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Report states that Israel is planning to attack Hezbollah's weapons storage facilities in Syria. since the 2006 war with Israel, Hezbollah has been storing its more valuable rockets and missiles in Syria since they figured that Israel wouldn't attack sites in Syria. If Israel attacks Iran's nuclear weapons facilities, Iran would tell Hezbollah to launch its weapons against Israel, so Israel wants to weaken Hezbollah's military capabilities:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/report-israel-planning-strike-hezbollah-sites-syria
Sponges living deep in the ocean emit chemicals to help them defend their territory and these chemicals have shown the ability to kill cancer cells! Chemist have been trying to find ways to synthesize the chemicals since 1993 and MIT researchers seem to have made a breakthrough to enable the cancer-killing chemicals to be more easily created:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/drug-synthesis-0830.html
Livestock emit 37% of anthropogenic methane throughout the world, a major source of greenhouse gasses (methane is 23x more likely than CO2 to create global warming). An oregano-based food supplement has been shown to decrease methane emissions in dairy cows by 40% and improve their milk production:
http://live.psu.edu/story/48055
Oil and natural gas provides 60% of global energy consumption today and is expected to peak about 10 to 30 years from now, followed by a rapid decline. In 30 years renewable energy sources (mainly solar and wind energy) is expected to dominate global energy production:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/30-years-world-be-powered-mainly-solar-and-wind-energy
Intel's acquisition of Infineon has been finalized at $1.4 billion:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=C1A8D5A9-1A64-6A71-CE40E4314A656E94
Intel says that it will support LTE when it becomes a global standard:
http://lteworld.org/news/will-embrace-lte-when-it-becomes-global-standard-intel-exec
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest men in the world, is now suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, YouTube, and others for violating up to 4 patents on common techniques used by thousands of websites. It appears that just about any website that has a "related stories" box, a stock ticker or headline feed, a Twitter widget or anything that updates continually, or an RSS feeder or Google alert will owe Paul Allen money:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-tech-pioneer-and-patent-troll-767?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2010-08-30
Oracle's lawsuit against Google and open source will prevent Google from speaking at JavaOne this year:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html
Google released 2 new features that enable optical character recognition and document translation--so, you can upload any scanned document or FAX and it will be converted to a Google Document...and then Google Translate is integrated into the API so you can translate a document during upload:
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/09/import-scans-or-go-multilingual.html
Motorola released 3 new Android smartphones, 1 each for China's biggest 3 cellular providers:
http://mediacenter.motorola.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=13224&NewsAreaId=2
Study found that Android smartphones are using WiFi far more than other platforms (note that the study didn't include Apple products). Symbian users used less than 100 KB of WiFi data while Android smartphones used between 500 MB and 2 GB of WiFi data:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/ethernet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226900208
Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick, and others offer location-based services that let people report their physical location to connect with friends or receive coupons. Despite all of those companies making such a big push, and VCs pouring $115 million into location start-ups since last year, only 4% of Americans have tried location-based services (like Facebook Places) and just 1% use them weekly:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/technology/30location.html?_r=1&ref=technology
A couple left their car parked at a long-term lot near Kennedy Airport during a trip to California and when they returned to NY they were surprised that their car odometer increased by 724 miles while they were out of town! They were also surprised that when they started their car a music CD played at full volume. They say they will park at the same lot in the future...I'd stay away from that lot if I were them:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/29/ap/strange/main6816891.shtml
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/report-israel-planning-strike-hezbollah-sites-syria
Sponges living deep in the ocean emit chemicals to help them defend their territory and these chemicals have shown the ability to kill cancer cells! Chemist have been trying to find ways to synthesize the chemicals since 1993 and MIT researchers seem to have made a breakthrough to enable the cancer-killing chemicals to be more easily created:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/drug-synthesis-0830.html
Livestock emit 37% of anthropogenic methane throughout the world, a major source of greenhouse gasses (methane is 23x more likely than CO2 to create global warming). An oregano-based food supplement has been shown to decrease methane emissions in dairy cows by 40% and improve their milk production:
http://live.psu.edu/story/48055
Oil and natural gas provides 60% of global energy consumption today and is expected to peak about 10 to 30 years from now, followed by a rapid decline. In 30 years renewable energy sources (mainly solar and wind energy) is expected to dominate global energy production:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/30-years-world-be-powered-mainly-solar-and-wind-energy
Intel's acquisition of Infineon has been finalized at $1.4 billion:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=C1A8D5A9-1A64-6A71-CE40E4314A656E94
Intel says that it will support LTE when it becomes a global standard:
http://lteworld.org/news/will-embrace-lte-when-it-becomes-global-standard-intel-exec
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and one of the richest men in the world, is now suing AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, YouTube, and others for violating up to 4 patents on common techniques used by thousands of websites. It appears that just about any website that has a "related stories" box, a stock ticker or headline feed, a Twitter widget or anything that updates continually, or an RSS feeder or Google alert will owe Paul Allen money:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/paul-allen-microsoft-co-founder-tech-pioneer-and-patent-troll-767?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2010-08-30
Oracle's lawsuit against Google and open source will prevent Google from speaking at JavaOne this year:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html
Google released 2 new features that enable optical character recognition and document translation--so, you can upload any scanned document or FAX and it will be converted to a Google Document...and then Google Translate is integrated into the API so you can translate a document during upload:
http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/09/import-scans-or-go-multilingual.html
Motorola released 3 new Android smartphones, 1 each for China's biggest 3 cellular providers:
http://mediacenter.motorola.com/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=13224&NewsAreaId=2
Study found that Android smartphones are using WiFi far more than other platforms (note that the study didn't include Apple products). Symbian users used less than 100 KB of WiFi data while Android smartphones used between 500 MB and 2 GB of WiFi data:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/ethernet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226900208
Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick, and others offer location-based services that let people report their physical location to connect with friends or receive coupons. Despite all of those companies making such a big push, and VCs pouring $115 million into location start-ups since last year, only 4% of Americans have tried location-based services (like Facebook Places) and just 1% use them weekly:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/technology/30location.html?_r=1&ref=technology
A couple left their car parked at a long-term lot near Kennedy Airport during a trip to California and when they returned to NY they were surprised that their car odometer increased by 724 miles while they were out of town! They were also surprised that when they started their car a music CD played at full volume. They say they will park at the same lot in the future...I'd stay away from that lot if I were them:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/29/ap/strange/main6816891.shtml