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This article just gave me insight as to why Facebook is going to be an unstoppable advertising platform. They have data that Google can only dream of - real photos, real name, real addresses and cell phone numbers. They are going to be a marketing machine!! Great write up my friend.

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Sony Unveils PlayStation Suite And Puts Its Games On Android

Wow, this is pretty interesting. Instead of just a PlayStation Phone, which Sony is widely reported to be working on, the company has announced the PlayStation Suite, which will put PlayStation games not just on Sony's phones but also on other phones, including Android. (Engadget)

The Suite is a development framework and also basically an app store for games on Android. Sony will control the app store and probably attract tons of top-tier developers for the framework. They also hinted at other "content" that might be on the Suite.

This is a pretty ballsy move from Sony, and also a smart one. It looks increasingly likely that, as with point and shoot cameras, standalone mobile gaming devices are becoming subsumed into smartphones. Sony's previous mobile gaming devices were underwhelming and software is where most of the value is. But Sony has an infuriating habit of trying to own every step of the value chain, sometimes shooting itself in the foot. For example, their PlayStation Portable was hampered by its disc format, the UMD, that only worked for the PSP but which Sony went on a quixotic quest to make the dominant mobile media format and have movie studios put out their movies on UMD.

So Sony is finally accepting reality and focusing on its strengths, marketing the heck out of a game platform and attracting developers to it.

Some people will whine about yet another app store on Android, but we think this could be good for the platform. So far the iPhone is ahead of Android on gaming, because it's easier for developers to make money there. If Sony fixes that, that means Android phones will be more attractive and sell more.

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[...] largest cable television provider in the U.S., today entered the mobile voice and data market after more than two years of planning to supplement its cable offerings with wireless services. Instead of touting the “quad-play” approach of cable, landline, Internet and wireless, [...]

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Sprint Unveils First 4G Mobile Network in the Big Apple

Sprint Expands the Power and Immediacy of 4G to 61 Markets, Now Available in New York City, Hartford, New Haven, New Brunswick, Trenton and Tampa

LizardTech Unveils GeoExpress 8 at GEOINT 2010 Symposium Now With Support for MrSID Generation 4

With MG4’s support for compressing hyperspectral data users can use GeoExpress to compress up to 255 bands of geospatial data to the MrSID format.

Administration Unveils First-Ever Efficiency Rules for Large Trucks

The White House has announced regulations that will for the first time create fuel economy standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles ranging from tow trucks to big rigs. The standards are scheduled to take effect in 2014, and will require a 20 percent improvement in emissions and fuel consumption for large, long-haul tractor-trailers by 2018. Heavy-duty pickups and vans will be forced to increase efficiency by 10 or 15 percent depending on fuel type, with work vehicles like cement mixers having to improve by 10 percent over the same period.

The American Truck Association has pledged support for the approach, which it finds preferable to commercial and industrial emissions caps. "Any federally mandated carbon control program applied to transportation fuels likely will increase the cost of fossil fuels," said the trade group in a statement last week. "Discussions of carbon control programs should be premised on fundamental principles designed to minimize disruptions to the transportation of goods and to protect the viability of the trucking industry." The proposed policy will seek to reduce emissions associated with commercial trucks in a way that will minimize cost increases associated with the new vehicles and actually provide a payback for operators in the way of fuel savings early on. The EPA says long-haul tractor owners could see a return of as much as $74,000 over the life of their vehicles thanks to the law. "Over all, this program will save $41 billion, and much of it will stay home in the U.S. economy rather than paying for imported oil," said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in briefing this morning. Still, the new regulations don't go as far as many environmental groups would have liked. A recent study from the National Academy of Sciences found that by deploying vehicles updated with existing technologies, the commercial trucking industry would be able to reduce emissions by at least one-third, with fuel savings paybacks coming after just two years of typical operation. "President Obama did the right thing by encouraging the creation of these standards, but today's proposal should be strengthened further to maximize the environmental, security and economic benefits," said Luke Tonachel of Natural Resources Defense Council in a statement. "The National Academies have shown that cost-effective, clean-vehicle technologies exist that can go beyond the EPA and DOT proposal and more than double the pollution and fuel savings." Many companies within the truck manufacturing industry have been preparing to improve the efficiency of their vehicles for years, anticipating a need for better fuel economy generated by rising fuel costs or new government regulations. Navistar has been selling diesel-electric hybrids since 2007, and will soon begin production on its eStar, an all-electric plug-in truck. Another of the country's largest trucking OEMs, Freightliner, has also announced plans for an electric model, and dedicated fuel-saving manufacturers like Smith and Eaton have recently entered the market as well. But this first round of federal requirements is unlikely to affect sales of advanced-technology hybrid and electric trucks. Those vehicles may soon be subject to targeted purchaser incentives if groups like the Electrification Coalition have their way, but the goal for EPA and NHTSA with these regulations isn't to change the way America's trucks are powered but to get the best existing fuel-saving technologies to market as quickly as possible. "It's an OK first start," said Safe Climate Campaign director Dan Becker to The Hill today. "On the other hand, they left almost half of the emission reductions on the table." Photo by Sam Butler/flickr/Creative Commons Reprinted with permission from HybridCars

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