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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Panasonic is rumored to announce a 13.2 Megapixel Lumix Cell Phone.
  • Apple has removed AirPrint from the iPod Touch 2nd Generation.
  • A Brooklyn Father and Son team have launched a homemade spacecraft.
  • Chicago’s Crime rate is down by 4.5%, yet Auto Thefts are up 22.3%.
  • The Windows 7 Family Pack deal has returned.
  • Robert Edwards, the British Scientist who pioneered Test Tube Babies, has received a Nobel Prize.
  • Microsoft has confirmed October 11th as the worldwide Launch of Windows 7.
  • Negotiators are getting closer to agreeing on an ACTA Treaty and still being cagy about it.
  • New Evidence is suggesting Icebergs in Frigid Oceans on Ancient Mars.
  • A Subway strike has crippled London’s commuters.
  • Barnes & Noble has launched it’s PubIt! Self-publishing program.
  • Italian coast guard officials have called off the search for an American Balloonist who disappeared last week.
  • Japan has joined the US and Britain for warning travelers to Europe.
  • Two EarthQuakes have struck, the first a 6.3 magnitude in Japan and another 5.1 magnitude in Cuba.
  • The Ancient Colorado River Flowed backwards.
  • Twitter’s CEO, Evan Williams, has stepped down as CEO.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Clear is now offering it’s iSpot 4G broadband specifically for Apple’s iOS devices.
  • A Former Chi Mei executive has pleaded guilty to price-fixing.
  • Violent dreams may presage brain disorders later in life.
  • Google is stopping all Development on Google Wave citing low adoption.
  • Google is activating 200,000 Android Handsets per day.
  • A bulls-eye has been discovered on Mars.
  • The Barnes and Noble Nook Study is now available for download.
  • Verizon and Google have signed a net neutrality agreement.
  • The Amazon Kindle has a new store in the UK.
  • Elena Kegan is about to become the fourth-ever woman on the US Supreme Court.
  • Harley Davidson may leave Milwaukee after 107 years.
  • A genetic map will give insight into 5,200 year-old iceman.
  • America’s most common bat is headed towards Eastern extinction.
  • The Dreams for Moon water has evaporated.
  • The Brain’s Link between sounds, smells and memory has been revealed.
  • Live Science asks an interesting question, ‘How did dogs get to be dogs?’.
  • Britain has released hundreds of “UFO” documents.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • NASA Scientists are bracing for an explosion of space weather from the Sun.
  • The Judge has lifted the order barring a reporter from publishing their information.
  • The HTC Evo 4G has begun receiving it’s Android 2.2 update over the air.
  • A source is claiming that one of Microsoft’s next retail stores will be in OakBrook, Illinois. Close to an Apple Store.
  • Sing Along with Mitch host, Mitch Miller has died at the age of 99.
  • Sleeping in on the weekends is not a remedy for lost sleep.
  • Pakistan has been hit by the worst flooding, with 3.2 million people affected.
  • Male spiders are dwarfed by female spiders because smaller is better.
  • The Barnes and Noble NookStudy is now available with new, used, and rental titles.
  • Robert F. Boyle , the film designer for Alfred Hitchcock, has died at the age of 100.
  • In 1977, Tandy Corp announced the TRS-80.
  • Gorilla Glass, invented in 1962, could be a multi-billion dollar bonanza.
  • The FBI is claiming Wikipedia can’t display it’s logo.
  • California’s Sea Otters are mysteriously declining despite protection.
  • Warner Brothers is bringing back Looney-Tunes.
  • A 67,000 year-old human bone has been unearthed in the Philippines.
  • Bullied booby chicks turn out to be OK.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • A Judge is allowing a $10 Million lawsuit over Chicago Bears tickets to continue.
  • The firings that The Bush Administration made within the Justice Department have been deemed legal, political, but legal.
  • A Disc-Free version of Netflix is coming to the Playstation 3 in October.
  • The Barnes and Noble ‘Nook Study’ is arriving in August.
  • David Warren the inventor of the ‘black box’ for flight data records has died at the Age of 85.
  • With ice melting the US is preparing for more traffic along the Bering Strait.
  • Nook for Android is now available.
  • Two Lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reform telephone subsidies.
  • Foreign Turtles don’t smell dangerous to tadpoles.
  • GM has purchased SubPrime lender ‘AmeriCredit’.
  • An Auction for the Texas Rangers will commence on August 4th as planned.
  • The largest molecules in space have been found.
  • Microsoft has sold it’s 175 Millionth copy of Windows 7.
  • A hyper-fast star has been kicked out of the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • Microsoft has confirmed the manufacturer’s for it’s Windows Phone 7 devices.
  • A German court has overturned the injunction against RapidShare.
