8:06 PM
Article about hos Jason Collins just became the first openly gay athlete playing in a major US team sport:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/#ixzz2Rrh8O559
Virgin Galactic's Spaceshiptwo fired its engine for the first time and went supersonic, a big step towards commercial space passenger travel:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/04/virgin-galactic-has-engine-ignition-and.html
The DOD needs bandwidth so badly that they are paying a Chinese satellite company to transport communications and data. After worrying about how Chinese electronics could be stealing US data and how Chinese hackers are breaking into US systems to steal data...the DOD will pay for a Chinese company to transport its data:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/china-pentagon-satellite/
Interesting article about how the CIA had a secret mission (that ran into a lot of problems) to bring plutonium up the Himalayas:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/cia-himalayan-spies/
Article about how Los Angeles is becoming "Silicon Beach", a technology center that could become similar to Silicon Valley in the Bay Area:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/28/why-los-angeles-could-become-the-next-technology-epicenter/
Scientists have developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but cannot denate a bomb. Standard fertilizer is highly explosive when mixed with fuel and was used in about 65% of the homemade IEDs in Afghanistan last year and was used in the Oklahoma city bombing:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130428-new-fertilizer-can-be-used-to-grow-food-but-not-build-bombs
Google paid billions for Motorola's patents...but they keep losing in court due to the weakness in Motorola's patent portfolio:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/motorola-buy-delivers-google-more-heartbreak-than-help.html
Time Warner is getting ready to compete with Google Fiber by offering free WiFi throughout the city of Austin for people who subscribe to Time Warner for internet service:
http://www.kvue.com/news/Time-Warner-Cable-to-launch-Austin-wide-free-WiFi-204577591.html
Both Android and iOS lost smartphone market share during the past quarter (Android went from 51.2% to 49.3%, Apple went from 44.6% to 43.7%) while Microsoft's Windows Phone increased its smartphone market share to 5.6%. Microsoft's market share was 3.7% in the year-ago quarter, so they have grown a good percentage:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/kantar-windows-phone-gains-ground-android-ios-q1/2013-04-29
Another example of Samsung's dominance of Android--Gameloft is optimizing some of their most popular games specifically for the Galaxy S4:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/04/29/gameloft-optimizes-handful-of-popular-games-for-the-samsung-galaxy-s4/
McDonald's may soon be selling breakfast all day and they look at delivery services to be one of their big growth areas:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100678996
A supermarket chain in the UK has pulled all bags of Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts from their shelves because the lable doesn't warn that the product contains peanuts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/26/monkey-nuts-withdrawn-warning-error
Brother and Sister had to swim *14-hours* in the Caribbean after the fishing boat they had chartered sank. They survived and the ship's crew survived 23 hours in the water before they were rescued:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/26/brother-sister-swim-boat-sinks
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/#ixzz2Rrh8O559
Virgin Galactic's Spaceshiptwo fired its engine for the first time and went supersonic, a big step towards commercial space passenger travel:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/04/virgin-galactic-has-engine-ignition-and.html
The DOD needs bandwidth so badly that they are paying a Chinese satellite company to transport communications and data. After worrying about how Chinese electronics could be stealing US data and how Chinese hackers are breaking into US systems to steal data...the DOD will pay for a Chinese company to transport its data:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/china-pentagon-satellite/
Interesting article about how the CIA had a secret mission (that ran into a lot of problems) to bring plutonium up the Himalayas:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/cia-himalayan-spies/
Article about how Los Angeles is becoming "Silicon Beach", a technology center that could become similar to Silicon Valley in the Bay Area:
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/28/why-los-angeles-could-become-the-next-technology-epicenter/
Scientists have developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but cannot denate a bomb. Standard fertilizer is highly explosive when mixed with fuel and was used in about 65% of the homemade IEDs in Afghanistan last year and was used in the Oklahoma city bombing:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130428-new-fertilizer-can-be-used-to-grow-food-but-not-build-bombs
Google paid billions for Motorola's patents...but they keep losing in court due to the weakness in Motorola's patent portfolio:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/motorola-buy-delivers-google-more-heartbreak-than-help.html
Time Warner is getting ready to compete with Google Fiber by offering free WiFi throughout the city of Austin for people who subscribe to Time Warner for internet service:
http://www.kvue.com/news/Time-Warner-Cable-to-launch-Austin-wide-free-WiFi-204577591.html
Both Android and iOS lost smartphone market share during the past quarter (Android went from 51.2% to 49.3%, Apple went from 44.6% to 43.7%) while Microsoft's Windows Phone increased its smartphone market share to 5.6%. Microsoft's market share was 3.7% in the year-ago quarter, so they have grown a good percentage:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/kantar-windows-phone-gains-ground-android-ios-q1/2013-04-29
Another example of Samsung's dominance of Android--Gameloft is optimizing some of their most popular games specifically for the Galaxy S4:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/04/29/gameloft-optimizes-handful-of-popular-games-for-the-samsung-galaxy-s4/
McDonald's may soon be selling breakfast all day and they look at delivery services to be one of their big growth areas:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100678996
A supermarket chain in the UK has pulled all bags of Whole Hearted Roasted Monkey Nuts from their shelves because the lable doesn't warn that the product contains peanuts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/26/monkey-nuts-withdrawn-warning-error
Brother and Sister had to swim *14-hours* in the Caribbean after the fishing boat they had chartered sank. They survived and the ship's crew survived 23 hours in the water before they were rescued:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/26/brother-sister-swim-boat-sinks