Tesla Motors' Big Surprise

Tesla Motors' Big Surprise

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This wasn't a surprise: Tesla Motors (NAS: TSLA) lost a bunch of money in the second quarter -- despite a big increase in revenues.

The Silicon Valley electric-car start-up dell C5974 battery posted a loss of $0.53 a share on revenues of $58.2 million for the quarter. Both of those numbers exceeded consensus Wall Street estimates, but the trends weren't a surprise: Demand is strong (by Tesla standards, at least) for the company's current car, the Roadster, while development of the upcoming Model S sedan is burning big bucks.

The big surprise was elsewhere -- a hint of dell YF976 battery a huge new deal with mighty Toyota (NYS: TM) .

Tesla's big surprise

Tesla has parts-and-technology deals in place with Mercedes maker Daimler and battery supplier Panasonic (NYS: PC) , but its deals with Toyota are the ones that have attracted the most attention from investors. Thanks to the Japanese giant, Tesla has a factory, a contract to help develop the electric version of Toyota's RAV4 SUV, and a very Dell Precision M20 Battery,
dell F5635 battery visible patron in Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, who famously test-drove a Roadster last year with Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk.

That RAV4 contract delivered $19 million to Tesla's bottom line during the quarter, and it's expected to bring about $100 million after the deal was expanded in July. But on Wednesday, Musk hinted that much more may be on the way: During a call for analysts, Musk said the company was discussing a deal with Toyota that would be "an order of magnitude" larger than the July contract.

That means billion-with-a-B, the Dell BAT1194 Battery company confirmed after the call. It's not yet a done deal, and we can only guess at the details, but that kind of contract would transform Tesla from a long-shot start-up carmaker to a serious, credible industry supplier.

Maybe even a profitable one. That would be a nice surprise for shareholders.

A smarter route to profitability?

Musk has talked brashly of "disrupting" the global auto business, but I've long thought that the company's best path to sustainable profitability would be as Dell 1X793 Battery a supplier, not a carmaker. The barriers to entry as an auto manufacturer are immense in today's low-margin, globalized car market, but Tesla's experience with electric power trains makes it a valuable potential partner for big automakers looking to up their electric game.

Technologically, Tesla's kind of a Dell BATDW00L Battery one-trick pony, but it's a good trick. The Roadster was the first, and is so far the only, all-electric car that meets global quality expectations with a range comparable to conventional gas-powered autos. To some extent that range advantage is due to the Roadster's expensive battery pack (and corresponding six-figure price point), but the Tesla systems that manage those batteries are good enough to have attracted Toyota's attention, and Toyota is no green-car slouch.

Intriguing possibilities going forward

Tesla was never likely to make it as Dell 7T670 Battery "just" a carmaker. Plain and simple, the company isn't likely to ever have the scale or resources to compete profitably with the likes of Ford (NYS: F) or General Motors (NYS: GM) , much less the German luxury-car makers that dominate the segment Tesla's hoping to enter with the Model S. A niche producer of a few thousand expensive cars a year for Dell F0590A01 Battery the world's gadget geeks? Maybe. But that's not a route to the kind of profitability Tesla shareholders are expecting.

But now we can at least credibly imagine Tesla as the outsourced center of Toyota's electric-car expertise. Could that lead to profitable tie-ups with other automakers? Or maybe even a buyout offer? Tesla's market cap is still under $3 billion -- even an offer with a fat premium wouldn't strain any of the big automakers too badly.

These are just possibilities right now, of course. But they're worth close watching, because this Dell Winbook N4 Battery company seems to have a way of getting more interesting every quarter.

Sony Tablet S1 and S2 Screenshots Leaked?

Sony Tablet S1 and S2 Screenshots Leaked?

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The ever-increasing trend of tablets, notebooks and netbooks has drastically shaken the market. Companies ranging from Apple, Samsung, Asus, Motorola, RIM to the gigantic computing rulers Dell, all have joined the protracted race. Surprisingly Sony has not released any tablet yet but they are at the verge of introducing one that might rattle companies like Apple and Samsung. After a series of teaser videos, images of the upcoming S1 and S2 tablets by Sony have finally been leaked. S1 and S2 which were revealed back in April 2011 are about to invade the market and have been spotted running Android 3.2 Honeycomb with an aura of ecstatic apps and features.

