Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

It's electric, and like all battery-operated automobiles needs regular charging. "The charging is done wirelessly, you park up, turn off the key and voila... charging starts automatically," says Anthony Thomson, CEO of HaloIPT, a UK company that has installed the technology. The process uses electromagnetic induction to transfer power from a pad built into the ground to another installed in the bottom of the car. The system could be installed in a supermarket parking place, garage floor or the ground at a special charging station. When a driver parks the vehicle, the two pads line up and with a flick of a switch, the charging starts.

Wireless charging - the future for electric cars

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

US pop star Katy Perry leads the way at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) with nine nominations. The singer's nods include video of the year for Firework, best pop video and best special effects. British singer Adele and Kanye West picked up seven nominations apiece. Other multiple nominees included Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Bruno Mars. The VMAs are scheduled to take place on 28 August in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in the US. Perry, who married comedian Russell Brand last year, was also nominated for best female video, best collaboration, best art direction and best cinematography.

Katy Perry leads MTV nominations

Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer

A man who embarked on a shooting spree in what he claimed was retaliation for 9/11 has been executed at a prison in Texas. The lone survivor of Mark Stroman's attack on convenience store workers in late 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, originally from Bangladesh, unsuccessfully sued to stop the execution, saying his religious beliefs as a Muslim required him to forgive the man. Stroman claimed the shooting spree that killed two men and injured a third targeted people from the Middle East, though all three victims were from south Asia. It was the death of 49-year-old Vasudev Patel, from India, that put Stroman on death row. Stroman's execution was the eighth this year in Texas.

Texas executes 9/11 revenge killer

Mac OS X Lion pounces

As promised, Apple let Mac OS X Lion out of its cage this morning. Version 10.7 of the operating system has more than 250 new features, Apple said, but an installation disc isn't one of them: it's available today for $29.99 as a 3.49GB download only. Apple enjoys pushing the computing industry into the future by dropping technology it deems to be from the past-for example floppy drives missing from the first iMac-and those who want a real-world copy of the OS will have to wait until Apple releases it on a USB thumb drive next month for $69. The Mac OS X download, available through the Mac App Store, dovetails with Apple's new MacBook Air and Mac Mini Lion-based computers. These new models are updated with Intel's modern Sandy Bridge processors and a high-speed Thunderbolt data transfer port-and none has a DVD drive for the next OS upgrade.

Mac OS X Lion pounces

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Google+ for iPhone hit Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it currently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app available from iTunes. This is big news considering Google+ is still invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users can now upload contacts from Outlook and Mac address books (not Facebook, though), which may result in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Google+ For iPhone Now The Top Free App In iTunes

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor

Apple CEO and cancer survivor Steve Jobs is not keen on discussing speculation about who will replace him when the inevitable happens. This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company's board of directors have been discussing plans about who will take over the position that has been held by Jobs since the late 1990s, and perhaps the title that some will always bestow upon Jobs and Jobs alone, once the man is no longer able to hold the position himself. The Journal said it had credible information that the board has already been meeting with headhunters and "at least one head of a high-profile technology company."

Steve Jobs dismisses rumors of his successor
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Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO, died on day 5 October 2011, just a day after the Cupertino company presented the world a brand new iPhone 4S. After waging a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Jobs disappeared leaving Tim Cook in charge of the company, which hinted that something would happen soon. In recent months, has talked a lot about the future of the company, especially with regard to the releases to come. And although the new iPhone has not come up with improvements too relevant right now everyone has an eye on the iPhone to come. All indications are that it would be the iPhone 5, although with respect to the nomenclature, it seems that Apple is willing to break the mold preset. Everything will look.

For now, we must focus our attention on the future of the company, as many analysts and experts predict a major shift in strategy, but also in the products will be announced in the near future. In fact, the most optimistic and have indicated that Apple will crescendo with products like the iPhone and the iPad over the next two to four years. However, many have also noticed the lack of charisma of the current leader, Tim Cook, highlighting the need for Apple to have it again with a magical leader to follow in the footsteps of Steve Jobs. Explains the analyst Max Weber, and other Apple executives Jon Ive and Scott Forstall are characters with many more qualities, ideal to replace the absence of Jobs.



Far from having begun a decline, Apple's latest results indicate that things are going well, since the company has sold a whopping 35.1 million iPhone units, surpassing analysts' expectations and reaching the $ 12.30 for partcipación traded.

We are faced with positive data, but the fact is that in recent months, the company has emphasized over others with amazing shots. The iPhone 4S then transfers the performance of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, and just added enhancements such as dual-core processor A5 and a beta program, Siri, who served as a virtual assistant voice. The new iPhone has not come up with dramatic improvements to the market. In fact, leaving aside the Retina screen and the great potential of the graphics processor, the new iPhone is still more of the same. But what will happen to the iPhone 5?



This is the first phone to come without Steve Jobs at the helm and all means suggest that this might be the time chosen to make a sharp turn to the specification sheet. It is expected, in this sense, the new iPhone 5 may have a larger screen (of even 4 inches), which never would have imagined in the era Jobs, and a completely changed design would allow us to think of a new era Cook. We will see later, probably in October, although the first major event will take place in June Apple, at the annual conference of developers.

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