels&amp;nbsp;rolling out over the next year, including Reuters.com, The Redbull Channel, WWE Fan Nation, and eHow Pets &amp;amp; Animals. In addition to this barrage of original programming,&amp;nbsp;this latest update&amp;nbsp;brings more HD-quality YouTube video to Google TV users. It also more closely integrates YouTube with Google TV search, allowing users to create channels on almost any topic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;They&amp;rsquo;ve opened up the Google TV apps market to Android developers, allowing the migration of existing apps to Google TV, provided they aren't dependant on touchscreen, GPS, or telephony technology. Developers can also create new apps specifically for TV. So far, there are 50 apps available to Google TV users.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Have you tried Google TV, or do you plan to make the switch? Let us know what you think in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.333em; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.22em !important; color: rgb(118, 134, 150); "&gt;I am the first to admit when I am wrong. And indeed, I made a mistake a few weeks ago when I mentioned in this column a certain Web site as a place to sell an old&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/iphone/" section="luke_topic" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41, 100, 191); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; "&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;without checking the reputation of the site mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-right" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; clear: right; float: right; line-height: 20px; width: 300px; "&gt;&lt;img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/24/newsfdAskMaggie.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="214" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;In the October 4 edition of Ask Maggie, headlined&amp;nbsp;Where to unload your laptop for top dollar, I listed the Web siteCashForiPhones.com&amp;nbsp;as a place to sell a used iPhone. Since then, I've learned from various readers and through my own investigation, that this particular Web site has a reputation for offering customers a high price for their used iPhones and then greatly reducing the offer once the company has possession of the device.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Of course, it's not for me to determine whether this company is committing fraud in the way it advertises its service, but judging from the&amp;nbsp;number of complaints on the Internet&amp;nbsp;related to this service, it should have been enough reason for me to leave it out of any recommendations for my readers. So I apologize for not checking the background of this company more carefully before including it in the original story.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;There's no question that smartphones have become a major investment for consumers. And with the pace of innovation accelerating, it seems like the minute you buy one smartphone, a newer and better one has been released. Reselling old devices to help pay for new ones is a great idea, but as I just pointed out, consumers must beware. A whole new industry has popped up to help people unload their old devices for cash, but as with all &amp;quot;gold rushes&amp;quot; there are often some less reputable establishments mixed in with legitimate ones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;In this edition of Ask Maggie I offer some suggestions for how readers can separate the wheat from the chaff and avoid dealing with companies that may try to scam them when reselling their gadgets.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Ask Maggie is an advice column that answers readers' wireless and broadband questions. The column now appears twice a week on CNET offering readers a double dosage of Ask Maggie's advice. If you have a question, I'd love to hear from you. Please send me an e-mail at maggie dot reardon at cbs dot com. And please put &amp;quot;Ask Maggie&amp;quot; in the subject header. You can also follow me on Facebook on my Ask Maggie page.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(118, 134, 150); clear: both; line-height: 20px; "&gt;How to avoid getting scammed&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Dear Maggie,&lt;br /&gt;

PLEASE look into the ethics of CashForiPhones. I used your recommendation to sell my&amp;nbsp;iPhone 4. I'm having a terrible experience with them. I also noticed that other people who have commented on the CNET site, who also used CashForiPhones, are also describing a similar bait-and-switch scenario in dealing with this company.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;They quote you one price, that in hindsight, is too good to be true. And then they low-ball you, offering half the value of the phone once they have your iPhone. They do not provide any initial assessments like&amp;nbsp;Gazelle, where you can better state the quality of your phone. The site just says, if it's working, you can get X. It doesn't mention anything about reducing the value.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;The customer representative who called me to offer me the low price (from $294 down to $137) would NOT take &amp;quot;No&amp;quot; for an answer. He is now threatening to hold my phone for three weeks &amp;quot;to process the return&amp;quot; when he said he could offer me a check in the mail today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;I really hope you can shed some light on these practices. I know some other people who commented on your &amp;quot;How to Unload your iPhone&amp;quot; story also fell for the Cash4iPhones scam. Can you do something about this?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;

Tony&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Dear Tony,&lt;br /&gt;

First and foremost I want to apologize to you and every other Ask Maggie reader for providing erroneous information. The last thing I want is for people to follow my advice and to be unhappy with the outcome. I should have checked out the companies I cited in that article more carefully before including them in my column. Perhaps like you and some other readers, I saw only dollar signs when I checked the trade-in value that CashForiPhones offered. But I will admit that I failed you and the other readers. And for that I apologize.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;After receiving your complaint, I looked into the CashForiPhones service a bit more. You are not the only consumer to complain about this company. There are message boards all over the Internet as well as people complaining on Twitter that this company uses a bait-and-switch technique to win business. In other words, they seem to lure customers into their site with their promise of a high offer, but inevitably when the device is assessed, consumers are given a much lower figure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;I also found that the parent company of CashForiPhones, Laptop &amp;amp; Desktop Repair, out of Reno, Nev., closed 141 filed consumer complaints filed against it with the&amp;nbsp;Better Business Bureau in Nevada&amp;nbsp;within the past three years. About 84 of those complaints were closed in the past year. The Better Business Bureau of Nevada has given the company a high rating, but the business is not accredited by the agency. So even though it seems like the company is trying to deal with the issues, it's still had several complaints filed, which could be a red flag.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;The complaints against the company are all somewhat similar to yours. CashForiPhone quotes one price to consumers and then offers them a much reduced price once the company receives the phone. And then the company stalls or pressures consumers to take the new revised price that was offered.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;I tried contacting CashForiPhones myself, but I was never able to get a hold of Chris Smith, vice president of operations. So in all fairness to the company, I still have not been able to get the CashForiPhones' side of the story. Still, as the old adage goes, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. Therefore, I wouldn't trust this company with my valuable laptop, smartphone,&amp;nbsp;tablet&amp;nbsp;or other expensive gadget. And I wouldn't recommend this site to my readers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Is it even worth trading in your old iPhone for cash? And if it is, who can you trust to resell your iPhone or other valuable gadgets?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Yes, I still believe that it's worth the hassle and energy to sell your old smartphones, particularly iPhones. There is still demand for these devices, and one of the reasons to buy an Apple product over some other product is that you can usually resell it and make some cash, even on products that are slightly older.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Trade-in sites can offer a simpler way to sell your phone. You could sell your device on Craigslist or on eBay and possibly get a higher price, but you'll likely have to put in a lot more effort. Still if you decide to go the trade-in router, you must be careful in choosing a trade-in site.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;So to answer the second question: Who do you trust? It's difficult for me to endorse specific Websites, since quite honestly, there are dozens of such sites out there and more seem to pop-up everyday. Also, I haven't personally used every trade-in site on the Internet. (I don't own enough gadgets that I could sell to test every site.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Kristina Kennedy a spokeswoman for Gazelle told me that at least 30 to 50 new companies have come on the scene this year. And she said it's created a lot more confusion for consumers about who to work with than it was a year ago when there were fewer players.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;I agree, it is very confusing for consumers. But even though I can't endorse specific Websites for trade-ins, I can offer you some tips and guidance on finding reputable sites and programs that will hopefully offer you a satisfying experience.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Reputation matters&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

