[Medianews] Source of the chili fingertip still a mystery

Source of the chili fingertip still a mystery It's likely not from leopard-bite victim The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Authorities investigating the origin of a finger in a bowl of fast-food chili have uncovered no link to a leopard attack that cost a woman part of her finger. Tony DeMeo, sheri

[Medianews] David Tennant Is The New Doctor Who!

This from SFTV news [Duane] http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/04_april/ 16/tennant.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4450285.stm Tennant to take over the Tardis The new Doctor Who has been officially named as David Tennant, the star of BBC period drama Casanova. Tenna

[Medianews] Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs?

Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs? By John Borland Story last modified Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 PDT 2005 When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs walked into the suites of top record label executives in 2002, iTunes software in hand, he was welcomed as a trailblazer to a digital music future. Now, near

[Medianews] Tiger: New Features

"Tiger" Features I'd like to talk about Dan Wood 13 Apr 2005 Anybody reading this weblog is probably aware that Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" due out very soon. As a developer, I've been able to use the prerelease versions of the OS, but I'm also unable to talk about it. Now that Apple has released a b

[Medianews] Retailer knew last fall about security breach that recently roiled credit card companies

Retailer knew last fall about security breach that recently roiled credit card companies By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | April 15, 2005 A computer security breach at Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. that has recently roiled two major credit card companies actually occurred last fall. But Polo only made

[Medianews] Tufts warns alumni on breach / Computer attack exposed names, numbers to theft

Tufts warns alumni on breach Computer attack exposed names, numbers to theft By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff | April 12, 2005 For the second time in a month, a Boston-area college is warning thousands of alumni that their personal information may have been stolen from a computer system used fo

[Medianews] Former Employee Shot at WDIV-TV Detroit

Former Employee Shot at WDIV-TV By WXYZ Detroit Action News Team Web produced by Jenny Clark and Seth Myers April 15, 2005 http://www.detnow.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_3703548,00.html By 7:15 p.m. Friday, police said a "person of interest" was in custody after a shooting at D

[Medianews] Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment

Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment - Apr 15, 2005 12:15 PM (AP Online) By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new strategy in the spam battle: Call it containment. Filters for blocking junk e-mail from inboxes have improved to the point that doing m

[Medianews] HP Completes Acquisition of Snapfish

HP Completes Acquisition of Leading Online Photo Service Snapfish - Apr 15, 2005 07:45 AM (BusinessWire) PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2005--HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Snapfish, a leading online photo service. Effect

[Medianews] Court Orders EchoStar to Carry Channel

Court Orders EchoStar to Carry Channel - Apr 14, 2005 08:39 PM (AP Online) LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered satellite television provider EchoStar Communications Corp. to begin carrying a music video channel owned by Universal Music Group that is the subject of a lawsui

[Medianews] NASA Launches Test of Orbital Autopilot

NASA Launches Test of Orbital Autopilot Fri Apr 15, 2005 06:03 PM ET By Irene Klotz MELBOURNE, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA launched a small satellite into orbit on Friday to test technology aimed at paving the way for the use of automated rendezvous and docking systems in U.S. space missions. Since th

[Medianews] White House Clarifies Cable Indecency Stand

White House Clarifies Indecency Stand By John Eggerton Broadcasting & Cable 4/15/2005 1:46:00 PM http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA525149.html?display=Breaking+News President George W. Bush appeared to tell newspaper editors that he supports extending indecency standards to cable and sate

[Medianews] Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights

Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights By Niall McKay wired News Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67205,00.html 02:00 AM Apr. 14, 2005 PT Former Vice President Al Gore's new cable TV channel will go live in August, promising to mix elements of the internet and TV. But the 24-h

[Medianews] A Dinosaur Theory for the Birds

A Dinosaur Theory for the Birds Associated Press Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67238,00.html 09:31 AM Apr. 15, 2005 PT The rare discovery of eggs inside a dinosaur has given scientists new clues about the reproductive biology of the creatures and more support for the t

[Medianews] Linux Distribution Tames Chaos

Linux Distribution Tames Chaos By Alison Strahan Wired News Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,67220,00.html 02:00 AM Apr. 15, 2005 PT Chaos, a Linux distribution developed by Australian Ian Latter, harnesses the unused processing power of networked PCs, creating a dis

