BlackBerry Q10 coming to Canadian carriers May 1st for $199 on contract

It's usually safe to presume that BlackBerry will give the most love to its home country, and that's proving reasonable with the BlackBerry Q10. Bell, Rogers and Telus have all confirmed that they'll be carrying the QWERTY-equipped smartphone on May 1st, quite possibly putting them on the cutting edge of the Q10 launch schedule. Smaller networks like Fido, Koodo, Sasktel and Virgin Mobile are also on deck. The big three are already taking pre-orders today, but we'd brace for a rather steep price premium -- they're all asking about $199 for the Q10 on a three-year contract, which is more expensive than many of the phone's touch-only rivals. BlackBerry hasn't outlined plans for the US or other countries yet, but we're hoping they get a slightly better deal.

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IRL: Bluelounge Messenger and the Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.

How do you make our one-man French bureau really, really happy? Obviously, the answer is to give him sparkling wine, a baguette and maybe a striped boatneck shirt. And also, hand him a $3,000 camera to tinker with. If you're at all interested in the three-grand Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Mr. Steve Dent has some detailed impressions (and complaints) after the break. And if you're not, we're still on the hunt for the perfect gear bag.

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Health News - Low carbohydrate diets: best for weight loss?

The low carbohydrate diet is one of the more popular diets to emerge in recent years amid increasing obesity levels in Australia ? but how effective is it when it comes to weight loss?

UniSA nutrition expert Professor Jon Buckley will examine the low-carb diet at his upcoming Knowledge Works lecture at City East Campus tomorrow (Tuesday) night.

Prof Buckley says low-carb diets do result in greater weight loss than other diets over the short term (up to six months), but beyond that the weight loss is similar to other diets.

?Previously there were concerns that low carbohydrate diets might have adverse effects on risk factors for cardiovascular disease, in particular on LDL-cholesterol (bad cholesterol), but more recent evidence suggests that this is not the case,? Prof Buckley says.

?It does appear however that this dietary pattern has greater positive effects on HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol) than typical diets. Thus, the overall effect on blood lipid profile might be better than conventional diets.?

However, Prof Buckley says there is some evidence that there may be adverse impacts on non-traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease (that is, risk factors that are not as well recognised or accepted), adverse impacts on mood and potentially adverse effects on mortality, but the evidence in these areas is limited and not conclusive at this stage.

The Director of UniSA?s Nutritional Physiology Research Centre will outline the most-up-to-date evidence regarding the use of the low-carb diet for effective weight loss during his lecture, which will be held in the Basil Hetzel Building at City East campus tomorrow night (April 23) from 6pm to 7pm.

Knowledge Works is UniSA?s popular public lecture series focusing on the University?s ground-breaking and world-class research in action. This lecture is already at capacity but for general information on the lecture series go to www.unisa.edu.au/knowledgeworks?

Contact for interview: Jon Buckley office 8302 1853 mobile 0417 880 030?

Media contact: Kelly Stone office 8302 0963 mobile 0417 861 832

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Twitter #Music Catches Emerging Artist Frances Cone By Surprise, Calls It A ?Meet And Greet? For Bands And Fans

