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The number of native apps available in app stores now tops 1 million.??As with mobile web, analysis shows that consumer-oriented businesses, such as airlines and retailers, are much more likely to have native apps.??Among those, nearly every company that has at least one mobile app supports multiple platforms. iOS has the largest number of mobile app offerings, with Android a close second, along with offerings for BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and a few Palm WebOS holdouts.

The apps we investigated run the gamut from well-designed to missing the point entirely. Many were inappropriately specialized, such as product-specific barcode scanners or gas station finders for a single brand. These apps don’t give users a compelling reason to download them. Less-specialized applications―such as a third-party barcode scanner or a brand-agnostic gas-station finder―appeal to a much broader user base. The more appealing apps take advantage of attractive visual design and platform-specific functionality to communicate core brand attributes via mobile. And apps that use mobile technology to enhance and communicate a brand experience provide more punch than cutting and pasting traditional print or desktop content into a native app.

More than 30 percent of Fortune 100 apps did not provide materially different functionality than the company’s mobile web presence. Is there a benefit to having distinctive functionality for an app? Sometimes the reasoning is clear; the app needs access to device capabilities such as cameras, GPS, accelerometers, or Bluetooth/near-field communication; users who may not always have Internet connectivity need the ability to work offline; or the company has an explicit design goal to provide

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Silicone breast implants have made a big comeback in cosmetic procedures, a little more than six years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its ban on most use of the devices.

In 2012,coach outlet online, 72% of the 330,631 breast-augmentation procedures in the U.S. used silicone implants, while 28% used saline, or sterile salt water. In 2006, the year the ban was lifted, only 19% of procedures used silicone, according to new statistics released Tuesday by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, a group of more than 2,beats studio,600 plastic surgeons.

Surgeons and patients say silicone implants look and feel more like natural breasts. But the FDA banned their use in cosmetic procedures in 1992 after complaints that the devices ruptured—and among concerns that they could lead to health problems, including connective-tissue diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Those links were never confirmed and when the FDA lifted the ban, it said silicone implants are "safe and effective." During the ban, silicone implants continued to be allowed for use in breast reconstruction.

Still, in a 2011 report,coach outlet store online, the FDA noted that about 20% of patients who receive silicone implants for breast augmentation will need them removed within 10 years, and as many as 50% of women who receive them for breast reconstruction will require removal after 10 years. Potential complications of the devices include infection, scarring and a hardening of the area around the implant called capsular contracture.

In recent years, there have been advances in silicone-implant technology. Last month, the FDA approved a new "form-stable" implant from drug and device maker Inc. that surgeons say has more of a natural teardrop shape—especially useful in reconstruction surgery after a single-side mastectomy when a doctor wants to match the shape of a patient's remaining natural breast.

The implants are also firmer. "If you cut one of these in half and you squeeze it, the silicone will protrude from the open end, but if you release the pressure, it goes right back in," says Robert X. Murphy, Jr., president-elect of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which has more than 7,000 member surgeons. "The old silicone would just drip out and leak all over the place." Dr,chanel bags. Murphy, who has no financial links to any of the implant companies, said that, if there is a rupture, the new devices are easier to remove and "took away the concerns to a large degree that there would be free silicone in the body."

A similar device from implant maker Sientra Inc,gucci bags., which some surgeons dub "gummy-bear" implants,chanel handbags, was approved in March 2012.

Louise Moore, a 52-year-old administrative assistant from Gardena, Calif., says she was sold on the silicone implant after her surgeon had her hold one in one hand and a saline implant in the other. The saline implant,gucci sunglasses, she says, was "more mushy. I didn't feel like it was going to hold me firm like I wanted,coach outlet." Ms. Moore, who had her augmentation surgery in September 2012 after losing 80 pounds, said she was reassured, after talking with her doctor, that the implants were safe.

Breast augmentation was the most frequent cosmetic surgical procedure in 2012, according to the aesthetic plastic surgery society's new statistics. The average physician fee for the procedure in the U.S. was about $­3,500 for saline implants and $­3,900 for silicone ones. That doesn't include anesthesia and other related costs.

The statistics, which also covered many other types of surgery and other less-invasive procedures, were based on a survey of 772 actively practicing plastic surgeons, dermatologists and otolaryngologists. Overall, the group said that the total number of cosmetic surgical procedures grew 3.1% in 2012. Most cosmetic procedures aren't covered by health insurance.

The typical breast-augmentation patient is in her "mid-to-late 30s who has had one or more children," says Leo R. McCafferty, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Pittsburgh and the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. "They are interested in having their breasts back to the way they were," he says. Just 1.1% of all procedures were done on women 18 and younger in 2012, according to the new st