[Medianews] Gulf oil spill: Alarms, detectors disabled so top rig officials could sleep

Gulf oil spill: Alarms, detectors disabled so top rig officials could sleep July 23, 2010 | 9:47 am By Rong-Gong Lin II in Kenner, La. Los Angeles Times

[Medianews] Microsoft signs deal on Arm mobile processors

23 July 2010 Last updated at 07:53 ET Microsoft signs deal on mobile processors The deal gives Microsoft intimate access to Arm chip blueprints BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10741448?print=true Microsoft has signed a deal with chip designer Arm that will give it in-depth

[Medianews] NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter suffers glitch

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter suffers glitch Satellite was relaying data to-and-from the Opportunity rover by Ian O'Neill Discovery News updated 7/22/2010 10:37:20 AM ET http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38360718/ns/technology_and_science-science The veteran Mars Odyssey satellite has switched itself

[Medianews] Computer glitches plagued the Deepwater Horizon rig

Gulf oil spill: Computer glitches plagued the Deepwater Horizon rig, technician says By Rong-Gong Lin II in Kenner, La. Los Angeles Times July 23, 2010 | 12:48 pm http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/07/gulf-oil-spill-computer-glitches-plagued-the-deepwater-horizon-rig.html

[Medianews] Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing By MIGUEL BUSTILLO JULY 23, 2010 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates say better controls inventory but

[Medianews] Ringing up sales

Ringing up sales Phones are retailers' latest route to back-to-school shoppers' wallets By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | July 23, 2010 Merchants looking to boost sales during the critical back-to-school season are courting students where they spend most of their time - on their phones. Kmart

[Medianews] Apple iPhone 4 Case Program

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[Medianews] WPA2 vulnerability found

WPA2 vulnerability found 'Hole 196' means malicious insiders could spoof WI-Fi packets, compromise WLAN Wireless Alert By Joanie Wexler, Network World July 23, 2010 12:59 PM ET Perhaps it was only a matter of time. But wireless security researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in

[Medianews] DIY Satellites Let You Find Your Own Space

[As far as I know the Alex Antunes mentioned in the story I are not related.] DIY Satellites Let You Find Your Own Space by NPR Staff All Things Considered July 24, 2010 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128740683 [Click through on the link above to listen to the story (4

[Medianews] Oil spill invention is a keeper

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-na-oil-skunk-works-20100722,0,7985134.story A bag and a trap. Oil spill invention is a keeper 'It's not rocket science, but it works,' a BP official says of Gerry Matherne's device, one of thousands engineers have sorted through that claim to clean up the

[Medianews] Verizon: Apple's iPhone made us think different about mobile apps, data

Verizon: Apple's iPhone made us think different about mobile apps, data By Daniel Eran Dilger July 22, 2010 Years after Verizon Wireless shunned Apple's iPhone because it wanted more control over the device, a company representative has acknowledged that the iPhone App Store was a watershed

[Medianews] One nation, online / The push to make broadband access a civil right

One nation, online The push to make broadband access a civil right By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow | June 20, 2010 If you're one of the millions of Americans who use broadband Internet at home, you probably take for granted how deeply it's woven into your life. It has transformed the way we pay our

[Medianews] The Web Means the End of Forgetting

The Web Means the End of Forgetting By JEFFREY ROSEN The New York Times July 19, 2010 Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and

[Medianews] A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business

A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business By NICK BILTON July 21, 2010 After Apple's iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4's antenna problem. They designed tiny bandages

[Medianews] Kicking back with a good e-reader

Kicking back with a good e-reader They're portable and give you access to thousands of titles, but which is the best for beach days? Or should you just go old school? By Scott Kirsner, Globe Correspondent | July 25, 2010 The Boston Globe Fifteen years ago, I visited a windowless MIT lab

[Medianews] Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history

Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history From US military computers to a cafe in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists US authorities have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on

[Medianews] In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency'

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/26wiki.html In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency' By ERIC SCHMITT The New York Times July 25, 2010 WikiLeaks.org, the online organization that posted tens of thousands of classified military field reports about the Afghan war on

[Medianews] A Note to Readers - Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/26editors-note.html Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish The New York Times July 25, 2010 The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports - records of engagements,

[Medianews] Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades

Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades By ADAM LIPTAK The New York Times July 24, 2010 WASHINGTON - When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his colleagues on the Supreme Court left for their summer break at the end of June, they marked a milestone: the Roberts court had just

[Medianews] The Runaway General

The Runaway General Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House By Michael Hastings Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

[Medianews] Federal judge won't block all of Arizona's immigration law

Federal judge won't block all of Arizona's immigration law by Alia Beard Rau, Michael Kiefer and Kevin Kiley July 23, 2010 The Arizona Republic The fate of Arizona's tough new immigration law now sits in the hands of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. Bolton held hearings Thursday on two of

[Medianews] Hospital files with data of 800,000 are missing

Hospital files with data of 800,000 are missing By Martin Finucane and Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | July 20, 2010 The Boston Globe Computer files from South Shore Hospital that contain personal information for about 800,000 people may have been lost when they were shipped to a contractor to be