Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• AMD has admitted that some 12-core opteron CPUs have been shipped early.
• Comcast may have 100 Mbps service this year.
• Apple’s Vice President Phil Schiller tries to explain the double-standard for deleting some applications.
• A UK film chain is boycotting the film Alice in Wonderland, due to a DVD dispute.
• Open Source Software developers can collect damages from license violators.
• A New dinosaur species has been found in some fossils in Utah.
• ABC News is undergoing a transformation and will be cutting some jobs.
• Comcast has launched it’s first public trial of DNSSEC.
• AT&T is said to be getting the HTC Desire, which is a 3G compatible version of the Nexus One.
• PocketGear is acquiring Handango for their app store.
• The UK has made the Abbey Road Studios a historic building.
• The UK has decided that the internet ban for p2p infringement crosses the line.
• Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been hospitalized after suffering a mild heart attack.
• iPhone Software Development firm Ngmoco has secured $25 Million in funding and has subsequently purchased Freeverse.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• The Free Software Foundation is urging Google to open up the On2 Codec.
• Japan is claiming that Whaling is not a legal issue.
• An Oak Forest student has been suspended for posting comments about their teacher on their facebook page.
• A Plane has crashed into a St. Louis area home and two are missing.
• Sony has two new PS3 models coming.
• The Credit card law changes have gone into effect today.
• The Guinness World records has acquired bragster.com.
• id software co-founder John Carmack has received a Game Developers Choice Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award.
• Lufthansa pilots have decided to strike.
• Duke Nukem 3D on Xbox Live is 50% off this week.
• Walmart has acquired video streaming service Vudu.
• The United States investigators have pinpointed the source of the attacks on Google.
• Google Earth is now available for Android, it requires version 2.1.
• A Great Dane in Arizona is the world’s tallest dog ever.
• Compact Flash’s specification version 5.0 promises faster speeds and crazy storage.
• Apple appears to be looking to expand where the iPhone OS can inhabit.
• A Mouse has received a human liver transplant.
• The comic book that debuted superman has sold for $1 Million.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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• I think the movie Timeline is underrated. #
• @LillyAnn You can't fix stupid, that's the issue. in reply to LillyAnn #
• @yakk0dotorg The film as a standalone is good, I bet it's like the Harry Potter movies, movies are good however, the books are better in reply to yakk0dotorg #
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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• The Internet Chapter of ACTA has leaked.
• The ATF has charged two suspects in the Texas Church fires.
• A University of Oklahoma instructor shows what will happen if you bring a laptop into their class.
• LiveScience has an article on how Naps can help you learn.
• Some Stone Tools found on the island of Crete show some of the history of Maritime travel from humans that dates back 130,000 years.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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• I ran 4090m before hitting a wall and tumbling to my death on my iPhone. http://www.canabalt.com/ #
• I wish somebody would re-make the 'Flying Toasters' screensaver for Snow Leopard, that would be totally awesome. #
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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• An Adobe Flash developer sheds some light on why the iPad can’t use Flash.
• The Feds have subpoenaed the School District accused of spying on it’s students via webcams.
• Google has officially deprecated Google Gears in favor of HTML5.
• An Indiana Christian College has lifted a ban on singing the National Anthem at sporting events.
• Former Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, has died at the age of 85.
• Somebody is taking a new twist on securing logins.
• The Daily Green has an article on 11 species that have been lost in the last 40 years.

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Here is Today’s Daily RUn Down.

• App;e has updated mobile me for the iPhone OS, including iPad.
• Adobe’s download manager is installing software without consent.
• FBI is probing the webcam spy case.
• Billy Joel and Elton John have canceled their summer tour dates.
• The Chicago Bears will be raising ticket prices for the 2010-2011 season.
• US Intelligence agencies would like to have a super-sensitive Human lie-detector.
• A Lost World War II era Nuke project has been found in a Dutch Scrapyard.
• Microsoft has confirmed that a rootkit is causing the Windows XP blue screens.
• There is an online drive to elect Singer John Mellencamp to the US Senate.
• A suspect in the recent shooting at Northern Illinois University.
• The US Mint is redesigning the Penny.
• Copernicus, the famous heliocentrist, was born today 537 years ago today.

Look for more stories tomorrow.

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