Review: Voyager Q
by Robert Mohns
(May 4, 2009)
Overview
Plummeting hard drive prices and the widespread adoption of the SATA
interface have combined to create a new type of product, the "drive
dock", which connects any number of inexpensive bare hard drives to
your Mac as easily as docking
Apple Corrects Form 10-Q
CUPERTINO, California-April 27, 2009-Apple today filed an amendment
to correct the Form 10-Q it submitted to the Securities and Exchange
Commission on Thursday, April 23. Last week's filing incorrectly
reported the voting percentages for shareholder-submitted proposals
Apple's Revolutionary App Store Downloads Top One Billion in Just Nine Months
CUPERTINO, California-April 24, 2009-Apple today announced that
customers have downloaded one billion applications from its
revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world.
The one billionth app,
Worst Slide Story
Bernie Madoff makes Bernardo look like a softie.
Walt Handelsman
Newsday
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2009/04/animation_recession_singalong_1.html
http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2009-04/46217527.swf
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How satellites could 'sail' home
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/8029899.stm
Published: 2009/05/03 14:28:59 GMT
Satellites and spent rocket stages could soon deploy "sails" to guide
them back to Earth much
US needs 'digital warfare force'
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8033440.stm
Published: 2009/05/05 13:47:10 GMT
The head of America's National Security Agency says that America needs
to build a digital warfare force for the future, according to reports.
May 5, 2009, 10:05 am
More Signs of a Coming Wireless Price War
By Saul Hansell
NY Times
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/more-signs-of-a-coming-wireless-price-war/?pagemode=print
Considering the devastating nature of the economy, the cellphone
business had a pretty good first quarter,
www.chicagotribune.com/business/la-fi-blackberry5-2009may05,0,7986272.story
BlackBerry throws iPhone a curve
Research in Motion's BlackBerry Curve replaces the iPhone as the
best-selling smartphone in the first quarter. The Curve benefited from
aggressive marketing by Verizon Wireless.
By Alana
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www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-drunk-passenger-bites-flight-attendant-505,0,6448081.story
Soap drinking, leg biting, handcuffs: Another wild flight on United
Apparently woozy from a combination of pills, alcohol and lavatory hand
soap, passenger allegedly tried to
[Weird file item #1]
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cop-impersonatormay05,0,4046346.story
Teen in cop-impersonator case caught in a different role
15-year-old allegedly duped salesman and drove off in car
By Angela Rozas and Carlos Sadovi
Chicago Tribune reporters
May 5, 2009
This tim
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-clocks-city-zone-01may01,0,3724328.story
Blind workers: Clockmakers for U.S.
Lighthouse factory lets blind workers earn a living making government
wall clocks
By Rex W. Huppke
Chicago Tribune reporter
May 1, 2009
There's a reality Albert Harris h
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/01/fired_it_manager_rampage/
Revenge served coldly
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco * Get more from this author
Posted in Crime, 1st May 2009 21:32 GMT
Free whitepaper - An improved architecture for high-efficiency,
high-density data centers
A former technolo
Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian and chef, dies
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_deluise
LOS ANGELES - Dom DeLuise, the portly actor-comedian whose affable
nature made him a popular character actor for decades with movie and TV
audiences as well as directors and fellow actors, has died. He was 75.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/05/05/Spitzer-about-to-exhaust-its-
helium-supply/UPI-70111241535915/
WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Spitzer Space
Telescope is about to use the last of the coolant that has chilled it
for the past 5 1/2 years.
The National Aeronauti
New reflective solar panels could give that appearance, though
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-ufomay05,0,39899
24.story
John Keilman
May 5, 2009
As a public service, Art Maurer would like you to know that the bright
light you might see skimming across the early-morning sk
Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand Ransom
By Brian Krebs
Washington Post
May 4, 2009; 6:39 PM ET
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/05/hackers_break_into_virginia_he.html
Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by
pharmacists to
MAY 5, 2009, 1:07 A.M. ET
Siemens to Build $50 Million Wind Power Factory in Kansas
By PAUL GLADER
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124149612926186507.html#printMode
Siemens AG plans to announce today that it will open a $50 million
facility in Hutchinson, Kan., to make win
MAY 1, 2009
As Giants Step In, Asustek Defends a Tiny PC
By TING-I TSAI and IAN JOHNSON
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113110410974953.html#printMode
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- After upending the personal computer industry just
over a year ago with a stripped-down laptop, Asust
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/05/for-political-comedians-
the-jokes-not-on-obama/
What's so unfunny?
That's what some comics - citing the scarcity of satire directed at
President Obama and his administration - want to know.
Claiming that his peers are "panicky" about "being called
DirecTV to merge with Liberty
By Kenneth Li in New York
Financial Times
Published: May 5 2009 03:00
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2edf3f0a-390d-11de-8cfe-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
DirecTV Group, the US satellite television provider, will merge with
John Malone's Liberty Entertainment to si
MAY 5, 2009
Deal Prelude? Malone Shifts Some Assets To DirecTV
By VISHESH KUMAR and NAT WORDEN
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124143994984483073.html
Satellite television company DirecTV Group Inc. announced plans to merge
with John Malone's Liberty Entertainment, in a mo
MAY 5, 2009
Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER and BEN WORTHEN
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124146996831184563.html#mod=testMod
Amazon.comInc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle
e-book reader with a larger screen and other
May 4, 2009
The Fight for the Netbook Operating System
By GigaOm
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/05/04/04gigaom-the-fight-for-the-netbook-operating-system-10572.html
Smartphones are becoming more like PCs in many ways, especially if you
think of netbooks or mobile Internet devices
May 5, 2009
A Battle to Preserve a Visionary’s Bold Failure
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print
In 1901, Nikola Tesla began work on a global system of giant towers
meant to relay through the air not only news, stock reports
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