Angels trade 1B-DH Morales to Seattle for Vargas

FILE - In this May 29, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Angels Kendrys Morales (8) reacts after breaking his left ankle while jumping onto home plate after hitting a grand slam to win their baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, in Anaheim, Calif. The Angels have traded power hitter Morales to the Mariners for left-hander Jason Vargas. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

FILE - In this May 29, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Angels Kendrys Morales (8) reacts after breaking his left ankle while jumping onto home plate after hitting a grand slam to win their baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, in Anaheim, Calif. The Angels have traded power hitter Morales to the Mariners for left-hander Jason Vargas. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles Angels' Kendrys Morales poses in a baseball uniform in Tempe, Ariz. The Angels have traded power hitter Morales to the Seattle Mariners for left-hander Jason Vargas. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2012, file photo, Seattle Mariners' Jason Vargas poses in a baseball uniform in Peoria, Ariz. The Los Angeles Angels have traded power hitter Kendrys Morales to the Mariners for left-hander Vargas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

(AP) ? The Los Angeles Angels got the pitching depth they wanted. The Seattle Mariners got the power-bat they so desperately needed.

Two foes in the AL West found a way to work together Wednesday when the Angels traded switch-hitting slugger Kendrys Morales to the Seattle Mariners for left-hander Jason Vargas, filling needs for both teams.

The 29-year-old Morales became expendable after the Angels agreed to a deal last week with free agent slugger Josh Hamilton. The Angels had been looking for a pitcher after losing Zack Greinke and Dan Haren to free agency and trading Ervin Santana.

The Angels added a left-hander to their rotation, while Seattle got a hitter than can instantly take a spot in the middle of its order.

"We were going to try and come up with some type of offense and I think this worked out in a positive way," Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik said. "Both players are at the end of their contracts."

Getting Vargas reunites the lefty with his former Long Beach State teammate Jered Weaver at the top of the Angels' rotation. The duo played college ball together in 2004 and now will be counted on in helping make the big money the Angels spent on Hamilton and Albert Pujols last season pay off.

"I'm back home in California now," Vargas said. "It's perfect."

Vargas grew up in Southern California where his father coached high school baseball. He used to watch his second cousin, infielder Randy Velarde, play for the Angels in the late 1990s.

Vargas led Seattle in wins last season, going 14-11 with a 3.85 ERA and pitched a career-high 217 1-3 innings. The 29-year-old is 36-42 with a 4.09 ERA in four years with the Mariners.

"Jason was what we were looking for on the market this year: just a steady reliable left-hander who can go out there. He's got a history of pitching a high volume of innings and clearly I think we make ourselves a little bit better just in that we don't have to face him because he's given us fits," Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto said. "So we're thrilled to make the deal. We feel like this makes us a better, more complete and balanced team."

In his career, Vargas is 5-4 with a 2.65 ERA and 66 strikeouts in 85 innings pitched against the Angels.

A flyball pitcher, Vargas is excited to have an outfield that includes Rookie of the Year Mike Trout and Hamilton.

"Those guys out there behind me is outstanding," he said.

Morales hit .273 with 22 home runs and 73 RBIs last season after missing the entire 2011 season after breaking his leg early in 2010 while celebrating a game-ending grand slam against the Mariners. Morales was at his best later in 2012, hitting .275 with 11 homers, 28 RBIs and an OPS of .827 over the final two months. Among its regular starters, no Seattle hitter had an OPS higher than .738 for the 2012 season.

Morales said his leg got progressively stronger through last season and has felt 100 percent during offseason workouts.

"It's allowing me to work this offseason for the first time since about two years back," Morales said through an interpreter. "Following workouts and what I'm doing, I'm feeling no pain, no inflammation. So at this point I would say I feel 100 percent."

Morales could quickly become the most productive hitter in the Mariners lineup. He would have led Seattle in home runs and been second in RBIs last season and could be even more potent with the Mariners bringing the fences closer in the outfield.

In 34 career games at Safeco Field, Morales is a .292 hitter with a .904 OPS, seven home runs and 23 RBIs.

