5:38 PM
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j4mw_70laH9CalvvmkjNWx_H8KQA
The NSA is apparently assisting Apple, Sun, Red Hat, and Microsoft to protect their operating systems from cyber attacks:
http://intelfusion.net/wordpress/?p=693
A radiation leak at Three Mile Island (the location of the worst US nuclear power accident) is being investigated, but Federal officials say that there was no threat to public health or safety. I know that if I was living on Three Mile Island the last words I'd want to hear are "radiation leak":
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5AM05B20091123
University of Utah scientist released a study that argues that the major cause of global warming (CO2 emissions) cannot be stabilized unless the world's economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one nuclear power plant each day:
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=112009-1
South Korean scientists succeeded in producing plastics through bioengineering with no fossil fuels needed, which would allow for the environmentally conscious production of plastics:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/w-bsi112009.php
The second iPhone worm behaves like a botnet and is much more dangerous than the other iPhone worm:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-367579.html
Analyst states that AT&T will lose its exclusive contract for the iPhone in June, and that Apple will come out ahead even though the subsidy for each iPhone will go from $450 to $300:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/analyst-t-lose-rights-iphone-next-june/2009-11-23?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
AT&T is lobbying to FCC to punish Google Voice and reduce at least one of the FCC's requirements for net neutrality:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/11/its_been_a_few_weeks.html
Moody's cut the credit rating of Sprint...not a good sign for Sprint:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2012097420091120
Study found that traditional Christmas and New Year greeting cards are gradually being replaced by text and MMS messages!
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45772&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Game coming to arcades tests the text messaging speed of its players:
http://www.chipchick.com/2009/11/textminator.html
It appears that airline passengers want WiFi available during flights...but they want it for free and even charging $1 for it causes many people to avoid using the WiFi:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/aircell-reports-more-1m-inflight-internet-users-are-travelers-paying/2009-11-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Gang in Peru have been arrested after they had been allegedly killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat for use in cosmetics:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/11/peruvian-gang-allegedly-killed-for-human-fat-for-cosmetics/1?loc=interstitialskip
North Carolina optometrist could lose his medical license after telling a patient that she was fat--he says that he was making a point about how she could become blind if her weight caused her to get diabetes. However, scolding the patient for being unemployed and relying on taxpayers to pay for another pregnancy seems way over the line...
http://www.newsobserver.com/116/story/202679.html
Four teenage boys were running doorbells and running away as a prank...a 69-year-old man did not like that and shot one of the boys in the back:
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091121/NEWS01/91121001/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Police-investigate-shooting-of-boy-who-was-ringing-doorbells-and-running
Private schools in New York charge $20,000 for Kindergarten, so parents really want their kids to get into the best public schools in their area. This has resulted in 4-year-old going through exam preparation tutoring so that their kids can get into the gifted and talented public school programs!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/nyregion/21testprep.html?_r=1&em
This website seems to have the Black Friday Ads up for most of the big chain stores:
http://blackfriday.bz/