5:14 PM
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/10/journal-of-american-medical-association.html
France is really concerned about the threat of the people carrying bombs inside their body (like the Saudi bomber who had a bomb up his butt), so security screening normally only used for suspected drug smugglers may be used for all air travelers:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/single.php?id=8893
New targeting technology that enables missiles to have a 2m accuracy may reduce civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq:
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/313452/Soldiers+on+target.htm
Tractor-trailer from a nuclear missile base (carrying missile parts but thankfully no nuclear material) in North Dakota crashed because of a large insect:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/rogue-insect-takes-down-missile-transport-truck/
Researchers demonstrated that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. Being able to "see" through walls can help police (hostage situations are one perfect example), firefighters (finding people inside of building on fire) and others:
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=100509-1
The WiMAX Forum is talking about the next generation of mobile WiMAX--802.16m is supposed to get WiMAX to be on par with LTE:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/wimax-crowd-makes-noise-around-next-generation-mobile-wimax/2009-10-11?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
The hope and expectation was that WiMAX would have success in emerging markets without established broadband and 3G service...however, this report documents how WiMAX is just a niche technology (less than 5% market share predicted) in emerging markets:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=055&ACCT=0000100&ISSUE=0910&RELTYPE=IN&PRODCODE=00000&PRODLETT=N&CommonCount=0
It apparently takes *17* months (of the 24 month contract) for AT&T to break even on iPhone users!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10371785-37.html?tag=mncol;title
Microsoft subsidiary admits that it has wiped out the remotely stored personal address books and data of T-Mobile Sidekick users...how does a Microsoft subsidiary not backup critical user data that it has on its servers? They advertise themselves as a service to automatically back up customer data to a remote server so that the customer doesn't lose their data...then they lose all the data they are supposed to be keeping safe?
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/40005.php
This data loss is a MAJOR problem for T-Mobile, as their Sidekick users have had connectivity problems for a week now. Due to the problem with T-Mobile's network, Sidekick users reset their phones by removing the battery or letting the battery drain out and now might have lost their personal data! T-Mobile has more than 1 million Sidekick users and it is one of the phones that they have pushed heavily, so this is a huge PR problem that won't go away for a long time:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-mobile-microsoft-almost-certainly-destroyed-users-sidekick-data/2009-10-12?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom still hasn't figured out their plan to get to 4G service (Verizon and AT&T are going to LTE, Sprint will rely on Clearwire's WiMAX, and T-Mobile doesn't have the spectrum for either technology):
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=avpwlG6FCO_8