[Medianews] Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting

Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting Aug 17, 2010 6:53 AM (ET) By DAVID BAUDER Associated Press http://apnews.myway.com//article/20100817/D9HL6KF80.html NEW YORK (AP) - If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series - watched it later on a DVR, over the Int

[Medianews] Museum Acquires Storied Trove of Performances by Jazz Greats

August 16, 2010 Museum Acquires Storied Trove of Performances by Jazz Greats By LARRY ROHTER NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/arts/music/17jazz.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadca

[Medianews] Start-Up Aims to Slay Chip Goliath Intel

August 15, 2010 Start-Up Aims to Slay Chip Goliath By ASHLEE VANCE NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16chip.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=print A group of investors, including companies from the United States, Europe and the United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to d

[Medianews] Tapping the Web, 22,000 Miles Up

August 15, 2010 Tapping the Web, 22,000 Miles Up By SUSANNA G. KIM NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16satellite.html?src=busln&pagewanted=print Satellite companies have been the also-rans of Internet providers. They serve a little more than one million customers, most in

[Medianews] Bills Push Making Web Devices More Accessible To Disabled Users

Bills push to make Web devices more accessible to disabled users By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Monday, August 16, 2010; 12:54 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/16/AR2010081602756_pf.html Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and telev

[Medianews] Telco cables wanted for climate research

Telco cables wanted for climate research Liz Tay ITNews [Australia] Aug 13, 2010 9:50 AM http://www.itnews.com.au/Tools/Print.aspx?CIID=224135 Submarine cable network of use to Sydney scientist. Scientists have called for telecommunications companies to open up their old and new submarine

[Medianews] Broadcasters Go on Retrans Offensive

Broadcasters Go on Retrans Offensive Aug 16, 2010 By Katy Bachman MediaWeek.com http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/local-broadcast/e3i4a25a9f106904fc1565821a34f7fabc0 The National Association of Broadcasters Monday (Aug. 16) stepped up its offense in the battle to keep the cur

[Medianews] Intel to buy Texas Instruments' cable modem unit

August 16, 2010 9:21 AM PDT Intel to buy Texas Instruments' cable modem unit By Brooke Crothers News.com http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20013717-64.html?tag=cnetRiver Intel said Monday it agreed to acquire Texas Instruments' cable modem unit as it tries to expand markets for its Atom pro

[Medianews] Step 1: Post Elusive Proof. Step 2: Watch Fireworks.

Step 1: Post Elusive Proof. Step 2: Watch Fireworks. By JOHN MARKOFF August 16, 2010 The potential of Internet-based collaboration was vividly demonstrated this month when complexity theorists used blogs and wikis to pounce on a claimed proof for one of the most profound and difficult problem

[Medianews] Did Lou Gehrig NOT have Lou Gehrig's Disease?

Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic Lou Gehrig's Disease http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/sports/18gehrig.html?_r=1 In the 71 years since the Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig declared himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth," despite dying from a disease that would soon bear his name, he has

[Medianews] Ray Bradbury hates big government: 'Our country is in need of a revolution'

August 16, 2010 | 8:23 am http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/08/ray-bradbury-is-sick -of-big-government-our-country-is-in-need-of-a-revolution-.html Ray Bradbury is mad at President Obama, but it's not about the economy, the war or the plan to a construct a mosque near Ground Zero i

[Medianews] China tests space station module to launch in 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100817/ap_on_sc/as_china_space BEIJING - China has finished the first module of a planned space station and is testing its electronics and other systems before launching it into orbit next year. The official Xinhua News Agency reported on the module's sch

[Medianews] Vaccination Is Steady, but Pertussis Is Surging

Vaccination Is Steady, but Pertussis Is Surging By TARA PARKER-POPE August 16, 2010, 6:17 pm For four weeks, my 11-year-old daughter has been coughing. It is not your run-of-the-mill summer cold, but a violent, debilitating cough that takes over her body, usually at night. During these fits,

[Medianews] Safari Extensions Gallery

Safari Extensions Gallery Safari 5.0.1 introduces extensions: a great way for you to add new features to Safari. Built by developers, Safari Extensions use the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript web technologies. And they're digitally signed and sandboxed for improved security. You can install

[Medianews] Apple Updates Safari 5

Apple Updates Safari 5 Users Can Add New Features Through Extensions CUPERTINO, California-July 28, 2010-Apple today released Safari 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could be

[Medianews] Deadliest for Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns

Deadliest for Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM August 16, 2010 It has never been easy to safely navigate the streets of New York, where today automobiles zip inches away from smartphone-carrying pedestrians and the footrace across an intersection seems like a human ver