Apple now has the support of a USB industry standards group in its battle to keep the Palm Pre from using the iTunes music service.The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) said in a statement Tuesday that Apple can block the Pre from connecting to iTunes. The group issued a letter to both companies warning Palm that further attempts to use iTunes would violate the group’s policy.The voice of the USB-IF is strong in this case since the group is responsible for issuing Apple the hardware vendor ID that lets its devices connect to iTunes via USB. Palm has used this process…

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EMC Corp. is poaching a top executive from Intel Corp. as the computer-storage giant reorganizes its executive suite, likely setting up an internal battle to succeed Chief Executive Joseph Tucci. EMC is expected to announce Monday that 48-year-old Patrick Gelsinger, who heads Intel’s core chip business, will run EMC’s storage-products operations and some smaller software units, effective immediately. EMC also promoted veteran executive Howard Elias, 52, to head the services division, which includes maintenance, consulting and back-up storage. Mr. Tucci, the current chairman and CEO, said that the two men, along with chief financial officer David Goulden, 50, are…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will try on Monday to revive a stalled push for stricter oversight of Wall Street, using the anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse to argue for sweeping regulatory changes. Obama’s wide-ranging economic address in New York will also discuss plans to unwind the government’s involvement in the financial sector and call upon Wall Street firms to take responsibility and avoid reckless behavior. He is to speak at 12:10 EDT (1610 GMT). Gaps in the regulation of U.S. banks and capital markets have been blamed for the subprime mortgage crisis and global financial chaos triggered…

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Next week Facebook will be hosting a “Mobile Mixer” press event and while few details have been provided, we’re expecting the company to announce support for the Android mobile platform. The company has been rumored to be developing an Android application and we’ve also received tips from some high placed executives that something is in the works. Next week’s event though should attract a fair amount of buzz given that the company has held off for so long to release support.

Facebook has a large number of users who use their mobile device as the default resource for accessing the…

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This afternoon Twitter announced that geolocation data would now be added to users’ tweets. It’s something that Facebook has actually been discussing for some time off and on but adding such a feature to all feed stories isn’t the easiest process. In the meantime Facebook is still trying to adjust their platform to provide greater access to information. It’s essentially the “out opening” of Twitter, a similar strategy that Google attempted, starting with OpenSocial.

Interestingly enough, the model appears to be working for Facebook. The latest data from comScore suggests that Twitter’s growth took a break for July and the…

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Over the past few years Facebook has grown from a tool for connecting with others to a tool for sharing information with others. This new model is helping Facebook to collect more relevant information about consumers and is slowly changing the advertising world forever. We are in the midst of a shift toward monitoring our digital footprints and Facebook is currently taking the lead in what appears to be a battle for our commercial identities.

The Death Of Cookie Advertising
As the internet emerged, numerous technologies began to sprout up which provided marketers with the ability to group, monitor, and…

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In Twitter’s internal strategy documents published by Techcrunch, it’s pretty clear that Twitter sees Facebook as competition. Not only is the company racing to 1 billion users but they are also trying to determine ways that Facebook could kill them. We’ve been discussing the Twitter/Facebook battle since the beginning of the year when we suggested Facebook could kill Twitter.

Facebook is also clearly looking into ways to get rid of the Twitter threat and right now they are also testing out their own internal program to distribute status updates to Twitter. In the flick of the switch, all public status…

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High Protein Diet for Weight LossExecutive Summary about High Proten Diet by Kevin PedersonHigh Protein Diet. There are several weight loss diet plans that are designed to assist an individual in the up hill battle of losing weight. A popular weight loss diet is a high protein meal plan. Protein is an important constituent of the regular diet. It helps in the growth of the body. A lack of protein in one’s regular diet can cause a disease called Kwashiorkor. With a high protein diet plan an individual is encouraged to stay away from carbohydrates and to eat foods that…

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