When Twitter #Music launched last week, it wasn’t a surprise at all to those following tech stories, since rumors had been kicking up about its existence for months. However, it was a surprise to the?Frances Cone Band, which is popping up in the “emerging artists” section of the app. In a world where we focus so much on “big stars,” especially ones with millions of followers on Twitter, it’s important to remember that these platforms can make all the difference for those who are just getting started and are waiting and hoping to be discovered. I spoke with their lead singer, Frances Cone, who didn’t get a chance to play with the app before it was launched. She wasn’t a big Twitter user before, but has been pleasantly surprised thus far: “I was a pretty light Twitter user before the music app because I felt like it should be reserved for jokes. Only the best jokes. Or original feelings, of which there are few.” She says that “Twitter and I are in love” when discussing the new experience, giving us some insight into what it’s like to start getting tweets, and more importantly new listeners, from a group of people that have never heard of you before: It’s been really, really great. I wasn’t sure how to engage potential followers/fans and they basically just perfectly did it for me… like they set up a meet and greet and I get to hug all of these music lovers. The “meet and greet” aspect is an interesting one, as we knew that Twitter could be a massive distribution platform if some order was brought to it. Twitter #Music pulls in all of the tweets that include links to music that people are listening to, and then drops them into pages in the app that show trending information in order to get people engaged. More than likely, you’re not going to catch every song that the people you follow are listening to, so this is a way to trap all of that to go back to at any time. The mix of new fans and the devastating news out of Boston gave Cone mixed emotions, but reminded her that people can rely on music to get through tough times: It’s been so nice to be able to engage with actual people all over the world. It started happening simultaneously to the Boston news

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Miley Cyrus, will.i.am Tumble Into Lyrical Love On 'Fall Down'

Cyrus racks up her big-name collaboration with new song on will's #willpower.
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Irish unions reject pay deal, warn of trouble ahead

By Padraic Halpin

DUBLIN (Reuters) - A majority of Irish public sector workers rejected a new pay deal on Tuesday and warned the government against unilaterally cutting wages, giving it a headache as it seeks to exit an EU-IMF bailout later this year.

The government and the country's main unions agreed in February to extend a three-year-old pay deal that has been credited with avoiding the kind of industrial unrest seen in other euro zone countries hit by debt woes.

But the deal had to be approved by hundreds of thousands of union members and after only a handful of unions backed the new proposals, it needed the backing of SIPTU, the country's largest union, whose members account for some 25 percent of all workers.

It rejected the deal by a margin of 54 percent to 46 percent and its president warned the government that it would face a "major confrontation" if it went through with a threat to cut pay in order to make budgetary savings.

"The result reflects the deep and well justified sense of grievance among working people throughout the country and public service workers in particular," Jack O'Connor, one of the union leaders who negotiated the agreement, said in a statement.

"We urge the government not to proceed with legislation to cut the pay of public service workers as it would inevitably precipitate a major confrontation."

The update to the Croke Park agreement - named for the sports stadium in which the original deal was struck - proposed pay reductions for higher earners, longer working hours and cuts in premium Sunday payments.

This would save 1 billion euros (845.8 million pounds) over three years, a key part of efforts to reduce a large budget deficit under the country's 85-billion-euro European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout, and Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the savings still needed to be found.

Kenny said the government would reflect on the implications of the votes but analysts said his Labour Party junior partners in government, closely tied to the unions and suffering in the polls, would find it hard to stomach pushing through pay cuts.

"I think backbenchers are likely to balk at the prospect of legislating for pay cuts, not least given the recent electoral performance of the Labour Party," said Bill Roche, Professor of Industrial Relations at University College Dublin.

"If legislation did pass through, there's every prospect of confrontation on a very significant scale so I wouldn't rule out the Labour Relations Commission stepping back into the breach to try to get parties to sit down. That's frankly more palatable."

"DEFINITELY A SETBACK"

Public servants took wage cuts averaging 15 percent before the Labour Relations Commission helped negotiate the first Croke Park deal in March 2010, where a leaner public service was promised in return for no more pay cuts or forced redundancies.

The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), which rejected the deal by a margin of more than two-to-one, suggested that the government use budgetary savings from a bank debt deal struck with the European Central Bank (ECB) to avoid pay cuts.

While investors have been impressed by Ireland's ability to avoid street protests and strikes, helping it return to capital markets last year, bond dealers said yields on Irish debt were unlikely to increase until things ratcheted up further.

"Investors have long questioned how Ireland has maintained the level of industrial peace it has, so this will be noted but clearly pictures of people taking to the streets would be much more significant," said Ryan McGrath of Cantor Fitzgerald.

"It's definitely a setback though."

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; editing by Michael Roddy)

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