Samsung announces breakthrough in 5G that can download in a speed of 1GB/sec

Samsung has developed 'ultra-high speed' fifth-generation technology that could allow users to download an entire Movie in a second, the electronics giant has said.The South Korean firm has successfully tested new equipment which it hopes will transmit data several hundred times faster than existing 4G networks.

It claims subscribers could use the technology to download high-quality digital films 'practically without limitation' and watch 3D movies or stream high-definition programmes in real-time.

Samsung believes its new transceiver is the world’s first device capable of providing 'ubiquitous' 5G broadband - and hopes to bring the service to customers by 2020.It announced the development after conducting a test where data was transmitted at speeds of more than one gigabit per second over a distance of up to two kilometres.

Customers using 4G services - currently provided in the UK by EE - access average speeds of between eight and 12 megabits per second (Mbps).

'The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and will provide data transmission up to several hundred times faster than current 4G networks,' Samsung said in a blog post.The company believes the equipment could provide a solution to recent surges in wireless internet usage.

It added: 'Samsung’s new technology will allow users to transmit massive data files including high-quality digital movies practically without limitation.

'As a result, subscribers will be able to enjoy a wide range of services such as 3D movies and games, real-time streaming of ultra high-definition (UHD) content, and remote medical services.'

In the blog post, Samsung claims its technology uses high-frequency wavebands which were previously deemed unsuitable for mobile networks.

It said: 'The implementation of a high-speed 5G cellular network requires a broad band of frequencies, much like an increased water flow requires a wider pipe.

'While it was a recognised option, it has been long believed that the millimetre-wave bands had limitations in transmitting data over long distances due to its unfavourable propagation characteristics.

'However, Samsung’s new adaptive array transceiver technology has proved itself as a successful solution.

'It transmits data in the millimetre-wave band at a frequency of 28 GHz at a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps to a distance of up to two kilometers.'

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Micro Blogging Site Twitter turns seven!

The micro-blogging site Twitter turned seven today. Seven years ago, on March 21, 2006, the first official tweet was sent out by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter. The public launch of the micro -blogging site was done on July 15, 2006. The company confirmed that it has over 200 million users around the world with 400 million tweets being sent out on a daily basis.

Here is an excerpt from the company's official blog post

There's an old English saying, "Keep a thing seven years, and you'll always find a use for it. " Today is Twitter’s 7th birthday, which we observe on the day @jack first tweeted. Since then, we've seen breathtaking velocity in Twitter's growth, which is due entirely to your many uses of it. We're gratified that so many millions of you have made Twitter yours.

It's thanks to all of you that our open, real-time platform is thriving: we have well over 200 million active users creating over 400 million Tweets each day. The steep trajectory of Twitter's momentum is something @jack, @ev and @biz only dreamed about back in 2006.

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Send Free SMS all Over the world for Free with out registration

Dear readers yours favourite technology portal anantatech.blogspot.com is bringing you the way to send free sms all over the world with out registration. though there are several ways to send free sms all over the world they all need registration and later they demand some cash with you to give full service. 

Today I am sharing the website from which you can send free SMS to worldwide without registration. I have checked it and its 100% working.The website is aFreeSms.com is online International Free Text Message provider (Free SMS Service) which allows you to send Unlimited Free SMS anywhere in the world.

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Samsung to launch a Facebook-like Social network next year

Are you fed of with facebook , twitter or Google ? If yes then it can be a good News for you all. After Google and Microsoft’s venture into social networking space, now Samsung seems to be working on a social networking service.

A recent report from The Korean Times, states that Samsung Electronics is expected to launch a Facebook-like social networking site by early next year.

The new social network according to the reports would be accessible on a wide range of devices, including laptops, cameras, televisions etc. To allow users to access the social networking service from any device and at any time, Samsung also plans to integrate the service with Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

When asked about the rumors of the upcoming social network, Samsung claimed that the company is just launching an update for Family Story – a social networking service focused on photo sharing, and storing families’ special moments, accessible on a limited number of Samsung smartphones and Web-connected televisions, since February 2012.

“By the end of the year, we will have a polished and finished version of Family Story that will be offered first to Samsung device users for free. The new service will become available in the first quarter of next year at the earliest. The eventual goal is to expand our social media service across different devices from different companies across different mobile platforms. That includes cameras, televisions and blue-ray players,”Samsung stated.

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How Social Media helps in boosting search engine rankings of your Blog?

