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IVP Raises Massive New $1 Billion Fund As ... - Business Insider

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IVP partner Todd Chaffee.

Silicon Valley-based VC firm IVP has just raised a new $1 billion fund.

That is a boatload of money. And it means that a lot more companies will have the pleasure of having IVP as an investor.

IVP is an investor in Business Insider (this publication), so we're obviously biased. But we think it's about time IVP started getting recognized for the positively fantastic performance the firm has delivered over the past few decades.

Unlike other top-tier Valley VC firms, which have grown so large that they now resemble huge private-equity firms--IVP has remained small. It only has 6 partners.

IVP specializes in late-stage investments in technology and media companies. The firm has invested more than $3 billion over the past 32 years.

And it has earned a staggering 42.3% annualized return.

That's more than two-times the industry average.

It's also about 40% more that cash, bonds, and the public stock market are earning right now.

And that explains why pension funds and other limited partners were lined up around the block to participate in IVP's new fund.

It's always a risk taking on a new investor, because you're giving up some control in addition to some of your stock. You have to hope, therefore, that the potential investors who seem smart, forthright, experienced, and supportive when you are getting to know them remain smart, forthright, and supportive after they actually invest.

And IVP has.

Over the years, IVP has invested in companies like Twitter, HomeAway, Zynga, Comscore, Kayak, Buddy Media, Dropbox, Concur, and CafePress. Many of these companies have had huge "exits," and others are preparing to.

If we didn't know the folks at IVP well, we'd probably take this new fund as a sign that the Valley has gone insane again. We'd also surmise that the partners would quickly blow the whole thing by paying up to get into hot pre-IPO companies, the way a lot of firms have tried to do with Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, et al (a follow-the-herd strategy that has gotten some firms hosed).

We do know the folks at IVP, though. So we can confidently predict that they won't do that.

Instead, they'll do what they've done for the past 32 years:

• Remain very selective, doing only 10-12 deals a year
• Stay disciplined about the prices they pay
• Earn their way into very good deals at reasonable prices
• Help their companies succeed

We're thrilled to see IVP get such a vote of confidence from its investor partners. And we're happy in advance for the future entrepreneurs and companies that will benefit from IVP's expertise.

And, yes, we also look forward to hitting IVP up for some of that $1 billion fund!

SEE ALSO: Hey, Google, What's With The Price You're Charging For That Round Black Ball?

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Coca-Cola's A011 vending machine keeps drink cool without using (much) power

So maybe that self-chilling soda didn't pan out, but Coca-Cola is working on another method for keeping its beverages cool without using power. In partnership with Fuji Electric Retail Systems, the company has developed the A011 vending machine, which is capable of keeping drinks frosty for up to 16 hours a day without using energy. The A011 works by shifting the cooling process from mid-day, when energy use is higher, to nighttime, when there is a higher power capacity. Even after the machine stops powering the chilling, the unit's temperature only rises slightly, thanks to vacuum insulation and an airtight design. Great in theory, right? Well Coca-Cola Japan will put the product to the test this summer with a two-month pilot program in two of Japan's toastiest areas, Tajimi City in Gifu Prefecture and Kumagaya City in Saitama Prefecture. If things go well, the company will tweak the A011 to extend the amount of time it can go without power. Room-temperature soda is the worst, so here's hoping it works.

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West worried by China-Pakistan atomic ties: sources

VIENNA (Reuters) - Western states pressured China at closed-door talks last week to address concerns about its plans to expand a nuclear power plant in Pakistan and provide more information, but were rebuffed, two diplomatic sources said on Wednesday.

Beijing's atomic relations with Islamabad have caused unease in Washington, Delhi and other capitals due to Pakistan's history of spreading nuclear arms technology and fears about the integrity of international non proliferation rules.

"A number of countries asked questions and expressed concerns," said one official, speaking about the annual plenary session of the 46-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), held on June 21-22 in the U.S. city of Seattle.

