Sprint 4G / WiMax Service for Los Angeles Due in December

I bumped in to a guy on Saturday who said he worked for Clearwire. We got to talking about Sprint and 4G handsets. I asked him about the “private beta” 4G deployment in Los Angeles. He confirmed its existence and that it was working, but generally only available to employees of Sprint, their relatives, and other people who’d be unlikely to complain if something went wrong with the service. I asked him when it might be publicly available, because the last I’d heard it was due in August. Last time I checked August was here. He let me know that the new target date was December. Which would make a lot of sense to time it to coincide with the Christmas shopping season.

Australian Scientist Detects Laser from Space

I can just picture Marvin the Martian pointing a crazy death ray at earth, only to have the signal degraded to a weak laser pulse by the time it reached us.

Just about a year ago Ragbir Bhathal was scanning the night sky for alien activity, just as he does every night. Except, on this December eve Ragbir Bhathal found a strong, regular, repeating signal. Unless the whole thing stemmed from a huge glitch occurring simultaneously in all his million-dollar lab equipment, there stands a strong chance that Ragbir found a message sent by some intelligent, alien race.

via Q+A: Ragbir Bhathal, Australias Leading Alien Hunter | Motherboard.