Nike Golf App Tracks Entire Game

by John Steinbreder | July 9, 2012

More and more, iPhones, iPads and laptops are becoming essential pieces of golf equipment. Which is why Nike has unveiled a new app, dubbed Nike Golf 360 (NG360), which is designed to give players several ways to improve their on-course performances.
?This is all about serving the golf athlete and connecting more deeply with our consumers in a digital way,? says Brian Carter, global digital golf manager for Nike Golf.
NG360, which can be downloaded for free via iTunes or accessed on the Nike Golf website (nikegolf.com), offers four basic components. One is My Game, and it enables golfers to track their rounds by recording what they made on each hole as well as how many putts they played and whether they hit the fairway (and if so, whether they missed it left or right).
Using that information, the app calculates Greens-in-Regulation (GIR), driving accuracy and putts per round, so that golfers can determine the parts of their games on which they most need to work. Golfers can also earn awards through their play; four birdies in a row, for example, merits a Schwartzel Trophy, in honor of 2011 Masters champion Charl Schwartzel.
Another NG360 component is known as My Swing, and golfers can use that to upload and analyze video of their swings. They can also seek personal coaching from Nike Swoosh staff members who are PGA of America teaching professionals. In addition, the app includes a My Body section, which is designed to help players get into better golfing shape by letting them view and implement golf-specific training programs designed through a partnership with the Gray Institute, a leader in Applied Functional Science.
Finally, the company has created My Gear, which allows golfers to find Nike products on the Nike Golf website that suit to their needs and skills as it also provides recommendations for gear from Nike Swoosh staff members.

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Twitter for Android updated to version 3.3 - adds better search and notification options

Twitter for Android

Twitter for Android, the official Twitter application for Android devices has been updated today and the update brings along some pretty awesome new features. The folks at Twitter have been hard at work listening to users and refining the way things work, and attempting to deliver the best experience possible. In trying to do so they have released an update for the Android application, and the update brings the following new and enhanced features.

  • Expanded Tweets: when you view Tweet details containing links to partner sites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more. [this feature is rolling out gradually]
  • Push notifications for Tweets: choose to receive notifications from people you follow anytime they tweet or retweet
  • Improvements to search autocomplete for users
  • Tappable avatars that take you directly to user profiles
  • Many other tweaks, polish, and bug and crasher fixes

The update is pushing its way through Google Play currently, so be sure to check for the update shortly, and as always let us know how you like it! [Download from Google Play]

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Alcoa Inc. posts 2Q net loss in slowing economy

In this April 9, 2011, file photo, the Alcoa headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. said Monday, July 9, 2012, it lost $2 million in the second-quarter as revenue dropped due to weaker prices and pockets of declining demand in the slowing global economy. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

In this April 9, 2011, file photo, the Alcoa headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. said Monday, July 9, 2012, it lost $2 million in the second-quarter as revenue dropped due to weaker prices and pockets of declining demand in the slowing global economy. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

In this April 9, 2011, file photo, the Alcoa headquarters building in downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. said Monday, July 9, 2012, it lost $2 million in the second-quarter as revenue dropped due to weaker prices and pockets of declining demand in the slowing global economy. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Alcoa Inc. opened the second-quarter earnings season on Monday with a $2 million loss. The aluminum maker is the first of what's expected to be a number of companies reporting lower results because of the sluggish global economy.

Alcoa posted break-even earnings per share. Revenue fell 9 percent to $5.96 billion, primarily because of an 18 percent drop in aluminum prices from a year ago. The results included one-time items of $63 million. Excluding those Alcoa earned $61 million, or 6 cents a share.

That compared to net income of $322 million, or 28 cents per share, a year ago.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected Alcoa to earn 5 cents per share on revenue of $5.83 billion. Analysts typically exclude one-time items. They had lowered their estimates for Alcoa in recent weeks because of weaker prices, high inventories and tepid economic growth.

A number of companies have cut their second-quarter earnings forecasts, as some European countries slide into recession and growth slows in the U.S. and China. Analysts expect earnings for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to decline 1 percent in the quarter compared with the year before, according to S&P Capital IQ, the research arm of S&P. If that happens, it would break a streak of 10 quarters of gains that started in the final quarter of 2009.

Alcoa's performance reflects broader economic trends because aluminum is used in a wide range of products from airplanes and automobiles to beverage cans and consumer electronics. It is the first company in the Dow Jones industrial average to report earnings, so investors often watch its results for signs of how earnings may unfold for other companies.

