[Medianews] Too close for comfort: The astonishing twisters captured by storm-chasing photographer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213339/Astonishing-tw isters-captured-storm-chasing-photographer-Jim-Reed.html# By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:48 PM on 14th September 2009 Running towards a raging twister might seem insane to most people but for one artist, such peril

[Medianews] Thunderstorm on Saturn is a record-buster

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hlYczu9oUa7pIrB-wzL3v bpgzt_Q (AFP) - 7 hours ago PARIS - A tempest that erupted on Saturn in January has become the Solar System's longest continuously observed lightning storm, astronomers reported on Tuesday. The storm broke out in "Storm All

[Medianews] Space Junk Forces Shuttle Discovery to Dodge on Way Home

By Tariq Malik Managing Editor posted: 10 September 2009 11:42 am ET http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090910-sts128-space-junk-shuttle.ht ml This story was updated at 12:20 p.m. EDT. The space shuttle Discovery dodged a mysterious piece of orbital trash Thursday as its astronaut crew prepared

[Medianews] Microsoft and Best Buy Gang Up On Linux

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/171657/microsoft_and_best_ buy_gang_up_on_linux.html The media and blogosphere are all in a tizzy over leaked screenshots allegedly showing that Microsoft is providing Best Buy with 'anti-Linux' training materials. You say 'anti-Linux', I say 'pro-Wind

[Medianews] U.S. FCC names enforcement chief

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN09338481200 90909 [Take 2 - Greg] WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday named its deputy general counsel, P. Michele Ellison, as enforcement chief at the regulatory agency. Ellison has h

[Medianews] U.S. FCC names enforcement chief

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[Medianews] Space Shuttle Discovery Prepares for Return to Earth

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548522,00.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts began preparing their spacecraft for its planned Thursday landing as they wrap up a 13-day flight to the International Space Station. Mission Control roused the astronauts at 11 a.m. E

[Medianews] Google Maps Monopoly board folds under server strain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/monopoly_city_streets_down_on_de but/ By Austin Modine Posted in Music and Media, 9th September 2009 18:43 GMT There are riots in the Monopoly City Streets, after the game's debut today was utterly upended from the strain of the initial land grab. The ne

[Medianews] Microsoft flaw could open PCs to Conficker-style attack

http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/09/microsoft-flaw-could-op en-pcs-to-confickerstyle-attack.html Microsoft has just raised a red flag about a recently discovered security flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 PCs for which no patch yet exists. This affects all Vista PCs used i

[Medianews] Returning to the moon before this century is out

Returning to the moon before this century is out http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10347397-23.html A federal government committee assigned to independently review plans for manned spaceflights has released a summary of its first report. It is not encouraging. The report makes it clear that NASA

[Medianews] Upgrading to Windows 7 Could Be Heaven or Hell

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137764/Upgrading_to_Windows_7_Co uld_Be_Heaven_or_Hell?taxonomyId=125 Shane O'Neill September 9, 2009 (CIO) There's been enough written about upgrading to Windows 7 to fill a library, so you'd think PC users would understand the pros, cons and pitfalls by n

[Medianews] Human hair: a cheap source of solar power

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1212005/Teenager-invents-23-solar-panel-solution-developing-worlds-energy-needs-human-hair.html##ixzz0Qca8NqRT Teenager invents £23 solar panel that could be solution to developing world's energy needs ... made from human hair A new type

[Medianews] 2 Radio Towers Near Snohomish, WA Toppled In Sabotage

http://www.kirotv.com/news/20723839/detail.html Posted: 6:28 am PDT September 4, 2009Updated: 7:58 am PDT September 4, 2009 SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- Two radio towers owned by a sports radio station near Snohomish were toppled by vandals using a stolen trackhoe. Andrew Skotdal, president and manager o

[Medianews] Orbiting junk expected to pass near space station

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090904/D9AGF8K01.html CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A piece of orbiting junk was expected to pass near the international space station Friday, but NASA said it would stay a safe distance away from the station and docked shuttle. The old rocket part was expected to