The device will be shipped with Honeycomb 3.2, a great news as some of the users are still waiting for 3.1 update!



Sony will also be including a ‘Wi-Fi Checker’ app which will presumably help people connect properly to the web, perhaps with more complicated enterprise connections in mind.

Screenshots of the app launcher also indicate that Sony will be including a Chumby app. Chumby is a sort of internet companion that’s designed for a bedside table. Sony’s Dash ‘Internet Viewer’ is powered by the Chumby OS, so it makes sense that the S1 and S2 will be able to use the Chumby app to fill a Dash-like role, though the redundancy between Chumby and the ‘Dash Dock’ is perplexing.

The virtual keyboard comes with a number pad. The music player is equipped with a unique design and user interface.

This screenshot seems to be for the Sony Tablet S1. The power charger isn’t micro-USB. We don’t know why Sony sticks to a proprietary charger when most other manufacturers have pledged to fully comply–by 2012–with the Universal Charger Solution (UCS) initiative’s standards specifying the use of micro-USB as the common charging port for handheld and portable devices. Regardless, you’ll need to always bring the proprietary adapter so you can power up your tablet when battery as dell U4873 battery, Dell Inspiron XPS M170 Battery,Dell Inspiron XPS M1710 Battery, dell Vostro 1510 battery, dell T112C battery, dell Vostro 1310 battery, dell T116C battery, dell Y022C battery, dell Latitude E6400 batterypower runs low.

The S1 and S2 are due out this fall, though Sony keeps reminding us that the names are unofficial and may be changed! The devices seem to be interesting with a unique design and auspicious applications but can it beat iPad 2 and Galaxy?

How Malware Might Blow Up Your Laptop

How Malware Might Blow Up Your Laptop

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We depend on our computers to get work done, and so we try to safeguard them appropriately. But our trusty laptops, desktops, and tablets rely on their own internal network of sophisticated computer chips to function. These tiny chips--called microcontrollers--regulate everything from the battery in your laptop to the headlights on your car--and they aren’t always so secure.

Microcontrollers have their own CPU and dell Vostro 1014 battery enough discrete memory to run simple programs, and although they’re usually designed for a single task, they can be reprogrammed via updates to the device firmware. Typically the hardware manufacturer delivers such downloadable updates to improve the performance of your device, but there’s nothing stopping a hacker from mimicking those updates and injecting your device with malicious code.

Thankfully, hackers such as Charlie Miller are happy to demonstrate the potential pitfalls of purchasing hardware from manufacturers that don’t secure seemingly "dumb" devices like batteries. Miller is a security researcher for Accuvant Labs, and after demonstrating how a hacker could take over your iPhone with a text message at dell Vostro A860 battery the Black Hat security conference in 2009, he went looking for a more exciting hack.

"I’d just wrapped a presentation on iPhone hacking and wanted to work on something more flashy," said Miller during an interview with PCWorld. "I wanted to know, could a remote hacker do something to cause physical damage to a computer? Like, could I set my sister’s laptop on fire?"

As it turns out, he probably could. Miller dell Inspiron 1410 battery experimented with the seven or eight MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models he had won in Pwn2Own hacking competitions over the past three years, and he found that most modern laptop batteries are part of a Smart Battery System that relays information between the battery and the laptop’s operating system to ensure that power is safely stored and discharged. If you’ve ever wondered how your laptop knows exactly how much time you have left before the battery dies, it’s because of this system.

Every laptop battery needs a microcontroller to relay information back and forth, and that microcontroller needs to run firmware independently of the laptop. That firmware is accessible through dell Latitude XT battery the laptop, but is not affected if you wipe your laptop’s memory or reinstall the operating system.

