By Michael Wolff, Contributor, Newser, OffTheGrid Blog
Dear David,
I read your piece (well, most of it) in yesterday’s Times about how the Apple (AAPL) tablet is going to save print. It occurs to me that you may now be the most dedicated voice for old media—a bit William Jennings Bryan and a bit Pollyanna.
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Indian manufacturer Maruti Suzuki released at the Auto Expo 2010 in New Delhi one of its latest contraptions, the Eeco family car that will take Versa’s place. Specifically designed for India, the five-door vehicle is offered in either 7-seat or 5-seat configuration. It is powered by a 1.2-liter engine that develops 73 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 101 Nm of torque at 3,000 rpm.
Eeco performs the twin objectives of being a spacious family car and a dependable vehicle to run business… (read more)
Google introduced the term “superphone” to the world yesterday when they unveiled the Nexus One Google phone. Right from the beginning of the hour+ presentation, Google execs were referring to the Nexus One as the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of note – GigaOm has a reference to the term last summer).
So what’s a superphone? It’s a marketing term and nothing else. Google VP and Android founder Andy Rubin talked about the term at length in the Q&A session, and we’ve grabbed the relevant parts of the video from the ustream archive and embed it below.
Here’s part of the transcript (bolding added):
The definition of a superphone…the difference between superphone & smartphone…the evolution of the platform is such that the openness, coupled with these marketplaces and these app stores, that makes it really easy for people to download 3rd party content; an ecosystem by which 3rd party developers can participate in the ecosystem; the Ghz processors; the more memory; the gigabyte storage…. these are all things that didn’t exist 2 years ago. So we thought that the industry needed another term to refer to these innovations. And again, this is as powerful as your laptop was 4 years go. If anything, you’re carrying these around in your pocket, they’re with you all the time they’re always on… these are all new. So we wanted to refer to it by something and we think that “superphone” is the right way to refer to it.
The bar is raising…These superphones are getting more and more sophisticated…everybody knows about Moore’s law…today’s superphone is tomorrow’s smartphone…
“Today’s superphone is tomorrow’s smartphone,” says Rubin. I immediately thought of Highlander and the “there can be only one” quote (the immortals in the movie had to kill eachother until there was just one left). As soon as a new superphone comes out, any previous superphone is relegated to being a mere smartphone. There can be only one superphone.
But what Google is really doing is making a not-so-subtle jab at the iPhone and other competitors. The Nexus One, he implies, is as powerful as laptops were four years ago. All those smartphones from two years ago (iPhone) aren’t superphones. Presumably even the iPhone 3GS, which may have been a superphone last summer when it launched, is a mere smartphone today. Only the Nexus One is a superphone. And soon, it will only be a smartphone as new devices are launched.
It all makes my head spin. But that’s ok. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s phone. The Super-Duper-Phone (too late, I already registered it). It’s tomorrow’s superphone, when today’s superphone has become a mere smartphone.
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As everybody is encouraged to drive less and use public transportation more, breakthroughs in this department can only make our lives easier. One of the most important achievement of recent times is the high efficiency linear electric motors used to power trains. Harbin Electric, a developer and manufacturer of electric motors from China just announced its self-developed linear motor propulsion system powering China’s first LM driving metro train.
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A French appeals court has overrun a previous decision by a lower court and found against Google in a lawsuit involving the Google Suggest feature. The judge ordered the search engine to remove a term which he believed was libelous against the Centre National Privé de Formation a Distance (CNFDI), the organization that filed the suit. Google didn’t say if it would comply with the decision or fight it in another appeal.
The decision is the conclusion of the second stage of a lawsuit filed by CNFDI which was offended by the first term Google suggested when entering a query for CNFDI on the search page. Google.fr, the French local version of the search engine, suggested “CNFDI anrnaque” which translates as “scam” or “swindle.” The organization sued Google for libel in a French criminal court.
Initially, the court sided with Google finding that it had no responsibility over the content its users create. Furthermore, it claimed that forcing Google to remove the term would be detrimental to free speech and citizen rights. It also believed that the fact that the term was being suggested showed that people are interested in that particular query all the more reason not to remove it.
Google Suggest uses an automated algorithm to generate the suggestions based on the most searched for terms by… (read more)
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Temperatures as low as 1F (-17C) have made parts of Britain as cold as Moscow, turning heavy snow to ice and leaving at least 8,000 homes without power
Arctic winds dragged overnight temperatures well below freezing point – even in city centres – turning snow to ice and making roads and pavements treacherous.
Hundreds of schools will remain closed today, thousands of workers will spend a second day at home and hospitals are expected to cancel more non-emergency operations.
Up to 8,000 homes in Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire are also without electricity after heavy snow affected power lines.
