[Medianews] Larue Barnes: Turn the radio on

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[Medianews] Venezuela begins shutdown of 34 radio stations

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[Medianews] Skype could be cut off for good over dispute

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[Medianews] Europe's Mars rover slips to 2018

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[Medianews] Sharp view of 'Orion's shoulder'

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[Medianews] Let private firms run space taxis, review panel told

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[Medianews] Yahoo Drops on Disappointment Over Microsoft Accord

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[Medianews] Desperate Arizona may sell Capitol buildings, others

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[Medianews] Astronauts inspect space shuttle ahead of landing

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[Medianews] Stockholm's jumbo jet hostel put up for sale

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[Medianews] Woman's Tweet Draws Landlord Lawsuit

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[Medianews] Is the ocean Florida's untapped energy source?

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[Medianews] Space Shuttles May Have to Fly Beyond 2010, Panel Says

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[Medianews] MJ's burnt hair will be turned into diamonds

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[Medianews] Verizon changes tune on Wi-Fi

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[Medianews] NBC executive Silverman exits for IAC venture

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[Medianews] Spacewalkers complete Japan's laboratory complex

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[Medianews] AT&T's 4chan Block Raises Issue of Net Neutrality

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[Medianews] Chinese authorities probe iPhone worker's death

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[Medianews] Apple Gobbled up 91 Percent of Premium PC Market in June

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[Medianews] Canadian actor, broadcaster Les Lye dead at 84 (You Can't Do That on TV)

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[Medianews] All Eyepieces on Jupiter After a Big Impact

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[Medianews] Employee Kills Himself Over Missing iPhone Prototype

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[Medianews] We Must Revive Apollo 11's Spirit of Adventure

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/17/peter-roff-apollo/ Will America return to the competition of being the best? In September of 1962, in a speech at Houston's Rice University, President John F. Kennedy set the tone for the decade. Reminding the nation of the words of William Bradford wh

[Medianews] Now in Cyberspace, Apollo 11 Flies Again

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[Medianews] A Generation Without a Moon Walk

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[Medianews] Apollo 11: Untold Stories of the Moon Race

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[Medianews] The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later

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[Medianews] What we didn't know about the moonwalk

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[Medianews] Shuttle Crew Marks Apollo 11 With Spacewalk

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[Medianews] Verizon to Limit Exclusive Handset Deals

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[Medianews] Some final words coming from George Carlin

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[Medianews] Fliers get advice on Internet etiquette

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[Medianews] SpaceX Launch Successfully Delivers Satellite Into Orbit

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/spacexlaunch/ SpaceX launched a Malaysian satellite into orbit late Monday night, the second successful launch for the private space exploration company, which aims to cut the cost of orbital transport tenfold. After a series of costly failures, SpaceX ha

[Medianews] A Morse Code typo lights Pittsburgh skyline

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[Medianews] Weird Al Yankovic Owes Michael Jackson For His Career

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[Medianews] LANL scientist makes radio waves

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[Medianews] Microsoft CEO: Computers will figure you out

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[Medianews] PCs Could Be Hit Next in Web Attack: South Korea

By Jon Herskovitz Reuters http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8047535 SEOUL Cyber attacks slowing U.S. and South Korean websites could enter a new phase on Friday by attacking personal computers and wiping out hard disks, a South Korean government agency and web security firm said. North Kore

[Medianews] SKorea says attackers use IP address in 16 nations

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[Medianews] US State Department under cyberattack for fourth day

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[Medianews] Has a guy been stuck in the Paris airport since 1988 for lack of the right papers?

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[Medianews] Dead cat on a hot tin roof cancels news bulletins (Cyprus)

By Stefanos Evripidou http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=46665&cat_id=1 THE STATE BROADCASTER skipped a number of hourly radio news bulletins yesterday after the stench of a dead cat on the roof proved too much for the studio staff. As a result of nasty smells coming through the broadca

[Medianews] Stormy weather could stall weekend shuttle launch

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8gpZRl3t8mV2RxsVjIuPU 75dJeAD99ACUH81 By MARCIA DUNN - 4 hours ago CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Stormy weather could stall this weekend's launch of space shuttle Endeavour. NASA will try to launch Endeavour on Saturday night, following a pair of

[Medianews] Internet radio sites, music industry reach agreement over royalties

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-webcaster8-2009jul08,0,963519.stor y Deal with SoundExchange allows webcasters such as Pandora to pay lower per-song royalties or a percentage of their revenue. By Jim Puzzanghera July 8, 2009 Reporting from Washington -- The music won't stop for Internet ra