The news was not all bad for Alcoa. The company said demand improved from the automobile and aerospace industries, packaging and commercial transportation. Analysts expect auto makers to have a record sales year and aircraft makers like Boeing are ramping up production. Overall shipments were up about 3 percent from a year ago.

But Alcoa's sales to the construction industry were weak, as the housing industry struggled to get back on its feet.

"Although aluminum prices are down, the fundamentals of the aluminum market remain sound with strong demand and tight supply, and Alcoa is successfully capitalizing on accelerating demand in high-growth end markets such as aerospace and automotive," Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

Price, rather than demand, is of more concern for aluminum producers because it is difficult for them to make a profit when the price is below $2,000 per metric ton, Morningstar Inc. analyst Bridget Freas said. Recently the price has been around $1,900 a ton.

Alcoa stuck with its forecast for a 7 percent increase in global demand this year and predicted that there eventually be a global aluminum supply deficit in 2012. Kleinfeld told analysts on a conference call that China is curtailing production, which he expects to bring the global inventory surplus into balance.

Alcoa shares rose 4 cents to close at $8.76. They were virtually unchanged in after-hours trading. In the past 52 weeks, the stock has ranged from $8.21 to $16.16 per share.

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HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE (Verizon Wireless)

No, this isn't one of the HTC 'One' Phones. Rather than keep the One design and slap a new name on it, like Sprint mostly did with the HTC EVO 4G LTE?($199.99, 4 stars), Verizon and HTC are going for something different here. The $149.99 HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE is more of an honest-to-goodness follow-up to the HTC Droid Incredible 2?(3.5 stars) than it is an extension of HTC's top-tier new One brand. That's both good and bad.

The Droid Incredible 4G LTE retains the same general shape and size of its predecessors, which is great news for anyone that isn't keen on the super large, hand-busting new smartphone trend. On the other hand, the Incredible eschews some of the best features from the One line, like a faster 1.5GHz processor and HTC's ImageSense camera processor. The Droid Incredible is still a very good smartphone?it's just a notch below the One.

Design and Call Quality
The Incredible 4G LTE measures 4.8 by 2.4 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.8 ounces. It might sound silly, but size is probably the primary reason to get this phone. While other top smartphones tend to rely on the idea that bigger is better, the truth is, phones with a 4-inch display are just more comfortable to hold if you have average size hands. The Incredible is a little thick, but it has a solid feel, with a textured, rubberized black panel. The glass front of the phone is surrounded by a thin, shiny black plastic band, and there are red accents around the camera sensor, on the Power button, and on the speaker grill for the earpiece. All told, it looks a lot like the original Droid Incredible?(4.5 stars).

The 4-inch qHD Super LCD features 960-by-540-pixel resolution. That's not quite on par with the brilliant 720p display on the HTC Rezound ($199.99, 4 stars), but it still looks sharp and bright. And despite the phone's smaller-than-average stature, typing feels fine on the onscreen keyboard.

The Incredible is a dual-band EV-DO Rev. A (850/1900 MHz) and single-band LTE (700MHz) device with 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi. Data speeds are excellent on Verizon's 4G LTE network, which recently led the pack in our testing for the?Fastest Mobile Networks. Download speeds averaged close to 10Mbps on the Incredible, while upload speeds were around 8.5Mbps. You can use it as a mobile hotspot to share that data with up to 10 connected devices with the appropriate plan. And if you're looking to conserve data, the Incredible connected to my WPA2-encrypted Wi-Fi network without a problem.

Voice quality is a strong point. Voices sound loud and clear in the phone's earpiece, if a bit digitized. Calls made with the phone are equally easy to hear, with a natural quality and good noise cancellation. Calls were fine through a Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset ($129, 4 stars) and voice dialing worked well over Bluetooth. The speakerphone sounds okay, and volume goes loud enough to use it outdoors. The 1700mAh battery was good for a solid 8 hours and 43 minutes of talk time.

Hardware, OS, and HTC Sense 4
The Incredible uses the same dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chip as the HTC One X?($199.99, 4.5 stars), except here it's clocked at 1.2GHz instead of 1.5GHz. That still makes for fast mobile performance?just not quite as fast as the One phones or the Samsung Galaxy S III ($199.99-$249.99). Still, you'll be able to run all of the apps and games available in the Google Play store without a problem.

