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http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/22/swine-flu-may-be-all-county-schools/?health&zIndex=186953
Americans are worried about the swine flu, but they are also worried about the swine flu vaccine, with 60% of Americans saying they will not get vaccinated:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102103857.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
DARPA funded work is developing improved electrical propulsion systems that could extend satellite lifetimes by reducing the amount of fuel that is wasted:
http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/improved-electric-propulsion-could-boost-satellite
Lockheed's stock was downgraded by an analyst today due to its weak earnings outlook for the next year, though the analyst is positive about the other big defense contractors. The downgrade came after Lockheed warned that sales of fighter jet may decrease and rising pension costs would hurt their profits:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/21/business-telecommunications-equipment-us-lockheed-martin-ahead-of-the-bell_7025680.html
Boeing is looking to enter the $20 billion smart-grid market, planning to use its technologies from its missile-defense program and from the Army's Future Combat Systems to add intelligence to the power grid and improve the efficiency of utilities. Lockheed already entered the smart grid market in August:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atXwQrupCu4s
Wearable device turns troops into walking mesh nodes. The National Guard in some states have also bought this in order to help with their hurricane (the most common natural disaster for the National Guard) response:
http://urgentcomm.com/networks_and_systems/mag/wearable-mesh-network-nodes-200910/
VIVOweb is being created to be something like a Facebook for biomedical researchers to help them find research and partnerships:
http://www.rdmag.com/Information-Tech-VIVOweb-may-be-the-Facebook-for-researchers/?wnnvz=cIpb87iV1KLzkFCg
Sensor microchips could help with cancer diagnosis and treatment. The chip could identify which type of medication would work for an individual patient by testing tiny amounts of each type of treatment to see which is most effective against the cancer:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/tum-sbc102109.php
Our medical records are stored in the cloud and outside vendors that manage electronic health records have access to that data and are reselling the information as a commodity! It is apparently easy to remove the anonymity that the records are supposed to have. Revenue from the sale of health data could grow to $5 billion per year:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/medicalrecords/
Spectrum Bridge designed and deployed the first wireless TV white spaces network to distribute broadband Internet connectivity in Claudville, Virginia:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/first-white-spaces-network-brings-broadband-internet-rural-america-over-unused-tv-bro
The next generation of LTE, LTE-advanced, can theoretically achieve downlink speeds of 1 Gbps and uplink speeds of 500 Mbps, but it willbe 6 or 7 years before we see that standard deployed:
http://telephonyonline.com/3g4g/news/3gpp-scrase-lte-advanced-perspective-1021/
New report says that operators may be too late to deploy LTE because 3G traffic volumes will increase by a factor of *20* by 2015 and correct 3G networks cannot handle that load:
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=51136
Verizon says that its data traffic has been doubling every year and that video will account for 75% of internet traffic within 5 years:
http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/supercomm-keynote-verizon-touts-smart-network-world/2009-10-21
The good news for AT&T is that they activated 3.2 million iPhones last quarter...the bad news is that they hinted that the rumors are true that they will lose exclusivity for the iPhones next year. AT&T says that losing exclusivity for the iPhone will not hurt them because they have the best network for the iPhone:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/t-activates-3-2m-iphones-3q/2009-10-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Rising R&D spending on Android show how developers are flocking to the standard and how the job market is filled with listings for Android developers:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/follow-money-and-jobs-android-981?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-10-22
After today's 5-0 vote, the FCC will start to craft the net neutrality rules:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FCC-votes-to-begin-crafting-apf-3805924772.html?x=0&.v=5
Chinatowns in the US are switching from Cantonese to Mandarin...the number of people who only speak Cantonese is rapidly decreasing. Even parents that speak Cantonese are sending their kids to Mandarin classes, saying that it is more important to prepare their children toward the future even if that leaves them unable to communicate well with relatives in China:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/nyregion/22chinese.html?_r=1&hp
Hulu will start charging people for its content next year:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/ADverse_Atkinson_on_Advertising/23941-Chase_Carey_Hulu_to_Charge_in_2010.php?nid=2228&source=title&rid=6454445
Man went to a Minnesota bank and pointed a gun at a teller and asked for money. When the teller refused, he left the bank with nothing:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/ap/strange/main5406438.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines