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Not one to waste a minute, AG Findings has rolled out four new protective cases for the Blackberry Torch . First there is the premium leather pouch which is very traditional looking and ordinary on the outside, but it has the unique ability to automatically put your device in sleep mode to conserve battery through its built-in sleeper magnets. The Premium Leather Pouch retails for $39.99. The Glide Rail Technology (GRT) Shell is made of a special shell that attaches to itself rather, than the device.

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AG Findings Releases BlackBerry Torch Cases, Wow – That Was Fast!

I caught this very interesting & encouraging article in the Sunday Chicago Tribune & US News & World Report What the resumes of top CEOs have in common What the Résumés of Top CEOs Have in Common by Liz Wolgemuth (love her name, by the way & I do wonder why it took the Tribune

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US Fortune 100 CEO’s working overseas

GameStop and Microsoft will be hosting Halo: Reach After Hours Events at 1,100 stores nationwide this Friday, August 6, 2010 from 9:00pm to 10:30pm local time. Halo fans will be treated to a video showcasing exclusive Halo:Reach tips and tricks, in-game footage, the new Firefight mode and other terrific game information. Halo Reach Customers attending the After Hours Events will have a chance to win amazing prizes such as the Legendary Edition collector’s pack (MSRP: $149.99, one copy per store). This special edition includes such things as a hand-painted individually numbered collectible Noble Team statue, game disc housed in a recovered ONI “black box,” exclusive Elite armor set for multiplayer modes, and an artifact bag containing classified documents unraveling Halo secrets, and more. There will also be a text-to-win sweepstakes for a chance to win a life-size Halo statue.

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Halo: Reach After Hours Events at GameStop

Canalys Research has published some great insights on the Worldwide smartphone market. According to their research, Android based smartphone rocked 2009 and the shipments have increased by a whooping 886% year on year from Q2 2009. This is indeed a great number and shows that Android as a smart phone OS is delivering what it promised when it was launched. Guys at Google must be really happy.

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Worldwide Smartphone Market Numbers

Lifehacker’s Best Times to Buy Anything chart is one of the coolest things around. It breaks down the peak times to save money on purchases month by month, showing you when you should buy particular items – from big ticket pictures to pantry goods. Image: sxc.hu So what’s on the chart for August? Older computers, camping supplies, toys, linens, storage bins, and wine. This doesn’t mean you need to run out today and stock up on these things

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Best Things to Buy in August

Bloomberg today reported that US Major Carriers – Verizon Wireless , AT&T and T-Mobile are planning a venture to offer a payment service based on NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, a potential technology that could challenge the credit card payment processors, such as VISA and MasterCard. According to Bloomberg, Symbian and iPhone devices will be among the first to get the NFC technology. Google’s Android, meanwhile, is still playing catch-up, and might overtake Symbian and iPhone to become the first. It remains to be seen whether the NFC payment technology would be accepted by consumers or not. picture via wikipedia.org

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US Carriers Plan A Mobile Payment Venture to Challenge Visa and MasterCard

The decision of the United Arab Emirates to ban BlackBerry email, messenger and web browsing services goes to the heart of the way in which the handheld devices operate – itself a consequence of the mobile market in which they were born. When the first BlackBerry appeared, over a decade ago, mobile phone networks were far more basic than they are today. The most innovative service the majority of users had seen since mobile devices first appeared in the 1980s was the introduction of text messaging. In the US, many mobile users were still making calls on analogue networks, while in Europe the new digital operators were only just introducing data services. But the sorts of speeds possible over networks such as Orange and Cellnet in the UK were pitiful.

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How BlackBerry developed its mobile phone and networks

EquaTerra, a global sourcing advisory firm with expertise in information technology (IT), finance, human resources and other business processes, has conducted research for Computer Weekly readers that analyses the market and trends for IT outsourcing in Western Europe.

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EquaTerra Takes the Pulse of European Outsourcing Market

It’s a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in. So when Apple Inc launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry

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iPhone 4 has some sleazy users

I read with interest an article Do Germans and Americans Understand Each Other in German American Trade, the magazine of the German American Chambers of Commerce which highlighted some of the meaningful cultural differences which make a difference in international business.  One of my pet peeves is that many Americans throw up their hands in

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what I REALLY mean by cultural differences in business

I attended this event Transatlantic Climate Bridge Conference on Renewable Energy & Emission Trading organized by the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest.  The presentations are posted here & here’s what they said in addition to what was contained on the Powerpoint. Dr. Martin Schoepe, Head of Division, International und European Affairs of

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transatlantic climate bridge conference

Developing an email retention policy is an important step in every company’s email management process. And as always every organization’s retention policy will differ depending on the needs of the company, the industry they belong to and the resources available to them. The purpose of having an email retention policy is to help employees determine what information should be retained and for how long based on what emails – or even instant messages – are sent or received by the employees.