Android 4.0.3 is on board here, along with HTC Sense 4.0. Sense 4.0 is a much lighter implementation of HTC's UI overlay than we've seen before, and very enjoyable to use. You get seven customizable home screens to swipe between. They come preloaded with some helpful apps and widgets, along with a hefty 15 items of bloatware from Verizon. None of the bloatware is deletable, but it didn't seem to impact performance.

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Tweet Lanes for Android, An Ice Cream Sandwich Inspired Twitter Client

It seems that there is never a shortage of Twitter clients for Android. So, here is another to add to the list. Tweet Lanes is still under development, but so far, it rocks. With a beautifully designed UI inspired by Ice Cream Sandwich, you swipe from left to right to see all of the tweets, mentions, and profiles. What I enjoy most is the ever-present bar on the bottom where you tweet from. Makes for very easy sharing.?

As a pro-tip, once you install Tweet Lanes, you can opt-in to a ?Free for Life? feature. Just follow Tweet Lanes and the developer, then all future premium content will be yours for free. Not a bad deal, right? If you have another Twitter client you want us to check out, let us know in the comments down below.

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Mayan Calendar: World Will Not End In December 2012, Expert Says

By Erik Vance

It's a bright summer day at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Outside, in the sprawling front plaza rimmed by palm and willow trees, young couples cuddle by the steps, vendors sell wrestling masks and tacos, and five men dressed in traditional Totonac garb slowly spin upside down in the death defying "Dance of the Flyers" for the tourists.

Inside the museum is a wonder of culture and history. Each wing is dedicated to a separate civilization in Mesoamerican culture?one for the Toltecs, another for Teotihuacan. But the largest spaces are reserved for the Aztecs and Maya. And in the center of the building is the stunning Aztec Stone of the Sun?often erroneously called the "Aztec Calendar"?perhaps the most recognizable symbol in Latin America. Diana Magaloni Kerpel, the museum director, peers at the stone.

"It is not a calendar. It's really the image of space and time. It's an image of how the Aztecs conceived themselves as in the center of time and space," she says. "Look at that. There is face in the middle?that is the cosmos. The Maya wouldn't do that?ever."

If you have not been paying attention to doomsayers or John Cusack movies, December 21, 2012, is the day that many say the Maya predicted the world would end. Internet stories regularly detail the Maya calendars although displaying the Aztec Stone of the Sun (including one, we regret, that was published on Scientific American Online). Looking at the reality of ancient Mesoamerica, it quickly becomes clear that much of the uproar rose out of a confusion of two distinct cultures that lived 500 years apart.

"There's a lot of conflation between these two cultures. It would almost be like comparing England at the time of the War of the Roses to the Romans or the Romans to the Greeks in the age of Pericles," says Stephen Houston, a Mayanist at Brown University. "They are vastly different periods, separated by considerable distances. The societies had many shared features but they were organized in very different ways."

To the average tourist, all the magnificent art here may blend together, and indeed they share many themes. But the Maya and Aztecs were very different cultures, analogous in many ways to the Greeks and Romans. Like the Greeks, the Maya were the older civilization to the east. Rather than a unified empire, they were more a collection of powerful city-states like Tikal and Calakmul, who occasionally fought each other. They also had highly realistic art and a form of mathematics far beyond that of ancient Europe.

The Aztecs (properly called the Mexica), on the other hand, ran a Romanesque, centrally organized empire with a powerful origin story for their all-powerful central city. They believed their people began in a mythical place to the north, called Aztl?n. Like the Romans or the Jews before, they wandered through the wilderness, eventually reaching a giant lake in the mountains where they built Tenochtitlan?the largest city in the world at the time, now called Mexico City.

That was A.D. 1325, four centuries after the end of the great Maya era. The differences between the cultures can be seen in their art, politics and especially the way they perceived time.

Mexica mythology was full of wrath, death and enough cataclysmic destruction for a Hollywood movie. Their art evolved from highland people like the Toltecs through a tradition of sculpture. The Mexica regularly discussed the end of the world and sacrificed people to prevent it. Pieces like the Stone of the Sun or the Tlaltecuhtli monolith, discovered in 2006, were highly representational and filled with intimidating monsters. Tlaltecuhtli, the largest Mexica icon ever discovered, has claws, blood spurting from her mouth and skulls for knees. People were blocky with generic faces, almost like communist or nazi propaganda.

The Maya, in contrast, had a more fluid style of art founded by painters. They depicted people more or less how they looked, often with subtle emotions rather than blank stares. Scientists recently announced the discovery of a mural found in the home of a royal scribe in the long-forgotten Maya city of Xultun??a city now reduced to little more than mounds of rubble and vegetation in northern Guatemala. The mural depicts an actual king, rather than a god, and accurately renders his court.

