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Nokia enters into patent license agreement with Apple:
Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Apple. The agreement will result in settlement of all patent litigation between the companies, including the withdrawal by Nokia and Apple of their respective complaints to the US International Trade Commission.

iPhone 4 – Unlocked (GSM) – 16GB Black
You can now buy and unlocked iPhone4 at Apple with all features + active micro-SIM card to use on any GSM network worldwide.

Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry
Using the Citigroup customer Web site as a gateway to bypass traditional safeguards and impersonate actual credit card holders, a team of sophisticated thieves cracked into the bank’s vast reservoir of personal financial data, until they were detected in a routine check in early May.

—Revealed: How Citigroup hackers broke in ‘through the front door’ using bank’s website

Facebook planning IPO on $100 billion valuation?
Facebook, the social-networking site that is one of the most closely-watched private companies in the world, is likely to go public by the first quarter of 2012, say people familiar with the matter, at a valuation that could be pegged at north of $100 billion.

—Facebook loses 1.5 million users in Canada, 100,000 in the U.K.
and around 6 million in the U.S. as well.

Google has applied for Google Maps license in China: report
Google needs a license from China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping to continue operating Google Maps in China. Recently, requirements for a mapping license were relaxed to allow for foreign online mapping providers, such as Google, to engage in joint ventures to provide the service.

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I love political cartoons and their burlesque depictions of world leaders and events. I spent a couple of minutes laughing at some paradoxical funnies today and thought I would share a couple that really struck me as satire too funny not to pass on.

The Weak Dollar

Surging Oil Prices and Alternative Energies

With all do respect Sir [President Obama], I do like you at least you pronounce the names of people and countries properly, which means you make an effort to understand culture and people. It was just funny..

Megalomaniacs and their sons

Is This Uncle Sam?

It’s not just Arizona and the immigration laws, hoardes of funded politicians are wiping their dirty a$$$$ clean with the constitution of America, a truly great piece of paper (no pun intended!)

Who will be the next ruling state?

Imran Hosein says that book knowledge is great, but one must also see the light. He explains in one of his lectures that one cannot see a black ant on a black stone on a pitch black night, it’s impossible. Only the human with Noor, can see the ant sitting on that stone on a pitch dark night. Overlooking the truth one becomes a misguided sheep, what are you going to be?

Aside: All images are property of their respective owners, I found them to be useful in conveying a simple message. Please find more like this here: http://cagle.com/

Egypt is free, Mubarak steps down—the nation rejoices and celebrates while this makes history as the first Egyptian president steps down from office. Other nations with questionable regimes and leadership can learn a thing or two from the protests of the tenacious Egyptians; mainly that there is always hope and it’s the people collectively that have to stand up to the government and leaders.

Bravo, “Finally he’s out!” – shouts the crowd!

Cellucor are great products, I recommend M5 and N0 but waiting to try C4 Extreme Pre Workout.

Supplements are a great way to enhance or cut your growth, repair, recover and refuel your body and muscles before your next workout. They give you an edge, especially if you don’t have the time to compliment your body with the proper nutritional intake. One brand of supplement that I have used which is very effective is Cellucor, and I am perplexed why this amazing brand of supplement isn’t stocked in most of our popular stores. Sure you can get it online easy enough, but I would like to see the whole range of products being sold at physical locations as well.

After investigating and talking to the owners and managers of the stores I’ve realized that there are a couple of reasons that these companies don’t carry the product.  One third party owner of a very popular and well stocked supplement store said that the Cellucor aren’t that friendly (which is funny as I’ve talked to Cellucor guys and they’ve been very friendly with me).  At GNC stores its usually a miss—while most account associates know about Cellucor products they don’t seem to stock them at their stores. After visiting five GNC stores in both Los Angeles and the Dallas areas only one has carried Cellucor and that even not the entire range.

Presently here in Texas I haven’t come across any stores that carry the product, but while on a job stint in Orem, Utah all the Gold’s gyms had Cellucor stocked up in their supplement and shake department. I guess it’s who each individual gym partners and deals with at the end of the day—being a fan of Cellucor I would really like to see these supplements stocked in most locations as they are probably one of the most effective I’ve used in 15 years of my experience.

On a personal note I am the type of individual that would rather go out and buy supplements at a store; if you’re new to Cellucor products I highly recommend them (both for strength and mass gains as well as weight loss and cutting)—if you’re having trouble finding them at a store near your location, you can always find them online at Cellucor or GNC.

Mind Technologies is entering the mobile applications market with a new world of innovative technologies on the horizon for Android Apps—as a Droid lover I hope these “thought-controlled” apps come to Google’s Mobile OS first.