  • Claims that there are 100-Earth-Like planets is false.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • The Swiss are going to make an announcement on whether Roman Polanski will be extradicted.
  • Facebook will be adding a ‘panic button’ for UK teenagers.
  • The University of Texas may change a dorm name that currently honors a Klansman.
  • Fidel Castro has appeared on Cuban Television and Radio.
  • Today is the 50th Birthday of the Etch-a-Sketch.
  • Brazil’s DMCA-equivalent strictly forbids any DRM on public-domain items.
  • Some Scientists postulate that life gets wiped off of Earth every 27 million years.
  • A Batch of Red Hot Chili Peppers has been stored in an Arctic Doomsday vault in case some terrestrial catastrophe renders them extinct.
  • Thousands have been evacuated in China due to excessive flooding.
  • Apple has begun issuing a recall for 2008 Time Capsules that are faulty.
  • Cells have a multitude of ways to live, but only a couple to die.
  • Consumer Reports cannot recommend the iPhone 4.
  • In order to quell the fears of Textbook publishers, Barnes and Noble is aiming to lockdown e-book delivery for education with NookStudy.
  • Comic book writer, Harvey Pekar; author of ‘American Splendor’ has died at the age of 70.
  • The Growth of Baby brains mimics evolution.
  • The YMCA is now known as, the “Y”.
  • Here is a gallery of the Easter Island solar eclipse.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Sony has responded to Amazon and Barnes and Noble by cutting the price of their E-readers.
  • Chess icon Bobby Fischer’s body has been exhumed to acquire some DNA for a paternity test.
  • 65,000 pounds of Bison meat has been recalled due to a E. coli strain.
  • Some prehistoric fossils were unearthed in Tennessee.
  • California is said to be dropping it’s state rock, Serpentine, over asbestos concerns. Who knew California had a state rock.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Cassini Spacecraft has flown-by Titan’s upper atmosphere.
  • CNN will no longer use Associated Press (AP) content.
  • A mine in China has exploded and Killed 46.
  • Australia has made fiber the only means of transmission for the government.
  • Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle to $189 in order to compete with the lower-priced Barnes and Noble Nook.
  • Apple has released iBooks for iPhone alongside iOS 4.0.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Amazon has received the OK for a Canadian Distribution center.
  • Pam, the creators of the Palm OS have decided to put themselves up for sale.
  • Adobe has shown off their latest hacker target, Adobe CS5.
  • Microsoft has unveiled it’s ‘Pink’ strategy with the phone ‘Kin’.
  • Best Buy is going to sell the Barnes and Noble Nook starting April 18th.
  • Twitter is attempting to quell the fears of 3rd party app developers after unveiling that they purchased Tweetie.
  • Google Docs has received a much needed update.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • Foursquare and Starbucks have teamed up to offer customers rewards.
  • TigerText, the application to erase embarrassing text messages has gone international.
  • Apple is revamping the E-book categories prior to the iPad launch on April 3rd.
  • Barnes and Noble has officially acknowledged that they are working on an iPhone OS E-reader application.
  • Pink Floyd tracks will no longer be available as single tracks, it’ll albums only.
  • President Obama has given away his $1.4 Million Nobel prize to charities.
  • Playstation has copied the WiiMote with the ‘Playstation Move’.
  • 48 Hawaii Only species are now on the endangered list.
  • Actor Merlin Olsen has died at the age of 89.
  • New Zealand is going to be adding a $900 Million cable to the pacific.
  • Half of Kansas City Missouri schools will be closed come fall.
  • Ireland now has a Leprechaun Museum.
  • Unlike Illinois, California tax payers should be getting their refunds on time.
  • The Federal Trade Commission may block the Google/AdMob deal.

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Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

  • A Low tolerance for pain may be genetic.
  • All of the ingredients for life are in the Orion Nebula.
  • Energizer has acknowledged that there is a software vulnerability in it’s Duo monitoring software.
  • The US Treasury is now allowing internet exports to Iran and other countries.
  • Barnes and Noble has hired former Time Magazine Jonathan Shar to head up it’s subscription content for it’s Nook e-reader.
  • In case you missed the oscars last night, they paid a tribute to director John Hughes.
  • Sandra Bullock made a good acceptance speech at the 2010 Oscars.
  • The Supreme court is set to rule on whether protests at funerals is protected by free speech.
  • The Architect of the Sears Tower and the John Hancock center, Bruce Graham, has died at the age of 84.
  • 148 years ago today, the Monitor and the Merrimack clashed in the Civil War.

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