7:01 PM
Egypt's military ousted the President of Egypt and suspended Egypt's constitution. They also disbanded their Parliment and evicted all government ministers from their office:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130703-egypt-s-military-ousts-morsi-from-the-presidency-suspends-constitution
The increasingly luminous sun will end all life on Earth within 2.8 billion years from now. In less than a billion years, CO2 level changes will kill all plants and animals (and all humans, of course), with rising temperatures, oxygen depleted, and the oceans evaporating. For the final 1.8 billion years or so, only microbes will live on Earth:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130703-life-on-earth-will-end-2-8-billion-years-from-now-due-to-increasingly-luminous-sun
Carnival Cruise Lines is spending $300 mil to upgrade every ship in their fleet. They are getting a second backup engine and doing a massive rewiring, plus fixing all the other problems they discovered to try to prevent any future disasters:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-carnival-overhaul-20130703,0,6961907,full.story
AT&T is apparently planning to sell location information about their customers, which other companies already do. However, AT&T is actually combining wireless, TV and WiFi usage data because AT&T is the only major carrier that has integrated its wireless and wireline business...so, advertisers could pay to know every website you visit, every TV show you watch, and your precise location every second of the day:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-prepping-sale-customers-anonymous-location-information-and-web-app-usag/2013-07-02
AOL bought social networking company Bebo in 2008 for $850 mil. The founders (a married couple) of Bebo started the company when they were college students in London and they made $595 mil when AOL bought Bebo. The founders just bought Bebo back from AOL for $1 mil:
http://telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50275&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Google's Moto X smartphone is being advertised with "Designed by you. Assembled in the USA." because it is assembled in Fort Worth and customers can choose a variety of things about the phone:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/googles-moto-x-be-first-smartphone-you-can-design-yourself/2013-07-02
The details of the customization already have been leaked--customers can choose the color for the back case, the color for the trim of the phone, engrave a name or message on the back cover, and upload a personal photo to be used as the wallpaper on the phone's screen. The X phone also has new sensors and smart technology that allows people to do things like flick the phone to open the camera app, extended voice recognition services, and automatically turn the speaker phone on when you are driving:
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-x-customization-details-leaked-custom-colors-engraving-your-photo-wallpaper
Photos of some of the 16 colors that customers can choose from are already on the web:
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-x-custom-color-backplates-allegedly-caught-camera
Man ran a mile in Death Valley when the temperatures got as high as *129 degrees*...dressed in a Darth Vader costume to make him feel the heat even more:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57592049-1/guy-dressed-as-darth-vader-runs-death-valley-in-129-degree-heat/
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130703-egypt-s-military-ousts-morsi-from-the-presidency-suspends-constitution
The increasingly luminous sun will end all life on Earth within 2.8 billion years from now. In less than a billion years, CO2 level changes will kill all plants and animals (and all humans, of course), with rising temperatures, oxygen depleted, and the oceans evaporating. For the final 1.8 billion years or so, only microbes will live on Earth:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130703-life-on-earth-will-end-2-8-billion-years-from-now-due-to-increasingly-luminous-sun
Carnival Cruise Lines is spending $300 mil to upgrade every ship in their fleet. They are getting a second backup engine and doing a massive rewiring, plus fixing all the other problems they discovered to try to prevent any future disasters:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-carnival-overhaul-20130703,0,6961907,full.story
AT&T is apparently planning to sell location information about their customers, which other companies already do. However, AT&T is actually combining wireless, TV and WiFi usage data because AT&T is the only major carrier that has integrated its wireless and wireline business...so, advertisers could pay to know every website you visit, every TV show you watch, and your precise location every second of the day:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/att-prepping-sale-customers-anonymous-location-information-and-web-app-usag/2013-07-02
AOL bought social networking company Bebo in 2008 for $850 mil. The founders (a married couple) of Bebo started the company when they were college students in London and they made $595 mil when AOL bought Bebo. The founders just bought Bebo back from AOL for $1 mil:
http://telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=50275&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Google's Moto X smartphone is being advertised with "Designed by you. Assembled in the USA." because it is assembled in Fort Worth and customers can choose a variety of things about the phone:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/googles-moto-x-be-first-smartphone-you-can-design-yourself/2013-07-02
The details of the customization already have been leaked--customers can choose the color for the back case, the color for the trim of the phone, engrave a name or message on the back cover, and upload a personal photo to be used as the wallpaper on the phone's screen. The X phone also has new sensors and smart technology that allows people to do things like flick the phone to open the camera app, extended voice recognition services, and automatically turn the speaker phone on when you are driving:
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-x-customization-details-leaked-custom-colors-engraving-your-photo-wallpaper
Photos of some of the 16 colors that customers can choose from are already on the web:
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-x-custom-color-backplates-allegedly-caught-camera
Man ran a mile in Death Valley when the temperatures got as high as *129 degrees*...dressed in a Darth Vader costume to make him feel the heat even more:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57592049-1/guy-dressed-as-darth-vader-runs-death-valley-in-129-degree-heat/