Android which is heavily sold in the U.S. lacks quality third-party applications and these emerging technologies could very well create new innovation and quality driven apps for the titan platform. Judging from mobile apps statistics, wouldn’t you want a piece of the pie too?

According to a recent study, created by Chetan Sharma Consulting, mobile app downloads will likely jump from 7 billion in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012. By this time, the market will be worth 17.5 billion dollars, the study predicts, despite the expected lower price of mobile apps, which should drop from the current average of 2 dollars per app to 1.5 dollars in 2012.

The CA, Cardiff based Mind Technologies already uses the Emotiv Headset for some of its other applications such as Master Mind, Mind Mouse and Think Tic Tac Toe as it enters into the mobile arena. The company is also plans to raise up to $15,000,000 to position itself as the world-wide leader in brain computer interface (BCI) technology, and is listed on the Deusche Borse Stock Exchange as Mind Technologies, Inc.

The Influence of Fleeting Attraction
This experiment suggests that fleeting attraction can be remarkably powerful in changing ‘no’ into ‘yes’. We process relatively small requests in an automatic way, using simple rules-of-thumb. When asked for a small favour by a stranger, we make a snap judgement on how much we like them based on trivial information, and this can have a huge influence on our response.
Source: Psy Blog

Experience Has Nothing To Do With Your Social Media Status
Being great at getting people to follow you on Twitter or read your Blog does not make you an experienced Marketer—We can’t really quantify professional experience in Social Media.
Source: Twist Image Blog

Life And How To Survive It
Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.
Source: Mr. Wang Says So

Researchers Find a ‘Liberal Gene’
Appearing in the latest edition of TheJournal of Politics published by Cambridge University Press, the research focused on 2,000 subjects from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. By matching genetic information with maps of the subjects’ social networks, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults, but only if they had an active social life in adolescence.
Source: Science Daily

Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin’ says Prof David Nutt

Source: BBC

How Google Is ‘Closed’, Just Like Apple
Google says its Android OS is “open,” while Apple’s iOS platform is “closed.” Apple, on the other hand, claims Android is “fragmented,” while iOS is “integrated.” They’re both right about Apple, at least with their respective spins, but wrong about Google. Google, in fact, is at least as “closed” as Apple. I’ll tell you why below.
Source: IT Management

As of July 31st, 2010 there are approximately 1,966,514,816 (billions) internet users worldwide, an astounding number if you compare to the 360,000,000 (millions) a decade ago in 2000.  Out of those nearly 2 billion users, the continent of Asia stands on top of the world with the most internet users in the globally, surpassing Europe and North America combined.

Asia is also the most populated continent in the world, so it should come to no surprise that the breadth of internet users reside in the following countries (with China being on top of course):

The estimated amount of users in Asia is currently 800,000,000 (millions) which is about whopping 42% of the internet users in the entire world and is one of the main reasons large companies such as Google and Apple target the vast majority of users in China, whose internet usage is up from 22,500,000 in 2000 to 420,000,000 in 2010.

If you are ever wondering where the center of the internet is, you can easily see from the stats above that it’s clearly the mammoth China..

Information extracted from: Internet World Stats

On Muslims and American Bigotry:

Associating minorities with crime is irrational, unjust, and completely normal, says slate today in an article i found extremely relevant to the times today:

Muslims are only the latest victim of illusory correlations in the United States. African-Americans have long suffered the same bias when it comes to crime. In every country on earth, you can find minority groups that get tagged with various pathologies for no better reason than that the pathologies are unusual and the minorities are minorities.

Having said that, the article was just a build up to a comment i most treasured. Do you folks read comments? I do, and many times i find comments more thought provoking than the articles themselves. After all the essence of blogging is (a) social (b) engage and let your audience discuss.

As i read over the “We Are All Juan Williams” article on Slate today I liked this man’s comment so much i couldn’t help but share it on my blog:

Being a Pakistani Muslim, I do believe that moderate and progressive Muslims should be at the forefront of rooting out those Muslims with extreme viewpoints. The truth is that more Muslims and, that too, Pakistanis have been killed by terrorists claiming to be Mulsims than have Americans. However, to make the connection between a minority group and violence, though possibly normal, is straying very clearly towards bigotry. As was clearly expressed, African Americans have been typecast for hundreds of years. Jews have been accused in the same manner. It is obvious that irrational fear leads to bigotry, but the consequence of bigotry is what is truly frightening (and, yes, I mean wholescale genocide).

