5:58 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/raytheon_bbn_purchase/
Article about how 70% to 80% of coalition casualties are caused by IEDs, but unlike the high-tech IEDs used on Iraq, the IEDs in Afghanistan are low-tech devices that may be harder to stop:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/fighting-afghanistans-dumbed-down-and-deadly-bombs/
15-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, came up with the idea of using the power of the beating of the human heart to charge cell phones, and now scientists at Stanford are building a prototype of her idea:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45662&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Sensor is being developed that can smell human fear, with plans to use it to identify terrorists during security checks at airports and other venues:
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/313728/Sensor+to+detect+fear+pheromone.htm
UC-Davis scientists have found the dominant odor naturally produced in humans and birds that makes us irresistible to mosquitoes. The research explains why mosquitoes shifted from birds to humans:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9289
The second way of stimulus money will happen over the next year and IT projects will get a big chunk of that funding:
http://www.fcw.com/articles/2009/10/26/economic-stimulus-spending.aspx
The White House switched their website to open-source code and released it to the public:
http://www.physorg.com/news175702799.html
Somali pirates may have captured a couple that took their yacht off the coast of Africa. This isn't the first time that a rich couple was taken hostage by pirates and I cannot understand why a couple would purposely take their yacht near where the pirates operate:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/27/yacht.pirates/index.html?eref=rss_latest
It appears that Sony Ericsson will be announcing their Android-based phone on November 3:
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/10/26/sony-ericsson-looking-ready-to-come-clean-with-android-powered-r/
Mobile Spy runs in total stealth mode on a phone and silently records GPS locations, calls, and text messages and then uploads them to a user's private account. This is a resource that parents and companies can utilize, but it is a little scary to think about. Mobile Spy just became available for the BlackBerry and is already available for the iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BlackBerry-Spy-Software-Hits-prnews-445250457.html?x=0&.v=1
BlackBerry is proudly talking about the improvements it has made with the recently released 5.0 Operating System. I installed 5.0 yesterday and my phone works a LOT faster now and I love the user interface improvements:
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/rim-trumpets-blackberry-os-5-0-enhancements/2009-10-21
Article about how Google Voice overcame two of its biggest obstacles to mass adoption by finding a wy for iPhone users to utilize it and by enabling subscribers to use it without changing their number:
http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-Google-Voicemail-102709.aspx
The UK government has endorsed Wii Fit Plus as a good aid for fitness and health:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20091027/tc_pcworld/votewiiforgovernmentrunhealthcare