As in with any business, you want to work with a company that has a solid reputation for being honest and satisfying customers concerns. This is especially true when it comes to finding a trade-in Web site for your old gadgets. There are some companies, such as Nextworth and Gazelle, that have been building a business around accepting trade-ins and reselling devices. These companies work with some big retailers to help them with their trade-in programs. For example, Gazelle works with Wal-Mart.com and Office Depot, while Nextworth is partnering with Target for its iPhone trade-in program. I think the endorsement of these big brands helps lend some legitimacy to these sites.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;quot;We're basically asking customers to send us expensive products, like a laptop or smartphone, with the promise that we will pay them after we get it,&amp;quot; Kennedy said. &amp;quot;This requires people to trust in us. And we take that very seriously.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Do your homework&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Checking out the reputation of a company requires a little bit of leg work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Ask your friends which sites they've used.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Were they satisfied with the experience? What complaints do they have? Word of mouth and recommendations from trusted friends is the best way to avoid a bad experience.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;See what others are saying about the company.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Check the company's Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linked In, or other social networking sites to see if people are talking about this company and see what they're saying. (There are lots of tweets under the hash tag #cashforiphones complaining of the bait-and-switch that you experienced.)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Check the Better Business Bureau&amp;nbsp;for complaints.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Clearly, if the Better Business Bureau gives a company an &amp;quot;F&amp;quot; rating, that is a business to avoid. But in the case of CashForiPhones's parent company Laptop &amp;amp; Desktop Repair, LLC, the Better Business Bureau actually gave it an A+ rating, since it resolved many of the complaints filed against it. So it's important to check user complaints online and to listen to friends.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Be wary of deals that look too good to be true&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

As you mentioned in your note to me, in hindsight you (and I ) probably should have seen the higher price offered for your used iPhone as a warning that something might be wrong. And your instinct was probably correct. Check multiple sites and if one Web site is offering a price that is much higher than the others, then you might want to reconsider the legitimacy of that offer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Bigger brands may carry more weight&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

While it's not unheard of for a bigger company to treat its customers unfairly, you're more likely to be able to rectify the problem by escalating unresolved issues through a larger company that cares about protecting its brand. Some smaller mom-and-pop Web sites may not have any policy for dealing with complaints. And you may find it difficult to get anyone on the phone with you to handle your concerns.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Here is a list of trade-in programs from big brand retailers that are&amp;nbsp;recommended by Consumer Reports.:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 20px; "&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Target Nextworth Electronics Trade-In Program&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Costco Trade-in Program&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Radio Shack Trade &amp;amp; Save Program&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Amazon.com Electronics Trade-In Program&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

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Legitimate trade-in Web sites will offer you a way to communicate with company representatives directly before you ship your iPhone or other gadgets to them. In fact, they'll usually have more than one way to contact representatives either by e-mail, online chat, or a phone number you can call. It's also good to make sure you can find a corporate phone number and location for the company offering the service. I'm always skeptical of companies that don't list any corporate information on their Web sites.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;When you contact a representative, ask them some basic questions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 20px; "&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;What is the price revision policy?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Kennedy of Gazelle said that nearly every trade-in site reserves the right to revise the stated price, since without this stipulation they'd likely face a lot fraud from people who are trying to sell broken or damaged devices. Still, even if the site reserves the right to revise the offer downward, ask for a stated policy of how this is determined. Also, will the site revise the offer upwards and offer you the true value of the device if you mistakenly misrepresented the product in your initial inquiry. For instance, if you said you had an iPhone 3GS, but you really send them an iPhone 4, will they offer you the true value for the iPhone 4? Also ask what percentage of offers the company has had to revise downward. Gazelle claims that only 10 percent of its original offers are revised to a lower price once the company receives the device.&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Is satisfaction with the price guaranteed?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Will the trade-in site pay to ship your phone back to you if can't agree to a price? Sites that don't pay to return devices if a price cannot be agreed upon should not be trusted.&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;How long will it take for the company to process a payment? Also if you don't agree on a price and they send you the device back, how long will it take them to process the return?&lt;/i&gt;Some of the complaints against CashForiPhones said that the company was willing to offer payment for the phone that day, but it would take three weeks to process the product's return.&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;How do they recycle products that cannot be resold?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is just a good thing to know, since you don't want to hand over an old product to a company that will just dump it in a landfill.&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;What is the procedure for making sure that the device is wiped of all information before it's resold?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;It's important for you to delete all personal information from your phone before you send it to a trade-in site. But the company should also have a procedure in place for wiping all devices of information before they resell them.&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Who is backing the company?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;Do they have venture capitalists or investors that are offering financial backing? That's usually a sign that this is a company that is trying to build a business. So information about investors or for investors in the company might be one more clue that a company is legitimate and should be trusted.&lt;/li&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&lt;b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Take photos of your device before you put it in the mail.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; "&gt;This may seem like a hassle, but many people who have complained about their experience with CashForiPhones say the company claimed their device had scratches or defects that they did not believe the device actually had. If you have a record of what condition the device was in when you sent it to the company, you will have a better chance of proving your case if you decide to pursue the matter further.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Again, I apologize for not doing my homework to make sure I was listing companies that were worthy of being mentioned in my column. But hopefully, these tips that I have offered will help you and other Ask Maggie readers avoid problems in the future. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=62979</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6898Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Don't get scammed when selling your old iPhone (Ask Maggie)</title>