But China showed no sign of reconsidering its position on building two more reactors at the Chashma nuclear power complex in Pakistan's Punjab region, the official and another source said, a stance Beijing also took when the issue was raised in last year's NSG talks in the Dutch city of Noordwijk.

As its ties with the United States have suffered, Pakistan has been trying to move closer to Asian powerhouse China, which has welcomed Islamabad's overtures.

The two-day meeting also debated the issue of India's possible membership in the NSG, a consensus-based cartel that seeks to ensure nuclear exports are not used for military purposes by agreeing rules for such trade, the sources said.

In 2010, the United States announced backing for India's membership - a step that would make it the only country outside the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the group - but Pakistan has warned against allowing its rival to join.

"If India were to apply now, there would be quite a detailed discussion on non proliferation-related issues before a decision is taken," one of the sources said, suggesting there were differences of opinion within the NSG.

A statement by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed that the NSG's relationship with India was discussed, but did not mention the China-Pakistan issue.

"Participating governments called on all states to exercise vigilance and make best efforts to ensure that none of their exports of goods or technologies contribute to nuclear weapons programs," it said on its website.

Close relations between China and Pakistan reflect a long-standing shared wariness of their common neighbor, India, and a desire to counter U.S. influence across the region.

Analysts say China agreed to expand Chashma to match a 2008 nuclear energy deal between India and the United States.

NUCLEAR PRINCIPLE EROSION?

Washington and other governments have said China should seek approval for the planned reactors from the NSG. But China argues that the construction of two additional units at Chashma was part of a bilateral deal sealed before it joined the NSG in 2004. China also supplied the facility's first two reactors.

European Union members of the NSG delivered a joint statement about the issue in Seattle, the two sources said. The U.S. delegation also "posed a question," one of them said.

"China basically reiterated that it comes under the grandfather clause," one source said, referring to Beijing's argument that the agreement was struck before it joined the nuclear suppliers' forum.

To receive nuclear exports, nations that are not one of the five officially recognized atomic weapons states must usually place their nuclear activities under the safeguards of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, NSG rules say.

When the United States sealed a nuclear supply deal with India in 2008 that China and others found questionable because Delhi - like Islamabad - is outside the NPT, Washington won a waiver from that rule after contentious negotiations.

Pakistan wants a similar civilian nuclear agreement with the United States to help meet its growing energy needs.

But Washington is reluctant, largely because a Pakistani nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, admitted in 2004 to transferring nuclear secrets to North Korea, Iran and Iraq.

Pakistan tested nuclear devices in 1998, soon after India, and both nations refuse to join the NPT, which would oblige them to scrap nuclear weapons.

Nuclear analyst Mark Hibbs said there had been an erosion of the principle that recipients of nuclear exports must put all their atomic activities under IAEA safeguards.

"First by Russia a decade ago in its trade with India, then in the U.S.-sponsored India deal, and now by China's trade with Pakistan," Hibbs, of the Carnegie Endowment think-tank, said.

"Since the late 1990s we have seen a weakening of milestone non proliferation commitments by big powerful countries."

(Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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How the CCNA Certification Relates to IPv6 | Academy of Computer ...

Before taking the Cisco Certified Network Associate exam, or CCNA, it is absolutely essential to understand both the ?why? and the ?how? of the new and emerging IPv6 technology. This is a crucial part of the exam and, as the future of the internet in generally, it?s pretty important to understand how it works. Before that, though, it?s even more important to understand why there is even a need for IPv6 technologies, as well as how they?re be implemented in a world that has largely been completely constructed based on the IPv4 specification.

Looking at the Origins of the IPv4 Specification

Even though the actual use of IPv6 in real world applications is relatively new, its roots begin more than two decades ago in 1990. That was the first year when tech experts began to predict that IPv4 address space would actually run out do the explosive growth of connected devices. Even in a world that couldn?t foresee the coming smartphone and tablet revolution that enabled ?everything everywhere? connectivity, this was a real concern.