This arrangement is a privacy breach waiting to happen: Malicious hackers with access to your laptop could load small spyware programs onto your battery chip, where they would run--undetected by any antivirus software.

"You could inject malware [from the battery] dell Latitude E5500 battery into a laptop, you just need to find a vulnerability in the OS that would allow battery firmware to exchange code,” Miller speculates. “It’s even possible to execute a kind of denial-of-service attack on your laptop by hammering the operating system with bluff code."

Even wiping or replacing the hard drive wouldn’t catch this type of malware, and since these chips regulate critical system functions such as battery levels or charging speed, there is a potential for serious damage.

"I was able to make the battery lie to the computer about things like how charged it was or how hot it was,” Miller says. “If you changed those variables, something really bad could happen."

Thankfully, the Texas Instruments microcontrollers that Miller pulled off of his Apple batteries are password-protected. Anyone who tries to modify the firmware needs to enter dell Latitude E5400 battery two different passwords, which are set by default when the chips leave the factory. The problem is that Apple has not been changing those default passwords, which means it was child’s play for Miller to reprogram his MacBook Air’s battery using default passwords obtained from Texas Instruments’ website.

"Texas Instruments didn’t do anything wrong," Miller says. “It’s all Apple’s fault for not scrambling the passwords. Other PC manufacturers could use these dell XPS M2010 battery chips and secure them correctly.”

In fact, many battery manufacturers are doing just that; when Miller bought a replacement battery with the same Texas Instruments chip for his 13-inch MacBook from a third-party manufacturer on eBay, he was unable to access the firmware because the manufacturer had changed the passwords.

“It’s so easy to change these passwords. Apple dell HW905 battery should definitely do it, but they can’t safely update existing models," Miller notes. Although Apple and other laptop manufacturers could immediately scramble the passwords with a firmware update, malicious hackers could just reverse-engineer that update to figure out the new password. "They need to start scrambling the passwords before these laptops leave the factory."

To date we’ve heard no reports of privacy breaches or malware attacks via device firmware, but since batteries and other "dumb" devices are ignored by traditional security software, it’s impossible to know whether their failure is natural or engineered.

"There's definitely a risk that malware could brick your battery so it never works again," Miller warns. "I don’t know why someone would do that, except just to be mean."

We contacted Apple for comment on this article, but received no response. Miller has already notified both Apple and Texas Instruments of his findings, and will be presenting his dell Precision M6400 battery research at the 2011 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this weekend. There he will also release CaulkGun, a program he wrote that you can use to scramble the passwords on your laptop battery.

"The good news is that malware won’t be able to brick your battery," Miller claims. "The bad news is that Apple won’t be able to update your battery firmware."

Has Starbucks had enough of laptop loungers?

Has Starbucks had enough of laptop loungers?

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Is there a time and a place for laptop use? And should the place never be Starbucks at any time?

It seems that staff at some Starbucks in New York have had enough of those who spend their days using the home of the troubled croissant as their permanent place of work.

The Starbucks Gossip site (which I don't read, but Gawker does) was the first to offer that certain Starbucks were covering up their AC outlets, so that customers would have to rely on their laptop batteries as dell Inspiron 5000 battery, dell Inspiron E1705 battery, dell Inspiron 6000 battery(dell 6000 battery), dell Inspiron 9300 battery, dell Inspiron 9400 battery, dell 310-6321 battery, dell 310-6322 battery, dell D5318 battery, rather than the company's power supply.

A poster named Mike Pollock, who turns out to be Mike Pollock, voice of General Blanque in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" (as well as Dr. Eggman in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" series), wondered how widespread was the apparent policy of boarding up outlets.

Pollock specifically mentioned two Manhattan Starbucks--one at 14 West 23 Street and the other at West 39 Street and 8th Avenue.

Another poster added to the fascination by claiming: "I will tell you that the NY Metro leadership team has stated they are against covering the outlets because it is a passive aggressive way to deal with the issue. However, in extreme cases, they have approved this action because (and let's be real here) some people just cannot be reasoned with."

However, one perhaps even more insider view comes from a poster with the prophetic handle "Can't please everyone." He or she explains that they are an 8-year Starbucks veteran and that some people should get a life, rather than a light on their laptop.

"Can't please everyone writes": "Covering outlets is not a company wide or even regionally accepted practice. In certain extreme circumstances, where management have exhausted other avenues of resolution, stores have covered their outlets because people do abuse the 'welcoming' nature of Starbucks."

While at pains to declare that Starbucks doesn't want to penalize those who are married to their laptops, he or she adds: "In parts of NYC, you can find a Starbucks on every other corner, but rest assured there is a contingent group that set up shop charging their phones, computer, secondary devices and try to take every free thing they can."

Essentially (and shockingly) it seems that some New Yorkers are simply unreasonable halfwits.

Indeed "Can't please everyone" explains that the laptop loungers are the first to whine if one of Starbucks' free items--like the perfect room temperature for their delicate natures, for example--is suddenly not available.

But shouldn't laptops just be banned from Starbucks? This issue came up a couple of years ago when certain coffee shops decided to restrict the hours during which laptops can be used.

Some larger New York City cafes seem to be having success with limiting laptop use. One poster to the Starbucks Gossip site, Charles, says his Barnes and Noble has found a laptop-limited environment very noble indeed.

"I manage a B&N cafe and we have about 16 tables and a bar with stools which seats about 45 people total. Our cafe is always full of friendly people actually talking with each other, reading books, and enjoying a latte and maybe a slice of cheesecake. How is this possible you ask? We have 1 (one) outlet...period," wrote Charles.

Given that I start the majority of my days at Starbucks (well, after getting up, showering, and wondering what day it is), I contacted Starbucks to see whether a policy change might be green-lighted.

I am thoroughly depressed to say that the company has chosen not to reply. Perhaps it has no answer. But I will update, should some words of wisdom from the Seattle Temple of Tall emerge.

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

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The bomb squad was there, along with an armored vehicle.

There were sheriff's deputies, police, firefighters and game wardens. The CareFlight helicopter. Even a robot, which deftly removed a gun from a desperado's hand.

The Target parking lot had all the hallmarks of a disaster scene Tuesday afternoon, except for an actual disaster.

Instead, the concentration of law enforcement was part of the annual commemoration of National Night Out, the crime awareness and prevention program.

The idea is to get citizens behind their local law enforcement agencies, not just in spirit but in actual deed. Take two recent unsolved cases in Missoula - Monday night's rash of bicycle and other thefts in Farviews and other neighborhoods, and the recent widespread vandalism in which vehicles all over town were spray-painted.

The public's help is crucial in finding those responsible, said Missoula Police Detective Sgt. Travis Welsh. "We can't be everywhere at once," he said.

Crimestoppers, the group that solicits tips on such cases and offers rewards when criminals are convicted because of that help, had a booth at Tuesday's event.

Nearby, kids crawled in and out of a shiny fire truck while John Petroff, Bill Moore and Jamie Porter of the Missoula Fire Department's Station No. 5 reminded their parents to be diligent about changing the batteries as dell Latitude C600 battery, dell Latitude C610 battery, dell Latitude C640 battery, dell 1691P battery, Dell 1K500 battery, Dell 8M815 battery, Dell 851UY battery, dell 75UYF battery, Dell BAT-I3700 battery, dell 5081P battery in their smoke detectors.

Their job goes well beyond pouring water on blazing buildings, Moore said. Firefighters provide medical aid, perform river rescues and extract people from confined spaces. They've even rescued the occasional bear.

"We're kind of jack-of-all-trades people," Moore said.

The city and county's ominous-looking armored vehicle was nearly as big a draw as the fire engine.

Missoula County Sheriff's Department Capt. Brad Giffin likened it to a hook-and-ladder truck.

"You don't need it often," he told Kerry Wheeler of Missoula as her sons Chase, 9, and Zachary, 11, clambered around the 18,000-pound vehicle. "But when you do need it, you really, really need it."

