As some of you may know, Informant Zone has been down for just over half a year. Previously, it was a blog where a reader could read topics on just about anything. However, it has now narrowed down its focus to the world of automotive news, products, press releases and how-to’s! We hope that you enjoy the come back of Informant Zone in its new form and will find usefulness in its articles! -Informant Zone Team Read Full Story

It wasn’t too long ago that stealing catalytic converters was a profitable trade. However, since converters have small amounts of platinum and palladium in them with prices of platinum tripling (per troy ounce) and palladium doubling, it’s become more of a lucrative prospect. Thieves take these catalytic converters to scrap yards and get anywhere from $50-$100 for each one. For a consumer to head out and replace theirs, they can expect to pay around $200 for a universal converter ... Read Full Story

As floating speculation grows on former Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre’s next move, reports of inappropriate dialogue between Favre and the Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell has inevitably caused the Packers to file tampering charges on the Vikings. Favre, still technically a part of the Green Bay orginazation, has clearly shown his disgust for the teams’ refusal to release him by publicly grinding the Packers’ GM Ted Thompson. The Pack... Read Full Story

Originally designed by physicists at Rutgers University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and the State University of New York in Buffalo, the nano-sized electronic circuit which is 100 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is able to detect light in the far infrared spectrum. What this enables researchers to do is trace faint amounts of light from the universes earliest stars. As they move further away from us, stars approach speeds close to that of light itself. The light that the... Read Full Story

According to physiotherapist Angela Growse, improper posture, eye straining squinting, neck craning are all things we are doing while on our BlackBerry’s. All of this bad posture has started to surface itself in various forms of ailments such as phantom vibrations, neck pain and weight gaining. While thumb inflammation of people who power text is an obvious ailment, the other stories of upper body pain as a result of overusing a handheld device have gone unstudied. Canadian researcher D... Read Full Story

In turn of the large auto maker’s decline in sales, CEO Rick Wagoner is preparing to make a second announcement of the corporations’ revision of its infrastructure. The purpose of this plan is to cut costs and regain investor confidence. At the forefront of the cost cutting are the jobs of GM’s white collar workers such as engineers and managers. As a result of this news, GM shares did regain their position by as much as 5%. Included in the plan to cut costs is also the trim... Read Full Story

Chris Coleson of Quinton Virginia proved that a diet solely based on McDonalds can yield weight loss results. Coleson says that his benchmark weight is to be 185lbs. He’s lost a total of 79lbs since December when he started out at 278lbs and is now currently at 199lbs. Due to the inspiration of his children and a blind war veteran as well as the convenience that McDonalds provided, Coleson ate not the burgers and fries, but rather the apple dippers, salads and wraps. Read Full Story

This page was created to have useable and interesting content on it to give the site some more spice. As of right now, we have put a currency converter and Google page rank checker on it for public use. Over time, we will be adding more great content to that page for our readers to enjoy. For now, we hope that you will find use in what we’ve put up and will continue to update you on any other changes made to it. As a notion to make our site more reader friendly, we’d like to have ... Read Full Story

This is something that I’ve had to fight with in my yard. The problem that arises from planting anything on a sloped surface is that water tends to drain downwards before it gets a chance to seep into the soil and hydrate the plant. Chances are that the soil around the plant will also erode over time. So something that I’ve done in the past is I’ve created a level space in which to put the plant by building up the bottom end of the slope. In extreme cases where the slope is ... Read Full Story

This is not necessarily a bad thing although Google investors might have disagreed last week when they saw Google shares fall sharply. A report written by comScore indicated that the drop in paid clicks was related to improvements that Google had made within its ad platform. Some of which included Google’s efforts to weed out low quality leads for advertisers by placing fewer, better targeted ads. This in turn did reduce the clickthrough rate of ads. However, what that means is that the... Read Full Story