8:50 PM
The Alaskan Brewing Co. is going green by spending $1.8 mil on a furnace that will convert the waste created during the brewing process to provide the electricity needed for the majority of the brewery's operations. They joke that they are now serving "beer-powered beer":
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/beer-will-help-power-alaska-brewery-0?et_cid=3072825&et_rid=54721041
Israel's total defeat of Syria's air defense systems raise questions about the effectiveness of Syria's Russian-made air defense system...and it should be noted that Iran is using a similar Russian-made air defense system:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130204-israel-again-beats-syria-s-air-defense-systems
UK troops in Afghanistan are using a UAV that weights just 16 grams and is just 4 inches long. It is smaller than a toy helicopter but can be used by a single soldier to provide steerable video images in a highly transportable device:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/black-hornet-nano/
The Navy's next-generation binoculars may be able to scan and recognize your face from 650 feet away:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/binocular-face-scan/
The collapse of Dell's stock price has enabled Michael Dell to take Dell private and speed up Dell's conversion from a PC maker to a cloud-services company:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/good-bye-pc-maker-dell-and-hello-cloud-company-dell-212203
Apple passed Samsung to become the #1 mobile phone seller in the U.S. for the first time ever during the 4Q of 2012:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/apple-biggest-phone-maker-in-the-us-the-first-time-212050
Apple has been granted trademark rights to the layout of a shop--the layout of rectangular tables in a rectangular space to sell electronic devices:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=49961&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/beer-will-help-power-alaska-brewery-0?et_cid=3072825&et_rid=54721041
Israel's total defeat of Syria's air defense systems raise questions about the effectiveness of Syria's Russian-made air defense system...and it should be noted that Iran is using a similar Russian-made air defense system:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130204-israel-again-beats-syria-s-air-defense-systems
UK troops in Afghanistan are using a UAV that weights just 16 grams and is just 4 inches long. It is smaller than a toy helicopter but can be used by a single soldier to provide steerable video images in a highly transportable device:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/black-hornet-nano/
The Navy's next-generation binoculars may be able to scan and recognize your face from 650 feet away:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/binocular-face-scan/
The collapse of Dell's stock price has enabled Michael Dell to take Dell private and speed up Dell's conversion from a PC maker to a cloud-services company:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/good-bye-pc-maker-dell-and-hello-cloud-company-dell-212203
Apple passed Samsung to become the #1 mobile phone seller in the U.S. for the first time ever during the 4Q of 2012:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/apple-biggest-phone-maker-in-the-us-the-first-time-212050
Apple has been granted trademark rights to the layout of a shop--the layout of rectangular tables in a rectangular space to sell electronic devices:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=49961&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10