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http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/23959/?nlid=2518
The US has already spent billions on counter-IED technology, but IEDs are still the top threat to deployed US military personnel so the counter-IED market is growing:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/market-counter-ied-technologies-growing
The Army gave RPI $16.75 million to create a new discipline called Network Science--combining top social scientists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to model and predict complex social interactions:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-army-funds-new-discipline-network-science
GPS tracking systems have given companies the ability to monitor their vehicles, which has resulted in a reduction in wasted fuel for companies. Being able to track the fuel efficiency for delivery trucks and other vehicles is a great way to save money and reduce emissions:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/green-it/gps-helps-drive-down-fuel-costs-897?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-11-25
Clearwire priced $920 million of notes, increasing the amount of money it raised to $2.8 billion in recent weeks. Clearwire said earlier this year that it needed $2 billion to $2.3 billion in new financing to fund its build-out, so it should be fully funded now:
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN2432340420091125
Users of the Palm Pre and Pixi have apparently lost contacts and calendar entries, with Palm and Sprint trying to solve the problem. Some Palm users report losing large amounts of data, despite how their phone data was backed up to Palm's servers...how could this backup problem happen so soon after the Sidekick fiasco?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/11/24/urnidgns852573C40069388000257678006FDB10.DTL
This analyst dug deeper into the published results that showed that the iPhone had 55% of the smartphone web traffic (no surprise) and Android phones had 20% of the smartphone web traffic (big surprise!):
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/admob-pegs-android-no-2-mobile-web-platform-in-us-891?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-11-25
Commentary on how the open source community could kill Android's future:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/why-open-source-could-kill-androids-chances-029?source=IFWNLE_nlt_mobilehdwr_2009-11-25
The National Advertising Division of hte Council of Better Business Bureaus has recommended that Sprint drop its ads calling itself "America's most dependable 3G network" after the most recent tests showed that Verizon had fewer blocked or dropped calls than Sprint:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Verizon-opposes-Sprints-Most-apf-1137853712.html?x=0&.v=2
Missing 13-year-old autistic boy spent 11 days wandering around the NY subway system--thankfully, he was found and had no medical problems from the 11 days he was missing:
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-missing-boy-in-subway,0,5331549.story
I cannot believe that a company is selling a device that could be used as a laptop stand that enables a driver to use a laptop while driving!
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/so-what-do-you-think-of-the-laptop-steering-wheel-desk
For Lori and Louise--Fox unveiled their plans for midseason, revealing that Glee will not be shown for 4 months!
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/national-broadcast/e3ia7f0e1dcab3176840d871d077781da35