In 1992, IPv4 classes A, B, and C, were joined by CIDR, or Classless Internet Domain Routing. This technology was essentially developed to promote greater efficiency within IPv4 environments, allowing blocks to be assigned more slowly and preventing the IP catastrophe that many analysts were predicting at the time. While this was a great way to ?kick the can down the road,? it was not a permanent solution.

Steps toward a more lasting solution began in 1993, when the Internet Engineering Task Force recognized the need for an entirely new protocol that would highly scalable in a world full of connected devices. In response, the IETF created the IP Next Generation Group to study, analyze, and plan the deployment of a new IP protocol that would last far longer than the aging IPv4. The group became known as IPng, and it got to work pretty quickly. By 1994, the group?s work was being approved and standardized by a number of internet standards committees, and it was officially given the IPv6 designation later that year.

Test implementations followed fork the next half-decade and, in 1999, regional internet registries assigned the first block of IPv6 addresses for non-experimental uses. This followed the releasing of patches and operating system updates to enable the parsing and processing of IPv6 address blocks just a few years earlier, and the technology was officially on its way.

Examining the Need for a New IP Address Specification

It was more than 20 years ago that experts first predicted that IPv4 address blocks would run out. The assignment of these addresses, and the relative lack of new ones to assign, has increased exponentially in the last decade alone. In 2002, a full 28 percent of IPv4 address blocks were still available for use around the world. By the present decade, that number had dropped by nearly two-thirds to just 10 percent. Without the development of the IPv6 specification, the future of the internet would currently be experiencing a real threat to its continued viability and use.

The IPv4 specification is a 32-bit construction, which allows for a grand total of 4,294,967,296 address blocks before the system simply runs out of options and capacity. Comparatively, IPv6 specification employes a 128-bit structure which permits for a vastly larger sea of potential address blocks. Indeed, the total number of IPv6 address blocks available for allocation around the world is 3.4 x1038, which experts believe can last anywhere from a few decades up to a half-century before a more advanced standard needs to once again be developed due to rising demand and a dearth of available blocks.

The IPv6 specification is also far more engaged with advanced hierarchies that make internet routing more efficient. This is seen as one of the main problems with IPv4, especially given the exponential growth of the internet and connected devices over the past two decades. The technology is not only much more vast and available, but actually faster at doing the exact same tasks that the IPv4 table is currently charged with handling.

A Commitment to Global Fairness with IPv6 Technologies

One of the interesting things about IPv4 is that the technology was actually split among several global governing bodies that served specific regions of the planet. Each governing authority managed the granting and distribution of IPv4 blocks to every country within its purview, and the structure still being used looks like this:

- ARIN, for North America, the Caribbean, and some North Atlantic locations
- AfriNIC, serving the African continent and Indian Ocean island nations
- APNIC, for the Asia-Pacific region and Oceania
- LACNIC, for South America and non-ARIN parts of the Caribbean
- RIPE NCC, for Europe and the Middle East

Despite these five organizations and their relatively equal holdings around the world, the ARIN organization is responsible for granting a full 74 percent of the IPv4 address blocks currently in use. That?s an astounding disparity between the regions, and it?s something that IPv6 has aimed to fix with the way it is deployed. Unlike IPv4, the technology has a single and global granting body, as well as a global prefix structure, that is designed to promote greater fairness in the assignment of addresses.

Where is IPv6 Now, and Where Will it Go in the Future?

Presently, much of the world is still stuck on the IPv4 standard as governments and internet service providers slowly migrate to the newer standard. While much of China and Korea are both running on the IPv6 standard for both traditional and mobile internet devices, the United States has lagged behind in implementation. The federal government announced a goal to be compatible with the technology by 2008, and has largely met that standard; the wireless provider T-Mobile has deployed IPv6 to its mobile networks; but other than these two major developments, the United States still relies heavily on IPv4. This partially makes sense, however, given that the continent is responsible for 74 percent of the specification?s allocation around the world.

Looking to the future, IPv6 adoption will increase because it has to. While it is currently ?dual stacked? with IPv4 address blocks, that will change as IPv4 addresses simply run out and people around the world are forced to migrate to the newer standard. Given the fast rate of IPv4 address disbursement, this is likely to happen within the present decade.

