5:19 PM
Study found that in the majority of textbooks will be digital instead of printed within 5 to 7 years:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47383&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
US companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales from counterfeited products from China that are shipped to the US. The CBP says that the fake goods from China threatens the economic vitality and national security of the US. What really scares me is that pharmaceuticals are 34% of the items in the security risk category...fake drugs are dangerous to our health and safety!
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/china-overwhelming-us-counterfeit-goods
First Florida's governor turned down $2.4 bil from the federal government for high-speed rail, now he's trying to cut high school football and band among his many cuts of education:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/high-school-football-to-b_n_836767.html
Bharti Airtel is apparently going to buy Qualcomm's broadband wireless business (which hasn't even launched yet). So, not only will Qualcomm make 25-30% profit on their $1.05 bil investment, but they succeeded in getting that license to be used for their LTE TDD technology instead of WiMAX (which other bidders were considering when Qualcomm bought the licenses):
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/bharti-airtel-to-buy-qualcomms-bwa-business/articleshow/7727173.cms
On the first day that Verizon has sold an LTE smartphone, HTC Thunderbolt owners are getting *crazy* speed test numbers for their downlink and uplink data rates:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/17/verizons-4g-lte-on-the-htc-thunderbolt-what-speeds-are-you-seeing/
Rare Wall Street downgrade of Apple's stock resulted in Apple losing $14 bil of value on Wednesday. Their stock was downgraded due to an analyst pointing to a sharp pullback in sales growth at Apple's largest Asian contract manufacturer as a sign that business was slowing for Apple:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-apple-idUSTRE72F6D420110316
Hacking exploits of the BlackBerry 6 WebKit has resulted in RIM telling all BlackBerry users to disable JavaScript in their browsers or even disable their web browsers completely:
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=7748
Leaked screenshots indicate that Amazon's Appstore for Android will sell some applications for less than what they cost at Google's Android Market. Even more interesting, Amazon will have quite a few apps that are not available on Android right now--including Call of Duty: Force Recon and Angry Birds Rio, plus ad-free versions of Angry Birds:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/amazon-appstore-sell-apps-less-android-market/2011-03-17
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47383&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
US companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales from counterfeited products from China that are shipped to the US. The CBP says that the fake goods from China threatens the economic vitality and national security of the US. What really scares me is that pharmaceuticals are 34% of the items in the security risk category...fake drugs are dangerous to our health and safety!
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/china-overwhelming-us-counterfeit-goods
First Florida's governor turned down $2.4 bil from the federal government for high-speed rail, now he's trying to cut high school football and band among his many cuts of education:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/high-school-football-to-b_n_836767.html
Bharti Airtel is apparently going to buy Qualcomm's broadband wireless business (which hasn't even launched yet). So, not only will Qualcomm make 25-30% profit on their $1.05 bil investment, but they succeeded in getting that license to be used for their LTE TDD technology instead of WiMAX (which other bidders were considering when Qualcomm bought the licenses):
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/bharti-airtel-to-buy-qualcomms-bwa-business/articleshow/7727173.cms
On the first day that Verizon has sold an LTE smartphone, HTC Thunderbolt owners are getting *crazy* speed test numbers for their downlink and uplink data rates:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/17/verizons-4g-lte-on-the-htc-thunderbolt-what-speeds-are-you-seeing/
Rare Wall Street downgrade of Apple's stock resulted in Apple losing $14 bil of value on Wednesday. Their stock was downgraded due to an analyst pointing to a sharp pullback in sales growth at Apple's largest Asian contract manufacturer as a sign that business was slowing for Apple:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-apple-idUSTRE72F6D420110316
Hacking exploits of the BlackBerry 6 WebKit has resulted in RIM telling all BlackBerry users to disable JavaScript in their browsers or even disable their web browsers completely:
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=7748
Leaked screenshots indicate that Amazon's Appstore for Android will sell some applications for less than what they cost at Google's Android Market. Even more interesting, Amazon will have quite a few apps that are not available on Android right now--including Call of Duty: Force Recon and Angry Birds Rio, plus ad-free versions of Angry Birds:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/amazon-appstore-sell-apps-less-android-market/2011-03-17