[Medianews] Reports: Announcer Ernie Harwell has incurable cancer

http://670thescore.stats.com/mlb/story.asp?i=2009090408111476101&ref =hea&tm=&src= [Wasn't he interviewed by TnD some years back? - Greg] By The Associated Press (AP) -- Longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell, who spent 42 of his 55 years as a broadcaster calling Detroit Tigers games, has been d

[Medianews] Complaint claims man took radio group money (Idaho)

http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=25969 Idaho Press-Tribune Staff newsr...@idahopress.com Updated 13 hours 42 minutes ago CANYON COUNTY - A felony grand theft criminal complaint filed Monday in 3rd District Court in Canyon County claims that Charles Robertson [N7CVR - Greg] took at least $1,000

[Medianews] Tweet for hire: More big businesses hire tweeters

Tweet for hire: More big businesses hire tweeters Associated Press http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=158099&type=Daily September 3, 2009 People around the world interact with Alecia Dantico all day. Usually, though, they don't know whether she's young or old, male or female. What her fo

[Medianews] Cheating Husband Story A Hoax

http://www.myfoxeugene.com/dpp/news/dpgo_090209_cheating_husband_story_a _hoax_3288980 TYSONS CORNER, Va. - Washington's Hot 99.5 Kane In The Morning show revealed that last week's story about a man carrying around a sign that admitted he cheated on his wife was a hoax. According to broadcasts on

[Medianews] Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe

Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe: Hundreds of Millions of Stars Racing Towards a Cosmic Hotspot http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/dark-flow-discovered-at-edg e-of-the-universe-hundreds-of-millions-of-stars-racing-toward-an-cosmic- h.html "Dark Flow" sounds like a new SciFi

[Medianews] Gmail knocked offline for `majority' of users

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090901/D9AEOLT01.html Sep 1, 4:58 PM (ET) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google's Gmail service has been knocked offline for much of the day in many places. Google says a "majority" of users were affected. It's not immediately clear what caused the disruption. Google did

[Medianews] Bill targets pungent riders of Honolulu's transit system

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090901/NEWS01/909010348/Bill +targets+pungent+riders+of+Honolulu%E2%80%99s+transit+system By Gordon Y.K. Pang Advertiser Staff Writer Transit riders in Honolulu better clean up their act. Advertisement The City Council is considering a bill that will m

[Medianews] Social Web Email Close

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/083109-nazi-enigma-messages.html Volunteers contribute spare computing cycles to crack old wartime ciphers By Bob Brown , Network World , 08/31/2009 You can donate your spare PC processing power to dozens of cool volunteer computing projects simply by downl

[Medianews] Internet celebrates 40th birthday: but what date should we be marking?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125925/Internet-celebrates-40th-b irthday-but-what-date-should-we-be-marking.html The midwives for the modern era of communication were scientists at the University of Los Angeles in California (UCLA), who connected the neighbouring machines with a 15ft grey

[Medianews] A cordless future for electricity?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/02/wireless.electricity/index.html (CNN) -- Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year. That's the prediction of Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, a company that's able to power light bulbs using wireless electricity that

[Medianews] Pittsburgh paper to launch 'members-only' website

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f2768f923ef8a8ad851412476690 dcb9.9a1&show_article=1 As US newspaper publishers mull charging readers on the Web, a Pennsylvania daily announced plans on Monday to put some content behind a pay wall. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said "PG+" would be a "me

[Medianews] APME survey: Newspaper cuts clip younger workers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090831/ap_on_bi_ge/us_newspaper_diversity_1 SAN FRANCISCO - Cost-cutting newspapers are losing many of their youngest reporters, editors and photographers at the same time publishers are trying to break some of their old habits and learn new tricks on the Internet. Th

[Medianews] EBay in deal to sell Skype - report

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/01/technology/ebay_skype/index.htm?postvers ion=2009090108 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- EBay is set to announce a deal Tuesday to sell its Skype Internet phone unit, according to a report in the New York Times. The newspaper, citing two sources briefed on the situation,

[Medianews] Disney to acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in cash and stock

http://www.startribune.com/business/56330427.html LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. says it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the Disney family. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of 5,000 Marv

