Clare, Michigan is a small city that is about 85 miles north of Lansing and about 161 miles from Detroit. A man in Clare was robbed at gunpoint of $10 as part of a gang initiation when he was at a bar. Instead of telling the police that he was at a bar, he felt more comfortable telling his Facebook friends. This was because of the man was worried about his professional reputation.
A third party reported it to the police so they found out anyway. Police contacted the victim and heard a tip that led to the arrest of the suspects last week. The two suspects were Aron Davenport (19), Jason Wiers (17), and a 16 year old male.
“From our investigation we have every reason to believe that this gang was looking to get established here,” stated Police Chief Dwayne Miedzianowski. The police caught one of the suspects during a traffic stop and the other suspects in various parts of the city.
Moral of the story: if you get robbed tell the police, not a social network.
Let’s say that you own a Kindle and bought several books that are publicized by Random House. You will no longer have the ability to have the text-to-speech feature, meaning having the book read back to you. If you are blind, then you are getting shafted here.
Random House decided to have the feature turned off as part of an option that Amazon.com gave to publishing companies. The Authors Guild decided to protest against the text-to-speech feature shortly after the device was released. So far at least 40 books have had the feature removed including those by authors Stephen King and Toni Morrison.
It looks like Google executives are in high demand for graduation commencements seeing as how CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Carnegie Mellon graduation commencement on Saturday. Earlier this month, Google co-founder Larry Page spoke at the University of Michigan commencement.
Larry Page’s speech took a more personal approach where he talked about how his parents met and what was life like growing up in Michigan. Eric Schmidt decided to take an approach where he talks about the past, present, and future of technology.
What I liked about Larry Page’s speech is that many of the people that came from Michigan are very proud of where they come from especially because of the struggle that the state is having with unemployment rates. The automotive sector in Michigan carries a legacy and everyone in Michigan knows someone that is associated with that industry. This is why it made sense why Page focused on a more personal speech while Schmidt could focus on technology in Steel City (Pittsburgh).
Oh snap! Some pictures of the BlackBerry Storm 2 have been leaked and a source of Crackberry.com got a hold of them. The pictures spread from there and were posted on several websites. Here are a couple of pictures from Engadget.
The BlackBerry Storm 2 is expected to have WiFi, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and have the same bottom four buttons as the original Storm. None of the leaked screenshots have a picture of the operating system running so we can’t really say what will be powering the device yet.
The original Storm suffered bad reviews and was not really seen as an ‘iPhone killer’ as people were making it out to be before release, but it was the third most popular device sold in the U.S. during 1H 2009.
The Centers for Disease website saw a tremendous spike in traffic due to the commotion that is being caused regarding the swine flu. As a matter of fact in the month of April, the CDC.gov was considered the fastest growing. Their traffic is starting to level back to where it was again.
According to comScore, the CDC.gov website received 5.7 million unique visitors in April which was 142% growth from the previous month. Between April 26 and May 3, the CDC website received 5.3 million visitors itself. That is 6 times growth from the previous week.
In less than a month of joining Twitter, TV spokeswoman and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has accumulated over 1 million followers. About a month ago, Oprah discussed Twitter with Ashton Kutcher, the first user to hit one million followers and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.
Oprah has been updating pretty regularly too. She wrote about 45 updates since joining on April 17th. Most of her updates revolve around who is appearing on her show. Recently Oprah spoke did a commencement speech at Duke University as her god son graduated from there. “Speaking at Duke Graduation in a few minutes. Streaming Live on Oprah.com,” she tweeted.
Twitter has a recommended personalities section to add for users when they first join the micro-blogging service. Oprah has become one of those recommended personalities. For the celebrities that are on Twitter, the company decided to hire a VIP Concierge. Back in March, Jason Calacanis offered Twitter $250,000 to the company for making his company Mahalo a suggested user.
Oprah has been making updates on Twitter mostly through the web. The web is the standard place for users that don’t update much on Twitter. Many people prefer to update through Twitter-related software on their mobile devices or using the Adobe AIR application TweetDeck.
Sigma Corporation has unleashed a new camera in the U.K. and the U.S. market. It is called the Sigma DP2 and it was available for pre-order in March. In the U.K., the camera is selling for about £599.99 and in the U.S. it is retailing for about $699. The specs of the camera include a 14 megapixel resolution and a new 41mm f/ 2.8 lens with a TRUE II processing engine.
Graham Hawkes is a world renowned engineer that has been working on deep sea vessels for around 20 years. Graham’s recently invented the Deep Flight Super Falcon. The Falcon is a 20 foot vessel with 10 feet wings and runs on batteries. The Falcon can reach a depth of 1,500 feet at travel at 7MPH. The Falcon will help study exotic sea creatures and will fly around the Monterey Bay between June 17th and July 17th. Above is video coverage from CNN about Hawkes’ invention.
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