Hummer spokesman Nick Richards said it was unclear whether jobs would be affected at the plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, which also builds Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks.
"It hasn't been determined what the impact will be but right now, but Hummer production is under a quarter of production" at the plant, Richards said.
GM agreed last year to sell Hummer to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery and expected the deal to close early in 2010 after approval by US and Chinese regulators.
Assembly of Hummers will halt Jan. 19 because there's "sufficient inventory in the field" to sustain dealers while the sale makes its way through the regulatory process, Richards said.
Richards said the company still expects to get regulatory approval and to complete the deal.
There are a lot of apps you can find over at the iTunes app store but this is one app you are not going to find. Unless you are in the military, the One Force Tracker app for the iPhone is only available from the Raytheon website and is made for soldiers who can make use of a constantly updating app detailed with friendly and enemy positions.
The gist of the app is to help enhance the military through the use of an iPhone app although it seems weird to find a soldier going off to war with an iPhone in tow. I don’t think their captains or commanders would even allow them to bring one on the training field or better yet, actual warfare.
Microsoft’s Street Side does for interactive street level photographs what Google Maps did for regular maps.
You can interactively drive around the city using the keyboard and see street level photographs (left, window, front view, and right window), plus a satellite overview. This is a more effective and easier to use presentation than Amazon’s Block View .
It’s really pretty cool, though limited to Seattle and San Francisco for now.
Richard Branson founded Virgin Atlantic Airways. Now he has joined with aviation designer Burt Rutan to form a new space travel company, Virgin Galactic. Five years ago, Mister Rutan's SpaceShipOne became the first private craft to reach space.
The spacecraft made three suborbital flights. You can see SpaceShipOne at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Mister Rutan is now partners with Mister Branson to create a spacecraft for passengers.
Enterprise is the first of five planned SpaceShipTwo planes. The eighteen-meter long craft is designed tocarry two pilots and six passengers. Testing of SpaceShipTwo is expected to begin next year. The company hopes to begin sending passengers into space by two thousand eleven. Mister Branson says he plans to bring his son and daughter and his parents with him on the first flight.
The spacecraft will launch from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Mister Branson expects his company will be able to take one thousand people into space within the first year of operation. To date, only about five hundred people have traveled into space.
Passengers will pay two hundred thousand dollars to ride to outer space and back for two and a half hours. The flight includes about five minutes of weightlessness. Passengers will be required to have three days of training before the flights. About three hundred people have already paid money for the space flights.
Virgin Galactic expects to spend more than four hundred million dollars for five commercial spaceships and launch vehicles. But Richard Branson is not the only one working to make space flight available to the public. Several other people are also building their own rockets. They include Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, computer game programmer John Carmack and rocketeer Jeff Greason. Yet Virgin Galactic is expected to be the first to operate its spacecraft.
Apple has taken it upon themselves to release a list of the top apps, music, podcasts and other things. If you would like to see the whole list, click here to launch it in iTunes.
The top app list is divided into “best of” and “top seller” categories for two types of apps: general applications, and games. Apple seems to think that there is a big enough difference between them to have it fair to separate them.
So, who won? Well, instead of just listing, we will show you are a screenshot of each of the top four from each of the four categories. Enjoy, and happy downloading.