Benson in Oxfordshire was one of the UK’s coldest spots, plunging to 1F (-17C) – matching the temperature in Moscow and reaching a point lower than some manufacturers recommend for freezing food at home.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
Navigation solution provider TomTom announced today it will debut the new entry-level car navigation solution in North America. Called EASE, the new nav system is meant to be as simple, cheap and, why not, good as it can be.
"The TomTom EASE combines quality, simplicity and style into one compact device, Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom said. It’s an obvious choice for drivers who want an affordable, easy to use portable navigation device with the most innovative map and… (read more)
Winners of the first round of the annual Lexus Eco Challenge launched on September 28, 2009 were announced yesterday. They comprise sixteen middle and high schools from 12 states, to which Lexus North America will award a total of $500,000 in grants and scholarships to those that best addressed the environmental challenges.
Each winning team has earned $10,000 in scholarships and grants and secured an invitation to participate in the Final Challenge for a chance at one of two $30,… (read more)
Black population becomes the majority in Brazil
Brazil and its almost 200 million population is no longer a country of white majority. The credit now belongs to the 49.6% black or mulatto population compared to the 49.4% defined as white and this is set to increase in coming years with that percentage increasing to 54, according to a recent report from the Rio do Janeiro Federal University.
Professor Antonio Paixao from the Rio University’s Economy Institute believes that since Brazil is no longer a white majority country, “we need a policy of diversity”, which is a great challenge for the political establishment.
The black birth rate is also higher than that of the whites or Europeans descendents, so the big question is whether Brazil is prepared to face the fact that blacks and mulattos are becoming a solid majority, and how this will influence legislation, asks Paixao.
But current reality shows another picture, with a considerable degree of discrimination for the blacks: the basic food basket for a black person demands 76 hours of work compared to the average 54 hours for a white person.
Similarly illiteracy among blacks runs as high as 20%, but only 6% for whites.
Since Brazil was the last country in the region to grant slaves freedom in 1888, blacks have always been at a disadvantage in education and work opportunities, points out Paixao.
Similarly, access to tertiary education for blacks is far more up road, since most of them are condemned to work to subsist, while white families can afford to pay for their children’s education.
The administration of President Lula da Silva is credited with having invested heavily in the social and economic integration of the black people, for example by imposing a policy of quotas for blacks in universities.
Nevertheless power in Brazil rests in the whites who hold the strategic posts in politics and the economy.
But some blacks have had outstanding careers, mainly in sports and the arts. One of them is the world famous former football star Pelé and another the musician-composer Gilberto Gil. Both have held cabinet posts, but as a white initiative towards supporting diversity.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Vice Chairman Charlie Munger has donated stock worth nearly $2.4 million.
The Pasadena, Calif., billionaire disclosed the charitable donations of 24 Class A Berkshire shares Wednesday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The shares were selling for $99,510 early Wednesday afternoon.
Eight shares went to the exclusive Harvard-Westlake college prep school that Munger has previously supported.
The other eight donations were of two shares each to charitable trusts that Munger had set up.
After the donations, Munger owned 13,157 Class A shares of the Omaha-based company, worth $1.3 billion.
CEO Warren Buffett says he consults Munger on every major move Berkshire makes.
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Driving around in an unfamiliar place on an empty stomach is never fun. But before you pull into the McDonald’s drive thru, check out the Zagat 2010 America’s Restaurant Guide for your GPS, $29.99, a complete guide to restaurants that installs directly to your Garmin navigation system. The trusted paper back Zagat guide you know and love now comes complete on a SD card with all the features from the book such as restaurants based on price, decor, service, and quality of food. The SD card plugs into your nuvi or zumo Garmin GPS and quickly installs 20,000 of the top rated restaurants in 50 major U.S. cities and regions. What’s great about the guide is that it rates restaurants based on what you find most important; whether it’s decor, service, or cost. Within the nav system, you can save or favorite particular restaurants so it’s easy to revisit them or get turn-by-turn directions to the actual restaurant, rather than trying to remember that little hole-in-wall you ate at three years ago when passing through Reno.
Innovalight, the maker of silicon ink-based high efficiency solar cells, has raised $18 million in a fourth round of funding led by EDB Investments, the investment arm of Singapore’s economic promotion agency.
The cash also came from Vertex Venture, the venture subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, another Singapore company. This new money supplements funds from existing investors Apax Partners, ARCH Venture Partners, Convexa Capital, Harris & Harris Group, Sevin Rosen Funds and Triton Ventures.
In a prepared statement released Wednesday, Swee-Yeok Chu, CEO of EDB Investments said:
The company fits well with EDBI’s investment interest in highly promising growth stage clean technology companies globally and helping them grow their businesses and operations in Asia through Singapore.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Innovalight plans to use proceeds from this Series D financing to scale production.
In response to our recent post about whether or not a company like Black & Decker could legally resell sporting event tickets without being an “official sponsor” of the event, Public Citizen’s Paul Alan Levy wrote about how it wasn’t that long ago that anyone could make their own fan gear. And then greed set in:
The case is reminiscent of a revenue grab by sports teams in the 1980’s. At one time, anybody could make up a shirt that said “Dallas Cowboys” or “Boston Red Sox”, and then wear it or sell it. The fans wearing those shirts didn’t care one whit about whether the Cowboys or Red Sox made the shirt or had taken a cut of the shirt-makers’ revenue. But Major League Baseball and the National Football League, armed with surveys created by consumer survey expert Jacob Jacoby, started filing lawsuits claiming that some minority of fans would automatically assume that the Cowboys or Red Sox had endorsed or at least approved of the shirt sellers. By winning a couple of cases, they created a new rule of law — you can’t sell shirts showing support for a team without paying the team off for the privilege of doing so.
That has since expanded further and further, including college sports teams as well. Reader Sys Admin alerts us to a story out of Cincinnati, where the University of Cincinnati is being so aggressive in enforcing these sorts of claims that it says pretty much any type of clothing that might be mistaken as supporting the team (t-shirts with red and black? watch out…) it needs a license. The University says it doesn’t matter if the University’s name or logo isn’t on the clothing at all. Even a shirt that says “Go Cats!” needs a license. Even worse, they’re not just looking to stop people from selling such clothing, they’re happily putting them in jail for it.
Be careful what teams you cheer for, and what color clothes you wear when you do…
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I’ve been reading articles and so forth but I prefer to hear this from people who actually have diabetes..
I find it interesting that diabetics get different inital symptoms..
I have two friends who have type 2 diabetes (well controlled with pretty much no setbacks so far) and I asked them what were their first symptoms.. As you will see they had much difference inital experiences..
Friend #1: Told me she was peeing a lot even though she wasn’t drinking water, large volumes of urine.. Lost weight even though she was hungry and eating a lot. Never felt tired
Friend #2: Told me she was extremely fatigued, but other than that no symptoms..
Neither mentioned excessive thirst to me, and I’ve read that excessive thirst is a major symptom, so why didn’t they get really thirsty??
So with all this being said, what were your intial symptoms?
Eco Factor: Concept vehicle fueled by a hybrid hydrogen engine.
George Yoo, a designer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in Carlsbad, California, is trying to bring the company’s historic racing vehicles into the future with an added green touch. The designer has come up with a zero-emission concept vehicle dubbed the BlitzenBenz, which can be used for testing and evaluating cutting-edge technology.
Dilip Chhabria who is highly praised auto designer globally, announced that Imperator sedan is launched in union with the DY Patil Group of the DYP-DC Centre for Automotive Research & Studies
“Matter of love & design relates to matter of heart,” Chhabria enlighten the new design. He added, “We aspire to build up proficiency that embodies this, united with business & manufacturing dynamics.”
Mr. Chhabria said he has not frozen the concepts to be unveiled at the Auto Expo, but a person with knowledge of the development said that major work on the Nano has been completed. It carries a panoramic wind-screen and the interiors are packed with the latest gizmos, similar to those found in the Ambierod incarnation of what was once India’s most ubiquitous four-wheeler. At Auto Expo 2008, Mr. Chhabria transformed the Ambassador into a three-seater coupe inspired by American Hotrods bikes.
Just like the Ambierod, the Nano will have a mobile LCD screen for movies, internet, navigation and games as well as customised instruments panel that is also beamed onto the screen. The Rs 4-crore Ambierod was sold even before the concept was unveiled in January 2008 to a Dubai-based NRI.
“Selling such cars is not an issue. The issue is how to conceptualize the design,” Mr. Chhabria said. The changes have been incorporated without stretching the Nano’s size. Mr. Chhabria has managed to pack luxury in the small car by converting it into a two-seater from the original five-seater. The car is meant for long drives and has a door-mounted camera for rear vision which can also record clips which the driver may otherwise miss on the move.
Dilip Chabaria has some very unique and interesting cars displayed at the Auto Expo.
First is a Red Imperator with 28” wheels, one huge hydraulic Butterfly Door and Massive Head and Leg room. Vivek Oberoi was there giving interviews and he said it has become his favourite car. The red Imperator definitely looked glossy and a complete style statement in itself. Check out the Red Imperator images:
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Suzuki rolled out at the Auto Expo 2010 in New Delhi the long-awaited SX4 Hybrid concept, a model based on the previous fuel-cell concepts showcased at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2009. However, as compared to earlier models which relied on a five-door hatchback construction, the new version is a four-door sedan with blue tint on both the front and the rear lights.
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