[Medianews] Galileo's telescope reaches 400th anniversary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/aug/25/galileos-telescope-40 0-years-anniversary While many people have been loudly celebrating this year's double commemoration of 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, another scientific

[Medianews] Comedian Sued Over Mother-In-Law Jokes

Sunda Croonquist Accused Of Spreading Lies JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer Posted: 1:28 pm EDT August 25, 2009 Updated: 1:38 pm EDT August 25, 2009 http://www.wftv.com/goinggreen/20549398/detail.html LOS ANGELES -- "Take my mother-in-law -- please," isn't a joke you're likely to hear often th

[Medianews] Judge overturns 2007 Unix copyright decision

Ruling reignites disputes with SCO over who owns Unix code By John Fontana , Network World , 08/24/2009 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/082409-sco-unix-copyright-decision -overturned.html?hpg1=bn A federal appeals court Monday overturned a 2007 decision that Novell owns the Unix code and s

[Medianews] Air Force, NASA fire off environmentally-friendly rocket

Aluminum powder and water ice make for pasty rocket fuel By Layer 8 on Mon, 08/24/09 - 5:36pm. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44690 NASA and Air Force said today they had successfully launched a 9ft rocket 1,300 feet into the sky powered by aluminum powder and water ice. Aluminum pow

[Medianews] Video blunder lets porn be sold legally to kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090825/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_video LONDON (Reuters) - Retailers who sell children violent or pornographic videos will be immune from prosecution for the next three months after the discovery of a government blunder 25 years ago. Britain should have notified the Eu

[Medianews] F.T.C. to Assess Business of News

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/media/24ftc.html?_r=1 Just about everyone, from the general public to news executives, has an opinion about the future of journalism. Now, the Federal Trade Commission is stepping into the debate. The commission is planning two days of workshops in Decem

[Medianews] South Korea's first domestic rocket launched, anomalies during deployment

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090825/ap_on_sc/as_skorea_rocket GOHEUNG, South Korea - South Korea's first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. A problem quickly surfaced,

[Medianews] Tornadoes Deliver Heavy Damage To Western Maine

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=108381&catid=3 SOUTH PARIS (NEWS CENTER) -- The National Weather Service confirmed Saturday that a tornado moved through western Maine Friday evening. Late Saturday evening, the National Weather Service revised its earlier estimates about the siz

[Medianews] Apple denies rejecting Google Voice for iPhone

Company says app 'still under study,' but may alter iPhone 'user experience' By Jessica Mintz The Associated Press updated 4:59 p.m. PT, Fri., Aug 21, 2009 Apple told federal regulators Friday that it blocked the Google Voice program from running on the iPhone because it alters important function

[Medianews] The Boy Who Heard Too Much

[CAUTION - Article contains foul language - Greg] http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29787673/the_boy_who_heard_too_mu ch/ He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower - one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI

[Medianews] Stephen Colbert Treadmill Heads to ISS

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Stephen-Colbert-Treadmill-Heads-t o-ISS-155083/ The Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill-the COLBERT-will be delivered to the International Space Station next week. It started as a joke and will end up at the International Space St

[Medianews] TV Ad Is Gross, But We Smell Money

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR200908 2302176.html By Neely Tucker Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 24, 2009 Once upon a time in this great land, there was a roofing contractor. His name was Adam. He lived on Long Island. It came to pass that Adam

[Medianews] What's a planet? Debate over Pluto rages on

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.dwarf.planet/index.html#c nnSTCText (CNN) -- For one of the farthest, coldest places in the solar system, Pluto sure stirs a lot of hot emotions right here on Earth. This montage of images taken by Voyager shows, from left to right, Neptune, Uranus

[Medianews] Rapper behind 'Roxanne's Revenge' gets Warner Music to pay for Ph.D

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/08/23/2009-08-23_rapper_ schools_record_label_qns_ma_makes_warner_music_foot_bill_for_phd.html Roxanne's revenge was sweet indeed. Twenty-five years after the first queen of hip-hop was stiffed on her royalty checks, Dr. Roxanne Shante boasts an Ivy