The search engine ranking of your website plays an important role in attracting more visitors to the site, and helping your brand gain more visibility online. One way of making your website more search-engine friendly, is by ensuring that the website content is SEO optimized.

A new infographic by TastyPlacement, however, points out that ranking high on Google, is not just about SEO, it’s about social media too.

TastyPlacement created six websites in six similarly-sized UScities, to conduct a study to analyze the relationship between a certain social media activity and the organic search engine rankings.

The study involved carrying a particular social media marketing activity and measuring the average change in the search engine ranking position, for five of the sites, after a period of one month. The sixth site was left as-is for a control test.

From the study results, social media marketing was found to help boost the search engine rankings in the following ways:

When a target website was promoted via social media connections, and 100 followers were secured to a linked Google+ business page, the website’s search engine position rose by 14.63

When a target website was promoted via social media connections, and 300 Google +1 votes were secured to that target website, its search engine position rose by 9.44

When a target website was promoted via social media connections, and 70 Facebook shares were secured for the target website, and Facebook “likes” to a linked Facebook business pagewere increased by 50, the search engine position of the target website rose by 6.9.

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Twitter blocked in Pakistan over contentious material

Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials.

The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication’s Authority. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.

Yaseen said Facebook agreed to address Pakistan’s concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same.

”We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it,” said Yaseen.

Instructions to block the site came from Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology, said Yaseen.

”The ministry officials are still trying to make them (Twitter) agree, and once they remove that stuff, the site will be unblocked,” said Yaseen.
Officials from Twitter and Facebook were not immediately available for comment.

A top court in Pakistanordered a ban on Facebook in 2010 amid anger over a similar competition. The ban was lifted about two weeks later, after Facebook blocked the particular page in Pakistan.

The Pakistani government said at the time that it would continue to monitor other major websites for anti-Islamic links and content.

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Mark Zuckerberg Tie knot with Priscilla Chan

Facebook owner and the world nineteenth richest man Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Saturday.
The Facebook CEO, whose company went public on Friday, has also updated his status to “married.”

Mark Zuckerberg with his Wife

The fewer than 100 celebrants that gathered in Zuckerberg’s backyard believed it was a party for Chan, who graduated from the Universityof California, San Francisco’s medical school on Monday.
Instead, they were surprised to find it was a wedding for the couple who met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years.
A Facebook spokeswoman said Zuckerberg designed the ring himself, and that it featured “a very simple ruby.”

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Soon, typing style to become 'digital fingerprint'

There are lots of new techniques coming on the way and its really hard to be updated with every new techniques. New discovery in the technology is that Typing styles can now be adapted to verify the owner of the computer. Typing styles are as unique as fingerprints and could soon be used to verify the identity of computer users, according to a new study. The Queensland University of Technology's Eesa Al Solami has developed an algorithmic system to analyse typists' keystroke dynamics, the Daily Telegraph reported.

 The unique striking pattern will allow computers to lock down sensitive information in the case of an unauthorized user.

Even though the system is in its early stages, Solami doesn't believe it will render internet username and password useless.
"You need a username and password but a username and password cannot protect your computer (once you're logged in),' he said.

"My actual approach is to extract the behaviour of users and see if we can distinguish different users during one session," he added.

The researcher claimed that the system would be valuable to industries that collect large volumes of personal information such as banks and the armed forces and it could be extended to mobile phones and tablets.

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Twitter's new email digest feature to summarise top stories, tweets for users

Micro blogging site Twitter has planned to roll out a new 'email digest' that would summarise top stories and tweets in users' networks. According to Othman Laraki, Twitter's growth and international director, the new weekly summary feature, which was announced on the company's blog Monday, is already available to some users.
 "This summary features the most relevant tweets and stories shared by the people you're connected to on Twitter," Laraki said in the blog post.
According to The Los Angeles Times, the new feature is described as being similar to Twitter's 'Discover' tab, which the social network redesigned earlier this month.
 The feature comes just four months after Twitter acquired Canadian start-up Summify, which is a service that sends users emails summarizing the top stories from their Twitter and Facebook networks as well as other services, such as Google Reader.

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Facebook raises IPO price range to USD 34 to USD 38 per share

Social networking giant Facebook has raised the price range for its Initial Public Offering to 34-38 dollars per share, according to a report. The firm had earlier set the price range at 28 to 35 dollars a share.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a source familiar with the matter, as saying that the spike in price was due to overwhelming demand by investors on the road show.

