How Hackers Snatch Real-Time Security ID Numbers
By SAUL HANSELL
August 20, 2009, 1:20 PM
The world's savviest hackers are on to the real-time Web and using
it to devilish effect. The real-time Web is the fire hose of
information coming from services like Twitter. The latest generation
of
DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION
At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk
By MATT RICHTEL
October 1, 2009
JOPLIN, Mo. - Looking back, Paul Dekok wonders what he was thinking
that May morning when the urgent call came in. Mr. Dekok, a manager
at the Potash Corporation, learned that a 25-ton truckload of
Tapping Your Inner Clapton
By JASON TURBOW
October 1, 2009
There's something about an iPhone music app. For musicians, it's like
having an instrument in your pocket. For nonmusicians, it's a way to
coax sounds - often programmed to stay on key no matter what note one
actually plays - out of
Gauging Your Distraction
Published: July 19, 2009
New studies show that drivers overestimate their ability to multitask
behind the wheel. This game measures how your reaction time is
affected by external distractions. Regardless of your results,
experts say, you should not attempt to text when
Foreign Airlines Ahead of U.S. on Cellphone Use
By JOE SHARKEY
September 29, 2009
Cellphone use on airplanes, it would seem, is on extended hold in the
United States.
The national union representing flight attendants wants Congress to
ban in-flight phone calls, and survey after survey of
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Gadget Sellers Brace for Ho-Hum Holiday
By MIGUEL BUSTILLO and BOBBY WHITE
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125418104389747831.html
Facing a Christmas without a new blockbuster gadget to excite shoppers,
electronics retailers hope they can make up the
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Businesses Take Another Look at Virtual Desktops
More Companies Test Alternative to PCs as Software Develops, but
Predictions of Revolution Haven't Materialized
By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125417207134047337.html
As companies
September 28, 2009, 7:50 PM ET
Amazon’s Kindle DX: Not Yet a Hit on Campus
By Ryan Knutson
Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/09/28/amazons-kindle-dx-not-yet-a-hit-on-campus/?mod=rss_WSJBlog?mod=
Students are testing out Amazon.com’s Kindle DX e-book reader device as
part
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Smart Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type
Dvorak Fans Feel Snubbed When Texting; Qwerty's Dominance Baffles Them
By JOSEPH DE AVILA
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409298496044871.html#printMode
When the iPhone first came out, Richard
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Fans of World's Fastest Ocean Liner Put Out a Distress Call
... - - - ...
'Big U' Once Beat Queen Mary, but Now Rusts;
Its Admirers Sail Out to Touch the Hull
By JESSE PESTA
Wall Street Journal
AP Source: ViaSat to buy Wild Blue for $568M
Oct 1, 2009 12:14 AM (ET)
By DEBORAH YAO
Associated Press
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20091001/D9B22PBG1.html
ViaSat Inc. is acquiring Wild Blue Communications Inc., a provider of
high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million
[Tandberg supplies a lot of specialized uplink/downlink equipment used to
distribute video by satellite.]
October 1, 2009 6:45 AM PDT
Cisco to buy video firm Tandberg for $3 billion
by Lance Whitney
News.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10365003-92.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
[It seems that Cisco is buying a different Tandberg, NOT the satellite
uplink/downlink Tandberg.]
Cisco Buying Norway's Tandberg (Not Tandberg Television, Formerly of Norway)
Posted by Todd Spangler
Multichannel News
October 1, 2009
September 30, 2009 2:07 PM PDT
The price of universal broadband
by Marguerite Reardon
News.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10364590-266.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Bringing universal broadband to all Americans is not going to be cheap.
The Federal Communications Commission said
[Key limitation of the new TWC technology is that, unlike a DVR, you cannot
skip commercials. That is a deal-breaker in my book.]
Time Warner Cable Leapfrogs DVR With Anytime Viewing
By Kelly Riddell
Bloomberg News
Sept. 30, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001sid=ahQw9fCWDNLY
EU launches free satellite system to fine-tune GPS
Reuters
Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:04am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE59023F20091001
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union launched a free satellite
navigation network on Thursday that could help pilots, drivers and blind
Rouge and Tumble: Women's roller derby is back
By JEFF BAENEN
Associated Press
Oct 1, 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIaFvLclSxXkbYJK-WQf_YGtA8HwD9B2GU9O0
ST. PAUL, Minn. They wear lipstick, tattoos and roller skates and go by
tough names like Kim Jong Kill, Shiv
Iridium Turnaround Continues With IPO
$200 Million Will Replace Satellites
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903224_pf.html
Bethesda-based satellite firm Iridium, a company that
then what's the point? DVR's are for this sorta thing, then again, the
shows today are getting very hard to watch, with bugs and pollution on
the screen we don't care what's next!
..and let's not forget the big pharma ads that dominate the nightly
newscasts.
Digital-TV subscriber growth, amid
http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2009/10/ig_nobels_hold.html
Harvard University, MIT
Ig Nobels mix serious and silly science tonight
by Elizabeth Cooney October 1, 2009 07:30 PM
Dr. Elena N. Bodnar couldn't be more serious about her research. The
trauma and risk management specialist was
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