[Medianews] A Way to Find Everything

A Way to Find Everything By Jeremy Wagstaff Wall Street Journal April 15, 2005 http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111350063163707216,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs It says something about the world of searching for stuff on the Internet that a 21-year-old Singaporean guy can patc

[Medianews] Industry Tries Again To Reach Agreement On New DVD Format

Industry Tries Again To Reach Agreement On New DVD Format By SARAH MCBRIDE, PHRED DVORAK and KATE KELLY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 15, 2005; Page B1 http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111352287857807638,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us Hoping to avoid a costly war over the next

[Medianews] Skype Tops 100 Million Downloads

Skype Tops 100 Million Downloads Associated Press Friday, April 15, 2005; 12:22 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56292-2005Apr15?language=printer STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The company that makes the Skype software for letting Internet users call one another for free anywhere in the world is

[Medianews] Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment

Battle Against Spam Shifts to Containment By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press Friday, April 15, 2005; 2:12 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56483-2005Apr15?language=printer NEW YORK - There's a new strategy in the spam battle: Call it containment. Filters for blocking junk e-mail fro

[Medianews] Low-Cost Windows Launched in Brazil

Low-Cost Windows Launched in Brazil By ALAN CLENDENNING The Associated Press Thursday, April 14, 2005; 10:42 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54936-2005Apr14?language=printer SAO PAULO, Brazil - Microsoft Corp. launched a scaled-back version of its Windows operating system in Brazil on

[Medianews] Net lapses frustrate Denver Comcast users

April 15, 2005 Net lapses frustrate Comcast users Company acknowledges woes, cites new upgrades By Kimberly S. Johnson Denver Post Staff Writer http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2817162,00.html Surfing the Web became an impossibility at times this week for some customers of Comcast's

[Medianews] Outages Affect Some Comcast Internet Subscribers

Outages Affect Some Comcast Internet Subscribers By Brian Krebs washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Friday, April 15, 2005; 11:50 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56223-2005Apr15?language=printer Network problems at one of the Washington-area's largest Internet service providers have preve

[Medianews] Can the U.S. still compete?

Can the U.S. still compete? By Charles Cooper News.com http://news.com.com/Can+the+U.S.+still+compete/2010-1071_3-5672106.html Story last modified Fri Apr 15 05:43:00 PDT 2005 All together now: "We're No. 17. We're No. 17." Even before the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegia

[Medianews] Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs?

Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs? By John Borland http://news.com.com/Music+moguls+trumped+by+Steve+Jobs/2100-1027_3-5671705.html Story last modified Fri Apr 15 04:00:00 PDT 2005 When Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs walked into the suites of top record label executives in 2002, iTunes software

[Medianews] True Love: Finding a Second Act on the Internet

April 12, 2005 True Love: Finding a Second Act on the Internet By DONNA WILKINSON NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/business/retirement/12wilk.html?ei=5012&en=1b492aa5274fed94&ex=1114056000&partner=CNET&pagewanted=print&position= LIFE, it seems, has come full circle for Hani Lipp, 63, of B

[Medianews] WorldSpace: Global satellite radio company plans IPO

Global satellite radio company plans IPO By David Becker News.com http://news.com.com/Global+satellite+radio+company+plans+IPO/2100-1041_3-5672633.html Story last modified Fri Apr 15 10:46:00 PDT 2005 WorldSpace, an early partner of XM Satellite Radio now focused on bringing satellite radio to

[Medianews] Computer-generated gibberish fools scholars

Computer-generated gibberish fools scholars By Reuters http://news.com.com/Computer-generated+gibberish+fools+scholars/2100-7337_3-5672433.html Story last modified Fri Apr 15 09:43:00 PDT 2005 A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scient

[Medianews] Wireless Outfits Will Face the Music

[The fee breakdown on this story, showing who gets what, is fascinating. The artist/publisher combined get 12%, the record company gets 65%. Why in the world should the record company get almost 2/3rds of the money? They have zero costs for every song sold via digital distribution!] APRIL 15, 2

[Medianews] Hollywood interested in BitTorrent

Cerf: Hollywood interested in BitTorrent By Renai LeMay http://news.com.com/Cerf+Hollywood+interested+in+BitTorrent/2100-1032_3-5672216.html Story last modified Fri Apr 15 06:20:00 PDT 2005 Hollywood is anxious to embrace BitTorrent as a method of movie distribution, according to the father of t