"I thought it was a situation where we could acquire a middle of the lineup bat, and a switch hitter. And here is a guy who played in this division, here is a guy who knows the American League. I thought that was really good," Zduriencik said.

Zduriencik said the conversations with Dipoto became serious on Tuesday morning and the deal was wrapped up by midday on Wednesday.

The acquisition of Morales will instantly boost Seattle's offense but also creates a log-jam of with catcher/designated hitter Jesus Montero and first baseman Justin Smoak. Morales started just 28 games at first base last season, but Zduriencik said they are confident he could play in the field. He's also hopeful that Montero comes to spring training ready to be the everyday catcher.

"As long as we create competition and as long as we have these pieces in spring training we'll see what happens," Zduriencik said. "I don't have the exact answer. We've certainly talked about a lot of scenarios and feel very comfortable that there will be enough at-bats to go around for all these guys but at the end if you've added a piece that you think makes your club better, that's just better."

Morales and Vargas each are eligible for salary arbitration and can become free agents after next season. Morales made $2,975,000 and Vargas $4.85 million last year.

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AP Sports Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.

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Google Music gets iTunes-like 'match,' but free

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Google has updated its music storage and streaming service with a handy new song-matching?feature pioneered by Amazon and Apple?? but unlike those companies' services, Google's is free.

Apple launched its "iTunes Match" service just over a year ago, which for $25 a year would scan your music library and offer to replace your own music files (wherever they came from) with Apple's own. Amazon began offering a similar service in July, for the same price but with a limited free option.

Google's service, which launched as Google Music last year and was?later?renamed Google Play Music, let you upload your songs to the cloud but lacked the matching feature?? until Tuesday.

Users can now let the service scan their library and assemble an online version of it using Google's own version of the?tracks. No need to upload gigabytes of MP3s; Google just verifies the artist and album and makes it available for you to stream to any supported devices (or through the Web app) in 320?kbps quality?? that's higher than the 256 kbps Amazon and Apple offer.

Best of all, the feature is totally free, and if you're already using the service, you don't need to do anything: Google is?already looking through the tracks you've uploaded and making high-quality versions available.

So if you're not paying, who is? Apparently, Google: All Things D reports that Google is cutting checks up front to music makers instead of giving them a piece of whatever they charge users.

One caveat: The high-quality versions of the songs can't be downloaded for local use?? only streamed online. So if you had visions of replacing your old 1999-era,?96?kbps CD rips with shiny new tracks freshly formed by Google, you're in for a disappointment.

The feature was announced in this Google+ post.?You can use the service by logging into or creating a Google account and going to the?Music app.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/google-music-gets-itunes-match-function-free-1C7662757

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Merck KGaA, Oncothyreon hit as cancer vaccine fails

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - An experimental lung cancer vaccine from Germany's Merck KGaA failed to improve survival in a pivotal study, dealing a blow to the company and the high-risk field of using vaccines to fight tumors.

Stimuvax, which Merck licensed from U.S. biotech firm Oncothyreon, failed to increase overall survival in the Phase III clinical trial, the German chemicals and pharmaceuticals group said on Wednesday.

The trial's coordinating investigator, Frances Shepherd of the University of Toronto, said the result was disappointing, although she said "notable treatment effects were observed in certain subgroups of patients".

While this could mean that Merck might conduct more studies to try and find particular groups of patients who would benefit from the treatment, industry analysts were skeptical that Stimuvax had any future.

"Despite potential positive effects in subgroups, we consider the drug dead," said Deutsche Bank analyst Holger Blum.

The trial was testing Stimuvax on more than 1,500 patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors could not be completely removed via surgery and whose disease had at least stabilized following chemoradiotherapy.

Merck said it would discuss the data with experts and regulatory authorities over the coming months.

Helvea analyst Odile Rundquist, who cut her price target on Merck by 2 euros to 97 euros a share, said the setback for Stimuvax was another blow for Merck's pharmaceutical division following recent disappointments with cancer drug Erbitux and the earlier failure of cladribine in multiple sclerosis.

