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Midway Games, a video game publisher that created the popular video game, Mortal Komabat, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 12, 2009. They are obviously having some funding issues.
One of their former majority share holders, Sumner Redstone, sold off 87 percent of his stake in the company in late November, 2008. A private investor by the name of Mark Thomas bought the shares for $100,000 plus $70 million in debt. This allowed Midway’s creditors to request full repayment for two series of Midway Bonds. After the company obtained extensions from the bondholders, Midway decided to go ahead and file for bankruptcy protection so they could restructure the funding their debt without worrying about a Lawsuit. The company owed $150 million in debt to its bondholders. By the way if you need a competent Lawsuit Funding attorney I suggest happy Rock LLC as they are a superb outfit to help with your Lawsuit Funding
Midway spokesman Geoffrey Mogilner reportedly stated, “We felt this was a logical next step for our organization, considering the change in control triggered the acceleration of the repayment options.” According to Moligner, the company will “reorganize and to come out on the other side stronger.”
Although Midway has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, their business operations outside of the United States are not included in the filing. First Day Motions have been sought in the bankruptcy proceedings, by Midway, so that it can continue normal business operations and to maintain ordinary options.

The military has some stealthy new technology in the pipeline it would seem. Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) Technology is a development by the United States Air Force. MAV’s are tiny robotic drones that have been designed to look like a bird or an insect. They can fly into an area unnoticed and spy on the enemy or even be used to fly up to take a deadly shot at an enemy force before they even realize what it is.

MAV technology may become a useful weapon by the Defense Department soon. Relatively massive funds have been put into into the scientific development of these micro flying machines. The Pentagon and Aerospace in particular have been working on these for more than a decade. The Air Force Research Laboratory apparently a projected 2015 date to put these first of their kind MAV’s into military use.

In the research and development of this new technology, the scientist and researches studied small insects, fruit flies and birds to design this tiny new aircraft. It will be very light and will be able to be carried in the soldier’s rucksack.

UAVs or Unmanned Arial Vehicles are already in use by the military but nothing has been used as small as these MAV’s will be.

In the United Kingdo, the Special Forces have been testing a 28inch MAV which they have termed the “Wasp”. They have used it so far to monitor the battlefields in Afghanistan. Now the US Marine Corps have placed an order for them. These particular Wasps may have explosives fitted to them to be used on surprise assaults.

These small MAV’s are being made by AeroVironment, a firm which is currently based in California. The Air Force has had a goal to finish testing the MAV so it can be deployed by 2015. By 2030, the Air Force desires to be able to deploy it. They are formulating the technology of being able to deploy swarms of these MAV’s so that a lot of site data may be gained at one time. There are a ton of non-military uses for these MAV’s as well, such as for search and rescue operations.

   Devices for using the Internet have gone from having no way to make a laptop mobile to cell phone hook ups and then mobile broad band cards. It also has become easier to take information with you with the use of USB sticks.

   It is even easier now to take it with you with a virtual machine, with this it is possible to even use a public computer and leave no footprints. With this all of the information that needs to be accessed can be using a Windows based computer and an application virtualization, like Microsoft Application Virtualization or the program by Symantec SVS that is free for personal use.

   Now there is no more trying to fit everything on a PDA for business, because with this all the data and the applications that are on the computer can be taken along and accessed on any computer. The best part it all the information can be carried on something as small as a USB stick. That makes this real desktop mobility unlike any other mobile technology. .

Google has a new phone set to come out maybe as soon as September 17th. One source reportedly is saying that the new HTC Android phone will hit the markets next month. Rumors about the release of this phone continue to swirl however. Another source insists the new Android phone will not be available until 2009. This T-Mobile phone is a smart phone made by HTC smart phone manufacturer.

 The phone is supposedly going to be offered to current T-Mobile customers for around $400 but if a two-year contract is signed, the phone will go for around $150. The phone is slated to be offered to new customers during the first part of October.

 The new Android phone is reportedly going to support 3G services and will have a touch screen, a QWERTY keyboard that slides out, along with a 3-megapixel camera. This device reportedly requires a Gmail account before you can set up the service and rumor is that it might be a little more costly for the 3G data plan but definite details have not yet been released. T-Mobile would not comment on these rumors but had previously stated it would offer a new Android phone by December. More details and technology news can be overfound at Apollo & Adobe News …so alright back the article:

 The 3G-service plan may be found lacking by some subscribers however. As of right now, this service will only be available in New York and Las Vegas with another 20-25 cities to be added by the end of this year. T-Mobile will continue to work on getting it to other cities throughout 2009.