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      <description>&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Apple fan boys and Steve Jobs aficionados will want to set reminders on their iPhones for Wednesday and Thursday November 16 and 17.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Those are the days when a recently unearthed interview with Jobs is scheduled to be shown at Landmark Theaters in several cities throughout the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;&amp;quot;Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview,&amp;quot; as the approximately 70-minute program is being called, consists of a Q&amp;amp;A conducted with Jobs in 1995, after he'd been ousted from the company he'd co-founded (and before he'd pulled off his now legendary&amp;nbsp;iPod,&amp;nbsp;iPhone, and&amp;nbsp;iPad-powered comeback).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;The interview&amp;nbsp;was conducted by writer and producer Robert Cringely for his 1996 PBS miniseries &amp;quot;Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires,&amp;quot; a look at the advent of the PC and the rise of Silicon Valley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Cringely&amp;nbsp;explained&amp;nbsp;to The Los Angeles Times that only 10 minutes of the original conversation wound up in &amp;quot;Triumph,&amp;quot; and that when he went looking for the rest of the footage for possible use in a sequel, it was nowhere to be found.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Fortunately, however, &amp;quot;Triumph&amp;quot; director Paul Sen had made a VHS dupe and tossed it into his U.K. garage. After Jobs' death from cancer last month, Sen contacted Cringely, who subsequently got in touch with Landmark.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;Remembering his talk with Jobs, which took place at Next headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., Cringely told the LA Times that the Mac mastermind was &amp;quot;great that day.&amp;quot; Cringely said the talk puts Jobs' various facets on display, including his humor and a certain crabbiness. During the discussion, Jobs tears into Microsoft and expresses his displeasure at his ouster from Apple. &amp;quot;He was a cranky guy,&amp;quot; Cringely told the Times. &amp;quot;I think we see that.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; "&gt;The film is&amp;nbsp;scheduled to screen&amp;nbsp;in 19 cities in the U.S.:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Atlanta&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Baltimore&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Berkeley, Calif.&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Boston&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Chicago&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Dallas&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Denver&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Houston&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/li&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Here's some footage from the interview:&lt;/p&gt;

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      <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large; "&gt;Innovative Skin Imaging System, MoleMate&amp;trade;&amp;nbsp;FDA Approved and Now Available in the US&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;Mississauga, ON &amp;ndash; Sept 21, 2011 &amp;ndash; MedX Health Corp., (TSXV.MDX) a global leader in drug free, non-invasive low level laser light therapy and light imaging systems, announced today that MoleMate&amp;trade;, the unique skin imaging system is FDA approved and now available for sale in the US. MoleMate uses a hand-held device designed for office use that utilizes light to view beneath suspicious moles in a pain free, non-invasive manner, creating images for physicians to evaluate moles and lesions often eliminating the need for skin biopsies resulting in less pain, scarring, and expense. Physicians interested in learning more should contact their local representative on the web at http://simsys-molemate.com.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are excited about launching MoleMate and the expanded features version, SIMSYS&amp;trade;, and introducing US physicians to this amazing technology, that had previously only been available outside the US, in Australia and the United Kingdom. The US market alone is estimated to be a $1 Billion dollar opportunity, and MoleMate and SIMSYS are the only FDA approved and patent protected siascopy products in this important health segment,&amp;rdquo; stated Steve Guillen, President &amp;amp; CEO at MedX Health Corp.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;I have used [MoleMate/SIMSYS] for six years and have found it an invaluable tool. I chose this technology because it gives me extra information about my patients&amp;rsquo; suspicious moles and lesions through the additional views of the skin and helps me and the patients to come to a more informed decision about removal.&amp;rdquo; ? Dr. R.H. Falcon, Dermatologist, New York, NY&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;About MoleMate &amp;amp; SIMSYS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;The FDA approved MoleMate and SIMSYS Skin Imaging Systems are a significant advance in the early detection of potentially life threatening moles and lesions. MoleMate and SIMSYS rapidly provide accurate images of the pigment, blood, and collagen below the mole or lesion. MoleMate and SIMSYS are both FDA approved and have a CE Mark and are currently being sold in the European Community.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;ldquo;Among the sophisticated equipment used by University of California Irvine Melanoma Center physicians is a SIMSYS-MoleMate SIAscope, one of the most advanced melanoma imaging systems in the world. For patients with many moles, this computer imaging can make a big difference, it decreases the number of biopsies needed, so they won&amp;rsquo;t look like a pincushion.&amp;rdquo; - Dr. James G. Jakowatz, surgical oncologist and UC Irvine Melanoma Center director - Dr. Janellen Smith, UC Irvine dermatologist and co-director of the Pigmented Lesion Program, UC Irvine&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MoleMate and the more robust system, SIMSYS, work with a hand-held scanner, designed for office use, along with a specially designed training CD. SIMSYS allows image capture and storage as well as special features that can be used in visualizing and comparing moles. SIMSYS will also support &amp;ldquo;mole mapping&amp;rdquo; early in 2012. Mole mapping is a technique that physicians use on certain patients with 50-100 or more moles where the entire surface of the patient&amp;rsquo;s skin is photographed to observe changes over time and then suspicious moles can be monitored more closely or, if necessary, removed.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MoleMate is easy to incorporate into exams, and is easy for physicians to learn how to use via the 60-90 minute training CD, as documented in a study with general practitioners, who significantly improved their ability to more accurately identify suspicious moles and lesion.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;US Launch Underway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MedX Health has a direct sales team of 30 associates in addition to 4 regional specialty Distributors calling on dermatologists and primary care physicians, representing a $1B market opportunity based on retail prices between $5-$10K per system.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;The website http://simsys-molemate.com contains additional information on MoleMate and SIMSYS, including information on the technology behind these products, siascopy, as well as product demos, and information on how other physicians have integrated the skin cancer imaging system into their practice.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MoleMate and SIMSYS will also be presented at the American Academy of Dermatology&amp;rsquo;s 70th Annual Meeting, March 16-22, 2012, in San Diego, California, the world&amp;rsquo;s largest, most comprehensive dermatologic educational event. Work with MoleMate and SIMSYS at booth #1361.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;Sales in Europe and Australia&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MoleMate and SIMSYS are currently being sold to physicians in Europe and Australia, and now the US. Interested physicians and distributors should contact MedX Health directly.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;The Most Common Form of Cancer in the US&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;The Skin Cancer Foundation states that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US. Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostrate, lung and colon.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;There are several types of skin cancers. Nearly 13 million people in the US are living with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer, typically diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma. 800,000 people in the US are living with a history of melanoma. The survival rate for patients whose melanoma is detected early, before the tumor has penetrated the skin, is about 99 percent. The survival rate falls to 15 percent for those with advanced disease.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corporate Partners&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;Proctor &amp;amp; Gamble, LenioMed Ltd., and ScreenCancer, Inc., are research and commercial partners that are funding the expansion of the underlying technology, siascopy, into new consumer and wound care markets.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;About MedX Health Corp&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;MedX is a twelve (12) year old Canadian company, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario (Toronto), and is a global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of quality low level laser and light therapy technologies for use in numerous medical settings, including rehab/chiropractic, dental, wound care, and veterinary medicine, providing patients with drug free and non-invasive treatment of tissue damage and pain. MedX laser and light products are FDA approved, Health Canada cleared, and CE Mark approved for use in North America as well as the European Union. For a complete profile of MedX Health Corp. and its products visit www.medxhealth.com.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, including, without limitation, the company&amp;rsquo;s limited operating history and history of losses, the inability to successfully obtain further funding, the inability to raise capital on terms acceptable to the company, the inability to compete effectively in the marketplace, the inability to complete the proposed acquisition and such other risks that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those contained in the company&amp;rsquo;s projections or forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div&gt;The Fortknoxis does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; "&gt;ALLISON DANA BICK&lt;/h3&gt;

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&lt;div class="image-left" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; width: 232px; text-align: center; clear: left; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-article_image_small" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); " src="http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_small/articles/PSC0911_HS_009.jpg" /&gt;

&lt;div class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; "&gt;&lt;span class="img-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Allison Dana Brick:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="pic-credit" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jonie Schwartz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;High School:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Millburn High School, Millburn, N.J.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Invention:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Smartphone water-quality tester

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;When Alison Dana Bick was in middle school, a downpour swamped the streets of her hometown and flooded its well. Public officials warned that flooding might have carried sewage into the water supply. &amp;ldquo;My friend called to ask if there was a way to check the safety of the tap water,&amp;rdquo; Bick says. When a Google search revealed that there wasn&amp;rsquo;t any fast and easy household test, she decided to create one. Four years later, she completed work on a cellphone application that determines the concentration of bacteria in a photographed sample of water. Unlike current water-testing kits that take 18 hours to evaluate the full chemical and bacterial content of a sample, Bick&amp;rsquo;s cellphone test provides a simple answer&amp;mdash;contaminated or safe to drink&amp;mdash;immediately. Bick knew that Colilert-18, one of the most common water-quality testing agents, turned yellow when mixed with bacteria-contaminated water; the more the bacteria, the darker the hue. So she developed an algorithm to read and analyze the yellow-pixel intensity in a low-resolution photo of the chemical water sample. She is currently collaborating with the Millburn Short Hills chapter of the American Red Cross to field-test the system.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;College:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Bick starts her freshman year at Princeton University this fall. She plans to study chemical &lt;a href="http://3dlaserscannerscanada.com"&gt;engineering&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="image-center" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; width: auto; text-align: center; clear: both; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-article_image_large" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; display: block; " src="http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/PSC0911_HS_022.jpg" /&gt;

