Daily Run Down 10/21/2011
21 Oct 2011Here is today’s Daily Run Down.
- Why the QR Code Is Failing
- Former St. Xavier vice president admits embezzling $850,000
- Top gang leader sentenced to 40 years
- Charlie Miller on Android vs iOS security
- Obama: U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012
- Naperville street squatter Huber convicted of disorderly conduct
- Adobe fixes webcam hijack Flash flaw
- Plane from Chicago escorted by F-16s after losing contact
- Amazon infuses e-books with HTML5 power with new KF8 format
- Bye-bye unlimited 4G: Sprint institutes data usage caps
- Qaddafi’s Bloody End Points to Difficulties Ahead
- On Tea
- Researchers crack W3C encryption standard for XML
- Parents
- Meet the New Digital Public Library of America
- DirecTV may pull plug on Fox shows
(Reuters) - Hints of New Physics Crop Up at LHC
- Op-ed: The shocking strangeness of our 25-year-old digital privacy law
- Google engineer who publicly bashed Google+: ‘Nothing bad happened’
(Digital Trends) - Exclusive: Yahoo Overhauls Marketing Unit — The Internal Memo
- Efficient Victories
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle
- Comet-Seeded Alien Oceans Could Be Common
- Will Selig mediate Cubs-Red Sox talks?
- McCormick Place labor deal reached
- Probably Bad News: They Took The Theme Too Seriously
- Steve Jobs Organized Apple to Give Jony Ive Complete Operational Freedom
- Yep, It’s Complicated
- TSA Decides Terrorists Must Be Driving; Partners With Tenn. Law Enforcement To Randomly Search Vehicles
- China Hit-and-Run Tragedy Echoes 91-Year-Old Parable
- Obama signs long-delayed trade pacts into law
(Reuters) - Are You Keeping Up With Technology?
- Angry Birds Seasons Brings All-New Orange Bird, 30 Levels
- Oct. 21 ‘Doomsday’ So Far Pretty Quiet
- If German Satellite Falls on Your House, Who Pays for Repairs?
- Doomed Polar Explorer’s Lost Photos Revealed
- Could Lodsys turn its sights on Microsoft Windows 8 developers?
- SIU faculty threatens Nov. 3 strike
- Teens’ IQs can rise (or fall), thanks to changes in the brain
- 57.6 million Xbox 360 units have been sold worldwide, according to Microsoft earnings report
(Digital Trends) - Classic Horror Films for Halloween Fun [Infographic]
- Helicopter Dreams
- Steve Jobs left designer Jony Ive more power than anyone at Apple
- iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Go Live For October 28th Launch Countries
- How Gaddafi Died: The Interim Prime Minister’s Version
- Website Name FAIL
- SA: Global tablet shipments balloon 280% in Q3, Apple owned 67% of market
- Lesson #1207 – Home Security
- Missing The Hiss: Some Audiophiles Cling To Cassette Tapes
- ACLU: 3 women assaulted in ICE custody
- October 21, 2011
- Prairie
- Apple director says Steve Jobs told team not to ask “What would Steve do?”
- Hijacking the fun: Grand Theft Auto 3 on iPad
- Al Gore on Steve Jobs: He’s The Kind of Guy That Comes Along Once Every 250 Years
- A Whopper of a FAIL
- Chicken Discount FAIL
- Narcissists' Overconfidence May Hide Low Self-Esteem
- Nokia shocks the Street in Q3 on solid feature phone sales
- Should Blago keep law license? Even he can’t come up with reason why
- Why Ghosts Are Spooked by HD Camera
- Data: Comcast Has Stopped Throttling Bit Torrent (But Other ISPs Persist)
- Apple Airs First iPhone 4S TV Ad Featuring Siri
- Musician John Mayer shares his thoughts on Steve Jobs
- Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says
(AP) - American Jobs Act by the Numbers: Zero
- Will County jury convicts juvenile jail employee for assaulting inmate
Look for more stories tomorrow. If an important story has been missed please leave it in the comments.
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