The mural also showcases the unique Maya Calendar, which was wholly distinct from the calendar used by the Mexica. As with the Mexica, Maya dates combine at least two calendars?one covering 365 days and the other 260 days, such that every day had two names, which reset every 52 years. But unlike the Mexica, it also uses a "long count" system that adds a numeral at the end of a cycle to keep a constant count of years, more like the Christian calendar. "Let's say something happened in '76. Is that 1976 or 1776?" says Karl Taube, an iconographer at the University of California, Riverside. "Unless you have a constant chronology, we don't really know. But with the Maya long count, we know exactly."

This "long count" feature is how we are able to extend the Maya calendar all the way to 2012. The Mexica calendar, by contrast, simply reset at zero at the end of a cycle. The Mexica would have no way of conceiving such a specific date so far into the future.

Yet it is the Mexica, not the Maya, who trafficked in the apocalypse. The Classic Maya had almost no tradition of cataclysmic endings (though they may have picked it up centuries later from groups like perhaps the Mexica). For them, 2012 is just a year when several of their calendars reset, like 2000 for modern calendars. Taube, who is helping interpret the paintings around Xultun, says the 2012 hysteria totally misses the point. It's not that Maya were tracking the apocalypse but that they saw significance in every new day. With multiple calendars, ancient Mesoamericans had a different combination of dates for every day, each combination having a special significance. Almost as if every day was a holiday.

"It's a much more lush view of time," he says. "Every day is going to have multiple, multiple inputs. It's going to have multiple shadings of possible meaning. In a way, it's a richly rewarding way to go through time. You are not just ticking off a day in your calendar. Each day is just percolating with all of these different meanings and recollections and hopes."

Back at the? museum, Magaloni shakes her head over people asking about the 2012 prophecy. Museums like this, she says have a much bigger message to tell of the past. Namely, they celebrate and inform the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and try to uncover their culture that was nearly eradicated during the Spanish Conquest.

"The world is coming to an end in 2012?that's an idea of the 21st century," she says. It's not about the world ending; it's about cycles of time. They [the Maya] are really in love with those calculations and they are discovering the universe through their calculations."

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Britain's Wiggins takes Tour de France lead

New overall leader Bradley Wiggins of Britain, right, grimaces in the last climb towards La Planche des Belles Filles, as he rides with Cadel Evans of Australia, left, during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 199 kilometers (123.6 miles) with start in Tomblaine and finish in La Planche des Belles Filles, France, Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)

New overall leader Bradley Wiggins of Britain, right, grimaces in the last climb towards La Planche des Belles Filles, as he rides with Cadel Evans of Australia, left, during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 199 kilometers (123.6 miles) with start in Tomblaine and finish in La Planche des Belles Filles, France, Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)

Christopher Froome of Britain crosses the finish line to win the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 199 kilometers (123.6 miles) with start in Tomblaine and finish in La Planche des Belles Filles, France, Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

Vicenzo Nibali of Italy, center, finishes fourth, after Christopher Froome of Britain, left, Cadel Evans of Australia, right, and Bradley Wiggings of Britain, behind Evans, during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 199 kilometers (123.6 miles) with start in Tomblaine and finish in La Planche des Belles Filles, France, Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

Christopher Froome of Britain crosses the finish line to win the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 199 kilometers (123.6 miles) with start in Tomblaine and finish in La Planche des Belles Filles, France, Saturday July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

(AP) ? With two weeks left in the Tour de France, the two-man showdown that many predicted is taking shape, with Britain's Bradley Wiggins already in the yellow jersey ? and driver's seat ? while Cadel Evans isn't.

The 31-year-old Briton and his Team Sky dominated the race's first summit finish Saturday, with Christopher Froome winning Stage 7 ahead of Evans and Wiggins close on the Australian defending champion's back wheel.

In the 123-mile trek from Tomblaine to La Planche des Belles Filles, Wiggins took the overall lead from Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara and gave Britain its first yellow jersey in 12 years ? and the first for Sky.

"It's a great day for the team, we won the stage and took the yellow jersey," Wiggins said in French. "This is my first time in the yellow jersey. It's incredible ? it's been a dream of mine since I was a kid."

As the pack disintegrated on the final climb, Evans tried an attack just before the super-steep patch in the last half-mile, but Froome beat him and made it look easy, leading Evans to wonder what he might be in for later.

