Last month the Coast Guard denied that faulty radios were going to delay the deployment of their new ships, and they really went after the writer of that report. Here is that writer’s take on the Coast Guard’s response to his reporting. The writer had said that the delay would be 6 months or more and the Coast Guard vehemently denied that:
http://warisboring.com/?p=941
Today, the Coast Guard says that faulty radios is going to delay the deployment of their new ships by up to 2 years. They conveniently forgot to mention their denials last month. Apparently a big problems is that the COTS radios are leaky and classified communications can leak outside of the ship:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/CUTTER04118.xml
Our F-22s have a big problem with the clams that are dropped on a runway at Langley Air Force Base:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123093746
Michigan researchers developed a material that can be incorporated cheaply into sensors that detects many types of IEDs:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f9b2e528-075f-11dd-b41e-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
The Vendors got together and agreed to LTE IP rights, single-digit percentage of handset price and single-digit dollar amount for laptops as the maximum amounts:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/vendors-back-lte-ipr-framework?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
AOL landed a big advertising deal with Verizon:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6237291.html
Yahoo is close to merging with AOL, which would let it escape the Microsoft takeover:
http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=42974&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10
Analysts and columnists wrote about how Microsoft Windows is “in danger of collapsing”:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3730534.ece
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076698
http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/04/windows_is_fall.html?source=NLC-NOTES&cgd=2008-04-14
Even though the company who makes the voting machines resisted independent testing, testing was ordered in New Jersey due to concerns over the performance of the machines:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/subpoenas_issued_to_reexamine.html
Couple argues over which gang their 4-year-old should join, resulting in the Father being arrested:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15851623/detail.html
Blockbuster offers over $1 bil to buy Circuit City:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6237299.html
