7:12 PM
Russia has apparently lost contact with another military satellite--it apparently was put into the wrong orbit after its launch. This satellite was supposed to be in a circular orbit 1,000 km above the ground, but instead is in an elliptical orbit as close as 330 km above the ground:
http://www.asdnews.com/news/33271/Russia_loses_military_satellite.htm
Intel found a design flaw in a new chipset that might cause 5% of the chips to fail over the next 3-5 years. The loss of revenue and the cost of fixing the 500k or so computers with the chipset is expected to cost $1 billion...that is a costly flaw!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01chip.html?_r=1
New technique destroys brain tumors with heat and avoids the unwanted side effects of drug and radiation therapies. The team in Texas have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer cells in their first animal tests:
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15311&SnID=1691684613
Smart lasers may soon enable doctors to painlessly scan a patient's troublesome mole and review the results on the spot (instead of how they current have to cut away skin to test for skin cancer, sending the biopsy to a lab and wait for the results):
http://news.msu.edu/story/8848/
Dish Network is buying bankrupt satellite company DBSD for $1 bil (estimates are that DBSD is worth between $2 bil to $3 bil), which will give Dish a 20 MHz block of spectrum in the S-Band. The CEO of Dish is also the CEO of EchoStar (which technically split from Dish recently) to get bankrupt TerreStar's 20 MHz of S-Band spectrum. If Dish can put together 2 bands of 20MHz in the S-Band to go with the 6 MHz of 700 MHz that Dish got in the 2008 auction, Dish could have as much or more spectrum for 4G (LTE or WiMAX) as Sprint or T-Mobile have! So, there is a lot of speculation regarding what Dish will do with that spectrum:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dishs-1b-dbsd-purchase-sparks-spectrum-intrigue/2011-02-02
NASA's Kepler space telescope has found 1202 possible exoplanets despite how it just surveys 1/400 of the sky. They have found 68 planets (approximately Earth-sized) that are smaller than any previously discovered planets outside the solar system. 50 exoplanets are in the habitable zone of their stars--2 of these planets with temperatures moderate enough for liquid water are less than 2x the size of Earth. Kepler astronomers have also found a star with 6 planets, the most Kepler found around a star:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/new-kepler-exoplanet-data.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/nasa-kepler-space-telescope-finds-1202.html
The last batches of IPv4 addresses will be given out, forcing a more rapid scramble to transition to IPv6:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_INTERNET_ADDRESSES?SITE=VTBEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
This website has multiple sources that seem to indicate that Verizon will charge $29.99 for unlimited LTE data for smartphones...no premium for LTE data on smartphones. That would be amazing if they actually do that and would be a huge boost to LTE adoption on Verizon:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/02/verizon-4g-lte-data-plans-to-launch-at-29-99/
HP's new CEO wants HP to replace Apple as the place people go to for "cool" products:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12291529
I enjoyed this column about Microsoft copying Google's search results for Bing:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47220&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Google Body sounds like an *awesome* educational tool and a neat way to look at the different layers of the human body:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-body-peels-back-layers-get-under-your-skin
I cannot believe that a Minnesota woman put a puppy in a box and tried to send it via 2-day priority mail! No food, no water, nowhere for the puppy's waste to go, nowhere to move inside that tiny box...what was that 39-year-old woman thinking?
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/woman-tries-to-mail-puppy-in-box/
http://www.asdnews.com/news/33271/Russia_loses_military_satellite.htm
Intel found a design flaw in a new chipset that might cause 5% of the chips to fail over the next 3-5 years. The loss of revenue and the cost of fixing the 500k or so computers with the chipset is expected to cost $1 billion...that is a costly flaw!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/technology/01chip.html?_r=1
New technique destroys brain tumors with heat and avoids the unwanted side effects of drug and radiation therapies. The team in Texas have successfully destroyed tumors of human brain cancer cells in their first animal tests:
http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15311&SnID=1691684613
Smart lasers may soon enable doctors to painlessly scan a patient's troublesome mole and review the results on the spot (instead of how they current have to cut away skin to test for skin cancer, sending the biopsy to a lab and wait for the results):
http://news.msu.edu/story/8848/
Dish Network is buying bankrupt satellite company DBSD for $1 bil (estimates are that DBSD is worth between $2 bil to $3 bil), which will give Dish a 20 MHz block of spectrum in the S-Band. The CEO of Dish is also the CEO of EchoStar (which technically split from Dish recently) to get bankrupt TerreStar's 20 MHz of S-Band spectrum. If Dish can put together 2 bands of 20MHz in the S-Band to go with the 6 MHz of 700 MHz that Dish got in the 2008 auction, Dish could have as much or more spectrum for 4G (LTE or WiMAX) as Sprint or T-Mobile have! So, there is a lot of speculation regarding what Dish will do with that spectrum:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/dishs-1b-dbsd-purchase-sparks-spectrum-intrigue/2011-02-02
NASA's Kepler space telescope has found 1202 possible exoplanets despite how it just surveys 1/400 of the sky. They have found 68 planets (approximately Earth-sized) that are smaller than any previously discovered planets outside the solar system. 50 exoplanets are in the habitable zone of their stars--2 of these planets with temperatures moderate enough for liquid water are less than 2x the size of Earth. Kepler astronomers have also found a star with 6 planets, the most Kepler found around a star:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/new-kepler-exoplanet-data.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/02/nasa-kepler-space-telescope-finds-1202.html
The last batches of IPv4 addresses will be given out, forcing a more rapid scramble to transition to IPv6:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_INTERNET_ADDRESSES?SITE=VTBEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
This website has multiple sources that seem to indicate that Verizon will charge $29.99 for unlimited LTE data for smartphones...no premium for LTE data on smartphones. That would be amazing if they actually do that and would be a huge boost to LTE adoption on Verizon:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/02/verizon-4g-lte-data-plans-to-launch-at-29-99/
HP's new CEO wants HP to replace Apple as the place people go to for "cool" products:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12291529
I enjoyed this column about Microsoft copying Google's search results for Bing:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47220&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Google Body sounds like an *awesome* educational tool and a neat way to look at the different layers of the human body:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-body-peels-back-layers-get-under-your-skin
I cannot believe that a Minnesota woman put a puppy in a box and tried to send it via 2-day priority mail! No food, no water, nowhere for the puppy's waste to go, nowhere to move inside that tiny box...what was that 39-year-old woman thinking?
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/woman-tries-to-mail-puppy-in-box/