7:00 PM
Researchers have identified an entirely new kind of planet that has a huge fraction of its mass made up of water. The waterworld is enshrouded by a thick steamy atmosphere:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-scientists-discovers-waterworld-planet-215204327.html
Two Dassault Aviation (a French defense company) employees were at a Paris train station with a briefcase containing confidential documents related to a joint UK-France UAV project. Two spies apparently stole the briefcase from them, with 1 spy bothering one of the Dassault employees, the other Dassault employee trying to help his colleague and stop the stranger but leaving his briefcase unattended...when a second spy grabbed the briefcase and both men disappeared with it:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/french-drone-docs-stolen/
Study found that GPS jammers are widely used in the UK, with estimates of up to *450* GPS jamming occurrences in the UK every day. Mobile phones, navigation systems, financial networks, electrical grids, ships, and light aircraft all rely on GPS signals that jammers can interfere with. Many companies put GPS tracking devices on their vehicles and it is believed that most jammers are used by individuals who do not want to be tracked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17119768
Qualcomm announced chips that can take advantage of the new 802.11ac WiFi standard, which is being marketed as 5G WiFi. Qualcomm has standalone solutions for 11ac and is integrating support for 11ac in its Snapdragon chips for smartphones and tablets while adding support for Bluetooth and FM radio. The chips are sampling now and should be in products later this year, providing data rates up to 433 Mbps:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/qualcomm-chips-bring-5g-wi-fi-to-mobile-devices/
Box is giving every Android user 50 GB of cloud storage for free for life...I signed up after downloading their app today from the Android Market, as this offer was too good to pass up. My wife has been using Box for awhile now and likes it but I hadn't signed up until this offer:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/23/box-for-android-receives-update-hands-everyone-50gb-of-space-just-for-signing-up/
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha will be replaced by Dennis Woodside, a senior VP at Google who has been leading the transition of the 2 companies. Jha will reportedly receive about $66 mil for having Google buy Motorola Mobility so I wouldn't feel too badly for him...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-23/google-said-to-pick-own-executive-to-replace-jha-as-motorola-mobility-ceo.html
Facebook's censorship policies were revealed by an upset man in Morocco who was tired of being paid a dollar an hour to read through endless streams of Facebook content looking for things that violated Facebook's policies:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=48487&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
T-Mobile is going to use the AWS spectrum and $3 bil in cash it received from AT&T to launch LTE service in 2013. T-Mobile will spend $1.4 bil to build out its LTE network this year and in 2013, rolling out LTE to most of the top 50 U.S. markets. T-Mobile will also need to refarm some of the spectrum it currently uses for GSM and HSPA+ customers to give it enough spectrum for LTE, which will require them to reduce capacity for their existing 3G/4G customers:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/t-mobile-announces-lte-plans-will-it-be-enough/2012-02-23
T-Mobile reported that they lost 802,000 postpaid subscribers in their previous quarter. The losses were apparently due to customers leaving T-Mobile to go to AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint which all had to iPhone 4S:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-punished-lack-iphone-4s-customer-losses-mount-q4/2012-02-23
Middle school students in California has developed an electrolyzed vending machine for their submission to the FIRST robotics competition. The team learned that salsa or guacamole is responsible for 1-in-25 of the food borne illnesses in the US because it is uncooked and thus difficult to remove pathogens. The 4 boys and 4 girls found a solution that can cheaply and effectively reduce food contamination:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120223-middle-school-robotics-team-develops-solution-to-food-poisoning
Vista woman plead guilty to stealing more than 2,000 books and DVS from public libraries in Carlsbad, Oceanside and San Diego with the intent to sell them online. She agreed to pay $7,600 in restitution, stay away from public libraries, and not use internet accounts such as ebay, Craigslist, or Amazon:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/woman-admits-stealing-2000-books-dvds-from-public-libraries.html
http://news.yahoo.com/us-scientists-discovers-waterworld-planet-215204327.html
Two Dassault Aviation (a French defense company) employees were at a Paris train station with a briefcase containing confidential documents related to a joint UK-France UAV project. Two spies apparently stole the briefcase from them, with 1 spy bothering one of the Dassault employees, the other Dassault employee trying to help his colleague and stop the stranger but leaving his briefcase unattended...when a second spy grabbed the briefcase and both men disappeared with it:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/french-drone-docs-stolen/
Study found that GPS jammers are widely used in the UK, with estimates of up to *450* GPS jamming occurrences in the UK every day. Mobile phones, navigation systems, financial networks, electrical grids, ships, and light aircraft all rely on GPS signals that jammers can interfere with. Many companies put GPS tracking devices on their vehicles and it is believed that most jammers are used by individuals who do not want to be tracked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17119768
Qualcomm announced chips that can take advantage of the new 802.11ac WiFi standard, which is being marketed as 5G WiFi. Qualcomm has standalone solutions for 11ac and is integrating support for 11ac in its Snapdragon chips for smartphones and tablets while adding support for Bluetooth and FM radio. The chips are sampling now and should be in products later this year, providing data rates up to 433 Mbps:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/qualcomm-chips-bring-5g-wi-fi-to-mobile-devices/
Box is giving every Android user 50 GB of cloud storage for free for life...I signed up after downloading their app today from the Android Market, as this offer was too good to pass up. My wife has been using Box for awhile now and likes it but I hadn't signed up until this offer:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/02/23/box-for-android-receives-update-hands-everyone-50gb-of-space-just-for-signing-up/
Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha will be replaced by Dennis Woodside, a senior VP at Google who has been leading the transition of the 2 companies. Jha will reportedly receive about $66 mil for having Google buy Motorola Mobility so I wouldn't feel too badly for him...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-23/google-said-to-pick-own-executive-to-replace-jha-as-motorola-mobility-ceo.html
Facebook's censorship policies were revealed by an upset man in Morocco who was tired of being paid a dollar an hour to read through endless streams of Facebook content looking for things that violated Facebook's policies:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=48487&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
T-Mobile is going to use the AWS spectrum and $3 bil in cash it received from AT&T to launch LTE service in 2013. T-Mobile will spend $1.4 bil to build out its LTE network this year and in 2013, rolling out LTE to most of the top 50 U.S. markets. T-Mobile will also need to refarm some of the spectrum it currently uses for GSM and HSPA+ customers to give it enough spectrum for LTE, which will require them to reduce capacity for their existing 3G/4G customers:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/t-mobile-announces-lte-plans-will-it-be-enough/2012-02-23
T-Mobile reported that they lost 802,000 postpaid subscribers in their previous quarter. The losses were apparently due to customers leaving T-Mobile to go to AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint which all had to iPhone 4S:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-punished-lack-iphone-4s-customer-losses-mount-q4/2012-02-23
Middle school students in California has developed an electrolyzed vending machine for their submission to the FIRST robotics competition. The team learned that salsa or guacamole is responsible for 1-in-25 of the food borne illnesses in the US because it is uncooked and thus difficult to remove pathogens. The 4 boys and 4 girls found a solution that can cheaply and effectively reduce food contamination:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120223-middle-school-robotics-team-develops-solution-to-food-poisoning
Vista woman plead guilty to stealing more than 2,000 books and DVS from public libraries in Carlsbad, Oceanside and San Diego with the intent to sell them online. She agreed to pay $7,600 in restitution, stay away from public libraries, and not use internet accounts such as ebay, Craigslist, or Amazon:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/woman-admits-stealing-2000-books-dvds-from-public-libraries.html