9:09 AM
http://www.asdnews.com/news/28938/Japanese_lab_finds__minute_particles__in_asteroid_pod.htm
Airlines in the US collected nearly $770 million in checked baggage fees in the first 3 months of this year, 33% higher than the first quarter of last year. UPS has announced that it has specially designed boxes that resemble suitcases that airline passengers can ship the "luggage boxes" to their final destination to avoid the airlines' check-in lines and luggage fees. UPS can cost $30 to $80 less per package and provides a tracking number to let passengers know its exact location:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20100705,0,7410211.story
Indian security authorities and other intelligence agencies are unhappy that they cannot hack into encrypted BlackBerry data transfers or intercept and listen into Skype voice calls, so they have told both companies that they have 2 weeks to provide them with the tools that will permit covert surveillance...or, they will shut down BlackBerry and Skype in India! They also want Google to give them encryption keys to Gmail or be shut down, but they didn't give a deadline to Google yet:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46466&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Article stating that Apple's PR department *lied* when it claimed that a certain e-mail conversation between Steve Jobs and an upset iPhone 4 customer never happened:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/03/the-entire-steve-jobs-email-story-its-real/
Blockbuster has been suspended from trading and will be delisted from the NY Stock Exchange on Wednesday. They at least delayed their bankruptcy by another month:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/03/blockbuster-to-be-delisted-from-the-nyse/
Reclusive Russian mathematician has turned down a $1 million prize for solving one of the more difficult problems in mathematics:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/07/reclusive-mathematician-turns.html
Virginia Tech students plan to demonstrate in January a pair of SUVs that have been modified to enable blind people to drive:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/04/prototype-car-with-tactile-feedback-challenges-the-blind-to-driv/