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Here is a summary.... Over a period of a year, the states and territories and citizens living abroad hold their primaries or caucuses. Super Tuesday is when maximum number of states hold primaries or caucuses together. When finished, the delegates representing the citizens who voted in those elections travel to the national convention. Most of the delegates are forced to vote as the citizens of their state wanted them to but some of them are free to vote as they like. At the national convention the delegates meet up with the super delegates and together they make the final decision on who will be the nominee of for the president of USA. Note: Primary vs Caucus : Primary is like secret ballot for citizens to vote independently and caucus is like a discussion that happens first and sides are taken in groups. Note: Citizens vote for delegates and not the candidates themselves. Delegates then pick nominee along with super delegates. Note: Super Delegates a

As it stands in 2015 several months after launch, Apple Music has 1/3rd the paid subscriber base as Spotify. So Around 7 Million for Apple Music vs 21 Million of Spotify

There is a lot of noise in this area. With IBM opening up Quark Dev Platform and Industry showcasing AllJoyn, there are many alliances Here is an important alliance https://allseenalliance.org/alliance/members Here is the list of other alliances. http://postscapes.com/internet-of-things-alliances-roundup

Yes it seems like now this technology is trying to come out of niche and be main stream. FB has Oculus in the cards, Google has cardboard and Apple has PrimeSense/MetaIO

This is something that needs actual investigation into the ETSI database but Samsung claims that it has more than 3,600 standard essential patents (SEP) for the LTE and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) technology, citing a 2014 report by Taiwan's intellectual property office. That is 17 percent of all LTE-related SEPs. It also claims that LG Electronics and Qualcomm followed Samsung Electronics in second place with 14 percent of SEPs, each. Ericsson, Panasonic, Nokia and NTT DoCoMo hold the third spot with 5 percent, each. So 70% patents held by these 7 companies. Take these numbers with a pinch of salt.

Unlike Apple's Touch ID and the SamSung's Sensor which happens to be capacitive, the FIDO Spec is pushing for ultrasonic. It can work in presence of disturbances between finger and sensor. That is a HUGE advantage.

May be related to battery woes.... http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Boot-and-Lockup/Presario-CQ62-hangs-at-orange-screen-instead-of-booting/td-p/4503476 http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Boot-and-Lockup/Laptop-won-t-get-past-Compaq-product-screen-Can-t-do-system/td-p/1327729 https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120319202714AA9vX7t