Eircom launches fibre network, new eFibre products (Ireland) - ITU

Irish operator Eircom has launched its fibre broadband network, offering the eFibre brand products and bundles for both private and business customers. The new eFibre products start from EUR 40 for consumers (six month promotional offer for new customers) and EUR 24.79 for businesses, and are available to more than 300,000 consumers and businesses from launch. eFibre offers download speeds of up to 70 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 20 Mbps. All eFibre products above the entry level come with unlimited downloads. All qualifying Eircom broadband customers will be able to upgrade for free to eFibre. This includes a free modem, free installation and no connection charge.?

Eircom aims to reach more than 600,000 homes and businesses by end-2013, bringing over 10,000 additional premises online each week. When completed in early 2015, the network will reach 1.2 million homes and businesses across Ireland, representing 60 percent of all homes and businesses in the country. Eircom also plans to increase the speeds available to up to 100 Mbps within the next year as fibre technology evolves.

Source: Telecom Paper.

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6 Common Gluten-Free Myths - Shape

With gluten-free delivery pizza, cookies, cakes, and even dog food on the market, it's clear that the interest in gluten-free eating isn't slowing down.
This May, in honor of Celiac Awareness Month, we're looking at some of the most common misconceptions about celiac disease and a gluten-free diet.

1. A gluten-free diet can benefit anyone. People who suffer from celiac disease struggle with digestive problems, malnutrition, and more. That's because gluten?a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley?triggers an immune response that causes damage to the lining of the small intestine. That, in turn, can interfere with the absorption of nutrients, causing malnutrition, anemia, diarrhea and a host of other problems.
Other gluten sensitivities exist, but for the general population, gluten is not harmful. Forgoing gluten when you don't have a problem digesting and processing it will not necessarily help you lose weight or make you healthier. While many gluten-free foods are our most healthful options (think: fruit, vegetables, lean proteins), gluten-free diets are not by default healthy.

RELATED: Check out seven foods a nutritionist would never eat?and find out why you shouldn't either!

2. Celiac disease is a rare condition. Celiac disease is one of the most common hereditary autoimmune disorders in the U.S., with about 1 percent of Americans?that's one out of every 141 people?suffering from the disorder, according to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness.

3. There are many ways to treat a gluten sensitivity. Currently, the only way to treat celiac disease is with a strict gluten-free diet. There are several supplements on the market that claim to help people digest gluten, but these are not based on clinical research and it's unclear if they have any effect. Researchers are currently testing a vaccine and, separately, medication in clinical trial, but nothing is available yet.

4. If it isn't bread, it's gluten-free. Gluten can pop up in surprising places. While bread, cake, pasta, pizza crust, and other wheat-based foods are obviously full of the protein, unless otherwise specified, some surprising foods can also offer a dose of gluten. Foods such as pickles (it's the brining liquid!), blue cheese, and even hot dogs can be inappropriate for those who eat gluten free. What's more, some medications and cosmetics use gluten as a binding agent, so it's best to check those labels as well.

5. Celiac disease is a nuisance, but it isn't life-threatening. Sure, the stomach pain, bone pain, skin rash, and digestive issues are more distressing than fatal, but some celiac sufferers really are at risk. According to the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, if left undiagnosed or untreated, celiac disease can lead to the development of other autoimmune disorders, infertility and even, in some very rare instances, cancer.

RELATED: These easy, healthy brown-bag lunches from nutrition experts will give you the energy you need to face down that long afternoon to-do list.

6. Gluten intolerance is an allergy. Celiac disease patients have an autoimmune disorder that causes an immune reaction triggered by gluten. There are many people for whom gluten has an adverse effect, but who do not have celiac disease. In those instances, a person may have what's known as non-celiac gluten sensitivity or he or she may have a wheat allergy.

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Advertisement: The Week's Top IT Stories: 03/29

The Week's Top IT Stories: 03/29

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Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new strategy to revive the company, and Google launched its same-day delivery service. See what else made our top headlines:

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Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt| The New York Times

On Thursday, American Express confirmed that its website was hacked. The attack was the latest in a series of assaults on American financial institutions that began last September.

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"The culprits of these attacks, officials and experts say, appear intent on disabling financial transactions and operations. Corporate leaders have long feared online attacks aimed at financial fraud or economic espionage, but now a new threat has taken hold: attackers, possibly with state backing, who seem bent on destruction."

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RIM Unwraps Risky Phone Plan| The Wall Street Journal

Research In Motion reported decent sales for its new flagship phone and a new strategy to revive the company.

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"With only a month of sales from a limited number of markets, it is still far from clear that launch is a success. But Mr. Heins said he is already turning his attention to a series of new, as-yet-unseen products due out later in RIM's fiscal year?signaling he is eager to go after several different markets with low- and midprice versions of the new phones."

