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Let your shoes do the charging
harness energy from the force of the heel hitting the ground . The prototype -- while admittedly big, unattractive, and impractical to wear 100 percent of the time (think sleeping, showering, etc.) -- demonstrates that the simple act of walking may one day power a wide range of electronics, including medical devices such as pacemakers and artificial hearts. "Theoretically, it would be ...
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Google+ app for Android gets post-IO overhaul
Android provides users with options such as automatic photo enhancements and Auto Awesome. Other features include the instant hashtagging, quick access to Hangouts, and improved notifications. Building off of the tools that came ...
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HTC One makes video call from summit of Everest
HTC One to be on top of the world, but thanks to British mountaineer Daniel Hughes, the high-end Android phone is the first to make a video call from the highest point on Earth. Hughes, who's trying to raise $1.5 million for Comic Relief -- it's also the highest ever Red Nose -- spoke ...
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FOREX-U.S. dollar retreats broadly on caution before Bernanke
Mon May 20, 2013 4:27pm EDT * Japan minister suggests yen has weakened enough * BOJ meeting, Bernanke's congressional testimony in focus * Dollar retreats from near three-year peak vs basket of currencies By Wanfeng Zhou NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the euro and yen on Monday as traders pared back expectations Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would hint at ...
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News Summary United resumes 787 flying
BACK IN THE AIR: United Flight 1 flew from Houston to Chicago, the first passenger flight on the airline's 787 since they were grounded in January.WHO IS FLYING NOW: Ethiopian Airlines restarted 787 flights on April 27, and Qatar Airways and Air India have, too.WHAT'S NEXT: United will use its six 787s on domestic flights for now. It plans to restart international flights June ...
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Rates mixed at weekly US Treasury bill auction
WASHINGTON -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills unchanged while rates on six-month bills rose to the highest level in five weeks.The Treasury Department auctioned $30 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.045 percent. That's unchanged from last week. Another $25 billion in six-month bills was ...
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United restarts 787 flights after grounding
United Airlines is again flying the 787, four months after smoldering batteries forced the plane to be grounded worldwide.A United 787 flight took off from Houston on Monday morning and landed in Chicago.United Continental Holdings Inc. has six 787s. Battery problems on planes owned by other airlines prompted the grounding. Federal authorities cleared the planes to fly again on April 19. ...
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Meet New Ashoka Fellow Pamela Cantor
Susan Sygall . Every day this week, we'll publish a new Fellow profile and an accompanying video so you can get to know them and discover their ...
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When Should A Website Launch As Invite-Only
I am involved as a co-founder in more than one company. At one, I'm helping to build a new social networking website. Here's a question for fellow entrepreneurs: Should we launch the site as invitation only? This is not a theoretical question. It is a real decision my partner and I need to make soon, and today I am crowdsourcing the decision of whether or not to launch on an ...
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Guess What Marketers Interactive TV Is Actually Here
The interactive TV dream has been just around the corner for almost two decades. We've long imagined, but never developed, a TV that allows us to transition seamlessly from watching the Yankees game to an online music video to pushing a button and ordering an advertiser's product. In other words, a TV that delivers the ultimate marketer's dream: brand awareness to consideration to ...
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CapitalOneSparkVoice Social Selling In The Age Of Twitter
Our business and personal contacts are being blurred more and more as the pace of business accelerates. Cutting-edge technologies and social tools can be a company's best ally or worst enemy when it comes to building relationships in the Twitter age. We caught up with one company that's helping businesses capitalize on the serendipity of the social ...
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Playing Hawken On The Oculus Rift Welcome To The Future
I had the good fortune of playing a few minutes of the excellent free-to-play mech game, Hawken, on the Oculus Rift VR headset. It's an experience I can't recommend highly enough. The Oculus Rift is a gadget that could very well change the landscape of video games in the near future, bringing a viable virtual reality option to gamers for the first time ever. Hawken is, unsurprisingly, ...
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Is Twitter Getting Down To Business
iLoveDogs uses Promoted Tweets to optimize their dog care news for real-time events as well as longer-term planning for the holidays. With over 200 million active users and 400 million Tweets per day, Twitter is much more than the brand that ...
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Its All Good For Hyundai In Pivoting From Mileage Issue
In evaluating his marketing strategy in the aftermath of the federal-government wrist-slap last fall for two years of mileage overstatement, Hyundai of America CMO Steve Shannon might want to appropriate a slogan from the brand's newest advertising campaign about something entirely different: "It's All Good." These days, Hyundai is using that tag line among others in ...
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Sources Dwight Howard And Chandler Parsons Will Share The Same Agent
Chandler Parsons tweeted this picture with his "crew" at the Billboard Music Awards. At the far left is Matt Davis, a Basketball Sports Agent at Relativity Sports. NBA center Dwight Howard will enter free agency this summer with a plethora of teams interested in securing his services for the 2013-14 season and beyond. Howard was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012 as part of a ...
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Your Brand As An API Why Youve Lost Control Of Your Messaging
ESPN 's SportsCenter with you. His response is simple and telling: "Nah, why wait? I'll just look it up on my iTouch." We have officially lost control of when and where our messages are being consumed - a fact that would be obvious if we looked at our own behavior. With the ubiquity of social media and the instant access provided by the Internet, consumers are now in control ...
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The Hidden Announcement At Google IO
Paying back that 20 dollars your buddy spotted you last night will soon be as easy as sending an email. With very little fanfare last week at Google I/O, a very useful new technology was introduced. You might have missed it among the flurry of other ...
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Why Northrop Grumman Shares Are A Steal Of A Deal In This Market
Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk USAF (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You know what's a real scandal? It's the fact that between the IRS mess and the AP controversy, between the Powerball ...
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Xbox 720 and PS4 go head to head Speculation rife ahead of Microsoft launch - and rumour mill goes into overdrive
Expectations are high after Sony's dispiriting launch of the new PS4 back in February (a tweaked controller design was on display but little else), and although there seems to be a consensus regarding the hardware specifications, Xbox spokesman Major Nelson is still promising that the Tuesday release will "mark the beginning of a new generation of games, TV and entertainment".Most ...
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Yahoo’s fuzzy path to making Tumblr work
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- How can Yahoo make money out of Tumblr? By trial and error, and lots of patience, say analysts who also warn that it won't be a slam ...
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Shots leaked of Galaxy S4 Active
Galaxy S4 variant is meant to be resistant to dust and water, which is fortunate for those times when you feel compelled to tweet while rolling down a sand dune into a rushing ...
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Teens science project could charge phones in 20 seconds
An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the ...
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Haunting Melissa App-only film delivers horror to mobile
(Credit: Hooked Digital Media) In recent years, we've seen people dabble in bringing a narrative film experience to mobile phones. It makes sense -- there's an interactive personal screen in your pocket that allows you to pick up content wherever you go. But neither the interactive film ...
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Apple lays out tax plan ahead of congressional hearing
a full testimony the company plans to present to Congress on Tuesday, detailing how and where it pays corporate taxes. The 16-page document comes a day ahead of ...
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Googles new Hangouts cant make phone calls
As the company integrates Google Voice into its social network, the latest update for Hangouts is missing the ability to make outbound phone calls. Users can still receive calls to their Google Voice ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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