As for the desire of most Americans that all Muslims should “assimilate” into American culture, to which “culture” in particular are they referring? Should Muslims be more Irish or Dutch, or perhaps, Italian or Polish? If one truly believes in assimilation in American culture, I suppose one should aspire to Native American ways of life, though, I don’t recall reading anywhere about the first settlers holding any such beliefs. If anything, it was these same European settlers who went out of their way to annihilate the native population. The fact is simply that culture is dynamic and its makeup will change with every new community adding its ways of life and ideas into the mix. As for Muslims, most are and always have been democratically minded. It may come as a surprise to non Muslim Americans that Islam believes that all men, be it king or pauper are equal in the eyes of God. And that belief in the equality of all men has been with Muslims for the past 1400 years. Aren’t European monarchs still being divinely annointed even now?

Out of the many articles I’ve read about the American – Islam propaganda, I think this man makes the situation for Pakistani Muslims very clear, and I especially liked his reference to Native American Indians who have been literally wiped out.

Americans and American immigrants alike must remember that history repeats itself as the article goes on to say:

Muslims are only the latest victim of illusory correlations in the United States. African-Americans have long suffered the same bias when it comes to crime. In every country on earth, you can find minority groups that get tagged with various pathologies for no better reason than that the pathologies are unusual and the minorities are minorities.

After all we are all immigrants in some form of the other…

On A Cheap Tweet:

Malcolm Gladwell (who I’ve taken a mild swipe at in the past) has an excellent article in the New Yorker called Small changewhich argues that Twitter isn’t the tool to use for a revolution or social change. Having used Twitter and other social media as part of the Alan Turing apology campaign I’ve had some direct experience of social change through social media.

After a couple of years on twitter (with many breaks and pauses in between) — presently I’ve really slowed down and I couldn’t agree more with John Graham-Cumming and Malcolm Gladwell about “Tweet is Cheap.”

Thinking back on immigrating to the States from Pakistan a third world country recently devastated by floods. A country where the poor walk around naked looking for scraps to eat. Mind you, the worst part isn’t the devastation of crops and people’s homes, it’s the famine and disease that follow. This will take years and years, a government and leaders which aren’t corrupt to fix.

Here in the States we take way too much for granted. Our cars, our food, “Burger King” and “Mc’Donalds” for breakfast—I’m loving it allright. I’m not saying that there aren’t people in developed countries who don’t feel the pain and suffering, but on the overall most people have no clue what’s happening around the world—especially Americans.

Let’s take a couple of minutes and thank the Lord for all our blessings and pray for all the unfortunate people around the world.  Let’s reflect.  Imagine you could have been born in a situation much, much worse.  What if you could do nothing about it?

Thanks to The Boston.com (Big Picture for the images) [...] It’s not just the people in Pakistan, poverty is rampant all across the world. A friend of mine on Twitter @QueenSakina mentioned that there’s a difference between relative and absolute poverty—I’d like to thank her for bring that to our attention.

Google Android 2.2 on a Samsung Tablet (Screen size only 7.2″ vs 9+ on the iPad).  Will this be an iPad killer?
Source: Telegraph News

Russell Moore On Glenn Beck.  Msnbc quoted Beck to be the “White Man’s Burden”.  Perhaps he isn’t all that conservative…
Source: A League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Lance Armstrong on his speech to the American public, where he murmurs something or the other about staying ahead of the competition.  That can only mean one thing (the competitive edge) If you did it Lance, don’t tell anyone.
Source: The Onion

RFID chips emebedded into preschool childrens jerseys which record their movements and collect other data.  The beginning of New World Order, and its very scary..
Source: EFF

Google Chrome hits Version 6, successfully.  If you haven’t downloaded it yet and are using other bloated buggy browsers i highly recommend you do that now.
Source: Google Reader

An alarming number of Americans are misinformed, says Roger Ebert (courtesy of Gruber). You don’t say, really?

The time is here for responsible Americans to put up or shut up. I refer specifically to those who have credibility among the guileless and credulous citizens who have been infected with notions so carefully nurtured. We cannot afford to allow the next election to proceed under a cloud of falsehood and delusion.

Source: Gruber and Sun Times

Everyone and i mean everyone surfs the web nowadays, check out the worlds riskiest countries to surf from.  Riksy meaning probable of being attacked by hackers, spammers, bots, et cetera  Pakistan included..
Source: Google Reader

Nintendo is releasing a 3D tablet thingamagig. Thanks for putting this forward @Nonglin.

All empires collapse, period (Hate to say it, and wouldn’t like the American empire to collapse either)  It’s certainly headed that way. We have alot to learn from the Russians, can’t we learn from them them—or are our egos getting in the way of the truth?  (After all the Americans and the Iranians have something in common, the EGO)
Source: Madconomist

Lately i’ve been reading alot of intelligent political news blogs and sites, would love to list them, maybe one day just to satisfy myself. One article that particularly like over on the Atlantic—“Why I blog.”
Source: The Atlantic