#Ban on Russian Grain Exports Causes Surge in U s. Wheat and Corn Prices A severe drought destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia
In the U s.,wheat for September delivery rose by 60 cents per bushel Thursday on the Chicago Board of Exchange to close at $7. 86, a jump from $4. 50 a month ago when reports
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#Fewer Americans Moving for New Jobs Could Harm an Already Struggling Recovery Unemployed, James Tiffany, would take a financial hit
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#Richest Americans Youve Never Heard Of These folks are in the money! Microsofts (MSFT) Bill gates, Berkshire hathaways (BRK.
A) Warren Buffett and Apples (AAPL) Steve jobs are all household names in addition to being among the wealthiest people in the country.
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#Digital Reading Devices Transforming the Way We Read Books oethe Elements: A Visual Exploration on an ipad.
start-up that sells titles for the ipad and iphone. As a $4. 99 application sold through Apples itunes store
oethe Master of Rampling Gate comes with video interviews with Rice and others. Rice speaks about her inspiration for her works
Owners of oeibird Explorer, a digital book produced for the iphone by field guide publisher Mitch Waite Group,
and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species
Devices made by Amazon com Inc . and Intel Corp. are able to convert text into speech. oeyou now have the ability to make a book talk,
said George Kerscher, head of the Digital Accessible Information system Consortium in Zurich, Switzerland. Kerscher, who studied computer science at the University of Montana and is blind,
has spent two decades lobbying publishers to make books more accessible to visually impaired readers. Digital technology is also transforming reading from a famously solitary experience into a social one.
either from phones or computers. Readers can follow the stories online or receive a text every time their favorite author adds a plot twist.
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#Scientists Prove Which Came First The Chicken or the Egg Which came first the chicken or the egg?
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#Shifting Trend in Luxury Purchases Buying Top Technology and Investing in a Lifestyle Experience The new luxury is about investing in a lifestyle experience that not only can help improve health
The four brands most admired by Americans with six-digit incomes in a recent survey by the marketing specialist Affluence Collaborative were Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy and Sony.
Sony soon will be the first consumer electronics maker with a Google feature built into its TV SETS.
Folks watching any show will be able to use a special remote to search Google on the same TV screen.
and made them more function for women carrying devices from iphones to ipads, says Michael Tucci,
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#Relaxation Drinks Big Business in the Beverage Industry Relaxation drinks For years, college students and C-suite executives alike have managed to stay perky through parties
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#Pot-Selling Pioneers in Colorado Try to Make a Profit At the Farmacy they use chopsticks to handle pot
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#10 Unbelievable Animal Friendships This macaque was rescued from Neilingding Island in China after his mother abandoned him
according to The Telegraph, are oethe best of friends. Pigs and tigers seem like theyd be natural enemies,
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#Mexican Investments in U s. Create Jobs, Taking over U s. Brands Mexico city-based Bimbo bought the U s. baked-goods operations of Weston Foods taking over 22 industrial bakeries and 4, 000 distribution routes.
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#Super-Yeast Developed That Can Generate Ethanol from Energy Crops and Agricultural waste Super-yeast is a significant step toward developing second generation biofuels.
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#Top 10 Photos of the Week Sorry, but the rest of the world is laughing at you,
Please, please, please DO NOT let the Photoshop people determine the next stage of human evolution...
Microsofts latest strategy session. Which one represents Steve Balmer?..Remind me not to mess with these guys...
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#Reverse Engineering Mcdonalds French fries Scrutinizing Mcdonalds French fries J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of The Food Lab (over at Serious Eats) likes a challenge,
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#A Caterpillar That Pretends to be a Fearsome Snake This small caterpillar with bold yellow
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#Scientists Incorporate Spiders Silk-Spinning Genes Into Goats Goats that produce spider silk protein in their milk could enable researchers to collect large quantities of the silk.
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#Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Disappearance of Honey Bees? Researchers claim they have found the cause of the decline in bees which could be the first step in reversing the decline.
The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives,
scientists have claimed. Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North america where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides,
They have established that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor in the phenomenon and say that it probably interfering with the bees navigation senses.
and productivity of bees in two hives one fitted with two mobile telephones which were powered on for two fifteen minute sessions per day for three months.
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#The Secret of the Strength of the Great wall of china Lies in Sticky Rice Mortar The use of sticky rice was one of the greatest technical innovations of the time.
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#Shocking Video of Smoking Toddler Shows a Disturbing Trend in Indonesia The smoking toddler video is sparking outrage on the web.
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#Bees Prefer Flowers with Caffeine Bees prefer certain kinds of nectar. Also nicotine! A study conducted at the University of Haifa revealed that bees prefer nectar containing those psychoactive substances.
