[Medianews] Fox News Channel broadcasting SD in letterbox

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/355467-FNC_Pushes_Widescreen.php?rssid=20065 Fox News Channel is aiming to optimize the on-air product for its growing high-definition audience while continuing to serve the majority of viewers still watching standard-definition, 4:3 sets. So the netw

[Medianews] Apple's Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers

Apple's Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers By HIROKO TABUCHI The New York Times September 26, 2009 TOKYO - As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry executives had more than the coming holiday sales season on their minds.

[Medianews] ACA: Power Companies Aren't Subsidizing Cable

ACA: Power Cos. Aren't Subsidizing Cable Indie-Op Group Urges FCC to Reject Pole-Fee Increase by John Eggerton Multichannel News September 28, 2009 http://www.multichannel.com/article/print/355638-ACA_Power_Cos_Aren_t_Subsidizing_Cable.php WASHINGTON — Electric utilities are not subsidizing ca

[Medianews] IBM Make Linux For Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

IBM Make Linux For Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan Posted by Paul McDougall Information Week Sep 28, 2009 12:11 PM http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/09/ibm_make_linux.html;jsessionid=2ISPZD2OWKBQ5QE1GHRSKHWATMY32JVN Jagshemash! Today I have news that IBM opened Linu

[Medianews] Rocket readied at Baikonur Cosmodrome for ISS mission

Rocket readied at Kazakh steppe for ISS mission Sep 28, 2009 8:18 AM (ET) By PETER LEONARD Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090928/D9B0AJ8G1.html BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) - Workers at Russia's manned space-launch facility lifted to the launch pad on Monday a rocket

[Medianews] EU to set volume limits on MP3 players

EU to set volume limits on MP3 players Sep 28, 2009 2:31 PM (ET) By CONSTANT BRAND Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090928/D9B0G1U01.html BRUSSELS (AP) - Now hear this, if you still can: The European Union said Monday it wants makers of popular digital music players to

[Medianews] HDTV: Is plasma starting to fade out?

Is plasma starting to fade out? LCD TV sets' improvement in quality, lower prices make display dominant By Dan Richman MSNBC.COM updated 8:03 a.m. CT, Mon., Sept . 28, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33010449/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ Plasma televisions, while still the fine

[Medianews] DIRECTV's Cancellation Policy Draws Fire

DIRECTV's Cancellation Policy Draws Fire By Phillip Swann TVPredictions.com September 27, 2009 http://www.tvpredictions.com/dcancel092709.htm DIRECTV's early cancellation fee continues to draw fire from critics -- and now it's the target of a class action lawsuit and legislation from two New

[Medianews] Agency looks for ideas to clean up space junk

Agency looks for ideas to clean up space junk One proposal would create liquid wall for debris to slam into, fall from orbit By Irene Klotz Discovery Channel updated 3:19 p.m. CT, Fri., Sept . 25, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33024322/ns/technology_and_science-science/ James Hollopeter of

[Medianews] US sends 2 missile defense satellites into orbit

US sends 2 missile defense satellites into orbit Associated Press Sep 25, 2009 12:35 PM (ET) http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090925/D9AUF2MG2.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Two satellites are heading to orbit as part of a missile defense program demonstration. The pair was launched abo

[Medianews] Netflix Everywhere: Sorry Cable, You're History

Netflix Everywhere: Sorry Cable, You're History By Daniel Roth Wired.com 09.21.09 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-10/ff_netflix Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has a vision— every movie ever made on every screen everywhere. It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings wa

[Medianews] How to Truck 66 200,000-Pound Antennas to 16,000 Feet

How to Truck 66 200,000-Pound Antennas to 16,000 Feet By Hadley Leggett Wired.com September 25, 2009 | 2:31 pm http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/alma-telescope/ After a 17-mile trek up to a plateau in the Chilean Andes, scientists installed the first of 66 giant antennae on the Europe

[Medianews] Is this the largest SNG uplink truck ever built?