[Medianews] Internet Explorer 8 Trounces Firefox, Chrome in Security Test

http://blogs.channelinsider.com/secure_channel/content/web_security/inte rnet_explorer_8_trounces_firefox_chrome_in_security_test.html Microsoft gets a lot of grief (and deservedly so) for the insecurity of its products. But when it comes to stopping common Web-based attacks against browser users,

[Medianews] Naked women are acceptable on daytime TV, Ofcom rules

Naked women are acceptable on daytime TV, Ofcom rules http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6082006/Naked-women-are-ac ceptable-on-daytime-TV-Ofcom-rules.html Dozens of viewers complained about the content of Life Class: Today's Nude, which was broadcast daily at 12.30pm over a week in Jul

[Medianews] Apple predicted to sell 5M copies of Snow Leopard at launch

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/24/apple_predicted_to_sell_5m _copies_of_snow_leopard_at_launch.html In a new research note to investors, Piper Jaffray has forecast that Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system will sell 5 million copies during its launch window in the September quarte

[Medianews] New Microchip Technology Performs 1, 000 Chemical Reactions At Once

New Microchip Technology Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803122730.htm ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2009) - Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, sc

[Medianews] The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/20/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html (CNN) -- Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, family, acquaintances and co-workers. Facebook can be a great tool, and an occasional annoyance. What kind of Facebooker are you? Fa

[Medianews] Europe and Russia sign Mars exploration deal

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.61d3b7a4a2f6beb7070a09b8c5da fb29.711&show_article=1 The European Space Agency (ESA) on Wednesday signed a deal with its Russian counterpart Roscosmos to cooperate on two Mars exploration projects, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. The deal was in

[Medianews] Judge Rules That Model Has The Right To Learn 'Skank' Blogger's Identity

Judge Rules That Model Has The Right To Learn 'Skank' Blogger's Identity http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=1 11783 Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen is entitled to learn the identity of the person who slammed her on the blog Skanks In NYC, a judge in New York rul

[Medianews] Facebook 'will fight' privacy lawsuit

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10 591536 SANTA ANA, California - Five Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit Monday alleging that the social networking site is violating California's privacy laws and misleading members about how their personal information is us

[Medianews] Hacker accused of massive ID theft

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/18/hacker-informer-tied-to- id-scam/ An informant who once helped federal investigators hunt computer hackers is now accused of turning on the government to help perpetrate the worst credit card scam in the nation's history, leaving vulnerable the ident

[Medianews] NASA: Extraterrestrial sample holds ingredient for alien life

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/18/comet_glycine_life_sample/ Definitely not lab contamination, insist boffins By Lewis Page * Get more from this author Posted in Space, 18th August 2009 12:39 GMT NASA boffins say that they have identified an amino acid, one of the key building blocks of E

[Medianews] British test pilot dies after crashing own prototype 'flying taxi' on first flight

A British aviation pioneer died in a horrific ball of flame yesterday when the aircraft he had invented plunged to earth on its first test flight. Mr Michael Dacre, 53, managing director of the British-based company Avcen Ltd, took to the air 150 miles north of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpu

[Medianews] What's always been in the lives of incoming freshmen

August 18, 2009 - 7:45am http://wtop.com/?nid=456&sid=1742451 Here's the Beloit College Mindset List Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991. For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times

[Medianews] AARP loses members over health care stance

AARP loses members over health care stance http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-08-17-aarp-health-overhaul_ N.htm WASHINGTON (AP) - About 60,000 senior citizens have quit AARP since July 1 due to the group's support for a health care overhaul, a spokesman for the organization said Monday.

[Medianews] Star Wars mega fan sells off £1milli on memorabilia from the film

Star Wars mega fan sells off £1million memorabilia from the film http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/08/18/star-wars-mega-fan-sells-off-1million-memorabilia-from-the-film-115875-21605054/ A movie buff is selling his £1million collection of memorabilia - after it took over his home. Luke Kay

[Medianews] Reader's Digest turns to Chapter 11

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE57G37B20090817?feedTy pe=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reader's Digest Association Inc, whose namesake magazine has been a staple of dentists' offices for generations, said on Monday it planned to file for Chapter 1

