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Anyone who remembers the (still-ongoing) fiasco that is charging adapters on smartphones can see the potential for similar issues as electric cars or plug-in hybrids become more popular. Thus, it’s good to see at least an initial move in the direction of standardization: Japanese automakers Toyota and Nissan announced on Monday they have helped to set up a fast-charge station standardization group.
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Daniel Tello, a Venezuelan blogger-analyst, has been tracking order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity board. While Friday numbers seemed to indicate 25,000 pre-orders per hour, his estimates on pre-orders on Saturday and Sunday show a slowing to about 1,000 per hour.
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The Pew Research Project’s State of the News Media 2010 report shows some dismal news for newspapers, like the New York Times, that plan to charge for online news. Of those surveyed, only 7 percent said they would be willing to pay for access to any news site.
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Rudolf Jaenisch, whose stem cell lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has consistently broken new barriers in the field, is the world’s “hottest” researcher, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
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Developers of a proposed power transmission line linking southeast Wyoming wind fields and the Colorado Front Range say they believe in the project and are forging slowly ahead.
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By Irene Klotz Cape Canaveral, Florida – Space Exploration Technologies successfully test fired its Falcon 9 rocket this weekend, clearing a milestone toward the inaugural flight of a privately developed spaceship to fly cargo, and possibly astronauts, into orbit, the company said.
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This is a story that should surprise no one, but the Wall Street Journal still made it ” news ” on Saturday: Apple’s iPhone is “forbidden fruit” on the Microsoft campus.
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Blogger has made its first major update in some time. For those tired of the limited selection of templates available, it’s launched a template designer, as of last Thursday.
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the falling out between Google and Apple. The rancor has reached the point where, according to once unnamed source, “It’s World War III.” What brought the two companies to this point, such that we may even see Microsoft’s Bing replacing Google on the iPhone, if things work out as rumored?
It’s March 14th, so at least in the U.S., it’s 3/14 or Pi Day. Truly, since pi is an irrational number, it’s not “rational” to pick a calendar day to celebrate it at all, as it cannot be finitely expressed, but that takes all the fun out of it. March 14th is also the birthday of Albert Einstein to add to the fun.