Merck shares fell 3.3 percent to 98.22 euros by 1145 GMT, while Germany's blue-chip DAX index was up 0.2 percent. The market impact was limited by the fact that many Merck analysts had not included Stimuvax sales forecasts in their financial models, given the risky nature of the project.

The news is a much bigger setback for the German company's small U.S. partner Oncothyreon, whose shares fell 70 percent in premarket trading on Nasdaq.

Stimuvax is one of a number so-called therapeutic cancer vaccines being developed by drug companies to fight tumors by stimulating the body's immune system.

The first such vaccine was approved two years ago but Provenge for prostate cancer, made by Dendreon, has met with limited success, due to management missteps and doctors' reluctance to adopt the difficult-to-administer therapy.

A number of other cancer vaccines are in development that analysts believe may be more successful, including a product from GlaxoSmithKline against melanoma and lung cancer which is set to report clinical trial results next year.

Some investors had already been wary about prospects for Stimuvax after Merck said in March the trial would be continued and final data would be presented later than expected, raising doubts over its success.

"Given the history of the drug's development with postponements, discontinuations and break-ups we are not surprised about today's outcome," DZ Bank analyst Peter Spengler said.

(Editing by Erica Billingham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/merck-kgaa-cancer-drug-stimuvax-fails-stage-trial-084519774--finance.html

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HOLMBERG: Why the perception of more murders when ... - WTVR 6

Posted on: 11:07 pm, December 19, 2012, by Raymond Hawkes and Mark Holmberg, updated on: 11:28pm, December 19, 2012

RICHMOND, Va (WTVR)- The horror in Newtown and in Aurora this year, and the day-to-day drumbeat of murders and other violence that we report and many of you share in your social media circles has many of us believing we?re seeing a significant spike in violent behavior.

But the opposite is true.

If you look at mass shootings ? defined by the FBI as claiming four or more victims ? ?the numbers of incidents and the number of victims has been, on average, steady and, in the past decade, declining. ?(Read a noted criminologists analysis here: http://boston.com/community/blogs/crime_punishment/2012/08/no_increase_in_mass_shootings.html)

Mental illness resulting in devastatingly violent eruptions is far from a new problem.

Criminologist Grant Duwe, author of ?Mass Murder in the United States?, ?says mass killings peaked in 1929 ? in the midst of gangsters and the start of the Depression.

Two years earlier, in 1927, was the worst school massacre in US History. Farmer Andrew Kehoe, upset at his pending ?foreclosure, used dynamite to blow up part of the Bath Consolodated School in Michigan, killing 45 and injuring 58 others, nearly all the victims were children in the second to sixth grades.

It?s far from the only time that explosives were used to commit mass murder, as we saw in Oklahoma City.

The US murder rate? in general has been on the decline since the spike in the early to mid-90s, when crack cocaine invaded US cities. We?ve been seeing murder rates in the past couple of years that we haven?t seen in 50 years and a steady and drastic improvement since the 1700s. http://www.bjs.gov/content/homicide/tables/totalstab.cfm and ?http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/violent-crime/murdermain

Even firearm murders have been steadily declining.

Richmond?s murder rate is literally one-quarter of what is was in 1994, when we had a 160 slayings in the midst of crack cocaine madness.

It was 120 in 1995, 72 in 2000, 86 in 2005 and 41 in 2010. So far this year, the city has seen 41.

FBI uniform crime statistics show other kinds of violent crime have also steadily slowed. (http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/june/crimes_061112/crimes_061112)

Yes, violent crime in the United States is a horrific problem, much worse here than most other first-world nations. But the improvement has been real and steady.

The reasons remain unclear, although most experts point to an aging demographic, shifts in drug use, stiffer sentences for violent criminals and changes in our culture, such as better protecting those in violent relationships.

So why this perception that we?re a much more dangerous society now? Is it the way we report the stories, and repeat them on social networks? Is it our fascination with the dark side of life?

