5:18 PM
California (more than 40% of all clean-tech VC funding worldwide when
to California companies!), but California's dominant position is
threatened by competition from China and by Proposition 23 that is
being voted on in next month's California election. In the US, the Bay
Area is #1 for green jobs, LA is #2 and San Diego is #7:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cleantech-20101007,0,3508888.story
Public Universities in California may get $500 million *more* this
year than last year under the just agreed upon budget. The UC system
and the Cal State system are each getting $199 million more from the
state and $106 million each in federal stimulus money:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget-college-20101007,0,480595.story
xG was awarded an Army contract to deploy its cognitive cellular
network at Fort Bliss (the Army's largest training facility) and they
are being evaluated by CERDEC:
http://www.fiercetelecom.com/press_releases/xg-technology-awarded-contract-deploy-xmax-cognitive-cellular-network-u-s-armys-base-#ixzz11gkoDuvV
US intelligence is concerned about how al Qaeda is recruiting
tech-savvy Westerners (including US citizens), which makes it harder
to identify and protect from their attacks
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/growing-worries-about-terror-groups-tech-savvy-western-recruits
Geologist says that land-based mineral deposits may be running out but
deposits on the ocean floor could power humanity for centuries:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct10/CathlesMinerals.html
Article predicting that Facebook will be bigger in 5 years than Google
is now without having to cut into any of Google's business revenue.
Facebook already has more page views than Google and people already
spend more time on Facebook than Google. Google's revenues this year
are estimated to be $28 billion and Facebook's revenues are estimated
to be $2 billion. The article provides ways that Facebook could
increase its revenue streams to get to $30 billion in 5 years. To put
Facebook's $2 billion estimate in perspective, that is already twice
the revenues Google had when it went public:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/facebook-bigger-google/
LightSquared closed deals with Nokia, Qualcomm and other companies to
give a nice boost to their private equity-funded LTE network:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lightsquared-inks-lte-device-deals-nokia-qualcomm/2010-10-07
The Wall Street Journal says that Apple is making an iPhone for
Verizon that will be available in the first quarter of 2011 and that
Apple will start mass producing the Verizon iPhone soon:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-verizon-iphone-coming-early-2011/2010-10-07
Motorola sued Apple for infringing on 18 of their patents with their
iPhone, iPad, iTouch, and a few computers:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0612048720101006
Apple is gearing up to sell 45 million iPads next year--$30 billion in
revenue just from iPads!
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-45-million-ipads-2010-10#ixzz11gGKIhLN
Interesting analysis of Google's response to Oracle's Android patent lawsuit:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/google-responds-to-oracles-android-patent-lawsuit-we-break-it/
T-Mobile already allows WiFi calling on BlackBerry and Nokia
smartphones and they just announced that they will allow Android
smartphones to also use WiFi calling (which includes being able to
sent text messages to anywhere in the world):
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/reviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227700235&itc=ref-true
Nokia Siemens has apparently made an amazing turnaround, going from
near death to winning the most 4G or LTE deals--they say they have 17
4G contracts while their closest competitor has 6 or less contracts
and they have have 180 3G customers:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/Turnaround-has-resulted-in-PE-interest-Rajeev-Suri-CEO-Nokia-Siemens/articleshow/6686344.cms
Umbilical cord iPhone charger that jerks around like the chest-busting
creature from the Alien movie...yuk:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/alien_umbilical_cord_iphone_charger_slick_or_sick
Tennessee jail gives its inmates all of the clothes that they can wear
and has been giving inmates old underwear that was worn by other
prisoners instead of new underwear like other jails and prisons give:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/06/ap/strange/main6933224.shtml