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By discovering that AT&T had made accidentally the email addresses of subscribers to its ipad 3g wireless service publicly accessible,
#Verizon iphone: Eat this AT&T! Projected Release Date: Summer of 2011 Why not throw another Verizon iphone rumor into the quickly-growing pile?
The latest scuttlebutt comes from Fortune magazine, citing multiple sources that say the Verizon iphone will launch in early 2011.
It will reportedly be an iphone 4, running on Verizons CDMA network, and for U s. users there wont be any special chip for operating the phone outside the country.
If youve been following these rumors, chances are heard youve some of this stuff before. A few weeks ago, the Wall street journal reported that Apple will start mass-producing a Verizon iphone at the end of this year for an early 2011 launch.
The Journal tipped Taiwan-based Pegatron Technology Corp. as the manufacturer same as an earlier report from Digitimes.
That the Verizon phone will supposedly be an iphone 4nd not some newer modelas also a rumor in August by John Gruber,
who writes the Daring Fireball blog. Whats new this time? Not much in terms of details on the phone itself,
but the rumor comes wrapped in a lengthy profile of Verizon Chief executive Ivan Seidenberg. Both he and wireless chief Lowell Mcadam are quoted,
After Verizon turned down the original iphone, Mcadam said he set out to mend relations with Apple in late 2007,
once complaints about AT&TS network began to mount. In a December 2009 meeting, Apple Chief executive Steve jobs praised Seidenberg for making good decisions. oei think he began to look at us as having a slightly bigger IQ
which Verizon Wireless began selling in its stores this week, was the oefirst fruits of ongoing discussions between Verizon and Apple.
A Verizon iphone would appear to be the next step. The story describes the device as a oefait accompli.
Apple has a reputation for secrecy and controlling leaks, but the sheer volume of Verizon iphone reports, all telling the same story, suggest that its just a matter of time before Jobs announces the darned thing.
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but may do so at the expense of reduced fertility, a Princeton university study has concluded. An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness.
according to the latest blog speculation and will be on the Verizon network in the US. This was given some credence by the CEO of Canadian carrier Sasktel,
His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard
, National Association of Federal Credit unions, STAMATS, Bell canada, American Chemical Society, Times of India, Leaders in Dubai, and many more.
Two of the varieties contained genes for the Bt protein which protects the plant against the corn borer pest,
NBCS, NTTS and FECS (respectively No Broken Clutch System, No Touch Table System and Finger Easy Cleaning System.
NTTS refers to the design that keeps the fingers from touching the table or desktop. last and not least,
AT&T announced it will begin selling clothes embedded with health monitors, able to track the wearer s vital signs heart rate
%Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies,
In late May, AT&T (T: 31.17,0. 06,0. 19%)and Deutche Telekom announced that AT&T would buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.
The deal would add 34 million customers to the company and create the countrys largest wireless operator.
tethering the iphones Internet connection to a laptop or ipad without paying extra AT&T charges;
swapping out the AT&T or Verizon service for a cheaper carrier; or, customizing the iphone with 3-D screens, bouncing icons or funkier fonts.
An early form of jailbreaking started shortly after Apple unveiled the iphone in 2007, but the practice has evolved now into a lucrative industry with millions of consumers.
#Apple and AT&T have been trying to crack down on the booming black market. Matthews said Apple pressed Toyota to remove the theme and the ad this past week,
Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman said the company can detect which customers are tethering their iphones to other devices using an unauthorized hack;
they can pay AT&T $20 a month on top of the data plan costs; stop the unapproved tethering altogether;
or ignore AT&T but get automatically enrolled and billed anyway. Siegel declined to say how much revenue is lost from the tethering tools,
whether or how AT&T challenges the creators of the hacks. Because of its technology, AT&T is more vulnerable than Verizon to unlocking,
programmers say. At the top of the jailbreaking hierarchy sits Jay Freeman, 29, the founder and operator of Cydia, the biggest unofficial iphone app store,
Ciabarra said AT&T or Apple have contacted never him or his company, Intelliborn. We have spent a good amount of legal research making sure were not in the wrong,
was the impetus behind a joint venture by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Discover to create their own mobile wallet.