&lt;div class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; width: auto; line-height: 1.4em; "&gt;&lt;span class="img-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Ryan Erickson:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; "&gt;RYAN ERICKSON&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;High School:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, N.M.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Invention:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Portable, solar-powered desalination unit&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Ryan Erickson may live on a high desert mesa, but he has big plans for&amp;nbsp;the ocean. Last year, he began to develop an interest in large desalination projects&amp;mdash;which remove salt and other minerals from seawater to make it drinkable&amp;mdash;in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Australia. But he soon learned that no one had built a portable, automated, affordable desalination system that also treats seawater for harmful bacteria&amp;mdash;although millions of people, including those living in coastal nations, lack safe drinking water. His solar-powered device, a three-foot cube easily carried by two people, relies on readily available materials: sand, charcoal, and plastic bottles. Saltwater is filtered through layers of sand and charcoal before entering a boiling chamber. The steam is cooled and collected on a condenser coil and then exposed to a SteriPEN, which kills harmful bacteria with ultraviolet light. Other portable desalination systems are less sophisticated and can remove only salt from the water, not other harmful contaminants. Erickson&amp;rsquo;s next step is to &lt;a href="http://rapidprototypingsolutions.com/"&gt;redesign&lt;/a&gt; the system to make it even more compact.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;College:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;This fall, Erickson will enter the University of California, San Diego, where he will study electrical engineering.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; "&gt;PARAM JAGGI&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="image-left" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: left; width: 232px; text-align: center; clear: left; "&gt;&lt;img alt="" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-article_image_small" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); " src="http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_small/articles/Screen%20shot%202011-08-10%20at%201.51.05%20PM.png" /&gt;

&lt;div class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 13px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; "&gt;&lt;span class="img-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Param Jaggi:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="pic-credit" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: right; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;Param Jaggi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;High School:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Plano East Senior High School, Plano, Texas&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Invention:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;CO

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;Other teenagers, upon receiving their learner&amp;rsquo;s permit, think only about driving to the mall. But behind the wheel for the first time, 17-year-old Param Jaggi couldn&amp;rsquo;t stop thinking about exhaust. Ever since, he has been working on a novel carbon-dioxide capture system that fits on the end of a tailpipe. In Jaggi&amp;rsquo;s design, exhaust enters a chamber filled with algae, which uses light from an LED and CO&lt;sub style="letter-spacing: 1px; font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: bottom; "&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;nbsp;in photosynthesis. The by-products of the process, water and oxygen, are eventually released out of a canister-shaped attachment on the exhaust pipe. Other systems in development capture CO&lt;sub style="letter-spacing: 1px; font-size: xx-small; vertical-align: bottom; "&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;&amp;nbsp;inside filters or chemicals, which must be disposed of. Jaggi&amp;rsquo;s algae system only grows more algae. The device (patent pending) won the EPA&amp;rsquo;s 2011 Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair this May. The algae in it currently needs to be emptied every three to five months, but Jaggi is working on tweaking light conditions and chemicals to stretch it to six months. The extra time would match it with the average oil-change interval so that drivers could take care of both at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;&lt;strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "&gt;College:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jaggi will start at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, this fall, where he plans to major in pre-med.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=62418</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6898Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>High School Inventors 2011</title>

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      <description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;The value of phones has changed significantly in the past 20 years. As a business tool, mobile phones can literally mean the difference between profit and loss. Not surprisingly, corporations around the world routinely issue them to ensure employes can conduct business and be reached at a moment's notice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

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mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;In the past decade, telephones have evolved to the degree that they now posses the functionality of 'mini&amp;quot; computers. Unfortunately, the risk has also increased. &amp;quot;Smart&amp;quot; phones store massive quantities of data and can access corporate servers with ease. In fact, many of today's phones are able to store more data than laptops from bygone years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:

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line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;Consequently, when a lost or stolen smart phone has enormously significant ramifications. And with current technology, it isn't even necessary to steal the actual device. Information can be stolen remotely. Just like botnets take over a computer, worms and other viruses can take over a phone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;With such high stakes, it's critical that your company take steps to protect itself and its information. Here are six steps your organization can take that will help lessen the damage corporate phones can cause.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;1. Manage mobile devices with security in mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:

10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black;background:white"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Lock user profiles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Most phones can be configured to      be as secure as possible. Specifically, certain aspects of a user's ID or      profile can be managed centrally and applied to all devices.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Require passwords.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This may seem overly simplistic,      yet some organizations allow employees to use&amp;nbsp;mobile devices without      a password. Once the device is lost or stolen, the data can be accessed      quickly and information removed via e-mail or transmitted to a cloud computing      storage site. There is software available that lets you wipe clean a      phone's memory once an incorrect password has been attempted a certain      number or times.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Ensure the &amp;quot;time out&amp;quot;      feature is active&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:

    &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;background:

    white"&gt;. This feature sends the device to sleep after a predetermined      length of inactivity and requires the password to start using it again.      This feature should always be activated on corporate mobile phones. The      longer a device is active or on standby, the greater the risk a third      party can penetrate it. A timeout after two to five minutes of inactivity      is normally prudent, although the actual timing may vary depending on your      organization's needs.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;2. Avoid Hotspots.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;Discourage employees from using public hotspots that provide wireless Internet access. They may be convenient, but they can be fraught with risk. In fact, hotspots in business districts are particularly vulnerable as they provide criminals with the opportunity to steal corporate data being transmitted and received, as well as steal the device if it is left unattended while the employee is, say, ordering a cup of coffee. Sometimes using a hotspot is necessary, but be sure your company's mobile devices are equipped with appropriate security.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;

font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black"&gt;3. Educate employees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Employees should acknowledge receiving a copy of your organization's mobile security policies and procedures and ideally, be formally tested on the contents. They should be made aware of mobile phone &amp;quot;do's and don'ts&amp;quot; including what they are required to do if the device is lost or stolen. Employees should understand the seriousness of the situation. However, they should not be so concerned with the ramifications that they fail to report the phone missing in the hopes it will go undetected.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;

font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black"&gt;4. Discourage downloading sensitive data.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The probability that employees will lose or misplace a mobile device is high. They should be urged to store only information that is absolutely essential to their jobs. Before employees save information on their phones, they should evaluate the inherent risks and the ramifications for the company if the device goes missing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

line-height:normal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;

font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

color:black"&gt;5. Limit social media access.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:

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color:black;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn have inherent risks and have all been used to deliver malware. Consider prohibiting access to social media sites and&amp;nbsp; have &amp;quot;back-end&amp;quot; monitoring tools that block these sites. If your organization must have its employees access social media sites, it's a good idea to designate specific computers with extra security for that task.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;

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mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;6. Leverage technology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul type="disc"&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Encrypt all mobile devices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Given the amount and sensitivity      of the data that can end up stored on a mobile phone, consider encrypting      the data, or &amp;quot;locking&amp;quot; it behind a door that can be accessed      only by a specific key. There are a number of third-party encryption solutions      available that are designed for specific phones. No solution is      fool-proof, but encrypting a mobile device provides one more layer of      security criminals must try to break through.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Deploy mobile security tools.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:

    &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Preventing the introduction of      unauthorized software or malware can be accomplished by installing an      anti-virus solution designed specifically for mobile devices. Many      solutions come embedded with remote data-wiping capabilities, call      blocking and occasionally encryption. Ensure that the maker of any mobile      security you buy routinely provides updates to counter the latest threats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

    &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:

    auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list .5in"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;

    mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;Install remote      &amp;quot;detonation.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10.0pt;

    font-family:&amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;

    background:white"&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the event that a phone is reported stolen or      missing, the functionality to remotely wipe or &amp;quot;detonate&amp;quot; the      device should be installed. The peace of mind that such software can      provide is tremendous, especially when a stolen or lost device in question      has critical information such as the organization's list of customers,      pricing policies, financial statements and other proprietary, confidential      information.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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mso-fareast-font-family:&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;color:black;background:white"&gt;Mobile phones can be a blessing, but they can also be a tremendous liability. Make sure you factor in the risk when planning for data security.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=62349</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6898Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Smart Phones, just got smarter</title>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/21676294"&gt;Be Your Own Souvenir!&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user1363263"&gt;blablabLAB&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;div class="summary"&gt;&lt;span class="img-title"&gt;3-D Print Your Own Souvenir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Remember those little wax figurines you'd get as a  kid at zoos and aquariums? The ones in the shape of a lion or whale,  stamped out of a machine, which you'd lose within a few weeks? This  project, from freeform experimenters &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/21676294"&gt;BlablabLAB&lt;/a&gt;,  is sort of the modern version of that--with a trio of Kinect sensors  and a 3-D printer in place of hot wax and whale-shaped molds. The best  part: The figurine is modeled after you. Why let those dumb whales get  all the glory?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Earlier this year, BlablabLAB set up a sort of interactive art  installation on La Rambla, Barcelona's iconic pedestrian street. The  user stands in the structure, surrounded by three towers with hacked  Kinect sensors inside. Those sensors capture a 360-degree video of the  user as he or she (or they) poses. That data is then sent to a RepRap, a  very low-cost, low-resolution 3-D printer, which prints out a small  figurine of the user(s) in some kind of thermoplastic. Instead of a wax  lion or a &amp;quot;Yo &lt;3 Barca&amp;quot; t-shirt, the user is presented with a tiny  souvenir of themselves.&lt;br /&gt;

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The actual mechanics of the project are fairly simple, using already  established equipment and software. The hardware is very cheap, and  fairly easily available. Yet this is the kind of project that would have  been absurdly expensive and impractical just a few years ago--imagine  setting up multiple cameras and depth sensors, crafting a 3-D model of a  person, and sending it off to some factory to create a mold into which  liquid plastic could be poured. Now we can do it with a few hundred  dollars worth of off-the-shelf (or &lt;a href="http://reprap.org/"&gt;fairly easy DIY&lt;/a&gt;, in the case of the RepRap) equipment.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=61387</link>

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      <title>XBOX Kinects Optical motion sensors and 3D Printer</title>