[Medianews] IBM sees future of microchips in DNA

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.749b76a59aeda926a4a3848bef04 6ea2.2c1&show_article=1 IBM said it was looking to DNA "origami" for a powerful new generation of ultra-tiny microchips. The US computer giant collaborated with California Institute of Technology researchers to develop a way

[Medianews] Amish newspaper succeeds the old-fashioned way

8/17/2009, 8:07 p.m. ET MEGHAN BARR The Associated Press http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/business-30/1250525196 250770.xml&storylist=business (AP) - SUGARCREEK, Ohio - The writers' grievances came in the form of angry letters, carried over bumpy rural roads to the newspaper

[Medianews] ULA Delta II Completes 20 Year Era with Successful Air Force GPS Launch

http://www.ulalaunch.com/index.html [Pretty cool highlight video on URL - Greg] Cape Canaveral, Fla., (Aug. 17, 2009) - The 48th successful and final Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite launch occurred today, ending one of the most successful space launch programs in American h

[Medianews] White House disables e-tip box

By: Mike Allen August 17, 2009 12:43 PM EST http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=293E3A7D-18FE-70B2-A8B48244F A33C475 Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box - f...@whitehouse.gov - that was set up to receive information on "f

[Medianews] SEC banning social media from sporting events.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/sec-new-media-policy/ Today, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is expected to release a final version of its new media policy. For the sake of sports fans everywhere, let's hope it has some significant changes from the current version, because at the moment, it can b

[Medianews] UK UFO sightings spiked when blockbusters released

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.7dc137c08d972555bef6dfd9a735 3bb0.401&show_article=1 Lemon-headed aliens, scrambled fighter jets and mysterious lights over a cemetery were among details of some 800 UFO sightings released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Monday. But another

[Medianews] White House will change e-mail rules

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26169.html The White House said Sunday night that it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures after some recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they had not asked to receive updates. "We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mail

[Medianews] E-mails from public overload House Web site

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090813/D9A25N781.html Aug 13, 2:29 PM (ET) By ANNE FLAHERTY WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site. Technical suppor

[Medianews] NASA's moon plan too ambitious, Obama panel says

A panel reviewing NASA's current plans for human space flight will report that there is no realistic way to return to the moon by 2020 -- or even 2028. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1185467.html BY JOEL ACHENBACH Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- NASA doesn't have nearly enough

[Medianews] China city seeks DNA records for bar workers

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.661f6b856e3e1a50f6d4c0a02a2f 3b9d.3a1&show_article=1 Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have begun demanding DNA samples from workers at nightclubs and karaoke bars, in a move that is stirring controversy, a report said. Baiyun district po

[Medianews] Late-night booking wars heat up

Top talent choosing appearances carefully By Matthew Belloni and Nellie Andreeva http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i12c12e202144 56f37cfdb2e3ef7d7e7f Who will Jennifer do? It's a question that might have big implications for the late-night TV landscape. With the debut of

[Medianews] Clermont police interview suspect in Obama 'Joker' posters

Clermont police interview suspect in Obama 'Joker' posters http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/orl-bk-obama-joke r-suspect-081309,0,4959018.story [Wonder when the police will interview "Vanity Fair" for doing the same to Pres. Bush - Greg] CLERMONT - Clermont police have interv

[Medianews] China Unicom buys 5 million iPhone smartphones for $1.46 billion

http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=7614 The International Business Times reports that China Unicom has purchased 5 million Apple iPhone smartphones for 10 billion CNY (US$1.46 billion) to gear up for a September launch. The carrier will apparently sell the 8GB iPhone version for 2,400 CNY (US$3

[Medianews] World Wrestling Entertainment CEO may run against Dodd

http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2009/08/14/news/doc4a856dee1ae26336820274.txt The Washington Post's Web site is reporting that World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon is considering running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican next year against incumbent Sen. Chris Dodd. McMahon,

[Medianews] Airlines to Require More Passenger Data

Airlines to Require More Passenger Data http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125012447548327753.html WASHINGTON -- Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boa

[Medianews] Les Paul, 1915 - 2009

Solid-Body Legend Plagued by arthritis, Les Paul acknowledges that his playing days are probably numbered, but new releases will preserve his work http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2009/08/les-paul-1915-200 9-.html November 24, 1991 By MICHAEL WALKER, Michael Walker is a free-lan

[Medianews] Sue This School : Should a college pay when a grad can't find a job? This one should.

