What Will Washington Do Without BlackBerries? Move On

Walk a city block in Washington and you?re sure to see more than one person glued to a BlackBerry. President Obama famously fought to keep his personal BlackBerry after his inauguration. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton uses one, as do many members of Congress.

But Washington?s well-documented BlackBerry addiction is on the wane. For many D.C. denizens, whether or not they?ll switch from BlackBerry to iPhone or Android isn?t a question of if, but when.

?You can play with an Android a lot more,? said Andrew Trembley, a consultant at the World Bank. ?I wouldn?t bother with the BlackBerry; they?re business phones? ? good for e-mail and little else.

?I enjoy typing with ease,? said Cammie Flippen, a paralegal at Wiley Ryan and a BlackBerry user. But, she said, ?in two months, I?m switching over.?

BlackBerry is fast losing market share to other smartphone models, and BlackBerry?s maker, Canada's Research In Motion, is in financial trouble. Sales are dropping, the company is laying off employees, and RIM announced last week that it will delay the release of its newest model, the BlackBerry 10, until 2013. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on Tuesday in an interview with CBC News that "there's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now," and he said he is confident it will get past its current challenges.

(RELATED:?To see more politicians and their BlackBerry visit our gallery here.)

Heins acknowledged that RIM faces a challenge to regain market share in the United States, but said that the company isn't in a "death spiral."

BlackBerry?s continuing presence in D.C. is largely driven by the federal government?s purchasing decisions. The BlackBerry?s security protections have kept it the phone of choice for federal agencies as well as private-sector companies, such as law firms, that deal with sensitive information.?

Security and manageability are among the BlackBerry?s core strengths, said Larry Silver, director of federal government sales at Research In Motion, and the devices can be easily handled by IT departments.

?RIM?s mobile-device management solution enables IT administrators to easily manage large mobile deployments, and ensures that confidential and proprietary data is controlled and protected,? Silver said in a statement.

Over 85 percent of congressional staffers use a BlackBerry for work, as do about 45 percent of lobbyists, according to a March survey by the George Washington University Graduate School of Public Management, the Original U.S. Congress Handbook, and ORI. More than 1 million government employees in North America use BlackBerry, according to RIM.

?Nobody has a BlackBerry in the private sector,? said Stryk Thomas, a management consultant at Key3 Strategy. He said there?s no way he?d consider trading in his iPhone for a BlackBerry.?? ?

But BlackBerry?s reign as the government?s PDA of choice may not last forever. The White House?s most recent Digital Government Strategy, released in May, lays out the steps toward security standards for a bring-your-own device policy. That move could erode BlackBerry?s prominence, as more and more people are choosing iPhone and Android devices over BlackBerry for personal use.

The U.S. General Services Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have already started to issue iPhones to some employees, Reuters has reported. The GSA is also issuing Android-based devices, and testing a bring-your-own device policy. Both agencies were able to make the switch after they switched to using Google Apps for Government.

Many Washingtonians who have ditched their BlackBerries aren?t looking back.

?I still kind of miss the keyboard,? said Amy Phillips, vice president at Monument Realty. But the iPhone is ?so much better,? she said; it?s particularly easy for viewing PDFs and other files that her business needs.

There isn?t a whole lot of BlackBerry mourning around the Twitterverse, either. Responding to National Journal?s requests for comment, @NaliahPorter tweeted: ??COMPLETELY OVER MY BB!!! Switching to iPhone or Android when my contract ends on August 1st. And I LOVED my BB!?

@harej tweeted, ?Judging by the decline in BlackBerry?s popularity, I think it?s fair to conclude that most people can live without it.?

Although D.C. has many faithful BlackBerry users, it has fewer BlackBerry devotees than you might have thought.

?I think BlackBerries are sort of falling behind,? said Alejandro, a World Bank employee who didn?t want his last name to be used. ?Washington is one of the few places they still get used. This is their last market.?

President Obama drops his BlackBerry while walking to greet well-wishers after he steps off Air Force One in Memphis, Tenn., on May 16, 2011.

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Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., works on his BlackBerry in the Senate Reception Room following his agreement to support health care legislation, on Dec. 19, 2009.

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President Obama uses his BlackBerry alongside first lady Michelle Obama in the first half of an NCAA basketball game between Oregon State and Towson in Towson, Md., on Nov. 26, 2011.

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White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, right, and political director Patrick Gaspard check their BlackBerrys on the South Lawn of the White House as they accompany President Obama to Wilmington, Del., on Oct. 15, 2010.

