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New, smaller and lighter Kindles have better battery lives, superior glare-free displays and enough storage for up to 3,500 books. [Source: USATODAY.com Tech / 09-02]

At its typically music-focused fall event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage to show off refreshes to the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch, as well as its TV device and mobile operating system. [Source: CNET News.com / 09-02]

Inflection, the start-up behind genealogy site Archives.com, is introducing a people search engine. [Source: New York Times: Technology / 09-02]

Plenty of sectors in this economy are slumping, but there are a few big winners in each one that are beating the odds. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 09-02]

A jobless recovery? Hardly. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 09-02]

The Mark Hurd HP scandal showed it doesn't take a codebook to mete out punishment. So why do tech companies waste time and effort on misunderstood and duplicative codes that usually go ignored? [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 09-02]

TechNewsSource - SANS - Tip of the Day [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 09-02]

Dictionary.com Word of the Day - bilocation: the state of being or the ability to be in two places at the same time. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - What does Earth look like from the planet Mercury? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NASA Image of the Day - Backdropped by red hills, the Development Motor-2, or DM-2, ignites during an Aug. 31, 2010, static test that was conducted by ATK Aerospace Systems in Promontory, Utah. DM-2, the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

Dictionary.com Word of the Day - anacoluthia: lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

Idea management software seeks two holy grails of enterprise collaboration technology: 1) innovation and 2) the breaking down of silos. Enterprise idea management has been around for over 10 years, but according to Mark Turrell , co-founder of pioneering idea management... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 09-02]

Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago. [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Users of Apple Inc.'s iTunes software will now be able to see what songs their friends are buying and where their favorite bands are playing next. [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Using readily available computer programs, researchers have developed a system to identify genes that will be useful in the classification of breast cancer. The algorithm, described in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research... [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age. The research is published in the September 1, 2010,... [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Prostate cancer is a significant public health concern and cause of morbidity among American men. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States (excluding skin cancers) and is second only to lung cancer as a contributor to cancer deaths in American... [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Apple Inc. announced a smaller, cheaper version of its Apple TV device for streaming movies and television shows over the Internet and into the living room. It also unveiled a new line of iPods, including a touch-screen Nano model. [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

In Alzheimer's disease, the problem is beta-amyloid, a protein that accumulates in the brain and causes nerve cells to weaken and die. Drugs designed to eliminate plaques made of beta-amyloid have a fatal problem: they need to enter the brain and remove the plaques... [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says iPhone users will be getting a software update that offers the ability to upload high-definition video over Wi-Fi. [Source: physorg.com / 09-02]

Steve Jobs may call Apple TV a hobby, and it certainly hasn't met with the runaway success of some of the company's products. But Jobs is an avid collector of both users and cooperative media companies, and with that in mind, Apple, as widely rumored, announced [Source: Digital Daily / 09-02]

Apple's refreshed lineup of iPods, introduced by Steve Jobs today, looks pretty much as anticipated--snazzed up revisions of the touch, nano and shuffle. [Source: Digital Daily / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - NYT > Health - Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - Discovery Channel - A new study shows that the chances of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsing are uncomfortably high. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: Digits - With a new social network called Ping, Apple plans to add a way for its customers to discover new music inside iTunes. It's like Facebook and Twitter, with users opting in to follow the music habits and comments of friends and artists... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - Many people fail to rev up their exercise regimen before they leave for a ski vacation -- and the sudden burst of activity on the slopes puts them at risk for heart attack, researchers say. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - National Geographic - On the 25th anniversary of Titanic's rediscovery, high-resolution images from a new expedition are shedding light on the shipwreck. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - Discovery Channel - A new geologic map of Schrodinger Basin on the moon gives a unique glimpse of Luna's distant past. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - In the wake of actor Michael Douglas's announcement that he has stage IV throat cancer, WebMD answers frequently asked questions about the disease. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - The drugs apixaban and Xarelto are effective at preventing deadly blood clots, new studies show. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - Forbes Woman - Excerpt from Devora Zack's new book for introverts, the overwhelmed and the underconnected. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WebWorkerDaily - Some people use their email for everything - storing files, emailing notes to themselves, etc. If you fit that description, you should check out Notes for Later. It's a simple free service that's useful for keeping making notes... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - Knowledge@Wharton - If one looks at the research on older workers, one finds what Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, calls an incredible amount of discrimination, bigger even than discrimination against race or gender.... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - Older people with high blood pressure who drink one to two cups of coffee a day have more elastic blood vessels than those who drink less or more, Greek researchers report. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - National Geographic - As Atlantic hurricane season heats up, storms could send toxic hydrocarbons lingering from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill surging inland, scientists say. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - From infancy until our last days, our minds constantly produce dreams while our bodies are at rest. But, what exactly are dreams, and why do we have them? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - Did you know that about half of the autobahn has posted speed limits, and there's always a posted recommended speed everywhere else? Even so, the autobahn remains a tempting informal speed track for drivers. How fast have the fastest... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - Let's say your vacation tour group ditches you in the outback. Or your car slips off an icy road in the middle of nowhere. Will you have the tools to save your life? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - NYT > Health - A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - Official Google Blog - It's been 10 years since the first version of Google SketchUp was released, and there are more people modeling in SketchUp now that we ever could have imagined - over a million of you a week, in fact. That's a pretty humbling... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: The Juggle - The earning power of young single women has surpassed that of their male peers in metropolitan areas around the U.S. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

