February 2012
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The 10 Happiest States In America
For the third straight year, Hawaii holds onto its title as the happiest state in America according to the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
The nationwide survey is based on daily interviews with U.S. adults from January to December 2011. The Index is an average of six categories: life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, healthy behaviors, and physical health.
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The iPad 3 will be announced March 7 in San Francisco.
Darren Sinofsky is likely the next CEO of Microsoft — here’s his story.
The $25 Raspberry Pi computer is officially for sale.
Google nearly issued its own currency called “Google Bucks.”
HP just cut its webOS team in half.
IBM quietly laid off 1,000 employees.
Apple’s market cap just hit $500 billion.
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Here’s how Apple allegedly gamed Proview out of its iPad trademark.
Google will pay you $1 million if you can hack its Chrome web browser.
Yahoo’s latest act is a desperate one without honor.
Here are some hints that Google+ is a deserted wasteland.
Google is hiring engineers to test out its self-driving cars.
Erick Schonfeld is out at TechCrunch.
Here’s the real reason...
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Apple is working on two new iPad processors.
850,000 Android devices are activated each day, says Andy Rubin.
Pinterest has a porn problem.
Apple’s iPhone is getting clobbered by Android in countries with no carrier subsidies.
Facebook might be reading your texts.
Reddit has created the “Free Internet Act” in an effort to make it more difficult to monitor the web.
A guy...
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Apple has a plan to reinvent the keyboard.
Future dock connectors on the iPhone may either shrink or disappear completely.
The iTunes App Store is about to get revamped now that Apple acquired Chomp.
Meg Whitman is already hyping up HP’s Windows 8 tablet.
Here’s a leaked video of iPad 3’s retina display.
Google has tagged Dennis Woodside to run Motorola.
Intel is trying to...
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Apple and Foxconn have responded to ABC’s report on factory work conditions.
Here’s the latest iOS bug everyone’s freaking out about.
This founder has a plan to keep a billion cars off the road.
Here’s the most important thing about Office on the iPad.
Paul Graham can’t walk around San Francisco without running into someone he’s funded.
Everybody wins with...
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Google’s Terminator glasses will be ready for sale by the end of the year.
Nightline aired a special on Apple’s Foxconn factories last night — here’s what you missed.
Foxconn allegedly hid underage employees for its most recent inspection.
Someone is paying tribute to Steve Jobs with a special Facebook Timeline.
Dell blows its earnings. Cost-cutting only works for so...
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Worker's Request to Extend Worker's Compensation...
You’d think workers would know better than to post pictures of themselves partying on Facebook when they are petitioning for more workers’ comp (WC) benefits. But an Arkansas WC recipient looked like he was in “no pain” in party pictures posted on social media—just when he was asking for more benefits because of continued “excruciating pain.”
According to media reports, the worker had...
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Here’s what the smart people are saying about Mountain Lion, Apple’s new Mac operating system.
Here are the 10 most important features in Mountain Lion.
Nevada has approved a set of rules for operating Google’s driverless cars.
Caterina Fake launches Pinwheel, letting you leave notes anywhere in the world.
Here’s why Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst owes his career to 9/11.
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Facebook introduced a new Twitter-style verification system.
Here’s why Amazon China stopped selling the iPad.
t’s only Amazon, though — Chinese customs officials say the iPad is too popular to ban flat-out.
Did Peter Thiel just endorse voting rights for kids?
These ex-Facebook guys want to help you find cheaper drugs.
Pinterest’s growth may actually be declining.
HP...
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Did you forget Valentine’s Day? This startup has you covered.
Apple has reportedly been demoing an 8-inch iPad.
AT&T and Verizon will sell a 4G iPad 3.
The guy who invented BitTorrent says his new goal is to kill off television.
Hackers ran amok in Nortel Networks’ computer system for at least 10 years.
HP’s culture was pretty screwy — Meg Whitman just made the...
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Steve Jobs won a Grammy Award last night.
Chinese authorities are removing iPads from store shelves.
Apple is suing for a number of ludicrous iPhone patent violations.
The latest Pinterest clone is all about porn.
It’s possible that 95% of Pinterest’s users are female.
Google is building secret hardware labs all over its Mountain View campus.
Google uses Facebook, not Google+,...
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
15 Inspirational Quotes From The Greatest Business...
Gordon Gecko is probably Hollywood’s most infamous businessman. Followed by “American Psycho’s” Patrick Bateman. Both movies were so loved that “Wall Street” received the redo treatment in 2010 and a remake of “American Psycho” is rumored to be in the works.
It’s no suprise that two of America’s favorite things—movies and...
Five Key Challenges For Public Sector HR...
Public sector HR professionals need to step back from the day job and brace themselves for the challenges ahead, says Public Sector People Managers’ Association president Stephen Moir.
As public sector HR professionals, we are often too immersed in advising managers and organizational leaders about how they should deliver their services. How much time do we allow ourselves to stop, ...
Union Membership Climbed In 2011, But Membership...
In 2011, union membership increased 49,000 last year to 14.76 million.
However, the Union membership rate declined by just 10 basis points in 2011 to 11.8% according to BLS data.
In 1983, the first year for which comparable data is available, union membership stood at 20.1%.
Among the survey’s other findings:
Public sector workers had a union membership rate five times higher than the...
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility...”
– Tony Robbins
America's Shrinking Corporate Giants
This post originally appeared at 24/7 Wall St.
It is rare for one of America’s largest companies to lose a third or more of its sales in a brief time. When it happens, it is usually either because of market or economic forces, or because of a designed refocusing. 24/7 Wall St. identified the eight largest American companies whose revenue fell the most in the past five years and analyzed the...
9 Reasons Your Current Resume Will Never Get You A...
Gayle Laakman McDowell worked at four of today’s biggest tech companies, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.
She wrote a book, The Google Resume, about how to land a job at the companies and what makes candidates stand out.
Some of the rumored tricks, like having a perfect GPA, are mostly hot air, says McDowell. Others, like attending an elite university, do determine how attractive...
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
Most U.S. States Are Ignoring The Fastest Growing...
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world—but you wouldn’t know it based on the laws in most U.S. states.
By CIA estimates, there are 45,000-50,000 victims of sex slavery and trafficking each year in the U.S. alone.
City and state involvement are seen as critical in stopping the crime, around half of which is organized by local pimps, according to a study...
REVEALED: Why The iPhone Time Is Always Set To...
Former Apple exec Bob Borcher recently gave a presentation (the video has since been removed) covering topics from marketing to the current state of the job market.
During the presentation, he explained why all iPhone ads show the phone set to the same time:
“If you ever see an Apple ad, print or TV, you look at the time and it’s always going to be 9:42 — 9:42 is when we...
Pepsi Exec Tells Coke: Screw Your Polar Bears!
Pepsi is turning up the heat—again—in its war against Coca-Cola.
This past year Pepsi was dishing out the lion’s share of the jabs with commercials like Dancing Santa and Uncle Teddy that used Coca-Cola’s most beloved spokesperson/spokes-animals.
Now Pepsi is taking a swing at Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl efforts, which have their polar bear mascots watching and reacting to the game and commercials...