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Six Email Retention Best Practices

According to InsideFacebook , Facebook has begun to have a negative growth in the key demographic of 18-35 year-olds. And though the site continues to have significant positive growth overall, should they be worried about losing this key demographic? InsideFacebook Has Facebook lost its appeal to you? Do you use it as much as before?

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Facebook Losing 18-25 Audience?

I attended this event America’s Fiscal Future: Making Difficult Choices sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation & Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago featuring Dr.’s John Palmer & Rudolph Penner.  You should be able to see/listen to the panel discussion here @ Chicago Amplified on the local outlet for National Public Radio.  The event was put together

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MacArthur Foundation on American fiscal policy

Today, it became evident that Motorola has moved forward with filing a lawsuit against the Chinese manufacturer Huawei. The company’s reasoning is rooted in the belief that Huawei stole trade secrets from Motorola

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Motorola Sues Huawei for Possibly Stealing Trade Secrets

Gartner has identified 10 mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2011, and as Nick Jones, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, says these “10 mobile technologies should be on every organization’s radar screen”. So, here we go: • Bluetooth (3 and 4). Two new Bluetooth versions will emerge by 2011: Bluetooth 3 will introduce 802.11 as a bearer for faster data transmission, and Bluetooth 4 will introduce a new low-energy (LE) mode that will enable communication with external peripherals and sensors

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Top 10 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010/11

Getting what you want out of a technology project starts with knowing what you want. One of the best ways to explore your problem is by building many quick and dirty (even non-functional) prototypes, and using this discovery process to refine and perfect your idea. The Paper Prototype Regardless of what you’re …

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Rundown of Rapid Prototyping Tools

The world of the mobile arena lawsuit seems to be a never ending battleground with company suing company left right and centre, and the latest of these to come to light is with Droid smartphone maker Motorola. According to a Nilay Patel article over on Engadget , Motorola has filed a lawsuit against several ex-employees and Hauwei for conspiring to steal Motorola wireless trade secrets and other tech covering a period of years beginning back in 2001. Apparently originally the lawsuit was filed back in 2008 against a firm called Lemko and 4 former Motorola engineers with Motorola claiming they conspired to pinch wireless technology trade secrets. However after deeper investigation Motorola has decided to file the new lawsuit which was filed on the 16th of July and names 9 more ex-employees along with Huawei and alleges they planed to steal plans for Motorola’s SC300, a 3G base station.

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Motorola Sues Ex-workers and Hauwei over Trade Secrets Theft

Texas-based InNova Patent Licensing LLC has filed a broad lawsuit against thirty-six defendants accusing them of infringement upon an email spam patent that was granted to InNova founder Robert Uomini. The patent describes a method of identifying incoming email as spam by using external context information obtained from the sender and according to Christopher Banys, lead counsel for InNova, it is “one of the building blocks for all email communications”. The thirty-six defendants are a motley crew and include technology giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo, RIM, and HP, retail giants like JCPenney Co., food manufacturers such as Frito-lay and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc, and finance stalwarts including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Company

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InNova Patent Licensing LLC files infringement lawsuit against thirty-six companies over email spam patent

Here you are the last bit of our tour at Hitachi exhibition, with the company vision of a “Minority Report” like interface. Perhaps closer to Microsoft Kinect UI, Hitachi system will let you control any kid of information display on a TV or by a Video projector, by simply waving your hands in any directions. Nothing much to say here since this was just a working prototype, but, Hitachi is working not only on including this technology in digital signage, but also in the medical aera, where …

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[Video] Hitachi “Minority Report” like interface.

Hitachi latest Wonder, the Robot EMIEW 2, which actually stands for Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Work-mate, received last june some nice little upgrade, and if unfortunately we could not attend the press conference organized by Hitachi, we have today however some nice footage of these upgrades. Among the many upgrades that EMIW 2 received, the 2 majors ones are Voice Recognition, and adaptive suspension control technology giving EMIEW 2 better stability while crossing a …

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[Video] Hitachi EMIEW 2 gets upgraded!