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean officially announced

OK, so we've seen the statue. We've seen the rumors. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has been officially announced at Google I/O in San Francisco. Hugo Barra is on stage as we speak taking us through it, so stick around, there's a lot more to come on this one. 

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Microsoft ? Software Giant, Hardware??

With Microsoft’s release of the ?Surface Tablet there’s some conjecture as to whether a company best known for their software can develop and market a hardware based product. Perhaps it’s appropriate at this time to reflect on the Microsoft’s history in hardware development, especially given that it’s the 30th Anniversary of?Microsoft Hardware . Microsoft has [...]

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Property Management Companies and Property Managers - Rentate

Property management companies?and?property managers?of California are providing a purported Eviction Protection Service to?landlords?and?real estate?owners and are collecting fees monthly from them funds to cover this service. These fees, usually ranging between $7 ? $25/month in the cases we have seen, are collected monthly from?landlords?or?real estateowners under the terms of?property management?agreements. In return, if a?tenant?is to be evicted at a future date, thelandlord?or real estate owner would not be charged for the costs of the eviction process.

Essentially, it is like an insurance protection provided by aproperty management company?or?property manager?to landlords and real estate owners against eviction costs. In cases we have seen, the money is treated by?property management companies?or?property managers?as income and disbursed monthly at the time of collection of management fees, even though an eviction has not taken place.

The first question is, ?Are these eviction protection funds trust funds?? Trust funds are defined in the Department of Real Estate Reference Book as follows:

?Trust funds are money or other things of value that are received by a broker or salesperson on behalf of? a principal or any other person, and which are held for the benefit of others in the performance of any act for which a real estate license is required.?

In this case, rents and other property-related collections are received on behalf of a?landlord?or real estate owner and held in the future performance of acts related to the management of property for compensation. If a real estate licensee is managing a property for compensation, these collections are trust funds. As trust funds, these monies must be held in a trust account in the name of the broker or the broker?s dba, and must remain there until utilized on behalf of the owner (in this case, used to cover costs of an eviction). If such expenditures do not come to pass, the funds will need to be refunded to the principal owner from the appropriate trust account(s). As trust funds, these monies must be accounted for in accordance with the Real Estate Law and Commissioner?s Regulations.

The next question is whether these fees are advance fees. An advance fee is defined as:? ?? a fee, regardless of the form, that is claimed, demanded, charged, received, or collected by a licensee for services requiring a license, or for a listing, as that term is defined in Section 10027, before fully completing the service the licensee contracted to perform or represented would be performed. Neither an advance fee nor the services to be performed shall be separated or divided into components for the purpose of avoiding the application of this division.?

We have heard arguments which attempt to say that the fee collected is for the eviction protection service, which is not an act or which a license is required. It is the Department of Real Estate?s position that the fees collected relate to the service of managing the property itself, and the breaking down of this service into components (including the eviction handling component) cannot be done to avoid the advance fee requirements. Therefore, the DRE does consider fees collected for the eviction handling component-as an attendant to?property management- to be an advance fee. A licensee collecting such a fee must handle the funds as trust funds and comply with the advance fee provisions of Business and Professions Code (B&P) Section 10085 (Advance Fee Agreement and Materials) and Commissioner?s Regulations 2970 (Advance Fee Materials) and 2972 (Advance Fee Accountings). Therefore, a licensee must submit the advance fee agreement and solicitation materials to the Department for review prior to their use,and receive a letter stating there is no objection to the use of the materials. The funds must only be expended for the promised services and periodic accountings of the disposition of the advance fees must be provided to the landlord or owner.

To summarize, funds collected by a broker for providing an Eviction Protection Service in the course of managing a property for compensation from a landlord or real estate owner must be handled and accounted for as trust funds. These funds must be held in a trust account in the name of the broker or the broker?s dba, and must remain there until utilized on behalf of the landlord or real estate owner. These funds should not be paid out of the trust account until expended for the purpose of paying the costs of an eviction, or until refunded to the landlord or real estate owner. Advance fee provisions of the Real Estate Law and Commissioner?s Regulations must also be followed.

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Dustin Fitzharris: The Heart and Soul of Sophie B. Hawkins: Her New Album, Discovering Happiness, and Her Advice to the LGBT Community

It's been eight years since Sophie B. Hawkins released an album of all-original material. In that time she's become a mother, supported Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, helped clean up the Gulf after the 2010 oil spill, and made peace with her childhood, which was filled with confusion and unhappiness at the hands of two alcoholic parents.

The Crossing, Hawkins' latest album, finds her surrendering to the past, accepting her father's death, and in the end emerging with happiness she's never known before.

"It's a very positive crossing for me," Hawkins says. "I've just been able to leave the shore of all this struggle and baggage, and it doesn't even matter what's on the other side. It almost doesn't matter where I'm going; it just matters how I'm going."

This year marks Hawkins' 20th anniversary in the music industry. She first erupted on the scene with her debut album Tongues and Tails, which featured the sensual "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover." That was soon followed by "As I Lay Me Down." While she was riding high on the charts, behind the scenes she was struggling with her record label for creative control over her music. Realizing she wouldn't be able to fully express herself, she decided to chart her own course. Subsequent releases brought critical success but lacked the commercial success she had once experienced.

Hawkins doesn't have regrets. One of the songs on The Crossing is called "Dream Street and Chance." She calls it a "beautiful and complex" song that talks about time.

"I'm standing on the corner of Dream Street and Chance," says Hawkins. "It feels like anything can happen."

She is certainly doing her best to align the stars. In addition to a Broadway musical she's been writing on for the past several years that will reportedly star Kristin Chenoweth, she's also set to portray Janis Joplin in a play this fall. It all started with an idea that her long-time partner, Gigi Gaston, had. Without any hesitation, Hawkins committed to the project. The play, written by Gaston, will tell the story as if Joplin came back 42 years after her death and says all of the things she never got to say.

At this crossing in Hawkins' life, she is no longer the woman who lives life in the past. She's far too busy designing her future. As she sings in a new song, "Life Is a River," "I won't sit on the banks and let it roll on by me. I need to ride on."

The new album is called The Crossing. What does that mean?

It came from a painting I did that's in the album, of five boats crossing in this misty and romantic sea to a place. I said, "That is like where I'm at right now." I believe that is where humanity is at right now. It reminds me of one of the most influential quotes I've ever read: "Angels get my mansions ready, for we are crossing this misting river one by one."

This album has a lot of emotions about your father, who died of cancer in 2006. One song is called "Missing" and contains the lyrics: "We've been missing for too many years, and I want a healing in place of all these tears."

That was a song that just poured out right as I got the letter from my sister that he was really dying, which was different from "Daddy's sick." It's that moment in your life when you finally realize that this is really it.

The song also refers to New York in the spring, which you have mentioned in the past is very special to you.

Oh, God, and that is the place where he raised me. It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

Yet you talk and sing about him as if you had this deep relationship. However, you once said that growing up your home lacked structure and was like the "den of inequity."

His death was a giant coming into focus of reality. I can really compare this to being a mother now. It's such a difference when your parents are not there. You romanticize and create relationships that aren't maybe there. Every child fills in the holes. Even in the greatest relationships with parents, children either blame themselves for everything or do the opposite. So, with my father, anything I could hook into with him that was positive, like his love of Central Park and New York, I did it. When he died, anything that I created in our relationship, I had to come to terms with.

How would you describe your father?

A lot of the intelligent communication -- not the crazy communication -- was with my father. He did see a lot more. He stayed in the background. I always called him the silent cat. He did have a lot of stuff he never worked though. It's incredibly positive that he died for me, selfishly. That's when I got to deal with my life as it is and stop wishing and hoping for things to be different.

What did you want to be different?

I wanted to talk about the truth with both of my parents. I was the one always trying to get Daddy to go to meetings. I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

That's a lot to carry for a young person.

