[Medianews] Two Critics Review Sci-Fi Channel's Eureka!

Here are 2 reviews of Eureka! written by newspaper TV critics who saw advance copies. Remember: they are looking at the show on a DVD sent to them by the network publicity dept. A key feature of these promo copies is that they have no commercials interrupting the flow of the story. Folks

[Medianews] Future 911 / Technology is changing so quickly that emergency communication systems are struggling to keep pace

Future 911 Technology is changing so quickly that emergency communication systems are struggling to keep pace By Kim-Mai Cutler, Globe Correspondent | July 24, 2006 Picture a highway crash: a vehicle flips over in the center lane. Ten cars plow into the twisted wreck. Panicked witnesses

[Medianews] AMD to buy graphics chipmaker ATI for $5.4B

AMD to buy chipmaker ATI for $5.4B Associated Press Updated 7/24/2006 9:35 AM ET http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-07-24-amd-ati_x.htm SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) said Monday it will pay $5.4 billion to acquire top graphics chipmaker ATI

[Medianews] Web to TV still a long road for movie downloads

Web to TV still a long road for movie downloads Updated 7/19/2006 5:37 PM ET By Gina Keating Reuters http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2006-07-19-movie-downloads_x.htm LOS ANGELES — Imagine a world in which the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie can be delivered to your

[Medianews] Picture this: A sneakier kind of spam

Picture this: A sneakier kind of spam Posted 7/23/2006 10:44 PM ET By Jon Swartz USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-07-23-sneaky-spam_x.htm SAN FRANCISCO — A new strain of spam popping up in e-mail boxes is confounding consumers and corporate security

[Medianews] Companies take costly steps to secure laptops

Companies take costly steps to secure laptops Posted 7/23/2006 10:52 PM ET By Jon Swartz USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-07-23-laptop-secure_x.htm SAN FRANCISCO — Big U.S. companies are taking tough measures to shore up laptop security amid a rash of

[Medianews] The Most Inventive Towns in America

The Most Inventive Towns in America The tinkerers who helped build America haven't disappeared -- they're right next door. Our search for small-town patent hubs found surprising innovations from coast to coast. By REED ALBERGOTTI Wall Street Journal July 22, 2006; Page P1

[Medianews] Mobility Scooters: Make Way for The Sidewalk SUV

Make Way for The Sidewalk SUV Motorized scooters for the disabled are finding a lucrative new market: People just sick of walking By ELLEN GAMERMAN Wall Street Journal July 15, 2006; Page P1 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115291408087707342.html?mod=mostpop On a recent afternoon at Walt

[Medianews] EarthLink Captures A Dragon

EarthLink Captures A Dragon EarthLink named Canadian fixed-wireless broadband house DragonWave, a six-year-old startup, as a wireless backhaul supplier for its municipal mesh projects, including the highly controversial and closely watched project in Philadelphia. DragonWave appears to have

[Medianews] House Bills Target Broader Emergency Communications

House Bills Target Broader Emergency Communications TelecomWeb The U.S. House of Representatives is examining two bills that would establish new national emergency and disaster communications-alert systems aimed at sending such special messages via a variety of media, including broadcast

[Medianews] VoIP Dominates Cable Numbers

Quarterly Reports: VoIP Dominates Cable Numbers TelecomWeb Once again, it's hell month for public companies as they prepare to release their second-quarter financials. However, voice and data services are pushing some cable providers ahead of the pack. According to TelecomWeb's sister

[Medianews] Increasing Problem: 'Bot Storming, ' 'Google Hacking' Hit Web Apps

Increasing Problem: 'Bot Storming,' 'Google Hacking' Hit Web Apps TelecomWeb Cyber-security vendor Fortify Software Inc. says it's completed a research and survey study on Internet vulnerability risks, detailing an increasing series of new and emerging attacks specifically targeting Web-based

[Medianews] TelecomWeb's Believe It Or Not: The Water-Powered Cellphone

TelecomWeb's Believe It Or Not: The Water-Powered Cellphone Japan's NTT DoCoMo, working with a previously-unheard-of company called Aquafairy Co., says that the two have jointly developed a water-powered micro-fuel cell for use with 3G FOMA handsets. The fuel cell, which NTT DoCoMo plans to

[Medianews] good voice XML site

http://www.voiceingov.org/blog/ Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA Reply with a Thank you if you liked this post. _ MEDIANEWS mailing list medianews@twiar.org To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Medianews] Average gas price hits $3 a gallon, second highest price ever

Average gas price hits $3 a gallon, second highest price ever http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2006-07-24-gas-prices-eia_x.htm?csp=34 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The average retail gasoline price increased 1.4 cents over the past week to $3 a gallon, the second highest pump price

[Medianews] Hearing looks at Internet name privatization plan

Hearing looks at Internet name privatization plan By Joel Rothstein http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/wr_nm/internet_dc_2 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department will hold a Wednesday hearing on the government's September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names

[Medianews] Amazon's movie download to launch in August: report

Amazon's movie download to launch in August: report http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/wr_nm/retail_amazon_dc_1 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. declined to comment on Monday on a report in Advertising Age magazine that it would launch a movie download business in mid-August

[Medianews] Film hero Cruise defeats cyber-pirate, offscreen

Film hero Cruise defeats cyber-pirate, offscreen http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/wr_nm/leisure_cruise_dc_4 GENEVA (Reuters) - Tom Cruise on Monday won an off-screen combat -- against a cyber-pirate who was using his name for advertising. The U..N. intellectual property agency WIPO said

[Medianews] AOL poised to offer more free services

AOL poised to offer more free services By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer (MY comment: AOL should be a free service.. look at how many ads are on the bloody service) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_hi_te/aol_s_crumbling_walls_5 NEW YORK - The company responsible for introducing

[Medianews] MySpace outage blamed on L.A. power loss

MySpace outage blamed on L.A. power loss By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_hi_te/myspace_outage_3 NEW YORK - The popular social-networking site MySpace.com suffered a pair of extended outages over the weekend because of power problems at a key data

[Medianews] Advanced Micro Devices to buy ATI

Advanced Micro Devices to buy ATI By DAN GOODIN, AP Technology Writer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_hi_te/amd_acquisition_14 SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. struck another blow at Intel Corp., its bigger rival in the market for personal-computer microprocessors

[Medianews] Marines Use MySpace to Recruit

Marines Use MySpace to Recruit http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71448-0.html?tw=rss.index KANEOHE, Hawaii -- Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps. So far, over 12,000 web surfers have signed

[Medianews] Specter softens stance on NSA domestic surveillance

Specter softens stance on NSA domestic surveillance Maura Reynolds / Baltimore Sun | July 24 2006 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.specter24jul24,0,401580.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines WASHINGTON // When the White House's secret domestic surveillance program was

[Medianews] Analysis: Microsoft Bets Big on Vista Security

Analysis: Microsoft Bets Big on Vista Security Robert McMillan, IDG News Service http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060724/tc_pcworld/126522 SAN FRANCISCO-- Microsoft's Vista developers can't catch a break these days. After years of warnings from security researchers that old code in Windows