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http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/11/28/WHO-H1N1-deaths-near-8000/UPI-18131259442121/
MIT students developed color-changing roof tiles that absorb heat in winter and reflect it in summer. This has the potential to reduce greenhouse emissions significantly if it can be produced at a reasonable price:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/11/mit-has-thermeleon-roof-tiles.html
New report states that the line between cybercrime and cyberwarfare between countries has been blurred. The report points out that countries that are hostile to industrial democracies are the most involved with cybercrime. There is apparently a cyberwarfare arms race going on right now:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2009/11/24/Cybercrime-verging-on-war-McAfee-report/UPI-88601259109050/
Oklahoma State rejected the NIH funded research on anthrax, apparently because Madeleine Pickens was upset that baboons were destroyed after being exposed to anthrax:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/oklahoma-state-rejects-anthrax-study-over-euthanasia-primates
Iran wants to build 10 more nuclear sites, with each having the same capacity as their controversial Natanz site:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/iran-doubles-down-with-friendly-nuke-plan/
Payments via Paypal were up 650% when comparing this year's Black Friday to last year's Black Friday:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/paypal-says-mobile-payments-exploded-black-friday/2009-11-30
Huawei has been rapidly gaining market share and is now #2 in the world (behind Ericsson) in the mobile equipment industry. Interestingly, they have been able to win contracts without being the lowest bidder because their innovative products reduce the total cost of ownership over the lifetime of a network:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/business/global/30telecom.html?_r=1&ref=technology&pagewanted=all
Motorola's Droid phone is meeting sales expectations on Verizon, but Motorola's Android-based Cliq phone is not selling well on T-Mobile:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iF-cczCOL8AQ-wMGRWw47ntSKFNwD9C9SUV04
AT&T announced an LG phone that is the first US phone to use a 1 GHz processor--most smartphones use processors that run around 600 MHz:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/t-and-lg-mobile-phones-announce-first-1-ghz-smartphone-united-states-lg-expo?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Nokia's director of strategy admitted that Nokia was not prepared for the competition in the smartphone market from Apple, Google (Android) and RIM (BlackBerry)...and left open the possibility that the company that has been the #1 cell phone maker in the world might sell off its
handset business:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45791&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Normally I think it is a shame when Apple rejects an iPhone App, but I can understand why Apple rejected an iPhone App that advertises for the Droid phone!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/29/idroid-app-rejected-apple-iphone/
Boston woman cooked the Thanksgiving turkey while helping to deliver her granddaughter!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/28/ap/strange/main5814559.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesSecondary
Man got really upset during an argument with his roommate over a can of Coca-Cola...so he shot him in the chest!
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/nov/28/deputies-say-man-shoots-roommate-over-can-coke/news-breaking/
Palin is particularly popular among fans of Rush Limbaugh and GlennBeck, far ahead of all Republican candidates for 2012:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902717.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics