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

Apple reassures the users complained that the new iPad's battery continues to charge even after it's loaded - it seems the problem is actually a planned feature which is incorporated Device; Apple's vice president: "This is a great feature that has always been in iOS"

The noise around the mishaps of the device the new iPad refuses to relax. After complaints that is too warm, delicate, fragile, heavy, eliminates data packages and more, now began to various sites on the network to report problems with his battery charge.

According to the reports relied on the testimonies of users, the new iPad continues to charge the battery even after the annihilation shows that the battery is charged Melua.



Just before the malfunction has become a mini-scandal, the company Apple was quick to respond and stated that the defect is not a defect or malfunction at all but an advanced feature designed to keep the iPad's battery while connected to a charger for extended periods. They argue that this feature also exists in other devices Apple, such as the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Apple's devices show that they are charged one hundred percent before the battery itself is charged at full capacity. At this point the device will be loaded to full capacity of the battery, then stop the load and unload the battery naturally to the lower limit of 95 percent capacity - and then the charging process will start again.

Apple vice president, Michael Ttz'ao, suggesting that this feature allows the machine to maintain the optimal charging mode. "PCB is designed so that it allows you to keep your device connected to a charger for how long you want," says Mr. Ttz'ao, "This is a great feature that has always been in iOS".

In addition, Mr. Ttz'ao noted that the new iPad will provide the battery promises 10 hours from the moment Apple device shows that it is fully charged, regardless of the condition of the battery capacity.

Though now we have not heard any official word Sonny on its next-generation console, and the formal unveiling, we expect to see only in a few months if not more, it seems that it did not interfere with new rumors and speculation to leak out. Today we have reported the site Kotaku on new information and important information about what supposedly will be Sony's next Playstation. According to the site, the information reached many anonymous sources not authorized to speak publicly but they are reliable.

Circle of Life
So what we know so far? We know the Playstation new call code-named "Orbis" Scshhlk interesting is when you take this word and connect it with " Vita "(Portable Software Sony's new), we get two words in the phrase" life cycle "in Latin, which may be kind of a nudge to something we are expected to see the future and perhaps lead the slogan advertising campaign Sony console. Meanwhile, is not known whether this will be the final name of the device or just a code name the company gives him while he is under development, such as the NGP sample, which later turned to PS Vita . Also report the number of PlayStation 4 in apparently we can not play games we bought used or exchanged with friends. Console is expected to be the kind of safeguards built in to prevent us from playing games used, and each game we have acquired will actually locked on one PSN-account, which requires the users to play when connected to PlayStation Network , and are enabled game offline. Yes, the same network that has been disabled for a few days after that was begun last year by the Organization of anonymous hackers and stolen from her personal information about users and no one is promising that a case like this will not come back again.



Goodbye PS3 Games
Yes, it seems that Sony will do what she did to date with all the new console issued by and say goodbye beautiful PS3 game that probably will become a thing of the past. Sony is expected to remove the cells in PS4 (or Orbis) with current console games and not allow their operation next PlayStation.

What about specification? The Orbis is expected to offer AMD x64, and graphics card series of the Southern Islands of AMD, (code name for a series of graphics cards have powerful AMD) resolution support up to 4096 × 2160, (resolution is very high relative standard in the market today, at least for now) or 1080p 3D mode. The console is expected to receive an official launch sometime in the middle of the holiday season in the U.S. in 2013 and by then we'll have to wait patiently for further verifications for newly brought.

What was intended to go through a great marketing move by the company promoting Windows Phone has come into its opposite. The reason: a competition organized in a store in the U.S. where a moving company would face against any participant with Android. The final victory of a Samsung Nexus Galaxy finished with Microsoft denied the prize.



Occurred in Santa Clara and the media have echoed through the news blog of the youth who won the odd competition. Microsoft Store hosted a challenge believing that the company's OS was faster than Android. The game was to see how mobile widgets loaded faster 2 time in two different cities . The prize, a laptop valued at $ 1,000.

As Young explains in his blog, had to sign a waiver accepting that the company used a photo of him in their advertising. After the signing was in line at the "challenge". The user explains that carrying a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with the latest Android OS via the network of Verizon Wireless.

Under competition, the young should take the phone off to begin the challenge:

When I get to the store employee of Microsoft with whom I was going to face the challenge communicating clearly explains that "the first time offering two different cities wins." I felt I had hit the jackpot because I had two installed widgets at startup time, one for my current location and one for Berkeley, and moreover my smartphone had no lockscreen .

Microsoft believed instead that started with an advantage because its Windows Phone also had the default widget setting.

