Jon of Tehkseven rounds up all of the big cellular news PhoneDog highlighted the week of May 16th – May 22nd, 2010. Hey it’s raining awesome, so this week Jon talks about how Google held their IO meeting in San Francisco where Noah was live to hear the announcement of Froyo, Android 2.2. Noah also got his hands on the Samsung Galaxy S during the event. Be sure to check out these stories and everything else covered by PhoneDog last week and beyond.
The former American idol judge, Paula Abdul, will be back in primetime television as a judge again. This past August, Abdul announced that she will be living American Idol where she worked for eight years. Now, she will be one of the judges again in the reality show, “Got to Dance”
This will be exciting for her since she will be the lead judge, executive producer, and even the mentor and coach on the new CBS show. The competition is based on the U.K. reality show, and it is said to be billed as the first all-ages all-genres dance series “from ballroom to break dance, bhangra to ballet, and tap to tango.”
The CBS stated that the show will air by March next year. Abdul was rumored to be courted by all the major networks, including Fox, which had hoped to reunite Abdul with her old Idol sparring mate Simon Cowell for his upcoming U.S. version of The X Factor. Abdul had also reportedly received offers from Dancing With the Stars. However, it was the show of “Got to dance” that enticed Abdul to join in.
Abdul was also said to be joining the “X factor” but she chose to have her own program, “Got to Dance”
It is nice that we will see Abdul again as a judge, not only in American Idol. In the upcoming show, her role would be more challenging since she gets to meet the contestants of the show and she has responsibility over them because she will be their coach. Since it is a realty show, this show can be very interesting to more viewers just like American idol.
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Unprecedented solar levels and long period of quiet solar may enhance the global cooling effect as La Nina comes on. Note the rapid global temperature (MSU satellite lower atmospheric temperatures shown) declines in prior La Nina episodes post strong El Ninos (red arrows).
Note similarity of sunspot activity to cycle 5 at the start of the Dalton Minimum. Cycle 14 a century ago is also shown and has been regarded by some as another possible analog/ Note the more rapid recovery that cycle. That was also a cold period though not as cold as the Dalton.
Click source to read PDF download from Joseph D’Aleo at IceCap.US
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Engadget decided to give the Android faithful a head to head video showing Flash 10.1 versus Flash Lite. In one corner we have a Nexus One running Android 2.2 with Flash 10.1 installed. In the other corner, we have an HTC Desire running Flash Lite in the browser. With nearly equal hardware, will there be much of a difference in performance? Well, can’t spoil things for you so you’ll have to watch.
If you use Windows Mobile devices for your business (or pleasure) and want one last upgrade before Windows Phone 7 is released, then we have good news for you. Verizon and LG announced today that they will be releasing the LG Fathom, a 1 GHz Snapdragon device packing a touchscreen, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and a microSD card slot for storing all of your important business documents. The Fathom will be released on Verizon on June 3rd for $149.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a two year contract of course. The device will be available for pre-order on May 27th. So, are any of you planning shunning Windows Phone 7 and picking up the LG Fathom? Tell us below!
So you’ve just updated your shiny Nexus One to Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) complete with flash support, and you’re jonesing to watch your favorite episode of Glee while on your way to work on this dreary Monday morning.
If you were a true Gleek, you’d have already fired up the browser, navigated over to Hulu, and found nothing but disappointment. You’ve been burned by licensing deals yet again. Sad face.
So whaddaya do? Well, you lucky dawg, there is a way. Follow me, I will show you how.
Whatever you thought of last night’s Lost finale, there’s no denying that the Target ads that ran during the four-and-a-half-hour presentation were pretty clever. As a presumed one-time-only event, the retailer ran spots that tied in thematically to the show. A vision of the Smoke Monster, for instance, led to a plug for a smoke detector. A shot of a guy typing in the 4-8-15-16-23-42 sequence was actually an ad for computer keyboards, and so on. The spots continue the "Life’s a moving target" theme, introduced by Wieden + Kennedy. Meanwhile, spoofs are already out there.
—Posted by Todd Wasserman
Intel expanded its processor family today with six new chips, each designed to make ultraportable notebooks thinner, lighter, and with 32% better performance. We’re talking laptops less than an inch thick with ULV Core i7 inside. That’s just beautiful. More »
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Now that I’ve praised Defense Secretary Robert Gates, let me highlight an issue on which he’s taking a lot of heat from progressives. Gates has relaxed enforcement of the military’s ban on open gay service. But he’s also committed to finishing a Defense Department survey on military opinion about implementing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before he backs a timetable for repeal. The survey is due in December, meaning Gates’ timetable effectively precludes repealing the ban this year, as President Obama urged in his State of the Union address.
