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As smartphones and tablets become more ubiquitous in our ever more mobile world, driving becomes an increasingly dangerous activity. Local and federal governments are trying to enact “hands-free” laws to keep people’s attention on the road, and devices and technologies like Bluetooth are doing their parts to keep drivers safe. Apple has created ways to [...]

EnTrackAsset is targeted at businesses, facing difficulty in tracking their fixed assets, which may be in a single location or distributed in multiple locations. It delivers the business benefits of effective asset tracking, without the burden of heavy infrastructure and capital investments. Mr. Soma Sekhar Vedantam, CEO of TrackIT Solutions FZ LLC, said, “The application [...]

NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan’s president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the war in the neighboring country. Pakistan blocked the routes in November after American airstrikes killed 24 of its troops on [...]

There are three challenges in using social media content for reporting, as Storyful’s Mark Little has written: finding it, verifying it, and figuring out the best way to publish it. In breaking news situations, reporters often rely on text searches — names of places, keywords like “crash” or “fire,” and hashtags. They look for users [...]

When Meir (not his real name ) and his wife bought a garden apartment in Kfar Sava, they were not concerned about paying NIS 2 million. Meir assessed the value of the 4-room apartment he was selling in Herzliya at NIS 1.7 million, and planned to cover the difference with a mortgage. “Prior to purchasing [...]

Imagine having detailed individual animal performance on a herd of 600,000 cattle under one owner’s control. The breakneck pace of technology improvement is delivering a new frontier of cattle management opportunity within the Australian Agricultural Company’s far-flung northern cattle breeding and growing properties. Fundamental to the operation of the project is the use of NLIS [...]

In a surge of bidding unprecedented in art market history, Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of contemporary art took in $388.5 million, the highest amount ever in that field. A world auction record was set for a work of contemporary art when Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” painted in 1961 sold for just under $87 million. [...]

When Hertz reported a narrower-than-expected first quarter loss May 2, its CEO Mark Frissora made sure to single out the company’s 122 video kiosks for allowing the car rental company to take advantage of higher demand among business travelers in the U.S. The kiosks, which customers can use either to pick up existing rentals or [...]

Paper holds a powerful place in the history of human interaction, marking milestones with birth certificates, marriage licenses and diplomas, maintaining our collective memory through diaries, historic documents and books and managing our financial exchanges as currency. This May and June, the Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Public Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, in collaboration [...]

Santigold’s second set “Master of My Make-Believe” is varied, entertaining, produced well and feels firm, very final. The artist herself is unfortunately still lumped into this gob of musicians that began making their mark about six years ago, known for their vaguely or overtly “ethnic sounds,” from M.I.A. and her frequent collaborator Diplo, to the [...]

Oligarchs have to eat, just like the rest of us. But it doesn’t mean we have to eat like them. Over-the-top Brasserie Pushkin lets you pig out amid billionaires without going broke. Just order cheaper dishes which tend to be the best — and forget about finding green vegetables at any price. You want to [...]

All trains, including Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto, will be monitored by a satellite-based navigation system by next year as part of the Railways’ effort to provide accuracy about their movement. “We have launched Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation (SIMRAN) as a pilot project for 18 pairs of important trains which provides precise location of the [...]

Why does this matter? Because when fertilizer is unevenly distributed, it may not be possible to use traditional sampling strategies to measure whole-field fertility, said assistant professor of crop sciences Fabian Fernandez. No recent published studies have looked at this problem. Fernandez has conducted research to determine potassium and phosphorous distribution in no-till and strip-till [...]

Many of us rely on GPS to get around unfamiliar cities and neighborhoods, but a new type of location service could be giving you directions from the dairy section to the frozen foods aisle at the grocery store, and tracking every step you take. It’s called IPS, or indoor positioning service, and it’s not quite [...]

Guam Community College announces that through its College Access Challenge Grant Program (CACGP), Guam will participate in the National data tracker of FAFSA Completion Rates by High Schools; College Access Federal Student Aid “Go-Live” Workshops; and the $1,000 Grant Aid through College Access Program. GCC’s CACGP is conducting the first of several “hands on” Free [...]

Every year the bureaucrats of the world’s movie production industry make their way to the Locations Show, where governments compete to attract movie producers to their states with fat subsidies. This year, the preparations for the Locations Show conference are overshadowed by the US government’s struggling with continued subsidies to the Export Import Bank, an [...]

Palm Springs, California (NAPSI) – Good news for the estimated 200 million Americans who are overweight and the nearly one in three who are clinically obese: a new program that uses your own DNA to help your weight loss. This new approach to weight loss and sustained healthy eating was created by scientists and chefs [...]

Common rules of thumb exaggerate how much weight people will lose from a given dietary calorie reduction, leading to unrealistic expectations and disappointment, researchers said. Whereas patients are often told that cutting 500 calories a day will let them lose a pound a week, a more realistic formula is that such a caloric reduction would [...]

Former Bachelorette star Jen Schefft has lost 40 pounds since giving birth to daughter Mae in November 2010. While the road back to a size 4 was difficult, Schefft, 35, couldn’t be happier with her newly slim physique. I thought I was going to die when I first got on the treadmill three months after [...]

Jennifer Hudson is keeping her accomplishments in perspective and reshaping her body outranks her top award!Jennifer, who recently revealed that she’s slimmed down to a size 0, told Self magazine, “I’m prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!J.Hud said she became more conscious of her body during her 2004 run on “American Idol” when [...]