RIM finally gets some good news, court rules it can keep using BBM name

Between delays, executive defections and falling market share the news lately hasn't been rosy for RIM, but today it got at least one reprieve as a Federal Court in Canada ruled its use of the acronym BBM did not infringe another company's trademark. The lawsuit was filed last December by BBM Canada, a broadcast industry group that owns a trademark on the name but because they are in different types of businesses the court decided RIMs usage was acceptable. According to The Globe and Mail BBM Canada CEO Jim MacLeod has not decided whether or not to appeal the ruling, but we're sure the folks from Waterloo will take a win for now. It already had to switch the name of its new OS from BBX to BlackBerry 10 after losing a trademark ruling there and more bad news is expected in its next quarterly earnings report.

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Antonio Silva ?could not see a thing? in UFC 146 loss to Cain Velasquez

Antonio Silva sustained a cut in his loss to Cain Velasquez that gushed a whole lot of blood. Much of that blood went into his eyes, so it's not surprising that Silva said he couldn't see a thing in the fight.

"One of the main reasons I got defeated was that. I couldn't see a thing, there was a lot of blood and my eyes were burning. I tried to defend myself and not get hit at, shaking my head to see if I could get rid of that blood, but there was no way around it. From that moment on my corner was my eyes."

It's bad enough to not be able to see. Can you imagine not being able to see and having Velasquez repeatedly hit you? Silva tweeted that the cut required 13 stitches.

Not surprisingly, he received a medical suspension after the bout. He is out of action until July 23, possibly up to November if his nose is broken. Both possibly out of action until November, Velasquez and Jamie Varner received the longest suspensions because of hand issues.

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Discount Golf Shoes: A-Game Golf

A-Game Golf Shoes are a golf shoes manufacturer located out of the great sin city, Las Vegas. Ed Coleman founded the company back in 2006 and A-Game Golf has been on a mission ever since. Striving for excellence in the golf world, Ed has innovated and patented a few golf technologies that are revolutionizing the game of golf in Las Vegas.

A-Game is still relatively local, although Ed does go to other cities promoting his new company; their local Las Vegas customer base is growing stronger by the day. What makes A-Game such a great company is their stride for excellence. A-Game Golf has a high quality product manufactured with the best materials that are durable and comfortable.

The new technology that is taking Las Vegas by storm is the new Brisole Technology.

A-game identified a problem in golfers having to break concentration frequently, to return back to their respected golf bags just to clean the face of their golf clubs. What Brisole Technology allows golfers to do is approach the ball where ever it may lay, in the rough or the fairway, swipe the face of their golf club with the outer sole of their golf shoe, set and swing at will. This gives golfers the ability to let the pin remain at the focal point of attention and swing, without ever breaking concentration.

Brisole Technology is featured on a long list of their shoes including the Venom, Regal, the Icon and many more. Brisole Technology is not incorporated into the designs of any ladies golf shoes, but A-Game Golf never forgets about the ladies. A-Game Golf Shoes has created chameleon technology for the women, which allots girls to swap out a variety of color swatches in their golf shoes to match the outfit for the day. The Chameleon Ladies Golf Shoes includes five different colors: Blue, Green, Red, Pink and Brown.

The A-game Golf Company is still in the infancy stage of their development. A-Game has been hit by a slew of mistakes one after another, in the past few months on the manufacturing side of the process. I have heard of a customer ordering a pair of the new A-game Slip On Golf Shoes, just to receive the product he ordered and coming to find his foot does not fit in the opening where he would slip his foot in. He promptly reordered and the company reimbursed him and sent out a new pair of shoes for him with a wider gap which surely would fit him.

Although the problem was solved and token care of promptly, it still took extra time for the customer to hit the links in his brand new shoes. So although they have a great discount price on golf shoes compared to the competition, they are still fixing the problems as they go. If you are willing to take the risk of having to wait a month or two to receive the product you ordered, A-game Golf Shoes are a high quality product perfect for the avid golfer.

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US denies name change for disputed sweetener

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Fever in pregnancy linked to autism

Women who run a high temperature during gestation may double risk of having an autistic child

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Spiking a fever in pregnancy may contribute to autism risk in the offspring. Researchers report that women who run a high temperature while pregnant ? and don?t treat it ? appear twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who don?t report any untreated fevers.

Other studies have suggested a link between infectious diseases during gestation and a heightened risk of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder. But the new study didn?t find a specific connection between influenza and the behavioral disorders, the researchers report in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

?I think this is the largest and most careful study that?s been done on the topic of fever and influenza in autism development,? says Paul Patterson, a developmental neurobiologist at Caltech, who wasn?t part of this study.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis identified 538 children with an autism spectrum disorder, 162 others with developmental delays and 421 who were developing without any apparent problems. The children?s mothers provided health information on their pregnancies. After accounting for differences in race, child?s age, insurance, smoking, mother?s education and residence at the time of birth, the scientists found that women who had suffered an uncontrolled fever during pregnancy were roughly twice as likely to have an autistic child as mothers with no untreated fevers. Fever in gestation was also associated with a more than doubled risk of developmental delays, report the researchers, who recently also linked autism risk with obesity in pregnancy (SN: 5/19/12, p. 16).

