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Your true potential lies way, way down in the depths of your soul… in the pit of your stomach, past your knowledge, beyond your nervousness, and buried under your fears and anxieties. As hidden as it may be, it is still there. I know it’s there because I’ve felt it before, and I know it’s there in others too because I’ve seen others perform miracles. There is a faint glow of unparalleled potential in all of us, and when we find it — it shines.

Melissa Christino

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Nortel Patents Fetch $4.5B

Google Loses Nortel Patents - Apple , BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft , Ericsson , Sony and EMC 

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25% Americans don’t have a landline ... 89% own a mobile device

http://www.tgdaily.com/mobility-features/56925-americans-turn-away-from-landlines

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fewBlocks Presents One-Page Yellow Page: Because Size Does Matter!

Fastest way of looking up information - It's just one page!

Multiple (Customizable) Editions: State, City, City-Street, City-Streets, State-Cities and Personal

Hundreds of locations on a single page (addresses, numbers, location service ratings, weather, deals).

Cost-effective and highly targeted marketing and advertising opportunities for local entrepreneurs and location operators

QR Code Integration for fast transfer of information to your smart phone with QR code reading functionality

SMS integration for on-demand more-details 

Completely customized for YOUR NEEDS and LOCATION(S)

Environmentally Friendly - No Waste, Less Guilt!: "A typical Yellow Pages book weighs about 2.5 pounds." [1]

Private label opportunities for businesses and non-profits along with a recurring revenue-share model .

Coming soon: Franchise opportunities /  Distributorships

Designed for licensing to local marketing companies, publishers of yellow pages, white pages and phone service providers

Interested? Contact frank@fewblocks.com 

Your support will greatly increase productivity and save tons of waste.

Quote / Information References

[1] Yellow Pages Madness: What a waste!

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Mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016.

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The 20:6:3:1 Rule

Just learned about it yesterday!

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TI and Eolas sign patent licensing deal

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Apple expands patent infringement claims against Samsung

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Issues I see with Apple and Twitter Integration

Twitter is still experiencing scalability issues as evident by my own personal use in which I keep getting errors every now and then.

What makes Apple believe that Twitter can comfortably handle the additional load of planned integration is beyond my understanding...

Stories circulating around related to Apple handing Twitter the keys to it's iOS kingdom seem to carry significant weight in my opinion/experience. Twitter is the clear winner here in my eyes, but not necessarily the overall winner.

Apple, in my opinion, was thinking along the right lines but ended up taking the shortcut.

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Nokia loses 3G patent infringement case in UK

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Google gets OK from DOJ but Nortel delays patent auction

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reCaptcha

ReCaptcha: Instead of building custom solutions and re-inventing the wheel, entrepreneurs and developers should seriously consider using recaptcha to implement CAPTCHA capabilities to their application. A few immediate benefits I see:

Anti-bot technology: so you don't have to worry about automated malicious bots

Noble cause: You're helping digitizing the books one word at a time

Ease of integration: requires a few lines of codes and less than an hour to implement

Usability options: If the current CAPTCHA puzzle is unreadable by the user, convenient and user-friendly buttons allow a user to try another word or listen to a pronounciation.

Note: Google now owns Recaptcha project. 

More details are available on: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

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OndaVia: Complex on-site water testing in 15 minutes!!!

Did you know that complete water testing can actually take days?

Yesterday, at the HBS Harvard Angels quarterly meeting, I got to see the presentation by the founder of OndaVia. The simple high-margin replaceable cartridge system for complex on-site water testing in 15 minutes definitely seems like the testing technology to have for near-instant results (comparatively speaking). Check them out at: http://www.ondavia.com

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Crunchful: Superfood snacks!!!

This had to come from an Indian :) Crunchful: Superfood snacks made via a patented process!!!  Say yes to Pulseeds!!!

Yesterday, at HBS Harvard Angels meeting, I got a chance to see a presentation by the founder of Pulfoods, the creator of Crunchful brand superfood snacks.

I asked the founder about plans to incorporate vitamin B12 and vitamin B6 to target her snacks to energy / alertness market. She educated me that doing so would make her snacks fortified and she wants to keep them in the natural isle! If I heard correctly, she mentioned her competitors in cereal business are scrambling to find recipes that conform to the new "plate-based" food pyramid guidelines released by FDA to encourage health dietary practices. She also educated me on the fact that dairy is optional in the new food pyramid.

I think she should get her crunchfuls at my favorite chain: Jamba Juice!

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Nokia Wins Smartphone Patent Infringement Settlement From Apple

Apple will pay Nokia an undisclosed sum upfront + per-unit royalties (ongoing).

Based on media reports, Microsoft is speculated to be in talks to acquire Nokia to the tune of $15B+. Microsoft, of course, backed Nokia in the patent infringement suit.

More

Nokia expected settlement from Apple: $600M

Nokia expected/rumored to get $11.50 / iPhone sold by Apple

Nokia vs. Apple

Nokia wins big against Apple

Google and Microsoft's role in Nokia vs Apple

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200 Megapixel $45,000 Camera!!!

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Innovation is a key ingredient for a successful startup and equally so is scalability.

Frank Mashraqi