Rumor: Obama wants greener cars for the U.S. government | inrumor …
I just came across a fantastic post by contact@inrumor.com, posted earlier today, and entitled Rumor: Obama wants greener cars for the U.S. government | inrumor … that I would strongly suggest you all read. Here’s a few little excerpts to pique your interest!
Saturday’s edition of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon featured an unexpected performance.The daughter of music legend Phil Collins will play Snow White in the upcoming movie based on the Brothers Grimm story.In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Elton John lashed out at Kings of Leon and Dave Grohl for their refusal to let Glee cover their singles.At a conference with Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, probably slipped a bit of info about the iPhone 5.U.S. President Barack Obama recently said that he wants all cars purchased by the government starting with 2015 to use alternative fuels..
Now then, reading contact@inrumor.com’s article got me thinking so I googled for more posts on the subject and found some more greats! e.g. iPhone 5 8MP camera tipped after Sony CEO slip posted yesterday, by Chris Davies, on SlashGear:
Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has apparently let slip the camera hardware specifications of the iPhone 5, Apple’s fifth-generation smartphone. Speaking to Walt Mossberg this week, 9 to 5 Mac reports, Stringer discussed the impact of the Japanese earthquake on CMOS sensor production at the company’s Sendai plant. “Our best sensor technology is built in one of the affected factories” he said, “those go to Apple for their iPhones… or iPads. Isn’t that something? They buy our best sensors from us?” Back in April 2010, reports surfaced based on analyst checks that Apple was looking to Sony for an 8-megapixel camera for the fifth-gen iPhone.
Finally, another fantastic article came from iPhoneHacks on iPhone Hacks posted yesterday and entitled iPhone 5 To Feature 8-Megapixel Camera? ? which is also definitely worth reading!
Interestingly, Sony currently doesn’t supply camera sensors for Apple’s iOS devices. It’s OmniVision Technologies that supply camera sensors for the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G and iPad 2. This suggests that Sony CEO was probably referring to camera sensors for the yet to be released fifth generation iPhone – iPhone 5. 9to5Mac reports: Stringer just said that their camera image sensor facility in Sendai was affected by the tsunami.
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It "always puzzles me," he said. "Why would I make Apple the best camera?" It is unclear what devices he was talking about as Sony isn’t known to supply key camera components, known as image sensors, to Apple; A Sony spokeswoman declined to comment and an Apple spokesperson couldn’t be reached for comment. Back in April 2010, Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar had claimed in a report that Apple had roped in Sony to supply 8-megapixel camera sensors for iPhone 5 while Omnivision would supply the 5-megapixel camera sensors for iPhone 4, which turned out to be accurate. Apple usually unveils iPhone at the WorldWide Developer Conference 2011 but it is widely speculated that Apple will delay the launch of iPhone 5 until this fall.