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Money Talks, Cellphone Contracts Walk
1) In the article of Money Talks, Cellphone Contracts Walk it says that “The true era of cellphone penny-pinching is here,” said Allen Hepner, a scholar with the New Millennium Research Council, in a conference call Thursday.

2) In the article it states “A potentially major shift in consumer habits, at the expense of contract-based cellphone service, is under way,” said Graham Hueber, a senior researcher at the Opinion Research Center, a national polling firm that conducted the survey

Electric Cars for All! (No, Really This Time)
3)"We have two pieces of infrastructure. 1) Charge spots. And they will be everywhere, like parking meters, only instead of taking money from you when you park, they give you electrons. And they will be at home, they’ll be at work, they’ll be at downtown and retail centers. As if you have a magic contract with Chevron or Exxon that every time you stop your car and go away, they fill it up."

4)"We raised $200 million in a seed round, the largest seed round of any startup in history. We raised a $135 million a week ago in Denmark to put the same network in Denmark. We’re raising $700 million in Australia to build this network on the biggest island you can find. So this is actually getting a lot of support and a lot of funding".

5)"Governor Lingle of Hawaii was really the driving force behind getting us to Hawaii. And then the Premier of Ontario announced about a month ago that we’re gonna go to Ontario. And Ontario, most people don’t know, is the capital of cars in North America. They make more cars than Michigan these days."

6)"If you take the battery component out of our car–which is what we do; we don’t let you buy the battery, we buy the battery–then our cars are on par with gasoline cars. So an SUV will cost roughly the same as an equivalent gas SUV, roughly in the $20,000 range. A sedan will cost roughly the same range. About $20,000."

7)What we also do is, if you’re committing to driving a long distance–for example, if you’re committing to 20,000 miles a year–we give you a discount. And a discount can be sometimes $50 a month, sometimes $100 a month, towards the car. In other words, we pay for your financing of the car. And so you get a car that’s actually cheaper than its gasoline equivalent, depending on how many miles you commit. You can go all the way down– and in the case of people who drive a lot, like taxis–all the way down to zero.

8)Well, I’m more of an integration guy. So if you think about it, even though I was at SAP, SAP is about understanding the art of technology, the software part, but also understanding the processes of business. And if you look at what I did in the past, I managed teams who brought about a 100 products a year. We had labs in 25 countries around the world. Very, very complex solutions that drove the largest companies on earth, including car companies. What I bring in is that understanding of complexity of both the technology and the economy.

9)"If you try and find gasoline, in the U.S. you’re roughly a t about $.10 to $.12 a mile. So the first thing is it’s cheap. Second thing is, the batteries we’re using are not lead-acid batteries. They’re lithium iron phosphate. All within the 35 most common elements in nature. So they’re not dangerous to the environment."

Can Cellphones Help Fight Identity Theft?
10)"Like millions of other people, I found a new credit card in my mailbox from last month that the card company sent after [|a leak of account numbers]. I didn’t update all the automatic payments made on the old card and that, in turn, has soiled my reputation with the phone company, whose bill is no longer being automatically paid."

11)"But there is one sort of gizmo that a good majority of people carry with them most of the time: their cellphone. Moreover, you notice when you lose your phone. You have an incentive to get a new one. And there is a network of retail outlets that can actually provide a replacement." =Jet LagHow Boeing blew it. =

12)"Outside a giant hangar, scores of Boeing 737 aircraft were scattered like sea gulls, awaiting their final coat of airline paint before shipment to customers. The scene was similar 20 miles to the north, where a second Boeing plant could barely keep up with orders for huge 747s and was spooling up the assembly line for the then new 777." =[|Lotus to follow Tesla’s footsteps and play the electric car game?]=

13)"Lotus is doing the logical thing by coming out with an EV themselves; having designed EVs for other companies in the past. Besides every car company today recognizes the increased interest in EVs that the consumer displays today and acts accordingly." =[|BMW announces plans to produce compact hybrid cars]=

14)"This vehicle will be the first of a range of near-zero emission vehicles. Customers will have the choice between a fully electric drive and a high-efficiency combustion engine. Large-scale production could start in the first half of the next decade. With the Megacity Vehicle project, we are also pursuing a radical approach toward establishing a truly sustainable value chain-from development to production and sales."

15)"Dubbed as the Megacity Vehicle, this project comes under BMW’s Project-i which features the all electric MINI E as its first assignment."