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Soldiers in the United States military received a welcome surprise on Tuesday as the nation celebrated Veteran's Day. Delve Networks, based in Seattle, along with Houston-based Marion Montgomery, a marketing and design firm, teamed to launch TroopTube, a video-sharing Web site developed solely for members of the military and their families.

It seems that the whole Shah family is furiously backpedaling and denying links to the VHP:???We are in no way involved with the VHP in India or the Gujarat Government here,??? said Anand Shah, who runs Indicorps in Ahmedabad, an NGO Sonal Shah co-founded that provides fellowships to overseas Indian-origin young professionals to do internships in India in social work.

It seems that the whole Shah family is furiously backpedaling and denying links to the VHP:“We are in no way involved with the VHP in India or the Gujarat Government here,” said Anand Shah, who runs Indicorps in Ahmedabad, an NGO Sonal Shah co-founded that provides fellowships to overseas Indian-origin young professionals to do internships in India in social work.

For people who worry that it's impossible to escape from Google's amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite's first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.

You've been there -- late for a business flight, you forget your cell phone charger. Or, with a six-hour family vacation flight staring you in the face, the kids need something to keep them busy. You can relax: Chargers, Sony PSPs and even digital cameras will now be easily available in 12 U.S. airport terminals, courtesy of Best Buy.

From Science Daily:

From Science Daily:

For less than $15, you can buy a cell phone loaded with minutes. You can buy more as you go whenever those minutes run out. Best of all, you aren't locked into a long-term contract.

But in South Florida, New York, California, Georgia, Texas and elsewhere, traffickers have figured out they can make big profits by purchasing thousands of these low-cost phones and tweaking the software so that calls can be made on any cell network. The altered phones are then sold all over the world -- costing the phone companies tens of millions of dollars.

Todd Ackerman and Eric Berger in the Houston Chronicle: