Steve Jobs has resigned from his post as CEO

Steve Jobs, the founder and visionary behind Apple, one of the world's most innovative technology and consumer product companies, has announced his resignation as CEO today. He will remain chairman of the board.

Jobs, 56, co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak. During his storied tenure at Apple, which has sold over 300 million iPods and nearly 100 million iPhones in the last decade, Jobs has developed a cult-like following among Apple enthusiasts, and been lauded by marketers and product designers around the world.

In 2004, Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 underwent a liver transplant. His health has had "ups and downs," a source tells The New York Times.

Technically, Jobs has been on medical leave from Apple since January, but has appeared publicly a number of times, most notably to announce iCloud, Apple's newest cloud storage initiative.

In the hours after his resignation was announced, Apple stock fell nearly five percent.

His resignation letter read:

"To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as C.E.O. of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as C.E.O. of Apple.

I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.

Steve"

A Trillion Page views for Facebook

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An updated list of the most-visited sites on the web is released by Google and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 870 million unique. YouTube and Yahoo are next with 790 M and 590 M unique respectively.

Google, maybe for competitive reasons, doesn’t share traffic data of its own site, or that of Gmail, in the Ad Planner report. Google+ is growing but the user base is still relatively small for the site to become part of this report.

A Trillion Page Views

Facebook hit a new milestone in June this year - the site touched a trillion page views from the 870 million* people who visited Facebook that month.

[*] Officially, Facebook has 750+ million users but the number of unique visitors who flock Facebook every month is much higher because certain section of the site – Facebook Pages and Profiles for example – are open to non-users as well.

Facebook says that people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on the site and now we also know that, on an average, one user visits 1150 pages on Facebook in a month. That’s impressive considering that YouTube, with all the entertaining and viral content, manages only 126 views per unique visitor per month.

Dear HP: Please Keep Making Those TouchPads

HP decided to shutdown it webOS operations and support and slashed HP touchpads for $99. Now the demand has increased such a high that HP can rethink of building it once again. Apps developers have come forward as people have the hardware to run it now.
Tech Guys have gone crazy about the $99 touchpad. In my group of 400 people, 102 touchpads were purchased and to my surprise the company Barnes and Noble cancelled few of the orders later that evening just due to unavailability of the products.
You might not have seen such a massive sale of any technical product in recent past or I would rather say in history. Unfortunately I could not purchase one as before making payment, a pop up came and said “Oops, you can not purchase it, the item has been removed from your shopping cart”. and when I returned back to the website, it was out of stock.
Anyways, it has proved the market situation where people are ready to have their second touchpad if the price goes low.
I am not sure whether HP would re-think on supporting webOS or android would take it over here on. But this was one the historic decision from the House of HP.

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Blackberry 9900 Bold & Touch - Review



Take a first look at the BlackBerry Bold 9900, RIM's newest smartphone. Resembling the original Bold 9000, it has been upgraded and offers a 1.2 GHz CPU, 2.8-inch touchscreen with "Liquid Graphics," 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, and a spacious QWERTY keyboard. Carrier partnerships and pricing haven't been announced just yet, but the series will be landing "beginning this summer."

BlackBerry die-hards will love it, but can it compete with the Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, and webOS devices that are coming out this summer?



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HP TouchPad Sold out for $99


