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LOTD for June 13

Study found that robbing banks really doesn't pay off--the average bank robbery in the U.S. got just $4,330 per person per successful raid.  A robber that attempts multiple bank robberies is in jail normally after 4 robberies, which means he/she cannot earn any income for awhile:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120613-robbing-banks-doesn-t-pay-econometrics-study


Article about how Apple's biggest problem in its smartphone patent wars appears to be the overloaded nature of the U.S. court system. For example, Apple's attempt to prevent Samsung from launching their Galaxy S III smartphone in the U.S. failed because the judge said that the trial would overload her calendar, thanks to another lawsuit Apple has against other Samsung devices that is on her court calendar:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/us-apple-google-lawsuits-idUSBRE85B1L320120612


Today was Reveal Day, where the international organization in charge of top-level domain names on the Internet revealed that it received applications for 1,930 new domain names. 13 companies applied for .app, 10 for .art, 7 for .news, 8 for .music, 8 for .movie, and both Google and Amazon applied for .you.  Amazon applied for .you, .book, .buy, .news, .music, .movie, .mobile and .tunes:
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/reveal-day-who-applied-top-level-domains-141098
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