[Medianews] EFFector 18.9: Action Alert - Stop the Trademark Act from Diluting Free Speech!

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
EFFector Vol. 18, No. 9 March 17, 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 325th Issue of EFFector: * Action Alert: Stop the Trademark Act from Diluting Free Speech! * Counting Down to Grokster with EFF * Grokster Send-off Party

[Medianews] EFFector 18.7: Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online Journalists' Rights

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
EFFector Vol. 18, No. 7 March 3, 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 323rd Issue of EFFector: * Hearing Friday Could Determine the Future of Online Journalists' Rights * Press Conference on Supreme Court File Sharing Case

[Medianews] EFFector 18.8: Action Alert - Best E-voting Bill Reintroduced - Lend Your Support!

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
EFFector Vol. 18, No. 8 March 11, 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 In the 324th Issue of EFFector: * Action Alert: Best E-voting Bill Reintroduced - Lend Your Support! * EFF Giving and Activism Pages Improved * Court Crushes

[Medianews] EPIC Alert 12.06

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
E P I C A l e r t Volume 12.06 March 24, 2005

[Medianews] Amazon.com Knows, Predicts Shopping Habits

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
Amazon.com Knows, Predicts Shopping Habits - Mar 25, 2005 09:17 PM (AP Online) By ALLISON LINN AP Business Writer SEATTLE (AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself. Though

[Medianews] Writer of Retracted Stories Faces Review

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
Writer of Retracted Stories Faces Review - Mar 25, 2005 07:13 PM (AP Online) By MARK JEWELL AP Business Writer BOSTON (AP) -- A freelance journalist who authored two online news articles that Technology Review magazine retracted over questions of veracity is also facing review of

[Medianews] Purloined Lives

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
Purloined Lives By GARY RIVLIN March 17, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, March 16 - The phone lines are seldom quiet for long at the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. But lately they have been ringing almost continually. The calls come from people like Warren Lambert, who phoned on Feb. 18, the

[Medianews] F.C.C. Extends 'Truth in Billing' Guidelines to Cellphones

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
F.C.C. Extends 'Truth in Billing' Guidelines to Cellphones By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 11, 2005 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (AP) - Regulators voted Thursday to extend truth in billing guidelines to cellphone bills in hopes of promoting clearer, shorter statements devoid of confusing add-on fees. All

[Medianews] Fwd: Announcing EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
- - - - - Announcing EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative Lauren Weinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 25, 2005 I'm pleased to announce EEPI (

[Medianews] TSA Work Sloppy, but Not Illegal

2005-03-26 Thread Monty Solomon
TSA Work Sloppy, but Not Illegal By Ryan Singel 02:00 AM Mar. 26, 2005 PT Homeland Security officials failed to keep millions of airline passenger records secure and repeatedly made false denials of their involvement in data transfers to the media and Congress, but they did not violate

[Medianews] Companies in Radio Tag Business Broaden Legal Dispute

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
March 25, 2005 Companies in Radio Tag Business Broaden Legal Dispute By BARNABY J. FEDER NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/25/technology/24tags.html?pagewanted=printposition= A skirmish over patents between suppliers of gear that uses radio signals instead of bar codes to identify

[Medianews] ATT Chief: Repeal 1996 Telecom Act

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
ATT Chief: Repeal Telecom Act By Ted Hearn MultiChannel News 3/24/2005 5:23:00 PM http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA512796.html?display=Breaking+Newsreferral=SUPP Washington -- ATT Corp. chairman and CEO David Dorman said Thursday that Congress should repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996

[Medianews] Cable Takes Last Swings in Brand X Case

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
Cable Takes Last Swings in Brand X Case By Ted Hearn MultiChannel News 3/24/2005 5:32:00 PM http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA512798.html The briefs are in and everything that can be said about National Cable Telecommunications Association vs. Brand X Internet Services has been said --

[Medianews] Writer of Retracted Stories Faces Review

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
Writer of Retracted Stories Faces Review Associated Press Mar 25, 2005 7:13 PM (ET) By MARK JEWELL http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050326/D892AI480.html BOSTON (AP) - A freelance journalist who authored two online news articles that Technology Review magazine retracted over questions

[Medianews] Sony Sets Off Battle Of Digital Movie Projectors

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
Sony Sets Off Battle Of Digital Movie Projectors Dow Jones Newswires Friday March 25, 2005 3:29 PM EST http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=newsfeed=djisrc=704news_id=dji-00056220050325date=20050325 VANCOUVER, Wash. (Dow Jones)--There's a showdown brewing at the local movie

[Medianews] NASA's Comet-Busting Spacecraft on Course

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
NASA's Comet-Busting Spacecraft on Course Associated Press Mar 26, 2005 10:33 AM (ET) http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050326/D892O1PO0.html PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is on course for a July 4 encounter with comet Tempel 1, but mission officials are trying

[Medianews] FCC Says States Can't Impose DSL Requirements On Bells

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
FCC Says States Can't Impose DSL Requirements On Bells Dow Jones Newswires Friday March 25, 5:30 PM EST http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=newscat=INDUSTRYfeed=djinews_id=dji-00059920050325date=20050325 WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said

[Medianews] Scientists Recover Tissue From T. Rex

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
Scientists Recover Tissue From T. Rex Associated Press Mar 25, 2005 9:03 PM (ET) By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050326/D892C5V00.html WASHINGTON (AP) - For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered

[Medianews] Satellite Operators Consider Cost-Saving Measures

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
Satellite Operators Consider Cost-Saving Measures By Andy Pasztor Wall Street Journal Friday March 25, 3:28 PM EST http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=newscat=INDUSTRYfeed=djinews_id=dji-00056120050325date=20050325 WASHINGTON -- Turmoil among global satellite operators is prompting

[Medianews] EMS-designed switch in the sky paves the way for future broadband services

2005-03-26 Thread Dishnut-P
EMS-designed switch in the sky paves the way for future broadband services i-Newswire, 2005-03-25 - Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, today announced that it has completed in-orbit testing of a next-generation digital broadband on-board signal processor on Anik F2, one of

[Medianews] News On-Demand Goes Mile-High

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
News On-Demand Goes Mile-High By Allison Romano Broadcasting Cable 3/25/2005 3:33:00 PM http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA513185.html?display=Breaking+News KCNC Denver and Comcast Corp. are teaming up to deliver news on-demand to Denver-area cable subscribers. The CBS-owned station

[Medianews] The Art of Manufactured News

2005-03-26 Thread George Antunes
The Art of Manufactured News By Joe Mandese Broadcasting Cable 3/28/2005 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA513090.html?display=Featurereferral=SUPP In this story: Stretching Journalism GAO investigations new News source “Now…News from the Net, with high-tech hearing aids for infants. Hi,