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Then-South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley, right, and her husband, Michael Haley, read a message on her BlackBerry, while watching the returns come in at the Capital City Club in Columbia, S.C., on June 8, 2010.

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This image of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton casually using her Blackberry while staffers frantically buzz around her displayed a calm under pressure that helped make the Texts From Hillary tumblr page incredibly popular.

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President Obama checks his BlackBerry as he is seated with first lady Michelle Obama during the Carrier Classic NCAA basketball game between North Carolina and Michigan State on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson in Coronado, Calif., on Nov. 11, 2011.

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D.N.Y., hands off her BlackBerry as Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., watches before the start of a news conference on Capitol Hill, on Dec. 9, 2010.

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Secretary of State Clinton checks her BlackBerry alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, right, as she attends the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea on Nov. 30, 2011.

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U.S., Pakistan reach deal to reopen Afghan supply routes

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States reached a deal on Tuesday to reopen land routes that NATO uses to supply troops in Afghanistan, ending a seven-month crisis that damaged ties between the two countries and complicated the U.S.-led Afghan war effort.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a telephone call with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, apologized for a November NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November and prompted an infuriated Islamabad to slam the supply routes closed.

"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again," Clinton said in a statement following the conversation.

Khar, in turn, informed Clinton that Pakistan would reopen the supply routes and, in a major concession to the United States, would not follow through on threats to dramatically hike the transit fees.

The deal, which came after several previous attempts at negotiation had failed amid a dispute over a U.S. apology, opened the prospect of broader improvement in U.S.-Pakistan ties.

But even with this hurdle down, others remain. They include Pakistan's opposition to U.S. drone strikes on its territory, and Washington's allegations that Islamabad condones, or even assists, anti-American militants.

In her statement, Clinton said the supply lines agreement "is a tangible demonstration of Pakistan's support for a secure, peaceful, and prosperous Afghanistan and our shared objectives in the region." She added that the deal would allow the United States and its NATO partners to conduct their planned military drawdown from Afghanistan at a much lower cost.

U.S. officials said the United States was spending $100 million more a month to send supplies across a long alternate route overland across Central Asia and into Afghanistan.

PAKISTANI TALIBAN THREATENS CONVOYS

The Pakistani Taliban militant group immediately threatened to attack trucks that resume carrying supplies into Afghanistan, where most of the 128,000 NATO soldiers are due to withdraw by the end of 2014.

"We will attack NATO supplies all over Pakistan. We will not allow anyone to use Pakistani soil to transport supplies that will be used against the Afghan people," the group's spokesman told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who said last month that Washington was losing patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens it offers to insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan, welcomed the news that the supply routes would reopen.

In an interview with Reuters, Panetta all but ruled out an apology to Pakistan over the NATO air strike.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told senior government leaders on Tuesday that continued closure of the routes was harming Islamabad's relationship with Washington. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman said the supply route deal could help to spur more cooperation between the two uneasy partners.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the announcement, saying it highlighted the important role Pakistan has in supporting a stable future for Afghanistan.

U.S.-Pakistan ties turned markedly worse after the U.S. raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Pakistani territory last year. Relations have been further poisoned by the U.S. drone strikes to target suspected militants and Washington's charge that Islamabad turns a blind eye to Haqqani network militants operating from within its borders.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is among a growing number of U.S. lawmakers who have voiced doubts about the Pakistan alliance, welcomed Tuesday's announcement, but said more needed to be done to put the relationship on the right footing.

"If the Pakistani military intelligence services would engage in aggressive efforts to combat terrorism in coordination with coalition forces, it would tremendously enhance our successes in Afghanistan," he said in a statement.

"THREE LITTLE WORDS"

Clinton's careful statement was not the full-throated apology that Pakistan demanded for the deadly November attack, but went further than Washington had before in expressing regret for an incident that NATO described as an unfortunate accident.

"Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives," Clinton said, adding that she had reiterated U.S. regrets for the deaths of the soldiers and offered condolences to their families.

The U.S. administration, seeking to shield President Barack Obama from Republican criticism months before November's presidential election, had resisted an outright apology and political analysts said the moderate expression of regret came following an expensive delay.

"Three little words - 'We are sorry.' If they'd been delivered seven months ago, they might have saved hundreds of millions of dollars," said Jonah Blank, a former aide to Senator John Kerry, who is now at the Rand Corporation.

