[Medianews] Satellite radio's great potential

April 10, 2005 - 12:18:42 PM EST Satellite radio's great potential The Berkshire Eagle [Pittsfield MA] http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6267~2809342,00.html Radio has been free in the United States for 80 years, so why are nearly eight million Americans coughing up $100 a year for

[Medianews] Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait?

April 10, 2005 Will the Next Version of Windows Be Worth the Wait? By RANDALL STROSS NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/business/yourmoney/10digi.html?position=adxnnl=1pagewanted=printadxnnlx=1113156061-6Qsbu1WynpbBFYU9ERfE6A TEN years ago, Microsoft unveiled Windows 95 in a way that

[Medianews] Amid Duel for MCI, Shareholder Resentment

April 11, 2005 Amid Duel for MCI, Shareholder Resentment By KEN BELSON and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/business/11phone.html?pagewanted=printposition= In trying to put out one fire, Verizon Communications may have ignited another. On Saturday, Verizon, the

[Medianews] How Simple? Not Even a Need to Turn Pages

April 11, 2005 How Simple? Not Even a Need to Turn Pages By SARA IVRY NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/business/media/11simple.html?pagewanted=printposition= Real Simple hopes to make life even easier for people who cannot find the time to scan its pages. A new weekly television

[Medianews] Amazon Expands Into Book Printing

April 11, 2005 Amazon Expands Into Book Printing By BOB TEDESCHI NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/technology/11ecom.html?pagewanted=printposition= SURE, Amazon.com can sell books. But can it make them? The company itself raised that question, among others, last week when it purchased

[Medianews] Reporters get credit for simple ID switch

Sneaky ID thieves always one step ahead in schemes By Tom Mashberg/ Exclusive Sunday, April 10, 2005 - Updated: 12:18 PM EST First of three parts Peter Kochansky knew he hadn't bought a Porsche, but there it was among his bills - a luxury car loan in his name for $40,000. That wasn't

[Medianews] A Mac Mini Powered Lexus

A Mac Mini Powered Lexus http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/19.html Mac Mini Powered Lexus Update http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/284.html Reply with a Thank you if you liked this post. ___ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To

[Medianews] AOL, XM Satellite to Start Web Radio Service

Mon Apr 11, 9:21 AM ET Technology - Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online on Monday announced plans to launch a Web-based radio service with XM Satellite Radio in a move that may help XM win customers from AOL's 24 million subscribers, driving XM shares higher. The service, which will

[Medianews] A Foray Into Gay and Lesbian Networks

April 11, 2005 A Foray Into Gay and Lesbian Networks By GERALDINE FABRIKANT NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/business/media/11gay.html?pagewanted=printposition= When Paul Colichman began developing Here, his company's new cable service aimed at the gay market, he heard the same question

[Medianews] Microsoft Agrees to Pay Gateway $150M

Microsoft Agrees to Pay Gateway $150M By ALLISON LINN The Associated Press Monday, April 11, 2005; 2:04 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44022-2005Apr11?language=printer SEATTLE - Software maker Microsoft Corp. agreed to pay computer maker Gateway Inc. $150 million over four years to

[Medianews] NYC Subway Gets a Computerized Facelift

NYC Subway Gets a Computerized Facelift By JUSTIN GLANVILLE The Associated Press Monday, April 11, 2005; 1:39 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43967-2005Apr11?language=printer NEW YORK - A subway train rattles halfway into Manhattan's Union Square station and shudders to a halt. Over

[Medianews] Probe Faults System for Monitoring U.S. Borders

Probe Faults System for Monitoring U.S. Borders By John Mintz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 11, 2005; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42516-2005Apr10?language=printer A critical network of cameras and sensors installed for the U.S. Border Patrol along the Mexican

[Medianews] AOL, XM Satellite Announce New Partnership

AOL, XM Satellite Announce New Partnership Associated Press Monday, April 11, 2005; 1:18 AM NEW YORK -- XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and America Online Inc. are planning to add some of the satellite service's programming to AOL's radio offerings in a bid to bring a sample of paid radio to a

[Medianews] Gadgets Coax Radio Into the Digital Age

Gadgets Coax Radio Into the Digital Age By Daniel Greenberg Special to The Washington Post Sunday, April 10, 2005; Page F07 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39147-2005Apr9?language=printer MP3 music files, webcasts, digital satellite and HD Radio broadcasts can all make plain old analog

[Medianews] Disney Plans Broadband Offerings for Kids

Disney Plans Broadband Offerings for Kids By GARY GENTILE The Associated Press Monday, April 11, 2005; 2:07 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44047-2005Apr11?language=printer LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. is expanding its broadband offerings for kids, adding activities for

[Medianews] Underground television

Underground television By John Borland CNET News.com Staff Writer 04/11/2005 http://news.com.com/2009-1041_3-5572841-2.html?tag=ne.sr.tv As an engineering student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Sajeeth Cherian came up with a technology that could transform television. Drawing on headline

