August 2011
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The 15 Wackiest Things People Have Listed On Their...
Given that 45 percent of human resources managers say they spend less than a minute, on average, on each job application they see, it’s understandable that some people might go overboard in trying to bring some individuality to their work history. But would you list your unique ability to do the moonwalk in the “special skills” section of your resume?
1. Candidate said the more he was paid,...
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Samsung Unveils Bada 2.0 Smartphones
After announcing LTE versions of the Galaxy S II smartphone and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet, Samsung has unveiled a trio of Bada-powered smartphones: Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y.
Mobile Carriers Invest $100M in Google Wallet Competitor [REPORT]
Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile are planning to invest more than $100 million to take on mobile payment system...
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Samsung Announces LTE Versions of Galaxy S II & Galaxy Tab 8.9
Ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin beginning Friday, Samsung has announced LTE variants of the Galaxy S II smartphone and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet. The new versions of these devices will have fast wireless data transfer capability with download speeds as fast as 100 Mbps.
Apple Patent Claims Delays Galaxy Tab 10.1 Launch...
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UK Government Discusses Limiting Social Media
British officials met with representatives from Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry to discuss ways of restricting social media use during periods of civil disruption Thursday. Among the items discussed: requiring users to use their real names on Twitter.
WikiLeaks Cables Show China’s Failure to Measure Air Pollution
China has refrained from...
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Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Steve Jobs, co-founder and two-time CEO of Apple, offered his resignation via a letter to the company’s board Wednesday. He will be succeeded by Tim Cook. Shares of Apple fell by as much as 7% in after-hours trading.
Facebook Surpasses 1 Trillion Pageviews Per Month
Facebook garnered more than 1 trillion pageviews per month in June and July, according to data...
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Facebook Announces Major Privacy & Tagging Changes
Facebook is rolling out one of the largest privacy overhauls in its history, making it clearer for users to understand with whom they are sharing their photos, status updates and locations.
Samsung Announces New Android Smartphones & Naming Scheme
Samsung has announced a few details about a line of Android smartphones it plans to...
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RIM Announces New BlackBerry Curve
RIM has announced the availability of a new, refreshed BlackBerry Curve, which sports a thin, 0.43-inch frame and BlackBerry 7 functionality.
Twitter Enhances User Profiles With Image Galleries
Twitter is rolling out user galleries, which automatically display the 100 most recent images users have shared on Twitter from supported photo-sharing services.
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iPad 3 To Launch in Early 2012 [REPORT]
Apple is beginning to assemble components for the next-generation iPad, set to launch in early 2012, anonymous sources have told the WSJ.
HP To Discontinue WebOS, TouchPad
After confirming that it is looking into spinning off its PC business, Hewlett-Packard made a more shocking announcement Thursday: It is going to “discontinue operations for webOS...
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10 Pleasures and Pains of Being Beautiful
We may associate beauty with truth, but beauty is also threatening and sparks our defenses.
Beautiful people are all around us: on billboards, on TV and at the movies—some of them even inhabit our everyday lives.
Great beauty in another person inspires all kinds of emotions: admiration, desire, hope, despair and sometimes envy.
So what is the psychological effect of beauty and how do other...
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Apple Outsells Lenovo in Greater China
Apple‘s sales in greater China surpassed those of Lenovo for the first time in the second quarter of 2011, thanks to a sixfold increase in sales from last year.
AT&T Nixes Limited Texting Plan
AT&T is getting rid of a texting plan that allowed subscribers 1000 messages for $10 per month, leaving them with only an unlimited, $20-per-month plan.
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T-Mobile Launches First 4G BlackBerry
T-Mobile’s first 4G BlackBerry smartphone, the BlackBerry Bold 9900, is now available for pre-order to existing T-Mobile customers.
Best Buy Sitting on 270K HP TouchPads
According to unnamed sources, Best Buy has accepted 270,000 HP TouchPads and has so far managed to sell less than 10% of them. The retailer is allegedly so unhappy that it wants HP to...
The Seven Best Towns For The Rich And Single
Want to rub elbows with the rich and single?
Then your best bet might be a town in California, Virginia, or New Jersey, according to Money, which just released a list of the 25 best places for people who are rich and single.
The list is part of the magazine’s annual roundup of the 100 best places to live in America, based on factors like job opportunities, fiscal strength, schools and...
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Google’s Motorola Mobility Acquisition Is All About Patents
Mashable‘s Christina Warren argues that Google’s decision to purchase Motorola has as much to do with increasing its patent portfolio as it is about getting into the hardware market.
Foursquare Launches Tip Lists
Foursquare has rolled out Tip Lists, which enables users and brands to bundle their best tips together in lists, such as,...
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Ten Powerful Steps to Negotiating a Higher Salary
Recent psychological research reveals 10 strategies that will help you hike your paycheck.
Much of the advice you read about how to negotiate your salary is rubbish.
It’s not just that salaries are a touchy subject and so they’re difficult to investigate accurately, it’s also that the same old clichés get repeated over-and-over again by lazy writers.
But a few recent...
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Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion
Google has acquired handset manufacturer Motorola’s Mobility division for $40 per share, or $12.5 billion in cash.
Anonymous Attacks BART Website
Anonymous is taking credit for hacking and mining data from MyBart.org, a marketing website for San Francisco’s BART transit system.
Firefox 6 Released Early
Firefox 6 isn’t scheduled to be...
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Google+ Games Going Live
Google is rolling out Google+ Games, which offers a range of titles from publishers including FarmVille creator Zynga, Angry Birds maker Rovio and Wooga.