With a deal reached, both sides were set to benefit.

The agreement appeared to include a commitment by the United States to initially pay Pakistan $1.8 billion in military aid arrears.

But Washington would only have to provide $250 in handling fees for each shipment of NATO supplies going into Afghanistan, the same amount paid on those shipments before November. In recent months, Pakistani officials had demanded fee hikes that some suggested could have amounted to a twenty-fold increase, at about $5,000 per shipment.

Payment of aid arrears could be a windfall for Pakistan's unpopular government, which is under pressure to deal with a struggling economy, chronic power cuts and inflation in the lead-up to parliamentary elections expected early next year.

(Additional reporting by Missy Ryan and Michael Georgy in Islamabad and David Alexander in Washington.; Editing by Warren Strobel and Christopher Wilson)

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Google retiring iGoogle, Google Mini, others for 'spring cleaning'

To everything (Turn, Turn, Turn). There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn). Sometimes those seasons can get a bit convoluted, however -- or such is the premise of Google's "Spring cleaning in summer" post, outlining the end of a handful of tech offerings. Because heck, even a company as big as Google has to pick its battles. On the chopping block this time out are the Google Mini enterprise search system, the Google Talk Chatback widget, Google Video, iGoogle and the Symbian search app. Of course, the company won't be leaving people hanging entirely. Google's pushing users toward existing properties like the Meebo bar for Talk Chatback and YouTube for Google Video (which already stopped taking uploads a while back), the latter of which will be fully integrated into the more popular video offering come August. More info on what all this means in the source link below.

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Video: Gov. Christie on Taxes & Health Care

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Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), answers journalist's question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), answers journalist's question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

FILE - In this March 22, 2007 file picture the magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid), one of the experiments preparing to take data at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particule accelerator is photographed near Genva, Switzerland. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.The results of the experiment will be announced Wendesday July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini,File)

FILE - In this March 30, 2010 file picture a scientist looks at the first collisions pictures at full power at the CMS experience control room at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.The results of the experiment will be announced Wendesday July 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi.File)

Joe Incandela, spokesperson of the CMS experiment, addresses a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle" which is believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Denis Balibouse, Pool)

British physicist Peter Higgs arrives for a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012.The head of the world's biggest atom smasher is claiming discovery of a new particle that he says is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle." Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says "we have a discovery" of a new subatomic particle, a boson, that is "consistent with a Higgs boson." He spoke after two independent teams at CERN said they have both "observed" a new boson that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape. (AP Photo/Denis Balibouse, Pool)

GENEVA (AP) ? To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson ? popularly known as the "God particle" ? that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

"We have now found the missing cornerstone of particle physics," Rolf Heuer, director of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), told scientists.

He said the newly discovered subatomic particle is a boson, but he stopped just shy of claiming outright that it is the Higgs boson itself ? an extremely fine distinction.

"As a layman, I think we did it," he told the elated crowd. "We have a discovery. We have observed a new particle that is consistent with a Higgs boson."

The Higgs boson, which until now has been a theoretical particle, is seen as the key to understanding why matter has mass, which combines with gravity to give an object weight. The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton's discovery of it: Gravity was there all the time before Newton explained it. But now scientists have seen something very much like the Higgs boson and can put that knowledge to further use.

CERN's atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to investigate dark matter, antimatter and the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

Two independent teams at CERN said Wednesday they have both "observed" a new subatomic particle ? a boson. Heuer called it "most probably a Higgs boson, but we have to find out what kind of Higgs boson it is. "

Asked whether the find is a discovery, Heuer answered, "As a layman, I think we have it. But as a scientist, I have to say, "'What do we have?' "

The leaders of the two CERN teams ? Joe Incandela, head of CMS with 2,100 scientists, and Fabiola Gianotti, head of ATLAS with 3,000 scientists ? each presented in complicated scientific terms what was essentially extremely strong evidence of a new particle.

Incandela said it was too soon to say definitively whether it is the "standard model" Higgs that Scottish physicist Peter Higgs and others predicted in the 1960s ? part of a standard model theory of physics involving an energy field where particles interact with a key particle, the Higgs boson.

"The" Higgs or "a'' Higgs ? that was the question Wednesday.

"It is consistent with a Higgs boson as is needed for the standard model," Heuer said. "We can only call it a Higgs boson ? not the Higgs boson."

