Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• E-cigarettes just more smoke and mirrors, doctors say | Fox News

  • A top concern is the nicotine delivery rate, Leone said. With nicotine patches and gum, the nicotine delivery is regulated, with small amounts of nicotine released slowly into the bloodstream. But with traditional cigarettes and now e-cigarettes, heat creates a freebase form of nicotine that is more addictive or what smokers would call more satisfying. The nicotine goes right into the lungs, where it is quickly channeled into the heart and then pumped into the brain.

      

    Once addicted, the body will crave nicotine. And although nicotine isn't the most dangerous toxin in tobacco's arsenal, this chemical nevertheless is a cancer-promoting agent, and is associated with birth defects and developmental disorders.

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• BYOD As We Know It Is Dead - Forbes

  • If BYOD 1.0 has been responding to the needs of the employee, BYOD 2.0 efforts will focus more on the needs of where the enterprise and the employee intersect. Perhaps the most valuable key attribute of BYOD 2.0 will be to provide right- time experience (user interface + user experience) to the systems, solutions and points of collaboration that are mutually relevant to the company and to the employee.

• BYOD As We Know It Is Dead - Forbes

  • 90%+ of BYOD activities are email, calendar, personal banking, news, family life coordination, Twitter and Facebook Facebook, but little else.
  • If BYOD 1.0 is about employees, what might a BYOD 2.0 look like?
  • how do we move from this Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) paradigm into BYOD 2.0, which you talk about as more of a “Use Your Own Device” mentality?

• Tech Trend for 2014: The Risk in BYOD Offices | Entrepreneur.com

  • 60 percent of businesses allow employees to access company networks via their personal devices under a strategy known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).
  • "The problem I have with BYOD is security," Hussain says

• Guest Post: Is Obamacare The Final Nail In The Coffin Of The Middle Class? | Zero Hedge

  • If there were any shreds of hope left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around, Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them.
  • Obamacare is causing millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, it is causing health insurance premiums to explode to absolutely ridiculous levels, and it is systematically killing jobs even though the employer mandate has been delayed for a while.

• New lithium-ion battery design that's 2,000 times more powerful, recharges 1,000 times faster | ExtremeTech

  • According to the researchers, this is not simply an evolutionary step in battery tech, “It’s a new enabling technology… it breaks the normal paradigms of energy sources. It’s allowing us to do different, new things.”

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Patent Properties Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results - WSJ.com

  • In addition, we remain on schedule to launch an entirely new patent licensing solution for the mass market in the second half of 2014. We believe our new licensing platform, once built, will address significant inefficiencies in the multi-billion dollar patent licensing market

• How Silicon Valley turned on President Obama

  • Executives at Google, which issued a polite denial when the first revelations about PRISM came out, were publicly furious over the new revelations (which the NSA denied): "We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks," David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, told The Verge. This is the same company that in October 2012 gave $342,409 to Democrats and only $37,250 to Republicans, according to data from OpenSecrets.
  • "There's a strong libertarian streak that dampens support for the Obama administration... Entrepreneurs don't like the government telling them what they can or can't do with their bodies or their wallets," says Craig Montuori, a Caltech aerospace engineer

• Little-Known Tax Funding Obamacare - My9 New Jersey

  • If you are single with an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or file jointly with an income of $250,000 or more, you may be impacted. Once you sell your home, any profits over the first $500,000 are already subject to a capital gains tax. And now those profits will have an additional 3.8% tax to fund Obamacare.

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Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• Report: MEMS sensors and hands-free UI will revolutionize mobile | TG Daily

  • Accelerometers, gyroscopes, NFC, and gesture recognition are predicted to be the big winners in mobile devices. These mobile technologies are projected to make the greatest penetration gains over the coming years, according to a recent study by analysts at ABI Research.
  • Hands-free operation or gesture recognition is soon going to become a key differentiator in high-end flagship smartphones, media tablets, and smart glasses,

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