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I didn’t really grasp the concept of elevation until I moved to the West. I understood intellectually that higher elevations meant cooler temperatures and different topography, flora and fauna, but knowing something like that intellectually and experiencing several different elevations in the course of one afternoon are two very distinct ways to comprehend. Our travels today took us from 2500 feet above sea level to over 7200 feet, then down to around 5,000 feet
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I’m getting ready for our trip to explore the Rio Grande Rift . Like the Rift, our route will bisect New Mexico, from north of Santa Fe all the way down to Las Cruces. There will be geologic glories galore, including calderas (volcanic craters), lava frozen in place by millions of years of time, mountains (ditto), and the sparkling water of the Rio Grande itself.
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As is traditional, Microsoft ‘s latest version of its hugely successful Office productivity suite hit the Mac platform a year after it hit Microsoft’s own Windows. But Mac users get a bonus Windows users don’t: a huge price cut.
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Microsoft Office for Mac Sees Major Price Cuts: Fear of Google?
A short article published by the AP today notes that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating Amazon and Apple for possible anti-competitive measures taken to restrict the e-book market. Blumenthal notes that Amazon and Apple have “most favored nation” (MFN) agreements with the five major publishers, which aim to deter those publishers from giving discounts to other retailers
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Connecticut AG Investigating Anti-Competitive E-Book Pricing at Amazon, Apple
As with all survey findings like this, my reporting will be in two parts: the findings themselves, and then the caveats. Those caveats are important and interesting, so don’t skip them–they color, and sometimes negate, the findings. Nielsen’s second-quarter statistics for smartphones are out, and of course it involves the quickly evolving and often bloody fight between Apple ‘s iPhone and the various phones using Google ‘s Android
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Android Outsells iPhone for the First Time
The New York Times’ offering the engine behind its own iPad app proves it thinks the future of news publishing is on tablets. The code is called the Press Engine, and it could, just possibly, turn into a powerful tool for transforming the newspaper business. The Press Engine exists because other publishers, like the Dallas Morning News, approached the New York paper and requested access to the code it used to build its iPad and iPhone apps–so taken were they by the design.
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New York Times iPad App Sells Its Soul to Other Papers
Those who owe back taxes better pay up, or Pennsylvania’s department of revenue will hunt you down, Jack Bauer-style. That’s the scare tactic used in a recent series of Big Brother-like ads, which showed a satellite zeroing in on a tax cheat’s home. “Your name is Tom,” bleeps a robotic-voice, as the Google Earth-esque graphics zoom toward its target
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Ronald Reagan’s famous challenge to the Russian leader became a rallying-cry to end the Cold War. Now, decades later, Reagan’s son is taking up the torch, albeit for a more important cause: ending the left-wing’s dominance of email service providers
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Ronald Reagan’s Son Launches @Reagan Email Alternative to Lefty Gmail, AOL, Hotmail
If we’re lucky, the BP Gulf disaster could soon be over (at least the oil gushing part of it), but the damaged local communities will need help for a long time to come. That’s where the Pepsi Refresh Project’s ” Do Good for the Gulf ” initiative comes in.
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Pepsi Refresh Project’s "Do Good For the Gulf" Campaign Takes Off
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a joint venture between Participant Media and one of the country’s biggest office supply retailers! Cause marketing has a history that is near and dear to my heart, from YouthAIDS’ partnership with footwear company Aldo and major celebrities like rapper Ludacris and pop singer Avril Lavigne to MTV’s partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation to promote young adult health in marginalized communities. A consistent player in this scene is Participant Media , a production company started by Jeff Skoll that produces socially relevant films with an agenda to create sustained social change. Participant’s latest partnership reveals the far-reaching scope of cause marketing and CSR campaigns, as none other than OfficeMax has announced that it will donate school supplies to over 1,000 teachers when 40,000 people pledge to watch Participant’s latest film, Waiting for “Superman,” about the distraught public school system in the United States.
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Cause Marketing Gets a Lift From "Superman," OfficeMax
When Nike teamed with Apple several years ago for a fitness device that measures and records your pace and distance while running, it changed the workout world. Called Nike+, the small sensor could fit in your shoe, and sync with an iPod or iPhone to track your jogging data. It retailed for $29.