Some members of Congress don’t want to wait for the survey. They see an opportunity to introduce an amendment to the Defense authorization ordering repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” later this month, when the Senate Armed Services Committee marks up the bill. Advocates for repeal are focusing on six committee members: Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), Scott Brown (R-Mass.), the Nelsons (D-Fla. and D-Neb.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.).
Webb is a particular focus for the repeal effort. He’s a Marine veteran of Vietnam and served as Navy Secretary during the Reagan administration. Persuading him on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this year would be a major step forward. So a coalition of Virginia military servicemembers has written to Webb urging him to “to stand on the right side of history” and the “side of integrity” by backing the repeal. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network sent me this letter, which I reproduce below:
The Honorable James Webb
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Webb:
We are military women who believe in having the strongest military possible. It is for that reason that we write to urge you to support the repeal of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law this year. For the sake of all of our men and women in uniform, the time for repeal is now.
Though we come from different backgrounds, we are all Virginians, we all served, and many of us studied at our nation’s service academies. But our common thread as women reminds us of the challenges we faced during the debate to allow our service in combat roles. Before that many of the same arguments were made against allowing African Americans to serve. Otherwise reasonable people believed that denying these groups of patriotic Americans the right to serve was in the best interest of the military. Now, we hear the very same arguments against allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. Those arguments are as unfounded and misguided today as they were generations ago.
There is no evidence that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly will harm unit cohesion, just as there was no evidence that allowing women and minorities to serve would do so. To the contrary, we have seen from our own experiences that it is dishonesty that hurts unit cohesion – not the sexual orientation of our brothers- and sisters-in-arms. Poll after poll shows that the attitudes of today’s service members have changed and they care more about whether their fellow service members do their jobs, not if they happen to be gay or lesbian. Further, the American public is with them – 75 percent support repealing DADT and allowing gays and lesbians to serve with integrity, openly and honestly.
We are counting on you, Senator Webb, to stand on the right side of history. Stand on the side of integrity and support legislation to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this year.
Sincerely,
Brenda Bailey, USN
Roanoke, VA
Cami Lewis, USA
Newport News, VA
CDR Claudia McKnight, USCG (Ret.)
Reston, VA
PFC Cynthia Mitchell, USA
Christiansburg, VA
CPT Deborah McKay, USN (Ret.)
Springfield, VA
SSG Genevieve Chase, USAR
Alexandria, VA
1LT Heather Lamb, USAF
Alexandria, VA
CW4 Janet Worsham, USAR (Ret.)
Richmond, VA
CPT Joan Darrah, USN (Ret.)
Alexandria, VA
SSG Kayla Williams, USA, 98G AD
Broadlands, VA
CMSgt. Kelly Egan, USAF
Alexandria, VA
LT Kelly Matteson, USN (Ret.)
Newport News, VA
PFC M. J. Flanagan, USMC
Portsmouth, VA
MAJ Marjorie Rudinsky, USA (Ret.)
Alexandria, VA
PVT Marty Porter, USMC
Virginia Beach, VA
CPT Megan Scanlon, USA
Williamsburg, VA
PVT Rebecca Smith, ANG
Roanoke, VA
SSG Robin Davis, USAF
Roanoke, VA
PFC Stephanie Marushia, USA (Ret.)
Virginia Beach, VA
CDR Susan Sharp, USN (Ret.)
Norfolk, VA
Apple’s stock, which currently trades around $259, could soar to $400 by the end of next year, writes Katy Huberty at Morgan Stanley.
Katy says to bank on growth in iPad and iPhone sales. (Particularly, the latter.)
We’ve read through a report Katy put out today and pulled out the 11 charts that best make her case.
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1.) Apple’s stock soars to $400 in a bull case if Apple adds Verizon and other carriers. Further, Apple ships 12 million iPads and 73 million iPhones in 2011. Gross margins reach 40% and EPS is $20.
2.) Apple’s stock hits $310 in a base case with iPhone shipments of 42 million in 2010 and 61.5 million in 2011. 6 Million iPads in 2010 and 9 million in 2011. Mac sales are 14.1 million in 2010, 16.3 million in 2011. EPS is $14.50 in 2010 and $17.25 in 2011.
3.) Apple’s stock tanks in a bear case if the iPhone or iPad are well below the above estimates.
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
In her note, Katy raises her 2011 iPhone forecast to 61.5 million units. That’s 25% above consensus and up 46% from her 2010 expectation of 42 million units sold.
In a bull case, Katy argues Apple could sell 73 million units in 2011, and have an EPS of $20. Though, to hit that target, Apple must be on Verizon early in 2011, half of iPhone owners will have to upgrade and buy the next model, and there must be real cost reduction in the price of the iPhone.
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Morgan Stanley
Katy doesn’t know when the iPhone comes to Verizon. If it comes in early 2011, that’s much more positive for Apple. According to her research, 17% of Verizon customers would buy an iPhone if it was on Verizon. That equates to 7-8 million million units annually for Apple on Verizon.
Image: Morgan Stanley
Image: Photo illustration: Business Insider. iPhone photo: Gizmodo.
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Over four hundred years after his death, the man known for moving the sun to the center of the solar system made a move himself. On Saturday, at a medieval cathedral at Frombork on Poland’s Baltic coast, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus—whose ideas were once declared heresy by the Vatican—was reburied with full religious honors. After a stint in city of Olsztyn, Copernicus’s remains returned to his original resting location (under the cathedral’s floor), but his grave got an upgrade. After his death in 1543 he lay for centuries in an unmarked grave, but his new plot has a black tombstone with six planets orbiting a golden sun. The ceremony concluded a several week tour of a wooden casket with the astronomer’s remains. The ceremony included shows of respect from the Catholic Church, which eventually had to admit that Copernicus was right about the whole planets-moving-around-the-sun thing. According to The Times, a local archbishop praised Copernicus for his hard work and scientific genius, while Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk, the Primate of Poland, said that he regretted the “excesses of zeal” that led the Church to brand Copernicus a heretic. But Copernicus didn’t dig himself into his former grave with his treatise De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On …
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When Ford introduced its Police Interceptor based on the Taurus, it said it had another vehicle in the works that “would share most parts with the Taurus and be available in a utility version.” Speculation was that it would be a Flex based on the component spec, but according to The Detroit News, it turns out the as-yet-unseen 2011 Ford Explorer has got the nod.
Ford won’t say much about it at the moment as it hasn’t been announced officially, but it is understood that the model will be pursuit-rated and pack all-wheel-drive. The latter distinction arguably puts it atop the category: there is a pursuit-rated Chevrolet Tahoe that many police forces already use, but it’s only two-wheel-drive. The four-wheel-drive Tahoe, also already employed by rural and urban forces, isn’t pursuit-rated.
Ford hasn’t given a timeframe for when the police-spec unibody Explorer will be here, but in addition to its arrival giving units like K9 and SWAT a better mobile command post, it ought to help Ford’s efforts to maintain its 70-percent share of the police market after the current Crown Victoria-based PI goes out to pasture. Hat tip to Matthew.
[Source: The Detroit News]
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Oh rapture! GPS 800G watch phone is here and it’s ready to rumble! This phone has GPRS tracking, an SOS button, and can record how fast you’re moving, allowing alerts to be sent to scared and frightened parents. But don’t take my word on it:
1.SMS & GPRS Tracking: Capable of text message (SMS) tracking & internet (GPRS) tracking 2. A SOS button for emergency help. 3. Have Timing & Positioning function , it can search the signal of GPS automatically ,then set the time according the time of satellites to choose the different time of every country . 4. It can store three alarm phone number . you can press any one alarm number button to get help actively…
Get help actively! Satellites! What a treat!
Y’know, I see a gazillion pictures of astronomical objects all the time, and I never get tired of them. But every now and again a picture comes along that’s so wonderful I just have to share it.
This is one such piece of wonderfulness: a lunar hole in one!
And you thought the windmill at the end of putt putt golf was hard.
This picture — click to enlunanate — is from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and shows a region of the Moon inside the crater Henry Frères. Taken on March 7, 2010, the image shows an area just 500 meters (550 yards) across — if it were Earth, you could easily walk across it in less than ten minutes — and shows objects down to less than a meter in size.
And it’s just so cool! Look at the dashed trail going from left to right. See how it ends at the little crater, and even — if you look closely — can be seen to turn downwards? It suspiciously points right to the 10-meter (30+ foot) boulder sitting just inside the crater wall.
Suspicious indeed. In fact, what you’re seeing is the trail left by that boulder as it rolled and bounced downhill and stopped inside the crater! Look at the big picture. From the debris (small rocks) running up and down, you can tell that the terrain on the left side of the picture slopes down to the middle (in other words, if you started on the left side and walked to the center of the picture you’d be going downhill). The middle of the picture is relatively level ground.
In my mind’s eye, what happened here is clear. The boulder starts off at the left, and something — perhaps a minor moonquake, or a nearby impact — shakes the ground. The house-sized rock gets dislodged, and in the gentle gravity begins to roll downhill. It hits something and bounces, coming back down, skidding and rolling, only to be launched into the sky again and again. It slows a bit each time — the ruts it digs get shorter as it moves left-to-right — and by the time it gets to the end of the track it’s barely moving, just enough to feel the change of slope due to the crater wall. It even rolled past the crater a bit (you can see the last groove is actually along the path a little beyond the crater), and almost slows to a stop… but then slowwwwwwly teeters backwards, back along the path it came. Just as it’s about to come to a rest, it goes over the lip of the crater, slides into it, and lumbers to a halt halfway down the 60-meter (200 foot) crater’s wall.
I would give a lot to be able to see video of something like this happening on the Moon in real time. Wow!
And that boulder’s flight is just one of many scenes depicted here, which you can see if you let yourself explore. Just above the bouncing boulder’s path is a trail of what looks like a dustslide, a bit more brightly colored than the moonscape around it. It slid downhill to the right as well, and partially buried some of the bigger debris. Obviously, this happened after the bigger rocks already slid down, since it buried some of them. And above that in the picture you can see fainter trails from other rocks sliding down. Those trails are harder to see, meaning they’re older (millions of years of micrometeorite impacts and thermal flexing from the Moon’s day/night cycle gradually erase features like that), which again is consistent with the picture I’m painting here.
Take a look at the crater at the bottom left. It’s surrounded by a light-colored apron of ejected material. See how there’s more of that ejecta to the right than to the left? That’s what you’d expect if the slope goes downhill to the right; the material spreads out more as it falls downslope (the diagram here will help). And hmmm, there’s a small crater about 10 meters across just to the right and below the big crater with the boulder in it. That crater is fresher; it still has a light apron as well. But what’s that dark spot in the center? Beats me. Cool though, ain’t it?
There’s so much to see and investigate, and this image is only about the size of a city block! It’s a slice of a much longer 2.5 x 15 km strip, which you can interactively browse, too. WARNING: be prepared to lose a lot of your day if you click that link, but it’s worth it, just like exploring the thousands of other pictures LRO has sent back is worth it as well.
The LRO mission cost roughly $600 million. There are 300 million people living in the US right now… so play with those images for a few minutes, and then let me know if you got your two bucks’ worth out of this mission.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
O presidente da Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne, anunciou a expansão da fábrica “Jefferson North”, situada em Detroit, Michigan e que é responsável pelas fabricações do Jeep Commander e do Jeep Grand Cherokee, este último com uma nova versão em andamento. Marchionne diz o seguinte:
“O início da produção da Grand Cherokee 2011 marca o renascimento do Grupo Chrysler. A Grand Cherokee é a assinatura da Chrysler”.
Marchionne se alegra ao informar a produção do novo Jeep, pois mostra que a Chrysler está se re-erguendo após um período de “quase falência”, abatidos pela crise econômica no setor automotivo. Como resultado de seu renascimento, 1.080 vagas foram anunciadas para a expansão da fábrica, que teve um investimento de US$ 686 milhões, entre a produção da nova Cherokee e a reforma da fábrica.
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We’ve been waiting for Adobe’s Flash to come to webOS since February of last year, but it’s Google’s newest release of its Android operating system announced at the Google IO event in San Francisco, version 2.2 or "Froyo", that will be the first mobile OS to support the re-worked, GPU accelerated and touch optimized web technology that has been the topic of such hot debate in recent months. As you’d expect, there wasn’t any news pertaining to webOS.
When we’ll finally see the technology come the way of webOS is still a guessing game at this point. Adobe has continually pushed back any tentative launch dates over the past year – the company originally planned on a late-2009 release, and subsequently pushed that date back to vague "first half of 2010" back in November, and outside of the occasional demo of Flash-based games and videos and the like on the platform, the company has remained quiet since.
Will we actually see Flash before the first half of 2010 closes in just over a month? The prospect is actually still looking good, as the groundwork for Flash has already been put into place and an upcoming update to webOS will expand the possibilities of what developers can do with the PDK. We know, we know, too often when we get our hopes up we find them dashed. Maybe, though, just maybe we’ll see it soon.
Eli Rabett has been posting the comment/response section of the EPA endangerment finding. For the most part the comments are a quagmire of tinfoil-hat pseudoscience; I’m astonished that the EPA could find some real scientists who could stomach wading through and debunking it all – an important but thankless job.
Today’s installment tackles the atmospheric half life of CO2:
A common analogy used for CO2 concentrations is water in a bathtub. If the drain and the spigot are both large and perfectly balanced, then the time than any individual water molecule spends in the bathtub is short. But if a cup of water is added to the bathtub, the change in volume in the bathtub will persist even when all the water molecules originally from that cup have flowed out the drain. This is not a perfect analogy: in the case of CO2, there are several linked bathtubs, and the increased pressure of water in one bathtub from an extra cup will actually lead to a small increase in flow through the drain, so eventually the cup of water will be spread throughout the bathtubs leading to a small increase in each, but the point remains that the “residence time” of a molecule of water will be very different from the “adjustment time” of the bathtub as a whole.
Having tested a lot of low-order carbon cycle models, including I think all possible linear variants up to 3rd order, I agree with EPA – anyone who claims that the effective half life or time constant of CO2 uptake is 10 or 20 or even 50 years is bonkers.
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