system of rewarding Repeat Customers of a business (more)

Machine that sells/dispenses product. Retail variation. "Kiosk" (more)

EdgeOrg asked their crowd: What should we be Worried About? (more)

Mike Shatzkin thinks Book Store-s will see a Bricks And Mortar decline from 72% of the market today to 25% in 5 years! (more)

physical Retail store(s)

Coffee made without hot water. Less acidic than hot-brewed Ice Coffee, and stores longer. (more)

Phil Zimmermann is launching a new venture. It’s called Silent Circle, for which Zimmermann has teamed up with two former Navy SEALs and one of his PGP Corp. co-founders. The plan is to offer encrypted email, encrypted mobile calls, encrypted VoIP teleconferencing and encrypted Instant Messaging, all in one place... Though Silent Circle is now running a private beta, the plan, as I understand it, is to launch a public beta on July 15. (more)

Coffee plus the metabolism-nudging benefit of coldness - it's like a health drink! (more)

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is an independent bureau within the United States Department Of The Treasury that was established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and thrift institutions and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. The Comptroller of the Currency is Thomas J. Curry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Comptroller_of_the_Currency

Occupy The Sec (OSEC) has filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York against six federal agencies (Federal Reserve, SEC, CFTC, OCC, FDIC) over those agencies’ delay in promulgating a Final Rulemaking in connection with the “VolckerRule” (Section 619 of the Dodd Frank Act of 2010)... Almost three years since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, these agencies have yet to finalize regulations implementing the Volcker Rule. Section 619(b)(2)(A) of the Dodd-Frank Act set a mandatory deadline for the finalization of the Volcker regulations. That deadline passed over a year. Despite this fact, the federal agencies charged with finalizing the Rule have yet to do so. In fact, senior officials at the agencies have indicated that they do not intend to finalize the Volcker Rule anytime soon.

Cory Doctorow Young Adult novel about teen who runs away from home largely because he gets his family's Internet access cut off through UK Copyright Alert System. (more)

System developed by ISP consortium (Oligopoly) to identify Copy Right offenders. (more)

Sharing WiFi (more)

David Brin is writing and editing SciFi for "YoungAdult-s".

ally, despite The Wife being from there :) (more)

The Volcker Rule is a specific section of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.[1] Volcker argued that such speculative activity played a key role in the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The rule is often referred to as a ban on proprietary trading by commercial banks, whereby deposits are used to trade on the bank's own accounts, although a number of exceptions to this ban were included in the Dodd-Frank law.[2][3] The rule's provisions were scheduled to be implemented as a part of Dodd-Frank on July 21, 2012,[4] with preceding ramifications... The Volcker Rule has been compared to, and contrasted with, the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933.[37] Its core differences from the Glass Steagall Act have been cited by scholars (see PDF) as being at the center of the rule's identified weaknesses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_Rule

(this was started ~2002, lots has changed) (more)

a Middle East country comprising of 7 emirates - Abu Dhabi, AjMan, Dubai, Fujai Rah, Ras Al Khaimah, Shar Jah and Umm Al Qaiwain. (more)

one of the United Arab Emirates

Anonymous VPN service from Pirate Bay (more)