[Medianews] To Stay Competitive, A.P. Gives Clients More Than Just Facts

March 21, 2005 To Stay Competitive, A.P. Gives Clients More Than Just Facts By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/business/media/21ap.html?pagewanted=printposition= The Associated Press is now providing its newspaper members with more than just the facts. It is giving

[Medianews] Investigators Argue for Access to Private Data

March 21, 2005 Investigators Argue for Access to Private Data By TOM ZELLER Jr. NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/technology/21data.html?pagewanted=printposition= Diany Castillo, a 54-year-old home health care aide who lives in Brooklyn, says she is grateful that the fragmented bits of

[Medianews] Music Goes on Side A and the Flip Side Is a DVD

March 21, 2005 The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip Side Is a DVD By ROBERT LEVINE NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/business/media/21dual.html?pagewanted=printposition= When Matchbox 20's lead singer, Rob Thomas, was planning his first solo release late last year, he thought about ways

[Medianews] Verizon: DSL-Phone Bundle OK with FCC

Verizon: DSL-Phone Bundle OK with FCC By Ted Hearn MultiChannel News 3/21/2005 12:34:00 PM http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA511975.html?display=Breaking+News Verizon Communications' policy of terminating digital-subscriber-line service at the same time a customer cancels local-phone service

[Medianews] Barton: No Mandate For Multicasting

Barton: No Mandate For Multicasting By Ted Hearn MultiChannel News 3/21/2005 http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA511803.html?display=Policy In this story: FOUR-WAY TALKS STATUS QUO BACKERS Washington— House digital-TV legislation is unlikely to require cable systems to carry multiple DTV

[Medianews] Martin Takes Charge at FCC

Martin Takes Charge at FCC Bush Loyalist Who Sparred With Powell Is Handed the Gavel By Ted Hearn MultiChannel News 3/21/2005 http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA511868.html?display=Top+Stories In this story: MIXED CABLE CALLS CHANGING COMMISSION MUST-CARRY MUSINGS Washington— Is there anyone

[Medianews] SEC Approves $300M Deal in AOL Scandal

SEC Approves $300M Deal in AOL Scandal Washington Post Staff and Wire Reports Monday, March 21, 2005; 1:08 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53801-2005Mar21?language=printer NEW YORK - The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a deal reached in December with Time Warner Inc.

[Medianews] Preventing Purloined Produce

Preventing Purloined Produce Grocery Scanners Beam Through Bags, Check Cart's Undercarriage By Michael Barbaro Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page F05 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48973-2005Mar19?language=printer It happens every day. You forget to pay for the

[Medianews] IAC to Buy Ask Jeeves for $1.85 Bln

IAC to Buy Ask Jeeves for $1.85 Bln Reuters Monday, March 21, 2005; 2:59 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54255-2005Mar21?language=printer SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp on Monday said it would buy Web search provider Ask Jeeves Inc. for $1.85

[Medianews] Telecommunications: Who's Got Your Number?

Telecommunications Who's Got Your Number? This was supposed to be the year for a national wireless directory. It isn't looking so good. By JESSE DRUCKER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 21, 2005; Page R8

[Medianews] If Studios Get to Curb TV Shows on the Web, Let's Ask Quid Pro Quo

If Studios Get to Curb TV Shows on the Web, Let's Ask Quid Pro Quo By Lee Gomes Wall Street Journal March 21, 2005; Page B1 http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB35923839384566,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs Hollywood appears to be on the verge of losing a big legal case

[Medianews] Justices Take Up Future of Net Access

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-brandx21mar21,1,5834965.story?coll=la-headlines-business Justices Take Up Future of Net Access A high-court case could affect how consumers get voice and video over high-speed connections. By James S. Granelli LA Times Staff Writer March 21, 2005 Jim

[Medianews] Cabaret Singer Bobby Short Dead at 80

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-032105short_wr,0,4641659.story?coll=la-home-obituaries Cabaret Singer Bobby Short Dead at 80 From Associated Press 7:52 AM PST, March 21, 2005 NEW YORK — Cabaret singer Bobby Short, the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a

[Medianews] Several Shot at School on Minn. Indian Reservation

Several Shot at School on Minn. Indian Reservation Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=578e=1u=/nm/20050321/ts_nm/crime_shooting_school_dc ST. PAUL, Minn. - A gunman shot more than a dozen people at a school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota on Monday

[Medianews] Calif. University Says 59,000 Affected by Hackers

Calif. University Says 59,000 Affected by Hackers Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=581e=1u=/nm/20050321/tc_nm/tech_hacking_university_dc SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers attacked computer servers of a California university and may have gained access to the personal information

[Medianews] Scam Artists Dial for Dollars on Internet Phones

Scam Artists Dial for Dollars on Internet Phones Reuters By Andy Sullivan http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=581e=3u=/nm/20050320/tc_nm/columns_pluggedin_dc WASHINGTON - Internet phone services have drawn millions of users looking for rock-bottom rates. Now they're also attracting

[Medianews] AOL Launches Test of Travel Search Site

AOL Launches Test of Travel Search Site Reuters Internet Report By Deena Beasley http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=582e=2u=/nm/20050321/wr_nm/media_aol_travel_dc LOS ANGELES - America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, on Monday launched a test version

[Medianews] CIA uses jet, Red Sox partner confirms

CIA uses jet, Red Sox partner confirms Bosto Globe/Gordon Edes http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/21/cia_uses_jet_red_sox_partner_confirms?mode=PF BRADENTON, Fla. -- Phillip H. Morse, a minority partner of the Boston Red Sox, confirmed yesterday that his private jet has been

[Medianews] Blair manipulated intelligence to justify war, says BBC film

Blair manipulated intelligence to justify war, says BBC film London Guardian http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/210305justifywar.htm The BBC last night gave another sign that it is determined to maintain its editorial independence by screening a Panorama programme strongly critical

[Medianews] Israel airline 'plants guns on flyers'

Israel airline 'plants guns on flyers' BBC http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/210305plantsguns.htm An air passenger was stunned to discover a handgun had entered his luggage after a flight with Israel's El Al airlines. The man discovered the weapon while unpacking in Israel after a

[Medianews] Website rouses informants' fear, investigators' ire

Website rouses informants' fear, investigators' ire By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff | March 21, 2005 When a team of police, federal agents, and a drug-sniffing dog burst through the front door and scoured every corner of the house, the woman and her boyfriend figured they knew who had turned

[Medianews] Is it Net assistance . . . or cyberstalking?

Is it Net assistance . . . or cyberstalking? By Associated Press | March 21, 2005 A Cambridge start-up is offering a service it says gives a measure of control over the personal data the Internet disgorges, giving new meaning to a practice commonly termed ''ego surfing or ''Googling

[Medianews] Bill and Rupert's big adventure

Bill and Rupert's big adventure Gates and Murdoch are going head to head for mastery of the next generation of TV and telecom devices. By Owen Gibson Monday March 21, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1442815,00.html Since the first cable company disrupted the