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http://coffeebean.com/Ultimate-Summer-Open-House-W504C125.aspx
Recently released study on military ground robots and unmanned vehicles states that the $831 million market in 2009 is projected to reach $9.7 billion in 2016:
http://www.asdreports.com/shopexd.asp?ID=4632
Experts indicate that the wildlife damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be subtle, lengthy, and devastating in the long-run. One example given is how BP used a chemical dispersant to break up the oil and make it sink...fish and other organisms think it is food and eat it, causing long-term problems in the ecosystem:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/gulf-oil-spill-animal-victim-tally-may-be-misleading.html
Stanford researchers said that they have X-rays that reveal a chemical link between birds and dinosaurs:
http://home.slac.stanford.edu/pressreleases/2010/20100510.htm
Article about the debate over a new formula for toddlers that comes in chocolate and vanilla flavors. Some nutritionists are saying that this is an early start to obesity while the companies selling the new formula say that getting kids to drink milk is important for a healthy lifestyle:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chocolate-formula-20100506,0,78263.story
California class-action lawsuit says that AT&T has a monopoly over iPhone service by requiring a 2-year contract to get the iPhone without letting customers know that AT&T had an exclusive 5-year deal--requiring users to stay with AT&T for 5 years if they wanted to keep their iPhone. Apple responded in court filings that said that it was public knowledge that the iPhone was exclusive to AT&T for 5 years! With all the speculation over when Verizon will get the iPhone, this appears to say that everybody should have known that the iPhone was exclusive to AT&T from 2007 to 2012:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Report states that Verizon is in talks with Google for Verizon to get the Android-based tablet computer that Google is developing to compete with the iPad:
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-11/verizon-wireless-is-in-talks-with-google-about-developing-tablet-computer.html
The FCC is looking to end "bill shock", when a wireless subscriber is shocked when they get a bill 100x or more higher than their normal bill due to international roaming charges, exceeding limits, etc. I would think that this would be a good thing for the carriers also since they seem to end up waiving the $10k+ bills that we've seen in the media. Plus, this would let them ignore the excuses from customers who knowingly abuse their service and they say they "accidentally" checked their e-mail and surfed the web in Europe/Asia/etc.:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/11/fcc-task-force-seeks-to-squash-bill-shock-give-you-the-411-on/
82-year-old yogi in India claims that for the past 70 years he has not eaten anything and has not had a single drop of liquid to drink:
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/10/2299480.aspx