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It's Twilight for Small In-House Data Centers| InfoWorld?

Virtualization, cloud services, and software-as-a-service are making it easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers.

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"This trend is being felt the most at in-house data centers in small- to mid-size companies. These firms may be trying to shut down their data centers, or shift a major portion of their workloads to external providers."

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Forrester Research Calls Mobile-Device Management 'Heavy-Handed Approach'| NetworkWorld

With the BYOD trend expected to increasingly include laptops, Forrester Research predicts the approach to managing these devices is in for big changes.

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"In its 2013 'Mobile?Security?Predictions' report, Forrester says that 'on-demand mobile virtualization?will overtake mobile-device management' as a core technology that IT professionals will turn to as a way 'to segregate business content and data from the personal environment' in mobile devices."

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Google's Same-Day-Delivery Service Goes Live in San Francisco| FastCompany

Google finally launched its delivery service which promises same-day delivery for products bought at some of its online e-commerce partner stores.

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"Google has been testing the Shopping Express system with employees for a while. The service is aimed at?competing?with Amazon's Prime delivery option--and Google has also been experimenting with a rival to Amazon's locker delivery service with its?purchase?of Canadian firm Bufferbox."

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Lowe's 1Q profit rises, chilly spring hurts sales

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) ? Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.

Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the quarter, the improving housing market has helped such businesses.

Lowe's Cos. earned $540 million, or 49 cents per share, for the period ended May 3. That compares with $527 million, or 43 cents per share, a year ago.

Analysts expected earnings of 51 cents per share for the world's second-biggest home improvement retailer.

Revenue for the Mooresville, N.C., company dipped to $13.09 billion from $13.15 billion. Wall Street predicted $13.45 billion.

Lowe's maintained its fiscal 2013 forecasts Wednesday.

The chain's quarterly report comes one day after Home Depot Inc.'s first-quarter results topped Wall Street's view and it raised its full-year outlook.

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Leaving Google?s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

Looking back on Larry Page?s tenure as CEO, I don?t know if it?s a coincidence but it seems reasonable to believe that, unlike Eric Schmidt, Page does not believe in open standards or an open Internet. Google has, in just a few short months, dropped support for open standards en masse, including RSS, XMPP, iCal/CalDav, and Podcasts (Listen). Additionally, other services are being forcefully ?integrated? into Google+, which has no complete public API and no interoperability with other systems. Google, is, in other words, the new AOL: A silo separate from the open web, with very limited interoperability.

As each property has been closed off from the open web, I?ve been making arrangements elsewhere. After much trial and error, here are some worthy alternatives to popular Google services. Where possible, I?m trying to pick services that are not bound too tightly to any given service provider and where there?s a clear and predictable business relationship between me and the provider. Moving, for example, from Google Calendar to Yahoo Calendar solves very little in the long run, because Yahoo?s business interests are exactly the same as Google?s: advertising and consumer lock-in.

With that in mind?

Gmail alternatives

For email, I recommend using your own domain and hosting its email on fastmail.fm. Fastmail is owned by Opera Software and operates both free cheap and more expensive tiers of service. Remarkably, Fastmail is the only webmail provider which not only matches gmail in terms of features and polish, but exceeds it. Fastmail?s web GUI combines features you find in desktop clients like Geary and Sparrow with the best of Gmail. Best of all, Fastmail has very advanced filtering options, dropbox integration, and even XMPP support (though to use XMPP on your own domain, you?ll need a business/family account). I can?t go into it here, but the sheer volume of incredibly powerful features in Fastmail is breath-taking. Its main downside is the lack of calendar/contact syncing. There?s a read-only LDAP server for contacts, and that?s it.

As a runner-up, I recommend Lavabit, especially for the paranoid. Lavabit?s protection against government intrusion is admirable, and their privacy policy is the gold standard. On the downside, you get far fewer features. PoBOX provides Atmail, which provides both contact and calendar services along with email, but in my experience, it was too buggy to reliably use.

Calendar/Contacts

OwnCloud looked like an ace in the hole for contact/calendar synchronization, until I tried using it. Astonishingly, if I added an event at 8:00 AM in Denver time, OwnCloud stores it as 8:00am UTC. Then if I add an event for 10 AM CDT, OwnCloud stores it as 10:00 AM UTC. OwnCloud?s CalDav implementation literally pretends that timezones do not exist, which is of course a show-stopper. And in general, OwnCloud seems very immature, even today ? the GUI doesn?t always resize with your browser, widgets sometimes draw wrong, and upgrades are not transparent.

For a hosted alternative, I recommend Fruux. It?s a service with a paid tier, but unfortunately provides no web GUI. If you?re willing to host your own, Radicale is a good but more challenging choice. Once Fruux offers a web GUI, it should be a no brainer.

To get any of these services working with your Android phone, you?ll need to install a CalDav/CardDav sync client. I?m using CardDav-Sync and CalDav-Sync.

Chat/Google Talk alternative

Google started by dropping XMPP invites under the questionable guise of spam protection. Shortly thereafter, we learned at 2013 Google IO that their real motive was to drop XMPP entirely and move to a closed platform. I?m sure that timeline is a coincidence. No really.

Like with gmail, this is painful because it means your old address will no longer work. Worse yet, you can?t forward XMPP. Still, I took the plunge and switched to hosted.im on my own domain. Hosted.im is a commercial jabber service provider, but small domains are free and incredibly easy to set up. No complaints.

As an alternative, many email providers offer XMPP services on their domains, including Fastmail and Lavabit. Even DuckDuckGo offers Jabber services now, though I recommend using your own domain, so you won?t be locked in again.

Google Reader alternative

I went with NewsBlur. It?s affordable, has a slick GUI, an Android app, and best of all, the project is Open Source so if the service is ever acquired and destroyed, you could even start it back up yourself. On the downside, NewsBlur is somewhat more tricky to use than Reader, and its unpaid tier has some serious limits.

Google Voice and other dead ends

Unfortunately, there are no good alternatives to some Google properties. Maps, Voice, and Search are all the best in their field. SendHub is probably a suitable alternative for Voice in many ways, but its prices seem appropriate only if they actually provide you with cellular service. For VoIP, anything over $10/mo is insulting. Maps and Search, of course, have no suitable alternatives but at the same time, I have no reason to stop using them yet.

That?s as far as I?ve gone in separating myself from America OnGoogle (AOG). I still have an Android phone, I?m still forwarding my old gmail address, and I still use Google Maps. It seems probable that Voice will either be sunsetted or ?integrated? into Google+ sooner or later, so that?s my next target for migration.

Source: https://kkinder.com/2013/05/21/leaving-googles-silo-alternatives-to-gmail-talk-calendar-and-more/

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Oklahoma twister spawns political firestorm in Washington

A political storm has already broken out over the Capitol as Democrats and Republicans attempt to advance their agendas in the wake of the devastating tornado that ravaged parts of Oklahoma on Monday.

After the mile-wide tornado ? which focused much of its fury on the town of Moore, on the outskirts of Oklahoma City ? cleared, a bipartisan battle erupted in Washington in what appears to be political posturing at the worst possible moment.

What do you get when you take one monster twister, drop it into a staunchly conservative red state and mix it up with the political ideology of a Democratic leader at the helm in the White House? A lot of self-righteous politicizing at a time when people are still trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Tom Coburn, a Republican senator of Oklahoma, said his tornado-ravaged state, where at last count 91 people had died, should not receive federal emergency aid until an equal amount of budget cuts are made in Washington.

According to CQ Roll Call, Coburn said it is too early to put a price tag on the Oklahoma disaster, but that he ?knows for certain? he will oppose any disaster funding that the federal government offers until he knows that it is paid for.

Coburn, incidentally, was one of 36 Republican senators who voted against disaster funding for superstorm Sandy in October 2012, which caused $71 billion in damage across 24 states.

Coburn?s spokesperson John Hart said the Republican representative "makes no apologies for voting against disaster aid bills that are often poorly conceived and used to finance priorities that have little to do with disasters."

While Republicans continue to dance around the polarizing issue of climate change, Democrats are taking advantage of each devastating storm to chastise conservatives.

Some would argue they have a case: In 2011, the United States witnessed its second-deadliest tornado season in history, when some 1,700 tornadoes killed 553 people. The Joplin, Missouri, monster was the single deadliest tornado in US history, killing 158 people and causing $2.8 billion in damage.

The following year, 2012, saw tornado season starting earlier and busier than usual. Through April there were twice as many tornadoes as normal, after which the twisters suddenly disappeared. Canada, meanwhile, experienced an unusual number of tornadoes in 2012.

Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying ?the science of climate change,? telling the GOP senators that when it comes to natural disasters ?we are in this together.?

?So, you may have a question for me,? Whitehouse said. ?Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I?ll tell you why. We?re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together.?

?When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover,? he continued. ?And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn?t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests.?

The Democrat then delivered a thinly veiled attack on the Tea Party, referring to them as the ?extremist? faction of the GOP base: ?I don?t want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run off the cliff, and an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage because we failed, because we didn?t wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn?t lead the world.?

The political posturing displayed by Coburn and Whitehouse at a time of national disaster shows that with each new deadly storm there will continue to be heat in Washington.?

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