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 According to the source, the California-based firm's initial price range put Facebook's valuation at 77 billion to 96 billion dollars, but that rises to 93 billion to 104 billion dollars under the new price range.
 Facebook will pick a final price within the new range and file its final IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday evening, before its first day of trading Friday. 

 

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Now, Google brings instant answers to search results

Google will now give instant answers to your queries right on its search results page. The Internet search giant has built up an 'encyclopedia' of 200 million people, places and products, and will deliver that information through Search.

For example, type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of the Titanic star's films, and suggested related searches.

 According to The Daily Mail, Google, and the Microsoft-ran competitor Bing, have both previously answered results in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) before, such as when searching for 'weather' or for football results.
But this is the most graphical and fully-fledged attempt by Google yet to place answers on the search engine, the report said.
Google has quietly collected information on 200 million 'entities' - people, places, products.
The new version of search will feed users information about the 'entity' they are searching for. 

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'Twitter will last longer & become more valuable than Facebook', says Ad.expert

Micro blogging site Twitter is expected to last longer and become more valuable than social networking giant Facebook, one of the UK's leading ad men has claimed. Ad firm Ogilvy and Mather's vice-chairman Rory Sutherland, who helped to turn Microsoft into a major consumer brand in the Eighties, said although Facebook might be the most popular social network at the moment, it could struggle to maintain that position in the future.
"I can see Facebook being superseded more easily than Twitter being superseded," The Telegraph quoted Sutherland, as saying.

Facebook Vs Twitter 

 "As a forum for outbursts, Twitter's [character] limit, its haiku element is very appealing. I wouldn't bet against it being more valuable [than Facebook] in the long term," he added.

Sutherland's remarks come as Facebook is gearing up for the largest initial public offering the technology sector has ever seen.

Twitter is growing rapidly in metropolitan areas, but has struggled to make money out of advertising.

Sutherland, however, believes that Twitter's 'potential for making money is higher than anyone realises'.What do our Readers think please post your Comments

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Google's driverless car now can be seen in Nevada

The Google car that can drive on it own is now eligible to ride on the streets of American State Nevada.

Technically speaking, what this means is that the car - yes, the car itself - has been issued its own driver license. In other words, the state of Nevada feels the inner workings of Google's smart vehicle contain the same capacity of driving ability and human judgment as any physical person sitting behind the wheel.

The car in question is a Prius, and has been loaded with a very special software package originally designed by Google for use in and around the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

But it is in Nevada where Google has been spending most of its time with the contraption as of late, since that's the state that it has been able to sweet talk into actually making it legal to take on the streets.

The software within the car uses all sorts of tools, ranging from a set of short-range radar sensors and video cameras to a persistent Internet connection that constantly scans Google Maps for road and traffic updates.

While obviously it is still a highly focused and experimental project, it could be the beginning of a ripple effect on the entire automotive industry.

Of course, Google hasn't really put the car through its full paces just yet. When it goes for a test drive, the car always has trained employees inside, who are able to override the autopilot mechanism at a moment's notice.

Interestingly enough, though, the only time that the driverless car has been in an accident is when it was being driven in manual override mode. It has never shown any safety problems when in its driverless state.

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Facebook bought social location application Glancee after Instagram

Facebook has made its second major acquisition this year after buying social location application Glancee.

The app - dubbed a 'friendly stalking' application - locates nearby Facebook (and, as of now, Twitter) users with similar interests to be your 'friends', located via their phones. 

Along with its purchase of Instagram for $1 billion, it's an indication that Facebook is keen to beef up its expertise in mobile technology - both apps are focused on phones and tablets, rather than desktop PCs.

Glancee Aplication

For an undisclosed sum Facebook, took ownership of all of Glancee’s technology and its staff in its latest attempt to crack location based services.

Glancee quietly tracks users’ locations and suggests people nearby who have similar interests by comparing their profiles on Twitter and Facebook.

It is different from Foursquare because users do not have to check in and works in the background until it finds a good match nearby.

Users can then ask to become ‘favourites’ with people they would like to know, a process that has been dubbed ‘friendly stalking’.

Glancee generated a significant amount of buzz at the SXSW festival this year and appears to have impresed Facebook more than Highlight, a similar location sharing app.

The difference with Highlight is that it shows the exact location of other users on a map, whereas Glancee just tells you they are nearby.

