8:24 PM
Air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to people living in southern China, a result of China's policy to provide free coal for heating in the north. This means that coal pollution is responsible for 2.5 billion life years of life expectancy in northern China!
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/air-pollution-in-northern-china.html
Fertility doctors in Belguim created the "new era" of IVF which can cut the cost of in-vitro fertilization from $7500 to just $255!
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/invitro-fertilization-now-30-times.html
Islamic extremists in Nigeria burned students alive during an attack on a boarding school. They set the school dorm on fire while the 10-15 year old students were sleeping...students who tried to escape the burning building were shot. At least 29 students and a teach are dead:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130707-nigerian-islamic-extremists-burn-children-alive-during-attack-on-boarding-school
Redlands school officials appear to have ignored state law by not informing authorities about abuse allegations. The teacher in question was charged with 41 sex felony crimes involving 3 boys (all minors) who were her students. The teacher gave birth to a child on June 18 and the 17-year-old boy who was the father was present at the hospital for the birth. The teacher faces up to 29 years in prison:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-police-school-kept-quiet-teacher-who-had-students-baby-20130708,0,6726270.story
A former Amtrak clerk was convicted of receiving more than $650k in disability and insurance payments after faking injuries. She escaped to Mexio and taunted law enforcement officials, incluiding sending a tweet saying "Catch me if you can"...and now she has been arrested in Mexico:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-fraud-fugitive-twitter-20130708,0,7218159.story
China's booming economy has resulted in wealthy Chinese citizens buying up expensive houses in the US, boosting the US housing market. Other foreign buyers pay a median of $276k on US homes, but the median price for Chinese buyers is $425k, with 70% of Chinese deals made in all cash. The hot spots for Chinese buyers are Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Cupertino, markets that are NOT cheap:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/08/real_estate/chinese-homebuyers/index.html
T-Mobile getting the iPhone resulted in a big boost in the iPhone's smartphone market share in the most recent quarter. The iPhone went from 38.4% last year to 41.9% this year while Android went from 51.9% last year to 52% this year. Windows Phone went from 3.7% in the year-ago quarter to 4.6% this year's quarter. How did the iPhone and Windows Phone increase their market share? BlackBerry went from 4.6% to 0.7%:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobiles-iphone-sales-boost-apples-ios-market-share/2013-07-08
Softbank will invest $16 bil in Sprint for their LTE network. Softbank/Sprint will open a major R&D center in Silicon Valley that will employ about 1,000 engineers:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/softbank-will-invest-16b-sprint-open-rd-center-silicon-valley/2013-07-08
Samsung made a deal with Boingo to allow Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 owners to have free access to Boingo WiFi hot spots:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/08/samsung-and-boingo-strike-a-deal-offer-free-hotspots-for-galaxy-note-8-0-and-galaxy-tab-3-owners/
The CEO of Barnes & Noble resigned, with the failure of the Nook tablet playing some part in his resignation:
ttp://www.androidcentral.com/william-lynch-resigns-barnes-noble-ceo
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/air-pollution-in-northern-china.html
Fertility doctors in Belguim created the "new era" of IVF which can cut the cost of in-vitro fertilization from $7500 to just $255!
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/invitro-fertilization-now-30-times.html
Islamic extremists in Nigeria burned students alive during an attack on a boarding school. They set the school dorm on fire while the 10-15 year old students were sleeping...students who tried to escape the burning building were shot. At least 29 students and a teach are dead:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130707-nigerian-islamic-extremists-burn-children-alive-during-attack-on-boarding-school
Redlands school officials appear to have ignored state law by not informing authorities about abuse allegations. The teacher in question was charged with 41 sex felony crimes involving 3 boys (all minors) who were her students. The teacher gave birth to a child on June 18 and the 17-year-old boy who was the father was present at the hospital for the birth. The teacher faces up to 29 years in prison:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-police-school-kept-quiet-teacher-who-had-students-baby-20130708,0,6726270.story
A former Amtrak clerk was convicted of receiving more than $650k in disability and insurance payments after faking injuries. She escaped to Mexio and taunted law enforcement officials, incluiding sending a tweet saying "Catch me if you can"...and now she has been arrested in Mexico:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-fraud-fugitive-twitter-20130708,0,7218159.story
China's booming economy has resulted in wealthy Chinese citizens buying up expensive houses in the US, boosting the US housing market. Other foreign buyers pay a median of $276k on US homes, but the median price for Chinese buyers is $425k, with 70% of Chinese deals made in all cash. The hot spots for Chinese buyers are Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Cupertino, markets that are NOT cheap:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/08/real_estate/chinese-homebuyers/index.html
T-Mobile getting the iPhone resulted in a big boost in the iPhone's smartphone market share in the most recent quarter. The iPhone went from 38.4% last year to 41.9% this year while Android went from 51.9% last year to 52% this year. Windows Phone went from 3.7% in the year-ago quarter to 4.6% this year's quarter. How did the iPhone and Windows Phone increase their market share? BlackBerry went from 4.6% to 0.7%:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobiles-iphone-sales-boost-apples-ios-market-share/2013-07-08
Softbank will invest $16 bil in Sprint for their LTE network. Softbank/Sprint will open a major R&D center in Silicon Valley that will employ about 1,000 engineers:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/softbank-will-invest-16b-sprint-open-rd-center-silicon-valley/2013-07-08
Samsung made a deal with Boingo to allow Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 owners to have free access to Boingo WiFi hot spots:
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/08/samsung-and-boingo-strike-a-deal-offer-free-hotspots-for-galaxy-note-8-0-and-galaxy-tab-3-owners/
The CEO of Barnes & Noble resigned, with the failure of the Nook tablet playing some part in his resignation:
ttp://www.androidcentral.com/william-lynch-resigns-barnes-noble-ceo