I often think of Patricio ?Pach? Torres, a teen-aged honor student shot to death in 1993 during a wilding incident at the Richmond Coliseum while picking up a friend there. His ?saying: ??Love is stronger than fear.?

My guess is, we?re living in a more fearful society.

Source: http://wtvr.com/2012/12/19/holmberg-why-the-perception-of-more-murders-when-the-opposite-is-true/

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Santa Speaks: What College Football Teams Are Getting for Christmas in 2012

Merry Christmas, boys and girls! Ho, ho, ho!

Have you been good this year? Of course you haven?t, but Santa?s far too busy looking for BCS National Championship tickets on StubHub to dig any deeper. Oh, and did you know that you can get into the Orange Bowl for around the same price as foot-long sandwich and a bag of chips at Subway?

That?s what you?ll be receiving if you?re on the ?Naughty? list this year, so consider yourself warned. Ho, ho, ho!

Being the college football fanatic and tailgating devotee that I am?North Pole University is just horrible at recruiting, and I blame this weather?I?ve decided to spend a good chunk of my time this year in our shop watching film of every team in the country.

After hours of film study with my elves, I stumbled upon the following conclusion: There were a lot of naughty teams this year, and by ?naughty? I mean ho, ho, horrible! My best elf thought that bit would work; please let me know if it did. His job depends on it.

Anyways, Santa is here to help, and I?m bringing your teams in need of a Christmas boost to help turn things around in 2013. I?ve decided not to get Alabama anything in 2012 despite the 455-page Christmas list Nick Saban shipped to the North Pole. They appear to be doing just fine without my help.

No, Nick, you will not be getting ?all of Steve Spurrier?s recruits,? and I have no idea what ?Jadeveon Clowney 2? is. You are, however, getting The Notebook Blu-Ray you asked for a few years ago. Mrs. Claus absolutely loves hers.

As for what you can expect for your team this year, here?s what is on the way.?

Ho, ho, ho.

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1450450-santa-speaks-what-college-football-teams-are-getting-for-christmas-in-2012

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Why Stocks Are A Risky Long-Term Investment | Personal Finance ...

Earlier this fall, the?SEC?accused a well-known personal finance expert, Ray Lucia, of misleading investors and ordered him to stop making false claims.

My reaction to this was twofold: (1) I?m glad my column is obscure enough that the SEC?has no interest in me, and (2) this guy was advertising surefire investment gains based on a common fallacy promoted by lots of other smart people who should know better.

Maybe you believe in it, too. But you shouldn?t and here?s why:

The fallacy is that investing in the stock market is less risky over long periods than short periods. It?s not. It?s riskier.

This is not just my opinion; it?s a mathematical fact well known to academic finance experts and options traders, supported by historical evidence, and largely ignored by the public and financial advisors alike.

There?s a Hole in the Bucket

Ray Lucia?s investment strategy, used by his advisory practice and promoted on his radio show and in a series of bestselling books, is called Buckets of Money. It?s mostly aimed at people at or near retirement.

The concept is that you separate your retirement savings into three buckets for short-term, medium-term, and long-term (15+ years) spending needs.

The short-term bucket is invested in low-risk assets like short-term bonds, CDs, and savings accounts; the long-term bucket gets risky stuff like stocks and real estate.

(The medium-term bucket gets somewhat risky or more illiquid assets, like longer-term bonds and fixed annuities.)

The idea is that you withdraw your spending money from the first bucket and periodically replenish the first bucket from the second and the second bucket from the third.

If the market tanks, you can wait it out until it recovers, because you have bucket three hermetically sealed off from the rest of your money, and everyone knows the stock market always does well over long periods, like 15 years.

Now, to be clear, the?SEC?didn?t have any problem with the strategy itself; they accused Lucia of overstating how well it would have performed historically. But this ?buckets? idea, which is also promoted by lots of people other than Lucia, is fatally flawed.

It?s flawed because there?s no guarantee the investments in the third bucket will perform well over 15 years or any period of time, no matter how long.

Moshe Milevsky, author of?Are You a Stock or a Bond?,?analyzed?the bucket strategy in 2006, long before the?SEC?became interested in Lucia.

