7:19 PM
Google is reportedly preparing to launch a competitor to Amazon Prime called "Google Shopping Express". It will be $10 or $15 cheaper than Amazon Prime and will offer *same-day* delivery from stores like Target, Walmart, Walgreens and Safeway. Wow:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/google-is-building-a-same-day-amazon-prime-competitor-google-shopping-express/
Google is celebrating the 1 year anniversary of its Google Play store by giving out deals all week:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_2013_play_birthday
Technology advances have changed the world's manufacturing environment, resulting in half of the largest companies in the world are bringing manufacturing back from China to the US--3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and industrial automation make is possible to manufacture things in the US instead of outsource that work to CHina. China is increasingly using more industrial robots to increase efficiency and reduce labor costs--for example, Foxconn is phasing in 3 million industrial robots:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/half-of-americas-largest-companies-are.html
In order to meet their legally binding move away from fossil fuels, the UK will need to at least triple their current number (16) of nuclear reactors. In 2011, the UK got 18% of its energy from nuclear reactors, but they must generate about 2/3 of their electricity by the middle of the century:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/for-uk-to-meet-legally-binding.html
The White House says that cell phones and tablets should be able to be unlocked and used on any network:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/white-house-cell-phone-unlocking-should-be-legal
It appears that Java has been having zero-day security holes being discovered an average rate of more than 1 per day lately:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/java-zero-day-holes-appearing-the-rate-of-one-day-213898
It isn't good for BlackBerry that companies like Netflix aren't going to develop apps for their platform:
http://allthingsd.com/20130304/netflix-has-no-current-plans-for-a-blackberry-10-app/
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/google-is-building-a-same-day-amazon-prime-competitor-google-shopping-express/
Google is celebrating the 1 year anniversary of its Google Play store by giving out deals all week:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_2013_play_birthday
Technology advances have changed the world's manufacturing environment, resulting in half of the largest companies in the world are bringing manufacturing back from China to the US--3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and industrial automation make is possible to manufacture things in the US instead of outsource that work to CHina. China is increasingly using more industrial robots to increase efficiency and reduce labor costs--for example, Foxconn is phasing in 3 million industrial robots:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/half-of-americas-largest-companies-are.html
In order to meet their legally binding move away from fossil fuels, the UK will need to at least triple their current number (16) of nuclear reactors. In 2011, the UK got 18% of its energy from nuclear reactors, but they must generate about 2/3 of their electricity by the middle of the century:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/for-uk-to-meet-legally-binding.html
The White House says that cell phones and tablets should be able to be unlocked and used on any network:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/white-house-cell-phone-unlocking-should-be-legal
It appears that Java has been having zero-day security holes being discovered an average rate of more than 1 per day lately:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/java-zero-day-holes-appearing-the-rate-of-one-day-213898
It isn't good for BlackBerry that companies like Netflix aren't going to develop apps for their platform:
http://allthingsd.com/20130304/netflix-has-no-current-plans-for-a-blackberry-10-app/