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Health workers of the International Fe stanley cup deration of Red Cross IFRC and medical charity Doctors Without Borders take part in a pre-deployment training for staff heading to Ebola areas on Oct. 29, 2014 in Geneva.Fabrice Coffrini鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Alexandra SifferlinJanuary 26, 2015 1:59 PM ESTThe medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Meacute;decins Sans Frontiegrave;res MSF , says it seeing declines in new cases of Ebola in its centers in Guinea, Liber stanley cup ia, and Sierra Leone.There are just over 50 patients currently in MSF Ebola treatment centers across the three countries, the organization announced on Monday.This decline is an opportunity to focus efforts on addressing the serious weaknesses that remain in the response, Brice de la Vingne, MSF director of operations said in a statement. We are on the right track, but reaching zero cases will be difficult unless significant improvements are made in alerting new cases and tracing those who have been in contact with them.There is still work to do on that score; in Guinea and Liberia only half of the new cases are people who are known contacts of people with Ebola. Since just a single case can spur an outbreak, more contact tracing is needed.MORE: TIME Person of the Year: Ebola FightersIn Sierra Leone, incidences of Ebola have dropped to their lowest levels since August, though there are still hot zones like the country 82 stanley cup 17 capital of Freetown. Guinea caseloads are Jaan Chipotle Will Increase Food Safety Measures Following E. Coli Outbreak
A Verizon Blackberry Storm mobile ticket appears on a a mobile device at a Verizon Wireless and Blackberry Storm event on March 13, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois.Tasos Katopodismdash;2009 Getty ImagesBy Kia Kokalitcheva / FortuneJune 10, 2015 1:17 PM EDTBlackBerry never had a chance to compete with the iPhone, BlackBerry former co-CEO said on Tuesday.After Apple unveiled the iPhone as an ATT exclusive in 2007, Research in Motion which has since rebranded as BlackBerry rushed to releas airmax ed a competing product, the BlackBerry Storm, under pressure from Verizon Wireless. The Storm, however, didn ;t match the hardware or software features of the iPhone and turned into a flop.With Storm we tried to do too much. It was a touch display, it was a clickab yeezy le display, it had new applications, and it was all done in an incredibly short period of time and it blew up on us, said former Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie at an event in Toronto this week, according to the Associated Press. That was the time I knew we couldn ;t compete on high end hardware.Balsillie added that it became clear to him that the company, which had pioneered the multi-purposed phone for business use less than 10 year af1 s earlier, wouldn ;t be able to match Apple iPhone, especially after the Storm saw a 100% return rate.Balsillie left Research in Motion in 2012.Top 10 Tech Product Designs of 2014NestAcquired by Google in Jan. 2014, Nest La |
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