Republican Convention schedule day by day

Officials with the Republican National Convention have cut virtually all of the activities scheduled for Monday and compressed what was to be a four-day convention to three days, running Tuesday through Thursday. A look at the revised schedule (all times are EDT):

MONDAY

? 2 p.m.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will call the convention to order and start a "debt clock," before announcing a recess.

TUESDAY

? 2 p.m.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

Color Guard Knights of Columbus

Pledge of Allegiance by former Govs. Tim Babcock of Montana, and Tom Hogan of Florida

National Anthem sung by Philip Alongi

Invocation by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Opening procedural steps, appointment of convention committees

Welcoming remarks, and House and Senate candidates and RNC auxiliaries

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

RNC Co-Chairman Sharon Day

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, D-Fla.

William Harris, convention chief executive officer

Al Austin, chairman of Tampa Bay host committee

Republican congressional candidates

State Del. Barbara Comstock, R-Va.

Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark.

Republican Senate candidates

Republican National Committee auxiliaries

Consideration of convention committee reports

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

Mike Duncan, chairman, Committee on Credentials

Zoraida Fonalledas, chairwoman, Committee on Permanent Organization

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, convention permanent chairman

Official Convention Photograph

Committee on Rules Chairman John Sununu

Committee on Resolutions Chairman Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va.

Committee on Resolutions Co-Chairman Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.

Committee on Resolutions Co-Chairman Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

Roll call for nomination of president of the United States

Roll call for nomination of vice president of the United States

? 6:40 p.m.

Recess

? 7 p.m.

Reconvene

Remarks by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

Remarks by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

Video and remarks by Utah congressional candidate and Mayor Mia Love, R-Saratoga Spring.

Remarks by Janine Turner

Remarks by former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa.

Remarks by Host, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.

? 8 p.m.

Remarks by U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., accompanied by Jack Gilchrist

Remarks by Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio

Remarks by Gov. Mary Fallin, R-Okla.

Remarks by Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., accompanied by Bev Gray

Remarks by Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.

? 9 p.m.

Remarks by Gov. Brian Sandoval, R-Nev.

Remarks by Sher Valenzuela

Remarks by Republican Senate candidate Ted Cruz of Texas

Remarks by Artur Davis

Remarks by Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C.

? 10 p.m.

Remarks by Luce' Vela Fortu?o

Remarks by Ann Romney

Remarks by Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.

Benediction by Sammy Rodriguez

Adjournment

WEDNESDAY

? 7 p.m.

Call to order

Introduction of Colors by Amputee Veterans of America Support Team

Pledge of Allegiance by Brig. Gen. Patrick E. Rea, U.S. Army (Ret.)

National Anthem sung by Ayla Brown

Invocation by Ishwar Singh

Ron Paul video

Remarks by Senate Republican leader and Convention Temporary Chairman Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Remarks by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Remarks by Christopher Devlin-Young and Jeanine McDonnell

? 8 p.m.

Remarks by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Remarks by Attorney General Pam Bondi, R-Fla., Attorney General Sam Olens, R-Ga.

Remarks by Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.

Remarks by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.

Remarks by Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio

? 9 p.m.

Remarks by Gov. Luis Fortu?o, R-Puerto Rico

Remarks by former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.

Bush 41, 43 film

Remarks by former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.

? 10 p.m.

Remarks by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Remarks by Gov. Susana Martinez, R-N.M.

Remarks by vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

Benediction by Archbishop Demetrios

Adjournment

THURSDAY

? 7 p.m.

Call to order

Introduction of Colors US Central Command Joint Forces Color Guard Team

Pledge of Allegiance by Dylan Nonaka

National Anthem sung by SEVEN

Invocation by Ken and Priscilla Hutchins

Remarks by Republican Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.

Reagan Legacy Video

Remarks by former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and wife Callista Gingrich

Remarks by Craig Romney

? 8 p.m.

Remarks by former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla.

Remarks by Bob White, chairman of Romney for President campaign

Remarks by Grant Bennett

Remarks by Tom Stemberg

? 9 p.m.