The result once the competition began was that after three seconds the young man had won:

I pressed the power button on my phone and said "done" out loud. Without the default lock screen when you turn appeared directly the two widgets.

In contrast to Microsoft's cost a fraction of a second later as he had to do two things. The first was to light the screen ... and the second unlock the smartphone .

The response was unlikely the company had not won. Microsoft says the young man who was lost "because." After discussions with several employees of the store (we assume they did not expect the outcome), tells the young man was not showing the time of two cities in different states .

Not only that, after the "new" argument employees remind the young man who signed a picture with the advertising company. A sign that read: " My Android was beaten by a Windows Phone . "

Incredible but true. The young man just entering wondering the purpose of the "strategy" of Marketing. If the issue was to demonstrate the WP highlights of the results had not been ineffective. In any case challenges the company to a rematch at any time.

I would be happy to return at beating a Windows phone with my Android ...

Hours after it was leaked letter from the MPAA and subsequent "correction" where it appeared that the society called for saving user data Megaupload for possible massive demand, it seems that is not going to be. At least that indicates the response of the company hosting the servers maintaining the platform. According to him, if no solution will soon be deleted because of the cost to them is .



Yesterday we pointed you and Carpathia Hosting figures must undertake every day. Today the company's response is clear to file a motion with the court explaining that he can not wait until the parties reach a solution.

The company hosting speech the cost of the 1,103 servers that is leased to cyberlocker . About 25 petabytes of data with a loss of $ 9,000 a day while they are inactive.

What Carpathia asked the Court is an advice on how to proceed considering two options:

One would delete all data and servers use for other purposes.
The second would be to obtain money to cover the expenses of the parties involved in the criminal case.
Along with these two options also asks the court to set a hearing for April 13 to discuss the matter.

Today and in the words of Carpathia seems we are one step closer to erasing data from Megaupload. The platform itself has been trying to negotiate the opening unsolved data each user with the Department of Justice. 25 petabytes that could end in nothing .

Launched in August 2004, the MESSENGER space probe has recently completed its main mission: one year exploration of the planet Mercury, the closest to the Sun. A surprisingly little-known planet, since MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to visit from the Mariner 10 in 1974.



Physics has actually conspired against the exploration of Mercury's powerful gravitational pull of the Sun makes that achieving the smallest planet in the solar system requires more energy and more skill that visit Mars, Jupiter and other giant planets Yet much more distant.

MESSENGER confirmed the presence of volcanic activity in the past of Mercury, and especially to discover solid evidence for the presence of a molten outer core, probably made of iron sulfide. This core would account for 85% of the diameter of the planet, which far exceeds that found on Earth. MESSENGER also helped capture more than 100,000 photos, calculate the relief of Mercury is less steep than the Moon or Mars, and determining that the bottom of the huge Caloris crater (a crater of 1 500 km in diameter) is now higher than its edges, suggesting a previously unsuspected tectonic activity.

MESSENGER will not be retiring anytime soon. An extended mission of at least one year, which aims to refine the data collected so far, is underway

The USB cable Mohzy Loop Sanwa Supply is a USB / Micro-USB connectors, one of which contains a small magnet. We can wrap it around the strap of a bag loop at the bottom of a pocket, or why not, around the wrist like a bracelet where it will be forgotten thanks to its lightweight of 18 grams.




It comes with a compact micro USB adapter / dock connector pin 30, and thus allows charging and syncing an iPhone , iPod or iPad. The presence of the magnet can also hang a metal wall (table, fridge, metal structure of a desk or shelf ...) to have ready at hand.

The popular social networking site Facebook appears to have secured the services of 31 underwriters at a discount.  According to several reports of the English press, including the Bloomberg , Mark Zuckerberg had negotiated a fixed fee of 1.1% for this purpose, which is intended as a real bargain compared to fees charged normally.



The average rate charged at the 127 IPOs in 2011 would be 5.48% instead, according to Bloomberg.

If the company comes to getting 5 billion during the transaction, bankers and other underwriters to be able to provide and share 55 million USD (1.1% of the amount raised). A harvest of 10 billion is still possible and feasible, and would thus Bankers to the kitty still astronomical sum of 110 million USD.

This is Morgan Stanley, principal partner in the operation, although it may reap the lion's share at the expense of other banks involved.

Other participating institutions include JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Know, Bank of America, Barclays, Allen & Co., Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, Muriel Siebert & Co. and William Blair & Co.

Not so long ago that SEO experts reigned unchecked in the network of filling all optimizations and content prefabricated position, at that, Google wants to put limits and quality return.
Like a medieval paladin seeking justice because we are all equal, Google wants to take an ax to SEO enthusiasts and perfectionists of strategic positioning. Therefore, the leading search engine in the world are planning to penalize any website that is "too optimized", as declared by the team manager of Google web spam, Matt Cutts.