and Verizon Wireless and will this year pump billions into the economy. Within this world, the Apple Store is undisputed the king,
Though a significant increase, Mr. Moll s new salary of about $36, 000 puts him on the low side of the wage scale at the other large sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon
Initially, that involved walking into stores, including those operated by Sprint and AT&T, and scouting out promising employees.
because aspiring sales employees would clearly be better off working at one of the country s other big sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon Wireless,
It s not at all common but there are sales agents at Verizon who earn six figures, #says Jonathan Jarboe,
who managed Verizon Wireless stores in Oklahoma until last summer. Several former Verizon Wireless managers said that annual pay ran from $35
000 up to $100, 000 in rare cases, with the sweet spot in the $50, 000 to $60, 000 range.
Microsoft and Japan s NTT Docomo to deliver the service in a non-intrusive and fashionably acceptable way soft contact lenses are evolved sleek,
including Monsanto s Bt cotton: a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.
At Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK, for example, scientists are working on GM plants that will need even less pesticide than Bt cotton,
Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.
or they are resistant to a pesticide like Roundup (manufactured by Monsanto Corp.).One widely used method of incorporating insect resistance into plants is through the gene for toxin production found in the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) according to the World health organization.
GMO crops that are modified with the Bt gene have a proven resistance to insect pests thus reducing the need for wide-scale spraying of synthetic pesticides.
One of the most common'pyramided'crops on the market is cotton that produces two different'Bt'toxins made naturally by the bacterium Bacillus thuringensis.
But this does not pose a threat for control by the current pyramided Bt cotton of this insect Tabashnik says.
The biosafety issue of Bt brinjal has been studied by more than 150 scientists and nothing new will come from fresh consultations.
who opposed the introduction of Bt brinjal citing what they called inadequate safety data provided by Mahyco.
since 2002 show that Bt brinjal is absolutely safe to eat. But Bhargava and activist groups argue that the GEAC did not get the company data independently analysed.
The only other study, by French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini of the Committee for Independent Research and Information on Genetic engineering, branded Bt brinjal potentially unsafe for human consumption.
According to Seralini, eating Bt brinjal reduced appetite in goats, increased prothrombin time (the time it takes blood to clot) in goats and rabbits,
They have lost already the battle over Bt cotton the only GM crop grown in India
if they lose over Bt brinjal they lose the war, he says.
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The crop carries a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and was developed by Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech, a joint venture between the Jalna-based Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company and the US seed giant Monsanto,
Bt brinjal was approved for cultivation by India's Genetic engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), a scientific regulatory body, in October 2009.
A 19-page statement issued by Ramesh said that his ministry had decided to impose a moratorium on the release of Bt brinjal until independent scientific studies had established that it would not adversely affect the environment or human health.
negative public reaction to the prospect of growing Bt brinjal; and advice from Monkombu Swaminathan, the agricultural scientist known as the father of the green revolution in India.
the founding director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular biology in Hyderabad and an active campaigner against Bt brinjal, added that he was pleased with the precedent-setting decision.
such as rice that is insect-resistant (Bt rice) or enriched with Vitamin a and micronutrients. Our national labs have all the genes for rice improvement,
Ramesh insists that the moratorium is specific to Bt brinjal and should not discourage ongoing research.
Kameswara Rao points out that even if Bt brinjal cannot be grown legally farmers may start cultivating it anyway,
as has happened with Bt cotton (see'Illegal seeds overtake India's cotton fields').'Indeed, Chinese farmers had been growing Bt rice for five years before receiving official government approval just four months ago,
says Kumar. To prevent an unauthorized release of Bt brinjal in India, Ramanjaneyulu believes that the environment ministry should now confiscate the transgenic brinjal seeds held by Mahyco.