#Cow Manure from Dairy farms Could Help Power Internet Giants Cow manure from dairy farms could help power Google
and Microsoft Hey diddle diddle. Guess what the cow has done this time? Americas dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business,
with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.
While not immediately intuitive, the idea plays on two trends: the building of computing centers in more rural locales,
Hewlett-packard engineers say in a new research paper. The rise of higher-speed data transfer networks has given technology companies a chance to move farther from large populations
So companies like Google Yahoo and Microsoft have been engaged in a mad dash to find spots in the US that have plenty of electricity and land.
If those locations are near dairy farms, so much the better. Rather than being an alternative energy convenience,
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#The Moonshine Revolution Why White Whiskey is Making a Comeback Moonshine still circa 1930s oethey call it that old mountain dew,
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#Apple Trademarks Their Retail stores And idisk Icon Watch out, Joes Bait and Tackle, you better not have a big,
The description provided to the USPTO for is Retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, mobile phones, consumer electronics and related accessories,
Retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, mobile phones, consumer electronics and related accessories, and demonstration of products relating thereto Mark Description:
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#25 Other Uses for Coffee filters Get Creative With Your Coffee filters! I use a permanent silk filter for my coffee maker,
HP now has an edge over competitors such Dell and Acer by offering its new devices without ties to operating systems from Google and Microsoft.
Google is here, Apple is here. HP has been notably absent in the smartphone category obviously,
where the buzz has been dominated by the iphone, said analyst Lou Miscioscia. I dont think they wanted to get left out.
In the purchase of Palm, HP has combined a operating system and hardware, an edge over rivals such as HTC,
who rely on Googles Android operating system. The two successful companies in this space are Apple and RIM and they have integrated hardware and software,
If you are making phones every single day, and you are relying on Microsoft or Google for your next feature set,
you are always behind. HP is looking to emulate Apples success in the smartphone market by building a strong portfolio of applications for the webos platform.
It currently has just 2, 000 apps, compared to almost 200,000 available in Apples App store.
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#Insurance Coverage Has Become an Economic Catalyst for Rural India A farmer in rural India shows off the insurance tag on his cow Big Rose.
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#Bee Colonies Still Dying Out in Record Numbers To bee or not to be? You may know that
and inventors you just grow up knowing about Alexander graham bell and the telephone, Thomas Edison and the lightbulb (even though he really just improved upon it).
#The Apple Engineer Who Lost the Top Secret 4g iphone Prototype After Celebrating His 27th Birthday Apple employee Gray Powell,
believed to have left a prototype of the new iphone in a bar It has happened to most of us at some point:
and cant remember what on earth you did with your phone. But unluckily for this man a mobile left behind on a bar stool at a German beer garden in Redwood City,
For a website is claiming that the forgotten phone wasnt just any old mobile. Gadget blog Gizmodo says it was a secret prototype of the next generation of the iphone.
And if so, Apple employee Gray Powell has made just his 27th birthday unforgettable. According to media reports in the U s.
Apple employee Gray Powell apparently left the iphone behind after celebrating his 27th birthday at the Gourmet Haus Staudt bar, not far from the computer giants Cupertino, California headquarters.
The mobile which was left behind on a bar stool by an Apple employee at a German beer garden in California Gizmodo said the person who found the phone claimed it was logged into Powells Facebook account
After trying unsuccessfully to return the iphone to its owner, the finder sold it to a mysterious middleman who then sold it to the website for $5, 000 (£3, 250),
Mr Lam said the phone was shut down remotely by Apple, adding to suspicions that the phone held secrets the company didnt want exposed.
Already A t-shirt marking Gray Powells error is on sale Since posting pictures of the device online, the website,
whether the new iphone is genuine, how it got into the hands of the website and
what sort of punishment the highly secretive Apple bosses might mete out to the software engineer apparently responsible for losing it.
Gizmodo have published the letter they say they received from Apple asking for the prototype device back Photographs posted of the device show a more angular model than the traditional iphone with square corners and aluminum edges.
Technical experts claim the case similar to the older iphone 3gs was perfect camouflage for a prototype.
This may not be the final design for the next iphone but the fact that they built a fake case to make it look like the earlier iphone,
that says a lot, Brian Tong, editor for Cnet tech site, told ABC News. The phone had a camera with a flash on the back with a bigger lens than the existing iphone for better photo quality.
The front also sported a camera, which could indicate a videoconferencing capability for future models.
The massive online interest in the prototype mystery prompted speculation that the whole thing may have been a marketing ploy to set up the launch of a new iphone.
