The Daily Geek

It seems you can’t go more than about a week before a rumor surfaces that says “Apple in talks to by [X]“, with [X] being whatever company is hot and not already owned by Apple, Google, or Microsoft.  The lastest target is Twitter.  Rumor has it Apple is “seriously considering” purchasing the microblogging service.  But as Fortune Magazine puts it in black-and-white; What Apple has been rumored to purchase, and what they’ve actually bought, are two completely different things.

The New York City Police Department has deployed 40 Nissan Altima Hybrids into is fleet of service vehicles.  There are 18 “marked” (meaning there is striping and a light bar to make it obvious it is a patrol vehicle) and 22 “unmarked” vehicles.  The department expects to add another 130 Hybrid vehicles to it’s fleet this year.

Want a government or military job?  Better update your Facebook page and start Twittering.  Some branches of the military have started looking online to do their recruiting.  Various branches and commands have started Facebook sites, and military big-wigs have started Twittering their thoughts.

Uncle Sam wants YOU to install the bumperstickers app on MySpace.

It looks like the Linux marketshare has taken a boost.  According to NetApplications (via Berkeley LUG), the operating system has now reached 1% of the total market share.  What does this mean?  Two things really.  One, TECHNICALLY it means 1 in 100 computers are running some variant of Linux as an operating system.  The second thing, is due to the methodology of the survey, the number is probably wrong, and on the VERY low end.