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The new approach, published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases1, uses crystal proteins from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt.
Organic farmers have used Bt to kill insects for decades, and plants have been modified genetically with Bt genes
since 1996 so crops such as corn and potato can produce the crystal proteins, protecting themselves from insects without any pesticides.
Aroian's previous study2 using a type of human intestinal roundworm parasite to infect hamsters showed a 90%reduction in three doses of Bt.
Bt is grown in fermenters that hold thousands of litres for use as an agricultural spray
The cost to treat one child with Bt would be 28 cents, Aroian estimates. It could be driven down more with optimizations in production,
According to the report, farmers who grow Bt crops, which are engineered to produce pest-killing toxins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, use less insecticide.
The Indian government on 15 may took over the Medical Council of India (MCI), three weeks after its president,
During that year, the government may also dissolve the MCI, which sets and maintains standards of medical education
In 1997, the Chinese government approved the commercial cultivation of cotton plants genetically modified to produce a toxin from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that is deadly to the bollworm Helicoverpa armigera.
More than 4 million hectares of Bt cotton are grown now in China. Since the crop was approved
Their rise in abundance is associated with the scale of Bt cotton cultivation. Wu and his colleagues suspect that mirid populations increased
because less broad-spectrum pesticide was used following the introduction of Bt cotton. Mirids are not susceptible to the Bt toxin
so they started to thrive when farmers used less pesticide, says Wu. The study is published in this week's issue of Science1.
The rise of mirids has driven Chinese farmers back to pesticides they are currently using about two-thirds as much as they did before Bt cotton was introduced.
New york, concluded that the economic benefits of Bt cotton in China have eroded2. The team attributed this to increased pesticide use to deal with secondary pests.
since Bt cotton was introduced. Along with genetically modified crops, says Andow, farmers need effective systems for responding to changes in pest abundance.
In October 2009, India's Genetic engineering Approval Committee gave the go-ahead to commercial planting of Bt brinjal,
a variety of aubergine modified to produce a protein from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacterium that is toxic to insect pests.
Bt Brinjal: A Pioneering Push, written by Kumar for the magazine Biotech News, and The Development and Regulation of Bt Brinjal in India by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, a lobby group based in Ithaca, New york,
and funded by biotechnology corporation Monsanto, headquartered in St louis, Missouri. Kumar had contributed also to this second report.
Bt brinjal...has been subjected to a rigorous biosafety regulatory process encompassing all aspects of toxicity, allergenicity, environmental safety, socioeconomic assessment etc.
Kumar says that the report's conclusion that Bt brinjal is safe is based largely on data analysed by the Genetic engineering Approval Committee last year suggesting that a report commissioned to supplement the committee's scientific guidance is actually based on the committee's recommendations.
I knew even before the moratorium was put on Bt brinjal, he told the Times of India this week.
assessed the effects of planting maize (corn) genetically modified to produce Bt toxin, which kills the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis).
We were surprised to find that a higher proportion of the total benefit is actually going to the non-Bt farmers,
Not only does Bt maize suppress the corn-borer population in fields planted with the GM crop
This work provides strong evidence for the reduced pest burden for non-Bt corn caused by the Bt corn, based on a reduction in overall pest-population size
Conventional growers also help to stop corn borers becoming resistant to the Bt toxin by hosting pest populations that are susceptible to it, according to the team's research.
the corn earworm (Helicoverpa zea), has evolved resistance to Bt toxin in situations where GM-crop coverage is 100%.
Some farmers were very sceptical of entomologists telling them they needed to maintain non-Bt corn
called Bt toxin. To prevent the spread of Bt resistance, farmers are required to plant nearby'refuges'of conventional crops.
The idea behind the refuges is to keep a population of non-resistant moths close at hand as potential mates for any resistant moths that arise.
To his surprise, the models suggested that the combination of Bt cotton and sterile-moth releases could wipe out pest populations
and stave off Bt resistance for at least 20 years. In 2005, the Pink bollworm Rearing Facility in Phoenix began cranking out pinkies for the Arizona experiment.
Ideally, the same approach could be used in regions where poor farmer compliance with the refuge rule has contributed to widespread Bt resistance.
it's conceivable that farmers will someday no longer have a use for Bt cotton at all.
and commercial release is Bt cotton which has added genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, making the plant produce toxins that confer resistance to some insect pests.
A Bt cotton variety is being developed for Kenyan farmers at KARI. According to the regulations it will take a minimum of three months to get the green light for environmental release after permission is sought from the authorities.
Next in line will be Bt maize (corn also being developed by scientists at KARI, says Gichuki. Other crops undergoing confined field trials include virus-resistant sweet potatoes and drought-resistant maize,
which is modified to produce a protein called Bt that is harmful to insect pests, is one of only two GM CROPS approved for cultivation in the EU. The other is a high-starch GM potato called Amflora that is intended for industrial applications such as paper production.
Bt Delta Endotoxin-The Bt delta endotoxin was selected because it is highly effective at controlling Lepidoptera larvae caterpillars.
For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs
The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
Bt has been available as a commercial microbial insecticide since the 1960s and is sold under many trade names.
Bt-corn is a type of genetically modified organism termed GMO. A GMO is a plant
Examples of GMO field crops include Bt-potatoes Bt-corn Bt-sweet corn Roundup Ready soybeans Roundup Ready Corn
A study was published recently examining adverse effects of Bacillus thuringensis (aka the Bt toxin) that Monsanto builds into their corn and soy.
and he's kind of an expert. http://wwwi-sis. org. uk/Bt-toxin. phpit is no coincidence that Monsanto has invested so much money in our politicians and against measures such as California's Prop 37.
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In this case the GM plant is Bt corn and the pest in question is the Spodoptera frugiperda
Bt plants are engineered so that they have genes from a soil bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis. The genes produce crystalline chemicals that kill insect larvae when they eat it.
A larva that chows down on a Bt-crystal-producing GM plant soon stops eating.
*In addition to Bt corn Bt cotton is popular. Yet resistance to Bt crops has been occurring with pest species throughout the world.
The first publicly announced case of insects in a field evolving resistance to Bt plants occurred in India in 2009.
The first U s. case followed in 2011. Since then there have been dozens of similar incidents.
In 2013 a team of entomologists and agriculture scientists reviewed 77 previous studies about international Bt crops.
The team found that in 2005 only one of the 13 pest species examined could eat Bt plants without dying.
But by 2013 five species could eat Bt plants. The first engineered Bt plant was registered by a U s. company in 1995
but not long afterward scientists noted that insects would likely evolve resistance to them. Controlling pests whether it's with microbes in a hospital
The rising Bt resistance means that farmers will likely ramp up their insecticide use. One group of Brazilian farmers even wants GMO companies to reimburse them for the additional insecticides they had to use
because their Bt crops failed to deter pests. Companies are also likely developing new GMO crops perhaps with more insect toxins engineered into them to combat the newly evolved resistance.
There is already a second generation of genetically modified Bt crops that make two Bt toxins instead of just one.
So does planting first-and second-generation Bt crops separately. Both strategies lessen the deadly pressure against insects susceptible to Bt poisoning so they'll evolve more slowly.
Seed company Dow Agrosciences told Reuters that Dow representatives taught Brazilian farmers these strategies. The companies'instructions were confusing a lawyer representing the farmers told Reuters
Most non-scientist Americans first learned about Bt corn when a study came out finding that pollen from the corn may kill caterpillars of the monarch butterfly.