Facebook Fires Back at Google+ With New Gaming Features
Facebook unveiled a slew of new features for Facebook games hours after Google launched its gaming platform.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS Revealed
The first...
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Twitter Adds an Activity Stream
Twitter has partially redesigned its web application to expand the breadth of users’ individual newsfeeds.
FTC Probe Examines Android, Web Search Complaints
According to unnamed sources, members of the FTC’s antitrust division are looking into allegations that Google prevents smartphone manufacturers that use its Android operating system from using...
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Amazon Unveils Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon has launched Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5 app that lets users read Kindle books in their browser both online and offline.
Twitter Rolls Out Photo Sharing to All Users
Twitter’s photo-sharing and uploading service is now available to all users.
Hacker Group Anonymous Wants To Take Down Facebook
Some members of hackivist group Anonymous are vowing to...
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Are You Currently Having Issues In Communication,...
From August 2 – 26th of 2011, most of us will be bombarded with the maddening effects of Mercury in retrograde. Mercury is a planet which governs all transportation and communication issues. Mercury is not an emotional planet, but rather a highly objective, truth-seeking one. It rules intelligence, education and truth. When it is in retrograde, some of its power is held back.
Retrograde Mercury...
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Stock Market Sell-Off Eases
The global stock market sell-off appears to be easing up, although tech stock prices are still substantially down from two weeks previous.
AOL Reports Advertising Gains
AOL’s advertising revenues increased for the first time since 2008, according to its Q2 2011 earnings report, but not enough to bring the company back to profitability.
Facebook Reorganizes...
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Anonymous Hacks Syrian Ministry of Defense’s Website
Hacktivist group Anonymous took control of the Syrian Ministry of Defense website over the weekend (since brought down), posting a message addressed to Syrian citizens and links to a handful of websites protesting the actions of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian military.
Social Media Blamed in London Riots
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LinkedIn Revenue Jumps 120% to $121 Million
LinkedIn generated $121 million in revenue and $4.5 million in income in Q2, beating Wall Street expectations in its first quarter as a public company.
Gmail Rolls Out Preview Pane
Gmail has made a new Preview Pane feature available via Gmail Labs, allowing users to preview parts of an email while reading or replying to others.
Researchers Discover...
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Google To Revive Realtime Search
Realtime Search is returning to Google as a Google+ feature soon, Google Fellow Amit Singhal said on a search panel Wednesday, although he declined to specify a date.
Randi Zuckerberg Leaving Facebook To Start Her Own Company
Facebook Director of Marketing Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of founder Mark Zuckerberg, has decided to leave Facebook to start a company...
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The Best Island Getaways In The World - Of course...
#10 Galápagos
Image: Wikimedia Commons
SCORE: 88.22
Rank in 2010: 1
#9 Maui
Image: paul (dex) via Flickr
SCORE: 88.59
Rank in 2010: 8
#8 Kauai
Image: paul (dex) via Flickr
SCORE: 88.99
Rank in 2010: 2
#7 Big Island, Hawaii
Image: Wikimedia Commons
SCORE: 89.11
Rank in 2010: 10
#6 Sicily, Italy
Image: gnuckx via Flickr
SCORE: 89.51
Rank in 2010: 7
#5 Great Barrier Reef Islands,...
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If You Want to Retain The Best Young Workers, Give...
If innovative CEOs want their companies to attract the next brightest minds, they should save the cash bonuses and give their younger workers a strong mentor instead.
According to the 14th Annual Global CEO Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 98% of Millennials believe working with a mentor is a necessary component in development. In fact, they ranked training and development three times...
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More Businesses Are Outsourcing—To Rural And Small...
Is your small business dealing with an increased workload and more demand from clients andcustomers ? That’s a good thing. But with the economy still uncertain, many of us are leery about taking on full-time employees to help with the workload—even when we’re overwhelmed.
Well, there is a solution—and it’s closer to home than you might think. I first wrote about the trend of “ruralsourcing” ...
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“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do...”
– James D Miles
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The Next 12 Sports Records That Will Be Broken
There are some sports records that will never be broken, but many are bound to fall.
The big passing numbers put up by Brett Favre are entrenched in sports lore, but that doesn’t mean someone can’t take that away.
Some of the best sports stars are young enough to eclipse these long standing records with their continued production and a tiny bit of luck.
Paul Krause’s 81 career...
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Apple Launches iCloud Beta
Apple has unveiled the beta for iCloud, the company’s new suite of media streaming and cloud-based services.
News International Under Scrutiny for Routine Email Deletion Requests
A technology firm told members of British Parliament that its client, News International, requested the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails sent between April 2010 and July 2011.
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WASTED: The Leading States In Drug And Alcohol...
Marijuana use
Image: Wikimedia Commons
States with the highest percentage of residents age 12 or older who used marijuana in last month:
1. Alaska (11.53%)
2. Vermont (10.83%)
3. Rhode Island (9.98%)
4. Maine (9.85%)
5. Colorado (9.82%)
Cocaine use
States with the highest percentage of residents age 12 or older who used cocaine in the last year:
1. Rhode Island (3.87%)
2. Colorado...
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iPhone 5 Launching in October, Not September
The iPhone 5 is making its debut in October, not September, as earlier reports suggested, sources have told AllThingsD.
Facebook Expanding in UK
Facebook is moving into new office space to accompany the expansion of its 70-person team in the UK.
White House Aide Says Tweets Influenced Debt Ceiling Deal
The White House believes that Twitter...