Some interesting photos. Is this the largest SNG uplink truck ever built? http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/alma7.jpg http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/09/array1.jpg See this antenna trucking story for details about what is going on: http://www.wired.com/

[Medianews] To Get Coverage, a Team Hires Its Own Reporter

September 28, 2009 To Get Coverage, a Team Hires Its Own Reporter By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28kings.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print If your business depends on free publicity from newspapers, what do you do when the papers can no longer

[Medianews] Canadian Lobstermen Get Wrong Number for a Hot Line

[A classic news of the weird item.] September 28, 2009 Lobstermen Get Wrong Number for a Hot Line By IAN AUSTEN NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28lobster.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print OTTAWA — Stimulus programs are not just for bankers and carmakers. Last week t

[Medianews] TIVO: Hit TV Shows Have Most-Skipped Ads

September 28, 2009 Hit TV Shows Have Most-Skipped Ads By ALEX MINDLIN NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28drill.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print The most popular television programs had the least-watched commercials, TiVo reported last week. The company said that near

[Medianews] To Cover World, CBS Joins With a News Site

September 28, 2009 To Cover World, CBS Joins With a News Site By DAVID CARR NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/business/media/28cbs.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print CBS News plans to announce Monday that it has formed a partnership with GlobalPost, a foreign news Web site, that will

[Medianews] Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share

September 28, 2009 Sprint Banks on WiMax to Win Back Market Share By SAUL HANSELL NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/technology/companies/28wimax.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print Sprint Nextel has taken to boasting that it offers “the first wireless 4G network.” What does that mean?

[Medianews] Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab

September 28, 2009 Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab By MATT RICHTEL NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/technology/28truckers.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=print Crisscrossing the country, hundreds of thousands of long-haul truckers use computers in their cabs to get

[Medianews] Xerox to Buy Affiliated Computer in Its Biggest Acquisition

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZ3hN2yWpv0s Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Xerox Corp. agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in its biggest purchase, shifting to computer services as sales of its printing equipment drop. The acquisition will help triple sa

[Medianews] Collection firms join old pals looking for you on Facebook

BY Tripp Whetsell Monday, September 28th 2009, 4:00 AM http://www.nydailynews.com/money/personal_finance/2009/09/28/2009-09-28_ collection_firms_join_old_pals_looking_for_you_on_facebook_friending_you r_friend.html?print=1&page=all Long Island food consultant Michael Bucello's credit card debt

[Medianews] Fox TV Chicago ordered not to run anti-olympics story

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashocc.htm FOX-TV CHICAGO ORDERED NOT TO RUN ANTI-OLYMPICS STORY Sun Sep 27 2009 21:56:11 ET A local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT! The Chicago Olympic Comm

[Medianews] Chain e-mail messages considered most annoying

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/287373,chain-e-mail-messages-con sidered-most-annoying.html Munich - Not all e-mail messages are well received. Some 64 per cent of users report being annoyed at chain e-mail messages hitting their private mailboxes. These messages typically ask that the rec

[Medianews] CNN planning life after Larry

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/cnn_planning_life_after_larry_lWyMPbhX6h InKwsrUDWNeJ Larry King's contract with CNN is set to expire in 18 months -- and the cable network's chiefs are busy lining up his successor in case he retires. King, 75, has been interviewing celebrities since 1985. Source

[Medianews] Why NBC's not sweating Leno's falling ratings

Why NBC's not sweating Leno's falling ratings http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/25/why-nbcs-not-sweating-lenos-falli ng-ratings/ A new network TV show that sees its ratings tumble after its debut usually meets with a swift and unforgiving fate. But don't expect that to be the case for The Jay L

[Medianews] Hackers pay 43 cents per hijacked Mac

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138517/Hackers_pay_43_cents_per_ hijacked_Mac Russian cyber crime gangs after Apple's Macs, too, says researcher Computerworld - A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video soft

[Medianews] Inspiration for Beatles song dies

(UKPA) - 55 minutes ago http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5jOAZnBJBhhg35WZQz rtxSXgj3itg A Surbiton woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds has died, aged 46. John Lennon's elder son Julian said the song was inspired by a picture he drew of

[Medianews] Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

http://www.physorg.com/news173104436.html (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. The achievement will allow cyber securi