10 Gigantic Mega-Cap Stocks That Yield Way More Than Treasuries

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-gigantic-mega-cap-stocks-that-yield-way-more-than-treasuries-2012-4

Bank of America's Stephen Suttmeier is out with a list of companies that combine two of their favorite themes: Global mega-caps and high yields.

They note that mega caps generally, are set for a long period of dominance reversing a long underperformance trend.

As for the high yielders, they are:

• BMW (Market Cap $55.5 5 billion, Dividend Yield 3.45%)
• ConocoPhillips (Market Cap $97.1 billion, Dividend Yield 3.46%)
• Du Pont (Market Cap $49.3 billion Dividend Yield 3.10%)
• GlaxoSmithKline (Market Cap $112.8 billion, Dividend Yield 5.50%)
• Imperial Tobacco (Market Cap $39.6 billion, Dividend Yield 4.24%)
• Nestle (Market Cap $202 billion, Dividend Yield 3.46%)
• Procter & Gamble (Market Cap: $184.9 billion, Dividend Yield 3.13%)
• Ricket Benckiser (Market Cap $40.6 billion, Dividend Yield 3.95%)
• Toronto Dominion (Market Cap $75.7 billion, Dividend Yield 3.47%)
• Vodafone Group (Market Cap $134.9 billion, Dividend Yield 5.88%)

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Intel 313 SSDs bring improved caching to ultrabooks, desktops, life in general

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/intel-313-cache-ssd/

Just like Intel's older 311 batch of small cache SSDs, the new 313 series is designed to sit alongside a traditional spinning HDD in order provide a tasty blend of speed and capacity. These newer drives are still SATA II, so there's no 6Gbps action here, but they use superior 25nm SLC flash, offer faster speeds for the same price (starting at $120 for 20GB) and are explicitly approved for use in the coming wave of Ultrabooks -- so don't be surprised if that's where you meet 'em next.

Intel 313 SSDs bring improved caching to ultrabooks, desktops, life in general originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/amped-wireless-high-power-r10000g-router-and-smart-repeater-hand/

Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit's also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: the R10000G Home Router and SR10000 Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi. Of course, we just had to test these claims out for ourselves, and see if these units really were formidable enough to leave our own router crying in the corner. We devised three simple experiments to see how they hold up in the real world -- head on past the break to find out how they fared.

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Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/google-floor-plan-marker-app-indoor-mapping/

Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after you've uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps? Then maybe it's time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app. It instructs you to walk around the "entire surface" of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell towers. Once added to Google's database, this extra info will allow the familiar blue dot to function on your customers' Android phones even when your actually-concrete building gets in the way of their satellite signal. The app's already available at Google Play, so go ahead -- make the schlep now so that others don't have to.

Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Toray unveils new self-repairing film for devices, fixes scratches in under 10 seconds

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/06/toray-unveils-new-self-repairing-film-for-devices-fixes-scratch/

Toray's advanced film department has finished its new self-cure coating and is set to start using it as a decorative layer on a series of as-yet unannounced notebooks. Fortunately, the company is already chasing down more pervasive uses on smartphones and touch-panels. The science involves a wet coating method that adds a special recovering layer to PET film. Alongside that mutant healing factor, the layer responsible also throws in some elastic and cushioning properties. During Toray's demonstration (what, no video?) scratches made with a metal brush apparently repaired themselves, resulting in the rehabilitated glossy surface you see above. According to the Japanese manufacturer, the ability to heal improves at lower temperatures, but room temperature is apparently enough to make scratches disappear in 10 seconds or less -- more than fast enough to differentiate Toray's offering from existing solutions. The film can repair itself around 20,000 times in succession, although if pierced beyond the layer, it's -- unsurprisingly -- unable to recover any damage done. The screen is also softer than the typical protective surfaces found to devices. Maybe Toray and Gorilla Glass should get together. GorillToray?

Toray unveils new self-repairing film for devices, fixes scratches in under 10 seconds originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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