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There was a time when you could go to a pool party and be humorously thrown in fully dressed. You’d climb out embarrassed, but only upset that you spilled your drink. Or remember the days when you can just go to the beach, rip your clothes off down to your bathing suit and go flying into the surf?? Today, with all of our tech gadgets, but more specifically our phones, we can’t be as free anymore. We now have to consider the elements around us when we leave our pants in the sand or stand poolside with a bunch of punk kids around. 

“The most practical use you’d probably get from this product is the ability to answer your phone with wet hands or being able to use it while it’s raining.”

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Facebook IPO

Facebook is poised to launch its first IPO valued at $10 billion. Interestingly enough, this will beat Google’s IPO back in 2004 worth only $1.9 billion. Currently being a private company, Facebook doesn’t have to publish it’s accounting records, but it a report surfacing back in January of 2011 claims that Facebook made a net profit of $355 million on revenues of $1.2 billion in the first nine months of 2010.

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iPhone 6 concept

Even though the next incarnation of the iPhone isn’t expected until this summer, I’m going to get the conversations going now! I started a discussion over in the forum if you’d like to talk about what you think the next iPhone will be named. However, a different name isn’t going to make or break the new device. What we need/want are major changes. Most of the iPhone community was able to resist the urge to upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the 4S in hopes that this summer will produce a more viable option for spending their ‘upgrade option’. In fact, I’m one of those very users. I even went so far as to get off my iPhone 4 early enough to sell it before the 4S arrived. I decided in the meantime, I would use a Samsung Focus and wait to see what I wanted to do.

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A man known as Kim Dotcom (real name, Kim Schmitz) is a 38-year old computer programmer that is best known for creating one of the most popular downloading websites in the world. Megaupload.com operated as a one-click hosting service that allowed users to upload files for sharing worldwide. Unfortunately, the majority of the files available were pirated software, music and movies. On January 20th, 2012, Kim Dotcom was arrested on copyright infringement charges in New Zealand. Today, he was imprisoned and denied bail due to being an extreme flight risk.

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