While the outer packaging of the phone was rather rough and ready, Gizmodo have insisted that the hardware is anything but.
The phone measures 4. 5 x2. 31 x0. 37 and weighs 140 grams. The 3gs weighs 135 grams.
On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but Gizmodo were unable to see how large the memory was as they believe Apple had killed the phones 4. 0 operating system after it went missing.
The iphone 4g is expected to hit stores worldwide in June, 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, who said in an interview:
The good news is that (Apple) is coming out with a new version of the iphone in the June timeframe
and theyre going to put us on that. So were excited quite about that. Another tantalising piece of evidence that the iphone 4g is nearing release is the new 4. 0 operating system, announced last week,
which would incorporate features such as multitasking into the current iphone 3gs model. Last week Apple announced the UK launch of the long-awaited ipad with Wi-fi would be delayed by a month as demand had outstripped supply in the US.
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#Man Builds Noahs Ark to the Exact Scale Given in the Bible Working Replica of Noahs Ark opened In SCHAGEN, Netherlands.
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#Apple Patents oeconcert Ticket+System Patently Apple just dug up an Apple patent for an interesting electronic ticket system.
The Concert Ticket+will be an iphone app through which you could purchase, use, or store your tickets,
Despite its name, the electronic ticket app is designed to also cover sporting events, amusement parks, weddings,
One of the more interesting features of Apples e-ticket patent is that it includes the possibility of an NFC (near field communication) interface that would allow the iphone to communicate with other NFC enabled devices or RFID tags.
because the NFC technology would allow the iphone to completely replace the paper ticket. The app would also allow you to easily transfer your tickets to others as well as access more information about the concert or event.
From the business perspective, Apples e-ticket system would allow companies to target the ticket purchaser with live recordings, exclusive content,
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#Going Paperless Is Not As Green As We Might Think Digital may not be as eco-friendly as we think The debate on
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#Are Regulators Dropping The Ball On Biocrops? Biotech on the Rampage! Robert Kremer, a U s. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil,
and senior futurist at the Davinci Institute and currently Googles top-rated futurist speaker. At the Institute, he has developed original research studies,
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.
Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.
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#British Farmers Breed Self-Shearing Sheep A New Way To Get Wool The new breed,
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#Multiple sclerosis Sufferer Treated With Bee stings Bee stings Helped Me Live! A multiple sclerosis sufferer has treated her debilitating condition with a course of 1, 500 bee stings.
Caution, very disturbing) Apple today said it sold more ipads on Saturday than it sold first-generation iphones in 2007 over a two-day period.
The only other retail outlet selling ipads on Saturday was Best Buy in 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
Apple did not accept pre-orders for the iphone before its June 29, 2007 launch. Instead
as he compared the 300,000 ipads sold on Saturday to the iphone launch three years ago.
unlike during the launch of the first-generation iphone, Apple didnt exhaust its inventory of ipads. oebased on our spot checks, only a couple stores (San francisco,
he said. oei see the implications of the ipad as much more grandiose than the first-generation iphone,
Apple today said it sold more ipads on Saturday than it sold first-generation iphones in 2007 over a two-day period
The ipad In 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
Apple did not accept pre-orders for the iphone before its June 29, 2007 launch. Instead, thousands lined up outside the companys retail stores, some waiting for days,
as he compared the 300,000 ipads sold on Saturday to the iphone launch three years ago.
However, unlike during the launch of the first-generation iphone, Apple didnt exhaust its inventory of ipads. oebased on our spot checks, only a couple stores (San francisco,
he said. oei see the implications of the ipad as much more grandiose than the first-generation iphone,
holding a six-year-old Acer laptop with a 40-gigabyte hard drive. oemy wife finally gave me a new one for Christmas.
Instead of gigabytes, they deal in petabytes. How is possible that this Canadian was able to bring such a self-confident group of scientists to their knees?
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#Can Charcoal Save The Planet? Terra preta means oeblack earth. More importantly, if less literally, it means fertile soilreated 1000s of years ago out of nutrient-starved rainforest dirt by the strange alchemy of charcoal.
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#China Creates Worlds First Genetically Modified Cow Yay! Now the world has beefy abominations. Chinese scientists have created the worlds first genetically modified cow that can give milk rich in Omega-3 fatty acid,
Technicians then identify the species by comparing the DNA to a database of samples. Another tool, isotope ratio analysis, can determine subtle differences between food
and capture the tropical breezes (while cutting back on air conditioning) nd since none of the rooms have televisions or phones, youll use less energy.
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#Flowering plants May be Considerably Older Than Previously Thought A new analysis of the land plant family tree suggests that flowering plants may have lived much earlier than previously thought.
