7:25 PM
Impressive successful demonstration of a high energy laser shooting down target drones flying at over 50 m/s even succeeded at destroying a steel ball just 82 mm in diameter traveling at 50 m/s (like a mortar round):
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130110-laser-weapon-tracks-destroys-drones-mortar-rounds-in-midflight
The FCC is promising another 195 MHz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band to enable "Gigabit Wi-Fi"
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/fcc-unleashing-more-5-ghz-spectrum-gigabit-wi-fi/2013-01-09
LinkedIn passed 200 million users, 74 mil in the US, 18 mil in India, 11 mil in the UK and Brazil, and 7 mil from Canada. LinkedIn just released an API for marketers to be able to release ads on LinkedIn, opening up another huge revenue stream for them. 55% of U.S. users in LinkedIn went to their website in December, so people are updating and checking their profiles:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/linkedin-hits-big-milestone-brands-could-flock-next-146395
Target has just made a VERY aggressive move to price match the prices from Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, Toysrus, Babiesrus, and their other competitors. This is to avoid people browsing in the store and then buying online (called "showrooming") and the offer extends to target.com so you don't even have to visit their store to get the deal:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/target-now-price-matching-amazon-walmart-com-bestbuy-com-toyrus-com-year-round/
Ford's new OpenXC platform will allow Android developers to gather data from the car and use it for their apps that can be integrated with the system:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ford-announces-openxc-sdk-android-apps-can-now-easily-access-sensor-data
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130110-laser-weapon-tracks-destroys-drones-mortar-rounds-in-midflight
The FCC is promising another 195 MHz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band to enable "Gigabit Wi-Fi"
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/fcc-unleashing-more-5-ghz-spectrum-gigabit-wi-fi/2013-01-09
LinkedIn passed 200 million users, 74 mil in the US, 18 mil in India, 11 mil in the UK and Brazil, and 7 mil from Canada. LinkedIn just released an API for marketers to be able to release ads on LinkedIn, opening up another huge revenue stream for them. 55% of U.S. users in LinkedIn went to their website in December, so people are updating and checking their profiles:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/linkedin-hits-big-milestone-brands-could-flock-next-146395
Target has just made a VERY aggressive move to price match the prices from Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, Toysrus, Babiesrus, and their other competitors. This is to avoid people browsing in the store and then buying online (called "showrooming") and the offer extends to target.com so you don't even have to visit their store to get the deal:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/08/target-now-price-matching-amazon-walmart-com-bestbuy-com-toyrus-com-year-round/
Ford's new OpenXC platform will allow Android developers to gather data from the car and use it for their apps that can be integrated with the system:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ford-announces-openxc-sdk-android-apps-can-now-easily-access-sensor-data