TOKYO (AP) — and are investing $350 million in their joint venture plant in to revamp production of pickup trucks, both sides said Thursday. The investment at AutoAlliance Thailand, a 50-50 joint venture, underlines that four years of political upheaval has not yet deterred automakers from expanding their manufacturing in the Southeast Asian nation, which offers incentives such as tax breaks to foreign manufacturers. Most auto…

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Illinois has a 20 to 29 percent rate of obesity, but nine other states had a heavier amount. According to a CDC report, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia had greater than or equal to 30 percent obesity ratings. However, there was no state in 2000 that had a 30…

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Given how fast the new Kindle’s been selling, we doubt many of you were keenly holding out for Acer’s alternative — but if you were, the wait is apparently nearing an end. An Acer spokesperson has confirmed that the barcode scanning-LumiRead will be shipping out to retail channels (in Germany, at least) this October, and early speculation on its price places it at around €250 ($316). That’s an unconfirmed number, so don’t freak out just yet, and Acer points to the fact it’ll pack one of the widest German-language e-libraries on any e-reading device. Maybe prices will be somewhat more competitive in other territories, where the major attractions will be WiFi and 3G wireless capabilities, a 6-inch, 800 x 600 E Ink display, and a Barnes and Noble content partnership. And hey, maybe when we hit IFA in a couple of days they might finally let us take it out of the box as well, eh? We can only dream.

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Who knew that credit card processing would be the new hotness for smartphones? The Square mobile payment system has been making waves by letting small businesses receive credit card payment directly on their smartphones. Now, mophie and Intuit are looking to get in on the same action with their Complete Card Solution for iPhone. It’s a $179 package that includes both mophie’s card-swiping phone case and the 3.0 version of Intuit’s GoPayment app. After a quick application users are said to be approved (or, erm, declined) within 15 minutes and can immediately start accepting payments. Full details, including just how much users will be forking over in fees, after the break.

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Mophie and Intuit partner to create Complete Card Solution for iPhone, try to make Square look square originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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With the ever advancing technology, the telecom world is on the verge of a complete takeover by means of 4G, where each day something new or the other comes up. Samsung Epic™ 4G is one such innovative and upcoming cell phone that promises itself to give an amazing experience. Believed to be ridiculously fast and remarkably powerful amped-up superphone, this new offering from Samsung promises to knock your entertainment socks off. Basically, the…

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It’s not always safe to drink the tap water in British Columbia — not even in Metro Vancouver as 20,000 people in White Rock found out this weekend. White Rock’s boil-water notice is expected to be short-term. But residents in 527 B. C communities either have to boil their water for a minute or risk illness or even death from E. coli, giardia or cryptosporidium. Some have been doing it for years, others for decades. One boil-water notice on Digby Island, in Dodge Cove near Prince Rupert, has been in place for 32 years. The problem is worst in the Interior, which has nearly half the province’s water systems. Of those 1,800, three-quarters are considered high risk. So, an estimated 600,000…

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There aren’t many unresolved mysteries with Microsoft’s new console by this point — apart from perhaps why it wasn’t named the Stealthbox, like we were suggesting — but one thing that hasn’t been covered in excruciating detail yet is the new 360′s splicing of the CPU and GPU into the same chip. Microsoft has remedied that today, informing us that the 45nm system-on-chip (codenamed Vejle; sorry, Valhalla fans) inside the refreshed Xbox makes do with a relatively minimal 372 million transistors, requiring only 40 percent of the power and less than 50 percent of the die space of its 2005 ancestor. A somewhat bemusing new addition, noted by Ars, is the FSB Replacement sector you see in the image above. It’s designed to induce lag in the system so that the Vejle chip doesn’t run faster than the old stuff, something Microsoft couldn’t allow to happen. Facepalm away, good people, facepalm away.

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Thought Nokia and Intel’s partnership was just some fleeting MeeGo fling? Just a carefree hookup in their times of mobile panic? Not quite. The companies are certainly in this thing for the long haul and today’s announcement of their new research lab in Oulu, Finland is all the evidence you’ll need. The Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center — as it’s been dubbed — is part of the University of Oulu and will now be home to about two-dozen researchers. What exactly will the white coats be working on? Well, the 3D mobile internet, of course. The focus of the initial work will be on three-dimensional virtual reality platforms as well as on mapping. Sounds pretty neat and futuristic, but for some reason all we can keep thinking about is the immediate future of getting our hands on Nokia’s MeeGo-running N9. Hit the break for the full press release and a few more details on the lab itself.

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If weight training weighs you down and gymming is just a drag, Worry not. Innovative fitness techniques ensure that you don’t have to endure boredom and pain on your way to a healthier figure. Say hello to ‘dancercise’ – dancing to lose weight and build stamina – which is catching on among young professionals and students who don’t get the…

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