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LOTD for May 4

Kraft is giving away a whole bunch of their products for people who "Like" them via Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/KraftFoods#!/KraftFoods?v=app_10442206389


Harris is applying sports-TV technology to UAV video analysis. Things like instant replays, HD views from multiple angles, and overlaying a digital map to pinpoint locations are used in sports broadcasts every day but are not available to military analysts today:
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4607734&c=FEA&s=TEC


The Pentagon has been using the Stiletto, the largest all-carbon power boat in the world, as a test laboratory for the latest inventions of major military contractors. Stiletto is currently being used to support drug enforcement operations in Central and South America:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/ungainly-military-boat-center-attention


Solar energy is being used in Tunisia and Morocco to keep perishable foodstuffs such as milk fresh. Researchers have found a way to refrigerate things using energy from the sun, ideal for countries with a lot of desert areas and a lot of sun:
http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/05/cooling-sunlight.jsp


Low-maintenance strawberry may be a good crop for astronauts to grow in space:
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100503MitchellStrawberrie.html


United and Continental are going to merge to form the world's biggest airline company. The $1.2 billion for expenses like severance payments and the mention of an unspecified number of layoffs probably worries their employees:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_bi_ge/us_united_continental


Article on why job hoppers make the best employees:
http://blogs.bnet.com/career-advice/?p=811


Apple may face an antitrust inquiry due to their treatment of Flash:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/an_antitrust_app_buvCWcJdjFoLD5vBSkguGO


Sprint was smart and gave an Evo 4G phone to Oprah, who featured it in one of her campaigns:
http://www.androidcentral.com/oprah-gets-evo-4g-you-do


The cell phone industry appears to have left the recession behind, driven by growth in smartphone sales:
http://mobiledevdesign.com/hardware_news/cell-phone-industry-shakes-off-050310/


German man married his dying cat. The cat and groom lived together for 10 years and he said that they cuddled all the time and the cat slept in his bed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8658327.stm

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