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#The Future of Microsofts Desktop Could Look like a Mobile phone The future of Microsofts desktop? Competition in the personal computer market is heating up,
even as it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish just what we mean when we talk about a PC.
It is precisely this fuzziness that offers Google and Apple a chance to get a leg up on Microsoft,
but is also why Microsoft may be able to cement its lead. Google is clear about its aims:
it wants to get users into a browser as fast as possible. Why? Because the more we use the Web, the more likely it is that well bump into Googles revenue-generating services.
While this started as a PC initiative for Google with the CHROME OS, the Chrome browser,
and other projects, Google has kicked it into hyperdrive with its increasingly popular Android mobile operating system.
Apple, for its part, is equally clear about its aims: it wants to get users into itunes or its App store.
Why? Because for all the money it makes on hardware like Macs and the iphone, Internet-scale revenues derive from such services that aggregate
and distribute digital goods. Apples strategy is bidirectional: its Macs drive adoption of iphones, and the iphone drives sales of Macs.
But mobile is what makes it hum. Microsoft, however, has been less clear about its aims, particularly with the traditional desktop.
It wants people on Windows why? Well, because Microsoft earns a license fee for every copy of Windows sold.
This has historically been a home-run strategy, but it may be a decreasingly defensible revenue model in a world conditioned by the Web
(and Google) to expect software to be free. Neither of its primary competitors charges for the OS,
which will eventually call into question Microsofts practice of doing so. Of course, Apples OS X cant be divorced easily from Apples hardware,
making it arguably a much more expensive OS than Microsoft ever dreamed of selling. But Google?
Its serious about giving away Microsofts business. is doomed Microsoft? Of course not. Any company with billions in profit each quarter can afford to spend its way into a winning strategy.
Microsoft has sold already 90 million copies of Windows 7, suggesting that its demise will be exaggerated greatly for some time to come,
especially as its market share is again on the upswing with Windows 7. Even so, I suspect the future of Microsofts oedesktop OS business is going the same direction as Apples and Googles:
mobile. Mobile gives Microsoft a fresh start with lots of room to grow. It also gives it an effective way to extend its brand into others platforms,
as its Bing search growth on Apples iphone could signal, while simultaneously letting Microsoft experiment with new business models that dont threaten its traditional licensing-based model (as cloud computing does for its server and oedesktop businesses).
Perhaps most importantly, and this is equally true for both Google and Apple for their respective environments,
mobile allows Microsoft to innovate the Windows user experience. Apple has started to extend the iphone experience with its ipad,
and I suspect well see Microsoft do the same with Windows phone 7. Microsofts consumer and enterprise customers will have little appetite for a radically changed oedesktop experience
unless they first grow accustomed to it on their phones. For each of these three major OS vendors, the nature of the OS,
and its associated business models, is changing rapidly. Mobile however, holds the key to each companys growth,
and may signal convergence on a new way of monetizing an OS: app stores, advertising, and other online services.
But all delivered on a mobile device that looks less and less like a phone and more and more like a PC without actually being one.
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#Underwear Made From Bananas Launched In Australia Australian underwear company Aussiebum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of mens underwear made with bananas.
Aussiebums Lloyd Jones said on Friday that the new eco-friendly banana range of undies incorporated 27 percent banana fibre, 64 percent cotton and nine percent lycra.
He said the banana fibre used in the underwear was made from a bark weave from the banana plant,
which made the underwear not only lightweight but also very absorbent. oenaturally you cant really add any more banana fibre than that
because it might be a bit squishy, said Jones, adding that wearers did not have to worry about real monkeys
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#Frozen Vegetables More Nutritious Than Fresh Vegetables Frozen vegies contain more nutrients that fresh Frozen vegetables can often contain more nutrients than fresh vegetables,
a report has claimed. Up to 45 per cent of important nutrients are lost in fresh vegetable by the time they are consumed.
It can take up to two weeks for fresh produce to reach the table from being picked although the survey found that 80 per cent of shoppers thought the fresh vegetables in supermarkets were less than four days old.
Produce which is frozen soon after being picked with have sealed more nutrients in scientists from the Institute of Food Research claimed.
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#Terrewalks Innovative Sidewalks Made from Recycled Tires Terrewalks are made from recycled tires and waste plastics Concrete sidewalks can make a walk around the neighborhood a pleasant experience,
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#Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females The pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females that are able to mate
programmer and broadcast engineer, hasnt been able to find work as a programmer, and he was laid off from his broadcast engineer job.
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#Aphids Genome Reflects Its Reproductive, Symbiotic Lifestyle Colony of young aphids. Aphids could be considered the oemosquitoes of the plant world,
The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,
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