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Samsung SHW-M120S to be First Android Phone Offering Bluetooth 3.0 [Samsung SHW-M120S Bluetooth 3.0 Enabled Android Handset Set to Trail Blaze New…

Thanks to documentation obtained from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group its now being reported that the up and coming Samsung SHW-M120S Android phone is set to become the first ever Android handset to offer support of the new Bluetooth 3.0 standard. The Samsung SHW-M120S, which is the successor to the Samsung SHW-M100S, aside from touting Bluetooth 3.0 – offering theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 24 Mbit/s – comes will additionally come with a 3.3” WVGA AMOLED display, a 5 megapixel camera, integrated WiFi, inbuilt GPS, accelerometer, proximity sensor ans HSDPA/GSM roaming. There’s no official word from Samsung at this juncture concerning the SHW-M120S but the moment we get out hands on the official specs we will, of course, bring them to you post haste. Original Post Link: Samsung SHW-M120S to be First Android Phone Offering Bluetooth 3.0 [Samsung SHW-M120S Bluetooth 3.0 Enabled Android Handset Set to Trail Blaze New Bluetooth Standard] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities Related posts on TFTS: Samsung I7500 AMOLED Touchscreen Android Phone Specifications & Features Announced [Samsung's First Android Handset] Samsung M100S Android 2.1 Handset Arriving in March [First Android 2.1 Smartphone from Samsung, the M100S, Goes to Korea]

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 6 March 2010

This week we added one of the most exciting events of the year to the calendar: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 . Sure, we're a little biased, but we think the conference is the place this year to learn about mobile development trends. We hope to see you in Mountain View on May 7. How do you like your events calendar? As a world map ? As an iCal (and Google Calendar-importable) file? You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. Know of something cool taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us . Sponsor 11 March 2010: Los Angeles, California Los Angeles VC and Angel Event At FundingPost 's next event, a panel of investors who will focus on early-stage venture investing. We will be discussing trends in early-stage investing, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an investment and the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention. Entrepreneur summaries will be given to the investor speakers and attendees - all of the investors will get your company description and contact info! Additionally, there will be an optional pitching workshop lunch where we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise elevator pitch giving the important information that investors need to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new elevator pitch in person to the panel of investors during the event! Click here for more information . 11 March 2010 Positioning Roundtable During this weekly 60-minute online session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch Sramana Mitra - entrepreneur, strategy consultant, Forbes columnist and author of Entrepreneur Journeys - their business ideas in a three-minute presentation. She will review the material in real time and provide feedback on each pitch, as well as address specific positioning questions from the entrepreneur. Afterwards, she will take questions about positioning from other participants. The session is open to 1,000 people to attend, but only the first five who sign up to pitch Sramana will have the opportunity to discuss their businesses. 12 – 16 March 2010: Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of captivating keynote presentations, panel sessions, book readings, Salons and Core Conversations that provide hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis. In addition to the business opportunities at the Trade Show and Exhibition and the hands-on gaming fun at the ScreenBurn Arcade, SXSW Interactive provides an array of exciting evening events including the SXSW Web Awards Ceremony. More to the point, coming to SXSW Interactive is a great way to recharge your creativity. The variety of programming offered at SXSW Interactive means that the event focuses as much on creativity as it does on technology. This focus is augmented by SXSW Film, which runs concurrently with SXSW Interactive and SXSW Music. Moreover, a full slate of parties and receptions during the evening hours help to accelerate the social aspect of the event. For more information, visit sxsw.com , or for a handy survival guide click here . 15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. The two-day event features four dedicated conference streams: Social Networking World Forum Enterprise social media Social TV World Forum Mobile Social Networking Forum The event features key speakers from global brands, organizations, social networking publishers and developers, pioneering social media leaders, top agencies, content producers, and more. Full workshop program within exhibition area Evening networking reception Pre-show online meeting planner for delegates Free pass for exhibition only 22 – 26 March 2010: New York City Search Engine Strategies New York Conference & Expo Go beyond search at Search Engine Strategies New York . Learn the newest trends, strategic action plans, and technology that industry leaders are employing today. Our experts will trace the natural evolution of search exploring topics such as: digital asset optimization, mobile application development, transition from search to discovery and more.Book your pass today. Enter RWW15 to save 15% off the registration. Sessions include: Digital Asset Optimization Deep Dive Into Analytics Augmented Reality: It's a Brave New World Bringing SEO In-House: The Pros and Cons Advanced B2B Search Marketing Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues 23 March 2010: San Francisco, California S.F. Beta 4.0 After a long winter's hiatus, S.F. Beta is back, for its forth year straight! Join hundreds of founders, investors, developers, and technologists for a lively evening of demos, drinks, conversation, and new connections. Early bird tickets are available, and they're going fast. Register now for discounted admission. As always, we feature startup demos all night. This time around, the theme is Search & Discovery. If you're building the next Google (or the next Google acquisition), we want you here! Email cperry@sfbeta.com for more info. 26 March 2010: San Francisco, California Freemium Summit The first Freemium Summit is a one day event focused on exploring what it takes to succeed under the freemium business model. Across all segments of the media landscape, entrepreneurs and executives are pioneering models that combine a free offering with a premium, paid offering. This hybrid business model is one of the most exciting areas of business model innovation impacting the world of media and the Freemium Summit will explore the most important topics on the minds of leading practitioners. Confirmed Speakers: Toni Schneider, Automattic (WordPress); Matt Brezina, Xobni; Aaron Levie, Box.net; Phil Libin, Evernote; Tom Conrad, Pandora; Drew Houston, Dropbox; Ranjith Kumaran, YouSendIt; Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp; Lance Walley, Chargify; Isaac Hall, Recurly; and Lincoln Murphy, Sixteen Ventures. March 29, 2010: Portland, Oregon Social Fresh Portland The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom lines. Over the course of the day, you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Intel, Ford, Comcast, Nike and many more, as well as keynote Peter Shankman. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off. 7 – 9 April 2010: Sydney, Australia ConnectNow ConnectNow brings together international specialists and thought leaders in social media, emerging technologies and their intersection with business. Learn how the realtime web, location based services, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing and personalised services are changing marketing and communications. Understand the importance of trust in relationship marketing and what is "social currency". For more info email info@connectnow.net.au . 13 – 15 April 2010: Dallas, Texas PubCon South PubCon , the premier search and social media conference, features the industry's biggest names and key players shaping the future of the Web. PubCon South will include cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the world's top keynote speakers. PubCon South at Dallas will also hold a one-day, two-track slate of intensive educational training programs led by some of the industry's most respected search professionals. The event takes place at the Richardson Conference and Civic Center. Register here . 16 April 2010: Mountain View, California Under the Radar: Cloud Under the Radar: Cloud is must-attend event for dealmakers and heads of IT from large enterprises, SMBs, service providers, carriers and media companies who are responsible for helping their companies leverage new technology and innovation in the fast-evolving IT ecosystem. Join us for the 15th Under the Radar conference, featuring a hand-picked selection of the world's most innovative cloud startups among 350 top tech, media, telcom and finance executives. For ticket and more information, visit http://undertheradarblog.com . 16 – 17 April 2010: Royal Oak, Michigan FutureMidwest FutureMidwest is the region's largest technology and knowledge conference. Founded by Adrian Pittman, Jordan Wolfe and Zach Lipson, FutureMidwest is the fusion of two successful conferences held in Michigan in 2009 - the Module Midwest Digital Conference and TechNow. Both conferences highlighted how technology and digital tools have dramatically changed the way we do business and the effect this transition has had on companies. FutureMidwest kicks things up a notch with presentations, group breakout sessions, relationship-building opportunities and influencers who are taking action to redefine business in the digital age. Register here . April 19, 2010: St. Louis Missouri Social Fresh St. Louis The social media conference for marketers, Social Fresh is not about concept, but focused purely on case studies from the front lines. Learn what social media can really do for business bottom lines. Over the course of the day you'll hear from 35 speakers from companies like Ford, Best Buy, Scottrade, Hardees, CMT and many more. Register now and use coupon code RWW15 for 15% off. 19 – 21 April 2010: San Francisco, California DrupalCon DrupalCon is the premier conference focused on Drupal, the award-winning open source content management framework that is galvanizing social publishing and web development today. For a registration fee of $195, attendees get three full days of sessions led by the best and brightest Drupal experts. Drupal has been downloaded over 2 million times since its inception, and project growth has doubled annually for several years. Drupal is used to deliver a wide variety of application types including blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, and web content publishing and management. 26 April 2010: San Francisco, California Future of Money and Technology Summit The Future of Money & Technology Summit will bring together the best and brightest thinkers around money, including visionaries, entrepreneurial business people, developers, press, investors, authors, solution/service providers, and organizations who work where cash and commerce collide. We meet to discuss the evolving ecosystem around money in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. Featured speakers include Jolie O'Dell from ReadWriteWeb, as well as representatives from Wells Fargo Bank, Kiva, SharesPost, Jambool, Founders Fund, Outright.com, SoftTech VC, and many more. Use discount code "rww" to get 10% off registration . 7 May 2010: Mountain View, California ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010 will be an exploration of the latest Mobile development trends - both the technology and the emerging business applications. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile with the brightest in the industry, your peers! As in our last Summit, The Real-Time Web, the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit is an unconference. An unconference is a participant driven conference where the agenda is created on the day, in real-time and discussions are lead by conference participants. Read about the history of unconferences . We will have two main tracks at this Summit - Development and Business - so the Summit will be of interest to managers, marketers, developers, innovators, entrepreneurs and thought leaders alike. Here's a sample of some of the topics we'll explore in both of these tracks. Geo-location services - what can you do using location as a platform ? Commerce & Marketing - as more and more consumers use smartphones, how can businesses utilize this channel? Content, Publishing & Recommendations - the technologies and best practices. Mobile Social Networking - how to tap into communities on mobile devices. Internet of Things - the emerging opportunities from sensor and RFID data. Augmented Reality - the technology and business applications of AR. Native App vs. Browser Based - Including iPhone, Android, RIM, Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Click here to register now , or to become a sponsor , or to help shape the conference . 11 May 2010: San Francisco, California FinovateSpring FinovateSpring 2010 will again showcase the most cutting-edge financial and banking technology innovations to Silicon Valley and the world. With Finovate's signature mix of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) from handpicked companies and intimate networking time with their executives, this conference packs a ton of unique value into a single day. Come see the cutting edge of banking and financial technology and network with hundreds of the leading financial executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers and fintech entrepreneurs. Early bird registration rates are available. May 17 2010: San Francisco, California SF MusicTech Summit The SF MusicTech Summit will bring together 700-plus visionaries in the music/technology space - the best and brightest entrepreneurs, developers, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music, business and technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive-to-dealmaking environment. Enter the discount code "rww" to get 10% off . 15 – 16 June 2010: New York City Corporate Social Media Summit The Corporate Social Media Summit is a two day conference focused exclusively on how big businesses can take advantage of social media to enhance their marketing/comms strategy. Featuring: Practical and relevant insights from peers who have already used social media successfully 20-plus corporate speakers (including PepsiCo, Whole Foods, Dell, McDonald's, General Motors, Citi, Johnson & Johnson), Best practice, benchmarks and practical next steps you can use to take advantage of social media in your business A tightly-focused agenda with 14 in-depth, practical workshops giving you knowledge on only the most critical business issues surrounding corporate use of social media Save $400 if you quote RWW400 when booking. Book here . 29 – 30 June 2010: London Cloud Computing World Forum The 2nd annual Cloud Computing World Forum is the perfect event to learn and discuss the development, integration, adoption and future of cloud computing and SaaS. Building on the success of the 2009 show, this two day conference and free-to-attend exhibition will provide a focused platform for the global cloud and SaaS industry. Show highlights include: Co-located with CloudCamp London Co-located with Green IT conference Free-to-attend exhibition with seminar and scenario theatre Free-to-attend evening awards presentation Hear from leading case studies on how they have integrated cloud computing and SaaS into their working practices Learn from the key players offering cloud and SaaS services Evening networking party for all attendees 5 October 2010: New York City FinovateFall FinovateFall will return to Manhattan on Tuesday, October 5 to showcase dozens of the biggest and most innovative new ideas in financial and banking technology from established leaders and hot young companies. The Fall event is the original and largest Finovate and features a single day packed with our special blend of short, fast-paced onstage demos (no slides are allowed) and intimate networking time with top executives from the innovative demoing companies. FinovateFall is a unique chance to see the future of finance and banking before your competition and find the edge you need in today's market. Early bird registration rates are available. Download this entire events calendar in iCal format. Discuss

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Moved to UK and AT&T officially cancelled my contract – will they unlock my phone?

Before anyone goes into the "AT&T and APPLE will not unlock phones" bit (which is likely an agreement between them, but it IS possible) -- will there ever be a point where they will unlock them for those of us out of the country?   Because of the move, our credit history disappeared and so we have to rebuild it - meaning we don't qualify for a phone contract over here. I can get a pay-as-you-go contract - but that means rebuying my 3G at twice the price I paid for it in the US!!!   I'm an honest person, and I'd like to go about this officially if I can. When we move back to the US in a few years, the technology will be better, and I'll purchase a new one then - but right now, I have an 18 month old perfectly good iPhone that is only good as an iTouch.   Cmon AT&T - I filed paperwork, you know I"m stuck in the wilds of Wales, tell me you will allow Apple to unlock my phone. Please?

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Yet More Android Business Models

Back in September, I ran a series of five blog posts on different Android business models, where selling individual apps to individual users through the Android Market (and kin) was just one of the models. On Saturday (March 6th), I will be speaking at Chicago's Day of Mobile conference on this topic. I figured it was time to toss out another 9 business models for you to consider. Again, the goal is to demonstrate that there are many, many ways to try to build a business in mobile, particularly with Android -- engineers who focus exclusively on the Android Market are missing out! Most of these models are focused consulting specialties -- not just claiming to be an Android developer, but places where you might become world-renowned in a specific niche. Model #41: Porting Specialist Rather than just advertise yourself as a generic Android consultant, become expert in helping firms port existing mobile applications to Android. You might specialize in iPhone-> Android, to help firms who jumped on the iPhone bandwagon catch up on Android faster. You might specialize in Windows Mobile-> Android, to help firms worried that their legacy WinMo code will not work on the new Windows Phone platform. And so on. Model #42: Native-izer Android's Native Development Kit (NDK) provides a gateway to native code, written in C/C++, implemented as extension libraries for traditional Android Java-based apps. Many applications could take advantage of the NDK to speed up algorithms: signal processing, game physics, encryption, and so on. However, many Android developers are comfortable in Java and less comfortable in C/C++, particularly for mobile. Develop the expertise, then promote your ability to help firms accelerate their Android apps by converting key portions of Java code to native code. Model #43: Mobile Web Guru Let's face it: despite more and more platforms standardizing on WebKit, there are still plenty of idiosyncrasies when developing Web content for mobile. These range from WebKit version differences to trying to adapt desktop browser libraries to work better on the small screen and over mobile broadband connections. You could aim to become an expert in this process, helping firms tweak their Web sites' mobile editions to work well on Android and other mobile platforms. This could easily extend to helping them create applications using tools like PhoneGap , that allow you to write cross-platform mobile apps using traditional WebKit-hosted HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Or, you might work on the techniques to create offline-capable Web apps using HTML5 and help clients implement those for Android and other HTML5-capable platforms. Model #44: Accessibility Maven Android offers text-to-speech and speech-to-text (a.k.a., voice recognition), haptic response, and other technologies designed to help with accessibility. However, it is easy for developers to skip over these features -- after all, some of us are still climbing the hill towards internationalization and localization. Top-notch Android apps, though, will make themselves accessible, providing access to new markets begging for this sort of support. You could become an expert in accessibility on Android, helping developers (through code, training, or consulting) make their applications more accessible. Model #45: Talent Agent A lot of focus has been placed on firms using various techniques, like off-shoring, to reduce the salaries of their programming staff. However, some firms are realizing that, for the right talent, paying top dollar (or euro or yuan or whatever) makes some sense. Some developers are simply more productive than others, particularly when it comes to new technologies that existing staff lacks experience in. We are not far from a world where "rock star" developers might actually want to retain agents to help negotiate contracts. Such agents will need to know enough about the technology to "speak the language" while also being able to strike deals, while earning an agent's commission along the way. Model #46: Enterprise Customizer Over time, more and more enterprises will be interested in Android. Some of them will want handsets tailored to their specifications, not so much in terms of hardware, but in terms of firmware and software. Some may want phones without the ability for users to install software, or phones that have "call home" capabilities if they are reported lost (that cannot be readily disabled), or phones that store all modifiable data in encrypted partitions. Android, out of the box, is a consumer operating system today. However, it is open source, and in partnership with the right device manufacturers, Android could be tailored for enterprise use. However, device manufacturers may not have the staff or expertise to do that customizing themselves, turning to outside consultants who can spend the time to learn enterprises' needs and adapt handsets to match. Model #47: Sync Specialist Android 2.0 introduced the notion of syncing contacts with third-party contact registries, ranging from Exchange to Facebook. Creating such synchronization code is no picnic, either on the handset or on the server. You might aim to become expert in helping firms needing such synchronization -- whether to public social networks or proprietary enterprise systems -- enable such synchronization for Android devices. Model #48: App Generator A lot of noise is created about the gap in catalog sizes between the iPhone App Store and the Android Market. A substantial portion of that gap comes from "generated apps", ebooks being the most prominent. There are some 20,000 books available for iPhone on the App Store and far fewer than that for Android on the Market. These are not custom-written applications, but rather generated from existing content (e.g., EPUB). You could create app generators designed to allow non-technical people to get their ebooks, audiobooks, RSS feeds, or other off-the-shelf content into the Android Market. Create a site that accepts the content as input and spits out a signed APK as output for the customer to upload from their Market account. You would be selling access to the app generators, or perhaps for specific generation capabilities (e.g., different prices for simple ebooks or ebook+audiobook combination apps). Model #49: Augmented Reality Layer-er As augmented reality (AR) apps continue to grow in popularity and power, different firms or groups may want to have their data represented in AR layers, but lack the time and expertise to do so. This is especially true so long as there are no standards for what such layers should look like, requiring custom work for different AR engines. You could become expert in these AR engines and in layer creation, to help cities or activists or whoever get their data out in this new visualization technology. Might We Suggest... Android Beyond Java: Part Three Want to develop for Android, but Java isn’t your thing? Learn more about alternative Android programming options in this this week’s series of posts on Building ‘Droids!...

