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Thirty years ago, Curt Griffing was told he needed to “learn to live with it,” after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, described as a chronic, progressive disease resulting in inflammation in the joints. He decided that he didn’t want to and sought alternative…

What does virtually every multinational corporation adore? Answer: A monopoly on its products. Less or no competition, you see, means higher profits and without regard to consumers’ pocketbooks. That might be one reason to explain why German Big Pharma corporation…

It’s not a zombie apocalypse but it could be the next best – or worst – thing, depending on your point of view, but one thing is for certain: The robots are coming, and with them new laws that will undoubtedly be utilized to protect them. According to the Chillicothe…

The black mamba is the longest, fastest, and most poisonous snake in Africa, and its venom is a ferocious neurotoxin that paralyzes and kills small animals. According to French scientists at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology in Nice, though, this venom…

Officials in the growing country of Bhutan in southern Asia have found that in the pursuit of economic development, people and society lose their culture, environment, and their social systems leading to significant problems. Bhutan has said, “That is not enough,” to…

Organic tomatoes really are better for you, and they taste better to boot, according to the findings of a recent study conducted by researchers from the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil and published in the journal PLOS ONE. Although most consumers assume that…

Microwaves absolutely decimate the nutritional value of your food, destroying the very vitamins and phytonutrients that prevent disease and support good health. Previous studies have shown that as much as 98% of the cancer-fighting nutrients in broccoli, for example…

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), formerly known as the American Dietetic Association (ADA) has evidently managed to insert enough input into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to ensure only registered dieticians with the ADA have ultimate…

It’s strange that environmental journalist/activist Mark Lynas makes a speech confessing his wayward madness for opposing GMO agriculture, and it manages to make it into the New York Times online op-ed section on the heels of the shocking French GMO tumor study. Mark…

The decision to eat or not eat the GMO corn is only a small reason behind why I vehemently support the labeling of genetically modified foods and hold deep contempt for the biotech industry as a whole. Monsanto and the rest of the land rapers have desecrated the islands…

This week, the President urged Congress to resolve harmful budget cuts and reduce the deficit in a way that helps grow the economy and strengthen the middle class, held his first Cabinet meeting of the second term, announced three key Cabinet nominations, and signed the Violence Against Women Act. 

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Microsoft (MSFT), which is seemingly trying to remake itself from a software company into a non-profit privacy advocate on par with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has shifted the focus of its anti-Google (GOOG) campaign to the realm of lobbying. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is pushing a bill in the Massachusetts state legislature that “would prohibit companies that provide schools with ‘a cloud-computing’ service… from using the information gleaned from schoolchildren for advertising or other commercial purposes.” While this sounds innocuous enough, the Journal says that it’s being crafted “to take aim at Google’s growing business of providing basic software like email and word processing over the Internet, which, in turn, is a growing threat to Microsoft’s cash-cow suite of Office tools.”

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We’re pretty familiar with Samsung’s constant legal battle with Apple all over the world, and especially in the US. Samsung, having quite a bit of extra cash to play with, upped their legal spending on US lobbyists last year to $900,000, up from just $150,000 in 2011. That’s a pretty significant jump. The extra spending is an attempt to sway the federal government on many legal issues, including IP copyright and telecommunication infrastructure. Samsung also hired former Sony veteran Joel Wigington to run a Washington office.

The mobile market is expected to be worth $847 billion in 2016, so this is obviously a really sweet pie that everyone wants a piece of, Samsung included. The lawsuits aren’t likely to let up, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see other companies beef up their legal presence to defend against (or initiate more of) those lawsuits.

source: Bloomberg

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“Well, it’s about time!”, might be what your thinking if you have been anticipating the much anticipated OTA of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on your DROID RAZR or DROID RAZR MAXX. Unlike their little brother, the Droid RAZR M, which received the OTA months ago, owners of these devices have been denied the pleasure of all 4.1′s Jelly Bean goodness…but no more!

We already got an idea of some of the changes with this update, but now it’s officially approved and ready to go. Hit the break for some of the new Jelly Bean highlights along with some demo videos.

• Google Now – Receive sports scores, stock updates, weather reports, and traffic updates without having to search the entire web for them. Google Now will learn what’s important to you and give you the updates you need before you even know you needed them.

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• Expanded Notifications – Get a snapshot of your incoming e-mails, news reader notifications, Facebook updates, chat and more. Swipe them away where your done with them and move on with your busy life.

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• Improved Voice Search – Ask Google Now a real-world question, and get a real-world answer in seconds.  Want to know what the weather will be like for the motorcycle ride this afternoon? Android 4.1 will tell you, in spoken word!

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Want to know more, check the source for a link to Motorola’s new Android upgrade page and get information on the upgrade schedule.

Source:  Motorola

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If you backed OUYA on Kickstarter, you still have a few weeks to wait before you receive your OUYA console. The good news, though, is that there should be plenty of games on the market for you when you do get your new gadget, as OUYA has opened their game download shop for developers to begin uploading their projects. This is going to guarantee there’s a big enough selection to keep the excitement going for the console on launch day.