[Medianews] States gang up on Vonage

States gang up on Vonage By Ben Charny News.com http://news.com.com/States+gang+up+on+Vonage/2100-1036_3-5662937.html Story last modified Mon Apr 11 12:07:00 PDT 2005 In a sign of another battle between regulators and Net phone service providers, a high-profile Texas lawsuit against Net phone

[Medianews] DualDisc: Double the format, double the fun

April 08, 2005 edition http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0408/p12s01-almp.html DualDisc: Double the format, double the fun By Stephen Humphries Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor All eyes are on the latest music-industry merger: a disc that has a conventional CD album on one side and a

[Medianews] Fox: Stations mull refusing to pay strippers whipped cream fine

Fox: 'Married' Not Indecent Stations mull refusing to pay fine By Bill McConnell Broadcasting Cable 4/11/2005 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA516254.html?display=Newsreferral=SUPP In this story: Cable self-regulation Broadcasters ready for a fight The 169 stations carrying the Fox

[Medianews] High-tech services unveiled at National Show wow investors

Cable Talks, Wall Street Listens High-tech services unveiled at National Show wow investors By John Higgins and Anne Becker Broadcasting Cable 4/11/2005 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA516397.html?display=Featurereferral=SUPP In this story: $95 billion upgrade VoIP: “A Huge home run”

[Medianews] President Bush's iPod

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/politics/11letter.html (Earlier today the headline was Tunes for the Freewheelin' George Bush) White House Letter President Bush's iPod By ELISABETH BUMILLER April 11, 2005 WASHINGTON Between his return on Friday from Pope John Paul II's funeral in Rome and

[Medianews] Hannity is the new king of conservative talk radio

Ahem, Rush, you step aside for Sean Hannity is the new king of conservative talk radio By Dave Berner Media Life Magazine April 11, 2005 http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/april05/apr11/1_mon/news2monday.html He is on Fox News. He's also on radio. He's from Long Island, is married with

[Medianews] XM Satellite, AOL to Offer Online Radio

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-041105radio_lat,0,4926612.story?coll=la-home-headlines XM Satellite, AOL to Offer Online Radio By Chris Gaither and Jesus Sanchez LA Times Staff Writers 10:16 AM PDT, April 11, 2005 XM Satellite Radio Holdings and America Online today announced that they will

[Medianews] BBC Apologizes To Who Star

This from SFTV News Mail List. [Duane] BBC Apologizes To Who Star The BBC, which earlier reported that Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston was leaving the show after the first season, issued an unusual apology to the actor for mischaracterizing his reasons for departing. The BBC said that it

[Medianews] What's holding back interactive TV?

What's holding back interactive TV? By Barry Schuler Special to CNET News.com 04/11/2005 http://news.com.com/2009-1041_3-5657048.html?tag=ne.sr.tvbnav Technologists began talking about the delivery of entertainment and information services to the living room more than 20 years ago. But we're

[Medianews] AFL-CIO Paywatch Website

AFL-CIO Unveils 'Jaw-Dropping' Case Studies of CEO Pay and Rigged Deals in New Executive Paywatch Website - Apr 11, 2005 05:45 PM (PR Newswire) Launches Campaign to Curb Runaway CEO Pay WASHINGTON, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Excessive CEO pay enriches corporate executives at the

[Medianews] News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple Case

News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple Case - Apr 11, 2005 06:11 PM (AP Online) By RACHEL KONRAD AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology

[Medianews] Buzztracker

http://www.buzztracker.org/about/ BUZZTRACKING Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the

[Medianews] In Britain, Apple's iTunes Fans Have Reason to Be Confused

In Britain, Apple's iTunes Fans Have Reason to Be Confused By VICTORIA YOUNG April 11, 2005 LONDON, April 10 - People who want to use Apple's popular iTunes service in Britain must go to the Web page www.itunes.com/uk, not www.itunes.co.uk. The minor difference may make very little difference

[Medianews] Review: Dragon Burn 4 / One stop CD and DVD burning tool for Mac OS X

Dragon Burn 4 One stop CD and DVD burning tool for Mac OS X By John Virata http://www.hdtvbuyer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=31047 Reply with a Thank you if you liked this post. ___ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To unsubscribe send

[Medianews] Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience

Piercing the peer-to-peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience by Michael Geist Abstract Canada is in the midst of a contentious copyright reform with advocates for stronger copyright protection maintaining that the Internet has led to widespread infringement that has harmed the

[Medianews] Computer-aided music distribution: The future of selection, retrieval and transmission

Computer-aided music distribution: The future of selection, retrieval and transmission by Nancy Bogucki Duncan and Mark A. Fox Abstract The Internet has made music more widely available and increased the convenience with which we can listen to music. We increasingly recognize that recorded

[Medianews] Boost to provide familiar ring

Boost to provide familiar ring By Eric Convey/ Inspecting Gadgets Monday, April 11, 2005 - Updated: 09:26 AM EST In the mobile telephone market, there's probably no major company more clearly aligned with a specific segment than Nextel Communications with business customers. When's