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1. 10-21-09 GE shows off pocket-size ultrasound scanner "It's about the same size as a BlackBerry," Immelt said, holding up a white device that appeared to fold in the middle like a flip-phone. The top of the device showed an ultrasound image (of a patient's liver, we were told), while the bottom showed control keys.

2. 10-6-09

====Tetris Is Good for Your Brain. Playing the classic puzzle game Tetris can boost your brain power, according to a new study. Researchers have found regular playing of the game can improve complex planning skills, critical thinking, reasoning and language. Tetris requires players to think quickly by slotting various-sized cascading blocks into homogenous shapes on the screen. Tetris, played by millions of people on everything from mobiles to PCs, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its release. ====

3. 10-5-09 You might not think of pinball as an educational tool, but to some devotees of the age-old arcade favorite, that's exactly what they can be. That's because pinball machines have been around for decades, and often have themes representative of the era in which they were built. And this weekend, visitors to the Pacific Pinball Expo here, an event billed as the "world's largest" pinball show, can see history on display in bright lights and enhanced with familiar bells and whistles, things like the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the first man on the moon, contemporary music from the 1950s and much more.

4. 10-10-09 Federal employees will not be allowed to text while driving, according to a new executive order signed by President Obama. The order, signed Wednesday night, covers federal employees when they are using government-provided cars or cell phones and when they are using their own phones and cars to conduct government business. He made his announcement at a conference in Washington that included 300 academics, law enforcement officials, legislators, and telecommunications and automobile industry representatives, as well as families of people killed by motorists who were talking on a cell or texting.

5. 12-10-09 S: Consumers W: Win 7 - netbooks B: No optical drive S: Download version T: Open license code

S: MS W: downloadable win 7 B: did not use Gnu S: Pulled tool/recode T: you can download now

Consumers wanted windows 7 on there netbooks, But It did not have optical drive, So they made a download version, Then they made it an open license. Microsoft made the downloadable windows 7, But they did not us GNU, So they pulled the tool and recoded it, So then you can now download it. [|Click here] to read the full article.

12/16/09 E.U resolves Microsoft IE antitrust case,. E.U Wanted browsers besides internet explorer, But it Can't be done/Postponed, So There was a lawsuit/compromise, Then Random Alternitive browsers.

The European Union wanted browsers that weren't internet explorer,

10/17/09 Experts increasingly are getting starring roles in corporate computing leadership rather than being supporting cast members. Such is the case for Shelton Shugar, Yahoo's senior vice president of cloud computing.Shugar isn't running any publicly available cloud computing services, be they nuts and bolts like Amazon Web. You should reed this article to know what is happening to the yahoo everyone know and loves. Click here to read the whole article.

16/10/10

MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content.The new APIs offer a variety of features: letting third-party sites tap into MySpace members' status and "mood" updates, incorporate real-time activity information and more. If you use myspace.com you should go look at this article to know what is happening on it. Click here to read the whole article.

1/7/10 =Predator drones hacked in Iraq operations=

Iraqi insurgents have reportedly intercepted live video feeds from the U.S. military's **[|Predator drones]** using a $25.95 Windows application that allows them to track the pilotless aircraft undetected. Hackers working with Iraqi militants were able to determine which areas of the country were under surveillance by the U.S. military. Click here to read the whole article.

1/13/10 =Palm chief has "never even used" an iPhone=

The palm Chief, Jon Rubinstein has never used a iphone. I quote Jon Rubinstein "I don’t have an iPhone, i've never even used one". Many have pointed out choices like multi-touch and iTunes sync as evidence Apple's influence, but to date webOS has had a significantly different design philosophy, centering on multitasking, contact integration other historic weak points of the iPhone without following Apple's interface.

1/14/10 Click Here To read full article. New computer language for dummies? Sweet!! Matt MacLaurin came up for the idea for Kouda Because his five year old daughter. He wanted to make a computer language that young children will understand. I believe this is a good idea!

1/21/10 =iPhone OS 4.0 on the way?= iphone OS 4.0 is about to happen. At least thats what they received in a email from prominent app developer. The message includes the following snippet: "Just wanted to give you a heads up that we've submitted an updated app for the new iphone OS 4.0 software." Click here to read the whole article.

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2/17/10 Click Here Kim Kardashian Outs the air marshall via Twitter.! She was on her way to New York when the air marshall was sitting next to her. She told all of her followers on Twitter about how she "Feels safe" sitting next to him.

News: AT&T Zero Charger for your cell phone, which will stop drawing an electrical charge if your charger is plugged into the wall, but the phone isn't attached.Conventional chargers continue to draw power when devices are plugged into a wall, even when the battery has finished charging or when no device is attached to the charger. AT&T said Wednesday that it will soon be selling this replacement cell phone charger starting in May for $29.99.Judging from this picture, it appears AT&Ts new Zero Charge will work with at least some BlackBerry phones. I think this is a great idea.(Credit: AT&T)The AT&T Zero Charger automatically senses when a mobile phone is not plugged up to the charger and it cuts the power supply from the wall socket.

