5:31 PM
Asteroid 2011 AG5 has a 1 in 625 chance of hitting the Earth in 2040 with the force of 100 megatons of TNT. The 460-foot-wide space rock may require a mission to be launched to deflect the asteroid's course before 2023:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/asteroid-2011-ag5-has-one-in-625-chance.html
A doctor in Rockwell, Texas was charged in an indictment with the single largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud amount orchestrated by one doctor...$374 mil! His fraudulent home health-care ring included 5 owners of home health agencies--they classified 11,000 patients as homebound and then billed unnecessary services and home visits by the doctor:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/feds-say-texas-doctor-ran-375-million-medicare-scam/2012/02/28/gIQAkoTOgR_story.html
LightSquared's CEO became their latest executive to leave their company since the FCC denied their LTE network application. He will remain chairman of the board and the company is searching for a new CEO...but I think the CEO resigning after other execs departed recently is a good indication of the state of the company now:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/lightsquared-undertakes-search-new-ceo-affirms-intent-build-wireless-networ
Verizon's CFO said that they will be offering family data plans by the middle of this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-launch-family-data-plan-mid-year/2012-02-28
Google is building a "firewall" between itself and Motorola Mobility to address concerns that Google would favor Motorola Mobility over their other Android manufacturers after Google's $12.5 bil acquisition of Motorola closes. Andy Rubin admitted that Android isn't doing well enough to beat Apple in the tablet market and said that Google will "double down" on Android tablets in 2012 to try to catch up with Apple. Rubin also said that 850,000 new Android decides are activated each day, up from the 700,000 daily Android activations (300 mil Android devices activated now) cited in December (250 mil total Android activations then):
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/googles-rubin-were-building-firewall-between-android-and-motorola/2012-02-28
Samsung admitted that they are not doing well in the tablet market, as surprisingly frank admission when all of the tech media is covering the wireless area at the Mobile World Congress this week:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57385739-78/samsung-were-not-doing-very-well-in-the-tablet-market/
Mercedes-Benz is the first auto manufacturer to integrate Apple's Siri into their electronics system, which allows drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. It translates the iPhone's screen onto the in-car system screen and comes preinstalled with Twitter, Facebook, and Aupeo Personal Radio, but users can add and control other apps with their iPhones. Mercedes-Benz also integrated a Garmin navigation system that can be operated via Siri:
http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/mercedes-benz-siri.html
Poker dealer at the Bellagio decided that the best way to become a hitman was advertise his services on a website with the url "HitManForHire.net". He even took a $17k down payment to kill someone's ex-girlfriend and then went to the ex-girlfriend to tell her to pay him the rest of the contract and he would let her live...he was VERY easy for the FBI to find because he gave the ex-girlfriend his real name!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hitman-for-hire-20120228,0,6070854,full.story
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/asteroid-2011-ag5-has-one-in-625-chance.html
A doctor in Rockwell, Texas was charged in an indictment with the single largest Medicare/Medicaid fraud amount orchestrated by one doctor...$374 mil! His fraudulent home health-care ring included 5 owners of home health agencies--they classified 11,000 patients as homebound and then billed unnecessary services and home visits by the doctor:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/feds-say-texas-doctor-ran-375-million-medicare-scam/2012/02/28/gIQAkoTOgR_story.html
LightSquared's CEO became their latest executive to leave their company since the FCC denied their LTE network application. He will remain chairman of the board and the company is searching for a new CEO...but I think the CEO resigning after other execs departed recently is a good indication of the state of the company now:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/press-releases/lightsquared-undertakes-search-new-ceo-affirms-intent-build-wireless-networ
Verizon's CFO said that they will be offering family data plans by the middle of this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-launch-family-data-plan-mid-year/2012-02-28
Google is building a "firewall" between itself and Motorola Mobility to address concerns that Google would favor Motorola Mobility over their other Android manufacturers after Google's $12.5 bil acquisition of Motorola closes. Andy Rubin admitted that Android isn't doing well enough to beat Apple in the tablet market and said that Google will "double down" on Android tablets in 2012 to try to catch up with Apple. Rubin also said that 850,000 new Android decides are activated each day, up from the 700,000 daily Android activations (300 mil Android devices activated now) cited in December (250 mil total Android activations then):
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/googles-rubin-were-building-firewall-between-android-and-motorola/2012-02-28
Samsung admitted that they are not doing well in the tablet market, as surprisingly frank admission when all of the tech media is covering the wireless area at the Mobile World Congress this week:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57385739-78/samsung-were-not-doing-very-well-in-the-tablet-market/
Mercedes-Benz is the first auto manufacturer to integrate Apple's Siri into their electronics system, which allows drivers access to their iPhone apps using voice commands. It translates the iPhone's screen onto the in-car system screen and comes preinstalled with Twitter, Facebook, and Aupeo Personal Radio, but users can add and control other apps with their iPhones. Mercedes-Benz also integrated a Garmin navigation system that can be operated via Siri:
http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/mercedes-benz-siri.html
Poker dealer at the Bellagio decided that the best way to become a hitman was advertise his services on a website with the url "HitManForHire.net". He even took a $17k down payment to kill someone's ex-girlfriend and then went to the ex-girlfriend to tell her to pay him the rest of the contract and he would let her live...he was VERY easy for the FBI to find because he gave the ex-girlfriend his real name!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hitman-for-hire-20120228,0,6070854,full.story