It is great that the number of IEDs in Iraq were way down in August and September! 60% of US casualities in Iraq are from IEDs.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071113/1a_lede13_dom.art.htm
The US Navy is building a military base on top of an Iraqi oil platform!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119482675431289543.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news&apl=y&r=442705&apl=y&r=119445
Former pilots and government officials called on the US to reopen its investigation into UFOs:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071112/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_usa_ufos
I can’t believe that the South African nuclear facility was attacked a second time and they got inside the facility again!
http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=612125
JIEDDO’s (our defeat-IED organization that has been criticized for the way they have spent tons of money for minimal gains) budget for next year was cut from $500 mil to $120 mil!
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/Z?r110:H06NO7-0089:e0:670352
D-Wave (bought by Google last year) demonstrated the world’s first commercial quantum computer:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805164
A Microsoft exec said that it was “frightening” about the ease and speed in which XP was hacked in a live demonstration:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6218238.html
Nigeria picked Linux vendor Madriva over Microsoft again, despite Microsoft’s claim that they prefer XP:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/09/Nigeria-favors-linux-vendor-Mandriva-over-Microsoft_1.html?source=NLC-GOV&cgd=2007-11-13
The governors of Kansas and Minnesota have joined Google’s Climate Savers Computing Initiative and will only buy energy-efficient computers. Apparently Google founded the Initiative and Intel, HP, Dell, Lenovo, and IBM have all signed on already:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/07/Governors-team-with-Google-energy-savings-initiative_1.html?source=NLC-GOV&cgd=2007-11-13
The Open Handset Alliance (Google’s mobile OS) released its Software Development Kit on schedule:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/open-handset-alliance-releases-android-sdk?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Apple released version 1.1.2 of its iPhone OS to defeat the hackers that have been unlocking their phones…and before 1.1.2 was even officially released to everyone the hackers had already defeated it and released the software needed to unlock the new operating system!
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/11/apple_iphone_ha.html?source=NLC-NOTES&cgd=2007-11-13
China Mobile is interested in the iPhone, but balking at Apple’s financial terms:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8SSISUG0.htm
China Mobile used yaks to get their base stations up Mount Everest:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9uIuo8aXQZlv1IzB3JjCwHsCokQD8SSR7N81
Warner TV is launching a website aimed for mothers called MomLogic.com:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-warners13nov13,1,1676386.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
