A six-month forecast of residential home construction predicts little growth by the summer, although the expectation is that there will be more construction than during the same period in 2009.
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Building Industry Association predicts six-month increase in home construction permits
A new Amtrak station will be built in Dearborn adjacent to The Henry Ford and train stations in Troy and Battle Creek will be renovated as part of a series of rail-related federal stimulus grants awards expected to be announced today…
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Federal stimulus grants to fund new Dearborn rail station, Michigan train station upgrades
A local panchayat has cleared the name of Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in a controversy relating to a structure at a village 25 km from Panaji. Assagao Sarpanch Prakash Naik said they verified all documents after some locals had claimed that the structure was illegal and found out that it is owned by Satori Infrastructure. He said there were no illegalities and some local people had unnecessarily raised a controversy during a gram sabha meeting
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Goa panchayat gives clean chit to Haryana CM
Google’s newest phone, the Nexus One, is becoming more and more popular with each passing day. The phone is sleek and sexy and has something for everyone – from gadget lovers to everyday business professionals. The phone itself has a very sensitive touch screen as well as four soft key buttons and a clickable track ball on the front.
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Upgrade Your Status with the Nexus One Smart Phone
Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Did you know that today is an international holiday, one that’s celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and 27 countries in Europe? Known as Data Privacy Day in North America and Data Protection Day in Europe, today is meant to increase public awareness about privacy in the information age.
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Celebrating Data Privacy Day
[UK] A quick reality check. Despite the rise of social media, mobile messaging is still very much owned by the carriers in the form of the humble text message.
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Brits send 11 million text messages an hour – carriers still own mobile messaging
Yes, you’ve never probably never heard of the Markit Group . But today it announced a $250m investment by General Atlantic valuing the 6/7 year old company headquartered in London at $3.3 billion
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The ‘unsexy’ Markit.com secures $250m backing – Financial startups take note
[UK] Developers start your engines. Hot on the heels of Apple’s iPad announcement, a new fund has been launched by the UK’s Northern Film and Media to help startups in the region to be amongst the first to enter this new market. NFM are putting aside £40k to invest in iPad app ideas, with submissions open until February 24th.
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UK’s Northern Film and Media launches Apple iPad fund
Why is that the IPL always have some kind of drama even before it starts ? Last year it was all about the Government not willing to provide the required level of security, and after some words between Lalit Modi (who eventually works for BCCI, which was headed by Sharad Pawar), the whole tournament was
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The whole drama over the IPL and Pakistani players
Mårten Gustaf Mickos , former CEO of MySQL , has joined Index Ventures as Entrepreneur In Residence ( EIR ). The news comes four months after the man joined another VC firm , Silicon Valley-based Benchmark Capital , also as EIR
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Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos joins Index Ventures as EIR
When people are choosing a capacitive touchscreen phone, screen size and resolution are probably their main concerns. But in fact, accuracy is also an important aspect that determines the performance of a screen display. To find out which touchscreen smartphone can most accurately interpret finger inputs, the MOTO Development Group (not related to Motorola has conducted a simple test between four popular devices on the market
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Capacitive Touchscreen Accuracy Test
Samsung has introduced another basic candy bar handset namely the Samsung Stunt SCH-r100 , which is now available through regional carrier MetroPCS. Being compact, sturdy and affordable, the Stunt offers an easy-to-use interface combined with some communication capabilities to help you stay connected on the go. To begin with, the Stunt has a trim bar design, which is very lightweight at 2.5 ounces and pocket-sized at 4.2″ tall by 1.7″ wide by 0.54″ deep.
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Samsung Stunt SCH-r100 – A Budget-friendly Phone for Basic Communications
Sony Ericsson has released its financial results for the last quarter of 2009 with a narrower loss, continuing the positive trend shown in the prior quarter . However, this also marked its sixth consecutive quarterly loss and brought a whopping €836 million deficit for the whole year. The Swedish-Japanese joint venture reported a forth-quarter loss of €167 million (US$235 million), showing a slight improvement on the €187 million loss a year earlier
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Sony Ericsson Posts Shrinking Loss for Q4 2009
London, January 28, 2010 Luxury Interactive has today released the program for its 3rd annual summit to be held May 18 & 19 at the Waldorf Hilton in London. Luxury Interactive is known to help luxury brands move forward by focusing on effective communication and integrating digital & offline marketing branding strategies.
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Luxury Marketing Leaders Convene To Discuss Digital & Customer Centricity Strategies
Award Denotes the Highest Level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption Model LSS Data Systems (www.lssdata.com) congratulates Citizens Memorial Healthcare on becoming the nation’s first rural hospital to reach the 7th and highest stage on the HIMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption Model, a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals and healthcare organizations.