Cancellara, a time-trial and one-day classics specialist who had worn yellow since winning the prologue a week ago, was 1 minute, 52 seconds behind Froome ? but more importantly 1:50 back of Wiggins.

The Sky leader, who began the day 7 seconds behind Cancellara in second place, leads Evans by 10 seconds. Vincenzo Nibali of Italy was fourth to climb to third overall, 16 seconds behind.

Wiggins, a three-time Olympic track gold medalist looking to become Britain's first Tour champion, became the pre-race favorite after winning the Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie and Criterium du Dauphine stage races this year.

Wiggins has more breathing room than Cancellara when he was leader. Only five riders are within a minute of Wiggins, including Denis Menchov of Russia, who won the 2009 Giro d'Italia and the Spanish Vuelta ? twice. The Swiss rider, by contrast, had had 22 riders within 48 seconds of his lead as Saturday's stage began.

With two time trials and more climbing days in the Alps and Pyrenees still to come, Wiggins played down speculation that he might've taken the lead too early with the finish in Paris on July 22.

"You can't get too cocky in this race and choose when you take the yellow jersey. I'd much rather be in yellow than in hospital ? like half the peloton," he said, referring to injuries from crashes in recent days.

Race organizers also tallied Saturday the full fallout of two bunch crashes a day earlier, including a high-speed one as riders were jockeying for position in a final sprint. A total of 13 riders dropped out due to injuries in the spills, bringing the number of withdrawals through seven stages to 17 ? the highest number at this point since 1998.

One of them was Garmin-Sharp leader and Giro champion Ryder Hesjedal of Canada.

Wiggins crashed out of the 2011 Tour with a broken collarbone and said he felt "lucky" he has been trouble-free this year.

Uncertainties remain and two weeks is a long time. But all signs read green for Wiggins: Sky is one of the strongest teams; it has launched a methodical approach to winning; the route this year is heavily weighted on time-trials which are his specialty. And with two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador out serving a doping ban, and 2010 winner Andy Schleck out injured, that's two fewer would-be challengers.

Evans sensed he's in for a challenge from Sky.

"With Wiggins on a team like that, it's going to be difficult," the 35-year-old BMC team leader said in French.

Froome, who took the polka-dot jersey as the Tour's best climber, said he was surprised Evans couldn't keep pace. The Australian was puffing and his face glistening with sweat as he crossed the finish.

"I kept waiting for him to go, but he never really went. To me that says one thing ? that he didn't have the legs," Froome said. "It really wasn't a big acceleration that I put in. I went for it and just coasted toward the line.

"Hopefully he's not holding anything back, and he's not going to surprise us in the next few days. I think that he and Bradley looked to be quite on par."

Wiggins said he was focusing on Evans.

"It's never over until it's over, and obviously Cadel is still the defending champion. You saw today, he just never gives up ? and that's going to be the Cadel that we are going to see," Wiggins said. "It's one day down of many to come, so just savor today."

Asked if it was a two-man race, Wiggins said: "It's looking that way."

Team manager Dave Brailsford acknowledged Sky would be having an upbeat evening Saturday for the stage win and yellow jersey, plus other positive signs like strong climbs from Richie Porte and Froome.

"We managed to stay out of trouble during that first week, that was important. We had a bit of a question mark about Richie because he crashed three times yesterday," he said. "But he was good."

"And Froome showed (them) today ... Everybody was, 'You know in the Vuelta, where does this guy come from?' He showed today he can back it up. And he's one of the best climbers in the peloton right now."

The stage marked the first of three summit finishes this year. Nimbler climbers took the limelight after a first week dominated by sprinters across the flatter regions of Belgium and northern France.

The final ascent to La Planche des Belles Filles, at 3.1 miles, was relatively short as far as the Tour's biggest climbs go. But it was steep, with a grueling 14-percent gradient in the last 500 yards.

The Tour, in its 99th edition, had never previously led riders to La Planche des Belles Filles. According to the legend, centuries ago, a group of beautiful young French women ? the "belles filles" ? committed mass suicide in black waters of a lake to escape the looming clutches of Swedish invaders. But the leader of the Nordic horde had fallen in love with one of the women, and pulled out her lifeless body ? carving a wooden epitaph to honor them.

The three-week race takes riders on another bumpy ride on Sunday, with seven climbs in the 97.5-mile loop from Belfort to Porrentruy in Stage 8. The Tour ends July 22 in Paris.

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AP Sports Writer Samuel Petrequin contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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