6:10 PM
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBdb1Inx7mOZ2tgbWtl2NNUte28AD9CECDQO0
MIT won the $40k prize for the DARPA balloon challenge less than 9 hours after the contest began. If they give $2k prizes to the 10 people who located the balloons, and some $1k referral prizes, they aren't keeping much of that money:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/05/darpa.balloon.challenge/
Rudy Giuliani has been hired to be the security adviser for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348427&CategoryId=14090
Martin Cooper (the person who developed the first mobile phone and is called the "Father of the Cell Phone") testified about how a lock should be put on cell phones so that people could not make calls while driving...this was back in the 1960s! However, the industry ignored his concerns and marketed the mobile phone as a car phone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/technology/07distracted.html?_r=2&ref=technology&pagewanted=all
Dell is creating a smartphone unit, led by the man who used to lead Motorola's cell phone unit:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a0AlfuZhen10
Independent testing firm found that in 7 major markets where AT&T and Verizon offer 3G service, AT&T's 3G network outperformed Verizon's. PC World's tests showed in July that Verizon and Sprint had the most reliable network, so there are different results based on the different measures:
http://telephonyonline.com/3g4g/news/att-outperforms-verizon-1204/
Barron's says that Sprint's stock could rise by 50% next year due to prepaid growth (they bought Virgin Mobile) and mobile WiMAX:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/report-sprints-2010-comeback-banking-4g-prepaid/2009-12-07?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Indiana man was caught riding a bike while balancing a stolen Christmas tree across the handlebars:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/06/ap/strange/main5912363.shtml?tag=cbsnewsLeadStoriesAreaMain;cbsnewsLeadStoriesHeadlines
New Zealand man injected his sleeping wife with his HIV-positive blood in order to infect her with HIV so that she would start having sex with him again!
http://health.yahoo.com/news/afp/healthaidsnzealandcrime_20091206030230.html
There are currently *9* women who have allegedly had affairs with Tiger Woods and according to this article his wife has moved out of their home...this is a sad (and very public) breakup if true:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/12/world-exclusive-tiger-woods-wife-moves-out