8:14 PM
Horse meat was found in frozen meatballs made in Sweden and shipped to Ikea stores in the Czech Republic. This is part of a huge food scandal in Europe, where authorities detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/seworld20130225-horse-meat-found-in-swedish-meat-balls
Physics students calculated that Spiderman's webbing actually could stop a moving train, something shown in the movie Spiderman 2:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/spiderman%E2%80%99s-webbing-could-stop-moving-train-say-physics-students
The mainstream media reporting about how the next version of Windows is expected to arrive soon (RTM is reportedly planned for June 7 and retail availability in August) is expected to hurt Windows 8 sales and force Windows 8 prices to drop since people tend to wait for the next OS instead of buying a soon to be replaced OS:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/windows-blue-rumored-the-windows-8-fire-sale-begins-213424
Yahoo's CEO sent an "in confidence" email to their workforce that took away their right to work from home. Yahoo's workforce is understandably upset--many people who joined Yahoo were specifically told that they would be expected to work from home several days a week and they arranged their lives around that job requirement...and now they have to either go into the office every day or quit. In Europe this change in work conditions is actually illegal (it would be called a "constructive dismissal" and would spark law suits), but it is legal in the U.S.:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50038&id=f509777c-da59-4613-ad36-2c45d7384f41
The advertising industry is upset at Moziila's new policy that will result in Firefox blocking 3rd-party cookies on April 5. This would prevent ad networks from being able to track users as they go across the internet:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/ad-networks-beware-firefox-block-third-party-cookies-147513
LG is buying the webOS operating system from HP and will use it for smart TVs, not smartphones. LG will also get the patents HP got when HP bought Palm for $1.2 bil in 2010:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57570990-94/webos-lives-lg-to-resurrect-it-for-smart-tvs/
Google is reportedly concerned over Samsung's dominance over Android smartphone sales. Samsung has shipped more then *200 million* more Android devices than the 2nd place Android hardware maker. Google is apparently worried that if Samsung grows too big, they can demand more of the online ad revenue that they are making for Google:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/02/25/sources-say-google-is-worried-over-samsungs-android-dominance
Barnes & Noble is apparently going to scale back its focus on its Nook hardware efforts. They aren't going to stop their Nook business, but they want to license their content to other platforms instead of pushing the Nook. A major reason for this is that the Nook lost $262 million in 2012 and lost even more than they had forecast in January:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/24/4026114/barnes-noble-shifting-focus-away-from-nook-hardware
Guam has a major problem with brown tree snakes that have wiped out native bird populations in Guam. There are no natural predators on Guam for the snakes, which were apparently carrierd to Guam aboard U.S. military vessels around the end of World War II. The worry is that the snakes could reach other Pacific islands such as Hawaii and spread the environmental problem further. To deal with the snakes, Guam is going to drop dead newborn mice stuffed with a common pain-killing medicine that is poisonous to the snakes:
http://news.yahoo.com/prevent-snakes-plane-guam-airdrop-poisoned-mice-062823997.html
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/seworld20130225-horse-meat-found-in-swedish-meat-balls
Physics students calculated that Spiderman's webbing actually could stop a moving train, something shown in the movie Spiderman 2:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/spiderman%E2%80%99s-webbing-could-stop-moving-train-say-physics-students
The mainstream media reporting about how the next version of Windows is expected to arrive soon (RTM is reportedly planned for June 7 and retail availability in August) is expected to hurt Windows 8 sales and force Windows 8 prices to drop since people tend to wait for the next OS instead of buying a soon to be replaced OS:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/windows-blue-rumored-the-windows-8-fire-sale-begins-213424
Yahoo's CEO sent an "in confidence" email to their workforce that took away their right to work from home. Yahoo's workforce is understandably upset--many people who joined Yahoo were specifically told that they would be expected to work from home several days a week and they arranged their lives around that job requirement...and now they have to either go into the office every day or quit. In Europe this change in work conditions is actually illegal (it would be called a "constructive dismissal" and would spark law suits), but it is legal in the U.S.:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50038&id=f509777c-da59-4613-ad36-2c45d7384f41
The advertising industry is upset at Moziila's new policy that will result in Firefox blocking 3rd-party cookies on April 5. This would prevent ad networks from being able to track users as they go across the internet:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/ad-networks-beware-firefox-block-third-party-cookies-147513
LG is buying the webOS operating system from HP and will use it for smart TVs, not smartphones. LG will also get the patents HP got when HP bought Palm for $1.2 bil in 2010:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57570990-94/webos-lives-lg-to-resurrect-it-for-smart-tvs/
Google is reportedly concerned over Samsung's dominance over Android smartphone sales. Samsung has shipped more then *200 million* more Android devices than the 2nd place Android hardware maker. Google is apparently worried that if Samsung grows too big, they can demand more of the online ad revenue that they are making for Google:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/02/25/sources-say-google-is-worried-over-samsungs-android-dominance
Barnes & Noble is apparently going to scale back its focus on its Nook hardware efforts. They aren't going to stop their Nook business, but they want to license their content to other platforms instead of pushing the Nook. A major reason for this is that the Nook lost $262 million in 2012 and lost even more than they had forecast in January:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/24/4026114/barnes-noble-shifting-focus-away-from-nook-hardware
Guam has a major problem with brown tree snakes that have wiped out native bird populations in Guam. There are no natural predators on Guam for the snakes, which were apparently carrierd to Guam aboard U.S. military vessels around the end of World War II. The worry is that the snakes could reach other Pacific islands such as Hawaii and spread the environmental problem further. To deal with the snakes, Guam is going to drop dead newborn mice stuffed with a common pain-killing medicine that is poisonous to the snakes:
http://news.yahoo.com/prevent-snakes-plane-guam-airdrop-poisoned-mice-062823997.html