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Motorola can help Google make Android more secure, and more attractive to business and government customers.

Google wants to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

While Google's master plan for its Motorola acquisition remains a closely guarded secret, the company has been portraying it as a patent-related business opportunity.

Motorola's smartphones have great

with businesses.

Google's Motorola acquisition may also be a strategy for landing more business customers.

say cellphones can help stave off boredom

13 percent say

avoid interacting with people around them.

29 percent

83 percent of U.S. adults own some type of cellphone

phones for awhile to get a break

35 percent own a smartphone of some kind,

51 percent say

phone at least once to get information they needed right away in the last 30 days.

One-quarter say they experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone at hand

40 percent of cellphone owners

hey have found themselves in an emergency situation and having a cellphone was helpful.

ice cream

red meat

butter.

lowering

artery-clogging cholesterol, what you eat may be more important than what you don't eat.

such as soy protein and nuts

reduce bad cholesterol far more effectively than a diet low in saturated fat.

That could drive down a person's risk of fatal heart attack or stroke by 10%, the authors suggested.

dump their drugs for tofu,

"Patients don't want to take the medications, and I'm afraid that if you tell them there's a diet that works just as well, then they'll do that instead," he said.

1 in 6 Americans has a high overall cholesterol level,

makes a person nearly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke as someone whose total cholesterol falls into a healthy range.

(LDL) cholesterol is one component of this overall number.

nation's most commonly prescribed medications,

355 million prescriptions dispensed,

soy protein, nuts,

"sticky" fiber such as that found in oats and barley,

plant sterols.

handful of nuts such as almonds or walnuts every day, and to substitute milk and meats with soy and tofu products as much as possible.

don't know what to do with them at the moment."

donations

"hold off" on his plans "for the time being".

"The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."

Amy's father had announced his plans to set up a foundation in his daughter's name at the singer's funeral in London on 27 July.

He added that the 27-year-old had "conquered" her drug addiction before her death but had been "trying hard to deal with her drinking".

She was found dead at her home in north London on 24 July.

helping

7-6, 310 pounds,

true giant

Yao averaged 19.0 points (9,247 total)

NBA into a global brand

9.2 rebounds (4,494)

1.9 blocked shots (920)

in seven full seasons

leg injuries led him to retire in July

Yao, 31 next month

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

contributor

As a player entry

Yao is not eligible for induction until 2017.

elected as coaches

Three hundred million Chinese play basketball.

five games last season,

51 networks in China was up 11%.

Yao is "a transformational player,

eight-time All-Star

Yao's jersey is the 36th most popular.

here were 4.7 billion page views on the NBA's website from China this past season

43% increase

Hewlett-Packard

HP’s bombshell revelations

where it holds the global No. 1 spot

TouchPad

Apple (AAPL) has positioned its iPad very well for years to come against challengers in the tablet market.

Apple’s iPad was announced in January 2010

no tablet has caught up to what Apple offers.

happy with a Google (GOOG) Android Honeycomb tablet; fewer have purchased a BlackBerry (RIMM) Playbook.

third-party app support,

table the TouchPad?

For most people, the iPad is the most complete tablet available.

Apple holds the tablet crown.

phone apps,

a media store,

tens of millions were already used to.

earliest

tablet contenders appeared and they’re just now gaining certain key features: movie stores, for example, and stretch and zoom capabilities for phone apps. Consumers want a complete tablet experience, not one that’s “coming soon.”

HP’s $1.2 billion investment in webOS persuaded me that it was in the tablet race for the long haul. I defended the company’s move to sell the TouchPad at a discount and even bought one, only to find out days later that I was wrong: HP wasn’t selling the tablet at low prices to expand the user base quickly and help attract developers. HP apparently gave the TouchPad only a brief chance to gain an audience.

swiftly pulled.

Touch Bionics also agreed to fit the hand and train Matthew at their state of the art facilities for free, which would have otherwise cost £25,000.

Matthew said: ''It is just amazing.

even fitted with Bluetooth technology to allow Matthew to hook up to a computer wirelessly to track the strength and speed of his movements.

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Bing Webmaster Tools now provides users with traffic data from both Bing and Yahoo

The changes

rolled out between August 12th and 16th

you can’t currently filter for Yahoo versus Bing results

you will see is a combination of the two,

Bing is powering Yahoo’s search results. It’s expected that every regional version of Yahoo will have made the transition by early 2012,

notable exception of Yahoo Japan; Yahoo Japan functions as an independent company and will have its back-end powered by Google.

since Yahoo announced earlier this year that they would be shutting down their own webmaster tools once every market has transitioned to Bing.

using Facebook were more "narcissistic" because services such as Facebook allow users to "share themselves constantly on their terms."

Rosen also found that middle school, high school, and college students studying for exams over 15 minutes were only able to focus for two to three minutes before moving on to other things like texting or apps.

help kids to practice life behind a safety curtain

hare tidbits about themselves, practice being empathetic and interact with their friends without having to deal with other people’s reactions right away."

Suryatapa

at the age of six

Three months ago, I wandered into a salon in Kolkata with my mother and came

face-to-

face with a prejudice

my beloved aunts, and maddening when strangers suggest my dark skin is something to be “fixed.”

No one in India seems to think it unusual to try to slap some bleach, or a herbal equivalent, on my skin to reveal a whiter me.

Darkie, Blackie and Kaalia

My color defined me and it stuck.

self-conscious.

Kaalia, remember me? When I pointed out that it was insulting, I was called out for being “too sensitive.”

“We called you that with love,”

Well-meaning aunts and their neighbors worried about my marriage prospects.

Like that should justify the hurt.

Perhaps, they suggested, a little less sun exposure, or maybe a few extra layers of sandalwood paste or a homemade concoction that the neighborhood swore by?

I wouldn’t let anyone touch my face.

The aunts sighed but never really gave up.

Instead, in this country, it is everyone’s business to correct it or cover it up.

The personal is open to public opinion, whether it makes you squirm or not.

Few Indians seem to be comfortable in their dark skin.

So it is no surprise that a multi-billion rupee market in fairness products thrives in India.

whitened versions of themselves, urging you to pick up a tube or two of the latest product.

From lotions and soaps to whitening underarm deodorant; every body part it seems is could be a few shades lighter.

Urban legends abound of how turmeric and milk, with their blood cleansing properties, had turned someone’s friend’s sister into a fair maiden – so I gulped down this vile concoction, gagged and never touched it ever again.

adolescent weakness,

I too was convinced to go on a regimen of drinking milk with crushed turmeric.

As an adult I’ve become much more comfortable with the color of my skin.

Over a decade of living in North America – where tans are pursued and Halle Berry is a beauty icon – helped that.

So when I moved back to India, I was surprised and offended all over again, as I confronted people who still think porcelain skin is the epitome of beauty.

society that embraced a wider spectrum of skin tone.

Victorian ideas of beauty,

“Do you do tanning?” I was dumbstruck and could barely stammer out a surprised “no.”

In retrospect, her assumption says a lot about how Indians equate skin tone with beauty, confidence and social standing.

Suryatapa Bhattacharya is the India correspondent for “The National” newspaper.