Yeah, but what's the other option? Either you become an alcoholic like that or you just become cold. I'd rather be on the side I was on and be called crazy than be in denial. I wanted to end the denial. It never mattered to me who did what. I just wanted to talk about it.

One of your new songs is called "Heart and Soul of a Woman." Finish this sentence: Sophie B. Hawkins is the kind of woman who...

Let's you be yourself.

What's the biggest misconception about you?

Because people try to define me too fast, they miss the truth. They miss the essence.

Which is?

That I'm only about creativity. I'm actually always looking for the good news. Sometimes people can portray me as someone who is always stuck in the bad news.

In November your son, Dashiell, will turn 4. What has being a mother taught you?

The real difference between being present and connected rather than just pretending to be present and connected. We all do it to a certain extent. We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it on to people constantly. Everyone says you learn from your child, and it's so true. They are constantly teaching you how fucked-up you are!

Would you like to be a mother again?

Oh, God, yes.

Another song on the new album is the traditional spiritual, "Sinnerman." Who are you singing that song to?

It will be the guy who dresses so well. It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes." There's always the guy who is not really that person, but who projects all these great things. Meanwhile, they are robbing us blind. Some people get totally taken, and others learn how to navigate the waters better.

One could think it's about politics, since you have been very outspoken. In 2008 you campaigned for Hillary Clinton, and in 2010 you said about President Obama, "He bothers me." Does he still bother you?

It's so boring now, isn't it?

It's relevant with the election coming up. You identify yourself as omnisexual -- a term you feel reflects the fact that you can fall in love with anyone as long as you love the person's mind, heart, and soul. What are your thoughts on Obama's stance on same-sex marriage?

He's all talk. He hasn't done anything. There are politicians who vote for gay marriage. Let's put them on a big website and give them a big award. But all these people who talk and don't do, let's just wait and see. I'm so tired of it, and gay people are so foolish to run around and say, "He said this and he said that." Listen, what did he say last week, and when is he ever going to do anything? I'm so tired of people being so stupid. I'm sorry. That's what I'm going to say. Put your money where your mouth is, Mister. I'd say that to anyone. Why are we so easy? Why are we so cheap? You can buy a gay person's vote for nothing. Unbelievable. Low self-esteem. I'm so tired of it.

What would you advise the LGBT community to do?

I think they need to do exactly what I said. They need to find every single person -- Republican, Democrat, and Independent -- who has ever done a vote in their favor. Then they should make a website and give each one of those people a plaque and say, "Look at this person who did something. Obama, you say that, do it, and until you do it, we won't support you."

What are your thoughts on same-sex marriage?

Gay people are all about publicity and show. Even the marriages. If you really want to get married, fucking stay married. Show the world. Stop having affairs, and stop acting like straight people. Don't just yell and scream about having rights and then treat each other like shit.

In five years you'll be turning 50.

Wow! I always think it's sooner than that, and I love to hear that it's not as soon as I thought!

Where do you see yourself at 50?

I'm about to hit my stride. I've been working up to this for a long time. I'll be very wealthy; it doesn't matter in what way. It may be in happiness, joy, and health. I think it's going to be an incredible time for me.

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For more on Sophie B. Hawkins, visit sophiebhawkins.com.

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Digifit iCardio Multi-Sport Heart Rate Monitor Training (for iPhone)

If you want real hard stats about your workouts, but accelerometers and GPS don't quite cut the mustard, buy yourself a heart rate monitor? and then get an app that can access the information and make some sense out of it. ?One option is the fitness iPhone app Digifit iCardio Multi-Sport Heart Rate Monitor Training (free to download, but additional fees required, details below), or just Digifit for short. At its most basic level, the app tracks your runs, bicycle rides, and other workouts and gives you good information about them, like distance, time, and pace. You can connect it to a heart rate monitoring strap, too, for much deeper health information, although the cost for all the components adds up.

