August 3, 2011

With only hours to spare before funds ran short, The Senate approved and President Obama signed legislation to increase the federal government’s debt ceiling. The measure will cover government borrowing into 2013 with promises of more than $2 trillion of budget cuts over the next decade, including curbs on growth of the Pentagon budget. Source Link
 

Imagine if 90-percent of traffic jams were caused by only 10-percent of the cars on the road? That’s what’s happening on the information superhighway. A new report says just 10-percent of mobile users account for 90-percent of the data use.  Streaming video is the biggest draw, especially video use by iPhones that amounts to nearly 60-percent of all mobile web data. Source Link
 

Nearly 40 years later, the mystery may be ending over America’s only unsolved air hijacking, but don’t expect an arrest. The FBI's new lead in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case points to a man who died about 10 years ago. A passenger who identified himself as Cooper disappeared with $200,000 after parachuting from a jetliner that he hijacked over Washington state in 1971. Source Link