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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.

following in the footsteps of the firm's successful Kindle e-reader and the Android tablets would be a natural extension of the firm's already-launched Amazon App Store.

take on the all-conquering iPad head on.

Amazon may also sell the device at a loss, as it does the Kindle e-reader, recouping costs through selling applications, books and services.

with the Wi-Fi only Kindle already retailing at $139.

$200 full-featured Android tablet with Amazon's marketing muscle behind it may well give Apple the competition it has so far not had to endure.

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we’re still in the top quarter for price

more than triple the cost”

Samsung's

a date for the U.S. release

its hotly anticipated phone,

sold lavishly in foreign markets

r 5 million people worldwide

bought the flagship Android phone

85 days it has been on the market

one sold every 1.5 seconds,

Samsung

"a major product announcement"

an invitation to journalists early Friday

Galaxy S II

Aug. 29.

Galaxy S II by name,

The Galaxy is coming.

"It isn't rocket science to understand that it's the Galaxy S II announcement,"

It isn't an overstatement to say that the Samsung Galaxy S II is the strongest competition the iPhone faces.

sports a 4.3-inch, 800x480 screen, a 1.2-GHz processor, fast 4G network connectivity, and a sleek, simple design evocative of the iPhone. By contrast, the Apple iPhone 4  has a 3.5-inch, 960x640 screen, a 1-GHz processor, and a slower, 3G connection.

Bigger and faster?

Though it hasn’t gone on sale yet in the U.S.

Galaxy S II are copious

obscene.

24 days, the company sold 1 million units

The 2 million units sold in 42 days would fill two and a half soccer fields.

That's a lot of smartphones. But it's more than that: It's a lot of good smartphones,

"If the U.S. versions are anything like the international versions, these are going to be spectacular smartphones," he told FoxNews.com. Segan gave an international version of the phone an Editors' Choice award, calling it the finest Android smartphone available today.

Apple iPhone 5

he elephant in the room

he 3 million Galaxy S II phones sold in just over 50 days are as heavy as 100 elephants)

iPhone 5 is widely expected to be coming out in September, Segan noted.

And getting the right price could make all the difference for Samsung. "They don't want to be more expensive than the iPhone," Segan said.

But that 4G network connection may prove a major difference between the two. 

Unless Apple has made some sort of secret breakthrough, [the faster LTE network] might make a Verizon iPhone too thick and power-hungry for Apple's demands this year. Apple may skip it for now and wait for smaller and cooler chipsets," Segan noted.

That faster connection really pays off for anyone surfing a lot of complicated websites or viewing movies over Netflix, he said. 

But in the end, pricing, a final feature set and the design is all up to the carriers. "The mainstream price for a smartphone is $199 with contract," Segan noted. "We're all hoping for $199."

doesn’t put them on sale any later than October

T-Mobile’s own 4G incompatibility

single hybrid model

iPhone 5 unless it includes 4G networking. And not the 4G LTE which Verizon and AT&T keep touting…

incompatible version of 4G networking

Sprint won’t have the iPhone until the iPhone 6

iPhone 5 by default as AT&T

different iPhone 4 hardware models

Sprint will instantly become the smallest U.S. carrier as well as the only one not in line for the iPhone.

Motorola Mobility

iPhone 5 era for political or network reasons

Android platform

Android-based flagship phone has been thoroughly outsold by AT&T’s flagship iPhone 4

Droid phone

Android offerings

rival Android platform

Android manufacturers HTC and Samsung are losing their underwear in the courts thanks to prolonged patent wars and may not ultimately be a part of the Android collective once it’s all said and done.

Verizon iPhone 5

Apple controls the OS and the hardware

Verizon iPhone 5

(along with the “old standby” AT&T iPhone 6

last few versions of Firefox haven’t been that good

I’ve found one Web site, my bank as it happens, that works fine with Firefox, but it doesn’t recognize Firefox 6 as being a valid Web browser.

This version of Firefox also does much better than previous versions at managing memory

I know that Firefox 7 will have better memory management. I also know that Firefox 7 is due out on September 27th

Firefox 6, the newest version, is better than Firefox 5, but it’s not that great either.

