It seems The Asterisk Development team has been working overtime to really crank out the code. Great work guys!

The Asterisk.org development team has released version 1.6.0 Beta 4.

This release contains the following improvements:

12020, a CLI formatting improvement
11964, added the ability to get the original called number on SS7 calls
11873, Added core API […]

It seems that PayPal is down again.
Upon attempting to log in, PayPal returns “page not found” as their title and “We are unable to complete your request at this time. Please click Retry or try again later. We apologize for the inconvenience. Message 3004.”
They are denying both PayPal credit and debit card transactions. […]

The Asterisk Development Team has released the third beta for Asterisk 1.6.

Added an ‘n’ option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered
Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to:

List the categories in a file.
Get the contents of a single category.
Empty […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef produced by a slaughterhouse in California. It has been said this is the largest beef recall in history.
According to the Associated Press:
Federal officials suspended operations at Westland/Hallmark after an undercover Humane Society video surfaced showing crippled and sick animals being […]

Huntsville, AL based Digium, Inc., today announced their Exceptional Satisfaction Program to further guarantee the quality of their Open Source VoIP Solutions.

It appears Microsoft has been in discussions with Yahoo! for the past 18 months about a proposed $44.6 billion acquisition, which was just publicly announced by Steve Ballmer.
Perhaps this is Microsoft’s attempt to directly compete with the GOOG for search marketing revenue.
From Alec Saunders’ Microsoft & Yahoo post:

CFO Chris Liddell gave an […]