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A look from above at the Cirque du Soleil’s La Nouba theater at the Downtown Disney resort in Orlando, Fla. La Nouba was the Cirque’s third permanent show and the first with its own freestanding building.
Of course, this is not the latest gear available to the theater industry, but pretty much the [...]
Why Rogers still needs to insist on an upper limit for data usage is beyond me, but at least the company is offering an option that will allow most users to avoid overage charges. Still, it’s only a limited-time offer: You have to activate an iPhone 3G by the end of August to qualify [...]
The 450-kilogram Watchkeeper, based on the Elbit Hermes 450, will be built jointly by the Israeli company Elbit Systems and the French-owned Thales UK. Starting price was 15 million pounds (more than $29 million) but has reportedly risen to 17 million pounds a pop (more than $33 million), and despite 2,100 lucrative jobs, a good [...]
“You want a button,” Paczuski said. Even on Sprint’s touch-screen Instinct, Tellme is able to use the call button to determine when a user is speaking. He said that when the iPhone application launches, there will probably be a big virtual button in the middle of the screen.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Microsoft is, indeed, working on an
iPhone [...]
The panels in Far Niente’s solar array, made by Sharp Solar Systems, were installed by SPG Solar.
Napa Valley winery Far Niente on Tuesday commissioned what it says is the first floating solar farm.
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Called a “floatovoltaic” solar array, it is a collection of almost 1,000 solar panels hitched to pontoons that float [...]
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
–Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899.
Or if you agree that there’s nothing left to invent, by what year were we done?
Something bigger or smaller than what you have now?
What do you want that doesn’t exist now?
How about an
iPod small enough to be injected into your bloodstream? [...]
But Walter Pritchard, an analyst with Cowen & Co., doesn’t believe Microsoft’s decision to walk away was a negotiating tactic.
Shares in the software giant have been under pressure since Microsoft announced its buyout bid. Microsoft closed at $32.47 a share on January 31–the day before it announced its unsolicited bid. During the past three months, [...]
