Tuesday 12th January 2010
by WayneHere is Today’s Daily Run Down.
- Search Giant Google is standing up to China and saying ‘no’.
- Yahoo has officialy sold off Zimbra to VMWare.
- A Texas town that once welcomed drilling now fears pollution.
- Apache is debating on whether to stop development on the 1.3 and 2.0 branches.
- Google has launched Flu trends for 121 cities.
- AP stories are currently not welcome on Google News.
- The DisplayPort 1.2 specification will make those who need to transfer a lot of data quite happy.
- The Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley’s wife is in the hospital.
- The 70 year old murder case of Edward J. O’Hare has been reopened by Chicago police.
- Venezuela has announced that they will be rationing electricity.
- The same group that took down twitter a few weeks ago has also struck baidu.com.
- The mystery behind why galaxies have their distinct shape has been solved.
- Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank has died.
- eMusic has struck a streaming deal with Warner Music.
- Target appears to be going the way Borders has and is severing ties with Amazon.
- Haiti has been hit with a 7.0 earthquake.
Look for more stories tomorrow.
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