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- Windows 7 rolls out to applause.
- Overlooked is the fact that MSFT will be selling PC’s on the website. Look for them in the MSFT stores too.
- Free ride for Hulu ending says News Corp. The company also says MySpace stopped innovating.
- No Blu-ray for the X-box.
- Is it really China hacking us?
- Droid coming next week.
- Some cables modems are at risk. Find out which ones.
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Can someone try to get me one of these? I think they are worth $5 or so and expire. This one belongs to Adam Curry and he gloats about it.
Police in Austria are investigating the mysterious death of a British nuclear monitoring expert. Early news reports said that Timothy Hampton, who worked for an international monitoring unit called the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), died after falling 12 stories in a building in the Vienna International Center, one of the United Nations’ main office complexes in Europe. Reports said Austrian authorities would order an autopsy. “Everything points towards a suicide, and there are no signs of any third party being involved,” a police spokesman, Alexander Haslinger, told the French news agency AFP. Authorities in Vienna have privately indicated to other governments that while suicide is the principal cause of death under investigation, they haven’t ruled out the possibility that it could have been an accident or even murder, according to an official source in Washington. Official reports and a former U.N. official indicate that Hampton fell 12 stories down an internal emergency stairwell—from the 17th to the fifth floor—in the high-rise Vienna building.
Some news reports said that Hampton had been involved in the current round of negotiations between Iran, the U.S., and several other Western countries regarding Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
He fell… Yeah… that’s the ticket.
Beginning Wednesday, most of Newsday.com content will only be available to subscribers of Optimum Online, Newsday, or those willing to pay for it.
Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper – both owned by Bethpage-based Systems Corp. – will have to pay a $5 weekly fee. However, nonpaying customers will have access to some of newsday.com’s information, including the home page, school closings, weather, obituaries, classified and entertainment listings. There also will be some limited access to Newsday stories.
Newsday described the move as one that would create a “pioneering Web model,” combining the newspaper’s newsgathering services with Cablevision’s electronic distribution capabilities.
Yes, it’s so good to see my tax money going to such worthwhile things. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to have them do these things at home if they don’t have a war to fight?
Pfc. Adrian Vesik heard that war could be hell.
He was happy to discover when he arrived in Iraq earlier this year that his war experience also would include salsa dancing, yoga and martial-arts classes.
“When I signed up for the Army, I thought I was going to be a hero — go out and do some fighting,” says Vesik, 19, during a break at a Filipino-Okinawan jujitsu class. “I haven’t come close to doing anything that I was trained to do. I work, maybe, four to five hours a day. I have time to try all these new things. It’s not so bad.”
Because of new rules that require Iraqi approval for all U.S. missions, and a general decline in violence nationwide, many of the 117,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq say they now have more idle time than at any previous point in the six-year war.
Huffington Post – 10-21-09:
A retirement community in Largo, Florida is fighting to evict six-year-old Kimberly Broffman from the home of her grandparents Jimmy and Judie Stottler, the only parents she’s ever known.
According to the development’s bylaws, all residents must be older than 55.
Kimberly is the only person expected to vacate the home.
Kimberly’s grandparents have tried selling their house to leave the neighborhood, but because of the crash in the housing market, there are no buyers. They have lowered the price from $225,000 to $129,000.
The fight between Kimberly’s grandparents and the community has been going on for years, but soon a judge will decide if the girl must leave. According to NBC News, there is a real possibility that she could be placed in state foster care.
Here is the latest conversation I had with money manager Andrew Horowitz…. new insights for anyone who invests in anything. This week we highlight a discussion about specific stocks to examine. Plus: Dvorak predicts some oddball action for Apple based on odd information: An Apple branded LCD TV!! Listen to this show and find out why!
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- Bing will search Twitter and Facebook. Why? Who cares?
- 19-percent of all US Internet users use Twitter? I doubt it.
- Toy poodle sized dinosaur discovered.
- Acer goes 3D.
- Google to sell phones.
- Will Win 7 make touch-screens possible?
- Gaming is still a sorry state with Win 7.
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Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month’s worth of anti-AIDS medicine.
Only later did she learn that she had made herself all but uninsurable.
Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The next thing she knew, she said, she was lying on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she had been raped. She never developed an HIV infection. But months later, when she lost her health insurance and sought new coverage, she ran into a problem.
Turner, 45, who used to be a health insurance underwriter herself, said the insurance companies examined her health records. Even after she explained the assault, the insurers would not sell her a policy because the HIV medication raised too many health questions. They told her they might reconsider in three or more years if she could prove that she was still AIDS-free.
Just out of idle curiosity, how many apps are in Microsoft’s Marketplace app store? I can’t tell since apparently you can’t get to it via their website without a Windows-based phone. Unlike that other company.
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