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&lt;p class="Default"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;ROCK HILL, South Carolina &amp;ndash; March 24, 2011 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;ndash; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;3D Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: TDSC) announced today that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, has entered a judgment of patent infringement in its favor against Envisiontec, Inc., Envisiontec GmbH and SIBCO, Inc. (collectively, &amp;ldquo;Envisiontec&amp;rdquo;) in a case brought by the company. The Court ruled that Envisiontec&amp;rsquo;s Perfactory&amp;reg; systems infringe a claim of the company&amp;rsquo;s U.S. Patent Number 5,630,981 and that Envisiontec&amp;rsquo;s Vanquish systems (currently sold under the PerfactoryXede&amp;reg; and PerfactoryXtreme&amp;reg; names) infringe a claim of each of the company&amp;rsquo;s U.S. Patent Numbers 5,630,981 and 5,651,934. Both of these patents relate to the company&amp;rsquo;s stereolithography technology. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are very pleased with this decision,&amp;rdquo; said Abe Reichental, 3D Systems&amp;rsquo; President and Chief Executive Officer. &amp;ldquo;The District Court&amp;rsquo;s ruling confirms our long-held belief that Envisiontec has been violating 3D Systems&amp;rsquo; intellectual property rights.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;3D Systems has commercialized the patents found to be infringed by Envisiontec, as well as other patented inventions, in its ViperTM and iPro&amp;trade; SLA&amp;reg; production printers, among others. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class="Default"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements made in this release that are not statements of historical or current facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the 3D Systems actual results, performance or achievements of the company to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements that explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements in the conditional or future tenses or that include terms such as &amp;ldquo;believes,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;belief,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;expects,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;estimates,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;intends,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;anticipates&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;plans&amp;rdquo; to be uncertain and forward-looking. Forward-looking statements may include comments as to the company&amp;rsquo;s beliefs and expectations as to future events and trends affecting its business and are necessarily subject to uncertainties, many of which are outside the control of the company. The factors described under the headings &amp;ldquo;Forward-Looking Statements,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Cautionary Statements and Risk Factors,&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Risk Factors&amp;rdquo; in the company&amp;rsquo;s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as other factors, could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected or predicted in forward-looking statements. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Fraudulent Call Mitigation For Phone Systems&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Recently, phone companies have increasingly been warning their customers about criminal activity targeting phone systems of all brands for fraudulent usage. Some of your TalkSwitch&amp;reg; customers may express concerns about their security triggered by these warnings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;You can assure your customers with confidence that TalkSwitch systems have a number of built-in security features that prevent fraudulent and unauthorized use. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This is a list of recommendations and best practices that you can share with concerned customers so they can ensure maximum security for their TalkSwitch systems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Auto Route Selection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Configure Auto Route Selection to block international, toll charge and 900 numbers from being called. The best practice is to block any user who doesn't need to call these numbers to prevent anyone, including after hours staff or cleaners, from making charged calls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Administrative Password&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ensure the system's administrative password is set, and change it regularly to prevent the possibility of abuse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Voicemail Passwords&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ensure that all voice mailboxes are configured with 8-digit passwords to prevent unauthorized users from changing greetings or accessing messages. It is impossible to make calls from unauthorized voicemail access in a TalkSwitch system, but some phone company warnings have highlighted voicemail because of vulnerabilities in the PBXs of other manufacturers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Unused Extensions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If an extension is not in use, disable it in the TalkSwitch Management Software.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Common Area Phones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Remove line appearance keys from phones in common areas, and restrict outbound calling on them. Courtesy phones are the greatest risk, along with lunchroom phones and phones in areas the public can access.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Call Back/Call Bridge Passwords&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Configure 8-digit passwords on any enabled call back/call bridge account, and use ARS to block calls with charges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Call Detail Record Logging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Enable CDR to keep records of all calls, including calls that were attempted but blocked by ARS. The records show call times and extensions used.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;EyeBeam/Xlite passwords&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If you use these applications, change the default passwords. Always use the longest possible string and greatest possible variety of types of characters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Latest Software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Ensure you're running the most current version of the TalkSwitch Management Software to take full advantage of all security features.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If you have concerns about particular customers who have detected suspicious traffic, there are further protective steps you can take:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;1. Disable TalkSwitch as Network Proxy/Registrar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If the customer isn't using VoIP branch to branch, this will result in negative responses to registration requests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;2. Disable UPnP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If the user has a VoIP-enabled unit but isn't using VoIP, this will prevent ports from being opened.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;3. Change the SIP signaling port&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;  If a user gets flooded by traffic, change the SIP signaling port. Most scanners search only on 5060. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(21, 50, 19);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=59800</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-06T07:28:24.6898Z</pubDateParsed>

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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;A poor voice mail message goes something like this, &amp;ldquo; Hi it&amp;rsquo;s (so and so), call me at (phone number)&amp;rdquo;. Quite honestly, I find these types of voice mails frustrating. They&amp;rsquo;re no different than an email without substance. This kind of communication is inefficient, time consuming and not very effective. Furthermore, most people&amp;rsquo;s inclination is to leave these types of messages for last. If you want to ensure a quick priority response to your voice mail message, learn to leave detailed messages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Voicemail is an effective useful tool, when used properly. Most people don&amp;rsquo;t understand how to use it. So tell them&amp;hellip; In your voicemail greeting, tell your caller what type of detail you want them to leave in their message to you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s an example of an effective personal voicemail greeting:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Hello, you&amp;rsquo;ve reached (NAME) at (COMPANY). I&amp;rsquo;m sorry I unavailable at the moment, but if you&amp;rsquo;d like to leave your name, telephone number and details of how I can help you, I&amp;rsquo;ll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for calling (COMPANY) and have a great day. (15 seconds). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;When you receive a message with detail of what&amp;rsquo;s required, you can return a call with the information to assist with the inquiry. You deal with it efficiently, usually with one return call.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Truth be told, not everyone listens to greetings, but the majority do. This simple thing can help improve the way you communicate using voice mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Contact me for free voicemail greeting sample scripts and voicemail etiquette ideas at 905-709-2656 ex.111 or miguelr@vertigoal.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Contact us at 905-709-2656 | 1-877-709-2656 or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vertigoal.com/contact-us" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;http://www.vertigoal.com/contact-us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Your phone system is the first line of communication with customers. Having the ability to utilize multiple lines at the same time, being able to quickly transfer calls within the office among other benefits will significantly increase communication effectiveness and efficiency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;PBX phone systems allow for the advanced features of call forwarding to cell phones, the ability to better manage voice mailboxes with voice mail to email and the ability to conference multiple parties . An additional key ability of these systems is to maintain one primary phone number that rolls over to multiple phone lines for marketing and utilize extensions for your employees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The end result of utilizing advanced phone system is to simply the customer experience, improve satisfaction through communication and increased efficiency. PBX phone systems range in price and functionality. Speak to a Vertigoal telecommunications expert for free information about a system to meet your individual business needs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Contact us at 905-709-2656 | 1-877-709-2656 or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vertigoal.com/contact-us" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;http://www.vertigoal.com/contact-us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;(Nov. 29, 2010) &amp;mdash; To the causal aquarium visitor, the jellyfish doesn't  seem to be a particularly powerful swimmer; compared to a fish, it  glides slowly and peacefully.&lt;br /&gt;

