Cyber Monday is here… the day when we grudgingly return to work after a 4-day weekend filled with feasting, football, shopping and awkward conversations with relatives that you don’t necessarily get along with. Oh, and the insanity of Black Friday.
Black Friday has come and gone with -hopefully- minimal trampling, but there are still some awesome savings to be found. Cyber Monday is upon us, and with it some of the best online-shopping savings that the all-powerful internet has to offer!
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Rep. Paul Ryan, one of the most influential members of the House of Representatives, appears to have bowed to a campaign started at Reddit.com opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act.
Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who was talked about last summer as a potential GOP presidential candidate and who delivered his party’s response to President Obama’s last State of the Union address, said today that he would vote against SOPA on the House floor.
Support for and opposition to SOPA and its Senate counterpart, Protect IP, doesn’t follow traditional party lines. The conservative Heritage Foundation has joined the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in expressing concerns about granting government the power to deliver an Internet death penalty to allegedly piratical Web sites.
Today’s statement from Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget committee who toured SOPA-hating Silicon Valley in September, says:
The Internet is one of the most magnificent expressions of freedom and free enterprise in history. It should stay that way. While H.R.
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Envision Solar, a San Diego-based renewable energy company, has installed its trademark ‘solar trees’ at General Motors’ Tech Facility in Warren, Michigan. And they look fantastic. The solar tree is an innovative concept that takes advantage of idle space (parking lots, rooftops) to generate energy. Each of those trees pictured above will charge 6 electric cars, as wells as feeding power into the GM facility.
Here’s a brief video about the Solar Trees, from a New York Times report a year back:
Envision released the following announcement in the wake of the ribbon-cutting ceremony last week: “The deployment includes Solar Tree structures which incorporate Envision’s CleanChargeT CIT, “column-integrated” electric vehicle charging stations. The Solar Tree structures also incorporate Envision’s EnvisionTrakT multi-axis solar tracking technology which should increase the efficiency of the installation by as much as 25%.”
You can see the innovative tracking mechanism at work in the video above.
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If you feel like your roads are always the last to be cleared of snow and ice when bad whether hits, you’re not alone. In Chicago, city officials hope that new city Web site will disprove neighborhood theories of snowplow favoritism.
Many Chicagoans appear to believe that the schedules over Chicago’s nearly 300 snowplows may be politically motivated – clearing the streets and neighborhoods of residents with more clout first. ChicagoShovels.org will use GPS technology to provide real-time tracking of Chicago’s snowplows, giving a clear view of the roads that get plowed first. But resolving the whispered theories of favoritism is just one benefit of the new web site.
ChicagoShovels comes mainly in response to a blizzard that closed down the city last February. The websi
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The Amazon Kindle is an e-book reader developed by Amazon.com. The device allows the users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless connectivity on their small tidy handheld, lightweight Kindle. This Kindle is now in the fourth generation of its kind. The Kindle does not use an LCD screen like tablet devices, instead it uses an E Ink electronic paper display, which renders 16 shades of gray simulating realistic reading paper while only using the smallest amount of power consumption.
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T-Mobile’s latest Windows Phone will arrive next year. The carrier has just unveiled its newest Nokia smartphone at the joint press event that was announced last week.
Interested consumers can purchase the T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 starting on Jan. 11 for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate card, with a two-year service agreement.
This international version of this phone has already been announced before this event. However, a recap of the specs and features wouldn’t hurt. Here are the details for this upcoming smartphone for 2012:
- 3.7 inch 800 x 480 WVGA TFT screen with ClearBlack technology
- Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) operating system
- 1.4GHz Snapdragon (Qualcomm MSM8255)
- removable/rechargeable 1300mAH Li-Ion battery
- 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash, 4x digital zoom, and 720p video recording at 30 fps
- 4G capable. The
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