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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Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10 million in funding.It’s taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company’s 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 “idea themes” that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year.Google had originally planned to choose individual ideas, but was “overwhelmed” by the number…

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Toll free numbers have become very popular nowadays. Some of us have heard about these numbers in fact, a majority of us are familiar to these numbers, but do we know what they really are? Why do they use these numbers anyway? To some, these are just ordinary telephone numbers that they call if they need help or anything of that sort.
We hear “toll free number” everywhere. We hear it in television programs, usually reality television shows like American Idol when they tell us to vote for an idol, we here it in advertisements of different products – telecommunication…

Digital images are created by light being focused onto semiconductors. The popularity of digital cameras has been closely linked with the increasing popularity of personal computing, both in terms of making advances features possible and how people prefer their pictures. Digital photography allows a paperless age, where people often prefer to store, view, and share images over the computer instead of printing them physically.
Talk to those you know who own digital cameras before buying one. Friends and family can offer the best advice, and tell you which brands and models they favor or are disinclined towards. You can make…

This is Day 27 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Facebook provides all page administrators with a tool for tracking the growth of the page as well as the number of interactions on your page. There are a few numbers which you can look at to determine how to improve you page most effectively. Ultimately by performing the steps outlined over the 30 days to 3,000 fans program, you should have figured out the most effective methods of improving your page.

Understanding Post Quality
Facebook provides one metric which they…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s decision to restrict tire imports from China after union workers complained of a surge could lead to copycat cases in areas such as steel, clothing, paper, machinery and consumer goods, trade experts said on Monday “It’s a target-rich environment,” said Lewis Leibowitz, a lawyer who represents the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition, which opposed relief in the tires case. “There’s almost anything you can hit. And even within import categories that have gone down, there may be smaller product categories that have gone up,” Leibowitz said. However, the question of which industries could…

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NEW DELHI: Within less than a year, the country’s largest auto maker, Tata Motors, has come to the public for the second time to raise about Rs Some common investment rulesIndia’s ten biggest wealth creatorsCo FDs good bet for low-income investors 1,500 crore via fixed deposit schemes, offering up to 9.88 per cent annual interest for a three-year deposit. In a public announcement, the firm today said on a minimum fixed deposit of Rs 20,000 for two and three years, it would offer 8 per cent and 8.75 per cent interest respectively under the quarterly income plan. Under another scheme…

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A new report published yesterday suggests that Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days to post status updates on Facebook. The reason is that click through rates are dramatically higher on those two days. It’s not surprising considering that this is a trend found around the web in traditional publishing channels. If you do a press release, the best days have traditionally been Monday through Wednesday as those are the days that most people read the news.

What was somewhat surprising was the substantial drop off in click through starting on Thursday. Content published on Thursday receives half the clicks…

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