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But for Janna Nawroth, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the undulations of this simple invertebrate hold secrets that may make possible a new generation of tiny pumps for medical applications and soft robotics -- work she describes November 23 at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Long Beach, CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;quot;Most pumps are made of rigid materials,&amp;quot; says Nawroth. &amp;quot;For medical pumps inside the human body, we need flexible pumps because they move fluids in a much gentler way that does not destroy tissues and cells.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Nawroth is working with Caltech engineer John Dabiri, an expert on jellyfish propulsion. His research has shown these cnidarians tend to fall into two categories -- those that produce faster, harder strokes and those that create weaker but more efficient strokes. He has also studied the flows and eddies created by the strokes, which can be characterized by a dimensionless quantity called a Reynolds number.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;quot;We're really lucky,&amp;quot; says Nawroth. &amp;quot;The Reynolds numbers we see in the movement of jellyfish of different sizes and ages are in the right range as what we need for medical applications.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;As a step towards creating flexible pumps, Nawroth is studying how jellyfish shape and tissue composition adapt to the demands imposed by flow conditions at different Reynolds numbers. Jellyfish at millimeter scales, for example, exploit the small layer of water that adheres to their surface as they move and use it as additional paddle at no extra cost. Further, a clever arrangement of multiple pacemakers within the jellyfish body allow for a reliable yet tunable pumping mechanism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In the future, Nawroth plans to use this practical understanding to help design a whole spectrum of flexible pumps that are optimized for different tasks and conditions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Direct digital manufacturing (DDM) is a term that is being used more and more when discussing new uses for rapid prototypes. DDM is the process of using rapid prototyping (RP) technology to produce parts for use as final products. Many industries such as aerospace, dental, medical, and consumer products are already using this technology to produce production products. Direct digital manufacturing is ideal for the following applications:&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt"&gt;&amp;bull; End-use production parts&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;bull; Short run production&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;bull; Parts with complex geometries &lt;br /&gt;

&amp;bull; Direct tooling inserts for Injection Molding&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;Top 3 Advantages:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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Rapid prototyping technology is constantly improving, giving it the ability to compete with traditional manufacturing techniques in terms of price, speed, reliability and cost. Here are the top 3 advantages of DDM:&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;1. Speed &amp;ndash;&lt;/b&gt; Additive manufacturing can produce an end use part in a matter of days rather than weeks. Although the actual manufacturing speed is slower, the time is made up in the prep and post-processing activities. RP builds the desired parts from a 3D CAD file, eliminating the need to produce tools or other equipment used in other manufacturing techniques. &lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;2. Cost &amp;ndash; &lt;/b&gt;DDM provides a cost savings through reduced labor costs and process efficiencies. The amount of labor and time needed to produce the parts is greatly reduced, resulting in lower part pricing. Another cost savings that is realized through the RP process is energy and material waste. Since the process only forms the desired part, waste for both energy and material is much reduced. Family build pricing also assists in process efficiency by giving you the ability to produce several parts at a time to fill the machine&amp;rsquo;s build envelope.&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;3. Complex Geometries &amp;ndash;&lt;/b&gt; RP technologies allow the creation of more efficient designs without the limitations of other processes. Through the principles of additive manufacturing, internal features and shapes can be created that could not be created with traditional methods.&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 12pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt"&gt;Case Study: Direct Digital Manufacturing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;b&gt;:: National Geographic's Crittercam&lt;br /&gt;

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The Crittercam is a research tool designed to be worn by wild animals. It combines video and audio recording with the collection of environmental data such as depth, temperature, velocity and acceleration and even makes three-dimensional profiles of the dives of sea creatures. These compact systems allow scientists to study animal behavior without the interference of a human observer. Combining solid data with gripping imagery, Crittercam brings the animal&amp;rsquo;s point of view to the scientific community and delivers a message of conservation to worldwide television audiences.&lt;br /&gt;

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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Marine biologist and filmmaker Greg Marshall and his team wanted to make the Crittercam smaller, lighter and incorporate the latest technology for both audio and video, thereby allowing it to be more robust. In order for this to occur, they needed to think outside the box. They decided that a custom SLS part would serve multiple purposes and allow them total design freedom. The part needed to brace and center the controller board that was already connected to the back plate and serve as the supporting structure for the camera mounting. &lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt"&gt;:: Rapid Prototyping Help Advance Medical Devices&lt;br /&gt;

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Advancements in rapid prototyping (RP) processes and materials are affecting medical devices, implantables, equipment, and anatomical models. RP technologies are automated mechanical techniques to build physical 3D models from 3D CAD files. A few examples of medical devices designed using RP include catheters, stents, syringes, retractors and surgical fasteners. Prototypes are also important in the design and manufacturing of other pieces of medical equipment including MRI machines, hospital beds, handheld testing and display devices, and fluid collection and testing equipment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;strong&gt;Found this interesting? have an interesting article you want to share with our readers?&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Please email&amp;nbsp;us and we'll post it for you, &lt;a target="null" href="mailto:info@fortknoxis.com"&gt;info@fortknoxis.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large"&gt;Perhaps, it is important to know what a virtual phone number is before owning one. Virtual phone number is a telephone number that has a feature of forwarding calls to a pre-set telephone number chosen by the owner. To buy a virtual number, you must have an idea where to buy it and how to buy it. Here, I will state a place where you can purchase one and the payment options.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large"&gt;First question is where can you buy your virtual numbers in the USA? As you know, USA is one of the famous countries in providing virtual phone numbers. Basically, virtual numbers in all the big provinces and states in USA are catered by websites. In other words, you can obtain virtual numbers through online. Through the web, you will be able to choose the number that you wish to call and make direct calls through the web-based control panel. The dialed number can be a worldwide number or if it is not, it can be changed at the very instant. However, if the province or state that you wished to call is not in the list, you can always contact their customer service line for further assistance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large"&gt;There are several ways to make your payment in your purchase of this number. The transactions are similar to transactions make in online shopping. However, the best method of payment is through your credit card. With a payment made through a credit card, you can enjoy the instant activation of your virtual number and start calling at anytime. Besides that, you can pay through wire transfer, PayPal or even other companies. As mentioned, you will have to wait until the full transaction is completed to receive the service using these methods.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large"&gt;Most USA virtual telephone numbers cover areas over 30 big cities, such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and many more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <link>http://www.fortknoxis.com/Technology-News.page?ArticleID=45724</link>

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