[Medianews] FAQ: Wi-Fi alphabet soup

FAQ: Wi-Fi alphabet soup By Richard Shim News.com http://news.com.com/FAQ+Wi-Fi+alphabet+soup/2100-1041_3-5669837.html Story last modified Thu Apr 14 04:00:00 PDT 2005 Fast-paced innovation can be exhilarating, but it can also be a recipe for confusion. Take Wi-Fi, the popular wireless-networkin

[Medianews] Sirius Canada Inc. Condemns Grey Market Subs

Sirius Canada Inc. Condemns Illegal Selling of Satellite Radio Subscriptions Press Release: Canada NewsWire April 15, 2005 http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2005/14/c5927.html TORONTO, April 14 /CNW Telbec/ - SIRIUS Canada Inc. ("SIRIUS"), through its solicitors, has sent strong lett

[Medianews] Efficient manufacturing cuts LCD production cost in half

Efficient manufacturing cuts LCD production cost in half By Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor Tom's Hardware Guide April 13, 2005 - 16:38 EST http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050413_163827.html San Jose (CA) - Market research firm Displaysearch expects manufacturing costs for LCD panels to dro

[Medianews] We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors

We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors By Chris Tryhorn, City correspondent The Guardian Thursday April 14, 2005 http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1459697,00.html Murdoch: internet is 'emerging medium that is not my native language' Rupert Murdoch has admitted he "didn'

[Medianews] Librarians fuming over Intel magazine bounty

Librarians fuming over Intel magazine bounty By Michael Kanellos News.com http://news.com.com/Librarians+fuming+over+Intel+magazine+bounty/2100-1006_3-5671169.html Story last modified Thu Apr 14 11:38:00 PDT 2005 A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine in which Moo

[Medianews] Studios settle lawsuit on DVD-copying chips

Studios settle lawsuit on DVD-copying chips By John Borland News.com http://news.com.com/Studios+settle+lawsuit+on+DVD-copying+chips/2100-1030_3-5671173.html Story last modified Thu Apr 14 12:05:00 PDT 2005 Hollywood studios said Thursday that they have settled a lawsuit against ESS Technology,

[Medianews] Comcast sued for disclosing customer info

Comcast sued for disclosing customer info By Reuters http://news.com.com/Comcast+sued+for+disclosing+customer+info/2100-1030_3-5671438.html Story last modified Thu Apr 14 15:18:00 PDT 2005 Comcast, the top U.S. cable TV network operator, is being sued by a Seattle-area woman for disclosing her

[Medianews] Linux programmer wins GPL legal victory

Linux programmer wins legal victory By Stephen Shankland News.com http://news.com.com/Linux+programmer+wins+legal+victory/2100-7344_3-5671209.html Story last modified Thu Apr 14 12:43:00 PDT 2005 A Linux programmer reported a new victory in a German court Thursday in enforcing the General Publi

[Medianews] Atlantic Monthly Leaving Boston in Move to Washington

April 15, 2005 Atlantic Monthly Leaving Boston in Move to Washington By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and DAVID CARR NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/business/media/15mag.html?pagewanted=print&position= WASHINGTON, April 14 - The Atlantic Monthly, a pillar of Boston's intellectual and cultural lif

[Medianews] Amazon Eyeing DVD Rental Partnership in U.S.

Amazon Eyeing DVD Rental Partnership in U.S. Reuters Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:09 PM ET By Gina Keating http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=uri:2005-04-15T000910Z_01_N14486507_RTRIDST_0_NET-RETAIL-AMAZON-DC.XML LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has approached

[Medianews] Nurses in Nighties Stage South Africa Pajama Protest

[One for the weird file.] Nurses in Nighties Stage South Africa Pajama Protest Reuters Thu Apr 14, 2005 08:36 AM ET http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8181171 JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African nurses are wearing pajamas and nighties to work to deman

[Medianews] U.S. Agencies Told Be Brand Neutral; AMD Cheers

U.S. Agencies Told Be Brand Neutral; AMD Cheers Reuters Thu Apr 14, 2005 02:02 PM ET By Daniel Sorid http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=8184892 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The White House this week told U.S. federal agencies to stop specifying brand names in

[Medianews] Possible FCC Nominee Comstock Withdraws

Possible FCC Nominee Comstock Withdraws Reuters Thu Apr 14, 2005 08:00 PM ET By Jeremy Pelofsky http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=8187919 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens's pick to be a commissioner on the Federal