?If you are unlucky enough to earn a poor sequence of initial returns,? he wrote, ??bucketing? your retirement income is not a guaranteed bailout.?

?Great,? you may be saying. ?I won?t put my money in buckets. Sounds complicated, anyway.?

Sorry, but if you combine all your assets into the same bucket, you?re probably still making the same mistake.

No positions in stocks mentioned.

Source: http://www.minyanville.com/trading-and-investing/personal-finance/articles/Why-Stocks-are-a-Risky-Long/12/18/2012/id/46776

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Military Abortion Amendment Is Included In Final Defense Bill

A bipartisan conference committee of House and Senate members approved an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill on Tuesday that will extend the insurance coverage of abortion to military women who have been raped.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's (D-N.H.) amendment to the defense bill lifts a decades-long ban on abortion coverage for military rape victims. Since 1981, military women have not had the same level of health coverage that civilian employees, Medicaid recipients, and even federal prisoners receive from their government-issued insurance plans. High-profile supporters of the amendment include former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The Senate unanimously passed the amendment in early December, but the House version of the defense bill did not include a similar amendment. A bipartisan conference committee that included Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), and ranking member Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) agreed on Tuesday to include the amendment in the final version of the bill approved by both chambers.

?With the inclusion of my amendment in the final defense bill, we?ve made an important step to restoring equity to military service women,? Shaheen said in a statement. ?After three decades of a policy that discriminated against women who put their lives on the line for us, I?m proud of my colleagues in both Houses of Congress and of both parties who are going to allow us to right this wrong."

The House is expected to vote on the final version of the bill later this week.

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Drink In These Coffee Table Books ? Woman Around Town

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My first job in New York was working at a flagship bookstore on Fifth Avenue. This was the place to come to buy the finest, most expensive books on the market. Without thinking about it, my customers would ask me to cut off the price tag before I did the gift wrapping. This always struck me as a silly thing to do, so just before the holidays, I started advising people ?Look, you?re spending a lot of money on this. Why not let the recipient know how much you care? Let me leave on the price tag, and when they open the gift, just say ?I can?t believe it! The salesgirl didn?t remove the price!?? Not one person ever turned down this excellent counsel, so I pass it along to you, Gentle Reader.

Who doesn?t love great food? We may not always be able to eat at the finest places, but with BOUCHON BAKERY, we can vicariously enjoy the mouth-watering baked goods being served. Master Chef Thomas Keller and his pastry chef, Sebastien Rouxel, have written a guide for the everyday lover of muffins, scones, cookies, and the like. There are instructional photos, and mercifully, while Keller and Rouxel are very much in earnest about serving only the best, they don?t take themselves too seriously. Dinner for two at Keller?s Per Se, one of the most highly regarded restaurants in NYC, can easily cost a couple of grand for two people- if you can even get a reservation. Likewise, his revered restaurant the French Laundry, is well worth the hike to Yountville, Ca., but it would be a mistake to show up at the door thinking you?ll get admitted. So here?s a chance for the home cook and gourmet alike on your list to get a scrumptious taste of the master?s handiwork.

And if that?s whet your appetite for gift giving, check out COME IN, WE?RE CLOSED, by Christine Carroll and Jody Eddy. Subtitled ?An invitation to staff meals at the world?s best restaurants,? this is a behind-the-scenes look at food served to the harshest critics in the world- the men and women responsible for creating the meals at the finest restaurants on the globe. These ?family meals,? which are a tradition in France and Japan, are quickly becoming an expected perk for the cooks, waiters, managers, and others who must be knowledgeable about what?s being served. The added bonus is that not only are leftovers being used creatively, but also, a sense of camaraderie is fostered. Twenty-five of the best restaurants in the world are featured, including Ad Hoc, the comfort food destination owned by Thomas Keller himself, in the heart of the Napa Valley. How great would it be to have a special meal with everyone in attendance at 4pm, before the civilians arrive. Chef de Cuisine Dave Cruz states that he always strives to provide ?Nourishment: feeding your body and feeding each other;? that?s what?s most important at these communal meals. Now, we can sit down at that big table, and enjoy with the pros a feast of such delights as fish cheeks, skirt steak stuffed with charred scallions, and chocolate-peanut butter crunch bars. I?m so there!

