Apple sold a record 20.3 million iPhones in the second quarter.
Apple and Samsung Electronics ended struggling Nokia’s 15-year reign at the top of the smartphone sales rankings in the second quarter, researchers said on Friday.
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Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang stands out on the Pyongyang skyline in 2009
One of the world’s largest hotels, the massive Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, is nearly ready to welcome guests after nearly two decades in the making, according to Architizer. (photos and video)
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People who work from home suffer from several different problems including isolation and distractions. But here are 5 simple ways to become an effective at-home worker.
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Screwing the public to help corporations is pretty standard procedure
these days for people like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Last month, the major American ISPs and entertainment industry lobbyists struck a deal to limit Internet access for alleged copyright infringers. This deal, negotiated in secret with the help of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo did not include any public interest groups or comment from the public. As a result, it’s as one-sided and stilted as you’d imagine. Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation analyzes the material that these cozy corporate negotiators left out, the stuff that public interest groups would have demanded. Here’s an abbreviated list…
Professional social network Linkedin
LinkedIn, a professional social network, took the wraps off a tool that allows jobseekers to apply for open positions by sending their LinkedIn profiles directly to prospective employers.
Make a grocery list and stick to it.
There are reasons your mother told you to make a grocery list and stick to it. From the parking lot to the checkout counter a supermarket is designed to make you spend more money and buy more food than you need.
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Credit rating agencies have been criticized for fueling the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
The Federal Reserve said on Monday that Banking regulators expect to release proposals for replacing the work of credit rating agencies in their regulations later this year when comprehensive tougher capital standards are unveiled.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1936 Edwin Howard Armstrong unveiled an improvement in radio that would later become known as FM radio. Working out of an office on the 82nd floor of the Empire State Building, an office provided by RCA, Armstrong was on the verge of revolutionizing the radio industry. But it was a revolution that would not happen for several decades.
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State and local governments have cut 142,000 jobs this year.
Is the mass layoff making a comeback on an already lousy job market? Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Borders announced a combined 23,000 in job cuts this past week.
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Memberly will make a substantial impact in online retailing.
Jack Cheng and his two cofounders launched Steepster, a social network for tea drinkers, in 2009. It soon occurred to them that a tea club, in which members receive a shipment of new teas each month, would be a perfect complement to the site. But they were working long hours to get their site off of the ground, and never thought about making the investment of time and money that starting such a program would entail .
Three years later, they decided to revisit the project — and while they were at it, solve the subscription program logistics problem for everyone else, too…
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Snore-proof rooms are an additional measure being tested by the hotel.
An international hotel chain has introduced the “snore patrol” and “snore absorption rooms” at a number of their sites worldwide. Now guests may be able to sleep more soundly.
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