News: Devo on the fate of the world--and Chatroulette. Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale, also expressed their concern for the planet in a public question-and-answer period at the end of the frenetic, hilarious presentation where they unveiled the full reach of their ambitious Devo 2.0 plans. This is gonna be cool.

News: Mobile operators embrace app store mania. Instead of making and giving out mobile applications themselves to their subscribers, mobile operators are adding access to multiple wireless stores on their devices. "We want to be a facilitator like a shopping center in providing options for customers," said Hugh Bradlow. Originally, wireless operators made and gave out their own mobile applications. But the coming out of the iPhone and its iTunes App Store, has changed the market. I like the idea of this thought. It will be good for some people though.

News: S: US department of energy W:To use the ocean to save energy B: Money is being used for other things S: Information is slowly coming in T:They are deciding if they should commercialize I think this is cool. A lot of people are trying to help the planet right now.

News: Matt MacLaurin came up with the idea for Kodu in 2006. Now they are using the technology onto PCs. It was originally for the xbox. He and his daughter work together when using the system. MacLaurin said they had to do a lot of work to make Kodu work with a mouse instead of the controller." Most of that work is done, he said, but the company is releasing the PC version of Kodu as a technology preview to get more feedback before declaring the release final." I think this is really cool.

S: ACVC University W: i Change Education B: Scared(App, Abuse), Money S: Did work & Do Program T: Success/ Enhanced Continue Program Upgrade every two years

S:Students W:Enhanced Learning B:$ limits/ not way it's done S:Online Anyway(wiki-, podcast, google) T:Try and convince

NEWS: The palm chief Jon Rubenstein has never used an iPhone. He admits openly that he has never used an iPhone to compare against his own product but he states that, "don’t pay that much attention", to their rivals. The CEO took a casual approach to Apple's more successful newer trys to keep Palm's webOS phones from iTunes, saying it isn't "good for their customers".

More News: CES 2010 starts Wednesday night with a keynote address by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that starts at 6:30 p.m. . In the full Hilton Center they have power problems. Lights go out. Some are still up and the music is playing. After power comes back up they get ready for the keynote. Ballmer is supposed to talk up Windows 7 and talk about a few other things they are proud of. At 7 Ballmer finally gets on stage. Ballmer talks to 8:15. I think that it is smart to talk up their products but the power outage may have lost him some points.

News(Again.): Google has come out with a new phone called the Nexus One. Everyone loves it, but some people are having doubts that it is up to scale with what we already have. Is it as revolutionary as the iPhone? The new phone comes with a choice of T-Mobile or Verizon services. Some are saying that it doesn't have the same qualities that the iPhone has. Qualities like music or an app store. I think that this new phone sounds great. The iPhone is still spectacular, but we should give all phones a fair chance long enough for us to actually see the issues it may or may not have.

S: MS W: Downloadable win 7 B: Did not use Griu S: Pulled tool/recode T: You can download now

News: Time shows off tablet-size version of Sports Illustrated. Everybody wants Apple's tablet. People that aren't even users are lining up to defend it. The latest publishing company to throw its hat into the tablet ring is Time Inc. With a concept version in hand, the publisher showed AllThingsD a version of the tablet-size edition of Sports Illustrated. I think that this may be a good thing. We are going into new areas and expanding the way we think.

News: Panasonic to invest $1 billion in green tech. Panasonic wants to invest $1 billion by 2012 to help develop green technologies for the place that would include energy-monitoring systems, which marks a major shift in the company's focus. Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo said during an interview with the Bloomberg news service this week, that growing consumer interest in more efficient products has led Panasonic to decide to develop new core businesses.I think that going green is a good thing but they need to make sure that they are not wasting their money.

News(Even Better): California gives green light for space-based solar. On Thursday California regulators a project to beam solar energy from space starting in 2016. Because of a power purchase agreement approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, utility Pacific Gas & Electric is going to buy electricity from Solaren, if it can successfully deploy its space-based solar collectors, which will be the first of their kind. I think this is really cool. Also we are going somewhere with our efforts.

News Again: Bing's iPhone plans (and more)... Although Microsoft would rather everyone ran out and bought a Windows Mobile phone, the software maker is aware of reality, and, since it wants people to use Bing on their phones, it knows it needs to have software that works on other devices. Raissipour confirmed Microsoft is working on a mobile Bing application that will combine a number of features--more than just mapping and search. Click Me Bing is a cool site. Putting it on an i phone would be way cool.

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