7:27 PM
Russia's $1.3 bil Proton rocket crashed because a critical sensor was installed upside down. Each sensor had an arrow that was supposed to point to the top of the vehicle when it was installed, but the sensors were installed pointing down instead. They found exactly which young technician installed the sensor upside down and he is lucky that the Siberia camps in the USSR days are gone. The same manufacturing plant made basically the same mistake that cased a previous recent rocket failure, but still no visual control of the installation was done:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/russian-13-billion-proton-rocket.html
Not only was the pilot flying the Asiana plane that crashed in San Francisco a trainee making his first landing at SFO, his "trainer" had less than half of the required flight hours on the Boeing to be qualified to serve as a training, and the pilots actually told passengers to REMAIN IN THEIR SEATS after the plane crashed and was on fire. It wasn't until a flight attendant noticed the flames that they started the evacuation process. Standard procedure is to evacuate the plane because the assumption is that it will catch on fire! However, these inexperienced pilots really seem to have made a series of bad decisions:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-passengers-20130710,0,1925900.story
Nokia is hoping that their *41-megapixel* camera will convince people to buy their latest Windows Phone. But will a crazy camera resolution make up for the lack of apps and the Microsoft platform?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-nokia-smartphone-launch-idUSBRE96909J20130710
For the first time, more people in the world use Samsung's smartphones to surf the web than iPhone and iPod Touch users combined. Samsung smartphones have 25.5% of web page views while iPhone/iTouch devices have 25.1%. Nokia was #1 for smartphone web usage until January 2013 and they are now at 22%. BlackBerry devices are in 4th place with 3.6%:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57593008-94/samsung-surpasses-apple-in-smartphone-web-usage/
A federal judge ruled that Apple was liable for conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices. Apple created a pricing scheme with the top 5 book publishers and they forced Amazon to sell e-books at the higher prices. All 5 book companies admitted their guilt and settled the charges, but Apple is still fighting this in court and will appeal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/judge-rules-apple-conspired-to-raise-e-book-prices/2013/07/10/3db1a0b4-e961-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html
Apple gave up its lawsuit against Amazon that tried to prevent Amazon from using "Appstore" in its Amazon Appstore for Android site. Apple said that Android users could mistake Amazon's site for Apple's App Store for iOS:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-drops-app-store-infringement-suit-against-amazon/2013-07-10
61 million mobile gamers say that they prefer to play games on tablets instead of smartphones, an increase of 70% from last year. Tablet owners spend 3x more on in-game purchases than smartphone gamers, so the trend towards tablets it good news for mobile game companies:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/report-tablet-owners-spend-3x-more-game-purchases-smartphone-users/2013-07-10
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/russian-13-billion-proton-rocket.html
Not only was the pilot flying the Asiana plane that crashed in San Francisco a trainee making his first landing at SFO, his "trainer" had less than half of the required flight hours on the Boeing to be qualified to serve as a training, and the pilots actually told passengers to REMAIN IN THEIR SEATS after the plane crashed and was on fire. It wasn't until a flight attendant noticed the flames that they started the evacuation process. Standard procedure is to evacuate the plane because the assumption is that it will catch on fire! However, these inexperienced pilots really seem to have made a series of bad decisions:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-passengers-20130710,0,1925900.story
Nokia is hoping that their *41-megapixel* camera will convince people to buy their latest Windows Phone. But will a crazy camera resolution make up for the lack of apps and the Microsoft platform?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-nokia-smartphone-launch-idUSBRE96909J20130710
For the first time, more people in the world use Samsung's smartphones to surf the web than iPhone and iPod Touch users combined. Samsung smartphones have 25.5% of web page views while iPhone/iTouch devices have 25.1%. Nokia was #1 for smartphone web usage until January 2013 and they are now at 22%. BlackBerry devices are in 4th place with 3.6%:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57593008-94/samsung-surpasses-apple-in-smartphone-web-usage/
A federal judge ruled that Apple was liable for conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices. Apple created a pricing scheme with the top 5 book publishers and they forced Amazon to sell e-books at the higher prices. All 5 book companies admitted their guilt and settled the charges, but Apple is still fighting this in court and will appeal:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/judge-rules-apple-conspired-to-raise-e-book-prices/2013/07/10/3db1a0b4-e961-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html
Apple gave up its lawsuit against Amazon that tried to prevent Amazon from using "Appstore" in its Amazon Appstore for Android site. Apple said that Android users could mistake Amazon's site for Apple's App Store for iOS:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/apple-drops-app-store-infringement-suit-against-amazon/2013-07-10
61 million mobile gamers say that they prefer to play games on tablets instead of smartphones, an increase of 70% from last year. Tablet owners spend 3x more on in-game purchases than smartphone gamers, so the trend towards tablets it good news for mobile game companies:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/report-tablet-owners-spend-3x-more-game-purchases-smartphone-users/2013-07-10