??I think pregnancy is the key for autism,? Patterson says. Several other research groups have also zeroed in on gestation as a critical time, he notes.

Inflammation accompanies fever in the body, and inflammatory proteins called cytokines can pass through the placenta into the fetus during pregnancy, says study coauthor Ousseny Zerbo, an epidemiologist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research in Oakland, who worked on the study while at UC Davis. This transfer would pose a risk if it alters brain development in the fetus at a crucial time, he says. ?Elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines [in utero] lead to behavioral problems in animals,? he says.

What?s more, Patterson says, the heat of fever can overactivate neurons, inducing them to fire more and damage fetal brain growth, tests in animals show.?

Patterson cautions that while the new study is better than previous work on fever and autism, much of the data are based on the mothers? memories of events that occurred years earlier. ?Recall bias is always an issue in this area,? he says. ?If you have an autistic child, you?re always searching for why that happened.?
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Spain bond yields rise as minister warns on euro

A miner throws a firecracker at the Industry Ministry during a demonstration to protest against cuts in Madrid, Thursday, May 31, 2012. Miners coming from all around Spain demonstrate in Madrid amid fear on losing their jobs. Spain is moving closer to the financial tipping-point that could force it to ask for a bailout as the country's borrowing costs neared unsustainable levels Wednesday. The country's economic fortunes have gone from boom to bust over the past decade.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A miner throws a firecracker at the Industry Ministry during a demonstration to protest against cuts in Madrid, Thursday, May 31, 2012. Miners coming from all around Spain demonstrate in Madrid amid fear on losing their jobs. Spain is moving closer to the financial tipping-point that could force it to ask for a bailout as the country's borrowing costs neared unsustainable levels Wednesday. The country's economic fortunes have gone from boom to bust over the past decade.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

A man rummages through a recycling trash container in front of the Bankia bank headquarters in Madrid, Thursday May 31, 2012. The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs. A European Commission spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj, told Spanish National Radio that the conservative government in Madrid needed to spell out quickly how it plans to finance the recapitalization of troubled lender Bankia SA and whether there are other banks burdened by toxic real estate assets that might need assistance. (AP Photo/Paul White)

A woman leaves a bank as a piece of cardboard holds on the entrance reading, ''Closed by Cynicism'' during a march against cutback plans by Spain's government in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, May 31, 2012. The European Union urged Spain Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and soaring borrowing costs. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

People protest in front a bank during the protest against cutback plans by Spain's government in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, May 31, 2012. The European Union urged Spain Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and soaring borrowing costs. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

MADRID (AP) ? Spain saw its bond yields shoot up again on Friday after the country's economy minister warned that the future of the euro will be determined in the next few weeks and will depend on the stability of Spain and Italy.

The interest rate on 10-year Spanish bonds stood rose 0.13 percentage points to 6.58 percent in early trading. The rate was more than 5.4 percentage points higher than the equivalent German one, which is considered a safe haven for investors.

Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said in a speech Thursday evening that Spain and Europe were at a crossroads as speculation mounts over whether the country will need a bailout. The danger is that Spain's ?1 trillion ($1.24 trillion) economy is far bigger than those of already bailed-out Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined.

Spain's banking sector is laden with soured investments on real estate and the government needs ?19 billion to rescue just one lender, Bankia SA, at a time of recession and crushing unemployment of 24.4 percent.

"I don't know if we are on the edge of a cliff, but we are in a very, very difficult position," de Guindos said Thursday evening in a speech to business leaders in Sitges, a resort town near Barcelona. "The future of the euro is going to play out in the next few weeks in Spain and Italy."

Bond yields ? a measure of investor confidence in a country's debt ? were also very high in Italy, which has big debts and is in recession. Its 10-year bond yield rose to 5.93 percent on Friday on fears that it could be affected by the instability of Spain.

UBS Investment Research said there is no a consensus that the Spanish banking sector in general needs a big recapitalization. It estimated the sector needs between ?80 billion and ?100 billion in new funds.

"The Spanish State should be able to sustain the recapitalization costs without losing control of its finances," UBS analysts said in a note to clients. "We recognize however that financing this intervention in current market conditions will be difficult."

De Guindos supported the recent proposal by the European Commission for a centralized banking authority with the financial capacity to to inject capital directly into troubled banks without having to go through governments first.

He also said Europe needs a regional bank deposit insurance plan like the United States has and a "banking union" to coordinate regulation among countries.

German, however, opposes the idea of a centralized authority that can spend money ? much of which Berlin supplies ? directly on shaky banks.

