Amazon And Mobile

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Reuters: Amazon's mobile ambitions grow
Engadget: Amazon plans for ‘five or six’ new tablets, will include 10-inch model, says Staples president
VentureBeat: Amazon set to release up to six new tablets, including a 10-incher
Gizmodo: Why “Five or Six” New Kindle Fires Is Really Just Two Kindle Fires
Gadgetsteria: Staples CEO: 5-6 New Kindle Fire SKUs (And Phone?) Coming “Shortly”.
Business Insider: To Be Clear, Amazon Is NOT Going To Release Six New Tablets
Telegraph: London ‘obvious choice’ for Amazon's expansion
Fast Company: Amazon Opening London Office For Digital Streaming TV
TechCrunch: Amazon Ramps Up Global Expansion, Opens Massive Media R&D Center In London

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Brazil Carnival

Android Tablet, Phone

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By now Android is no longer playing second place to the iOS in either the smartphone space or the tablet space. Nexus 7 has been a major arrival. Before that Amazon's Kindle Fire was the best product in the space running Android, but it was not Google's version of Android, and so it did not count for a win in Google's lap.

The Nexus 7 and the Samsung Galaxy S III have exceeded their Apple counterparts. Who is playing catch up now?

Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand

sales of the Nexus 7 have been "extremely brisk"

Samsung’s Galaxy S III surpasses 10 million sales in less than two months

By the end of the month, the device will be on sale via 296 carriers in 145 countries worldwide...... it and predecessor the Galaxy S, have together passed 50 million sales across the planet..... Samsung now counts itself as the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world ..... an August launch for its next-generation Galaxy Note

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Malaria

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How Malaria Hijacks Your Immune System

Malaria infects at least 150 million people per year and kills over half a million people.... half the world’s population is susceptible to the disease.

Malaria is one of the things Bill Gates has worked on in his post Microsoft life. Many more people are talking about it now. Otherwise it used to be the poor person's disease.

Malaria is one of those hard to tie down tropical diseases. A software guy struggling with bio has business implications. Gates himself has said if he were to launch a startup today it would be in bio tech.

Software has viruses. Bio has malaria. Bio is still capital intensive. But that does not change its high growth potential status.

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Alzheimer's Stabilization

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Study Suggests Alzheimer's Disease Can Be Stabilized

Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States; 35 million people are estimated to have the disease today, a figure that is expected to balloon in the coming decades.

One of the things people look forward to is getting old with vigor. Perhaps advances will catch up with expectations.

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The Disabled And Computing

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Controlling a Computer with Your Eyes

the French author of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly dictated his memoirs solely through eye-movements--one letter at a time, and with the help of an assistant

One of the things about computing has been the help it has provided to the disabled, or rather the physically challenged. At one level we are all physically challenged. Or we would not need computers, right? Computers compute when we can't. Like Steve Jobs said, the computer is like a bicycle for the mind. We are all disabled, we all need bicycles.

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Cyrstal Clear

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Crystals, Information And The Origin of Life

Crystals are among the most beautiful objects in the natural word. They are well understood, ubiquitously used and much admired.... the convergence of crystallography, materials science and biology is opening up a new approach to the study of structure, form and function. ... the energy landscape in which they exist and the flow of information to and from the environment..... the information a mollusc uses to make mother of pearl; and that is determined by its genome, proteome and so on, which together they call a conchome. .... this information is a kind of algorithm or formula for producing mother of pearl, analogous to an algorithm that produces the digits of pi. ..... a similar change in thinking about form and function is also emerging in the entirely different field of robotics and artificial intelligence. .... turns out that humans perform many actions that are so quick that the human brain cannot possibly be involved .... the brain outsources the control of this movement to materials themselves.... morphological computing.

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