Hitachi Achieves Storage Record for Disk Drives
By JOHN MARKOFF
April 4, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 - Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to
announce on Monday a record for storage density on a disk drive,
attained by a novel approach that packs the tiny magnetic ones and
zeros that ar
Some Colleges Falling Short in Security Of Computers
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
April 4, 2005
If the computer age is continually testing how well institutions
protect personal information, the nation's colleges and universities
may be earning a failing grade.
Last Monday, administrators at the Univer
Increasingly, the Bells See Their Future on a Screen
By MATT RICHTEL and KEN BELSON
April 4, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 - The telephone companies are desperate to be
seen, not just heard.
In the coming months, the Bell telephone companies, including SBC and
Verizon, will start selling televis
Hybrid-Car Tinkerers Scoff at No-Plug-In Rule
By DANNY HAKIM
April 2, 2005
DETROIT, April 1 - Ron Gremban and Felix Kramer have modified a
Toyota Prius so it can be plugged into a wall outlet.
This does not make Toyota happy. The company has spent millions of
dollars persuading people that hy
Digeo Chooses Samsung to Make Set-Top Boxes
By SAUL HANSELL
April 4, 2005
Digeo, a company that designs software for set-top boxes used with
cable television systems, will announce today that it has selected
Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, to make its next generation of
boxes.
The deal
Talking Loudly to the TV Set, and Maybe Getting a Response
By KEN BELSON
April 4, 2005
Would the lives of couch potatoes be even easier if they could talk
to their television sets?
At least two companies, the OneVideo Technology Corporation and Agile
TV, are developing speech-recognition produ
Fourth man indicted in Republican phone-jamming scheme
April 3, 2005
CONCORD, N.H. --A fourth man has been charged with taking part in a
Republican scheme to jam Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines on
Election Day 2002.
Shaun Hansen, of Spokane, Wash., headed a former telemarketing
compan
Anonymous e-mailer steps forward after Supreme Court order
April 1, 2005
PORTLAND, Maine --After a year of court wrangling, the sender of an
insulting e-mail who fought to withhold his identity in a case that
tested the waters of Internet anonymity has stepped into light.
James Stanley Jr., pre
Music rules
A Supreme Court ruling against peer-to-peer network Grokster would do
more than punish music pirates. It would affect the future of the
Internet.
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By Andrew Leonard
March 30, 2005 | I decided to rip my vinyl in honor of MGM vs.
Grokster, the case heard bef
Rapper's delight
Jeff Chang's remarkable history tells the story of hip-hop, the most
important music (and youth) movement of our time.
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By Peter L'Official
March 24, 2005 | Charlie Ahearn, famed writer-director of the 1982
old-school hip-hop film classic "Wild Style,"
Excerpt from
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available for Qu
List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JOHN SCHWARTZ
March 29, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 28 - The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a
conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial
supporters, making it likely that thousa
Cablevision disavows Dolan
BY HARRY BERKOWITZ
NY NEWSDAY STAFF WRITER
April 2, 2005
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzvoom4200028apr02,0,1115121.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
In the latest move in a convoluted corporate chess match, Cablevision
Systems Corp. has disavowed a federal filing in
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