Experts said that the sale was not another Instagram which had 35million users and was a potential threat to Facebook.

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Glanceee only has been downloaded 30,000 times and 20,000 users using it in the background on their iPhone.

But Facebook is keen to make it a success after its similar ‘Places’ app failed miserably.
It also bought Gowalla, which again carried out a similar function - but shut it down months later.

Facebook’s move was greeted with some scepticism on some technology websites and writing on Venturebeat Jolie O'Dell said it was bad for Glancee users.

She said: ‘Unfortunately for the app’s users, this was a talent grab.

‘It looks like Facebook is shutting Glancee down; users are being offered the chance to download their data, and the app has been yanked from the App Store and Google Play’s Android apps section’.

In a statement Facebook said it was ‘thrilled’ to acquire Glancee.

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'Tweets in Space' plans sending Twitter messages to habitable planet

Twitter users across the world may be able to find followers 22 light-years away - thanks to 'Tweets in Space', an ultramodern project that hopes to transmit 140-character texts to a potentially habitable planet this fall. During a live performance set for September 21 at the Albuquerque Balloon Museum, collaborators Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern plan to beam tweets carrying the hashtag #tweetsinspace all the way to GJ667Cc, New York Daily News reported.
Scientists have asserted that the recently discovered planet in other star  has the potential to support some form of life.

'We look at it from the standpoint of democratizing deep space transmissions,' Kildall said.
'All tweets sent during the performance, whether you're at the event or at home on your computer, will be transmitted.'
'We thought it would be worthwhile to show the sea change in how information is broadcast in our culture.'
 Kildall and Stern hope to send out their interplanetary Twitter feed via a high-powered radio transmitter. They hope to pay for the gear with donations they collect through the fundraising website rockethub.com.
 Thus far, they have amassed almost 1,600 dollars of the 8,500 dollars they insist they will need to beam the messages a distance of five light-years.
 There hope is that five light years is far enough into space for any ET's on GJ667Cc who might be tuning in to pick up the signal.

'We're making some assumptions about their listening technology,' Stern said.

'We're assuming a similar intelligence to our own can pick out patterns,' Stern added.

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Companies struggle to correct faulty Wikipedia entries

What do you usually do to find information about something you don’t know? Almost all who have a bit knowledge about internet will find all those information from wikipedia.  If you do so don’t really trust on the information provided in wikepedia. Recent research has suggested that 6 out of 10 informations given in wikepedia contain some errors. Well, bang goes the lazy journalist's version of research: a survey has found that a whacking 60 percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors.

Some have been very entertaining indeed: the edit which depicted Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a devil, for example, or the one which - some would say accurately - described Bernie Madoff as 'a very clever asshole who stole shitloads of money'.

But, says the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), which has carried out a survey of 1,284 public relations professionals; it's making their lives very difficult.

When respondents tried to engage editors through Wikipedia's 'Talk' pages to request factual corrections, 12 percent said it took weeks to get a response - and a quarter never heard back at all.

Only 35 percent actually got any response, either through the Talk pages or by directly editing of a client's entry.

Of those who were familiar with the process of editing Wikipedia entries, 23 percent said making changes was 'near impossible', and 29 percent said their interactions with Wikipedia editors were 'never productive'.

The PRSA says it's also discovered that PR people barely understand Wikipedia's rules for editing.

"It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors. What is surprising, however, is that 25 percent of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients," says Marcia DiStaso, co-chair of PRSA's National Research Committee and an assistant professor  at Penn State University.

"At some point most, if not all, companies will determine they need to change something in their Wikipedia entries. Without clear, consistent rules from Wikipedia regarding how factual corrections can be made this will be a very difficult learning process for public relations professionals."

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Top universities to offer free online courses

Are you interested to get degrees from top universities of United Dates but can’t afford? If that’s the problem now your worries have been addressed. Web-based courses from Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvaniaare now available for free from start-up Coursera.

The company's also signed up Stanford - where it was founded - and the Universityof California at Berkeley.

It's raised $16 million in venture capital funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) for the venture.

"Higher education is ripe for innovation: it is too expensive and limited to a few," says KPCB partner and new Coursera board member John Doerr.

"Coursera is unique in partnering with the best universities to offer free, global access to the world's best teachers and courses. The potential is profound opportunities for personal - and economic - growth and development."

Stanford University

Founded by Stanford Computer Science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, Coursera has already clocked jup more than a million enrolments.