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Adidas’ miCoach Personal Trainer iPhone App Is a Freeware Nike+ Rival
Hammond says some cutting-edge researchers afraid to “make a technology decision.” Al Hammond belongs in the same category with CK Prahalad and Stuart Hart as some of the world’s pioneering bottom-of-the-pyramid researchers and strategists, and Hammond has specifically targeted rural connectivity and health care. From the World Resources Institute, where he authored the pivotal research report, The Next 4 Billion , to Ashoka, where he forges links between private companies and citizen sector organizations, whatever Hammond is working on at the moment is something you know you need to keep your eye on
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Al Hammond Shares the Latest in Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Innovations
Virtusa adopts OLPC as a pet cause, tests and improves hardware and software. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has had its fair share of critique and controversy, but if any of that is putting a damper on the project, someone forgot to tell its founder, MIT Media’ Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte –now he’s partnered with IT consulting group, Virtusa , which has decided to run user scenarios and tests to help improve the software and hardware behind OLPC.
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One Laptop Per Child Finds New Partners in Sri Lanka Test Run
In a world where a single TV or laptop screen can no longer contain a worthwhile story, one man dares to spill his epic across multiple platforms. But time is running out..
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"Heroes" Creator Tim Kring on His New TV Series, Transmedia, Future of Television
The iPhone 4 went on sale in many other nations on Friday, and unlike the explosion in the media in the U.S., there seems to have been remarkably little fuss around the globe about the matter. The Sydney Morning Herald grabbed the biggest chunk of the news with a piece titled “iPhone 4 fault fails to surface for Sydney fans.” And though the first paragraph of the article hurls some nationalistic zingers — “Maybe their mobile signal is weaker, or maybe our hands are just smaller?” — it’s actually onto something. If the Aussies are seeing fewer issues with the antenna design of the iPhone 4, then what the heck is going on
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No Antenna Issues for Australian iPhone 4: Did U.S. Litigiousness, Media Invent It?
As it stands, there is no reliable way to judge the sustainability of a company. Sustainability is, of course, a subjective thing, and one whose definition changes depending on the industry
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Greenbiz, UL Environment Introduce Sweeping Sustainability Standard for Companies
The Wall Street Journal makes no bones about the matter: Its report , based on discussions with industry insiders, is headlined “Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy.” The core argument centers around the new version of MS’s “industry leading” browser that hit PCs in 2008: Internet Explorer 8.0. According to several sources close to MS’s management and coders, there was a huge move to differentiate IE8 from the other, increasingly competitive, browsers on the market by making it a champion of user privacy protection
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Microsoft’s Role in the Erosion of Online Privacy
Volvo’s car division was sold from the bigger Volvo home company (which also manufactures commercial vehicles, construction equipment and aerospace components, among a long list of other specialties) to Ford in 1999, with the Swedes making $6.45 billion from the deal, and sharing ownership of the Volvo marque with Ford–who were the only company allowed to use it on cars. Back in 2008 was when the first news surfaced that Ford was interested in selling the Volvo name at the height of the recession, and the marque probably seemed a good option to sell at at time Ford was struck with large losses (and Volvo was never a particularly glamorous name to own anyway: Remember “Buy Volvos: They’re boxy, but good!). Presumably Ford pursued several buyers
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Ford Sells Volvo Car Brand to China’s Geely, For $1.5 Billion
We’ve seen a number of contactless credit card enterprises hitting the news recently, backed by big names and with slightly different notions about how the technology works. But the news that AT&T and Verizon are forming a joint venture to compete in this space totally transforms the market from a slightly boring, and long-term one, to a dynamic and exciting one. Bloomberg notes that the efforts include T-Mobile USA and will be piloted in stores in Atlanta and three other U.S
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Specter of Apple Looms Over Verizon, AT&T’s Cell Phone Credit Cards Game
All you need to know right now, from shrimps to billionaires. While you drifted off, BP stole livelihoods (again), Richard Branson blogged about being in business for funsies, and some new competitors arose in Asia. 1
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iFive: Branson on Fun, Asia Nobels, China Water Projects, BP Destroys Fisheries, Iraq Loses Electricity