Tuesday 12th July 2011
by WayneHere is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Betty Ford remembered at bipartisan memorial
(AP) - Russia’s Ship, Plane Disasters Reveal Infrastructure Decay
- After 12: The Most Magical Light Beer
- Escalator FAIL
- Atlanta schools replace 4 area superintendents amid cheating scandal
- Probably Bad News: He’s a Little Slow, Eh?
- Fatal shooting in River Forest: ‘Looking at her lifeless, I couldn’t breathe’
- AT&T raises iPhone device tier on October 4th, perhaps signaling launch date?
- IMMA LET YOU FINNISH
- Sherwood Schwartz, Creator of Gilligan and the Bradys, Dies at 94
- Netflix Now Charging More For Plans With Both Unlimited Streaming and DVDs [In Brief]
- Chris Dibona On Free Software and Google
- Microsoft announces Xbox Music Service, coming this fall
- Rock musician uses cell phone stickup note in robbery
(Reuters) - No Pseudonyms Allowed: Is Google Plus’s Real Name Policy a Good Idea?
- iPhone 5 to land on Sprint and T-Mobile, analyst says
- Storm could break ComEd record with 860,000-plus losing power
- DVD-only and streaming-only Netflix plans now $7.99. Each.
- Apple TV to gain bluetooth keyboard support in iOS 5; opens the door to apps?
- Xbox 360 pops up in Win 8 code, console game compatibility coming to the PC?
- Why July Is a Dangerous Time to Be Hospitalized
- Netflix officially separates DVD, streaming pricing; $15.98 and up for both
- Oyster Compares Hotel’s Advertising to Reality
- Notre Dame raises $2 billion for 7-year capital campaign
- Mila Kunis says yes to Marine YouTube date request
(AP) - HP TouchPad 4G coming to AT&T this summer with 1.5GHz CPU, won't support LTE
- New Dino Finding: Warm-Blooded, Nimble Beasts
- I die a little when RSS feeds for awesome blogs don’t show the full post. -@yangjustinc
- Taste of Chicago restaurants’ profits down 20 percent
- AT&T becomes the first telco to use energy-efficient Bloom Box servers, will power 11 sites in California
- How PayPal Will Save You From a Zombie Attack (Video!)
- Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com
- The Teenage Winners of Google’s Global Science Fair [PICS]
- AT&T announces 4G LTE modem and hotspot with HSPA+ fallback technology
- Do We Care More About Our Toilet Roll than Our Banks?
- U.S. and Russia: Expanding the “Reset” to Cyberspace
- Microsoft states ‘Xbox Music’ launching in fall is ‘inaccurate’
- Google Plus to Hit 20 Million Users by the Weekend
- Assange Back In Court For Sex Crimes Appeal
- Man With 10 Million Air Miles Gets Plane Named After Him
- Police nab runaway elephants at bus stop
(Reuters) - EU court says eBay should protect trademarks better
(Reuters) - Microsoft Redesigns Bing Maps Interface
- Robotic Satellite Gas Attendant Poised for Space Test
- Protesters angry about police shooting shut down S.F. subway stop
- Intego releases malware scanner for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Legal Technicality Forces Houston To Turn Its Redlight Cameras Back On, Even Though It Wants Them Off
- Neptune Finishes First Year Since Discovery
- Sexually transmitted parasite Trichomonas vaginalis twice as prevalent in women over 40, study finds
- Afghan president’s half brother assassinated
- Facebook teams with Time Warner to fight bullies
(AP) - AT&T shipping HSPA+ / LTE USBConnect Momentum 4G and Elevate 4G this summer
- App gives Apple gadget users aerial view of France
(AFP) - Citrix swallows OpenStack ally Cloud.com
- Google Confirms: Non-Real Name Google Profiles Risk Suspension (I.E., Google Still Doesn’t Get Social) (SLHamlet/New World Notes)
- Blood Type Linked to Earlier Decline in Fertility
- Big Babies: Are Heavier Newborns Healthy?
- Apple Souvenir T-Shirt Jokes About Company’s Secrecy (Jordan Golson/MacRumors)
- Windows 8 will run on all Windows 7 PCs (and Vista PCs too)
- It’s official: Nortel patent sale approved by US and Canadian courts (updated)
- Netflix Europe debut set for January 2012
- Betty Ford brought breast cancer out into the open
- Scientists Condemn Plans to Scrap Hubble Telescope Successor
- Microsoft to Windows XP diehards: Just under 3 more years’ support
- 2 Americans abducted in southern Philippines
(AP) - Are Genetically Modified Fish a Vital Part of Our Future?
(Time.com) - Assange™ in court to fight extradition order
- Meat Choice FAIL
- President Obama rejects stopgap solution as debt-ceiling talks go nowhere
- Google+ To Pass 10,000,000 Users Tomorrow (on 7/12) (Paul Allen/Google+)
- Family of Robert F. Kennedy Rethinks His Place at Library
- ISS and Atlantis crews face ‘daunting’ box-shifting job
- UK court dishes out 13 years’ porridge to e-fraudsters
- Quinn cuts foster-care contracts with Catholic Charities over civil unions dispute
- Sprint subpoenaed by 9 states over AT&T's T-Mobile bid
(Reuters) - Fire Devastates Synagogue Under Repair in Manhattan
- A Tourism Office Falls Victim to Hard Times
- It’s a Season of Recalls for Voters in Wisconsin
- Parallels Enterprise Edition launches with corporate tools
- July 12, 2011
- Rack-mountable Mac Pro to arrive with Air and Lion this week
- .@arrington if you rollback your redesign I’ll rollback to Digg v3… (Kevin Rose/@kevinrose)
- PROTECT IP Act called unconstitutional by bipartisan group of law professors
- Maxell to sell AirStash wireless iOS thumb drive
- Downers Grove nursing home without power evacuated
- Ben Heck creates automatic Xbox 360 disc changer
- Highway Sign FAIL
- New radar can detect suicide bombers from 100 yards away
(Yahoo! News) - Cops issue alert after attempted child abduction in McKinley Park
- Microsoft: Windows 7 Hits 400 Million Licenses Sold
- EA Scrabble lets iPhone play with Android
(AFP) - RedBoxxed
- Website FAIL flings freebies at Kiwi punters
- Parallel Parking FAIL
- Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News get their own Android tablet, hope springs eternal
- 25% of US smartphones used as main Internet access
- Adult film actress ‘has meritorious defense’ to lawsuit
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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