6:57 PM
The Japanese nuclear industry apparently disregarded the possibility of a tsunami hitting their nuclear plants, and they didn't even mention tsunamis in guildelines until 2006, decades after they built their nuclear plants all along their *coastline*. The Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by the hurricane just built walls to protect the plant against break water, not tsunamis. When Tokyo Electric Power Company (which owns the nuclear plant) raised its maximum projected tsunami to between 17.7 and 18.7 feet and noted that the plant was built 13 feet above the ground, the company then decided to raise an electric pump by *8 inches*...so, not only were they not ready for the 46-foot-high tsunami that hit the plant, but there weren't even ready for the height of a tsunami that their company was saying could hit the plant:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/asia/27nuke.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
Years of protests, boycotts, and Greenpeace boats getting in the way of their operations didn't stop Japan's whaling industry...but the tsunami may have wiped out a whaling stronghold in Japan. Three out of four homes in Ayukawahama (1 of only 4 communities in Japan that killed and ate whales) were destroyed, and the whaling company's 3 boats were sucked out to sea and are grounded. The whaling company's chairman led all 28 employees to higher ground for safety, but he had to lay off all of their employees:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/asia/25whale.html?ref=japan
Parts shortages due to the earthquake/tsunami in Japan resulted in Ford deciding to shut down their auto plant in Belgium for a week and GM suspending operations at a Louisiana plant until they could buy the necessary parts:
http://www.manufacturing.net/News/2011/03/Automotive-Ford-To-Shut-Down-Plant-To-Save-Parts/
Sprint officially opposes AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile:
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-officially-oposses-atts-t-mobile-buyout
LightSquared's CEO revealed that they are in negotiating contracts with 15 companies right now over use of their wholesale LTE network:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lightsquared-ceo-were-contracts-talks-15-companies/2011-03-28
Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are apparently in discussions to use LightSquared's LTe network. Time Warner's interest in LightSquared is notable because they are an investor in Clearwire and they have openly said that they are unhappy with their sales of Clearwire's WiMAX service. Time Warner has been reselling Clearwire's service since December 2009 and have just 15,000 WiMAX subscribers:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/report-cablevision-time-warner-talks-lightsquared/2011-03-27
Google is teamed with MasterCard and Citigroup to embed technology in Android devices to enable users to buy things by just waving their smartphone in front of a small reader at teh checkout counter:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703576204576226722412152678.html
Microsoft apologized for the slowness of their promised Windows Phone 7 update, and they apologized for comments they have made that indicated that they were further along with the update than they actually were. Doesn't that seem to admit that they lied to developers about the status of Windows Phone 7 because they didn't want to admit what the true status was about their OS?
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110328/microsoft-offers-apology-for-windows-phone-upgrade-slowness/
The iPad 2 is apparently sold out all around the world:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110328/good-luck-finding-an-ipad-2-redux/?mod=ATD_skybox
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/asia/27nuke.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
Years of protests, boycotts, and Greenpeace boats getting in the way of their operations didn't stop Japan's whaling industry...but the tsunami may have wiped out a whaling stronghold in Japan. Three out of four homes in Ayukawahama (1 of only 4 communities in Japan that killed and ate whales) were destroyed, and the whaling company's 3 boats were sucked out to sea and are grounded. The whaling company's chairman led all 28 employees to higher ground for safety, but he had to lay off all of their employees:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/asia/25whale.html?ref=japan
Parts shortages due to the earthquake/tsunami in Japan resulted in Ford deciding to shut down their auto plant in Belgium for a week and GM suspending operations at a Louisiana plant until they could buy the necessary parts:
http://www.manufacturing.net/News/2011/03/Automotive-Ford-To-Shut-Down-Plant-To-Save-Parts/
Sprint officially opposes AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile:
http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-officially-oposses-atts-t-mobile-buyout
LightSquared's CEO revealed that they are in negotiating contracts with 15 companies right now over use of their wholesale LTE network:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/lightsquared-ceo-were-contracts-talks-15-companies/2011-03-28
Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are apparently in discussions to use LightSquared's LTe network. Time Warner's interest in LightSquared is notable because they are an investor in Clearwire and they have openly said that they are unhappy with their sales of Clearwire's WiMAX service. Time Warner has been reselling Clearwire's service since December 2009 and have just 15,000 WiMAX subscribers:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/report-cablevision-time-warner-talks-lightsquared/2011-03-27
Google is teamed with MasterCard and Citigroup to embed technology in Android devices to enable users to buy things by just waving their smartphone in front of a small reader at teh checkout counter:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703576204576226722412152678.html
Microsoft apologized for the slowness of their promised Windows Phone 7 update, and they apologized for comments they have made that indicated that they were further along with the update than they actually were. Doesn't that seem to admit that they lied to developers about the status of Windows Phone 7 because they didn't want to admit what the true status was about their OS?
http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20110328/microsoft-offers-apology-for-windows-phone-upgrade-slowness/
The iPad 2 is apparently sold out all around the world:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110328/good-luck-finding-an-ipad-2-redux/?mod=ATD_skybox