Sue This School Should a college pay when a grad can't find a job? This one should. By Mark Gimein http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/money-trail/2009/08/12/sue-school?pa ge=full Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 4:57pm Have you heard the joke about the new grad suing her college because she c

[Medianews] JetBlue offers all-you-can-fly plan for $599

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/12/news/companies/jetblue_unlimited_flight_ pass/index.htm NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- JetBlue Airways will offer an "all-you-can-jet" pass for $599 in which passengers can book an unlimited amount of flights within a one-month span, the airline said Wednesday. Pass h

[Medianews] Disoriented Pilot Nabs Laser Loser

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32377465/ns/local_news-san_francisco_bay_area_ca NBCBayArea.com updated 53 minutes ago Richmond police arrested a 41-year-old man Sunday night after he allegedly pointed a laser into the cockpit of a sheriff's helicopter several times, temporarily disorienting the pi

[Medianews] Shuttle Discovery's Fuel Tank May Need Foam Fix

By Todd Halvorson FLORIDA TODAY posted: 11 August 2009 01:05 pm ET http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft-090811-sts128-foam-repair.html An external tank foam-shedding problem could prompt NASA to roll shuttle Discovery back to Kennedy Space Center's assembly building for repairs, but the agenc

[Medianews] ActiveX Overhaul in Microsoft Patch Batch

ActiveX Overhaul in Microsoft Patch Batch http://www.pcworld.com/article/170025/activex_overhaul_in_microsoft_patc h_batch.html Erik Larkin Aug 11, 2009 3:04 pm Microsoft's nine security bulletins released today close a range of security holes involving ActiveX controls, Windows Media files and

[Medianews] RadioShack, er, the Shack makes its case for relevancy

The electronics retailer re-brands, but 'radio' isn't the problem to begin with. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-neil11-2009aug11,0,7685980.colu mn Dan Neil August 11, 2009 One of my many undistinguished postings was a summer job as an assistant manager of a Radio Shack (then spelled as

[Medianews] NASA assigns final shuttle crew

NASA assigns final shuttle crew http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/08/11/NASA-assigns-final-shuttle-cr ew/UPI-27231250013020/ WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- NASA says it has assigned Navy Capt. Mark Kelly to command the final space shuttle flight -- the 36th mission to the International Space Stat

[Medianews] Last Female Space Shuttle Commander Leaves NASA

By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 11 August 2009 11:17 am ET http://www.space.com/news/090811-melroy-retires.html Astronaut Pamela Melroy, the last-ever female space shuttle commander, is leaving NASA's spaceflying ranks for a new career in private industry. Melroy is a veteran of three shu

[Medianews] Google gives search a 'Caffeine' boost

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136515/Google_gives_search_a_Caf feine_boost?taxonomyId=11 Computerworld - Google Inc. is set to let users try out an upgraded search technology, code-named Caffeine, that its engineers have been developing for the past several months. Google today announce

[Medianews] Biggest Meteor Shower of the Year Peaks Tonight

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/perseids/ Stay up past midnight, grab a blanket and go stargazing tonight: The year's most spectacular meteor shower is expected to peak Wednesday morning around 1 a.m., and then again just before dawn. The Perseid meteor shower happens every year in Augu

[Medianews] Teachers tread with caution on Facebook

http://www.wbir.com/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=95383&catid=141 By Chris Echegaray, THE TENNESSEAN Teacher Laura Joy Perales counts about 100 students among her friends - on Facebook. An English instructor at the Nashville School of the Arts, she thinks hard before posting on the popular

[Medianews] Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351405,00.asp 08.10.09 Post a Comment by Chloe Albanesius Facebook has acquired social networking site aggregator FriendFeed. Financial details of the deal were not announced, but all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and senior executive at FriendFeed

[Medianews] Radio host Don Imus in talks with Fox Business Network

07:48 AM PT, Aug 10 2009 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/08/radio-host-don-imus- in-talks-with-fox-business-network.html Fox Business is in talks with shock jock Don Imus about simulcasting his radio show, more than two years after derogatory comments he made about a group of Af