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/168049/internet_radio_saved_for_now_but_i s_the_deal_fair.html Ian Paul Jul 8, 2009 1:10 pm After almost two years of back and forth, there is finally a deal in place that will guarantee the future health of Internet radio. If you haven't heard, Internet radio serv

[Medianews] Smashed guitar, YouTube song - United is listening now

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/smashed-guitar-youtu -4850/ Here, without rhythm, harmony or rhyme, is Dave Carroll's problem: Last year, while he was flying from Nova Scotia to Nebraska on United Airlines, somebody broke his $3,500 guitar. Big deal, you're thinking. Who has t

[Medianews] RIAA Wants Harvard Prof to Take Case Recordings Off the Web

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[Medianews] Man arrested for threat on Twitter post

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[Medianews] Officials: N. Korea believed behind cyber attacks

http://bit.ly/mYDnU SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. government Web sites, aides to two lawmakers said Wednesday. The sites of 11 South Korean organizations, incl

[Medianews] Google's new operating system to take on Microsoft

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[Medianews] Web braces for Michael Jackson onslaught

Digital Biz http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/07/michael.jackson.web.traffic/index.htm l LONDON, England (CNN) -- His death nearly brought the Web to a standstill with several sites buckling under the sheer weight of traffic. A fan signs a Michael Jackson poster covered in messages outside the Stap

[Medianews] Goodbye, CompuServe! (We thought you already died)

http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/07/goodbye-compuserve-we-though t-you-had-already-died.ars Remember CompuServe? While many of us thought it had already died years ago, it turns out that AOL was keeping it on life support-up until this month. With the decision to finally shut the 30-year-o

[Medianews] Recording Industry Wants Woman Banned From Downloading Music

Jammie Thomas Rasset of Minnesota fined $1.92 million for illegally downloading and sharing RIAA-protected music files By Amy Forliti The Associated Press July 6, 2009 http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-illegaldownloads0706,0,345 7737.story NEW YORK - Just weeks after a federal jury ru

[Medianews] The Sun Has Spots, Finally

By Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director posted: 06 July 2009 10:08 am ET http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090706-sunspot-activity.html After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, solar activity picked up quickly over the weekend. A new group of sunspots developed, and while no

[Medianews] Holiday fireworks accidents kill 5 workers

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D998JQE80&show_article=1 OCRACOKE, N.C. (AP) - Five people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, four of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks. The fifth died after an explosion at a fire

[Medianews] Tears turn to tweets for Jackson memorial tickets

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[Medianews] Ariane-Launched Satellite Thwarts Cell Dead Zones

The Channel Wire July 02, 2009 http://www.crn.com/mobile/218400232;jsessionid=XGPKHIZTRTEDIQSNDLPCKH0CJ UNN2JVN Cell phone users experiencing dead zone coverage may soon get a fix thanks in part to an Ariane Rocket. TerreStar Networks, which bills itself as the nation's first all IP-mobile cell p

[Medianews] Google finally sued by makers of Finally Fast

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[Medianews] Apple Planning Fix For iPhone SMS Flaw

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[Medianews] Space Shuttle to Launch July 11 After Successful Leak Test

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529824,00.html Thursday , July 02, 2009 By Tariq Malik NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on July 11, nearly a month late, after plugging a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak, top mission managers said Wednesday. Endeavour successfully pa

[Medianews] Mozilla slates first Firefox 3.5 patch

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http://www.dailytech.com/NASA+Shuttle+Program+Manager+Proposes+Cheaper+M oon+Travel+/article15569.htm A NASA shuttle program manager recently proposed a new plan which would allow NASA to cut costs on moon travel. The plan revolves around a "shuttleless shuttle" concept that has been around NASA f

[Medianews] Firefox 3.5 downloaded 5 million times in first 24 hours

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/firefox-35-downloaded-5- million-times-in-first-24-hours.ars Mozilla officially released Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday. The new version of the popular open source web browser has attracted considerable attention and is already seeing rapid adoption. It was

[Medianews] New Facebook Privacy Controls Take On Twitter

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/167770/new_facebook_privac y_controls_take_on_twitter.html New Facebook Privacy Controls Take On Twitter In a move that may actually pass without a huge uproar, Facebook has begun testing new privacy options that will make the service pretty much just

