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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iDd1xzYx7CaahlxkLnvo4Xtcksug
NASA's newest space telescope have discovered 25,000 new asteroids in just 6 months, including 95 asteroids that are considered near Earth objects. The telescope has also found 15 new comets and confirmed the existence of 20 brown dwarfs:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-238
Harbinger Capital awarded a $7 billion contract to Nokia Siemens Networks to build its LTE network:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/harbinger-forges-7b-lte-pact-nsn/2010-07-20?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0uFESoe7S
Droid X owners are using 5x more data than any other device on Verizon:
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-paidcontent-mobile-live-nba-matches-coming-to-ipad-this-fall/
Critics praised Microsoft Windows Phone 7's sneak preview for its many advances. Microsoft confirmed that it is offering financial incentives to developers to write Windows Phone 7 applications, with free tools, trial handsets, funding for software development, even *guaranteeing* revenues for developers...if the app doesn't sell, Microsoft will make up the revenue shortfall. With a positive response for the latest version of Windows Phone 7 and their aggressive policy, Microsoft may make a comeback in the mobile marketplace:
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/critics-applaud-microsofts-windows-phone-7-sneak-preview/2010-07-19#ixzz0uF9qCAH0
The relationship between AT&T and Apple is said to be similar to a loveless marriage. AT&T was shocked when Apple refused to reduce iPhone data usage--within a few months after the iPhone came out in 2007 AT&T realized that their network could NOT handle the high iPhone data usage, so they asked Apple to get YouTube to run only over WiFi or cut off YouTube videos after 1 minute...Apple refused. AT&T says (and Apple sources confirm) that Apple's baseband software is full of bugs and causes dropped calls. Apple's radio comes comes from Infineon, whose hardware is popular in Europe but it isn't used much in the US because cell towers are placed farther apart in the US and reception is less forgiving. Steve Jobs has apparently brought up dumping AT&T at least 6 times, the first time just a few months after the iPhone came out. Unfortunately for Apple, Verizon uses a different transmission technology that would require a new chipset...and when Apple's group visited Qualcomm to see if they could get an iPhone on Verizon they found that the CDMA chips were a different size and Apple would have to rebuild the iPhone from scratch. A *lot* of fun dirt is discussed in this article, with both AT&T and Apple blaming the other company:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1
HP's tablet device will apparently be called the PALMPAD:
http://www.tipb.com/2010/07/20/hp-applies-palmpad-trademark/
Asus is working on a 3G tablet and it was originally supposed to use Windows CE it will now run Android. It appears that Microsoft might get shut out of the tablet market, with everyone using Android except for HP (webOS) and Apple:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/asus-drops-windows-for-android-in-eee-pad-tablet/#ixzz0uF98NiCm
13-year-old boy was trying to bunt when the coach of the other team allegedly ordered his pitcher to "throw at" the boy, which resulted in the boy severely breaking his left hand. The coach (who is also a high school varsity baseball coach and a gym teacher) yelled "Good!" when the 13-year-old was on the ground writhing in pain:
http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/07/16/news/doc4c4065b4e770b399176165.txt