[Medianews] Flaw Is Found in Software Used to Accredit Hospitals

Flaw Is Found in Software Used to Accredit Hospitals By MILT FREUDENHEIM June 24, 2005 A powerful national organization that enforces quality standards for hospitals said yesterday that it had found a flaw in software that it had sold to more than 1,000 hospitals, which use the program to help

[Medianews] 16 to 25? Pentagon Has Your Number, and More

16 to 25? Pentagon Has Your Number, and More By DAMIEN CAVE June 24, 2005 The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone

[Medianews] An Army of Soulless 1's and 0's

An Army of Soulless 1's and 0's By STEPHEN LABATON June 24, 2005 WASHINGTON, June 23 - For thousands of Internet users, the offer seemed all too alluring: revealing pictures of Jennifer Lopez, available at a mere click of the mouse. But the pictures never appeared. The offer was a ruse, and

[Medianews] Verizon Wireless 3G Expansion in New York and New Jersey

Verizon Wireless Announces 3G Wireless Broadband Expansion in New York and New Jersey - Jun 24, 2005 11:35 AM (PR Newswire) New V CAST Consumer Wireless Multimedia Service and BroadbandAccess Fast Data Connections for Business Now Available in More Places ORANGEBURG, N.Y.,

[Medianews] Federal Laws Needed on ID Theft Notice

Federal Laws Needed on ID Theft Notice - Jun 24, 2005 12:35 PM (AP Online) By RACHEL BECK AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The names and bank account details of up to 40 million credit-card holders have been exposed to fraud. Too bad the only way that information reached the

[Medianews] FCC Extends WildBlue Sat Launch Deadline by a Year

from skyreport.com FCC Extends WildBlue Sat Launch Deadline by a Year On Tuesday, the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission granted a request from WildBlue for a one-year extension of its June 25 milestone requirements to launch and operate its own Ka-Band satellite,

[Medianews] Proton-K rocket puts Russian telecom satellite into orbit

Proton-K rocket puts Russian telecom satellite into orbit MOSCOW, June 25 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Express AM 3 latest-generation telecommunication satellite was put into the planned orbit on Saturday. The satellite launched with the heavy Proton K booster from Baikonur at 23:41 Moscow

[Medianews] Rocket and satellite fragments found

Rocket and satellite fragments found 23/06/2005 15:25 MOSCOW, June 23 (RIA Novosti) - Fragments from the Molnya-M carrier rocket carrying a military telecommunications satellite that crashed Tuesday after being launched from Plesetsk have been found in Siberia's Tyumen region, the Russian

[Medianews] Russian sues NASA to halt scientific assault on comet

[news of the weird] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-russia0622,1,1053324.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines Russian sues NASA to halt scientific assault on comet Spiritualist calls UM mission a violation of natural balance By Douglas Birch Sun Foreign Staff June 22, 2005,

[Medianews] Secret identity / Apple is suing 19-year-old Nicholas Ciarelli. Is he an arch Web villain or a cyber hero?

Secret identity Apple is suing 19-year-old Nicholas Ciarelli. Is he an arch Web villain or a cyber hero? By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff | June 25, 2005 CAMBRIDGE -- Meet Nick dePlume. By day, he's an unassuming college student and intrepid campus journalist. By night, on weekends, and

[Medianews] Little Agreement on Spyware Guidelines

Little Agreement on Spyware Guidelines - Jun 25, 2005 01:05 PM (AP Online) By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Many anti-spyware programs scour computer hard drives for those data-tracking files called cookies that we often get from Web visits. Microsoft Corp.'s

[Medianews] Motorola to make car stereos again, with a twist

RCR Wireless News reports in its 6/20 edition that Motorola (which made car radios in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, maybe longer) is returning to the business. In fact they made the first car radio in 1930. Its new product is called the iRadio It will tie together cosumers' home computers and their

[Medianews] OOPS!

Due to a slight grammatical error, I erroneously reported on TWIAR.org's home page that something *really really* bad happened. The incorrect version was Please keep the family of TWIAR's audio guru Dale Sargent, N0WKF, in your prayers. The correct version should read, Please keep Dale Sargent,