Higgs, who was invited to be in the audience, said he also could not yet say if it was part of the standard model. But he told the audience the discovery appears to be very close to what he predicted.

"It is an incredible thing that it has happened in my lifetime," he said, calling it a huge achievement for the proton-smashing collider built in a 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel.

The stunning work elicited standing ovations and frequent applause at a packed auditorium in CERN as Gianotti and Incandela each took their turn.

Incandela called it "a Higgs-like particle" and said "we know it must be a boson and it's the heaviest boson ever found."

"Thanks, nature!" Gianotti said to laughs, giving thanks for the discovery.

Later, she told reporters that "the standard model (of physics) is not complete" but that "the dream is to find an ultimate theory that explains everything ? we are far from that."

The phrase "God particle" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman but is used by laymen, not physicists, as an easier way of explaining how the subatomic universe works and got started.

Incandela said the last undiscovered piece of the standard model could be a variant of the Higgs that was predicted or something else that entirely changes the way scientists think about how matter is formed.

"This boson is a very profound thing we have found," he said. "We're reaching into the fabric of the universe in a way we never have done before. We've kind of completed one particle's story ... now, we're way out on the edge of exploration."

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Weight-Loss Drug Wins U.S. Approval

People with a high body mass index who lose weight reduce the risk of health problems such as diabetes or heart disease. Image: Jose Luis Pelaez, Inc./Blend Images/Corbis

From Nature magazine

After 13 suspenseful years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pill that could help to fight the US obesity epidemic.

Belviq (lorcaserin) is no wonder drug, but it can help people to lose about 3?4% of their body weight when combined with a healthy diet and exercise. The drug has been approved for use by obese people with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30, and for a subset of overweight people (with a BMI of more than 27) who have health conditions such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and type 2 diabetes.

?It?s a start in the right direction,? says Abraham Thomas, head of endocrinology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, who chairs the FDA?s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. ?We don?t have the tools to really treat obesity.?

Developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, California, Belviq faced a high bar for safety. In 1997, the weight-loss drug fenfluramine was pulled from the market for causing heart-valve problems. In the past two years, the FDA has rejected a total of?three obesity drugs because of concerns over safety or lack of efficacy. The FDA advisory committee recommended in March that all obesity drugs should go through tests for cardiovascular risks, which would extend already lengthy clinical trials.

The FDA had already rejected Arena?s first application for approval of Belviq in September 2010 because the compound seemed to produce tumours in rats and because the company could not statistically rule out an increase in the risk of heart-valve problems. Similar to fenfluramine, Belviq suppresses food cravings by mimicking the effects of serotonin in the brain, making people eat less and feel full. However, Belviq seems to activate only the serotonin 2C receptor in the brain, not the serotonin 2B receptor that is present in heart muscle.

The FDA?s turnaround this week came after Arena performed echocardiograms in nearly 8,000 people to measure heart-valve function, which revealed that there was no increase in heart-valve abnormalities among those taking the drug. The firm has agreed to run six post-marketing studies, including a long-term cardiovascular trial, and patients with congestive heart failure are advised not to take the drug.

?I felt the benefits outweighed the risk,? says Ida Johnson Spruill, the consumer representative on the FDA advisory committee and a diabetes specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. One-third of adults in the United States are obese, so regulators must balance the risks of a new weight-loss drug with the health consequences of obesity, including rising diabetes rates.

Weighing the benefits
Compared to the placebo, Belviq?s efficacy is about the same as that of orlistat, which was first approved in 1999 and blocks the uptake of fat calories. A 90-kilogram patient on Belviq loses, on average, an extra 3 kilograms (6?7 pounds) or so after a year. ?The good minimum weight loss would be in the 10?15-pound range,? notes endocrinologist Peter Savage of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, ?That doesn?t mean that people who lose 5?8 pounds don?t do well.?

It would also be a mistake to reject a drug that works well for a subset of the patient population, says Thomas. About 20% of people on the drug lost 10% or more of their body weight. The FDA recommends that patients who have not lost 5% of body weight by week 12 stop taking the drug.

Belviq has also shown promise for people with type 2 diabetes, who were twice as likely to keep their blood sugars under control than those on the placebo.

?No medication works by itself,? says Patrick O?Neil, a clinical psychologist at the Medical University of South Carolina and lead author of the diabetes study. ?It?s not a replacement for diet, exercise, and lifestyle modification, but it can augment such programmes.?

This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on July 2, 2012.

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Russian PM visits islands claimed by Japan

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