[Medianews] Legislators Press for Spectrum Inventory

Legislators Press for Spectrum Inventory by Deborah D. McAdams TelevisionBroadcast.com September 17, 2009 http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/87290 WASHINGTON: It’s rare to get agreement across party lines on Capitol Hill, but that was the case this morning when it came to radio freque

[Medianews] WNYW "Disappointed" In News Anchor's Expletive

WNYW "Disappointed" In News Anchor's Expletive Anastos to issue on-air apology By John Eggerton Broadcasting & Cable 9/17/2009 5:08:49 PM EDT http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/354468-WNYW_Disappointed_In_News_Anchor_s_Expletive.php Fox's WNYW New York says it is disappointed in an F-bom

[Medianews] The Hollywood Reporter Scrapping Print Edition In 2009

Variety Going Behind Paid Wall in 2010; The Hollywood Reporter Scrapping Print Edition In 2009 By Nikki Finke Dealine.com Wednesday September 16, 2009 @ 5:25pm http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/variety-going-behind-paid-wall-in-2010-thr-scrapping-print-edition-in-2009/ EXCLUSIVE: In my opinion

[Medianews] Court rejects 'GPS made do it' argument

[Some news of the weird.] September 17, 2009 7:15 AM PDT Court rejects 'GPS made do it' argument by Chris Matyszczyk News.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10355499-71.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0 It appears that, strangely, some BMW drivers are actually submissive. In what may be

[Medianews] Near-instant book printer adds Google Books titles

September 16, 2009 9:00 PM PDT Near-instant book printer adds Google Books titles by Tom Krazit News.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10355318-265.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 Google is hell-bent on digitizing the world's books, but it's also aware that sometimes you just want to turn

Re: [Medianews] Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses

http://www.win741.com is the web site. Greg Williams | SAIC Service Desk Account Processor | SAIC Service Desk | phone: 877-WWW-SAIC -Original Message- From: medianews-boun...@etskywarn.net [mailto:medianews-boun...@etskywarn.net] On Behalf Of George Antunes Sent: Thursday, September 17,

[Medianews] Copyright Suit Threatens to Complicate $2 Billion Skype Sale

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 Skype Founders Balk at eBay Deal Copyright Suit Threatens to Complicate $2 Billion Sale as Drama Deepens By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Wall Street Jounral http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125313063626017009.html A company owned by the founders of Skype filed a copyright suit against

[Medianews] Democrats Tell FCC to Push For 'Net Neutrality'

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, 1:58 P.M. ET Democrats Tell FCC to Push For 'Net Neutrality' By FAWN JOHNSON Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125320882216020291.html Senior House Democrats told the Federal Communications Commission Thursday it should do more to stop Internet providers

[Medianews] Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses

September 17, 2009, 3:36 PM ET Cheap Windows 7 Headed for College Campuses By Nick Wingfield Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/17/cheap-windows-7-headed-for-college-campuses/?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod= Microsoft is about to find out whether it can prevent further defections to

[Medianews] What does 'person of interest' mean? Nothing

September 17, 2009 What does 'person of interest' mean? Nothing * Story Highlights * Police began widely using "person of interest" after 1996 Olympic Park bombing * It does not mean the same thing as "suspect" * Experts say the phrase came into use to reduce media pressure

[Medianews] New from Hasbro: Monopoly Urban Redevelopment

New from Hasbro: Monopoly Urban Redevelopment by John Murrell San Jose Mercury News September 16th, 2009 at 7:14 am http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/09/new-from-hasbro-monopoly-urban-redevelopment.html#respond You have to hand it to Hasbro. In its one short week of existence, Monopoly

[Medianews] NC doctor removes plastic fragment lodged in lung

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/nc-doctor-removes-plastic- fragment-lodged-in-lung-304006.html RALEIGH, N.C. - Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested sinc

[Medianews] Jupiter Snared Moon for 12 Years

Jupiter Snared Moon for 12 Years http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/14/jupiter-moon.html Sept. 14, 2009 -- Jupiter snared a passing comet in the middle of the last century, eventually releasing it 12 years later, astronomers reported on Monday. Data presented at the European Planetary Science