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2010 Detroit World Stem Cell Conference : BiotechConnection.com

In the world of stem cell treatment Mexico as well as other foreign countries and the United States continue seeking to advance this technology while managing the ethical issues surround stem cell research and this conference will ...

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2010 Detroit World Stem Cell Conference : BiotechConnection.com

In the world of stem cell treatment Mexico as well as other foreign countries and the United States continue seeking to advance this technology while managing the ethical issues surround stem cell research and this conference will ...

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Lip Reading Mobile Phones: Soundless Cellular Calls

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented at yesterday's CeBit a technology that allows voiceless (silent) mobile communication between callers.

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Lip Reading Mobile Phones: Soundless Cellular Calls

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented at yesterday's CeBit a technology that allows voiceless (silent) mobile communication between callers.

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Android 2.1 Update Coming to All U.S. Android Smartphones [Unconfirmed Android 2.1 Upgrade Expected to Hit All U.S. Handsets in the Following Months]

In case you’re based in the U.S. and own an Android device we have some good news for you. Well, in all honesty it’s unconfirmed good news so far since we’re still waiting for an official point of view on the matter. Android 2.1 is rumored to hit all Android smartphones in the USA in the following months which means you won’t have to ditch your “old” Android device in order to take advantage of the features found in Android 2.1. The Android 2.1 update will arrive in the upcoming months and you might have to wipe your phone before actually upgrading to the new firmware version, not that wiping your device will be a problem. All you have to remember is to make sure you backup your contacts, pictures and any other files you might have stored on your Android handset. After that you’ll be good to go for the update and you’ll probably have a nice set of detailed instructions on how to complete the whole process yourself without bricking the phone. Google hasn’t made any official comments on the matter yet but since it’s only the weekend we’re not that surprised. After all we’re also waiting for Google to announce the Verizon -bound Nexus One which we’ve seen earlier so the following weeks could reveal more details about Google’s Android intentions for the immediate future. It’s being reported that carriers and handset makers are working together to determine how they should go about this upgrade business as there are two alternatives available, over the air or through a tethered PC client. The later one seems to be the safer way to go although there aren’t any official announcements from any of the big Android smartphone makers at this time. The first handsets to get the firmware update will be apparently the G1 and the myTouch 3G but eventually all Android phones operating within the USA will get the all new Android 2.1, including the Motorola Droid, whose Android 2.1 update has been pending for a while now. Original Post Link: Android 2.1 Update Coming to All U.S. Android Smartphones [Unconfirmed Android 2.1 Upgrade Expected to Hit All U.S. Handsets in the Following Months] | Published by TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities Related posts on TFTS: Motorola Droid Android 2.1 Update Coming This Week Unless It Doesn’t [Motorola Droid Not to Receive Android 2.1 this Week; Moto Says “Whoops…”] More Information on Motorola Android Updates Revealed [Leak Shows Droid 2.1 update coming soon, CLIQ, Dext and Milestone getting updates too, maybe] Google Grants Nexus One New Upgrade Subsidy [Google Nexus One Available for $279 from T-Mobile] Wide Variety of Android Phones Getting 2.1 Update [Droid, CLIQ, Hero All Among Phones Getting The Coveted 2.1 Update] Motorola Dext & Motorola Milestone to Gain Android 2.1 (Éclair) Update [Milestone & Dext Android OS Upgrade Pending, No Date of Availability Yet] HTC Hero Getting Android 2.0 Firmware Update in March [Android 2.1 for the Hero, in the Works, Too]

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Research Papers Blog » Blog Archive » I want a CDMA Cell Phone

As if that's not enough, any phone call you make using CDMA cell phones have a tendency to be more secure. In a word, a radio receiver does not easily pick up the signal. Super Fast Internet Connection. Here's the kicker: 3G Technology ...

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