Sort of like the Andros robot that zoomed around the parking lot, seemingly on its own, grabbing boxes of chalk from a nearby table and offering them to the kids who clustered around it.

In the case of the robot, the Oz-like man behind the curtain Tuesday was Sheriff's Deputy Dave Bell. He sat in a nearby trailer, manipulating levers and seeing everything "Robo" saw via a monitor.

When 2-year-old William Callison of Reno, Nev., pointed one of his orange plastic six-shooters at Robo, the 'bot promptly confiscated it.

This year's event had twice as many participants as last year, said Missoula County Sheriff's Detective Jason Johnson, who along with Missoula Police Crime Prevention Officer Rob Scheben, Target's assets protection team leader Brandon O'Dell and others organized the annual gathering.

O'Dell watched in satisfaction as a group of squealing kids trailed after Robo.

"Kids are just loving it," he said. Which was, after all, the entire point of the day - to let them get to know the good guys, so that maybe when they grow up, they'll be the ones helping law enforcement look after the community.

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

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Savona, N.Y. — Some would say it is a miracle that this man is alive. After a serious heart attack, a stroke and a heart transplant, Jon O’Dell, 49, of Hornell is finally on the road to recovery.

On a hot August day in 2009, O’Dell stumbled into the dell Latitude CPX battery house after he and his son did some work in their yard. His wife, Dawn, thought he was joking around, but when he fell she knew something was seriously wrong.

He was having a myocardial infarction, or a heart attack, which killed the left side of his heart.

O’Dell was taken to the Emergency Room in Arnot Ogden Medical Center by his wife, then transferred for emergency surgery in Elmira. O’Dell was then fitted with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation dell Inspiron 2500 battery machine to keep him alive while being transported to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

About a day after his heart attack, O’Dell had surgery to install the Left Ventricular Assist Device. This dell Inspiron 4100 battery structure was implanted and worked for the left side of his heart, which was no longer functioning.

Only the right side of his heart could function, giving him a half-regular heartbeat accompanied by what sounded like a vacuum, as Dawn O’Dell described. Although it was strange, the family learned as much as they could about the device.

A few days after the surgery to install dell Inspiron 4100 battery the LVAD, O’Dell had a stroke on the left side of his brain.

Doctors were unsure if he would use the right side of his body again, but while sedated to keep his heart at rest he began to move his right leg. When he awoke, he had use of his right side and the only effect of the stroke was some difficulty finding words.

He returned from the hospital dell Inspiron 8100 battery in September 2009, but was forced to go back in October for gall bladder removal. The organ had been damaged during O’Dell’s heart attack.

Life slowly became more regulated, but not without hardship. O’Dell was still living on the LVAD, a device that is battery operated. This meant O’Dell had to always carry extra batteries dell Inspiron 8000 battery throughout the day and be plugged in at night in order to stay alive. Without the machine, O’Dell would die.

While relying on the LVAD, his life was extremely restricted. He was not allowed to drive, and the entire family had to be trained to replace batteries, never leaving O’Dell by himself.

He stayed on this machine for dell Inspiron 8200 battery nearly two years. Meanwhile, O’Dell went back to work for the VA in March 2010, finally having some independence back although he was living with a restrictive device.

In June of that year, he went through intensive medical testing in order to get on the heart transplant list. By November, he had developed an infection on some of the tubing of his dell Latitude CPi battery LVAD, which put his name at the top of the list.

He was on the transplant waiting list for a total of eleven months. On May 14, 2011, his wife answered the phone and was told to be in Rochester within two hours for O’Dell’s heart transplant. A donor had been matched to O’Dell, whose life was about to change forever.

As he went in, he took the situation as a win-win reality. “I was either going to live because I had a new heart or I would go to heaven, so it was win-win for me,” he said. “That really made the kids angry,” he added, because they were anxious about the long surgery.

His wife had been dell G5266 battery especially anxious for her husband of 30 years, but looked to her faith and support from their two sons, Sean and Patrick to cope, as she had since O’Dell’s heart attack.

During the transplant, there were complications, though not deriving from his “new” heart. The infection along the tubin of the LVAD caused excessive bleeding.