[Medianews] Planck telescope's first glimpse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8260711.stm The European telescope sent far from Earth to study the oldest light in the Universe has returned its first images. The Planck observatory, launched in May, is surveying radiation that first swept out across space just 380,000 years after the

[Medianews] Sun Surprisingly Active During Low Point in Cycle

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090917/sc_space/sunsurprisinglyactivedur inglowpointincycle Just looking at the number of sunspots doesn't provide a full picture of how the sun's solar energy impacts Earth, a new study suggests. The findings contradict previous thinking about how the s

[Medianews] Music publishers: iTunes not paying fair share

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10355448-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag =2547-1_3-0-20 Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are making preparations to one day collect performance fees from Apple and other e-tailers for not just traditional music downloads but for downloads of films and TV

[Medianews] Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327266.100-too-much-radiation-fo r-astronauts-to-make-it-to-mars.html FORGET the risk of exploding rockets or getting sideswiped by a wayward bit of space junk. Radiation may be the biggest hurdle to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and could put a d

[Medianews] Engine Leak Stalls Xombie Rocket's Bid for NASA Cash

By Tariq Malik Managing Editor posted: 16 September 2009 06:16 pm ET http://www.space.com/news/090916-xombie-lunar-lander-challenge.html A privately-built rocket nicknamed Xombie suffered an apparent engine leak Wednesday that stalled its attempt to win $150,000 in a NASA contest to fly mock moon

[Medianews] NASA gets ready for STS-129

HOUSTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it is preparing for the next space shuttle mission -- STS-129 -- scheduled to be launched Nov. 12. Space shuttle Atlantis' 11-day mission will include three spacewalks and the installation of two platforms to the International Space Station's t

[Medianews] An Amazing Laptop Recovery Story

By Todd R. Weiss , PC World , 09/17/2009 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/091709-an-amazing-laptop-recovery. html This is a true story about sex, computers, the Internet, spying, theft, intrigue, and the police--and it all began this past February when David Krop made the mistake of leaving

[Medianews] Twitter Traffic Triples During Video Music Awards

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1621715/20090916/west_kanye.jhtml Because the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards were the first of the Twitter era, MTV had to take a unique approach to the micro-blogging service during the broadcast. Video blogger Justine Ezarik - known to the Internet world as iJustin

[Medianews] The Skype Saga Continues: So Much for Option B

By Joe Nocera http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-skype-saga-contin ues-so-much-for-option-b/ When last we left the founders of Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, they were trying to buy back their baby from eBay, to whom they had sold it in 2005 - and not having much succ

[Medianews] Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools

Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/16/visual.web.bing.google/index.html (CNN) -- Say you're buying a dog. You know the breed you want; you can picture it in your head. But what was the name? A bull terrier? A pit bull? A bull mastiff? Or what if you're in

[Medianews] Actor Henry Gibson (AKA "Illinois Nazi") passes away

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Actor Henry Gibson, who played roles ranging from loopy poets to vengeful Illinois Nazis and cranky judges during a 40-year film and television career, has died at age 73, his representatives said Wednesday. Gibson was a regular on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," w

[Medianews] Some 750,000 pedophiles prowling Internet: UN

Some 750,000 pedophiles prowling Internet: UN http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.566c6d9cae728c5a9d3fc6f1e2b0 e0c8.3f1&show_article=1 Some 750,000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the Internet in a bid to gain contact with children, a United Nations report warned on Wednesday. "T

[Medianews] China says will push space programme to catch up West

China says will push space programme to catch up West http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d250ad11b26dc10b20fcd37105b9 e552.71&show_article=1 China said Thursday its rapidly growing space programme was the crowning achievement of the nation's high-tech transformation and pledged to continu

[Medianews] California lawmaker plans hearings on soda-obesity link

California lawmaker plans hearings on soda-obesity link http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/ts_nm/us_obesity_soda_california [Finally, hope for Blair and his Mtn Dew addiction -Greg] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The California lawmaker who spearheaded a high-profile anti-obesity effort across the

[Medianews] White House collects Web users' data without notice

W.H. collects Web users' data without notice http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-us ers-data/ The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the

[Medianews] Implanted tooth helps blind US woman recover sight

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fe9cc4f7248d56894ff71306bfda 52a4.471&show_article=1 A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said Wednesday. Sharron