5:52 PM
Estimates are that China's wind power production will increase from 25.8 gigawatts at the end of last year to up to 253 gigawatts by 2020! That would cut more than 400 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, or 150+ million tonnes of coal consumption:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-chinas-power-capacity-five-fold-2020.html
Alpinestars has been developing a fully functional airbag for motorcycle riders and skiers. Their decade of R&D work has led to a commercially available version being released by the summer, with prices expected to drop as time goes on:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/10/motorcycle-suit-with-built-in-airbags.html
Verizon selling the iPad in 2 weeks is the latest sign that the iPhone is coming soon to Verizon. It should be noted that this is Verizon's *first* wireless device from Apple:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-sell-apples-ipad-bundled-mifi-product/2010-10-14
Article about how the interest in LTE may result in *growth* for WiMAX because WiMAX vendors have networks that can be deployed now and can promise a migration path to TD-LTE:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/interest-lte-may-actually-spur-wimax-deployments/2010-10-14
Sprint came up with a *great* way to reduce churn for its Boost Mobile brand. For every 6 months a customer is with Boost, they will get $5 off from their monthly bill (up to $15 off):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/sprint-aims-to-keep-wireless-customers-by-lowering-bills-every-six-months.html
Fox is having pricing disputes with Dish Network and Cablevision, with channels apparently going to be pulled from Cablevision tomorrow and from Dish on November 1 (some Fox sports channels were taken off Dish recently also). It sure seems that Fox is asking for *huge* price increases as a way to fatten their bottom line (and force consumers to pay a lot more for TV): for 2 local channels in NY, Fox wants Cablevision to go from paying $8.6 million/year to $34 million/year! They want Fox Business channel to go from $3.7 million/year to $18.4 million/year and want 5x or so increases for National Geographic Wild and Fox Deportes:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/458375-Analyst_Says_Fox_Cablevision_Battle_Factored_into_Stocks.php
Pennsylvania teenager had just passed his driving test for his license and was in the parking lot of the driver license center...when the teenager crashed into the driver license center building!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/13/ap/strange/main6955703.shtml
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-chinas-power-capacity-five-fold-2020.html
Alpinestars has been developing a fully functional airbag for motorcycle riders and skiers. Their decade of R&D work has led to a commercially available version being released by the summer, with prices expected to drop as time goes on:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/10/motorcycle-suit-with-built-in-airbags.html
Verizon selling the iPad in 2 weeks is the latest sign that the iPhone is coming soon to Verizon. It should be noted that this is Verizon's *first* wireless device from Apple:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-sell-apples-ipad-bundled-mifi-product/2010-10-14
Article about how the interest in LTE may result in *growth* for WiMAX because WiMAX vendors have networks that can be deployed now and can promise a migration path to TD-LTE:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/interest-lte-may-actually-spur-wimax-deployments/2010-10-14
Sprint came up with a *great* way to reduce churn for its Boost Mobile brand. For every 6 months a customer is with Boost, they will get $5 off from their monthly bill (up to $15 off):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-14/sprint-aims-to-keep-wireless-customers-by-lowering-bills-every-six-months.html
Fox is having pricing disputes with Dish Network and Cablevision, with channels apparently going to be pulled from Cablevision tomorrow and from Dish on November 1 (some Fox sports channels were taken off Dish recently also). It sure seems that Fox is asking for *huge* price increases as a way to fatten their bottom line (and force consumers to pay a lot more for TV): for 2 local channels in NY, Fox wants Cablevision to go from paying $8.6 million/year to $34 million/year! They want Fox Business channel to go from $3.7 million/year to $18.4 million/year and want 5x or so increases for National Geographic Wild and Fox Deportes:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/458375-Analyst_Says_Fox_Cablevision_Battle_Factored_into_Stocks.php
Pennsylvania teenager had just passed his driving test for his license and was in the parking lot of the driver license center...when the teenager crashed into the driver license center building!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/13/ap/strange/main6955703.shtml