When HP said it would kill off the TouchPad in Q4, there was some confusion about which Q4 it meant — would the company attempt to sell the fated tablet for several more months, or drop it cold turkey? We think the image above says it all. PreCentral discovered that HP intends to cut the price of the tablet by up to $350 this weekend, at least in Canada. You can actually order a 16GB TouchPad right now from FutureShop for $99.99, or a 32GB model for a cool $150. (Best Buy Canada lists the same prices, but claims that it’s out of stock at the moment.) Good luck finding them for that price, though — even if the reports are true that hundreds of thousands of the slates are stockpiled in warehouses right now, that’s quite the steal. We imagine even those who purchased at the Staples discount are liable to feel some buyer’s remorse at the news.
Update: The mythical white 64GB TouchPad has also appeared at HP’s US website today, for $599.99. Something tells us you won’t be buying one at that price.
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Update 2: Looks like you won’t need to visit Canada to get a $99 TouchPad after all: astute dealhounds discovered that if youclick on the right links at HP’s US websitewhile logged into a corporate or academic account, you can get the sale prices to show up right now. If that sounds like too much of a chore, you could also give HP a call. Some forumgoers are reporting success getting phone representatives to refund the several-hundred-dollar difference onto their credit cards.
Update 3: Don’t try picking one up at Best Buy, the big box retailer has pulled the TouchPad from the shelves and is apparently sending them all back to HP. It is extending the standard return window, however, and has a page up detailing those policies here. Finally, webOSroundupreports that if you purchased a TouchPad earlier, you can call HP (or your own retailer) to get a refund for the difference.
Update 4: If you thought this webOS fire sale weekend couldn’t get any crazier, think again. Best Buy has made an about-face and is now selling the TouchPad, limited to one per customer. See its updated FAQ here. Meanwhile, reports on Twitter and our tipline suggest that some of HP’s servers are starting to buckle under the load of new TouchPad activations.
Update 5: HP’s online store for Germany has reportedly dropped TouchPad pricing down to €99 (16GB), €129 (32GB), and €179 (64GB). The Veer and Pre 3 are also said to have seen their prices cut to €59 and €79, respectively. We haven’t yet been able to verify these numbers as the German store has been down all morning, potentially suffering from a similar deluge of demand as its American brethren. Thanks, David!
Source: FutureShop and Best Buy, via PreCentral
This article was orignally published on Thisismynext.com — “HP drops TouchPad price like a stone, find one this weekend for $99 (update: get one now).”

Forget HP Touchpad at $99, here is a new tablet available for $99 in India


Forget HP Touchpad at $99, here is a new tablet available for $99 in India.
Launched by Lakshmi Access Communications Systems Pvt. Ltd., the 4.3-inch Magnum Pepper Tablet PC runs on Google’s Android operating system.
“On average, every consumer has access to three screens on a daily basis, starting with the TV, the computer screen and finally the mobile phone. However, there are a number of situations where consumers would not be in a position to access one of these specific screens despite having a need or want. This is where the LACS range of Touch Media (TMD) & Touch Infotainment (TID) Devices allow consumers to have all of the above screens in a single device operating on a single platform, without necessarily replacing any of the 3 gadgets themselves,” says Sharat Satyanarayana, the company’s director of marketing and services.
The 4 GB tablet will work on wireless Internet and 3G networks. It has a 800 Mhz processor and 256-MB RAM. Following Airtel’s release of $220 tablet PC magiq, this tablet is bound to pose tough challenge to all the leading tablets in India from iPad2 to Galaxy to Reliance 3G and even Rim’s BlackBerry Playbook.
Here are its basic features:
Pepper M74V :
7 inch LCD sensitive touch display (800*480)
WIFI enabled
Supports  10/100 BASE-T  Ethernet  LAN (RJ45)
Supports  USB 2.0
Supports Micro SD card (maximum 32 GB)
3G compatible dongle
3.5 mm stereo headset jack
G- sensors 360  degree
Front camera
Built in 2GB memory
Android 2.2 version
Supports  audio formats  eg: MP3,AAC,WMA,AAC+
Supports Video formats: 3GP, AVI, MP4, H.264,720P

Who's the Boss

Stanford grads Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google in 1998, but Eric Schmidt took the CEO helm in 2001. Ten years later Schmidt became executive chairman, and Larry Page stepped back into the main leadership position as chief executive. At that time, Page released a statement: "Eric is a tremendous leader and I have learned innumerable lessons from him. His advice and efforts will be invaluable to me as I start in this new role."—Eric Markowitz

A Technoholik Enrolls For His Aadhar Number

You can watch the stuffs in the video at the link below.

