Technology
Yelp Reviewer Gets SLAPPed With 750K Lawsuit And Order To Alter Comments
A woman is facing a $750,000 defamation lawsuit and has been ordered to alter a negative Yelp review of a home contractor after police found that her claims didn’t add up.
Dietz Development is claiming that Jane Perez’s scathing review has cost them new customers and, on Wednesday, a judge ordered a preliminary injunction for her […]
Why hybrid cars are dying: Gas engines are good enough on mpg, plug-ins are sexier
The sporty five-passenger SUV that I’m whipping around country roads gets 35 mpg on the highway. And it’s not a hybrid. It’s the Mazda CX-5 Skyactiv with a host of high-efficiency technologies that gives the CX-5 hybrid-like fuel economy without the $2,000-$4,000 bump in price that comes with many hybrid vehicles.
Read the whole story at ExtremeTech
Boeing Has Created A Drone That Can Cripple An Entire Nation’s Computers At The Touch Of A Button
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has created a weapon straight out of a science fiction movie. The new system is a missile that can use special microwave technologies to render all the electronics in a building useless but without harming anyone inside according to the Daily Mail.
Boeing has already successfully tested the weapon on a one hour flight […]
Google Acquires U.S. National High-Traffic Broadband Wi-Fi Provider ICOA Inc. For $400M
Google today announced that it has acquired Rhode Island-based ICOA, Inc. in a deal worth $400 million, as it looks to “further diversify it’s already impressive portfolio of companies.” ICOA provides wireless broadband internet in high-traffic public areas, which include marinas, restaurants and airports, and offers Wi-Fi hotspot design, installation and maintenance
Source: TechCrunch
The SR-71 Blackbird Is So Fast It Just Accelerates To Evade Incoming Missiles
The SA-71 was years in research and development, a weapon fielded during the height of the cold war, before it was eventually ousted because of satellite technology.
Borderline space technology itself, it flew so high that pilots had to wear pressurized space suits. Unarmed, the reconnaissance jet flew at three times the speed of sound — […]
Analysis: Groupon fights for its life as daily deals fade
CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon and its compatriots in the much-hyped daily dealsbusiness were supposed to change the very nature of small-business advertising. Instead, it is thedaily deal vendors that are racing to change as evidence mounts that their business model is fundamentally flawed.
Groupon last week reported another quarter of disappointing earnings as its core business stagnated, sending its stock down […]
ROMNEY CAMPAIGN ELECTION SOFTWARE CRASHED ON ELECTION DAY- An epic failure of its Orca big-data app
Many things went wrong with Romney’s campaign for president, but one of the biggest was the epic failure of the campaign’s big-data app for getting out the vote, called Orca. When the campaign needed it most, Orca was beached.
Politico has an excellent summary of the problems it says that Orca had. Among them were that the […]
An inside look behind Romney’s loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app (Big Technology Failure)
Many things went wrong with Romney’s campaign for president, but one of the biggest was the epic failure of the campaign’s big-data app for getting out the vote, called Orca. When the campaign needed it most, Orca was beached.
Politico has an excellent summary of the problems it says that Orca had. Among them were that the […]
Here’s Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years: Pro
The primary reason Google may lose its search dominance is because the company is facing the same mobile problem as Facebook [FB 19.00 0.025 (+0.13%) ], Jackson said. (Read More: Google Has the Same Mobile-Ad Problem as Facebook)
Read the whole story at CNBC
6 Media Companies Tell You Most Everything You Know (90% of News controlled by 6 Companies)
Feel like you are getting the same news in most papers and on most channels and Web sites? You may well be. Data compiled by an unlikely source, the Frugal Dad, shows 90 percent of the U.S. media in the hands of just six companies. In 1983, it was 50 companies.
The six media giants are […]
Yuri Milner: 40 Million Retail Jobs Are Going To Disappear
Russian internet investor Yuri Milner had an ominous prediction for the retail industry and its many workers at a conference earlier this week in Ukraine.
He said that there will be “a pretty significant job loss in the retail sector to the tune of 40 million jobs in the next 20 years,” according to Chrystia Freeland at Reuters.
What’s going to […]
Swiss Federal Railways Accuses Apple Of Copying Its Railway Clock Design For iPad Clock App
With the launch of iOS 6, Apple finally brought a clock app to the iPad. Now, however, the design of the clocks in the app has become somewhat of a controversy as Swiss Federal Railways (mostly known under its German acronym SBB), has accused the company of ripping off the design of its iconic railway […]
Tech industry leaders helped Obama raise $27M for re-election bid
Tech industry leaders helped Obama raise $27M for re-election bid
The entertainment and financial industries aren’t the only sections of the business world hoping to impact political change through donations.
According to a list of 325 top “bundlers” (people who assemble donations) obtained by theNew York Times, Obama raised $180 million in 2011-2012. About $27 million of that […]
Cheapest iPhone 5 costs an estimated $168 to make but sells for $649
Cheapest iPhone 5 costs an estimated $168 to make but sells for $649
The 16GB iPhone 5, the least expensive of Apple’s new smartphone models, costs $167.50 to manufacture, according to an analysis by UBM Tech Insights.
Tech Insights estimates the iPhone 5 costs about $35 more than the iPhone 4S to make. The most expensive competent is the new […]
GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites
According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, along with GoDaddy phone service and all sites using GoDaddy’s […]
Tech challenge: Obama has trouble with iPhone
On the campaign trail, President Obama is constantly talking about the importance of technology, but he met his match in an iPhone Sunday.
The president had stopped at a campaign office in Port St. Lucie, Fla., to thank volunteers. Then, for the cameras, Mr. Obama was supposed to call two campaign workers who were out working on […]
Facebook shares reach new low; $50 billion in market value lost
Facebook shares scraped a new low Tuesday.
The new drag on the already leaden stock: Analysts from two of Facebook’s largest underwriters on its botched initial public stock offering cut their price targets.
The Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase analysts also reduced their revenue projections.
Shares closed down nearly 2%, or 33 cents, to $17.73 as some on […]
Facebook Crashes Even Lower
Facebook’s stock has crashed to a new all-time low. It’s at $18.12, a 5.08 percent crash, as of this writing. The reason for the stock slump appears to be a negative analyst report from BMO.
Read more at BusinessInsider
Apple Wins $1 Billion as Jury Finds Samsung Violated Patents
A U.S. jury said on Friday that Samsung Electronics acted willingly to infringe on several of Apple’s patents and awarded Apple more than $1 billion in damages.
As for the countersuit, the jury found Apple did not violate any of Samsung’s wireless standards or feature patents.
Read the whole story at CNBC
Skilled Work, Without the Worker (New wave of robots replacing workers in manufacturing)
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.
At a sister factory here in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the […]