Remarks by former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, R-Mass.

Remarks by Jane Edmonds, former Massachusetts secretary of workforce

Remarks by Olympians Michael Eruzione, Derek Parra and Kim Rhode

? 10 p.m.

Remarks by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Remarks by presidential nominee Mitt Romney

Benediction by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, declares convention end

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republican-convention-schedule-day-day-232937425.html

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Justice Dept to order changes in Verizon deals

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department announced Thursday it will order changes to protect consumers in deals between Verizon and four of the nation's largest cable companies.

If left unchanged, the department says, the agreements would harm competition by reducing incentives to compete ? resulting in higher prices and lower quality for the public.

Late last year, Verizon Wireless announced deals to buy spectrum from Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Bright House Networks and Cox Communications. The deals call for the companies to market each other's products in their stores.

The Justice Department says it will limit the scope and duration of the agreements. While the government will allow Verizon's proposed acquisition of spectrum from the cable companies to go forward, it says the acquisition will be contingent on the purchase of a significant portion of that spectrum by a competitor, T-Mobile USA.

The government's announcement follows a coordinated investigation with the Federal Communications Commission and assistance from the New York state attorney general's office.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/justice-dept-order-changes-verizon-deals-143614737.html

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Siri, meet Nina, Nuance's new virtual customer service assistant SDK for iOS

Nuance has just announced Nina, a new virtual customer service assistant SDK (software developers kit) for iOS and Android. Nuance, which is widely believed to power Apple's Siri voice recognition, is aiming the SDK at iPhone and iPad developers who want to quickly and easily add voice assistance to their App Store apps. And while Siri understands what you're saying and the context in which you're saying it,Nuance claims Nina uses voice biometrics to understand just who exactly is doing the talking. Robert Weideman, executive vice president and general manager of the Nuance Enterprise Division, said in their press release:

Nina is a watershed innovation for the automated customer service industry, not only because it brings the virtual assistant directly into an app, but because it raises the bar through its level of interactive dialog and language understanding. Nina provides our customers a major competitive differentiator by enabling more successful self-service through their mobile apps. We are especially pleased to further our partnership with USAA, a company known for its innovation and approach to delivering a premier mobile customer service experience to its members.

USAA, a financial services company with a US military focus, is piloting the system this August and intends to fully roll it out early next year.

Nina is comprised of a personal assistant persona, the SDK proper, and the backend cloud component. It's is available to developers now in US, UK, and Australian English, with additional languages slated for later this year.

By contrast, Apple does not supply iOS or Mac developers with Siri API in the iOS SDK, which means that, while any app with a keyboard can tap into the system-wide Dictation speech-to-text functionality, they can't hook into Siri's response system. In other words, they can't let Siri see into their app or their service and return their results. No asking your banking app what your balance is, for example. Not with Siri. Which is why developers might find Nina attractive.

Aside from Google, who hired one of Nuance's founders and created their own implementation, Nuance has a virtual lock on voice recognition technology. As devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Mac move towards more natural language input methods, the ability to understand voice becomes table stakes. Since most companies have to license that from Nuance, and they all end up using the same engine, the competitive advantage shifts to natural language parsing and response -- understanding not only what a person is saying, but what it means and how to act on it.

Apple bought Siri in part because of their excellent, context aware parsing technology. As Nuance provides tools like Nina, and as competitors like Samsung bring similar services like S Voice to market, parsing might likewise become table stakes.

That leaves packaging and services, which is likely why Apple spent so much time on Siri's Pixar-like personality, and on and the services they integrated to support it -- results from Yelp, Yahoo!, Wolfram|Alpha, and other more. And why Apple is adding sports, movies, turn-by-turn navigation, and additional services to Siri as part of iOS 6.

Is voice ID strong enough security for things like accessing banking details, however? "My voice is my passport" has been the stuff of movies for years. But it's also been spoofed in those same movies for years...

Either way, Nina looks to fill a void Apple's either not ready to, or not interested in. Would you want Nina in any of your apps? Which ones?

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