[Medianews] Apple Board Member Says Bye-Bye To Google Board

http://www.crn.com/mobile/220600282;jsessionid=BBUYXCAITJO0PQE1GHPCKHWAT MY32JVN By Steven Burke, ChannelWeb 11:14 AM EDT Mon. Oct. 12, 2009 With the Federal Trade Commission eyeing ties between Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) and Google (NSDQ:GOOG), Arthur Levinson, a member of both boards, has decided to

[Medianews] PBS NOVA: Hubble's Amazing Rescue (Airs Tomorrow)

[Watch this in HD if you can. The pictures are stunning.] TV Program Description PBS NOVA: Hubble's Amazing Rescue Premiere Broadcast on PBS: October 13, 2009 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hubble/about.html The best-known scientific instrument in history was dying. After nearly 20 years in

[Medianews] Pollution an enduring legacy at old missile sites

Pollution an enduring legacy at old missile sites Oct 10, 2009 1:16 PM (ET) By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20091010/D9B8C2S00.html CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - As U.S. Air Force officials marked the 50th anniversary of the deployment of nuclear missiles to sites

[Medianews] Argentine Senate overwhelmingly approves new media law

Argentine Senate overwhelmingly approves media law Oct 10, 2009 11:08 AM (ET) By MAYRA PERTOSSI Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20091010/D9B8A6OO0.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's Senate overwhelmingly approved a law that will transform the nation's media

[Medianews] Rogue satellites to be cleared from Earth orbit by German robots

Rogue satellites to be cleared from Earth's orbit by German robots German-built robots are to be sent into Earth's orbit to repair 'dead satellites' or push them into outer space By Michael Day The Observer [UK] Sunday 11 October 2009

[Medianews] To Do More With Less, Governments Go Digital

October 11, 2009 To Do More With Less, Governments Go Digital By STEVE LOHR NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/11unboxed.html?_r=1ref=businesspagewanted=print IN government, as in business, crisis can fuel creativity. These days, the pressure to rethink things is particularly

[Medianews] Satellite Interruption Leads Taiwan to Investigate

Satellite Interruption Leads Taiwan to Investigate By Wu Cenxi Epoch Times Staff Oct 10, 2009 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23685/ TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese lawmakers on Oct 8. called for an investigation into the signal interruptions of the ST-1 satellite, which started on

[Medianews] Staying connected aboard a cruise ship

[The author doesn't quite have the technical terms correct when he talks about being beneath a comsat, but the problem of losing a Clarke Belt satellite link in extreme northern or southern latitudes is very real.] Oct. 11, 2009 Staying connected aboard ship By David G. Molyneaux UNIVERSAL

[Medianews] US Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas

[This is a very large data management problem.] October 12, 2009 U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/us/12visa.html?_r=1ref=todayspaperpagewanted=print DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11

[Medianews] Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data

October 12, 2009 Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data By ASHLEE VANCE NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?ref=businesspagewanted=print MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.

[Medianews] From ‘Cabaret’ to Kanye, Songs of ‘Glee’ Are a Hit

October 12, 2009 From ‘Cabaret’ to Kanye, Songs of ‘Glee’ Are a Hit By EDWARD WYATT NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12glee.html?ref=businesspagewanted=print When Fox Broadcasting announced this spring that it was adding to its prime-time television schedule a

[Medianews] Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money

Tough choices for feds giving out broadband money Oct 11, 2009 7:11 PM (ET) By JOELLE TESSLER Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20091011/D9B96CC82.html WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds

[Medianews] Smart grid gets island test in Maui resort area

Smart grid gets island test in Maui resort area Oct 11, 2009 3:53 PM (ET) By MARK NIESSE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://apnews.myway.com//article/20091011/D9B93FC00.html HONOLULU (AP) - A 4-square-mile patch of Maui in the nation's most fossil-fuel dependent state soon will be home to a new kind

[Medianews] FTC Wants Full Disclosure in Ads

FTC Wants Full Disclosure in Ads Commission guidelines will toughen endorsement policy and cover bloggers By John Eggerton Broadcasting Cable 10/12/2009 2:00:00 AM http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/357610-FTC_Wants_Full_Disclosure_in_Ads.php Consumers are long used to startling

[Medianews] Los Angeles KCOP-TV: Zombie News Department

http://latimes.com/news/local/la-et-onthemedia9-2009oct09,0,2366273.column KCOP-TV: This is news? The merging of KCOP-TV and KTTV-TV has left the former not even a shell of its previous self, unless beefcake and dancing anchors count. The losers: Angelenos who crave real, local reporting.

[Medianews] Microsoft's Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing

Microsoft's Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing October 11th, 2009 Daniel Eran Dilger Microsoft has demonstrated that the dark side of cloud computing has no silver linings. After a major server outage occurred on its watch last weekend, users dependent on the company have