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India's ambitious Unique ID project dubbed "Aadhar" that aims to give every Indian citizen a Unique number mapped to biometrics, launched today in the Nadurbar district of Maharashtra. However, Technoholik got a sneak peek at the UIDAI (Unique ID Authority of India) tech centre in Bangalore to find out everything you need to know about the enrollment process.  

The Setup

The enrollment officer (EO) sits at right angles to you and enters data into a laptop. The insight of the Aadhar team here is that the person getting enrolled must see what is being entered. Thus there's a monitor in front of you which mirrors the enrollment officer's screen so that you can point out spelling mistakes or other errors. If the person getting enrolled is illiterate, he or she can nominate someone to accompany and verify. There's a small laser printer behind the EO's laptop and a webcam, fingerprint reader and iris scanner account for the remainder of the hardware setup. Unless of course you count the light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a white 'roll-up' chart behind you for the "passport photo studio" effect!

Compulsory Information

Name (First and second name complusory but middle name optional), Gender (Male/Female/Transgender) and Date of Birth are the compulsory fields. While postal address is also required, it's more for the sake of mailing your UID number rather than strictly being a proof of residence. The EO asks you for a PIN code and the city/district fields are automatically populated. The rest of the address is entered manually.

Supporting Documents

The UID team acknowledges the fact that a large number of people may not have any supporting documents to prove their identity. In this case, one is allowed to bring another resident who is already in possession of an Aadhar number to be an "introducer" by vouching for the person seeking to enroll . Of course there is scope for fraud either with a colluding introducer or by just using fake documents. However, the whole point of Aadhar is that one can only fake their identity once and this prevents large scale "ghost identity" which is the bane of most Indian government schemes. The great PAN (Permanent Account Number with the Income Tax department) card scam after all involved a single person creating thousands of different PAN numbers.

Photograph

A photograph is taken of the person getting enrolled, purely for the purpose of printing it out on the enrollment receipt, so that illiterate residents have some way of knowing that the receipt indeed belongs to them. Beyond that, the photograph serves no biometric or authentication purpose.

Biometrics

First there's an iris scan where you look into a binocular-like device held up to your eyes by the EO. After that it's the four fingers of each hand, followed by both thumbs (a process familiar to those entering the USA) for your ten fingerprints.

The EO makes you review the data entered one final time before giving you a laser-printed receipt. While the residents of Tembhali, the "Aadhar village" will get their numbers today itself, the rest of us won't be that lucky. We'll only get to walk away with the receipt and will have to wait for the actual number to be delivered by India Post!


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Kindle on the Blackberry PlayBook – Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader

Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is now available.  While it's clear that PlayBook support was not a first priority, with a couple of tweaks the PlayBook is supported.  It's not perfect, but it's a fair bit better than the love Amazon has shown for PlayBook to date (that is to say – none at all).

To get started visit the link below from your PlayBook and sign in with your Amazon credentials:

https://read.amazon.com

Some issues and the workaround for them:

  • When you first run, you must view in Portrait mode or else you won't be able to get off of the initial screen that instructs you to increase storage size when prompted.
  • The default cover view does not seems to scroll properly on the PlayBook.  If you tap the list view icon, it works correctly; and scrolling in list view also works correctly.
  • The web app does successfully detect your offline/online state for viewing "cloud" books.
  • If you are viewing a book and lose connection/disconnect, you can continue reading without any problems.  But if you launch the browser with no connection it does not appears to work b/c the browser reports a connection error before checking to see if the content is available offline.
  • In my brief testing so far, "Download and Pin" (appears when you tap-hold on a book) seems to work well – but again with the caveat from above.  You must load the initial reader page prior to losing your connection/disconnecting.  Once a book is downloaded for offline viewing, the "Downloaded" tab shows it and allows you to view it even if you have no connection.
  • Best viewed in fullscreen mode.

I'll see if I can't whip up a "Kindle App" for the weekend, which will give us a launcher separate from the web browser and true full-screen.  (If somebody else doesn't beat me to it – I'm limited to my laptop for the next couple of days as I'm attending the BBM Hackathon, and don't have the full PB dev environment set up.)   Hopefully I can find a way to force an "offline" mode as well, so that you can launch it with no connection at all.

