5:10 PM
Toyota is going to be mass-producing an electric vehicle in China for the Chinese market starting as early as 2012:
http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/09/toyota-to-make-ev-for-chinese-market-as-early-as-2012-model-to-bear-jvs-badge.html
The Stuxnet malware infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide this summer and security experts have discovered that the worm was a cyber weapon meant to hit a single target--Iran's nuclear reactor. The worm used new cyber tricks such has taking control of a computer system without the user taking any action or clicking any button...no internet link required:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/experts-israel-used-cyber-weapon-disrupt-irans-nuclear-reactor
20% of college students have hacked computer systems, with 32% of college students thinking that hacking is cool and around 32% thinking that hacking is easy. 15% of the students hacked to make money:
http://www.strategicrisk.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=23&storycode=386793&c=2
Viacom bought Blockbuster for $8.4 billion in 1994 and now Blockbuster has steadily dropped to the point that it had to file for bankruptcy today. I'll bet there is a lot of regret on Blockbuster's part that they did not buy Netflix when they could have for just $50 million:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1690654/blockbuster-to-file-for-bankruptcy-a-decade-of-decline
Qualcomm provided a few more details about their short-range radio technology called Peanut. They say it would use less battery power (fractions of a milliwatt) than Zigbee, Bluetooth, and UWB, but will move data at high speed:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187299/Qualcomm_shells_out_more_details_on_Peanut_wireless_technology_?taxonomyId=16
Article about how MetroPCS and Verizon are making very different LTE networks, with MetroPCS just using 5 MHz of spectrum while Verizon will use 20 MHz of spectrum to get much faster data speeds. MetroPCS is also not going to offer LTE dongles and its LTE phones will not even be smartphones--the Samsung Craft uses BREW instead of Android because a non-smartphone was cheaper to make:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/metropcs-lte-network-no-comparison-what-verizon-wireless-will-launch/2010-09-22
Verizon said that they are more excited about the variety of LTE devices they will soon debut than they are about possibly getting the iPhone. They say that they have shown by supporting Android that if a carrier builds a competitive alternative to the iPhone that customers will migrate to it. They predict that the tablet market will "explode" and that they will soon release an *LTE* tablet:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizons-seidenberg-we-dont-have-iphone-deficit/2010-09-23
Article claiming that Facebook is working with mobile-phone manufacturer INQ on 2 smartphones that may be introduced in Europe in the first half of next year and in the US later next year on AT&T:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-23/facebook-is-said-to-be-working-with-inq-on-smartphones-that-at-t-may-carry.html
49-year-old Ann Arbor man was arrested for fighting with the pet parrot he carried in his backpack:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/ap/strange/main6891263.shtml
http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2010/09/toyota-to-make-ev-for-chinese-market-as-early-as-2012-model-to-bear-jvs-badge.html
The Stuxnet malware infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide this summer and security experts have discovered that the worm was a cyber weapon meant to hit a single target--Iran's nuclear reactor. The worm used new cyber tricks such has taking control of a computer system without the user taking any action or clicking any button...no internet link required:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/experts-israel-used-cyber-weapon-disrupt-irans-nuclear-reactor
20% of college students have hacked computer systems, with 32% of college students thinking that hacking is cool and around 32% thinking that hacking is easy. 15% of the students hacked to make money:
http://www.strategicrisk.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=23&storycode=386793&c=2
Viacom bought Blockbuster for $8.4 billion in 1994 and now Blockbuster has steadily dropped to the point that it had to file for bankruptcy today. I'll bet there is a lot of regret on Blockbuster's part that they did not buy Netflix when they could have for just $50 million:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1690654/blockbuster-to-file-for-bankruptcy-a-decade-of-decline
Qualcomm provided a few more details about their short-range radio technology called Peanut. They say it would use less battery power (fractions of a milliwatt) than Zigbee, Bluetooth, and UWB, but will move data at high speed:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187299/Qualcomm_shells_out_more_details_on_Peanut_wireless_technology_?taxonomyId=16
Article about how MetroPCS and Verizon are making very different LTE networks, with MetroPCS just using 5 MHz of spectrum while Verizon will use 20 MHz of spectrum to get much faster data speeds. MetroPCS is also not going to offer LTE dongles and its LTE phones will not even be smartphones--the Samsung Craft uses BREW instead of Android because a non-smartphone was cheaper to make:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/metropcs-lte-network-no-comparison-what-verizon-wireless-will-launch/2010-09-22
Verizon said that they are more excited about the variety of LTE devices they will soon debut than they are about possibly getting the iPhone. They say that they have shown by supporting Android that if a carrier builds a competitive alternative to the iPhone that customers will migrate to it. They predict that the tablet market will "explode" and that they will soon release an *LTE* tablet:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizons-seidenberg-we-dont-have-iphone-deficit/2010-09-23
Article claiming that Facebook is working with mobile-phone manufacturer INQ on 2 smartphones that may be introduced in Europe in the first half of next year and in the US later next year on AT&T:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-23/facebook-is-said-to-be-working-with-inq-on-smartphones-that-at-t-may-carry.html
49-year-old Ann Arbor man was arrested for fighting with the pet parrot he carried in his backpack:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/22/ap/strange/main6891263.shtml