This isn't realistic in large suburbs which are criss-crossed with 6 lane (3 lane each way) "surface roads" with 40-45mph speed limits, especially at rush hour. This is about 90% of most people's commute in the DFW (Dallas) area & suburbs (google "dfw metroplex").
 
For whatever reason, the yellow lights at these 45mph intersections by my mom's house in Plano (DFW) is shorter than the 30mph yellow light near my house 15 miles away in Dallas. The one big difference is that the 30mph intersection has no red light camera and is a low traffic intersection.
 
If anything, high traffic intersections should have 10-12 second yellow lights, not less than 5 seconds...

AMD is still hear and

Not for long, if you're representative of the quality astroturfer that they can afford these days...

Win8 offers cool features like storage spaces/drive pools (poor man's software raid) and hypervisor (Virtualbox)

Dealerships also create quite a bit of property tax at the city level and (I assume) commercial taxes for the state. When GM shut down something like 3,000 dealerships across the country during their restructuring, it crippled a lot of small towns who depended on that source of property tax income. In a rural, agricultural area that may have been the largest commercial source of property tax, equivalent to one city worker's salary in a town of 300.

Currently running the official Google version of 4.1 (the version after ICS) on my2.3 ddevice, Nexus S. LTS phones exist, I'm typing on one. Sadly 4.1 is the last major OTA update I'm getting.

We should probably include summaries of what companies like Cisco, Microsoft, Intel and IBM do in each story as well then. Cyanogenmod is probably a B or C tier brand name, but it's in no way unfamiliar.

Everything was going great for the Atomic Nuclei, until it all went pear shaped.

There were 13 iterations of the Saturn V, they didn't even have the same paint job, let alone configuration. The first stage had anywhere between 7 and 12 helium tanks inside of the kerosene tank depending on the version. About the only similarity between each rocket was the diameter of the last stage, where it met with the Apollo capsule. Each engine was different, custom built.

Modern CPUs are so fast nowadays that the bottleneck is feeding them, not processing the data. The bus between memory and the CPU allows it to process 24GB/s, but most computers only come with 2, 4 sometimes 8GB. And then there's the issue of reading from the drive. The only way you're going to consistently peg an i5 for more than a few second (let alone an i7) is crunching terabytes of scientific data. Otherwise it's a software issue like Kerbal Space Program which only uses 50% of one core instead of 80% of all cores.

Last November it was revealed that the intel processors would have the GT1, GT2 and GT3 graphics in Haswell. The only difference is that Intel has lifted the muzzle of a press embargo on Haswell to push more Ivy Bridge (and yes, even Sandy Bridge) units out the door to clear out back logs.
 
It's been known since last year that the release date for Haswell is June 2nd, but nobody is allowed to report on that for fear of losing intel advertising dollars.

Many of those islands in that region are on a satellite link. Cuba, for instance, a much larger and more heavily populated island, only got a physical landline link (to Venezuela) last year, in late 2012. Prior to that they had three satellite links. The island of Grenada, for example, 400 miles south also uses a satellite link for internet access.

I think at that point you'd be producing vibrations, oscillations or disruption patterns specific to the regions you need to change... an analog signal I suppose. Your CRT tv takes an analog signal and displays it on an analog screen. Digital might not be the way to go here.

Toastman Tomato is a great release

I bought one last year. They're still for sale and being manufactured. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Amazing! A phone that shifts shape from a small lump, to a flat bar! Wow! If only we had had these kinds of phones in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it would have revolutionized the cell phone industry.
 
What will they think of next, phones without physical buttons???