"We don't see now how such ideas are supposed to help with the short-term management of the current questions," said German Finance Ministry spokesman Johannes Blankenheim. "The fiscal compact is the beginning of the fiscal union and, as a perspective, one can imagine stronger (banking) supervision."

Germany did indicate, however, that it backs the European Commission's proposal to give Spain more time to reduce its deficit. It stood at 8.9 percent of GDP last year, and the goal is to get it down to 5.3 percent by the end of 2012.

Blankenheim noted that Spain has stated its intention of cutting the deficit to 3 percent by next year, "but we also see that, because of unfavorable economic developments, it could be difficult to reach these targets."

"Spain is fulfilling its commitments in the deficit proceedings and so there is no reason to escalate the proceedings against Spain," Blankenheim told reporters in Berlin. "The Spanish government is tackling with determination the necessary reform measures, and the German government is convinced that this determination will be mirrored on the markets."

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Geir Moulson contributed from Berlin.

Associated Press

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Industry News Daily ? Thursday, May 31, 2012 | TrueCar Blog

TrueCar.com?s daily industry news summary for Thursday, May 31, shares the most important news from across the automotive industry.

TrueCar in the News

Ford says it boosted incentives in May after April cut ? BusinessWeek
Toyota Tsunami Recovery to be seen in 93% US sales gain ? Bloomberg
Toyota Quality perception rebounds; GM?s Chevy declines ? Bloomberg
Honda tops volume brands in perceived quality; Ford, Hyundai improve most ? Auto News
Leading automakers seen delivering strong May 2012 sales ? Seeking Alpha
SUVs still a force, despite gas prices ? Press-Enterprise
Nissan poised to sell green-vehicle credits ? The Japan Times

TrueCar Racing
Indy 500 rookie Katherine Legge on what it?s like to be a woman in a male-dominated sport ? CNN
IndyCar: Dragon to split single entry for Bourdais and Legge ? Auto Racing
IndyCar: Bourdais, Legge will switch off for Dragon Racing ? IndyStar
Dragon to scale back to one full-time entry ? Racer
Bourdais and Legge to split duty on IndyCar road courses and ovals ? AutoWeek

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Ford, Hyundai Show Long-Term Improvement in Perceived Quality ? ALG

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Automotive News

Toyota Prius C denied Consumer Reports recommendation

? Toyota?s Prius C is the cheapest hybrid vehicle ? CR has denied a recommendation, because it said the hatchback offers a harsh and noisy ride
? Starts at $18,950 and scored a 53 out of 100, one point below its main competitor
? The C offers excellent fuel economy of 43 miles per gallon and 37 city

Automotive News

Volkswagen eyes mid-sized SUV for US market

? Volkswagen plans to add a midsize SUV to its lineup ? it would be between the Tiguan and Touareg
? Automaker is counting on revamped versions of the Passat, Beetle, and Jetta that have been introduced since 2010 to reach more than 500,000 vehicles this year
? The two SUV?s have a more than $20,000 gap in pricing
? The Chattanooga plant will add 1,000 workers this year to meet demand for the Passat

?Automotive News

Ford moves ahead with Escape launch despite hail damage to 3,500 units

? A hailstorm in Louisville, Ky, damaged thousands of new 2013 Ford Escapes, but the incident won?t delay the launch of the all-new crossover
? The affected SUVs will not be sold to consumers ? they haven?t decided what to do with them

Detroit Free Press

US market share: as new car sales keep rising, nearly all competitors lifted

? GM and Ford would rather be consistently profitable than extra popular by boosting sales through incentives
? Volkswagen, by lowering prices and making deals has increased its market share through April by about 20% compared to last year
? At Ford, stronger than expected sales are straining the company?s planned production capacity ? they are selling all vehicles they make
? Ford has increased its production, but it takes time
? GM is adding new products such as the Cadillac ATS, Chevy Malibu, and Impala ? GM?s market share has slipped to 17.7% through the first four months of this year
? The Chevrolet Sonic is selling at an average price of about $1,000 higher than its competitors
? Volkswagen wants to capture 6% of market share by 2018, it currently is around 2.3%

Detroit Free Press

Ford and VW expect to report strong vehicle sales for May

? Ford revised its 2012 US sales forecast to be as high as 15 million
? Volkswagen is more modest around 13.9 m
? Less than 10% of VW sales has gone to rental companies and other fleet
? Ford will be making an additional 400,000 vehicles a year and will triple sales of fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines
? Compact and subcompact cars now represent about 24% of total sales

Detroit News

VW to boost US presence

? VW?s challenge is to become top of mind for US consumers
? Consumers familiar with Volkswagen are still opting for showrooms of Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and Hyundai
? VW is ramping up its presence at Chattanooga Tennessee where it makes the Passat
? It?s paying attention to US consumer preferences for features including listing phone numbers on the screen alphabetically by first name instead of surname, changing the design of theseat recliners, and adjusting air conditioning
? VW aims to sell 10 million units annually by 2018, up from 8.27 million last year

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