Between the heart rate monitor (I used an ANT+ Garmin Heart Rate Monitor, about $25-$60), Digifit Connect device ($59.95), which plugs into the iPhone's base and enables the monitor to send information to the app, and $2.99 in-app purchase for heart rate monitoring support, the total cost is more than $75. Plus, if you want to add Fitness Assessments features, which let you create custom heart rate and pace zones, you'll have to shell out another $3.99.

The in-app purchase for heart-rate monitoring is the cost that stings, particularly if you've just spent $60 on the company's Digifit Connect, assuming (quite reasonably) that access to the data would be included.

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The app itself works well?with or without the heart rate information, and, in my testing, the worst problem I encountered was that the heart rate strap and Digifit Connect lost contact with each other at least once every time I worked out. But when it does, the app continues to collect primary data. The timer still runs, the GPS map-plotting continues, and even calorie-burn estimations keep ticking. In other words, the app does a fine job holding up its end of the bargain, even when the other components fail. The Digifit app also chugs along just fine when the screen is locked, helping to minimize the battery drain (the GPS mapping feature will invariably, but unavoidably, tax the battery).

During a workout, the Digifit iPhone app can clue you into your own progress with voice announcements, vibrations, and push notifications. You can customize what kind of prompts you receive, if at all, and when. For example, you can set the Digifit to announce when you've hit your first mile, or to vibrate after 20 minutes, or to push a notification to the locked screen when your heart rate hits a certain number of beats per minute.

At the end of a workout, the app summarizes distance, pace, and other typical statistics you'd expect to find in a fitness tracking app.

The Digifit app has a wealth of customization options, settings, and features, crucial to a personal fitness app. You can set your height, weight, age, and sex in order for the app to better estimate calorie burn, as well as give accurate "zones" for your heart rate, like "warm-up zone." One thoughtful addition is a set of charts in which you can enter your resting heart rate, weight, blood pressure, and other personal metrics.

Digifit's Costs Add Up
The Digifit iCardio Multi-Sport Heart Rate Monitor Training app (for iPhone) provides a range of options for tracking your fitness, and it works pretty well, but the reasonably high cost for all the components makes this product more of a gadget pack than simple app. The price tag is close to, but slightly higher than with other gadget-app duos in this class, such as RunKeeper's Wearlink+ ($79.95) and Adidas' miCoach Connect Heart Rate Monitor ($70). The number of up-sells may cause you to steer clear of Digifit, but the app's performance is solid.?

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Google Now revamps search integration in Android 4.1 Jellybean

Google just officially unveiled its next iteration for Android -- Jelly Bean 4.1 -- and now we're getting to see the various "buttery" improvements the company's worked into the OS. Hugo Barra, Director of Product Management, took to the I/O 2012 stage to detail the refinements introduced to its search integration. The entire experience has been redesigned from the ground-up with a fresher UI and a "faster, more natural" voice search ability. That refreshed interface borrows from the recently outed Knowledge Graph, displaying queries for weather, Wikipedia and restaurants in graphical card format. That same layout extends to voice search, now spoken by a much more human-sounding voice. You can also dismiss the cards with a simple swipe, exposing the full list of search results beneath.

But that's not the whole story, the company's also introducing Google now -- a new form of search that ties your browsing and navigation histories together to anticipate your needs. In the demo, Barra showcased how the new system could help to calculate a user's commute, replete with alternate route suggestions and even scheduling info, recommend nearby restaurants as they're passed and keep users abreast of impending appointments with departure time recommendations. Excited for this next search-based step in Android? Then look for it to hit Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Xoom devices as part of the 4.1 update coming mid-July.

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Google+ on Android, iPad goes tablet-sized

Google+ just got a makeover very recently, but it was still very much oriented towards phones -- that's been solved as of today. The social networking app is now optimized for Android tablets and the iPad, with a whole new navigation system and Hangout video chats suited to bigger screens. The layout is landscape-friendly and, if you have a new iPad, will take advantage of every pixel on that Retina display. Android users can get the update today; iPad owners will have to wait for a release coming "soon." Android phone owners are getting some of the benefits of the supersized interface in their own, more modest screen sizes as well.

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