Tuesday 31st August 2010
by WayneHere is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Two men have been arrested on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam after some ‘suspicious items’ were found in their checked luggage.
- There are two finalists for Illinois Lottery management.
- Mexico has fired 10% of it’s federal police force.
- Roku has dropped prices on three media players; they now start at $59.99.
- Viewsonic’s 7″ ViewPad is official with Android 2.2.
- New York landlords are now required to tell tenants about bedbugs.
- Fidel Castro, in a rare interview, stated that he was ‘at death’s door’.
- AutoCAD has returned to the Mac.
- Heaps of fossils from the evolutionary ‘Big Bang’ have been discovered in the Canadian Rockies.
- US Food and Drug Administration investigators have found two egg farms failed to follow their own safety procedures.
- Chinese officials are going to hear a case where a potential school teacher was denied a job because he is HIV positive.
- US Federal officials are suggesting grade letters for vehicle efficiency.
- Borders has upped the ante for Amazon and Barnes & Noble with a $99 e-reader.
- TweetPhoto has renamed itself to Plixi and adds location-based services.
- The Magna Carta is getting some new preservation gas.
- A Tube of plasma has been able to create solar eruptions in the lab.
- Tesla Motors has paid a fine for lacking emissions certificate of conformity, despite none of their cars producing emissions.
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave a comment.
Tags: $59.99, 10%, 99, added, Amazon, amsterdam, Android 2.2, ante, arrested, at, AutoCAD, Barnes & Noble, because, bedbugs, big bang, Borders, Canadian Rockies, Cars, case, certificate of conformity, checked, Chicago, China, contract, create, deaths, Denied, discovered, door, drop, E-reader, efficiency, egg farms, emissions, eruption, evolutionary, failed, federal, Fidel Castro, fine, fired, flight, follow, force, fossils, gas, getting, grade, has, heaps, hear, HIV, illinois lottery, in, interview, job, lab, lack, landlords, Letters, location-based, luggage, Mac, Magna Carta, manage, media players, Mexico, new, New York, official, officials, paid, plasma, plixi, Police, positive, preservation, price, procedures, rename, required, returned, Roku, safety, school teacher, services, solar, start, suggesting, suspicious items, tell, tenants, Tesla, three, tube, TweetPhoto, two finalists, two men, upped, US, vehicle, viewed, Viewsonic