[Medianews] Bing Adds Twitter Searches

Bing Adds Twitter Searches http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?ar ticleID=218400125 Microsoft's new search engine looks to capture the real-time Web. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek July 2, 2009 08:42 AM Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added a feature to Bing that

[Medianews] Jay Leno wins Web fight with cyber squatter

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6508038.html GENEVA - Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show. The U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization says current owner Guadalupe Javier Zambrano, 51, of Katy will have to transfer the domain

[Medianews] Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090701/sc_nm/us_space_solar_1 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on Tuesday after an 18-year voyage of roughly 5.5 billion miles (8.85 billion km) and nearly three complete orbits around the sun, NASA said. Radi

[Medianews] Volcano's Eruption Creates Colorful U.S. Sunsets

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090701/sc_livescience/volcanoserup tioncreatescolorfulussunsets Many people in the United States and Europe are seeing gorgeous lavender sunsets lately thanks to the eruption more than two weeks ago of Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano. The volcano blew its top

[Medianews] Syfy's Two-Pronged Rebrand Strategy

Syfy's Two-Pronged Rebrand Strategy Plans big marketing push; buys up negative domain names By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/22/2009 2:00:00 AM EDT NBC Universal's Sci Fi is giving away the Internet to promote its July 7 rebrand to Syfy, but is also taking away a few choice domain nam

[Medianews] PHP 5.3 Accelerates PHP

By Sean Michael Kerner June 30, 2009 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3827756/PHP%2053%20Acce lerates%20PHP.htm The open source PHP language is seeing its first major update in two years courtesy of today's release of PHP 5.3, along with a long list of new features designed to expa

[Medianews] Vibe Magazine To Close Down Immediately

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/vibe-magazine-to-close- down-immediately/?hp Vibe Magazine To Close Down Immediately By Richard Perez-Pena Vibe, one of the nation's leading popular music magazines, is closing immediately, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Word was broken early this af

[Medianews] NASA manager pitches a cheaper return-to-moon plan

NASA manager pitches a cheaper return-to-moon plan By SETH BORENSTEIN http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_MOON_ROCKET?SITE=AP&SECTIO N=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-06-30-15-53-31 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford,

[Medianews] Ageing solar probe to be taken off life support

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17392-ageing-solar-probe-to-be-tak en-off-life-support.html Ground controllers will pull the plug on the solar probe Ulysses on Tuesday, ending an epic mission that has lasted more than 18 years. Ulysses launched in October 1990 and swung past Jupiter in 1992

[Medianews] Gosselin Split May Be Announced

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/061809_Gosselins_divorce TLC is now promoting a "big announcement" by Jon and Kate Gosselin Monday about a life-changing decision. The cable network has reportedly scrapped a Mother's Day show for next Monday for anothe special one-hour edition of th

[Medianews] GPS Satellite Glitches Fuel Concern on Next Generation

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124520702464422059.html Technical problems are degrading the accuracy of signals from the last GPS satellite launched by the Pentagon, sparking concerns among U.S. military and aerospace industry officials that the next generation of the widely used satellites could

[Medianews] Opera lets browser be used as a server

Opera lets browser be used as a server http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/17/BUDV18876M.D TL (06-16) 18:10 PDT -- A Norwegian firm has created technology that allows a Web browser to also function as a Web server, allowing individuals to share their files or communicate with

[Medianews] How to Avoid Paying the iPhone 3GS Upgrade Tax

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/iphone-3gs-tax/ Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Those tears of joy shed by iPhone loyalists are turning into cries of grief with the announcement by AT&T that it will impose a $200 fee to upgrade to the next-generation iPhone, which lands in stores Frid

[Medianews] Gas Leak Prevents Space Shuttle Launch Again

By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 17 June 2009 02:00 am ET http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090617-sts127-launch-day2.html This story was updated at 4:35 a.m. EDT. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space shuttle Endeavour's launch plans were thwarted again early Wednesday when a hydrogen gas l

[Medianews] NASA Hopes to Launch Shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday

By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 14 June 2009 06:57 pm ET http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090614-sts127-launch-update.html This story was updated at 8:00 p.m. EDT. NASA will try to squeeze in a launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday, just days ahead of a different

[Medianews] Complaint says top musician dissed over royalties

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top-selling artist purportedly had his new single yanked from some radio stations playlists in retaliation for supporting royalties for musicians. No one involved will name the artist, but his no-play treatment by several radio stations is alleged in a complaint filed with the

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