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Want To Be Smart and Successful Take a Nap
University of Chicago sleep researcher David Gozal, MD, sacrificing it for work, entertainment or some other lifestyle choice. In large part, he believes, we do this because it can take months or even years for a disease caused by sleep deficit to fully emerge. In the meantime, everything from our health to our relationships to our sense of wonder gets diminished. "Sleep is the food of the ...
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Obama NSA spying doesnt mean abandoning freedom
In an interview with Charlie Rose, the president maintains that the top-secret NSA spying programs were within the bounds of the law and were intended to protect U.S. ...
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Sprint sues Dish Clearwire to prevent $6B takeover bid
Sprint Nextel has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network and Clearwire seeking to prevent Dish's takeover of the wireless broadband provider. The No. 3 wireless carrier filed a lawsuit Monday against the two companies in Delaware Court of Chancery, alleging that Dish's tender offer violates the rights of Sprint and Clearwire's shareholders and the laws of the state of Delaware. ...
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Samsung Boasts Of Double-Data Speed Galaxy S4 Smartphone
JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Aside from churning out impressive, feature-packed technology that dominates the smartphone industry, Samsung is also adept at stirring up interest in what it has up its sleeve. Last month the South Korean electronics giant announced it was working on "5G" technology that would one day be ...
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Why Has Apple Overpriced iCloud
(AAPL) overpriced iCloud so much? You might not have noticed, but iCloud is now significantly overpriced. In case you're like me and you signed up for iCloud a year ago and have it on auto-renew, you probably can't even remember what iCloud costs. Here is an iCloud refresher: - You get the first 5 GB of storage free - The next 10 GB (for 15 GB total) costs $20/year - 20 ...
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Ex-HTC execs cant quit phone game create startup Kazam
Two former HTC executives are hoping for a fresh start with their own company. Michael Coombes, former head of sales at HTC, and James Atkins, former U.K. marketing head for the company, said on Monday that they are launching smartphone manufacturer Kazam. The two executives are promising smartphones that are about "stunning design, robust hardware, and intuitive technology, underpinned ...
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Apples Eddy Cue Steve Jobs was confused in his e-mails
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) NEW YORK -- An e-mail from late Apple CEO Steve Jobs about e-book deal terms is no smoking gun, just a confused draft of a message, a high-level Apple executive said Monday during the e-books antitrust trial. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of software and services, testified that he never received an email from Jobs that said publishers would have to ...
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School iris-scanned students without telling parents
A Florida school admits that it made several mistakes when it allowed a security company to install iris scanners without telling parents -- and without even having a contract with the ...
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Former Microsoft exec tries his luck at building marijuana brand
In this photo taken May 30, 2013, former Mexican president Vicente Fox, left, speaks as Jamen Shively, CEO of Diego Pellicer, looks on during a news conference in ...
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Hertz-owned Thrifty says offer of free rental car was a mistake apologizes to customers
DALLAS -- Thrifty Car Rental says it's sorry, but many customers who were offered a free one-day rental won't be getting that after all. The company says the offer was intended for a select group of top customers but was sent accidentally to many other people. "We're very sorry for any confusion our eagerness may have caused," the chain, which is owned by Hertz Global ...
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PRISM Apple Facebook Microsoft ... Who released which data
If you're feeling dizzy in the wake of the PRISM affair, you're not alone. Here's a summary of the companies involved and what they did with your ...
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Tough Advice That Changed My Life For The Better
Have you ever heard the phrase "we're tough because we care"? That's the philosophy LearnVest C.E.O. Alexa von Tobel abides by when it comes to personal finance, noting that tough advice can often be great advice. "One of the most valuable pieces of advice that I ever heard was from an investor who told me that 'people simply live too big,' " she says. ...
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7 Management Practices That Can Improve Employee Productivity
Credit: One Way Stock All companies want to improve employee productivity, but how often do they examine their own management practices as a means of attaining ...
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Samsung On Quest For The Holy Grail With The Help Of Jay-Z
Jay-Z's "Magna Carta Holy Grail" won't drop for several weeks, but it has already made the hip hop artist $20M. On Sunday night Jay-Z announced the upcoming release of his new album with a three-minute commercial that aired during the fifth game of the NBA finals. The commercial, produced by Samsung, directed users ...
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Scott London I Got About $70000 in Kickbacks
Scott London spoke to CNBC's Jane Wells about the KPMG insider trading scheme and how much he made in kickbacks. London says "nothing like this has ever happened ...
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Googles low-cost Chromebooks coming to 6600 more stores
(Credit: Google) While Google hasn't done a lot of promotion around its Chromebooks, there's no doubt that the company is still working on bringing the low-cost laptops to more people around the world. The tech ...
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Apple trims industrial from Jony Ives title
(Credit: Apple) Apple Senior Vice President Jonathan Ive began last week with a new title, the company's Web site shows. Instead of being listed as the company's SVP of "Industrial Design," ...
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Apple holds a quarter of e-book market Eddy Cue says
But Barnes & Noble is neck-and-neck with the electronics giant and sometimes surpasses Apple's market share in digital books, the high-level Apple executive said during testimony in ...
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The 404 1285 Where E3 is no place for fanboys
E3 2013 and filter out some of the new-found disgust I have for videogame fanboys. You know, the worst kind of fanboy. - Check out Jeff's slideshow showing ...
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County car sales on pre-recession pace
Data released Friday by the San Diego County New Car Dealers Association shows that through May, San Diegans have bought 54,660 new cars and light trucks, a 9.5 percent gain over the same time period in 2012. If that pace continues, dealers would sell 138,594 in 2013, surpassing the 2007 total of 136,137, just before the sharp economic ...
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News Summary On trading floor a wait-and-see day
HOLDING PATTERN: Trading was light Monday, with investors waiting to see what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will say Wednesday about how long the central bank might keep in place programs meant to stimulate the economy.GOING UP: All major U.S. stock indexes were up, largely because investors think the Fed will keep its programs in place. Two positive economic reports - one on home ...
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After Hours GenMark slides after-hours on revenue cut
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- GenMark Diagnostics trimmed its annual revenue view, sending the company's shares tumbling in after-hours trade ...
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Bullish Second Quarter Earnings Expected For Akami
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) The summer of 2013 is expected to be anything but dull. Tensions among investors and market volatility are high as we weigh the effects of quantitative easing tapering amid a world with struggling ...
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Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One
Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect ...
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LivingSocial Closing Seattle Office
reported a third quarter loss in 2012 of $274 million, with Amazon blaming most of the loss on its investment in LivingSocial. Most of the layoffs were felt in customer service and administration, though no offices were closed at the time. Today, a spokesperson for LivingSocial has confirmed that the Seattle office is now closing. The spokesperson notes that "the team that had been located ...
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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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