PlayStation 4 Speculations. Google to Open Retail Stores. Is Cash Obsolete?

Google To Open Stores

To get products into more hands, Google will open its own stores by the end of the year. But is the search giant biting off more than it can chew?

http://9to5google.com/2013/02/15/to-g...



Cashless Society?

A speculative article in the BBC News talks about how e-commerce technology is killing off cash. Along with events like Canada killing off the penny, BitCon and Amazon Kindle e-currency is cash destined for the dustbin of history?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2...



Facebook to limit Teens in Social Graphing Feature

In a bid to increase security for teens Facebook is limiting some aspects of their new Social Graph Networking Feature for those between 13 and 17.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebo...




Exploding Meteors and Asteroid Near Misses - Bad for Earth Good for Science Research?

With the recent explosion of a meteor in the Urals in Southern Russia and the near miss of a 130,000 metric ton asteroid with Earth Rep Lamar Smith from Texas thinks that we should be investing some serious money in asteroid watching and tracking.

calling those events "a stark reminder of the need to invest in space science."
Is this positive news for science and research?

And has the ubiquitous rise of digital video recorders and sites like youtube allowed for instantaneous viewing of the effects of the meteor hit help drive the point home?

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-meteor-s...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sto...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-asteroid...




Are Blackberry Z10 Strong Sales Just a Facade?

Deutsche Bank's Brian Modoff recently surveyed 60 BlackBerry carrier stores in the U.K. and Canada and found no sell-outs in the former, and a few in the latter that may have been driven by poor inventory.

"In Canada, many stores reported being sold out of the Z10 and the sales force was well-versed on the device's attributes; however, a few representatives told us that they did not receive a large initial inventory," Modoff said. "In the U.K., the sales force was better-versed on the feature sets relative to the week prior; however, no stores were sold out. ... We think the initial signs of this launch do not indicate the strong sales we would like to see."

Is Blackberry just unfixable at this point?


http://allthingsd.com/20130215/survey...




VG24/7 Posts Every PS4 Rumor Ahead of Sony Announcement

We share our thoughts and speculations on what to expect from Sony's much anticipated PlayStation 4 Announcement.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/15/ps4-e...

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[Evens Achelus]

I would go to the google store and get all thee google class i can!

[McCurmudgeonify]

They should call it the NextBox

[fringe figure]

also, max nailed it.

[fringe figure]

I'm here because Max shared it. I was worried at the outset... "dude, Max you shouldn't be here with you're dad & his dad, all uncomfortable and shizz" or, "why did your boss do this to you? fuck him." But, then, as the discussions started happening, it's like watching 3 generations of guys talking about the goings-on, the news / the tech, you know? Really pretty cool, funny, & insightful. I really, Really liked it. Do more of it! (jesus, what if you added a forth generation... a teenager?) <3

[Alec Ge]

great show.  many countries block blackberry because it doesn't let the government record calls, its actually really secure

[jay Oblivion]

liked :) make more please

[Nigel Burn]

Good show :-)

[epickidgenius2001]

My Dad and Jim have a lot in common

[epickidgenius2001]

(Canadian) Pennies are made of zinc