Microsoft’s Nokia deal closes — say hello to Microsoft Mobile

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Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia’s handset business closed today as expected – nearly eight months after it was first announced.

Microsoft stated during its Q1 2014 earnings call yesterday that it believed the Nokia sale would close today, yet a few hangups led to some minor changes to the terms of the deal, Reuters reports. Two factories, one in India and another in China, were reportedly left out of the deal due to tax disputes. And Microsoft’s expected purchase price of $7.2 billion reportedly rose by approximately $320 million to a potential final sale price of $7.52 billion.

As VentureBeat reported earlier this week, “Microsoft hasn’t stated officially what it will call its new unit, but a leaked memo unearthed by Nokia Power User points to an obvious moniker: Microsoft Mobile.” Former Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop is expected to run Microsoft’s Xbox and tablet businesses following the sale transition.

This news closely follows Microsoft’s first quarter with new chief Satya Nadella at the helm. “This business of ours is exciting because it doesn’t respect tradition, what we’ve done in the past,”said Nadella.

While Microsoft has operated in the smartphone business for quite a while, hopefully Nadella plans to shake up the company’s strategy now that it fully owns Nokia’s handset business. 

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Still swaggering! Justin Bieber pulls a tongue and grabs his crotch in front of waiting photographers as he's released after being detained for FIVE hours at LAX

Justin Bieber has been released after being detained at LAX for five hours by customs, following a trip back into the US from an international trip. The Boyfriend singer arrived at the airport from Singapore around 1pm on Thursday, and a source close to Justin told MailOnline that he was set back by 'secondary questioning' from TSA at the airport.'Justin was held up upon arrival while his bodyguards and his luggage were waiting outside for him. He went through routine secondary questioning but has now been released,' we're told.

It comes a week after the White House responded to a petition that requested the U.S. government deport the Canadian native. 

'Sorry to disappoint, but we won't be commenting on this one,' the White House said in a statement.

'We'll leave it to others to comment on Mr. Bieber’s case, but we're glad you care about immigration issues. Because our current system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers, and 11 million people are living in the shadows.'  

That was close! Justin Bieber released after being detained for FIVE hours by customs... as he leaves LAX sticking his tongue out and grabbing his crotch on Thursday

Bieber won few new friends on a recent trip to Japan when he made a trip to Yasukuni Shrine war memorial, which honours Japanese war dead including 14 convicted war criminals from World War II. 

He visited an orphanage a day later in what many saw as an attempt at damage control.

This isn't the first time that been detained at an airport.

The turbulent teen singer was accused of abusing a flight attendant on a private jet until she was forced to hide in the cockpit on January 31, and he was detained in Australia on November 24 after using 'inappropriate language' when his entourage were searched.  

In the January incident, Bieber and his entourage were also said to have smoked so much marijuana on the flight between Canada and New Jersey that the pilots were forced to wear oxygen masks

Before the drama: Justin posted this photo on his Instagram account before he left Singapore for the US where he was held up at LAX

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2612678/Justin-Bieber-released-detained-FIVE-hours-customs-leaves-LAX-sticking-tongue-grabbing-crotch.html#ixzz2zuZ9K3ZA

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What's Next For TelexFree Victims?

JORDAN D. MAGLICH 

Last week was a busy week for TelexFree.  After filing for bankruptcy protection on Monday in a Nevada bankruptcy court, state and federal securities regulators filed civil actions accusing the company of operating a massive pyramid and Ponzi scheme that, by one estimate, may have raised $1 billion from investors worldwide.  That same day, federal agents from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security raided the company's headquarters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, which later drew headlines after authorities discovered TelexFree's Chief Financial Officer attempting to remove $38 million in cashier's checks from the offices. (The company later claimed there was no nefarious purpose behind this effort.)  Now, one week after TelexFree's bankruptcy filing and as reality begins to set in to an estimated 700,000 company "affiliates," the focus turns to the next steps.  This includes not only the various pending court and regulatory proceedings, but also the future of those "affiliates" that made substantial investments based on promises of extravagant returns.  

READ ALL THIS IMPORTANT REPORT AT: http://www.ponzitracker.com/main/2014/4/20/whats-next-for-telexfree-victims.html

Eminem - The Monster ft. Rihanna (Official MattyBRaps Cover ft Skylar St...

MattyB's YouTube channel is a huge success by any standard. He's amassed over 2 million subscribers and has published over 140 videos that include musical covers of Jason Derulo, Eminem, and Ke$ha. However, last week, MattyB uploaded a cover of the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy." And the reviews are mixed.

Google Smart Contact Lenses Move Closer to Reality

Google's Smart Contact Lens is like your 

contact lens,except it's a whole lot smarter.

BY LANCE ULANOFF

Google’s plan to bring smart contact lenses to diabetes sufferers inched closer to reality as the company secured two patents last week for the cutting edge, biometric sensor technology.

Known among scientists as “Ophthalmic Electrochemical Sensors,” these contact lenses will feature flexible electronics that include sensors and an antenna. The sensors are designed to read chemicals in the tear fluid of the wearer’s eye and alert her, possibly through a little embedded LED light, when her blood sugar falls to dangerous levels.

SEE ALSO: 7 Incognito Wearables You'd Never Guess Were Gadgets

According to the patent:

“Human tear fluid contains a variety of inorganic electrolytes (e.g., Ca.sup.2+, Mg.sup.2+, Cl.sup.-), organic solutes (e.g., glucose, lactate, etc.), proteins, and lipids. A contact lens with one or more sensors that can measure one or more of these components provides a convenient, non-invasive platform to diagnose or monitor health related problems. An example is a glucose sensing contact lens that can potentially be used for diabetic patients to monitor and control their blood glucose level.

Google’s project is one of a number of in-eye wearable sensor technologiescurrently under development at universities and research facilities around the country. However, with two patents in hand Google’s project may have a leg up on the competition.

This side view of the smart lens show the
polymeric material and the embedded substrate (230).

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The patents also offer a rare opportunity to see how Google and its research partners envision the Smart Contact lens fitting on the human eye.

For example, Google intends to both communicate and power the electronics-embedded contact lens with a pair of antennas, though the patent notes that these two functions could be embedded within one antenna.

These images show how the lens would sit on the human eye (10) and how the eyelids (30 and 32) would close over it. When the lids distribute tears over the eye, they will also, by design, coat both the convex and concave surface of the smart lens.

IMAGE: GOOGLE

As for how the eye can see past the thinner-than-a-strand-of-hair electronics, the patent notes that the substrate is too close to the eye to be in focus and it’s positioned away from the center of the eye and, thereby, away from where light is transmitted to the retina. It also notes that the substrate can be made of transparent (read: “see-through”) materials.

Google, which announced the project in January, still has to get FDA approval before anyone starts wearing smart contact lenses. Still, it’s clear that glucose level detection is merely scratching the surface of the potential for these lenses. If Google can effectively build free-standing, communication-ready electronics in a transparent device roughly the size of a standard contact lens, there’s no telling what other kinds of smarts the lens will eventually be able to support. CouldGoogle Glass Contact Lenses be far behind?

It's still unclear how long before Google plans on commercializing the smart contact lens research project. Mashable has contacted Google and will update this story with its comments.