C. Lester Hogan, Physicist Who Fought Motorola, Dies at 88
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
NY Times
Published: August 15, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/technology/16hogan.html?ref=business
C. Lester Hogan, a pioneer in the electronics industry whose departure in
1968 from his job as a top executiv
August 16, 2008
Consumers Upgrade, but to Smaller TVs
By ERIC A. TAUB
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/technology/16tv.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print
Americans are not just switching to smaller cars. They are also buying
smaller TVs.
Sales of 19-, 22- and 32-inch televisions wer
National security and free speech
By Harvey Silverglate | August 16, 2008
The Boston Globe
WHY DID the federal district court gag three MIT undergraduates who
apparently discovered a flaw in the MBTA's electronic fare-collection
system? The reason one judge imposed the unconstitutional gag o
Slaying victims took time for others
BY PAUL HAMMEL
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10403953
LINCOLN — For a former Lincoln couple, their acreage northwest of town
was a heavenly place to live.
On a huge prairie-grass lot at a gravel intersection, Carolyn Ba
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6586367.html
EchoStar, Intelsat Quarrel Over Timing of FCC Filing
Satellite Companies Slug It Out For Coveted C-Band Slot
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 8/11/2008 3:03:00 PM
EchoStar has gone to the Federal Communications Commission in a squabble
with ri
Basics
The Social Network as a Career Safety Net
By SARAH JANE TRIBBLE
The New York Times
August 14, 2008
IF you have avoided social-networking sites like LinkedIn and
Facebook with the excuse that they are the domain of desperate job
hunters or attention-seeking teenagers, it's time to recons