Later studies have found that Bt corn doesn't significantly affect the numbers of monarch butterflies
These toxins were isolated from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt. These Bt corn hybrids have been adopted widely because they are exceptional for managing ECB--99.9 percent of larvae are expected to die
when they feed on plants expressing Bt toxins he said. Yet a drawback to using these hybrids has been the high cost of purchasing the seeds
which can decrease potential profits. To understand current ECB populations in Pennsylvania field corn the researchers assessed larval damage in Bt and non-Bt corn hybrids at 29 sites over three years.
Specifically they planted Bt and non-Bt corn hybrids on farm sites across four growing zones in Pennsylvania in 2010 2011 and 2012.
During September of each season they assessed corn borer damage on 400 random plants at each site.
With less ECB damage around non-Bt hybrids in our tests yielded just as well as Bt hybrids so the decline in ECB populations provides an opportunity for growers to generate greater profits by planting high-yielding non-Bt seed
which is much cheaper than Bt seed. Secondarily planting more non-Bt corn will reduce the potential for ECB to develop resistance to Bt toxins as corn rootworms have done in about a dozen states so far.
The team's results appeared in an early online edition of the journal Pest Management Science in December.
In addition to investigating the extent of ECB populations and damage in Pennsylvania the researchers also examined the predictive ability of the Pestwatch network
whether Bt or non-Bt hybrids are right for growers in different parts of the state.
According to Tooker growers planting Bt corn hybrids are required to plant set amounts of non-Bt corn as part of a resistance management plan to help prevent evolution of ECB populations that are resistant
to the Bt toxins expressed in corn hybrids. Based on our results we would tell growers to scout their non-Bt acreage toward the end of the growing season he said.
If they have low ECB populations and Pestwatch reflects low moth captures in their area we would recommend that in the next season they give competitive non-Bt hybrids a try on some of their acres
because they could see better profits from growing non-Bt hybrids. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Penn State.
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which is controlled not by commercial transgenic hybrids that express Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Cry1ab but partial control has been observed by corn varieties that express Cry1 F toxins.
#Delaying resistance to Bt corn in western corn rootwormcorn that contains proteins that protect it from insect damage has been grown in the U s. since the mid-1990s.
Known as Bt corn because the proteins are derived from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis these plants have been grown widely by farmers.
While Bt corn has been highly effective against the European corn borer it has been less so against the western corn rootworm
which has been documented to show resistance to the Bt proteins. In a new article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management--an open-access peer-reviewed extension journal--the authors explain why this has occurred
In Resistance to Bt Corn by Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the U s. Corn belt Drs.
Aaron Gassmann (Iowa State university) Michael Gray (University of Illinois) Eileen Cullen (University of Wisconsin) and Bruce Hibbard (University of Missouri) examine why Bt corn has been more effective against the European corn borer
First Bt proteins intended for the European corn borer are produced at a higher dose than the ones intended for rootworms;
which increases the chances of potentially resistant insects mating with non-resistant ones that have not been exposed to Bt proteins;
One approach to IRM is not necessarily optimal for all insect pests according to the authors who recommend that growers use the following IPM approaches to delay further rootworm resistance to Bt corn:
-Occasionally rotate to a non-Bt corn hybrid and consider use of a rootworm soil insecticide during planting.
-Consider using corn that contains different Bt proteins than ones that may have performed poorly in the past. -Consider using pyramided Bt hybrids
which is defined as corn that contains multiple Bt proteins targeting corn rootworm. -If crop rotation is not an option
and corn containing multiple Bt proteins is not available suppression of rootworm adults by using insecticides for one
or two growing seasons may be an appropriate remediation step. -Most importantly implement a long-term integrated approach to corn rootworm management based on scouting information and knowledge of corn rootworm densities that uses multiple tactics such as rotation with other crops
rotation of Bt proteins and the use of soil insecticides at planting with a non-Bt hybrid.
Two genetic loci Bi and Bt are known to confer bitterness in cucumber. In this study researchers found that the Bt locus was delimited to a 442-kb region on chromosome 5 that harbors 67 predicted genes.
They further investigated the genomic basis of divergence among the cultivated populations for identifying genes controlling important traits.
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