[Medianews] Tool Bag Lost In Space Meets Fiery End

By Tariq Malik Managing Editor posted: 03 August 2009 05:05 pm ET http://www.space.com/news/090803-space-tool-bag-burns-up.html A tool bag lost by a spacewalking astronaut last year met its fiery demise in Earth's atmosphere Monday after months circling ever closer to the planet. The $100,000

[Medianews] Speeding Stars Confirm Bizarre Nature of Faraway Galaxies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090805/sc_space/speedingstarsconfirmbiza rrenatureoffarawaygalaxies Stars in a distant galaxy move at stunning speeds - greater than 1 million mph, astronomers have revealed. These hyperactive stars move at about twice the speed of our sun through the Milky Way, be

[Medianews] Storing text docs in XML may run afoul of Microsoft patent

Storing text docs in XML may run afoul of Microsoft patent http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-granted-patent-o n-xml-word-processing-files.ars In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based fi

[Medianews] Kepler telescope makes quick discovery

Kepler telescope makes quick discovery http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/08/08/space.kepler.discovery/ (CNN) -- NASA's Kepler space telescope has already made a discovery, and its science operations aren't even officially under way yet. The planet used in the test is a giant gas planet about th

[Medianews] Scientists Track Down Source of Earth's Hum

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/hummingearth/ You can't hear it, but the Earth is constantly humming. And some parts of the world sing louder than others. After discovering the mysterious low-frequency buzz in 1998, scientists figured out that the Earth's hum is caused not by earthquake

[Medianews] U.S. military monitors Twitter, YouTube

Updated Mon. Aug. 10 2009 6:21 AM ET http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090810/pentagon_tw itter_090808/20090810?hub=SciTech The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show

[Medianews] How "Fail" Went From Verb to Interjection

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all Spend some time on the Internet, and you'll start to see a peculiar usage of the word fail popping up everywhere. A conservative blog posts an image of a United States-Russian diplomatic agreement w

[Medianews] FCC Eyes Apple's Blockage of Google Voice

http://broadbandcensus.com/2009/08/fcc-eyes-apple%E2%80%99s-blockage-of- google-voice/ By Douglas Streeks, Reporter-Researcher, BroadbandCensus.com WASHINGTON, August 6, 2009 - A top Federal Communications Commission official sent letters of inquiry on Friday to Apple, AT&T and Google over Apple'

[Medianews] FCC proposal could cut local radio programming

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/78884 AUSTIN, Texas - The Federal Communications Commission, led by Michael ("my religion is the market") Powell, is fixing to remove the last remaining barriers against concentration of media. This means one company can own all the radio stations, television statio

[Medianews] Pro-Georgia blogger 'George' target of Twitter attack

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/07/russia.georgia.twitter.attack/index.h tml LONDON, England (CNN) -- A blogger believed to be the target of the attack that brought down Twitter Thursday has told CNN the cyber assault was politically motivated and timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of

[Medianews] Twitter down after 'malicious attack'

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6741630 .ece Micro-blogging site admits 'denial of service' attack, locking millions of users out of the service The micro-blogging site Twitter has come under attack this afternoon, taking it down for more than an hour. On the sit

[Medianews] Tulare put squeeze on lemonade girl's stand

http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/1580754.html Published online on Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009 By Eddie Jimenez / The Fresno Bee Eight-year-old Daniela Earnest has made lemonade out of lemons in more ways than one this week. Hoping to raise money for a family trip to Disneyland, the Tulare girl ope

[Medianews] Google Bans and Buries Web Sites: 6 Search Engine Showdowns

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's Campaign Site Is Latest to Get Blocked By KI MAE HEUSSNER http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8252259&page=1 Aug. 6, 2009- When it comes to Google, you'd better not try any mischief. The Internet giant has very specific guidelines for Web sites that want to be f

[Medianews] Google sells underperforming radio ad business

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/aug/05/us-wideorbit-google-r adio-080509/ The Associated Press 7:08 a.m. August 5, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has found a buyer for a radio advertising business it has abandoned as part of efforts to cut costs and jettison underperforming operatio

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