Working out before breakfast helps burn 20% more body fat for equal exercise: study

Bruce Edwards/Postmedia News files Skipping breakfast before a workout does not lead to an increased appetite during the day.

Big news for hungry athletes and fitness fanatics: A study published online in the British Journal of Nutrition has found that exercising on an empty stomach in the morning can help burn up to 20% more body fat than exercising after breakfast.
Researchers from the University of Northumbria asked 12 physically active males to run on a treadmill at moderate-intensity at 10 a.m. Some males exercised after an “overnight fast,” having consumed no breakfast that morning, while others ate breakfast before their run. Ninety minutes after their workouts, participants were given a chocolate milk recovery drink. Later, they were given a pasta lunch and asked to eat until they were comfortably full.
Researchers found that fasting exercisers had a smaller appetite later in the day, and did not consume more calories to compensate for early-morning hunger, compared to their peers who had eaten before their workout. As well, those who exercised on an empty stomach burned up to 20% more fat compared to breakfast eaters.
Dr. Emma Stevenson and PhD student Javier Gonzalez were the lead researchers for the study.
Stevenson emphasized that the study conducted examined short-term conditions and results from the subjects, so long-term effects about such nutritional practices can only be speculated on. “This research is very important in helping to provide practical guidelines relating to food intake to individuals who are exercising to maximize fat mass loss,” she said.
Gonzalez explained further: “In order to lose body fat we need to use more fat than we consume. Exercise increases the total amount of energy we expend and a greater proportion of this energy comes from existing fat if the exercise is performed after an overnight fast.”

source ~ nationalpost

Nokia's Windows Phone royalties to exceed $1bn per year in future

Microsoft's $250m quarterly "platform support payments" to Nokia for using Windows Phone has always exceeded Nokia's own royalty payments to Microsoft for the software, but from now on the scales could be tipping the other way. 
The arrangement has been in place since 2011, when Nokia began using Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, and is expected to see the pair exchange billions of dollars over its lifetime.  Traditionally, Microsoft has paid more to Nokia than vice versa under the deal, but Nokia has revealed the tables could be turning in its financial results published yesterday.
Historically, Nokia said, it has received more than it pays in "minimum software royalty commitment payments", but it expect for the rest of the lifetime of the deal to no longer be the net beneficiary in the quarterly exchange the pair make. 
"To date the amount of platform support payments received by Nokia has exceeded the amount of minimum royalty commitment payments to Microsoft. Thus for the remainder of the life of the agreement the total amount of the minimum software royalty commitment payments are expected to exceed the total amount of the platform support payments," Nokia states in its Q4 earnings results (pdf). 
Nokia's payments are based on a software royalty structure that includes "minimum annual software royalty commitments", which are paid on a quarterly basis. 
That would suggest that Nokia expects to increase volumes of its Lumia devices, which run Windows Phone, beyond well beyond the 4.4 million Windows Phone Lumias it sold last quarter. Sales of the handsets are already on an upward trajectory - Nokia sold one million Lumias in 2011 (the devices were released in October of that year), and over 14 million in 2012.
Source ~ zdnet