Some first impressions:

  • Landscape mode is usable after the first screen, but I have found that text in landscape mode is oddly blurry at any font size, even though the interface resizes well.
  • Font and color options are standard Kindle fare, it's good to see that they're all present.
  • Annotations can be read but not added as far as I can tell.

While I can't help but wish it was a little better integrated with the PlayBook's features, this effectively fills a gap many of us have been waiting for since the PlayBook launch.

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7 Tips for Writing E-mails That Won't Get Deleted

Is your growing company trying to land bigger clients? Or is your sales team looking for leads? If you ever send e-mails that don't elicit a response, there's probably something you could improve about your strategy for crafting an introduction letter. 

Here is an excerpt from the interview hosted at inc.comJill Konrath, an internationally recognized sales strategist and author or SNAP Selling, to share her tips for writing e-mails that won't get deleted.

1. Eliminate Delete-Inducing Words

Get rid of all verbiage that activates the delete response. Here are some serious offenders: exciting, state-of-the-art, solution, partner, leading edge, passion, unique and one-stop shopping.

2. Keep Your Message Simple

Your email needs to be less than 90 words. Use 2-sentence paragraphs so it can be scanned. Stick with common black fonts (no colors) and never include more than one link or attachment.

3. Align With Their Objectives

Research your prospect's specific company, industry or position. Make sure your e-mail mentions an important business objective, strategic imperative, issue or challenge. Relevance is essential.

4. Focus on Immediate Priorities

Identify key business events that may be impacting your prospect's priorities and tie your message into that. Examples might be: relocations, mergers, management changes or new legislation.

5. Be an Invaluable Resource

Your product or service may be a commodity, but you're not. In your e-mails, focus on the ideas, insights and information you can share that will be of value to your prospect in reaching their goals.

6. Craft Enticing Subject Lines

Your subject line determines if your message gets read. Avoid sales hype and focus on business issues such as: "Quick question re: outsourcing initiative" or "Reducing product launch time."

7. Launch a Campaign

Do eight to 12 touches (via e-mail and phone) over a four-to-six week time period, with each contact building off the previous one. Provide links to resources. Spotlight the value of changing from the status quo.

Jill Konrath is an internationally recognized sales strategist and bestselling author ofSNAP SellingHer previous book, Selling to Big Companies, has been an Amazon Top-20 Sales Book since 2006, and has been called a "must-read" for salespeople. She has consulted with companies such as IBMGE, and Staples. These tips were written by Konrath, and provided by Konrath and GoToMeeting, on which she presented a webinar of the same title.

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Rogers Bold 9900 Launches Today – Torch 9810 for August 12th

Rogers has updated their BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 announcement post with launch dates. We now know that the BlackBerry Bold 9900 is launching on Rogers today, August 10th, and some lucky users have even managed to pick one up earlier last night. The Torch 9810 is coming on August 12th which is only a few days away.

Lenovo's ThinkCentre M71z business desktop keeps your productivity up for $599

Lenovo's ThinkCentre M71z business desktop keeps your productivity up for $599

Ready to revamp your company's computer systems once the summer's heat is a mere memory? Come this October,
Lenovo's letting loose its 20-inch ThinkCentre M71z all-in-one desktop, priced starting at just $599 to keep those expense reports low and your interest piqued. Better yet, you'll be able to deck it out if you're ready to rack up some points on the company credit card. Around the outside, you'll find six USB ports and a DisplayPort connection, but it can also be equipped with a multi-touch screen as well as a two megapixel webcam -- fantastic for those 10-way
Skype or
Google+ meetings. If you're hungry for performance, the desktop can be maxed out with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, WiFi and either a 1TB HDD, or 160GB SSD capable of 15 second start-ups with RapidBoot. For good measure, the M71z comes bundled with Windows 7 Professional along with a wireless mouse and keyboard -- the latter of which is
flood spill-resistant.

