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Best Buy's $199 Droid 2 Dummies, NFL Players Sue EA Over Madden

by Warren Riddle on August 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM



Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Droid 2 dummy models are apparently appearing on Best Buy shelves (ahead of the rumored August 12th release date), and the shells bear $199 price tags. [From: Engadget]
  • Thousands of retired NFL players are suing Electronic Arts, claiming that the video game manufacturer utilized representations of the players (apparently for the 'Madden' franchise) without compensating them. [From: Wired]
  • Former Department of Energy CIO Tom Pyke claims the DOE encounters more than 10 million cyberattacks every single day, and -- although there has apparently been "no theft of sensitive information" -- individual PCs have become compromised on an almost monthly basis. [From: Forbes]
  • Departed Apple VP and iPhone chief Mark Papermaster reportedly "lost the confidence of [Steve] Jobs months ago," due to an assortment of corporate buzzword violations, including Papermaster's inattention to "the smallest details," his inability to delegate and an apparent lack of "creative thinking." According to the Wall Street Journal piece, Jobs also may have known about, and accepted, the iPhone 4's antenna issues as far back as a year ago. [From: Engadget]
  • Terry Childs, the disgruntled IT guy who locked everyone out of San Francisco's city network, has been sentenced to four years in prison. A judge may still levy financial penalties for the stunt, which cost San Francisco $900,000, at an August 13th hearing. [From: InfoWorld]
  • Following a grand tradition of lofty (and morbid) tech predictions, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte recently announced that physical books will be soon be obsolete, and that "it's happening in five years." [From: Tech Crunch]

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