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http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/south-africa-lax-attitude-airport-security-worries-fifa
Navy-trained dolphins and sea lions demonstrated their superior skills in locating underwater mines and hostile divers--they detected mines and divers in murky waters and cuffed and restrained hostile divers while signaling for help from Navy divers:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dolphins-sea-lions-find-explosives-cuff-and-restrain-hostile-divers
Japanese researchers have succeeded in building a fully functional man-made butterfly and they filmed their butterfly flying:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/05/Information-Tech-Engineering-Modeling-Artificial-butterfly-in-flight-and-filmed/
Verizon is moving forward with their LTE deals with rural cellular carriers. The rural carriers would get access to Verizon's 700 MHz LTE spectrum and Verizon would get 4G roaming in rural areas:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-developing-business-models-lte-licensing/2010-05-19
Sprint has led the push for WiMAX on 4G smartphones...but they now say that they are evaluating equipment suppliers for the major upgrade of their CDMA network and they are open to using LTE:
http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=414&doc_id=192194&
Facebook's new mobile site will provide quick and data-charge-free access via special deals with at least 50 mobile carriers in 45 countries and regions. No data charges for people to use Facebook!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20005369-93.html?tag=mncol;title
Facebook was found to have 2.6 billion page impressions from mobile devices in the last study, nearly 3x as much as Google and more than 1/3 of ALL page impressions. Nearly *half* of the total minutes online in December were spent on Facebook Mobile! Facebook is the most widely used application on mobile data networks, with users connecting on average once ever hour:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/facebooks-new-mobile-site-has-interesting-implications-data-overload-conundrum/2010-05-20
Apple is now selling nearly twice as many iPads each week than Macs:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/20/analyst-apple-selling-more-ipads-than-macs-at-the-moment/
Today is the final day of Google's annual gathering, which is typically when they announce a lot of products and provide information on just about everything in their Android pipeline. So, there will be a LOT of Android-related posts in the LOTD today. One announcement today was that Android phones will be able to buy apps and music over-the-air (no tethering needed to buy music and the Android Marketplace will sell music and become an iTunes competitor) and stream music OTA from desktops or laptops:
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-stream-your-desktop-music-over-air
Some of the stats that Google provided today--100,000 Android devices sold a day, #2 smartphone platform in the US (behind BlackBerry), 1 billion miles navigated with Google Navigator, 28 OEMs, 48 countries, 59 carriers...with Android on smartphones only 18 months:
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-100000-units-day-2nd-smartphones-1st-usage
Evaluation of Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2--it appears to work quite well (same as if you were viewing the website with a desktop/laptop computer) much of the time but struggles on some Flash sites. The good news is that it appears to not be a battery hog or use too much of a phone's resources:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/first-look-flash-android/
Google announced Google TV, coming this Fall:
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-announces-google-tv
Adobe talked about having Flash on Google TV:
http://www.androidcentral.com/adobe-talks-flash-101-google-tv
Adobe provided a lot of information on Flash 10.1 on Android-based devices:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/05/engineering_flash_player.html
Article about how Google and Facebook have ignored a simple fix that would help them stop violating user's privacy:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/google-and-facebook-are-violating-your-privacy-again-435