With these statements about search engine optimization or CEO, the engineer unveiled a new strategy from Google that could scare more than a web administrator . Google is planning to punish any website that is "too optimized" according to Cutts.
The times when it was written well, that is for the readers or users, ended when the web traffic was handled by more than 60-70% for Google. All contents flow through its robots. Thousands and thousands of searches every minute pass and are digested by Google, so, learn to know how to get "above", ie have better positioning became a key tool.
Now, later, Google wants to control all these "tricks" that help the positioning . Believes that the time to repeat words, using labels of dubious quality and the like have come to an end. If during 2011 was "Google Panda ', a new algorithm that we all were afraid, now it seems that the screen is equal or greater.
It may not be more than a "threat" to the experts in SEO and positioning let the true quality content flow, or that Google really intends to control this type of content. If so, is equally dangerous to be a private company that regulates the designs of positioning in the most used search engine in the West.

The director of Kony in 2012 , this mini-documentary became viral, was arrested Thursday and hospitalized after a public disturbance, wandering naked through the streets of San Diego.

The American Jason Russell, 33, a devout Christian, father of two and co-founder of the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, would have had a very strange behavior according to San Diego police. It would have been vandalizing cars, would have masturbated in public and was under the influence of substances.



"He had never had a problem with the police but, in the evaluation, we realized we probably needed that we take care of him. Officers have therefore taken into custody and then transferred it to a local medical facility for further evaluation and treatment, "said the Lieutenant Andra Brown.

According to Ben Keesey, the head of the NGO Invisible Children, Jason Russell was hospitalized for exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition. "The last two weeks have been full of emotions for us all and this was demonstrated by the unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason has done so much to help people, we are devastated to see him deal with personal problems. "

The same day, at a screening organized by the African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET) in Lira town, the video viewed more than 80 million times in two weeks provoked the wrath of thousands of Ugandans. Kony 2012 s' ended in mini riots and in the stone throwing, the audience feeling angry, offended, saying the story inaccurate and too simplistic, says a journalist from Al-Jazeera on site at the meeting.

The controversial 30-minute documentary exposes the activities of Joseph Kony, a warlord at the head of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Wanted by the International Criminal Court, they are accused of raping or killing thousands of civilians and have reduced thousands of children in slavery since the 80s.

Application Kiosk  has a little trouble with the new iPad. It is functional, but if you cross a black screen at launch - instead of the 3D representation of the newsstand who officiates as the home page - it's a bug.



This problem affects only the iPad 3 and not 2. One of our readers has received as a message from the Kiosk team that the problem would be solved within days.


Apple has launched 24 new applications that take advantage of the new Retina display and other features in the latest Apple notepad.

If you intend to buy a new iPad in the coming days, you're probably wondering if there will be applications available designed specifically for your new purchase.



Well, rejoice, because Apple has launched 24 new applications that take advantage of the new Retina display and other features in the latest Apple notepad.

24 applications this is fine when you know that the SDK has been available for the developer community just two weeks ago.

Companies that have put a considerable effort to update their applications to be available at the output of the new iPad, were rewarded because Apple has created a section in its App Store, which marks the arrival of new software that will the happiness of the final recipients of the tablet.

This is a good marketing ploy for those companies that will surely sell hundreds, if not thousands of copies of the programs they prepared for the new iPad. Available applications ranging from video games to magazines to utilities and other applications

Even if operators can not sell themselves to the new Apple iPad, Bell, Telus and Rogers are very interested in popular electronic tablet, especially since it provides connectivity LTE. Operators are in seduction mode, and packages for their shelves are more interesting.

LTE packages for tablets offered by the three major Canadian operators still somewhat resemble. They all offer a flexible concept, where the user pays a monthly basis according to its consumption.



In all cases, the new LTE packages require a minimum payment frankly cheaper than in recent years, only $ 5 per month for 10 MB, up to 35 or $ 37 for 5 GB

10 MB is obviously insufficient for anything but the new formula allows at least to those who would benefit from their LTE device connectivity only occasionally (on vacation, etc..) To do so without having to equip a new SIM card each time, or at least without much harder.

Even more interesting now, to celebrate the launch of the new iPad, the three operators all offer promotions that should last until late March or late April.

Rogers offers include two months of unlimited downloads (and then four months with twice the download), Bell offers a free SIM card, no activation fees, and Telus offers commissioning, and a maximum monthly fee of $ 5 for the first two months.

If you hesitate to plug your tablet, now is probably a good time.

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