7:47 PM
The TSA announced that starting next month they will allow passengers to carry knives and other formally banned objects onto airplanes. The flight attendants union is upset about this...and is there a need to allow knives on airplanes?
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130306-tsa-would-allow-knives-on-planes-beginning-25-april
Marriott is teaming with IKEA to launch a chain of IKEA hotels throughout Europe, hoping to open 150 IKEA hotels in the next 10 years:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-ikea-hotels-20130305,0,740552.story
Chinese government institute criticized Android's dominance on the smartphone market, saying that China relies too much on Android. They say that Google is using its smartphone dominance to discriminate against Chinese companies. The Chinese government hasn't exactly been a fan of Google ever since Google stopped agreeing to censor their web searches in China:
http://allthingsd.com/20130305/china-criticizes-androids-dominance/?mod=atdtweet
It looks like Verizon is determined to buy out Vodafone's 45% ownership in Verizon Wireless this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-verizon-wants-resolve-vodafone-relationship-2013/2013-03-05
The European Union Commission fined Microsoft $733 mil for breaking their agreement to give Windows users the option of choosing another browser instead of having IE automatically installed. The EU never fined a company before because no company ever broke an agreement with them! Microsoft said that it was a "mistake":
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/03/eu-fines-microsoft-733m-breaking-browser-pact?et_cid=3127173&et_rid=60838639
It is nice that Microsoft backed down from the crazy rule they tried to implement with Office 2013--Microsoft's policy until today was that if you owned a copy of Office 2013 and you computer died, you couldn't transfer your owned copy to you new computer, you had to buy a new copy for your new computer:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/office-software/microsoft-reverses-its-office-2013-license-transfer-rule-213975
It is nice that the high school teacher who made a halfcourt shot to win $20k during halftime on the OKC/Lakers game is in GREAT need of the money. His wife has been getting chemo for Stage 3 colon cancer and they have 6 kids on his teacher's salary:
http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/03/06/high-school-teacher-hits-half-court-shot-at-thunder-game-to-win-20000-for-his-family/
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130306-tsa-would-allow-knives-on-planes-beginning-25-april
Marriott is teaming with IKEA to launch a chain of IKEA hotels throughout Europe, hoping to open 150 IKEA hotels in the next 10 years:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-ikea-hotels-20130305,0,740552.story
Chinese government institute criticized Android's dominance on the smartphone market, saying that China relies too much on Android. They say that Google is using its smartphone dominance to discriminate against Chinese companies. The Chinese government hasn't exactly been a fan of Google ever since Google stopped agreeing to censor their web searches in China:
http://allthingsd.com/20130305/china-criticizes-androids-dominance/?mod=atdtweet
It looks like Verizon is determined to buy out Vodafone's 45% ownership in Verizon Wireless this year:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-verizon-wants-resolve-vodafone-relationship-2013/2013-03-05
The European Union Commission fined Microsoft $733 mil for breaking their agreement to give Windows users the option of choosing another browser instead of having IE automatically installed. The EU never fined a company before because no company ever broke an agreement with them! Microsoft said that it was a "mistake":
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2013/03/eu-fines-microsoft-733m-breaking-browser-pact?et_cid=3127173&et_rid=60838639
It is nice that Microsoft backed down from the crazy rule they tried to implement with Office 2013--Microsoft's policy until today was that if you owned a copy of Office 2013 and you computer died, you couldn't transfer your owned copy to you new computer, you had to buy a new copy for your new computer:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/office-software/microsoft-reverses-its-office-2013-license-transfer-rule-213975
It is nice that the high school teacher who made a halfcourt shot to win $20k during halftime on the OKC/Lakers game is in GREAT need of the money. His wife has been getting chemo for Stage 3 colon cancer and they have 6 kids on his teacher's salary:
http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2013/03/06/high-school-teacher-hits-half-court-shot-at-thunder-game-to-win-20000-for-his-family/