BP has released this infographic, Relief Wells & Subsea Containment, showing how they plan to seal the oil well leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the current progress at 8,788ft.
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Despite heavy power usage, America's national grid is outdated and inefficient. Rolling blackouts and power outages are common place and as such the argument for a smart grid has never been stronger, or had as much support. However, one potential problem facing the project could be how to maintain energy demand with the need for using renewable energy resources.
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While you may have a limited choice of cell phone carriers in your neighborhood, there are many popular cell network operators in the Americas that you may have never heard of before. None of the four major players in the US cell phone carrier market have a massive reach outside the US, but Burmuda-based Digicel has spread itself to dozens of countries and is the most prolific cell phone carrier of the Americas.
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BP originally estimated that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill would be contained with robotic submarines, however early attempts to contain the oil spill failed. Now BP and the Obama administration are left with an ever-worsening environmental catastrophe and a spiralling clean-up bill that runs into billions of dollars.
Here’s an awesome infographic which reveals everything you need to know about the latest micro blogging trend – Twitter.
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This year’s Mother’s Day economy is expected to be worth nearly $15 Billion, signaling a 4% increase from last year’s spending for the holiday. The graphic above illustrates how this spending will be comprised–where it’s coming from and also what types of gifts are being purchased.
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Cloud computing represents a shift from mainframe to client–server environments to a delivery model for IT services based on the Internet. You’re probably already in the cloud right now since SaaS applications (Gmail, VMWare, etc) are all leveraged via cloud computing.