Michael Schumacher’s return to Formula One seems to have led to plenty of controversy within the Ferrari fans and the Daimler officials all together. If the first one we can understand – the German ace had spent 13 years at the Scuderia until 2009 and his leaving for rivals Mercedes GP was widely regarded as an act of betrayal towards the Italian tifosi – the second seems to be money related.
Specifically, Schumacher’s contract for the 2010 season is seen as something at least exa… (read more)
Well, the first bit of news here is immediately apparent — the heretofore untitled tablet device coming out of India has now been given the name of Adam. After ruffling a few feathers a week ago with its extremely ambitious battery life projections and admittedly mouthwatering Tegra plus Pixel Qi combo, Notion Ink is back with more details on the project. We understand the company is now discussing 3G testing with Indian and US operators (its 3G bands are compatible with AT&T’s networks), and there’s also a planned landing date in June. Can’t say we’re too excited about a launch six months from now — other Pixel Qi devices may well beat the Adam to market — but there’s also the pleasantly small matter of the price, which in this case is projected to be an aggressively low 15,000 rupees (about $321). CrunchPad part deux? Only time will tell.
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Well, lookie here: it’s not up on Palm’s support site yet, but Sprint is showing a release date of December 28 — that’s today, by the way — for webOS 1.3.5 on the Pre. This is a pretty nifty little upgrade, you might recall — nifty enough to get none other than CEO Jon Rubinstein to name-drop it during the company’s most recent earnings call — thanks to the removal of the platform’s troublesome app storage limit, better performance, better battery life (particularly in weak cell coverage), and a host of bugfixes sure to put a smile on your pretty face. Let us know how those updates go, alright?
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Renault recently started production of the Sandero hatchback in Russia, with operations to be handled by Avtoframos, a joint venture established by the French carmaker with the Moscow government. Production of the Sandero – which is going to replace the Logan sedan in the local market, if we are to trust the recent rumors – will reach its maximum capacity in February next year, while the first units will be delivered in the next few months.
According to insideline.com citing vario… (read more)
Auction house Bonhams just announced several rare examples set to go under the hammer at its Retromobile sale, due to be held in Paris on January 23, 2010. The collection offered for sale will comprise 100 lots, among which 28 collectors’ motorcars will be offered in the public domain for the first time.
One of the most interesting lots ever to be offered at the Retromobile auction is the touring Bugatti which was found at the bottom of a Swiss lake after seventy years. The Bresci… (read more)
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Once again the leaders in the fight against anthropogenic global warming have come together to hold an international fear fest, supposedly to save mankind from the ravages of climate change—or to save the planet from mankind, depending on who you talk to. The predictable result: more strident warnings of disaster, pledges of more far reaching actions from politicians, and no real change. After jetting into Denmark, expending the carbon equivalent of more than 200,000 trees, the carping climate crowd has jetted back home until the next act of this farce takes place in Mexico City in 2010.
The traveling circus that is the anti-AGW movement began with the 1992 Rio climate summit, which set the tone for all subsequent global warming passion plays. “It is a tale … full of sound and fury; signifying nothing,” to quote from Macbeth. Kyoto, in 1997, kept the tradition alive by also being long on promises but falling short on real world results. It, like Copenhagen, was rescued from total failure by producing a weak final agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, mostly due to last-minute intervention by then American Vice President Al Gore.
The Kyoto Protocol was an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol was that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These amounted to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012. The Clinton-Gore administration never submitted Kyoto’s agreement for ratification, the US Senate having denounced its terms 95 to 0. The US was not alone in not ratifying the treaty, most of the signatories have managed to procrastinate for 12 years.
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The Malaysian Prime Minister has said that the World Future Energy Summit will play a significant role, alongside Copenhagen, in accelerating the uptake of renewable, the future of the energy sector. He will be one of the speakers the Plenary Welcome …
BEIJING — China’s utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal. Legislators approved the measure Saturday as an …
Having earned an unprecedented edge on the automotive market this year, China extended its offensive into the railway sector and set a new speed record for long-distance passenger trains over the weekend. Simply put, the trip between Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province and the city of Wuhan, which normally took 11 hours, can now be done in less than three.
The train which managed the feat is part of a new long-distance passenger train service. Called Harmony express,… (read more)
Picasa hasn’t been able to take on Flickr’s coolness factor, which it managed to retain to a certain degree even after being acquired by Yahoo, but Google’s photo sharing service has it’s own strengths and what it lacks in charm it makes up in smartness. Most recently, developers have taken advantage of the performance improvements in the online front-end to serve better quality images with no penalty when it comes to loading times.
“A helpful feature of Picasa Web Albums is that when you view photos, they’re automatically resized to fit your browser. We always display the largest-size photo that will fit inside your browser window, up to 1600 pixels if you have a nice big display,” Thomas Kang & Jon Wray, software engineers at Google wrote.
“From our extensive testing, we found that adding a little bit of sharpening can make a subtle but noticeable improvement in the visual quality of resized photos in Picasa Web Albums. So we recently added some logic to the server processing code that adds the appropriate amount of sharpening when necessary, before sending it out to the browser,” tgey added.
