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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26nuke.html?_r=1&hp
India's space scientists say that their satellite that detected water on the moon's surface may yield further discoveries once the data is analyzed:
http://www.asd-network.com/press_detail_B.asp?ID=23383&NID=284998
EchoStar filed applications for $1.1 billion in stimulus money, with one satellite broadband project a partnership with Carlsbad-based ViaSat to build a satellite to provide up to 8 Mbps download internet access for 20 states west of the Mississippi river. Another project is for a satellite that would provide up to 10 Mbps internet access to 1.5 million rural households:
http://www.satellitetoday.com/st/topnews/EchoStar-Seeks-$1-1-Billion-in-Broadband-Stimulus-Funding_32199.html
Clinical study is going on for using huachansu (Chinese medicine that comes from toad venom) for cancer treatment. Huachansu is widely used in China and this is the first official study of it for the US:
http://www.mdanderson.org/news-and-publications/news/2009/m-d-anderson-examines-use-of-toad-venom-in-cancer-treatment.html
Team of engineers and artists have developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer!
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=52160
Woman won *4* cars from a casino in 2 months! Lexus convertible, Mercedes convertible, and 2 trucks...wow! The best part of the story is that the woman works with Sacramento's homeless community and has given away virtually everything she has ever won at that casino, including the trucks and cars!
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090925/BREAKING/90925015?source=rss_twitter
Computerworld's benchmark tests show that IE runs JavaScript nearly 10x faster than usual when Google's new Chrome Frame plug-in is installed:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138459/IE8_runs_10_times_faster_with_Google_plug_in
Survey found that nearly 20% of US drivers have admitted that they have texted while driving, while another survey found that 93% of US drivers support a nationwide ban on texting while driving:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58O30E20090925?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Sandia National Laboratory computer scientists in Livermore, CA successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a *million* kernels as virtual machines!
http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2009/linux.html
Researchers achieved a breakthrough in software that can deliver significant increases in security and reliability--for the first time a team has proved that its operating-system kernel (7,500 lines of code) was 100% bug-free and immune to crashes and failures:
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2009/sep/microkernel_breakthrough.html
Twitter has a problem now because it has grown so popular that spammers and scammers have figured out ways to target its users:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/twitter-dead-299?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-09-25
Verizon has apparently decided to end its marketing support for the Palm Pre. Verizon may still sell the Pres in January, but its marketing push will be focused on the BlackBerry and Android phones. One reason why Verizon apparently decided to change its position on the Pre was its poor sales through Sprint:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10603148/1/exclusive-palm-pres-arrival-at-verizon-shelved.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEFI
Analysts criticized that report by saying that the Pre would definitely be on Verizon in January or February, but they weren't sure if Verizon would be marketing the Pre:
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090925/analysts-palm-pre/?mod=ATD_rss
Amazon is selling the Pre for $99 with no rebate needed, where Sprint is selling it for $149 after rebate:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/09/25/amazon-now-selling-the-palm-pre-for-99-99/
It is hard for me to believe that someone is selling a custom BlackBerry Curve for $240,000! It has nearly 29 carats of specially cut diamonds. They are only going to make 3 of them and someone in the Middle East already pre-ordered one:
http://www.cio.com/article/503303/The_World_s_Most_Expensive_BlackBerry_240K_Details_and_Images
Romantic marriage proposal on a Hilton Head Island beach led to the death of about 60 federally protected loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings:
http://www.heraldonline.com/120/story/1624744.html
Correctional officer filed a lawsuit against 6 Boston police officers that it says severely beat him because they became angry when they saw him filming them with his cell phone:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/39771.php