NewsBlotter - The Economist - China now has more warships than America, according to the IISSTHE International Institute for Strategic Studies (better known as the IISS), reckons China now has more warships than America, which long possessed the biggest fleet.... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-02]

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have been called the defining moment of our time. Thousands of people died and the attacks had huge individual and collective consequences, including two wars. But less is known about the immediate emotional reactions... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Older adults with diabetes who have high blood pressure, walk slowly or lose their balance, or believe they're in bad health, are significantly more likely to have weaker memory and slower, more rigid cognitive processing than those without these problems, according... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: Driver's Seat - With Hurricane Earl approaching the east coast, drivers need to know how to handle their cars in a storm. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

As baseball fans ready for the dramatic moments and memorable plays that decide pennant races and define postseason play, MLB.com announced today that it is offering a limited time discount - 50% - on its industry-leading and award-winning lineup of mobi [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: The Juggle - Teaching kids to ride a bike could be getting easier for both kids and parent alike with new pedal-less balance bikes. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

Providing body armor to all law enforcement officers in the United States would provide enough benefit to justify the cost, according to a new RAND Corporation study. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Researchers describe how to carry out the first experimental test of string theory in a paper published tomorrow in Physical Review Letters. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebWorkerDaily - When collaborating, sharing information, holding conversations and generally connecting with the rest of your team can be the difficult part. When you're working at the enterprise level, the situation gets more complex; you may need... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - You don't have to buy an alarm system to prevent burglaries. If your home looks lived-in and if your neighbors seem nosy, you're preventing crime. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

An astronaut took over 85 time-lapse videos of Earth from the International Space Station. We have some of the best here, including an aurora and a satellite launch. [Source: Wired News / 09-01]

On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between... [Source: Wired News / 09-01]

Employers may not be creating many new jobs, but a report released Wednesday showed that they aren't cutting them as often either, with layoffs sinking to a 10-year low in August. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 09-01]

TechNewsSource - Gartner Blog Network - At the end of July I purchased an Apple iPad - and then took it on a week long family vacation in the mid-Atlantic states. And it was great. I was able to: [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 09-01]

A motorcycle police officer on an urgent call faces huge information processing and decision-making demands. A new European research project aims to prevent potentially dangerous information overload. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Females are earning more than their Male peers -- but only if they're young, single and childless [Source: TIME / 09-01]

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TechNewsSource - SANS - Tip of the Day [Source: TechNewsSource.com / 09-01]

National Geographic Photo of the Day - This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos In the green firmament of a slough, galaxies of duckweed are stirred by slow moving waters. Florida's Seminole call this section of swamp the Jurassic. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Annotated Galactic Center [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NASA Image of the Day - The current Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-13 captured this image of Hurricane Danielle heading for the north Atlantic (top center), Hurricane Earl with a visible eye hitting the Leeward Islands (left bottom) and... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

Australian researchers Wednesday mourned the death of Cedric, a Tasmanian devil thought at first to be immune to a devastating cancer which is threatening to wipe out the species. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Seth Godin - Many people struggle at work because they want more authority. It turns out you can get a lot done if you just take more responsbility instead. It's often offered, rarely taken. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

Email is old fashioned, right? Not so fast - that rich source of data about your personal connections and interests is finally emerging as a platform for some really innovative services. Yesterday we saw the launch of Gmail's new Priority Inbox , which automatically... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 09-01]

A third of all Internet users thinks that virtually every website poses a potential security threat. According to a new survey by German online security firm Avira , consumers are becoming increasingly aware of potential security issues online, but it looks like... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 09-01]

Today's the day - the Oauthpocalypse - that Twitter users and developers (well, mostly developers) have been anxiously awaiting. It's the day that Twitter will begin using OAuth rather than basic authentication for third-party applications, a move that has implications... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 09-01]

A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that teens who slept less than eight hours per weeknight ate higher proportions of fatty foods and snacks than adolescents who slept eight hours or more. The results suggest that short sleep duration may... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Personal listening devices like iPods have become increasingly popular among young - and not-so-young - people in recent years. But music played through headphones too loud or too long might pose a significant risk to hearing, according to a 24-year study of... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

With no clear signs the nation is either on the road to economic recovery or showing signs of entering another recession, Florida`s consumer confidence remained stagnant, inching up only one point to 67 in August, according to a new University of Florida survey. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

For the nearly 2 million U.S. workers exposed to silica dust each year, a new discovery may help prevent or treat the development of chronic lung diseases related to this exposure. In the September 2010 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology scientists from... [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

