5:30 PM
Report questions the US's ability to maintain a brainpower advantage over other countries (the US leads in innovation and produces a disproportionate share of the world's wealth) because US students continue to perform poorly in math and science compared to other country's students. China and other countries are investing heavily in research and education, threatening America's competitiveness:
http://www.insidescience.org/policy/america_losing_brainpower_advantage
Court case alleges that the CIA used an illegal, inaccurate software "hack" to direct secret assassination UAVs in Afghanistan Pakistan. It is alleged that the CIA knowingly used code that produced up to 13 meters off in location information. One company's leader said that he was stunned and amazed that the CIA wants to kill people with the software from his company that doesn't work:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/cia_netezza/
Two years ago in Iraq a bomb exploded under Dan Luckett's Army Humvee and now he's back on active duty--a double-amputee who is part of America's surge in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. What an amazing warrior:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100925/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_amputee_soldier?goback=.gde_71147_member_30606775
Iran admitted that its nuclear facilities are under a massive cyberattack by the Stuxnet worm:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/iran-admits-its-nuclear-facilities-are-under-massive-cyberattack
After a 6 month test, Italian airports are giving up their full-body scanners because they slow things down to much and privacy concerns make the scanners ineffective:
http://www.euronews.net/2010/09/23/italian-airport-security-axing-body-scanners/
Southwest bought AirTran (ATA), getting them routes into new cities and expanding their routes into other cities
http://www.southwest.com/html/sites/lowfaresfarther/press_release.html
The multi-millionaire who owns the Segway company died yesterday after riding his Segway off a cliff:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html
One Wall Street analyst says that Verizon may not accept Apple's terms that would undercut Android while Apple will not want the iPhone to be second to Android on Verizon's network (Apple is apparently demanding Verizon primarily market the iPhone and provide greater subsidy support for a Verizon iPhone). The analyst says that Apple may turn to T-Mobile and possibly Sprint to try to counter the expansion of smartphones running Android:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/24/verizon_apple_iphone_agreement_may_not_ever_get_resolved.html
Apple only announced iAd in April 2010, a few months after buying mobile ad network Quattro wireless for $275 million...and they are about to equal Google's market share in the mobile advertising market! Google is expected to go from 27% of the US mobile ad market a year ago to 21% at the end of this year, and Apple is expected to also have 21% at the of this year (going from 0% very recently!). Microsoft is expected to drop from 10% to 7%, Yahoo is expected to drop from 12% to 9% and Nokia is expected to drop from 5% to 2%:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100926_023792.htm
Apple is trying to claim the sole rights to and total ownership of the word "pod":
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46724&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Sony Ericsson is dumping Symbian to focus on Android, even though they will remain a member of the Symbian Foundation:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-24/sony-ericsson-is-planning-no-new-symbian-products.html
T-Mobile is apparently about to support calling over WiFi on some of their phones:
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/09/is-it-possible-is-uma-finally-coming-to-the-android-platform-on-t-mobile/
Analyst recommends purchasing Sprint stock in advance of its 3Q earnings announcement. The analyst says that Sprint will have positive postpaid net adds in the 3Q, after losing 10 million contract customers and posting losses for the last 4 years. If true, that is a great turnaround by Sprint:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE68Q0FZ20100927
Clearwire's CTO says that Qualcomm is making chipsets for broadband startup LightSquared:
http://blogs.forbes.com/elizabethwoyke/2010/09/24/qualcomm-making-chips-for-lightsquared/
29-year-old man in Brazil finally removed a knife that was stuck in the front of his head for 3 years!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/09/25/15475746.html
Michigan man has been sent to prison for failing to pay child support...he apparently fathered *23* children with *14* different women:
http://detnews.com/article/20100924/METRO/9240418/1361/Muskegon-man-linked-to-23-kids-gets-prison-in-support-case#ixzz10S5ppZQp
Mom robbed a bank and asked the bank not to call police for 15 minutes so that she would be able to pick up her children from school:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20429292,00.html
http://www.insidescience.org/policy/america_losing_brainpower_advantage
Court case alleges that the CIA used an illegal, inaccurate software "hack" to direct secret assassination UAVs in Afghanistan Pakistan. It is alleged that the CIA knowingly used code that produced up to 13 meters off in location information. One company's leader said that he was stunned and amazed that the CIA wants to kill people with the software from his company that doesn't work:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/cia_netezza/
Two years ago in Iraq a bomb exploded under Dan Luckett's Army Humvee and now he's back on active duty--a double-amputee who is part of America's surge in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan. What an amazing warrior:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100925/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_amputee_soldier?goback=.gde_71147_member_30606775
Iran admitted that its nuclear facilities are under a massive cyberattack by the Stuxnet worm:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/iran-admits-its-nuclear-facilities-are-under-massive-cyberattack
After a 6 month test, Italian airports are giving up their full-body scanners because they slow things down to much and privacy concerns make the scanners ineffective:
http://www.euronews.net/2010/09/23/italian-airport-security-axing-body-scanners/
Southwest bought AirTran (ATA), getting them routes into new cities and expanding their routes into other cities
http://www.southwest.com/html/sites/lowfaresfarther/press_release.html
The multi-millionaire who owns the Segway company died yesterday after riding his Segway off a cliff:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8027301/Segway-company-owner-dies-riding-two-wheeled-machine-off-cliff.html
One Wall Street analyst says that Verizon may not accept Apple's terms that would undercut Android while Apple will not want the iPhone to be second to Android on Verizon's network (Apple is apparently demanding Verizon primarily market the iPhone and provide greater subsidy support for a Verizon iPhone). The analyst says that Apple may turn to T-Mobile and possibly Sprint to try to counter the expansion of smartphones running Android:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/24/verizon_apple_iphone_agreement_may_not_ever_get_resolved.html
Apple only announced iAd in April 2010, a few months after buying mobile ad network Quattro wireless for $275 million...and they are about to equal Google's market share in the mobile advertising market! Google is expected to go from 27% of the US mobile ad market a year ago to 21% at the end of this year, and Apple is expected to also have 21% at the of this year (going from 0% very recently!). Microsoft is expected to drop from 10% to 7%, Yahoo is expected to drop from 12% to 9% and Nokia is expected to drop from 5% to 2%:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100926_023792.htm
Apple is trying to claim the sole rights to and total ownership of the word "pod":
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46724&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Sony Ericsson is dumping Symbian to focus on Android, even though they will remain a member of the Symbian Foundation:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-24/sony-ericsson-is-planning-no-new-symbian-products.html
T-Mobile is apparently about to support calling over WiFi on some of their phones:
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/09/is-it-possible-is-uma-finally-coming-to-the-android-platform-on-t-mobile/
Analyst recommends purchasing Sprint stock in advance of its 3Q earnings announcement. The analyst says that Sprint will have positive postpaid net adds in the 3Q, after losing 10 million contract customers and posting losses for the last 4 years. If true, that is a great turnaround by Sprint:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE68Q0FZ20100927
Clearwire's CTO says that Qualcomm is making chipsets for broadband startup LightSquared:
http://blogs.forbes.com/elizabethwoyke/2010/09/24/qualcomm-making-chips-for-lightsquared/
29-year-old man in Brazil finally removed a knife that was stuck in the front of his head for 3 years!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2010/09/25/15475746.html
Michigan man has been sent to prison for failing to pay child support...he apparently fathered *23* children with *14* different women:
http://detnews.com/article/20100924/METRO/9240418/1361/Muskegon-man-linked-to-23-kids-gets-prison-in-support-case#ixzz10S5ppZQp
Mom robbed a bank and asked the bank not to call police for 15 minutes so that she would be able to pick up her children from school:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20429292,00.html