[Medianews] Why You Can’t Get a Good Phone Wit h Verizon

Why You Can’t Get a Good Phone With Verizon By Priya Ganapati Wired.com September 16, 2009 | 6:50 pm http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/verizon-smartphones/ Why does the U.S. carrier known for the best network have the worst smartphones? Verizon Wireless gets plaudits for its coverage

[Medianews] Media Ownership Rules Complicate Restructurings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 Media Rules Complicate Restructurings By MIKE SPECTOR and SARAH MCBRIDE Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125322915767921233.html#mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLEForthNews Wall Street lenders are tripping over federal media-ownership rules as they find themselves the un

[Medianews] BBC wants DRM requirements for new HD receivers

DRM's tentacles snare British HDTV The BBC wants a green light to issue DRM requirements for new HD receivers, saying that rightsholders demand "protection" for their HD content. Critics are calling it the British equivalent of the "broadcast flag." By Matthew Lasar Ars Technica September 18,

[Medianews] Insatiable demand for mobile data challenges industry

[This article raises some very interesting infrastructure issues that I had never considered.] September 17, 2009 8:01 AM PDT Insatiable demand for mobile data challenges industry by Peter Glaskowsky News.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10355459-23.html?tag=newsFeaturedBlogArea.0 Mobil

[Medianews] Text-to-Speech Technology Reaches an Inflection Point

[Click through to the article for complete links to every program, product, group or resource mentioned in this story.] September 17, 2009, 12:25 pm Text-to-Speech Technology Reaches an Inflection Point By Ashlee Vance NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/text-to-speech-technology-

[Medianews] Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business

September 17, 2009, 4:11 pm Verizon Boss Hangs Up on Landline Phone Business By Saul Hansell NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/verizon-boss-hangs-up-on-landline-phone-business/?ref=technology Roll over in your grave, Alexander Graham Bell. That was in effect what Ivan Seidenber

[Medianews] Space station welcomes Japanese cargo ship

Spacecraft will stay linked to the station until about Nov. 1 By Tariq Malik Space.com updated 5:55 p.m. ET, Thurs., Sept . 17, 2009 Japan's first-ever space cargo ship arrived at the international space station Thursday to end a flawless maiden voyage to the orbiting lab. The gleaming space frei

[Medianews] Wisconsin: Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells

September 18, 2009 Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells By CHARLES DUHIGG NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print MORRISON, Wis. — All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy