News
Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that its Defense, Space & Security (BDS) business unit will showcase the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II simulator inside the National Congress Building in Brasília from Aug. 16 through 19. The Brazilian public will be able to fly the simulator and see the advanced technology inside the Super Hornet.
Sports
Mark Wilkins has scored a Rolex Sports Car Series win and a pole position at Watkins Glen International, both on the ultra-high speed 2.45-mile "short" course that the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series will utilize this Saturday evening as part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race weekend.
Entertainment Arts & Technology
A byproduct of today's blockbuster deal by Google to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion is that Google is getting its nose into pay-TV operators' tent via Motorola's huge set-top box business. Set-tops are part of Motorola's Home segment, which in Q2 generated over $900 million in revenue, a little less than a third of Motorola's total.
VIZIO, America's #1 LCD HDTV company, announced that E & S International has become a licensee under VIZIO's QAM patent portfolio. VIZIO, a leader in the American LCD HDTV market, owns a substantial worldwide patent portfolio directed to digital television technology. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
More Troubles at the L.A. Times: Who Owns David Strick's Photographs?
Fox's "In the Flow With Affion Crockett" premiered soft, the "CMA Music Festival" on ABC dipped slightly from last year's broadcast, and CBS took the night overall with its reliable ratings earner "Big Brother," according to preliminary numbers
Southwest Airlines and Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Announce College Students Selected for Travel Program
Netflix's "Just for Kids" section apparently is getting a new interface that children should find easier to use
TabJuice.com – Sponsor of Trend Tank located inside POOL Tradeshow
CHILDREN OF 9/11? SPECIAL TO AIR ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH AT 10 PM ET ON NBC
Apes remained the dominant primates at movie theaters as "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" took in $27.8 million to hold on at No. 1 for a second-straight weekend
Beaking news
Google Inc will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software and compete with smartphone rival Apple Inc.
