5:10 PM
A Chinese government-owned telecommunications company rerouted e-mail traffic to and from websites of the White House, US Senate, DoD, Homeland Security, Secret Service, NASA, Department of Commerce, and other sites. This highly sensitive Internet traffic was "hijacked" and routed through Chinese servers for 18 minutes--in fact, 15% of the entire Internet's traffic was hijacked during this attack. The attack provided the Chinese government with all of the e-mails sent and received, and allowed them to acquire everybody's Internet addresses--which will enable them to plant viruses at specific addresses in the future:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyMTQ5NC3NQp8H392y76tRr0mdcg?docId=CNG.1797823ab39beb1b4529f9e46c0c7c4c.291
Iran claims that they don't need the Russian air defense missile system that Russia just decided to not sell them...this article is pretty skeptical of their claims to have all of a sudden upgraded their old systems to the point that they don't need the Russian system:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/iran-our-homebrew-missile-is-double-awesome-take-that-ruskies/
South Korea is spending $8.3 billion on a massive off-shore wind farm that will result in 500 wind turbines producing a total of 2,500 megawatts per year:
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/south-korea-off-shore-wind-farm/
Cornell scientist has demonstrated that ESP does exist at a statistically significant level. His journal paper describes his 8-year study with 1,000 subjects, where the experiments were well-designed and controlled and rigorous enough to be replicated in the future by other researchers:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/11/Life-Science-Study-suggests-precognition-may-be-possible/
"Intelligent" dressing changes color to show how a wound is healing. This eliminates the need to remove the dressing to examine a wound, which is painful for patients today and allows germs to enter the wound and cause infection:
http://sify.com/news/intelligent-dressing-changes-colour-to-indicate-state-of-a-wound-news-international-klroakhagfg.html
Scientists claimed a breakthrough today when they successfully trapped the first "anti-atom" and was able to demonstrate that it can be studied in the lab. This is a big step in the quest to understand what happened to all the antimatter that vanished since the Big Bang:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_switzerland_antimatter
Study shows that the state of Arizona has lost about $140 million in lost meeting and convention business in the first 4 months after the passed their controversial immigration law. They boycotts are expected to continue for at least another year:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/boycott-damages-arizona-convention-business
The TSA really is searching everybody now--they did a pat down search of a screaming 3-year-old:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=77140
California public universities have been hit hard over the past few years due to the state budget situation, and now it appears that Texas is dealing with their budget crisis by decimating state university funding. 25% cuts in funding will be painful for Universities, and even UT-Austin has had to layoff professors and buy out other professors:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7299883.html
Qualcomm is reportedly in discussions to sell the 700 MHz spectrum Qualcomm owns (and was using for FLO TV) to AT&T. Qualcomm paid $683 million for rights and could get up to $1 billion for Qualcomm:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-18/qualcomm-at-t-said-to-hold-talks-for-mobile-tv-spectrum-sale.html
Instead of charging smartphone users based on how much data they use, Verizon indicated today they are considering going to speed-based pricing. Similar to wired Internet users, people who want faster data rates can pay more and those who want to save money can pay less:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-hints-lte-pricing-based-data-speed/2010-11-18
Android ad revenue recently passed iPhone-only revenue and this month, for the first time, Android ad revenue has tied iOS revenue (iPhone, iPad, iTouch). Android and Apple have 37% of mobile ad impressions, with BlackBerry at 20% and Windwos Mobile and Symbian at 2% each. Since the beginning of 2010, Android ad request have increased 2182% while Apple ad requests grew 32% and BlackBerry requests grew 243%:
http://www.millennialmedia.com/2010/11/millennial-media-releases-october-2010-mobile-mix%E2%84%A2-report/
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Android could win the smartphone batter with Apple because Android devices "have more features":
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36864/steve-wozniak-android-phone-better
