4:44 PM
Japanese reporter had been kidnapped for the past 5 months in Afghanistan, but when his captors got a new cell phone and wanted him to show them how to access the internet, he bravely sent 2 twitter messages to let the world know he was still alive and to give his location! He was released the very next day and amazingly wants to leave Japan to go back to Afghanistan as a reporter again:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Kidnapped-Reporter-Tweets-Secretly-From-Afghan-Captivity-2001
Research found a link between ocean color and the formation and movement of tropical cyclones--more hurricanes apparently form in greener waters where sunlight tends to be absorbed at shallower depths:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/green-ocean-hurricanes-0908.html
Two asteroids will pass by Earth today:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroid20100907.html
HP very recently gave its former CEO over $40 million in a severance package and now is suing him for violating the severance agreement by taking the job of President at Oracle:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-suing-mark-hurd-2010-9
Article about how none of the numerous Android-based tablets that are being released are threats to the iPad:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-platforms/will-android-tablets-take-bite-out-the-ipad-not-likely-585
Survey found that antennagate cost Apple 20% of sales for the iPhone 4. However, the survey found that 3x that number of people avoided buying the iPhone 4 because the iPhone was not on Verizon:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/08/antennagate-cost-apple-20-of-sales/
Wired's Editor-in-Chief said that T-Mobile will be getting the iPhone 3GS (not the iPhone 4) later this year:
http://www.businessinsider.com/wireds-editor-in-chief-tweets-iphone-3gs-coming-to-t-mobile-this-year-2010-9
Google's Instant Search was announced today and should bring real-time web searching to smartphones this fall:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-instant-announced-today-brings-real-time-search-web-coming-mobile-fall
Piers Morgan is going to replace Larry King on CNN...I'm not sure he was a great choice and Larry will sure be unhappy that the person he has publicly supported (Ryan Seacrest) was not chosen:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/09/cnn-taps-piers-morgan-to-fill-larry-king-slot-.html
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Kidnapped-Reporter-Tweets-Secretly-From-Afghan-Captivity-2001
Research found a link between ocean color and the formation and movement of tropical cyclones--more hurricanes apparently form in greener waters where sunlight tends to be absorbed at shallower depths:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/green-ocean-hurricanes-0908.html
Two asteroids will pass by Earth today:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroid20100907.html
HP very recently gave its former CEO over $40 million in a severance package and now is suing him for violating the severance agreement by taking the job of President at Oracle:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-suing-mark-hurd-2010-9
Article about how none of the numerous Android-based tablets that are being released are threats to the iPad:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-platforms/will-android-tablets-take-bite-out-the-ipad-not-likely-585
Survey found that antennagate cost Apple 20% of sales for the iPhone 4. However, the survey found that 3x that number of people avoided buying the iPhone 4 because the iPhone was not on Verizon:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/08/antennagate-cost-apple-20-of-sales/
Wired's Editor-in-Chief said that T-Mobile will be getting the iPhone 3GS (not the iPhone 4) later this year:
http://www.businessinsider.com/wireds-editor-in-chief-tweets-iphone-3gs-coming-to-t-mobile-this-year-2010-9
Google's Instant Search was announced today and should bring real-time web searching to smartphones this fall:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-instant-announced-today-brings-real-time-search-web-coming-mobile-fall
Piers Morgan is going to replace Larry King on CNN...I'm not sure he was a great choice and Larry will sure be unhappy that the person he has publicly supported (Ryan Seacrest) was not chosen:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/09/cnn-taps-piers-morgan-to-fill-larry-king-slot-.html