In order to enable Picasa to serve the appropriate size image for the browser window, Google stores a few smaller copies of the original image which is usually capped at 1600 pixels. Picasa then determines which of the store… (read more)
Paul Krugman was on ABC’s The Week on Sunday declaring a “reasonably high chance” of a double dip coming next year.
Actually, he doesn’t sound quite as gloomy as you might guess. Yes, he describes the entire recovery so far as being driven by government spending and inventory rebalancing, but the odds of a double dip he does place at lower than 50/50, so that’s good. Obviously he wants much more spending. (via HuffPo)
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Michael Schumacher’s return to the series might be a major marketing success for Bernie Ecclestone and his Formula One championship, but the German’s decision doesn’t seem to change a whole lot of the bookmakers’ options for the 2010 campaign.
Although many argue that Schumacher could indeed return to his winning ways inside the championship that he left at the end of 2006, the majority of the betting companies are not so convinced the German ace could upset the odds next year.
Suzuki’s long-time partner in India, Maruti, will introduce its new R III concept next month at Auto Expo 2010. The car is based on a stretched Suzuki SX4 platform, insideline.com wrote, and will come in the form of an MPV with three rows of seats. Still, the production version of the car will undergo several modifications and rumors are pointing to a monocoque chassis.
The engine lineup will include several units optimized for reduced fuel consumption and emissions, with displace… (read more)
Another high speed accident involving a Ferrari ended up tragically. One person was killed and three others were injured as the supercar got out of control, jumped a median on the Pacific Coast Highway and smashed into a flatbed truck.
According to the Newport Beach Police Department, the accident happened around 5:15 pm, Thursday night, on Pacific Coast Highway between Bayshore Drive and Jamboree Road.
Though there is no official statement about the reason the Ferr… (read more)
Ladies should start gearing up for the Vagabond Chopper Company’s 2010 Chicks Rule & Boys Drool Tour, an on-the-road display dedicated to women motorcycle riders, promoting women who ride and wrench on their own bikes. The 44-foot trailer will stop in all major biker events in 2010 and will offer a mix of on-site how-to seminars, fashion shows, book signings and special guest appearances.
The tour officially kicked off during the 2009 Toys in the Sun Run with featured guests the M… (read more)
Now that the group teams’ launch in Formula One will officially not happen in Valencia, each outfit will try to spend as little money as possible when showing their 2010 challenger to the media next year. Most of the championship’s big guns are scheduled to release their cars in late January, and Mercedes GP don’t make any exception from that rule.
According to German Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag, the launch of the 2010 version of the BGP 001 will not happen at Brackley, where… (read more)
~ My Total Bilirubin dropped 50% [liver acting up].
~ My LDL dropped 15 points.
Not worth it for me. Better to do it the old fashioned way – exercise and eat right.
With an overall increase in sales in 2009 of 67 percent (this while the whole hybrid industry has decreased by 11 percent), Ford’s hybrid Fusion has set a new record for the company, managing to find itself 31,000 new owners by the end of November.
Hybrid customers increasingly are considering Ford, George Pipas, Ford sales analyst said. And we are seeing a growing number of conquest sales, many of them from customers coming from import brands, mostly Toyota and Honda.
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Everyone is becoming more and more interested in geolocation and for good reason. Besides the hype that surrounds most new technologies, geolocation has a lot of applications and is set to transform the way we use the web in a profound manner. Twitter, which is getting its fair share of hype on its own, is betting big on location and has already released a Geotagging API to enable tweets to have location data attached. Now it’s stepping up its game with the acquisition of Mixer Labs, makers of the GeoAPI which will be integrated with Twitter’s own APIs.
“[W]e’re excited to announce a major new step into the location-aware future. Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI,” Twitter cofounder Biz Stone wrote. “The Mixer Labs crew has been working on harnessing the power of local information for a couple years and just recently launched GeoAPI, a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications. As of today, they’re part of Twitter and will be working to combine the contextual relevance of location to tweets.”
The acquisition was more of a talent hire, though the technology Mixer Labs developed also played a big role. The plan is to implement the GeoAPI directly into Twitter’s own location APIs to speed up the company’s efforts in this area. Mixer La… (read more)
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ook some time off for the holidays, did you? Well, things haven’t changed much since you’ve been gone. The world is still afraid of terrorists and Apple’s still rumored to be working on a tablet. Regarding the latter, two rumors have coalesced this morning from component suppliers. First, Taiwan’s Economic Daily is reporting via the Wall Street Journal that Cheng Uei Precision has landed “connector” orders for a “new flat-panel Apple Tablet PC” expected to begin shipping in Q3. Then DigiTimes piles on with its claims that Innolux (not WinTek) will be the initial supplier of 10-inch glass “touch panels” for Apple’s new tablet. DigiTimes then muddles things by claiming that the tablet will begin mass shipments (presumably to consumers) in March or April based on its analysis of shipping schedules from Apple’s upstream component suppliers. One thing’s for sure: if Apple does ever announce an iSlate or whatever they decide to call it, you won’t be using it during the last hour of your flight into the US.
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