The surgical team never gave up, even using 60 bags of blood to keep O’Dell alive.

He made it out and became an inspiration for dell G5260 battery the medical team. “They told me they had never seen anyone [survive so much],” said O’Dell.

Since the successful transplant, he has had seven biopsies to test for rejection of the heart, and all tests were clear of negative signs. Although it is a long road with 17 pill medications and 2 injections daily, O’Dell is well on the way to recovery.

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

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Savona, N.Y. — Some would say it is a miracle that this man is alive. After a serious heart attack, a stroke and a heart transplant, Jon O’Dell, 49, of Hornell is finally on the road to recovery.

On a hot August day in 2009, O’Dell stumbled into the dell Latitude CPX battery house after he and his son did some work in their yard. His wife, Dawn, thought he was joking around, but when he fell she knew something was seriously wrong.

He was having a myocardial infarction, or a heart attack, which killed the left side of his heart.

O’Dell was taken to the Emergency Room in Arnot Ogden Medical Center by his wife, then transferred for emergency surgery in Elmira. O’Dell was then fitted with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation dell Inspiron 2500 battery machine to keep him alive while being transported to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

About a day after his heart attack, O’Dell had surgery to install the Left Ventricular Assist Device. This dell Inspiron 4100 battery structure was implanted and worked for the left side of his heart, which was no longer functioning.

Only the right side of his heart could function, giving him a half-regular heartbeat accompanied by what sounded like a vacuum, as Dawn O’Dell described. Although it was strange, the family learned as much as they could about the device.

A few days after the surgery to install dell Inspiron 4100 battery the LVAD, O’Dell had a stroke on the left side of his brain.

Doctors were unsure if he would use the right side of his body again, but while sedated to keep his heart at rest he began to move his right leg. When he awoke, he had use of his right side and the only effect of the stroke was some difficulty finding words.

He returned from the hospital dell Inspiron 8100 battery in September 2009, but was forced to go back in October for gall bladder removal. The organ had been damaged during O’Dell’s heart attack.

Life slowly became more regulated, but not without hardship. O’Dell was still living on the LVAD, a device that is battery operated. This meant O’Dell had to always carry extra batteries dell Inspiron 8000 battery throughout the day and be plugged in at night in order to stay alive. Without the machine, O’Dell would die.

While relying on the LVAD, his life was extremely restricted. He was not allowed to drive, and the entire family had to be trained to replace batteries, never leaving O’Dell by himself.

He stayed on this machine for dell Inspiron 8200 battery nearly two years. Meanwhile, O’Dell went back to work for the VA in March 2010, finally having some independence back although he was living with a restrictive device.

In June of that year, he went through intensive medical testing in order to get on the heart transplant list. By November, he had developed an infection on some of the tubing of his dell Latitude CPi battery LVAD, which put his name at the top of the list.

He was on the transplant waiting list for a total of eleven months. On May 14, 2011, his wife answered the phone and was told to be in Rochester within two hours for O’Dell’s heart transplant. A donor had been matched to O’Dell, whose life was about to change forever.

As he went in, he took the situation as a win-win reality. “I was either going to live because I had a new heart or I would go to heaven, so it was win-win for me,” he said. “That really made the kids angry,” he added, because they were anxious about the long surgery.

His wife had been dell G5266 battery especially anxious for her husband of 30 years, but looked to her faith and support from their two sons, Sean and Patrick to cope, as she had since O’Dell’s heart attack.

During the transplant, there were complications, though not deriving from his “new” heart. The infection along the tubin of the LVAD caused excessive bleeding.

The surgical team never gave up, even using 60 bags of blood to keep O’Dell alive.

He made it out and became an inspiration for dell G5260 battery the medical team. “They told me they had never seen anyone [survive so much],” said O’Dell.

Since the successful transplant, he has had seven biopsies to test for rejection of the heart, and all tests were clear of negative signs. Although it is a long road with 17 pill medications and 2 injections daily, O’Dell is well on the way to recovery.