OUYA is also running a contest in their shop to spur development. The top three developers based on the first six weeks of availability will be featured in a series of short documentaries. Hopefully we’ll see some positive results out of this. Who’s excited to get their hands on a OUYA console?

source: Gamefans

via: Phandroid

 

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If you’re the owner of a Sprint Optimus G, you’ll want to keep an eye out for the 4.1.2 update that Sprint has announced it will be pushing to your device. You’ll get Google Now, expandable notifications, and all the other awesome features in Jelly Bean. Now we just have to wait and see if AT&T’s Optimus G gets the same treatment anytime soon. Hit the source below to get a full list of new features in the update.

source: Sprint

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Greetings frequent travelers!  If you like to travel as much as I do, you have probably fallen victim to the missing luggage bandit at some point. Bummer when you are attending a week long business seminar and everything you brought to wear is MIA. Low cost tracking solution guru’s, GlobaTrac, LLC., has a solution. They have just announced the release of their latest innovation, the GPS TrakDot Luggage  for preorder.

Just purchase the low cost TrackDot for $49.99, activate it for $8.99, and subscribe to the service for a nominal $12.99 annual subscription fee and the TrakDot will do the rest. Just drop the GPS enabled TrakDot into your luggage and it will report what city/airport it’s at in real time to your cell phone. It will even automatically turn itself off just before takeoff and turn back on upon landing.  By the time you get off the plane, you will receive a text message telling you what city it’s in.

I don’t know about you, but with all the traveling I do, the TrakDot’s initial cost and subscription fee is well worth the peace of mind that comes along with it. Knowing my luggage is in Denver while I sit in Dallas will most definitely benefit me when I walk up to the counter to ask the airline rep what the mix-up was. The TackDot will ship in June, but it you preorder before April 27, GlobaTrac will waive your activation fee!

To order and for more info visit TrakDot.

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Trakdot Luggage Tracking Device Now Available for Pre-Order

Los Angeles – March 7, 2013 – Trakdot™ announces they are now accepting pre-orders for the Trakdot Luggage™ device through their website. Created by GlobaTrac, LLC , an innovator in low cost tracking solutions, Trakdot Luggage fits into a checked bag, and reports city/airport location in real time to any cellular telephone. Those early adopters who place an order on Trakdot.com before April 27, 2013 will have their activation fee waived and will be among the first to receive the device.

Trakdot Luggage was designed to provide peace of mind over one’s valuables and take the stress out of travel.  The device is very simple to use.  Once the tracker is registered, turned on, and placed in a piece of luggage, the technology takes over the rest of the work.  Rather than utilizing GPS technology, Trakdot operates on cell technology to triangulate an active device’s location.  It will turn itself off just before takeoff, and then turn back on upon landing to confirm which city the bag is currently in and text the owner that information.  Alternatively, users can visit the website to locate their luggage.

“After the overwhelming success we had at the Consumer Electronics Show, and the strong demand from consumers around the world, we wanted to provide an early and direct path to purchase,” explains CEO Harry Steck.

The product will be available in late June for $49.99 MSRP, with an activation fee of $8.99 and an annual service fee of $12.99.  The activation fee waiver equates to more than 12% of product purchase costs.  Advance orders are based on a limited quantity and may sell out prior to April 27, 2013, after which no more pre-release orders can be fulfilled with this special offer.  Visit www.Trakdot.com for more information or to place an order.

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Earlier today Facebook announced changes to the newsfeed for the popular social media site that appear to mimic some features from Google+. The overall look is laid out in a manner similar to Google+ with items in the feed becoming more prominent while a ribbon down the left side of the site is full of icons for different functions. To the right side of the layout are blocks for access to specific lists of friends or other pages you may be following. Though Facebook claims the new redesign is based on mobile devices, opening a Google+ homepage and comparing it with the new Facebook newsfeed may leave you wondering whether they were copying the principles of Google+.

Another function that may strike users as similar to Google+ are the different options for what appears in the newsfeed. In their video showing off the new function, users can select to see posts of photos or music or just friends or just pages they are following. It is not clear whether users will be able to customize these selections. The idea is to limit what shows up in the newsfeed similar to the way Google+ users can use Circles.

Facebook mentioned some other enhancements during their announcement event. According to Facebook’s information, users are more visual now and are much more likely to post pictures and videos instead of plain text updates. So images and videos will be displayed much larger in a nod to this change in usage. Facebook also said links to web sites and other articles will include more text “blurbs” than they do now. Facebook also claims the clients for mobile devices will be very similar to the standard web interface so that users will have a consistent experience no matter how they access the service. Unfortunately, it appears Android users will be last in line to get any updates.

Facebook said they will slowly rollout the change in what will amount to a long soak test. Users can sign up to try to get in on the changes early in the process. If you are interested, hit the source link and scroll to the bottom of the page.

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source: Facebook

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