Countries frequently amend or draft constitutions, but they can't always find example constitutions to work from -- not every country publishes its founding documents in accessible formats. So, Google's simplifying nation building by launching Constitute, a website that puts all the world's constitutions in one place. The tool indexes both basic details as well as policies. It's easy to filter charters by their creation date, for example, or to find countries that protect equality based on gender. Whether you're forming a government or just like to dabble in political science, you can try Constitute at the source link.
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Facebook's next payments experiment is making its public debut.
As AllThingsD previously reported, Facebook has been testing a feature with a handful of retail partners that would allow customers to automatically enter their payment information into mobile devices via their Facebook accounts.
Beginning on Monday evening, Facebook will make that product public, slowly rolling it out to its billion-strong user network.
It's (aptly) named “Autofill with Facebook,” and it's a simple yet seemingly useful proposition. If you've stored your address and credit card information on Facebook, retail apps partnered with the company in the pilot program — currently only -- For more information read the original article here.
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Verizon has released an update to its FiOS Mobile app, which now allows users of Verizon's My FiOS service to watch TV shows over cellular networks, instead of limiting them to Wi-Fi viewing in their homes. As noted in the app's release notes for version 2.0:
What's New in Version 2.0
Access to select Free and Subscription On Demand content from anywhere, as well as the ability to browse the ever-growing Flex View library for great movie deals and exciting new TV programs
Live streaming TV channels both in and out of your FiOS home
- Select live channels while away from your -- For more information read the original article here.
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Microsoft just revealed two new iterations of the Surface, its tablet-PC hybrid.
It's replacing the Surface RT with the Surface 2, and the Surface Pro is replaced with the Surface Pro 2.
The Surface RT was a flop for Microsoft. It had to slash the price of the RT, then take a $900 million charge to account for lower priced inventory that was sitting around.
The new devices are getting standard second generation upgrades with faster performance, better battery life, and Windows 8.1.
The overall package for the Surface remains the same, though.
So, why -- For more information read the original article here.
More than two years after issuing its draft guidance on the regulation of mobile health apps, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally released its final guidelines.
By some counts, there are about 40,000 health-related mobile apps available for download on the iPhone, Android devices or other smartphones. The vast majority of these apps exist outside the scope of F.D.A regulation, but mobile health app developers have still been waiting for the agency's final word on where it plans to focus.
On Monday, the F.D.A. said its oversight will apply to two broad categories of apps:
- Those intended to be -- For more information read the original article here.
BlackBerry just received an offer to go private from Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited for $9 per share, or $4.7 billion.
Fairfax signed a letter of intent for the offer. It already owns about 10% of BlackBerry.
BlackBerry is currently trading at about $8.20 per share.
To be clear, this is just a formal offer for Fairfax to buy BlackBerry, but the deal has not gone through yet. BlackBerry's board has agreed to the terms in the letter.
BlackBerry and Fairfax are now entering a "diligence period" where a number of conditions must be met. This diligence period should last -- For more information read the original article here.
Flipboard, the mobile-first “social” magazine that lets people tag, assemble and then share collections of stories from around the web, has now raised another $50 million at an $800 million valuation led by Suhail Rizvi, with Goldman Sachs close behind and existing investors like Insight Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins also participating (KPCP has confirmed this directly with us as well).
The news was first reported earlier today by AllThingsD, and it has now been confirmed to us by Mike McCue, CEO and co-founder of the company, who also gave us some insight into how the -- For more information read the original article here.