A study of the body system that deals with Americans' love affair with salt may yield more insight into why so many end up hypertensive and how to better treat them. [Source: physorg.com / 09-01]

Interesting. For the first time in 5 years Apple will stream one of its media events live. Late Tuesday afternoon the company said it will broadcast tomorrow's affair to anyone with a Snow Leopard Mac or iOS device like the iPhone and iPad - live. [Source: Digital Daily / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Discovery Channel - The Atlantic hurricane season of 2010 is churning away. Check out how to keep tabs on the latest in storm developments in every imaginable band of the electromagnetic spectrum. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - HybridCars.com - Infiniti will debut the company's first hybrid model at this fall's Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2012 Infiniti M Hybrid goes on sale this spring. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: Digits - As part of the Apple event Wednesday, News Corp.'s Fox and Walt Disney's ABC networks are slated to be announced as offering 99-cent rentals of television shows through the iTunes store. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - Adding more selenium to your diet may reduce your risk of bladder cancer. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - Low vitamin D levels are associated with a higher risk of death and hospitalization in people with heart failure, researchers report. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - The Work/Life Balancing Act - Okay, so you only have 24 hours in a day. One-third of them are for sleep. One-third for your paying gig. That leaves one-third for ????? Guess how most people spend that other third?‚ They are‚ watching television or... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Through Imagining the Future of Leadership, a symposium at the Harvard Business School and accompanying blog series, expert thinkers gathered to investigate what is necessary today to develop the leaders we need for tomorrow. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebMD - When it comes to your heart heath, don't let age alone make you reluctant to run a marathon. So say researchers who found that amateur runners over age 50 -- and as old as 72 -- experienced some temporary heart changes, but no lasting damage... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebWorkerDaily - Faced with the multitude of scheduling apps that are now available - including‚ Tungle.me, ScheduleOnce, TimeBridge, Doodle among many others - TimeTrade has been updating its product range in order to stay competitive. Recently... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - NYT > Health - Leading drug makes are developing new anticoagulant drugs to prevent stroke and systemic blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat disorder. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Dartmouth College graduates are generally big supporters of our most famous alumni - Theodor Geisel (Class of 1925) known better as Dr. Seuss. On Sunday evening, my son pleasantly surprised me by picking one of my favorite... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - SharpBrains - What is working memory, and why it matters? Can we multi-task as good as we seem to assume? What should we all know about how our brains work, and why? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Harvard Business Blogs - Do you remember those heady days of the late 1990s, in the heat of the dotcom boom? As a refresher, here are a few fashionable thoughts from that era: Startups can easily overthrow corporate behemoths. Modern management is... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com Video - Business - McDonald's continues to expand in India. Reporter Devin Banerjee asks Vikram Bakshi,McDonald's managing director for northern and eastern India, how McDonald's has been adapting to the Indian consumer since it entered India... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WSJ.com: Health Blog - About 60 million Americans have medical conditions that should be known in an emergency, but only a fraction wear medical ID or carry their health information. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - About 30,000 Indonesian people had to flee their homes yesterday when Mount Sinabung, a volcano that had been dormant for four centuries, erupted for the second straight day. What factors influence volcanic eruption patterns? [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - WebWorkerDaily - Although I work remotely, I recently took a full-time two-month contract - and, in my existing clients' eyes, became even more remote than usual. My standard approach to maintaining relationships with my client contacts wasn't going... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - HowStuffWorks.com - Eating at home is usually less expensive than eating out at a restaurant, but those grocery bills can certainly add up over time. We've come up with 10 tips that can help you reduce your bill, maybe by 50 percent. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

NewsBlotter - Scientific American - 'Tis the gift to be simple, the Shakers sing. Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks take vows of poverty. Why? A new study published online in May in Psychological Science offers a hint. Money--even the thought of it--reduces satisfaction... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 09-01]

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Ancestry.com today announced the release of Ancestry.com Family Tree Maker(R) 2011, an improved version of the world's No. 1 selling family history software. For the last 20 years, Family Tree Maker has provided tools that make it easy to build famil [Source: PRNewswire - Technology / 08-31]

Making a photo collage online just got a lot easier thanks to ScrapWalls.com. ScrapWalls lets you make a shape collage from your pictures, order poster prints, and share it for free online. [Source: Business Wire / 08-31]

A trio of new products use your car's data port to give you driving information that might otherwise be hard to get. [Source: New York Times: Technology / 08-31]

Despite the odds, these businesses have managed to stay truly all-American. But for how long? [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 08-31]

Companies with women on their boards of directors have a better record of corporate transparency in the area of environmental disclosure, according to a study by researchers in the Flinders University Business School (Australia). [Source: physorg.com / 08-31]

NewsBlotter - HR Bartender - You remember transparency, don't you?‚  Sure you do!‚  Everyone was talking about it several months ago.‚  It came right along with being on social media and operating openly in our communications.‚  The idea was,... [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 08-31]