Was Einstein Wrong?

Scientists at CERN say they have recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light, a feat that Einstein said was impossible.

If the findings are proven to be accurate, they would overturn one of the pillars of the "Standard Model" of physics, which explains the way the universe and everything within it works.

Einstein's theory of special relativity, proposed in 1905, states that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.

But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.

Proof that something had travelled faster would pose major questions about our understanding of the laws of nature because, for example, something that travels faster than light would in theory arrive before it left.

Speed of light 'broken' by scientists

Google Wallet Launches

Right now, Google Wallet only works with Citi-Mastercards and the Google Prepaid Card. Visa and Google announced a worldwide agreement to support the Visa payWave app, but it will still be up to the financial institutions and banks to add support.



Google Wallet

DOJ Antitrust Chief: AT&T Merger Lawsuit Not Negotiating Tactic

The Justice Department's chief antitrust enforcer flatly rejects speculation that the agency's lawsuit to block the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA is a negotiating tactic.

"I wouldn't call it a preemptive lawsuit of any kind," Sharis Pozen said. "The department's antitrust objections to the $39 billion deal "couldn't be clearer."

AT&T Merger Lawsuit Not Negotiating Tactic

Mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads quality, Google says

In 2010 Google began to limit ad serving on high-end mobile devices if they pointed to landing pages with Flash-heavy content. This was an initial step taken to improve the experience for mobile users. Google now says it will, n the coming weeks, introduce the mobile optimization of a website as a new factor of "ad quality" for AdWords campaigns that are driving mobile search traffic.

As a result of this change, ads that have mobile optimized landing pages will perform better in AdWords. They will generally drive more mobile traffic at a lower cost.

Mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads quality

Meg Whitman HP’s new CEO?

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will likely be named the new full-time CEO of Hewlett-Packard after markets close on Sept. 22, 2011, according to All Things D.

  H-P has had management and many would say board turmoil for some years. One wishes her well, but wonders why she wants the headache. HP has had seven different CEOs since 1999.


Meg Whitman will likely be named HP’s new CEO

Netflix to Merge With Amazon?

Netflix created separate DVD by mail and streaming units so Netflix could be sold to Amazon, argues Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. Netflix formed Qwikster so it can be spun off, allowing Amazon to buy Netflix, he argues.

"In our view, Amazon has always wanted to be in the streaming business, and has been constrained from buying Netflix due to tax considerations," says Pachter. "The split up of Netflix’s business addresses the state sales tax issues raised for Amazon."

If Amazon were to acquire only Netflix’s streaming business, it could triple the size of its content library, and gain traction as an industry leader.

Netflix split to set up Amazon streaming merger?

New Sprint Hotspot Data Cap of 5GB

Sprint has been tightening its belt in a number of other ways, including killing off its Sprint Premier upgrade program and raising upgrade fees.

Now it appears Sprint will dramatically revise its mobile hotspot plans. Sprint customers new and old get hotspot data cap of 5GB

Sprint will start capping data used by phone hotspots to 5 GBytes per month.

Even existing customers won’t be exempt from the new cap, and will be migrated to a new plan enforcing the limit after a friendly reminder from their carrier.