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LSS Data Systems Customer Citizens Memorial Healthcare First Rural Hospital in the Nation to Achieve Stage 7
The presentation was made to professionals in the information transport systems (ITS) industry and stressed the importance of the need for strong business action to combat counterfeiting and piracy.
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Grand ISS Continues to Focus on Global Counterfeiting; CEO Delivers Speech at the BICSI Winter Conference & Exhibition
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba , recently conducted a search over the web, the result of which turned out to be a pleasant surprise that ‘The Indian’ especially the Indian Entrepreneurs have started using the web as a medium to buy more of pre-used products.
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Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?
iPad About Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I’ve joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch. I’ve watched all the past ones, downloaded the Quicktime movies and marvelled as Apple’s leader has stood before an ovating faithful and announced the switch to Intel, the birth of iPod, the miniMac, the iTunes Store, OS X, iPhoto, the swan’s neck iMac, the Shuffle, Apple retail stores, the iPhone, the titanium powerbook, Garageband, the App Store and so much more.
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A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed. It involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, as well as the Social Security number of at least one daughter of former Vice President Al Gore. The data, which included more than 100,000 Social Security numbers, was stored on a computer hard drive that the NARA discovered missing last April from a data processing room in Maryland.
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250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by National Archives Data Breach
On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I had the opportunity to attend my first WordCamp hosted by WordCampBoston.com . WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, the platform that many bloggers (like me) use to host our blogs. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users
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Top Blogging Tips for Developers and Bloggers from WordPress WordCamps
The recording industry is demanding Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay $25,000 to settle out of court the nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to trial –- a settlement offer the Minnesota mother of four is rejecting, lawyers in the case said Wednesday.
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Settlement Rejected in ‘Shocking’ RIAA File Sharing Verdict
Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Manager Last summer a chilling 40-second video clip, recorded on a cell phone, went viral and caught the attention of the world.
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Google D.C. Talk Feb. 8 – Democracy Online: Can the Internet Bring Change?
Going to medical school can be expensive. So Kenneth Chou, a 30-year-old student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in New York, decided to copy Kaplan lecture DVDs from his school’s library and resell them online to help pay for his tuition. Chou admitted to raking in more than $100,000 for the pirated materials, but is now facing a fine that is four times that much.
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Med Student Turns to Test-Prep Piracy
Livecage came to ITEXPO East 2010 last week in Miami and the colocated Smart Grid Summit and recorded a number of video interviews which are posted here . I hope you find them useful. Here are some of the people who participated in the interviews: John Bryan Jeremy Griesbach Jon Arnold Sharon S.
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Smart Grid Summit East 2010 Videos
Posted by Chris Talbot, Elections and Issue Advocacy Team Editor’s note: We’re excited to welcome Google’s Elections and Issue Advocacy Team to the Public Policy Blog. Since 2007, they’ve worked with political candidates, consultants and advocates to build online advertising campaigns and fully integrate digital media into political strategy
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The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns
Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog .) Tonight at 9 p.m. ET we’ll be livestreaming the President’s State of the Union address on YouTube . As we announced yesterday, not only will you have the opportunity to watch the speech live online, you’ll also be able to submit your questions for the President during and after the speech, and the President himself will respond to a collection of your top-voted questions in a live interview at the White House next week
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Live Tonight on YouTube: The State of the Union
Google has launched its New Google voice application for iphone OS 3.0 and higher. This new Google Voice application uses new technology to make calls with better voice quality. This new web application also lets you display your Google Voice number as the..
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Google Voice Application for iPhone and Palm WebOS
Phone cards make it easy to phone home no matter where you are in the world without costing you an arm and a leg. Because of this, it is recommended that you always travel with at least a few phone cards with you.
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Traveling Frequently – Don’t Forget To Carry Your Phone Card for Calling Home
We have just added two new schools to our online university video profiles page for schools in the UK. If you are looking to study in the UK , our video profiles are a great way to learn more about schools in the UK. The new schools added include the University of Westminster and Swansea University – and you can see the new profiles below: If you would like to add your schools video to our site – please contact us
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Study in the UK – New Video Profiles
I sat down with the DataPortability Project ‘s Elias Bizannes a few months ago to organize the elements of a model portability policy . Your site’s portability policy will be part of your Terms of Service or End User License Agreement. Your portability policy should help your sites and services communicate the data portability parts of your relationship with the people who use them and your business partners
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Icons for a data portability policy – a few thoughts