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Finally! Google unveils Android Device Manager to protect your misplaced phone
2013-08-05 13:54:04| InfoWorld: Top News
Fears about rogue apps and mobile malware may snag all the headlines, but when it comes down to brass tacks, the odds of contracting a digital disease on your phone are pretty low as long as you stick to official app stores and don't download things found in the darker corners of the Internet. A much more tangible risk ties into your phone's physical nature. Simply put: If you lose it, you're screwed.
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Optimism Misplaced With Current Congress
2013-07-16 23:07:00| Beef
By: Ron Smith for Farm Press Blog Overall, Im a pretty optimistic fellow. In fact, my wife often refers to me as a Pollyanna, always assuming the best of people and situations. Needless to say, my optimism is often ill founded and more often than I like to admit results in disappointment. read more
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The misplaced war against Western wildfires
2013-07-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: The simplest way to describe fire worldwide is that there is too much of the wrong kind, too little of the right kind, and too much overall. The wrong kinds are those such as the blaze that killed 19 firefighters in Arizona, or those that have put southeast Asia under a pall, that incinerate communities, befoul ecosystems with effluents, and trash biotas by burning at the wrong times and intensities. The right kinds are those that perform an ecological service by burning landscapes properly --...
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Find your misplaced stuff with a $24.99 wireless finder kit
2013-07-12 17:45:14| CNET News.com
Attach one of the four receivers to anything you routinely misplace around the house -- keys, remote, wallet, phone -- and you'll have no trouble locating it. [Read more]
World's Smallest Bluetooth Location 'Stickers', StickNFind, Locate Misplaced Items From Smartphone App Using Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 SoCs
2013-05-17 09:43:01| rfglobalnet News Articles
Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA recently announces that its multiple award-winning nRF51822 SoC ('System-on-Chip') has been specified into the world's smallest Bluetooth low energy coin-sized location stickers, 'StickNFind' by Stick-N-Find Technologies. StickNFinds are the size of a U.S. quarter at just 0.98-inch (24mm) in diameter and 0.16-inches (4mm) thick. Users can easily track up to twenty location stickers on a smartphone app. Stickers can be used to track keys, remote controls, pets, and even people. Using a free smartphone app users can locate their stickers using a 'radar screen', set distance alerts called 'virtual leash', and more.
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