A room-temperature superconductor gets even closer, as the latest candidate superconducts at -19 Celsius; like in a domestic freezer:
http://www.superconductors.org/254K.htm
The US$99 Wikireader. All of wikipedia in a wee box that runs off AA batteries with an eInk screen. Update SDs available by subscription:
http://www.thewikireader.com/about.html
Microsoft halts sales of the Sidekick cellphone after losing most of the network users' private data stored in their cloud:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8303952.stm
In a mistake of IBM-like proportions, Sweden's entire .se top-level internet domain goes down due to a DNS script cock-up:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/10/13/sweden%25E2%2580%2599s-internet-broken-by-dns-mistake/
Gartner tips Android to be the number 2 phone operating system by 2012, beaten only by Symbian:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9139026/Android_to_grab_No._2_spot_by_2012_says_Gartner?taxonomyName=Mobile Devices&taxonomyId=75
And finally. Becoming a registered hypnotherapist is so easy a cat could do it. Several times with several organisations, apparently:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8303126.stm
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