06/24/13 Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for the Beverage Industry

• Older Chrome Extensions to Go Away _{2013-06-21, 01:33 pm}
  I have two free Chrome extensions published a few years ago on the Chrome Web Store. NOREF is an extension that attempts to alter links on web pages so no referer info is sent to servers. JunkFill is the other extension that lets users fill out web page forms with random or pre-determined data with [...]
• AdSense, 10 Years Old and My 72-Hour Warning _{2013-06-18, 03:04 pm}
  AdSense, Google's affiliate advertising product for publishers is 10 years old and I just received a warning from them that one of my sites, padfly.com, does not conform to their policies and I have 3 "working" days to clean it up or else they would block their ads on that site forever. Should I cheer [...]
• Food on Google _{2013-06-17, 10:27 am}
  I'm not a health nut but I do run regularly and enjoy eating healthy food. I don't know a vegetable or fruit that I don't like, a trait inherited from my late father. Sometimes I like to look up the nutrition info on a banana or broccoli just for fun and now Google has made [...]
• Goggles Can't Read QR Code _{2013-06-10, 03:08 pm}
  Not sure if it's the latest version of Goggles app or if it's Jelly Bean, but since upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S2 to Android Jelly Bean, Goggles can't read the majority of QR codes it encounters. I had a friend try Goggles on his Jelly Bean HTC and it was the same situation. Another friend [...]
• PRISM, Spies, and Leaks _{2013-06-10, 12:22 pm}
  While the US and much of the world is embroiled in the so-called scandal of US government spying on its citizens, I am left wondering why this is news at all? The Patriot Act enacted after September 11, 2001 was designed to do exactly that, spy on voice and data communications in the US. Yes [...]
• The End of Cheap Domains _{2013-05-30, 04:30 pm}
  Got an email from 1&1, the German domain and hosting company, that their domain pricing is being raised. In order to stay competitive and continue to offer you excellent services, we need to adjust our pricing structure. The following new domain rates will be changed to $14.99/year, dependent on your individual renewal date, at earliest [...]
• So Long Orumieh (Rezaiyeh) Lake _{2013-05-09, 03:01 pm}
  When I was growing up in Iran, one of the places I always wanted to visit the Orumieh (Urmia) lake in the north-western part of the country. The lake was known as Rezaieh lake prior to the Islamic revolution in the country. People had amazing stories of biodiversity and beauty in and around the lake. [...]
• Windows Blue _{2013-05-08, 10:23 am}
  Speculation is running rampant that Windows Blue, the successor to the much hated Windows 8 will see the return of the Start button, as well as other improvements. I'm still a happy XP user at home and at work I use Windows 7 which I equally like. Having seen the strangeness of Windows 8, I [...]
• Amazon's Miss, Does it Matter? _{2013-04-29, 01:03 pm}
  Last week Amazon reported an $0.18/share earnings on a lower than expected revenues for its past quarter. The shares seesawed after hours and finally ended down some $20 on Friday. The earnings were almost twice what the street had expected, but think about this, The street was expecting this company to earn a measly $40 [...]
• Apple Hitting Lows _{2013-04-17, 12:36 pm}
  Apple shares hit a 52-week nearing $400/share today, even below some of the price points from when Steve Jobs was alive. The news surrounding Apple isn't very rosy. iPhone continues to lose market share to Google's Android, iTunes is losing market share to Amazon, and the PC/laptop markets are shrinking in general dragging Apple down along the