Forecast calls for the holiday shopping season to have significant sales of set-top boxes (Apple TV, Google TV and Boxee), tablets (iPad and Galaxy Tab), and gaming consoles (xBox and PS3). They also say that Windows Phone 7 smartphones will do well with BlackBerry users switching to Windows Phone 7. They predict that iPhone 4 sales and Verizon smartphone sales will be very low over the holidays because customers will be waiting for the Verizon iPhone. It is interesting that iPhone 4 sales have dropped off significantly already:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~055~ACCT~0000100~ISSUE~1011~RELTYPE~IN~PRODCODE~00000~PRODLETT~CQ.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyMTQ5NC3NQp8H392y76tRr0mdcg?docId=CNG.1797823ab39beb1b4529f9e46c0c7c4c.291
Iran claims that they don't need the Russian air defense missile system that Russia just decided to not sell them...this article is pretty skeptical of their claims to have all of a sudden upgraded their old systems to the point that they don't need the Russian system:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/iran-our-homebrew-missile-is-double-awesome-take-that-ruskies/
South Korea is spending $8.3 billion on a massive off-shore wind farm that will result in 500 wind turbines producing a total of 2,500 megawatts per year:
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/south-korea-off-shore-wind-farm/
Cornell scientist has demonstrated that ESP does exist at a statistically significant level. His journal paper describes his 8-year study with 1,000 subjects, where the experiments were well-designed and controlled and rigorous enough to be replicated in the future by other researchers:
http://www.rdmag.com/News/2010/11/Life-Science-Study-suggests-precognition-may-be-possible/
"Intelligent" dressing changes color to show how a wound is healing. This eliminates the need to remove the dressing to examine a wound, which is painful for patients today and allows germs to enter the wound and cause infection:
http://sify.com/news/intelligent-dressing-changes-colour-to-indicate-state-of-a-wound-news-international-klroakhagfg.html
Scientists claimed a breakthrough today when they successfully trapped the first "anti-atom" and was able to demonstrate that it can be studied in the lab. This is a big step in the quest to understand what happened to all the antimatter that vanished since the Big Bang:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_switzerland_antimatter
Study shows that the state of Arizona has lost about $140 million in lost meeting and convention business in the first 4 months after the passed their controversial immigration law. They boycotts are expected to continue for at least another year:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/boycott-damages-arizona-convention-business
The TSA really is searching everybody now--they did a pat down search of a screaming 3-year-old:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=77140
California public universities have been hit hard over the past few years due to the state budget situation, and now it appears that Texas is dealing with their budget crisis by decimating state university funding. 25% cuts in funding will be painful for Universities, and even UT-Austin has had to layoff professors and buy out other professors:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7299883.html
Qualcomm is reportedly in discussions to sell the 700 MHz spectrum Qualcomm owns (and was using for FLO TV) to AT&T. Qualcomm paid $683 million for rights and could get up to $1 billion for Qualcomm:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-18/qualcomm-at-t-said-to-hold-talks-for-mobile-tv-spectrum-sale.html
Instead of charging smartphone users based on how much data they use, Verizon indicated today they are considering going to speed-based pricing. Similar to wired Internet users, people who want faster data rates can pay more and those who want to save money can pay less:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-hints-lte-pricing-based-data-speed/2010-11-18
Android ad revenue recently passed iPhone-only revenue and this month, for the first time, Android ad revenue has tied iOS revenue (iPhone, iPad, iTouch). Android and Apple have 37% of mobile ad impressions, with BlackBerry at 20% and Windwos Mobile and Symbian at 2% each. Since the beginning of 2010, Android ad request have increased 2182% while Apple ad requests grew 32% and BlackBerry requests grew 243%:
http://www.millennialmedia.com/2010/11/millennial-media-releases-october-2010-mobile-mix%E2%84%A2-report/
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that Android could win the smartphone batter with Apple because Android devices "have more features":
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36864/steve-wozniak-android-phone-better
Forecast calls for the holiday shopping season to have significant sales of set-top boxes (Apple TV, Google TV and Boxee), tablets (iPad and Galaxy Tab), and gaming consoles (xBox and PS3). They also say that Windows Phone 7 smartphones will do well with BlackBerry users switching to Windows Phone 7. They predict that iPhone 4 sales and Verizon smartphone sales will be very low over the holidays because customers will be waiting for the Verizon iPhone. It is interesting that iPhone 4 sales have dropped off significantly already:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~055~ACCT~0000100~ISSUE~1011~RELTYPE~IN~PRODCODE~00000~PRODLETT~CQ.html