Smart USA won’t be stopped by snow, delivers first Fortwo Electric Drive to a customer
January 28, 2011 No Comment
Hertz may have been the first to get the suckers on the road , but Mindy Kimball of Silver Spring, MD is the first American customer to have a Smart Fortwo Electric Drive of her very own. She’s a US Army Major and now has a funky little green (but not olive drab) and white coupe at home — probably buried under a foot or two of white stuff at this point. She’s member numero uno of Smart USA’s so-called “Team 250,” which will make up the first 250 owners of the cars, each of which offer a maximum of 72 miles of range and a top speed of 70mph. All while looking super cute. [Thanks, Jason] Smart USA won’t be stopped by snow, delivers first Fortwo Electric Drive to a customer originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo: Alex Davies At the Meet My Project design exposition in Paris this week, French designer Florence Hallouin presented her latest work. Hallouin, a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle and a working mother with a passion for sustainability, decided to reinvent the diaper. The result: the Hamac diaper , composed of an outer shell and an inserted diaper, whether washable or disposable. When the diaper is dirtied, there’s no need to wash the entire… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Comcast takes over NBC Universal today, and some feathers are already being ruffled—the peacock has been removed from the corporate logo. Though the colorful, 55-year-old mascot will still be used on television, internally, it’s been swapped out in favor of the the name NBCUniversal on a purple background, reports…
Continue reading …Strategies for Getting Around Without Bike Lights (or Pants) from BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE on Vimeo . Would you leave home without pulling on some pants? That’s the question being asked by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the Portland Mercury (Oregon) in this video. Their simple argument is, if wouldn’t leave without your pants, then maybe you should extend the same thinking to your bicycle ligh… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ladies and gentlemen of the, ahem, jury, we intend to show — through rumors and circumstantial evidence — that Apple might very well be building Nexus S-like NFC capabilities into next-generation iPhones and iPads. We present for your consideration exhibits A, B, and C: three Apple job posts, seeking two managers of global payment platforms and one test engineer for iPhone hardware. According to the original post, the right engineer possesses a background in both ICT (information and communication technology) and RFID (radio frequency identification), which forms the basis for NFC. Suspiciously, Apple removed the “ID” in “RFID” sometime in the past 24 hours. Still not convinced of Apple’s NFC involvement? Consider this: Apple’s manager of global payment platforms is tasked with contributing “to the analysis and development of new payment types and processes.” Okay, so there’s not a smoking gun in sight, but a little innocent conjecture never hurt anybody. Apple job posts point to built-in NFC capabilities for iPad / iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A bomb exploded inside a grocery store frequented by foreigners on Friday in Kabul, killing at least eight people and injuring others, police and eyewitnesses said. Three foreigners and a child were among the dead, Kabul Police Chief…
Continue reading …The complete shutdown of nearly all online services just after midnight in Egypt is unprecedented in its scale, reports the AP . While governments around the world have disrupted online service during unrest (such as Iran did during protests in 2009), what sets Egypt’s move apart is how apparently coordinated the…
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CAIRO — Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters clashed Friday with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the crowds and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them. Police also used water cannons against Egypt’s pro-democracy leader…
Continue reading …FBI search 40 addresses in bid to catch hackers who attacked WikiLeaks enemies
January 28, 2011 No Comment
The FBI issued more than 40 search warrants in the United States as part of its investigation into cyber attacks by a group called ‘Anonymous’ that had backed whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The cyber attacks, known as ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDoS), were targeted against major U.S. companies and organisations and the search warrants coincided with the arrest of five people by British police in connection with the alleged attacks, the FBI said. U.S. authorities have been looking into attacks on companies like Amazon and others targeted by hackers backing WikiLeaks after it published classified U.S. communications. MasterCard and Visa were targeted in the onslaught in December for…
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“I think we found The One today,” Steven Tyler said, moments from the end of “American Idol” Thursday night, as he left day two of Season 10’s Nashville auditions. “We found her. Oh, yeah, we did.” He didn’t mention a… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Show Tracker Discovery Date : 28/01/2011 12:43 Number of articles : 3
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