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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • In the Case of Sony BMG Music Entertainemtn v. Tennenbaum, the defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, has filed their final brief.
  • Automattic, the creators of WordPress, have posted some reasoning behind the wordpress.com outage earlier today.
  • Rumors are aloft that CBS may cut some television show prices to $1 per episode.
  • Another Apple rumor is that Apple is concealing it’s Bills of Lading for the iPad.
  • Oracle, to nobody’s surprise, is ignoring the OpenSolaris project.
  • Kathryn Grayson, of MGM Musical fame, has died at the age of 88.
  • If you have some money to burn, you can go and purchase at the 256GB Kingston USB Flash drive for $1108.
  • A Pennsylvania school has been spying on it’s students via laptops.
  • A plane has crashed into an IRS tax building in Houston.
  • HBO has introduced online streaming.
  • T-mobile in the UK has boosters for their phone plans.
  • Microsoft has revealed that is rick-rolled some wifi leechers.
  • The White House press secretary’s twitter posts will be archived in accordance with the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
  • An Adobe Exec claims Flash Improvements for Mac are coming. If the ‘improvement’ is more memory utilization, then it’s not an improvement.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Google has acquired reMail.
  • Gefen is now shipping DisplayPort and Mini DisplayPort adapters and cables. The prices are approaching Monster cables prices [aka too high]
  • Ubisoft is single handedly attempting to kill PC Gaming with their new DRM.
  • Toshiba is preparing a 10,000RPM 2.5″ 600GB hard drive.
  • 800 City PCs in Norfolk Virginia have been destroyed due to a time bomb.
  • A Comet with a 10 million mile long tail has been illuminated with NASA’s new infrared telescope.
  • Three Tesla engineers were killed when their Cessna plane crashed into an East Palo Alto house. Coincidentally, this also took out power at Facebook’s headquarters.
  • Illinois has been ranked worst when dealing with pensions.
  • NEC has created a 16Gbps link that utilizes USB 3.0.
  • Interstellar hydrogen may prevent traveling at the speed of light.
  • 115,000 pounds of Salami have been recalled.
  • 38 years ago the VW Beetle became the car that has sold the most, beating out Ford’s Model T.
  • Google has donated $2 million to Wikimedia, the founders of Wikipedia.

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  • Apple has launched an extended repair program for Early MacBook models.
  • Rumors are flowing that a ‘large’ microsoft Franchise will be coming to Project Natal.
  • Wired has a video on the Wired Magazine for iPad.
  • HTC has unveiled two new handsets, the Desire and Legend.
  • Square’s iPhone OS credit card scanner will only cost $1.00.
  • The FCC is calling for 100Mbps broadband across the US.
  • BlackBerry will soon have a webkit browser.
  • Skype will be arriving on BlackBerry phones on Verizon.
  • Adobe CS5 will finally be 64-bit enabled.
  • Nuance, the creators of Dragon Naturally Speaking, have acquired MacSpeech.
  • King Tut’s DNA has been sequenced and his ailments identified.
  • The UK’s drone has been grounded for lack of a license.
  • CNN has an interesting article on the difference between a ‘procrastinator’ and an ‘incubator’.
  • Blackberry has unleashed BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.
  • T-Mobile is set to release 21Mbps webConnect Rocket card and HTC’s HD2 phone next month.
  • Rumors are abound that Walter Isaacson will be penning the Steve Jobs biography.
  • According to insurer’s, teen girls are more likely to get distracted while driving. I think this is just an attempt to raise rates due to greed.
  • Google’s real time search results just got bigger with the addition of myspace.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Adobe is claiming that it is not stalling HTML5, and Ian Hickson is calling their bluff.
  • Apple is now banning jailbroken IDs from the Apple Store.
  • To nobody’s surprise Apple is said to be using it’s FairPlay DRM on the iBookstore.
  • The Vatican will be making some of their World War II archives available online.
  • SlingMedia updated it’s iPhone OS application and it can now stream over 3G.
  • Meebo’s iPhone OS application is now available in the App store.
  • Google has confirmed it is starting tests on Trending Topics is news.
  • A swedish man’s house that was burned included an iMac that just keeps running.
  • Ben Heck, who is a famous hardware hacker, has unveiled his latest creation, the Wii Laptop.
  • Toyota, in an attempt to stave off the Public Relations nightmare of recent, will be providing tours of it’s Indiana factory.
  • Popcap’s very popular game Plants and Zombies is now available for the iPhone OS.
  • Microsoft has announced Windows Mobile 7 with Xbox Live Support.
  • Adobe has announced Flash and Air support for Android.

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I know technology is moving fast, but this is absurd.

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