Kind of a miracle these days to get two corporates to agree to share.
An effort to free up some of the airwaves used by TV broadcasts and make them available for wireless broadband took a big step forward this week in the U.S. Two TV stations in Los Angeles, KLCS and KCET, have agreed to share a single frequency to deliver their programming freeing up a channel that can be auctioned off to wireless carriers next year.
The change, which the Federal Communications Commission calls "repackaging," is possible because digital TV broadcasts don't need the full 6MHz of broadcast spectrum that was used for analog TV.
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A Tree and Its Fruit
43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers.
45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament.
From Wikipedia to make a point:
Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive. She is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.
A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
Whitman served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s, she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro.
Whitman served as president and chief executive officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. During her 10 years with the company, she oversaw its expansion from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue.
In 2014, Whitman was named 20th in Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
In 2008, she was cited by The New York Times as among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States.
In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for Governor of California, becoming the third woman in a 20-year period to run for the office.
She won the Republican primary in June 2010. The fourth wealthiest woman in the state of California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010, she spent more of her own money on the race than any other political candidate spent on a single election in American history, spending $144 million total of her own fortune and $178.5 million including donors. (She wanted it so much.)
Whitman lost to Jerry Brown in the November 2 election.
(Hewlett-Packard has Meg As the chairman, president and chief executive officer...)
Hewlett-Packard and three subsidiaries pleaded guilty Thursday to paying bribes to foreign officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland and agreed to pay $108 million in criminal and regulatory penalties. For over 10 years Hewlett-Packard kept 2 sets of books to track slush-funds they used to bribe government officials for favorable contracts.
From the article: According to the Justice Department, HP Poland paid more than $600,000 in cash bribes and gifts, travel and entertainment to the the police agency's director of information and communications technology.
HP Poland gave the government official bags filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash, provided the official with HP desktop and laptop computers, mobile devices and other products and took the official on a leisure trip to Las Vegas, which included a private tour flight over the Grand Canyon, the Justice Department said.
The foreign officials probably weren't reporting the income on their taxes, either.
One can only wonder what kind of Governor or President of the United States Meg Whitman would have been?
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From my tree-hugging file...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said his company's Gigafactory battery plant, the world's largest, will be "self contained" and run on solar, wind and geothermal energy.
The obvious problem with renewable sources is that they're intermittent at any given location, but on a larger scale they're quite predictable and reliable, according to Tom Lombardo, a professor of engineering and technology.
Lombardo points out that Tesla isn't necessarily going off-grid, but using a strategy of "net metering" where the factory will produce more renewable energy than it needs, and receive credits in return from its utility when renewables aren't available.
So why can't other manufacturing facilities do the same? Is what Tesla is doing not necessarily transferable to other industries?
Sam Jaffe, principal research analyst with Navigant Research, believes Tesla's choice of locations — Reno — and its product is optimal for using renewable and not something that can be reproduced by every industry.
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Now the bad news...they have sold out their pre-order iPhone allotments!
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While everyone was looking in the direction of Apple lately this crossed the radar screen...
We're not sure how much the Dell Venue 8 7840 (ugh) will cost.
Or how long it will last on a charge, but it runs Android 4.4 on a quad-core 2.33GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor, has Wi-Fi connectivity and 32GB of storage (reportedly expandable via microSD card), charges over microUSB, and should be available this holiday season in the United States and other countries.
And did I mention that it's only 6mm thick, and that's not even the coolest thing about it.
This slate also comes with arguably the world's best tablet screen: a gorgeous 8.4-inch, 2560 x 1600 OLED panel with colors to die for.
It's a Samsung panel, which shouldn't be too surprising: it looks like a dead ringer for the identically-specced display that blew our socks away in our Samsung Galaxy Tab S review.
Only here, the tablet is even thinner and the glass stretches from edge to edge. There's practically no bezel to block your view.
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We already know that we want it...LOL
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