7:46 PM
Voyager is currently in a "heliocliff" region that nobody had predicted existed. Instead of crossing a clean boundary as it crossed the heliopause boundary (where the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic field was thought to fall off), Voyager still measures a fluctuating level of low-energy protons from the Sun for a few weeks...and then dropped off a cliff by over 99%. I love the graph in this article--other articles sadly left the graph out:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/voyager-probes-key-transition-remains-mysterious/
NIST tested 122 laser pointers and found that about 90% of green and 44% of red laser pointers emitted more light than allowed under safety regulations:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/nist-tests-underscore-hazards-green-laser-pointers
Researchers found that files deleted from a smartphone or tablet and file-sharing service can be fully recovered from and Android smartphone and an iPhone:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-security/deleted-cloud-files-can-be-recovered-smartphones-researchers-find-214779
Almost 2/3 of 13- to 17-year-olds say that it is hard for them to keep their privacy online because their friends share everything:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/even-millennials-worry-about-their-online-past-147948
The US Justice Department and the SEC have opened an investigation into whether Microsoft and its business partners used bribery to close deals in China, Romania and Italy:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/03/report-bribery-probe-ttargets-microsoft-partners
Clearwire's largest shareholder that is not allied with Sprint is Crest Financial (why own 3.9% of Clearwire) and Crest is taking a number of measures to try to block Sprint's acquisition of Clearwire:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-shareholder-crest-puts-more-resistance-sprint-deal/2013-03-20
T-Mobile is moving towards cheaper monthly plans that do not have device subsidies--so, customers pay the full price of the phone but pay less for service each month. However, resellers like Best Buy, Target and Walmart will still sell the subsidized phones with higher monthly plans. So, phone prices and service prices will be different if people go straight to T-Mobile or go to a 3rd-party store:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-t-mobile-will-offer-rate-plans-handset-subsidies-through-third-party/2013-03-20
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/voyager-probes-key-transition-remains-mysterious/
NIST tested 122 laser pointers and found that about 90% of green and 44% of red laser pointers emitted more light than allowed under safety regulations:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/nist-tests-underscore-hazards-green-laser-pointers
Researchers found that files deleted from a smartphone or tablet and file-sharing service can be fully recovered from and Android smartphone and an iPhone:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-security/deleted-cloud-files-can-be-recovered-smartphones-researchers-find-214779
Almost 2/3 of 13- to 17-year-olds say that it is hard for them to keep their privacy online because their friends share everything:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/even-millennials-worry-about-their-online-past-147948
The US Justice Department and the SEC have opened an investigation into whether Microsoft and its business partners used bribery to close deals in China, Romania and Italy:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/03/report-bribery-probe-ttargets-microsoft-partners
Clearwire's largest shareholder that is not allied with Sprint is Crest Financial (why own 3.9% of Clearwire) and Crest is taking a number of measures to try to block Sprint's acquisition of Clearwire:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-shareholder-crest-puts-more-resistance-sprint-deal/2013-03-20
T-Mobile is moving towards cheaper monthly plans that do not have device subsidies--so, customers pay the full price of the phone but pay less for service each month. However, resellers like Best Buy, Target and Walmart will still sell the subsidized phones with higher monthly plans. So, phone prices and service prices will be different if people go straight to T-Mobile or go to a 3rd-party store:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-t-mobile-will-offer-rate-plans-handset-subsidies-through-third-party/2013-03-20