No two ways about it. For all the music lovers on your list, 360 SOUND: THE COLUMBIA RECORDS STORY is a gift that will be cherished. Pulitzer Prize and Grammy nominated author and historian Sean Wilentz has put together an impressive compilation of 300 pictures of rarely seen photographs, explanations of technical advances in the music industry, and tidbits of information that could only come from dyed-in-the-wool insiders. The roster of artists working under the Columbia label encompasses all genres, including pop, jazz, rock, show tunes, and classical. The finest artists of the day are part of the history, including Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce?the list goes on and on. This is truly a one of a kind book, and perfect to give to anyone who loves and appreciates music.

Mad magazine is an integral part of American culture, which is faithfully celebrated in MAD?S GREATEST ARTISTS: MORT DRUCKER, FIVE DECADES OF HIS FINEST WORK. Ardent fan Michael J. Fox has written the foreword; when asked by Johnny Carson when he knew he?d really made it in show business, Fox answered ?When Mort Drucker drew my head.? There are comic strips galore, and covers in full color, which would be great to rip out and put up on the wall; but resist the temptation. This book should be kept all in one piece, and passed down the generations to all those who reiterate the motto of the great gap-toothed Alfred E. Neuman, ?What? Me Worry??

I?m recommending a couple of superb softcover books this season. The first is ICONS, by Markus Klinko & Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri. The celebrities of the title are such pop idols as Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, and Lindsay Lohan, all photographed at their dazzling, eye-popping best. The spirit of Lady Gaga, and so many others, comes through in these gorgeous images. Glamour is just a jumping off place for the creativity, vision, and uncanny ability to see into the soul of those our society holds in the highest esteem.

The sumptuous HOUSES OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS, by Hugh Howard is now available in a large paperback format. Subtitled ?The Men Who Made America and The Way They Lived,? this is a history lesson taught painlessly, with original photography by Roger Straus III. Featured are 39 stately residences from the 18th Century, from Maine to Georgia. The homes of Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Adams are included, as well as those of some lesser known signers of Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Their lives, and in many cases, the lives of those they held as slaves, are illuminated. There?s plenty of insight into what made the founders of our country the men they were. For example, Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock at a time when being a bastard was a curse. His father deserted the family, and his mother died when he was 12. Hamilton was left stranded in the West Indies, alone and penniless. Yet by the age of 25, he?d turned around his fortunes and become prosperous and respected. All the historic homes have equally interesting stories.

Any self-respecting coffee table would find itself blessed to have any or all of these fine books proudly on display.

Michall Jeffers is an accomplished Cultural Journalist and an avowed bibliophile. She writes extensively, both in print and online. Her eponymous cable TV show is syndicated throughout the tri-state area, and features celebrity interviews, reviews, and commentary. Michall is a voting member of National Book Critics Circle. www.michalljeffers.com

Source: http://www.womanaroundtown.com/sections/reading-around/drink-in-these-coffee-table-books

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Surface RT Availability Expands, Microsoft & Apple Feuding over Revenue Sharing

Microsoft has announced plans to make the Surface RT tablet available at additional retailers as early as mid-December. It has also announced the extension of the Microsoft holiday stores, including the transition of several of the stores into permanent Microsoft retail outlets. SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto attributed these announcements to Microsoft wanting to have more presence and be more pervasive with the Surface RT. Best Buy and Staples are confirmed to be two of the additional retail outlets where the Surface RT can be found.

Microsoft still has plans to release the Surface Pro in January. When asked about how the Surface Pro would fare against the Surface RT, Casaretto said, ?I think the price point for [the Surface Pro] might be too high for the general public. This would be along the lines of professionals looking at the device.?

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Breaking Analysis: Surface RT Availability Expands, Microsoft & Apple Feuding over Revenue Sharing- SiliconANGLE.com

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