The Daily Roundup for 01.23.2013

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

Apple announces Q1 2013 earnings

Record $54.5 billion in revenue, 47.8 Million iPhones and 22.9 Million iPads sold...

Report: Next PlayStation features AMD GPU

Chalk up another potential win for AMD. The latest report on the next PlayStation console...

Pebble smartwatches begin shipping

Pebble has just informed backers that the very first orders will begin shipping today...

Intel will discontinue desktop motherboards

The decline in desktop PC sales is beginning to ripple throughout the industry...

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Cloud storage grows, but backup is weak

More companies are storing their data in the cloud as part of a hybrid onsite and offsite storage solution, but many admit they are not able to back up large chunks of their data at all.

Research company Vanson Bourne surveyed 650 IT decision makers across the U.S., the U.K., France, Germany and the Netherlands, which highlighted the way cloud backup and storage is now seen as a key component of hybrid storage environments. Some 66 percent of those surveyed said they would increase the amount of data they store in the cloud by 2015.

Among those already using hybrid storage systems, improved data security was cited as the reason why 66 percent moved from their old backup and recovery tools to onsite and offsite data protection. Some 57 percent said they preferred such a solution because their rapidly growing business critical data required protection against natural disaster and theft.

But 24 percent of respondents admitted to not telling their CEOs they are not backing up all files, especially those on mobile devices. The survey found 38 percent worried about their data not being saved securely, or whether data had been backed up at all.

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Nokia Lumia 510 will come to the UK, appears briefly at Phones 4U

If you liked the look of the previously India-bound Lumia 510 but live on the other side of the world, there's now no need to fret. Nokia has just confirmed to Omio that they will be bringing their cheapest Windows Phone device to Blighty -- although there's no word yet on UK-specific pricing or willing carriers. The phone was priced up at $200 when announced, which will net you a humble 4-inch display and 800MHz processor. Retailer Phones 4U accidentally let the Windows Phone 7.8 slab slip out onto its coming soon page and although it's already been erased, we've added some screen-grab proof after the break.

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Report: NHTSA mulling adding small-overlap and angled crash tests

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For the sake of safer cars, it sounds like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration could be moving to create stricter crash tests that are similar to (and potentially even more rigorous) than what the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently instituted. In an interview with Automotive News, chief NHTSA administrator David Strickland said that the agency is looking into adding a new offset test as well as an angled impact test.

A small overlap test just recently became a part of the barrage of crash tests performed by IIHS where only 25-percent of the vehicle tested makes contact with a barrier, and Strickland said this is "very similar" to the test being considered by NHTSA. The government agency's current frontal crash tests, as shown above with the five-star-rated Buick Verano, consists of the car hitting a wall head-on, so it isn't clear how much overlap would be considered small for this new test. Another new scenario being investigated is called the oblique test, which involves the test subject hitting a barrier at a fixed angle rather than straight on. Neither test figures to be in use for at least the next couple years or so, but they would undoubtedly make it much harder for cars to receive a five-star crash rating.

NHTSA mulling adding small-overlap and angled crash tests originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Report: Toyota exec sees future where all cars sold in US are built here

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A growing number of foreign automakers have been shifting more vehicle production to the US - including recent announcement by Nissan and Honda - but Toyota could be on the verge of taking an unprecedented step by producing all of the cars it sells in the US right here in North America. According to the Detroit Free Press, Bill Fay, VP and GM of Toyota US, hinted at such a possibility, but the wording in the report makes it sound like this is far from a done deal and would not apply to Scion or Lexus models.

Currently, the automaker already builds 70 percent of its US-sold cars in North America including some of its more popular models like the Camry, Corolla, Highlander, Tacoma and RAV4. While most of the Japanese-made Toyotas that are sold in the US are slower-selling models (like Land Cruiser, FJ Cruiser and Yaris), the Prius lineup is the glaring exception, and last we heard, Toyota still has plans to ship Prius production to the US by 2015. This is all a part of Toyota's plan to add 3,500 jobs in North America to go with recent investments totaling $1.6 billion.

Toyota exec sees future where all cars sold in US are built here originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Number of babies born in Bristol has increased by 50% in 10 years

THE number of babies being born in Bristol has risen by almost a half in a decade.

Figures show that between 2001/02 and 2011/12 the number of babies born in the city rose from about 4,600 to 6,800 – an increase of 48 per cent.

The data makes Bristol one of the hotspots that have seen a significant spike in births in the last decade, as highlighted by The Royal College of Midwives, which fears the baby boom could be putting too much pressure on maternity units.

The number of women born outside of the UK who have had babies in Bristol has been suggested as one of the reasons for the rise in births in the city.

According to data in Bristol's Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – which is used by the council and health trusts to plan care in the city – 27 per cent of births in the city in 2010 were to mothers born outside of the UK, compared to 13 per cent in 2001. It said the proportion of births to women who were not born in the UK is rising faster than those born here.

Other areas have not seen the same increase in births as Bristol.

In 2011, while there were 6,718 births in the city, there were 3,117 to mothers living in South Gloucestershire, 2,331 in North Somerset and 1,820 in Bath & North East Somerset.

While the number of births has been going up in the city, people have been tending to live longer, causing the population to grow at twice the national rate.

At St Michael's Hospital the number of births has risen from 4,547 in 2002/3 to 5,857 in 2011/12.

Sarah Windfeld, head of midwifery, said the trust recruited additional midwives in 2009 and is in the process of recruiting further midwives, as well as developing new roles to support midwives in the community.

"We have also employed nurses to provide care to maternity patients and take on the tasks that do not require a midwife, eg working in theatre, and this frees up time for qualified midwives to care for women in labour", she said.

A new midwife-led unit is due to open at the hospital in May.

Deputy director of midwifery at North Bristol NHS Trust, Lisa Marshall, suggested that people moving to the area had had an impact on the number of births.

"We have a dedicated team of staff who are committed to providing women with the very best care," she said. "Aside from the central delivery suite at Southmead, we are able to offer women a good choice in terms of where and how they give birth. The birth suite at Southmead remains popular and numbers of home births have been steadily rising."

She added that the opening of the Cossham Hospital midwife-led birth centre next week would also improve options for women.

Number of babies born in Bristol has increased by 50% in 10 years

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