"We see a future where world-renowned universities serve millions instead of thousands, allowing many more people to live their dreams," says Koller.

Unlike MIT, which recently announced it was to offer free electronics courses,  Coursera will do a lot more than simply post lectures online. There'll be a personalized 'trajectory' for each student, quizzes, discussions and auto-graded exercises.

"Students learn best not by passively watching video, but by thinking, practicing and doing," says Ng. "Our education technology is developed around these concepts, and helps busy students quickly master material."

Coursera says it plans to launch another 30 courses over the next six months; there's more information here.

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Windows 8 will come in three flavors

Here are some more details about Microsoft's next-generation operating system.

First up, Microsoft is now officially confirming that the name of the platform will indeed be Windows 8. Those days of coming up with something cool like "XP" or "Vista" are apparently over.

In addition, the software giant noted that Windows 8 will be available in three editions. There will be just standard, vanilla Windows 8 as well as Windows 8 Pro, for advanced users and high-end business accounts.

In addition, as has previously been confirmed, there will be an edition of the platform exclusively for tablet devices.

The most distinct aspect of Windows 8 is what's known as the "Metro UI," which allows users to have complete customization on their home page, including widgets, RSS readers, weather information, date/time, etc.

In addition, since this is such a revolutionary new platform, Microsoft wants to scrap out all remnants of the "old-school" look and feel. Instead of a Start bar, hovering your mouse over that corner of the screen will allow you to swap between the Metro UI and the traditional desktop. For the mobile version of Windows 8, the Metro UI will be the default interface.

The inclusion of only three versions may seem like a step back. Windows 7 was available in six SKUs - Home Basic, Starter Edition, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate.

It looks like Microsoft will be keeping things simple and elegant this time.

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Beware of the fake Android version of Angry Birds Space

Are you Crazy about games and love to download the newest version of  Angry Birds Space?If Yes then you have to be wary as  the latest version of the popular Angry Birds game, Angry Bird Space  which was released on March 22 for download  was downloaded over 10 million times in just three days. Taking advantage of its overwhelming popularity, Android malware authors have come up with a fake version of the Angry Birds Space containing “Trojan horse” virus.

Security experts Graham Cluley, an analyst with Web security firm Sophos, recently posted a blog stating that they had discovered fake versions of the game on unofficial app stores. The fake games which contains a “Trojan horse” virus, in a in a file called Andr/KongFu-L, appears to be a fully functional version of the game. It installs a virus on the user’s smartphone or tablet, and then the code tries to install more malware that makes the phone or tablet computer vulnerable to cybercriminals.

“It feels like we have to keep reminding Android users to be on their guard against malware risks, and to be very careful, especially when downloading applications from unofficial Android markets,” Cluley said.

Rovio also warned Android users about this fake infected version of the game in a post on the official blog, and urged them to download the new title from their official store.

If you don’t have the new Angry Birds Space game on your Android smartphone yet, then you can download the original version of the game from the Rovio store here.

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Google unveils a simpler and nicer version of Google+

Do you use Google+ but unhappy with its looks and functioning? If yes good news is knocking your door as Google has just introduced a more functional and beautiful version of Google+ to encourage more people to use its social network. The search giant claims that more than 170 million people have already upgraded to Google+, and are enjoying its integration with Search, Gmail, YouTube, Blogger and and other Google products.

Here are some of the new changes that you can find on Google+:

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Easy Navigation

Instead of static icons at the top, you will now see a dynamic ribbon of applications on the left. You can drag apps up or down, arrange them in the order you want. The navigation ribbon also allows you to show or hide apps by moving them in and out of “More”.
Keep the conversations going

Google has updated its social network to help members get the most out their conversations. Here are some of the new features:

Full bleed photos and videos that’ll make you really proud to post

A stream of conversation “cards” that make it easier to scan and join discussions

An activity drawer that highlights the community around your content

A new Hangouts page

Now there is a dedicated Hangouts page that creates even more opportunities to connect in person, during hangouts. You can find:

An always-updated list of invitations from the people in your circles

Quick access to every public and On Air hangout, for those times when you want to meet someone new, or watch a live broadcast

A rotating billboard of popular hangouts, pro tips and other items you don’t want to miss

A new Explore page

Google has also introduced a new Explore page that shows what’s interesting and trending across the network.

These improvements will be launched over the next few days. Find out more about Google+ updates here.

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