[Medianews] PanAmSat Launches A New Satellite To Provide High Power Cable Television Distribution And Support Key U.S. Government Requirements

PanAmSat Launches A New Satellite To Provide High Power Cable Television Distribution And Support Key U.S. Government Requirements KOUROU, French Guiana, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PanAmSat announced today that its new Galaxy 15 satellite successfully rocketed into space at 7:30

[Medianews] Apple's new portable video player will fail miserably

Video iPod Will Be Steve Jobs' Folly Phillip Swann predicts that Apple's new portable video player will fail miserably. By Phillip Swann Special to TVPredictions.com http://www.tvpredictions.com/ipod101105.html Washington D.C. (October 12, 2005) -- Apple Computer today unveiled an iPod that

[Medianews] Japan to offer VoIP for cell phones

Japan to offer VoIP for cell phones Associated Press October 13, 2005 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/10/13/japan_to_offer_voip_for_cell_phones?mode=PF TOKYO --Japan is readying a new network for cell phones that will allow people to connect to the Internet to talk

[Medianews] Verizon will offer fiber-optic TV in bid to become media provider

Verizon will offer fiber-optic TV in bid to become media provider By Keith Reed Boston Globe Staff October 13, 2005 http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/10/13/verizon_will_offer_fiber_optic_tv_in_bid_to_become_media_provider?mode=PF WALTHAM -- Now the phone company is getting

[Medianews] Canada: Sports fanatics win with satellite radio

Sports fanatics win with satellite radio By WILLIAM HOUSTON Thursday, October 13, 2005 Posted at 9:24 AM EDT Globe and Mail Update http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051013.gttruth13/BNStory/Technology/ Sports will play a big role in the marketing of satellite radio when

[Medianews] Canada: Cable firms gain traction as digital TV takes off

Cable firms gain traction as digital TV takes off By CATHERINE MCLEAN Globe Mail Thursday, October 13, 2005 Page B1 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051013/RCABLE13/TPBusiness/Canadian After years of waging war against satellite rivals, cable companies finally

[Medianews] Court Orders FCC to Respond to Disney's Kids Rules Challenge

October 12, 2005 Court Orders FCC to Respond to Disney's Kids Rules Request By Doug Halonen TelevisionWeek http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=8713 The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington late Tuesday ordered the Federal Communications Commission to file a response by Oct. 25 to The Walt

[Medianews] TV: Station Affiliates on Verge of Victory

October 10, 2005 Station Affiliates on Verge of Victory Appointment of Rehr As NAB Chief Would Cap Coup: Lombardo as Triggerman By Doug Halonen TelevisionWeek http://www.tvweek.com/article.cms?articleId=28831 In a very public way, the defining moment in the transformation of the National

[Medianews] Wild Feed Shows Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

[An amazing slip-up. An open feed showed a White House PR flack running through the questions and having each soldier practice their answers for this satellite teleconference of what the White House called an unstaged visit of the president with 10 soldiers in Iraq selected to participate.

[Medianews] With Fewer Paying Up, AOL.com Shifts to Free

October 14, 2005 With Fewer Paying Up, AOL.com Shifts to Free By STUART ELLIOTT NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/business/14adco.html?pagewanted=print THOSE skeptics who have long predicted curtains for AOL are turning out to be right - only not quite the way they envisioned.

[Medianews] Behind Artificial Intelligence, a Squadron of Bright Real People

October 14, 2005 Behind Artificial Intelligence, a Squadron of Bright Real People By JOHN MARKOFF NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/technology/14artificial.html?pagewanted=print SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 - The five robots that successfully navigated a 132-mile course in the Nevada

[Medianews] Following trend, SBC asks for TX state video permit

Following trend, SBC asks for state video permit It's the 4th telephone company to petition PUC for a franchise 12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 By TERRY MAXON Dallas Morning News

[Medianews] VOD Deal has some ABC affiliates feeling uneasy

Deal has some ABC affiliates feeling uneasy Gregg Moss 9NEWS [Denver] Business Reporter 10/14/2005 2:20 AM MDT http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSAIKOBJECTID=ee37aae9-0abe-421a-006b-98630f684702TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf NEW YORK (USA Today) - Less than two

[Medianews] Networks enter brave new world beyond TV sets

Oct. 13, 2005 Networks enter brave new world beyond TV sets By Charlie McCollum San Jose Mercury News http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/technology/12892063.htm Not long ago, executives at the major television networks were skittish about any new technology that could deliver

[Medianews] Internet Access Dispute Cut Off Some Businesses

Internet Access Dispute Cut Off Some Businesses By Arshad Mohammed Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, October 14, 2005; D04 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301988_pf.html Last week, the computers in Barbara F. Buckley's office in the District

[Medianews] Toshiba Demonstrates HD DVD Technology In TX

Toshiba Demonstrates HD DVD Technology to Consumers for the First Time at Retail Bjorn's location becomes the first place HD DVD technology is displayed http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/10-13-2005/0004167514EDATE= SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/

[Medianews] AOL-Deal Talk By Rivals Adds To Verizon's Woes

AOL-Deal Talk By Rivals Adds To Verizon's Woes By DIONNE SEARCEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 14, 2005; Page C1 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112925703127368505.html?mod=todays_us_money_and_investing The news that a venture of Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. is trying to

[Medianews] Digital Pack Rats

Digital Pack Rats As Need for Data Storage Grows, A Dull Industry Gets an Upgrade With Stuff Easier to Hoard, Sector Sees Wave of Deals And Attracts Unlikely Fans Keeping Tabs on Toll Collectors By CHARLES FORELLE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 14, 2005; Page A1

[Medianews] Yahoo Eyes Stake in AOL, Joins Long List of Suitors

Yahoo Eyes Stake in AOL, Joins Long List of Suitors By JULIA ANGWIN and KEVIN J. DELANEY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 14, 2005 3:03 p.m. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112931424600568983.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news Yahoo Inc. is in early talks about buying a

[Medianews] Photo Agencies Hunt Image Thieves

Photo Agencies Scour the Web For Copyright Violations By VAUHINI VARA THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE October 14, 2005 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112897424251164666.html?mod=technology_main_promo_left Bloggers, beware: That photo of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes on your Web site could be

[Medianews] Gates Urges Faster Switch To Digital TV

Gates Urges Faster Switch To Digital TV to Free Up Air Waves for Wireless Associated Press October 14, 2005 12:48 p.m. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112929549503168778.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and other industry leaders urged

[Medianews] VOD: Comcast Builds a Mini Internet

To Ward Off New Competitors, Comcast Builds a Mini Internet The Threat of Being Bypassed Prompts Talks With Google About Investment in AOL Watching 'Lost' on an iPod By PETER GRANT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 13, 2005; Page A1

[Medianews] FCC Upgrades Telemundo in Phoenix

FCC Upgrades Telemundo in Phoenix By John Eggerton Broadcasting Cable 10/13/2005 4:42:00 PM http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6271683.html?display=Breaking+Newsreferral=SUPP The FCC said Thursday it would allow NBC Universal's Telemundo station KPHZ Holbrook, Ariz., to relocate to

[Medianews] NAB Calls CEA Out of Touch

CEA Out of Touch, Says Fritts By John Eggerton Broadcasting Cable 10/13/2005 12:05:00 AM http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6271569.html?display=Breaking+Newsreferral=SUPP National Association of Broadcasters President Eddie Fritts said Thursday that the Consumer Electronics

[Medianews] The Laptop Backlash

[Besides the laptop time-wasters I am also seeing a lot of students reading sending text messages on mobile phones during class. This is the 21st century version of passing notes back and forth during class, except that the message traffic can now go beyond the classroom to include anyone,

[Medianews] Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say

Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say Reuters Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:13 AM BST http://today.reuters.co.uk/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=uri:2005-10-12T231354Z_01_DIT283557_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-MINERALS-PERU-LASBAMBAS.XML LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Hundreds of Peruvian

[Medianews] Terror tip for rich

Terror tip for rich E-mails warned bigs of city attack ALISON GENDAR / New York Daily News | 14 Oct 2005 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/141005terrortip.htm The city's rich and well-connected were tipped off to last week's subway terror threat days before average New Yorkers,

[Medianews] Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes Former Vet Made it Rain During Vietnam War Steve Watson Paul Joseph Watson | 14 Oct 2005 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/141005weather_modification.htm Alex Jones was joined on air yesterday by weather modification

[Medianews] Bird flu in new Romania village

Bird flu in new Romania village http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4340690.stm Scientists fear migratory birds could pass bird flu to domestic poultry Bird flu has been found at a second Romanian village 30km (20 miles) from the first site, officials say. Results showing whether this case,

[Medianews] US setting up new spying agency

US setting up new spying agency BBC | 14 Oct 2005 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/141005spying.htm The US has announced the creation of a new intelligence agency led by the CIA to co-ordinate all American overseas spying activities. The National Clandestine Service (NCS) will