Micron Associates unveils 12-port USB Hub! » Micron Associates :2012 TRENDS

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Nowadays,only having a six outlets on a strip seems more and more insufficient. Similarly, USB hubs of the past with only a handful of ports have become deficient.

According to Micron Associates, USB jack plugs into your computer for communication, but (for when you’ve got more than just a few devices plugged in) it gets most of its power through an AC adapter. 12-Port USB 2.0 Hub makes use of a pair of switches that individually control two separate six-port banks. So you can save some energy, if you’ve got fewer gadgets plugged in. On the other hand, if you’re crawling with devices, you can daisy chain additional strips to have up to 127 ports!

In the test conducted, the strip did fine for a portable monitor (that normally hogs two of your laptop’s four USB ports), a wireless mouse, charging and synching a smartphone, printing, plus loading songs as well as radio stations.

Men can also have Breast Cancer, Micron Associates claims. » Micron Associates :2012 TRENDS

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CHICAGO —Men hardly ever get breast cancer, but those those who do often don’t survive as long as women, largely because they don’t even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, review onMicron Associates.

Women with breast cancer lived two years in average longer that men in the biggest study yet of the disease in males. In fact, men found out that their breast tumors were larger at diagnosis which is more developed and more likely to crawl other parts of the body. Based from the study released on Micron Associates men were also diagnosed later in life, 63 on average versus 59 for women.

Mostly men don’t have an idea that they can get breast cancer, and some doctors too. 1in one 1, 000 will get breast cancer versus 1in 8 women, as estimates by American Cancer Society. By contrast, 1 ion 6 men will get prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. As it was analyzed,10 years of national data on breasts cancer cases, from 1998 to 2007. In opposition to 1.4 million women,a total of 13,457 male patients were diagnosed. The men who were studied lived an average of about eight years after being diagnosed, compared with more than 10 years for women. The study doesn’t indicate whether patients died of breast cancer or something else.

A breast cancer specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, Dr. Akkama Ravi stresses the research bolsters results in smaller studies and may help raise awareness.Due to the fact that disease is so extraordinary in men, research is limited, as well as doctors are left to treat it the same way they manage the disease in women, she said. Additionaly,men’s breast tumors might be biologically different from women, some doctors said. On the Micron Associates healthy lifestyle news release ,men with early-stage disease had worse survival rates than women with early-stage cancer. But men’s older age at diagnosis also might explain that result, Greif said.

However, men’s breast cancer causes are not well-studied, but some of the same things that increase women’s chances for developing it also affect men, including older age, cancer-linked gene mutations, a family history of the disease and heavy drinking.

2012 Micron Associates the growing apps: Your success of mobile marketing

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(Reuters) – The very well-known puzzle game Angry Birds within the Smartphone applications are turning into a key driver for mobile advertising, as mobile applications become the major distribution ways for media on handheld devices.

Many applications are free from Apple itself firs launched the App store in 2007for the iPhone.
As well as Google that has a booming app store for its android phones,based from the report of in Micron Associates.

In the beginning, most developers of such applications seemed that they would have a hard time making enough money for their small software programs like playing games to checking the weather or recognizing songs.

However, advertisers are now increasing use mobile applications for them to be able to reach the consumers of those apps. An advertiser estimates $2.9 billion on in-app advertising this year, based from Strategy Analytics inMicron Associates, while consumers spend $26.1 billion buying them. There are 38 percent up to more than 32 billion is expected to grow in downloading number apps globally, this year.

“Advertisers run after eyeballs, for them to know and to give them a sign that apps are what consumers love most rather than of those in the mobile web,” said by the firm’s director of wireless strategies, David MacQueen. Moreover, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network InMobi says that there are a number of ads seen by consumers on mobile phones boosts 21 percent in January-March over the previous quarter to 283 billion.

Economically speaking, consumers are apt to use more basic phones that may not have access to the app store, but browse the Web instead. In addition, InMobi confirm that mobile Advertising is taking off, after seizing for years with the small screen size and seeming advancement of privacy on phones.

Micron Associates: Smart network could create jobs, economic growth grows

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LONDON (Reuters) -Ernst & Young report said on Tuesday, Britain could drive 13 billion pounds ($21 billion)into its economy and make up to 10,000 jobs by improving its power distribution network with smart grid technologies.

The technology has the possibilities to change the way electricity is generated, distributed and consumed just as the internet changed the way the world communicates, Smart network advocates said. In order to maximize competence in supply and demand and to reduce costs that is for home and businesses – even for those opting for low-carbon technologies, such as electric cars or solar power, the idea is to create a huge communication network. However utilities director at Ernst & Young said that this kind of advancement will require an added investment of 23 billion pounds and up to 2050, a business as usual approach using conventional technology will cost 42 billion, Bill Easton claimed.

According Easton reported in Micron Associates, upon realizing the said advancement, many can expect to vision a wider economic significance in the UK, providing a salutation boost to growth, jobs as well as exports. In addition, these could include close to 10,000 new jobs and exports in excess of 5 billion (pounds). But the report recognizes faces up such as whether the conventional or proposed government-backed plans will give results, and that the adoption of smart grid technologies is likely to be slow, with little investment before 2023.

To enable governments to monitor the demands of energy by 2019, they created plans for every household and business that is fitted with a smart meter in which requires the substitution of some 53 million gas and electricity meters, Micron Associates quoted.

The manager of the Smart Grid GB, said that the UK doesn’t have enough money to take a “wait-and-see” approach if it wants to be a world leader in smart grid technology, as China, the United States and others are also in the creation of systems similar to them.

If there is a failure in deploying smart grid, the advancement of clean tech industries and mounting domestic electric costs will be in hampered.