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LOTD for January 29

Americans die sooner and have more disease and injury problems than people in all other high-income countries.  So, the US spends more per person on health care but has poorer health than all 16 peer nations studied:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130129-americans-health-worst-among-highincome-countries


Study found that poor sleep prevents elderly people from storing memories in their brain.  They are looking at ways to get the elderly to sleep better, which will improve their brain function:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/01/poor-sleep-old-age-prevents-brain-storing-memories


Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet will apparently only have 83GB available on their 128GB machines because Windows will eat 45GB of the hard drive!
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsofts-surface-pro-how-much-usable-storage-211770


Consumers now trust *Microsoft* more than *Apple*...I wouldn't have imagined that a few years ago:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/consumers-now-trust-microsoft-more-apple-their-privacy-211769


Android and the iPhone comprise 92% of the world's smartphones!  Apple actually decreased year-to-year, going from 23.6% to 22.0%...but Android went from 51.3% to an amazing 70.1%!  That means that Windows, BlackBerry, and everybody else went from 25.1% to just 7.9% last quarter:
http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/WSS/post/2013/01/28/Android-and-Apple-iOS-Capture-a-Record-92-Percent-Share-of-Global-Smartphone-Shipments-in-Q4-2012.aspx
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