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Did BP Really Have The Technology To Handle The Spill
Jun 4th
Federal regulators stated BP Exploration and Production had “proven equipment and technology” to deal with s deepwater spill like the one now filling the ocean with crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
Guess what it didn’t. Bad thing, the government’s Minerals Management Service took the company’s word for it.But BP isn’t the only company guilty of false assurances. Almost all of the three dozen companies continuing to drill in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank received their government approvals based on their documents showing they could contain and cleanup spills, even huge More >
Digital Books To Be Sold By Google
May 4th
By the middle of the year Google plans to begin selling digital books through an online bookstore. This will put Google into the chase for the e-book market pitting them against companies like Amazon Kindle store, Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader store and Apple iPad’s iBookstore.
Google announced in April that it would be partnering with Taiwan’s HTC to create a tablet style computer to rival the iPad. By having its own digital bookstore Google could be in the running with the other major players.
Google has named its new digital book store Google Editions and plans to allow its digital books More >
5 Year Old YouTube’s First Video
Apr 23rd
Now that YouTube has reached its fifth birthday, what started it all?
Before the sometimes goofy dancing baby or sneezing pandas video there was the “Me at the Zoo” video that started it all off. This cam before YouTube’s popularity or Google’s be buy out. Just a simple 19-second video of a kid in front of the elephants cage in the San Diego Zoo. This video has went viral now with 2 million views. Unreal!
In just five short years YouTube has become a unprecedented phenomenon. Who would have ever thought it?
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Apr 8th
If you are a criminal you just might be surprised who following you on Twitter or who your Facebook friend really is.
Since the popularity of social networking has become the norm, law enforcement agencies have become savvy to crime busting uses to nab the bad guys, tax evaders and other criminals. Cops can gather a host of evidence for their cases easily.
“People don’t think [authorities] are going to go that far, but little do they know, they are going this far,” said David Seltzer, a criminal and cyber crime defense lawyer.
Mr. Seltzer says many of the cases, law enforcement agents creating More >
The Broadband Speed Race Is On For Verizon, AT&T, Google
Mar 18th
Google and others plans to provide ultra-fast broadband which may push Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to accelerate their launches.
The race for some of the top broadband providers to provide ultrafast broadband.
Case Western Reserve University will run a test in Cleveland, May 2010. It plans to allow residents of more than 100 homes to be able to download data at about 1 gigabit per second. Google stated in February that it plans an ultra-high-speed broadband network covering as many as 500,000 users. Goggle said “The purpose of this project is to experiment and learn. Network providers are making real progress More >
Contour Energy Systems Unveils Fluorine-based Battery Technology
Mar 15th
CFX Battery, a privately held company announced Monday it has changed its name to Contour Energy Systems. It also disclosed the basics on its fluorine-based battery technology.
Contour Energy is commercializing and licensing portions of its technology, targeting a range of portable power applications in transportation, government and defense, medical, industrial, portable electronics and specialty markets.
Its fluorine-based battery cells and battery packs have been reported to achieve unprecedented levels of performance. The technology will produce higher power and energy densities than lithium-ion systems, extended service life, and uninterrupted operation under extreme temperature conditions.
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Mar 12th
Netflix makes a big mistake: Netflix decided to cancel its second “million dollar contest” focused on the improvement of its “recommendation service” once it was discovered that data being released for the contest could be used to identify users. Uh oh!
SXSW Interactive Conference: Kicking off today in Austin, TX. The SXSW Conference is focused on the newest in Web and mobile technology and will be featuring Twitter founder Evan Williams, as the keynote speaker.
The sales slump go on: Reported by the LA Times, video games sales continue to be down for the 10th time this year. Sales were report to have fallen 15% More >
Google vs. Apple: The Battle Continues
Mar 3rd
Who will win the battle of the smartphones Google or Apple?
The battle of the Apps: Apple seems to be winning the app war as of now, having almost five times more apps than Google. One of the issues with Apple is app developers have to get their products cleared by Apple’s standards police before appearing in the App store. That process can literally take months.
Google has taken an opposite stance, opening its platform to developers. Developers seem to be embracing Google’s approach, and as Android grows, more developers are writing Android apps. This means some of the highest-quality apps are more More >
Mirror Prototype For Solar Energy Developed By Google
Feb 27th
A new mirror technology proposed to be able to cut the cost of building a solar thermal plant by half, has been developed by Google, according to the company’s green energy czar, Bill Weihl.
According to Mr. Weihl if development and testing goes well, the product could be ready in one to three years.
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Feb 22nd
The tweets are skyrocketing at Twitter but the social network is still far behind the world’s most popular social network, Facebook.
There was an average of 5,000 tweets added to Twitter on a daily basis in 2007. That figure had grown to 2.5 million tweets a day in 2009. It was an impressive growth but over the last year, mainly to the help of celebrity and media attention, tweets have skyrocketed.
According to Twitter the number of tweets added to its site grew by 1,400% in 2009 averaging 35 million per day. Only two months into 2010, 600 tweets are hitting the More >
