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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=yhoofront
An unnamed Pentagon official responded to the article by saying that the US fixed the UAV security problem:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gVfpsQcogZoD0Bx0efyryW0QK63Q
Lockheed received an IDIQ contract worth up to $940 million for itsSymphony vehicle mounted counter-IED jammer:
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/bittersweet-symphony-lockheed-delivers-antiied-devices-02696/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=did&utm_medium=textlink
Article about how China has become a superpower:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/15/china-superpower-status-leadership-citizenship-trends.html
Japanese department store is selling a customized life-size robot (for $225k) that is designed to look like the identical twin of its owner. The robot even speaks using its owner's recorded voice:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/japanese-department-store-offers-robots-look-their-buyers
Tokyo man married a character in a Nintendo DS game:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/16/japan.virtual.wedding/index.html
Moons such as Avatar's moon Pandora and Star Wars' moon Endor may actually exist--if they exist, habitable moon may be found soon via current technology:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2009/pr200925.html
Study found that pollution changes the strength of thunderstorms:
http://www.pnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=770
BlackBerry sales, revenues, and profits were significantly up in their most recent quarter:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/blackberry-revenues-profits-swell-q3/2009-12-17?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Palm smartphone sales were down 4% from last year and 29% from the previous quarter:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/palms-smartphone-shipments-jump-41-losses-continue/2009-12-17?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Article about how the Android Marketplace doubled over the past 4 months and this article examines why the developers; push for Android is a problem for Apple:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/android-market-doubles-trouble-apple/2009-12-18
Apple will not support Flash because it wants developers to write specifically for the iPhone instead of for Flash so that their applications will not run on other platforms (BlackBerry, Android, etc.), while Google supports Flash on Android:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/google-apple-flash-and-future-mobile-content/2009-12-17
Windows Mobile 7 was supposed to be Microsoft's big wireless release for 2009, but its delay may doom Microsoft in the mobile market...especially since Microsoft is now saying that this 2009 release will not be available until the end of 2010:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/windows-mobile-7-delayed-again-game-over-microsoft-897?source=IFWNLE_nlt_blogs_2009-12-18
Hawaii has the highest electricity rates in the country, one reason why Hawaii is in the early stages of an energy revolution:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/18/king.sotu.hawaii/index.html
Sprint subsidiary Boost Mobile is getting complaints over its commercial that it ran on CBS--the commercial had Mrs. Claus cheating on Santa by having an affair with the snowman, showing them in bed saying "So dirty" and "Nasty Boy":
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=817482
Arizona music teacher has been put on administrative leave after taking her choir to Hooters for lunch:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/17/ap/strange/main5990890.shtml
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about how Tiger Woods agreed to an extensive feature article in Men's Fitness magazine in exchange for the publisher agreeing not to use the photos from Tiger Woods' sexual encounter with a married woman in a church parking lot 2 years ago. How reckless could he be to have an encounter in an open area where a photographer was able to snap photos?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704238104574602293033609948.html