Lenovo's ThinkCentre M71z business desktop keeps your productivity up for $599
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T-Mobile myTouch 4G designer Donn Koh unveils the process, how he brings the heat

T-Mobile myTouch 4G designer Donn Koh unveils the process, how he brings the heat
Have you ever wanted a look inside the mind of a mobile handset designer? Of course you do, and so do we, for that matter. Donn Koh, lead designer of smartphones like
Sprint's Evo 4G and
T-Mobile's myTouch 4G, has in-depth breakdowns of the design process on his personal website for our perusal. Going into detail about how the team managed to raise the bar while still including all the required elements, Koh also speaks about the goals for creating a dock for the myTouch 4G that would allow the phone itself to be the main attraction. Check out the source for the full rundown, and peep another sweet design shot after the break -- especially if you enjoy well-designed, well thought out tech.

T-Mobile myTouch 4G designer Donn Koh unveils the process, how he brings the heat
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/10/t-mobile-mytouch-4g-designer-donn-koh-unveils-the-process-how-h/
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Amazon releases web-based Kindle Cloud Reader app, optimized for iPads

Amazon may have
changed its Kindle iOS app to comply with Apple's
revised in-app subscription policy, but the retailer has now come out with its own, web-based alternative, known as the Kindle Cloud Reader. Compatible with both Chrome and Safari, the new app is essentially a browser version of the Kindle eBook reader, providing PC, Mac and Chromebook users with access to their digitized libraries. The tool also offers local storage, allowing for offline reading, though Amazon's device limit still applies, so if your library's already strewn across multiple gadgets, the app's reading functionality may be limited. The company unveiled the Cloud Reader today with relatively little fanfare or explanation, but its site highlights the service's main attractions, including its iPad optimization. Interestingly enough, the reader still isn't compatible with iPhones (or, as
Android Community discovered, any Honeycomb tablets), though we imagine it's only a matter of time before Amazon's cloud coverage expands even further.

Amazon releases web-based Kindle Cloud Reader app, optimized for iPads
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Here's Why Wall Street Is Killing AOL

Here's Why Wall Street Is Killing AOL

AOL reported its first quarter of advertising growth this morning, and
the company said it was making real headway in its comeback story.
Wall Street says otherwise:
AOL shares are off more than 20 percent on a day when the market is perking up, just a tiny bit – the Nasdaq is currently up 1.64 percent.
What gives? AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told analysts today that he wasn't happy with
some of the company's results. But earlier this morning, when I told him that investors were dumping the stock, he told me a sell-off against the broad market uptick would be "
hard to comprehend."
So here's an explainer, via Citigroup's Mark Mahaney. The analyst didn't lower his "hold" rating on AOL after this morning's earnings, but he didn't see enough to make him happy, either. We'll use him, via the note he published today, as a rough proxy for disaffected AOL investors:
• Revenue was more than Wall Street expected, but the bonus dollars came from AOL's less profitable network business, not its core display business.• Meanwhile, that display business actually got weaker this quarter: If you pretend that AOL owned TechCrunch and HuffingtonPost a year ago (i.e. "pro forma results"), then display ad sales would have increased 9 percent this quarter, down from 12 percent in Q1.• Those display dollars may have been at risk even before we were facing Maybe Recession 2.0, or whatever we're going to call it: The company "noted significant weakness in June & July."• Earnings are shrinking: "EBITDA declined over 60%+ Y/Y vs. downapprox 57% Y/Y in Q1; this marks one of the biggest declines we've seen in years."• And earnings will continue to shrink in the near-term: The company lowered its EBITDA guidance for the rest of the year.
Here's Why Wall Street Is Killing AOL
http://allthingsd.com/20110809/heres-why-wall-street-is-killing-aol/
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Pre-orders for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 now being accepted from Vodafone UK

It should come as no surprise that the 
BlackBerry Bold 9900 is a highly anticipated device, and many of us are waiting anxiously to get our hands on it as soon as we can. Vodafone UK customers can now begin to pre-order the device via the Vodafone site, and they are aiming for delivery of the pre-orders prior to August 16, just a week away. The device is listed on the site for free with price plans of £41
 and above, or you can pay £399 upfront and then have a lower monthly plan. Carphone Warehouse is offering the device for free with a plan of £31 a month, or £500 off contract. Excited much? Head over, place your pre-order, and be sure to give us a shout when your brand new, shiny Bold 9900 arrives!
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Riots in London fueled partly by messages sent via BlackBerry Messenger

Does that means BBM is responsible for the riot took place? Never. Its shame.

England is ready to host one of the biggest game in the world next year. Is England ready for it ?


A few short years ago, if a riot broke out somewhere in the world, you found out about it the next morning when your newspaper was delivered, or on the 6 o'clock news. Nowadays, news spreads at the click of a button, with millions of smartphones connected to Twitter and Facebook. Riots in Vancouver less than two months ago were seen almost instantly through pictures and videos as people used smartphones to record what they saw and upload to social networking. As a result, police were able to apprehend many people who were involved in the looting and destruction.
This weekend rioting again broke out, this time in London. Stemming from a peaceful protest over the shooting of a man named Mark Duggan, things quickly escalated and the gathering erupted into violence. As seen in Vancouver, the destruction and looting was spread across social media and in moments the whole world knew what was happening, including pictures of the people responsible.
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Riots in London fueled partly by messages sent via BlackBerry Messenger
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Virgin Mobile Canada pricing for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 emerges

Looking to score a better deal on the
BlackBerry Bold 9900 or
BlackBerry Torch 9810 by opting to buy one from Virgin Mobile? You may be in luck when it comes to the pricing over, that is -- when compared to Rogers. The verdict is still out on Virgins parent company, Bell. Here is what you'll be looking at if you opt to purchase from Virgin Mobile:
BlackBerry Bold 9900:• No-contract price: $599.99• 3-year contract/SuperTab: $169.99
BlackBerry Torch 9810:• No-contract price: $599.99• 3-year contract/SuperTab: $149.99  More expensive for the no-contract terms but if you're going to be rolling a new 3-year contract, you'll get off $50 cheaper when grabbing the Torch 9810 and $70 cheaper if the Bold 9900 is more your bag. Oh right,
Virgin Mobile also has their dummy units ready as well.

Virgin Mobile Canada pricing for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 emerges
http://crackberry.com/virgin-mobile-canada-pricing-blackberry-bold-9900-and-torch-9810-emerges
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BlackBerry vs iPhone vs Android – it’s Klout Klobberin’ time!

If you don't know about Klout, then Klout doesn't know you.In a nutshell is a well-known one stop shop for measuring your online social influence. It "uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability and Network Score".

Klout recently pitted iPhone and Android against each other in a no holds barred Klout showdown. They compared the average Klout scores of both iPhone and Android influencers. After the smoke cleared, iPhone came out on top with a 42.0 to 40.6 win. So where does BlackBerry come into play? Klout was later asked to throw BlackBerry into the mix. From the onslaught rose a new champion…BlackBerry (in typical

RIMPIRE Strikes Back fashion) emerged with a Klout score of 43.6!!


BlackBerry vs iPhone vs Android – it's Klout Klobberin' time!
http://crackberry.com/blackberry-vs-iphone-vs-android-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-klout-klobberin%E2%80%99-time
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Quick Tip: Find contacts even faster in your address book

We all know that we can start typing a person's name in our BlackBerry address book to locate a contact. What about when you have several people with the same first name, or at the very least the same first letter? You could type in their first name and then scroll to the correct contact. While that doesn't usually take too much time, there is an even quicker way. Simply type in the contacts initals separated by a space. Now you have an even smaller list to select from or perhaps the exact contact you're looking for (very few people I know have the initials AZ). That's it!


Quick Tip: Find contacts even faster in your address book
http://crackberry.com/quick-tip-find-contacts-even-faster-your-address-book
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Review: BatteryPlus for BlackBerry smartphones - promotional pricing available!

Battery life; it's the power users kryptonite. The sense of panic grows as you see the battery meter slowly drain before your very eyes. It can't always be helped, as many factors come into play. Blame it on a faulty app, leaked OS or too many youtube videos accessed. You can also point your finger (the index, not the middle) at an application not properly closed or too many charges from a rapid charger.
You have plenty of charging options to choose from. There are times when you find yourself far away from any type of charger (or outlet) and without a spare battery to swap with. You don't necessarily want to turn off the radio to optimize power, as you need to get a few things done asap.

Having a battery monitoring app like BatteryPlus may be just what the battery doctor ordered. The application consistently monitors your battery level, provides estimated battery life and collects a log of your battery level over a period of time. It even starts to shut down processes based on battery level, low signal or even when your BlackBerry is idle. Let's see how BatteryPlus handles a battery of tests.


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Official BlackBerry Bold 9900 and Torch 9810 release dates confirmed at Rogers

While some people have been able to pick up a
BlackBerry Bold 9900 from Rogers today, others have been told that while the devices are in stock, they are not available to sell yet. Rogers has just confirmed via Twitter that the official date is August 10th for the Bold 9900 and August 12 for the Torch 9810. That's right, you can get your shiny new Bold tomorrow on Rogers! So, who's getting one?!
Source:
Twitter
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Managing Work-Life Balance–Nigel Marsh at TEDTalks

 

Work Life Balance

Nigel Marsh is the bestselling author of "Fat, Forty and Fired" and "Overworked and Underlaid" and the Regional Group CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands for Australia & New Zealand. Finding the balance between work and life is an ongoing battle.

Lakshmi Mittal, Carlos Slim lose $10 billion in a week

LONDON: The world's richest man and the richest Indian lost, between
them, over $10 billion (around Rs 45,000 crore) in net worth due to
the global stock market crash. While steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal lost
$3.5 billion (around Rs 13,700 crore) due to the fall in his company's
share price, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's wealth is reckoned to
have been depleted by $6.7 billion (over Rs 30,000 crore).

Mittal, a non-resident Indian who owns nearly 41% of ArcelorMittal, is
now estimated to be worth $16 billion though his fortune was eroded by
close to a fifth of its value last Sunday. Nonetheless, he remains the
UK's richest individual. ArcelorMittal employs 320,000 people in 60
countries.

A Bloomberg report said Slim's stock portfolio, measured in US
dollars, has dropped about 9.5% since July 29 and is valued at about
$64.4 billion. That compares with a 7.2% slide in the Standard &
Poor's 500 Index.

It was also a miserable week for the world's second richest and third
richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Before the Dow Jones made
a small recovery on Friday, Gates's Microsoft Corp slid a significant
5% while Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway dropped 4.3%.

The catastrophic six days for stocks on both sides of the Atlantic
increased fears that this meltdown will lead to a dreaded double-dip
recession. The fall meant that a mind-boggling £2.75 trillion had been
erased off the world markets in 10 days.

Mittal was not the only loser in this market mayhem in Britain.
Commodities trader Ivan Glasenberg, head of Glencore International
also suffered reverses. He lost £788 million as his share price fell
sharply by 13.2%. Others whose fortunes plummeted in Britain included
Mike Ashley, owner of Sports Direct International and Newcastle
Football Club. His worth was reduced by £203.4 million.

Former British finance minister, Alistair Darling, who dealt with the
2008-09 crisis, said: "I have always thought that we won't get a
double-dip recession here in the UK. If you asked me now, well it's on
the cards." The impact of this on emerging economies like China, India
and Brazil will not be favourable either, affecting exports and
growth.

Prime Minister David Cameron, holidaying in Italy, and his finance
minister, George Osborne, vacationing in California, interrupted their
breaks to demand action from European Union leaders. They urged them
to prop up the euro as a currency to prevent a worrying situation from
becoming worse. Britain blames the current calamity on the eurozone
nations' failure to initiate the bailout of Greece, which was agreed
upon two weeks ago.

(With inputs from agencies)

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