Just because Mozilla developers are paid to keep up with constant change doesn’t mean that individual developers or small independent software vendors (ISV)s can keep up.

I ran not only Firefox, but Chrome 13 and Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to see how Firefox 6 compared to its chief rivals

Firefox, once more, didn’t do well on Web standards.

Firefox really fell behind with 4,588 points. On this benchmark, IE surged ahead with a score of 8,343 to Chrome 13’s 8,010.

The other browsers are better

I wish I coud still recommend Firefox, but I can’t.

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perpetrators

subsequently

funking

new studies reveals

psychological effects of constant Facebooking.

teens who use Facebook

chances to learn how to socialize

ood aspects of the digital lifestyle today's teens were born into.

Facebook can be distracting

negatively impacting teen grades

teaching in compelling ways that engage young students.

more than 1,000 urban adolescents.

omputer, Internet and social-network use, use of mobile Internet devices and phone services like texting, as well as factors related to mental health

, particularly shy teens

experience can give shy kids an easier experience building relationships, by speaking through a keyboard

person

social networks promote healthy social relationships, an important step in teenage development

most frequently had Facebook open

Social networks

addition to the positives

associations between social network use and various mental issues

lack of empathy

, increased aggression and traits associated with mental illnesses

schizophrenia and depression.

detract from a teen's learning and grades

observing 300 teenagers study

can teach teens empathy, or the ability to understand someone else's feelings

lowest retention

similar effect of texting.

notifications after

wo-minute "tech breaks

heck their messages

15 minutes of studying

social networking

negative effects on academics.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

This year’s report found something new and alarming: Teens who regularly use Facebook and Myspace are much more likely than social network avoiders to drink, smoke and use marijuana.

Maybe a kid has a parent who drinks heavily or uses drugs, or lives in a neighborhood where such things are commonplace.

Forty per cent of teens said they were exposed to such images, half of them before they were 13. This group were also more able to procure weed or prescription drugs and four times more likely to smoke up.

Parents were skeptical, according to the survey. Of a phone poll of 536 parents, a majority said they did not think social media made their child more likely to drink or use marijuana.

Pushing out patches to fix security holes or resolve bugs does not qualify as a new version of the browser

Firefox 4.1, and Firefox 6 is really just Firefox 4.2

Firefox launching a "new version" every six weeks is a nightmare.

but it still has 50 percent more market share than Firefox and Chrome combined

latest flagship browser from Microsoft--Internet Explorer 9-

It breaks add-ons--again

5 was launched, many users complained that it broke add-ons

It is filled with serious security vulnerabilities

no longer supported by Mozilla

Firefox isn't riddled with security holes

Users upload more than 250 million photos each day

features will be available to users over the next few days.

letting users pre-approve having their names attached to a photo posted by a friend before that photo appears on their profile.

The tagged photo will still appear on the friend’s page and could show up in the news feeds of common friends.

users can remove their names

Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,

impeccable.

14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile

Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold

surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil

most valuable company in the world.

Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments

graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant

In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985

visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman

Now Jobs, 56, retires,

awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,

Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.

Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.

It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.

like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents

Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times

doctorate in political science

He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.

his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability

icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

“dropout”

drop-in”:

leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.

That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.

fruitarian” diet that left him constantly hungry.

Given the timing with the launch of Google+ on June 28

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prices.

Best Buy, the electronics retailer, cut the price of the TouchPad to $99 in an attempt to clear its stock. Best Buy was last week reported to have more than 200,000 of the tablets. The low price brought queues outside its stores and, according to one staff employee, a “stampede” from customers hoping to land a bargain.

HP's decision to discontinue its TouchPad product, Best Buy will now provide clearance pricing for all TouchPad 16GB and 32GB models regardless of previously advertised prices or promotions," Best Buy said. The company said that anyone who had bought a TouchPad after June 19 would be entitled to a refund.

Though Amazon.com has not discounted the TouchPad, the device still went to the top of Amazon’s bestselling electronics chart. The HP tablet took the top two places in the chart, ahead of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, which is usually a fixture at number one.